Show Notes
What’s good party people,
For those of you who religiously track new rap releases, the beginning of the year can be a slow and uneventful stretch. If you want to be in those theoretical Album of the Year conversations, dropping in Q1 is a good way to get forgotten by December. For that reason, and plenty of financial and promotional ones too, the floodgates usually don’t open until March or April. This year is no different.
On this week’s episode of Dad Bod Rap Pod, the three bad brothers you know so well break down three (actually four) new records that are already making noise in those end-of-year debates. In the first segment, we get into Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE’s double album offering Pompeii/Utility. In segment two, we dig into ELUCID and Sebb Bash’s I Guess You Had To Be There, complete with some truly delightful tales of Miami Lice.
This week's episode was produced by DEM ONE. Theme song by the incomparable DJ Cutso. Dad Bod Rap Pod is down with the Stony Island Audio gang (bang, bang)
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