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Even though Main Source only lasted officially for five years - with two albums dropped - they certainly made their imprint in Hip-Hop history within that half decade; most notably, the album "Breaking Atoms" & the track "Live At The Barbecue".

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Weekly Music Roundup - (0:57) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Vic Spencer x August Fanon - Psychological Cheat Sheet 3
• Nasty C - Ivyson Army Tour Mixtape
  Ghais Guevara - Good Eats! (Beat Tape)
• DJ Drama x Symba - Results Take Time
• Jenevieve - Rendezvous
• Blood Orange - Four Songs
• Devin Morrison - Dream Lobby Vol. 1
• Braxton Cook - Black Mona Lisa
• JWords - brainecho
• Mura Masa - demon time 
• ShaSimone - SIMMA DOWN
• Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Henry Franklin - Henry Franklin JID014
• Terri Lyne Carrington - New Standards Vol. 1

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (17:35)
Breaking Atoms - (31:46)
Fuck What You Think - (41:50)
Lighter Note - (56:58)

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On the 15th edition of DITD Bites, we get into the world of morals & ethics in Journalism and a special conversation of wider media and the response to the death of The Queen.

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Weekly Music Roundup - (1:55) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Yeat - Lyfe
• NAV - Demons protected by Angels
• YoungBoy - Realer 2
• 38 Spesh - 7 Shots
• Black Soprano Family - Long Live DJ Shay
• Cappadonna x Stu Bangas - 3rd Chamber Grail Bars
• Semiratruth & JWords - loading...
• A-F-R-O - Beatz From Da FRO Vault (Vol. II)
• C.S. Armstrong - THE DAMASCUS LP
• Ari Lennox - Away Message
• Ari Lennox - age/sex/location
• Sampa The Great - As Above, So Below

Exploitative Journalism - (20:34)
The Queen - (43:43)
Lighter Note - (1:13:53)

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It's time for another edition of Hip-Hop Neighbours where we talk about non-Hip-Hop works that Hip-Hop fans love regardless. For this volume, we talk about the works of Tame Impala & KAYTRANADA.

Weekly Music Roundup - (1:10) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Pi’erre Bourne - Good Movie
• Francesca Wexler - Cherry Fields Forever
• Yah-Rah - The Queen’s Gambit
• BIGBABYGUCCI - SUMMER OF REVENGE
• Madlib, MED, LMD - Flying High
• Kenny Beats - Louie
• klwn cat - Panther vol. 2
• Nejma Nefertiti - Tongue FU
• Snoop Dogg - Metaverse: The NFT Drop, Vol. 2
• Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding - Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival

99.9% - (11:51)
Currents - (31:07)
Lighter Note - (50:38)

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It's time to explore the world of Hip-Hop in Australia and there's no better place to look than the most popular Hip-Hop act in Australia. Hilltop Hoods, a trio that needed a bank loan to fund their first album, to sold out tours and platinum plaques aplenty. But there's much more to see under the surface. Or... Maybe not.

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Weekly Music Roundup - (1:22) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• JID - The Forever Story
• DJ KHALED - GOD DID
• Roc Marciano x Alchemist - Elephant Man's Bones
• Rapper Big Pooh - To Dream In Colour
• Mystic - Dreaming In Cursive: The Girl Who Loved Sparklers
• Meechy Darko - Gothic Luxury
• Verbz & Mr Slipz - Where It Started
• Bishop Nehru - Heroin Addiction
• Bishop Nehru - Nehruvian Tuesdays Volume: 2

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (22:14)
A Matter of Time - (26:45)

Left Foot, Right Foot - (35:02)

The Calling - (38:12)

The Hard Road - (47:41)

State of the Art - (50:30)

Walking Under Stars - (1:02:10)

The Great Expanse - (1:15:20)
Lighter Note - (1:19:30)

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If you were on a desert island and you had one artist's discography to spin, who would you pick? If you said your favourite artist, then sure. But think about a Shabazz Palaces where the music is so layered & diverse, you will be guaranteed to hear something different every time you spin.

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Weekly Music Roundup - (1:13) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Hot Chip - Freakout / Release
• Royksoppp - Profound Mysteries
• Monday Mix Vol. 1
• Vacatixn - East River Drive
• India Shawn - BEFORE WE GO (DEEPER)
• Larry June - Spaceships on the Blade

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (9:26)
Black Up - (17:47)
Lese Majesty - (28:50)
The Quazarz - (40:07)
The Don of Diamond Dreams - (49:00)
Final Thoughts - (57:19)
Lighter Note - (1:05:24)

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If you ever need a story of resilience, look no further than the career arc of Camp Lo; who began with a classic debut, chose to go independent, have their work suffer because of it and at their lowest point, rise again with their best work since their debut. All in a space of 25+ years.

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Weekly Music Roundup - (1:26) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Megan Thee Stallion - Traumazine
• Your Old Droog - Yodney Dangerfield
• Black Thought & Danger Mouse - Cheat Codes
• The Game - Drillmatic
• Rod Wave - Beautiful Mind
• JFlames - The Beats With No Genre Album

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (19:00)
Uptown Saturday Night - (29:13)
Let's Do It Again - (36:09)
Black Hollywood - (46:13)
Stone and Rob: Caught On Tape - (53:49)
Another Heist - (56:51)
80 Blocks from Tiffany's 1 & 2 - (1:02:24)
Ragtime Hightimes & On The Way Uptown - (1:10:25)
Lighter Note - (1:21:00)

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We get into another Bites where we talk about goings on in the Hip-Hop/music world. For this one we get into the Beyonce/Kelis/Neptunes sample controversy and looking into The Notorious B1, an artist from back in the day that claims The Notorious B.I.G. stole his iconic hit "Juicy".

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Weekly Music Roundup - (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Nezi Momodu - The Pound
• Calvin Harris - Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2
• Bobby Shmurda - BodBoy
• LeeV & Bobby Oh’Killum - The Grim Adventures of Leev 
• Low End Activist - Hostile Utopia
• Karlae - ENTER
• Murs - Murs & Rob Viktum's Cavalcade of Cosmic Crips and Interplanetary Pirus
• Kokoroko - Could We Be More
• DOMi & JD BECK - NOT TiGHT
• Lil Silva - Yesterday Is Heavy

Bey/Kelis/Neptunes - (21:52)
Notorious B1 - (49:14)
Lighter Note - (1:09:08)

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In Volume 8 of Contemporary Cool: We look at the works of Rico Nasty, Megan Thee Stallion, Curren$y & The Alchemist and Kojey Radical.

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Weekly Music Roundup - (0:53) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE
• Wiz Khalifa - Multiverse
• Lava La Rue - Hi-Fidelity
• Joe Armon-Jones & Mala - A Way Back
• Jazz Spastiks - Intomental

Nasty - (12:22)
Tina Snow - (30:58)
Covert Coup - (41:46)
Reason to Smile - (55:14)
Lighter Note - (1:10:30)

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It is a tale as old as time. When you're as experimental as an N*E*R*D that simply refused to be labelled and went out of their way to be different; sometimes, it just doesn't hit. But when it hits... It HITS.

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Weekly Music Roundup - (0:59) (Ben = Bold / Charlie = Italics)

• Joey Bada$$ - 2000
• RZA - Bobby Digital and the Pit of Snakes
• Rico Nasty - Las Ruinas
• Asian Doll - Let’s Do a Drill
• Flo Milli - You Still Here, Ho?
• Shae Universe - Unorthodox

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (15:17)
In Search Of... - (20:29)
Fly Or Die - (30:00)
Seeing Sounds - (44:07)
Nothing - (54:23)
NO_ONE EVER REALLY DIES - (59:35)
Lighter Note - (1:16:05)

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One of the most prolific names in Hip-Hop production, The Neptunes: Pharrell Williams & Chad Hugo, could work with anybody in the mainstream and somehow make it a bop. They are responsible for birthing careers, revitalising careers and epitomise why the 00s were fucking weird.

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• Lizzo - Special
• Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights 
• Lloyd banks - The Course of the Inevitable 2
• Rowdy rebel - Rowdy Vs Rebel
• DJ Premier - Hip Hop 50, Vol. 1
• Che Noir - Poetic Sounds (Live)
• Jaszy Shavers & Tavaras Jordan - Carolina Soul
• Vic Spencer & Small Professor - Mudslide
• Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jazz Is Dead 011
• Jean Carn, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jean Carn JID012
• Katalyst, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Katalyst JID013

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (14:13)
Clones - (31:26)
Post-Clones - (41:54)
Gushing over Neptunes' production - (52:05)
Lighter Note - (1:07:18)

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