With so much content being pushed out on a daily basis, it’s difficult to views everything. Especially with podcast. There’s a new one everyday. Plus, a lot of them aren’t good. Others are great. With that being said, here are 4 podcasts that you should be listening to:
Honorable Mentions:
No Jumper
Highsnobiety’s Why It’s Cool
A24 Podcast
ShowStudio
4 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To:
The Joe Budden Podcast With Rory and Mal:
Releases: New Audio Every Wednesday and Saturday
Hilarious, unprofessional, incomparable, erratic and, somehow, culturally important–The Joe Budden Podcast With Rory and Mal is released two times a week podcast with guys simply talking about pop culture, telling jokes, and discussing whatever happens to come up. Just reaching its 200th episode, the show is only getting better. Exclusively on Spotify, this podcast has developed into a show that not even the group knows why it works so well.
Joe Budden and his two friends–one who’s big brother is co-founder of Roc-a-fella Records, Biggs Burke, and the other a former employee at Def Jam Records–sit and talk about things you didn’t know you were interested in like Tyrese updates, the reciting of 40 Oz Van tweets, and possibly anything pop culture related.
While they don’t normally do interviews, when they spoke to Pusha T and Chance The Rapper, each conversation gave media publications at least a dozen headlines from each interview, just through conversation. Along with a segment called Sleepers, where the group chooses songs to recommend to the listeners, the guys have developed a podcast that’ll keep you interested for at least 1 hour 30 minutes twice a week.
The show is never forced. While there is some pre-production–it feels like they just sit in front of a camera and go. Every episode has moments, and the more episodes they do, the better they’ll get.
HYPEBEAST’s Business of Hype:
Releases: Every Sunday
Jeff Staple, streetwear legend and founder of Staple Clothing, sits with a wide variety of people to discuss their careers while delivering a multitude lessons to the listeners. With breaks in the conversation for Staples to emphasize the should-be takeaways from the conversations, this is a show for those people looking to enter the creative art world, especially if it’s connected to streetwear.
This podcast is purely to deliver information. The show has a wide range of guests including Bobby and Ben Hundreds, Samuel Ross, Hiroshi Fujiwara, and Asa Akira. Some guests you may be familiar with and others you won’t know, but every episode has unexpected takeaways and a unique story from someone who has had–or having–a successful career.
GQ Style’s Corporate Lunch:
Releases: Approx. Twice A Month
GQ Style editor in chief Will Welch and senior editor Noah Johnson sit down and discuss what’s going on in fashion, as well as specific topics that aligns with the GQ brand. For example, the guys have sat down in the GQ Content Tower to discuss things like the best front rows they’ve attended, their grooming choices, and their personal fall fashion choice; they spent 45 minutes discussing shorts without ever losing interest.
Forty-three episodes deep, the topics aren’t things you can relay to friends to sound cool, they can actually begin to craft your mind to think about style differently. Johnson’s excitement and knowledge is admirable–he well-versed and makes you want to know as much as him.
While it’s usually Welch and Johnson, the two have had guests from GQ Style’s magazine segment 3 Labels to Watch as well as other industry people like NoVacancyInn’s Acyde and The New Yorker’s staff writer Naomi Fry.
With this podcast, you’ll hear a lot of discussion on different fashion topics and information that could help you develop your personal style choices from guys who are extremely knowledgeable on the topics they’re discussing. The show closes with a segment called 13 vibes, which consists of the guys going back and forth recommending literally anything they’ve been interested in at the time.
Dissected:
Releases: Approximately Twice A Week
Undoubtedly the most intricate podcast on the list, Dissect is a spotify exclusive show that spends an entire season–on average 20 episodes–to break down a single album. Hosted by Cole Cuchna, he breaks the album down song by song in a manner you’d expect from an online college course. In the starting episodes he introduces us to the artists leading up to that project in their career before beginning to go into a microscopic dive into each song. The research he does on the music artist and his connections he makes are the most critically, in-depth analyzations you will ever hear of an album.
While Cuchna is currently releasing episodes of his breakdown of Lauryn Hill’s class album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, he has already covered Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Frank Ocean’s Blonde. According to Billboard,Cuchna “estimates he spends about 20 hours on each roughly 30-minute episode, from research to writing about 20 pages of script to recording and editing.” As a result, these breakdowns are incomparable, but probably for music nerds or stans of the specific artist.
The only setback of the show is that it’s a “serialized music podcast,” so the episodes are released approximately twice a week. For the binge-listeners this may not be enjoyable, but once he gets to the season finale you’ll learn everything you’ll ever need to know about these legendary albums.
Standard Of Taste 