Street-level talk with civic urgency.
Street Soldiers moves like live radio with a civic pulse. Lisa Evers steers panels through hip-hop culture, family safety, celebrity trials, scams, representation, and neighborhood pressure points without sanding off the urgency.
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Street Soldiers is a panel-driven public affairs show with Hot 97 energy and New York street-level focus. Lisa Evers hosts with quick recaps, direct questions, and a steady hand on the room. The show sounds live because it often feels live. Guests jump in with testimony, advice, argument, and context, while Evers keeps pulling the discussion back to what families, neighborhoods, and culture can actually do with the information. Recent episodes show the range clearly. A power women conversation brings Dr. Taz, Sky Landish, and Mia Bell into a discussion about boundaries, work, health, and leadership. A security episode turns everyday data requests, children online, YouTube settings, and family habits into practical concerns instead of abstract tech panic. The cyber love scams episode gives the subject emotional force through Jackie Crenshaw's experience as a crypto and romance scam survivor. It is blunt, but not careless. The show treats shame, fear, and vulnerability as part of how scams keep working. Culture gets the same grounded treatment. The Black superheroes episode connects comics, cartoons, films, creators, and childhood representation through guests including Dennis Cowan, Cheo Hodari-Coker, Chuck Kreekmer, and Nyla Magruder. The podcast power players episode looks at why audio and video shows feel intimate, influential, and addictive, with Tony Yayo, Elizabeth Garber-Paul, and Dr. Taz bringing different angles. Street Soldiers also keeps one foot in harder news. Its Diddy trial coverage comes from outside federal court and centers allegations, courtroom strategy, jury developments, and the pressure around a major celebrity case. Anniversary material reaches back through Cardi B, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Richie Torres, Chuck Kreekmer, and DJ Drewski to show how long the program has mixed hip-hop access with civic urgency. The result is not a polished explainer show. It is faster, looser, and more human than that. Street Soldiers works best when a topic needs both lived experience and public context, especially around family safety, community conflict, entertainment power, crime, and accountability.
Made for: Street Soldiers is for listeners who want community issues, hip-hop culture, public safety, and celebrity court coverage discussed in plain language. It fits people who prefer energetic panel conversation over polished studio essays.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by putting Hot 97 cultural access, Fox 5 framing, and community-centered panel talk in the same room. It can cover a federal celebrity trial, a romance scam survivor, a teen conduct law, and Black superhero representation without changing its core rhythm.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Street Soldiers connects hip-hop conversation to industry power, artist experience, and the community questions surrounding the culture.
Street Soldiers treats hip-hop as both a subject and a way into larger public conversations. Lisa Evers builds episodes around panels, asking direct questions that let artists, industry figures, and community voices explain their positions in practical terms.
When your group chat veers from Kendrick and Drake to romance scams, Lisa Evers can keep up.
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A brisk, grounded panel on women setting boundaries while building careers and serving their communities.
Street Soldiers' Power Women special uses its 10-year Fox 5 milestone to honor the women who have helped shape Lisa Evers and the show. Evers brings Dr.
A brisk ten-year anniversary episode where hip-hop access, public housing, and celebration share the same microphone.
Street Soldiers marks ten years on Fox 5 in New York with a compact look at the show's two steady lanes: hip-hop access and civic pressure. Lisa Evers revisits Cardi B talking about growing up poor and working hard, a South Bronx town hall on NYCHA residents losing heat in a…
A practical panel discussion turns everyday data requests into a family-security concern.
Street Soldiers treats routine requests for personal information as something worth slowing down for: an email at checkout, a cell phone number for a delivery, an address entered along the way.
A survivor's candor gives a fast-moving romance-scam discussion its clearest warning: shame protects the scammer.
Street Soldiers treats cyber love scams as crimes built on emotional access, showing how romance can become a path to a victim's money. The panel grounds that idea through Jackie Crenshaw, a radiology manager and survivor of crypto and romance scams, who speaks plainly about the…
A lively look at why podcasts feel personal and keep drawing listeners in.
Street Soldiers traces podcasting's rise from grassroots communication and alternative entertainment into a space filled with some of the world's most listened-to and watched shows.
A brisk look at Vibes Cartel's legal ordeal, musical influence, and uncertain future after freedom.
Street Soldiers frames Vibes Cartel's freedom after 13 years behind bars as both a legal turning point and a test of what comes next. The conversation moves cleanly from the attention around his July 31 release to the pressure for a live return, using guest commentary to show…
Trucking disputes from the driver's side.
True crime with the whole backstory intact.
Hip-hop headlines under pressure.
Host Lisa Evers leads a panel review of hip-hop in 2024 with DJ Drewski, Carl Lamar, Scarlett, and Uncle Murda.
Lisa Evers hosts a discussion on the pervasive gambling culture in America, featuring a recovering gambling activist and a psychiatrist to explore addiction and its impacts.
Host Lisa Evers discusses the explosion of Latin music with guests Leo Carino, Johnny Marines, and DJ Afrika, covering trends, business moves, and cultural impact.
This episode of Street Soldiers discusses the Drop My Flag movement, which encourages gang members to leave gangs and adopt positive community culture, featuring panelists from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
This episode of Street Soldiers examines the release of dancehall icon Vybz Kartel after 13 years in prison.
["Street Soldiers marks its 10th year on Fox 5 in March 2026 with Lisa Evers anchoring a \"Power Women\" panel.", "Dr.
Street Soldiers marks 10 years on Fox 5 in New York as Lisa Evers revisits clips with Cardi B, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Richie Torres, Ja Rule, and Swizz Beatz.
Street Soldiers' Secure Yourself episode focuses on how phones, apps, and social platforms collect personal data in everyday life.
Lisa Evers hosts a panel discussion on the New Jersey Parental Responsibility Act and whether similar laws could address teen disruptions in New York.
A discussion on the cultural importance and evolution of Black superheroes in comics, cartoons, and films, featuring creators and experts.
Host Lisa Evers of Hot 97 Street Soldiers convenes a panel of three guests — business professor Dr.
Host Lisa Evers of Hot 97's Street Soldiers convenes rapper Tony Yayo (G-Unit), Rolling Stone senior culture editor Elizabeth Garber-Paul, and functional medicine doctor Dr.
Lisa Evers reports live from outside federal court on the sixth week of the Diddy trial, covering juror dismissals, a gag order violation, and the defense's challenges.
A panel of hip-hop experts and artist Scarlett discuss the highs and lows of hip-hop in 2024, including Kendrick and Drake's feud.