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ATTENDEES Fleetwood DeVille, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk about the overall legacy of No Limit Records from a business model and artistic perspective. Analyze Young Bleed-My Balls and My Word, Mac-Shell Shocked, Mia X-Unlady Like, and Fiend-There’s One in Every Family. Intro and Outro music by Ohbliv from Mindgarden . 

ATTENDEES Nate Barksdale, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk about The Colors I’ve Never Seen and how it will influence the next project. Nominate the 2022 R&B Class of The Future! Intro and Outro music by Ohbliv off the album Black Keys Wit Melodies

ATTENDEES Juga-Naut, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Discuss Juga-Naut’s development in music and approach to the work. Talk about the difference in approach between self-produced work like Situationist and Bem v. Produced by others work like Smoke Filled Rooms with Giallo Point. Intro and Outro music by Ohbliv from his album Spirit Medicine  

ATTENDEES Mantis The Miasma, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business Talk about Mantis journey into hip hop and connection to the scene, the music that molded the Mantis! Discuss the albums Eastern Medicine, Western Illness Aethiopes (with billy woods) and Days of Dr. Yen Lo (with Ka). Analyze each album as well as the overall sound that makes Preservation special.

ATTENDEES Nick Marsh, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business Discuss Focus Hip Hop and the editorial vision of what projects to focus on and how. Breakdown what is special about Anwar Highsign- Live N*gga Prophesy , Fatboi Sharif x Lonesword- Cyber City Society , Spaceman Jones and The Motherships- Immaculate Conception , and s.al- I Will Guide You Out . Intro and Outro music by Ohbliv of...

ATTENDEES OKnice, Daniel Olney, Keith Rollins AGENDA New Business Talk to OKnice about the next level of recognition achieved by his new album Have You Tried Being Happy? and how that was achieved. Discuss this week's albums: Koffee-Gifted, Bun-B x Cory Mo-Mo Trill, and Larry June x Jay Worthy x LNDN DRGS-2 P’z In A Pod. Intro and Outro bumper music from Mindgarden by Ohbliv

ATTENDEES Myles Bullen, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Talk about the process of creating Mourning Travels and the events that went into it. Discuss sequencing, guests, and overall tone of the album. What the experience is supposed to give the listener. Intro and Outro by Ohbliv from the Rugged Tranquility series here . 

Dan O sits down with one of the hottest underground producers, MIGHTYHEALTHY, and finds out his first beat is on this new album MIGHTYCANNONS with ACE CANNONS. This album is so loud and so fun it deserves the depth and joy in this conversation. Enjoy and buy a sticker pack for the little dun's.

ATTENDEES Stik Figa, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney New Business Talk to Stik Figa about the necessary elements of altering direction over the course of a long career and how it changes over time. Talk specifically about moving from his 2021 album Joyland to 2022’s Heresy. Intro and outro bumper music by Ohbliv off his album Ohblique  

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