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There was a time in the Bay area when a commercial FM station dedicated to hip-hop (or “rhythmic Top 40” as they called it back then) might’ve flopped.

Wild 98.7-FM (WLLD) changed that in 1998 with a made up story about two guys who took over an easy listening station and started broadcasting songs like Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing” and Sylk E. Fyne’s “Romeo & Juliet” from a nonexistent boat out in the Gulf (K. P. & Envyi’s “Swing My Way,” and “Burn” by Militia soon became staples, too).

On the ground, and the ones and twos, for Wild in those early days was Scantman who brings another WLLD staple, DJ Coz, for this night of nostalgia inside a downtown Tampa’s ‘90s bar.

There is no cover for The Old School Reunion: Scantman w/DJ Coz happening Friday, May 9 at Tampa’s GenX Tavern.

Readers are invited to submit their own events to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s things to do calendar.

This article appears in May 1-7, 2025.