{"podcast":{"title":"Song Exploder","slug":"song-exploder-390830","podcast_index_feed_id":390830,"rss_url":"https://feed.songexploder.net/SongExploder","website_url":"http://www.songexploder.net","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/song-exploder/images/3b97a9c5-fef1-4c84-8038-3c6efa808016/songexploder-logo-2025-with-title.jpg","author":"Hrishikesh Hirway (Maggie.Gourville@prx.org)","episode_count":372,"summary":"Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:21:00.468054+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830"},"episode":{"title":"Hit-Boy and Nipsey Hussle - Racks In the Middle (feat. Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy)","slug":"hit-boy-and-nipsey-hussle-racks-in-the-middle-feat-roddy-ricch-and-hit-boy","published_at":"2026-01-14T19:08:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830/hit-boy-and-nipsey-hussle-racks-in-the-middle-feat-roddy-ricch-and-hit-boy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_93_76e93efc-6c81-4a85-b1bf-dbd599e21869&uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.songexploder.net%2FSongExploder","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/sblTq32fyWAjsHzze2LG/dovetail.prxu.org/_/93/76e93efc-6c81-4a85-b1bf-dbd599e21869/SongExploder306-HitBoy-NipseyHussle-Part1.mp3","summary":"Hit-Boy is an award-winning producer and rapper from LA. He’s one of my all-time favorite producers, from “Backseat Freestyle” by Kendrick Lamar, to “Sicko Mode” by Travis Scott, to tracks he’s made for Beyonce, Nas, and the Jay-Z & Kanye album Watch the Throne . So I was really excited to talk to him, and when I asked him which song from his incredible catalog he wanted to talk about, I was really moved by his choice. He picked “Racks in the Middle” by Nipsey Hussle, featuring Roddy Ricch. Nipsey Hussle was a rapper and community activist from LA whose career was cut short, tragically, when he was murdered in 2019. He’d released just one album, Victory Lap . “Racks in the Middle” was the last song released in Nipsey’s lifetime. It went platinum, and a year after his death, it won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance, in 2020. This episode features a few short clips from a video that Nipsey Hussle made for the website Genius, back in 2019. There’s a link to the full video that he made in the shownotes. But here in the studio, to tell the story, I spoke to Hit-Boy about how “Racks in the Middle” came together. To learn more, visit songexploder.net/hit-boy.","meta_description":"Hit-Boy is an award-winning producer and rapper from LA. He’s one of my all-time favorite producers, from “Backseat Freestyle” by Kendrick Lamar, to “Sick…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1334,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/song-exploder-390830/episodes/hit-boy-and-nipsey-hussle-racks-in-the-middle-feat-roddy-ricch-and-hit-boy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830/hit-boy-and-nipsey-hussle-racks-in-the-middle-feat-roddy-ricch-and-hit-boy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}