Mogul
Music Podcasts
Mogul is a show about hip hop’s most iconic moments, told by the people who lived them. In Season 3, we’re telling the story of DJ Screw, a reclusive genius who changed the sound of music forever. An auteur who created his own genre — Chopped and Screwed — Screw slowed music down until it sounded like syrup coming out of your speakers. It quickly became the soundtrack to the city of Houston, before influencing an entire generation of rappers. But the man behind the beats was a mystery to all but his closest collaborators, and to this day he remains one of hip-hop’s greatest enigmas.
Location:
United States
Description:
Mogul is a show about hip hop’s most iconic moments, told by the people who lived them. In Season 3, we’re telling the story of DJ Screw, a reclusive genius who changed the sound of music forever. An auteur who created his own genre — Chopped and Screwed — Screw slowed music down until it sounded like syrup coming out of your speakers. It quickly became the soundtrack to the city of Houston, before influencing an entire generation of rappers. But the man behind the beats was a mystery to all but his closest collaborators, and to this day he remains one of hip-hop’s greatest enigmas.
Language:
English
Website:
https://gimletmedia.com/mogul/
Episodes
S3 Part 3: June 27th
7/14/2021
We go inside the making of DJ Screw’s greatest mixtape: The June 27th tape. It’s the story of a magical night inside the wood room when everything came together just right. The beats, the drugs, and a historic lineup of some of the Screwed Up Clicks most iconic members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:45:09
S3 Part 2: Instant Gumbo
7/7/2021
DJ Screw takes Houston. But before he does, he'll need to invent an entire genre, assemble a crew, and acquire a blue Chevy Impala. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:42:46
S3 Part 1: Screw Up the World
6/30/2021
The DJ Screw origin story. His musical odyssey begins in small-town Smithville where he’s inspired by New York hip hop, boomboxes, and an extremely corny movie about breakdancers. A move to Houston expands Screw’s horizons, and he begins the metamorphosis from amateur DJ to auteur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:45:23
Introducing Season 3: Chopped and Screwed
6/17/2021
Mogul is slowing things down, and telling the story of DJ Screw. The reclusive auteur is best known for inventing Chopped & Screwed, a slowed-down, psychedelic strain of hip-hop that changed the sound of music forever. But that’s all most people know about him. Starting June 23, we’ll uncover the story behind one of music’s greatest enigmas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:03:44
Introducing 'NO SKIPS with Jinx and Shea'
6/16/2021
Check out 'NO SKIPS with Jinx and Shea', a new Spotify and Ringer show dedicated to hip-hop's most iconic and unskippable albums, hosted by Brandon 'Jinx' Jenkins and best-selling author, Shea Serrano. Each episode focuses on a single album and discusses its cultural significance, best songs, hardest lyrics, unknown facts, and lasting legacy in hip-hop. In this special preview, Jinx and Shea discuss Lil Wayne’s ‘Tha Carter III’. Listen and follow 'NO SKIPS with Jinx and Shea' only on...
Duration:00:13:45
Mixtape: Kelly Rowland Meets Her Idol
8/5/2020
Kelly Rowland was just a teenager when she and the rest of Destiny’s Child came to New York to audition for a record deal. Over 20 years later, she’s been all over the world, met her idols (including the legendary Whitney Houston), lived out so many of her musical dreams—but the stuff she heard in those early years still makes her weak in the knees. In this episode, Kelly talks us through the music that made her, from Tribe Called Quest to Sade to Pebbles to Salt-N-Pepa. Learn more about...
Duration:00:22:32
Mixtape: Mouse Jones
5/7/2020
In our new interview series The Mogul Mixtapes, we’re talking to some of our all-time favorite people about their most treasured hip hop memories—the craziest parties, the nastiest beefs, and the most brilliant verses ever. This episode features the dynamic hip hop personality Mouse Jones. If you ever wondered how to win a beef, Mouse got you. He takes us back to the early 2000s, to tell us what he learned from one of the most iconic, pettiest, and longest running beefs in Hip Hop history....
Duration:00:22:43
Behind The Beats With Nana Kwabena
11/20/2019
In this episode of Behind the Beats we go behind the scenes and find out how Nana Kwabena wrote the music for the second season of Mogul. It’s a wide ranging conversation that touches on Nana’s creative process, his thoughts on the Miami bass movement, and the history of African talking drums. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:25:27
Behind The Beats With So Wylie
11/13/2019
This is Behind the Beats. In this series we’ll go behind the scenes to discover how Mogul got its distinct sound. In this first episode we’ll hear from the woman behind the show’s sound design, So Wylie. Her inspirations, her process, her beats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:23:32
The DJ Uncle Al Experience
10/30/2019
On September 10th 2001, Miami lost a local legend: DJ Uncle Al. In this episode, we hang at home with DJ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer, and he breaks down why Al was so special. It’s a tale of perseverance, positivity, pirate radio, and songs about Santa Claus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:34:31
S2 Part 6: They Call Me Raw
10/23/2019
Miami bass may have been thriving, but lyrical hip hop was still struggling to find a foothold in Miami. And with little chance at getting airtime on popular stations, Miami DJs have to find a way to get their music heard—and the best way to do that was to set up an illegal pirate radio station. In this episode: a pimped-out tour bus, a barrel full guns, and a lunchbox full of cocaine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:41:23
S2 Part 5: I Hated That Album
10/16/2019
After pissing off the authorities, the 2 Live Crew start to piss off each other. In this episode, things fall apart, and we contend with the complex legacy of one of hip hop’s pioneers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:26:16
S2 Part 4: What's Dirty To You?
10/9/2019
The fight rages on. Luke and the Crew fan the flames in the court of public opinion, and when they go head-to-head with their biggest critics, things get heated. In this episode we bring you 90s daytime TV and rapping prosecutors, and the nastiest album in the history of the world is put on trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:51:40
S2 Part 3: Splack!
10/2/2019
The 2 Live Crew drop their classic hit “Me So Horny,” which takes the Miami bass sound out of the Pac Jam and spreads it across the nation. But not everyone wants the 2 Live Crew's music on the airwaves. A group of conservatives and a notorious Miami sheriff conspire to take the Crew's records off the shelves and off the air. When the Crew hits back, it lands them in jail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:49:19
S2 Part 2: Bass Bro, I Love That Shit!
9/25/2019
The 2 Live Crew is starting from the bottom: crashing at Luke’s girlfriend’s mom’s house. Nobody will sign them, so Luke starts Luke Skyywalker Records, the first hip hop label in the south. And Luke dreams up hip-hop’s most shocking stage show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:32:48
S2 Part 1: The Walls Were Sweating
9/18/2019
Our story starts with Luke Campbell of the 2 Live Crew getting thrown in jail. Luke wound up in handcuffs because, according to a Florida judge, his music was obscene. To understand how this happened, we have to go back in time to 1980s Miami, to a sweatbox teen disco that birthed a new kind of hip hop: Miami bass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:37:26
Introducing Season 2: Miami
9/10/2019
In Season 2, Mogul explores the birth of southern hip hop. It all started in Miami with The 2 Live Crew, a group that took rap music and made it faster, harder, and nastier than anything anyone had heard before. The new season returns September 18th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duration:00:03:15
Mogul x Dissect with Cole Cuchna
9/9/2019
Today, our host Brandon Jenkins sits down with Dissect’s Cole Cuchna. Dissect is a serialized podcast that dives deep into albums by artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, and Frank Ocean, forensically dissecting one song per episode. Cole Cuchna joins us to discuss the show’s highlights and walks us through the production process of Dissect’s newest season, focused on Kendrick Lamar’s critically acclaimed album DAMN.. Stream Dissect now on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices....
Duration:00:33:12
Mogul Live: A Night For Reggie Ossé
8/28/2019
Back in July we released a tribute to Reggie Ossé, the late host of Mogul. After that episode dropped, we invited Reggie’s friends, family, and colleagues to record a live show at the BRIC Ballroom in Brooklyn. They shared their most personal stories about Reggie—from the time he escaped a block party gone wrong to the day his whole crew got involved in a dance battle. We also reunited the cast of the Combat Jack Show. That’s right: Dallas Penn, Premium Pete, A-King, and Just Blaze, all...
Duration:00:55:30
The Life and Times of Reggie Ossé
7/31/2019
This episode of Mogul is a tribute to the life and career of Reggie Ossé, who hosted the first season of Mogul. A couple of months after completing the show Reggie was diagnosed with colon cancer and he passed away in December of 2017. We’re going to tell you Reggie’s story — His early days growing up a hip-hop head in Brooklyn, his time as a lawyer representing legendary artists like Jay-Z and Dame Dash, and his reinvention as Combat Jack, hip hop’s flagship podcaster. Photo courtesy of...
Duration:00:59:37