Diggin' In The Digits

Kool G Rap: The ultimate "If you know KGR, you know ball". Whilst KGR never got the commercial success, his legacy as a lyrical pioneer is rooted deeply in your favourites and your favourites' favourite.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:07)

Ben:

• Kid Cudi - INSANO
• C-Scripture - Penalty of Leadership
• Teezo Touchdown - How Do You Sleep At Night Deluxe
• Unknown T - Blood Diamond
• DJ Booker x NLE Choppa - The Chosen Ones
• D-Block Europe - Rolling Stone
• 21 Savage - american dream
• Bruiser Wolf - My Story Got Stories

Charlie 

• Say She She - Silver

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (9:52)

4,5,6 - (22:24)

Roots of Evil - (32:13)

The Giancana Story - (43:20)

Half a Klip - (56:27)

Riches, Royalty, Respect - (1:00:12)

Return of the Don - (1:02:23)

Last of a Dying Breed - (1:05:22)
Lighter Note - (1:10:25)

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The King Asiatic Nobody's Equal. Brooklynite Big Daddy Kane came through the 80s as one of the best freestylers in the Five Boroughs and once he got with Cold Chillin' and the Juice Crew, Kane would prove that he is one of the most complete rappers of all time.

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

• Westside Gunn, Conway, Alchemist - Hall & Nash 2
• The Game x Big Hit - Paisley Dreams
• Ufo361 - SONY

Charlie: (All released in '23)

• Butcher Brown - Solar Music
• Bloody Civilian - Anger Management
• The Ironsides - Changing Light
• MMYYKK - The Midst of Things

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (8:37)

Long Live the Kane - (18:56)

It's a Big Daddy Thing - (29:10)

Taste of Chocolate - (39:43)

Prince of Darkness - (49:24)

Looks Like a Job For... - (58:23)

Daddy's Home - (1:06:52)

Veteranz' Day - (1:16:14)
Lighter Note - (1:31:25)

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Happy New Year one and all! We hope that your year is full of progression, growth and 52 episodes of DITD! But before we go forward, we look back one more time to 2023, talking about our Top 2 albums of 2023.

Ben's No.2 - (3:25)
Charlie's No. 2 - (26:20)
Ben's No. 1 - (39:08)
Charlie's No. 1 - (1:00:11)
Lighter Note - (1:11:27)

Charlie's Top 10 Albums of 2023

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Happy holidays one & all! To celebrate, we keep it simple and review the Metacritic Hip-Hop album scores for the year of 2023.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:47)
Ben:

• Conway x Wun Two - Palermo
• Wizkid - S2
• Layzie Bone - Hypnotic Rhythms

Charlie:

• Ruinz Ason - Airplane Mode (Deluxe)
• Morena Santi - Santi Sounds

List Review - (4:55)
Last minute recommendations of the year - (1:15:47)
Lighter Note - (1:23:38)

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The first two albums by J-Live are some of the most consistent works in Hip-Hop history. What's even more impressive is that they're both over 70 minutes. But what about the rest of his work as he walked through the desert that was the 00s Hip-Hop scene.

Weekly Music Roundup - (0:57)
Ben:

• Bas - We Only Talk About...
• Curren$y x Trauma Tone - Highway 600
• ASAP Twelvvy - Kids Gotta Eat Da Deluxe
• BigWalkDog - Playoff
• Gucci Mane x B.G. - Choppers & Bricks
• Peter Gabriel - i/o
• Kylie Minogue - Tension

Charlie:

• Big K.R.I.T. - Regardless It's Still Timeless
• Coast Contra - The Old Way

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (7:43)
The Best Part - (21:06)

All of the Above - (30:47)

The Hear After - (38:25)

Then What Happened? - (44:48)

S.P.T.A. (Said Person of That Ability) - (51:56)

Around the Sun / His Own Self / How Much Is Water? - (56:11)
Lighter Note - (1:00:52)

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With the genocide/ethnic cleansing of Gaza/Palestinians ongoing, we have a conversation that we previously had in the heat of the protests in 2020 (You can listen here) and felt that we needed to have again: What is the place of our favourite entertainers/celebrities when it comes to issues as large as the ones happening in 2023? The answer ironically involves all of us.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:56)

Ben:

• Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2

Charlie:

• Ayanna - In A Perfect World
• Yoni Mayraz - Dybbuk Tse!
• Blu & Nottz - Afrika 

The Conversation: (07:36)
Lighter Note: (1:06:17)

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Large Professor is an interesting solo case in Hip-Hop history; an artist with a solid solo discography but his legacy is instead tied into being of service to a litany of legends. Where do you place someone like that in the annals of Hip-Hop history?

(Check our Main Source episode for more LargePro)

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

• Conway x Conductor - Conductor Machine
• Sexyy Red - Hood Hottest Princess Deluxe
• Dave East x Cruch Calhoun - 30 for 30

Charlie

• BigXthaPlug - The Biggest
• Zino Vinci - Filthy & Disgusting
• Amaria - All For You
• Destiny Briona - Girls From Atlanta
• AZ - Truth Be Told
• Elzhi & Oh No - Heavy Vibrato

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (8:37)
The LP - (19:34)
1st Class - (26:26)
Main Source - (32:14)
Professor @ Large - (37:17)
Re: Living - (40:19)
Lighter Note - (48:40)

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It's time to take a trip into the future - to the year 3030 - through the sonic landscape painted by a trio that combine to make Deltron 3030: Del The Funky Homosapien, Dan The Automator & DJ Kid Koala.

Weekly Music Roundup - (0:58)
Charlie:

• FloFilz & Bokoya - Soft Encounter
• Gianni Brezzo & Bokoya - Minari
• Backwood Sweetie & K!NG jvmes - Syzygy
• Layfullstop - RUGGED
• Karl Benjamin - There In 5 
• Astrocolor - Moonlighting - AstroJazz Vol. 1
• Tapioca - Samba em Kigali
• Nicholson. - September Sky
• Jose James - On & On
• The Circling Sun - Spirits

Ben:

• Kamaiyah - Another Summer Night
• Buck 65 x Doseone & Jel - North American Adonis
• Boobie Lootavelli - FUMBLE!
• Busta Rhymes - BLOCKBUSTA
• BlaQ Chidori x Barto100 - At Ya Neck
• Big Moochie Grape - East Haiti Baby: Incarcerated

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (10:10)
Deltron 3030 - (15:33)
Event 2 - (32:14)
Lighter Note - (45:23)

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For the 11th Contemporary Cool, we get into Bey & Jay's "EVERYTHING IS LOVE" & Hempress Sativa's debut album "Unconquerebels.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (2:20) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• J57 - If I Should Wake Before I Die
• André 3000 - New Blue Sun
• Drake - Scary Hours 3
• Protoje & Zion I Kings - In Search Of Zion
• Skipp - Summer Of Love: An Audio Experience Of A Hip-Hop Sort
• Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond
• Ego Ella May - FIELDNOTES PT III
• BJ The Chicago Kid - Gravy
• K.A.A.N & MIKE SUMMERS - The Nightly News
• Journey Montana - Stargirl
• H31R (JWords & maassai) - HeadSpace
• douniah - A Lot, Not Too Much
• Summer-Pearl - outmysystem 
• Danny Brown - Quaranta
• Samory I - Strength
• Sirens Of Lesbos - Peace
• Terrace Martin & Gallant - sneek
• Terrace Martin & Calvin Keys - The Near North Side
• Emeli Sandé - How Were We To Know
• Thandi Ntuli & Carlos Niño - Rainbow Revisited

EVERYTHING IS LOVE - (21:32)
Unconquerebels - (45:18)
"Lighter" Note - (1:00:47)

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The legacy of Nujabes is one of how music should feel. That essence of when you listen to it, it instantly feeds your soul; whilst dubbing Nujabes as "The Godfather of Lo-Fi" is fine, he should be recognised as something, higher. A person that linked Hip-Hop and Jazz as good as anyone, providing the perfect example of why knowing the roots always produces better work.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:58) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Tee Grizzley - Tee's Coney Island (Deluxe)
• Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions
• Wiki x Tony Seltzer - 14K Figaro
• Lord Apex - The Good Fight
• Larry June x Cardo - The Night Shift
• Coops - Home Grown
• Joel Culpepper - Happiness Is Only A Few Miles Away 
• Mega - Honour and Glory
• A-F-R-O, Ikom & Camee - Ain't Nothin!
• Chase & Status - Too Ruff, Vol. 1
• Kokoroko - Could We Be More Remixes
• Devon Gilfillian - Love You Anyway
• Khalia - Stay True

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (13:51)
Metaphorical Music - (27:07)
Modal Soul - (37:50)
Spiritual State - (58:56)
Lighter Note - (1:10:38)

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