The duo of Rock & Ruck (Sean Price) make Heltah Skeltah, giving us yet another Boot Camp Clik membership that created a consistent quality discography! Not many misses when it comes to one of the best voices in Hip-Hop and a Sean Price that grows into himself as the years go by. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:58) Ben: Jackboys 2 Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out Boldy James x Nicholas Craven - Late to my Own Funeral Larry June x Cardo - Until Night Comes Charlie: Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed...
Jul 15, 2025•1 hr 12 min
The six-man supergroup Boot Camp Clik has - from day 1 - been a unique blend of talent, culminating in four decent-to-great albums and poses to be in the mind for whenever we cover the groups/individuals that make the group. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: JID - GDLU the Preluxe Smoke DZA - On My Way to Berlin Charlie: SAMSON - UNDERSTOOD!? Madison McFerrin - SCORPIO The Doppelgangaz - Still Left Annie and the Caldwells - Can't Lose My (Soul) Akil The MC - Taxes SOUFSIDE KATHLEEN ...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min
On July 2nd we will be exactly halfway through the 2020s! And whilst it's been an objectively terrible decade in many ways, there are some Hip-Hop gems that have come out. So, we decided to make our individual Top 5 Hip-Hop Albums of the Half-Decade and for once, we have NO overlapping works! So buckle in as we gush over 10 albums in a nearly 2 hour special! TIMESTAMPS: Honourable Mentions - (3:54) Charlie's No. 5 - (15:53) Ben's No. 5 - (23:54) Charlie's No. 4 - (34:33) Ben's No. 4 - (42:31) Ch...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 56 min
One of the mainstays of the burgeoning Hip-Hop Underground of the 00s and beyond, Sean Price was a reality rapper with plenty of humour, iconic one-liners and a discography that have aged pretty well. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: Memphis Bleek - Apt 3D Che Noir - The Color Chocolate 2 Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon - Come As You Are Dave East & Young Chris - Fine Dining Daz Dillinger - Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back 2 Charlie: Ric Wilson - AMERICA RUNS ON DISCO Janset...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 21 min
At 60 years old, Slick Rick dropped his 5th Studio Album and his 1st since 1999. He's a master storyteller, respected by everyone. So how TF is he still underrated?! TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:07) Ben: Lil Tecca - Dopamine Charlie - Karl Benjamin - To What End? MRCY - VOLUME 2 Jords - Mixtape J edbl - Archives Mixtape Syf of Talking Knots & Sir Nebula - Gravity A-F-R-O - Crimson Fury Kamaiyah - Fired Up Nubiyan Twist - NT Soundsystem AJ Tracey - Don’t Die Before You're Dead Theo C...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 26 min
G-Funk pioneer one of the most consistent dual artists in Hip-Hop history, it could be said that DJ Quik hasn't gotten the props his peers has, even though his quality of production and bars has (for the most part) been great, just as long as you jump over the mines labelled "Songs with oddly detailed sex bars". TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 6 Little Simz - Lotus UntilJapan - tromp l'oeil Charlie: Common Saints - Equinox Ian Kelly & DJ D Sharp - Concre...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Whilst MC Shan spends a lot of his recent days lamenting the past in some form, he actually has a leg to stand on! Just not in the ways he thinks... TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:44) Ben: Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams - Trainspotting Bruiser Wolf - POTLUCK Masta Killa - Balance Charlie: Silas Short - LUSHLAND Rebecca Vasmant - Who We Are, Becoming Oddisee - En Route Premo Rice - Bad Muf*cka Obongjayar - Paradise Now Grand Puba - The Origin Poldoore - Chroma Dream Lady Donli - Thi...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 12 min
The legacy of dead prez - for better or worse - has been condensed down to their classic track in "Hip Hop". Zoom out a little and you'll find a classic song on a classic album that is definitely not talked about enough. Zoom out even more and you find... Actually, let's just stay at that first zoom out... TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:00) Charlie: Syf of Talking Knots & Moe Town - 2 Sides to Every Story Jay Prince - SHINE Nādt Orchestra - Dualism Don Glori - Paper Can't Wrap Fire Aa...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 13 min
After calling it a day being "The Fresh Prince", Will Smith went under his own name for his solo stint. The results are mixed; proving that Hip-Hop could go Pop, but even then managing to have frequent misfires within his music, creating a frustrating discography that gives more questions than answers... TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:10) Ben: Amine - 13 Months of Sunshine Xzibit - Kingmaker Rico Nasty - Lethal Chuck D - Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon Charlie: Deema - 5 Ju...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 20 min
The legendary duo of Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince have been somewhat locked into this singular thought ever since their run ended in '93: That their music is squeaky clean, completely devoid of edge. But when you actually listen to some of the lyrics and subject matter told in the litany of storytelling tracks, they broach some interesting ground. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:07) Ben: MIKE x Tony Seltzer - Pinball II Key Glock - Glockaveli: The Don Roc Marciano x Knowledge the Pira...
May 13, 2025•1 hr 30 min
The discography of Schoolly D is one of the most diverse and lengthy that we've ever covered on DITD. Where he begins providing the seeds of what eventually becomes known as "Gangsta Rap", he then goes through a more pro-Black phase in the 90s and nowadays operates as a relative experimentalist for somebody whose debut came out in 1985. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:15) Ben: Benny the Butcher - Excelsior Yung Lean - Jonatan JPEGMAFIA x Flume - We Live in a Society Charlie: Jericho Jackso...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 20 min
In what is probably our shortest retrospective in DITD history, we cover another Treacherous Three member in Spoonie Gee who is apparently a precursor to Gangsta Rap but when listening to his work, it seems to paint a different picture... TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: Wu-Tang - Black Samson Vinnie Paz - God Sent Vengeance Charlie: Bishop Nehru - Trapbap Uwade - Florilegium Coco Jones - Why Not More? Ray Vaughn - The Good The Bad The Dollar Menu Femi Kuti - Journey Through Life W...
Apr 29, 2025•33 min
Hello DITD listeners! Charlie here. As a bonus for this week, I have an interview for you to step to! I - along with "In Search Of Sauce" alum, Music Journalist Miki Hellerbach - talk to Ryder who broke out a few years back with his now iconic #Skeptacore series. Now, he's dropping a new series of EPs named "RYDERHOOD", the first edition dropping this Friday. In this interview which is dropping simultaneously over on the "What's Good?" feed, we talk his beginnings in the North of England, being ...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 6 min
After covering Kool Moe Dee last week , it seemed right to go back and look at the pioneering group that he was a member of: The Treacherous Three. With two albums 10 years apart, they serve as great markers in how much evolution happened from '84 to '94. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:10) Charlie: namesbliss - Signature Sound Boog Brown - Super Useful Tools Adrian Younge - Adrian Younge presents Something About April III The Underachievers - Homecoming Kool Keith - Karpenters Blu & A...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 4 min
If you were to name a rapper that embodies the word 'confidence', you could probably name at least 10 rappers that fit the word. Is one of them Kool Moe Dee? A case could be made that he's the most confident sounding rapper on wax, all the way from his first album in 1986 to his last in '94. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:57) Ben: Ken Carson - More chaos RJ Payne - Leatherface 4 Lords of the Underground & Snowgoons - So Legendary Charlie: Paris Nights - Up Now Σtella - Adagio Joe Armo...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Another year, another DITD Anniversary! For our 6th anniversary, we look back at some of our favourite moments, with clips for you newer listeners. Episodes covered will be below if you want to get into them proper. And as always, whether you've been listening since Ep. 1 or since last week, we appreciate you listening. Here's to six years! TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:39) Charlie: Rachel Chinouriri - Little House FloFilz - Dim Down Jayellz - I JUST FEEL DIFFERENT Kemi Ade - The Fix Adr...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 42 min
Jersey-centred trio Lords of the Underground represented a lot of what we now consider the hallmarks of the Golden Age of Hip-Hop: Youthful energy, fast flows and great sample-based production. This led to two great back-to-back projects and two other albums of varying quality. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:41) Ben: Boldy James x Antt Beatz - Hommage Will Smith - Based on a True Story NAV - OMW2 Rexdale Charlie: p-rallel - Can't Be Me JAY MALAKHI - THE GREAT ESCAPE Kalisway - Take Me Bac...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 10 min
We finish our WHM celebrations with an artist that is never talked about. Maybe it's due to her not getting traction off her one studio album? Maybe the message fell on deaf ears? We get to the answer of course but regardless of reason, Queen Mother Rage is Hip-Hop history and we take this opportunity - to finish WHM - covering a small piece of the 90s Hip-Hop puzzle. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:05) Ben: No I.D. & Saba - From The Private Collection of Saba and No ID Charlie: Che No...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 10 min
With the recent passing of R&B legend Angie Stone, we thought it was a good time as any - in the midst of our WHM celebrations - to celebrate her pre-solo career with Cheryl "The Pearl" Cook and Gwendolyn "Blondie" Chisholm as the early 80s all-female Hip-Hop trailblazers The Sequence. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:44) Ben: Playboi Carti - MUSIC Currensy x Harry Fraud - Never Catch Us Dave East x Ransom - The Final Call Boldy James x Chuck Strangers - Token of Appreciation Charlie: A...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Continuing our WHM celebrations, we get into MC Trouble who tragically died aged 21, leaving us with her 1990 debut studio album that featured her name on the production credits - a rarity for female rappers at the time - and provided a great thematic mixture of womanhood and Black solidarity. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:50) Ben: Black Soprano Family - The Outcome YoungBoy NBA - More Leaks Charlie: Summer Pearl - THE INTERLUDE Big Zuu & Capo Lee - Signed & Delivered Apollo Brow...
Mar 11, 2025•43 min
Hello DITD listeners! I have a bonus episode for you, coming via my Podcast "What's Good?". I talk to Dallas born & raised EB Rebel now sharpening their craft in New York City. We get into their beginnings, talented & gifted programs; their queerness, being 'genre-less' and of course their Top 5. Thank you for listening! If you want to contribute to the show, whether it be sending me questions or voicing your opinion in any way, peep the contact links below and I'll respond accordingly. ...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 5 min
The story of Boss is one of subversion, devastatingly low levels of luck and an astronomical talent. How we only have one album and some hard-to-find mixtapes from such a skilled MC? TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:19) Ben: KiLLOWEN - six missed calls Charlie: 1,000 UK Artists - Is This What We Want? KiLLOWEN - six missed calls The Doppelgangaz - Dumpster Dive, Vol. 2 REASON - I Love You Again Andrew Mbaruk & Th' Mole - Purple Dirndl Dub Syndicate - Obscured By Version Terrace Martin -...
Mar 04, 2025•55 min
For the 16th Contemporary Cool, we get into what many consider to be Lupe Fiasco's best album and a J.PERIOD remix of Kendrick's "GNX". TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:48) Charlie: NAO - Jupiter Smif-N-Wessun - Infinity Kelela - In The Blue Light Amindi - Luvr-but it's on guitar (live) Tetsuo & Youth - (8:00) "J.PERIOD Presents - REINCARNATED" - (39:34) Lighter Note - (52:36) Thanks for listening. Below are the Social accounts for all parties involved. Music - "Pizza And Video Games" b...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr
Boogie Down Productions - led by KRS-One - was an inventive group of the time, taking KRS' superior lyrical ability and combining it with production that was initially highly dynamic at first. With five albums, the death of Scott La Rock marring the history and plenty of lore, it makes for an iconic story in Hip-Hop history. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:57) Ben: Drake x PARTYNEXTDOOR - $ome $exy $ongs 4 U Westside Gunn - 12 Charlie: BNMO - The Eleventh Hour Anthony Joseph - Rowing up Ri...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 9 min
The story of Poor Righteous Teachers isn't a well documented one, but the music speaks volumes with great production throughout, thought and dexterous lyrics soaked in 5% teachings and an embracing of Toasting that really sets them apart from their more popular peers. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:54) Ben: Larry June x 2 Chainz x The Alchemist - Life is Beautiful JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU Charlie: Madvillain - Madvillainy Demos NAYA ALI - We Did The Damn Thing Topic Intro/Be...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 10 min
For this Hip-Hop Neighbours we get into two 00s debut albums. One from Linkin Park, the band that successfully balanced the Hip-Hop infused Rock of the time and Amp Fiddler who quietly took all his experience (experience that made J Dilla into J Dilla) to make a solo debut decades after he started his music career. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:48) Ben: Madlib x MF DOOM - Madvillainy Demos The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow Spectacular Diagnostics - RAW GAME Charlie: Logic - Aquarius III Jes...
Feb 04, 2025•58 min
You ever wondered what Kurtis Blow's music - that is not named "The Breaks" - is like? Well, it can be done by looking at Hip-Hop through the lens of Disco and not R&B or Soul. Music aside, the story of Hip-Hop cannot be told without naming Kurtis Blow. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:43) Ben: Boldy James - Permanent Ink Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (3:02) Kurtis Blow - (14:36) Deuce - (27:04) Tough - (32:22) Ego Trip - (37:15) America - (44:27) Kingdom Blow - (50:23) Back by Pop...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 11 min
For our 300th episode, we wanted to do a retrospective that was fitting for our 300th. So we landed on one of the most significant groups in Hip-Hop history. Possibly THE most significant. RUN-DMC - in no uncertain terms - brought Hip-Hop to a new stratosphere in popularity and dedication to creating full bodies of work. Combine that with their unmistakable style and you have one of the most iconic trios in music history. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:07) Ben: Mac Miller - Balloonerism B...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Allegedly - for our 21st edition of DITD Bites - we get into a reckoning that is long overdue for the music industry, off the back of Charlie's State of The Hip-Hop Union article : (Allegedly) Acknowledging that Sean Combs (allegedly) did some bad shit and we should endeavour to not prop up people like him. We also go on tangents (Allegedly) related to other people, Streaming, Social Media and Major Labels. (Allegedly) Our Bad Boy Episode (Pt. 1) Our Bad Boy Episode (Pt. 2) TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Mu...
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Happy New Year! We kick-off 2025 as we like to do, by talking about our favourite albums from the year that passed. Our Top 2 Albums of 2024. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:17) Ben: Lil Baby - WHAM Consequence - Movies on Demand Charlie: Hermanos Gutiérrez - Sonido Cósmico Konkolo Orchestra - Future Pasts Charlie's No. 2 - (5:26) Ben's No. 2 - (28:03) Charlie's No. 1 - (51:58) Ben's No. 1 - (1:04:27) Lighter Note - (1:20:32) Spin Charlie's Top 10 of his Top 30 Albums of 2024. Thanks for l...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 32 min
