Diggin' In The Digits

After exploring The Conscious Daughters last week, it seemed fitting to explore the career of their biggest advocate and one of the most controversial voices in 90s Hip-Hop: Paris.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:01)
Ben:

• Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER
• Bfb Da Packman - Forget Me Not
• Rico Nasty - HARCORE DR3AMZ
• Roc Marciano - Marciology

Charlie

• Paolo Baldini DubFiles - In The Shell
• Super Helpful Kwame - Greetings From Tatooine
• Reggie Becton - Sadboy, Vol. 2
• Jordy - SNM
• Fifidiny - Better Man
• Katori Walker - Mezzanine 
• Sainte - Still Local
• Buddy - Don't Forget To Breathe
• In These Trees & Tartie - The Quiver
• Blu & Shafiq Husayn - Out Of The Blue
• Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (22:30)

The Devil Made Me Do It - (30:43)

Sleeping with the Enemy - (42:53)

Guerrilla Funk - (57:44)

Unleashed - (1:06:23)

Sonic Jihad - (1:14:39)

Acid Reflex - (1:21:18)

Pistol Politics - (1:24:31)

Safe Space Invader - (1:27:16)
Lighter Note - (1:31:56)

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To finish our Women's History Month celebrations, we stay in the West Coast to talk about a duo that oozed chemistry and confidence, only to be washed out by the industry changing direction. We talk The Conscious Daughters.

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

• Future x Metro Boomin - WE DON'T TRUST YOU
• SiR - HEAVY
• Elbow - Audio Vertigo
• Joyner Lucas - Not Now I'm Busy

Charlie:

• Summers Sons - Epiletric
• King Isis - shed
• MyCompiledThoughts - Soul Brother Chapter 1
• SiR - HEAVY
• Jrose - Pieces of My Crumbled Thoughts
• Backwood Sweetie - Burn One

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (13:58)
Ears To The Streets - (20:15)
Gamers - (28:39)
Lighter Note - (46:12)

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We continue our WHM celebrations with a trip to the West Coast, but not Oakland or Los Angeles. For the first time, we head to Sacramento for the story of Marvaless and the litany of Sac Town representers that come with her through her discography.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:56)
Ben:

• yeat - 2093
• Kembe x Hippie Sabotage - Sleep Paralysis
• Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK
• Four Tet - Three
• Kenny Mason - 9
• Yung Lean x Bladee - Psykos
• Nejma - Animal Barz
• 24kGoldn - Growing pains

Charlie:

• An Alien Called Harmony - An Alien Called Harmony
• Terrace Martin - Two Drink Minimum
• Nejma Nefertiti, Double A.B. & Dub Sonata - Animal Barz
• Raedio - Black & Unlimited 
• Flo Milli - Fine Ho, Stay
• Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK
• CHUCK STRANGERS - A Forsaken Lover's Plea

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (20:16)
Ghetto Blues - (25:19)
Wiccked - (32:20)
Fearless - (39:25)
Ghetto Blues 2001 - (44:06)
Ready Made - (52:12)
Lighter Note - (1:02:11)

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Continuing our WHM celebrations during the month of March, we get into another artist with one solo album, no longer with us after her passing in 2022: Hurricane G

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup: (1:17)
Ben:

• MIKE - Pinball
• ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips
• Cookin Soul x Raz Fresco - Bakin' Soul
• Kaiser Chiefs - Easy Eighth Album
• MGMT - Loss of Life
• KYLE - Smyle Again
• Skyzoo & The Other Guys - Mind of a Saint (Deluxe)
• Jean Dawson - Boohoo

Charlie:

• speedrun - Love's Latest News
• BXKS - One Time
• Zada - WATER IN THE DESERT
• Jynx716 & Che Noir - ANDY
• Dayme Arocena - Alkemi
• Liam Bailey - Zero Grace 
• Erick The Architect - I've Never Been Here Before
• ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS
• Ghetts - On Purpose, With Purpose
• Master Peace - How To Make A Master Peace
• Ayanna Witter-Johnson - Colour War
• J.PERIOD - J.PERIOD Presents... Story To Tell (Chapter Two)
• Bishop Nehru - Kult Life Chapter 1: From Pain To Paintings

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (19:43)
All Woman - (24:31)
Lighter Note - (53:37)

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Happy March one & all! You know what that means... Women's History Month on DITD is back and to kick off this year's set, we begin with the one & done Sister Souljah who took the political climate of her time to produce one of the most honest & politically scathing records in Hip-Hop history.

No timestamps for this episode as we don't have a WMR or a substantial Lighter Note, reason being that we recorded this on the same day as the previous episode.

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LIVE FROM LONDON, we get into one special work from a true "If you know, you know" group: Cymande. We also get the low down on Ben's 1st week in London.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:39)
Charlie:

• Jordan Mackampa - WELCOME HOME, KID!
• dreamcastmoe - MOLLY'S SON
• The Silhouettes Project - The Silhouettes Project, Vol. 2
• Joel Ross - nublues
• Kelela - RAVE:N, The Remixes
• John Glacier - Like A Ribbon
• Bishop Nehru - 4 The NONERS 
• LaRussell & Hit-Boy - RENT DUE

Cymande - (7:28)
Ben's Lighter Note - (41:50)

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We finish our Public Enemy three-parter with their most recent output with more friction from the inside and the outside but somehow, Public Enemy still continue to drop and tour the world; never dead, never deterred.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:00)
Ben:

• Yeat - 2093
• Conway x Big Ghost - Speshal Machinery the Chronic Edition
• 2nd Generation Wu x Dom Archey - This May Sting!

Charlie:

• Fatima - Love On Acid (EP)
• Ol' Burger Beats - 74: Out of Time
• Shae Universe - Love's Letter

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (6:18)

How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? - (9:56)

Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp & The Evil Empire of Everything - (17:09)

Man Plans God Laughs - (25:30)

Nothing Is Quick in the Desert - (30:04)

Loud Is Not Enough - (34:14)

What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? - (38:54)
Lighter Note - (49:45)

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In our 2nd part of the Public Enemy retrospective, we see how PE should have imploded and become one of the many groups in the 90s to break up; but not only did they not break up, they kept dropping (to mixed results) and predicting the future of the music industry still to come to fruition.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:09)
Ben:

• Little Simz - Drop 7
• Fivio Foreign - Pain & Love 2
• Dizzee Rascal - Don't Take It Personal
• Blu & Roy Royal - Royal Blu

Charlie:

• Little Simz - Drop 7
• Adanna Duru - NAPPY HOUR II
• Blu & Roy Royal - Royal Blu
• Terrace Martin - Her Thoughts
• DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday
• Dizzee Rascal - Don't Take It Personal
• Awon & Parental - Sublime
• Brittany Howard - What Now

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (12:17)

Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black - (20:27)

Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age - (31:20)
He Got Game - (33:24)

There's a Poison Goin' On - (50:46)

Revolverlution - (1:01:51)

New Whirl Odor - (1:08:48)
Lighter Note - (1:22:58)

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In part one of three, we get into the beginnings of Public Enemy and their first three albums, two of which considered to be consensus classics and some of the most authentically Hip-Hop albums ever made.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:39)
Ben:

• Skelbeats - What goes on in the Dark
• Lee "Scratch" Perry - King Perry
• Icewear Vezzo - Live from the 6
• Hit-Boy x Alchemist - THEODORE & ANDRE
• The Musalini x 38 Spesh - In God We Trust
• Che Noir - The Color Chocolate, Vol. 1
• Kevin Gates - The Ceremony
• Lyrical Lemonade - All is Yellow
• Benny the Butcher - Everybody Can't Go
• Marco Polo x Masta Ace - Richmond Hill
• Groundwork - The G Tape: Volume 3
• Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore

Charlie:

• Che Noir - The Color Chocolate, Vol. 1
• Highlyy - +243
• MiLES. - Life Thru New Lens
• Kota The Friend - Lyrics To GO, Vol. 5
• Vic Spencer & Original Super Legend - Be Double Clip Tight
• Masta Ace & Marco Polo - Richmond Hill

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (13:44)

Yo! Bum Rush the Show - (29:01)

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - (37:17)

Fear of a Black Planet - (49:37)
Lighter Note - (1:05:22)

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TW: Lyrics/talk referencing Sexual Assault.

After last episode's foray into the solo career of Kool G Rap, we now look into the work that he did before with DJ Polo: Three albums of ground-breaking work for KGR and his peers.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:31)
Ben:

• Zaddytc - A LOT
• Fredo Bang - Yes, I'm Sad
• Elcamino - Here You Go
• Eldorado Red - 48 Hours in San Francisco
• Hus KingPin x 9th Wonder - The Supergoat

Charlie:

• Da Flyy Hooligan & Wun Two - Nocturnal Hooli Vol. 1
• Deshawn Visionz - Thank God For The Homies
• Hus Kingpin & 9th Wonder - The Supergoat
• Arrested Development - Bullets In The Chamber
• Kid Cudi - INSANO
• UMI - talking to the wind
• Not The Singer - Knew I Could
• Keyon Harrold - Foreverland

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (8:09)

Road to the Riches - (15:27)

Wanted: Dead or Alive - (24:27)

Live and Let Die - (38:29)
Lighter Note - (48:29)

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