Sean Kantrowitz connects with hip hop's biggest fans – rappers, DJs, producers, writers, comedians, actors, and everything in between – to test their rap trivia...
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Sean Kantrowitz and DJ Steve1der pay tribute to Roy Ayers, highlighting not just his contributions to music but specifically the ways in which his compositions informed the DNA of so many hip-hop songs through sampling, interpolation, and collaborations.
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1:14:30
Apathy (Questions Classic)
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Originally broadcast on February 17, 2021.
We revisit the IG Live broadcast featuring Apathy (Demigodz, Army of the Pharoahs). Ap talks about his artistry, his fandom of his favorite emcees, and puts his hip-hop trivia skills to the test.
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1995 Draft w/ Trackstar the DJ and Philaflava
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It's the inaugural Draft episode of The Questions Hip-Hop podcast. Sean Kantrowitz, MidaZ the BEAST, Trackstar the DJ (Run the Jewels, Killer Mike), and Jason Gloss (Philaflava) are combing through the year 1995, selecting their picks for Best Album, Best Beat, Best Emcee, Best Verse, Best Guest Feature/Verse, Best Producer, and Best Album Cover.
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Making Illmatic - Redman 'Muddy Waters Too' w/ Zilla Rocca
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Uncharted Making Illmatic territory as Sean Kantrowitz and MidaZ the BEAST give the Making Illmatic treatment to Redman's 2024 album 'Muddy Waters Too,' the most recent - and longest! - LP to get the MI treatment yet. They're joined by returning guest Zilla Rocca (Call-Out Culture, Wrecking Crew) to attempt to shave the 32-song album down to its 10 best songs – and to decide if doing so helps or hurts the record.
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Bahamadia (Can't Knock the Shuffle Classic)
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Originally broadcast on November 11, 2020.
Revisiting Bahamadia's appearance on Can't Knock the Shuffle, in which she and Sean explore the stories behind these randomly-selected songs from her catalog:
"Innovation" ('Kollage', 1996)
"Transcend" (King Britt, 'Adventures in Lo-Fi', 2003)
"Proceed III" (The Roots, 1994)
"Dialed Up 2" ('Dialed Up 2', 2017)
"Thank You" ('Good Rap Music', 2006)
"One-4-Teen (Funky For You)" ('BB Queen', 2000)
"Here" (2015)
Sean Kantrowitz connects with hip hop's biggest fans – rappers, DJs, producers, writers, comedians, actors, and everything in between – to test their rap trivia skills, discuss their careers, dissect albums, and talk about how the music changed their lives.
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