Off the Record with DJ Akademiks

Charleston White is our guest today. One of the most polarizing cultural commentators of modern time tells his story of how he was incarcerated on charged of 1st degree murder and changed his life around after incarceration. He says now his mission is to use his voice to go down a path and follow rappers or others promoting a message of violence or gangbanging. He talks about Nipsey Hussle, King Von, his altercation with Soulja Boy and even 600 Breezy.

25 Juli 20221h 46min

Today our guest is Roy Woods. He's from Canada and gives us a background of how he got started in the music industry to eventually linking up with Drake through Oliver.

22 Juli 20222h

Infamous Hip hop producer 'Murdabeatz' is our guest today. We begin by discussing his comeup from Canada to making his way to workin with Chicago artists and then getting involved in the Atlanta Scene. He spoke about how Soulja Boy gave him his first big break and how his first big single came a year later. He talks about hooking up with Drake and Travis Scott and then eventually making his own producer / artist collab albums - One with Shordie Shordie and another with Smokepurpp. We then talk about the sound of music and how that has changed over the years and how new producers are changing the game. He talks about the issues that came about with Rapstar when he did the beat but wasn't credited then it was later fixed. Also we discuss his discography including 'Nice For What' , FeFe, producing Butterfly for Travis Scott, how Nicki and Cardi got on 'Motorspot' and others. We speak on the Mt. Rushmore of producers for the last 10 years.

15 Juli 20221h 4min

HAAAAANNNNN. French Montana is our guest today. He joins us right before he leaves to shoot a music video with ESTGEE in the Bronx. We begin talking about our interview before OTR even started and how he was in our trailer for this podcast. We touch on his cocaine city DVDs and how he changed his identity from then.

14 Juli 20221h 33min

Rotimi is our guest today. The episode starts with Akademiks bringing up how they met over 10 years ago and how life has changed for them both since then. We get into to what place he was in at that point of his life and what lead him to acting. He talks about his roll on 'Boss' and how that helped him land his role on 'Power' and how he almost had the role of Hakeem on 'Empire'.

11 Juli 20221h 28min

Still in LA, Erica Banks from Texas is our guest today. She joins Akademiks on a Spotify Live for a new episode where she discusses her comeup in the industry and how she got her big break. She talks meeting Carl Crawford and signing to 1501 and also making her breakout single 'Buss It'.

8 Juli 20221h

Chase The Money is our guest today. He's a 21 Year old Producer from St Louis who got his big break working with Valee and later on Smokepurpp. He explains how he first got his big break by going to Chicago and even how he ran into Lil Durk in a basement working on music. He explains how then moving to Atlanta helped his career excel and also explained why Atlanta is so influential in a producers career these days.

7 Juli 20221h 26min

Tariq Nasheed is our guest today. He's a well decorated author, film maker and content creator who has been a pillar and a voice for the black community. Recently he's been pushing the agenda of Foundational Black Americans (FBA's) which he hopes to unify and organize to be able to leverage against lawmakers to help get progress for his people. He sits with Akademiks who was born in Jamaica and wouldn't be considered as a 'FBA' to discuss one of our recent podcast episodes with Candace Owens and also speak on the difference bewteen FBA's and non FBA's. This is surely to be one of the most entertaining and explosive episodes of Off the Record... and of course as usual... THERE AINT NO EDITS!

7 Juli 20222h 12min