Call Out Culture

All three boys are back to pick a starting 5 and sixth man in all sports for the best team of athletes who rap! As always for early access to regular episodes and exclusive content please support our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

We kick off a new yearlong series dedicated to Face Mob's vast and heavy catalog to discover and educate our east coast biased ears on the legend of Brad Jordan!

The first Used Records of 2024 features ALASKA and Zilla with separate but equal thoughts on the landmark rock album of the '90s from Nirvana! As always, you can get early and exclusive content by joining our patreon. https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Welcome to the annual town hall episode! We are joined by patreon subscribers and call out culture regulars including Brian Ennals Dan O Jason Griff Milc Son Raw Wall Sparks We talk tiny desk dream concerts, autograph forgery, E-40, rappers with veneers, girls with gold teeth, Wally’s Wu Wear, No Limit Records, Tip or Phife, funky diabetics, slept on 2023 albums and Castro’s cats! As always, for e...

The final Backpack installment for the New Year! We're bringing it back to the late '90s NYC world of backpack rap with the legendary and highly influential Natural Elements and the longstanding prolific crew Scienz of Life! As always, for early episodes and exclusive content sign up for our patreon! https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

The first Christmas Song Tournament is here! Run-DMC, Mariah Carey, Burl Ives, The Pogues, Nat King Cole, and more fight to the death for title of Best Christmas Song according to Jesse the Tree, Milc, and Televangel! Plus we take a detour into the Burl Ives classic White Dog! As always for exclusive content and early releases sign up for our patreon! https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

For part 3 of Backpack Christmas, we're going to the mid '90s in New York for 2 major label acts that were certainly in the underground sphere: Hard 2 Obtain, who dropped 1 album in "Ism & Blues" and World Renown, who had 2 big singles but no album!

This is the 2nd episode in our Backpack Christmas series where we dig into the backpack artists of days past. This week we talk about the Atlanta group Massinfluence and the Kings of Canada Swollen Members. As always you can get early access to episodes and exclusive content at our patreon page: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

This is the first episode in our Backpack Christmas series where we dig into the backpack artists of days past. This week we talk about the Houston hip hop trio K-Otix and Californians that feel Canadian Styles of Beyond. As always you can get early access to episodes and exclusive content at our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

This week we are joined by Beans from the legendary group Anti-Pop Consortium for an in depth discussion on left field hip hop. You can find Beans' music on his Bandcamp page: https://beansiswack.bandcamp.com/ As always you can find early episodes and exclusive content at our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

This week we discuss the 2000 release on Rhymesayers from I Self Divine and DJ Kool Akiem as Micranots! Equal parts Bigg Juss, Sir Menelik, Bobby Digital, and Y2K rap, "Obelisk Movements" gets the close up to see if the record has aged gracefully in the caverns of indie rap history. As always for early access and exclusive content please subscribe to our patreon

The answer to the Soft White Boy Rock Tournament, the Wine Mom Anthem Field of 64 includes such Barefoot wine approved pre-game/karaoke jams from Cher, Cheryl Crow, Lisa Loeb, Pink, Kelly Clarkson, The Cranberries, and many many more in a battle for the championship! Noted wine mom experts Alex Ludovico, Blockhead and Jesse the Tree join us to answer this pressing question! As always you can get e...

Ok, this is the one for spooky season! Since the first episode in 2021, where ALASKA was the ferryman wading us all through the "Halloween" franchise and the similarities between horror purists and hip hop purists regarding "Illmatic", Zilla has caught up to the filmography of Michael Myers and now both guys go one-for-one: what Nas album is the ideal match for each "Hallo...

The first mixtape featured on Used Records is 2009's "Enemy of the State" from Lupe Fiasco, one of the most vicious collections of otherwordly bars and versatility from the mixtape era! As always you can get exclusive and early content through our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Alaska has a theory that Halloween and Nas have the same career arc. Enjoy this wild off the cuff theorizing of this lost episode from Zilla and Alaska back in 2021. Next week Zilla and Alaska are going to do a Killmatic Deep Dive, consider this episode a primer. As always, for exclusive content and early access, be sure to check out our patreon!

The latest coffeetable book all hip hop diehards will add to their Christmas list is "Do Remember!", a history of NYC mixtapes from the '80s through the early 2000's. Authors Evan Auerbach (of Up North Trips fame) and Daniel Isenberg aka Stan Ipcus join Castro and Zilla to highlight the power of tapes, why hunting for exclusives is still a drug, and how DJ Clue, DJ S&S, Kid C...

Our pal Open Mike Eagle swings by to talk about the blooming indie rap scene and the parallels to the late '90s/early '00s era of Def Jux/Anticon/Rawkus/Rhymesayers, plus shed light on the making of his new LP "Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering". Finally, Castro and Zilla pick some of their favorite indie rap releases of the year! As always for exclusive content and early acc...

This week each of the fellows brought a long a question for the others thus the title, 3 questions. As always for exclusive content and early access please support our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

This week Alaska introduces Castro and Zilla to the 2013 Doppelgangaz album Hark. You can find the 10 year anniversary edition of Hark edition here

PARDON ME WHILE I POD! Alex Ludovico is back for part 2 of the Incubus trilogy on Used Records to discuss the 2001 album "Morning View". Wait till you hear the absolutely WILD Rolling Stone review of the album on top of the guys talking Brandon Boyd's devastatingly good looks in the world of nu metal, the divisive nature of "Aqueous Transmission" as an album closer, and wha...

First time guests DJ Jon Doe and Eddie Meeks of Southern Vangard Radio swing by to talk about their history with Southern radio, creating weekly mixshows and rap podcasts for close to a decade straight, and their new book outlining their longstanding careers! Plus we talk Burlington Coat Factory, downtown Atlanta looking like "The Walking Dead" during COVID, hanging at Erick Sermon's...

A truly rambunctious bass-heavy album from an unlikely trio of Apathy, Ryu of Styles of Beyond, and producer Scoop DeVille, "Uzi Does It" from Get Busy Committee is a record you need to play with the windows down, the low end cranked up, and no kids remotely within range! As always, for early releases, exclusive content and more join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepod...

This week we are joined by Jason Griff to discuss Stacking Chips, the new record with Zilla Rocca! And as always for early access and exclusive content check out our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

Zilla is here to give his overall thoughts on the FX mini-series, how it compared to the original run, why it felt more like a David Simon show, and the nods to "No Country For Old Men" and "The Long Goodbye"! And as always for early access and exclusive content check out our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast

This week we discuss the career of the legendary Biz Markie. And as always for early access and exclusive content check out our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast