The highly awaited return of our (semi) ongoing series, Rap or Cap! In this series we take some "hot" takes we see on the internet and discus whether we agree or disagree. This episode features some of your takes as well! keep an eye out on our twitter so you don't miss the next time we ask for some scorching hot takes!

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Kendrick Lamar is undoubtedly one of the best rappers of the last decade, some might even say of all time. In this episode we decide to show some love to him seeing as he is one of our favorite rappers ever. We hope to do his music justice and just generally show some love to an incredible artist and person.

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Have you ever heard the first few seconds of a song and INSTANTLY recognized it? Would you argue that those beats are iconic? That is exactly what we decided to talk about in this episode. Hip Hop has been around for decades so it goes without saying that we will miss a few, but all the songs we mentioned are extremely iconic to us; let us know if you agree or not!

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F*CK THE GRAMMY'S! Just joking, but the Grammy's have unironically been falling out of favor with viewers for more than a few years now. To be completely honest, before the podcast we hardly even paid attention to the Grammy's; but we are glad we did this year because it gave us many interesting performances. In this episode we share our thoughts on the 2021 Grammy's as well as briefly talk about the Grammy's of the past.

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Maestro and Smoove are back at it again with another R&B episode; this time with a hip hop twist!

R&B and rap have been intertwined since basically the inception of rap as a genre, and that intermingling become more and more prevalent through time. In this episode we detail our favorite collabs between singes and rappers, as well as touch on some dream collabs of ours. Did we miss anything? Let us know on Twitter!

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OUR DREAM COLLAB IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!!! If you guys have heard in previous episodes this has been a dream collab of ours for quite some time. We would like to think we manifested it, so you're welcome for that! Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars are two of the most incredible artists to come out of the last decade; a collab album between them would be nothing short of amazing. In this episode, similar to the Kid Cudi episode, we share our mutual excitement for this upcoming album as show our appreciation for each artists' music!

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Smoove and Maestro back again with another R&B episode! this time we're talking about new age artists (around 2015-now). We are clearly bigger fans of older R&B but there's still so many gems in the new generation so we decided to show them some love! As usual, let us know your favorites or if we missed someone significant on Twitter!

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Griselda, Dreamville, and Top Dawg are three record labels that seem to be running hip hop for the past few years. All three of them are full of extremely talented artists so we decided to talk about each member and rank them as well! In addition to that, we even brought on a special guest to talk with us! Hope we do these incredible labels justice with our rankings!

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R&B is one of the oldest genres of music still popular now; older than hip hop at the very least. We like to consider ourselves big fans of multiple genres, not just hip hop. So, for this episode we decide to rank and appreciate some of our favorite R&B albums dating back to the start of this century.

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J. Cole is one of the most popular rappers from our generation. His music is greatly appreciated by man, for good reason, and here on Channel 86 Podcast we enjoy J. Cole's music a great deal! In this episode we decide to share our love for his music with you guys in celebration of his birthday last week!

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