Drop the Beat was a Canadian television series produced by Back Alley Films, which aired on CBC Television in 2000. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page CBC Television is a Canadian English language Television network. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. A short run dramatic series, the show was one of the first television series ever built around hip hop music and culture. Hip hop music, also referred to as rap music, is a Music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with
The show, a spinoff of the earlier CBC series Straight Up, starred Mark Taylor as Jeff and Merwin Mondesir as Dennis, the hosts of a hip hop show on CIBJ-FM, a fictional Toronto, Ontario campus radio station. Straight Up is a popular but short lived Canadian television series produced by Back Alley Films. Mark Taylor (born 7 March 1977 in Scarborough Ontario) is a Canadian Actor. Merwin Mondesir (born in Toronto ca 1976 is a Canadian Actor. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of Radio station that is run by the students of a college Michie Mee starred as Divine, a rapper who was part of Jeff and Dennis' crew, and Ingrid Veninger played the station manager. Michie Mee (born Michelle McCullock) is a Canadian rapper and actor of Jamaican descent Ingrid Veninger (born March 21, 1970, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Actress.
The use of a campus radio station was a deliberate reflection of Canadian reality — until Toronto's Flow 93.5 hit the airwaves in early 2001, Canada did not have any radio stations dedicated specifically to urban music. CFXJ-FM is a Canadian radio station in Toronto, Ontario, which uses the on-air brand The New FLOW 93 Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Urban contemporary is a music Radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s