Second Avenue Podcast

In this week’s episode, we each pick our top five modern rap duos, considering quality, quantity, and personal preference. We’ve included official duos that have released projects together, as well as frequent collaborators. We also discuss our thoughts on Tyler, the Creator’s “Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale”, Lollapalooza daily lineups, and the Mac Miller x Madlib collab album.

To finish off March’s theme of a new bracket each week, we’re back with the 2008 Pop Hits bracket. We each selected 8 hit songs from 2008 and randomized the matchups to see which song wins it all! From Kanye West to Taylor Swift to Adele, this episode is full of familiar favorites from fifteen years ago! We also discuss this week’s releases, highlighted by JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown’s long-awaite...

Continuing with March’s theme of weekly brackets, we’re back with the Nickelodeon TV shows bracket. This episode, we’ll decide which classic 2000’s Nickelodeon wins it all. One side of the bracket will pit live-action favorites like Drake & Josh and Zoey 101 against each other and the winner will face off against the winner from the cartoon side with classics like Spongebob Squarepants and The...

Staying in the March Madness spirit, Jonathon and Elijah are back with another bracket. This week, we’ll be deciding which song is the best in Travis Scott’s catalog. From chart topping hits like “Goosebumps” and “Sicko Mode” to fan favorites like “Drugs You Should Try It” and “90210,” see which song wins it all. They also discuss Drake & 21 Savage’s upcoming tour, JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown’...

It’s March so that means brackets all month! The Second Ave Boys are back with another bracket, this time we’re switching it up from our usual music content and deciding which is the best fast food restaurant of the sixteen we selected for this bracket. We also discuss J. Cole hinting at a potential retirement, Danny Brown & JPEGMAFIA’s upcoming album, Drake headlining Dreamville Festival, and...

To celebrate last week’s NBA All Star Game, Jonathon and Elijah are back with another edition of “Rating NBA References” where they take a look at lyrics that mention NBA players from Baby Tron, Pop Smoke, Freddie Gibbs, Drake, and more! They also discuss The Weeknd closing in on 100 Million monthly listeners on Spotify, Drake considering retirement, Epic Records CEO announcing Travis Scott’s Utop...

Inspired by a TikTok trend, Jonathon and Elijah put their spin on 20 questions and try to guess rappers and rap albums in 20 questions or less. They also discuss the Grammys, Ib from Dreamville teasing J. Cole’s album “The Fall Off” and their favorite songs of the week.

In this week’s episode, Jonathon and Elijah predict who will win awards at the 2023 Grammys. At the time of the recording, several awards in the Rap and R&B categories had already been awarded, so they also reacted to those winners. They also discuss 21 Savage being named Complex’s Rapper of the Year, Rihanna’s upcoming halftime show, and more!

Jonathon and Elijah have each picked five artists that they think will blow up this year. They also take a look back at the artists which they thought would blow up last year and see how accurate those predictions were. They also look at the results of last week’s aux battle, Drake’s deep cut setlist at his concert at the Apollo, and talk about some upcoming releases from Lil Yachty and Cordae.

After Elijah came back to win Aux Battle #4, the all-time series is now tied 2-2. In a pivotal game five, who will take the lead in the best-of-7 series. For this aux battle, Jonathon and Elijah will pick songs that were released in their birth month, with a blue album cover, from a collab album, from their top ten albums of 2022, that they’ve seen live, that they’d listen to before a basketball g...

For this week’s episode, Jonathon and Elijah have each made five hot takes or bold predictions about what they think will happen this year. From Frank Ocean to J. Cole to Baby Keem and more, tune in to find out what they this year may have in store for rap fans.

As we start the new year, Jonathon and Elijah take a look at some albums they’re patiently awaiting. 2022 was a great year for new music with stars like Kendrick Lamar and Drake dropping projects, but there’s just as much starpower potentially dropping this year. They also discuss The Weeknd’s record breaking night, Westside Gunn talking about retirement, and President Obama’s favorite songs of 20...

For the final episode of 2022, Jonathon and Elijah pick their winners for 2022 Rap MVP, Most Improved, Rookie of the Year, and more!

With albums from this generation’s legends like Kendrick Lamar and Drake, as well as rising stars like JID and Denzel Curry, 2022 has been a stacked year for music releases. In this episode, Jonathon and Elijah discuss their top 10 albums of the year and show love to some honorable mentions that narrowly missed the cut.

2022 is coming to an end so to kick off our end of the year lists, Jonathon and Elijah start by each picking their top 25 songs of the year. From Kendrick Lamar to LUCKI to Lil Tjay and everything in between, see which tracks we thought stood out from the past year of releases. We also discuss SZA’s new album, Young Nudy having 172 tracks leaked, and Gucci Mane dropping an 80-song project.

It’s officially Spotify Wrapped/Apple Replay season! Jonathon and Elijah take a look at their top songs & artists they each listened to in 2022. Then, they try to guess a missing artist from ten listener’s Spotify Wrapped or Apple Replay after seeing the other four artists. They also discuss Metro Boomin’s new project, SZA’s upcoming album, and more!

It’s been one week since Brockhampton released their two final albums as a group so Jonathon and Elijah give their thoughts on the ending of the group, what the future holds for the members, and take a look back on some of their favorite BH songs and moments.

Jonathon & Elijah are joined by a special guest to decide the best rap hit of 2018. They each added songs to the pool of songs and randomized the matchups to decide which faced off. From Drake to Sheck Wes to Pusha T and everybody in between, 2018 was full of great tracks, but only one track can win in this week’s bracket. Elijah & Jonathon also discuss this week’s new music releases, 2023...

In this week’s episode, Jonathon and Elijah take a look at some of the most famous lies LeBron James has told throughout his career. They also talk about The Walking Dead series finale, Drake & 21 Savage’s potential tour, and more!

Jonathon and Elijah share their thoughts on one of the most star-studded collab rap albums in recent years. They also discuss Taylor Swift’s record-breaking week on the charts, Brockhampton’s new single, and more!

In this Halloween special episode of Second Avenue Podcast, Jonathon and Elijah take a look at some memorable Halloween costumes worn by rappers in the past few years and rank them. Then they talk about this week’s releases, Brockhampton’s “The Family” album announcement, and Drake & 21 Savage’s album getting delayed one week.

A follow-up to a fan favorite from a few months ago, Jonathon and Elijah are back to rank twenty more album covers. From Baby on Baby 2 to Lil Yachty’s Poland single, find out their thoughts on this set of covers. They also discuss the announcement of Drake & 21 Savage’s collab album dropping this Friday, Taylor Swift’s “Midnights”, and more!

Elijah looks to bounce back from a 7-0 loss against Jonathon in Aux Battle 3. This time they’ll pick songs with: spooky instrumental, football reference, no feature, 2022 hit, by an artist with under 1 million monthly Spotify listeners, song on album Pitchfork rated below a 5, and a song off an album with a red cover. They also discuss the week’s upcoming releases, Lil Yachty’s “Poland” coming to...

It’s been a busy few weeks since our last upload. Elijah took a trip to Rolling Loud NYC, Jonathon saw Pusha T & IDK in St. Louis, and they went to the Lyrical Lemonade 9th Anniversary show in Chicago together. They recap all the highlights (and a few lowlights) from a crazy week seeing some of their favorite artists. They also discuss the past two weeks of music releases, Jordan Poole catchin...

Last week, Jonathon and Elijah decided which chart-topping Drake track was king. With one of the deepest catalogs in rap today, it’s only right that they take a look at some of the more underrated and slept on tracks from his discography. They also discuss Elijah’s upcoming trip to Rolling Loud NYC, YZYSHDZ, Post Malone breaking his ribs, and more!