16 Minutes of Discussing The Future of Hip Ho...

Today’s episode is one of the top episodes of 2025, which is why I wanted to bring it back during the holiday season. Hope you enjoy it! 

Today’s episode is one of the top episodes of 2025, which is why I wanted to bring it back during the holiday season. Hope you enjoy it! 

Jay Jenkins, known by his stage name Jeezy (or Young Jeezy), is an American rapper who signed to Def Jam Records in 2004 and has never shied away from talking about his life in his music. But for this Grammy-nominated, BET Award-winning, platinum-selling hip-hop artist, this next ...  Show more

Hip-hop turns 50 years old. But what’s the business behind the music that pioneered rap into the mainstream media? Mark Dent and Drea Hudson talk to Dan Runcie, founder of Trapital, a media brand covering the economics of hip-hop to discuss the cultural shifts that transformed hi ...  Show more

Ken Inge the CEO of Dead End Hip-Hop joins the show! Today we pair up to review Roc Nation artist Belly's latest mixtape "Mumble Rap." Belly came up in the 2000's before signing to XO and co-writing for the Weekend's album Beauty Behind the Madness which won him Grammy awards. A ...  Show more

A conversation about the earnest rapper and the SoundCloud renegade, both successes of modern internet-driven rap fandom. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/ac ...  Show more