The Golden Hours

Episode 77. DA LIT TWINZ! Legendary Episode. Legendary. Absolutely loved everyone minute of it man, shouts out to these young men for coming through and laying down the law. For those who don't know: James and Jeff are nearly identical twin rappers from Cambridge, who are back from a hiatus from music. We discussed A LOT; riding a jet ski in the Charles River, winning the lottery, the power of pos...

Episode 76. Hey man, major shouts to Irene for both starting her own business and coming up on the show to talk about it. For those who don't know: Irene is a certified personal trainer who has recently started up her own Boot Camp business, and is soon opening up her own studio, Grit Performance. A young woman on the move! She discussed the opportunities in Boston's fitness community, as opposed...

Episode 75. Kid Wizzle! T Wayne has been around the podcast a couple times now, initially he was in a joint episode with Young Seuss (link below) and then in an episode with FXW Maverick, and now we ran a solo dolo episode. T Wayne The Kidd is a producer, who currently attends Bay State College, and has pulled in BIG Placements this past year. Great dude, we discussed his beat being in the Uncle D...

Episode 74. Pumped to have Greg Gaffney (otherwise known as @Gregisonfire), up on the show. I've been trying to do this one for a while man, Greg is an individual connected to Boston Music that has been low-key doing A LOT to put artists on. For those who don't know, Greg is an online curator for Elevator, writer for multiple music-related sites, a photographer, and dude also works two jobs. My gu...

Episode 73. Ol' Truckah Nutz! Shouts out to my guy, The Boston Truckah for coming through GDP HQ and being 100 percent transparent about his story. For those who don't know: Andrew is a Trucker from the city, who has made a plethora of viral videos from over the years just posting up his phone in his 18 wheeler, and letting it rip. We discussed Self-Driving Trucks, His Story, the power of positivi...

Shouts out to Latrell, the first ever Boston artist to get the REAL DEAL Gary V shout out for coming up on the show (it's a big deal here in the GDP Camp). Aside, Latrell is an incredible artist from the city who has had his hands in every wave of music in Boston since 2014/2015, and is now one of few artists in the city that is able to be fully employed via music. Big ups to what he's created for...

Episode 71. Shouts out to my dawg Max Eleftherio for making the troop up from Providence to Phoenix Down Recording and letting us in on some of the projects' he's been creating. Max is a young entrepreneurial mind who created his very own streetwear brand, "Future Yacht Owners"; which has direct ties to the Providence Music Scene, and has since started up his own social media strategy company, Ove...

Episode 70. We made it to 70! And I'm PUMPED to have my dawg Carlheb back on the show. This is bias... but Thoughts dead ass makes some of the most beautiful music in Boston. The Young Shorty Killer! Also big shouts out to Kofi (@imnotkofi) for contributing. Great dude! Because we're boys, Thoughts and I kept it 100% honest about some of our stances on voting in the upcoming election, the pressure...

EPISODE 69. Big Shouts out to my guy Marv for coming through GDP HQ (@phxdownstudios) and keeping episode 69 LOOSE. This was a fun one. For those who don't know: Marv is an entertainer, host, and comedian from Boston, who has had his hands in a bunch of projects via YouTube and Instagram that are dead ass hilarious. Marv used to run a podcast called "Talking Keys", and has also lent a hand with my...

Episode 68. Big Zeus is in the building! Shouts out to my guy Seuss for coming through the show, this way by far one of the most introspective guests we've had to date on the show, probably because Seuss and I have known each other for about a year now. Young Seuss is an artist from the city, and has been deeply embraced by Boston Music since he was a jit! He was previously on the show for the 10t...

Episode 67. It's Amir Maxx, and that's all FAX! Shouts out to my guy Amir for coming through and marking the official collaboration between two Boston Podcasts! We need more of this in the city. Amir runs "The Tempah Zone Podcast" out of the PRX Podcast Garage in Allston, and centers most of his content around Hip Hop News. Big ENERGY from my dawg, he is also a rapper! Young Stephen A Smith and I...

Episode 66. The Grand Entrance! My guy Jerry has never shown the face behind his online persona, so it was awesome to get the young Super Producer on the show for the all - exclusive! Jerry... otherwise known as RhodyMajor is a producer/artist originally from Rhode Island and has been quietly putting out MEGA mixes on Twitter and Soundcloud since moving to Boston 5/6 years ago. For those who don't...

Episode 65. The Meme God meets the Golden Deer. Hey man, if you're going to tune into any episode IN FULL, this has got to be the one. My guy Zach, also know as The Stupid American, is a Massachusetts-Based Meme Creator. Huge ups to Zach because Memes are currently the most powerful type of marketing content that is on the web currently, and Zach has built a massive repertoire of viral memes over...

Episode 64. Woah, we had a Fashion Nova Model on the show... For real though, shouts out to Isabella and her squad for coming by and allowing us tap into an entirely new crowd in the city that I was unfamiliar with. For those who don't know: Isabella is an artist well known in underground and internet circles in Boston. A few years back she had a picture go viral, and since then has amassed a MASS...

Episode 63. A Friend of the Show came through. Nah but for real, South is one of my closest friends so this episode might have some insiders that don't necessarily make sense to everybody. For reference South was the FIRST episode every on this show (Peep Episode 1 below). KPT is an artist in the city, and has performed at every major GDP Event (GDPalooza and Washed Up); and has been around since...

Episode 62. Manny, "The Bermudez Triangle", Bermudez! Somewhere in this episode, I told big Manny, that "Manny-Hands" would be a fire nickname- in case that sticks, that was me who suggested it... Shouts out to Manny for coming up on the show and keeping it 100 about the ins & outs of being a brand new UFC Fighter. For those who don't know: Manny fights in the UFC, in the Bantamweight division, an...

Episode 61. We got the Queen back in the building! Shouts out to Hope for coming back through to GDP Headquarters (Phoenix Down Recording) to give everyone an update of what's been going on in her world for the past few months. For reference, Hope was Episode 21 (back in November), which gave us some foundation for this episode. It was DOPE to catch up with Hope before she headed down to South by...

Episode 60. The official clash of two Boston Podcasts.... or a bridge... you tell me! This episode was initially supposed to be a mega podcast episode with different shows in the city, but one thing led to another and Sho, Sam and myself just ran it solo. For those who don't know: ItsLitBoston is a prevalent podcast in the city made up of my guys Sho and Sam and they have been dropping episodes co...

Episode 59. So... the mayor of Cambridge came up to the show. That was wicked dope. Shouts Out to Mayor McGovern for coming up onto the show and keeping his political agenda at bay to simplify the role of local politics for people in their twenties. Mayor McGovern was elected to Cambridge City Council in 2014, and was further elected to Mayor in 2017. For those who don't know: Cambridge is a chaot...

Episode 58. Brockton's in the building! Shouts out to my guy Fabio from Brockton Mag for swinging through GDP headquarters (Phoenix Down Recording)! If you've been watching the show the past few months, you already know that Brockton Music has been on the big come up, partly due to the fact that they inner-support between artists is A1. My guy Fabio has been helping glue together everything that h...

Episode 57. Who Would Win: Big Boachie or Children's Author Jerry Pallotta.... it's an inside joke, you'll get it after you watch the episode. We were pumped to have one of the top children's authors (for non-fiction science books) in the country, Jerry Pallotta, up to GDP Headquarters. For those who don't know: Jerry is a children's author with a career spanning over 30 years, and he is originall...

Episode 56. Shouts out to BIG Gasp for rolling through to Phoenix Down Recording for his Golden Hour! For those who don't know: Gaspar is a rapper originally from Kentucky/California that has built a HUGE online following via his releases on Soundcloud and Spotify. My guy taps into a MUCH different audience than we've traditionally seen out of Boston Artists, and his songs are banging! Shouts out...

Episode 55. We were pumped to have Replay swing through the show to chop it up about how much Boston has shifted since he initially started glowing up in the city. For those who don't know: Jefe Replay is an artist who was part of the 2015 wave which started really putting Boston on the map (with Cousin Stizz, Michael Christmas, and OG Swaggerdick). He was also part of Pilot Nation with our guy Ni...

Episode 54. We were pumped to have Sam Thompson over to GDP HQ (Phoenix Down Recording), to talk about being young and in business. Sam has his hands in a plethora of different projects, and he runs the Institute of Ethics in Seaport (fat office), and has started up other companies (The Vyrl Collective) , helping enhance the social media presences for a plethora of influencers. This was a solid ta...

The FIRST Episode of Season 4. (53) Those Golden Deer Boyz are back like Aang, after a 1000 year hiatus... if you catch the Avatar Drift. First off; very important to not only thank Josh for composing the score for the new theme, but also Jack (@jack.bigelow) for facilitating the animation and Bombs (@timblou8) for being a classic GDP Actor/incredible voice work. The project came together FYA. We'...