Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of the past century. For 60 years her music has quietly reverberated throughout pop culture, and provided a touchstone for Indigenous resistance. In this five-part series, Mohawk

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Introducing: Anything for Selena from WBUR and Futuro Studios

Jan 13th, 2021 30m 50s

It’s been 25 years since the tragic death of Mexican-American pop icon Selena Quintanilla. And yet, Selena remains as beloved and relevant now as ever before. In Anything for Selena, a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios, host Maria Garcia

Prologue

1 Jul 7th, 2020 12m 3s

One of the most popular rappers in America isn’t American. But this podcast isn’t really about him. Drake’s success is a culmination of many unheard moments, songs, and artists that made hip-hop and Black music the dominant cultural force it is

Ep 1: Toronto was always a hip-hop city

Jul 7th, 2020 47m 49s

Drake is the poster boy of Toronto, although the city's hip-hop scene was thriving long before it became known to his fans as 'The 6ix.' But the Canadian music industry’s history with its homegrown hip-hop talent is long and fraught—this is a l

Ep 2: How the mixtape went digital

Jul 7th, 2020 37m 1s

Even as its popularity grew, hip-hop was ignored by most commercial radio. DJs and artists intervened and underground mixtapes became *the* medium for distributing new music and gaining clout — But then, a raid by the FBI in Atlanta changed hip

Ep 3: The rise of the Nice Guy rapper

Jul 7th, 2020 44m 25s

This episode contains explicit lyrics.Hip-hop feminists took the alpha male rapper and his critics to task in the 90s and 2000’s. Guest host Anupa Mistry finds out why. She goes on a journey with three Black women, to see how Drake's Nice Guy

Ep 4: The rise of the singing rapper

Jul 7th, 2020 55m 12s

It's pretty common to hear rap and R&B influences on the same track, but that wasn’t always the case. Hip-hop was not received with open arms by many in the R&B establishment. Still, rappers found creative ways of being heard on the radio, whil

Epilogue

Jul 7th, 2020 13m 41s

Host Ty Harper examines how making this podcast during a pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests has underlined the importance of telling the stories of hip hop, R&B and Black cultureFor transcripts of this series, please visit: https://

Trailer

This is not a Drake podcast: trailer

May 21st, 2020 2m 4s

This is a story about hip-hop and how its journey to mainstream dominance gave us Drake in the first place. The mixtape revolution that made his success possible. The evolution of gender dynamics in hip-hop. Rap and R&B’s long complicated histo

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