Thanks so much for posting this - I often feel like people don’t understand New York history and where hip hop came from and this reminds me of my roots and why I loved growing up in this crazy place.

1st up thankyou Mr Allen, you are a legend in your own underwear.

I have this show from August 1989, and i have one request, or maybe its just a question?

What’s better, to up the shows with or without the ads?

I just listened back to my tape of this and the quality is super-crap [so this is the biggest shout for this version, thankyou for takin time out to clean up this doozy. It is crisp].

Personally, my interests lie as much with the music as it is in the station id’s, the dub-plates, the exclusives, the show-to-show hand-overs and strangely/ mainly, the ad’s…

I used to love the Colt 45 Billy Dee Williams ads on Kiss but my favourite one on here was just after the Kwame track ‘The Ryhthm’.

It’s an ad for a ‘Raggae and Rap Concert’ [as opossed to reggae!?] on August 18th 1989 featuring Jungle Brothers, Chubb Rock at the Farthington English Community Centre in Patterson, New Jersey.

The ad alone is as much of a throwback as hearing Red cuttin up 2 copies of ‘Versatility Remix’……..

I got one more question, was the ‘Security Extra Tight’ as promised?

Thanks again for the Red Alert, hopefully many more to come…