8.00pm - 9.00pm
Sundays

The Get Up Show is a vehicle to play past, present and future urban music produced in New Zealand.

Rufus McEwan will be showcasing music from acclaimed New Zealand Hip Hop/ R&B musicians and providing an ear to the street to expose and promote some of the country’s fresh new talent.

"My experience with New Zealand Hip Hop hasn’t always been favourable, failure as a teenage MC pushed me towards an alternative career, and after 6 years of study in Radio – and 3 years teaching other people about radio - I’ve made it on the air. Starting on Kiwi mid last year, sharing a studio with Timothy Giles on Saturday mornings, I made every attempt possible to spin a Hip Hop track when I could convince Giles to leave me alone in the studio – and now I’m very privileged to wield my weapon of choice as Kiwi’s resident Hip Hop host on the Get Up Show."

 

The Get Up Show is concerned primarily with New Zealand Hip Hop in it's musical form. Past guests have included P-Money, David Dallas (formerly Con Psy of Frontline), R.E.S. and Flowz.

 

However the Get Up Show also aims to reach out to even more senior Kiwi hip hop artists who are now less involved in the community, individuals such as Zane Lowe, now based at the B.B.C. and formerly of Urban Disturbance, to get some historical perspective on hip hop in New Zealand and look at the ways the hip hop community can contribute to the media and cultural environments outside of the community.

 

Over the coming months the show will feature interviews with the individuals who often go unseen in hip hop but can be just as important as the artists at the fore front. Producers, managers, promoters and so forth will all be called upon to lend stories of their experiences for the benefit of the wider community.

 

All music for the Get Up Show is selected manually each week in an attempt to move away from the expected conventions of Kiwi hip hop and instead explore more of the music's deeper roots.

 

5 SONGS THAT SUM UP THE SHOW