1. "I'll state the obvious" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Nov-09-18 08:42 AM by DickGrayson
If you haven't already, there's plenty of archived podcasts with hip hop good from Combat Jack (rip), Juan Epstein, and The champs. Unfortunately they all packed it in and no longer do them.
4. "I hate most of the popular podcasts" In response to Reply # 0
Way too many cats trying to be funny and making basic factual errors. Wish there were more people who took it seriously. A Wake Up Show podcast would be cool.
I think you can listen to current episodes with the free version of the app but to get access to their archive, you'll need to use the premium version.
YouTube also has little 5min clips of longer interviews.
12. "Heat Rocks with Oliver Wang and Morgan Rhodes is dope" In response to Reply # 0
It's not solely a hip-hop podcast tho.
Wang and Rhodes bring in a musician or someone involved in the music industry to talk about one specific album for about 45min.
I've only listened to a few episodes but between Wang and Rhodes their tastes run quite a range and both have a great ability to describe their musical tastes.
The guests are pretty dope. Just listened to an episode with Phonte which was really cool. He talked about Intro's eponymous album (an R&B album fro '93) and was his usual hilarious but sharp self.
Another underground MC came in and talked about Like Water for Chocolate. Joi talked about Betty Davis as well.
The host, Cole Cushna, goes into a DEEP breakdown of various albums.
The first season was a 20 episode look at To Pimp a Butterfly. He broke down the lyrical content and gave a context into Kendrick's career and life which influenced the album.
The next season looked at My Dark Twisted Fantasy. This season went even deeper. He went into a deeper dive into some of the musical theory behind the songs which made them so successful on an aesthetic and metaphorical level.
He did breakdown Frank Ocean's work earlier this year. But he's now going into The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which ought to be dope.
Each episode is about 25 to 30 minutes. If you like to geek out about the meaning and subtext of the albums within this series, you'd find worse ways to spend your time.
He's interviewed everybody: Daddy-O from Stetsa, Big Daddy Kane, Phonte, Jean Grae, Erick Sermon, Evidence, Bill Adler, Elzhi, and that's just from this past year. Very thorough chronicling of different careers, great questions, fast paced.
17. "Not a recommendation but a somewhat related notice: " In response to Reply # 0
Serato just launched a new podcast this month.
J.Rocc is featured on the first episode, discussing LA radio, mixtapes, Dilla and more. I haven't finished listening but so far, so good. Just posted about this in GD.
23. "New Waxpoetics podcast" In response to Reply # 0
I just got an email announcing the inaugural episode for Waxpoetics podcast, No Need for Alarm.
“For the inaugural edition of the Wax Poetics Podcast, hosts David Ma and Nate LeBlanc interview Del the Funky Homosapien about his classic 1993 sophomore album No Need for Alarm, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year.