Everybody loves music - Not everyone understands music. This is where Recipe Radio comes in.
Honor Roll Crew Freshman 1o.A.k., Laser-Jazz producer Beat$treet$ and, Thizz affiliated artist Roach Gigz take songs, mostly new and under the radar, and break it down from the finished product to the recipe. Going deep into the songs production, deciphering lyrics, cultural context and of course if we feel it or not.
Roach Gigz gets educated on a certain female music producer/singer which sparks a debate about female representation in the music industry or lack there of. Atlanta makes us "Swag Surf" and we don't know how or why. But we do hope its the last of the dance themed songs to reach our radar. This and more on our 20 celebration episode of Recipe Radio.
Who writes their own material in the music industry? We separate the writers from the performers. The death of autotune is the birth of what exactly? Can The Clipse do it without the Neptunes? Special Guest Pat The Aristocrat comes through to talk shop.
Roach, 1o.a.k. and Beatstreets all have trouble articulating there point with words so they choose to "beat box" it out. Beatstreets explains why rapper Plies is apart of the Zietgeist, Roach Gigz falls in love with house music...or maybe just Kyla. 1o.a.k. keeps losing in a fact check battle with Beatstreets on Mannie Fresh production but boys find common ground in hatred of Reggaeton music. Read more...
BeatStreetS hears something old in new artist Theophilus London, 1o.A.k.'s picks a mixtape track from Drake with a throwback Isley Brothers sample, and Roach Gigz tries to justify brand new stail raps from Messy Marv.
This week on Recipe Radio Roach Gigz argues that Lil' Wayne is the only rapper worth listening to now, special guest Sole reveals new regional sound in the UK called "donk music". We also take a look at a couple of good house tracks with rap collaborators and wonder whether house music is going to be the new side of the game.