Eclipxs’ Interlude

This week was a pretty quiet week in the music business with project like Westside Gunn's Hitler Wears Hermes 8 B Side and Playboi Carti's "Narcissist" album failing to release, but we still find two must hear underground albums to share with you'll this week. Also as promised in the last episode, we share our top 10 Albums of the Year so far in 2021, recap episode 4 of Wu-Tang: An American Saga, as well as share which artists we're hoping to receive albums from in the closing months. Tune in and enjoy!

The big name artists are seemingly out the way for the time being, so we finally have the opportunity to start our delve into our pure Hip Hop bags and what better way to start than showing off our vinyl collections and recapping the first three episodes of Wu Tang: An American Sage season two. In music this week, we saw Common drop an amazing freestyle over Raekwon’s “Incarcerated Scarface’s” in the promotion of A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 2 which released Friday leading us to share some of our favorite LA Leakers Freestyles. Also Baby Keem released his debut studio album “The Melodic Blue” as well as new albums from Twista, J. Arrr, Jazz Cartier, AZ, etc. Tune in to see us delve into the topic as well hearing what else we gave in store!

With Donda and Certified Lover Boy both officially here, we give our thoughts on both albums while touching on the formula of making an album in the current state of Hip Hop. As always we touch on all new music, notably Little Simz high anticipate "Sometimes I Might Be Introvert" which may be AOTY, as well as what's next for the pod going forward. Tune In!

Back for episode two of Eclipxs' Interlude, Mike shares his experience of hearing Donda live at Soldier Field in our hometown of Chicago for Kanye's listening event. We touch on some of the controversy surrounding the event, the numerous new music releases from Friday, notably the long awaited return of Kendrick Lamar and his message to the Top 5, and Griselda in the wake of Westside Gunn's latest release Hitler Wears Hermes 8. Tune in for news on new music expected to drop in the month of September!

Welcome To Eclipxs' Interlude! In the first episode ever, my cohost Mike and I touch on our friendship over the years leading to the podcast, the origin of his love for Hip Hop, upcoming albums from Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, & Drake as Mike ranks their catalogs and we end with a recap of recently released music. Tune in for the full scope of the debut episode!