Diggin' In The Digits
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Welcome to Diggin' In The Digits, where Creator of Hip-Hop By The Numbers Ben Carter and Director of The 5th Element Charlie Taylor deliver unique statistics behind Hip-Hop's biggest artists, stories & its roots, discussing them in detail.
Diggin' In The Digits
3d ago
To finish our Women's History Month celebrations, we stay in the West Coast to talk about a duo that oozed chemistry and confidence, only to be washed out by the industry changing direction. We talk The Conscious Daughters.
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Weekly Music Roundup - (0:48)
Ben:
Future x Metro Boomin - WE DON'T TRUST YOU
SiR - HEAVY
Elbow - Audio Vertigo
Joyner Lucas - Not Now I'm Busy
Charlie:
Summers Sons - Epiletric
King Isis - shed
MyCompiledThoughts - Soul Brother Chapter 1
SiR - HEAVY
Jrose - Pieces of My Crumbled Thoughts
Backwood Sweetie - Burn One
Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (13:58 ..read more
Diggin' In The Digits
1w ago
We continue our WHM celebrations with a trip to the West Coast, but not Oakland or Los Angeles. For the first time, we head to Sacramento for the story of Marvaless and the litany of Sac Town representers that come with her through her discography.
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Weekly Music Roundup - (0:56)
Ben:
yeat - 2093
Kembe x Hippie Sabotage - Sleep Paralysis
Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK
Four Tet - Three
Kenny Mason - 9
Yung Lean x Bladee - Psykos
Nejma - Animal Barz
24kGoldn - Growing pains
Charlie:
An Alien Called Harmony - An Alien Called Harmony
Terrace Martin - Two Drink Minimum
Nejma Nefertiti ..read more
Diggin' In The Digits
2w ago
Continuing our WHM celebrations during the month of March, we get into another artist with one solo album, no longer with us after her passing in 2022: Hurricane G
TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup: (1:17)
Ben:
MIKE - Pinball
ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips
Cookin Soul x Raz Fresco - Bakin' Soul
Kaiser Chiefs - Easy Eighth Album
MGMT - Loss of Life
KYLE - Smyle Again
Skyzoo & The Other Guys - Mind of a Saint (Deluxe)
Jean Dawson - Boohoo
Charlie:
speedrun - Love's Latest News
BXKS - One Time
Zada - WATER IN THE DESERT
Jynx716 & Che Noir - ANDY
Dayme Arocena - Alkemi
Liam Bailey - Zero Grace ..read more
Diggin' In The Digits
3w ago
Happy March one & all! You know what that means... Women's History Month on DITD is back and to kick off this year's set, we begin with the one & done Sister Souljah who took the political climate of her time to produce one of the most honest & politically scathing records in Hip-Hop history.
No timestamps for this episode as we don't have a WMR or a substantial Lighter Note, reason being that we recorded this on the same day as the previous episode ..read more
Diggin' In The Digits
1M ago
We finish our Public Enemy three-parter with their most recent output with more friction from the inside and the outside but somehow, Public Enemy still continue to drop and tour the world; never dead, never deterred.
TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (1:00)
Ben:
Yeat - 2093
Conway x Big Ghost - Speshal Machinery the Chronic Edition
2nd Generation Wu x Dom Archey - This May Sting!
Charlie:
Fatima - Love On Acid (EP)
Ol' Burger Beats - 74: Out of Time
Shae Universe - Love's Letter
Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (6:18)
How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? - (9:5 ..read more
Diggin' In The Digits
1M ago
In our 2nd part of the Public Enemy retrospective, we see how PE should have imploded and become one of the many groups in the 90s to break up; but not only did they not break up, they kept dropping (to mixed results) and predicting the future of the music industry still to come to fruition.
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Weekly Music Roundup - (1:09)
Ben:
Little Simz - Drop 7
Fivio Foreign - Pain & Love 2
Dizzee Rascal - Don't Take It Personal
Blu & Roy Royal - Royal Blu
Charlie:
Little Simz - Drop 7
Adanna Duru - NAPPY HOUR II
Blu & Roy Royal - Royal Blu
Terrace Martin - Her Thoughts
DJ Harrison ..read more
Diggin' In The Digits
1M ago
In part one of three, we get into the beginnings of Public Enemy and their first three albums, two of which considered to be consensus classics and some of the most authentically Hip-Hop albums ever made.
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Weekly Music Roundup - (1:39)
Ben:
Skelbeats - What goes on in the Dark
Lee "Scratch" Perry - King Perry
Icewear Vezzo - Live from the 6
Hit-Boy x Alchemist - THEODORE & ANDRE
The Musalini x 38 Spesh - In God We Trust
Che Noir - The Color Chocolate, Vol. 1
Kevin Gates - The Ceremony
Lyrical Lemonade - All is Yellow
Benny the Butcher - Everybody Can't Go
Marco Polo x Masta Ace ..read more
Diggin' In The Digits
2M ago
TW: Lyrics/talk referencing Sexual Assault.
After last episode's foray into the solo career of Kool G Rap, we now look into the work that he did before with DJ Polo: Three albums of ground-breaking work for KGR and his peers.
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Weekly Music Roundup - (1:31)
Ben:
Zaddytc - A LOT
Fredo Bang - Yes, I'm Sad
Elcamino - Here You Go
Eldorado Red - 48 Hours in San Francisco
Hus KingPin x 9th Wonder - The Supergoat
Charlie:
Da Flyy Hooligan & Wun Two - Nocturnal Hooli Vol. 1
Deshawn Visionz - Thank God For The Homies
Hus Kingpin & 9th Wonder - The Supergoat
Arrested Development - B ..read more
Diggin' In The Digits
2M ago
Kool G Rap: The ultimate "If you know KGR, you know ball". Whilst KGR never got the commercial success, his legacy as a lyrical pioneer is rooted deeply in your favourites and your favourites' favourite.
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Weekly Music Roundup - (1:07)
Ben:
Kid Cudi - INSANO
C-Scripture - Penalty of Leadership
Teezo Touchdown - How Do You Sleep At Night Deluxe
Unknown T - Blood Diamond
DJ Booker x NLE Choppa - The Chosen Ones
D-Block Europe - Rolling Stone
21 Savage - american dream
Bruiser Wolf - My Story Got Stories
Charlie
Say She She - Silver
Topic Intro/Ben's Research House - (9:52)
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Diggin' In The Digits
2M ago
The King Asiatic Nobody's Equal. Brooklynite Big Daddy Kane came through the 80s as one of the best freestylers in the Five Boroughs and once he got with Cold Chillin' and the Juice Crew, Kane would prove that he is one of the most complete rappers of all time.
TIMESTAMPS:
Weekly Music Roundup - (0:56)
Ben:
Westside Gunn, Conway, Alchemist - Hall & Nash 2
The Game x Big Hit - Paisley Dreams
Ufo361 - SONY
Charlie: (All released in '23)
Butcher Brown - Solar Music
Bloody Civilian - Anger Management
The Ironsides - Changing Light
MMYYKK - The Midst of Things
Topic Intro/Ben's Research Hou ..read more