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Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 41 Moammar (Featuring Kid Enzo)

Another day another dollar another amazing pod in the bag! This week we are joined by our second b-boy guest but not just any b-boy- this is the first breakdancing saxophone playing artist that we’ve ever met and you’ve ever met! Kid Enzo was one of the teaching artist that joined us in El Salvador pre-pandemic to teach Hip Hop with Hip Hop for Change, and he always put us to shame in our mornings cyphers by doing windmills mid saxophone solo… like WTF! But needless to say he’s an incredible musician, dancer and educator with a fascinating story to tap in! We also talk about tyrants, political turmoil in Haiti, Wap Drag Shows, Hip Hop summer camps, swedish pop ghost writers and MORE! 

Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 40 The Woods (Featuring Wonder Dave)

welcome to another amazing exhilarating wild ride known as the ratchet and woke podcast! Today we are thrilled to be interviewing the delightfully whimsical and amazing WONDER DAVE! If you are unaware of whyyyyy wonder dave has anointed himself with this name it is because he dabbles in so many different fantastical art forms, such as comedy, spoken word, and burlesque, that the word wonder doesn't even begin to describe him! He’s also the host of hood slam and one of the co-hosts for the infamous ruckus rumpus revival formerly known as tourettes without regrets? What are these things you ask? Well tune in to find out! We also talk about Iggy Azalea blackfishing, bill cosby, unlearn mistaking Alanis Morissette lyrics and why cops are playing taylor swift at protests! We got youuuuuuu!

Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 39 Smash Bros (Featuring SumOfMan)

Check out the latest and greatest from the best pod on earth where we interview friend of the show and of life, SumOfMan formerly known as Najee Amaranth who is a Bay Area based MC, Hip Hop Educator, Designer, Gamer, and Black Jedi. We get into IT ALL with SumOfMan as he breaks down all of the scandals in the gaming world including some very disturbing sexual allegations, but we also talk about his latest rebrand and how it has impacted his creative process, why hyper woke music is not hitting, and why calling out toxic women is triggering. We got all the ratchet and woke vibez so LETS GOOOOOO!

Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 38 Fun Facts (Featuring Breathless)

Hello Hello Helloooooooo (Count Olaf voice) We are back with another amazing episode with one of the best performers in the Bay Area, the one and only Breathless AKA Honey Bee !!! For those of you who are introduced to the greatness that is Breathless, she is an AMAZING female emcee whose been dominating the Bay Area for the last decade and is HIP HOP AS FUCK! In honor of pride month and pride weekend in Oakland it's only fitting to have breathless share her experiences performing on the biggest SF pride stages in addition to her many stories about being cancelled, suing Disney, and faking her own death! We also talk about LiL MC getting booked for the worst show ever, concerts and festivals returning and freeing Britney Spears. 

Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 37 Crypto Ben Franklin (Featuring Hashbrown)

WE BACK AT ITTTTT with an hour long interview with the Crypto King himself, the man that needs no introduction, the Ben Franklin of Block Chain, HASHBROWN “AIR HORN”!!! If you are in any way shape or form confused, misguided, or overwhelmed about the world of block chain technology amidst this bitcoin craze that has been sweeping the nation, then this is the episode for you! If your trying to hit a lick off minting an NFT, then tap in, but by no means is Hashbrown of the mind to get rich quick scheme on em. No, he is all about building a community and putting financial power back into the hands of the creator. We live in a society that thrives off of art and culture, yet we undervalue it and feel like we deserve it for free. With NFT’s we finally have found a way to level the playing field and build wealth as creators in a world that's ruled by music industry execs and record labels. So do yourself a favor and check ittttt!!!!

Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 36 Pimpish Troubadour (Featuring Senor Gigio)

Here we go one more time everybody feeling fine here we go nowwwww!!! We are in your radio airwaves with that new new featuring an interview from our very good friend of the show and fellow water sign/parent/ world creator, Senor Gigio! Senor Gigio is a new father and we had fun chopping it up with him about how the unexpected birth of his son has impacted his creative process and his relationship with spirituality. Gigio is one of the most prolific rappers in the Bay, but he is currently transitioning into becoming an incredibly talented animator. Not only does he design all of his merch, album art, and graphic art but he is also a world creator- meaning once you immerse yourself into the world of Senor Gigio you discover an intricate alternate reality which  exists in the wormhole that is his mind! DEEP! We also talk about Cam’rons new dick pills, how women tend to share period cycles when in close proximity, Kat Williams on cancel culture, the government incentivizing vaccines with guns, and MORE! 

Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 35 Hippy Trappy wokey ratchet (Featuring Hippy Trap)

Heyooooo we lit! With a brand new episode featuring dear friends of the pod, the most ratchet and woke hip hop duo in the Bay Area (aside from us), Cozzee and Manna of HIPPY TRAP !!! They have coined themselves the illegitimate love children of Jerry Garcia, and as your friends we say you have done your father proud! If you want trappy anti-establishment music to twerk and do drugs to, then this is the hip hop group for you. So tune in as we talk about their upcoming music, how their no pants party video got them shadow banned on tik tok, why cozzee spends so much time thinking about cat butts, and Manna’s writing, recording and releasing 100 songs in 100 days ! This week we flip the script on ya, because Unlearn The World was busy being a star and unable to pod for this episode, so Lil MC took the reins and took the opportunity to play our music! So enjoy our dope ass DJ sesh and this cooky interview with Hippy Trap!

Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 17 Thanos Fist Bump (Featuring Da Rap Nerd)

Grand rising beloved hoe bags! hears some twerky sandwhiches for your food for thought: a brand new episode of the most underrated overstated podcast in the world! We are joined today by Bay Area nerd core hip hop legend, Da Rap Nerd, who breaks down Nerd core in every way possible for those that are unfamiliar! We get into the segregated worlds between hip hop and nerd core, Da Rap Nerds experiences performing at Comi-Cons nationwide, touring as a bass player with Del the Funky Homosapien, and how prioitizing his mental health led to his rebrand. We also get into J Coles new album, if DJ Khalid deserves credit as an artist, the opium epidemic in america, zoom dysmorphia, teens getting plastic surgery, and hippi commune tik tok virality! THE RANGE!

Ratchet and Woke Podcast|Season 2: Episode 33 Verocious (Featuring Honey Gold Jasmine & Ajgod))

whoop there it isssss- we here and we lit becasue we are joined this week by another bay area artistic power couple, Honey Gold Jasmine and Ajgod, two bay area musicians representing Vallejo and East Oakland. We had so much fun chopping it up with them about what its like to date a rapper/artist, why artists in the bay are too humble to ask for money, how to curate events when artists on the bill got beef,  and the upcoming release of their latest collaborate musical project “Twin Flames”. We also talk about drug infused kazoos, black thought and sa-roc headlining the environmental justice summit, and how everyone is slowly slipping away into madness! ITS A WHOLE ASS MOOD! BOOM!

Ratchet and Woke Podcast| Season 2: Episode 32- In Da Streets Feat: Mandella Eskia

Wasssup planet earthlings!! It's been a wild week on all fronts but we here to give it up! We are sitting down with Mandella Eskia, a rapper and hip hop educator from out in Harlem who found a way to make mature rap digestible and dope without sounding preachy (which is no easy feat). We also get into all the new music that's about to drop (yayyyyy J. Cole) Elan Musk on SNL (I like elan tusk from Rick and Morty wayyy better), cancel culture killing comedy and music, the rock and roll hall of fame inductees (yesss Tina turner and Hov!!) and @unlearntheworld breaks down the entire Israel Palestine conflict.i