Who Is The Best Rapper/Actor In Hip-Hop?
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In episode 44 of Ambrosia For Heads What's The Headline podcast, we discuss the following: 0:00 Intro 0:40 Shock G brought the Funk to Hip-Hop 4:45 Digital Underground crossed over with “The Humpty Dance,” without selling out 6:30 How Digital Underground was connected with N.W.A. and Tupac 8:16 Shock G brought showmanship back to Hip-Hop 11:18 The loss of Tupac and a lack of creative control tormented Shock G 18:28 Tupac got his start with Digital Underground 19:30 Shock G was also an incredible music producer 22:00 Digital Underground’s catalog was much deeper than Sex Packets and “The Humpty Dance” 34:55 DMX’s Celebration of Life memorial service sent him off in grand style 39:16 Kanye West reminded all of his musical genius with his Sunday Service choir at DMX’s memorial service 45:13 Swizz Beatz had sharp words for people claiming to be X’s friends who did not support him when he was living 46:10 Why don’t artists’ paid representatives help them put wills in place? 50:00 Joey Badass’ Oscar-nominated short film, “Two Distant Strangers,” shows he might be even better at acting than rapping 55:22 Who are the best double threat rapper/actors? 1:03:55 Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) are doing a podcast together 1:07:45 Open Mike Eagle’s “What Had Happened Was” is one of the best podcasts out right now 1:12:03 Snoop Dogg recreates and brings to life several classic Rap album covers in his “Look Around” music video 1:14:11 Logic is making a new album with Madlib, MadGic 1:18:30 A new documentary is being produced about the D.O.C.






















