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Students from Discovery Preschool visited KTOO today to get a tour of the radio and tv facilities. During their tour they stopped by the Excellent Radio studio to sing songs and record a station ID.

Chris Kelly, who rose to fame in the early ’90s as half of the young rap duo Kris Kross, died Wednesday in Atlanta. He was 34.

Ghostface Killah is a compulsive storyteller. His fiction is painterly, and he delivers it in a headlong rush. On “Impossible,” from the 1997 album Wu-Tang Forever, he rhymed, “He pointed to the charm on his neck / With his last bit of energy left, told me rock it with respect / I opened it, seen the God holdin’ his kids / Photogenic, tears just burst out my wig.” He’s a romantic, , and never stoic.

Grad students/metal heads find science in the mosh pit

“To be a punk means freedom.” So said singer-guitarist Mark Perro of Brooklyn rock band The Men. Yet the funkiest and most fun strain of punk music in the U.S. resided deep in the heart of Texas, courtesy of the Big Boys.

Watch him perform the album’s songs live on Monday, March 4 in an exclusive First Listen Live show for NPR Music.