This Week in Hype

Special edition of the podcast this week, I'm a 32-year-old man about to smoke medical marijuana for the first time. Help?

I finally bit the bullet and listed my personal Top 5 emcees of all-time. I'm never doing this again, but I had to do it at least once.

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This week, I bring on Freeway to talk about his status as an OG in the beard game, his love for the cartoon Duck Tales, the time he was considering signing to Cash Money, his upcoming album, Beanie Sigel's status and much more.

This week, I devote the entire episode to my recent conversation with Tech N9ne, the audio was just too good to let it go unheard. We talk about how his new "Special Effects" album took a dark turn, how the metal community has embraced him more openly than hip-hop, his bond with Krizz Kaliko, his need to break barriers and much more.

This week, I'm recovered from my mid-life crisis and back at it. I talk about Young Thug's Barter 6 album flopping, Tidal flopping, soccer players flopping and flip-flops. Plus, I bring in Rich Quick to talk about what life's like for an (actually) indie artist and what people love about his music so much.

This week, if you'd like to hear a man have a mid-life crisis brought on by filing his taxes and realizing he's going to leave his children with absolutely no inheritance besides a rap podcast, youre in luck! Oh, and I also talk to Bodega Bamz about his new album, NYC rap, why there aren't more superstar Latino rappers, his relationship to A$AP Yams and more.

This week, I do a quick review of both Wale and Ludacris' new albums, break open the Illuminati vault again to explain why the days of free music may be ending soon and bring on DJ Hoppa to talk about Funk Volume, the art of DJing and his new album.

This week, I had a rant building up inside me that I just had to get out. Ever since Kendrick dropped his To Pimp a Butterfly album there's been seemingly endlessly debate around the album, but very little talk about the album itself. WHO FUCKING CARES IF IT'S A CLASSIC?!?

This week, I figure out how to test whether you're really friends with a rapper and then devote the episode to my talk with Wrekonize, who's just straight up one of the most interesting and talented people in hip-hop.

I've been trying to get Wrekonize on the podcast for a minute and I finally made it happen. This week the entire episode is dedicated to learning about the man's battle rap beginnings, the lessons he learned when his first album was never releases, how he became a part of Mayday, the blessings and curses of being in a band and much more.

On a special Monday edition of the podcast, I talk to Big Sean about the dark skies that have clouded his paradise over the last year, his place in the top ten rappers alive conversation and much more.