It’s here… the 2022 TVC Awards featuring a whole bunch of hosts and your favourite music critics Jon and Tope

This week Jon and Tope break down the joint LP from Drake and 21 Savage (Canadian-British project).

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(35:48) BINA intro; expression & music as a necessity

(50:15) “Humble Abode” EP, “This is Not A Film” EP, learning the guitar

(01:01:28) Honesty in music, Boundaries

(01:12:08) Blackjack, sense of identity

(01:22:45) Looking ahead

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(04:03) Big Steppers Concert review

(09:32) New releases and Latest News

(22:27) Smino intro, Album Art

(30:25) First impressions of “Luv 4 Rent”

(37:14) Features

(44:03) No L’s , cyclical nature of album (4rm Da Source & Curtains); favourite and least favourite tracks

(01:04:41) Closing thoughts

This week we chat in the studio with Twyce, winner of Cord Social’s ‘Up Next’ competition

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro, Spotlight Series #103

(05:33) New releases and Latest News

(27:21) Kamzo Intro, “Sent Back Podcast” the public perception of Lil Baby

(37:55) Looking back on Lil Baby and Gunna, the lead single “Heyy” and the Budweiser advert

(50:18) General thoughts on “It’s Only Me”

(01:11:58) Best tracks

(01:27:37) From Now On (ft. Future), comparing Lil

Baby to Future; Lil Baby’s career moving forward

(01:32:55) Closing thoughts

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro, Spotlight Series #102

(05:51) New releases and Latest News

(28:11) Ope intro, the hip-hop landscape in 2012

(40:56) Favourite tracks on GKMC - what makes GKMC special?

(51:43) The Art of Peer Pressure - GKMC’s qualities compared to TPAB

(01:01:12) Deluxe tracks - TPAB’s succeeding qualities

(01:10:37) Album of the decade? What happened to that film?

(01:18:38) Looking at later Kendrick works

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro, Spotlight Series #101

(04:19) New releases and Latest News

(19:41) Hamza intro

(29:26) Freddie Gibbs’ run between his last solo project and now

(37:47) Initial thoughts on $oul $old $eparately

(46:23) Album skits; album singles (Dark Hearted, Too Much); Gold Rings

(56:35) Feel No Pain (ft. Anderson .Paak & Raekwon), Lobster’s Omelette; Album themes

(01:06:38) Rabbit Songs (Space Rabbit, Rabbit Vision), Grandma’ Stove, PYS

(01:15:13) Pain & Strife, Zipper Bagz, CIA, Benny The Butcher beef

(01:23:26) Decoded, how $$$ contributes to Freddie’s legacy

This week we interview Jon and Tope, co-hosts and creators of “The Vinyl Collective”, a weekly music journal on the hip-hop and R&B landscape, to discuss the pair reaching their milestone of 2 years and 100 episodes.

Timestamps :

(00:00) Intro, Spotlight Series #100

(10:08) New tracks and Latest News

(29:48) Interview with The Vinyl Collective: Part 1

(01:08:42) Interview with The Vinyl Collective: Part 2

Timestamps: 

(00:00) Intro, Spotlight Series #99 

(05:14) New Music & Latest News 

(27:38) Main topic intro - Context for what change means and putting artists in categories 

(41:28) Artists changing and producing a split fan base 

(51:27) Do artists need to be multi-faceted? 

(01:10:47) Can classics come out of one-dimensional artists? 

(01:19:17) Closing, Now and Then playlist