Southern Vangard

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...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 199! We’re back folks, and there’s only one episode left until we hit Ep 200 of our mix show, can you believe it? All that on top of 163 interviews - come on ya’ll, admit it - this is about as good as it gets! This week we have so many joints to pick from we can’t keep track, but the most incredible thing is we have FIVE, count ‘em, FIVE WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVES, all s...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 198! Ohhhhhh, don’t fret, folks - we know this week isn’t your regularly scheduled program here at SVR - life just plain got in the way this week. Doe & Meeks had to handle a ton of fam & work biz this week that prevented them from dropping that regular twice a week goodness that you’re used to. Not to fret, we reached out to friend of Southern Vangard Radio, the o...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Ice Lord interview session! Over the past year, we’ve become big fans of this Orlando by way of Cleveland MC/producer. The quality and consistency in 2018 speaks for itself, and he kicked off 2019 in a big way with “Burnt Offerings,” a collaboration with Lynn, MA’s own Estee Nack - who we are also big fans of and interviewed in early 2018. Ice’s story is...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 197! Even on a Super Bowl Sunday when the big game is taking place in our own city - we’re still in the kitchen whipping up the goods for the week! No SB parties for Doe and Meeks - hell, we didn’t even watch the game! We’re focused on holding the line on this underground rap business for better or worse. As episode 200 of our mix show inches closer, we keep the ne...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Finn interview session! We love the Toronto underground - they are holding it down heavy courtesy of producers such as Bozack Morris to Futurewave, MCs like Daniel Son, Dnte, Saipher Soze, Raspy and Asun Eastwood, not to mention film makers like Mercenary. Multi-talented Finn from the Brown Bag Money click and Gold Era Music is another one of those produc...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 196! Shake off the jitters folks, Doe & Meeks are back on the block serving’ up that raw this week! Sandwiched in between the latest and greatest underground hip-hop you can find anywhere, Jon manages to find his inner and outer whiteness while Meeks talks way more trash that he usually does. We also pulled off another incredible interview session this week as we h...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Jay Royale interview session! Last November, this East Baltimore native dropped one of 2018’s best LP’s in the form of “The Ivory Stoop” - and after running into him at the Main Source / J Scienide / Raw Wattage show in DC last week, we asked ourselves why in the world haven’t we had him on the show yet!? We locked in with Jay Royale this week to talk abo...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 195! Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey HEY - wait just ONE second - the clock hasn’t run out yet, it’s still Tuesday - as long as drops by 11:59pm on Tuesday, we good. Per the usual, Doe & Meeks have a fresh batch of that raw uncut on our Ep195 mix, like they do every week - with a side of colorful commentary to boot, all the while munching on healthy rap snacks and...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Ca$ablanca interview session! If you happened to witness our #WeAreTheGard #A3C showcase last fall with Speakeasy Promotions, one of the undeniable highlights was seeing Ca$a, The Architect & Nowaah the Flood rip down 529 with searing beats & lyrics alongside textbook command of the stage, which left folks in attendance wanting more. Shortly after that pe...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 194! Happy 2nd week in January folks, your guys Doe & Meeks are back in the saddle for another round of fresh new hip-hop, trash talking and interview session! The flood gates aren’t closing any time on the over abundance of rap music - it’s damn near overwhelming - but we plucked the cream of the crop out again for Ep194. We head West, but stay in the South this w...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Ralphiie Reese interview session! This MC/Producer, along with the entire Dart Unit collective, has been making tremendous waves over the past couple of years. Kount Dartula dropped his latest project, “Arrow Bowie” at the end of 2018, so we get the inside info on that release, how collabs with J Scienide, RIgz and the other Dart Unit members came togethe...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 193! Hey there good people, we got two more in the chamber this week, and if it ain’t already special every week, Doe went crazy during the last set of the Ep193 mix this week with the FIRST 10 song set at Southern Vangard Radio - NJ2AK, we surmise that would officially be called a TENSONSET! If that’s not impressive enough for you, he quick-mixed it all - 10 joint...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Rome Streetz interview session! This NY MC bulldozed through 2018 all the way until the very end of the year. From Hip-Hop Album of The Year nods for his “Street Farmacy” project with Farma Beats to the end of the year grenade he dropped off, “Noise Candy 2: The Re-Up” - this guy is holding a very bright torch and has quickly found himself at the forefron...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 192! Happy New Year Vangardians! How about them apples, we’re back on the very first day of 2019! Doe & Meeks are reloaded and we got two bricks for you this week as you would expect - tons of brand new joints, including a WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE from our interview session guest this week, ROME STREETZ! You haven’t heard this ANYWHERE else folks, and WON’T hear it anyw...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the NapsNdreds interview session! This South Floridian by way of St. Andrews, Jamaica MC re-entered the scene in 2016 after a brief hiatus with an end-to-end burner of an album titled “Bloodclaat”. Tastemakers like DJ Eclipse, DJ Premier helped spread the gospel which ultimately helped tee up Naps new LP with Nottz that dropped this week - “Trouble And A Pair...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 191! Happy Holidays Vangardians! If you’re not in the spirit after last weeks episode, Ep191 is GUARANTEED to get you there. 2018 doesn’t let up as folks are STILL dropping joints left and right, so you get more of that brand brand new new in Ep191. We head to South Florida for the interview session this week to chat with the homie NapsNDreds, who has a new album d...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Supreme Cerebral interview session! We head West this week to catch up with one of 2018’s most prolific MC’s - from EP’s to LP’s to his feature / collab game, his stamp on this year is undeniable. The man also known as Bugzy Nino breaks down his recent underground NY radio run with Banish Habitual - which included stops at DJ Eclipse and DJ Riz’s “Rap Is...

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 190! We haven’t truly slid off the rails on an episode in a while, but your guys Doe & Meeks took care of that this week on Ep190. Buckle in and get ready for a wild and woolly one this week, folks. Maybe it had something to do with our interviewee this week for our Thursday interview sessions? Or maybe it was these crazy Christmas beats from Jonwayne? Who knows, b...