Ep. 23 - Hip-Hop 2.0 ft. Fiendsh

GUEST
In the second take on the world of hip-hop, BrownTown goes
international by inviting the podcast’s first featured music
artist Fiendish AKA Junior AKA Kaiphobthawiphong to chop it up
all the way from Bangkok, Thailand. Originally a DJ in high
school, Fiendsh transitioned to creating his own content while at
Columbia College Chicago. With similar stylings to J. Dilla,
Madlib, Kanye West, and Mf Doom, Fiendsh has since released two
EPs, Al Capone and Gold Pope.


OVERVIEW
Fiendsh and BrownTown discuss current mainstream releases, the
cultural and media pieces they impact, and the broader
socio-political context in which they are created. Over a year
since part one, “Hip-Hop in the Age of Spin,” Fiendsh shares the
origins of his name, his introduction into DJing, moving to
Chicago for college, and the influence hip-hop has had in his
life, his work, and his home country at-large. The gang sifts
through the musical stylings, business acumen, and overall
critique of album releases from GOOD Music, Drake, J. Cole , and
Nas. As authenticity in hip-hop is and always has been an
important and heavily contested theme, they unpack the cultural
and critical relevance of Kendrick Lamar’s Black Panther
Soundtrack as well as Cardi B’s rise to popularity. The
latter includes a nod to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning New
York Democratic house primary victory, noting a parallel between
different yet unapologetic, strong Latina figures in different
areas of public life. From appropriate and intentional track
sampling to a viral video of the young woman aggressively rapping
“Bodak Yellow” to her boyfriend, passion, purpose, and
persistence illustrates that hip-hop is here to stay and
reimagines what it can be.


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Find Fiendsh's music on his site as well as his Soundcloud and
Bandcamp pages. Follow him on Facebook and Instagram.


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CREDITS: Intro music by Fiendsh. Outro song
Everything by NAS ft. Kanye West and The-Dream. Audio
engineered by Genta Tamashiro. Episode art and Bourbon 'n
BrownTown logo by Desirae Gladden.


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