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Wu-Tang Clan, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. Brought NYC Back: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution

1/11/2021

Host Nate Wilcox and his cohorts Alexei Auld and Eugene S. Robinson discuss season 2, episode 4 of Hip-Hop Evolution "A New York State of Mind" which covers Nas, the Wu-Tang Clan and Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious B.I.G.

This is the last episode of our first mini-series on Hip-Hop Evolution. Eugene and Alexei will be back to discuss the 3rd and 4th seasons with Nate later in 2021.

More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll:

A Tribe Called Quest & De La Soul Led the Native Tongues
Too $hort, MC Hammer, E-40, Digital Underground & 2Pac Brought the Bay
The 2 Live Crew, Geto Boys and UGK Come Out of the South
Ice-T, Eazy-E And N.W.A. Bring Gangsta Rap To The Masses
Run-DMC, Def Jam & Public Enemy Herald the Golden Age
The Sugarhill Gang & Afrika Bambaataa Put Rap On Wax
Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution
The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam - with Dan Charnas
Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice T Cop Killer Backlash - with Dan Charnas
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z - with Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop - with Ben Merlis

A Tribe Called Quest & De La Soul Led the Native Tongues: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution

1/4/2021

Host Nate Wilcox and his cohorts Alexei Auld and Eugene S. Robinson discuss season 2, episode 3 of Hip Hop Evolution "Do The Knowledge" which returns to New York to cover The Bridge Wars and Native Tongues groups like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest.

More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll:

Too $hort, MC Hammer, E-40, Digital Underground & 2Pac Brought the Bay
The 2 Live Crew, Geto Boys and UGK Come Out of the South
Ice-T, Eazy-E And N.W.A. Bring Gangsta Rap To The Masses
Run-DMC, Def Jam & Public Enemy Herald the Golden Age
The Sugarhill Gang & Afrika Bambaataa Put Rap On Wax
Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution
The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam - with Dan Charnas
Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice T Cop Killer Backlash - with Dan Charnas
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z - with Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop - with Ben Merlis

Too $hort, MC Hammer, E-40, Digital Underground & 2Pac Brought the Bay: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution

12/28/2020

Host Nate Wilcox and his cohorts Alexei Auld and Eugene S. Robinson discuss the second episode of Hip Hop Evolution’s second season, “Out The Trunk: The Bay" which takes us to Northern California to talk about Too Short, MC Hammer, Digital Underground and a young 2Pac Shakur.

More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll:

The 2 Live Crew, Geto Boys and UGK Come Out of the South
Ice-T, Eazy-E And N.W.A. Bring Gangsta Rap To The Masses
Run-DMC, Def Jam & Public Enemy Herald the Golden Age
The Sugarhill Gang & Afrika Bambaataa Put Rap On Wax
Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution
The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam - with Dan Charnas
Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice T Cop Killer Backlash - with Dan Charnas
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z - with Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop - with Ben Merlis

The 2 Live Crew, Geto Boys and UGK Come Out of the South: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution

12/21/2020

Host Nate Wilcox and his cohorts Alexei Auld and Eugene S. Robinson discuss the first episode of Hip Hop Evolution’s second season, "The Southern Way", which looks at the first Southern rappers to make a national impact: Florida’s 2 Live Crew and Texas’ Geto Boys and Underground Kings.

More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll:

Ice-T, Eazy-E And N.W.A. Bring Gangsta Rap To The Masses
Run-DMC, Def Jam & Public Enemy Herald the Golden Age
The Sugarhill Gang & Afrika Bambaataa Put Rap On Wax
Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution
The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam - with Dan Charnas
Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice T Cop Killer Backlash - with Dan Charnas
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z - with Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop - with Ben Merlis

Ice-T, Eazy-E And N.W.A. Bring Gangsta Rap To The Masses: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution

12/14/2020

Host Nate Wilcox and his cohorts Alexei Auld and Eugene S. Robinson discuss the fourth episode of Hip Hop Evolution "The Birth of Gangsta Rap" which takes us from Schooley D in Philly to Ice T, Eazy E and NWA in Los Angeles.

More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll:

Run-DMC, Def Jam & Public Enemy Herald the Golden Age
The Sugarhill Gang & Afrika Bambaataa Put Rap On Wax
Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution
The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam - with Dan Charnas
Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice T Cop Killer Backlash - with Dan Charnas
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z - with Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop - with Ben Merlis

Run-DMC, Def Jam and Public Enemy Herald The Golden Age: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution

12/7/2020

Host Nate Wilcox and his cohorts Alexei Auld and Eugene S. Robinson discuss the third episode of Hip Hop Evolution "The New Guard."

This episode covers covers the rise of Run DMC, Def Jam Records, Eric B & Rakim and Public Enemy.

More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll:

The Sugarhill Gang & Afrika Bambaataa Put Rap On Wax
Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution
The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam - with Dan Charnas
Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice T Cop Killer Backlash - with Dan Charnas
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z - with Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop - with Ben Merlis

The Sugarhill Gang & Afrika Bambaataa Put Rap On Wax: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution

11/30/2020

Host Nate Wilcox and his cohorts Alexei Auld and Eugene S. Robinson discuss the second episode of Hip Hop Evolution "From the Underground to the Mainstream."

The episode covers the early New York rap battles caught on bootleg cassettes, Hip-Hop's move from the Bronx to Manhattan and alliance with punk as well as the first hit rap records, The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper’s Delight", and Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock.”

More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll:

Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution
The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam - with Dan Charnas
Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice T Cop Killer Backlash - with Dan Charnas
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z - with Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop - with Ben Merlis

Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx: We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution

11/23/2020

Host Nate Wilcox is joined by Alexei Auld and Eugene S. Robinson to talk about the first episode of Netflix' Hip-Hop Evolution: The Foundation. The conversation covers DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash.

More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll:

The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam - with Dan Charnas
Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice T Cop Killer Backlash - with Dan Charnas
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z - with Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop - with Ben Merlis

Yo La Tengo Surfed The Indie Rock Wave

11/2/2020

Host Nate Wilcox and Yo La Tengo biographer Jesse Jarnow discuss the Hoboken band's relentless touring, massive repertoire and how independent radio, record labels and record stores helped them make Indie Rock as big as it ever got.

Based on Jarnow's book "Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock" the conversation focuses on the circumstances that allowed a band this eccentric to attain a degree of mainstream success.

More Jesse Jarnow on Let It Roll:

The Grateful Dead Builds Psychedelic America
The Weavers Fight The Black List

Bing Crosby Ruled The 1940s

10/26/2020

Bing Crosby biographer Gary Giddins joins host Nate Wilcox to discuss Bing Crosby’s incredible run during the World War 2 era.

The 1940s were a period when Crosby set still-unbroken records for single sales, won an Oscar for his acting, sang for a radio audience in the tens of millions and led Hollywood’s war effort.

The conversation focuses on Gary's second book on Crosby, "Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946."

Listen to part one of the conversation: Bing Crosby's Swing Brought Him Superstardom

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ABOUT THE PODCAST
Ed Ward's History of R&R
Tales From The Tour Bus
The Freebird Yeller
HIP HOP EVOLUTION