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BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!

Was up at Horses eating cornish hens…and they smashed 🔥

Big up Westside Gunn and Stove God dropping dope food recommendations in LA 😎

I can’t handle calling the 80s overrated 😭

RIP Ozzy. Thank you for the music 🫡

This will be on repeat 🙏

open.spotify.com/track/62d21V...

Yeah for real, I feel like I end up saying this most years of late - this rap renaissance is real ⭐

Hard agree, throwing Aesop Rock and Brother Ali in there too.

Did Clipse just drop album of the year?

We ask that and more on the latest drop 📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

Boom. 👊

Kendrick: They said I couldn't reach Gen Z

Kendrick fans in Birmingham, UK:

Ha ha I love that we made your radar with that 😂

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Did @aesoprock.bsky.social drop the verse of the year?

We dig into his incredible work on Black Hole Superette 📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

Boooooooom!!!

Hitting LA this summer, drop me some good places to check 👊

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We continue our deep dive into Rawkus Records with Beezy (DEHH), Ben Pedroche (Grown Up Rap) and Zilla Rocca (Call Out Culture), and dig into Big L’s ‘The Big Picture’ 🔥

Along the way we talk about Canibus, Big Pun, punchlines, cipher hats and more

📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

Big MF DOOM graf in Australia 🇦🇺

(🖼️ TEAZER ONE CBS)

Supreme Father’s Day present 💎

New Adam Curtis dropped…

MF DOOM love in Montreal 🇨🇦

(📸 @sonraw.bsky.social)

RIP Brian Wilson. On 4/20 when I was 22 years old, I left my day job as a reporter around noon, bought Pet Sounds, smoked a little opium next to a freeway while still wearing a suit and tie. And nothing ever sounded the same again.

That's That Shit - billy woods’ ‘GOLLIWOG’ Album Review | The Crate 808 Podcast Get more from The Crate 808 Podcast on Patreon

What billy woods has managed to do on his latest album is nothing short of masterful.

Actual genius level at times, unreal work honing his craft.

Attempted to unpack this incredible record over at our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/thats-...

MF DOOM love in Liverpool 🐐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

(📸 @gingerslim.bsky.social)

‪Yooooo ‬

woods casually rocking that FC Athens Kallithea shirt 🔥

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THE SUN KISS SCRUMPTIOUS SON!

Bringing you another slept-on Wu joint, one which should’ve been on Bulletproof Wallets - it’s Ghostface Killah’s ‘The Sun’ ☀️

One of the best examples of Wu-Tang truly being for the children 💪

📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

This Wu upcycled art is serious 🥶

(🖼️ IG @doogz_one)

25% of rap skits in the 90s was rappers being mad at cab drivers

Gonna catch him in Leeds in Oct my man 👊

Big up, thank you for sharing 🙌

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We dig into Armand Hammer's classic 3-album run of Rome, Paraffin and Shrines with @premrock.bsky.social 💎

Ft. a stellar guestlist of @rapmusicplugpod.bsky.social @freemusicempire.bsky.social @sonraw.bsky.social @gingerslim.bsky.social, Defcee and more 🔥

📲 linktr.ee/Crate808

No. 089 - MF DOOM’s “Rhymes Like Dimes” changed my life From Yorkshire to London and back again, Kambi Thandi reinvents himself and finds his people

Wrote this on MF DOOM, my father, the art of reinvention and the song that changed my life.

Appreciate any and all love for this Substack, a place where everyday stories make you realise the great importance of music 🎧

open.substack.com/pub/thissong...

Holy fuck. Waterproof Mascara. woods sampled grief.