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Hip hop podcast that keeps it crazy flamboyant for the rap enjoyment | Featured in NME, Okayplayer, Stereogum, ambrosia4heads, ClashMagazine, MusicWeek, HotNewHipHop, PassionWeiss | Apple’s Top Show charts
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Supreme Father’s Day present 💎

New Adam Curtis dropped…

MF DOOM love in Montreal 🇨🇦 (📸 @sonraw.bsky.social)

RIP Brian Wilson. On 4/20 when I was 22 years old, I left my day job as a reporter around noon, bought Pet Sounds, smoked a little opium next to a freeway while still wearing a suit and tie. And nothing ever sounded the same again.

What billy woods has managed to do on his latest album is nothing short of masterful. Actual genius level at times, unreal work honing his craft. Attempted to unpack this incredible record over at our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/thats-...

MF DOOM love in Liverpool 🐐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (📸 @gingerslim.bsky.social)

woods casually rocking that FC Athens Kallithea shirt 🔥

🚨 NEW EPISODE THE SUN KISS SCRUMPTIOUS SON! Bringing you another slept-on Wu joint, one which should’ve been on Bulletproof Wallets - it’s Ghostface Killah’s ‘The Sun’ ☀️ One of the best examples of Wu-Tang truly being for the children 💪 📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

This Wu upcycled art is serious 🥶 (🖼️ IG @doogz_one)

25% of rap skits in the 90s was rappers being mad at cab drivers

🚨 NEW EPISODE We dig into Armand Hammer's classic 3-album run of Rome, Paraffin and Shrines with @premrock.bsky.social 💎 Ft. a stellar guestlist of @rapmusicplugpod.bsky.social @freemusicempire.bsky.social @sonraw.bsky.social @gingerslim.bsky.social, Defcee and more 🔥 📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

Wrote this on MF DOOM, my father, the art of reinvention and the song that changed my life. Appreciate any and all love for this Substack, a place where everyday stories make you realise the great importance of music 🎧 open.substack.com/pub/thissong...

Holy fuck. Waterproof Mascara. woods sampled grief.

ASTRO DOOM 💫

Exactly 15 years ago, Roc Marciano dropped "Marcberg." In the intervening years, it completely reinvented the sound of East Coast underground rap. In honor of its anniversary, @elmattic.bsky.social explores the icy, minimalist, and raw world that Marci built. www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/05/r...

Was afraid I would have to replace the washing machine, ordered a backup pump, took out the old one and pulled out a putrid black sock from the hose leading to the pump. Welcome to your least hip hop Saturday care of @crate808.bsky.social

Thirty years of The Infamous. The sound of concrete bleeding. Once upon a time, I interviewed Prodigy and Havoc about the making of their masterpiece. www.vice.com/en/article/m...

🚨 NEW EPISODE THE BOXCUTTER WENT…’CLICK CLICK’ We dig into the Wu-Tang catalogue to find some slept-on gems, and this week it’s all about ‘Careful (Click, Click)’. A bonafide banger that proved RZA was still bringing heat in the year 2000. 📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

THE CLOCK TICKS FASTER ⏰ 🖼️ Floodrat - Electric Panther Tejas

TIMELESS

Got you stuck off the realness 💎

“Boyz II Stronger Men: Achieving a Better Masculinity Through Slow Jams” (Simon and Schuster, 2026)

North Carolina knows what’s up 🔥

listening to “enter the wu-tang” and one think i like about this record — especially as i’ve gotten older — is how *charming* it is. it feels like a garage rock record and in a lot of ways that’s exactly what it is. it’s lo-fi, energetic and brimming with enthusiasm.

Big up the homie for mentioning the pod and my nerdy WhatsApps in his latest drop - dope piece on the devaluing of music listening and the ecstasy of holding music in your hands. Go check @drobny.bsky.social 🔥 substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The film that introduced White folks to the Rap battle… Unless you’d rather credit 1989’s cult classic “Teen Witch” with that distinction instead.

An examination of the ancient question: Am I getting old or has pop music sunk into a precipice of mid? @sonraw.bsky.social brilliantly breaks down nostalgia cycles, the art of skepticism (and hating) & a timeless reminder that most of this shit won't age well. www.passionweiss.com/2025/03/06/n...

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

🚨 NEW EPISODE We take it back to the year 2000, digging into OutKast’s ‘Stankonia’ with Infinity Knives, Brian Ennals and Dan O, and also Eminem’s ‘Marshall Mathers LP’ with Shotgun the Aux 🌟 Grab yourself some elite rap chat 📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

Question: What are the greatest ‘One MC, One Producer’ pairings?

MM..DOOM 🐐

☠️ ☠️ ☠️

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

I bet Alex Garland is feeling pretty good about himself right now

Ghostface's "Supreme Clientele" turns 25 today. The best rap album of all-time. The English language revolutionized. Stream-of-consciousness hexes from a general who survived hell. The silver testament of a mortal god. Spark up 20 optimo's with snow pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

‘Now this is a story all about how…’ 🔥 Incredible work again from Ceser 💫

🚨 NEW EPISODE We talk all things Prodigy and Alchemist with PremRock, digging into their cut ‘Bible Paper’ 🙏 Menu: 🐐 Why Prodigy is a GOAT 🥃 Meeting Schott Free 🎧 Best beat switches ⭐️ Big love for The Alchemist 📲 linktr.ee/Crate808