FuseBox Radio #461 - Bored Rapper Foolery, #Formation Rocks the Nation, Platinum Streams (Week of Feb. 6, 2016)

Published: Feb. 8, 2016, 5:47 a.m.

b'** NOTE: This week is an explicit/not radio friendly episode on the music and commentary ends... **

This is the latest, BRAND NEW (and extended) episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Ausar Ra Black Hawk for the week of Feb. 3, 2016 with some new and classic music from the international Black Diaspora, news and commentary.

This week\'s radio show breakdown (by minutes/hours):

0:00:00 - 1:46:47 Extended Intro
1:46:47 - 2:38:51 DJ Fusion Mix
2:38:41 - 3:49:30 Ausar Ra Black Hawk Mix



Our commentary this week touched base on:

\\u2022 All of the shenanigans of Super Bowl 50 (the game itself, the halftime show with Coldplay, Bruno Mars & Beyonce showing the power of Black Music once again, the crazy racial vibes pre-game & during the event via the media, etc.)
\\u2022 The passing of songwriter, music artist & singer Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire
\\u2022 The upcoming Nile Rodgers & Duran Duran tour
\\u2022 Rihanna\'s new album dropping via TIDAL and the new (kinda, sorta) standards for RIAA platinum and gold certification with streaming services
\\u2022 Actor Don Cheadle\'s upcoming Miles Davis movie "Miles Ahead"
\\u2022 DJ Big Kap passing
\\u2022 Beyonce dropping her new song and video this weekend with "Formation" song, the Internet\\u2019s extreme responses to it and how far can a pop artist go with pushing their own definition of Blackness (whether for activist or superficial reasons)
\\u2022 Various jackassed rap beefs over the past 2 weeks (B.o.B. vs. Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Wiz Khalifa vs. Kanye West)
\\u2022 Kanye West being the embodiment of the bitter ex EVERYONE despises when you\\u2019re just moved and are living your life
\\u2022 DJ Kool Herc\'s old NYC block in the Bronx being now being officially called Hip-Hop Blvd.
\\u2022 Black Folks winning with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards
\\u2022 The UN talking about the need for reparations from slavery for Black Americans
\\u2022 Flint Water Crisis updates and new stories about issues of harmful amounts of lead being in the water all over the U.S.
\\u2022 Black Lives Matter\\u2019s DeRay Mckesson running for mayor of Balitmore and what that means
\\u2022 The African wife who crashed her fake funeral after her husband tried to kill her
\\u2022 And some other stuff here and there\\u2026

There is no brand new Black Agenda Report news mini-segment on this week\'s episode due to our extended commentary.

Feel free to check out some recent episodes of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast over at our official blog, BlackRadioIsBack.com - all of the shows are clean/radio friendly.

FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Week of February 3, 2016

DJ Fusion Extended Music Mix [tunes listed by artist/song title/label(s) in order]

1. Kenny Dope/Yeah/Freeze Records
2. Camp Lo/Son Of A.../Soul Fever
3. Anderson .Paak/Hear Don\'t Stand A Chance/Steel Wool, OBE, Art Club & EMPIRE
4. Saul Williams/Think Like They Book Say/Fader Label
5. Asher Roth, Nottz & Travis Barker/Goin Down/White Label
6. Big Narstie feat. Kwan Villain & Typah Jammz/Oh My Goodness/Dice Recordings
7. Beneficence/Vibrate The Streets/ Ill Adrenaline Records
8. Kooley High feat. Add-2/Where I\'m Going/M.E.C.C.A. Records
9. Audio Push/Picture Me/AudioPush.com
10. Adrian Younge/La Ballade/Linear Labs
11. MURS & 9th Wonder/Wait...Back It Up/Strange Music
12. Lord Raja/Ride Out/Ghostly Int\'l & Adult Swim
13. OG Maco/I Am Legend/ TheLordOfRage.com
14. Esperanza Spaulding/Good Lava/Concord
15. Maria Muldaur/Midnight At the Oasis (Cuica RMX)/WB
16. DJ Pepsi feat Monique Bingham/Pride/MoNyuku Music

PLUS the Ausar Ra Black Hawk Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics, New School Tunes and Independent Music Finds and more!
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