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This month’s Pioneers Hip Hop Show begins by setting foot in Manchester in the early 1980s, time when the electro funk sound was dominant. The crew trace the development of Hip Hop music from this point (names like Greg Wilson, Chad Jackson, Broken Glass and Prince Kool), before journeying through the 80s up until the turn of the decade. As usual there is some brand new music featured at the end…

"A City of Soul" by Greg Wilson

The bar above B.B. King’s was Steph’s sanctuary. The blues drifted up from below as did the hazy, not-so-distant glow of Beale St. The world felt so far away, and he thought of his grandmother and church. He wondered if music sounded this way to angels on Sunday morning. That was his guilt getting to him, not for what he did, but for what he was about to do. It’s better to be guilty and fed than…