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The Long Goodbye

In our final episode of the biweekly podcast, Dave and Mickey pay their respects to two fallen hip-hop icons, Kangol Kid of UTFO and Jesse D of the Force MDs. Our host...

2021: 2020 Part 2

Dave and Mickey start with a look back at 2021, then turn their sights ahead to the new year, sharing their hopes for more civil debate and less divisiveness. Mickey o...

Spotify, Money and Art

Dave shares his Spotify stats for 2021 and the guys discuss how little money musicians make for thousands of streams. They think back to earlier technologies like boot...

Black Champion 10th Anniversary

Dave celebrates the 10th anniversary of his Black Champion EP and catches us up on the musicians who contributed to the album. Mickey waxes nostalgic about his old iPo...

Code Switch

Dave and Mickey talk code-switching and the conflict between expanding your audience and trying so hard to fit in that you end up being less than yourself. They speak ...

Yeah, I'm Ready

The fellas breeze through a few random topics including more of their favorite rap names, favorite opening lines in songs, skillset vs. "cool factor," and a few artist...

Verzuz

Mickey and Dave recap the recent Verzuz event celebrating hip-hop icons Big Daddy Kane and KRS-ONE and discuss the sustained excellence and longevity of many of hip-ho...

Great Rap Names

Having discovered that the rapper Gunna's government name is Sergio Kitchens, the guys discuss what goes into choosing a rap name. They run through some categories of ...

End of Summer Playlist

Dave and Mickey discuss some of the new music they have been listening to or discovered over the past few weeks as well as the anticipation for some of hip-hop's bigge...

How We Spent Our Summer Vacations

The guys discuss Dave’s recent move to Atlanta and how it feels to move from the Northeast to the South (and vice versa) as regional identities get pitted against each...

A Tribute to Biz Markie (and a little bit of summer break)

Mickey and Dave pay homage to yet another fallen rapper, the great Biz Markie, who died on July 16, 2021. They talk about their favorite Biz songs and his importance t...

Bring Back the Music

Dave and Mickey discuss new music from Tyler the Creator, Fatboi Sharif, Your Old Droog, and J Cole. They take a deep dive into DJ Kay Slay's "Rolling 110 Deep" and sp...

CRT pt.2 and Juneteenth

Our hosts open by picking up where they left off in the previous episode about Critical Race Theory. From there, Dave and Mickey move on to discuss the designation of...

The Boogeyman of Critical Race Theory

Dave and Mickey discuss the spate of state initiatives to ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools, and how the small, specific body of scholarship that cal...

Interview with Selwyn Jones, Uncle of George Floyd

Our hosts talk with Selwyn Jones, hotelier, activist, and uncle of George Floyd. Jones celebrates his nephew's life and legacy, describes his successful campaign to re...

A Tribute to Shock G

Our hosts pay tribute to the late Shock G of Digital Underground. They celebrate the playfulness Shock brought to hip-hop, ponder his legacy and discuss the latest Cza...

White Rapper Strategies

Dave and Mickey discuss and update Mickey's 2005 article "Hip Hop Realness and the White Performer," which looked at the strategies white rappers have used to convince...

Tribute to DMX and Black Rob

Mickey and Dave ponder the recent loss of rappers DMX and Black Rob, the calls for a union for hip-hop musicians and for record labels to contribute to healthcare and ...

DOOM Redux

Continuing the celebration of the genius of MF DOOM, Mickey and Dave do a deep dive into the lyrical content of the late rapper. Citing several verses from Doom's cata...

A Year in Quarantine

Dave and Mickey commemorate the one-year anniversary of Life in Quarantine, discussing adjustments to new norms, the music that got them through, how the solitude affe...

Aunt Jemima

Dave and Mickey pay tribute to Rider University alumnus Eugene Marsh, who died of Covid-19 complications on January 29, 2021. They discuss the planned name change for ...

Prince Markie Dee and Fat Boys

Dave and Mickey pay tribute to Prince Markie Dee of the Fat Boys, who died February 18, 2021.

A Tribute to MF DOOM

The masked supervillain MC known as MF DOOM aka Zev Love X, King Geedorah and Viktor Vaughn died on October 31, 2020. David asks Mickey, who years ago  published the f...

Everyday Ally

Our hosts consider what a white person can do when confronted with everyday racism. Mickey remembers a white neighbor who shrugged off a peeping tom by suggesting he p...

Patriots or Hateriots?

David and Mickey reflect on the January 6, 2021 Capitol breach and discuss the issues surrounding it: the history and motivations of the violent protesters, the impact...

2020 In the Rearview

Our hosts look back on their first year of the podcast and reflect on the issues that 2020 gave us to deal with. They pay tribute to the victims of Covid-19 and celebr...

Diversity Hire

This episode opens up with Dave asking for Mickey's thoughts on The Notorious BIG and transitions into a discussion on diversity and inclusion in curriculum and facult...

Worthy

After releasing a new track, “Worthy,” David reflects on his career as Traum Diggs and the changes he’s seen in how music gets recorded and distributed. He takes us fr...

The Truth vs. “Da Troof” feat. Steve Sachs - Part Two

Dave, Mickey, and guest Steve Sachs continue their conversation on "weirdo rap" and Mickey's blind spot for mainstream hip-hop. The conversation then shifts to politic...

The Truth vs. “Da Troof” feat. Steve Sachs - Part One

After discussing their mainstream vs. underground tastes in hip-hop, Mickey and David challenged each other to listen to an album they’d never heard before. Mickey cho...

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