Diggin' In The Digits

From their inventive D.A.I.S.Y. Age run to their new (& probably last) opus dropped last week, the career of De La Soul is unlike any other in Hip-Hop history. With label issues being the only thing that held them back, they always put out Art Official Intelligence when the time was right.

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

• Mysie - SALTY
• edbl - nylon
• Deshawn Visionz - Skies On Fire Tonight
• Dexter in the Newsagent - Time Flies
• Celeste - Woman Of Faces

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (8:25)

3 Feet High and Rising - (13:34)

De La Soul Is Dead - (19:22)

Buhloone Mindstate - (29:37)

Stakes Is High - (32:55)

Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump - (39:13)

AOI: Bionix - (42:42)

The Grind Date - (47:07)

And the Anonymous Nobody... - (49:45)

Cabin in the Sky - (57:11)
Lighter Note - (1:06:07)

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Whilst Prodigy made a genuine attempt to put out solo bodies of work outside of Mobb Deep business, Havoc took until 2007 to drop his first solo record and it wasn't until his third album that he actually put effort into it all.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:35)
Ben:

• Danny Brown - Stardust

Charlie:

• Ukweli & Xenia Mannasseh - MAYBE II
• REASON - Everything In My Soul_BLUE
• BLK ODYSSY - MOOD CONTROL
• Kaicrewsade - Joint4u!
• Flwr Chyld - InsydeOut
• Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You ii
• Danny Brown - Stardust
• Kofi Stone - All The Flowers Have Bloomed
• CHIKA - WISH YOU WERE (T)HERE 
• p-rallel - SELECTA
• Che Noir & 7xvethegenius - Desired Crowns
• TOBi & Real Bad Man - The Perfect Blue

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (13:59)
The Kush - (18:53)
Hidden Files - (25:06)
13 - (32:04)
13 Reloaded - (38:54)
Lighter Note - (48:09)

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The solo discography of Prodigy is all over the place to put it lightly. A great debut, a surprisingly good sophomore and then a stretch of albums that go from love songs to dark, philosophical work with a healthy dose of illuminati talk throughout.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:20)
Charlie:

• Tara Lilly - Quiet Nights (Early Takes)
• Treasure Bloom - Garden of Hedon
• Alemeda - But What The Hell Do I Know
• rum.gold - Is There Anybody Home? (Part 2)

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (4:58)

H.N.I.C. - (8:47)

Return of the Mac - (14:39)

H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 - (20:30)

H.N.I.C. 3 - (25:00)

The Bumpy Johnson Album - (31:20)

Hegelian Dialectic (The Book of Revelation) - (35:36)
The Hegelian Dialectic 2: The Book of Heroine - (42:24)
Lighter Note - (52:09)

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At 21 years old, two rappers from Queens dropped one of the greatest albums in music history. But some forget that "The Infamous" wasn't Mobb Deep's beginning (Literally! It was their sophomore album!) and it certainly wasn't their end. So past the "capital C" Classic, what is Mobb Deep in totality?

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:22)
Ben:

• Big L - Harlem's Finest

Charlie:

• Saba - C0FFEE!
• Makaya McCraven - The People's Mixtape
• Makaya McCraven - Hidden Out!
• Makaya McCraven - PopUp Shop
• Makaya McCraven - Techno Logic
• Knucks - A Fine African Man
• The Cavemen. - Cavy In The City
• Naomi Kimpenu - Reprise
• The Doppelgangaz - Bet on Black Cloak
• Halle - love?... or something like it
• Hit-Boy & The Alchemist - GOLDFISH
• Nectar Woode - it's like I never left
• Deborah Bond - Naomi's Finest
• Reuben Vincent & 9th Wonder - WELCOME HOME

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (15:42)

Juvenile Hell - (20:29)

The Infamous - (26:32)

Hell on Earth - (31:42)

Murda Muzik - (37:51)

Infamy - (42:11)

Amerikaz Nightmare - (48:13)

Blood Money - (50:49)

The Infamous Mobb Deep - (56:51)

Infinite - (59:36)
Lighter Note - (1:05:50)

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We finish our UKBHM series for the month of October with an artist of recent memory to see how Hip-Hop and the sheer amount of genre-bleeding in the early 2010s was displayed in spectacular fashion from Tinie Tempah, who went from Underground Grime MC to the most famous UK rapper in the space of a year and kept that title until Stormzy dropped "Vossi Bop".

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:05)
Ben:

• Dave - The Boy Who Played the Harp 

Charlie:

• Nappy Nina - Sweets For Cynics
• Planet Giza - The Sky Is Recording Me: 100 Years Later, Vol. 3
• Katori Walker - The War Within
• JayaHadADream - Happiness From Agony
• Niko Is. & J. Rawls - The Optimist's Son
• Hannah Jadagu - Describe
• Sister Nancy & Mad Professor - Armageddon
• Yazmin Lacey - Teal Dreams 
• Dave - The Boy Who Played the Harp 
• Reuben Vincent & 9th Wonder - WELCOME HOME 

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (12:33)
Disc-Overy - (19:52)
Demonstration - (34:33)
Youth - (47:00)
Lighter Note - (1:07:03)

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Credit to the Nation - led by West Midlands native MC Fusion - was a clear-cut child of Public Enemy but compared to another PE child in Hijack, CTTN was probably more blunt in leftist messaging (akin to Sistah Souljah) along with Brummie & Patios accents to add texture to the unique nature of Fusion and his crew.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:53)
Ben:

• Tame Impala - Deadbeat

Charlie:

• Chronixx - Exile
• Charlotte Dos Santos - Neve Azul
• Curren$y - 10/15
• Adrian Younge & Carlos Dafé - Carlos Dafé JID025 
• 7xvethegenius - Self 7xve 3
• Monaleo - Who Did The Body
• Tame Impala - Deadbeat 

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (15:17)
Take Dis - (20:52)
Daddy Always Wanted Me to Grow a Pair of Wings - (31:13)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen - (38:11)
Lighter Note - (50:23)

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Yorkshire outfit Unique 3 made waves in the dawn of the 90s with a new subgenre "Bleep Techno", the first homegrown EDM subgenre in the UK. Their subsequent debut album blended not just their pioneering sound but also blended Hip-Hop to create a sound that was... Well... Unique for the time.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:02)
Ben -

• Mobb Deep - Infinite

Charlie -

• Jordyn Simone - NO DEMO LEFT UNHEARD VOL. 2
• Blue Earth Sounds - Cicero Nights
• Summers Sons - Dare To Wonder
• Hollie Cook - Shy Girl
• Matt Wilde - Find A Way
• Negros Tou Moria - MAVRI ELLADA
• The Cool Kids - Hi Top Fade
• Ruby Rushton - Legacy!
• Mobb Deep - Infinite
• Robert Glasper - Keys To The City Volume One

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (13:38)
Jus' Unique - (20:01)
Invasive Signals - (33:10)
Lighter Note - (41:12)

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Happy October and happy UK Black History Month! Our first of four retrospectives this month is dedicated to two sisters that fused Hip-Hop with the burgeoning UK House/Acid House movement of the late 80s/early 90s whilst also paying homage to their Caribbean roots through the music and most notably their memorable name.

TIMESTAMPS
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:52)
Charlie:

• She Who Won't Be Named - From She With
• nineteen97 - CUDDABEENA*
• Barney Artist - They Changed When I Did
• Mick Jenkins & EMIL - A MURDER OF CROWS
• Jaydonclover - a constant state of blue
• Myka 9, Blu & Mono En Stereo - God Takes Care Of Babies & Fools
• Sven Wunder - Daybreak
• Dizzy Wright & Kxvi - Soul Searching
• Anaiis - Devotion & The Black Divine
• Say She She - Cut & Rewind 
• Alfa Mist - Roulette

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (16:26)
The Beat, The Rhyme, The Noise - (19:33)
Be Aware - (30:28)
Lighter Note - (42:58)

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Hello DITD listeners! Charlie here. Just wanted to drop you my latest interview with upcoming Alt-R&B artist Kairos The Writer off the back of his recent EP release "AND STILL I LOVE". Enjoy!

Intro Music - "Baxter" By Brock Berrigan
Interlude - "Remedy" By Dezaulait
ChillHop Music

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The Brooklyn-based Hip-Hop group Stetsasonic were one of the premier innovators of the 80s. At any given moment you could hear live instrumentation, sampling and beat-boxing. You could also hear elements of Jazz, R&B, Reggae & Rock. Considering their era, the creative foundations they laid is undeniable.

Weekly Music Roundup - (0:42)
Charlie:

• Kairos The Writer - AND I STILL LOVE
• FloFilz - Hagaki
• Ol' Burger Beats - 74: Out of Time (Reimagined)
• Vic Spencer - Trees Are Undefeated
• Kojey Radical - Don't Look Down
• Mega - I Am Enough
• Mnelia - COMPLICATED.
• A-F-R-O - AFRODEEZEAK 3
• Sol ChYld - Rebirth.Theory
• Verbz & Mr Slipz - THE WAY FWD
• CARRTOONS - Space Cadet
• Lady Wray - Cover Girl
• Durand Jones & The Indications - Flowers
• John Wells - I don't wanna die (Pt. 1)

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (13:45)
On Fire - (20:51)
In Full Gear - (31:04)
Blood, Sweat & No Tears - (43:47)
Here We Go Again - (55:38)
Lighter Note - (1:07:33)

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