Freemusicempire

ATTENDEES Old Grape God, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk to Old Grape God about being prolific (34 albums!) and creative at the same time. A lot of prolific artists stop experimenting and just stay in a zone. How does OGG define and redefine his musical world being this productive and creative. Talk about HOME [sic] in detail and how its reception has been. Intro and Outro bum...

ATTENDEES PenPals, Zilla Rocca, PremRock, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk about some of the most important things we’ve learned talking to artists, producers, journalists, and fans about music over these hundred episodes. Reveal the sick artwork Dan commissioned for State of The Game!(Keith has not seen it)  Celebrate our favorite rap verses new and old. These can be vers...

ATTENDEES Lord Kayso,Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk to Lord Kayso about the vision behind MOOR CHORES and crafting it into a personal journey. Discuss the reception and connection it’s having with listeners and how many people identify with the stories within it. Intro and Outro music by Ohbliv from the album Spirit Medicine .

ATTENDEES Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk about how important it is for an artist to curate the listenability of their projects and what can go wrong if that is out of sync. As a way to discuss this: analyze 2 Chainz-Dope Don’t Sell Itself, Saba-Few Good Things, and Ivy Sole-candid. Intro and Outro music is by Disco Vietnam from the House Rabbi series:  https://discovietn...

ATTENDEES Andrew, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk to Andrew about his follow up to 2021’s Pop 1967 , The Rain Knows What It’s Doing which came out on Three Dollar Pistol (Zilla Rocca’s label). How has his production evolved? What was the goal of this album and how does the first song (Don’t Let It Get You Down)further that? Talk about what we want from a first song and provide...

ATTENDEES Chong Wizard, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk to Chong Wizard about his personal growth as a producer from Midnight Sons w/ Zilla Rocca to The Colors I’ve Never Seen with Nate Barksdale. Discuss the foundational elements of Chong Wizard Records and how they developed. Intro and outro music from Chong Wizards album Blessing Season-https://chongwizard.bandcamp.com/albu...

ATTENDEES Fleetwood DeVille, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business Talk to Fleetwood DeVille about Next Love Day and his collaboration with Grindstone Rye & Wine . These 2021 albums are so different from one another, how was the approach built for each? Analyze strengths and opportunities within 2022 releases: Sick! By Earl Sweatshirt, Piece of Me by Lady Wray, and Food For Thought b...

One of the illest conversations in the history of the series, SolarFive frankly discussed his evolution in multiple musical spaces. Iceberg Theory popped in and added the producer perspective as their newest release Momento Mori deserves accolades and analysis. From the murmur flow to life being more hardcore than any rapper, this talk is fluid fun but dead serious. Intro is 'Maelstorm' Outro is '...

ATTENDEES AJ Suede, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Discuss the new release Metatron’s Cube by AJ Suede and Televangel. How does AJ Suede view it within his discography? Each party selects 3 albums from 2011 as potential canon-dates. Via discussion of the albums we thin down to 1 album per person. Intro is 'Fire in The Hole' and outro is 'Prism' both by Disco Vietnam from House Rab...

ATTENDEES Defcee, Bloodmoney Perez, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk about the construction of Second Hand Accounts and the songs that define it. Talk to Defcee and Bloodmoney Perez about why collaborating with Messiah Musik is so special and his rise in music. intro and outro music by Disco Vietnam from House Rabbi 7

ATTENDEES Panels, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business ● Talk to Panels about the formation of East Hampton Polo Boys and what it meant to him as well as Scorcese. ● Talk about what the intentions were on Winter Catalogue v. Summer  ● Talk in detail about the strengths and importance of hip hop smacktalk.

ATTENDEES Five Steez, The Sickest Drama, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business ● Talk about the formation of The Council of The Gods and what each member brings. ● Discuss Quietude, Element of Surprize, Trilogy and future plans in depth.

ATTENDEES Zilla Rocca, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk about the mission for the new album Never At Peace and the reaction it has gotten. Discuss the importance of album sequencing. Intro bumper is the title track of Never At Peace. Outro is Dame Dash Taught Me. Buy Never At Peace here:  https://wreckingcrew.bandcamp.com/album/never-at-peace

ATTENDEES GENG PTP, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business Go over top 25 albums of 2021 highlighting what separated these projects from others. Each of us should talk about something we’d like to see more of in 2022 music. NOTES 1.Ka-A Martyr’s Reward 2. Little Simz-Sometimes I Might Be Introvert 3. Sault-Nine 4. Curly Castro-Little Robert Hutton 5. Isaiah Rashad-The House is Burning 6....

ATTENDEES GENG PTP, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk with GENG PTP about the year in PTP: Lungs, Phiik & S!lence, and the art of showcasing young talent. Discuss Dan’s AOTY list picks 50-26. Instead of honorable mentions let’s shout out the inventive albums that set the tone for this year. NOTES 26. NCL-™ x DooF-Swamp Phonk 27. Lukah-Why Look Up, God’s in The Mirror 28. Cit...

Darko The Super came through to play some jams!  Buy his new album with Height Keech called You Gotta Have Friends https://heightkeech.bandcamp.com/album/you-gotta-have-friends 

ATTENDEES Timepiece, MIGHTYHEALTHY, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk about the Good, Bad, and The Ugly of production in hip hop this year. Talk about how things might change in the coming year. NOTES What sounds worse in 2021 a boring pop rap beat or a boring underground rap beat? Why? What 2021 album's production shocked you most on the first listen? Who was the most ripped off(emulated if w...

One of the most important producers of 2021 Brainorchestra's new album Big Brain stars him as primary voice, producer, as well as mixing and mastering. It's an effort worthy of in depth conversation and Dan-O digs in on the process results and journey along the way.

ATTENDEES SonRaw, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business Talk to SonRaw about the album Trilogy by Council of The Gods . How he became involved with producing and rapping on it. Talk about Silk Sonic-An Evening with Silk Sonic, Jedi Mind Tricks-The Funeral and The Raven, and Fielded-Young Medusa. How do these albums speak to (or in opposition to) trends in 2021 music? Intro and Outro are...

ATTENDEES Big Flowers, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business ● Discuss the progression over two projects by NCL-TM & DøøF: Hoodrat Noir to Swamp Phonk. ● Discuss the changing nature of the album, song lengths, total run times and the difference sequencing makes.

ATTENDEES Sleep Sinatra, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business ● Talk to Sleep Sinatra about the rollercoaster year he has had and the steps up in acclaim under Sleep Gloriously & DIVINENATION. ● Discuss what makes an album “dark” and the right way to ingest it.  ● Analyze Lukah-Why Look Up, God’s In The Mirror and Redman-Dare Iz A Darkside to discuss dark albums now and in the...

ATTENDEES Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business ● Flow changes in rap the way human language changes. It never stops changing. By the time a new cadence, flow, or vocal inflection gets deemed “not hip hop” it’s already running the charts. Let’s talk about how flow has changed generally over these years from pop rap to underground. ● Discuss Teller Bank$-The Part & Parcel as well as L...

Freemusicempire 2021 MVP Raphy of BRUISER BRIGADE came on for a full length sit down. An incredible journey from DJ to top producer, Raphy talks about the different ways the Brigade works and how these game changing albums (Dope Game $tupid & Santa Barbara) came together. His joy and passion is infectious so GET SOME!  Intro and Outro bumper is from the album Swamp Phonk by NCL-TM and Døø...

AGENDA New Business ● Talk to Kathy Iandoli about her 2019 book God Save The Queens and 2021 book Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah. We should ask her perspective on how the rules of engagement have changed for women in hip hop’s public space. ● Discuss the only released solo album from Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. What could her career have been if this got a US release in 2001-2002? What should her a...

ATTENDEES Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business ● Talk about Metamorphosis the 2015 album by Queen Herawin in terms of strengths and importance. Why should someone who has never heard this, listen? ● Discuss anyone in 2021 who might be influenced or carrying the same energy forward. Intro song is Slime Outro song is Mia both by NCL-TM off his album Pussy Galore.