FuseBox Radio #551: Monique & Lee Daniels' Hollywood "Empire" Beefs/Kanye Is Mad In The Grammys Streets...

Due to some extra in & out of state 9 to 5 plus creative work travels during the past 2 weeks on the both of our ends, here's a FLASHBACK episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast for the weeks of February 23 & March 2, 2018 [originally broadcast on the weeks February 25 & March 4, 2015] with some new and classic music from the international Black Diaspora, news and commentary. This week's radio show breakdown (by minutes/hours): 0:00 - 1:32:27 Introduction & Extended Commentary 1:32:27 - 2:15:05 DJ Fusion Mix 2:15:05 - 3:13:37 Ausar Ra Black Hawk Mix Our extended commentary thay week on the show (it takes up about the 1st hour and a half of the radio show) after being back from some illness from the past 2 weeks touched base on the crazy winter weather in the U.S., net neutrality finally passing via the FCC in the United States (for now), the FOX soap opera "Empire" becoming a huge thing in current popular culture and our feelings on how the TV series has developed & Black broadcast TV at large, the passing of actor Leonard Nimoy & basketball player Anthony Mason, actress Monique talking about being blackballed in Hollywood & issues with director Lee Daniels, various Grammys & Oscar Award controversies from this year (with Kanye West's "Artist of the Year" complaint, Beyonce singing the lead song from the movie "Selma" instead of the original artist Ledisi, Patricia Arquette's terribly misguided backstage statements, etc.) and some other things here and there. There is no new new Black Agenda Report segment on this week's show due to our extended commentary. Feel free to check out some recent episodes of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast over at our official blog, BlackRadioIsBack.com - all of the shows are clean/radio friendly. FuseBox Radio Playlist for the Weeks of February 23 & March 2, 2018 [originally broadcast on the weeks February 25 & March 4, 2015] Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) [listed by artist/song title/label(s)] 1. Estelle/Something Good/Established 1980 Records 2. BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah feat. DOOM/Ray Gun/Innovative Leisure 3. Fashawn feat. Dom Kennedy/Golden State of Mind/Mass Appeal 4. Justin Faust/Bird of Paradise (Original Mix)/Nurvous Records 5. John Robinson/We Are The Proflic/Feelin' Music 6. Lisa Stansfield/Picket Fence (Opolopo RMX)/Soulfood Music DJ Fusion Flashback Track Played On This Week's Radio Show: MF DOOM/I Hear Voices (Part 1)/Subverse Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) [listed by artist/song title/label(s)] 1. Mark Ronson feat. Keyone Starr/I Can't Lose/Columbia (Played Live) 2. Jaga Jazzist/Animal Chin/Ninja Tune (Played Live) 3. Hodgy Beats feat. Domo Genesis/New Balance/Odd Future (Played Live) 4. Sonny Cheeba of Camp Lo/Time/Drank & Dank (Played Live) 5. Tuxedo (Mayer Hawthorne & Jake One)/The Right Time/Stones Throw (Played Live) 6. The Rebirth/By Design/Walkin Talkin (Top Song Selected) 7. Wave Chappelle/New Black History/WaveChappelle.com (Top Song Selected) 8. PRhyme feat. Ab-Soul & Mac Miller/Dat Sound Good/PRhyme Records (Top Song Selected) 9. The Beatles vs. Hip-Hop Legends feat. Freddie Foxx/For The Children/White Label (Top Song Selected) 10. Jazz Spastiks & Rebels to the Grain/Tapes/JazzSpastiks.bandcamp.com (Top Song Selected) 11. CunninLyniguists feat. Yamin Semali/Slum Lordz/Dead End Hip Hop (Top Song Selected) 12. Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark feat. Diamond D & K-Natural/King/Delicious Vinyl (Top Song Selected) 13. Joey Badass/Curry Chicken/Cinematic Music Group & Pro Era (Top Song Selected) 14. Beat Spacek/Inflight Wave/Ninja Tune (Top Song Selected) 15. Mega Ran & Storyville/React/Brick Records (Top Song Selected) 16. Gerreddi feat. Nara Morris/The Light/White Label (Top Song Selected) 17. Bodega Brovas/In The Sky/October Music Group (Top Song Selected) 18. Red Baraat/Bhangra Pirates/Sinj Records (Top Song Selected) 19. Mord Fustang/Elite Beat Agent/MordFustang.com (Top Song Selected) 20. Death Grips/Runway T/DeathGrips.com (Top Song Selected) 21. DJ Rob A feat. Masta Ace/Put to Paper/Rugged Soul Records (Top Song Selected) 22. Stoneface feat. Freeway/Calico Audio/StonefaceHipHop.com (Top Song Selected) 23. Calvin Richardson/Hearsay/Jordan House (Top Song Selected) 24. Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Souls of Mischief/There Is Only Now RMX/Linear Labs (Top Song Selected) 25. Bahamadia/We Here/BahamadiaMusic.com (Top Song Selected) PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Ausar Ra Black Hawk Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds