Drop the Beat [SEP] original network
Drop the Beat
Drop the Beat was a Canadian television series produced by Back Alley Films, which aired on CBC Television in 2000 and 2001. A short run dramatic series, the show was one of the first television series in the world centred around hip hop music and culture.
A spinoff of the earlier CBC teen drama series "Straight Up", the show starred Mark Taylor as Jeff and Merwin Mondesir as Dennis, the hosts of a hip hop show on CIBJ-FM, a fictional campus radio station in
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