The 4 Best This is not a Drake Podcast Episodes
1) Ep 1: Toronto was always a hip-hop city
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 hi...Show More
2) Ep 2: How the mixtape went digital
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 th...Show More
3) Prologue
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 B...Show More
4) Ep 3: The rise of the Nice Guy rapper
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 th...Show More
5) This is not a Drake Podcast Introduces: Buffy
Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of the past century. For 60 years her music has quietly reverberated throughout pop culture, and provided a touchstone for Indigenous ...Show More
6) Introducing: Anything for Selena from WBUR and Futuro Studios
It’s been 25 years since the tragic death of Mexican-American pop icon Selena Quintanilla. And yet, Selena remains as beloved and relevant now as ever before. In Anything for Selena, a new podcast fro...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) Ep 4: The rise of the singing rapper
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 cre...Show More
8) Epilogue
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.
9) This is not a Drake podcast: trailer
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 h...Show More