Sunday Oldskool
At Sunday Oldskool, we listen for spiritual lessons and applications within mainstream and conscious hip hop. What it is, where's the beef, and what's really good.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2016
Sunday Oldskool Episode 73: Mac Miller’s “Ascension”
Sam and Cray weigh in on the new Mac Miller album and the track “Ascension”. Mac sounds like he believes h…
Sunday Oldskool Episode 72: Scarface with Doc, Part 2
In part two, Doc breaks down the bulk of Scarface’s “Deeply Rooted” album with us, which crescendos on the interesting if incoherent track, “God.”
Sunday Oldskool Episode 71: Scarface with Doc, Part 1
This week in Sunday Oldskool, Cray solos the first of a two part episode. In part one Cray interviews hip-hop producer Doc who shares what it’s like to be a producer and how he found his way into pro…
Sunday Oldskool Episode 70: Prayer and Time Travel in D’Angelo’s “Black Messiah”
Cray and Sam listen to the spiritual framework for D’Anelgo and the Vanguard’s “Black Messiah” album. The duo di…
Sunday Oldskool Episode 69: Soul Music and the Gospel Impulse with Mary McCampbell
Mary McCampbell joins the show to look back at the legacy of soul music and Stax Records, finding similar …
Sunday Oldskool: Rap Trope Blasphemy, Jay Rock Prophecy
We decide whether a few common rap motifs (swearing, Bible references, praising God for secular achievements, and Jesus pieces) are blasphemous or not, and then wonder what spiritual content the new…
Sunday Oldskool: Armond Wakeup Talks King Los, Part 2
In part two, Armond Wakeup is on the line to discuss the profane balancing act King Los tries to accomplish with the “God, Money, War” album, mixing the holy and the sinful. Armond also shares how hi…
Sunday Oldskool: Armond Wakeup Talks King Los, Part 1
Armond Wakeup joins the show to drop knowledge on the new King Los album, “God, Money, War”. In part one, we talk about the album’s intentionally conflicted view of materialism, its compelling portra…
Sunday Oldskool: Eons D Talks Oddisee
Eons D returns to the show to talk about Oddisee’s latest release. “Book Covers” turns a simplistic moral into a complex meditation on identity, judgment, and politics.