Davey D is a nationally recognized journalist, adjunct professor, Hip Hop historian, syndicated talk show host, radio programmer, producer, deejay, media and community activist.
He's been featured in numerous documentaries, magazines, newspapers, videos and TV news shows like; CNN, Fox News, ABC's Nightline, America's Black Forum, The Tavis Smiley Show, Democracy Now, C-Span, BET Television, American Gangster VH1 Television,Link TV, Laura Flanders Grit TV, Australia's Lateline, Distortion of Static, Built From Scratch, Hard Knock TV Rock TV Vlad TV, Internet Cafe, Computer Chronicles, Soul Beat TV, KRON TV, KTVU TV, KTOP , Bay TV, KPIX TV, KBHK TV, Air America Radio Front Page Radio, KGO Radio, KCBS Radio and BBC Radio.
Breakdown FM... Hip Hop and Soul with interviews, lots of flava and lots of consciousness, hosted, produced and mixed by longtime deejay, activist and on air personality Davey D
Davey D offers up a special tribute mix in honor of Malcom X's birthday. Davey even mixes in some of Malcom's recorded speeches. This is a must listen.
In celebration of International Women's History Month we decided to highlight the voice of many who are often overlooked,taken for granted or forgotten about. Those are our sisters in Hip Hop. Women have always been on point from day one when it comes to architecting this culture called Hip Hop. We can start with Cindy Campbell-the sister of Hip Hop's father Kool Herc. had it not been for her suggesting and ultimately setting up the now landmark party on 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in August of 1973, we might not be on the mic, yes yes y'alling at all today in 2009. During the pioneering years we had stellar emcees like Zulu Queen Lisa Lee who was down with Afrika Bambaattaa, Pebbly Poo of the Masterdon Committee and Sha Rock who was down with DJ Baron & Breakout-Funky 4 Plus One More.. Of course we have to tip our hats to the one and only Mercedes Ladies-the first all female Hip Hop Crew.. We have an interview with original member Shari-Shar about to drop real soon-so be on the look out.
We've gotten a number of requests to do something for Black History month. Hence we flipped our show and dropped some nice gems for Black History month. Below are some classics that often skip us, along with some new joints like Stay Black and Die featuring M1 of dead prez and a number of Bay Area artists including the Jacka, Shamako Noble of Hip Hop Congress and D’Labrie...
Jasiri X has a new one-off his new award-winning album American X, this cut is called ‘Minstrel’… One of my fav’s is the revolutionary cut from Yo Yo called Girls Got a Gun... It reminded me of just how hard people came during the Afrocentric era in Hip Hop... Keep in mind there are literally hundreds of records to choose from... I wanted to get a mixture of old and new and some b-side cuts that might make people perk up a bit.
