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Felton hopes to build the station’s reputation against stiff competition with other college radio broadcasts in the area, most notably Emerson. He also envisions the musical influence of WHRB extending beyond on-air interactions with artists...
...it’s not that much more difficult to get them to go to Loker or something like that, and have small concerts. That’s what we’re really trying to do, trying to get more stuff happening on campus that’s radio-sponsored…Really, the aspiration is like I said before: to definitely create something that outlasts me. When I come to Harvard and I’m an alumni years later…it’ll be like ‘Oh yeah, the hip-hop department...
With increased manpower and an improved playlist, last weekend’s Boston Hip-Hop Festival at the Middle East Club found Felton and the rest of TDS ready to take their mission one step further: getting direct contact with local artists themselves and scheduling radio-broadcast interviews...
After completing my interview with WHRB Program Director Darius P. Felton ’08, I was stopped on my way out of the station by one of his radio colleagues. This associate—presumably also a staffer of The Darker Side (TDS), WHRB’s hip-hop department—wanted to make sure I was aware that Felton is the man to know when it comes to independent hip-hop, citing the fact that Felton’s cell phone contains the contact numbers of several Boston-area hip-hop artists...
...sounding than some of the others ones…[Some are] real local. We haven’t really heard of [them] up until this point, but…you’ve got to give everyone a chance. That’s the whole point of local college radio...