Southern Vangard

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the MADHATTAN interview session! We head back up top this week to talk with NYC’s Madhattan, who’s been dropping projects and guest features at a dizzying pace in 2019. Mad is fresh off performing at Top Shelf Premium’s “Supply & Demand” Holiday Edition last week at Chelsea Music Hall, so he gives on the low down on on how things went, his bar fest at Shade45 on Statik Selektah’s Showoff Radio a few weeks ago with good friend Elcamino and the history behind his longtime relationship with producer Ice Rocks. We also go behind the scenes around his latest LP, “Brown Water Bible”, which is entirely produced by Ice Rocks & features Benny, Rome Streetz, Elcamino, Fast Life, Supreme Cerebral & XP The Marxman. Mad also breaks down how his EP with G4 Jag, “The 6th Man,” came together and gives us his outlook on the re-engergized New York City underground. You guessed it - there’s much more in store, so clear a little room out of your playlist today and hit play cause you know i

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep235! Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey HEY - it’s still Tuesday ya’ll - we might have crept in at the 11th hour, but we made it. Doe & Meeks are back with the usual - fly commentary, brand new joints and just an overall good time - it’s pretty hard to beat if you really think about it. This weeks Ep235 also finds us checking in the Don Chicharon himself, the one and only THIRSTIN HOWL THE 3RD, as he calls in live from Art Basel Miami and gives an update on his new record among other things. Of course we’re twice a week this week, as we nabbed Madhattan a few days after he ripped down the stage at Top Shelf Premium’s Supply & Demand Holiday Edition show up on NYC last Friday. Interview snippets are at the end of Ep235, the full interview session drops on Thursday. It’s that WORK and it’s that #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on #applepodcasts #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud #youtube // #hiphop #rap #undergroundhiphop #boom

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the SHAWN J. PERIOD® interview session! If there was ever a week where Smithsonian Grade applied, this is it. We’re documenting history over here, Vangardians, not to mention giving ya’ll straight GAME - so fix your face, sit up straight, pay attention and take notes! This producer’s history and evolution over the years is remarkable - from getting signed by Rob “Reef” Tewlow & Stretch Armstrong to Big Beat / Atlantic Records in the early 90’s as part of hip-hop trio “Down South”, transitioning to a full time producer and being mentored by some of the best in the game like JuJu & V.I.C. of The Beatnuts, T-Ray and many more to being behind the boards for what could eventually be considered one of the biggest hip-hop singles of its time, not to mention a certified classic - Mos Def’s “Universal Magnetic” b/w “If You Can Huh You Can Hear”. Shortly after that, he took what seemed like an abrupt break from music to focus on family, but has been making a calculated return to

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep234! Oh BOY do we have a few winners for you this week, fellow Vangardians! Of course we’re dropping a new mix this week with all the latest and greatest new hip-hop this side of the universe - and of course we’re dropping an interview session on Thursday, ‘cause we’ve been on that Twice A Week vibe from jump. HOWEVER, there’s WAY more than that - how about HEEM STOGIED and J57 dropped by this weeks mix show to talk about their brand new album that dropped on Thanksgiving Day, “FALSE GUIDANCE”?! And how about DJ POCKET dropped by, in all of his Baltimore-orange sweatsuit glory, to kick off his birthday week?! AAAAND how about our interview session that drops on Thursday is with none other than the one and only SHAWN J. PERIOD?! Did I mention you can catch snippets of the interview at the end of this here episode until the full interview session drops on Thursday? There’s gems all OVER this interview folks, you don’t want to miss it. Man LOOK - as the young folks say - TAP IN ‘c

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the SUPERIOR interview session! Meeks & Doe take a trip over the Atlantic to Germany this week to talk with German producer Superior, who had quite the year after dropping “Long Story Short” with none other than ETO back in April. Superior’s continuing his white-hot streak by continuing to working with the finest the game has to offer, as he prepares to drop “BALADAS” with the TRAGIC ALLIES’ own ESTEE NACK in February 2020. We get the behind the scenes info on the project, how CODE NINE & BELOW SYSTEM RECORDS helped make the connect and why having a visual accompaniment in the form of 4 videos is so important to the producer. We also talk about how Superior got into this rap sh*t, why he gravitated toward production and how having a good ear is was key to him making good music and gaining attention as a producer. On top of all of that, Superior even blessed us with an EXCLUSIVE from the new project with ESTEE NACK called that you can hear on our Episode 233 mix this week

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep233! Pull up to the table and let your belt out folks, The Gard has a lot in store for you this holiday week. If you’re bored to tears or just can’t deal with the family shenanigans, we’re here to help. First off - we’ve got a GRIP of WORLD EXCLUSIVES - the homie SPITTZWELL tossed two joints over the fence to us, FASTLIFE hit us with a joint in preparation for his new EP dropping next week (not to mention he also called in for a quick interview!!) AND we have a cut from Superior, our interviewee for this weeks interview session. Superior and Estee Nack have a project dropping in Feb 2020 - and we have the PREMIER of “SAMMYSOSACLEANCOCA” off their upcoming album “BALADAS” right here on Episode 233! You can atch a preview of Superior’s interview session at the end of the mix, the full drops on Thurs! Gobble Gobble y’all it’s that #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on #applepodcasts #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud #youtube /

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep232! It’s battle of the browns this week folks, Kentucky vs Tennessee as Meeks rolled up to the Dirty Blanket Studios with a bottle of some of TN’s finest whiskey, Uncle Nearest - and put it head to head with Doe’s Old Bardstown. Just off that alone, there’s not much explaining to do - you can imagine this is quite the episode. 2019 is far from over as far as new music goes, and there’s plenty to serve up this week for our faithful Vangardians. DJ Pocket was in the lab as well helping us out with the taste test, we have ALL WORLD EXCLUSIVE beats from D.R.U.G.S. BEATS for the talk breaks, a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from JAMIL HONESTY and we have a mix show interview with BOZACK MORRIS! If ya didn’t know, “Saint Muerte” is out now with ElCamino, go cop it at GGBR Records today! Our guest for the Thursday interview session this week ghosted us at the last minute after repeated reminders and subsequent confirmations (classy, right?), so go back and check out last week’s Ankhlejohn intervie

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the ANKHLEJOHN interview session! We’ve been locked in to this DC MC/producer and overall renaissance man since his 2017 release “RED ROOM” - specifically when him and CAMOFLAUGE MONK dropped that “Rayful Edmond” missile on the world - it was one hell of a night at Southern Vangard HQ when we dropped that in the mix on Ep133. We get Ankh Nasty on the phone to talk about his latest, and damn near accidental, release “LORDY IS GOD, his recent foray into production and why his pace has been so frenetic the past two years. As we always do, we get into a little history and talk about his gravitation to rhyming, why his rap heroes were combo artists & entrepreneurs and how 50 CENT’s “Wanksta” took him from watching Disney flicks one day to full time rhyming in the blink of an eye. Big Lordy also breaks down the genesis behind his label SHAAP RECORDS, the roster of artists he’s helping shine light on such as RAHIEM SUPREME and DJ MASTAMIND, and the tight knit circle of artists

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep231! Make room, Vangardians, as Doe & Meeks crank out another two pieces of stellar content to get you through the week! First, Ep231 is chock full of brand spanking new hip-hop joints, side splitting commentary AND has an EXCLUSIVE interview with our good friend, COUNT BASS D! Count called in to give us the inside scoop on “Edibles”, his brand new instrumental project that drops THIS FRIDAY, NOV 15 as well provide some insight on his upcoming album “CBD”. You can also hear a preview of the project throughout the talk breaks in this episode, make sure you pre-order or pre-add this album on your preferred platform today! We don’t stop there - for this weeks interview session we head to the District of Columbia to talk with ANKHLEJOHN! Interview snippets are at the end of the mix, you’ll have to wait until Thursday for the full interview. So press play and say hooray for what is ALWAYS #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #ThriceAWeek #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvan

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the SAUCE HEIST interview session! We’re on a roll with in-studio interview sessions at the moment - we ran into the homie Sauce at A3C this year, and managed to catch him again this week while he was in town doing some work in the A. Sauce is fresh off the “Spanish Sauce” EP with producer Spanish Ran, so we get the run down on that project, why Sauce had a more calculated approach with the quantity of releases in 2019 and what he has in store for 2020 - we heard a snippet off-air, and it’s RIDICULOUS. Like always, we go back a few years and get the story on how Sauce got into the rap game, the influence his father and brother had on him musically and how traveling with this mother played a critical role in his outlook on life, the world and how he navigates it. Sauce also breaks down the origins of the HEIST LIFE crew, which includes Sauce, Jesus Heist aka Ty Da Dale and Babymane, the heavy influence hip-hop, art & NYC culture as well as The Five Percent Nation had on h

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep230! Coming off what will go down as the most significant release week of 2019, at least as far this rap shit goes, your guys Doe & Meeks couldn’t be happier. A BRAND SPANKING NEW GANG STARR ALBUM THAT’S AN INSTANT CLASSIC?! Yeah we don’t EVER say that - but we’re saying it now. “ONE OF THE BEST YET “ is out now…MAN. Throw in the new Westside Gunn, the Brother Ali & Evidence surprise album and all the other goodness that dropped last week - folks will be talking about last week in years to come. You can hear those joints and more, including a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from SMOOVTH & ROYALZ in this weeks Ep230 mix. On THURSDAY - you’ll get our IN-STUDIO interview session with the one and only SAUCE HEIST! Say what?! Sauce was in the A and came through Dirty Blanket Studios aka The Bourbon Room and dropped JEWELS. You can hear a preview of the interview at the end of the mix, the full drops on Thursday! GANG STAR FOREVER, REST IN PEACE GURU and remember it’s ALWAYS that #SmithsonianGrade #

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the ULTRA BEAST interview session! It’s only right we have rhyme animals 4-IZE & SEÑOR KAOS for our Thursday interview session this week, given Halloween falls on a Thursday this year. These two Atlanta MC’s have come together again to form as ULTRA BEAST and are dropping their 2nd LP “UNITED” on Nov. 8th. They dropped by for an in-studio interview to talk about the genesis of the album, how guests like WORDSWORTH, PUNCHLINE, HEADKRACK, NUMBER 2, ALEXANDER BLANE, & GREATNESS IS EZ landed on the project and the stable of producers they picked to provide the soundscape - folks like DON CANNON, D.R.U.G.S. BEATS, E.JONES, ILLASTRATE, CRAZY DJ BAZARRO & SPITZWELL. We go way back with these gentlemen so we also get into some old Atlanta stories - how about 4IZE first roommate when he moved to the A was LALA ANTHONY?! KAOS provides some insight on how he broke into the promotion and marketing game - including an insane story on how he threw JANELLE MONÁE’S first sponsored Atlan

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep229! BIG MEEKS BACK, BIG MEEKS BACK, THAT’S ALL THESE FANS SCREAMING THAT BIG MEEKS BACK! The birthday boy has returned from Memphis, and he brought a bottle of that Bibb & Tucker Small Batch with him (thanks to DJ Pocket), not to mention we had a Knob Creek Single Barrel 120 proof ridin’ shotty. Like usual, we played bunch of dope, new rap records, talked a lot of trash and plain had a grand ole time. We’re back on our interview ish this week too and boy is it a special one - how about an IN-STUDIO interview session with Atlanta architects 4-IZE and SEÑOR KAOS, who have formed again as ULTRA BEAST - and SURPRISE - they have a brand new album dropping Friday, Nov. 8! Of COURSE you can hear EXCLUSIVES from the “UNITED” album on Ep229, and you can check interview snippets at the end of the mix for what’s coming when the full interview drops on Thursday! All eyes on us ‘cause it’s always that #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #ThriceAWeek #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @south

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep228! VANGARDIANS - stop EVERYTHING right NOW and wish a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to EDDIE CAPPUCCINO SOUTH MEMPHIS MEEKS! El Guapo himself was out of town this weekend on a birthday extravaganza but we keep the torch lit and welcomed our good friend DJ POCKET to help out Doe with the co-host. Tons of new joints as always - including a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from our in-studio guest, RATICUS! This Atlanta by way of Brooklyn producer has TWO new LP’s dropping THIS FRIDAY, OCT 25 with AL DIVINO & MOOCH of DA CLOTH! Raticus dropped by to talk about these two projects, dropped off an Al Divino premier that features ETO and hung around for the rest of the show to talk trash with Doe & Pocket. If that ain’t enough we got another WORLD EXCLUSIVE from BREEZ EVAHFLOWIN & DEEP from 2 HUNGRY BROS to boot! So press play, cop “Cryptex: Murderous Material” from Raticus & Al Divino AND “New York State: The Renaissance” from Raticus & Mooch on Friday and send a little thank you up to the heavens for what is

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep227! Hey ho there folks, it’s that time of the week, so WALCOME to you all! Doe & Meeks have you covered with all the latest raw ish here on Ep227, and there’s quite a bit of it this week as as our scheduled interviewee for our Thurs interview session was a straight NO SHOW. Their loss, not ours nor yours - that just means you get a longer, plentiful mix this week and we get to talk more trash. We have yet another WORLD EXCLUSIVE for you - from the BIG TURKS Deluxe Edition that was just announced this week! The cut is a remix of “Turkish Delight” which originally featured PLANET ASIA - but now has a verse that is straight silly from Chi-town’s CHRIS CRACK. Speaking of, if you need that interview fix this week - you can go back and listen to our interview with Chris from a few weeks ago, or check our recent interview with Turks’ member JAMAL GASOL OR check out last weeks interview with the one and only JAZZSOON. There’s plenty to go around folks, so pull up to the table, grab a

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Jazzsoon interview session! If you don’t this gentleman, get up to speed NOW. This producer blew the doors off 2019 early alongside PNC Nems with “Gorilla Monsoon” - a blistering 13-track LP that is hands down a top tier contender for AOTY and over time will go down in history as a bonafide classic - yeah we said it. We get Jazz on the horn to talk about how the album came together, his decade-long relationship with Nems and why this album will cement his place in hip-hop history. Doe and Meeks also crack open the history books and talk about what it was like growing up in Brooklyn, the stark difference in now-Brooklyn and the production tools of the trade he cut his teeth on. Jazz also talks about the upcoming re-release of his currently sold-out “Taxi”, his latest release, “Sex Tape” and what else is on the menu for 2019 and beyond. So what are you waiting for - cop “Gorilla Monsoon” now if you haven’t already, scoop up these limited Jazzsoon physicals before they’

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep226! Good friends of THE GARD, WALCOME to another fun filled episode with your friends Meeks & Doe. The severe heat has finally subsided here in Atlanta, fall is basically here and we’re barreling into the final stretch of 2019! Gobs of new music this week as you would expect, including a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from CHONG WIZARD’s “TIME STONE” which goes up for pre-order this Friday. “ComicCon” features Myka9, Self Jupiter, Blu & Open Mike Eagle, and is produced by Ro Data. We head to Park Slope, Brooklyn this week for our interview session with the sonic architect of what we consider AOTY - the one and only JAZZSOON! Interview snippets are at the end of the mix, the full interview session drops on Thursday. As the young whippersnappers say these days - tap in, ‘cause you know you need that #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #ThriceAWeek #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on #applepodcasts #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud #youtube // #hiphop #rap #undergroundhipho

BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents the Chris Crack interview session! We head to the Chi this week for our Thursday interview session, and man is this a special one. About two years ago, this MC flipped the switch on his output and it’s been a deluge of unique, high quality and consistent material - which is frankly hard to come by these days. This week Chris is celebrating with our good friend Chong Wizard as they announced the vinyl release of “Never Hated, I Just Waited.” Chris breaks down the development of his relationship with Chong over the past few years, why he chose a Saturday as the date for the vinyl pre-order and some background on the artist behind the cover for the album. We also talk about the science behind Chris’ album & song title game, why Gary Vee kicked his work ethic into high gear and the highly important relationship between him and his engineer, Cutta. We tear the doors off the hinges when Chris gives up the goods on the outcome of that infamous Madlib tweet last spring - but you

Episode 225 - Southern Vangard Radio BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep225! Two and a QUATAH Vangardians! Doe & Meeks are back in the saddle this week and boy is it a doozy! We have WORLD EXCLUSIVES from L-Biz & RoobxCube (courtesy of the homie G4 Jag), Zilla Roca & Curly Castro (for real this time) AND our in-studio guest OXYGEN! Ox dropped by to talk about his his new LP, the Tom Caruana produced “Age Appropriate,” and other random things like how he and Large Professor met. Did I mention the exclusive Ox brought to the show will ONLY be on the cassette version of “Age Appropriate”? Get your ‘lil money up and cop it quick before they’re gone. For our Thursday interview session this week - oh man are you guys gonna LOVE this interview - Chicago’s own CHRIS CRACK! He just announced the vinyl release of “Never Hated I Just Waited” on Chong Wizard Records, so we get the lowdown on that AND some ULTRA EXCLUSIVE news on what in the world is going on with him and MADLIB. Snippets of the interview at the end of the

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep224! Doe is out of pocket this week so we’re giving ya’ll his August appearance on Techniques Radio, a weekly hip-hop show that airs on WREK 91.1 FM Georgia Tech Radio in Atlanta, and is run by Ran Mo & The Wrecking Crew All-Stars DJ crew. This was recorded August 22, 2019 and as usual features tons of new hip-hop - radio clean, mind you - kind of safe for work / family! The homie Supastition also dropped by the station for the show to rap about his new EP “Sacrifice” and he dropped a brain melting freestyle over some Trox beats off the new Ty Farris X Trox album “Room 39 Pt 2”. If that ain’t enough, Supreme from Brooklyn Republic / J Dilla Youth Foundation dropped by to talk about the work they’re doing for the foundation in Atlanta and beyond. WHEW! Ok, so - a few things - 1) don’t fret - Meeks and Doe will back with the regular twice a week goodness next week 2) If you’re in Atlanta on Thursday nights, make sure check out Techniques Radio from 9p-11p ET, or check out WREK.or