Diggin' In The Digits

KILLA. Whilst he's now in his talking head era - like most rappers it seems - Cam'ron was an ever-present voice in the 00s Hip-Hop scene. One could say his music is the perfect charting of where the 00s sound was at any given year, with his lyrical content staying steady in the good ol' "Money, hoes & drugs" bag. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:14) Ben: A$AP ROCKY - Don't Be Dumb Charlie...

The man who helped start Bad Boy Records, only to take himself out of it and eventually take himself out of music entirely, the life of Craig Mack is a sad one overall. His music left behind after his death in 2018 was serviceable, topped off with an iconic track of the 90s. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:01) SAULT - Chapter 1 Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (4:27) Project: Funk Da World...

Happy New Year, DITD listeners! Ben returns from his holiday hiatus and we kick off 2026 by taking one more look back at 2025, talking about our two favourite albums of last year. For once, it's an all Hip-Hop affair!  TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:00) Ben: Nas & DJ Premier - Light Years Ben's No.2 - (5:32) Charlie's No.2 - (20:11) Ben's No.1 - (33:25) Charlie's No.1 - (44:38) Lighter...

Welcome to Charlie's Weekly Music Roundup to hold you down where I talk about my spins in the past week with a little more detail than I do typically! As per usual, all works talked about are below. Enjoy! D-Ace & K.A.A.N. - Kaancepts Vic Spencer & August Fanon - Psychological Cheat Sheet 6 Ben's Album list #5EUK Top EPs Of The Half-Decade (Pt. 1) #5EUK Top EPs Of The Half-Decade (Pt. 2) #...

Welcome to Charlie's Weekly Music Roundup to hold you down where I talk about my spins in the past week with a little more detail than I do typically! As per usual, all works talked about are below. Enjoy! Big L - Harlem's Finest: Return Of The King Novelist - AUDACITY Paul Stephan, BexBlu, Awaiting Kvng - STILL REMINISCING Paul Stephan, BexBlu, Awaiting Kvng - Protect The Silence Pozzy - it's all...

Welcome to Charlie's Weekly Music Roundup to hold you down where I talk about my spins in the past week with a little more detail than I do typically! As per usual, all works talked about are below. Enjoy! J Hus - Half Clip A-F-R-O - No More Patience Iman Europe & Kaelin Ellis - Chrysalis threetwenty - separate from the noise Nas & DJ Premier - Light Years Thanks for listening. Below are t...

Welcome to Charlie's Weekly Music Roundup to hold you down where I talk about my spins in the past week with a little more detail than I do typically! As per usual, all works talked about are below. Enjoy! Adi Oasis - Silver Lining  Big K.R.I.T. - Dedicated to Cadalee Biarritz Skyzoo - Views Of A Lifetime  redveil - sankofa Breis - Stranger On Earth Thanks for listening. Below are the Social accou...

Welcome to Charlie's Weekly Music Roundup to hold you down where I talk about my spins in the past week with a little more detail than I do typically! As per usual, all works talked about are below. Enjoy! Jordyn Simone - REMEMBER WHEN TrueMendous & Tony Bones The Producer - No Round of Applause Gabriel Jacoby - gutta child Vic Santoro - 1000 Burpees Von Pea & The Other Guys - Putcha Weigh...

Hello DITD listeners! Every year, I offer Ben the opportunity to take the month off in the same way I take time off my show and after all these years, he finally took it! So there'll be no new DITD episodes for the remainder of the year, however I'll try to provide you with something else to hold you down. Thanks to Ben and you the listener, have a great holiday season and we will be back in Janua...

From their inventive D.A.I.S.Y. Age run to their new (& probably last) opus dropped last week, the career of De La Soul is unlike any other in Hip-Hop history. With label issues being the only thing that held them back, they always put out Art Official Intelligence when the time was right. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:39) Charlie: Mysie - SALTY edbl - nylon Deshawn Visionz - Skies On...

Whilst Prodigy made a genuine attempt to put out solo bodies of work outside of Mobb Deep business, Havoc took until 2007 to drop his first solo record and it wasn't until his third album that he actually put effort into it all. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:35) Ben: Danny Brown - Stardust Charlie: Ukweli & Xenia Mannasseh - MAYBE II REASON - Everything In My Soul_BLUE BLK ODYSSY - MOO...

The solo discography of Prodigy is all over the place to put it lightly. A great debut, a surprisingly good sophomore and then a stretch of albums that go from love songs to dark, philosophical work with a healthy dose of illuminati talk throughout. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:20) Charlie: Tara Lilly - Quiet Nights (Early Takes) Treasure Bloom - Garden of Hedon Alemeda - But What The Hel...

At 21 years old, two rappers from Queens dropped one of the greatest albums in music history. But some forget that "The Infamous" wasn't Mobb Deep's beginning (Literally! It was their sophomore album!) and it certainly wasn't their end. So past the "capital C" Classic, what is Mobb Deep in totality? TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:22) Ben: Big L - Harlem's Finest Charlie: Saba - C0FFEE! Maka...

We finish our UKBHM series for the month of October with an artist of recent memory to see how Hip-Hop and the sheer amount of genre-bleeding in the early 2010s was displayed in spectacular fashion from Tinie Tempah, who went from Underground Grime MC to the most famous UK rapper in the space of a year and kept that title until Stormzy dropped "Vossi Bop". TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:05)...

Credit to the Nation - led by West Midlands native MC Fusion - was a clear-cut child of Public Enemy but compared to another PE child in Hijack , CTTN was probably more blunt in leftist messaging ( akin to Sistah Souljah ) along with Brummie & Patios accents to add texture to the unique nature of Fusion and his crew. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:53) Ben: Tame Impala - Deadbeat Charlie...

Yorkshire outfit Unique 3 made waves in the dawn of the 90s with a new subgenre "Bleep Techno", the first homegrown EDM subgenre in the UK. Their subsequent debut album blended not just their pioneering sound but also blended Hip-Hop to create a sound that was... Well... Unique for the time. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:02) Ben - Mobb Deep - Infinite Charlie - Jordyn Simone - NO DEMO LEFT...

Happy October and happy UK Black History Month! Our first of four retrospectives this month is dedicated to two sisters that fused Hip-Hop with the burgeoning UK House/Acid House movement of the late 80s/early 90s whilst also paying homage to their Caribbean roots through the music and most notably their memorable name. TIMESTAMPS Weekly Music Roundup - (0:52) Charlie: She Who Won't Be Named - Fro...

Hello DITD listeners! Charlie here. Just wanted to drop you my latest interview with upcoming Alt-R&B artist Kairos The Writer off the back of his recent EP release "AND STILL I LOVE". Enjoy! Intro Music - "Baxter" By Brock Berrigan Interlude - "Remedy" By Dezaulait ChillHop Music Other Podcasts Under The 5EPN: "What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor In Search of Sauce Black Women Watch... 5EPN Radio...

The Brooklyn-based Hip-Hop group Stetsasonic were one of the premier innovators of the 80s. At any given moment you could hear live instrumentation, sampling and beat-boxing. You could also hear elements of Jazz, R&B, Reggae & Rock. Considering their era, the creative foundations they laid is undeniable. Weekly Music Roundup - (0:42) Charlie: Kairos The Writer - AND I STILL LOVE FloFilz -...

The 00s was a unique moment in Hip-Hop history and American culture at large. A lot of the hallmarks of 00s Hip-Hop could be seen through Harlem's own DIPSET, led by Cam'Ron, Jim Jones , Juelz Santana & Freekey Zekey. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:02) Ben: Cardi B - Am I The Drama Destroy Lonely - </3 Charlie: Meduulla & Ethan Hill - Tabula Rasa The Last Artful, Dodgr - databrea...

On this edition of Contemporary Cool: Charlie gets to the bottom of why he's not that into Freddie Gibbs by spinning his debut album and Ben invites torture by having us talk about supergroup Slaughterhouse's poorly aged sophomore effort. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:54) Ben: Ice Cube - Man Up Jermaine Dupri - Magic City Charlie: Yoni Mayraz - Dogs Bark Babies Cry Steven Bamidele - THE CR...

The brothers in Prince Be & DJ Minutemix that make up the duo P.M Dawn have been - in hindsight - a marketing casualty. They forever hold the record of being the first African American Hip-Hop act to get No.1 on Billboard. But whilst that track & their debut album traffic in a Hip-Hop fusion, their works after that lean much more into R&B, creating a discography built on fluidity, deep...

In the Gang Starr/Guru/DJ Premier universe, there are plenty of artists that have made a name for themselves, some that haven't, and then in the middle is Group Home. With a classic debut and iconic tracks on said album, what did they muster up without Preemo on speedial? TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:50) Charlie: UMI - people stories Danni Baylor - Things About The World That Burden Me NO...

Another WG interview for you to step to! For this truly special conversation, we talk to Jazztronica multi-instrumentalist and Hip-Hop fan Anna Stubbs, AKA Kinzoogianna ahead of her album "The Clique Of '86" dropping 12th September. This nearly 90 minute conversation spans from her beginnings, living in California; being exposed to music early on and never looking back; taking Jazz in University;...

We finish our Boot Camp Clik exploration with the talisman of the supergroup and co-founder of Duck Down Records: Buckshot. Covering his one and only solo record and the varied collab albums he produced in the 2000s/early 2010s. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: Offset - Kiari Ghostface- Supreme Clientele 2 BigXthaPlug - I Hope You're Happy Earl - Live Laugh Love Charlie: The Other Gu...