Grown Man Bars: Remember the Rhyme, Respect the Era

About Grown Man Bars: Remember the Rhyme, Respect the Era

Grown Man Bars is where two Gen X MCs turned opinionated Uncs break down rap culture with no filter. Chad, your resident rap nerd, with Big Absoloot, your OG's OG dive into Golden Era storytelling, lyricism, GOAT debates, classic producers, and the moments that shaped hip hop. From Slick Rick to Scarface, Nas to J. Cole, DJ Premier to RZA. Old rap and new hip hop. If you came up on mixtapes, Tims, and bars that mattered, this is your spot for real hip hop talk. We'll bring you up-to-date on the new hip hop trends, the ones our gen cares about, and hit you with hip hop from the best era ever.

Publisher

with Chad and Big Absoloot - Gen X Talking Hip Hop

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Feb 2025

Latest episode

27 May 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 May 2026

   Goodie Mob vs Outkast: 9 Rounds. No Ties. You Decide.

   Same era. Same city. Same Dungeon Family. Completely different ideas about what hip hop should do. Can you pick an Outkast track that CeeLo didn't eat on? We couldn't. And that tells you everything about this debate. Today on Grown Man Bars, Chad and Big Absoloot put Goodie Mob and Outkast head to head. Nine rounds. Nine categories. No ties. No feelings. Two Atlanta legends. One winner. You decide round by round. Grown Man Bars — hip hop debate for grown ups. Two Gen X former rappers. No scripts. No safe takes. New episodes every Tuesday. 00:00 The Open 00:47 Round 1 | The Arrival | Goodie Mob 01:30 Round 2 | The Street Record | Goodie Mob 02:31 Round 2 | The Street Record | Outkast 03:31 Round 3 | The Hit Record | Outkast 04:56 Round 3 | The Hit Record | Goodie Mob 05:59 Round 4 | The Feature Master | Goodie Mob 06:59 Round 4 | The Feature Master | Outkast 07:51 Round 5 | The Bar Fest | Outkast 10:06 Round 6 | The Club Smash | Goodie Mob 11:00 Round 6 | The Club Smash | Outkast 12:01 Round 7 | The Story Record | Outkast 12:42 Round 7 | The Story Record | Goodie Mob 13:14 Round 8 | The Cultural Moment | Goodie Mob 14:02 Round 8 | The Cultural Moment | Outkast 15:16 Round 9 | The Modern Test | Outkast 16:56 Round 9 | The Cultural Moment | Goodie Mob

2. 

   12 May 2026

   Most Underrated Rappers of the 90s | GMB Ranking Room

   Some fans got the '90s wrong. Not a little wrong—wrong wrong. Tonight on Grown Man Bars, Chad and Big Absoloot are breaking it down and fixing the 90s hip hop timeline. We’re digging into the most underrated rappers of the 90s—the technicians who carried the era and the legends you forgot to respect. Ten MCs. Five categories. Two lists. We didn't coordinate the picks—just two Gen X former rappers breaking down the culture. What we're breaking down: The Overlooked Technician: Having the skill, but being buried by proximity to a legend. The Victim: Label politics, bad timing, and when "life be lifin'." The Influencer: The architects who built the blueprint your favorite rappers used to get famous. The Body of Work: Independent titans with catalogs that speak for themselves. The Most Underrated: The greatest "unfinished sentences" in hip hop history. Drop a comment on the video version or hit us up—who did the culture do the dirtiest? 00:00 The Open 00:22 The Intro 00:46 Round 5 | The Overlooked Technician | Chad's Pick 02:31 Round 5 | The Overlooked Technician | BA's Pick 04:21 Round 4 | The Victim | Chad's Pick 05:46 Round 4 | The Victim | BA's Pick 08:00 Round 3 | The Influencer | Chad's Pick 09:48 Round 3 | The Influencer | BA's Pick 11:38 Round 2 | The Body of Work | Chad's Pick 12:44 Round 2 | The Body of Work | BA's Pick 14:38 Round 1 | The Most Underrated | Chad's Pick 16:15 Round 1 | The Most Underrated | BA's Pick 18:17 The Outro GMB RANKING ROOM: DISCOGRAPHY & METADATA Round 5 | West Coast Metadata Mack 10 (1995), Based on a True Story (1997), The Recipe (1998) Kizz My Black Azz (1992), Shock of the Hour (1993), The Villain in Black (1996) Round 4 | Bad Boy & Beef Metadata Can-I-Bus (1998), 2000 B.C. (2000) Project: Funk da World (1994), Operation: Get Down (1997) Round 3 | Conscious & L.A. Metadata Can I Borrow a Dollar? (1992), Resurrection (1994), One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997) Act a Fool (1988), At Your Own Risk (1990), Tha Triflin' Album (1993) Round 2 | Independent & SPC Metadata No Mercy (1993), Danger Zone (1995), Hidden Agenda (1998) The Calm Before the Storm (1999), The Worst (1999) Round 1 | Rawkus & Ruthless Metadata Internal Affairs (1999), Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994) No One Can Do It Better (1989), Helter Skelter (1996) 🎙️ Grown Man Bars — hip hop debate for grown ups. Two Gen X former rappers. No scripts. No safe takes. New episodes every Tuesday. Metadata (The Algorithm Fuel)

3. 

   5 May 2026

   2Pac & DMX | What 90s Rap Needed and What It Cost Them

   After Biggie and Pac were gone, hip hop didn't go soft. It got polished. Today on Grown Man Bars, Chad and Big Absoloot break down DMX and Tupac Shakur — two of the most intense forces to ever touch a microphone in 90s rap history. Not the charts. What they actually meant. And what burning that hot cost both of them. DMX threw water on his face and hit the street. That's exactly what 1998 hip hop needed. This That and the Third breaks it down three ways. The THIS — Tupac Shakur was the greatest emotional communicator rap music has ever seen. Not just a rapper. A poet. An advocate. A man who made the street feel seen. The THAT — DMX dropped two nuclear classic albums in the same year. 1998. Nobody had done it before. Nobody has done it since. But explosions don't sustain. The THIRD — Some artists are stars. They burn steady for a long time. Some are meteors. They flash brighter than anything else and then they're gone. DMX and 2Pac were the meteor moment 90s rap required. Is it about the bars or about moving the people? Tell us where we got it wrong. Grown Man Bars — hip hop debate for grown ups. Two Gen X former rappers. No scripts. No safe takes. New episodes every Tuesday. 00:00 The Open 00:27 The Stakes 00:59 The THIS: 2pac 01:50 The This: DMX 03:09 The That: Tupac 04:23 The That: DMX 06:15 The Third: What All This Means 11:18 The Comment of the Week 11:53 The Outro

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