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Oh, hey, a lot of R&B and hip-hop artistes did their Summer Spirit Festival on Saturday at Merriweather Post Pavilion. If you added Cypress Hill and some shitty reggae-rockers, you could’ve called it Smokin’ Grooves 2010! But what do I know? I wasn’t there. People from WKYS-FM were indeed there, however. (They had enough corporate juice to create a new “RadioOneDC” channel on YouTube.) Here’s what they put into the video machine:

That B.O.B. guy, jumping around:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB8cxs7jhtA]

Chuck Brown talking about Lil’ Benny:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSJYEYdcJfs]

A famous rapper saying some nice things:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttwROyectUk]

Janelle Monae and Her Hair:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASGi7BGuuM]

The Roots playing their own music:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtFY67BS7-g]