Southern Vangard

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep211! We told ya’ll Doe had something up his sleeve this week! Given there’s no interview session this Thursday due to a last minute scheduling issue with our guest, we’ve still found a way to keep that Twice A Week flow going. Episode 211 is DJ Jon Doe’s most recent appearance on Techniques Radio, a weekly hip-hop show that airs on WREK 91.1 FM Georgia Tech Radio in...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep210! Hey there friends, we’re back again with that Episode 210! Yeah that rhyme might be sorry, but you won’t find anything like that in the mix this week. The onslaught of high quality hip-hop continues, as does Meeks’ & Doe’s debauchery. No interview session on Thursday this week as we had a last minute schedule conflict, but i’s possible Doe has something up his...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents The Good People interview session! Producer/MC Saint & MC/DJ Emskee blazed into 2019 after a 6-year life-happens hiatus with “Good For Nuthin’”, a feel-good, uptempo album that was feature-rich and a welcome alternative to the hazy, sub-90 bpm style the underground is wrapped around the axle on at the moment. They’re whipping right back around this summer wit...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep209! Hey ho there Vangardians, we’re on that Three Is The Magic Number vibe this week. Three you say? Yep, we already dropped a mix on Monday this week! Doe got together with Deejay Element & Mark Ski and dropped “ONE”, a free mixtape celebrating Five Se7en Collective’s 1 year anniversary! Hit FiveSe7enCollective.com for that free download now, and then lock into Ep...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Primo Jab & GodBlessBeatz interview session! It’s always a real treat to have folks in-studio for our interview sessions, and this week is no different as Jab & Bless dropped in to talk about all things new & old. This Atlanta by way of Chicago duo have been steadily building a foundation over the past few years that is paying off in a big way in 2019, an...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep208! Summertime is here in the A folks - school is out, it’s in the mid-90’s ALREADY and the we’re wrapping up the Memorial Day hangover with a boat load of brand new hip-hop and shenanigans from your guys Doe & Meeks. We were extremely blessed to have Primo Jab & GodBlessBeatz in-studio for our interview session that drops on Thursday this week, and they stuck arou...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the CMNY interview session! Carlos Maldonado is the founder, creator & owner of Classic Material New York, a boutique clothing company that began in 2010, largely due to what Carlos saw as an massive under-representation of New York-centric hip-hop fashion. Thanks to friend-of-Southern Vangard, P. Watts of Raw Wattage, we connected with Carlos to talk about t...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep207! Hey there folks, buckle up for a doozy this week - Meeks and Doe are on back on that barrel proof brown again for the 2nd week in a row! Big up to Whitlock Package in Marietta for stocking that Knob Creek 120 proof Single Barrel Select - say what?!?! Yeah, it was that type of night. We had our foot on the gas and the gas in our bourbon glass, which means the mu...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Che Noir interview session! We’ll just go ahead and say it - upstate NY is running this real rap sh*t right now - and Che Noir is a major part of the reason why. This deadly MC / producer from the Eastside of Buffalo is about to release “Thrill of the Hunt Vol. 2” in early June, so we got her on the horn to get the early scoop, talk about her success last...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep206! How did you good folks out there like the FOUR episodes we dropped last week - what’s that, you didn’t hear that we dropped Episode 205 and THREE interviews last week?! Ya’ll can’t keep up with us - but you can try! All jokes aside, we’re back with two more in the chamber this week - a tremendous amount of new heat this week on Episode 206, and our interviewee...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Five Steez & Mordecai interview session! We began playing Steez & Mordecai’s music in the early days of the show - something like Episode 80 or so. Almost three years later, these guys drop a hell of an album called “Love N Art”, so we had to get on the horn to talk with these two Kingston, Jamaica natives to talk about the premise behind the album, how M...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Truth interview session! Vangardians, you can’t make up the things that happen to us - so we get a call from the homie P Watts of Raw Wattage week ago - he wanted to let us know Queens MC Truth would be in the A soon and he wanted to connect us. Lo and behold - Truth was not only in town - he was staying right up the street from Doe in Marietta! Truth cam...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the C Keys & Kazi interview session! We hit the West Coast this week with two underground Cali legends - Oxnard’s own Kazi & Sactown’s C Keys (FKA The Infamous MC). Many know these two gentlemen were an integral part of the late 90s & early 2000s underground hip-hop tsunami that came out of LA & the Bay Area and made certified classics alongside comrades Madl...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep205! Alright ya’ll, back at it after a hiatus last week. Like we said, April is tough as Doe spends a lot of time on the West Coast for work (this rap shIt ain’t paying the bills, trust) and there’s just no getting around it. That being said, we are back to our regularly scheduled #TwiceAWeek program as we push through Spring and head into Summer! If that isn’t good...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Vinyl Villain interview session! This Boston producer left an undeniable mark on the underground at the end of 2018 with “New Crack Era”, a collaboration with white-hot Rochester MC Eto. His first project of 2019 dropped this week - “A Cold World - a full length endeavor with another MC that’s pushed himself above the fray as of late, Washington D.C.’s ow...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep204! 🏁 #TheMarathonContinues 🏁 No time for small talk - let’s get into this sh*t. We’re back. Vinyl Villain interview drops Thursday, snippets at the end of the mix. ALWAYS AND FOREVER THAT #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on #applepodcasts #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud #youtube // #hiphop #rap #undergro...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Chong Wizard interview session! We head West and a touch North this week to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to chat with this world renown DJ, Producer & mixtape king about all kinds of things, new & old. Kicking things off we get the low down on the making of “The Space Stone”, the 3rd installment in his “Infinity Stones” series, which finds Chong pa...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep203! Spring has sprung Vangardians and we have more of that uncut raw for you this week! If this is the first time you’re joining - WALCOME! We drop TWICE A WEEK - Tuesdays it’s a mix show of the latest hip-hop sliced and diced by DJ Jon Doe alongside hosting shenanigans from Eddie Meeks & Doe - and Thursdays find us getting our Montell Williams & Phil Donahue on wi...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Stik Figa & Rob Viktum interview session! Now we’ve had both of these gentlemen on the show over the past couple of years - Stik when he dropped “Central Standard Time” and Rob when he launched his sound library company, Kersey & Castle. When we found out these two forces of nature had collided on a full length project, we had to be a part of rolling it o...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 202! This episode was recorded on March 17, which means we don’t start anything until we say Happy Birthday & Rest In Peace to the one and only Sean Price! The brother single handedly made this little podcast relevant - we are forever indebted to him. Across the globe & universe, he is greatly missed but we celebrate you P! Alright Vangardians - we got so much more...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Knowledge The Pirate interview session! Ahoy Vangardians! Look, we’re gonna cut straight to it - this is easily a Top 5 - maybe Top 3 - interview session. If the stories aren’t enough, the passion and energy that come alongside them will put you over the top. Frankly, we don’t even know where to start when it comes to explaining what you’ll find in this i...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 201! Don’t think for a single second we’re gonna lift the foot off your neck this week, folks. While the historic Ep200 was all WORLD EXCLUSIVES and was a hell of a party, we mash the pedal to the floor with a ton of incredible new music AND easily a TOP 5 INTERVIEW to date. Who could the interview be with, you ask? KNOWLEDGE THE PIRATE. ‘Nuff said - snippets are a...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the 38 Spesh interview session! The Rochester underground has maintained it’s feverish buzz as 2019 gets under way, and this MC / producer is a large part of the reason why. While Spesh’s resume goes back to the early 2000’s, he reintroduced himself to the world in a big way last year after stepping away from the game for a few years. We catch up with Spesh o...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 200! Unbelievable - 4 years and 2 months later, we’re at Episode 200 of our weekly mix show. On top of that, we’re delivering our 164th interview session this week on Thursday with Rochester’s own 38 Spesh. That’s 364 episodes of nothing but that RAW, week after week since January 1, 2015! All that said - it was nothing but a party for Ep200 - our good friends DJ P...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Rick Hyde interview session! Over the past few years, Buffalo has undoubtedly cemented it’s place in hip-hop history. Rick Hyde of Benny The Butcher’s Black Soprano Family has played a large part in that, crafting soundscapes for Buffalo’s finest as well as bonafide rap superstars like French Montana. At the top of 2019, Pretty Ricky dropped “Plates”, his...