Yeah.

In the early 1990s, a new style of hip-hop music began to emerge.

It would be called underground hip-hop music.

It blended many different musical and cultural influences, from Afrobeat to bebop to psychedelic rock to the Black Panther Party to Rudy Ray Moore to Angela Davis and Maya Angelou.

All sorts of influences swirled in this music.

In New York, there was De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets.

On the West Coast, there were Souls of Mischief, Pharcyde, Freestyle Fellowship.

The sound spread around the United States.

In Chicago there was Common, In Detroit there was J Dilla.

And here in Naptown, there were the Mudkids.

The group was founded by Rusty Redenbacher and Tyler Knapp.

They were influenced by those groups, but they made their own sound rooted in our local Indianapolis culture.

They took that sound national.

They played with Blackalicious.

They played with Wu-Tang.

They played with The Roots.

They played with Dead Prez.

Rusty Redenbacher famously battled Eminem at the legendary Scribble Jam Hip Hop Festival in 1997.

And throughout it all, they remained here in Naptown for those reasons and many more.

Rusty and the Mudkids are heroes in the Indianapolis hip-hop scene.

So all of us at WFYI are psyched to welcome the Mudkids to the stage.

Were the Mudkids from Indianapolis, Indiana and we play hip-hop music.

♪ Mudkids - “Another Journey” ♪ ♪ Mudkids - “Climb” ♪ well, it's been a long time since we done this.

It feels real good, though.

It does.

Does it feel good for you all out there or what?

Yall feel good?

All right.

We got time for a few more.

So listen, I gotta rap to you about this.

You know what I'm saying?

I've been doing a lot of work this last year.

I don't know if you've been watching me personally.

Yeah, but I really, I really, really, I came I came back to this thing, like, full fledged.

Right.

So I got a new album out, you know what I mean?

I got two new albums out.

I put two albums out in 28 days.

My new record is available here on vinyl tonight.

Its called 10,000 Hours: Slims Revenge.

I would really love for you to hear it.

It's streaming everywhere if you're interested and it's popping and we're going to play a couple of tunes from that right now, okay.

♪ Mudkids - “Appreciated (Rocket ‘88 shhh)” ♪ we got time for one more.

Yeah, we're going to do the one we used to end shows.

We ended shows with this song for years, and it's a great tune.

I had to change a couple of things, so stay tuned.

All right.

Now listen, thank you so much to WFYI for having us.

Thank you so much to the 808 for having such a wonderful venue for us to play.

Thank you to DJ Little Town and of course, thank you to Pat and the Pissers who are getting ready to turn this place upside down.

♪ Mudkids - “32/Until” ♪ We love you guys.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.