Spotify taps DJ Semtex for hip-hop way of life podcast

a complete of 50 episodes were commissioned this time round, up from the first season's 11-episode run, with Semtex kicking things off with an interview with UK rapper Ghetts.

The ex-BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ's arrival on Spotify marks the platform's newest hip-hop coup following its exclusive deal to broadcast The Joe Budden Podcast. After the company's video strategy fell flat ultimate year, it determined to bundle greater multimedia content into its podcasts, which at the moment are overseen by way of the former head of Disney's Maker Studios, Courtney Holt.

in the meantime, Apple tune is surging ahead with its own usual video programmes and Beats 1 radio suggests, the latter together with hip-hop and pa headliners such as scorching 97's Ebro Darden, Drake, and The Weeknd.