Southern Vangard

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep240! Our Fifth Anniversary celebration this past Saturday night here in the A was yet another for the books, Vangardians! Thank you to everyone that came out to support, thank you to all the artists that tore down that stage and thank you to all the listeners that tracked Doe or Meeks down and introduced yourselves to us, it was great meeting you in the flesh. Alrig...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Bobby Feeno interview session! As we mentioned in Ep239 on Tuesday - our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION is THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020 at 529 EAV here in Atlanta - and we are incredibly honored, alongside Speakeasy Promotions, to help bring the “SOUTH FOR THE WINTER” tour to the A on this night, which features Bobby himself & NYC’s Marlon Craft! Given...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Marlon Craft interview session! As we mentioned in Ep239 on Tuesday - our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION is THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020 at 529 EAV here in Atlanta - and headlining is Hell’s Kitchen’s own MARLON CRAFT. We caught Marlon at his home in NYC before he hits the road for the “SOUTH FOR THE WINTER” tour with BOBBY FEENO - which is his first st...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep239! Alright folks, this is the week - our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION is THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020 at 529 EAV here in Atlanta - and boy oh BOY do we have a SHOW for you! Alongside Speakeasy Promotions, we’re bringing you MARLON CRAFT, BOBBY FEENO, J57, SHABAAM SAHDEEQ, J. SCIENIDE, HEEM STOGIED, YOUNI SOUL, LORD TOOZY, SELF JUPITER of FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP a...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the CODENINE interview session! This week marks our FIFTH anniversary folks, and we kicked off the new year with a smoking Ep238 mix show chock full of WORLD EXCLUSIVES, including two ULTRA exclusive joints from our 194th interview session guest this week - Lynn, MA’s own Codenine of the Tragic Allies. We quickly dig in DEEP to get the historical scoop on how...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep238! IT’S OUR ANNIVERSARY!!!! We celebrate FIVE YEARS of Southern Vangard Radio this week Vangardians! Can you believe it?! Doe & Meeks have been giving ya’ll that RAW week after week for FIVE. YEARS. 238 mix shows. 194 Interview Sessions. Countless artists and records broken. We raise our glass to you - the listeners and artists that have supported us over the year...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep237! Alright folks it’s the last day of 2019 and we have TWO mix show episodes we’re dropping before head into 2020! Ep237 thankfully marks the return of Eddie Meeks after his stolen car debacle a few weeks ago, and also marks the OFFICIAL announcement of our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION show that’s going down Sat, Jan 18 at 529 in East Atlanta Village! We’ve got a...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep236! Alright folks it’s the last day of 2019 and we have TWO mix show episodes we’re dropping before head into 2020. The recording of Ep236 was done 5 days before Christmas, and was a solo mission for Doe, because some idiot stole Meeks car right out of his driveway one chilly Atlanta morning while he was warming up the ride. Merry Christmas, right? So while Meeks w...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the MADHATTAN interview session! We head back up top this week to talk with NYC’s Madhattan, who’s been dropping projects and guest features at a dizzying pace in 2019. Mad is fresh off performing at Top Shelf Premium’s “Supply & Demand” Holiday Edition last week at Chelsea Music Hall, so he gives on the low down on on how things went, his bar fest at Shade45...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep235! Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey HEY - it’s still Tuesday ya’ll - we might have crept in at the 11th hour, but we made it. Doe & Meeks are back with the usual - fly commentary, brand new joints and just an overall good time - it’s pretty hard to beat if you really think about it. This weeks Ep235 also finds us checking in the Don Chicharon himself, the one and o...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the SHAWN J. PERIOD® interview session! If there was ever a week where Smithsonian Grade applied, this is it. We’re documenting history over here, Vangardians, not to mention giving ya’ll straight GAME - so fix your face, sit up straight, pay attention and take notes! This producer’s history and evolution over the years is remarkable - from getting signed by...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep234! Oh BOY do we have a few winners for you this week, fellow Vangardians! Of course we’re dropping a new mix this week with all the latest and greatest new hip-hop this side of the universe - and of course we’re dropping an interview session on Thursday, ‘cause we’ve been on that Twice A Week vibe from jump. HOWEVER, there’s WAY more than that - how about HEEM STO...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the SUPERIOR interview session! Meeks & Doe take a trip over the Atlantic to Germany this week to talk with German producer Superior, who had quite the year after dropping “Long Story Short” with none other than ETO back in April. Superior’s continuing his white-hot streak by continuing to working with the finest the game has to offer, as he prepares to drop...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep233! Pull up to the table and let your belt out folks, The Gard has a lot in store for you this holiday week. If you’re bored to tears or just can’t deal with the family shenanigans, we’re here to help. First off - we’ve got a GRIP of WORLD EXCLUSIVES - the homie SPITTZWELL tossed two joints over the fence to us, FASTLIFE hit us with a joint in preparation for his n...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep232! It’s battle of the browns this week folks, Kentucky vs Tennessee as Meeks rolled up to the Dirty Blanket Studios with a bottle of some of TN’s finest whiskey, Uncle Nearest - and put it head to head with Doe’s Old Bardstown. Just off that alone, there’s not much explaining to do - you can imagine this is quite the episode. 2019 is far from over as far as new mu...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the ANKHLEJOHN interview session! We’ve been locked in to this DC MC/producer and overall renaissance man since his 2017 release “RED ROOM” - specifically when him and CAMOFLAUGE MONK dropped that “Rayful Edmond” missile on the world - it was one hell of a night at Southern Vangard HQ when we dropped that in the mix on Ep133. We get Ankh Nasty on the phone to...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep231! Make room, Vangardians, as Doe & Meeks crank out another two pieces of stellar content to get you through the week! First, Ep231 is chock full of brand spanking new hip-hop joints, side splitting commentary AND has an EXCLUSIVE interview with our good friend, COUNT BASS D! Count called in to give us the inside scoop on “Edibles”, his brand new instrumental proj...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the SAUCE HEIST interview session! We’re on a roll with in-studio interview sessions at the moment - we ran into the homie Sauce at A3C this year, and managed to catch him again this week while he was in town doing some work in the A. Sauce is fresh off the “Spanish Sauce” EP with producer Spanish Ran, so we get the run down on that project, why Sauce had a m...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep230! Coming off what will go down as the most significant release week of 2019, at least as far this rap shit goes, your guys Doe & Meeks couldn’t be happier. A BRAND SPANKING NEW GANG STARR ALBUM THAT’S AN INSTANT CLASSIC?! Yeah we don’t EVER say that - but we’re saying it now. “ONE OF THE BEST YET “ is out now…MAN. Throw in the new Westside Gunn, the Brother Ali &...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the ULTRA BEAST interview session! It’s only right we have rhyme animals 4-IZE & SEÑOR KAOS for our Thursday interview session this week, given Halloween falls on a Thursday this year. These two Atlanta MC’s have come together again to form as ULTRA BEAST and are dropping their 2nd LP “UNITED” on Nov. 8th. They dropped by for an in-studio interview to talk ab...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep229! BIG MEEKS BACK, BIG MEEKS BACK, THAT’S ALL THESE FANS SCREAMING THAT BIG MEEKS BACK! The birthday boy has returned from Memphis, and he brought a bottle of that Bibb & Tucker Small Batch with him (thanks to DJ Pocket), not to mention we had a Knob Creek Single Barrel 120 proof ridin’ shotty. Like usual, we played bunch of dope, new rap records, talked a lot of...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep228! VANGARDIANS - stop EVERYTHING right NOW and wish a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to EDDIE CAPPUCCINO SOUTH MEMPHIS MEEKS! El Guapo himself was out of town this weekend on a birthday extravaganza but we keep the torch lit and welcomed our good friend DJ POCKET to help out Doe with the co-host. Tons of new joints as always - including a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from our in-studio gu...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep227! Hey ho there folks, it’s that time of the week, so WALCOME to you all! Doe & Meeks have you covered with all the latest raw ish here on Ep227, and there’s quite a bit of it this week as as our scheduled interviewee for our Thurs interview session was a straight NO SHOW. Their loss, not ours nor yours - that just means you get a longer, plentiful mix this week a...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Jazzsoon interview session! If you don’t this gentleman, get up to speed NOW. This producer blew the doors off 2019 early alongside PNC Nems with “Gorilla Monsoon” - a blistering 13-track LP that is hands down a top tier contender for AOTY and over time will go down in history as a bonafide classic - yeah we said it. We get Jazz on the horn to talk about...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep226! Good friends of THE GARD, WALCOME to another fun filled episode with your friends Meeks & Doe. The severe heat has finally subsided here in Atlanta, fall is basically here and we’re barreling into the final stretch of 2019! Gobs of new music this week as you would expect, including a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from CHONG WIZARD’s “TIME STONE” which goes up for pre-order t...