What’s up, y’all? Here’s tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the 68th All Things Considered, which makes the case for Toronto MC Abdominal. With an incredible discography, it’s time to get familiar if you ain’t already!

Tracklist:

My Name is Abdominal
Abdominal Workout
Behind the Scenes
Fast Food [Fry Antics]
Still Hungry
Urban Hermit
T.Ode (feat. Notes to Self)
Pedal Pusher
Panic Attack
Balance Both (feat. Chali 2na)
Forged From Hardship (Dutty Moonshine Big Band Remix)
Inoutro
Interlude
The Best Posse Cut You Ever Heard (feat. Dan-E-O, D-Sisive, Fatski, Kamau, The Grand I Am Perial, Esoteric, & Arcee)
Abcapella
Train of Thought (feat. Obe One)
While You Sleep
Sock Hop
Courage (feat. my mom)
Elizabeth
Open Relationship
Reflective Meditation Rhymes
Walk Left/Stand Right
Outta Left Field
Broken
These Boots
The Vinyl Frontier

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, where I eulogize my truck.

Tracklist:

OG Maco – 5AM in LA
El Snappo & 1900Rugrat – Chicken (Remix)
Nas – Blue Benz
03 Greedo, Kenny Beats, & Freddie Gibbs – Disco S**t
Cousin Stizz & Smino – Nokia
Fat Ray, Danny Brown, & Black Milk – Just Say No
Spice Programmers & Chuck Strangers – EAZY E
Niko B – boarded the plane
6ix & Logic – WMD
Michael Millions, Fly Anakin, & Nickelus F – Blacksugar
Reason, Kota the Friend, & D’anna Stewart – Stuck On Moments
homeless beats – propsei freestyle
Love, Ulysses – Green Line Shawty
Buck 65 – Digger’s Song
Yy & Birdapres – Tape Surgery
Hodgy Beats – D00rs
JPEGMAFIA – either on or off the drugs
Drake, PARTYNEXTDOOR, & Yebba – DIE TRYING
serengeti – vanessa
R.A.P Ferreira – when my eldest daughter asks how old I am
Party City Machine Guns – What’s the Word
Madvillain – One False Move (“Great Day” Demo)
Break Bread – If I Do Say So Myself
Stalley, Curren$y, & MadeinTYO – Count Your Blessings
THEY. – Never Change
Legit – Figure 8
Nas, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, & Stephen Marley – Leaders
JID – 2007
Substanial – Ain’t No Happy Endings
Midicronica – Pillow Jam
Nujabes – World Without Words
Nujabes – The Space Between Two World
Uyama Hiroto – Walk In The Sunset
The Pollyseeds, Terrace Martin, Robert Glapser – Funny How Times Flies

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s 67th All Things Considered segment, in which I make the case for Canadian Funk-Hop band, God Made ME Funky. With six fun albums across a ten year span, I want to give the group some props, even if I only discovered them recently!

Tracklist:

Basslude
Won More Time
We All Fall Down
Bringin’ It Back
ComeOnUpToGetDown
Phantastik!
Where We Play
Funky Fly N’ Free
The Jam
Too Shy
U Can Do It
FeeeLit (feat. Eternia)
Swagger Stance
Cybersects
Digital Life
Everybody Get Up
Beating Machine
My Day (feat. Moka Only)
Bartenda
Saga
Get Down
Spotlight
Peace, Love
Subway
Summer Love
Feels Like Music
Ur Own Way
I’ll Fly Away
Delancy
U Stepped
The Future
Double Dutch Bus Rmx

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? A bit early this week due to some work demands, here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s final ode to Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul who, along with his brothers in rhyme, gave us one of the best Hip Hop groups of all time. RIP.

Freedom of Speak (We Got Three Minutes)
The Corner
Freestyle (Dat S**t) 2006
Ghetto Thang (Ghetto Ximer)
Buddy (Native Tongue Decision) [feat. Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, & Monie Love)
Property of Spitkicker.com (feat. Roc Marciano)
The Bizness (feat. Common)
Stiz & Stonz (feat. Tito of The Fearless Four, Grandmaster Caz, Whipper Whip, LA Sunshine, & Superstar)
My Writes
3 Days Later
Church
Who Do U Worship
Must B The Music
The Sauce (feat. Philly Black)
Down Syndrome
Do As De La Des
Me Myself And I
Itz Soweezee (Hot) [De La Remix]
No Over Till the Fat Lady Plays the Demo
I Can Do Anything (Delacratic)
Pass the Plugs
Trouble in the Water (DJ Honda & De La Soul
Stay Away (Pete Rock, Rob-O, & De La Soul)
Leave Your Cares Behind
In the Woods
Just Havin a Ball
Plug Tunin (Last Chance to Comprehend)
Stakes Is High (DJ Spinna Remix)
Freedom Train
Keepin’ The Faith
Freedom of Speak (We Got More Than Three)
Bigger (feat. Choklate)

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is this week’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s fifth ode to People Under the Stairs. Salute to Thes One, RIP Double K, Forever the P!

Tracklist:

Swan Fever
Step Bacc
Drumbox
Redeemer
My Boy D
Stoned Youth Truth
Bobby in the Hood
Yehaw Partystyles
You Lied
Stars in the House
Death Of A Salesman
Lord Radio & Hale Bop
Double K – Livin’ A Mean One (The New Gangsta Gangsta)
O.S.T (Remix) [feat. Odel]
Listen
Hardcore
Bloquera – Fiesta
Too Much Birthday
The Love
Kaos & Thes
Jamboree pt. 1
Jamboree pt. 2
LA Song (Sensitive Mix)
Roundabouts
After These Messages
Umbrellas (God Forgive Me)
The Aesthetics Crew & L.A. Mike – Timmay!
Sonic Riders
The L.A. Song
The Breakdown
Thes One – Survivor Syndrome (We did it for Mikey)
Thes One – Sparrow
Thes One – Italian Balconies

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Tonight’s mix is the 66th All Things Considered — this time, I’m making the case for Grand Analog, the Canadian hip hop band whose small discography contained many a great record — time to get familiar if you ain’t already!

Tracklist:

LMAO
I Play My Kazoo
Get Live and Go
Magnifico
I’ll Walk Alone
Rap Sheet (This Day On) [feat. Saukrates]
The Great Rhyme Dropper (feat. Shad)
Her Daddy (Don’t Like Me)
4am in Parkdale
Electric City (feat. Shad)
Ballad of the Beast (feat. Shad, Len Bowen & DJ Dopey)
Around This Town
Not Enough Mondays/Crunch (feat. Nester Wynrus & Len Bowen)
Mutations (feat. Posdnous)
Human Beans
Mixtapes: the Slow Ride
Love is a Battlefield
Take It Slow (Spaces & Places)
Sittin On Sunday
Trip the Light Fantastic (feat. Maylee Todd & Len Bowen)
Ride On/Oshiya Dub (feat. Clairmont the Second & 2oolman)
Simmer Me Down
People People
Howl (Like Wolves)
Quiet Life (feat. Steven Mulcare)
Light So Bright (feat. Cadence Weapon)
Lion Head

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, in which I introduce one more year-end list — my discoveries of 2024. A bit of a diverse offering of projects, singles, etc., that I discovered, or finally got around to checking out, from various years prior to 2024 (with one exception).

Tracklist:

Themselves – opening of [This About the City Too…]
J Dilla – Fire Wood Drumstix (feat. MF DOOM) [Jay Stay Paid]
UrfavGrannie – Crackheads [UrfavGrannie]
DJ Polo – Down Like That (feat. Back 2 Back, Kasia, Roxanne Shante) [Polo’s Playhouse]
Molemen, Buck 65, & Sage Francis – Follow Me [Ritual of the… Revisited & Remastered]
The Black Eyed Peas – Weekends (feat. Esthero) [Bridging the Gap]
The Streets – Soaked By the Ale [Fit But You Know It Singles 1 & 2]
Prince Paul – I Want You (I’m an 80’s Man) (feat. Bimos) [Itstrumental]
Cymande – Brothers on the Slide [Cymande’s first three albums]
Henryk Debich – City [City]
HARRISON – Like When We Were Kids [Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees]
Stolen Idols – Busy Port [Moonlight Offerings]
Hideo Shiraki – Deux Step [Plays Bossa Nova]
DJ Vadim – Headz Still Ain’t Ready [USSR – The Repertoire (Theories of Verticality)]
Koichi Matsukaze Trio & Ryojiro Furusawa – Lover Man [At the Room 427]
J Dilla – 9th Caller
Rahzel – Suga Sista (feat. The Roots) [Make the Music 2000]
Masaru Imada Trio +1 – Blue Road [Planets]
The Black Eyed Peas – Positivity [Behind the Front]
Lewis Black – Vince Gill, Amy Grant, and Me [Lewis Black Discography up to 2010]
idialedyournumber – The Home We Built Is Gone [Hourglass]
DJ Shadow – You Can’t Go Home Again [The Private Press]
Minji – looking for mice
QUASAR – I Never Thought I’d See the Day [QUASAR discography]
Daniel Koestner – Lazy River [Donut County OST]
idialedyournumber – Part Two
Nacht Plank – Winters Thrill [Friends Within the Darkness 3]
Thomas Brunet – Gardens of Plenty [Chants of Senaar OST]
Zoo Kid & Rago – Watch Over Me

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? We’re kicking the new year off right by bringing the best of 2024 into the new year with us — #50-26, next week will be #25-1.

Tracklist (albums are in square brackets):

Childish Gambino – Yoshinoya [Bando Stone and the New World]
Your Old Droog – Roll Out [Movie]
moonsailor – waterpoort [SCHiM Original Soundtrack]
Brian Nasty – Anyday, After Wednesday [Anywhere, But Here With You]
Ab-Soul – Don Julio 70 (feat. Fre$h) [Soul Burger]
Wavy Bagels & Driveby – Outside [A Carfull]
Shad & 14kt – A Day in the Life [Reel Speakers]
Matt Champion – Code Red [Mika’s Laundry/Slint’s Favorite – EP]
Heems – DAME [LAFANDAR/VEENA]
Westside Gunn – I Know Verdy [HWH 11/Still Praying]
The Marias – Real Life [Submarine]
Previous Industries – White Hen [Service Merchandise]
Classified – Slippin [Luke’s View/The Relux]
ShrapKnel – Sataday [Nobody Planning to Leave]
Nickelus F – The Shining Light [Mmcht]
Asher Roth & Heather Grey – What the Heck?! [Temporary Heaven]
Tinashe – Getting No Sleep [Quantum Baby]
Mount Eerie – November Rain [Night Palace]
Vince Staples – “Radio” [Dark Times]
dear Maryanne – Natty Ice [And Nothing Bad Happened]
Attic Ocean – Young Again [Retriever]
Travis Thompson & Nima Skeemz – Real Hustlers [My Wonderful, Horrible Life]
Spice Programmers – Roaches in the car tray (feat. Solute) [Transatlantic S**t 2]
Cousin Stizz – Wit Me or Not [GABOS – Game Ain’t Based on Sympathy]
Action Bronson – Hideo Nomo (feat. Julian Love) [Johann Sebastian Bachlava the Doctor]

See y’all next week to finish the list off!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the 65th All Things Considered, in which I make the case for Sixtoo, another east coast Canada MC who set an incredibly high bar on every front, and whose hard-to-find discography should not be lost to time.

Tracklist:

Intro
Funny Sticks
Funny Sticks Reprise
Open Letter to Hip Hop
No Chorus (feat. Little T, Nathan the Alien, Papa Grand & Checklove)
Detriment’s Lament
Sebutones – 01/29/2020
Bricklayers Union/Karmic Retribution
Two Strikes
Sebutones – Viral Pneumonia
Beat Breaker’s Block
Me
Search Engine
Graffiti on the Wall
Paper People
Part3
One World Lost
Spiritual Jigsaw
Season Don’t Change
Fluke
In Their Place
Sebutones – Flux Capacity
Molemen & Sebutones – Game
This One Goes Out to Gary and Stacy (Edit) (feat. P-Love)
Jet
The Peach
A to Zero
Sebutones – To Mock a Killing Bird
Sultry
Work in Progress
5am

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the year’s final ode to 2004, a year when an energetic yell could cost you your political career, and I was in the midst of losing all innocence by learning more bad words and consuming too much media. Byah!

Tracklist:

Nas – Intro
Nas – A Message to the Feds, Sincerely, We the People
Fabolous – Breathe
Eminem & D12 – One Shot 2 Shot
Trick Daddy, Twista, & Lil Jon – Let’s Go
Nas – Thief’s Theme
TI – U Don’t Know Me
Lil Jon & Ice Cube – Real ***** Roll Call
Snoop Dogg & Pharrell – Drop It Like It’s Hot
Ja Rule, Fat Joe, & Jadakiss – New York
Cam’Ron, Syleena Johnson, & Kanye West – Down and Out
The Game, Kanye West, & Ludacris – Whole City Behind Us
Papoose – Mixtape Murder
Guerilla Black & Beenie Man – Compton
Young Buck, Chingy, & Lil Flip – Baller (Remix)
Chingy & CIB – Where Da ‘Git It Gurlz At?
MF DOOM –  *** Cakes
De La Soul – Come On Down
Jean Grae – Style Wars
Heiruspecs – 5ves
Devin the Dude – ***** Keeps Smoking Up My Bud
Ludacris & Bobby Valentino – P***in All Over the World
Trick Daddy, Ludacris, & Lil Kim – Sugar (Gimme Some)
Mos Def – The Panties
Nelly & Tim McGraw – Over and Over
Talib Kweli, Common, & John Legend – Ghetto Show
Eminem – Yellow Brick Road
Xzibit – Back 2 the Way It Was
Green Day – Jesus of Suburbia
K-os – Crabbuckit

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the final ode, of the year, to 2009. The fall, specifically, when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMA’s, setting into course a domino effect that has resulted in the collapse of western civilization as we know it. What can one say?

Tracklist:

Jay-Z & Luke Steele – What We Talkin About
Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, & Eminem – Forever
Clipse, Pharrell, & Cam’Ron – Popular Demand (Popeyes)
Kid Cudi – Soundtrack 2 My Life
Lil B – I’m God
Snoop Dogg & Soulja Boy – Pronto
Mike Posner, Big Sean, & Freddie Gibbs – Bring Me Down
Birdman, Drake, & Lil Wayne – Money To Blow
New Boyz – You’re a Jerk
Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda, & Mack Maine – Every Girl in the World
Usher & Plies – Hey Daddy [Daddy’s Home]
Timbaland & Drake – Say Something
Wale, Gucci Mane, & Weesney of Backyard Band – Pretty Girls
Gucci Mane – Wasted (feat. Plies)
Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, Jadakiss, & Birdman – Wasted (Remix)
Red Cafe & OJ da Juiceman – Wasted [MopMix]
50 Cent – OK, You’re Right
Eminem & Dr. Dre – H**l Breaks Loose
Tyler, the Creator & Earl Sweatshirt – ***Milk
Joell Ortiz – Taking My Ball
Pill – Afro-Sheen
Lil Wayne – DOA
Fashawn – Lost in New York
Ghostface Killah & Lloyd – Goner
Mac Miller – Travellin Man ’09
Drake – Fear
Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, & Masta Killa – Kiss the Ring
Wiz Khalifa – The Thrill

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the final ode to 2014, a strange fall for everyone.

Tracklist:

Wu-Tang Clan – Ruckus in B Minor
Westside Gunn – Rayfuls Plug
Big KRIT – Cadillactica
Prhyme – U Looz
Your Old Droog – Lossey in the Store With Pennies (Remix)
Domo Genesis – STRICTLY4MY******
TI & Young Thug – About the Money
Vince Staples – Screen Door
Mike Will Made It & Bankroll Fresh – Screen Door
Rittz, BOB, & Mike Posner – In My Zone
P. Reign, Drake, & Future – DnF
Childish Gambino – Candler Road
Nipsey Hussle, Young Thug, & Rich Homie Quan – Choke
French Montana – Dontchu
BJ the Chicago Kid – Can’t Hold My Liqour/It’s True
Wale – Girls On Drugs
Lil B – Girl When I Want You
J. Cole – January 28th
Flying Lotus & Kendrick Lamar – Never Catch Me
Logic – Buried Alive
Childish Gambino & Jaden Smith – Late Nights in Kauai
Bobby Shmurda & Ty Real – Wipe the Case Away
Jhene Aiko – Eternal Sunshine
Shintaro Sakamoto – Gently Disappear
Future – Codeine Crazy
A$AP Ferg & Clams Casino – Talk It
Tunji Ige – The Love Project (ooh ooh)
Rick Ross & Big KRIT – Brimstone

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? I did something a bit different tonight — I sat down with Birdapres to discuss a wide range of topics across the course of an hour. There are two versions of the interview here, one without background music and one with. Check it!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the 64th All Things Considered which makes the case for Birdapres, aka your the MC who your favorite rapper views as their favorite rapper. Time to get familiar!

Tracklist:

Like Minds
Rock Icon
Bird Is…
More Than Before
The Devil’s Record Collection
Bridge & Tunnel
F_@k You 2k3
Only When I’m Drunk
Just Stop (Do the Bus Stop)
Do That Dance (Shake and Go At It)
Get Loose
Flow Speratik
Break
Break Me Off
Kicked to the Curb
Sometimes Bird Rhymes Slow
Lechez Les Balloons
Igetsno/Bird Reynolds
Distant
Cashews & Green Beans
Grumpy Old Men
Commies
Broke Street (feat. Jeff Spec)
Due South
Negotiate
Butterscotch Molasses (feat. Moka Only)
Hayseeds
Duncemeat
Made Out of Words
They Ain’t Really Doin It Right
The Impaller
Follow the Sun
Different Insignificant
Sight Unseen (feat. Zen 26)
Me & G
Shades of Avocado
The Winter
Never Supposed To
Bus Stop Blues
Toothpaste
In My Life
Take Me Away
Scratch Chorus
The End of Your Starting

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, in which I talk about the election and the continued neglect of the Datpiff archive story. Certainly not the most uplifting rambling I’ve ever done, but what can you do, eh?!

Tracklist:

XV, Mike Summers, & Mickey Factz – The Blog Era
XV & Mike Summers – July 26th, 2010
The Antiheroes & D-Sisive – Blow Up
Remy Gray, L.A.M.E., & Michael Christmas – SpaceGhost
Calez – Navy Pier
Mr. Swagtastic – Swagga Tight
Shawn Chrystopher – iRockPolo
Qwest – Missing
Gutta Gadafi (aka Gutta da God) – Can I Live (Freestyle)
Groundworks – Dungeon Keepers
Pesticyde & Poetic Death – Emergency Notice
Show TuFli – Collapse
Ryan Skid & Illdotlogic – The Reality Check
Divo – Hip Hop
Oddjobs, Slug, & Carnage – Hunger Pains 2
Object Beings – Attack of the Postmodern Pat Boone
Crackbeat Society – Where the Pack Meet
A.hymnz, Nomad, Variex, & 2Mex – Apocalypse in a Box
AndrRomak & Variex – The Fear of Nothing
Granola Funk Express & Grand Pupp – A Place to Rise
Cauzndefx – Aki
Calez – Empty Seat
Asthma & Reeses – Track 5
Jay Allen – Summer of 2011
Divo & DL Incognito – Wreck the Mic
Calez, Fnz-e-mak, & Julian Malone – Sunshine
Yung Nate – Forget About It
Cleen – American Idol
XV, Mike Summers, & Earth to Cheska – Treasure Chest

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Tonight’s mix is a dedication to Ka, the New York MC — Brownville representer — whose passing on October 12th marks the loss of an irreplaceable visionary. RIP Ka.

Tracklist:

D.N.A
Cold Facts
Iron Work
Knighthood
Day 93
Argo
Enough Praise/Recovering
If Not True
Tested Testimony
Stay Gutter
Still Heir
No Downtime
Day 1125
Illicit Fields
Barring the Likeness
Orpheus
I Need All That
We Not Innocent
Nothing Is
Subtle
Reap
I Wish (Death Poem)
Up Against Goliath
To Hull and Back
Children
Day 3
Oedipus
Day 13
Mourn at Night
Pray
No Reservations
Forgive Me
Old Justice
Grapes of Wrath
Collection Plate
My Only Home
Family Color
I Love (Mimi, Moms, Kev)
True Holy Water

See y’all next time!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — a double-bill, with part one being this month’s All Things Considered (which makes the case for J-Bru), and part two being the 21st Mini All Things Considered (which makes the case for Jay Bizzy).

Tracklist:

Part One (all tracks by J-Bru)
Makin People Say
The Fax (Remix) [feat. Classified & Spesh K]
P.A.I.N
Underground MC
Underground MC Pt II (feat. Mic Boyd)
Nothin Can Stop Me
Daily Operation (feat. Classified & Choclair)
2 for $20 (feat. Classified, Spesh K, & Ebony)
What r We Doin? (feat. Eternia)
Its Just Words
This is the Song
Be a Man (feat. Classified)
Movin On Up (feat. Dutch Robinson)
Lost Soul
I Who Have No One
1 of These Days (feat. Ebony)
I Seen the Reaper Walk By
Ranin (feat. Jordan Croucher)
Venting
Jealousy (feat. Classified & Rochester)
No Matter What They Say (feat. Selekwa)
Hard To Smile
He Looks Like You
Holy Are You

Part Two (Jay Bizzy, unless listed otherwise)
I Laugh Out Loudly (J-Bru & Jay Bizzy)
The Truth Hurts
East Coast Warriors (feat. Classified & Johnny Hardcore)
Choose Your Own Adventure 3 (Classified, Jay Bizzy, & J-Bru)
The Ghost of Jacob Marley
When the Evening Comes (feat. Rocky Ninja)
Help! I Been Robbed (J-Bru, Jay Bizzy, & Ghettosocks)

See y’all next time!