Second Avenue Podcast

In this Halloween special episode of Second Avenue Podcast, Jonathon and Elijah take a look at some memorable Halloween costumes worn by rappers in the past few years and rank them. Then they talk about this week’s releases, Brockhampton’s “The Family” album announcement, and Drake & 21 Savage’s album getting delayed one week.

A follow-up to a fan favorite from a few months ago, Jonathon and Elijah are back to rank twenty more album covers. From Baby on Baby 2 to Lil Yachty’s Poland single, find out their thoughts on this set of covers. They also discuss the announcement of Drake & 21 Savage’s collab album dropping this Friday, Taylor Swift’s “Midnights”, and more!

Elijah looks to bounce back from a 7-0 loss against Jonathon in Aux Battle 3. This time they’ll pick songs with: spooky instrumental, football reference, no feature, 2022 hit, by an artist with under 1 million monthly Spotify listeners, song on album Pitchfork rated below a 5, and a song off an album with a red cover. They also discuss the week’s upcoming releases, Lil Yachty’s “Poland” coming to streaming services, and more!

It’s been a busy few weeks since our last upload. Elijah took a trip to Rolling Loud NYC, Jonathon saw Pusha T & IDK in St. Louis, and they went to the Lyrical Lemonade 9th Anniversary show in Chicago together. They recap all the highlights (and a few lowlights) from a crazy week seeing some of their favorite artists. They also discuss the past two weeks of music releases, Jordan Poole catching a fade, Kanye’s latest social media activity, and more!

Last week, Jonathon and Elijah decided which chart-topping Drake track was king. With one of the deepest catalogs in rap today, it’s only right that they take a look at some of the more underrated and slept on tracks from his discography. They also discuss Elijah’s upcoming trip to Rolling Loud NYC, YZYSHDZ, Post Malone breaking his ribs, and more!

This week, Jonathon and Elijah created a bracket featuring some of Drake’s biggest hits throughout his career so they can decide which Drake chart-topping track is the best of them all. They also discuss this week’s new music releases including EST Gee, Ab-Soul, Blood Orange, and more. They also talk about the Anthony Fantano and Drake leaked DM situation.

Jonathon and Elijah rank some of the most iconic producer tags in rap. They rank fifteen of the most popular tags out today. Then, they discuss Nav’s new album, the upcoming final Brockhampton project, Vince Staples' Netflix show coming soon, and more!

Jonathon and Elijah take a look at some of the best (and worst) rapper tweets of all time. Then they discuss this week’s releases, The Weeknd’s upcoming HBO show, DaBaby’s low ticket sales, J. Cole’s NBA 2k cover, and more.

In this week’s episode, Jonathon and Elijah take a look back at 32 of the most iconic songs from one of the most beloved years in recent music history. Then they discuss a huge week of music releases with JID finally dropping his album & DJ Khaled dropping another project loaded with the biggest names in the game. They also touch on the rise and fall of AI Rapper FN Meka.

Jonathon and Elijah are back with another edition of guessing Pitchfork ratings for rap albums. This week they each picked ten albums for the other to guess how Pitchfork scored them. Then, they discuss this week’s releases, a Supreme and Andre 3000 collab, and Blonde’s sixth anniversary.