The Rap Takes Podcast is back! After a few weeks of break the crew is here to discuss Schoolboy Q's seminal 2012 album, Habits & Contradictions. This project helped cement Q as one of the true gangster rappers in hip-hop right now and gave further name recognition to Top Dawg Entertainment after Kendrick Lamar's Section.80 project the year before.

With a new CD coming Friday from Schoolboy, we wanted to revisit Habits for some insight as to what this new project will sound like.

Episode 36: Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions

This week Audio Drip is back! 

Monsieur Gonzalez breaks down his experience at the Something in the Water Festival. We talk Jay-Z & Cam'ron reuniting at the B-Side show. The never ending BEEF between 50 Cent & Young Buck. Danny Brown's new album executive produced by Q-Tip. Schoolboy Q's latest album Crash Talk. And we end it with some talk about the next big thing in Hip-Hop.

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Audio Drip Episode 10

This week the crew goes to the depths of Buffalo, New York, to review Benny The Butcher's recent project, Tana Talk 3. Benny is a member of the Griselda crew, one of the best underground hip-hop collectives from New York that isn't based in NYC.

The trio has been making a name for themselves in the underground scene for more than a decade, and Benny's new album is another attempt to introduce themselves to the mainstream.

Episode 37: Benny The Butcher - Tana Talk 3

The Rap Takes Podcast is back this week with a discussion about Bandana, the new collaborative project from rapper Freddie Gibbs and legendary producer Madlib.

A follow up to the duo's 2014 release Pinata, Bandana was one of the most anticipated albums to come out this year. With features from Pusha T, Black Thought, Mos Def and Killer Mike, MadGibbs certainly didn't disappoint.

Episode 38: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana

As the summer begins to wind down, the crew got together to recap what they've been bumping over the past few months. From new Denzel Curry, Big KRIT, and Dreamville projects that dropped recently to the recent XXL freshmen cyphers, there has been plenty going on in the world of hip hop lately.

Audio Drip Episode 11

The Rap Take Podcast is BACK!

This a special coronavirus-sponsored episode. There has been a ton of music released over the past few weeks so there is certainly plenty to listen to.

Some topics we discussed this week 

- Jay Electronica and Jay-Z’s collab album

- Boldy James possibly having album of the year

- New Kid Cudi music 

- CJ Fly’s dope debut album 

- The insane run that The Alchemist is on

- And much more

Be sure to stick around to the end to hear our recommendations of tracks to listen to right now.

Quarantine Special 1.0 - 4/17

Every week we discuss a dope hip-hop project that we feel deserves more shine. There’s so much music that drops nowadays that it’s hard to keep up. That’s where we come in, we want to trim the fat for you. Everything we cover is dope, you can believe that!

We know your time is valuable, so with each episode we hope to deliver a concise, focused podcast that will get you to go listen to the project we discussed. We hope that maybe we teach you something along the way as well. Our goal is to put you on to something you may have missed or would have never listened to. 

Hosted by Skyler Frazer, Sal Basile & Jeremy Gonzalez

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