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(00:18:29)
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(00:08:09)
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(00:07:45)
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(00:15:24)
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(00:09:40)
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Piece Description
"We're out there whether or not it's 30 degrees. As long as it's not raining, we're recording. It doesn't stop." -LJ Gray, founder of Yo Trakz! Mobile Recording Studio This is a story about a couple of guys, a mic, a laptop, a souped-up truck, and a vision for changing the future of hip hop recording. Yo Trakz Mobile Recording Studio producer LJ Gray and his front-man, Hot Spitta, take their operation to street corners around Baltimore city to capture hip hop music at its roots. When they set up shop on a corner, they turn the scene into an impropmtu step-up rap session where locals are invited to show what they can do... and it's all recorded in real-time.
Broadcast History
This piece aired originally on "The Signal," a weekly cultural magazine show at WYPR in Baltimore.