Podcasts by This is not a Drake podcast

Ep 2: How the mixtape went digital from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Even as its popularity grew, hip-hop was ignored by most commercial radio. DJs and artists intervened and underground mixtapes became *the* medium for distributing new music and gaining clout — But...

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Ep 3: The rise of the Nice Guy rapper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This episode contains explicit lyrics. Hip-hop feminists took the alpha male rapper and his critics to task in the 90s and 2000’s. Guest host Anupa Mistry finds out why. She goes on a journey with...

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Ep 4: The rise of the singing rapper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It's pretty common to hear rap and R&B influences on the same track, but that wasn’t always the case. Hip-hop was not received with open arms by many in the R&B establishment. Still, rappers found ...

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Epilogue from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Host Ty Harper examines how making this podcast during a pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests has underlined the importance of telling the stories of hip hop, R&B and Black culture.

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This is not a Drake podcast: trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This is a story about hip-hop and how its journey to mainstream dominance gave us Drake in the first place. The mixtape revolution that made his success possible. The evolution of gender dynamics i...

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This is not a Drake podcast: trailer from 2020-05-21T00:10

This is a story about hip-hop and how its journey to mainstream dominance gave us Drake in the first place. The mixtape revolution that made his success possible. The evolution of gender dynamics i...

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This is not a Drake podcast: trailer from 2020-05-21T00:10

This is a story about hip-hop and how its journey to mainstream dominance gave us Drake in the first place. The mixtape revolution that made his success possible. The evolution of gender dynamics i...

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