Straight off a camel's back, from the Middle East, with love!!! UnLearn The World and Lil MC get back to the RAW, recaping their trip to Dubai, the sites, the smells and the sales tactics. They also discuss Spotify and their upcoming payout rules, the Drake vs. Kendrick legal petition, being anti-Thanksgiving and Christmas, but loving holiday season. All this and much more on this week's episode!
In this convo mode episode, UnLearn and Lil MC go back and forth like a Jadakiss and Styles P verse. UnLearn reflects on his Hip Hop education retreat, while LiL MC talks through he holotropic therapy experience. They also share thoughts on Kendrick's new album and music video, alien talks in congress, and the downfall of the "Bad Bitch" era. Who else but us!?
The usual suspects are back, doing the damn thing. On this episode, we try to make sense of last week's election, while trying to figure out racisim's "golden era". We debate whether or not Willy Wonka, breakdown Problem, Reaction, Solution and insecurity marketing and cover recent movies, TV shows and local Bay Area events. Catch us every Tuesday. Email questions, comments and/or topics to ratchetandwokepodcast@gmail.com.
Election Day is upon us and the Ratchet and Woke crew have a lot to unpack, covering the candidates, the issues and more. Hosts Lil MC and UnLearn The World also discuss, mid-life crisis, communicating boundaries, false messiahs, Abercrombie sex trafficking and great TV and movies to be watching for this upcoming holiday season. Catch us giving it up, every Tuesday. email us questions, comments and topics to ratchetandwokepodcast@gmail.com.
In this episode, hosts LiL MC and UnLearn The World get DEEP. They discuss some of their arts education work, beef with automated cars and other kinds of robots, the dark side of the music industry and how it ties in to the Menendez Brothers, their views on technology and social media and the surprising insights found in the unibomber's manifesto. Tap in every Tuesday, where your stream your podcasts.
In our season premier, hosts Lil MC and UnLearn The World are back! After a long hiatus, we're upping the anti with antics and analysis of current events, music, media and the madness of society. Lil MC breaks down her beef with AI and the music industry, while UnLearn calculates the dollar value of your attention, all the while playing games based on the movie Titanic and 6 degrees of Leonardo DiCaprio. We're just here making waves, get ya Do Rags on for a new season of Ratchet and Woke....
We back from LA but we miss it already so we had to have our favorite LA native, Dreamville Steph join us for our last Episode before our hiatus. Steph is the communication director for the non-profit we work for, Hip Hop for Change. She is mildly obsessed with two things: Social Justice and J Cole. We get her in the hot seat and ask all the pressing questions: which J cole album is best, why are you so passionate about activism, have you ever had someone eat a sushi roll off your coochie hole? ...
whats up fam! we back and we bringing you some hollywood energy this episode as we have traveled down south to LA and are visited by a very special guest: CallMeStevieRay, a hip hop artist who, according to Unlearn The World, is “Genre-Bending” (buzz word!) He’s a really dope artist and long time friend of Un who has a new single out, “Soul”, off of his upcoming project “Late Bloomer". We chop it up about the Royce and Lupe Fiasco rap battle debacle, congress passing international hip hop day/mo...
We back at it again with more shenanigans. This week we interview the prolific non stop producer Brycon, and San Francisco rapper Lightbulb, who together makeup the rap group “Diamond Lung”. Their brand new release "Jewelers Loop” hits all DSPS on Tuesday 8/3/21 but is available right MEOW on bandcamp. We also talk about covid conspiracies (even though we are NOT covidcast), artists we’ve been WAITING on music from, where Pop Smokes tragic murder REALLY took place, why sex shame makes people go ...
Welcome welcome welcome welcome to another installation of your favorite pod on the planet earth, and for Jeff Bezos whose out gallivanting on the moon, we the best pod in the Milky Way bitch! Today we interview the beautiful multi-talented Jenna Medina, with the voice of an angel cherub baby songbird who cooks the most delicious Filipino American comfort food your tongue will ever encounter. We talk about all of her incredible entrepreneurial endeavors she's developed throughout the course of t...
Another day another dollar another amazing pod in the bag! This week we are joined by our second b-boy guest but not just any b-boy- this is the first breakdancing saxophone playing artist that we’ve ever met and you’ve ever met! Kid Enzo was one of the teaching artist that joined us in El Salvador pre-pandemic to teach Hip Hop with Hip Hop for Change, and he always put us to shame in our mornings cyphers by doing windmills mid saxophone solo… like WTF! But needless to say he’s an incredible mus...
welcome to another amazing exhilarating wild ride known as the ratchet and woke podcast! Today we are thrilled to be interviewing the delightfully whimsical and amazing WONDER DAVE! If you are unaware of whyyyyy wonder dave has anointed himself with this name it is because he dabbles in so many different fantastical art forms, such as comedy, spoken word, and burlesque, that the word wonder doesn't even begin to describe him! He’s also the host of hood slam and one of the co-hosts for the infamo...
Check out the latest and greatest from the best pod on earth where we interview friend of the show and of life, SumOfMan formerly known as Najee Amaranth who is a Bay Area based MC, Hip Hop Educator, Designer, Gamer, and Black Jedi. We get into IT ALL with SumOfMan as he breaks down all of the scandals in the gaming world including some very disturbing sexual allegations, but we also talk about his latest rebrand and how it has impacted his creative process, why hyper woke music is not hitting, ...
Hello Hello Helloooooooo (Count Olaf voice) We are back with another amazing episode with one of the best performers in the Bay Area, the one and only Breathless AKA Honey Bee !!! For those of you who are introduced to the greatness that is Breathless, she is an AMAZING female emcee whose been dominating the Bay Area for the last decade and is HIP HOP AS FUCK! In honor of pride month and pride weekend in Oakland it's only fitting to have breathless share her experiences performing on the biggest...
WE BACK AT ITTTTT with an hour long interview with the Crypto King himself, the man that needs no introduction, the Ben Franklin of Block Chain, HASHBROWN “AIR HORN”!!! If you are in any way shape or form confused, misguided, or overwhelmed about the world of block chain technology amidst this bitcoin craze that has been sweeping the nation, then this is the episode for you! If your trying to hit a lick off minting an NFT, then tap in, but by no means is Hashbrown of the mind to get rich quick s...
Here we go one more time everybody feeling fine here we go nowwwww!!! We are in your radio airwaves with that new new featuring an interview from our very good friend of the show and fellow water sign/parent/ world creator, Senor Gigio! Senor Gigio is a new father and we had fun chopping it up with him about how the unexpected birth of his son has impacted his creative process and his relationship with spirituality. Gigio is one of the most prolific rappers in the Bay, but he is currently transi...
Heyooooo we lit! With a brand new episode featuring dear friends of the pod, the most ratchet and woke hip hop duo in the Bay Area (aside from us), Cozzee and Manna of HIPPY TRAP !!! They have coined themselves the illegitimate love children of Jerry Garcia, and as your friends we say you have done your father proud! If you want trappy anti-establishment music to twerk and do drugs to, then this is the hip hop group for you. So tune in as we talk about their upcoming music, how their no pants pa...
Grand rising beloved hoe bags! hears some twerky sandwhiches for your food for thought: a brand new episode of the most underrated overstated podcast in the world! We are joined today by Bay Area nerd core hip hop legend, Da Rap Nerd, who breaks down Nerd core in every way possible for those that are unfamiliar! We get into the segregated worlds between hip hop and nerd core, Da Rap Nerds experiences performing at Comi-Cons nationwide, touring as a bass player with Del the Funky Homosapien, and ...
whoop there it isssss- we here and we lit becasue we are joined this week by another bay area artistic power couple, Honey Gold Jasmine and Ajgod, two bay area musicians representing Vallejo and East Oakland. We had so much fun chopping it up with them about what its like to date a rapper/artist, why artists in the bay are too humble to ask for money, how to curate events when artists on the bill got beef, and the upcoming release of their latest collaborate musical project “Twin Flames”. We als...
Wasssup planet earthlings!! It's been a wild week on all fronts but we here to give it up! We are sitting down with Mandella Eskia, a rapper and hip hop educator from out in Harlem who found a way to make mature rap digestible and dope without sounding preachy (which is no easy feat). We also get into all the new music that's about to drop (yayyyyy J. Cole) Elan Musk on SNL (I like elan tusk from Rick and Morty wayyy better), cancel culture killing comedy and music, the rock and roll hall of fam...
We killed it this pod for real for real! ANNDDDD we got to interview the amazing delightful mysticsl DJ/PRODUCER/AUDIO ENGINEER Ray Reck!!!! She produces and mixes so many different genres of music I literally don’t even know half of them! Not only that, but she’s been dropping entire projects left and right, and they are all different genres. We really bust it wide open on em with this episode as we reveal how social media is negatively impacting the youth in this generation. Seriously, tik tok...
and it dont stoppppp and it dont quit so we are here ready to deliver everything you need to know about whatever we deem is important for the culture and life! We are blessed with an amazingly articulate and artistic guest who came from St. Louis to Oakland, and has been holding it down in the east bay for 10 years, Jada Amani. She drops gems like snow white's dwarves with a hole in their satchel, no lie! She out here quoting Octavia Butler like its nothing! So tap in with us as we get into her ...
You know what time it is, we here with another episode of Ratchet and woke podcast with an incredibly special guest all the way from Jersey. Cony, a poet, rapper and RNB artist tapped in with us today and told us about his origin story, how rapping about his pain, depression, and loss led him to getting featured on hot 97 and eventually led to features on CBS, FOX NEWS, Billboard hip hop, and even getting co-signs by The Game. We also cover everything you need to know about whats going on in the...
From NYC to the Bay, your favorite hosts Unlearn The World and Lil MC are back at it again this week. Unlearn the World may be in New York City this week but we still here to cover everything good , sexy, freaky bad and horrifying. This week we are joined by the incredibly talented Bay Area Emcee and Activist Cold Medina and we got the exclusive inside scoop on; his upcoming album dropping, filming music videos in Miami, and what his original slightly embarrassing original MC name used to be…. y...
We back at it with that magicccccccccc boom! This week we are joined by bay area B Boy Legend, and our first Breakdancer to join us on the pod, Gideon AKA Gid Nasty! Gideon is not only the most talented break dancer we've ever met, but he is also incredibly hilarious and gives no fucks about giving it all up on the pod. He gives us the lowdown about Nigerian princes, the b boy beef with turfers, and how he ended up with three ladies in the club. We also get into AI recreating music from dead mus...
What an absolutely amazing podcast, chock-filled with non stop riveting content…. wow -lemme rewind- there were too many buzz words in that first sentence for me to handle… We back at it again folks! This week the streets been wilin over LiL Nas X, Quavo x Saweetie, Governor Cuomo, and MORE NFTS. With us as our expert correspondant on the LiL Nas X controversy is Amani Jade, friend of the show, and one part of the podcast duo “React Black” a weekly twitch stream featuring herself and her partner...
Hello world welcome to another episode from the best podcast in the universe. Today we are in for a treat as we interview one of the most delightfully entertaining artists you’ll ever meet, Bonnie Blue. We literally go through an autobiographical journey into her life in this interview and I’m pretty sure someone needs to make it a film because her life is quite fascinating. We also talk about rapper snitching on themselves in their lyrics, why America has more guns than people, people not being...
greetings earthlings, it is LiL MC and Unlearn The World invading your air waves with a brand new episode of Ratchet and Woke Podcast. A lot went down this week from the Grammy's, to music festivals announcing lineups, to the horrific shooting in Atlanta, we’re here to cover it all. So don’t sleep on the gods of pods, we’re here to give you break downs, reactions, and insight to everything hip hop, pop culture, and metaphysical.
Welcome to episode 23 of the greatest pod on earth featuring long time friend of the show Mike Fish. Also, happy international WOMENS APPRECIATION MONTH AND WEEK AND YEAR YALL BERRR BERRR BERRRRR (thats an airhorn). We back at it again recording our latest podcast on the heels of another women's empowerment workshop and we start the pod by paying a lil homage the ladies. We also get into NFT’s and how you can become an overnight celeb if you play ya cards right, how people without children need ...
Time to turn off the news and tune into your favorite podcast, as we captivate you with the knowledge you need to know about VR Porn, actors that look like animals, the possibly fake origin story of lipstick and viral kid stars that will never live down their memes. But far more important, we sit down with one of the most talented , multi faceted , underrated artists in the Bay, none other than emcee infinite. Infinite is well known in the Bay Area as an emcee , battle rapper, un-rivaled beat bo...
