Drink Champs Nostalgia
Drink Champs
Drink Champs has been around since 2016. I have faithfully been watching for three years now after the Red Man thumbnail popped up on my YouTube. I have to say as a '98 baby who is stuck in the era of the 90s and early 2000s this show is for the culture. This show prides itself on giving "flowers to the legends while their still alive." In this tradition they serve as a platform that celebrates rappers or those significant to the Hip Hop culture with twenty or more years in the game. They have hosted episodes with the late great DMX, Wu-Tang, and Busta Rhymes. This show is fresh with perspective on things that happened in pop culture predating the rise of social media. The show provides the perfect combination of True Hip Hop/Hollywood stories and alchol providing the guest with a level of comfortability that couldn't be done by any journalists today. These stories are raw and credible as they come from the sources mouth without pressure from Wendy Williams or TMZ. N.O.R.E a highly decorated rap veteran adds a level of ethos to the show as many of the guests he knows get candid here giving exclusives. This is the perfect show for Hip Hop heads who revel in Hip Hop from the beginning and give their take on the direction the culture has taken now. This show is instrumental in giving the Black narrative, while also putting an unorthodox form of journalism a chance. Drink Champs is a podcast for the people by the people that can be expected to be around for a long time to come. Drink Champs is a vessel that can bring awareness and celebrate the old or possibly forgotten in a world that is now used to instant success. Viral and commercial are the new wave, when quality of craft used to be mandatory. Hip Hop's foundation and people who lived the life have a place to celebrate because people are no longer interested unless it is a documentary to re-introduce past acts back into the eye of mainstream. I consistently watch Drink Champs for the nostalgia and hunger I feel in past Hip Hop I often find is missing in today's music. I can still feel when Wu-Tang made "C.R.E.A.M" and N.O.R.E's "Super Thug." The nostalgia of the 90s has remerged through fashion, but still staggers when appreciating the music from this time because it is often overlooked. When we think of oldies we think of the 80s and before that are often played non-stop, but my playlist is all over the place. I go through phases of artists from the 90s and early 2000s. I agree we should continue to give these artists credit and their flowers before they go because if it wasn't for them Hip Hop would not be where it is today.
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