The 5th Element
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Shining a light on the 5th Element of Hip-Hop. Home of The #5EPN. Headed by @ChilliCharlie. (E-Mail - the5thelementpub@gmail.com)
The King Asiatic Nobody's Equal. Brooklynite Big Daddy Kane came through the 80s as one of the best freestylers in the Five Boroughs and once he got with Cold Chillin' and the Juice Crew, Kane would prove that he is one of the most complete rappers of all time.
January 9, 2024 at 12:55 PM
The King Asiatic Nobody's Equal. Brooklynite Big Daddy Kane came through the 80s as one of the best freestylers in the Five Boroughs and once he got with Cold Chillin' and the Juice Crew, Kane would prove that he is one of the most complete rappers of all time.
But before we go forward, we look back one more time to 2023, talking about our Top 2 albums of 2023.
January 3, 2024 at 5:17 PM
But before we go forward, we look back one more time to 2023, talking about our Top 2 albums of 2023.
For the 11th Contemporary Cool, we get into Bey & Jay's "EVERYTHING IS LOVE" & Hempress Sativa's debut album "Unconquerebels.
November 21, 2023 at 11:30 PM
For the 11th Contemporary Cool, we get into Bey & Jay's "EVERYTHING IS LOVE" & Hempress Sativa's debut album "Unconquerebels.
In an admittedly not-the-best place to do an interview, I talk to one of my favourite discoveries of the year in Tayah, an on-the-rise singer/songwriter who wears her influences on her sleeve. We talk her beginnings, inspirations, her love for radio; her music; radicalisation and of course her Top 5
November 16, 2023 at 9:46 PM
In an admittedly not-the-best place to do an interview, I talk to one of my favourite discoveries of the year in Tayah, an on-the-rise singer/songwriter who wears her influences on her sleeve. We talk her beginnings, inspirations, her love for radio; her music; radicalisation and of course her Top 5
It's a cold Saturday night and I just got out of watching the late Horace Ové's "Pressure" at the BFI South Bank. A while after, I began an interview inside the BFI South Bank that I've been trying to schedule for months.
November 16, 2023 at 9:45 PM
It's a cold Saturday night and I just got out of watching the late Horace Ové's "Pressure" at the BFI South Bank. A while after, I began an interview inside the BFI South Bank that I've been trying to schedule for months.
We talk her beginnings, radicalisation; the many levels of societal memory and how King gets distorted; and a Top 5 that she'll definitely want to change waking up today.
November 9, 2023 at 1:53 PM
We talk her beginnings, radicalisation; the many levels of societal memory and how King gets distorted; and a Top 5 that she'll definitely want to change waking up today.
I talk to Dr. Hajar Yazdiha, Professor of Sociology at University of Southern California and author of "The Struggle For The People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement".
November 9, 2023 at 1:53 PM
I talk to Dr. Hajar Yazdiha, Professor of Sociology at University of Southern California and author of "The Struggle For The People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement".
If you know me, you know I love substantive conversation. So when I was given the opportunity to read a book and talk to the author of said book, I jumped at the chance.
November 9, 2023 at 1:52 PM
If you know me, you know I love substantive conversation. So when I was given the opportunity to read a book and talk to the author of said book, I jumped at the chance.