blankSLATE with SaVon

Ep. 6 | "Watch the Throne... Fall" | Culture Accountability

Nobody's off limits anymore, and the first name that comes to mind when SaVon thinks of untouchable is Jay-Z. This episode walks the straight-line path that got hip hop h

"The Great Whites!" | Yassy's Radio Debut: Her Akademiks Origin, Trauma Bonding +MORE | blankSLATE Radio

Trauma bonding built this friendship, and now it's building a segment. Yassy makes her first crossover onto the Radio side, and before we even touch current events, we're

Episode 5 | "Lab Rats With Wi-Fi" | The Social Experiment

There used to be a line between watching entertainment and being used by it. This episode makes the case that the line is gone and that the audience became the experiment

Episode 4 | "Famous At 5, Untouchable At 50" (with YassyTV) | The Monoculture Conversation

There used to be such a thing as monoculture — one moment everyone was tapped into at the same time. Michael Jackson was the last person to truly have it, and this episod

"The Internet Had A Lot To Say" + Reacting To The Elliott Wilson $20k | blankSLATE Radio

SaVon breaks down exactly when the contract was signed, when payment was due, and why the "life happened" excuse doesn't hold up. This is the full story, for the last tim

Episode 3 | "Eat What You Kill" | The Elliott Wilson Story

The other half of the story, and the part that lingers. SaVon traces what happened after the work was done and the money never came — the silence, an offer that wasn't re

Episode 2 | "The $20,000 Mistake" | The Elliott Wilson Story

Full Story available early on Patreon. Join here: https://www.patreon.com/blankslatehq SaVon breaks down the $20,000 he lost on a high-profile podcast season tied to El

"Two Pimps, One Algorithm" — How Clip Culture Works | blankSLATE Radio

The internet found a way to make humiliation pay rent. Deen the Great and Adrien Broner. Adam22 and Lena the Plug. Two arrangements, one machine — and a clipping econom

Episode 1 | "Reality Is Optional" | with YassyTV

For the first official episode of blankSLATE, SaVon and Yassy use Jay-Z's Roots Picnic freestyle, Dame Dash's ongoing criticism of his former business partner, Akademiks'

"The Saddest Beef in Hip-Hop History" — JAY-Z vs Dame Dash | blankSLATE Radio

Two men built an empire together and haven't spoken business since 2004. Only one of them can't stop bringing it up. Dame Dash and Jay-Z built Roc-A-Fella together. The

"Charlamagne Was the Target" — The Akademiks Smear Campaign | blankSLATE Radio

DJ Akademiks and Charlamagne Tha God have spent years orbiting each other as two of the most influential voices in hip-hop media. Now that relationship appears to be brok

"JAY-Z Said Rap Beef Was Dead… Then Shot at Drake"| blankSLATE Radio

He spent two months telling everyone beef was killing the culture. Then he took four minutes to answer all of it. Two months ago JAY-Z told GQ that rap beef was taking

"West Coast Media Wants Control of the Narrative" — DJ Hed & Jeremy Hecht | blankSLATE Radio

DJ Hed is in the headlines after editing the West Coast disses out of Drake's "2 Hard 4 The Radio" — and aired the cleaned-up version on his own broadcast. Jeremy Hecht

"The Hip-Hop Media Cold War" — Akademiks vs Charlamagne | blankSLATE Radio

There's a Cold War brewing in hip hop media, and nobody's calling it what it is. DJ Akademiks says nobody's off limits. But watch how he moves — the gloves are only rea

"First Look" +Drake & Hip Hop Media NEED Each Other | blankSLATE Radio (Ad-Free Version on Patreon)

SaVon returns with another installment of blankSLATE Radio — breaking down Drake's codependent relationship with hip hop media, the ecosystem connecting Joe Budden, Akade

"Setting the Table" +Community Response | blankSLATE Radio

SaVon opens blankSLATE Radio — the reactive lane of blankSLATE, built for the conversation between the deep dives. In this episode: why Radio exists, how the two-lane s

The Need to Know Closed. blankSLATE Begins.

A reintroduction. Past the Headline. Past the Algorithm. Past the Noise. blankSLATE is what comes next for SaVon, a culture and music commentary podcast going past the

Joe Budden | "THE GOLD STANDARD" (ARCHIVE) (Ep. 232)

From the Need to Know Podcast era — the show has officially come to an end. This is part of the archive. Enjoy the guest conversations. A deep conversation with Joe Bud

Joe Budden | "ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST" (ARCHIVE) (Ep. 238)

From the Need to Know Podcast era — the show has officially come to an end. This is part of the archive. Enjoy the guest conversations. A wide-ranging conversation with

THE NEED TO KNOW POD | EP. 344 (FINAL EPISODE)

This marks the end of The Need to Know Podcast. The show is complete, and everything below this episode is part of the NTK archive — a curated back catalogue from that er