Friends In High Places

So I've been sleeping hard on my dude doles' blog...its bad enough that i haven't read his entire published book. I gotta at least keep my game proper in the blogosphere right?

Well shout out to professor doles!!! He is now producing one of the coolest podcasts on the web!


I'll let him take it from here...

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Whattup folks! A while back I had floated (rather Tweeted) the idea of a podcast to Elliott Wilson (formerly Editor-in-Chief of XXL magazine) and Danyel Smith (Editor-in-Chief of Vibe magazine). After a few things (like a long email I sent them about their first podcast)…now I’m their engineer/producer! (Lesson: Twitter is that FIRE.)

Anyway, I’m mad excited about the future of this. It is sorely needed I think in the online mediascape(Appadurai) of hip hop; and also desperately needed by me because I can’t keep doing the academic thing without an outlet for my creative side. This opportunity came out of left field but man, I’m pretty happy it did. Biggups to Elliott and Danyel!

It is for the hip hop heads but if you aren’t one but want to listen to two of the best journalists for a little of an hour, I think it doesn’t get much better. Plus, they’re married. That’s pretty amazing.

- This week’s podcast.

- Last week’s podcast.

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If you don't understand what just happened --- just know its a pretty big deal.

Thanks doles for pumping the slogan of 2009 --- LGF - LETS GET FAMOUS!!!

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