Yahoo! Sports

Detroit’s Sports Rap Radio, The First All-Black-Led Sports Radio Station In The US, Has Been Shut Down — ’I Failed My People’

Created with good intention, Detroit, MI-based Sports Rap Radio has been shut down. “[This is] history-making,” Parker told CBS News at the time. “[It’s] groundbreaking, [and] we just believe that the ...
Yahoo! Sports

Detroit’s Sports Rap Radio Makes History As The First All-Black-Led Sports Radio Station In The US

Detroit, MI, has done it again, and it’s only right that one of the Blackest cities in America becomes the home to the first all-Black-led sports radio station in the nation! Sports Rap Radio on AM ...
Detroit Free Press

Detroit's new Sports Rap Radio lineup announced: Here are the on-air hosts

There are a new set of voices about to hit the Detroit sports talk airwaves, and we have a better idea of the lineup for Sports Rap Radio. The new radio format, co-owned by former Free Press sports ...
Metro Times

Black-owned Sports Rap Radio readies to launch in Detroit

A landmark event in Black history — no, scratch that, American history — will take place in our city Monday morning. And you can listen in. Sports Rap Radio, the nation’s first sports-talk radio ...
The Village Voice

Why the NYT’s ‘The Kinship Between Talk Radio and Rap’ Piece Is Just as Bad as Those Maddeningly Persistent ‘Translating Hip-Hop’ Gags

When, a few weeks back, Fuse.Tv ran a piece called “JAY-Z’s ‘DOA’ – Translated for the Hip Hop Impaired,” they were carrying on a dubious tradition that dates back as far as the ebonics culture wars ...