010: ICEMAN / MAID OF HONOUR / HABIBTI | Greetings Earthworms

To anyone who got finessed by my clickbait Drake reactions, I’m sorry. I’ll make it up to you by giving you this new episode of Greetings Earthworms in which Hester & I discuss all three of the new Iceman Aubrey albums. After a long discussion about Drizzy Drake the 6 God, I quickly recommend new releases from Vic Spencer, Stik Figa & Heather Grey, Isaiah Rashad, and Sage the 64th Wonder & pty. Afterward, Hester recommends new music from Sasco, and DJ Haram & Sha Ray. Then we talk about two upcoming films we are planning on seeing: Scary Movie 6 (not me tho that’s a solo mission for Hester), and the new film from Boots Riley, I Love Boosters. We finish the episode with a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Thank you to Height Keech & TLR for creating the new intro & outro respectively. Check this episode out and leave a comment if you have thoughts on anything in this discussion. ✌🏽

Timestamps:

0:00 – Height Keech Intro
0:53 – New Theme Music
3:07 – Agenda / Drake released three albums
5:28 – Trivia
7:47 – HABIBTI
11:11 – Bryson Tiller & J. Cole sidenote
13:59 – HABIBTI again
14:45 – HABIBTI features
19:20 – Best songs on HABIBTI
20:20 – ICEMAN
25:06 – Drake’s last few albums
30:14 – Best songs on ICEMAN 
30:48 – Corny bars
40:54 – MAID OF HONOUR
42:51 – The eventful release of these albums
49:40 – Overall thoughts
51:09 – MAID OF HONOUR closing track
53:24 – So Far Gone
54:16 – AI ICEMAN
55:40 – Iceman was a nice man
58:02 – Kendrick beef
1:02:27 – Pitchfork ICEMAN review
1:03:28 – Production
1:05:24 – ICEMAN again
1:07:48 – MAID OF HONOUR Cover Art
1:08:53 – Popcaan & Amazing Shape
1:11:29 – Where’s Your Stuff Interlude
1:12:29 – Repetitive melodies
1:14:11 – Princess concept 
1:21:18 – OG Recs: Vic Spencer – Inspire Your Idols
1:21:54 – OG Recs: Stik Figa & Heather Grey – Cold Comfort
1:22:18 – OG Recs: Isaiah Rashad – IT’S BEEN AWFUL
1:24:06 – OG Recs: Sage the 64th Wonder & pty – Turtle Style: Sagewav
1:24:20 – Hester Recs: Sasco – Misophonia V
1:25:03 – Hester Recs: Sha Ray & DJ Haram – Champagne & Bouquets
1:26:22 – Scary Movie 6?
1:28:48 – I Love Boosters
1:29:43 – SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
1:35:15 – TLR Outro

p.s. This show is also available on Apple Podcasts (unless you’re in Israel) & YouTube (probably the best place to listen tbh).

008: Hate Island (feat. Teller Bank$) | Greetings Earthworms

For the very first guest on our podcast, we came out swingin’. Hate Island is a perfect album to me, and Teller Bank$ is at this point one of my favorite artists of all time, so I’m pretty ecstatic that I was able to speak to him for about three hours. I didn’t start recording until like 45 minutes into our discussion, so this episode is a little over two hours. Shoutout to my co-host Hester Valentine for even having the idea to get Teller on as a guest. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that, but as soon as he brought it up to me I was like yeah we doin’ that. This is honestly probably the best interview I’ve ever done. Thank you to Teller for joining us. The standard edition of Hate Island is available on streaming platforms, and the definitive Director’s Cut version is available on Bandcamp. Check that shit out. ✌🏽

On October 25th, I had the pleasure of speaking with someone I’ve been following for over 10 years. I consider Dom Rabrun to be one of my “heroes,” for lack of a more fitting term. Check this out, and let me know what you think in the comment section. Personally, I think this is the best interview I’ve ever done.

https://youtu.be/_Bk9VhnqOtk

Connect with Dom Rabrun
Hip-Hop RPG
Dom Digs
Dom’s Twitch Channel

https://focushiphop.com/2024/11/01/the-dom-rabrun-interview/

#DomRabrun #OGNICKMARSH

As you all know, Elon Musk has completely ruined what used to be my favorite social media platform: Twitter. It’s basically a cesspool of bots and right-wing trolls now, so I decided to try out a new competitor. Bluesky was created with help from Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter. The reason I like it so much is because it reminds me a lot of OG Twitter. Well, I guess you could say Twitter doesn’t exist anymore. It’s been replaced by X, but now we have Bluesky, so that honestly makes me pretty happy. When you join Bluesky, your account automatically follows their official page, although you can unfollow at any time. When I went to their profile, I found the following message as their pinned post…

👋 Bluesky is an open social network that gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience. We’re so excited to have you here!

I tried joining other X alternatives such as Hive, Threads, and Mastadon. However, Bluesky seems to be the only one that’s really catching on, and I honestly understand why. I’m really diggin’ it. Anyway, I suggest creating an account on https://bsky.app/. If you join and want to follow me, my username is @ognickmarsh.bsky.social. Thank you for reading. Peace!

Edit: I forgot to mention that you can find the people you’re following on Twitter by using an extension on Google Chrome called Sky Follower Bridge. Check it out.

https://focushiphop.com/2024/10/24/bluesky-vs-twitter-a-fresh-take-on-social-networking/

#Bluesky #ElonMusk #Fediverse #OGNICKMARSH #SocialMedia #Twitter #X

I was recently a guest on FreeMusicEmpire‘s State of the Game podcast again alongside Grand Mega Flowers of SECRET HOUSE AGAINST ALBUM REVIEWS. This was a “Scouting Report” episode of the podcast, which is basically where Dan & K analyze the strengths & weaknesses of a particular artist. The reason I was chosen for this episode in particular is because Lupe Fiasco is my favorite rapper of all time. I feel like I probably leaned more into critiquing Lupe than praising him in this episode, but if you listen it should be clear that I’m someone who really appreciates his work generally. Thank you to Dan & K for having me on, and shoutout to Mega & the rest of Secret House Against for doing dope shit.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/16KvJKFNXIhgxaAcssPxLU?si=dd2217d14a994988

https://focushiphop.com/2024/08/25/exploring-lupe-fiascos-artistry-with-freemusicempire-secret-house-against-state-of-the-game-vol-215/

#DanO #FreeMusicEmpire #GrandMegaFlowers #KRollins #LupeFiasco #OGNICKMARSH #SECRETHOUSEAGAINSTALBUMREVIEWS

One of the first things I did when I relaunched my Patreon page a few weeks ago was record this original song featuring me rapping two verses over a beat that I bought from 2zenitth a few years ago. The mixing isn’t great, and I think my vocal delivery isn’t the best, but I’m proud of my flow and rhymes. Here’s a quick snippet of what the song sounds like…

There are two full verses on this song. The first one was written in 2020, and the second one was written either late last year or early this year. I can’t really remember. I think it was last year though. The title is an acronym, obviously. I don’t wanna reveal what it stands for to the general public, so you’ll have to join the Patreon to see what it is. Anyway, this was just a special, one-time thing that I did to celebrate the relaunch of my Patreon page. The feedback I’ve gotten has been positive, so shoutout to everyone that has listened. And of course shoutout to the talented 2zenith for producing the song.

https://focushiphop.com/2024/08/21/og-nick-marsh-tbmig-wmitd-snippet-patreonpromo2/

#2zenith #OGNICKMARSH

Hey y’all. As I’m sure many of you have noticed, there is now a “Patreon” tab in the menu for this blog. I encourage you all to click it and read what I wrote there. Long story short: I relaunched my Patreon page, which you can subscribe to for $5 to get exclusive content. There are already some exclusive videos and early access reviews, as well as two songs—an instrumental that I produced and a song that I rapped on. I just wanted to make sure I published an actual blog post in which I drew your attention to it in case some of you hadn’t noticed yet. Peace.

https://focushiphop.com/2024/07/30/access-og-nick-marshs-exclusive-content-on-patreon/

#OGNICKMARSH