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AOTP’s Planetary joins Vinnie Paz for Tour Stories | Ep. 30 | Pop the Trunk

Planetary — one half of OuterSpace and a longtime member of Army of the Pharaohs — becomes the first guest to make a return trip to Pop the Trunk, picking up round two of

Vinnie Paz on Building Legacy of Blood | Ep. 29 | Pop the Trunk

Vinnie and the guys revisit Legacy of Blood, JMT's fourth album, 22 years after it dropped. Vinnie walks through building the record from the ground up in Philly — the st

The Making of Visions of Gandhi: 23 Years Later | Ep. 28 | Pop the Trunk

Vinnie and the guys dig into the anniversary of Visions of Gandhi, tracing how the record came together. From a makeshift studio to Chung King in New York, it's a rare lo

Industry Plants: Is your favorite rapper an industry plant? Vinnie breaks down the definition | Episode 27 | Pop the Trunk

Vinnie and the guys tackle one of hip hop's most loaded accusations: what actually makes someone an "industry plant"? They lay out the real definition, argue over where t

Not Your Average Joe: Joe DeRosa talks Hip Hop roots with Vinnie Paz | Episode 26 | Pop the Trunk

Comedian Joe DeRosa joins Vinnie and the guys for Episode 26, and the group digs into Joe's early days of hip hop — including who his "cheat code" was, the one that got h

Cult 45: Vinnie breaks down his conspiracy research

Episode 25 gets into where Vinnie's fascination with the occult and conspiracy theories actually started, how deep it pulled him in over the years, and how it eventually

Behind Enemy Lines: The Making of Uncommon Valor | Episode 24 | Pop the Trunk

Today’s episode is a full breakdown of how "Uncommon Valor" actually got made — twenty years after it dropped, still one of the most talked-about concept records in hip h

Bronx Bombers | Jaÿ-Z’s Record Breaking Yankee Stadium Residency

In Loving Memory of Kristine Barlam aka “Krissy”. Before diving into the main event, Billy has some explaining to do after coming back from a three-day meditation retrea

Summer Madness | Breaking Down Hip Hop’s Greatest Summer Releases

Episode 22 is a summer heat wave of hip-hop history. The crew runs down the classic albums that dropped between May and September across the decades — the records that de

Assassin's Creed | Vinnie Paz Breaks Down Season of the Assassin on Its 16th Anniversary

The boys are back and the crew opens up talking hoops, the World Cup, and why American sports broadcasts hit different. From there it's straight into a milestone: Vinnie'

KEOTB 210 | The Boots Ennis - Xander Zayas Aftermath

Vinnie flies solo this week to break down Jaron "Boots" Ennis's dominant, multi-knockdown stoppage of Xander Zayas that unified the 154-pound titles at the DAZN’s Barclay

Mailbag, Maniacs, Mediums, and Mutants | Episode 20 | Pop the Trunk

Vinnie and Billy hold things down two-man-band style with Brendan out this week, and crack open the mailbag for a round of listener mail and recommendations — including n

The Boots Ennis - Xander Zayas Special | Knock ‘Em Out the Box | Episode 209

Boots Ennis and Xander Zayas finally collide for two junior middleweight titles, and the boys can't wait any longer to break it all down. From the questionable promotion

What’s Beef? | Ranking Hip-Hop's Biggest Rivalries and Who Actually Won

Hip-hop runs on competition and nothing fuels it like a good beef. In this episode, the fellas do a deep dive into the genre's most legendary rivalries, tracing the linea

“I’m Happy for My Dad” | Knicks Championship alongside Wu-Tang & Building Our Greatest 50 Rappers

The boys are back, and this week there's an elephant in the room the size of Madison Square Garden. Vinnie and Billy are doing their best to ignore it, but Brendan isn't

Feds in My Rearview | Episode 17 | Pop the Trunk

The crew weighs in on the NBA Finals and what it really costs to be a New York Knicks fan these days. From there, the conversation shifts into hip hop beef culture and wh

Buck50 | Episode 16 | Pop the Trunk

The crew kicks things off with a tale of restaurant frustration that snowballs into a broader conversation about bad service, false promises, and the unwritten code betwe

Pyramid Scheme | Knock ‘Em Out the Box | Episode 208

Vinnie holds it down solo while his co-hosts sit this one out in lieu of other shenanigans. He runs through a loaded boxing news cycle — Lomachenko's retirement reversal,

Mailbag II - Heelys, Perfect Albums, and No Rite of Passage | Episode 15 | Pop the Trunk

The mailbag is back! The crew gets into the creative process behind writing rhymes, whether a perfect album is a perfect album regardless of genre, and what happens when

“I Just Went to the Riot” | Episode 14 | Pop the Trunk

After the slept-on rappers episode sparked a wave of responses from the audience, Vinnie and Brendan discuss names that didn't make the original list, artists whose caree