Editing Drop the Beat (section)

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| image              =
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| genre              = [[Drama (film and television)|Drama]]
| writer             = [[Noel S. Baker]]<br />[[Vance Chapman]]
| director           = [[Paul Fox (Canadian director)|Paul Fox]]<br />[[Daniel Grou]]
| starring           = [[Mark Taylor (Canadian actor)|Mark Taylor]]<br />[[Merwin Mondesir]]<br />[[Ingrid Veninger]]<br />[[Michie Mee]]
| country            = Canada
| language           = English
| num_seasons        = 2
| num_episodes       = 26
| list_episodes      = 
| executive_producer = Janis Lundman<br />Adrienne Mitchell<br />Suzanne Chapman
| producer           = Susan Alexander
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| location           = 
| cinematography     = [[Jérôme Sabourin]]
| camera             = 
| runtime            = 30 minutes
| company            = [[Back Alley Film Productions]]
| channel            = [[CBC Television]]
| first_aired        = {{start date|2000|2|7}}
| last_aired         = {{end date|2001|4|9}}
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'''''Drop the Beat''''' is a Canadian television series produced by [[Back Alley Film Productions]] that aired on [[CBC Television]] in 2000 and 2001.<ref name=spotlight>"TV show puts spotlight on hip-hop". ''[[Sudbury Star]]'', February 9, 2000.</ref> A short-run dramatic series, the show was one of the first television series in the world centred around [[hip hop music]] and culture.<ref name=spotlight/>

A spinoff of the earlier CBC teen drama series ''[[Straight Up (TV series)|Straight Up]]'',<ref>"CBC finds a home for good and bad of the hip-hop scene". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', February 7, 2000.</ref> the show starred [[Mark Taylor (Canadian actor)|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 [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]].<ref>"Yo, big up -- CBC goes hip-hop urban". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 7, 2000.</ref> [[Michie Mee]] also starred as Divine, a rapper who was part of Jeff and Dennis' crew, and [[Ingrid Veninger]] played the station manager. The supporting cast also included [[Arlene Duncan]], Vanessa Ford, [[Jennifer Baxter]], [[Kardinal Offishall|Jason Harrow]], Shamann Williams and Omari Forrester.

The use of a campus radio station was a deliberate reflection of Canadian reality — until Toronto's [[CFXJ-FM|Flow 93.5]] hit the airwaves in early 2001, Canada did not have any radio stations dedicated specifically to [[urban music]].