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BackSpin is a classic Hip-Hop

Old school hip hop

Old school hip hop describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music , and often by extension the music in the period preceding it . The image, styles and sounds of the old school were exemplified by figures like the Fat Boys, Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, The Treacherous Three, Funky Four Plus One, Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash...
radio station on Sirius XM Radio. On 2008-11-12 this channel (along with The Boneyard and The Strobe

The Strobe

The Strobe is a Disco and Freestyle music radio station, one of four Dance/Electronic music satellite channels operated by Sirius XM Radio, broadcasting on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 81 and DISH Network channel 6081....
) went on hiatus, however, on 2008-12-16, due to subscriber demand, Sirius XM Radio announced that this channel and The Strobe

The Strobe

The Strobe is a Disco and Freestyle music radio station, one of four Dance/Electronic music satellite channels operated by Sirius XM Radio, broadcasting on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 81 and DISH Network channel 6081....
will return to the service on 2009-01-15.

The channel will feature the best of old school hip-hop and will be the home of several specialty shows including "Ladies' First with Monie Love" and "Zulubeats with Afrika Bambaataa, Mick Benzo and The Cutman LG."

On January 15, 2009, Backspin was returned to the Sirius/XM lineup; Sirius channel 39, Dish Network channel 6039 and XM channel 65 (replacing The Rhyme).

Even though the channel is also channel 39 on Sirius Canada

Sirius Canada

Sirius Canada is a Canadian partnership between Slaight Communications, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Sirius Satellite Radio, which was one of three services licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on June 16, 2005 to introduce satellite radio service to Canada....
, the receivers are still listed as Pop2K, which is now heard exclusively on XM channel 30

XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television....
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BackSpin is a classic Hip-Hop

Old school hip hop

The Strobe

The Strobe is a Disco and Freestyle music radio station, one of four Dance/Electronic music satellite channels operated by Sirius XM Radio, broadcasting on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 81 and DISH Network channel 6081....
) went on hiatus, however, on 2008-12-16, due to subscriber demand, Sirius XM Radio announced that this channel and The Strobe

The Strobe

The Strobe is a Disco and Freestyle music radio station, one of four Dance/Electronic music satellite channels operated by Sirius XM Radio, broadcasting on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 81 and DISH Network channel 6081....
will return to the service on 2009-01-15.

The channel will feature the best of old school hip-hop and will be the home of several specialty shows including "Ladies' First with Monie Love" and "Zulubeats with Afrika Bambaataa, Mick Benzo and The Cutman LG."

On January 15, 2009, Backspin was returned to the Sirius/XM lineup; Sirius channel 39, Dish Network channel 6039 and XM channel 65 (replacing The Rhyme).

Even though the channel is also channel 39 on Sirius Canada

Sirius Canada

XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television....
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