At its best, the music podcast “Drink Champs” recalls the 1990s and 2000s heyday of radio, when hip-hop stars would head to the nearest station to air grievances or set the record straight.
In the course of a typical episode of “Drink Champs,” which can run two or three hours, a few things will happen. N.O.R.E., the bawdy Queens rapper turned podcaster, will slowly get drunk. He’ll tell his interviewees, most of them rappers and producers, how much he appreciates them—that he’s a fan as well as a peer—as he probes them about the minutiae of their careers.
The show began in 2016, several years after N.O.R.E. and his co-host, DJ EFN, did a program on Sirius XM. EFN, a longtime Miami promoter, producer, and mixtape d.j., balances N.O.R.E.’s tipsy zeal with a calming energy and basic, context-setting questions. At its best, the show recalls the nineties and early-two-thousands heyday of radio, when hip-hop stars would head to the nearest station to air grievances or set the record straight, in the few minutes available.
Many of the most successful podcasts exist in a state of permanent nostalgia. The past is fun to talk about; there’s always a movie or an album turning some nice round number. But hip-hop has long had an uneasy relationship with history. It has endured as a globally vital form precisely because it’s so forward-looking, each generation rendered irrelevant by the next.
The Sigel episode is particularly moving. Sigel’s voice is raspy and strained, the result of a 2014 shooting that led to lung damage. He’s had a tumultuous career—multiple prison sentences, a patchy relationship with Jay-Z, who once vouched for his character in court—and N.O.R.E. asks him difficult questions with a gentle, playful curiosity. “I’m a changed man,” Sigel says with a chuckle, as N.O.R.E. tries to pour him a shot of Japanese whiskey.
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