New U-Hype episode? Yea… a new U-Hype episode! We head off the show tonight with my boy Omega droppin’ yet another bomb on us Chicago. He’s kickin’ it with his boy Cuban Link and they got the brand new heat. Don’t sleep on “This Is How We Roll” as it attacks the [...]

Caught another Best of Soul Train episode which featured Grammy Award winning Peabo Bryson headlining along with Stargard. Pop-music and children are very familiar with Mr. Bryson through him hooking up with Disney in 1992 and 1993 and dropping two pop-culture hits. “Beauty and the Beast” was a duet with Céline Dion that won the [...]

I admit that I have seen pictures of this lady my entire life… particularly during the month of February. I also admit that I thought this was Mahalia Jackson when I was a little kid. However, as I got older and learned who this very important person in American history is, I developed [...]

Got up on another Best of Soul Train episode today the featured The Spinners and Confunkshun. The Spinners have many R&B hits that date back to 1972, and Confunshun is of course one of the best funk bands in history. They came with the Soul Train Scrabble Board early in the episode, and Kirk and [...]

Bigging up another important Black man in American History in honor of Black History Month. Today we are gonna holla at Richard Wright, who is the author of the autobiographical “Black Boy,” which was the first book that I ever read from cover to cover in my entire life. I was fourteen years old, and [...]

“The sack-man’s comin’ and I’m your man Dent, if the quarterback’s slow, he’s gonna gent bent! We stop the run, we stop the pass. We like to put guys on their ass…” Who else should get this quick big-up other than Richard Dent. It’s like a Black History Month, slash the Super Bowl [...]

Check out your boy with a Saturday afternoon free for the first time in like six months or somethin’ to that effect, and it looks like it will be that way for a minute. The good thing about that is that I get to catch the Best of Soul Train generally on a regular [...]

This is DJ Special Blend from Chicago. What’s up America and the world! I promise that I was just sitting down to make the chart template over, but once I saw it up in lights I had to fill in the blanks. You never catch me admitting this very often… but its [...]

What better way to start off Black History Month other than to give big-ups to Langston Hughes, who’s birthday just so happens to be February 1st. In case you didn’t know, Mr. Hughes was a famous writer and a major player during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s and 30’s. He helped nurture Black art and sociology [...]

“I’m a Chicagoian, from Chicago and, ’til we blow like Chicago wind….” Stop trippin’ and acting surprised, cause this snowy shit happens all the freakin’ time. It’s like it snows every year in this neck of the woods. It snows hard, and it gets colder than North Pole. We just gotta try to be prepared. [...]