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To celebrate the winter holidays, Romesh welcomes some of his guests back onto the show to play some festive hip hop. There’s tunes from Outkast, Smino and Sweet Tea.

It’s Christmas time once again and this year with the help of some listeners and friends of the show, Romesh dashes through a festive hip hop playlist featuring classic tunes perfect for this time of year. There’s also time to take look under the Christmas tree where Romesh has popped some For The Love of Hip Hop caps for a couple of lucky listeners. Playing tunes from RUN-D.M.C., DMX, Snoop Dogg, Blondie & Fab 5 Freddy and Verb T.

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57 minutes

Last on

Sun 7 Dec 202501:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Run‐D.M.C.

    Christmas In Hollis

  • Skee‐Lo

    I Wish

    • Scotti Bros Records.

  • Smino

    Sleigh

    • Zero Fatigue.

  • DMX

    Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

  • Wu-Tang Clan

    Dashing (Reasons) (feat. Inspectah Deck & GZA/Genius)

    • LOUD Records.

  • Sweet Tee

    Let The Jingle Bells Rock

  • Snoop Dogg

    Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto

    • Death Row Records.

  • Blondie

    Yuletide Throwdown (feat. Fab 5 Freddy)

  • M.O.P.

    Cold As Ice

    • Epic.

  • BVA

    Gifted (feat. Verb T)

    • High Focus.

  • OutKast

    Player's Ball

    • Arista.

  • Tyler, The Creator

    You're A Mean One Mr Grinch

    • Columbia.

  • Kurtis Blow

    Christmas Rappin

    • Mercury.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 21 Dec 202400:00
    BBC Radio 2
  • Sun 7 Dec 202501:00
    BBC Radio 2