I have been surprised at my interest in rap music since i have my sirius radio. Its seems to be anoeehr thing sirius is better at as well as dance music. I generally scan from channel 40 to reggae. Then channel 15 till bluegrass for rock. I like heartatak better then xmlm as some of the rock is a bit mellower and somewhat enjoyable. As for country music seems channel 134, I believe the grand o opera channel takes my vote.
Yeah Street Beat, Wax and Hip Hop Nation are all on my first 6 presets. I love the streams. I have learned so many new artist that i would never have heard on my local Hip-hop station. These are my most favorite streams. they are sweet!! I love the 2 live crew, song I want P*$$y that song rocks.
yah yah yah, im sorry, but im gonna have to, um, disagree with u on this one. It seems to me that "Hip-Hop Nation" is more of an urban rap station than an underground hip-hop station it is made out to be. Ive made requests for music and heard non of it. stbeat, hiphopnation, and those 3 other "urban" stations play the same types of music. ie: ghetto rap. i dont mind it, but i'd love to hear some real hip-hop!!!! not stuff thats so mainstream, i subscribed to hear things that i dont normally come across, but eh, what can i do.....sorry for the rant...
Well my favorite one is Slow Jamz. Its really nice to listen to the softer side of R&B. I hear a lot of music here that I have never heard elsewhere. Which does not mean its not mainstream. This is just another genre that has been opened to me with all the variety that SIRIUS has.
Heart& Soul, SlowJamz and Soulrevue are really good urban r&B streams too(for us older non hip hop listeners), and of course Im longing for the return of The Express---hope against hope I think tho.
I LOVE SlowJamz...listen to it quite a bit. I find myself listening to the R and B streams a lot, but you will seldom find me in the hip hop zone. Not that I don't like it, I just like the R and B stuff even more.
What's funny is the music I grew up loving almost all fits the categories of classic country and R and B. I knew classic country was country back when I was listening to it for the first time. But I never knew the type of music I loved best on the pop stations back then was something called R and B! Back them (the mid to late Sixties), most pop stations played everything from R and B to disco to what was then called hard rock. I always loved the R and B best, not even knowing it WAS R and B.
I, at least, find that amusing.
Kids (and adults) today have much more variety and many more musical delivery systems. My AM radio had three stations I would listen to. Two if a ball game was on that I wasn't interested. One if both that and a religious program I wasn't interested in were on. You certainly could not take your record player with you jogging. Tapes were on reel to reel, and largely unaffordable. Music playback machines were the size of a briefcase, for the most part.
Sometimes, during storms, there were NO local stations! Of course, at night we could listen to such wonders as 77WABC in New York City, which seemed so far away and unreachable as to be in another world. For us in our Eastern Kentucky hills, it may as well have been.
Now I can travel the country, coast to coast, and listen to New York City radio, crystal clear, uninterrupted music choices--60 of them. And Nashville's 650--WSM, as well.
Great 'In the Mix' montages by DJ Double O and Kid Capri.
DJ Red Alert is one of Sirius' best urban jocks. 'I'm gonna wax your ass!'
Hot Jamz and Hip-Hop Nation are playing a huge variety now. Lots of Dirty South tracks and forgotten hits that I love. Ying Yang, Juvenile, Master P and OutKast.
Street Beat & Wax are Slammin'
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