Shots Fired, now with 83 percent more video. The above clip is courtesy of Mike Campbell, who cannot be killed by conventional rapper rants. This week’s episode features Busdriver and Milo in honor of the release of “Dorner Vs. Tookie.” We talk about the rise of light-skinned rappers, babble about Future and Rich Homie Quan, […]

For the latest Shots Fired, we welcomed The Far East Movement, the LA rap trio most famous for “Like a G6,” “Girls on the Dance Floor,” and for being the first Asian-American rap group to ever realize mainstream success. This site and reader tastes usually run counter-clockwise to pop music, but I think you should […]

To quote the sequel to A Dinosaur’s Story: We’re back. Our first guests are Problem and Bad Lucc, most famed for flipping Young Bleed to immense success on “Like Whaat.” But the Diamond Lane founder also dropped two of this year’s best LA rap records in the DJ Drama-presented The Separation and Million Dollar Afro […]

Almost very week, I accompany this post with a major declarative statement to induce you to listen to Shots Fired. That’s a little thing I like to call shameless self-aggrandizement. It’s sincere, as I assume you’re not hate-reading or hate-listening. And if you are, honestly, there’s a lot more interesting stuff to do in this […]

This is probably the funniest episode we’ve done on Shots Fired because Eric Andre is the funniest guest we’ve had on Shots Fired. If you’re blind to the man with the flaming arm above, his show airs Thursday nights at 12:30 a.m. on Adult Swim. You should watch it because it is the most brutally […]

We probably needed House Shoes and Hex Murda for ultimate last rites authority on all matters pertaining to the D, but the trio of Black Milk, Quelle Chris, and Denmark Vessey are among the best musicians that Detroit has produced over the last half decade. Knowledge was brought in via carrier pigeon and dispersed via […]

For the latest installment of Shots Fired, we had on Ty$, the soulful singer of rap music and ratchet Spanish Fly, who was especially calm, cool, and relaxed despite having a hit single called “Paranoid.” Credit it to the blunt tucked behind his ear or the fact that his song is on radio multiple times […]

The episode is called “Guns and Monsters” because our guests were Pistol McFly and Snubnose Frankenstein. Two young rappers named after violent weapons who are both very good human beings. But that’s on the low-low. As is the mission of Shots Fired, we had them on the program to try to get them to play […]

If you’ve been paying attention to the last half-dozen episodes of Shots Fired, the only podcast to offer advice on how to adopt a puffin, you might notice that we’ve steered away from the one episode, one topic approach. There are only so many ways you can break down the history of independent rap and […]

I’m not going to waste my time writing about the ramifications of Miley’s moment as the Vanilla Ice of twerk. But you better believe that I will talk about it on a podcast.  It has been an epic week of tomfoolery from the Kanye eunuch appearing on the Kris Jenner show, to the VMA’s, to […]