The Crate 808 Podcast

Updated: 23 Jun 2025 • 142 episodes
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Missing the golden era of hip hop? The Crate 808 podcast travels back to the 1990s with lively debates around classic albums, arguments over Top 5 GOATs and interviews with instrumental people from the culture. Every week, join Kambi Thandi, a long-time hip hop head and pod producer, as he interviews insightful guests to provide a healthy dose of nostalgia, and a fresh look on the decade that shaped the genre.

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FULL EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/big-ls-big-album-123159840   Yo yo yo, this month we take it back to the year 2000 in our Rawkus Chronicles series, to revisit Big L’s ‘The Big Picture’ record. Joining us is another stacked guest list, with Call Out Culture’s Zilla Rocca, Dead End Hip Hop’s Beezy, and author

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SUUUUUUU! Welcome to another dip into the Wu-Tang Clan chamber. We jump into our Slept-On Wu Bangers Spotify playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0iESHJ2ZPR33rhl9mHEmRx) and pick out a song to break down on the show.   Back in 2001, Ghostface  Killah was hitting his apex, and one of the best songs to encapsulate

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Welcome back to our series digging into the greatest three-album runs in hip hop history, and today we bring you some modern classics from one of the best rap duos putting in work - Armand Hammer.   We dig into the genius of billy woods and Elucid with rapper PremRock, travelling through 2017’s Rome, 2018’s Paraffin an

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SUUUUUUU! Yes, we are back with you, digging into the Wu chamber once more, as we jump into our Slept-On Wu Bangers Spotify Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0iESHJ2ZPR33rhl9mHEmRx) and pick out a song to break down on the show.   This episode we travel back to the year 2000, and Wu’s album ‘The W’, where Kam

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Stankonia full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-97658593 The Marshall Mathers LP full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-lp-97480136   Here’s another sneak peek into what’s going on at our Patreon (patreon.com/crate808), a place where you can support the show and hear tons of bonus

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Time to roll a spliff with a bible, and boogie board on a tidal wave, yes it's and another episode of our Digging in the Crates series - The Alchemist edition 🧪   We’ve done 'We Gonna Make It' and 'Terry', so now we travel all the way back to 2013 to talk about 'Bible Paper', Al’s cut with Prodigy from Mobb Deep. And

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