Charlie Taylor
Director of The 5th Element
Appears in 298 Episodes
Ep.266 - Little Brother
We head to North Carolina where a trio blooms out of a larger collective to become one of the biggest "if you know, you know" acts of the 00s: Little Brother with Phon...
Ep.265 - Ras Kass
Ras Kass presents a discography that is vast, two iconic albums in the 90s, then a litany of mixtapes in the 00s and then continuing his consistent output in the 10s w...
Ep.264 - Ice-T, Part 2
We return for Part 2 of our retrospective of Ice-T, where we left him off the back of his legendary four album run and the "Cop Killer" controversy; where would Ice ta...
Ep.263 - A Pioneer's Perspective W/ MC Bushkin
In conjunction with "What's Good?", this is a special DITD episode where Charlie heads to West London to talk with Garage pioneer and co-founder of Heartless Crew: MC ...
Ep.262 - Hip-Hop Neighbours, Vol. 11
For this Hip-Hop Neighbours - linked to our Ice-T exploration - we cover the self-titled album Body Count and we also get into the first album from the UK based collec...
Ep.261 - Ice-T, Part 1
We stay in the West Coast AND the late 80s/early 90s to do a two-parter on one of the most authentic voices to ever represent Hip-Hop: Ice-T.TIMESTAMPS:Weekly Music Ro...
Ep.260 - DITD 5th Anniversary Special
This week, we celebrate DITD's 5th birthday with a pop quiz from Ben, thoughts on the Pod in general and yes, we talk about the Cole response to Kendrick.TIMESTAMPS:We...
Ep.259 - Paris
After exploring The Conscious Daughters last week, it seemed fitting to explore the career of their biggest advocate and one of the most controversial voices in 90s Hi...
Ep.258 - Women's History Month '24 - The Conscious Daughters
To finish our Women's History Month celebrations, we stay in the West Coast to talk about a duo that oozed chemistry and confidence, only to be washed out by the indus...
Ep.257 - Women's History Month '24 - Marvaless
We continue our WHM celebrations with a trip to the West Coast, but not Oakland or Los Angeles. For the first time, we head to Sacramento for the story of Marvaless an...
Ep.256 - Women's History Month '24 - Hurricane G
Continuing our WHM celebrations during the month of March, we get into another artist with one solo album, no longer with us after her passing in 2022: Hurricane GTIME...
Ep.255 - Women's History Month '24 - Sister Souljah
Happy March one & all! You know what that means... Women's History Month on DITD is back and to kick off this year's set, we begin with the one & done Sister Souljah w...
Ep.254 - Hip-Hop Neighbours, Vol. 10 (Live From London)
LIVE FROM LONDON, we get into one special work from a true "If you know, you know" group: Cymande. We also get the low down on Ben's 1st week in London.TIMESTAMPS:Week...
Ep.253 - Public Enemy (#3)
We finish our Public Enemy three-parter with their most recent output with more friction from the inside and the outside but somehow, Public Enemy still continue to dr...
Ep.252 - Public Enemy (#2)
In our 2nd part of the Public Enemy retrospective, we see how PE should have imploded and become one of the many groups in the 90s to break up; but not only did they n...
Ep.251 - Public Enemy (#1)
In part one of three, we get into the beginnings of Public Enemy and their first three albums, two of which considered to be consensus classics and some of the most au...
Ep.250 - Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
TW: Lyrics/talk referencing Sexual Assault.After last episode's foray into the solo career of Kool G Rap, we now look into the work that he did before with DJ Polo: Th...
Ep.249 - Kool G Rap
Kool G Rap: The ultimate "If you know KGR, you know ball". Whilst KGR never got the commercial success, his legacy as a lyrical pioneer is rooted deeply in your favour...
Ep.248 - Big Daddy Kane
The King Asiatic Nobody's Equal. Brooklynite Big Daddy Kane came through the 80s as one of the best freestylers in the Five Boroughs and once he got with Cold Chillin'...
Ep.247 - Contemporary Cool, Vol. 12
Happy New Year one and all! We hope that your year is full of progression, growth and 52 episodes of DITD! But before we go forward, we look back one more time to 2023...
Ep.246 - 2023 Metacritic Album Score Review
Happy holidays one & all! To celebrate, we keep it simple and review the Metacritic Hip-Hop album scores for the year of 2023.TIMESTAMPS:Weekly Music Roundup - (0:47)B...
Ep.245 - J-Live
The first two albums by J-Live are some of the most consistent works in Hip-Hop history. What's even more impressive is that they're both over 70 minutes. But what abo...
Ep.244 - A Referendum On Celebrity
With the genocide/ethnic cleansing of Gaza/Palestinians ongoing, we have a conversation that we previously had in the heat of the protests in 2020 (You can listen here...
Ep.243 - Large Professor
Large Professor is an interesting solo case in Hip-Hop history; an artist with a solid solo discography but his legacy is instead tied into being of service to a litan...
Ep.242 - Deltron 3030
It's time to take a trip into the future - to the year 3030 - through the sonic landscape painted by a trio that combine to make Deltron 3030: Del The Funky Homosapien...
Ep.241 - Contemporary Cool, Vol. 11
For the 11th Contemporary Cool, we get into Bey & Jay's "EVERYTHING IS LOVE" & Hempress Sativa's debut album "Unconquerebels.TIMESTAMPS:Weekly Music Roundup - (2:20) (...
Ep.240 - Nujabes
The legacy of Nujabes is one of how music should feel. That essence of when you listen to it, it instantly feeds your soul; whilst dubbing Nujabes as "The Godfather of...
Ep.239 - Hip-Hop Neighbours, Vol. 9
On the 9th edition of Neighbours, we get into two works wildly different in sound but share the fact of their sounds being reminiscent of their time, for better or wor...
Ep.238 - #UKBHM 2023: Hijack
For our final UKBHM retrospective of the month of October, we cover late 80s UK group Hijack who were - like many of our subjects for this edition of UKBHM retrospecti...
Ep.237 - #UKBHM 2023: Blak Twang
As Hip-Hop in the US was booming in the 90s, Hip-Hop in the UK were searching for a new voice after a good class in the late 80s/early 90s. Enter Blak Twang who was no...