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Music Writing with a Focus on Underground Gems

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  • 010: ICEMAN / MAID OF HONOUR / HABIBTI | Greetings Earthworms

    To anyone who got finessed by my clickbait Drake reactions, I’m sorry. I’ll make it up to you by giving you this new episode of Greetings Earthworms in which Hester & I discuss all three of the new Iceman Aubrey albums. After a long discussion about Drizzy Drake the 6 God, I quickly recommend new…

  • 009: Some Rap Songs | Greetings Earthworms

    In our latest episode, Hester and I discuss a classic album in the genre of “experimental rap.” I have notoriously named Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs as the most disappointing album I’ve ever heard in my life, and this was my first time revisiting it in full since the year it was released. We also…

  • 008: Hate Island (feat. Teller Bank$) | Greetings Earthworms

    For the very first guest on our podcast, we came out swingin’. Hate Island is a perfect album to me, and Teller Bank$ is at this point one of my favorite artists of all time, so I’m pretty ecstatic that I was able to speak to him for about three hours. I didn’t start recording…

  • 007: Based on a T.R.U. Story | Greetings Earthworms

    In this latest episode, Hester & I discuss 2 Chainz’s classic album from 2012 before getting into projects from MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt & SURF GANG, Teller Bank$, Elucid & Sebb Bash, Dope KNife, a selection of releases from Duck Down Music, and Roc Marciano’s classic groundbreaking record, Reloaded. A lot of dope shit was discussed…

  • 006: Rap Album Sextet | Greetings Earthworms

    In this latest episode of the Greetings Earthworms podcast, Hester Valentine and I talk about six different albums that I listened to since the last episode. We originally planned to talk about ten albums, but we kinda ran outta time, so fuck it. We’ll get to them in the next episode. In this one we…

  • 005: Cilvia Demo | Greetings Earthworms

    In this episode, Hester and I talk about new releases from Baby Keem & BBGuns before discussing Isaiah Rashad’s 2014 debut, Cilvia Demo.

  • 004: These Days… | Greetings Earthworms

    In our latest episode, Hester Valentine and I discuss Chance the Rapper, Kill Karl, Professor Skye, a notorious music video from one of Hip Hop’s biggest clowns, and new releases from J. Cole & O Dawg before diving into our conversation about Ab-Soul’s polarizing 2014 album, These Days…

  • 003: Camp | Greetings Earthworms

    In this episode, Hester and I discuss new releases from Roc Marciano, IDK, and Kill Karl. The main portion of the discussion surrounds Childish Gambino’s debut studio album, Camp.

  • 002: No Laugh Challenge | Greetings Earthworms

    In episode 002 of the Greetings Earthworms podcast, Hester Valentine & OG NICK MARSH discuss the latest releases from artists such as A$AP Rocky, cropscropscrops, and Sleep Sinatra.

  • 001: I AM THE FEMALE WEEZY | Greetings Earthworms

    In this pilot episode of my new podcast with Hester Valentine, we discuss his latest solo album, Shea Moisture conditioner, One Battle After Another, plans for the future of the podcast, and probably more that I can’t think of right now. Check it out!