Provenance

Hip-hop history gets told two ways. Either it's a fan retrospective trading on nostalgia, or it's an insider interview show where the guest tells their own version of events. Provenance is neither. It's a researched, sourced, single-narrator documentary podcast that treats hip-hop's history with the same rigor a music historian would bring to jazz or rock and roll.No guests. No opinions. No beef-baiting. Every episode traces a chain of custody, who actually built what, on top of whose idea, backed by documented sources, not just the version of the story that happened to stick. That includes the flagship names everyone already knows, Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre, Nas, and it includes the founders history has a habit of writing out of the story, the women, the queer artists, the international scenes, and the executives whose names never made it onto the credits despite building the business the whole genre stands on.Every episode runs 25 minutes and up, released weekly. New episodes every Wednesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.