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Song Taking Notes Artist Breeze Brewin, Juggaknots Album Hindsight Licensed to YouTube by Soulspazm (on behalf of Fat Beats Records) Song King Oxymoron Artist Breeze Brewin, Juggaknots, Marco Polo Album King Oxymoron Licensed to YouTube by Soulspazm (on behalf of Fat Beats Records) Song Eye Poppa Artist Breeze Brewin, Juggaknots Album Hindsight Licensed to YouTube by Soulspazm (on behalf of Fat Beats Records) Song The Energy Artist Aceyalone Album A Book of Human Language Licensed to YouTube by The Orchard Music (on behalf of That Kind of Music); UMPG Publishing, CMRRA, and 3 Music Rights Soci ..read more

Welcome back to Grande Loq, the grandiloquent hip hop show. We are three lovers of hip hop, creators of hip hop, music fans, educated cats and we talk hip hop straight to the old heads and people who love great music. This show continues to amplify the great hip hop being made today in the name of the culture.    ..read more

GRANDE LOQ: THE GRANDILOQUENT HIP HOP SHOW   Episode 1.13: "HINDSIGHT IS 2021"    Welcome back to Grande Loq, the grandiloquent hip hop show. We are three lovers of hip hop, creators of hip hop, music fans, educated cats and we talk hip hop straight to the old heads and people who love great music. This show continues to amplify the great hip hop being made today in the name of the culture. Tonight we’re going to talk about two tremendous albums, one newer and one classic. We’ll be reviewing the most recent release from Breeze Brewin and Juggaknots called “Hindsight.” As you kno ..read more

GRANDE LOQ: THE GRANDILOQUENT HIP HOP SHOW "A Magnificent" Day (02.03.2021) (theme music – “San Francisco Knight” by People Under the Stairs)   Yes, those sounds are from People Under the Stairs. As we’ve had to do too much recently, prayers up and RIP to Double K from People Under the Stairs. Welcome back to Grande Loq, the grandiloquent hip hop show. We are three lovers of hip hop, creators of hip hop, music fans, educated cats and we talk hip hop straight to the old heads and people who love great music. Tonight we’re going to talk about Tracklib and the deal that Bob James made with T ..read more

In this episode,  We’re going to talk about the Wammie nominees in the Hip Hop and Rap categories. [explain wammies] There are 19 distinct acts nominated in either Hip Hop and/or Rap categories, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Artist of the Year in both. We focused primarily on the albums since that’s what we do here at Grande Loq – review albums. And we couldn’t get to all of the albums because this would be a 4 hour long show and I’m not staying up that late. So we’re going to quickly run down the nominations in Hip Hop and Rap categories, and then each of us picked tw ..read more

Grandiloquent Hip Hop Show. Join our three hosts--Ian Taronji, Tia Abner, aka Prowess the Testament, and the grandiloquent one himself, Artemis Thompson, whose non-government name is Ardamus--as we talk hip hop straight to the old heads and people who love great hip hop. We are three lovers of hip hop, creators of hip hop, music fans, and educated cats who feel that there is still great hip hop being made today, and rather than crap on stuff we may not like, we prefer to lift up and give some love to the really great art that is being made in the name of the culture. #oldschoolhiphop​​​ #hipho ..read more

n this episode, We discuss the life and career of the GREAT MF Doom. Grandiloquent Hip Hop Show. Join our three hosts--Ian Taronji, Tia Abner, aka Prowess the Testament, and the grandiloquent one himself, Artemis Thompson, whose non-government name is Ardamus--as we talk hip hop straight to the old heads and people who love great hip hop. We are three lovers of hip hop, creators of hip hop, music fans, and educated cats who feel that there is still great hip hop being made today, and rather than crap on stuff we may not like, we prefer to lift up and give some love to the really great art that ..read more

In this episode, we start with the recent news of trumpeter Keeyon Harrold and the tiny violin concerto played by a certain SoHo Karen in an evolving story of false accusations that happened a couple of days ago at the Arlo Hotel in NYC. Then we have two incredible projects to review for our year-end show. We are closing out our year with a review of a west coast classic released in 1991 called “I Wish My Brother George Was Here” by Del the Funkee Homosapien that helped to define what we know as the ‘Oakland’ sound. We will then dive into Washington, DC’s prolific polymath Oddisee’s latest alb ..read more

Welcome to Grande Loq, the Grandiloquent Hip Hop Show. Join our three hosts--Ian Taronji, Tia Abner, aka Prowess the Testament, and the grandiloquent one himself, Artemis Thompson, whose non-government name is Ardamus--as we talk hip hop straight to the old heads and people who love great hip hop. We are three lovers of hip hop, creators of hip hop, music fans, and educated cats who feel that there is still great hip hop being made today, and rather than crap on stuff we may not like, we prefer to lift up and give some love to the really great art that is being made in the name of the culture ..read more