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Is it just me or has KPWR started incorporating 90’s and Early 2000’s hip hop again?

Ahhh Power 106 is playing party vibes music! How I miss Dj’s mixing like this on the radio. Keep it up with the buena noches mix tonight!
I enjoyed that so much. Reminded me of the late 2000s/early 2010s hearing songs like LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem", Fareast Movement "Like A G6", Dev "In The Dark", and Black Eyed Peas "Rock That Body" on Power 106 again. The fact that it's in 2025 makes it so surreal. Reminded me of the days of college and my first job.
 
Power 106's Top 25 Year-End Countdown of 2025 (surprised it wasn't the usual Top 40)

1.Kendrick Lamar & SZA - luther
2.Kendrick Lamar feat. Lefty Gunplay – tv off
3.Kehlani – Folded
4.Kendrick Lamar – Squabble Up
5.Leon Thomas & Chris Brown – Mutt
6.SZA feat. Kendrick Lamar – 30 For 30
7.Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
8.Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller – It Depends
9.Kendrick Lamar – Peekaboo
10. The Weeknd & Playboi Carti – Timeless
11. will.i.am & Taboo – East LA
12. Drake – Nokia
13. Shoreline Mafia, OhGeesy & Fenix – Rockin’
14. BigXthaPlug – The Largest
15. Mariah the Scientist – Burning Blue
16. Playboi Carti & The Weeknd – Rather Lie
17. Doechii – Anxiety
18. MOLIY, Silent Addy, & Skillibeng – Skake It to the Max (FLY)
19. Cardi B – Pretty and Petty
20. Bad Bunny - DtMF
21. Doechii – Denial Is A River
22. Gelo – Tweaker
23. Cardi B feat. Kehlani – Safe
24. E.K.E. & TruCarr – Ghetto
25.Tyler, The Creator – Sugar On My Tongue

The top half ("Rather Lie" at 16 and up) is solid, but most of the songs below that I personally wasn't feeling.
 
Power 106's Top 25 Year-End Countdown of 2025 (surprised it wasn't the usual Top 40)

1.Kendrick Lamar & SZA - luther
2.Kendrick Lamar feat. Lefty Gunplay – tv off
3.Kehlani – Folded
4.Kendrick Lamar – Squabble Up
5.Leon Thomas & Chris Brown – Mutt
6.SZA feat. Kendrick Lamar – 30 For 30
7.Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
8.Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller – It Depends
9.Kendrick Lamar – Peekaboo
10. The Weeknd & Playboi Carti – Timeless
11. will.i.am & Taboo – East LA
12. Drake – Nokia
13. Shoreline Mafia, OhGeesy & Fenix – Rockin’
14. BigXthaPlug – The Largest
15. Mariah the Scientist – Burning Blue
16. Playboi Carti & The Weeknd – Rather Lie
17. Doechii – Anxiety
18. MOLIY, Silent Addy, & Skillibeng – Skake It to the Max (FLY)
19. Cardi B – Pretty and Petty
20. Bad Bunny - DtMF
21. Doechii – Denial Is A River
22. Gelo – Tweaker
23. Cardi B feat. Kehlani – Safe
24. E.K.E. & TruCarr – Ghetto
25.Tyler, The Creator – Sugar On My Tongue

The top half ("Rather Lie" at 16 and up) is solid, but most of the songs below that I personally wasn't feeling.
Ngl for me it's a cool playlist. I have a recording of it and I've been listening it at night during the last couple of days
 
Whoever that DJ was knows what's up.

And how do you know the music wasn't pre-programmed? Morning drive is one daypart where PDs are very likely to have it all in the automation playback computer in advance.

Do try to remember that radio is not like a club. The DJs don't get to choose the music (with the exception of mixshows, and I doubt it was a mixshow in that daypart).
 


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