This Week In Hype

This week's episode is one I've been wanting to make happen for a long ass time. I talk to John Gotty, aka the don of The Smoking Section, about being one of the first people on the rap internet and what it's like to run my favorite (non-DJBooth) site. Discussed This Week: * As always, shouts to Tino for that dope theme song. You should follow Tino and hear his story in full on the podcast. * Forget my usual rambling, forget the fake commercials, this week I'm devoting the entire episode to my conversation with John Gotty. This is the definitive rap internet discussion I've been looking to have. * Gotty and I discuss his past as a teacher, his beginning selling sneakers online, illegal downloads, how sobriety helped lead him to starting Smoking Section before music blogs even really existed as a thing, not giving a fuck about making rappers happy, the current state of music journalism and much more. It's kind of a big deal. * Straight up, you can catch me reading Smoking Section on the daily. Check it