The Urban Breakdown

Merc and Odi, and the gang explore the finale of the Hip Hop 100 East Coast

Merc, Odi, and Blue discuss the week in review...

Odi and Merc discuss the next volume of The Top 100 Billboard Review for East Coast Rappers

Odi and Merc discuss the next volume of songs for The Top 100 Billboard Review for East Coast Rappers

Merc, Odi and the grand discuss the week in review...

Happy 4th of July.... you lie....

Odi, Merc, Sin and Blue discuss music and the erroneous Rolling Stones next 20 on the TOP 100 List.

#rollingstone #top100 #greatestrapper

Odi and Merc put in that work on this episode of 360 Degrees

In the early days of hip-hop, no one really talked about the East Coast. That’s because there wasn’t any other coast to compare it to. Hip-hop was born in the Bronx, and though rap’s other regions percolated throughout the Eighties, nearly every major hip-hop artist in the music’s first decade came out of New York — from old-school pioneers like Kurtis Blow and Funky Four +1 More to street-rap progenitors like Run-D.M.C. and LL Cool J, and sonic and political agitators like De La Soul and Public Enemy. When the West Coast scene threatened that hegemony in the early Nineties, the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, and other hard-edged, lyrically brilliant titans helped swing the pendulum back. After Southern rap rose to dominance in the 2000s, a new generation of stars like Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Bobby Shmurda, Pop Smoke, and Ice Spice reminded the world that rap’s birthplace could still be its vital center.

Merc and O... and whomever else decided to show up present the week in review...

Topics: Covid, Trump, Biden, Sukihana, Beyonce, and more...

Merc and O... and whomever else decided to show up present the week in review...