Pop the Trunk

About Pop the Trunk

Everyone has a podcast, but Vinnie Paz finally has one about the thing that changed his life: Music. “Pop the Trunk” is Vinnie’s first podcast where he’s actually going to talk about music and all the different realms it touches from pop culture to sports, movies, books...it’ll be a free-flowing conversation from his scattered brain. So, come join Vinnie , Brendan, and Billy for what’ll be an unhinged tour through a wide range of topics that all started with a career in music that is one of the more unlikely DIY success stories.

Publisher

Vinnie Paz and Brendan Long

Category

music · music · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jul 2021

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

236 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Are White Boys Guests in Hip-Hop? | Ep.34 | Pop the Trunk with Vinnie Paz

   The guys tackle whether white boys are guests in hip-hop, and the answer is more uncomfortable than yes or no. It starts at the roots: rock and roll, doo-wop, the Great Migration, and who was actually in the room when this culture was built. They talk about the kids who wore the gear and borrowed the slang, then grew out of it. They cover the ones who swapped rap for pickup-truck country, and the self-proclaimed heads whose top five doesn't include a single Black MC. Plus a birthday, a brewery wrestling show, and a long-overdue reckoning with rap's biggest culture vulture.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Vinnie Paz reviews De La Soul's legacy and pays tribute to Trugoy | Episode 33 | Pop the Trunk

   De La Soul gets the full Pop the Trunk treatment. With one seat empty this week (and a suspect excuse behind it), the crew heads back to Amityville to trace the group from pause tapes to one of the most defiant catalogs rap has ever produced. Along the way, a firsthand account of how they really got signed, a local's view of the Long Island they came up in, and a tribute to Dave that lands close to home.

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Vinnie Paz Survives the Gathering of the Juggalos Description | Episode 32 | Pop the Trunk

   After years of turning down Insane Clown Posse's invitations, Vinnie finally agrees to play the Gathering of the Juggalos and finds himself learning the culture's unwritten rules in real time. Billy and Brendan get the full story: trailered between Scarface's Ghetto Boys and KRS-One, watching KRS destroy the stage right before his set, bonding with Scarface over shared metalhead roots, and getting schooled on Faygo showers — where getting hit with stuff on stage is a compliment, not a threat.

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