Interact with Tri-City Hip-Hop’s stories and places in a new online map.

A screenshot of the tricityhiphop.ca map. On the left of the image is some details about the map with an overview of the stories. On the wider right hand side of the page is a google map with a boundary line around Waterloo Region, and place markers linking the place to important stories.
This new online map links places to stories from the Tri-cities hip-hop scene over the past 3 decades. Screenshot from the tricityhophop.ca map.
Dan Kellar - CKMS - KitchenerON | 10-02-2021
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Host: Ivan Angelovski

Hip-Hop was part of the Tri-City Area music scene since the 1990’s. In the club called The Twist, for example, on Marsland Drive, people could hear Public Enemy, Ice-T and Vanilla Ice, along with all the local hip hop artists. 

Now, many of these places, the artists, and their intersecting stories from over the last three decades have been mapped on tricityhiphop.com

We’re talking with Sam Nabi, the person who’s most responsible for setting up the map, and Tait Garret, hip hop artist and producer who is featured on the map. 

There’s even a pin for Radio Waterloo there, so be sure to check it out at https://tricityhiphop.com/ 

This program is a part of the “Local Journalism Initiative” grant program and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.

Check out the archived versions of  this program and other episodes on radiowaterloo.ca/news. You can  follow us on twitter @RadioWaterloo. And you can email news@radiowaterloo.ca to get in touch with comments or ideas about stories to cover.

The music was Blackroom by Moby, courtesy of mobygratis.com