The awkward moment when NBA finals reach game 7, and lands on the Thursday of your event, you ask yourself. Why me oh lord why me, lol. Frantically, you reach of for support near & far, & your end result is as followed.

Thursday June 20th, Another Level Sports Bar, Berkeley, Mo, 930 Pm Walks inside venue loos left, looks forward, looks right, and find my self in a situation in which it is just me, the bartender, & security, & its half time for the NBA finals.I feel relieved no one has beaten me to this empty venue, while nervous that the turn out, might be minimal.

Midway through the 3rd quarter the bars population grew, 2 by 2 they spewed in, until we had about 20 – 25 surrounded by the flat screens of the bar, with only 1 concern (not the Show case),who will win the finals.At this time 1 group of artist, who traveled from St.Joseph, Mo was lost & and at another level sports bar in East Saint Louis.(WTF), my host & photographer could not make it because of childcare & transportation, & Big Heff who stated earlier that day he was going to watch half of the finals then head to the venue, were not present as the 4th quarter made way.

During the final 6 minutes of the game everything started to make sense, supporters were present, all performers were present, and spirits were high and of course were ready for (not the show case to start) the new NBA champions to be crowned. After what ever team won, Big Heff sent a text saying he was on his way (wtf happened to 2 quarters lol). 

After all the Cheers & boo’s, & social post about the finals were over, we began the Showcase which feature Hussoulman, Pooh Naz T & Nap Dogg ( From Saint Joseph, Mo). Traestl (From St.Roberts, Mo),Gifted Dance Crew (St.Louis / St.Charles Area) Surprise performer Peety Weestro, last event winner & St.Louis natives King Cakes, who took on the responsibilities of hosting (thank God), King James (no relation to Lebon Jamies) who was celebrating his 22nd B-Day with a concert & from Pittsburgh, Penn K-Mitch.

After all of the performances took place, Big Heff decided to pick 2 winners 1 being Trae Stl, & the other being Peety Weestro, who wasn’t officially in the contest but gave a dynamic performance of his hit song Pull up, Shut it Down.

With the events attendance being no more then 60 I would say the crowd was one of the best crowds I have seen in a while, filled with only people who wanted to be there. It wasn’t over drowned with performances, and gave a good indication on were the local scene stood. I want to thank everybody who attended the event, King James, King Cakes, Traestl, Gifted Dance Crew, O’Reginal Ent,  & all of their friends,family fans, & supporters, Will Victory, Mos Precious / her label, Dj Smooth of 90.7 Fm  Peoria, Ill, and of Course Big Heff & K-Mitch. Last but not least Sho’Me records President Jay B, & the Staff at Another Level Sports Bar.Thank you all once again.

November 10th, 4 Days after the U.S.A. selected Barrack Obama to serve another term Beta Radio was Live N Direct on 89.5 the wave. With all my guest (who won’t be named) cancelling out at the last moment the only thing I could do is lean on the love of fellow Dj’s.

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The weekly music review, which until this time was a segment in which artist gave feed back to other artist who have submitted their music to Beta Radio, Stared Gary, Indiana’s & Midwest Pocket Pool Dj Stanun. He gave a lot of insight of all the great artist who came from his city including the Legendary Micheal Jackson & CTE’ s (Young Jeezy’s Label ) Freddie Gibbs. During the Music Review he listened to music from Enforcer, White Eagle, Jzanell, Ray Goss, & Reik Rivers, giving out 2 outstanding Green Lights (Dope Tracks) & 2 screeching red lights (Bad Tracks) going as far as saying you couldn’t pay him to play certain track & even on accident  confused another artist as a female rapper. Besides passing judgement on selected music he talks about the positive work going on with his record pool/ dj coalition midwestpocketpool.com and how to sign up as an artist/ dj . Before rapping up the interview he gave 5 plus minutes of shout outs im which he covered just about everybody in the industry it seems from shouting out Dj Drama, to shouting out Santa Claus, & everybody who paid their taxes on time. For full interview & music review click photo above.

As a bid to piss every and anybody who voted for Mitt Romney, I vowed personally to play Young Jeezy’s – My President at least once a show. Side note both Jay Nixon (Democrat) & Claire Macaskill (Democrat) Both won in Missouri by more than 10 % of the vote while Barrack Obama loss by more than 10 % in Missouri. I feel racism some where in that considering they all have similar beliefs, & political views any way next paragraph.

With my 2pm guest cancelling I reached out to beautiful Cool Running Dj, Coast to Coast Dj, Fleet Dj, the list continues forever Florida’s own, Tampa Mystic. We talked a while about her ties to the lovely city of St.Louis, her pet peeves when it comes to artist/ dj relations & alot more.    We even had a chance to play music from an artist she’s currently pushing by the Name of TBS (not the tv network). To check out part 1 of this interview click on either her or Dj Smalls below

Click to Hear Pt.1 of My interview with Her

To sum up the day had 2 dope djs on the show, make sure you follow their movements online & in the streets. We have 4 more years of a dope president. Make sure you submit clean music for the music review after following on twitter @whobeta. Tune in every Saturday 12p-4p 89.5 the wave http://www.stlcc.edu/kcfv also on I tunes, shout cast, and alot more.

Beta Review For Audio Click Here

August 18th 2012, Beta Radio was aired. Some of the topics of the week included rumors that Nas doesn’t write his own music,the ongoing beef with Ludacris and rising hip hop stars Big Sean & Drake. Confirmed guest Def Jam’s Ray Jr & Pine Lawn’s The 80’s Baby.

Def Jam’s new recording artist was suppose to call in 12:15 Pm but after an 1 hour passed we didn’t expect him to call . Saint Louis artist 80’s baby came through (late) & reviewed several tracks in rotation on the show, & even gave one song a rare green light. Some of the Songs he reviewed were from St.Louis artist L’z up, Tef Poe, Contact, North Carolina’s Male Artist of the Year Young Dirt, Texas Artist T Fields.  Also during he show he called out a few artist from St.Louis that claim Pine Lawn. He even went as far to say that one of the artist in question has never lived in Pine Lawn, never been to a hood bbq, never held it down for Pine Lawn. He also talked about the state of Hip Hop in St.Louis as well as other topics.

By the end of te show Def Jam’s Ray Jr never called in.  I took some cool pictures with the 80’s Baby and broke new tracks like TAG teams Over dose, & the 80’s Baby Wowzer’s. The 1st person to tweet @rayjr216 and mention me and skipping the interview gets a surprise.

Don’t forget to tune in to Beta Radio this week 12p-4p on 89.5 the wave stream it live http://www.stlcc.edu/kcfv, as well as most other outlets, including Itunes, & shoutcast.

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Good things happened 6/26/2012 when Ritz touched down in St. Louis for the revival tour, at the Atomic Cowboy. It started off with a lot of great local indie talent, White Owl, Preach, and plenty more. Special guest League of extraordinary G’z entertained the crowd before and during their performance, especially with their mascot Lion. They brought a new sound I wasn’t used to hearing from Texas artist. I wasn’t able to catch the beginning of Ritz performance but when but with the song I came in on caught my attention immediately. He gave an excellent stage show and even stayed for most of the after party which included performances from So & So, Step or Get Left, and special guest Tef Poe.

(To hear Ritz Interview click photo of Ritz to see more concert photos click the human lion)

Overall it was a good show well organized, zero confusion. Only things I noticed that was a downer was the song selection of The Legendary Dj Sno, the heat, and long performances from opening acts. Sno played a lot of urban/ club music which I really enjoyed but, the crossover crowd wasn’t too enthused with Yo Gotti & 2 Chains. I always knew that when you put a bunch of Black people together it gets hot and hell & I never experienced a bunch of white people bunched together until that day. The end result was that a cool breeze swept through the crowd….bull shit it was hot as hell. Salute to the bear Mascot   he jepradized his health to entertain us all, lol. I enjoyed all of the performance’s but found myself getting tired of hearing them after the 1^st 10 minutes of each set.

After Ritz performed his set we caught up with him for an interview.   He gave us good answers as we asked about his cracker influenced rap name, the Caucasian rapper time gap, and more. After the camera stopped rolling we continued to talk for a moment. With his humble words, and obvious hunger I became a fan of Ritz & if he comes back to St. Louis I will come see him & so should you. Shout out to Royal1mangement.com for bringing him to town.

Find me on facebook,twitter, & instagram @whobeta. All concert photo’s from Regime Photography 931-538-9415.