ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Breaking down seminal moments in Drake's career to explore the broader history and evolution of hip-hop, R&B, gender dynamics, and Black culture. Hosted by Ty Harper.
Average audio length:
30 minutes
English
Canada
7 episodes
since May 21, 2020
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~82.85% of listeners are from United States.
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US
82.85%
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CA
6.66%
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GB
3.80%
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FR
1.90%
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DE
0.95%
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BY
0.63%
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RU
0.63%
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TN
0.31%
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ES
0.31%
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MK
0.31%
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IN
0.31%
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NL
0.31%
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TG
0.31%
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AU
0.31%
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PH
0.31%
Others
0.10%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
One of the most popular rappers in America isn’t American. But this podcast isn’t really about him. Drake’s success is a culmination of many unheard moments, songs, and artists that made hip-hop and Black music the dominant cultural force it is today. This podcast digs into those stories.
For tran…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Drake is the poster boy of Toronto, although the city's hip-hop scene was thriving long before it became known to his fans as 'The 6ix.' But the Canadian music industry’s history with its homegrown hip-hop talent is long and fraught—this is a look at that relationship.
Plus, the fight for the fir…
Even as its popularity grew, hip-hop was ignored by most commercial radio. DJs and artists intervened and underground mixtapes became *the* medium for distributing new music and gaining clout — But then, a raid by the FBI in Atlanta changed hip-hop distribution forever.
Plus, how Drake’s So Far Go…
This episode contains explicit lyrics.
Hip-hop feminists took the alpha male rapper and his critics to task in the 90s and 2000’s. Guest host Anupa Mistry finds out why. She goes on a journey with three Black women, to see how Drake's Nice Guy persona reveals the complexity of gender in hip-hop.
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It's pretty common to hear rap and R&B influences on the same track, but that wasn’t always the case. Hip-hop was not received with open arms by many in the R&B establishment. Still, rappers found creative ways of being heard on the radio, while others pushed beyond stereotypes of Black mas…
Host Ty Harper examines how making this podcast during a pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests has underlined the importance of telling the stories of hip hop, R&B and Black culture
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/this-is-not-a-drake-po…
This is a story about hip-hop and how its journey to mainstream dominance gave us Drake in the first place. The mixtape revolution that made his success possible. The evolution of gender dynamics in hip-hop. Rap and R&B’s long complicated history.
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