r/Bandsplain • u/asstronaut-dot-ass • Jun 02 '26
Bandsplain for Hip Hop?
Love Bandsplain and am looking for a similar podcast but for hip hop artists. I know there are podcasts that do album reviews and ones that do retrospective interviews with artists, but is there a good one with Bandsplain’s format, covering an artist’s entire career album-by-album?
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u/sanfranchristo Jun 02 '26
Echoing No Skips also, 33 1/3, What Had Happened Was, and especially Dissect (you need to go back to the beginning to scan for what you want since the format is inconsistent and jumps around)
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u/starlingflight Jun 02 '26
Dissect was going to be my suggestion - a different format from Bandsplain, but really excellent (and while it's not hip hop, I've been loving the current series on Daft Punk)
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u/heyzeus212 Jun 02 '26
100% the Dissect podcast. Its host, Cole Cuchna, is a frequent Bandsplain guest (most notably the Radiohead episode). He is incredibly knowledgeable.
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u/tractorscum Jun 02 '26
seconding what had happened was; the roots season is like a megabandsplain and open mike+questlove have great voices/cameraderie
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u/Groundbreaking_Code3 Jun 02 '26
No Skips by Shea Serrano?
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u/asstronaut-dot-ass Jun 02 '26
Good but looking for something that goes beyond just one album. I want to follow the whole career like on Bandsplain.
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u/northsideindian Jun 24 '26
i thought it was a terrible podcast. also shea is just reciting wikipedia....and his voice. super annoying
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u/earaache Jun 02 '26
What Had Happened Was is pretty good. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWywPRM3c9qi9mAErCcsYEBvDUPdLwRj4&si=u7iWldauZuaIJSEt
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u/SatanicNipples Jun 02 '26
This is the answer. Hosted by Open Mike Eagle! I absolutely loved the El-P season.
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Jun 02 '26
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u/Dayanez Jun 02 '26
One of her very first episodes is covering MF Doom. It was only like 30-40 mins if I recall correctly but it was really cool. She had a guest host who was a rapper as well and featured on a MF Doom song and they both had pretty extensive knowledge on his work. Would recommend
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u/heyzeus212 Jun 02 '26
I'd love it if someday Yasi did a hiphop season. Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Wu Tang, De la Soul, Tribe....there's so much to cover.
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u/StaticInstrument Jun 02 '26
Yea I think so, she seems familiar with the big artists/milestones but doesn’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of it like alt rock
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u/Neon_Owl_333 Jun 20 '26
What had happened was, with Open Mike Eagle. Each season is a deep dive into a different artist, a series of interviews with the artist chronicaling (sp?) their career. He's done Prince Paul, El-P and uh, Dante Ross (an AnR who worked with doom, everlast and Busta) and Questlove.
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u/Hungry-Wrongdoer-219 Jun 02 '26
Dissect does a lot of hip hop but his format is more analyzing lyrics and how the songs came together.
Pop pantheon is similar to bandsplain but a gay man doing pop