The original hip-hop stream, freestyle sessions, independent artists and Brooklyn underground records.
ACTIVE · STREAMING 24/7
Brooklyn roots. The original signal.
Simply Hip-Hop Radio
Brooklyn, 1997. DJ Kenny Scan put hip-hop on the internet before most people knew what streaming was. The promise then is the same one this station keeps now: artists you know, and artists you never knew existed—picked by ear, not by algorithm.
Simply Hip-Hop Radio — Streaming 24/7 since 1997
The story behind this station
Where the signal started.
Full albums, B-sides, deep crates and new discoveries are curated the same way they were on The Stream back in the Winamp era.
Brooklyn roots, full albums, B-sides, underground classics and new discoveries—selected for their place in the culture, not their position in an algorithm.
Foundations, classics, deep album cuts and new discoveries selected by a working DJ.
Station evidence
Artwork, rooms
and receipts.
Every image here comes from the SimplyRadio archive. Graphics keep their real proportions; photographs are individual moments, not staged substitutes.
