Diggin' In The Digits

The group that started it all for the Boot Camp Clik, the trio of Black Moon - led by Buckshot - came in with a quintessential Hip-Hop Golden Age debut and sporadically dropped after that, with not much of a drop in quality compared to a stone-cold classic.

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

• Raekwon - The Emperor's New Clothes

Charlie

• Ryder & Sengi - LONG RIDE HOME
• Farah Audhali & Blue Lab Beats - Time's Up
• Sainte - 4L
• Anti Lilly & High John - Butterfly Effect
• Open Mike Eagle - Neighbourhood Gods Unlimited
• Raekwon - The Emperor's New Clothes

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (9:17)

Enta da Stage - (16:14)

War Zone - (26:37)

Total Eclipse - (35:06)

Rise of da Moon - (44:17)
Lighter Note - (54:33)

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The duo of Rock & Ruck (Sean Price) make Heltah Skeltah, giving us yet another Boot Camp Clik membership that created a consistent quality discography! Not many misses when it comes to one of the best voices in Hip-Hop and a Sean Price that grows into himself as the years go by.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:58)
Ben:

• Jackboys 2
• Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
• Boldy James x Nicholas Craven - Late to my Own Funeral
• Larry June x Cardo - Until Night Comes

Charlie:

• Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Dom Salvador - Dom Salvador JID024
• The Circling Sun - Orbits
• TOBi - ELEMENTS Vol. 2
• Public Enemy - Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025
• Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
• Potatohead People & Slippery Elm - Emerald Tablet
• Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos II
• Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (15:32)
Nocturnal - (23:17)
Magnum Force - (33:45)
D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) - (40:56)
Lighter Note - (53:18)

& thanks to Million Podcasts for including us in their new "Hip-Hop Podcasts" list!

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The six-man supergroup Boot Camp Clik has - from day 1 - been a unique blend of talent, culminating in four decent-to-great albums and poses to be in the mind for whenever we cover the groups/individuals that make the group.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49)
Ben:

• JID - GDLU the Preluxe
• Smoke DZA - On My Way to Berlin

Charlie:

• SAMSON - UNDERSTOOD!?
• Madison McFerrin - SCORPIO
• The Doppelgangaz - Still Left
• Annie and the Caldwells - Can't Lose My (Soul) 
• Akil The MC - Taxes
• SOUFSIDE KATHLEEN - I PREFER REVENGE
• Solene & J. Rawls - Midnight Angel
• Kota The Friend - NO RAP ON SUNDAY
• Arrested Development - Adult Contemporary Hip-Hop

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (12:32)

For the People - (19:51)

The Chosen Few - (28:01)

The Last Stand - (34:27)

Casualties of War - (39:07)
Lighter Note - (46:43)

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On July 2nd we will be exactly halfway through the 2020s! And whilst it's been an objectively terrible decade in many ways, there are some Hip-Hop gems that have come out. So, we decided to make our individual Top 5 Hip-Hop Albums of the Half-Decade and for once, we have NO overlapping works! So buckle in as we gush over 10 albums in a nearly 2 hour special!

TIMESTAMPS:
Honourable Mentions - (3:54)
Charlie's No. 5 - (15:53)
Ben's No. 5 - (23:54)
Charlie's No. 4 - (34:33)
Ben's No. 4 - (42:31)
Charlie's No. 3 - (51:42)
Ben's No. 3 - (59:08)
Charlie's No. 2 - (1:05:58)
Ben's No. 2 - (1:15:26)
Charlie's No. 1 - (1:27:24)
Ben's No. 1 - (1:37:20)
Lighter Note - (1:46:51)

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One of the mainstays of the burgeoning Hip-Hop Underground of the 00s and beyond, Sean Price was a reality rapper with plenty of humour, iconic one-liners and a discography that have aged pretty well.

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49)
Ben:

• Memphis Bleek - Apt 3D
• Che Noir - The Color Chocolate 2
• Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon - Come As You Are
• Dave East & Young Chris - Fine Dining
• Daz Dillinger - Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back 2

Charlie:

• Ric Wilson - AMERICA RUNS ON DISCO
• Janset - Disruptive
• kwn - with all due respect
• Che Noir - The Color Chocolate 2
• Samara Cyn - backroads
• Loyle Carner - hopefully !
• Nick Grant - I Took It Personal
• Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon - Come As You Are 
• Cam Be & Neak - a film called black
• Yaya Bey - do it afraid 
• Marshall Allen - New Dawn
• Joe Armon-Jones - All The Quiet (Part II)
• Robert Glasper - Let Go

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (20:13)

Monkey Barz - (26:35)

Jesus Price Supastar - (35:06)

Mic Tyson - (47:48)

Imperius Rex - (55:57)
Lighter Note - (1:06:56)

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At 60 years old, Slick Rick dropped his 5th Studio Album and his 1st since 1999. He's a master storyteller, respected by everyone. So how TF is he still underrated?!

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

• Lil Tecca - Dopamine

Charlie - 

• Karl Benjamin - To What End?
• MRCY - VOLUME 2
• Jords - Mixtape J
• edbl - Archives Mixtape
• Syf of Talking Knots & Sir Nebula - Gravity
• A-F-R-O - Crimson Fury
• Kamaiyah - Fired Up
• Nubiyan Twist - NT Soundsystem
• AJ Tracey - Don’t Die Before You're Dead
• Theo Croker - Dream Manifest
• Brandee Younger - Gadabout Season 
• Juicy J & Logic - Live And In Colour 
• Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell - We Insist 2025!
• Slick Rick - Victory

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (14:19)
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick - (23:23)

The Ruler's Back - (36:24)

Behind Bars - (43:11)

The Art of Storytelling - (52:05)

Victory - (1:01:12)
Lighter Note - (1:15:31)

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G-Funk pioneer one of the most consistent dual artists in Hip-Hop history, it could be said that DJ Quik hasn't gotten the props his peers has, even though his quality of production and bars has (for the most part) been great, just as long as you jump over the mines labelled "Songs with oddly detailed sex bars".

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49)
Ben:

• Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 6
• Little Simz - Lotus
• UntilJapan - tromp l'oeil

Charlie:

• Common Saints - Equinox
• Ian Kelly & DJ D Sharp - Concrete OCEAN
• Vic Spencer & Bucky Luger - Interstate Potluck
• Little Simz - Lotus

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (15:14)

Quik Is the Name - (21:35)

Way 2 Fonky - (30:38)

Safe + Sound - (33:42)

Rhythm-al-ism - (37:37)

Balance & Options - (42:20)

Under tha Influence - (45:33)

Trauma - (52:26)

The Book of David - (56:15)

The Midnight Life - (59:12)
Lighter Note - (1:03:15)

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Whilst MC Shan spends a lot of his recent days lamenting the past in some form, he actually has a leg to stand on! Just not in the ways he thinks...

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:44)
Ben:

• Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams - Trainspotting
• Bruiser Wolf - POTLUCK
• Masta Killa - Balance

Charlie:

• Silas Short - LUSHLAND
• Rebecca Vasmant - Who We Are, Becoming
• Oddisee - En Route
• Premo Rice - Bad Muf*cka
• Obongjayar - Paradise Now
• Grand Puba - The Origin
• Poldoore - Chroma Dream
• Lady Donli - This Feels Like An Interlude
• ChillHop Music - Chillhop Timezones Nigeria
• Yugen Blakrok - The Illusion of Being
• Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
• Xzibit - Kingmaker

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (16:52)
Down By Law - (23:40)
Born To Be Wild - (33:27)
Play It Again, Shan - (41:38)
Bars Over Bullshit - (51:18)
Lighter Note - (1:02:36)

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The legacy of dead prez - for better or worse - has been condensed down to their classic track in "Hip Hop". Zoom out a little and you'll find a classic song on a classic album that is definitely not talked about enough. Zoom out even more and you find... Actually, let's just stay at that first zoom out...

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

• Syf of Talking Knots & Moe Town - 2 Sides to Every Story
• Jay Prince - SHINE
• Nādt Orchestra - Dualism
• Don Glori - Paper Can't Wrap Fire
• Aaron Taylor - Yours Always
• Lizzie Berchie - Night Shift
• Scienze & NappyHigh - PRAISES
• Estelle - Stay Alta 
• Queen Kaltoum - At PizzaExpress Live - In London
• Pola & Bryson - Overgrown

Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (14:03)

Let's Get Free - (21:46)

Revolutionary But Gangsta - (36:11)

Information Age - (45:58)
Lighter Note - (59:48)

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After calling it a day being "The Fresh Prince", Will Smith went under his own name for his solo stint. The results are mixed; proving that Hip-Hop could go Pop, but even then managing to have frequent misfires within his music, creating a frustrating discography that gives more questions than answers...

TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:10)
Ben:

• Amine - 13 Months of Sunshine
• Xzibit - Kingmaker
• Rico Nasty - Lethal
• Chuck D - Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon

Charlie: 

• Deema - 5
• Junii - JINX!
• MyCompiledThoughts - Kouri 
• flowerovlove - summerovlove setlist
• Chuck D - Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon
• Tanika Charles - Reasons To Stay
• Savannah Ré - Formed
• Reuben James - Big People Music

Topic Intro/Ben's  Research House - (14:28)
Big Willie Style - (20:15)
Willenium - (31:28)
Born To Reign - (40:56)
Lost And Found - (50:32)
Based on a True Story - (59:38)
Lighter Note - (1:14:32)

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