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Grandmaster Flash wins Polar Music Prize

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February 13, 2019

Hip-hop legend Grandmaster Flash has been named a Polar Music Prize laureate for 2019. Also in the news today: '80s one-hit wonders team up for tour, acclaimed Drake mixtape to get digital release, Black Star's coming back, Carly Rae Jepsen teases a new track, and...why are the charts so weird these days? Music in today's episode: Jahzzar - "Comedie" (CC BY 4.0); Instrumental Hoodz - Instrumental 18 Urban Backing Beats; BoxCat Games - "Against The Wall" (CC BY 3.0); Wang Chung - "Everybody Have Fun"; Drake - "Lust for Life"; The Spin Academy - DJ Tutorial: 4 Essential Transitions; Anne-Sophie Mutter - Dvořak Violin Concerto; Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - "The Message"; The Specials - "Embarrassed By You"; The Greatest Showman Cast - "A Million Dreams"; The Stone Roses - "Fools Gold"; Fredo - "Survival of the Fittest"; Busted - "Nineties"; Carly Rae Jepsen - "Now That I Found You"