This Week In Hype Podcast: Defending Macklemore, Talking “Crooked Smile” With Elite & More Posted by Nathan S. on 06/07/13 | Filed under Top Stories, Downloads, Podcasts, This Week in Hype, Elite

Against all odds, I'm now 23 episodes deep into the "This Week In Hype" podcast and no one has yet to protest outside my house, begging me to stop. Well then, looks I've got no choice but to keep pumping out THE GREATEST PODCAST OF ALL-TIME whatever this is.

For the latest edition, I offer up a brief defense of Macklemore against all the haters, kick off our new "10 Minutes With Someone Dope" segment by talking to Elite about co-producing J. Cole's "Crooked Smile", offer up another chance for people to win free cool shit and more.

Discussed This Week:

* Illuminati space stations.
* New trivia question - answer correctly and you'll win some free dope shit from Sanctiond.
* Our "Who's the Second Greatest White Rapper of All-Time" debate.
* A brief defense of Macklemore, including a Talib Kweli comparison sure to infuriate hip-hop heads.
* New "10 Minutes With Someone Dope" segment with Elite. We talk about co-producing J. Cole's "Crooked Smile", the beat's Jennifer Hudson sample, bringing in a choir and more.
* You should follow @Elite, and check out elitethatsme.com for more.
* The importance of humor in dope rappity rap.
* This week's closing song, Busta Rhyme's "Gimme Some More".

If you don't un-like not getting terrible podcasts, you should subscribe to subscribe to "This Week in Hype" on iTunes. Yep, that's a quadruple negative that means you should.

Enjoy...

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