PODCAST + HIP HOP RADIO SHOW
News. Music. Culture. Politics. Reno. And whatever else makes its way into the mix.
Podcast
Two longtime friends mixing news, pop culture, music, sports, history, politics and everyday life—with jokes, arguments and tangents along the way. The subjects change. The chemistry doesn't.
Radio Show
Up in the Mix is a weekly hip hop radio show with more than 280 volumes of carefully curated sets spanning golden-era classics, underground cuts, new releases and everything in between. Fridays at 10 PM on KWNK 97.7 FM in Reno.
What is up in the mix?
Up in the Mix started in Reno in 2017 with a simple idea: put two longtime friends behind microphones and follow the conversation wherever it goes.
Hosted by Shaughn Richardson and Cesar Lopez, UIM sits at the intersection of music, culture, community and curiosity. Some weeks that means politics or economics. Others, movies, sports, history, relationships or whatever ridiculous question we can't stop arguing about.
Reno is home and part of our perspective, but the conversation goes wherever it needs to go.
The subjects change. The chemistry doesn't.
Meet the Hosts
Cesar Lopez aka Delafoto
Cesar Lopez is a Reno-based award-winning photojournalist and street photographer with an eye for the people, music and culture that make a community what it is.
A lifelong hip hop head, Cesar brings the same curiosity to Up in the Mix—whether he's breaking down a new record, reacting to the week's news, debating pop culture or sending the conversation somewhere nobody planned for it to go.
Behind the camera or behind the mic, Cesar is interested in what people are doing, why they're doing it, and whether any of it actually makes sense.
Shaughn Richardson aka the truth
Shaughn Richardson is a Reno educator, musician, DJ, poet and longtime community advocate with interests that range from politics and history to hip hop, sports and pop culture.
As a high school social studies teacher, he spends his days thinking about history, politics, sociology and how people make sense of the world. On Up in the Mix, those interests collide with whatever else caught his attention that week.
Shaughn usually brings the research and the questions. Whether the conversation stays on topic after that is another matter.