reef and I discuss the gender amplifier / output grammy week mixer, we talk vocal chains, honesty, story telling and end with workshopping an in progress song that reef is working on. the piano in the beginning is reef.

this is the first chapter of my novel, i've been writing this shit for like two and a half years, you can read it week by week on wattpad:

https://www.wattpad.com/story/389502391-muses?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create&wp_uname=mirachrisgabo

come kick it with me in my living room as I sit down with 30 year veteran TV writer and producer, my brother in islam, Culver City's very own Farhad Shariat and Brooklyn's finest --- 20 year veteran film editor Karim López as we discuss what in the goddamn fuck is going in Hollywood and how the bullshit shall persist or be resisted in the waning days of empire and the looming Trump administration. We make wild predications. Tell some stories and do a little bit of cope. During the new music segment we play "Mistakes" by Shaun Peace and Nate Marshall which uh...frankly, seems fitting...since we are currently living in an era charactarized by a dramatic culmination of MISTAKES that probably started around the 16h Century.

thank y'all for your patience with the transition from friday drops to monday --- this is the first joint in the new rhythm so it took a second but I'm reallllly excited about this one. We got the refugee crew back together --- Safia Elhillo, Bahia Watson, and Reef Loretto --- plus Saila Reyes to discuss the current LA fire situation and the new Netflix Documentary "Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy" and the nasty shit that human beings do to the natural world and how we can think differently and perhaps....act differently? as a result of this consciousness

Listen man, #refugeesarewelcomehere. Safia and I got back to LA and literally saw the Palisades fire from the plane and as soon as we landed LA was in panic mode. Bahia and Reef came to stay with us, we hunkered down, and alhamdulillah we were safe and it was comforting to be together. Analisa had been supposed to literally move to LA that day but obviously cancelled her flight and since she had been the guest for this week I asked Bahia and Reef and Safia if they'd be down to take her place and they very generously agreed to. We talk fire shit. We talk community. We talk aliens. And most importantly we talk Rhythm and Flow----Jay Taj got robbed!

*** mad spoilers ***

Fatimah Asghar and I cram into my cousin's old room at my tias house in Queens and get pretty shit faced with the noble intention of talking shit about Baby Girl because it made us extremely angry when we saw it together but I think we drastically underestimated how much fun this was gonna be and also how deep shit was gonna get so just to be perfectly honest with you we don't really get into the movie stuff until like the final 8 minutes but I think you'll enjoy. Also --- the big homie Caroline Mariko Stucky shot the episode very beautifully so lowkey you should watch the YouTube version. Subscribe to The Chris Gabo Show at patreon.com/thechrisgaboshow

Egypt Smith aka @the.modern.icon and I stand on a cold ass roof in Queens and talk loss, friendship, and getting to the motherfucking bag. 

Corin Liall Douieb aka The Last Skeptik has been a fixture of UK rap for the last twenty years, working with everyone from Kojey Radical to Giggs. We met when he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Hollywood. Real talk: this is the best episode of the show so far --- which, thank god, cuz it's the most recent episode and ain' that how it's supposed to go? It's only up from here inshallah! Join us for a delightful 90 minute discussion of the lineage of UK rap, with a few laughs along the way. I really hope you enjoy it. I am extremely proud of this episode. I've been working mad hard to make this shit fly for y'all. I got big things coming for you in January along with a pretty massive format shift inshallah and I could not be more geeked. I can't tell you how grateful I am for all the love and support you guys have shown me in the very brief period of time this show has existed and I promise you it is only gonna get better. Happy holidays. Mad love and gratitude. XO Chris.

happy holidays ya filthy animals. this is a fun one. unfortunately all of the video files corrupted so this one is audio only but man did we have a good time. poet and organizer bryan byrdlong hailing from the best city in the mid west, my favorite country in august, chicago, came to the crib to chop it up about trump, face sitting, and a bunch of shit in between, and at the end we freestyled for like twenty minutes so the episode has a regular ending and a coda. i love you guys. i love this show. i love this process. i love my friends. free palestine. free sudan. free the guys. free my tia martha.

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bro I'm high as fuck right now I have to be honest with you I'm in a cabin in the woods somewhere and I'm sitting next to my wife and I'm excited to switch into weekend mode ... I'm working really hard on this show you guys. It means a lot to me that you're listening.