All Episodes
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Ep.309 - Women's History Month '25 - Queen Mother Rage
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 o...
Ep.308 - Women's History Month '25 - The Sequence
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 ...
Ep.307 - Women's History Month '25 - MC Trouble
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 producti...
An Interview With Dallas/NYC Rapper EB Rebel
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 Y...
Ep.306 - Women's History Month '25 - Boss
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 suc...
Ep.305 - Contemporary Cool, Vol. 16
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 ...
Ep.304 - Boogie Down Productions
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...
Ep.303 - Poor Righteous Teachers
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...
Ep.302 - Hip-Hop Neighbours, Vol. 13
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 Fi...
Ep.301 - Kurtis Blow
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...
Ep.300 - Run-DMC
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 ...
Ep.299 - DITD Bites, Vol. 21
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 Un...
Ep.298 - Contemporary Cool, Vol. 15
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 Ro...
Ep.297 - 2024 Metacritic Album Score Review
With it being the last episode of the year, we do our customary look through the Metacritic Album Score Review, looking at the works that were highly acclaimed and the...
Ep.296 - Coolio
The story of Coolio is... a lot. But you know what isn't a lot? The variety in his discography once the 00s came around! Tracks appearing in more than one body of work...
Ep.295 - WC
We finish our Westside Connection miniseries with WC who is definitely the more humorous of the three and is an underrated influence on where the West Coast went in th...
Ep.294 - WC and the Maad Circle
Before WC went solo and became one third of the Westside Connection, he was head of WC and the Maad Circle which featured a pre-solo Coolio, Big Gee and DJ/Producer Cr...
Ep.293 - Mack 10
After covering Westside Connection last week, it was only right to get into the two artists not named Ice Cube. This week: Mack 10 whose easy style was good enough to ...
Ep.292 - Westside Connection
The trio of Ice Cube, WC & Mack 10 comprised the group Westside Connection that dropped two albums filled with aggressiveness, anyone-can-get-it dissing and mentioned ...
Ep.291 - Contemporary Cool Vol. 14
It's time for another Contemporary Cool in which Ben makes a YouTube video with his pick of Ab-Soul's "HERBERT" and Charlie gives love to Garage with DJ Spoony-led "Ga...
Ep.290 - Young Thug: The Trial, Sentencing & Beyond
With the Young Thug/YSL RICO trial done & dusted, we invited Music Journalist & 5EPN Alum Brandon Hill to come through to talk about the trial, sentencing; the wider r...
Ep.289 - #UKBHM 2024: Neneh Cherry
For the final UKBHM retrospective of this year, we look at the career and solo discography of sonic nomad Neneh Cherry who has traversed the UK music landscape from th...
Ep.288 - #UKBHM 2024: Rebel MC
Before he was Congo Natty, he was Rebel MC and it is genuinely tough to decide which alter ego of dual threat Michael West is the most influential. As a Hip-Hop Pod, w...
Ep.287 - #UKBHM 2024: Demon Boyz
When UK Hip-Hop zigged, Demon Boyz zagged. Whilst they managed to get two albums out before their split, boy did they make effort to do it differently and incidentally...
Ep.286 - #UKBHM 2024: Hardnoise / Son Of Noise
In our 2nd UKBHM retrospective for the '24 crop, we get into the group Hardnoise, (Now known as Son Of Noise) who - along with temporary label mates Hijack - brought a...
An Interview W/ The Allergies
For a bonus episode, an interview for you to step to! Charlie talks to UK DJ/Production duo The Allergies, talking their beginnings, how they gained/cultivated their t...
Ep.285 - #UKBHM 2024: MC Duke
We begin our 2024 edition of our UK Black History Month series with one of UK Hip-Hop's earliest success stories in MC Duke who was the guy in the late 80s, culminatin...
Ep.284 - Method Man & Redman
The duo of Method Man & Redman seemed like an unofficial duo. They did a lot together in the late 90s/early 00s including "How High", two TV shows that got prematurely...
Ep.283 - Naughty By Nature
The trio of Naughty By Nature walked the tightrope better than anybody... Mainstream appeal but still Hip-Hop to the core; everybody and their grandmother has swayed t...
Ep.282 - Contemporary Cool, Vol. 13
It's time for another edition of Contemporary Cool! For this one, we get into the Griselda project that arguably put them on the map in Benny The Butcher's "Tana Talk ...