Bobbito García
Musical artist
Robert "Bobbito" Garcia (born September 25, 1966), also known as DJ Cucumber Slice and Kool Bob Love, is an American DJ, radio host, author, and member of the Rock Steady Crew. He is known as a former co-host of hip hop radio show The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show, alongside Adrian "Stretch Armstrong" Bartos, from 1990 until 1999.2
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Born Sep 25, 1966.1
About
He later moved to Washington, D.C., where he currently hosts a new podcast on NPR called What's Good? alongside Bartos.
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Companies
- Fondle 'EmFounder9
Early life and education
Early life
Garcia attended Lower Merion High School and Wesleyan University (class of 1988).
Airborne Illness Awareness Education
Garcia has spoken publicly about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and organized events with strong mitigations in place for airborne illness spread.
Positive Deviance NYC interviewed him about "his path to Airborne-Awareness, the importance of cultivating community in a time of mass denial, and his optimism about masks-required spaces at the vanguard of counterculture. We learned that Bob’s revolutionary optimism is part of who he’s always been and that his COVID-consciousness is fully aligned with the values he has held close throughout his life and career." in the video "Filling The Void: Bobbito García on What (and Who) the World's Been Missing"
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Career
Occupation: coach, journalist, documentarian, director, music journalist, film director, disc jockey, actor.5
- Date not recordedFounded Fondle 'Em Records4
Music career
Bobbito initially started as an intern at Def Jam.
From 1990 to 1998, Garcia co-hosted The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show on Columbia University's WKCR. It featured exclusive demo tapes and in-studio freestyles from many then-unsigned hip hop artists such as Nas, Big Pun, Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Fat Joe, Cam'ron, DMX, Wu-Tang Clan, Fugees, Talib Kweli, Big L and The Notorious B.I.G. who later found great success on major record labels.
He set up the vinyl-only label Fondle 'Em Records in 1995 as an outlet for other guests such as MF Doom, MF Grimm, Kool Keith and Cage. In 1998, The Source named The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show as the "Best Hip Hop Radio Show of All Time".
In 2003, García created Bounce: From the Playground, a quarterly magazine devoted to streetball, especially the playground scene in New York City. He has been an editor, writer, and photographer for the magazine, and has also done work for and been featured in magazines including Vibe and The Source.
He was featured in a 2002 article in Vibe Magazine.
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Film career
In 2012, he directed a basketball documentary with Kevin Couliao titled Doin' It in the Park. The film includes NBA stars such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, and Walt Bellamy, as well as streetball legends like Richard "Pee Wee" Kirkland, Corey "Homicide" Williams, and Jack "Black Jack" Ryan.
In 2015, Showtime premiered a feature-length documentary on Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives, directed and written by Garcia. The film includes interviews with Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Common, Fat Joe, Rosie Perez and DJ Premier, among others.
In 2018, Garcia released his third documentary, Rock Rubber 45s. It serves as his most personal film to date. In an interview with HipHopDX, he explained, "There's a great O.C. lyric from the song 'Time's Up' where he goes, 'The more emotion I put into it, the harder I rock.' That's the sort of approach that I have with this film — that the more emotion that I put in, the better the film will be. You know you get one chance to do an autobiography, so I've decided to just bare all."
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Personal life
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataBobbito García on Wikidata
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- 9WikidataFondle 'Em, Founder
- 10Wikimedia CommonsBobbito García photo by Coup d'Oreille, CC BY-SA 2.0