"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor

In a week where:

1. Jazz Pianist Ahmad Jamal dies aged 92.
2. The Dominion/Fox News trial is settled after day one of the trial.
3. Over 100 Animal Rights protestors delay the Grand National.
4. Just Stop Oil protes…

In a week where:

1. Cancer and heart disease vaccines ‘ready by end of the decade’. 
2. Jon Rahm wins The Masters.
3. Classified US Intelligence documents leak on Discord servers. 
4. NBA Playoffs begin. 
5. Reggae Soun…

In a week where:

1. Trump is indicted.
2. Oscar Pistorius and Charles Bronson are denied parole.
3. Connecticut and LSU win NCAA National Basketball championships.
4. TikTok fined £12.7 million for UK Data Protectio…

In a week where:

1. World Athletics bans transgender women from competing in international track and field competitions.
2. France has multiple protests go violent after Macron's forced pension age rise.
3. Jona…

In one of the more free-flowing interviews I've had so far, I talk with California born & raised MC - The DU Goddess - Mystic.

We talk about her beginnings, her roots as a talented artist and then go…

In a week where:

1. Sunak & Macron announce a new detention centre in France. 
2. Russia attack Ukraine with hypersonic missiles. 
3. BBC suspend Gary Lineker after his tweets criticising new Tory immigration pl…

In a week where:

1. Jazz Saxophonist Wayne Shorter dies aged 89.
2. Matt Hancock's WhatsApp texts are leaked.
3. Boris Johnson has put his father, Stanley, forward for a knighthood. 
4. 70 Year Old Charles Bronson g…

In a week where:

1. R Kelly & Harvey Weinstein rack up more prison time. 
2. James Bond books are being rewritten in sensitivity measures.
3. UK & EU finally agree on a NI Protocol deal. 
4. A 6.2 magnitude earthqua…

In a week where:

1. Bruce Willis is diagnosed with Dementia. 
2. Facebook & Instagram will implement a paid verification feature a la Twitter Blue.
3. Turkey & Syria are hit with two more earthquakes. 
4. Its been a…

In a week where:

1. 15 people are arrested after violence outside hotel housing asylum seekers.
2. 1/3 of De La Soul, Trugoy dies aged 54.
3.  The US shoots down more objects floating in their airspace.
4. The Kansa…

In a week where:

1. A Chinese Spy balloon drifts into the US.
2. Netflix changes password sharing rules, get bullied into a u-turn.
3. Liz Truss pipes up again via hilarious essay.
4. Turkey & Syria suffer several e…

In a week where:

1. Memphis reels as the video footage of five police officers murdering Tyre Nichols drops.
2. Rishi Sunak sacks Nadhim Zahawi for breaking the ministerial code over his tax affairs.
3. Djokovic…

In a week where:

1. New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation.
2. The BBC will keep black local radio stations, after u-turning on consultation proposals to axe the programmes from on-air sched…

In a week where:

1. Dozens of people killed after a plane with 72 people on board crashes near an airport in central Nepal.
2. Distant cousin of Boris Johnson acted as credit guarantor while in No 10. 
3. Voters…

For this Long Read, we head to Complex for "Bottom Feeders Are Preying on Street Rap’s Dominance" By Andre Gee. The piece - off the back of Young Thug & Gunna's YSL RICO case - explores the law using…

In a week where:

1. Rishi Sunak makes non-specific promises for the UK.
2. Met Office confirms 2022 was UK’s warmest ever year.
3. Bolsonaro supporters storm their Congress.
4. Former Prince Harry hijacks news cycle…

For this Long Read, we head to Vox for "Why we can’t turn off the NFL" By Dylan Scott. In the piece, Scott meditates on the ubiquity of the NFL and how it will still continue regardless of how many D…

For this Long Read, we head to... *Checks notes* The 5th Element! For "State Of The Hip-Hop Union 2023", written by me. In the 5k essay, I cover several macro topics pertaining to Hip-Hop history, so…

Artist & Friend of 5E Apex Zero returns to answer 30 Questions.

Our interview from November.
Apex Zero Music.
"Drummer Warrior Storyteller" Short Film.

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Lyricist and Friend of 5E Backwood Sweetie comes through to answer 30 Questions.

1st Interview
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