LIVE From The Basement

We jumped this episode off immediately with an interview with Joe Budden just before he got on a plane, so we were immediately in rare form this time around. Major and JMack were Phro-less this week but they kept the show rolling after the Budden interview with some great underground hip-hop joints, a couple more calls with Nai from StrictlyFitteds.com, CJ from KonsoleKingz.com as well as some listener calls. Hot show, hot music, great calls. Make sure you check it out. And sign up for the mailing list yall to get in on the live shows!!!

We jumped this episode off immediately with an interview with Joe Budden just before he got on a plane, so we were immediately in rare form this time around. Major and JMack were Phro-less this week but they kept the show rolling after the Budden interview with some great underground hip-hop joints, a couple more calls with Nai from StrictlyFitteds.com, CJ from KonsoleKingz.com as well as some listener calls. Hot show, hot music, great calls. Make sure you check it out. And sign up for the mailing list yall to get in on the live shows!!! Next Episode comin Saturday, August 16th!

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Episode 68 was all about having fun and touching on the topic of the age gap in hip-hop. Early in the show we spoke with the winner of Episode 67 Najee and discussed the topic at hand as well as his album “Westside Story”. We also spoke on the Ice-T vs Souljah boy debate (the live show was 2 weeks ago). Later in the show we caught up with Fresh, genius writer supreme and owner of the entertainment news blog, Crunktastical.net and talked about her site, and laughed for about a half hour straight. Hopefully we didnt harrass her too bad and she will come back for the next episode. Through the rest of the show we took some calls, spoke on SOHH getting hacked to death, more Kwame Kilpatrick hip-hop mayor talk, discussion of the double standard N.E.R.D. music and more!

This episode was recorded about 3 weeks ago as we took our annual summer break. But were back! This episode was loaded with great music and we had alot of fun, although we had to work through a major technical failure and a nasty ass heat wave when we recorded this episode. Make sure you check out the HoodHype blog and peep the Shows category to get the second half of this episode which included the white boy water taste test as well as another special interview with Bishop Lamont.

We"re back in the building with some fire music for yall this week. This episode we got into the MTV "Top 10 Hottest MCs" list and ripped it to shreds along with MTVs "Brain Trust". Later in the show Major, Phro and JMack bounced to the subject of reparations and had a bit of a heated debate and also discussed a track the review staff was split on. Lots of good stuff for yall this episode, check it out!

Episode 65 was a crazy one. The show itself ended up being 3 hours, but luckily after some editing we managed to get it down to a more manageable hour and a half so we arent continually murdering your iPods space. So you may notice some continuity shit going on in the show. We kicked the show off immediately with a track and a FRESH interview with Killer Mike, talking about everything from conscious rap (which he said is rather whack) to Alexis Tyler on his show Grind Time Sports Show (BANG! BANG! BANG!). We spoke on marketing beef vs the legitimate rap beef. We then spoke with the winners of Episode 63 Rideout and Terry Cole for their song Ways to lose Detroit. COP THEIR ALBUM!! Overall we had a great time, and we really wish we could post the last segment of the LIVE show but we figured maybe we would post it some other time so we could FINALLY get this one out to yall. Enjoy and we look forward to your feedback. Please post here, email or call us with your comments for the next show

A three hour show. It was three hours long. We kicked off the show with an interview with last episodes vote winner, Lungz for his track "Am I Black Enough For You". which got things off to good start. Truth be told we didnt expect to run this long, but once NY Oil got on the phone it was all over. The conversation kept getting deeper and deeper as JMack got quieter and quieter (LOL @ JMacks silence). Major, JMack and Phro (but mostly Major) sat down and had a great discussion with NY Oil from everything from the whole Nas issue, to the Sean Bell case. Episode 64 was an episode loaded with Black Pride. As always, there were six crazy underground hip-hop and reggae joints and much more. Also, our apologies for the mild vocal distortion...human error our end. Oh, and make sure you login to our blog at http://www.hoodhype.com/blog to hear an entire hour of bonus audio that wasnt included in this episode!

Its been almost a month since the entire HH crew got together for an episode so we were ampd up and ready to go. We got things started by congratulating JMack on his newest child, and spoke about every fathers worries when their child is first born. From there we got into some hip-hop talk with Nonseq from the production team Tin Men whose track "Video Chick" received the most votes from Episode #61. Nonseq filled us in on the hip-hop scene in North Carolina, and how their production team goes about deciding what MCs they want to work with. Next, Phro gave us the run down on his vacation to Tampa, FL and their 24/7 2-for-1 drink specials. After the break we got into some conversation about Busta Rhymes recent Hot 97 interview, which lead us into a conversation about Aftermath Records and their rosters bulked up appearance. From there we discussed why DJs get so much love, re-lived some drunk moments, gave our thoughts on Stacy Dashs KING Magazine cover, and a lot more. As always, the m

Episode 62 is here and aptly titled The Amazing Race considering 80 percent of this entire show was discussion about racial subject matter. Special guests this episode include the hottest video producer out right now, Rik Cordero. We talked about his videos, upcoming projects, how he got in on the game and much more. We also spoke with one of the guys from the StuffWhitePeopleLike blog, Myles to talk about the site, the subject of the site and we though we came up with some damn nice post suggestions for them too! As always, we featured some FIRE tracks this episode so make sure you tune in and listen to some of the hottest underground hip-hop on the planet!

You know we couldnt really come up with a title for this one. We were all over the place this show but had a damn good time. We spoke to Faddy Daddy, winner of Episode #59, talked about the Stuff White People Like blog (of whom we expect to talk to on the phone next show), dropped a special message for Joe Budden, talked about Nas renaming his album and 6 hot tracks (got some nice reggae stuff in there this week for yall too).