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What's The Headline
What’s The Headline is Ambrosia For Heads’ podcast, hosted by AFH’s Founder Reggie Williams and its Editor-In-Chief Jake Paine. On each episode, AFH examines the week in Hip-Hop news, providing deep context about the biggest stories. Topics include music, TV, film, sports, current events, and more—a...
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Redman On The 10+ Year Journey Of Making Muddy Waters Too
Redman sits down with Ambrosia For Heads for his FIRST exclusive interview about the decade-long journey behind Muddy Waters Too. This intimate conver...
The D.O.C. Interview On His Documentary, Work With Dr. Dre, The Codefendants
The D.O.C. joins this episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline podcast. He discusses his new documentary, his first verse in 19 years, perfo...
Jack Harlow Calls Out Whites Who Want To Be Black From Afar
ack Harlow's Jackman. album is his best yet and also his most controversial. We discuss the album, the best and worst posthumous Rap albums of all-tim...
Dear Mama Shows There Is Still So Much We Don't Know About Tupac
In this week's episode of AFH's What's The Headline podcast, we discuss our new partnership with BET to let fans decide who is the Greatest Rap Crew O...
Reviewing Black Thought & El Michels Affair's Glorious Game Album
In this week's episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline, we review Black Thought and El Michel Affair's new Glorious Game album and take an...
Royce 5’9 Explains How He’s Taking Control Of His Music Destiny
Royce 5'9 joins this week's episode of What's The Headline, along with his 25-year business partner, Kino Childrey. This is not an interview. It is an...
The LOX & Dipset Want A Verzuz Rematch ... Should They Do It?
This week in Hip-Hop was jam-packed. We discuss Nipsey Hussle's legacy 4 years later, the potential Verzuz rematch between The LOX and Dipset, protest...
JAY-Z, J. Cole, Kendrick & More Share Their Secrets To Success
This week, J. Cole released his first interview in years, and it was INSPIRATIONAL. On this week's episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline,...
Logic Has Made It Hard To Like Him & It’s Not Just Joe Budden
On this week's episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline podcast, we take a hard look at the conflicting versions of himself that Logic has p...
Melle Mel Explains Why Busta Rhymes Is Greater Than JAY-Z
On this week's episode of AFH's What's The Headline, we discuss Grandmaster Melle Mel's sharp critique of Billboard and VIBE's list of the 50 Greatest...
How Biggie Went From Ashy To Classy: By People Who Styled Him
Biggie Smalls was the illest…Big had a top-notch flow, a booming voice, and lyrics drenched in authenticity and humor. The all-time great MC born Chri...
Remembering The Life & Legacy Of Dave From De La Soul
On this week's episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline, we discuss the life and legacy of Dave from De La Soul. We also talk about Billboar...
The Highs & The Lows Of The 2023 Grammy Awards
On this week's episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline, we breakdown the highs and the lows of the 2023 Grammy Awards, with deep dives on t...
Black Sheep Is Suing Universal Music For $750 Million
On this episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline, we discuss De La Soul's announcement that music they recorded for Tommy Boy is coming to s...
The Best Rap & Hip-Hop Albums Of 2022
On the final episode of the year for AFH's What's The Headline, we run down Ambrosia For Heads' 15 Best Rap Albums of 2022, and discuss why each one m...
The 10 Best Rap Verses Of 2022
On this episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline, we discuss the best Rap verses of 2022 and which ones made our top 10. Check Spotify or th...
Reviewing Nas & Hit-Boy's King's Disease III, Song By Song
Nas has released King's Disease III, the third in his series of KD albums produced entirely by Hit-Boy. In this episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's...
The 2023 Grammy Rap Nominations, Predictions, and Snubs
The nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards are in, and they are not without controversy. Some of Rap's best artists have been snubbed, and the stage i...
The History Of Violence In Hip-Hop: 6 Years Changed Everything
Last week's death of Takeoff from the Migos marks more than 60 Rap artists who have been lost to gun violence. The latest episode of AFH's What's The...
The Game Says Dr. Dre Has Never Produced A Song For Him
0:00 Intro
3:00 Coolio’s Rap legacy
9:20 Do people think of Coolio as an LA artist?
11:15 The Game names his...
Rapper Big Pooh Talks His New Album, Little Brother's Status & More
Rapper Big Pooh joins AFH's What's The Headline to discuss his album To Dream In Color, fighting to keep his dreams alive, working with TDE and Dreamv...
Cormega Explains Why The Realness 2 Is A True Sequel
Cormega joins the latest episode of AFH's What's The Headline to discuss his album The Realness 2. This is one of the realest interviews of the year....
Hip-Hop Is Closer To 100 Years Old Than 50
This week on Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline, we talk about why we disagree about the quality of JAY-Z's "GOD DID" verse, discuss the three th...
Meyhem Lauren & Daringer Detail Making Their Black Vladimir Album
Meyhem Lauren and Daringer have joined forces to create a new album. They speak in detail about the making of Black Vladimir as well as discussing the...
Diamond D Speaks About His New Album The Rear View
Diamond D speaks in-depth about the making of his album The Rear View. He also discusses the day he spent with Dr. Dre, spending time with Dave Chappe...
Explaining Pete Rock & Funkmaster Flex's Feud
Pete Rock and Funkmaster Flex are at war over the future of New York Hip-Hop. On this week's episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline we exp...
Many Of Hip-Hop's Greatest Rappers Name Their Top 5 MCs
Rappers are fans too...On this week's episode of AFH's What's The Headline, we do a deep dive into the Top 5 MC lists of 30 of Hip-Hop's greatest arti...
The Top 20 Rap Albums Of All-Time As Determined By Millions Of Fans
Rolling Stone recently released an incredibly controversial list of the Top 200 Rap Albums Of All-Time. On this week's episode of AFH's What's The Hea...
Explaining Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers Albums
After 5 years, Kendrick Lamar has released Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, his long-awaited follow up to DAMN. Like its predecessor, Mr. Morale & The B...
Reviewing Black Star's No Fear Of Time Song By Song
Black Star (Yasiin Bey fka Mos Def and Talib Kweli) have released No Fear Of Time, their first album in 24 years. We review the Madlib-produced album...
Reviewing Pusha-T’s It's Almost Dry Song By Song
Pusha-T has released his album It's Almost Dry, which was produced by both Kanye West and Pharrell. Pusha says the album was his Verzuz between Kanye...
JAY-Z Has Dissed More People Than Any Other MC
We discuss JAY-Z's many sneak disses on this week's episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline podcast. We also talk about Will Smith's ban fr...
The 2022 Grammy Awards Failed Hip-Hop
After making progress in recent years, the 2022 Grammy Awards dropped the ball again when it came to Hip-Hop. We break down their misses, the new Drea...
Reviewing Benny The Butcher's Tana Talk 4 Song By Song
Benny The Butcher continues his hot streak, with the release Tana Talk 4. We review the album, song by song, in addition to discussing Joell Ortiz and...
The Rise & Fall Of Slaughterhouse: A Timeline
Last week, Joe Budden and Royce 5'9 had a heated public exchange with Joell Ortiz. On this week's episode of AFH's What's The Headline, we provide an...
Dr. Dre Stood For Hip-Hop While Eminem Kneeled For Justice
Dr. Dre led one of the greatest halftime performances in Super Bowl history. On this week's episode of What's The Headline, we unpack the symbolism an...
Wu-Tang An American Saga Fact vs Fiction
The Wu-Tang: An American Saga TV series depicts that origin story of the Wu-Tang Clan. The show's creators call it "historical fiction." On this week'...
J. Cole Is Using Features To Prove He Is The Best Rapper Alive
J. Cole has been using guest verses to make the case that he is the best rapper alive. We discuss his greatest appearances, Snoop Dogg being back on D...
The 10 MCs Who Will Take Over Hip-Hop In The 2020s
A new crop of MCs is emerging to take the throne from Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and Drake. We name the 10 best rappers of the Now School. On episode #73...
The Best Hip-Hop Albums & Biggest Stories Of 2021
We discuss 2021's biggest Hip-Hop stories and best Rap album on this week's episode of AFH's What's The Headline:
0:00 Intr...