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As promised, the first edition of “Must Not Sleep Rocks the Classics” is back with Part Two of our discussion of Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet. We introduce the categories we’ll be using each time we drop a “Must Not Sleep Rocks the Classics” and cover this album from all angles. There’s even …

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It’s “Must Not Sleep Rocks the Classics”! In what will be a reoccurring theme, the Must Not Sleep Podcast does a deep dive on an album that is considered by most to be a hip hop classic. For the inaugural ep, we chose Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet, and we go so deep …

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We tackle some important problems we had with our last episode (6:22), and Erik offers some loan advice. Then Neil describes his special relationship with R. Kelly (24:04) before we dive into R’s 19 minute manifesto “I Admit”(35:55). We think it’s a good episode, but we’re biased (that’s a joke…it makes more sense if you …

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Now that it’s “over” we take a look back at the Drake & Pusha T battle (4:10) including unpacking Pusha’s dis of Drake’s Black identity (24:42). Later we consider if Kanye really was “cancelled” & how Ye scares us (43:29). We think it’s all pretty funny and thoughtful. You should listen! (Don’t forget that you …

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