After a full 8 minutes of superhero hot takes, Rootbeer and Rawhide discuss the best albums by rappers who were 50 years of age or older when released. Also: Rootbeer doesn’t know what year it is, Rawhide comes since he was 17 and Atlas sneezes.
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In Episode 65, Rootbeer and Rawhide discuss their favorite rap features and performances by non-rappers. Also: Rawhide’s love for k-pop is on full display, how to stand out on the Internet pre-YouTube, and a famous identity is revealed for a mysterious presence in recent hip-hop.
Play along with Rootbeer and Rawhide as they guess the song with the most streams and the song with the least streams off their favorite albums. Correct answers win points while incorrect answers receive tirades about the fans being stupid. Also: Rawhide discusses his new single, “The Beginning of the Song” from the Cabin Fever: Patient Zero demos and Atlas pants very close to the microphone before falling asleep and snoring loudly.
As they do every year, Rootbeer and Rawhide discuss their favorite albums from the past 12 months on the December episode of Rootbeer & Rawhide Rate Rappers.
Six years in the making, Rawhide’s fifth album Cabin Fever is available to stream now on Bandcamp and will be available Thanksgiving Day on Spotify.
Update 11/28/24: Now on Spotify!
Episode 62 of Rootbeer & Rawhide Rate Rappers serves as a companion piece to the project. Rawhide goes super in-depth talking about the background of each song, how his approach was different than on previous albums and dives in to his creative process. Listen below:
It’s election season so in Episode 61, Rootbeer and Rawhide discuss some of the most powerful sociopolitical hip-hop songs and connect them to actual historical events. The educational nature of the topic is, of course, undermined when they confuse Huey Newton with Jimmy Neutron.
In the greatest cross-section of their two biggest hobbies, Rootbeer and Rawhide discuss their favorite video game references in hip-hop songs. Plus: Rawhide breaks down the first two singles off his upcoming album Cabin Fever, Atlas barks a lot, the very coincidental first time Rootbeer heard Chris Webby and arguing over how “Dhalsim” is pronounced.
At long last, the most shouted-out listener of the podcast makes an appearance. Killatron joins Rootbeer and Rawhide as they discuss the greatest hip-hop posse cuts, horny goat weed packaging, Method Man’s secret history as a lacrosse player, Rawhide being overlooked for the Street Fighter 6 playlist, and the resurgence of the belly chain.
If there is one better combination than Rootbeer & Rawhide, it’s hip-hop & cars. Episode 58 was recorded on-the-go, featuring an extremely distracted Rootbeer driving to Connecticut, commentary on fellow drivers, and an abundance of road noise. Also: Rawhide discusses his upcoming single and his vision of becoming the “Trent Reznor of Rap” before recounting the entire plot of the movie Take Me Home Tonight.
This episode, which was an absolute nightmare to edit, features Rootbeer, Rawhide and special guest Pizzamanthegod answering hip-hop trivia questions. In addition to getting most questions wrong, the guys also play marry/fuck/kill with Final Fantasy characters (male and female), practice their New Jersey accents and reminisce about scrambled porn channels.