Listen Now: Once Upon a Beat

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Get ready to hear your favorite stories remixed with beats and hooks that you can’t find in books!

In Once Upon a Beat, host DJ Fyütch and his sidekick/turntable Baby Scratch drop the needle on classic stories, spinning them up with a hip-hop twist. They’re turning the tables on your favorite fables – putting the Rap in Rapunzel, letting Goldilocks rock out, and helping the Ugly Duckling march to his own beat! Where hip hop and fables meet, It's Once Upon a Beat!

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0:00.0	Remember those stories and fables that would capture your imagination and you couldn't wait to see how they would unfold?
0:06.5	And now when you read them as an adult you think, some of these old tales could use a fresh spin.
0:12.2	We have a perfect podcast to bring you the stories you remember,
0:16.3	remix and reimagined for the kids in your life today. Join me, DJ Fuge and my trusty turntable, baby scratch, as we spin up new tales and
0:26.2	the new kids and family podcast, Once Upon A Beat.
0:30.4	Wondry and Tinker Cast are bringing you a jam-packed music field weekly party where hip-hop and fables meet.
0:38.0	It's Once Upon a Beat.
0:40.0	I'm about to play a clip from Once A Beat. Follow Once Upon a Beat on the Onetree app or wherever you get your podcast
0:50.3	What up, what up, what up? It's the man, the myth, the legendary finder of fables, the number one fairy godfather of hip-hop, DJ Fuge, bringing you all the hits from my trusty
1:06.7	turntable, baby scratch. Hit them up, baby scratch.
1:11.2	I don't just bring you the music, I bring you the message and today I've got
1:20.0	a story that's as old as time about a slick talking little rabbit with a gift for
1:26.0	rhyme he's got a talent for spinning tall tails without even trying. That's right, baby scratch.
1:35.0	Braer Rapid.
1:37.0	No, no, not Rabbit. I said Rapid.
1:40.0	Although, Braer Rapid is also a rabbit.
1:45.0	Sometimes he speaks the truth, other times he might be lying.
1:49.0	But no matter what story he's selling, you know folks are buying.
1:52.8	Time to begin so let's dive right in where hip hop and fables meet
1:59.6	you know we call it once upon a beat. Today Braille Rapid and his friends are on their way to school.
2:17.0	Braille Rapids main goal is to be the king of talk and cool. He always
2:26.2	gets what he wants because he couldn't be slicker. He wants his friends to trust
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