The Lounge Presents

*please accept our apologies for Jay's audio levels were a little high*

We had a great time chatting Vanguard of Style's Hannah, who shared her journey in the culture and how she found herself in her…

RUSSELL! joined us in the lounge space for the first time and we had a great conversation about his journey in music - navigating the industry as a Filipino artist in North America and the Philippine…

We welcomed Philth Spector for his first visit to the lounge space to share his come-up in the culture, the phenomenon that is Flipabeatclub and his latest release, The Sounds of Philthadelphia 4.

T…

J.O. Mairs & Heavy G are no strangers to the lounge space and we welcome the homies once again to talk about their new full-length dropping Friday, October 4, SZN 2.

It really is RUNXGUN szn with bot…

We had the pleasure of welcoming Queens' Creation co-founder and Legendary crew member Lynx into the lounge space to share her journey in the culture, offer her perspective on the 2024 Olympics and b…

Blessed to have Platurn in the lounge space to share his come-up in the culture and the influences that helped to shape the incredible record he's dropping 9/23, Through Storm & Grief.

The full-lengt…

Keysha Freshh rolled through the lounge space to share her come-up and the rollout of her latest full-length, Pretty Boys Break My Heart, which is available now.

PBMH is a dope listen and highly reco…

Always live having the homey JAKE PALUMBO in the lounge space & for this go-round, we're talking about The Violence of Healing, his latest record available everywhere now.

Catch a vibe & cop that when…

We were looking forward to welcoming FRANCESCA D'AMICO-CUTHBERT into the lounge space to discuss her come-up as an educator and historian in hip hop culture.

A very good episode and most def not the…

We were elated to welcome back GIL MASUDA into the lounge space and he brought along a first-timer to The Lounge Presents, SAUKRATES.

The two recently dropped the incredibly funky Driftin', available …

We love having the boys from MACHINA II in the lounge space and on this episode they tell us all about the new EP, The Jazz Tape, Volume 1, which they did with producer RECTITUDE, and we get into oth…

Since first meeting and talking with NIGEL WEBBER, we have been looking forward to welcoming him into the lounge space to discuss Gritty City: An Oral History of Winnipeg Hip Hop Music, which drops i…

We had an opportunity to welcome FLEXUM (Manitoba Breaking Alliance, Knuckleheads Cali) into the lounge space to tell us about the important work being done by the MBA, who are currently promoting "Q…

We were excited to talk with J.O. MAIRS and JOSH GRANT about their full-length, Joshua, an incredibly dope front-to-back listen that would get many repeat plays in your music library.

Joshua is availa…

We love having fam like ROSHIN in the lounge space because we get to catch up and talk about new music but this episode we also took you elsewhere (if you're fans of merry Westchester mutants, you'll…

After having seen how the war in Gaza has affected CAMPS BREAKERZ CREW, we invited SHARK into the lounge space to share his journey in the culture through breaking and how they have been able to endu…

For the final episode of our "The new renaissance of Chicago" series, we were elated to welcome VICE into the lounge space, a tremendous talent who bridges the gap between the 90s and the new renaiss…

For this episode of our "The new renaissance of Chicago" series, we welcomed VIC SPENCER into the lounge space to share his journey in the rap game, what it's like being in the vanguard of this new r…