Breakdown FM is a station me and a couple of buddies, Alex Mejia and Mark Skillz started a back in 2005. It was to fill the void of not having a place where we could hear good music from various genres and insightful interviews on urban landscape.. We kicked this off and over the next [...]

There’s so much to say about Wednesday’s historic General Strike (Nov 2, 2011) in Oakland. It was the nation’s first general strike in over 65 years. It was a day where everyone was upbeat and focused. It was a day of success. It was a day in which we saw Oakland step out to the [...]

It’s always a pleasure to sit down and chop it up with the Godfather of Hip Hop Afrika Bambaataa. Most of the time when folks get with Bam they wanna pick his brains about Hip Hop history.. Thats understandable considering Bam’s pioneering status.. When we sat down with him, we picked his brain about being [...]

We chopped it up with longtime Japanese nuclear activist and famed Hip Hop artists Shingo 02 about whats going on in Japan. For those who don’t know Shingo has been speaking out about the potential dangers of these plants. He’s led protests, put out mixtapes and more importantly several years ago issued a widely read [...]

Here’s a cool interview with Scorpio aka Mr Ness and Mele-Mel focusing on the life and times of the Furious 5 who were the first superstar emcees within Hip Hop. They were the voices for deejay Grandmaster Flash. It’s always good to hear from them as they are often overlooked and forgotten. Let’s take a [...]

We wanted to dedicate this track to all those fighting for justice and equality. With each passing day corporations are imposing their agenda on working class and poor people and pushing folks to poverty. The situation in Madison, Wisconsin where billionaire bankers the Koch Brothers have funded Governor Scott Walker and have pushed him to [...]

This is a dope article  written by Hip Hop pioneer Jorge “Popmaster Fabel” Pabon of the Rocksteady Crew/ Universal Zulu Nation that gives us a brief outline on the history of Hip Hop dance. It was written in 1999 for the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame.. Preface: As we complete the third decade of what has been [...]

With every movement or revolution there’s a soundtrack and what took place over the past 3 weeks in Tunisia and Egypt is no different. We got word that scores of recording artists on the ground in Egypt captured the historic moment by recording songs. Their goal to inspire those alongside them in the struggle to [...]