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Average audio length:
100 minutes
English
United States
240 episodes
since Jan. 1, 1970
episodic

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Thirty years ago, a 300-copy vinyl order changed everything. Professor Pablo, a lifelong friend and one of the original architects behind Jedi Mind Tricks, joins the show to mark the anniversary of the Amber Probe EP. The conversation goes back to basement letterheads, pay-to-play compilations, bro…

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The comments section had a lot to say about last episode, so the crew responds: what was misunderstood, who clearly didn’t finish listening, and why the conversation still matters. Then it’s all Halloween, with horror picks worth your time, overhyped flops to skip, childhood trick-or-treat mischief…
Brooklyn’s own Goretex of Non Phixion, aka Lord Goat, joins Vinnie and the guys on this week’s episode. Vin and Gore are two road dogs who go back decades and swap stories that never made it into interviews: haunted hotel rooms in Germany, a dinner in Italy that turns into a time warp, lost luggage…
The guys tackle whether white boys are guests in hip-hop, and the answer is more uncomfortable than yes or no. It starts at the roots: rock and roll, doo-wop, the Great Migration, and who was actually in the room when this culture was built. They talk about the kids who wore the gear and borrowed t…
De La Soul gets the full Pop the Trunk treatment. With one seat empty this week (and a suspect excuse behind it), the crew heads back to Amityville to trace the group from pause tapes to one of the most defiant catalogs rap has ever produced. Along the way, a firsthand account of how they really go…
After years of turning down Insane Clown Posse's invitations, Vinnie finally agrees to play the Gathering of the Juggalos and finds himself learning the culture's unwritten rules in real time. Billy and Brendan get the full story: trailered between Scarface's Ghetto Boys and KRS-One, watching KRS d…
Twenty years later, Vinnie looks back on the album that carried Jedi Mind Tricks' momentum further than it had ever gone — a record that pushed the group to new heights while staying true to the sound that built them. From the writing to the guest verses to the reaction it got once it hit the road,…
Planetary — one half of OuterSpace and a longtime member of Army of the Pharaohs — becomes the first guest to make a return trip to Pop the Trunk, picking up round two of tour stories with Vinnie and the guys. Between promoter run-ins that still don't make sense, road food battles, and shows nobody…
Vinnie and the guys revisit Legacy of Blood, JMT's fourth album, 22 years after it dropped. Vinnie walks through building the record from the ground up in Philly — the studio flood that nearly wiped out the sessions, the cover art story, and how the loop-hunting obsession shaped the sound. Billy an…
Vinnie and the guys dig into the anniversary of Visions of Gandhi, tracing how the record came together. From a makeshift studio to Chung King in New York, it's a rare look at the making of a record straight from the source. The group also gets into the usual off-topic detours, so stick around for …
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