Boom Bap Chronicles

Episode 65 - Rapping Up 2025

Current Events

• Uncle Murda Rap Up 2025
• Skillz 2025 Rap Up
• Justina Valentine 2025 Wrap Up
• Claressa/Pap/50 Cent Beef

Mentions

• Blueface $100k to Soulja Boy’s BM
• Da Baby “Proof in the Pudding”
• Doechii on “Industry Plant”
• Dame Dash sells film company
• Mark Curry on forgiving Puff
• F*ck the Streets
• Will Smith sued - sexual harassment

Top 5 Segment

• Best Hip Hop Songs of 2025

Intro

Nicki Minaj (deportation and IG) 

AI artists taking over 

NLE The Great - Don’t want smoke

Mentions

Who owns Bling Bling?

Craig Mack was given AIDS?

Busta Rhymes

Young Dirty Bastard “Dirty Jones”

Benny the Butcher “ Iight “Ight” 

Top 5 Segment

If you had to introduce somebody to hip hop, what songs would you choose?

Boom Bap Chronicles - Episode 63

Episode 62

Current Events

• Nas and DJ Premier Album

• Conway the Machine Album

• 21 Savage Album

• The Clipse POV Video

Mentions

• Rio and BFB Da Packman Album

• Hot 97 cancels Ebro in the Morning

• Ebro blames politics

• 21 Savage: 

• Drake apologized to Metro

• Rap battles are rigged

• Detroit Influence on hip hop

• Layzie Bone Interview:

• Bone and Wu Tang fight

• Notorious Thugs & Biggie 

• Flesh N Bone is his brother

• Toure (corrects 50 Cent doc):

• Diddy at Quad Studios 

• Biggie wasn’t scared of Puff

• Kim Porter Mystery 

• Diddy Doc

• 50 Plans to Drop More on Diddy

• Ja Rule: 50 Cent Burned BM House

• Faith didn't want Biggie tribute 

• Diddy’s Mom: he didn’t slap me

• Gene Deal: Diddy and Kirk were lovers

• The Game:

• Best rapper from Compton

• Hip Hop not in top 40 (jacqconmusic)

• Slick Rick/Doug E. Fresh 40 years later

Top 5 Segment: 

• Our 2025 top 5 albums

Current Events

• Diddy Doc "Sean Combs: The Reckoning"

• Meg the Stallion wins lawsuit

Mentions

• Memphis Bleek and Beanie Sigel on podcast

• Detroit rap tension is cap (Effective Immediately Podcast)

• The Game/DJ Drama

• DJ Quik son convicted of murder

• Project Pat/Juicy J

• Vlad tv on Remy Ma Network

• Beanie Sigel uses AI

• Wynne freestyle

• Daz “I'm Daz Dillinger” (MC Breed shout out)

• Esham “Golden Age”

Top 5 Segment: 

• Which MCs would make a dope, modern-day posse cut?

Live on Tik Tok

• Current Events

• TPain on Club Shay Shay

• DJ Khaled

• Lil Jon & Lil Scrappy

• Judge forces Nicki Minaj to sell home

• Sukihaka to Saweetie “Admit you sell 🐱”

• TMZ so-called “hip hop news”

• Ray J drama

• Mention

• NLE New YB Diss

• Conway the Machine new video

• Papoose Short Film

• William Ketchum’s De La Soul Article

• Dr. Dre’s The Chronic Instrumental

• Dame Dash/50 Cent

• Netflix Doc on Puff (50 Cent Producer)

• Dame “don’t trust 50 Cent”

• The Game and DJ Drama Mixtape

• Juvie on DMX Performance 

• Albums coming in December

• Nas and DJ Premier

• Conway the Machine

• Kanye West

• Ereck Sermon

• Big Krit

• Aaron McGruder and Last Friday

• Mystikal son is a rapper

• Max B drops new single

• Segment

• Best Nas features of 2025 (top 3 or 5)

Special Guest - Tynee Rogers of "Tynee Talks"

Current Events

• De La Soul “Cabin in the Sky”...
• Wale “Everything is a Lot”...
• Flint Rappers Unify...
• Claressa Shields on Club Shay Shay...

Mentions

• RIP MC Breed...
• Conway the Machine New Album...
• Mannie Fresh and Juvie new podcast...
• Max B on CamRon Pod...
• Chip Fu teaches man to walk...
• MC Eiht Interview - broke down DJ Quik beef, Eiht says Early west coast rap was 🚮...
• Talib Kweli and Security beef...
• Joe Budden is a Vouyeur...
• Roc Nation Distribution criticism...
• Pusha T laughs at Deadbeat Dad claims...

Top 5 Segment

• Songs where guys were talking about the love of women and...
• Songs where female rappers give the same to love to men?

Episode 58

• Special Guest - Kahn Santori Davidson

Current Events

• Kendrick/Drake

• Drake Sued for “What Did I Miss?”

• Kendrick Beats Drake - Highest Grossing Tour

• Drake “Nobody Ever Pissed on Me”

• Ja Rule Interview  

• Rap Beef is Not Good for Culture

• Songs Aged Better than 50 Cent

• Clipse 

• FICO Video

• Sesame Street w/Elmo

• YG, Jay Rock, Mozzy - Spiral Freestyle 

• Did YG diss Offset in Freestyle? 

• Racism in Hip Hop 

• Rory Apologizes for Racist Comments

• Westside Gunn ends WWE Support

• JT Cover for CultedXO 

Mentions

• Esham “Golden Age” 11/28

• Eminem - Lions Halftime Show on Thanksgiving

• Cardi B/Stefon Diggs Baby

• Free from Prison

• Max B

• Fetty Wap (December) 

• Wale New Album

• Billboard Tracks Atlanta Strip Clubs Songs 

• Nas Celebrates Levi’s Collaboration 

• Wu-Tang Earns 9 New Platinum/Gold Certifications

• De La Soul “Cabin in the Sky” (next week)

• Shaq & Chip-Fu “Cooyah Freestyle”

Segment:

• Ranking favorite rappers albums from least to greatest (top 3 or 5)
  

Episode 57

• Nominees for Best Rap Album (Clipse, K Dot, Tyler etc)

• Rock and Roll HOF

• Outkast

• Salt N Pepa

• DJ Vlad sues Joyner Lucas

• Drake sued by RBX 

• Snoop celebrates anniversary - 28 years married

• GhostFace “Candyland”

• Erick Sermon/Snoop/Nate Dogg “Like That”

• Juvenile “Pay Me” 

• G Mac Cash “Mary Sheffield” 

• De La Soul “The Package”

• Big Daddy Kane/Papoose/MOP “Brooklyn Battery Tunnel”

• RIP Young Bleed

• Royce Da 5’9” health issue

• K Dot makes history as a black man  (5 albums of the year Grammy nods) 

• Top 5 or 3 favorite rappers who become actors

Episode 56

Current Events

• NLE Choppa Disses NBA YoungBoy

• Big L “Harlem’s Finest”

• Westside Gunn “Heels Have Eyes 3”

• Cash Money/No Limit

• B.G. “On Why Lil Wayne Skipped Verzuz” 

• Cash Money & No Limit Tour (Will Wayne Show?)

• Silk The Shocker and Juvenile Collab

• Mia X “Mama Drama” Goes Platinum

• Young Bleed - Fighting for Life

• No Rap in top 40 (rules changed)

• Cam’Ron sues J. Cole

Mentions

• Marc Lamont Hill “AI Rights Grab”

• GhostFace Killah “C.R.E.A.M. & Supreme Ad”

• Dead Prez “Free Dr York”

• Paid In Full “AI Soul Renditions”

• Paid in Full

• Me and My Girlfriend

• Bronx Coochie

Segment

• Anybody vs Jay Z: Who wins in a Versuz?