Atlanta Is...

…Futuristic Nostalgia

How Atlanta artists, from T.I. and Jeezy to Anycia have used mixtapes to define the city’s sound.  STARRING: DJ Drama, Anycia, Zaytoven NARRATED BY: Jewel Wicker SUBJECTS: Music, Atlanta history See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

…a Department Store Party

How a dive bar near MLK’s Ebenezer Baptist Church became the center of a dynamic underground scene in the mid 2010s, and how it’s had an outsized influence on today’s hip-hop. HOSTED BY: Big Rube STARRING: Key!, Father, Olu and WowGr8 of Earthgang, Steven “Stevo” Dingle, DJ E. Sudd, Maurice Garland SPECIAL THANKS TO: Raury and Mike Walbert NARRATED BY: Christina Lee SUBJECTS: Music, Atlanta history See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

…Open for Business?

How Atlanta’s reputation as the Mecca for Black business attracts entrepreneurs from around the country, and how conflicting visions of Black entrepreneurship have played out on one street in Castleberry Hill. HOSTED BY: Big Rube STARRING: Pastor Troy, Miya Bailey, Alphonzo Cross NARRATED BY: Maurice Garland SUBJECTS: Business, Entrepreneurship, Atlanta places, Atlanta history See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

…Where Preachers Are the Original Influencers

How Atlanta’s first international superstars—its clergy—shaped the city’s impact on the world, and how the church became an incubator for entertainers (and vice versa). HOSTED BY: Big Rube STARRING: Jamal Bryant, Zaytoven, 1KPhew SPECIAL THANKS TO: Eric Long NARRATED BY: Maurice Garland SUBJECTS: Religion, Atlanta history, Music See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

…Filmed on Location

How two out-of-town creative entrepreneurs hustled their cinematic dreams into existence, and how two locals transformed Atlanta into a moviemaking capital to rival Hollywood and New York. HOSTED BY: Big Rube STARRING: Will Packer, Rob Hardy, Jason Weaver, Tina Gordon, Shay Bentley Griffi NARRATED BY: Jewel Wicker SUBJECTS: Movies, Atlanta history See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.