Milc: The Radio Free Cabbages Interview [Video]

When Milc left Portland for New York City just shy of a year ago, he hardly expected to become a podcast personality. Yet after the Smoker's Club co-founder Jonny Shipes flew him across the country, the transplanted Oregon rapper soon found himself as one of the prominent members of The GoodTalk Show's on-camera crew. "It's like some Wack Pack hip-hop Howard Stern shit," he says of the show, hosted on the GoodTalk YouTube channel for its over 400,000 subscribers. "Honestly, if that goes off and does well, I'd be really happy to only have to do that."

That said, it would be a damn shame if Milc stopped rapping, based off the strength of some of his recent projects including Affordable Luxuries with Chuck Strangers and Things To Do In Portland When You're Dead with TELEVANGEL. As the guest on the March edition of Radio Free Cabbages, our monthly program on Bushwick's own Newtown Radio, he discusses his work with those producers, as well as the eclectic mix of rap music that he grew up on. Watch the full interview video below or on the CABBAGES YouTube page.

(Please note this interview was recorded live in-studio on Monday, March 10, 2025.)

Errol Holden, Supreme Magnetic

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An erstwhile Mass Appeal signee with current links to Roc Marciano, Errol Holden comes to Supreme Magnetic seemingly fully formed. His flows dynamic, his bars as erudite as they are hard, the NYC native makes the kind of impression you remember deep in your marrow across this nearly half hour long project. When he flexes, as on "Dimes In My Penny Loafers" or "Mike From Crush Groove," his braggadocio boasts both a leftfield mystique and casual menace befitting a seasoned hustler with elevated taste. On "Evelyn & North," he reminisces about those old times on the block and expresses just how easily he could go back to that life were he so inclined. The matter-of-fact way he describes a resurfaced foe in painstaking, stakeout-level detail on the title track carries more disquieting weight than your average rapper's idle threat about the ops. All throughout, Holden maintains a profound lyrical edge, his near-breathless take on "New Edition At A Rick James Party" telling his story in cinematic muzzle flashes. And I want more.

Blockhead, It's Only A Midlife Crisis If Your Life Is Mid

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A true indie music vet, Blockhead has managed to outlast downtempo, Mush Records, and American democracy. Extending his shelf life via 2020s work for Backwoodz Studioz and alongside kindred spirit Eliot Lipp, the incredibly talented Manhattanite behind all your favorite Aesop Rock albums makes his 2025 entrance a gratifying one with It's Only A Midlife Crisis If Your Life Is Mid. Presented as a side piece to last fall's instrumental Mortality Is Lit!, this six-song set for Future Archive Recordings traffics in lush, shapeshifting grooves designed for the headiest head nod sessions. Opener "Oh Deer" packs so many creative twists and turns in its seven minute run time, with haunted old timey jazz and detached voices competing in vain for control. The way this hip-hop maverick manipulates and repurposes his samples surpasses the skillsets of today's lazily loopy beatmakers, transmuting these sources into mellow gold-encrusted genre blurs like "U Don't Have To Call, Squirrel" and such fantabulous funk fascinators as "That Olde Timey Sorcery."

Three new tracks to snack on...

Goya Gumbani, "Manuva(s)"

Top Hooter & MichaelAngelo, "Hooter Hyena"

Ka$hkenni, "Something New"