99 & Kato – The Radio Experience (Episode 27)
99 & Kato – The Radio Experience – LISTEN TO ARCHIVED SHOWS: http://99andkatoradio.com/listen-up/ Episode 27 – July 10, 2015 In this episode, 99 & Kato discuss: • What are your musical guilty pleasures? • Gettin’...
Gimme 5 Funky Father’s Day Gifts
Get creative for Pops this Father’s Day with books, car pampering, food, music, and fun. 1) The Go-Go Book Engaging, relevant, and informative, with crankin’ pockets full of fun! Take Me Out to the...
The Geto Boys’ Show Is Better than Ever (and ‘Grown’ Black Art Matters)
On stage at the Howard Theatre Sunday night, Willie D asked the enthusiastic audience what they thought about the Geto Boys releasing a new album. The crowd yelled its approval and made an even closer...
The Go-Go Book
Kato Hammond’s journey is the pure story of Go-Go culture, untarnished by media sensationalizing or outsiders’ calculations. Here, we see the truth of how a young Black community’s self-motivation and peer mentoring, as well as...
99 & Kato’s Top Ten Songs for Feb 2015
Thanks to our listeners for the feedback on your favorites! In no particular order, this is the “99 & Kato” Top Ten for February 2015: 1. “Naturally” – Black History 2. “Back Together Again” –...
Go-Go History. It’s Black. And it Cranks.
Behold what gifts manifest from the minds of men who humble themselves before Creation to document their culture. What will we know of our own history without those of us who speak our own...
Marion Barry to DC’s Gen X, Go-Go, & Hip Hop
OXON HILL, MD, November 23, 2014 — Sons and daughters of Washington, DC’s Marion Barry era are in mourning today upon hearing the news this morning that the legendary civil rights leader and former mayor...
Godfather of Go-Go Media Kato Hammond among Featured Experts on WETA’s “Washington in the ’80s”
BALTIMORE, MD, November 17, 2014 — Kato Hammond, Godfather of Go-Go Media, was among the area experts featured on WETA’s “Washington in the ’80s,” which premiered at 8pm tonight. The go-go historian, journalist, and archivist...
TMOTTRadio’s “99 & Kato” to Feature Local Hip Hop and Soul, Too
As TMOTTRadio explodes into live programming, listeners will get more than what they’re used to from the online go-go radio pioneers of the Take Me Out to the Go-Go crew. Listeners will also hear local...
Chuck Brown Memorial Park Grand Opening
8-22-14. It was all LOVE. And the people were beautiful.
Flavors of DC Funk Rock Chocolate City Style at The Kennedy Center
“DC funk rock comes in different flavors, which are exposed by the bands’ front men whose voices point to telling undercurrents in the music. For example, where Head-Roc’s vocals pick up the go-go in GODISHEUS...
A Go-Go Story on MTV’s “True Life Unfiltered”
This video is straight POWER. Check out a young Moe Shorter (Junkyard Band, Go-Go Coalition, and everything good and right with the world), a young Mark Te’ago Ward (TMOTTGoGo, Fatal Attraction Band), and the 20-year-old...
Where the @#$% is Zo Black?
Zo Black Da Rappa will make you dig that young shit. His debut album #WTFIZB Da Mixtape takes the Silver Spring, MD artist above and beyond same-age peers who are just skating by in the...
Go-Go Divas Crank the Verses for ‘DC Symphony III’
The Crank Brothers are at it again with “DC Symphony III”, an “all-female rap go-go record,” according to Bag of Beats Records. The Crank Brothers, a team of musicians boasting a redefinition of crank, has...