The DOD45 Show

Chicago’s shapeshifting sound-architect NNAMDÏ joins The DOD45 Show for a wild, funny, and unexpectedly vulnerable conversation. A multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of Sooper Records, NNAMDÏ has become one of the most inventive forces in independent music... balancing math-rock precision, hip-hop attitude, and avant-pop chaos.

We talk about growing up Nigerian-American, walking away from engineering, and building an ecosystem for weird, fearless music. He breaks down the art behind Brat and Please Have a Seat, talks about ego, anxiety, and staying human on tour (“that ship has sailed”), and explains why Philly and Toronto hold special magic for him. Then come the questions no other podcast dares ask:
🎙 Would you rather headline a Tiny Desk or a Music Festival?
🎙 If every musician battled on roller skates, who wins — Biz Markie or Sheila E.?
🎙 Mr T or Mr Rogers?
🎙 Cats or Synths?
🎙 Which is harder, fighting fame or fighting comfort?
🎙 And what’s the strangest thing on a human face? (He ruins eyelashes forever.)

🎬 Movie Share: I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Charlie Kaufman’s surreal masterpiece about identity loops and existential dread. Jessie Buckley’s performance mirrors NNAMDÏ’s willingness to embrace confusion until it makes sense.

🎧 Music Shares:
• “57 Ways to Die” by Toozy & J57 — dark, clever, addictive.
• “Future Now” by Fritz Cook — bright experimental hope from Raps (2019).

We also shout out new releases from past guests: Buddy Peace (Depth Percepsh), Rich Jones (Swiss Camo), Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams (Planet Unfaithful), Marley B & DJ Hoppa (Taking It There), and more.

👉 Follow the DOD45 LUVS Song Share Playlist for every track we mention.

💬 RATE, REVIEW & SHARE - because supporting independent art is punk as hell.

#NNAMDI #SooperRecords #DOD45 #ArtByTai #UndergroundHipHop #ExperimentalMusic #ChicagoScene #MrDibbs #SageFrancis #IndiePodcast #MusicDiscovery

This Halloween edition of The DOD45 Show features Slugghead... siblings Nalei and Soul, talking creativity, horror, drawing, spooky soundscapes and their new EP. They chat about growing up making music in Salt Lake City, the roots of Slugghead (born out of boredom, imagination and genre‐blending alt-pop, punk, electronic and experimental soundscapes), their 2024 live album Ol’ Blue Gallery Live!, their latest full-length Jimmy Cry (2025) and the upcoming EP (featuring the track “I Cried on Stage With Sage Francis”).

You’ll hear stories about the weirdest places they’ve stayed, the scariest songs they’ve written, Halloween costume horror stories, zombie apocalypse survival picks, and the terrifying things that inspired them growing up.

We also share a bunch of spooky favourites from the hosts and guest:

• Tai’s movie picks: Scream; Day of the Dead; Creepshow 2; The Crow; Lost Boys

• Tai’s music picks: Whistling Past the Graveyard; Murder in the Red Barn; What’s He Building in There? and Little Drop of Poison by Tom Waits

• Adrienne’s movie picks: Lost Boys; Lisa Frankenstein; Interview With the Vampire

• Adrienne’s music pick: Zombie Delight by Buck 65

• Nalei’s film picks: Rocky Horror Picture Show; The Babysitter; Fear Street 2; Idle Hands

• Nalei’s music pick: I Want to Be Evil by Eartha Kitt

• Soul’s film picks: Scream; Corpse Bride; Frankenweenie; Your Monster

• Soul’s music picks: Wicked Game by Chris Isaak; Psycho Killer by Talking Heads; Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell

• ArtByTai’s picks: film The Hills Have Eyes; song Vlad the Impaler by Kasabian

🎧 Check out the DOD45 “Luvs Song Share” playlist for more: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dn8I37ew07y7aCeCs6qAn?si=b856689724da4b7c

💻 Other Key Links:
ArtByTai Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artbytai
DOD45 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dod45w
Strange Famous Records: https://StrangeFamousRecords.com
Mr. Dibbs: https://MrDibbs.com
Speakerface Store: https://Speakerface.Store

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Did you know? Sage Francis recorded his first demo tape in 1996, won major emcee battle titles (including the 2000 Scribble Jam), and founded his own label Strange Famous. Meanwhile Mr. Dibbs launched the turntablist collective 1200 Hobos in the early ’90s, released key albums like The 30th Song, and helped build the culture of alternative hip-hop turning scratching into art.

If you like this convo, please review and subscribe to The DOD45 Show wherever you listen to podcasts. Share it with friends and family who dig underground hip-hop, spooky art, drawing culture and film talk. Peace.

Tai sits down with avant-garde emcee Fatboi Sharif, the “Garden State Gargoyle,” for a ride through Rahway roots, horror influences, wild conspiracies, and absurd pick-your-poison games.

🔍 What’s Inside

• Sharif’s instantly recognizable, abstract style

🎞 Movie & Song Recommendations

• Operation Dark Phone: Murder By Text – true-crime mini-series turned nightmare fuel

🎧 More in the DOD45 Luvs Song Share playlist:

🎙 Did You Know?

• Sharif earned his name Garden State Gargoyle because his music feels like an eerie sculpture come alive.

🔗 Other Key Links

ArtByTai: https://www.instagram.com/artbytai

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We are back from a short hiatus, still deep in Series 8 of The DOD45 Show. Episodes are less frequent now with the ArtByTai art tour schedule, but when they land, they land big. Yes, this one runs long. We don’t care. We are not a podcast, we are a SHOW. It is free, we love it, and if you think it is too long, either watch it or don’t. Complaining about it is like complaining that a mural is too wide.

The episode kicks off with Tai’s recap of his trip to San Francisco for the Handsmade Collective Dax Pierson Tribute Show, where he spent time with Jel of Anticon, Doseone, M. Sayyid, and Handsmade founder Zack. It was a moving night of music and visuals at the Gray Area Theater, honoring Dax Pierson of Subtle and 13 & God. Tai also drops an unofficial announcement of the DOD45 Compilation Album... nearly every past guest is on board, with beats in hand from Buck 65, Blockhead, Steel Tipped Dove, Mike Ladd, Remi Rough, DJ Zole, DJ Criminal and more, plus interludes by Mr. Dibbs. See details here.

From there, the bulk of the episode dives into a full recap of the Strange Famous Ocean Mist Beach Bash in Rhode Island. Tai and Adrienne sit down with Sage Francis to laugh through memories of the show, the pizza party hosted by Early Adopted, and a gloriously chaotic whiffle ball game with the Strange Famous family. Short drop-ins from the crew Storm Davis, Mopes, Jesse the Tree, Metermaids, BlackLiq, Early Adopted, Cas One, and Seez Mics make this a true Strange Famous celebration. Packed with laughs, footage, and a whole lot of love for independent hip hop, this episode is basically a family reunion on camera.

🎬 Movie and 🎵 Music Recommendations

🎧 Songs:

💿 Explore more on the DOD45 LUVS Playlist

🔗 Key Links

🗣️ Final Notes

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🎙 Much Given, Much Tested — And Now, Much Revealed

🔥 This is a brand-new Series 8 episode of The DOD45 Show! We’re well into the hundreds now, and who better to help us burn into the next era than lyrical powerhouse, Richmond emcee, educator, and WRIR radio host BlackLiq.

In this high-voltage episode, we go track-by-track through BlackLiq’s album Much Given, Much Tested and dive headfirst into everything from parenting and pressure to calling out predators by name and writing verses that linger in your bones.

Tai draws imagery from the album live while BlackLiq answers a relentless parade of deep, absurd, and revealing questions:

Plus:

🎬 Episode Movie Recommendation:

🎵 Episode Song Shares:

🎧 And don’t miss the DOD45 LUVS Playlist with more songs from past guests:

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🙏 Help us keep this going—your reviews and shares really matter.

New episodes most Tuesdays. Drawn by ArtByTai. Hosted with love.

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📌 This is a past episode of The DOD45 Show.

In this electric conversation, Tai sits down with actor, musician, and unpredictable pop-culture lightning rod Taryn Manning. From her viral "Gold Juice" saga to sharing deep thoughts about rhinos and poop (yes… poop), this is the kind of episode that swerves when you expect it to cruise.

🎤 Inside the Episode:

• Her breakout roles in 8 Mile, Crossroads, and Orange Is the New Black

🎧 Music Recommendations:

• "Predator Place" – Doseone
  

💡 Did You Know?Taryn once opened for De La Soul on tour with Boomkat. She also voiced a character in the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours and once claimed she identifies more with animals than people—which explains the rhino.

🎥 Movie Recommendation:

• Maggie Moore(s) – Trailer
  

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⭐️ If you dig what we’re doing, subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Sharing the show helps us keep bringing artists and oddballs into the spotlight. Peace.

🟡 This is a re-release of a past episode! Originally aired in 2023, we're bringing this one back as part of our reuploads following the deletion of our original DOD45 Spotify account in December 2024.

In this episode, Tai sits down with stand-up comedian, content creator, and Twitch streamer Lisa Wallen, whose anime chops are as sharp as her punchlines. From her childhood crush on Steve Martin to her thoughts on modern-day comedy, Lisa shares it all—plus her experiences doing stand-up in Japan, surviving strange audience reactions, and breaking down the dangers of parasocial relationships in streaming culture.

🎬 Movie Share:

🎵 Song Shares:

🧠 We also dive into:

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💬 Don’t forget to review, subscribe, and share this with your friends, family, weird coworkers, or anime-obsessed roommates.

⚠️ This is a rerelease of Episode 75 of The DOD45 Show, originally aired in November 2023. Spotify deleted our original account in December 2024, so we’re rebuilding the archive and reuploading episodes. YouTube versions stayed intact.

In this Thanksgiving edition of the show, Tai interviews his real-life cousin Tom Howard—a retired pro wrestler, MMA fighter, stuntman, and actor who’s trained legends, fought beasts, and lived to tell the wildest stories.

This one’s stuffed with:

🥊 Training with John Cena and Samoa Joe

🎬 Movie Share: Home for the Holidays

🎶 Music Share:

🎧 Tap into the full DOD45 Luvs Song Share playlist:

💻 More DOD45 Links:

💥 Review, subscribe, and share this with someone who still thinks wrestling’s fake, or someone who needs a little chaos with their turkey. Appreciate you riding with us.

#DOD45 #TomHoward #WrestlingPodcast #ThanksgivingEpisode #HomeForTheHolidays #CannibalOx #VastAire #PodcastReupload #StrangeFamousRecords

⚠️ RERELEASE FROM THE VAULTS!

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On this episode of The DOD45 Show, Tai sits down with Mestizo: underground hip-hop lifer, Makina Muerte co-founder, A7PHA emcee (alongside Doseone), and the guy who once told a Texas cop he was in a Christian rap group just to avoid a ticket.

As Tai live-draws a snarling, multi-headed wolf, the convo veers into:

🔺 Many Headed and the A7PHA return

If you’re not already hip to Mestizo’s deep and dirty discography… welcome to the rabbit hole.

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🎧 Song Share:

🎬 Movie Share:

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🔥 Explore Mestizo’s World:

🎶 DOD45 Luvs Song Share Playlist:

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👉 Rate the show. Follow the show. Share the show with your barista, barber, parole officer, or art-obsessed uncle. Every review and repost feeds this machine and lets us keep drawing over the people who move us.

#Mestizo #DOD45 #A7PHA #Doseone #MakinaMuerte #HandsmadeCollective #ArtByTai #StrangeFamousRecords #UndergroundHipHop #LiveArtPodcast #ReReleaseWorthy

🔄 Re-Release Notice

⚠️ This is a past episode from June 2023, originally aired following the Strange Famous Festival in Denver. We're re-releasing it now due to the deletion of our original Spotify feed in December 2024. Thanks for staying with us—this one's worth the rewind.

🎙️ Episode Overview

The DOD45 Show takes you deep into the heart of Strange Famous Festival 2023, held at Levitt Pavilion in Denver. Tai & Adrienne posted up backstage and at the Strange Famous Airbnb to bring you full conversations and festival coverage with every artist on the bill.

🎤 Included in this episode:

It’s a packed house of performances, pre-show nerves, tour stories, and deep Strange Fam love.

"It wasn’t just a show, it was a family reunion in the form of a festival." — Audience post on IG

From laughter and freestyle chaos to emotional tributes and onstage catharsis, this episode captures the Strange Famous spirit in full.

• “Sea Lion” – Sage Francis
  

🧠 Did you know? Sage Francis covered travel and housing for every artist, making this one of the most unified indie hip-hop events of the year—done with heart, not hustle.

✅ Help the Show Grow

⭐ Please rate, review, and follow the show—it helps more Strange Fam find us.

🎧 Tap into the DOD45 Luvs Song Share playlist for more recs from this and other episodes.

🔗 Keep Connected

ArtByTai: https://www.instagram.com/artbytai

#StrangeFamousFestival #DOD45 #ArtByTai #SFR #IndieHipHop #PodcastReRelease