The Rap Music Plug Podcast

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The Rap Music Plug Podcast is the remedy to the “I don’t have anything good to listen to” problem. Through in-depth artist interviews, album reviews, and general rap commentary on the best that the underground rap scene has to offer, this is your one-stop shop to knowing what to add to your queue, play next, or pop into your record player. Are you a rap music fan? And not just any fan... but a true rap music fan that wants to move past the surface level discussion, and get into the nitty-gritty of what makes rap music so great? Are you someone who loves the feeling of discovering new music, but find it hard to navigate through the thousands upon thousands of new albums that get released every single day? If any of this applies to you, this show is EXACTLY what you need. My absolute PASSION is music. So I gladly do the dirty work of virtual crate digging, searching for the next great rap album... so you don’t have to. My name is Rohan. I am The Rap Music Plug, at your service. -- Fiending for some more quality rap content? Visit the RMPP website: https://rmpp.squarespace.com/ Want to support and help us grow? Become a RMPP Patron, and gain access to exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/therapmusicplugpodcast Looking to connect? DM me @rapmusicplugpod on Twitter and Instagram, or shoot me an email at qlctv.podcast@gmail.com

Episodes

Wednesday Dec 13, 2023

#159 - H31R INTERVIEW

Wednesday Dec 13, 2023

Video animation by: Big Flowers

Intro/Outro beat by: BLOODBLIXING

The Plug (0:44).

The Interview (2:08).

On this show, I know I’ve used terms like "unique", or "one-of-a-kind" quite a bit to describe the artists I’ve had on this show. But I promise you, today’s guests truly embody these terms to the fullest degree.

maassai and JWords, otherwise known as H31R, are a duo hailing from Brooklyn who sport an ingenious sound that blends electronics and drum n bass elements with hip-hop, supplied by producer JWords. These sounds are paired with confident, heady, and effortlessly fly rhymes from the MC of the group, maassai. Great in their own right as solo artists, together they are an entirely different beast.

In this episode, we discuss their chemistry as a duo, the origin story of H31R, growth and maturation, as well as the making of their fantastic AOTY contender released under Big Dada, HeadSpace.

H31R’s fanbase (3:10).

Big Dada signing (5:12).

H31R origin story and the inspiration behind this partnership (9:04).

The vision for the H31R sound (11:28).

The basis of maassai and JWords’ chemistry (13:22).

How maassai and JWords push each other’s artistry to new places (16:48).

How solo work feeds back into the H31R creative process (22:13).

Inspiration behind the introspective lyricism on HeadSpace (24:23).

Production approach on HeadSpace (33:04).

The cohesive structure of HeadSpace (37:57).

Key learnings from ve·loc·i·ty that they applied to HeadSpace (40:44).

Favourite songs on HeadSpace (45:30).