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Southern Mixtape: DJ Travis Gales on how early hip-hop traveled South

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In our next installment of ‘Southern Mixtape,’ Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii talk with local DJ Travis Gales about how hip-hop made its way South - through cassette tapes.

Guest

Travis Gales, local DJ at WNCU, one of Raleigh’s Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary honorees

DJ Travis Gales
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DJ Travis Gales

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of վ's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at վ as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of վ's "Due South." Jeff joined վ in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and վ’s Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary “Right Turn,” launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.
Erin Keever is the Executive Producer of վ’s daily radio show, Due South. Erin comes to վ from Charlotte where she spent 16 years at WFAE serving in various roles from on-air announcer, researcher, web editor, to finally senior producer of “Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins.”