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Part 2 of the Get Off My Lawn look at Shock G’s legacy and the Digital Underground’s first homage to the funk — Sex Packets!

HipHop has suffered quite a few losses in the past year with the deaths of MF Doom, Black Rob, DMX, and, most recently, Gregory Jacobs, aka Shock G, aka MC Blowfish, aka Pianoman, aka Rackadelic, aka Humpty Hump. In part 1 of this two-part episode J (@HipHopTaliban), Black Cloud (@AndreCole), and the Professor (@abjrphd) look at the legacy of Shock G and Digital Underground through the lens of the group’s classic first album, Sex Packets, examining the way Shock G used his reverence for Parliament-Funkadelic to craft a classic PFunk homage. Along the way, the fellas reach back and listen to some of the original funk and rock joints that set HipHop’s foundation! And the Professor gives a preview of his forthcoming book, For the Culture: HipHop and the Fight for Social Justice.

In this episode J (@HipHopTaliban), Black Cloud (@AndreCole), and the Professor (@abjrphd) get into a lively discussion on the recent Verzuz battle between Snoop and DMX and whether the matchups are fair contests. From there the temperature gets turned up as the fellas discuss the hypothetical dream Verzuz matchup between Prince and Michael Jackson. Also on deck is Talib Kweli getting banished from Twitter for harassing Black women and Black Thought continuing to make his case for the top spot on the all-time MC greats list.

In this episode J (@HipHopTaliban), Black Cloud (@AndreCole), and the Professor (@abjrphd) get into a lively discussion on the recent Verzuz battle between Snoop and DMX and whether the matchups are fair contests. From there the temperature gets turned up as the fellas discuss the hypothetical dream Verzuz matchup between Prince and Michael Jackson. Also on deck is Talib Kweli getting banished from Twitter for harassing Black women and Black Thought continuing to make his case for the top spot on the all-time MC greats list.

We would have let this early 2000’s battle between Eminem and Everlast slide off into the rap archives until Whitey Ford offered up some revisionist history in a recent interview with Kweli, forcing us to dig into what was a minor skirmish until Marshall went full scorched earth and created a HipHop classic.

In the second part of this episode The HipHop Taliban (@HipHopTaliban), Black Cloud (@AndreCole) and The Professor (@abjrphd) discuss the one album they would give to a non-HipHop Head that best represents the music and the culture — De la Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising, The Roots - Things Fall Apart, Rawkus Records - Soundbombing 2, and whether or not you can be the greatest MC having never had a high-profile battle or a dis record.

In part one of this episode The HipHop Taliban (@HipHopTaliban), Black Cloud (@AndreCole) and The Professor (@abjrphd) discuss the one album they would give to a non-HipHop Head that best represents the music and the culture. But on the way to that discussion they discuss the ups and downs of the recent Instagram producer battles featuring RZA, DJ Premier, Babyface, and Teddy Riley (aka OGs vs. The Internet), the Chicago Bulls documentary, and whether or not you can be the greatest MC having never had a high-profile battle or a dis record.

In Part 2 of the Get of My Lawn Podcast Quarantine Edition J (@HipHopTaliban), Black Cloud (@AndreCole), and The Professor (@abjrphd) dive into the recent Public Enemy controversy involving the firing of Flavor Flav and the Jay Electronica album that had been more than a decade in the making. And we inch closer to the beginning of the Battalog!

After a 22-month hiatus, it only took a global pandemic and forced quarantine to get The HipHop Taliban (@HipHopTaliban), Black Cloud (@AndreCole) and The Professor (@abjrphd) back in the studio and shaking’ fists at COVID-19, the Jay Electronica album, RZA vs Premier, D-Nice, Public Enemy, and getting into a beef over Beef! But the convo was too big for one episode, so be sure to catch part 2!

A lot of HipHop happenings have occurred since the end of the last podcast. East Coast Dre (@AndreCole) and The Professor (@abjrphd) are in the house with J (@HipHopTaliban)for part two of what ended up being a nearly 3-hour episode covering topics including Nasir, Black Thought, Childish Gambino, domestic abuse, Kanye, Pusha T vs. Drake, Bill Cosby, Big Pun, and determining just how many luxury accommodations are required to get an old HipHop head out to a show!

A lot of HipHop happenings have occurred since the end of the last podcast. East Coast Dre (@AndreCole) and The Professor (@abjrphd) are in the house for part one of what ended up being a nearly 3-hour episode covering topics including Nasir, Black Thought, Childish Gambino, domestic abuse, Kanye, Pusha T vs. Drake, Bill Cosby, Big Pun, and determining just how many luxury accommodations are required to get an old HipHop head out to a show!

It's been a long time coming but not only have East Coast Dre (@AndreCole) and The Professor (@abjrphd) returned to the podcast, but we FINALLY come up with the rules for the long-anticipated battle of HipHop catalogs ... aka the Battalog! But along the way to the rules we hit topics from superheroes, graffiti writers, and Movie Pass to face tattoos, The Chi, and the TR-808. We also get into a debate over whether Large Professor is a victim or a villain in the Main Source classic Looking at the Front Door.

The Get Off My Lawn podcast's most controversial segment, Busted His Nut is back! This time we look at Snoop Doggy Dogg and identify the exact moment when he exhausted his lyrical reservoir. Plus, in the wake of Best Buy's decision to kill off CDs, J reminisces on the dawn of the dawn of free music. And we discuss 50 Cent's brutal Rick Ross deathbed diss.• 04:07 — 50 Cent• 10:41 — RIP CDs• 30:15 — Busted His Nut: Snoop

It's been too long, but the Get Off My Lawn podcast is back, and J (aka @HipHopTaliban) is reflecting on the two greatest HipHop things he's ever heard,  the most gangsta cinematic outro of all-time, paying some overdue respect, and catching up on five months worth of fist shaking!

In this episode, the Black Cloud (@AndreCole) gets the last laugh as J (@HipHopTaliban) takes his Jay-Z L like a man as Professor Belk (@abjrphd) joins in to break down Sean Carter's brilliant piece of HipHop art, 4:44, track by track.  Also: 360 record deals, the lost art of sampling, the end of ATCQ?

When comedian Bill Maher brought in a Black panel to slap his wrists over a joke in which he called himself a “house ni--a,” HipHop heads took note as lifelong ni--a (the word) advocate, ni--a (the word) promoter, and serial ni--a (the word) abuser Ice Cube decided to be HipHop’s ambassador in the spectacle, despite the fact that it is a word he has singlehandedly done more to promote and popularize among white people than anybody. In this episode, JC (@HipHopTaliban), East Coast Dre (@AndreCole), and the Professor (@abjrphd) tackle the controversy, the history, the pain, the hypocrisy, and the complexities of the most the most explosive word in the English language and HipHop’s most common … and we do jump all over white privilege. So sorry cool non-Black people, no “ni--a passes” will be issued!

What was initially intended to be just a quick, fairly typical mix in honor of Malik Taylor, aka Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest evolved into "I am Phife: His Words + His Rhymes," a 2-hour tribute to the 5-foot Assassin that includes all of (and only) Phife's verses from the 3 classic ATCQ albums, along with interview clips and the genre-spanning music used to create the Quest soundscape HipHop heads fell in love with more than 25 years ago! — Provided exclusively to the Get Off My Lawn Podcast from DJ Boolix (@DJBoolix)

As the college basketball world gears up for the Final four, the Get Off My Lawn Podcast is preparing for its own March madness with the first ever Battalog — The Battle of HipHop Catalogs! In this episode J (@HipHopTaliban) and Professor Belk (@abjrphd) engage in a little HipHop bracketology as they set the seeds for the first Battalog! We also pay respect to Big Poppa, discuss the perils of sampling, sample some Hamburger Helper heat, and find out what happens when the professor catches you on the phone. 00:03:33 — Remembering B.I.G. and record industry shadiness; 00:17:45 — Hamburger Helper heat; 00:37:33 — Battalog Bracketology

In this episode J (@HipHopTaliban) and Andre “East Coast Dre” Cole (@Andre Cole) discuss their differing opinions on the 2016 releases from A Tribe Called Quest, Common, and De la Soul; Yasiin Bey’s middle finger to the City of Angels; the discography battle royale; and some fu-k him thoughts going out to America’s new president. Check the Al Dunbar page at Tha Liberator.com for throwback audio to a classic Mos Def show.

In part two of this special episode J (@HipHopTaliban) takes a look at HipHop's greatest album, Ice Cube's Death Certificate, on the classic's 25th anniversary. The episode is an audio companion to J's multimedia article at GreatestHipHopAlbum.com.