Welcome to another episode of the Beyond Beats and Culture podcast!

In today's episode we discuss (chapters):

0:00 - Intro

11:43 - WHAT WE BEEN JAMMING

42:25 - New Hip-Hop Music Announced/Released

54:35 - Hip-Hop News & Current Events

1:10:46 - Andy Cypress - EMBER2 Album Review

1:23:09 - The Game - The Documentary Album Review

1:40:26 - How Will The TikTok Ban Affect Hip-Hop and Music?

1:57:06 - Rolling Stones Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of the 21st Century Reaction

2:04:27 - Outro

Show Notes -

WHAT WE BEEN JAMMING:

- Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife

- Future - Dirty Sprite

- Lil Baby - WHAM (Deluxe)

- Rio Da Yung OG - RIO FREE

- SoFaygo - GO+

- Rod Wave - Westside Connection (Single)

- Niontay - Dontay's Inferno

- Niontay - Demon Muppy

- FUNERAL Ant Bell - Roxbury Blues

- The Nonce - World Ultimate (Deluxe Edition)

News/Current Event Topics:

- Lupe Fiasco becomes a professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute for their newly launched bachelor’s program in hip-hop music

- Westside Gunn announcing his first art program for Heath Sciences Charter school called “WORTHY HANDS ART PROGRAM”

- A$AP Ferg says A$AP Mob is "done"

- Kanye West potentially releasing a Vultures Movie soon

- Drake’s legal action against UMG and iHeartRadio has moved to January 28th to be heard in court

- Madlib loses his house, with decades of music and equipment, to the LA wildfires

- Liangelo Ball signs a $13M contract with Def Jam, which grants him full ownership of his music and label

New Music Announced/Released:

- Freddie and Alchemist rumored to be working on Alfredo 2

- Lil Baby is planning to drop 4 projects in 2025, one of them being a collab with Future and Thug potentially

- Boldy James - Permanent Ink (January 24th)

- A bunch of Eminem songs recently leaked

- Out of respect for the LA Fires, Weeknd pushes his last album back to 1/31

- Mac Miller - Balloonerism

- Busta Rhymes - Dragon Season

Andy Cypress:

Twitter - https://x.com/cypressandy

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF1KguAv-iPeSdJifGHXqmw