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Low End Marauders
by Nycholas Rawls
A biweekly hip hop/comedy debate podcast where three longtime high school friends give their thoughts, opinions, ideas and comedy burns on what's going on in hip hop culture today.
Episodes
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#88: Game's Theory
Back again with another new episode! Nick takes control of the show and kicks things off with Post Malone wanting to come back to rap. With ticket sales not moving as much, Post wants to return to his rap roots by releasing a new double album later this year. However, Nick feels differently about...
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#87: Hov Stock '26
Season six is underway with an all-new episode after our long layoff. Nick holds things down to give his thoughts on Jay Z's three-night residency at Yankee Stadium. He'll break down what happened on all three nights, the controversy surrounding night three, and ask why some people should and...
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#86: The No Substance Mixtape
Episode 86 is up and running with a brand new show for 2026. Nick is hosting and holding the fort down, as he has a lot to discuss since the last episode. We start things off with one of the most anticipated albums of the last five years, with J. Cole's The Fall Off. Nick gives his honest…
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BONUS: Classic Rap Report Card Review #4: The Marshall Mathers LP
The Classic Rap Report Card Review is back and with another review of the best-selling rap album of 2000, The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem. We discuss the album track by track and dive into the album's dark and disturbing themes from "Kim" to masterful storytelling in "Stan". The episode also...
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#85: Successful Self Sabotage
For our final episode of 2025, Nick is back to discuss more hip hop topics and is giving more takes on what is happening. First off, with his Gangsta Grillz mixtape online, The Game stops by a podcast to answer why he was absent from Kendrick's Pop Out Show back in June 2024. He gives and doubles...
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BONUS: Classic Rap Report Card Review #3: Thank Me Later
The Classic Rap Report Card Reviews are back in effect and for this episode, cohost Nick dives into Drake's debut album from 2010, Thank Me Later. Nick gives his honest thoughts track by track on Drake's songs and also offers insight into how music was changing as it transitioned from the 2000s...
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#84: A Verzuz-tile Comeback
Happy Halloween! Back again with another episode of the show, and Nick is in costume and ready to give his take on Drake's lost and revived defamation lawsuit against Kendrick's "Not Like Us". After that, Verzuz is BACK after a long hiatus to give us a battle of the New Orleans labels: Cash Money...
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#83: Ratlanta, GA
Back with another episode of the Low End Marauders Podcast, as host Nick dives into the latest in hip-hop drama, including the ongoing Twitter feud between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, Young Thug's revelations about his legal battles and industry betrayals from his interview with the Perspektives…
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BONUS: Classic Rap Report Card Review #2: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Back again with a new Classic Rap Report Card Review, this time with Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy! From his exile at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards to now in 2025, Nick reviews each track in order and gives his thoughts on how well or terribly the album has aged and how things...
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BONUS: Classic Rap Report Card Review #1: The Life of Pablo
Ever wondered how some of your favorite albums have aged well over 10+ years from today? With our newest side series, Classic Rap Report Card Reviews, you'll see how well or how badly they have! In our first episode, we will review Kanye West's The Life of Pablo, following the rapper's claim that...
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#82: Lyrical Rap Lives!!!
Season six starts now! With Nick at the helm, he dives into Drake's two newest singles "What Did I Miss?" and "Which One". He gives his honest thoughts about the singles and gives a take on Drake's lawsuit against damn near everyone that you can think of. Next R&B singer Ari Lennox hates Martin's...
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#81: Nixed in VI
Back at it with another episode of the show! Nick holds things down for the crew and in this episode of the Low End Marauders podcast, Nick discusses the ongoing beef between Joey Badass and West Coast rappers, particularly focusing on Ray Vaughn. The conversation dives into the competitive…
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#80: Friday: The Greatest Hood Movie of All Time?
Back at it with episode 80, Nick holds the fort down this episode. We kick things off with a celebration of one of the greatest hood movies of all time: Friday. The movie turns 30 in 2025, and Nick asks if it is the greatest hood movie of all time, over Boyz in the Hood, Menace 2 Society, and…
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#79: $uper Bowl $ubliminal $hots 4 U
In this episode of the Low End Marauders podcast, Nick holds the fort down and discusses Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance, which garnered mixed reviews despite being the most-watched halftime show in history. Nick dives into the visuals, themes, and audience reactions to…
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BONUS: Nick's Top Ten Rap Albums of 2024
Happy 2025 ladies and gentlemen! As 2024 is now in the rearview mirror, our 1/3rd cohost Nick takes a look back on some of the best albums to hit streaming services over the last 12 months. With records from the East and West Coasts, some down South and the Midwest, see what Nick chose as his…
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#78: Top Dominance Ent.
Back at it again with another new episode of the podcast as Nick is here to talk about the label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). The label celebrated 20 years of being around in hip hop and to celebrate, the website HipHopDX made a list of their 20 greatest albums. From Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock…
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#77: OutKast is Everlasting
Back again for the second episode of season five of the show. Nick holds it down and talks about OutKast. Everyone knows that Andre and Big Boi are one of the greatest hip hop groups of all time, but what is the greatest song from the duo? Dissect podcast did a Last Song Standing season on which...
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#76: New Orleans' Selective Outrage
Back at it again with another new episode and another new season of the Low End Marauders podcast! Nick kicks season five off by describing how some season five episodes will change throughout the season and gets right into the big news and uproar that has been going around. On September 8th…
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#75: 2 Pimp A Canadian
Back again with the season four finale! Nick holds down the fort as he kicks things off with his review on the 2024 BET Awards. The lone marauder gives his hot takes on the best, worst and WTF moments of the award ceremony and asks if or how BET can make their summertime ceremony more enjoyable…
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#74: The 2024 Rap Royal Rumble
Back again and apologies for the late upload! Nick holds it down again with a brand new episode with A LOT to talk about! With everything going on with the Kendrick Lamar/Drake rap battle, we decided to spend this episode covering the entire saga, from it's beginning with Drake and J. Cole's…
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#73: Everybody Hates Drake
Late upload, but we are back again with another new episode of the Low End Marauders podcast! Nick holds things down again as he talks about how everyone is coming after Drake thanks to Future and Metro Boomin's new album We Don't Trust You. Nick gives his takes on Kendrick Lamar's verse on the...
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#72: How the West (Coast Rap Scene) Was Lost (The Solo Episode)
After a long break the show is BACK for 2024 and back with another new episode of the show! Only Nick holds things down for this time around as he kicks things off by touching on why fans were underwhelmed by Jeezy's Tiny Desk performance. Fans called out the show by saying the audience in...
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#71: 2023: Nothing to Rap About
Been gone for a minute but we are BACK with another new episode of LEM! Nick and Jared are back at the helm and we kick things off with the breaking news of the split between Cardi B and Offset. Cardi recently told fans on Instagram Live that she is now single, only to fuel the fires (again) of...
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#70: Divorced Girl Fall
On our 2023 NFL Week 3 Miami Dolphins massacre over the Denver Broncos episode, Nick and Jared hold things down and kick things off over the huge news that Usher will be headlining the Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show in Las Vegas. The marauders touch on if Usher's halftime show will be better than...
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#69: Aging Against the Machine
Been gone for a minute but we are finally back with another new and funny episode of the podcast. We kick things off with LL Cool J's comments on rappers retiring on Sway In The Morning. Before kicking a freestyle on the show, he talks about how rap isn't a sport and calls out those who flirt…
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#68: Adult Essence Fest Expo
We are BACK with a brand new episode and a brand new season of the Low End Marauders podcast! Jared and Nick are back once again with new topics to talk, debate and discuss. We kick things off with Drake on tour with 21 Savage and with the first stop in Chicago (July 5), Drake calls out Childish...
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#67: Plastic Surgical Summer
It's the end of season three and Nick and Jared are here to take us out in style. We sadly kick things off from where we left last time with the unfortunate passing of Wild N Out/85 South Show cast member DC Young Fly's girlfriend Jacky Oh. Oh passed away (May 31) due to a surgical procedure…
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#66: Missy Elliott: G.O.A.T. Status?? (The Artificial Imitation Episode)
It's been a long time.... But we are back yet again with another new episode of the show! Nick and Jared are back again to kick things off with Ice Cube voicing his opinions on AI generated music that has been going around on social media for a while. Cube calls it demonic and says that he will…
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#65: OVO Jim
Back again after being gone for a while! Nick and Jared are here to give you more hip hop news and questions since our last episode! We kick things off by discussing Complex's first annual Hip Hop Media Power Ranking List that made its rounds on April 3rd. Coming in at #1 was Joe Budden due to…
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#64: De La Soul: G.O.A.T. Status??
It's been a long time, we hate we left you. But now we got a new episode to step to! Nick and Jared hold things down again and kick things off with Complex's List of the Best Rapper Alive for 2022 and they have decided to name Sir 21 the Savage as that. The marauders have a problem with Complex...
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#63: Pushing Pleas
Happy 2023 to you and yours! We are back with more madness and hip hop topics for the new year as Nick and Jared catch you up with everything that's happen since we last left off due to the holidays. We sadly start the show off with the untimely passing of former Three 6 Mafia member, Gangsta Boo...
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#62: good music, b.A.A.d decisions
Back at it again with another new episode of the show with Nick and Jared (and Kyle in spirit) and the marauders kick things off with an interesting list from Rolling Stone. The music magazine published (November 28) online their 50 worst decisions in music history with some hip hop picks thrown…
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#61: The Fantastic Four-Peat
Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone here in the states, as Nick and Jared are finally full from leftovers and are back with another new episode of the show! The marauders kick things off by celebrating Nas' new album King's Disease III by alerting the listeners of its critical and fan praise...
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#60: Listen to the OGs!!!
Back again with a late upload and technical issues for this episode (apologies!). Nick and Jared hold things down with Kyle in spirit as they sadly start things off with the untimely passing of former Migos member Takeoff who was shot and killed in Houston back on November 1st. We give our…
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#59: Ego Trippin'
Another new month, another brand new episode of the podcast. Despite the technical difficulties and late post, Nick and Jared are here to give inputs on this episode and we kick things off with all things Kanye West and his rollercoaster of a week. We start with the timeline of everything that…
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#58: Only Built for Midstreams (The White Approval Matters Episode)
Back again with a brand new episode of the show! This go around Nick and Jared hold things down for Kyle as they first get into DaBaby and him saying that he's being blackballed from the industry after his 2021 Rolling Loud festival comments after dropping his new album Baby on Baby 2. His latest...
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#57: DJ Akademiks' Digital Slaps
Sorry for the late post but we are back with a brand new episode with Nick and Jared. The guys kick things off continuing on commenting on PnB Rock's death and hearing Fat Joe's comments on his death on Hell of a Week on Comedy Central. We talk about his comments and ask if he was out of line…
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#56: Rhythm Incrimination
Late but back with another episode of the podcast! Nick and Jared hold things down and sadly kick things off with late breaking news on the sad passing of PnB Rock. Rock was sadly killed after being robbed at LA's famed Rosoce's Chicken & Waffles while dining with his girlfriend. As more on the...
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#55: Hurt People Hurt People (The Hard Work Beats Talent Episode)
It's been a long time but we are BACK and have a brand new episode of the podcast for you! Nick and Jared hold things down and kick things off with 50 Cent. 50 was recently on a Houston radio station and commented on how today making a rap record is easy, since everyone in 2022 sounds the same,...
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#54: 2pacalypse 2022
Back again with another new episode with Nick & Jared kick things by starting off with some New York beef with Conway the Machine venting his frustrations on NY DJ Funk(master) Flex on him not being able to play Conway's music and accuses him of gatekeeping. As the two keep trading shot via…
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#53: Producer Equality over Inflation (The 2 Year Anniversary Episode)
Back again with another new episode and another BRAND NEW SEASON of the show. Nick and Jared kick the season off after enjoying the long 4th of July weekend with Bobby Shmurda's rant on producers wanting him to pay up to 5 digits for beats that he wants, but feels like they are asking for way too...
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#52: Honestly,... It's Bad Drake
Apologies for the late drop, but Nick and Jared are back with the final episode of season two and they go out with a bang by kicking the off with Rolling Stone's Top 200 Greatest Hip Hop Albums of All Time list that had a lot of people talking for better and mostly for worse. We talk about what…
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#51: Yo! MTV Raps: Better than BET's Rap City?
Back again with another new episode with Nick & Jared kicking things off with an old school vs. new school generation battle with Soulja Boy claiming that the old school rappers that came before him, haven't done anything for the new generation of rap artists (May 30) and legendary producer Pete...
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#50:...You Might Just Get Hit With the R.I.C.O. (The Pushing 🅿rison Episode)
Despite those damn delays, we are back with our half century episode and we kick things off by giving out our Report Card Rating on Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers album which had the whole world talking when it came out on the 13th. We also talk about the controversy surrounding…
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#49: Beastie Boys: G.O.A.T. Status??
Sorry for the delay (again) but we are back with a brand new episode with Nick and Jared rocking the mic and kicking things off with up and coming rapper DDG taking to Twitter and saying that rappers today are ten times better than rapper from the past. We debate on if DDG was right to make those...
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#48: Doja Cat: Rapper in Disguise??
Sorry for the delay! but we are back with another new episode with Nick and Jared and we kick things off with A$AP Rocky and him getting busted at LAX. Rocky was arrested and then later released due to a shooting incident that happened back in November 2021 where he allegedly shot a man in his…
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#47: Comedy Ain't For Everyone...
For this episode Nick and Kyle hold things down and kick things with the slap seen around the world! Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at The Oscars before presenting an award had the whole world talking even though Will won an award for his role in King Richard later on in the night. But the slap…
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#46: Retirement: Hip Hop's Best April Fool's Prank
On this episode of the podcast, Nick and Jared hold things down and talk about social media's biggest troll who goes by the name of 6ix9ine telling a judge that he's gone broke and the bubble has popped. He also says that he's so broke right now that he can't afford gas according to his manager...
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#45: Megan the Stallion: (Super)star?
On this episode of the show, all three marauders are back in our makeshift Internet studio and we kick things off on Joe Budden talking down on Megan the Stallion on his podcast by saying she isn't a superstar due to album sales or lack their of. We give our takes on what makes a superstar and if...
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#44: The Jeen-yuhs vs. The Judge?
On this episode, Nick and Kyle hold the fort down and kick things off by report card rating this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar & Mary J. Blige with most viewers saying that they enjoyed the show with some criticizing the show of it being too…
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A biweekly hip hop/comedy debate podcast where three longtime high school friends give their thoughts, opinions, ideas and comedy burns on what's going on in hip hop culture today.
HOSTED BY
Nycholas Rawls
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A biweekly hip hop/comedy debate podcast where three longtime high school friends give their thoughts, opinions, ideas and comedy burns on what's going on in hip hop culture today.
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