First of Its Kind: C'est La Vie Live EP Review | June DeWayne X OddPod

First of Its Kind: C'est La Vie Live EP Review | June DeWayne X OddPod

OddPod does something it's never done before — a full live EP review. June DeWayne pulls back up to the pod with Marc and Rashid for a special edition dedicated entirely to his brand new project C'est La Vie, and it does not disappoint. Fresh off the release, June walks Marc and Rashid through all six tracks in real time — playing each one, breaking down the stories behind them, and getting raw about the inspiration that fueled the whole thing. C'est La Vie was almost a March release. Then April. Then May. June kept second-guessing himself, wondering if he was slipping. Then his manager Mitch and creative partner Gabrielle helped him lock in, and he made the intentional call to drop on a Wednesday — refusing to compete with the big artists who flood Fridays. Smart, strategic, and very June. The EP was almost entirely written and recorded in early 2025 — January through March — which makes it one of the freshest, most in-the-moment bodies of work he's ever released. What you hear is exactly how he was feeling in real time. The title says it all. C'est La Vie — that's life — is June's most transparent project to date. He opens up about a specific song that was made on a particularly rough night, fueled by an intoxicating creative session with producer Coach Cameron. He talks candidly about his history with lean, addressing it directly and honestly before making clear he's not promoting it — quite the opposite. The music is raw, personal, and built for people who've been through something and are still standing. As June puts it, the project is about coming to terms with things. Not about being perfect. Just about the flaws. Production comes from Tay Beats, Coach Cameron, 7eventray, and Dillon McCluskey — the full Hxndsxght creative engine firing on all cylinders. Marc and Rashid call it June's most polished work yet, noting his industry-ready sound and the seven-year working relationship with his engineer that finally feels fully realized. And C'est La Vie is just the warmup. June reveals the title of his next project — I Don't Want to Be Perfect — which he describes as C'est La Vie on a bigger scale. More personal. More open. A full chapter. Stream C'est La Vie on all platforms now. Follow June at @junedewayne. 🎙️ June DeWayne, OddPod, C'est La Vie EP, Louisville hip hop, EP review podcast, Hxndsxght, Tay Beats, Coach Cameron, Louisville music, hip hop podcast, independent artist, I Don't Want to Be Perfect, Louisville rapper, new music 2025, JD Cooper, underground hip hop, Louisville Kentucky, emerging artist, melodic rap

Back at the Farmers Market: Jaxon Dart, Jay Z, NBA Finals Talk & More | OddPod

OddPod takes it back to the block. Marc and Pod Rashid pull up to the West End Farmers Market at California Park for another live episode — and this time it's Elderly Day, the sun is out, the crowd is warming up, and the conversation is anything but calm. The episode opens with fresh energy from the Hxndsxght collective show at Spinelli's — Marc gives his full breakdown of watching June DeWayne, Dillon McCluskey, and Boss Marino perform live, calling June a natural born performer and teasing that Boss Marino has some new music with a different switch up that hits different. MarcSoFly and Shloob are also teasing a collaboration that has Marc hyped. The overall vibe? Louisville's underground scene is in a moment, and OddPod has a front row seat. From there, the conversation becomes a wide-ranging, unfiltered two-hour ride. Marc and Rashid dig into whether Louisville's hip hop scene is more Atlanta, Houston, Detroit, or Memphis — landing on the idea that Louisville's artists are real in a way that can't be manufactured, and that when a few people pop, the whole city eats. Sports takes over a big chunk of the episode. The crew breaks down the NBA playoffs — specifically the Spurs series, the reclassification debate sparked by Jeff Teague and Marquis Maybin (Marc has thoughts, especially with a daughter who's ahead of her grade), and a passionate breakdown of the Abdul Carter vs. Jaxon Dart discourse that turns into a deeper conversation about race, identity, sports, and what it means to defend someone publicly — and who gets that defense extended to them. The episode also touches on Ray J's health situation, the Brock Lesnar conversation Marc is clearly exhausted by, Pope Leo's stance on AI regulation, and why the curiosity of the human species makes meaningful AI safeguards nearly impossible to enforce long term. All of this happening while vendors are selling out, the elderly are grabbing food, and West End Louisville is doing exactly what it does on a good Sunday afternoon. Pull up to California Park. Every other Sunday. Three to seven. You already know. OddPod, West End Farmers Market, Louisville Kentucky, Hxndsxght, June DeWayne, Dillon McCluskey, Boss Marino, Louisville hip hop, NBA playoffs, reclassification debate, Abdul Carter, Jaxon Dart, Pope Leo AI, Louisville music scene, California Park, community podcast, hip hop culture, Louisville podcast, MarcSoFly, sports talk podcast

Critically Acclaimed, Clinically Insane | Dillon McCluskey x OddPod

Louisville rapper, engineer, and Hxndsxght co-founder Dillon McCluskey pulls up to the OddPod with Marc and Pod Rashid for a two-hour deep dive into one of the most fascinating creative journeys in the city's underground hip hop scene. Dillon grew up moving around — Louisville, Bowling Green, Bardstown, Lexington, and even a stretch in Tucson, Arizona during sixth grade. Through all of it, music was the one constant that never changed. Back in Louisville at Eastern High School, Dillon didn't just make music — he helped build the program. Together with a small group of students, he essentially created Eastern High School's digital music studio out of a classroom elective, turning a basic keyboard class into a full recording setup with a Tascam hard disk recorder, a mic, and an Oxygen keyboard. That studio still exists in the school's library today. His legacy is literally in the walls. Before Hxndsxght, there was Young Squad, then Apex (Above People's Expectations), and a 2011 collective debut called Cloud Nine — the first project that made people from other schools start paying attention. From those early roots grew the critically acclaimed Hxndsxght collective, which now includes Dillon, June DeWayne, Boss Marino, Mac Don, 7eventray and Reckless — all dropping projects this year on what Dillon calls the Hxndsxght train. His latest solo project New Renaissance dropped in February and still has people talking. Dillon calls it dated because the songs had been sitting for a while, but he admits it's still having its moment — and Marc and Rashid credit the closer "Renaissance Man" as one of the most vulnerable tracks he's ever put out. "Nocturnal" is the song he spent the most time crafting over the past three years — the most refined, most intentional piece in his catalog. The conversation gets into his writing philosophy (sparring with collaborator Trap King Kai transformed his craft), the organic chemistry of the Hxndsxght collective, a hilarious story about why  @Junedewayne  [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC1VZvNQeLBnPAcOhljD8tIg] hates one of his own best verses, and what it means to be a true renaissance man in 2026 — multifaceted, multidisciplined, wearing every hat. A new solo project is in the works. The  @hxndsxght  [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC4r5eiEYFCrjmx8OW64xOLQ] album is coming. And Dillon McCluskey is just getting started. Follow  @dillonmccluskey  [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCiLQEHEIO95VDgN__5aKh-w] and stream New Renaissance now on all platforms.

The Hood Herbalist: Teas, Gardens & Growth | Fruitease x OddPod

Louisville herbalist, gardener, tea crafter, custom jean jacket artist, and all-around renaissance man Tim Slim — better known as Mr. Fruitease himself — pulls up to the OddPod with Marc and Pod Rashid for a two-hour-plus conversation that goes way deeper than a drink. Tim started Fruitease back in January of last year after realizing he was spending nearly $380 a month on coffee while already having a full garden at home. What started as glass jars of dehydrated leaves carried in his pocket to Play Cousins Collective turned into a fully LLC'd business — built entirely on word of mouth, a farmers market grind, and an obsessive passion for knowing the benefits of everything he grows. Nine years managing Papa John's gave him the inventory and profit-and-loss knowledge to run it right. His garden gave him everything else. The process is as intentional as the product. Tim breaks down exactly how he crafts each tea — dehydrating fresh fruit overnight, grinding it into powder, selecting leaves based on the specific health needs of each customer (libido, sleep, immunity, pH balance, blood pressure), and sweetening with sugar or locally sourced honey. No two teas are the same because no two people are the same. He's building toward tea talks this summer — community gatherings for Louisville's growing herbalist scene to connect without competition. The conversation takes a sharp turn into food sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and why growing your own is no longer optional — it's necessary. Tim talks candidly about farmland acquisitions, microplastics in produce, vaccinated livestock, and why depending on grocery stores in a grid-down scenario is a plan that doesn't hold up. His vision? A community compound model where each person learns one crop, grows it, brings it to the farmers market together, and builds real independent wealth while feeding the neighborhood. On top of all that — Tim makes custom jean jackets (Spider-Man, Tokyo Ghoul, Sesame Street, Mario), does epoxy art, keeps a seed vault stocked for whatever comes next, and is raising two musically gifted sons who between them play piano, guitar, saxophone, and trumpet. Bigger than teas. Go follow Tim at @_fruitease and tap into everything he's building. Also go follow Ruqaviews & Big & Lazy Podcast for more Interviews of Mr. Fruitease

We Took the Pod to the People | West End Farmers Market x OddPod

This one is different. OddPod takes it outside. Marc and Rashid pull up to the West End Farmers Market at California Park for a live, off-the-cuff episode that captures exactly what the show is about at its core — community, conversation, and the people making Louisville move. No studio, no script, just whoever walks up to the tent. And a lot of people walked up. First to pull up is Danny from No Data Center 502 — a grassroots community organization organizing against a proposed hyperscale data center set to be built near Lake Dreamland in the Southwest End. Danny breaks it all down: 24/7 noise pollution loud as a jet engine, light pollution so intense neighbors need blackout curtains, water pressure and quality issues, and a pattern of these facilities being placed exclusively in poor Black and brown neighborhoods. She makes it plain — it's not a coincidence, it's a choice. The group isn't petitioning politicians. They're boots on the ground, holding community meetings and building real strategy. Next meeting: check their socials for updates. Next up is Nyah Stewart, a 13-year-old entrepreneur selling handmade crystal bracelets who came up through the ACE Project — a Louisville youth program that combines gun violence prevention with real entrepreneurship training. She made $100 at her first graduation showcase and never looked back. Then her little sister, 10-year-old "Crochet and Knots", stops by to rep her own crocheted earrings and purses business — two years in and already a certified craftswoman. Generational entrepreneurship in real time. Throughout the episode Marc and Rashid chop it up with vendors, artists, and community members — including conversations around the dark side of football culture, CTE, toxic masculinity, identity, and what it means to sacrifice your body for a sport that discards you by 30. They also get into manifestation, the power of speaking things into existence, staying intentional about what energy you put out, and why they consciously avoid amplifying what they don't want to see in the world. All while the music plays, the food vendors sell out, and California Park does exactly what Dom Haley and the community envisioned — bringing back that OG Black culture energy on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. This is the OddPod in its purest form. Pull up next time.