Off the Record with DJ Akademiks

Erica Banks decided to show up to our Off The Record podcast studios today and it's a competition of who is more cancelled on social media, Akademiks or Erica Banks. Erica Banks recently got a lot of backlash for a close friends story that leaked where she said she prefers to go to the club with thick girls as opposed to skinny girls. She explains on this episode how it happened and what she really meant also she tackles backlash she faced from twerking at a high school pep rally in front of some high school boys which some viewed as inappropriate. Other than those things and Akademiks sharing his own cancellation story they talk about life, dating, partying, sexuality and a whole lot of random other things. One of the more fun episodes I'll say. Hope you Enjoy.

27 Sep 20221h 17min

This is to the OGs and LL Cool J. Signed with Love xoxoxox DJ Akademiks

23 Sep 202248min

YBN Nahmir is our guest for the day. He is here to face the music and answer all things including controversies and also mishaps in his career. He recaps how growing up in the music industry has been and also talks about prioritizing everyone else career and success before his own. He talks about making the mistake to focus on his girlfriend instead of his career and also not owning the YBN brand.

22 Sep 20221h 11min

Rich Homie Quan is our guest for today! He's back independent and this time as he says 'Its Personal'. He talks his come up in the game and linking up with Thug and the eventual separation and how people switched up on him. He also dropped gems about songs he originally had that ended up being hits for other artists. He talks about his new song 'Krazy'.

18 Sep 20221h 24min

DJ Vlad is back for his third appearance on Off the Record podcast with Dj Akademiks. We get into things by addressing lingering things from our continuous interviews on each others platforms for example, Andrew Tate, Yung Bleu, Boosie. We get into some light conspiracy theories about Trump, government documents and death (yeah spooky). He addresses Joe Budden accusing Complex CEO of saying the N Word while Akademiks and Joe was at Complex doing 'Everyday Struggle'. We also talk about Aries Spears and Tiffany Haddish and the fallout after a very controversial video leaked. Vlad believes its a attempted shakedown. We touch on the new media landscape where people have to tone it down to not get cancelled. Vlad says Charlamagne asked him to remove parts from his interview because of how it would probably sound.

17 Sep 20222h 9min

The Brown Boy is in the building. The Hip hop community has known Nav and Akademiks for going from friends to then adversaries going back and forth on social media and today they finally meet face to face to iron out issues. He is also here to talk about his current album which is now streaming on all DSPs "Demons Protected by Angels". We talk about everything from recapping their issues to getting into talking about where Nav grew up in Rexdale, Canada. He talks about his upbringing and also how he got into the game being a producer to landing a production credit on Drake - Back to Back song. He talks about the Toronto scene to also how he dealt with the pandemic and also gaining back his confidence and shedding depression. He talks about his relationship with YSL and advocates for them to be free. He also addresses a controversial article that was put out years ago that painted him as insecure when he just got on. He also talks about his journey with finding and using shrooms in a creative healthy way.

14 Sep 20221h 23min

100k Track is back for another episode and this time he brought along two of his artists. We catch up talking about florida culture with jewelery with Track promising to get Akademiks some grills. They talk about the Lil Tjay incident and also talk about being in situations where artist safety is the most important. Track responds to Jackboy last appearance on the podcast where he denied that Track ever took a charge for him. He also talks about YNW Melly and King Von and if we can expect new music soon from them.

13 Sep 20221h 26min

Taz Taylor is our guest for this episode of Spotify Live. We talk about his come up in the rap game and how he chose to be a producer to eventually landing his first placement. We also talk about some songs he had a hand in crafting that he just recently got production credit for and also talk the business of production and whether producers deserve equal share of royalties for a song as the artist. We talk about some of big hits like him producing Lil Baby - Freestyle and others.

10 Sep 20221h 58min