Hip Hop Enthusiast

Hip Hop Enthusiast #79: Album reviews for “A Quiet Farewell Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen” by Slauson Malone and “You Can’t Sit With Us” by Pivot Gang, Tyler the Creator and Danny Brown tease new albums, and YG provides our ‘Hot in the Streets Song of the Week’! (Recorded May 4th)

Hip Hop Enthusiast #78: Today we take a look at “Ventura” by Anderson .Paak and “A Cold World*” by ANKHLEJOHN, Open Mike Eagle emerges with some new tracks and commentary via Comedy Central, and we catch up on hip hops newest releases in ‘New Music Announcements’! (Recorded April 28th)

Hip Hop Enthusiast #77: Fun interview with Dev and Pax (the Bridge City Boys) of the forthcoming New Music Monday podcast! Album review for Everybody is Food 3 by Conway, ‘Hot in the Streets Song of the Week’, and ‘New Music Announcements’. (Recorded April 20th)

Hip Hop Enthusiast #76: Album reviews for “Guns” by Quelle Chris and “Hiding Places” by Billy Woods & Kenny Segal, my take on the biggest hit in the U.S. “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X, Hot in the Streets Song of the Week, and New Music Announcements! (Recorded April, 14th)

Hip Hop Enthusiast #75: On today’s show we have full album reviews for “A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night” by Blu & OhNo and “Lil Big Man” by Maxo, short recaps of new Juice WRLD, Dave, and Smif n Wessun projects, Tierra Whack brings the heat for our ‘Hot in the Streets Song […]

Hip Hop Enthusiast #74: We have album reviews for “GREY Area” by Little Simz and “Rap or Go to the League” by 2 Chainz, some flash reviews for Offset, Lil Pump, and Gunna, Hot in the Streets Song of the Week from New York’s largest collective of wordsmiths, and recap the newest releases in the […]

Hip Hop Enthusiast Episode 73: Artist interview with Virginia Beach rap trio The Opioid Era as we talk about their recently released music and the opioid epidemic in America that they speak on. Also got an album review for CZARFACE Meets Ghostface by CZARFACE and Ghostface Killah at the end. (Recorded Friday Mar. 8)

Hip Hop Enthusiast 72: Today we have album reviews for “Seven 25” by Tsu Surf and “38 Strategies of Raw” by 38 Spesh, my thoughts on Cardi B winning rap album of the year, YNW Melly takes clout chasing to deadly extremes, and MadGibbs returns!!! (Recorded Feb. 22)

Hip Hop Enthusiast Episode 71: Album reviews for “Everything’s For Sale” by Boogie and “Nectar” by Jonatan Leandoer127, we honor the late J Dilla and his classic work “Donuts” 13 years later, “Hot In The Streets Song of the Week”, and New Music Announcements! (Recorded Friday Feb. 8)

Hip Hop Enthusiast Episode 70: Album reviews for “Free Sweatpants” by Blockhead and “Future Hndrxx Presents The WIZRD” by Future, the latest on 21 Savage getting arrested by the ICE, how Travis Scott’s Super Bowl Halftime show affects middle America’s perception of hip hop, brand new aux cord material from our “Hot in the Streets […]

Hip Hop Enthusiast #69: Today we review two underground works “I’m Surrounded By Idiots” by Lance Shapiro and “Mind Of A Man” by Justo the MC & Maticulous, we got that “Hot in the Streets Song of the Week”, look at some headlines around the industry, and check out what’s dropping next! (Recorded January 24th)

Hip Hop Enthusiast #68: In today’s episode we review “Television” by 99 Neighbors, break down the crazy Revenge of the Dreamers 3 recording sessions, get a West Coast G Funk influenced Song of the Week, and check what new releases to expect coming soon! (Recorded Thursday January 17th)

The Hip Hop Enthusiast #67: Album reviews for I Am > I Was by 21 Savage and War in My Pen by MIKE, Hot in the Streets Song of the Week from SAINt JHN, and New Music Announcements for the first big drop date in 2019! (Recorded January 11)

Hip Hop Enthusiast Episode #66: To wrap up 2018 we talk Championships by Meek Mill and Some Rap Songs by Earl Sweatshirt, I drop my top 25 hip hop albums of 2018, and we look forward to exciting rumored releases in 2019! (Recorded Jan. 3)

The Hip Hop Enthusiast #65: We breakdown “Streams of Thought Vol. 2” by Black Thought & Salaam Remi and “DiCaprio 2” by J.I.D, Skyzoo gets his concert shut down, Kanye drops an 80 tweet rant on Drake, and The Alchemist brings us our Hot In The Streets Song of the Week! (Recorded December 14th)

The Hip Hop Enthusiast #63: On today’s show we have album reviews for “Oxnard” by Anderson .Paak and “Tana Talk 3” by Benny the Butcher, we take a look at Allen Iverson’s Top 5 rappers, Meek Mill drops us an interesting tweet, bump some new Chance, and recap hip hops latest releases! (Recorded Dec. 8th)

The Hip Hop Enthusiast Podcast #63: We look into new albums “NOIR” by Smino and IDK’s new EP “IDK & FRIENDS :)”, check in on 6ix9ine’s latest and greatest legal issues, preview a new A$AP Rocky track, and recap all the fresh drops from the past couple weeks! (Recorded November 29th)

The Hip Hop Enthusiast 62: On this episode we breakdown new albums “NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES” by Metro Boomin, and “FM!” by Vince Staples, Juice WRLD and Large Professor make headlines, Saba drops off some new heat, and we recap the fresh drops from around the industry! (Recorded November 19th)

Hip Hop Enthusiast #61: We get into new releases “Pieces of a Man” by Mick Jenkins and “Humbl Pi” by Homeboy Sandman & Edan, run through some recent headlining stories in the industry, finally bump some Roc Marciano, and recap what new projects dropped in the past couple weeks! (Recorded November 9th)

The Hip Hop Enthusiast #60: We breakdown Open Mike Eagle’s newest project “What Happens When I Try To Relax” and the Juice WRLD Future collab tape “WRLD On Drugs”, take a look at some notable headlines from the past week, and preview a new Rhapsody track! (Recorded November 2nd)

The Hip Hop Enthusiast #59: We break down debut albums “MUDBOY” by Sheck Wes and “Hell or High Water” by City Morgue, we have more Drake vs Pusha T drama, Hot in The Streets Song of the Week from a recently freed man, and New Music Announcements! (Recorded October 25th)

After years of anticipation Carter V by Lil Wayne is upon us! We also check out the debut album from the newest member of TDE, There You Have It by Reason, a sweet Venom soundtrack single surfaces, and we take a look at some poppin headlines from around the culture! (Recorded October 11th)

Breakdown of new hip hop albums DROGAS WAVE by Lupe Fiasco and Iridescence by BROCKHAMPTON, a powerful West Coast pairing brings us Song of the Week, and we look forward to what’s coming out next! (Recorded October 6th)

This week we get into some album reviews for sophomore efforts Room 25 by Noname and East Atlanta Love Letter by 6Lack! I recap my experience at J Cole’s KOD Tour in Hartford, we got steady heat pumping on Song of the Week segment, and some long awaited new music announcements! (Recorded September 28th)

Album discussions on “QUARTERTHING” by Joey Purp and “I Want To Die In New Orleans” by $uicide Boy$, Frank Ocean legal dispute with Travis Scott, Kanye makes headlines again, and a hot new single from J.I.D.! (Recorded September 21st)

Switching up the format this week, got a fellow hip hop enthusiast on the line to talk about the circumstances surrounding Mac Miller’s unfortunate passing. We also give our thoughts on Eminem’s surprise drop Kamikaze! (Recorded September 16th)

We’re breaking down Orpheus vs. The Sirens by Hermit and the Recluse and new Dreamville project Milky Way by Bas. Eminem and MGK get heated and drop some bars on each other, we got the details there, and also New Music Announcements. (Recorded September 6th)

Young Thug’s label album has arrived in the form of “Slime Language”! We break it down along with Aminé’s new project “ONEPOINTFIVE”. Staples Song of the Week and New Music Announcements as well! (Recorded August 30th)

Today we’re breaking down Life’s A Trip by Trippie Redd and Queen by Nicki Minaj. Nicki made even more headlines this week complaining about her disappointing albums sales and we have the details plus Song of the Week and New Music Announcements! (Recorded August 24th)

We have 3 albums to breakdown this week with ASTROWORLD by Travis Scott, Swimming by Mac Miller, and Stay Dangerous by YG all dropping! Mick Jenkins gifts us Song of the Week and we preview some upcoming releases. (Recorded August 16th)

Album Reviews for Harlan & Alondra by Compton rapper/singer Buddy and TA13OO by South Florida’s darkest character Denzel Curry. Tekashi defines modern hip hop for us, a blazing hot freestyle takes Song of the Week honors, and we look at what releases we can expect next! (Recorded August 9th)

We have special guest up and coming artist Rio Azul on for an interview, album reviews for Rolling Papers 2 by Wiz Khalifa and Mansion Musick by Chief Keef, Wang$ap drops new heat for Song of the Week, and some exciting New Music Announcements! (Recorded July 27th)

Album reviews and reactions for Scorpion by Drake and God Level by 03 Greedo. How impressive is Juice WRLD’s new freestyle? New summer waves from Childish Gambino makes Song of the Week and New Music Announcements means new heat on the way! (Recorded July 17th)

Halfway through 2018 we recap the best albums of the year so far, breakdown new albums Freddie by Freddie Gibbs and Supreme Blientele by Westside Gunn, Trippie Redd comes through for song of the week, and check out what New Music is on the way! (Recorded July 6th)

Today we get into new albums NASIR by legendary rapper Nas and Everything is Love by The Carters (Jay Z & Beyonce), XXL 2018 Freshman are official and final, Meek Mill drops fresh heat out of prison, and we look at what new releases are upcoming! (Recorded June 28th)

Today we breakdown brand new albums Ye by Kanye West and KIDS SEE GHOSTS by Kanye West and Kid Cudi, we deal with the tragic passing of Xxxtentacion, Song of the Week, and New Music Announcements! (Recorded June 22nd) Also look for in depth Xxxtentacion discussion with guest Mario Enriquez on additional episode 44.5 Bonus […]

Extended discussion of all events surrounding the death of Xxxtentacion with guest enthusiast Mariio Enriquez. Originally was going to be a part of Episode 44 but decided to post whole unedited conversation here instead because it was a dope discussion. The future of the show. (Recorded June 21st)

We breakdown new albums DAYTONA by Pusha T and TESTING by A$AP Rocky, look at the aftermath of Drake vs Pusha T, Mac Miller drops a collection of singles, and have some New Music Announcements! (Recorded June 6th)

We discuss brand new albums “Dremin’ Out Loud” by Nick Grant and “Harder Than Ever” by Lil Baby, react to some sad news out of the BROCKHAMPTON clan, breakdown the heated beef between Drake and Pusha T, and have some exciting recently confirmed release dates! (Recorded May 31st)

Discussions of debut trap albums Die Lit by Playboi Carti and Activated by Tee Grizzley, breakdown of how J Cole and Lil Pump are bringing hip hop closer together, an angry Song of the Week from a man who claimed he left the game, and New Music Announcements! (Recorded May 25th)

On today’s episode we look at new albums Book of Ryan by Royce da 5’9″ and SR3MM by Rae Sremmurd, Wale has switched record labels in pursuit of a return to the top, Joji drops the Song of the Week on us, and we take a look at what drops are coming next! (Recorded May […]

This week we breakdown the chart topping “beerbongs & bentleys” by Post Malone and “Until Death Call My Name” by YoungBoyNBA, hip hop’s newest author is revealed, and we have a powerful Song of the Week from Childish Gambino! (Recorded May 11th)

We breakdown the impact and statement of “KOD” by J Cole, Del the Funky Homosapien and Amp Live take us on a sci-fi adventure with “Gate 13”, and what in the world is taking place inside the brain of Kanye West! (Recorded May 4th)

MEEK IS FREE!!! But we also discuss new albums Invasion of Privacy by Cardi B and Bless Yo Trap by Smokepurpp and Murda Beatz, the 2018 XXL Freshman class rumors, Song of the Week from raps queen, and New Music Announcements! (Recorded April 26th)

Album reviews for Vacation in Hell by Flatbush Zombies and Care For Me by Saba, breakdown of the sequence of events leading to a new J Cole album, Song of the Week from a different Dreamville artist, and New Music Announcements! (Recorded April 19th)