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P.Star at the Clocktower Gallery. Photo by Charlie Ahearn
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P.Star
Hosted by Charlie Ahearn
Originally aired 10/3/05

Listen as nine-year-old P.Star proves her amazing MC skills. This little girl can spit! Priscilla Star Diaz opens the show rhyming a cappella and telling stories about her pre-teen life in Harlem. Although she is just getting started, her talents have attracted lots of attention. In an appearance on MTV's Made, she teaches some kid how to rap. Priscilla rocks the Clocktower live with such songs as "Political," "Daddy's Little Girl" and "Biggie's Bounce." Her agent Bugsy sits in for the interview. Check her out.

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MC star Fid Q and MC Midnight, both from Tanzania, share fresh tracks brimming with Swahili rhymes, extraordinary African singers, and live freestyles both in-session and from a Brooklyn backyard party. Muziki huu ni mzuri sana. Charlie Ahearn hosts.

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Ricky Powell
Hosted by Charlie Ahearn
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Ricky Powell dropped by the Clocktower to spin some rare 70s joints for Charlie Ahearn and to offer photographic proof of his adventures with the early Beastie Boys, Flavor Flav and Biz Markie, Keith Haring, Revolt, Lee, Dalek and other art...

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MC Dola raps live in Swahili, rhymes acappella, plays selections of his music and also some hot tracks by Tanzanian MCs. In conversation with host Charlie Ahearn he delivers an intimate update on African hip hop.

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Hank Shocklee
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Kurtis Blow is a pioneer, statesman and historian of hip hop music and culture. An amazing gospel freestyle over Kanye West's smash single "Jesus Walks."

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Rammellzee made a surprise visit to the Clocktower in 2005 to visit host Charlie Ahearn and to rock his street intellectual wild style MC thing live for the radio. Hear him discourse on Iconoclast Panzerism, Gothic Futurism.

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