Diggin' In The Digits

Continuing our WHM celebrations, we get into MC Trouble who tragically died aged 21, leaving us with her 1990 debut studio album that featured her name on the production credits - a rarity for female rappers at the time - and provided a great thematic mixture of womanhood and Black solidarity.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:50)
Ben:

• Black Soprano Family - The Outcome
• YoungBoy NBA - More Leaks

Charlie:

• Summer Pearl - THE INTERLUDE
• Big Zuu & Capo Lee - Signed & Delivered 
• Apollo Brown - Elevator Music
• Hope Tala - Hope Handwritten 

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (7:05)
Gotta Get A Grip - (11:45)
Lighter Note - (31:00)

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In Search of Sauce
Black Women Watch...
5EPN Radio
The Beauty Of Independence

Hello DITD listeners! I have a bonus episode for you, coming via my Podcast "What's Good?". I talk to Dallas born & raised EB Rebel now sharpening their craft in New York City. We get into their beginnings, talented & gifted programs; their queerness, being 'genre-less' and of course their Top 5.

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Intro Music - "Baxter" By Brock Berrigan
Interlude - "4:21pm" By Ian Ewing
ChillHop Music

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Diggin' In The Digits
5EPN Radio
Black Women Watch...
In Search of Sauce
The Beauty Of Independence 

The story of Boss is one of subversion, devastatingly low levels of luck and an astronomical talent. How we only have one album and some hard-to-find mixtapes from such a skilled MC?

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:19)
Ben:

• KiLLOWEN - six missed calls 

Charlie:

• 1,000 UK Artists - Is This What We Want?
• KiLLOWEN - six missed calls
• The Doppelgangaz - Dumpster Dive, Vol. 2
• REASON - I Love You Again
• Andrew Mbaruk & Th' Mole - Purple Dirndl
• Dub Syndicate - Obscured By Version 
• Terrace Martin - Albion Files
• K.Keed - Bite the Bullet

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (14:55)
Born Gangstaz - (22:41)
Lighter Note - (48:36)

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"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor
In Search of Sauce
Black Women Watch...
5EPN Radio
The Beauty Of Independence

For the 16th Contemporary Cool, we get into what many consider to be Lupe Fiasco's best album and a J.PERIOD remix of Kendrick's "GNX".

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:48)
Charlie:

• NAO - Jupiter
• Smif-N-Wessun - Infinity 
• Kelela - In The Blue Light
• Amindi - Luvr-but it's on guitar (live)

Tetsuo & Youth - (8:00)
"J.PERIOD Presents - REINCARNATED" - (39:34)
Lighter Note - (52:36)

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"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor
In Search of Sauce
Black Women Watch...
5EPN Radio
The Beauty Of Independence

Boogie Down Productions - led by KRS-One - was an inventive group of the time, taking KRS' superior lyrical ability and combining it with production that was initially highly dynamic at first. With five albums, the death of Scott La Rock marring the history and plenty of lore, it makes for an iconic story in Hip-Hop history.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:57)
Ben:

• Drake x PARTYNEXTDOOR - $ome $exy $ongs 4 U
• Westside Gunn - 12

Charlie: 

• BNMO - The Eleventh Hour
• Anthony Joseph - Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back
• BexBlu, Renelle 893 - THE BUZZ
• chlothegod - I Feel Different Every Day
• John Glacier - Like A Ribbon
• Mereba - The Breeze Grew a Fire
• Rizzle Kicks - Competition is for Losers
• Brother Ali & ANT - Satisfied Soul

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (13:04)

Criminal Minded - (16:58)

By All Means Necessary - (27:35)

Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop (Charlie accidentally skips this one and talks about Edutainment, we get there eventually) - (36:25)

Edutainment - (44:49)

Sex and Violence - (46:33)
Lighter Note - (54:35)

Chelsea Reject's Funeral GoFundMe

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The Beauty Of Independence

The story of Poor Righteous Teachers isn't a well documented one, but the music speaks volumes with great production throughout, thought and dexterous lyrics soaked in 5% teachings and an embracing of Toasting that really sets them apart from their more popular peers.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:54)
Ben:

• Larry June x 2 Chainz x The Alchemist - Life is Beautiful
• JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

Charlie:

• Madvillain - Madvillainy Demos
• NAYA ALI - We Did The Damn Thing

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (7:07)
Holy Intellect - (12:06)
Pure Poverty - (20:22)
Black Business - (27:25)
The New World Order - (35:02)
Lighter Note - (45:05)

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"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor
In Search of Sauce
Black Women Watch...
5EPN Radio
The Beauty Of Independence

For this Hip-Hop Neighbours we get into two 00s debut albums. One from Linkin Park, the band that successfully balanced the Hip-Hop infused Rock of the time and Amp Fiddler who quietly took all his experience (experience that made J Dilla into J Dilla) to make a solo debut decades after he started his music career.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:48)
Ben:

• Madlib x MF DOOM - Madvillainy Demos
• The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow
• Spectacular Diagnostics - RAW GAME

Charlie:

• Logic - Aquarius III
• Jeshi - Airbag Woke Me Up 
• Mac Miller - Balloonerism
• Ghais Guevara - Goyard Ibn Said
• Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Ebo Taylor - Ebo Taylor JID022
• Eva Lazarus - Make Your Own Sunshine
• Cymande - Renascence

Hybrid Theory - (16:51)
Waltz of a Ghetto Fly - (36:18)
Lighter Note - (50:47)

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"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor
In Search of Sauce
Black Women Watch...
5EPN Radio
The Beauty Of Independence

You ever wondered what Kurtis Blow's music - that is not named "The Breaks" - is like? Well, it can be done by looking at Hip-Hop through the lens of Disco and not R&B or Soul. Music aside, the story of Hip-Hop cannot be told without naming Kurtis Blow.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:43)
Ben:

• Boldy James - Permanent Ink

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (3:02)

Kurtis Blow - (14:36)

Deuce - (27:04)

Tough - (32:22)

Ego Trip - (37:15)

America - (44:27)

Kingdom Blow - (50:23)

Back by Popular Demand - (56:21)
Lighter Note - (1:05:39)

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In Search of Sauce
Black Women Watch...
5EPN Radio
The Beauty Of Independence

For our 300th episode, we wanted to do a retrospective that was fitting for our 300th. So we landed on one of the most significant groups in Hip-Hop history. Possibly THE most significant. RUN-DMC - in no uncertain terms - brought Hip-Hop to a new stratosphere in popularity and dedication to creating full bodies of work. Combine that with their unmistakable style and you have one of the most iconic trios in music history.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:07)
Ben:

• Mac Miller - Balloonerism
• Busta Rhymes - Dragon Season.. The Awakening
• OMB Peezy - Drifting Away

Topic Intro/WHO'S HOUSE? BEN'S RESEARCH HOUSE - (8:04)

Run-D.M.C. - (19:55)

King of Rock - (28:44)

Raising Hell - (37:01)

Tougher Than Leather - (46:17)

Back from Hell - (51:19)

Down with the King - (58:20)

Crown Royal - (1:03:18)
Lighter Note - (1:14:23)

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"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor
In Search of Sauce
Black Women Watch...
5EPN Radio
The Beauty Of Independence

Allegedly - for our 21st edition of DITD Bites - we get into a reckoning that is long overdue for the music industry, off the back of Charlie's State of The Hip-Hop Union article: (Allegedly) Acknowledging that Sean Combs (allegedly) did some bad shit and we should endeavour to not prop up people like him. We also go on tangents (Allegedly) related to other people, Streaming, Social Media and Major Labels.

(Allegedly)

Our Bad Boy Episode (Pt. 1)
Our Bad Boy Episode (Pt. 2)

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:59)
Ben:

• Bad Bunny -  DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

Charlie:

• Skiifall - Lovers Till I'm Gone
• Diamond D - THE DIAM PIECE 3: DUO 
• Otis Kane - Violet

(Allegedly) The Conversation - (5:08)
Lighter Note - (1:01:09)

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Other Podcasts (Allegedly) Under The 5EPN:
"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor
In Search of Sauce
Black Women Watch...
5EPN Radio
The Beauty Of Independence