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SUUUUUUU! Yes, we are back with you, digging into the Wu chamber once more, as we jump into our Slept-On Wu Bangers Spotify Playlist () and pick out a song to break down on the show. This episode we travel back to the year 2000, and Wu’s album ‘The W’, where Kam breaks down his love for the abundantly erratic song ‘Careful (Click, Click)’. Show Notes That’s That Shit promo (03:00) Track review (06:10) 🚨 Join Our Patreon: 🚨 Help support the show and unlock a whole dungeon of rap goodness: Wu-Tang Chronicles Series 🐝 Our Wu series travels...
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OutKast ‘Stankonia’ + Eminem ‘Marshall Mathers LP’ Album Reviews (Patreon Clip)
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The Alchemist + Prodigy 'Bible Paper' Track Review w/ PremRock | Ep. 185
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Hip Hop 2024 Awards Pt.1 Ka Tribute, Top 5 Albums + More | Ep. 184
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Our end of year special is here, and as always it is STACKED. This is a two-part special, and over the next 5+ hours, Kam, Ray and SonRaw bring you an epic Ka tribute, our Top 5 albums of the year, and all our fave verses, songs and MVP shouts. Featuring some truly incredible contributions from the rap scene, we have a huge guest list, including… Yoh Phillips NAHreally The Expert Professor Skye Elsie not Elise Uncommon Nasa Gary Suarez (Cabbages) Max Bell Ken B. Inge (Dead End Hip Hop) Zilla Rocca Dan O Dobson Alaska Atoms The Rap Music Plug Podcast Beezy (Dead End Hip Hop)...
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Roc Marciano ‘Tek to a Mack’ Track Review w/ MidaZ the Beast | Ep. 183
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Yo yo yo, welcome to another episode of our Digging in the Crates Series - the Roc Marciano edition 💎 And today we travel back to one of his best opening cuts of all time, ‘Tek to a Mack’ from his 2012 classic ‘Reloaded’. And to discuss the genius of Roc, we have a guy who’s personally worked with the underground icon (as well as constantly dropping fire himself), rapper MidaZ the Beast is in the house 🔥 Show Notes Getting into Roc Marciano (02:20) Hearing Marcberg before it dropped (16:20) Thoughts on drumless hip hop (33:20) Hottest bars (56:20) DITC catagories...
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FULL EPISODE: Today we’re keeping it independent as fuck, rugged like Rwanda and hardcore like Kool G Rap music made for concert piano!! Yes, we are opening up our Rawkus Records Chronicles, to talk about their first major rap release - 1997’s Funcrusher Plus from Company Flow. This here is a clip of what's happening over at our Patreon ( where we've been building a hell of a dip back into the world of 90s hip hop, specifically the importance and legacy of Rawkus Records. And our first special guests are major - rapper Breeze Brewin from The Juggaknots is in the...
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‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Film Review: 50th Anniversary (Hip Hop Heads Talk Horror) | Ep. 182
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‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Film Review: 40th Anniversary (Hip Hop Heads Talk Horror) | Ep. 181
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One, two, Crate 808 is coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door. Five, six, here’s your hip hop fix! Today we hope to keep your Halloweens spooky by continuing our Hip Hop Heads Talk Horror series, and this one is big. We sit down to celebrate 40 years of an iconic, genre-shifting, pop culture behemoth - Wes Craven’s classic ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ from 1984. Joining in the fun, we have Myke C-Town and Alaska Atoms, with dope contributions from hip hop heads Simon Ward and Tom Comey 🔪 Show Notes Why this film has lasted (00:00) How Freddy Krueger...
info_outlineWelcome to another episode of our Digging in the Crates series - the billy woods edition 👑
And in the hot seat we welcome a legend whose work spans more than two decades. A prolific producer and probably the best social media follow in hip hop - Blockhead is in the house!
And he explains why he loves 'The Eucharist' by Armand Hammer (which is really a billy woods solo song), from 2020’s 'Shrines', produced by Messiah Musik.
Show Notes
- Least hip hop thing (01:00)
- The Eucharist and genius of woods (04:45)
- woods’ discography is all time (17:45)
- Digging into the bars (44:20)
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