Ben Carter
Hip Hop Stats.
Appears in 359 Episodes
Ep.354 - Women's History Month '26 - Nikki D
The 1st woman to put out an album under Def Jam, Nikki D seemingly had one of the biggest labels of her time behind her; with an absurd 10 album deal on deck. So why w...
Ep.353 - J.Cole (Pt. 1)
With the one and only Jermaine Cole now "retired" (We don't believe in artists retiring) after the release of The Fall Off, we thought we'd contextualise Cole's career...
Ep.352 - Capone
We wrap up the C-N-N coverage we begun all the way back in 2020 to take a look at Capone's solo work: A smattering of authentic storytelling & run-of-the-mill gun talk...
Ep.351 - N.O.R.E.
Whilst the music of C-N-N was pretty straight forward, N.O.R.E's solo work skews a little different. From mainstream 00s Hip-Hop to Reggaeton, N.O.R.E took his solo wo...
Ep.350 - Onyx
Onyx were trailblazers in various ways. From their grimey style to the bald heads, Onyx had an iconic aesthetic from the outset, a classic album out the gate and bange...
Ep.349 - BROCKHAMPTON
In just five years, BROCKHAMPTON became a Hip-Hop comet, shooting by with seven albums and it could've been more! With those works, they went from free-wheeling Mixtap...
Ep.348 - EPMD
The duo of Erick Sermon & Parrish Smith make up EPMD, one of the quintessential Hip-Hop acts in history. Iconic production to rival the greats and a discography that d...
Ep.347 - Cam'ron
KILLA. Whilst he's now in his talking head era - like most rappers it seems - Cam'ron was an ever-present voice in the 00s Hip-Hop scene. One could say his music is th...
Ep.346 - Craig Mack
The man who helped start Bad Boy Records, only to take himself out of it and eventually take himself out of music entirely, the life of Craig Mack is a sad one overall...
Ep.345 - Contemporary Cool, Vol. 18
Happy New Year, DITD listeners! Ben returns from his holiday hiatus and we kick off 2026 by taking one more look back at 2025, talking about our two favourite albums o...
Charlie's Weekly Music Roundup (16th Dec)
Welcome to Charlie's Weekly Music Roundup to hold you down where I talk about my spins in the past week with a little more detail than I do typically! As per usual, al...
Holiday Message
Hello DITD listeners! Every year, I offer Ben the opportunity to take the month off in the same way I take time off my show and after all these years, he finally took ...
Ep.344 - De La Soul
From their inventive D.A.I.S.Y. Age run to their new (& probably last) opus dropped last week, the career of De La Soul is unlike any other in Hip-Hop history. With la...
Ep.343 - Havoc
Whilst Prodigy made a genuine attempt to put out solo bodies of work outside of Mobb Deep business, Havoc took until 2007 to drop his first solo record and it wasn't u...
Ep.342 - Prodigy
The solo discography of Prodigy is all over the place to put it lightly. A great debut, a surprisingly good sophomore and then a stretch of albums that go from love so...
Ep.341 - Mobb Deep
At 21 years old, two rappers from Queens dropped one of the greatest albums in music history. But some forget that "The Infamous" wasn't Mobb Deep's beginning (Literal...
Ep.340 - #UKBHM 2025: Tinie Tempah
We finish our UKBHM series for the month of October with an artist of recent memory to see how Hip-Hop and the sheer amount of genre-bleeding in the early 2010s was di...
Ep.339 - #UKBHM 2025: Credit to the Nation
Credit to the Nation - led by West Midlands native MC Fusion - was a clear-cut child of Public Enemy but compared to another PE child in Hijack, CTTN was probably more...
Ep.338 - #UKBHM 2025: Unique 3
Yorkshire outfit Unique 3 made waves in the dawn of the 90s with a new subgenre "Bleep Techno", the first homegrown EDM subgenre in the UK. Their subsequent debut albu...
Ep.337 - #UKBHM 2025: Wee Papa Girl Rappers
Happy October and happy UK Black History Month! Our first of four retrospectives this month is dedicated to two sisters that fused Hip-Hop with the burgeoning UK House...