Dissect

J.I.D. and Dissect's Cole Cuchna to break down his Grammy-nominated album God Does Like Ugly.

00:00 Cold Open / Intro

01:45 Album Title Breakdown

05:35 "YouUgly" Breakdown

17:23 "Glory" Breakdown

25:29 "Wrk" Breakdown

31:00 "Community" Breakdown

41:22 "Gz" Breakdown

46:39 Melodic Section of "GDLU"

51:03 "On McAfee" Breakdown

54:51 "Of Blue" Breakdown

01:00:50 "K-Word" Breakdown

01:04:05 What's the message of GLDU?

01:05:18 JID Says Next Project his BEST

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Host: Cole Cuchna

Guest: J.I.D.

Editor: Kevin Pooler

Engineer: Jon Jones

Producer: Justin Sayles
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Dissect's Cole Cuchna is joined by friends Camden Ostrander and Margeaux Labat to discuss their favorite music of 2025, including...

Favorite Musical Moments (04:09)

Favorite "Underground" Albums (13:09)

Favorite Albums of the Year (31:20)

Favorite Songs of the Year (1:13:05)

You can listen to a playlist of their picks ⁠here⁠.

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Host: Cole Cuchna

Guests: Camden Ostrander, Margeaux Labat

Audio/Video Editor: Kevin Pooler

Additional Production: Justin Sayles

Theme Music: Birocratic
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The LSS crew is back with a year-end draft to celebrate the quarter-century mark in music. Cole, Charles, and Justin draft songs across five different categories: Best Song, Worst Song, One-Hit Wonder, Moment Maker, and Personal Favorite.

Who won the draft? Hit the comments and let us know.

Hosts: Cole Cuchna and Charles Holmes

Producer: Justin Sayles

Video Producer: Kevin Pooler

Engineer: Kayla Talley
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Clipse’s Let God Sort ’Em Out is Dissect’s pick for Best Rap Album of 2025. In this episode, we break down 10 of the most mind-blowing bars from the project, line by line, decoding the layers of wordplay, cultural references, and religious symbolism that make this album so lyrically dense.

🎵 Chapters

00:00 Pusha T, “So Be It”

01:40 Malice, “Ace Trumpets”

04:25 Pusha T, “Ace Trumpets”

07:14 Malice, “M.T.B.T.T.F.”

09:29 Pusha T, “P.O.V.”

11:42 Pharrell, “So Be It” Sample Breakdown

14:01 Pusha T, “Chains & Whips”

15:42 Stove God Cooks, “F.I.C.O.”

16:51 Push & Malice, "FICO" 

19:40 Malice, “So Far Ahead”

21:44 Malice, “Birds Don’t Sing”

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From Rakim to Kendrick Lamar, this is the story of hip-hop’s obsession with numbers.

Dissect's Cole Cuchna breaks down the evolution of “number bars” - a lyrical tradition where rappers use math, numeric sequences, and wordplay to showcase technical skill and encode hidden meaning.

Beginning with Rakim’s groundbreaking verse on “My Melody” (1986) - a quatrain built around groups of seven that secretly mirrors his own 21-letter name - we trace how MCs have used numbers as both a mathematical signature and a symbolic device for decades. From Melle Mel’s divine 7-count in “Superrappin” to Jay-Z’s “22 Twos”, Biggie’s “Ten Crack Commandments,” and Mos Def’s “Mathematics,” numbers became an essential part of hip hop tradition and lyricism.

By the 2000s, artists like Lupe Fiasco, J. Cole, JID, Vince Staples, and Kendrick Lamar transformed number schemes into complex storytelling tools. We unpack everything from Lupe’s hidden 3–2–1 countdown on Kanye West’s “Touch the Sky” to Kendrick’s quantum-level equations on “Nosetalgia.”
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