Hip hop GOAT Pharoahe Monch blesses the pod to talk ‘Simon Says’, how he got his name, his love for film and so many more things inlcluding...

📽 Why he loves ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

🔥 Wishing he’d written Mos Def’s verse on ‘Respiration

👻 The Ghostface track he wishes he was on

🎶 Why he needs to jump on a Preemo beat

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Jay-Z’s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ (1996) vs. GZA’s ‘Liquid Swords’ (19995) vs. Cypress Hill’s ’Black Sunday’ (1993) - which gets into Crate 808?

Show Notes

2.50: Least hip hop thing you’ve done in the last 24 hours

10.36: Reasonable Doubt

1.21.44: Hip Hop Rumour Roulette

1.25.14: Liquid Swords

2.24.54: Hip Hop Quotable Quiz

2.28:28: Black Sunday

3.21.25: Conclusion

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This week Queens spitter, chef and TV personality Meyhem Lauren joins the show. Chatting to host, Kambi Thandi, about...

🥘 New season of ‘F*ck That’s Delicious’

🤯 New album coming with Madlib

👀 ‘Hell on Earth’: Mobb Deep’s best album

🍟 Chip butties: yay or nay?

🤝 Lessons from DJ Muggs

💥 Best albums of last decade

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90s rap icon and man behind that Cypress Hill sound, DJ Muggs, sits down with host Kambi Thandi to chat all things hip hop. Topics we touch on include…

🙇‍♂️ Influences: Run-DMC, EPMD…and Picasso

💰 Becoming a millionaire by age of 23

🎤 His top 5 MCs of today

🇬🇧 Love for the British music scene

🔥 Why now is a new golden era of rap

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This week we were blessed by one of our favourite artists & comedians - Open Mike Eagle! We sat down and talked...

❤️ Why he loves MF DOOM

🎤 The art of freestyling

✍️ The De La Soul song he wish he’d wrote

👐 His Slept-On Wu Banger: ‘Diesel’

💪 Why podcasts are the future

💯 Rap as a meritocracy

🎭 Where comedy is heading

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This week we revisit Outkast’s debut album ‘Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik’ with DJ and promoter Rob Pursey. Talking:

 

This week we revisit Ice Cube's seminal debut album 'AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted' with UK rapper, actor, host and all-round entertainer MysDiggi. Touching on various subjects from police brutality to the emergence of hip hop as a dominating art form, we dive back into the time when Ice Cube was the best rapper on the planet.

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Classics go head-to-head: Mase’s ‘Harlem World’ (1997) versus Rakim’s ’The 18th Letter’ (1997)...a battle nobody asked for, but we went and did it anyway.

Show Notes

Start: Least hip hop thing you’ve done in last 24 hours

8.06: Harlem World

1.02.35: Hip Hop Quotable Quiz

1.05.40: The 18th Letter

1.58.40: Hip Hop Rumour Roulette

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This week we're joined by one of the most consistent hip hop artists of the decade - Skyzoo. From working with Dr. Dre, Pete Rock and 9th Wonder, Skyzoo has been there and done it. 

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This week we sit down with the creator of the Ego Strip illustration series, Dan Lish. A man who’s worked with Raekwon, Cypress Hill and De La Soul (to name a few) and who makes art that evokes back-packing warlocks and mystical beat-makers wrapped in a fantasy universe full of goblins and gremlins.

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