Honoring Hip-Hop Collective Native Tongues in the Bay Area

After more than three decades in the hip-hop game, the Bay Area’s own DJ Platurn understands how it’s all connected. East Coast or West Coast, lyrical-miracle emcee or gully gangsta rapper, the intersection of community and creativity in hip-hop runs deep.

Ahead of this Sunday’s Native Tongues Appreciation Night , a semi-regular event in San Francisco honoring the legendary East Coast-based boom-bap rap collective of Queen Latifah, The Jungle Brothers, Monie Love, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes and others from hip-hop’s “golden era,” Platurn makes those connections clear.

As a founding member of the Oakland Faders DJ collective and originator of the live series The 45 Sessions , Platurn’s work in the Bay has often overlapped with members of Native Tongues on the E