Southern Mixtape: DJ Travis Gales on how early hip-hop traveled South

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Southern Mixtape: DJ Travis Gales on how early hip-hop traveled South

By Leoneda Inge,

Published January 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM EST

In our next installment of 鈥楽outhern Mixtape,鈥� Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii talk with local DJ Travis Gales about how hip-hop made its way South - through cassette tapes.

Guest

Travis Gales, local DJ at WNCU, one of Raleigh鈥檚 Hip-Hop 50^th Anniversary honorees

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 深夜福利's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 深夜福利 as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Jeff Tiberii

Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of 深夜福利's "Due South." Jeff joined 深夜福利 in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and 深夜福利鈥檚 Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary 鈥淩ight Turn,鈥� launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.

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Erin Keever

Erin Keever is the Executive Producer of 深夜福利鈥檚 daily radio show, Due South. Erin comes to 深夜福利 from Charlotte where she spent 16 years at WFAE serving in various roles from on-air announcer, researcher, web editor, to finally senior producer of 鈥淐harlotte Talks with Mike Collins.鈥�

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