Diggin' In The Digits

The trio of O.G.C. - Starang Wondah, Louieville Sluggah and Top Dog - never really had the highs of their Boot Camp Clik counterparts. But just because they never dropped a stone cold classic, doesn't mean they didn't drop quality music. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:09) Ben: JID - God Does Like Ugly Gunna - The Last Wun DJ Premier & Roc Marciano - The Coldest Profession Chance the Rap...

We have an interview for you to step to! For this one, we talk to long-time Music Industry leader and currently Intercept Music’s Vice President of Artist and Label Partnerships Jesse Flores. We talk about his beginnings in the industry, the state of the industry as a whole; the steady rise of independents; his Lighter Note & his Top 5. Thanks for listening. Below are the Social accounts for a...

With the duo of Smif-N-Wessun, Tek & Steele started off as worthy members of the Boot Camp Clik, delivering a great debut album. And even with roadblocks galore holding them back over the years, they have produced a solid discography, maturing gracefully as a Hip-Hop duo. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:55) Ben: Metro Boomin - A Futuristic Summa Charlie: Homeboy Sandman & Sonnyjim -...

It's time for another edition of Hip-Hop Neighbours where we talk about albums not Hip-Hop, but close to it. For this one, we get into Roots Manuva & Wrongtom's Danchall/Dub remix album "Duppy Writer" & Katy B's debut "On A Mission". TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:58) Ben: Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 2 Charlie: Heno. & Mad Keys - Healing Out Loud (EP) A. Billi Fr...

The group that started it all for the Boot Camp Clik , the trio of Black Moon - led by Buckshot - came in with a quintessential Hip-Hop Golden Age debut and sporadically dropped after that, with not much of a drop in quality compared to a stone-cold classic. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:59) Ben: Raekwon - The Emperor's New Clothes Charlie Ryder & Sengi - LONG RIDE HOME Farah Audhali &...

The duo of Rock & Ruck (Sean Price) make Heltah Skeltah, giving us yet another Boot Camp Clik membership that created a consistent quality discography! Not many misses when it comes to one of the best voices in Hip-Hop and a Sean Price that grows into himself as the years go by. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:58) Ben: Jackboys 2 Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out Boldy James x Nicholas Craven...

The six-man supergroup Boot Camp Clik has - from day 1 - been a unique blend of talent, culminating in four decent-to-great albums and poses to be in the mind for whenever we cover the groups/individuals that make the group. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: JID - GDLU the Preluxe Smoke DZA - On My Way to Berlin Charlie: SAMSON - UNDERSTOOD!? Madison McFerrin - SCORPIO The Doppelganga...

On July 2nd we will be exactly halfway through the 2020s! And whilst it's been an objectively terrible decade in many ways, there are some Hip-Hop gems that have come out. So, we decided to make our individual Top 5 Hip-Hop Albums of the Half-Decade and for once, we have NO overlapping works! So buckle in as we gush over 10 albums in a nearly 2 hour special! TIMESTAMPS: Honourable Mentions - (3:54...

One of the mainstays of the burgeoning Hip-Hop Underground of the 00s and beyond, Sean Price was a reality rapper with plenty of humour, iconic one-liners and a discography that have aged pretty well. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: Memphis Bleek - Apt 3D Che Noir - The Color Chocolate 2 Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon - Come As You Are Dave East & Young Chris - Fine Dining Da...

At 60 years old, Slick Rick dropped his 5th Studio Album and his 1st since 1999. He's a master storyteller, respected by everyone. So how TF is he still underrated?! TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:07) Ben: Lil Tecca - Dopamine Charlie -  Karl Benjamin - To What End? MRCY - VOLUME 2 Jords - Mixtape J edbl - Archives Mixtape Syf of Talking Knots & Sir Nebula - Gravity A-F-R-O - Crimson Fu...

G-Funk pioneer one of the most consistent dual artists in Hip-Hop history, it could be said that DJ Quik hasn't gotten the props his peers has, even though his quality of production and bars has (for the most part) been great, just as long as you jump over the mines labelled "Songs with oddly detailed sex bars". TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 6 Little Simz -...

Whilst MC Shan spends a lot of his recent days lamenting the past in some form, he actually has a leg to stand on! Just not in the ways he thinks... TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:44) Ben: Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams - Trainspotting Bruiser Wolf - POTLUCK Masta Killa - Balance Charlie: Silas Short - LUSHLAND Rebecca Vasmant - Who We Are, Becoming Oddisee - En Route Premo Rice - Ba...

The legacy of dead prez - for better or worse - has been condensed down to their classic track in "Hip Hop". Zoom out a little and you'll find a classic song on a classic album that is definitely not talked about enough. Zoom out even more and you find... Actually, let's just stay at that first zoom out... TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:00) Charlie: Syf of Talking Knots & Moe Town - 2 S...

After calling it a day being "The Fresh Prince", Will Smith went under his own name for his solo stint. The results are mixed; proving that Hip-Hop could go Pop, but even then managing to have frequent misfires within his music, creating a frustrating discography that gives more questions than answers... TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:10) Ben: Amine - 13 Months of Sunshine Xzibit - Kingmake...

The legendary duo of Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince have been somewhat locked into this singular thought ever since their run ended in '93: That their music is squeaky clean, completely devoid of edge. But when you actually listen to some of the lyrics and subject matter told in the litany of storytelling tracks, they broach some interesting ground. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:07) Ben...

The discography of Schoolly D is one of the most diverse and lengthy that we've ever covered on DITD. Where he begins providing the seeds of what eventually becomes known as "Gangsta Rap", he then goes through a more pro-Black phase in the 90s and nowadays operates as a relative experimentalist for somebody whose debut came out in 1985. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:15) Ben: Benny the Butc...

In what is probably our shortest retrospective in DITD history, we cover another Treacherous Three member in Spoonie Gee who is apparently a precursor to Gangsta Rap but when listening to his work, it seems to paint a different picture... TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:49) Ben: Wu-Tang - Black Samson Vinnie Paz - God Sent Vengeance Charlie:  Bishop Nehru - Trapbap Uwade - Florilegium Coco J...

Hello DITD listeners! Charlie here. As a bonus for this week, I have an interview for you to step to! I - along with "In Search Of Sauce" alum, Music Journalist Miki Hellerbach - talk to Ryder who broke out a few years back with his now iconic #Skeptacore series. Now, he's dropping a new series of EPs named "RYDERHOOD", the first edition dropping this Friday. In this interview which is dropping si...

After covering Kool Moe Dee last week , it seemed right to go back and look at the pioneering group that he was a member of: The Treacherous Three. With two albums 10 years apart, they serve as great markers in how much evolution happened from '84 to '94. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:10) Charlie: namesbliss - Signature Sound Boog Brown - Super Useful Tools Adrian Younge - Adrian Younge pr...

If you were to name a rapper that embodies the word 'confidence', you could probably name at least 10 rappers that fit the word. Is one of them Kool Moe Dee? A case could be made that he's the most confident sounding rapper on wax, all the way from his first album in 1986 to his last in '94. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:57) Ben: Ken Carson - More chaos RJ Payne - Leatherface 4 Lords of th...

Another year, another DITD Anniversary! For our 6th anniversary, we look back at some of our favourite moments, with clips for you newer listeners. Episodes covered will be below if you want to get into them proper. And as always, whether you've been listening since Ep. 1 or since last week, we appreciate you listening. Here's to six years! TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (1:39) Charlie: Rachel...

Jersey-centred trio Lords of the Underground represented a lot of what we now consider the hallmarks of the Golden Age of Hip-Hop: Youthful energy, fast flows and great sample-based production. This led to two great back-to-back projects and two other albums of varying quality. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:41) Ben: Boldy James x Antt Beatz - Hommage Will Smith - Based on a True Story NAV...

We finish our WHM celebrations with an artist that is never talked about. Maybe it's due to her not getting traction off her one studio album? Maybe the message fell on deaf ears? We get to the answer of course but regardless of reason, Queen Mother Rage is Hip-Hop history and we take this opportunity - to finish WHM - covering a small piece of the 90s Hip-Hop puzzle. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roun...

With the recent passing of R&B legend Angie Stone, we thought it was a good time as any - in the midst of our WHM celebrations - to celebrate her pre-solo career with Cheryl "The Pearl" Cook and Gwendolyn "Blondie" Chisholm as the early 80s all-female Hip-Hop trailblazers The Sequence. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:44) Ben: Playboi Carti - MUSIC Currensy x Harry Fraud - Never Catch Us...

Continuing our WHM celebrations, we get into MC Trouble who tragically died aged 21, leaving us with her 1990 debut studio album that featured her name on the production credits - a rarity for female rappers at the time - and provided a great thematic mixture of womanhood and Black solidarity. TIMESTAMPS: Weekly Music Roundup - (0:50) Ben: Black Soprano Family - The Outcome YoungBoy NBA - More Lea...