Microphone Check Conversations with hip-hop legends and rising talents, hosted by Ali Shaheed Muhammad, DJ, producer and one-third of the legendary group A Tribe Called Quest, and NPR Music editor Frannie Kelley.
Doc McKinney.
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Warren G during Celebrity Blackjack in 2010.
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YG in Los Angeles a couple days after his second album, Still Brazy , was released.
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Arya Shine, proud daughter of hip-hop and the man who runs all the @NPRHipHop socials, the one and only Cedric Shine.
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Rap Dads, Daughters And Sons: The Father's Day Episode
Sophia Chang.
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Gizzle at her home in Los Angeles in April.
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OG Maco.
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Terrace Martin in Los Angeles in March.
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Dean Blunt, left, with the other two members of Babyfather, Escrow and Gassman, who have just released BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow.
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Saul Williams in Los Angeles in January.
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Mr. MFN eXquire in Los Angeles in January.
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Freddie Gibbs in Los Angeles in December.
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Pusha T in Los Angeles in December.
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Logic.
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Mac Miller in Los Angeles in September. Note the Beats, Rhymes And Life tattoo on his right wrist.
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Masta Ace in New York in July.
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Large Professor earlier this year.
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Large Professor at an event in New York City in April, 2013.
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Vince Staples onstage in Sacramento in May.
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Ali Shaheed Muhammad onstage during Microphone Check 's live interview with Father in Atlanta in May.
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Father onstage at Terminal West in Atlanta May 18.
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Microphone Check onstage with Organized Noize in Atlanta. From left to right: Frannie Kelley, Ray Murray, Rico Wade, Sleepy Brown and Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
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