Live From The Basement

This episode JMack & MOLA1 are in the basement. We talk about J.Cole's new album "4 Your Eyez Only", Shia Labouf's diss track and we play a new game we like to call "Rap Roulette". Welcome back! Episode Playlist: Notorious BIG - “10 Crack Commandments” Remix Nipsey Hussle ft. Freeway & Cuzzy Capone - " Fucc Em'" Brass Tracks ft. Sinatra & Alexander Lewis - “Let Me Put This Cup Down” Koda The Friend - "Sunny Day Music"

A playlist full of an HOUR of RAP, RAP and more RAP. New full episode the whole team coming soon! Episode Playlist: * Joyner Lucas ft. Busta Rhymes - "Jumanji" * K.A.A.N. x Logic ft. Castro - "Disgusting Kaancepts" (Remix) * Sam Gellaitry- "Arriba" (Lege Kale Remix) * Amine - "Caroline" * Elujay w/ Just Rese - "EBMUD" * Cadillac Freeze - "Ladies Love Kool James" * Freddie Gibbs - "Red Blooded" * Slum Village ft. Kam Corvet- "We On" * MOLA1 - "Knock Knock" * Nick Weaver - "What You Doin These Days" * Mazhe - "Way Too Long" * Tito Lo (Tito Lopez) - "U Know" * Vann - "So Gone"

It’s a messy one. We hope you have fun with it! We’ll be back soon enough!

Back at it with a VERY important announcement for all of you! LET’S GO! Episode Playlist: * Sean Price – “Rap Professor” * Flawless Real Talk – “Tax Season” * Audio Push ft. Musiq Soulchild – “Praise You” * Yelawolf ft. Ben Hameen – “Soul Everyday” * Larry Fisherman ft. Cee Lo – “We” * Koncept – “Time To Go”

We checked out the last stop of the Art of Rap Festival in Detroit. It wasn’t what we expected. Check out the YouTube Video here, and listen to the episode in the Podcast! Episode Playlist: * Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 – “Superrappin'” * EPMD – “Crossover” * Naughty By Nature – “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” * Mobb Deep – “Survival Of The Fittest” * Ice-T – “6 In The Mornin'” * Public Enemy – “Don’t Believe The Hype”

We put together another playlist episode with a chill summer vibe to calm that “Summer Madness”. More episodes EVERY week!

We dive deeper into the topic about the “hip-hop wall” and creating a manifesto for a new genre of rap.

This week we talk about SnapChat, the Joe Budden vs. Drake Beef, and putting up a wall up on the Canadian border.

We put together another installment of some of our favorite joints to have playing in the background when you're having a barbecue! It's our second installment of the BBQ Boogie! You can check out volume 1 on Episode 205 over at HoodHype!

The opportunity to speak to one of the most influential legends in hip-hop is one of the highest honors in this culture. So when we had the opportunity to speak with one of the greats we gave him a call. Grandmaster Caz of The Cold Crush Brothers was not only one of the very first MC’s to ever start actually writing his rhymes for his songs, but he was also THE first ghost writer in hip-hop music. We talked to Caz about all of these things, his experience working with Macklemore and the early beginnings of hip-hop. Enjoy and have fun with it! Twitter: @GrandMasterCaz Facebook: GRANDMASTER-CAZ-FAN-PAGE

Heres another bangin’ playlist episode full of some dope instrumentals for you to vibe out to all week! Also, Major’s Question of the Week: “In hip-hop, who’s death would have the biggest impact on you?” Episode Playlist: * !llmind – “Prometheus” * TEK.LUN – “That’s What Makes it Hip Hop” * R-kay – “No Strings Attached” * OCTOBR — “Sleepyhead” * Ebrahim x Häzel — “Zilch” * Mikos Da Gawd — “Arpee” * Teemid — “I.N.Y.L. (Like The Sunshine)” * SwuM. — “Finess” * Birocratic x Flamingosis – “Passing By”

Live From The Basement on the road this episode! We started off reviewing Chance; highly anticipated album “Coloring Book” and ended up on Big KRIT‘s previously released “It’s Better This Way“. What are your thought’s on these two albums?

Major gets personal and talks about his recent separation, his new adventures and how he’s “Off The Leash”. Episode Playlist: * Big KRIT & Warren G – “No Static” * Royce Da 5’9″ ft. K.Young – “Misses” * DJ Quik ft. Shy Carter – “A New Nite (Rosecrans Groove)”

Here’s an INTERVIEW EPISODE for this week featuring an interview with Parrish Smith (aka PMD) of EPMD! We had a lot of fun talking with Parrish about his history with hip-hop, some of his tour stories as well as the future of EPMD, with some great music from the era throughout the episode. Twitter: @PMDofEPMD Instagram: @pmd_mic_doc Episode Playlist: * EPMD – “Underground” * EPMD – “Please Listen To My Demo” * DAS EFX – “They Want Efx” * EPMD – “I’m Mad”

This episode we talked about the infamous Birdman visit to the Breakfast Club and Drake’s “Views from the 6” for a minute. Also this week, the return of the Stash Box and we talk Tidal and the effects of holding content hostage! Episode Playlist: Nipsey Hussle – “Ocean Views” Nicholas May ft. Jared Evan – “StillStanding” Havoc + Alchemist ft. Method Man – “Buck 50’s” Advertisement Are you sick and tired of paying cellphone bills? Tired of being disconnected for late payments. Then you should to go to www.nomonthlycellphonebill.com

You asked, we’re delivering. Here’s a new playlist episode full of some great music with heart to get you through the week! Rock out and get in the groove with JMack this episode! Episode Playlist: * Joyner Lucas – “Panda” (Remix) * Bobby Sessions – “Black Neighborhood” * Sugar Tongue Slim – “Radio Activity” * Torae – “What’s Love” * C.L. Smooth ft. Skyzoo & DJ Devastate – “Perfect Timing” (Max I Million Remix) * Kipp Stone – “Cult Classic” * Murs & 9th Wonder – “God Black / Black God” * Rapper Big Pooh – “Don’t Change” * Allan Rayman – “Lucy The Tease”

We put together a few words and songs as we mourn the loss of a musical legend and celebrate his life and incredible influence to music across all genres. This episode is dedicated to the Purple One. Rest in Power Prince.

This episode we dissect QD3 & FlavorUnit’s new flick “The Art of Organized Noize“, a documentary about the musical career of one of the most prolific music production crews of all time, Organized Noize. We also took this opportunity to get a young listener on the show to talk about his music choices in 2016. As always, drop us a comment or hit us up on twitter, facebook or email!

This episode we discuss what’s next. We’ve been producing and releasing this show for over 10 years and we’ve decided to take it back to the earlier days. To when we wouldn’t take ourselves so seriously and have more fun. It’s been one hell of a ride and it wouldn’t have been as amazing as it’s been had it not been for everyone who has worked on this show, and more importantly all of you who have downloaded, listened, called, emailed, tweeted and supported us over the years. We appreciate all that you’ve done for us over the years and we hope we can continue to make you laugh, think and have more fun on the train ride, at your job, during the commute or wherever we are with you. Thank you, and see you all next episode! Drop us a message, let us know what YOU wanna hear! * Major on Twitter

Just added to this feed April 11, 2016, this is the second of a two-part episode, Episode #67 we released back on July of 2008 featuring an interview with Bishop Lamont. We released it on the blog but never dropped it on the feed. Wow. Hope you enjoy the memories yall!