Southern Vangard

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep305! Y’all ready for the fourth quarter blitz? This is always an exciting (and relentless) time of year for new music, but don’t fret if you can’t keep up - this is exactly where you need to be to catch the cream of the crop every week. Doe is flying solo this week but still manages to keep it lively and of course there’s tons of new music, including TWO WORLD EXCLU...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the EL DA SENSEI & JAKE PALUMBO interview session! These two gentlemen have to be some of the hardest working cats in the biz, and they’ve united forces to bring you “SOLVING CASES”, which drops everywhere this Friday, Sept 24. We get all of the behind the scenes goods on the making of the album, why it was a 6-year process and the immense amount of planning...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep304! Giddy up Vangardians, Doe and Meeks are back after an unexpected absence last week. Dropping twice this week per the usual, our Tues mix features heaps of brand new hip-hop, including a WORLD EXCLUSIVE set from our Thurs interview guests this week - EL DA SENSEI & JAKE PALUMBO! They have a brand new album that drops this Friday, and you’ll get to hear all about...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the REN THOMAS interview session! One of New Jersey’s illest sits down with us this week to talk about his brand new album, “33,” which is produced entirely by NEM NIEVES, mixed and mastered by NEF and features PACEWON, EL DA SENSEI, RASHEED CHAPPELL, SILENT KNIGHT, DJ TMB and MELISSA J. Ren breaks down why this album is such an important piece of work for hi...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep303! No rest for the weary Vangardians - Labor Day weekend or not, it’s a twice a week affair and YOU’RE WAAAALCOME! The mix this week has all new crispy crunchy joints carefully selected for your enjoyment, and we head to Jersey to chat with REN THOMAS for our Thursday interview session. Ren has a killer new album out now called “33” which is produced entirely by N...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the MIDAZ THE BEAST interview session! We head to the Sunshine State this week to check in with Orlando’s own MIDAZ THE BEAST, who is high off the CHONG WIZARD RECORDS vinyl and tape release of Feb 2020’s “WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS” with DELLE DIGGA. Midaz breaks down how his cancer diagnosis at the top of 2020 made the release that much more special, what it m...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the DJ BONDS & DJ BREEZE interview session! This interview session was supposed to drop last week, in conjunction with Bonds’ and Breeze’s incredible documentary “WHERE WE’RE FROM: RISE OF L.A. UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP” that released worldwide on Aug 24. Let’s just say a few technical difficulties in prepping the episode and Doe’s challenging personal schedule is...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep302! Time to tighten up Vangardians, Doe & Meeks are back for another week of the usual shenanigans - although we have to say the talk break banter is on another level this week. As you might guess, heaps of new music and we have a mid-mix interview with the DMV’s DJ 2-TONE JONES, who recently dropped the incredible “CONTRABAND FROM INDIA” concept album that’s out e...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep301! Alright we’re back on that twice a week flow this week Vangardians! This weeks mix has tons of new joints per the usual and we talk shop mid-mix with San Diego’s KAHLEE who has a new EP out now with KROHME that you definitely need to check ASAP. Kahlee is also a hip-hop radio brother in arms with his BARS WEEKLY show, make sure you add to your weekly hip-hop ra...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep300! THREE HOURS. ALL WORLD EXCLUSIVES. READ THE TRACKLIST AND WEEP. BIG UP DJ POCKET FOR SLIDING THRU. BIG UP ALL THE ARTISTS WHO BROKE US OFF WITH THAT HEAT. LAST BUT NOT LEAST - YOU’RE WAAAAALCOME #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on #applepodcasts #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud #youtube // #hiphop #rap #...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep299! One episode away from Ep300 y’all, can you believe it? Big Meeks is back in the saddle this week and boy is it a good time. We have THREE WORLD EXCLUSIVES this week from ZIZ & BIG DADDY CHOP ft. FATT FATHER and our own DJ JON DOE, J SCIENIDE & BODY BAG BEN ft. ILL CONSCIOUS and DEEJAY ELEMENT & J57 ft. RASHEED CHAPPELL. You get to hear all of these first before...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep298! YEEEEEE HAW lil’ buddies it’s that time again, another week of treats and beats from the best rap mix show on the planet. Our good friend J FEEZY aka SUGE 57 aka J57 of FIVE SE7EN COLLECTIVE dropped by this week to co-host with DOE and also talk with us about his new project with DEEJAY ELEMENT - “ELEMENT57” - which features the illustrious talents of AUDIBLE D...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep297! It’s another week of that Smithsonian Grade, fellow Vangardians! We’re still on a bit of summer schedule right now with Tues mixes only, but trust we’re working on that Ep300 splash and have a lot in store for you very soon. This weeks mix is chock full of WORLD EXCLUSIVES from EFF YOO & ZILLA ROCCA, who both have new projects out this Friday. The Eff Yoo joint...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep296! We’re back from summer break, Vangardians, did you miss us? Back in the saddle this week but we’re on a two legged horse as Meeks is recovering from a luxurious escapade in New Orleans. Doe committed to an episode this week on IG, so here we go! As you can imagine there’s a mountain of music that dropped over the past month, so we kept the talking light with th...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the CARTA’P interview session! Initially making a splash on the NYC indy hip-hop scene in the late 90s as THE OBVIOUS WONDER alongside RAY FOGES as the group ADAGIO!, this MC / Producer re-emerged a few years ago as Carta’P and is dropping a brand new LP this week called “IN MY SILENCE,” which is entirely produced by Australian producer PHRIES. Carta breaks d...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep295! WAAAALCOME to our 2nd post-COVID episode, Vangardians! It really is real, can you believe it? Meeks and Doe back in the lab for their usual shenanigans this week, which includes interviews and world exclusives galore. To start, we have WORLD EXCLUSIVE talk break instrumentals from Boston’s LIGHTFOOT, who has an album dropping June 25 on CHONG WIZARD RECORDS cal...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the MONDO SLADE interview session! If you didn’t check Ep294 this week, you might not have heard that Meeks are Doe are back in the lab, IN PERSON, for the first time since COVID-19 hit in March 2020! After NINETY SIX virtual episodes, we’re reunited and it feels so good, and it feels even better to have one of our favorites on the show, Mondo Slade. We catch...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep294! Almost fourteen months to the day after the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Dirty Blanket Studios to the outside world, Doe and Meeks are back in full form Vangardians!!! The guys are back in the lab after NINETY SIX virtual episodes between mix shows and interview sessions - and boy is it a CELEBRATION! We have WORLD EXCLUSIVES galore from our Thurs interview sess...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the JASON GRIFF interview session! If you’ve done any history on hip-hop (you should have - if not, time to start NOW), you know the NYC hip-hop, punk & art scenes all thrived off one another in it’s early days, and Griff is delivering his version of that experience this week via his producer concept album, “FIRESIDE CHATS.” Griff breaks down how punk, hip-ho...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep293: COVID-19 Edition 95! Yep yep Vangardians, Doe & Meeks back in the saddle with your regularly scheduled Tues and Thurs madness this week. We kick the show off with THREE, count ‘em THREE WORLD EXCLUSIVES from our interview session guest this week, JASON GRIFF of the almighty INSUBORDINATE RECORDS, and they feature king SCORCESE (RIP), CURLY CASTRO and ZILLA ROCC...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the DOZA THE DRUM DEALER interview session! We head to Brooklyn this week to rap with MC / Producer Doza The Drum Dealer, who made a gob of noise in 2020 and is keeping up the relentless pace in 2021 with the release of “PKURPZN” and “WHEN THE RABBIT GOT THE GUN PART 3”. We hear about the making of both of those projects, and get into detail on one of our fav...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep292: COVID-19 Edition 93! A day late out the gate this week Vangardians - we were handling biz with our mama’s and baby’s mamas this weekend, and we wish all the mama’s out there a belated Happy Mother’s Day. That said we’ve got a full clip to unload this week in this weeks mix, including a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from EL GANT, RAS KASS, PLANET ASIA, J57 and our own DJ JON...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the NYCE DA FUTURE interview session! We head to Southside, Jamaica Queens this week to chop it up with Nyce about his new EP with HAVOC of the almighty and as you might know, infamous, MOBB DEEP. “FUTURE OF THE STREETS” drops Friday May 7th, and is the first chapter in a flurry of music that these two are about to unleash, and we get all the behind the scene...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep291: COVID-19 Edition 91! We’re in the final stretch of the Triple Crown here, Vangardians. NINE episodes away from 300 mix shows - that’s on top of the 248 (!) interview sessions we’ve given you after this week. Hell, we might hit 600 episodes all in by the time 2021 is over with. That said, let’s get on with it - this week we have WORLD EXCLUSIVES from S. VA’s own...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the PINK BOTTOM JUS interview session! Thank god fitted hats are back, and are in part because of the work Justin Farnham aka Pink Bottom Jus has been doing over the past 7 years at HAT CLUB. We get the latest and greatest on his meteoric rise over the past year due to the pink bottom brim hats that he started as a tribute to the mother of his friend / MC Fro...