Live From The Basement

Great show featuring an interview with K.Sparks winner of Episode 75 as well as a special guest interview with former Shady Aftermath recording artist Stat Quo. Six bangin new underground and independent tracks for yall as well so make sure you pop through to the voting and vote for your favorite track and buy these artists CDs!

Barack Obama FTW! We popped some champagne to celebrate and discussed the Bishop Lamont Interview we did that everyone is going off on and much more! Make sure you jump on the mailing list and we will drop you an email the days of our live shows!

Probably one of the most fun times weve had on the show. Featuring an interview with Double-O of Kidz In The Hall. Tune in, get in on the convo and hit us up with your comments!

Shouts to everyone who came in the chat and tuned in. Major got Willie the Kid on the phone to talk about his come up in the game as well as some good info on his cousin Floyd Mayweather. Get in on these live shows and interact live and ask questions!! If you havent already, jump on the mailing list and we will drop you an email the days of our live shows!

Major and JMack talk best and worst album art, get an update from King Soul of KonsoleKingz.com live at the BET Hip-Hop awards, talk with Ryne from SLAMOnline.com and Vin Rock of Naughty By Nature. Make sure you ride the episode out, Vin as at the very end when he called in last minute! Overall it was a real fun show. Shouts to all the listeners who came through and chatted and emailed!

We decided to step it up and start bringing you guys shows every week! Fridays we will be trying out these smaller shows with mostly mainstream music, no voting, and completely free form. Whatever happens, happens....and stuff happened LOL. So make sure you catch us LIVE and we will try our best to make it each Friday and also the following week on Saturday! This episode we spoke all kinds of topics, but the biggest discussion by far was on a simple question. Who in hip-hop would you nominate for president and why? Check out this ep to hear what we thought as well as other callers!

Welcoming the new website, new show features talking everything from Sarah Palin and rotten females to Las Vegas and a special guest shout out from Barack Obama (apparently he has Young Bergs chain too). We were set, prepared and emailed all of you about the interview with Devin the Dude which fell through, as Devin was sick that day. But its all good, we should be getting him back on for an interview as well as a SWEET giveaway, special thanks to Devin AND his dudes. Also we FINALLY got in an interview with mutli-episode winner Icee Jake.

Our first show LIVE on UStream video, AOL Radio AS WELL as the podcast! We had a great time this episode and Phro is finally back in the building. Spinning some heat for yall this week too probably the hottest group of tracks weve spun together in quite some time. Make sure you sign up for the mailing list to so you can stay up on the LIVE shows! Weve got some crazy stuff coming up for the next episode!

We jumped this episode off immediately with an interview with Joe Budden just before he got on a plane, so we were immediately in rare form this time around. Major and JMack were Phro-less this week but they kept the show rolling after the Budden interview with some great underground hip-hop joints, a couple more calls with Nai from StrictlyFitteds.com, CJ from KonsoleKingz.com as well as some listener calls. Hot show, hot music, great calls. Make sure you check it out. And sign up for the mailing list yall to get in on the live shows!!!

Episode 68 was all about having fun and touching on the topic of the age gap in hip-hop. Early in the show we spoke with the winner of Episode 67 Najee and discussed the topic at hand as well as his album “Westside Story”. We also spoke on the Ice-T vs Souljah boy debate (the live show was 2 weeks ago). Later in the show we caught up with Fresh, genius writer supreme and owner of the entertainment news blog, Crunktastical.net and talked about her site, and laughed for about a half hour straight. Hopefully we didnt harrass her too bad and she will come back for the next episode. Through the rest of the show we took some calls, spoke on SOHH getting hacked to death, more Kwame Kilpatrick hip-hop mayor talk, discussion of the double standard N.E.R.D. music and more!

This episode was recorded about 3 weeks ago as we took our annual summer break. But were back! This episode was loaded with great music and we had alot of fun, although we had to work through a major technical failure and a nasty ass heat wave when we recorded this episode. Make sure you check out the HoodHype blog and peep the Shows category to get the second half of this episode which included the white boy water taste test as well as another special interview with Bishop Lamont.

We"re back in the building with some fire music for yall this week. This episode we got into the MTV "Top 10 Hottest MCs" list and ripped it to shreds along with MTVs "Brain Trust". Later in the show Major, Phro and JMack bounced to the subject of reparations and had a bit of a heated debate and also discussed a track the review staff was split on. Lots of good stuff for yall this episode, check it out!

Episode 65 was a crazy one. The show itself ended up being 3 hours, but luckily after some editing we managed to get it down to a more manageable hour and a half so we arent continually murdering your iPods space. So you may notice some continuity shit going on in the show. We kicked the show off immediately with a track and a FRESH interview with Killer Mike, talking about everything from conscious rap (which he said is rather whack) to Alexis Tyler on his show Grind Time Sports Show (BANG! BANG! BANG!). We spoke on marketing beef vs the legitimate rap beef. We then spoke with the winners of Episode 63 Rideout and Terry Cole for their song Ways to lose Detroit. COP THEIR ALBUM!! Overall we had a great time, and we really wish we could post the last segment of the LIVE show but we figured maybe we would post it some other time so we could FINALLY get this one out to yall. Enjoy and we look forward to your feedback. Please post here, email or call us with your comments for the next show

A three hour show. It was three hours long. We kicked off the show with an interview with last episodes vote winner, Lungz for his track "Am I Black Enough For You". which got things off to good start. Truth be told we didnt expect to run this long, but once NY Oil got on the phone it was all over. The conversation kept getting deeper and deeper as JMack got quieter and quieter (LOL @ JMacks silence). Major, JMack and Phro (but mostly Major) sat down and had a great discussion with NY Oil from everything from the whole Nas issue, to the Sean Bell case. Episode 64 was an episode loaded with Black Pride. As always, there were six crazy underground hip-hop and reggae joints and much more. Also, our apologies for the mild vocal distortion...human error our end. Oh, and make sure you login to our blog at http://www.hoodhype.com/blog to hear an entire hour of bonus audio that wasnt included in this episode!

Its been almost a month since the entire HH crew got together for an episode so we were ampd up and ready to go. We got things started by congratulating JMack on his newest child, and spoke about every fathers worries when their child is first born. From there we got into some hip-hop talk with Nonseq from the production team Tin Men whose track "Video Chick" received the most votes from Episode #61. Nonseq filled us in on the hip-hop scene in North Carolina, and how their production team goes about deciding what MCs they want to work with. Next, Phro gave us the run down on his vacation to Tampa, FL and their 24/7 2-for-1 drink specials. After the break we got into some conversation about Busta Rhymes recent Hot 97 interview, which lead us into a conversation about Aftermath Records and their rosters bulked up appearance. From there we discussed why DJs get so much love, re-lived some drunk moments, gave our thoughts on Stacy Dashs KING Magazine cover, and a lot more. As always, the m

Episode 62 is here and aptly titled The Amazing Race considering 80 percent of this entire show was discussion about racial subject matter. Special guests this episode include the hottest video producer out right now, Rik Cordero. We talked about his videos, upcoming projects, how he got in on the game and much more. We also spoke with one of the guys from the StuffWhitePeopleLike blog, Myles to talk about the site, the subject of the site and we though we came up with some damn nice post suggestions for them too! As always, we featured some FIRE tracks this episode so make sure you tune in and listen to some of the hottest underground hip-hop on the planet!

You know we couldnt really come up with a title for this one. We were all over the place this show but had a damn good time. We spoke to Faddy Daddy, winner of Episode #59, talked about the Stuff White People Like blog (of whom we expect to talk to on the phone next show), dropped a special message for Joe Budden, talked about Nas renaming his album and 6 hot tracks (got some nice reggae stuff in there this week for yall too).

As you can tell from the title, this was our first-ever live show. We streamed our show live via ustream.tv and had a chance to get some real-time interaction with our audience via the chat. The whole experience was tight and we hope to do more shows in a live format in the future. The episode got off to a good start as we caught up with Capital Z, the winner from Episode #58, to talk about his track "Family Ties", and his loyal fan base (he set a HoodHype record for most votes). After that, we had a chance to speak with Brooklyns own Joell Ortiz. Right from the jump we took the opportunity to squash any misinformation surrounding our previous interview with Bishop Lamont. With that aside, we got into what projects Joell will be dropping next, what hes looking for in his next label situation, working with Rik Cordero, his hoop game and more. After hollerin at Joell, we got to speak with another one of Brooklyns elite, Buckshot from the Duck Down camp. Buck gave us the scoop on The Firm

A solid show for yall this week. They were all over the place but spoke mostly on the old high school days... skipping school, drinking. Kinda breakin in the new recording joint so things were a little off at times, but Major, JMack and Phro came through for yall this week with a hot show packed with some crazy independent and unsigned music. Dont forget to get at us any time at 888-THA-HYPE (888-842-4973), email info@hoodhype.com or holla at www.myspace.com/hoodhype and we will read your comments, complaints and whatever on the air. GET AT US! Weve also got a murderous show planned for yall next week too, so tell your friends!

With three hours of equipment problems, and a couple interviews falling through Episode #58 got off to a rough start, but we managed to hold it down and put together a fire show. We got things started by talking to J. Rose of Bacu Entertainment, whose track "Chillax" earned the most votes from Episode #56. Next, we took a look back at the year that was 2007. We touched on everything from the best and worst albums of year, to which MCs made a come up in 2007 and which MCs took a loss for the year. After reflecting on 07, we began to look forward to 2008 and whats on the horizon for hip-hop. Finally, we spoke with Bishop Lamont for an impromptu interview, and it was definitely worth it. Bishop took some time to step out of a Detox recording session to discuss his most recent street album The Pope Mobile, and his progress on his upcoming LP. He also discussed Joell Ortiz's Aftermath situation with us, and you'll be surprised and disappointed by what he revealed.