Celebrating 300 Episodes & 30 Years of Hip-Hop Classics!

300 episodes! What started as a vision has grown into hundreds of conversations covering hip-hop, music business, culture, entrepreneurship, motivation, and the stories that deserve to be told. Thank you to every listener, guest, supporter, and subscriber who has been part of this incredible journey!

In this milestone episode, we're celebrating 300 episodes of the Rodes Live Podcast while paying tribute to two of the greatest albums ever released in hip-hop history—Nas' It Was Written and Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt—both celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2026. We discuss the impact these timeless classics have had on the culture, lyricism, storytelling, and generations of  ...