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What Was Milwaukee’s First Hip-Hop Song? ‘Backspin’ Podcast Digs Into History

If you’re a big music history nerd, you know there’s a ton of information out there about hip-hop’s roots in New York City. But what about hip-hop in Wisconsin? Our friends at 88Nine Radio Milwaukee decided to dive into this story by asking, “What was Milwaukee’s first hip-hop song?”

Wisconsin 101: Paramount Records, Wisconsin’s Home For The Blues

To sell phonographic cabinets, a furniture business in Port Washington decided to start a record label. It became one of the leading producers of blues records in the 1920s and made pioneering recordings of some of the nation’s great musicians, including Louis Armstrong and Ma Rainey.

How Did Polka Become A Dance And Tradition? You Betcha We Have An Answer!

Wisconsin seems to have a pretty good sense of humor about its clichés. Beer? Brats? Cheese? And if we’re making a list, let’s add polka! A question came in from Josie, an elementary school student in Mineral Point, who asked, "How did the polka become a dance and a tradition?"

No Rubber-Roni Here: Holmen’s Student-Grown Cafeteria Food Defies School Lunch Stereotypes

The only time Holmen High School junior Gracie Kromke is exposed to the stereotypical bad lunch — rubber-roni, slapping food on plates — is when she hears stories about them. “That’s nothing close to what I experience on a daily basis,” she said.