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December 28, 2012: Put the Needle on the Best of 2012 Hip-Hop

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: show intro over ELAN	→ "show intro over ELAN"	MonkeyTown		2012
Homeboy Sandman	Illuminati   → "Illuminati" by "Homeboy Sandman"	First of A Living Breed	Stones Throw	2012					0:00:41 (Pop-up)
MaLLy & The Sundance Kid	Shine   → "Shine" by "MaLLy & The Sundance Kid"	The Last Great...Clean		2012					0:03:42 (Pop-up)
Lushlife	Big Sur   → "Big Sur" by "Lushlife"	Plateau Vision		2012					0:06:07 (Pop-up)
Planet Asia	no apologies (feat Raekwon)   → "no apologies (feat Raekwon)" by "Planet Asia"			2012					0:09:20 (Pop-up)
Karriem Riggins	Moogy Foog It   → "Moogy Foog It" by "Karriem Riggins"	Alone Together		2012					0:11:23 (Pop-up)
Wiley	Scar   → "Scar" by "Wiley"	Evolve Or Be Extinct		2012					0:12:56 (Pop-up)
Nio Tha Gift	WFMU freestyle   → "WFMU freestyle" by "Nio Tha Gift"			2012		recorded at SOM Bar in Mission District SF exclusively for WFMU			0:15:58 (Pop-up)
Serengeti	Nice   → "Nice" by "Serengeti"	C.A.R.	Anticon Records	2012		from Chicago but he recorded this album in Berkeley CA			0:17:02 (Pop-up)
REKS	Sins (feat Alias)   → "Sins (feat Alias)" by "REKS"			2012					0:19:28 (Pop-up)
DJ Needlz	Activate   → "Activate" by "DJ Needlz"			2012					0:21:35 (Pop-up)
Lethal Dialect	live rap from Dublin for WFMU   → "live rap from Dublin for WFMU" by "Lethal Dialect"			2012		one of several Irish hip-hop artists recorded for WFMU during trips to Eire in 2012			0:23:20 (Pop-up)
Costello	The Devil's A Liar   → "The Devil's A Liar" by "Costello"	Illosphical	Working Class	2012					0:24:28 (Pop-up)
Fix4	Jazzelunk A Betonan (Vanis Remix)   → "Jazzelunk A Betonan (Vanis Remix)" by "Fix4"	Jazzelunk A Betonon Rremix EP		2012		among the hip-hop I uncovered during my two WFMU shows from Budapest, Hungary in 2012 - good times! thanks to Tiios Radio			0:27:53 (Pop-up)
Killer Mike	Reagan   → "Reagan" by "Killer Mike"	RAP Music	Williams Street	2012		This is a great song but this "radio" version sucks - It is by the label who edited out "cocaine" - fer fucks sake - I meant to do my own radio mix but never got round to it - sorry			0:30:08 (Pop-up)
Saigon	Blown Away( feat Dead Prez)   → "Blown Away( feat Dead Prez)" by "Saigon"	The Greatest Story Never Told		2012					0:33:39 (Pop-up)
Casual + J Rawls	Give Respect   → "Give Respect" by "Casual + J Rawls"	Respect Game or Expect Flames	Nature Sounds	2012					0:36:33 (Pop-up)
Jasiri X	Trayvon   → "Trayvon" by "Jasiri X"			2012		this political rapper had this song (and video) out within couple of days of this incident going down early in 2012			0:39:37 (Pop-up)
BPos	Unite Tonight   → "Unite Tonight" by "BPos"			2012		San Francisco hip-hop crew worked hard in 2012 keeping that throwback 90's Souls/Hieros vibe going strong- And like a lot of the artists played today these guys have also been guests on this show over past few years			0:43:09 (Pop-up)
4two7	butter on ya muffintop   → "butter on ya muffintop" by "4two7"			2012		more of that Oakland rap/hip-hop from the artist formerly known as Eclipse 427			0:47:06 (Pop-up)
JJ Doom	Guv'nor   → "Guv'nor" by "JJ Doom"	Keys To the Kuffs	Lex Records	2012		ain't a proper year end list without some DOOM -			0:49:11 (Pop-up)
Kid Koala	2 Bit Blues   → "2 Bit Blues" by "Kid Koala"	12 Bit Blues	Ninja Tune	2012					0:51:24 (Pop-up)
El-P	Drones Over Brooklyn   → "Drones Over Brooklyn" by "El-P"	Cancer 4 Cure	Fat Possum	2012		although this could go under 2011 too since iit was first released then for that TV show			0:54:00 (Pop-up)
Aesop Rock	Gopher Guts   → "Gopher Guts" by "Aesop Rock"	Skelethon		2012		this one is going out to Rapper With No Name who is among the Best of 2012 WFMU listeners!			0:56:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: mic break over COmputer JAy	The Great Wall of Self Awareness   → "The Great Wall of Self Awareness" by "mic break o...	Savage Planet		2012					0:58:46 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:05pm → Billy Jam: Welcome to the last show of 2012 in the weekly "Put The Needle On The Record" series in which I invite you to submit here on the comments your fave hip-hop releases of 2012 - as well as your general favorite releases of 2012 (any type of music) + personal highlights or good things about the year that was 2012. Meantime I am going to play a mix of some (note "some) of the best hip-hop tracks and artists of 2012 - I will only play bits of some songs so as to squeeze in a lot of music into this (too short) one hour show - thanks for listening and for participating -
	7:01pm → Bob in Portland: For me the best thing in 2012 was Romney getting beaten and the shock/surprise/denial from him, his wife, and campaign crew. Priceless!
	7:04pm → Lee: best hiphop album of 2012? A tie between El-P's Cancer4Cure and Aesop Rock's Skelethon
	7:05pm → steve: not hip hop but Inspector Norse by Todd Terje was my fav track of the year
	7:08pm → TheRapperWithNoName: Shout out to Billy Jam and WFMU for doin it solid and steady in 2012.
	7:10pm → Jimmy in BK: best film was "Brooklyn Castle" - and the best marketing campaign for a badly written (but huge seller) book was whoever convinced 50 billion fools to buy "50 Shades Of...." crap
	7:12pm → JTE josephteilhard@gmail.com: I don't even listen to Hip Hop but I always tune into Needle. Always such a smart curation.
	7:15pm → Billy Jam: hey JTE - that's so cool of you to say - Thanks a lot. And thanks to all else tuned in and posting Best Of 2012 comments inc. Jimmy, TRWNN, Steve, Lee, and Bob - Please keep em coming - anything to do with 2012 - what you loved or hated or remembered most - thanks....Oh for me oen thing was Sandy hitting NJ and NY - surreal!
	7:21pm → Peter G: best hiphop LP was Lamar Kendrick and best rock was from Japandroids - best DJ on WFMU Terre T
	7:24pm → TheRapperWithNoName: Big Ups to the double record by Too Short and E-40 "The History Channel"
	7:26pm → Tall Paul: Yo Bill, my highlights are seeing 1) HipHop getting bigger here in Dublin much props to the Working Class Cru Costello and GI are keeping it lit with LD 50 and the Animators. 2) Seeing Bam playing a HipHop set live. 3) Props to Deviant for relasing his debut album Flying Buttress 4) Seeing ICE T relase Something from Nothin The Art of Rap
	7:31pm → Lee: I'M GLAD REAGAN DEAD
	7:34pm → common: love the lushlife
	7:37pm → Caryn: 2012 flew by, so most things I remember have already been mentioned. Hmm... I was glad Bret McKenzie won his Oscar. That's all I can think of.
	7:38pm → Beth: love the music - but re films - best five movies of 2012 = "Argo" + "Beasts of the Southern Wild" + "Amour" + "The Life of Pi" + "Django Unchained"
	7:40pm → TheRapperWithNoName: Not sure if it was 2011 or 2012 but Sa-Roc needs to get some love. Check out "Ether Wars" and "Starseed"
	7:41pm → KevinBK: Totally enjoying this set! Thanks
	7:41pm → Tall Paul: Yo Bill this is is for the Irish one of the great things was the Olympics when katie Taylor won the Gold.
	7:43pm → david: hi all - loving this end-of-year Billy Jam
	7:45pm → Billy Jam: hey David and Tall Paul in Ireland and Kevin in BK - and all else tuned in - am loving these 2012 picks - keep me coming for next 15 minutes -
	7:47pm → TheRapperWithNoName: Gopher Guts from Aesop Rock's Skelethon. Powerful "this is something he must handle on his own, the windblown way, wanna win? dont play"
	7:49pm → Billy Jam: good one RAPPER w/ No Name!
	7:51pm → Billy Jam: I find best of lists really hard to do since there is just too much good music to chose from to narrow it down to ten or one - but for best creative scratch composition my vote goes to Kid Koala - absolutely brilliantly constructed album - amazing!
	7:52pm → spidermank: best memory of 2012 was pic of Ken biking to WFMU HQ after sandy , hope, love and guts , nice one WFMU best of 2013 coming soon cheers Billy cheers WFMU
	7:54pm → Tall Paul: Yo Bill, I got to agree with you on that one truly a great album. Another one was Mastace and Mf_Doom MA_DOOM:_Son_of_Yvonne
	7:57pm → david: 2012 much better musically than in world events
	7:57pm → Billy jam: yp SPIDEY - totally agree with you on that pic of Ken on pic in flooded Hoboken - Next week all new show - not sure what yet......TAHNKS FOR LISTENING TO WFMU in 2012 - thanks to amEdeo for board op - and here's to hoping 2013 is a good + healthy + prosperous year for all of us - peace Billyjam

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