What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the 79th All Things Considered segment which makes the case for R.A.P Ferreira, a rapper who has pushed genre boundaries and is due for an ode, following a tumultuous 2024.

Tracklist:

Buck 65’s Knee (feat. Buck 65)
blood quantum (feat. ELDON)
hereing color, green
Re: Animist
by the head
Budding Ornithologist are Tired of Weary Analogies
deposition regarding the green horse of rap
FREAKS [G’S US & Blu]
aziatique black wizard lily funk
ark doors
lampiao’s flow
Salladhor Saan, Smuggler
gnosis, Black nationalism, rice
Zen Scientist (feat. Myka 9)
Geology and Theology
8mm grain
poet (Black Bean)
mid answer trying to remember what the question is
diogenes on the auction block
50 centaurs
LAUNDRY
yamships, flaxseeds
tennessee farmer jutsu
bought my kid a high chair
Folk-Metaphysics
stressrunstheworld
Ought Implies Can and I Cannot
lavender chunk (feat. Hemlock Ernst)
thinking while eating a handful of almonds
speck
a beat for cousin harry
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc (For Schopenhauer)
paging mr. bill nunn
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
where’ing those flowers [Nostrum Grocers]
culture jammer
culture war patriots
Behold! There Appeared a Chariot of Fire
A Day Trip To The Nightosphere (feat. Anderson .Paak)
NONCIPHER
hyperion
the oprah winfrey show
Ecclesiastes
Kenosha, WI
temple in the Green
bookoo bread co
Up Late Wit The Old Preacher [Crow Billiken]
i’ll turn your money green
tennessee stud cover
listening
oblivious butterfly
pablum // CELESKINGIII
peace is the opposite of security [Nostrum Grocers]
honor when honor is due
PINBALL (feat. Open Mike Eagle)
Jes’ Grew in Osaka
humboldt park jibaritos
idk
DOLDRUMS
a priori priority (feat. Mars Bremen)
hot bref
wherearewee
Napping Under the Echo Tree
mythbuilding exercise no. 9
east nashville
a beat for my lil boy (somn to gro into)
Just Us (For my friend Robert, who doesn’t live here anymore)
Just Us (A Reprise for Robert, Who Will Never Be Forgotten)
CYCLES
boot knife
selection from too much of life is mood
defense attorney
dreams
Atlas Flushed (Grumpy Groucho Marxist Response)
real jazz (feat. milo)
The Confrontation at Khazad-Dun

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Tonight, as is tradition, is the show’s Ode to People Under the Stairs. It’s been five years since Double K passed — gotta show some love. Long live PUTS!

Tracklist (all tracks by PUTS unless listed otherwise):

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the 78th All Things Considered! This one makes the case for the one and only Khary, whose discography is more than his big breakthrough record; so, as always, it’s time to dive deep, all things considered, into his work.

Tracklist:

Internlude (feat. Jermaine Fowler)
Revenge of the Intern
WaterFire
Wifi
Donkey Kong 64
French Toast (skit)
Tidal Graves
i’m sorry (Freestyle)
Aliens
Cursed
Elmer’s
Extra Mile (feat. Jermaine Fowler)
Control Pt. 1
Control Pt. 2
Why
I Hate Everything
The Hardest Part Is…
Quitting (feat. Latrell James)
Anyway (feat. Cloud Atrium)
Did I Fail?
Fuchsia (feat. Kota the Friend & Haasan Barclay)
More to Life
The Giving Tree
No One Knows
Good Luck (skit)
Reckless, Abandoned
A Year In Space (feat. Jon Hope)
Chappelle Free
She’s Fine
Proud Of Us
2
Father’s Gun
Cut Your Hair (skit) [feat. Jermaine Fowler]
Holy Ghost (feat. Topaz Jones & Haasan Barclay)
Gibraltar
10 Speed (feat. JZAC)
Nomad
Big Fan (skit) [feat. Jermaine Fowler]
Mobius
Fembrook Dr
Skate Park
Cinema
Summer With Friends
Dolores (skit) [feat. Jermaine Fowler]
Calypso (feat. Marian Mereba)
Say My Peace
Society
Purple Dye
Obvious
Blueberry Biscotti
Find Me

See y’all next time!

PS — got the Substack poppin’ in case you want to check it out: https://mopheadmusings.substack.com/

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — my discoveries of 2025! Dedicated to music that was not released in 2025, which I discovered for the first time. Not much more to explain than that. Entries are listed in square brackets.

Also, I have launched a Substack, check it out here if you’re so inclined: https://mopheadmusings.substack.com/

Tracklist:

Aether – Chi-Leung’s Domain [Viewfinder OST]
The Cranberries – Salvation [To The Faithful Departed]
The Streets – Going Through Hell (feat. Robert Harvey) [2006-2011 releases]
The Streets – the morning after the day off one (feat. trim)
Outsidaz – Fuck Y’all N***az (feat. Rah Digga) [Night Life EP]
Cibo Matto – Know Your Chicken [Cibo Matto Discography]
Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Bombin’ The L [Come Find Yourself]
Bass is Base – Westside Funk (WSF) [Memories of the Soulshack Survivor]
Cibo Matto – Emerald Tuesday
Midicronica – San Francisco [#501]
Peter McConnell – Campground Quest [Psychonauts 2 OST]
Fantastic Plastic Machine – Bachelor Pad (F.P.M Edit) [Self-Titled]
Peter McConnell – Truman’s Ship in a Bottle
Yeo Joon Han – Yes Man [Sell Out! Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Peter McConnell – Rise Up Milkman [Psychonauts: Original Cinematic Score]
The Streets – Memento Mori [The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living]
Pulp – Cocaine Socialism [This is Hardcore]
Bass is Base – Days of the Week
Jazz Liberatorz – Easy My Mind (feat. Tre Hardson) [Clin d’Oleil]
Ski Beatz – Fly By (feat. Curren$y) [Ski Beatz 24 Hour Karate School Presents Twilight Zone]
Fishmans – Sunny Blue [Fishmans Discography]
Fishmans – Weather Report
Midicronica – Blue Velvet
Jazz Liberatorz – Blue Avenue [Fruit of the Past]
Cibo Matto – Sunday (Parts I and II)
The Cranberries – Forever Yellow Skies
Pulp – TV Movie
Cibo Matto – Sugar Water (Acoustic)
Dan Hess – Bravissimo! [Pilot Wings 64 OST]
The Weather Report – Black Market [8:30]
Takuya Kuroda – Afro Blues [Rising Son]
Back Alley Kat – Ghost Capture [Sly Cooper and the Gang In…]
Back Alley Kat – Frame Team Iceland
Peter McConnell – Landing at the Luctopus
Peter McConnell – Whispering Rock [Psychonauts OST]
Peter McConnell – Stay Out of the Moonlight
Dan Hess – Birdman
Uyama Hiroto – 81summer [A Son of the Sun]

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Merry Christmas! In keeping with the Christmas spirit, tonight is the the worst of the year. More than two hours of unbridled hating and negativity. Didn’t even throw in a mix of good music. Just a foul note for everyone. See y’all in the new year for the best of.

Listener discretion is even more advised than usual.

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s All Things Considered — the 77th one, the last of this second round of Canadian artists, this one makes the case for Big Moves. A legend in the Halifax hip hop scene, he has spent the better part of 30+ years producing beats that constantly push MCs to explore the dungeons of rap and everything that can come from it. Time for all of us to get familiar.

All tracks are produced by Moves, unless denoted by *

Drunken Arseholes – Cancerous (S**t Blood)
Tachichi – My Employment Application
Horn – Sound the Horn
Governor Bolts – Find
Governor Bolts – Bride of Bolts
Awol One – Thunders Dying
Moves, Kaboom, & CEE!!! – Live Another Day
Hip Club Groove – Bay Oh Fun-Day
Tachichi – Boozehounds, pt. 1
Fatt Matt – Real Nova Scotian
Hip Club Groove – Voices
Tachichi & Buck 65 – Hatin It
Drunken Arseholes, King T, & Tachichi – I’m Blasted
Drunken Arseholes – A Little Trip to the Store
Fatt Matt – Chicken Burgered Up
Fatt Matt – The Villa
Tachichi – Choplifter
Drunken Arseholes – Rural P*mps Theme
Moves, Fatt Matt, & CEE!!! – Tell Me Where Dem H**s*
Drunken Arseholes – Women and Beer
Hed #3 & RC – Puke on a B***h
LXVNDR – Freak Baby L
Hip Club Groove – P**nostar
Drunken Arseholes & Hed #3 – C*m
Drunken Arseholes – ’73 Caprice
Hed #3 & Jay O Smooth – S***ty Car
Tachichi – Boozehounds
Moka Only – Peoples R Crazy
Moves & Buck 65 – Tour De Trance
Moves, Sixtoo, & Cheklove Shakil – Tagged Out
Tachichi, Kunga 219, Knowself, & Buck 65 – Heads Up
Horn & Birdapres – You Ain’t Gotta Trip
Hip Club Groove – Chickens & D***oes (Live Freestyle at Lees Palace, Toronto, 1995)
Tachichi – Nova Scotian 2 the Death (Interlude)
Renegade Synapsis – Watered Down Juice
Moves, Sebutones, & Renegade Synapsis – June ’98
Moves, Tachichi, Knowself, Kunga 219, Al Turdbeast, Buck 65, Kotep Omegatron, Mindbender, Druncnes, & Oracle the Newf – June ’99
Tachichi, Buck 65, Governor Bolts, Birdapres, B-Side, Mindbender, Obie, Gordski, Jay O Smooth, CEE!!!, Fritz the Cat, Kotep, & J-Ras – Spontaneous 2
Cousins of Def & B-Side – No Coast
Drunken Arseholes – Electronic Wiretap
Governor Bolts & Stubrock – We Told You
Moves – The Bill Lynch Midway
Moves, Buck 65, Birdapres, & Hubcity – Remember the Old School
Governor Bolts & Birdapres – Dreams
Fatt Matt, Ghettosocks, Engineer, Cee!!!, Zachariah, D-Vice, & Knowself – Unexpected
Tachichi – The Nice-Up
Moves, Jeff Spec, Stinkin Rich, & Ghettosocks – StankinSpeckledSocks
Hip Club Groove – Trip To Reality
Moves, Kaboom, & CEE!!! – Food
Governor Bolts – Overseeing Eye
Moves, Buck 65, & Lindsay Misiner – Sur Le Flex
Tachichi & Fatt Matt – Dreamscape
Kaboom – People Never Change
Josh Martinez – Raindance
Drunken Arseholes – The Unauthorized Biography of Motown
Drunken Arseholes – In Due Time (Death)
Tachichi – Hate Runs Deep 2015*
Drunken Arseholes – It Won’t Be Long (Death)
Knowself – The Flowers of Zero & Ignorance
Moves – Lonesome Highway Driver
Knowself – Technology (Spiritual Regression)
Governor Bolts – Sherry
Fatt Matt – Feeling Unusual
Knowself – Survival (A Handful of Humanism)
Governor Bolts – Re-Invaticanstated
Hip Club Groove – In My Life
Maxwell – Deny

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the last ode of the year, taking us all the way back to the last four months of 2000. Al Gore won Florida, then lost Florida; meanwhile, the PS2 launched in North America. If only we knew how far the empire would fall…

Tracklist:

Outkast – B.O.B
M.O.P & Funkmaster Flex – Ante Up (Robbin-Hoodz Theory)
M.O.P, Busta Rhymes, Teflon, & Remy Ma – Ante Up (Remix)
Cam’Ron & Ol Dirty Bastard – Violence
Wu-Tang Clan & DJ Kay Slay – Do You Really (Thang, Thang)
Ja Rule – 6 Feet Underground
Scarface & Jay-Z – Get Out
E-40 & Ice Cube – Behind Gates
Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel, & Memphis Bleek – Change the Game
Xzibit & Dr. Dre – U Know
LL Cool J & Ja Rule – Back Where I Belong
Eminem & D12 – Words Are Weapons
Prodigy – Veteran’s Memorial
Nas, Bravehearts, & Millennium Thug – Kids in da P.J.’s
Binary Star – Solar Powered
Cella Dwellas & Inspectah Deck – Verbal Slaughter
Necro – Burn the Groove Down
Saukrates & Redman – W.Y.K.A
Souls of Mischief – 4th Floor Freaks
Phife Dawg – The Club Hoppa
Mystikal – Shake Ya A**
Ludacris & Shawna – What’s Your Fantasy
Ludacris, Shawna, Trina, & Foxy Brown – What’s Your Fantasy (Extended Remix)
Afroman – Crazy Rap (Colt 45)
Afroman – Because I Got High (Extended)
Murs – I Hate Your Boyfriend
Young MC – Ain’t Goin Out Like That (Scratch Mix)
Lil Wayne & Hot Boys – Shine
SPM – Country Life
Everlast – Black Jesus
Guru’s Jazzmatazz & Bilal – Certified
Afu-Ra – Whirlwind Thru Cities
Black Eyed Peas – Bridging the Gaps
The Pharcyde – Trust
Snoop Dogg & Kokane – Stacey Adams
Willie D – Hearse Cadillac
Memphis Bleek – I Get High
Aesop Rock – How to Be a Carpenter
D’Angelo – Feel Like Makin’ Love
Erykah Badu – Time’s a Wastin’
cnn declares Al Gore as winner of Florida
Reflection Eternal – The Blast

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — an ode to the final four months of 2005. The Xbox 360 launched, I briefly understood math, and we got a lot of great music to lead into a strange year.

Tracklist:

Joe Budden – Are You In That Mood Yet?
Chamillionaire – In the Trunk
Bun B, Lil Keke, Slim Thug, Chamillionaire, Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Aztek, Z-Ro, & Lil Flip – Draped Up (Remix)
Eminem & Nate Dogg – Shake That
Lloyd Banks & Tony Yayo – We Run This
Styles P – Beats To My Rhyme
Big F***in Fonz – Invite to 50 Skit
Sheek Louch – Maybe If I Sing
50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Prodigy, Young Buck, & Spider Loc – Robbery
Paul Wall & Big Pokey – Sittin Sidewayz
The Game, Techniec, E-40, Crooked I, Chingy, Lil Rob, Paul Wall, WC, & Ice Cube – My Lowrider
50 Cent – Window Shopper
Juelz Santana – Hi, My Name Is
Fort Minor – Remember The Name
Young Jeezy, Boo, & Slick Pulla – Miss Me With That Rap S**t
Lil Wayne – I’m a Ridah
Lil Wayne & Mac Maine – Soul Survivor
Big KRIT – The South
D4L – Laffy Taffy
Three 6 Mafia – Poppin My Collar
Warren G, Mike Jones, & Frank Lee White – In Case Some S**t Go Down
DJ Quik & Nate Dogg – Black Mercedes
Tha Dogg Pound – Hittin Donutz in tha Streetz
Little Brother & Joe Scudda – Lovin It
Blackalicious & George Clinton – Lotus Flower
DANGERDOOM – Space H*’s (Madlib Remix)
Public Enemy – Superman’s Black in the Building
Shad – Real Game
Atmosphere – Smart Went Crazy
Faith Evans, The Notorious BIG, & The Game – 1970 Somethin
Re-Up Gang – Ultimate Flow
Lil Wayne – Hustler Muzik
Fatlip – What’s Up, Fatlip?
first three minutes of G4TV’s XBOX 360 launch special
Little Brother – Cheatin

BONUS
Twista & Mariah Carey – So Lonely
Juelz Santana & Hell Rell – Whatever U Want To Call It
Nipsey Hussle – Rimpau’s Finest
Mase – Kamikaze
DJ Muggs & GZA – Unprotected Pieces
Smif-N-Wessun & Heltah Skeltah – My Timbz Do Work
Canibus – Da Facelift
U-God – You Don’t Wanna Dance
Kool Keith – G-Strings
Lil Kim – Kitty Box
Talib Kweli – Ms. Kim
Fort Minor & Lupe Fiasco – Be Somebody
Spice-1 – Everybody Want To Go To Heaven
Lewis Black – America Loses Its Mind

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — we come back full circle. Five years ago, the Odes series started by looking back ten years to 2010; now, five years later, we finish the odyssey of looking back 15 years, when I was basically experiencing what Neo experienced in the Matrix, but everyday, and in the form of .zip and mp3 files.

Tracklist:

Lil B – Wonton Soup
Kanye West, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, Lloyd Banks, Ryan Leslie, & John Legend – Christian Dior Denim Flow
Kanye West, Kid Cudi, & Raekwon – Gorgeous
Nicki Minaj & Kanye West – Blazin
Waka Flocka Flame & Cap – O Let’s Do It
Waka Flocka Flame, satan, Rick Ross, & Gucci Mane – O Let’s Do It (Remix)
Lupe Fiasco – SLR (Super Lupe Rap)
Nipsey Hussle – 7 Days a Week
Tech N9NE – Table and Chest Stress
Gangrene – Take Drugs
Yelawolf – That’s What We On Now
Vado – Polo
Rick Ross & Drake – Made Men
Lil B & Cormega – I Killed Hip Hop
Lloyd Banks & Juelz Santana – Beamer, Benz, or Bentley
Lloyd Banks, The Dream, Ludacris, Jadakiss, & Yo Gotti – Beamer, Benz, or Bentley (Remix)
Sheek Louch & DJ Webstar – Club Jam Packed
Cali Swag District – Teach Me How To Dougie
Cali Swag District, Jermaine Dupri, B.O.B., Bow Wow, Red Cafe, and a bonus Sean Kingston appearance – Teach Me How to Dougie (Remix)
Lil B – Hipster Girls
Chiddy Bang – Truth
Far East Movement & Keri Hilson – Don’t Look Now
Das Racist & Chairlift – Fashion Party
David Banner & 9th Wonder – Mas 4
Malice – Freestyle
Young Buck – Smoke Our Life Away
Fashawn – Dark Fantasy (Freestyle)
Freddie Gibbs – Learn to Duck
Lloyd Banks – Reach Out
Curren$y & Raekwon – Michael Knight (Remix)
T.I., Scarface, & Mitchelle’l – How Life Changed
Big K.R.I.T – Some Days Freestyle
Kendrick Lamar & Ab-Soul – P&P 1.5
Joe Budden & Crooked I – Sober Up
Joe Budden, Pusha T, & Styles P – Dessert For Thought
J. Cole – Too Deep for the Intro
Kid Cudi – Mr. Rager
Drake – Paris Morton Music
Atmosphere – To All My Friends
1982 & Freddie Gibbs – Falling
Jay Rock – Get On Your S**t
Lil Wayne & Drake – Right Above It

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Tonight’s mix is the year’s final ode to 2015, looking back at the last four months of a strange, foreboding year. Memes, political tension, and an abyssal feeling were, at the least, soundtracked by a lot great tunes.

Tracklist:

Rick Ross – We Gon Make It
Travis Scott & Quavo – Oh My Dis Side
Drake & Future – Diamonds Dancing
Mac Miller – Rush Hour
Michael Christmas – Hate
The Game, Dej Loaf, & Sha Sha – Step Up
YG, Blanco, & DB the General – Driving Like I’m Loco
Wiki & Nasty Nigel – Living With My Moms
Big K.R.I.T, Ludacris, & K. Camp – Shakem Off
NxWorries – Droogs
Plies – Ritz Carlton
Tory Lanez – Juvenile Freestyle
Lil B – I Was Born Poor
Quentin Miller – Cease and Desist
Jay Rock & Isaiah Rashad – Wanna Ride
Freddie Gibbs – F***in Up The Count
Pusha T & Beanie Sigel – Keep Dealing
Kendrick Lamar – Black Friday
The Game & Anderson .Paak – Magnus Carlsen
Kirk Knight – Heaven Is For Real
Erykah Badu – Medley: What’s Yo Phone Number/Telephone (Ghost of Screw Mix)
GoldLink – Zipporah
Casey Veggies & BJ the Chicago Kid – Life Song
Logic & Jesse Boykins III – Paradise
YG & Slim 400 – Goapele
Charles Hamilton & Laurel – Down the Line
Lil Peep – The Way I See Things
Lil Peep – Star Shopping
Isaiah Rashad – Nelly
Rav – 1,000 Years in the Mountains
Archy Marshall – Sex With Nobody
Joe Budden, Jadakiss, & Marsha Ambrosius – Make It Through The Night
Sir Michael Rocks – Alone
Yelawolf – To Whom It May Concern
Logic, Slug, & Killer Mike – Tree of Life
R.A.P Ferreira – An Encyclopedia
Busdriver – Species of Property
Larry Fisherman – Smile
dj khaled lost at sea on a jet ski while on snapchat
DJ Khaled, Jeremih, Chris Brown, August Alsina, & Future – Hold You Down
DJ Khaled, Usher, Rick Ross, Fabolous, & Ace Hood – Hold You Down (Remix)

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Tonight’s All Things Considered is web-exclusive so that DJ Carmelo can do his thing — the show makes the case for The Gumshoe Strut, a true DIY one-man-band-man who’s been doing his thing for a long time. Time to get familiar!

Up Down Left Right
No Time 2 Die
My Secret Identity
Stairaway
Broke Off Rap
BEATS! (feat. Pip Skid & Yy)
That Counts
How Many Times (feat. Gruf)
Throw Down Tonight
On the Move
A Coset To Be The Boss (feat. Pip Skid)
Live From the Underground
Worse in the World (TTG Version)
Whirlwind
Traffic
It’s All About… (feat. Grubbs)
Redrum
Point of Combustion
So Confused (feat. MC Homeless)
Break Me Off (Interlude)
Pick Up The Piece(s)
Clock/Works
The Haunted Painting
Wants Might Get (feat. Birdapres)
Too Long In The Tooth
People So Cold (No Hellos)
Sun Down
Do Dad S**t (feat. Nolto, StapleMouth, Id Obelus, Capaciti, & Yy)
I Was There Once
Heard You Were Dead (feat. Azrael)
Cheers
Love 40
Felt
Honestly
Indifference
In Bed At Dawn
Wide Awake
The Real Sacrifice
Bus Stop Joe
Bad Apple
Humble Abody
Goodnight
Speakin’ My Mind

See y’all next time!