Raw Deal

October 10, 1991
WPRB (103.3 FM)
Princeton, NJ, USA (Princeton University)

The last week before the new tower is installed features a bunch of dope tracks. Late in the episode Tone rolls into the studio. He and Serch had just squashed beef.

There's off-and-on static throughout the episode, giving it that authentic "damn it, I can't tune the station in" feel.

Side A

  • Intro Airbreak (missing the start)
  • cuts to Welcome to the Terrordome... Public Enemy and then back to intro
  • (not recorded: Strictly Mash'ion (Acapella)... Poor Righteous Teachers)
  • cuts to Buggin' Out... A Tribe Called Quest
  • Peace Is Not the Word to Play... Main Source
  • Black Sheep drop
  • The Choice is Yours... Black Sheep
  • Real Estate... Cypress Hill
  • Guard Your Grill... Naughty By Nature
  • Trenton Where We Live (Project Mix) (feat. Tony D)... Almighty & KD Ranks
  • DJ Kam, Zulu drop
  • Airbreak/Concert Calendar/EPMD & Ice Cube St Ides ad
  • Having Fun (feat. Greg Nice)... T La Rock
  • How to Flow... Nice & Smooth
  • Shut 'Em Down... Public Enemy
  • Audience Pleasers... Organized Konfusion
  • Sleepin' On My Couch... Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

Side B

  • Raggamuffin Hip-Hop... Asher D & Daddy Freddy
  • Know Your Culture (feat. Kevin B., Sleepy Wonder, Reverend Badoo, Mickey Jarret, Bigga Don, Shabba Ranks, Shelly Thunder, Lady English, and Miss Linda)... H.E.A.L.
  • Airbreak/Ads
  • Nice & Smooth drop
  • Sometimes I Rhyme Slow... Nice & Smooth
  • Don't Curse (feat. Kool G Rap, Grand Puba, CL Smooth, Big Daddy Kane, Pete Rock, and Q-Tip)... Heavy D
  • Good Life... Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
  • Easy Star... Poor Righteous Teachers
  • Just the Two of Us... Chubb Rock
  • 25 Ta Life... D-Nice
  • cut to airbreak/EPMD & Ice Cube St Ides ad
  • Thankx For Sleepwalking... Naughty By Nature
  • Check the Rhime... A Tribe Called Quest
  • The Symphony, Pt. II (feat. Masta Ace, Craig G, Big Daddy Kane, Lil' Daddy Shane, and Kool G Rap) (Radio)... Marley Marl
  • All for One... Brand Nubian (cut)

Side C

  • Airbreak (over Get Off That Crack (Instrumental)... MC Shan)
  • 2 Black 2 Strong MMG drop
  • Bottom of the Hamper Jam... The Hillbillies
  • Just Hangin' Out... Main Source
  • I'm Different (Remix)... Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs
  • ? (cut)
  • Clockwork... Black Poets (cut short)
  • Airbreak /Ads
  • Wickedest Man Alive... Naughty By Nature (cut short)

About Raw Deal

In 1987, after answering phones for a show on Princeton University’s WPRB, G connected with PRB club DJ Eazy M to form Club Krush (which later morphed into Raw Deal). Trenton-based MC/DJ/Producer Tony D joined the pair in the basement station and for the next six years brought the best in underground and local hip-hop to New Jersey and Philadelphia during a time period where Philadelphia radio was ignoring and even shunning hip-hop. The show broke groups like the Wu-Tang Clan and Poor Righteous Teachers and featured in-studio performances from everyone from YZ, BeFyne, Courageous Chief, and the Hillbillies to Tim Dog, Treach, and Rza during “Thursday Night Live” sessions. In the later years of the show, DJ Kam took Easy M’s place and DJ Jay-Ski made his radio premiere as a guest on Raw Deal.

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In Context

These are the three shows that aired closest in time to this one.

October 1991
Mothership Connection
Sydney, AU

October 10, 1991
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Princeton, NJ, USA (Princeton University)

October 13, 1991
Capital Rap Show
London, England, UK

October 17, 1991
Raw Deal
Princeton, NJ, USA (Princeton University)

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October 8, 1991
Freestyle Fellowship: To Whom It May Concern...

October 8, 1991
Scarface: Mr. Scarface Is Back

October 8, 1991
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October 10, 1991
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