Southern Vangard

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Chris Crack interview session! We head to the Chi this week for our Thursday interview session, and man is this a special one. About two years ago, this MC flipped the switch on his output and it’s been a deluge of unique, high quality and consistent material - which is frankly hard to come by these days. This week Chris is celebrating with our good frien...

Episode 225 - Southern Vangard Radio BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep225! Two and a QUATAH Vangardians! Doe & Meeks are back in the saddle this week and boy is it a doozy! We have WORLD EXCLUSIVES from L-Biz & RoobxCube (courtesy of the homie G4 Jag), Zilla Roca & Curly Castro (for real this time) AND our in-studio guest OXYGEN! Ox dropped by to talk about his his new LP, the Tom Caruana produced...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep224! Doe is out of pocket this week so we’re giving ya’ll his August appearance on Techniques Radio, a weekly hip-hop show that airs on WREK 91.1 FM Georgia Tech Radio in Atlanta, and is run by Ran Mo & The Wrecking Crew All-Stars DJ crew. This was recorded August 22, 2019 and as usual features tons of new hip-hop - radio clean, mind you - kind of safe for work / fa...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Left Lane Didon interview session! It’s our opinion here at Southern Vangard Radio that Delaware is the next spot to watch. This MC and his extended crew - Jay Nice, All Hail Y.T. and Chris Skillz to name a few - and the production team they’ve assembled over the past 2-3 years, is a force to be reckoned with. We get Left on the horn to talk about his rel...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep223! Fellow Vangardians…WAAAAAALCOME to yet another week of that WORK from your guys Meeks & Doe. It’s what you’ve come to expect here - how about WORLD EXCLUSIVES from JR Swiftz “Macstrumental” project that drops this week…or maybe a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from Zilla Roc & Curly Castro…and how about a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from DJ Criminal & illogic AND how about they both call...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Stack Skrilla & Jay Nice interview session! We got the line on the ultra exclusive this week folks - these two gentlemen have had a VERY busy 2018 & 2019, and are turning up the heat this week with the announcement that their 2018 project “Holy Mountain” is getting the vinyl treatment on Chong Wizard Records. We get on the horn to talk about the genesis o...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep222! Don’t FRET, don’t SKRUGGLE and most importantly DON’T WORRY ‘BOUT IT MANE ‘cause we’re back this week with what could be a contender for greatest mix show of all time here at Southern Vangard Radio. We had to punt last week due to Labor Day and Doe was under the weather - but MAN we are firing on all cylinders with TWO HOUR Ep222 this week and our Thursday inte...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Jamal Gasol interview session! We stayed upstate NY this week after our M.A.V. interview session last week - you just can’t front on the pedigree that’s coming out of the region now - and Niagara Fall’s own Jamal Gasol is no exception. To kick things off, we get the behind the scenes story about the Big Turks project that just dropped on Chong Wizard Reco...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep221! We’re back in the Bourbon Room aka Dirty Blanket Studios this week, and ridin’ shotty is Wild Turkey 101 and the incredible Old Nation Brut IPA from their Woodshed Pilot Series. What does that mean? It means you’re in for one HELL of a mix show and interview, that’s what it means!! As always, tons of new hip-hop abound this week, and it goes without saying you’...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the M.A.V. interview session! It goes without saying that upstate NY is running this real rap shit right now. - yeah we said it, and stand by it. We continue to peel back those layers this week with Rochester’s own M.A.V., an MC who is a member of Da Cloth, a dense crew that includes Rigz, Mooch and Rob Gates to name a few. Maverick has the stoved turned up w...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep220! Desperately trying to keep cool and get some sleep this week, Doe & Meeks return with a cavalcade of new joints for Ep220 - including FIVE WORLD EXCLUSIVES and yet another introspective interview session that drops this Thursday. Who might that be with, you ask? None other than M.A.V. of Da Cloth! He has a new EP dropping any day now called “Dust To Dust” with...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the G4 Jag interview session! This Harlem MC has been manhandling 2019 ever since he dropped “The Survivors”, a project that featured white-hot Flee Lord and L-Biz, which found itself on vinyl via Dutch label De Rap Winkel - and now has a hefty asking price in collectors circles. He hasn’t stopped since with two projects this summer - “Nothing Was Given” and...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep219! Folks - this week is off the f*cking rails, straight up. Doe & Meeks bring you FOUR WORLD WIDE EXCLUSIVES in Ep219, two of them courtesy of TOP SHELF PREMIUM - who we also have an interview with at the end of the mix this week to talk about his jaw dropping “SUPPLY & DEMAND” event with MEYHEM LAUREN & friends in Brooklyn on Aug 30. Did we mention two of the wor...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Bubu The Prince interview session! Doe & Meeks head to Cali this week - San Diego, to be exact - to rap with Bubu The Prince, a young MC on the come up who is also a key part of Eto’s New Crack Era westward expansion. We kick things off with Bubu breaking down his face melting single with Nems, “Rilla”, what his success and movement means to him and how i...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep218! *** REST IN PEACE to the ONE and ONLY PATEN LOCKE. This episode was recorded before we knew of his passing. Peace, love & strength to his family, friends and Full Plate fam. We love you P. *** We got that raw AND that jiggy this week Vangardians, so buckle in and listen up to Ep217 for the latest and greatest hip-hop you might or might not have heard. Doe & Mee...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Rhinoceros Funk interview session! Doe & Meeks head to the Bronx this week to chop it up with Rhinoceros Funk - an MC / DJ who has been holding down real rap radio for over 20 years in some shape, form or fashion - the latest being Guerrilla Grooves Radio alongside PNC DJ FredOnes. If that ain’t enough, he’s 1/3 of Sophisticated Savage, a newly formed gro...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep217! Twice a week is BAKNEFFEK folks - Doe & Meeks are back with another shenanigan-filled mix show that features the latest and greatest hip-hop joints not to mention the best sh*t talking this side of the universe - AND we managed to get someone to show up for an interview session this week! RHINOCEROS FUNK of Sophisticated Savage / Guerrilla Grooves Radio is our...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep216! Alright ya’ll get ready for more of that raw this week, as we have the one and only SUPASTITION in-studio for Ep216 AND drop THREE WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVES from his upcoming EP, “SACRIFICE,” that drops THIS FRIDAY, JULY 26. Go get that pre-order now and hit Supa direct for a limited-edition run of 100 physical CD’s. This project is a special one as Supa handled all...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Reckonize Real interview session! This Queens producer has been carving out quite a name for himself over the past decade, and even more so the past two years via projects with Moka Only & Guilty Simpson. This month finds Reck dropping his brand new producer LP, “Bridges & Tunnels”, which finds him collaborating with top tier talent such as Guilty Simpson...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep215! Doe is back from vacay and we’re back in the saddle for another adventure filled week here at Southern Vangard Radio. We have FOUR, count ‘em, FOUR WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVES for you this week, including a cut from the upcoming Kev Brown & J. Science album that features the one and only DJ Jon Doe on the cuts! Next, the homie GodBless Beatz hit us with two joints off...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Eto interview session! This Rochester, NY MC / producer has been steadily building a name for himself over the past decade - starting with a mixtape via DJ Drama’s infamous Gangsta Grillz series in 2009 to straight manhandling the end of 2018 and the first half of 2019 through his collaborations with producers Vinyl Villain, Superior and the one and only...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep214! Well folks, here we are - if it hasn’t felt like summer yet, this is the week where it all sinks in. So while you’re getting ready for that July 4th cookout, your guys Doe & Meeks have plenty of the dopest hip-hop on the planet and interviews to boot that can hold you down through the holiday weekend. There’s 213 other mix shows episode on top of this one- go a...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep213! Quick turn this week from our last episode as we were a little late out of the gate last week. This week finds us with a longer than usual mix as our interviewee cancelled on us last minute, and we ALMOST had a backfill but it didn’t work out. Sooooo, we tacked on another 30 minutes which means this weeks mix is over 2 hours long and includes the first ever TEN...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the JR Swiftz interview session! This Charlotte by way of Virginia Beach by way of Brooklyn producer is having a hell of a run at the moment. While 2017 & 2018 found him producing for Westside Gunn & Conway of Griselda Records, as well as Far Rockaway’s Flee Lord, 2019 looks to be even more fruitful. JR is fresh of the heels of releasing “Coming Forth By Day”...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep212! We got you covered this week folks, albeit a tad late. Doe was on the move for fam and work at the beginning of the week, and American Airlines pulled a fast one on him that caused a delay in dropping the episodes this week. Nonetheless, we’re still bringing you that Twice A Week goodness, just all in one day! Tons of new joints and trash talk from Doe & Meeks...