This week, hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa discuss the true winner of the 2020 general election: weed. Now legalized in four more states and with one-third of the US population now living in a legal weed state, DK and LF discuss the history of cannabis prohibition and legalization, racially equitable policies around legal weed in various states and municipalities, as well as the roots of Hip Hop's sacred bond to sweet Cheeba, exploring under appreciated weed-wordsmthing from Ludacris, Cyprus Hill, D'Angelo and others.

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This week Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa are having a discussion of the problematic aspects of the mainstream hip hop we can’t help but love and where, if at all, a line exists that we can’t cross. Myke C-Town of "Deadend Hip Hop" joins the convo to talk about problematic music that you can’t help but dance to nonetheless, about music too fye to turn off, even if the lyrics themselves are a turnoff.

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This week, Dope Knife and Linqua Franqa discuss the topic of Socialism. It's roll in American politics, black people's involement in socialist movements and they chat with Communist rapper and producer, Space Baby, about where hip hop fits in with these philosophies

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Hosts Dope Knife and Linqua Franqa unpack the week's current events and newest music, from Georgia's stunning blue flip and their perceptions of this miracle from the ground, scored by Jim Jones' new track "Election"; to updates from the #EndSARS movement in Nigeria and the soulful tribute to those lost at the Lekki Toll Gate offered up by Burna Boy; to Drakeo the Ruler's release from jail, what it tells us about the prison industrial complex, and the feverish post-release studio time that gave birth to his new single "Fights Don't Matter." The hosts also speak with NPR music journalists Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden about their new podcast, Louder than a Riot, which explores the intersection between mass incarceration and Hip Hop.

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In the wake of a meteorically high number of gun sales since the pandemic and civil unrest hit, hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa are joined by rapper and activist Squalle to discuss Hip Hop gun culture, the linkages between Black gun ownership and gun control policy, and rewind classic gun-slinging rhymes from Tupac, G-Unit, Gangstarr and Ludacris.

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Well it's here folks. With the election just days away, hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa discuss their motivations for voting, chiefly their defiance in the face of the long and hairy history of voter suppression that unfurls still in the GOP's latest tactics in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Texas. Along the way, they relay electoral takes from P Diddy to Blueface to Snoop Dogg as well as how electoralism has featured in the music of Eminem, YelloPain, and Dres from Black Sheep.

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This week, hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa take a casual spin around the week's controversies surrounding Ice Cube and 50 Cent's support for the current president and evaluate the hypercapitalist tendencies of lyricists Jay-Z, Drake and Mace.

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In part two of their series of interviews with rappers running for office, Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa sit down with hip hop artist and former Congressional candidate Paperboy Prince, who earlier this year challenged a 14-term New York incumbent with a platform of universal basic income, spreading love, and Paperboy Care (a version of Medicare for All). The emcees discuss Paperboy's early development as an activist, their music career, their policy positions and what's next for them in the electoral sphere.

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Hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa got bills, y'all. We all do. Medical bills, student loans, car payments, carceral debts-- most of us know the dread of a letter from Navient or a phone call from Sallie Mae. So do rappers from indie heavy hitters Sammus and Blue Scholars to mainstream giants like J Cole. But what do we do with all this debt? Author, documentarian, and organizer Astra Taylor joins DK and LF to discuss a radical new organizing strategy to not only abolish debt but establish a new society where debt no longer needs to exist.

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Hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa finally get around to what they've been waiting on: reparations. This go-round, they focus on the case for reparations as rooted in the history of land and housing policy in the United States. From the murder of the Walker family in Hickman, Kentucky to the use of eminent domain to seize the Espy fruit groves in Vero Beach, Florida to the recent struggle for justice for the descendants of Linnentown in their home base of Athens, GA, the hosts somberly recount the various kinds of land theft perpetrated by mobs, swindlers, judges and local governments since the antebellum era. Hip Hop has weighed in on the reparations debate, too, and the hosts allow the music T.I. and Killer Mike to make their respective cases for a past-due payout. Hip hop artist and city councilman elect Jecorey Arthur joins the hosts to make his own case for reparations as well as a Black agenda for local governments.

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