Joe Budden – I’ll Name This Podcast Later (Episode 6) [Stream]

If you’ve been with us since Episode 2 you may remember Joe painfully discussing his childhood crush not giving him the time of day in 6th grade. Well, as usual, Twitter found her; so we reached out and brought her onto the podcast as our first guest to discuss her role in Joe’s path to relationship destruction! We’ll just name Episode 6, “OLS -1”.

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Fashawn On Getting A Nas Cosign, Being A Part Of Mass Appeal & Coming Up In Fresno, CA [Video]

Dart Adams sat down with Fashawn before his show at the Middle East in Cambridge to discuss his first album “Boy Meets World” and the part of his life he was in when he wrote and recorded it. Moving on Dart gets into the 5 year gap between the release of “Boy Meets World” and “The Ecology”. Moving on Dart gets into talking about “The Ode to Illmatic” and how Fashawn released his “Illmatic” inspired record before the Detroit rapper Elzhi. Fashawn also touches on his worries with rapping over the beats and what inspired him to do it in the first place. Fashawn goes on to talk about his hometown of Fresno and what it was like coming up in that city compared to other more notable locations for California hip hop. To close it out we hear about how he feels being acknowledged by Nas and his thoughts on being a part of Mass Appeal.

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Curren$y & Stalley: Boyz In The Woodz (Episode 3) [Video]

Out in the wild, it’s man tracking man. Curren$y and Stalley know a lot about creating dope tracks. But when it comes to actually tracking, their skills are not as good. Well, on the latest episode of Boyz in the Woodz, that’s about to change. Maybe. With the help of outdoorsy guru Alan Halcon, Curren$y and Stalley get educated on how to track a person through the woods. Armed with nothing but their own cunning and trusty tracking sticks, each man must take turns tracking the other. It’s track or be tracked out here in the brush—and we’ll see if either of these cats actually has a nose for the hunt.

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