Episode 202: Big Elly (feat. Elliott Wilson)

Elliott Wilson is our guest today. He's a cultural staple in media who has been around from the magazine era to the blog era to now the new media era. After recently making headlines from doing historic interviews with NBA Youngboy and Tyler The Creator, he was recently called out by Drake. He's here to talk about everything.

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(00:00) Intro

(03:20) Akademiks and Elliott Wilson discuss feeling overlooked in the hip-hop media space.

(09:42) Elliott explains his decision to turn down being a host of Everyday Struggle.

(13:10) Elliott explains how the XXL Freshman list started.

(14:40) What was the business model of an independent magazine company?

(23:37) Elliott acknowledges that the new age of media is independent platforms.

(28:30) How did Elliott make sure he didn’t lose his audience as magazine culture started to fade away.

(32:30) How did Elliott manage to get artists to agree to live interviews in front of a crowd?

(40:28) Why is Elliott Wilson so embracing of new generations entering hip-hop?

(43:35) Elliott and Ak discuss this new era of women running the rap game.

(49:10) Elliott Wilson responds to Drake clowning him for doing interviews at Rolling Loud.

(58:55) Elliott and Ak share their stories of having small beefs with P. Diddy.

(01:01:38) Elliott shares another moment when Drake had issues with him.

(01:05:05) Lil Durk turned down an interview with Elliott after Elliott did an interview with NBA Young Boy.

(01:07:35) Elliott explains how he managed to get the interview with NBA Young Boy.

(01:15:10) Elliott feels that his Tyler the Creator interview was the best interview of the year.

(01:16:00) Elliott agrees with Akademiks previous comments about Charlamagne tha God.

(01:23:35) Elliott thinks that artists are more worried about constantly dropping music instead of dropping quality music.

(01:25:23) Elliott agrees that Lil Baby’s last album was disappointing, but he hasn’t fallen off.

(01:25:58) Elliott thinks that international artist’s are the future of hip-hop.

(01:31:53) Elliott shares what type of content is found on his Patreon.

(01:38:40) Ak explains the importance of building up other platforms to prove your worth and grow your career.

(01:43:45) Elliott shares his hip-hop media Mt. Rushmore list.