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Detroit State of Mind Podcast

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Detroit banter with music, mess, and heart.

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Detroit State of Mind Podcast runs on Detroit banter, blunt everyday stories, and long riffs that find the point sideways. Music, service work, relationships, money, family, and city life all get pulled into the same restless conversation.

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About Detroit State of Mind Podcast

Detroit State of Mind Podcast is a Detroit conversation show with the room left in. The starts are rarely pristine. A computer acts up, an episode number gets sorted out on the fly, somebody checks in about the week, and the talk is already moving before the subject fully appears. That looseness is the point. The show gets its shape from banter, callbacks, personal updates, music talk, and the kind of jokes that sound like affection wearing a hard face. Detroit sits underneath almost everything. Weather, streets, neighborhood references, regional slang, service work, and local memory all become shorthand for how the speakers understand the world. Music is one of the main engines. Recent episodes move through album reactions, studio anxiety, performance stories, rollouts, lyrics, and the strange mix of luck and preparation behind a small door becoming a bigger one. Work and money are never far behind. Restaurant shifts, school, schedules, credit, housing worries, and keeping the studio moving all show up as part of the same daily math. The show can be sharp. It can also be unexpectedly tender. A riff about chaos may turn into encouragement, and a joke about failure may land beside a serious reminder to take advantage of opportunity or take care of family. Guests fold into that same rhythm rather than changing the format completely. Jeezbo, for example, brings family familiarity, internet details, studio talk, and stories about money trouble into an episode that still feels like the regular table. The pacing is quick, but not polished in a sterile way. Interruptions, repeated phrases, and sudden pivots give the show its texture. It is best for listeners who like conversation that refuses clean lanes: hip-hop, Detroit life, relationships, service jobs, family obligations, bad decisions, better intentions, and jokes that arrive before the honesty does.

Made for: For listeners who like unfiltered Detroit conversation, hip-hop-adjacent talk, rough humor, and everyday stories that move from jokes into real-life reflection. It fits people who enjoy local slang, long riffs, and loose chemistry more than polished segments.

What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its lived-in Detroit specificity: music ambitions, service work, family pressure, neighborhood references, and personal chaos all share the same table. Serious points arrive through jokes instead of formal monologues.

In their own words

Welcome all to the Detroit State of Mind podcast w/ Trez Kinney (Billy Maize) & Mike(Mar) Where you'll experience real uncut content from two sides of the city.Subscribe, Like, and Comment!!Follow: @detroitstateofmindpodcast on all platformsTrez: @trezkinney on Instagram/Snapchat@yo_demetrio on TwitterFollow Mike: @mikefridaybcb on Instagram@mikechek313 on Snapchat

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Detroit music talk keeps finding the funniest tangent, and you are invited to stay lost.

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  • Detroit rap talk with room for Wale album notes, studio stress, and out-of-state show nerves
  • friends who can turn regional slang into a cultural map without sanding off the local specificity
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Episodes

  1. 1

    DSMP EPISODE 211: LAST POD OF 2025

    Hidden gem

    Detroit State of Mind hosts Mark and Trez Kenny record their final episode of 2025, episode 211, as a year-end recap.

    Jan 20, 2026·1h 50m·7 clips
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    DSMP EPISODE 210: HIP HOP AND THE SERVICE INDUSTRY

    Hidden gem

    Detroit State of Mind Episode 210 opens with one host announcing a new relationship after a long defensive period in dating, then pivots to a 20-year service industry burnout rant — 'I'm so numb I don't give a shit anymore' — before shifting into a conversation about youthful street life, including a vivid story of a best friend getting his head split open by a crackhead with a sock full of batteries.

    Nov 24, 2025·1h 32m·6 clips
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    DSMP EPISODE 209: ALL HAIL JOE PESCI....AGAIN

    Nov 17, 2025·2h 1m
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    DSMP Episode 208: Suck My Socks

    Two friends vent about life's hardships, touching on homelessness and hitting rock bottom, with dark humor.

    Apr 1, 2025·1h 59m
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    DSMP Episode 207: Die With The Lie Feat. Jeezbo

    Hidden gem

    Detroit State of Mind Episode 207 features hosts Trest and Mike with guest Jeezbo, a cousin who is starting to release music, and covers music-making habits, release strategies for new artists, and a debate about skip songs on great albums including Watch the Throne and Thriller.

    Mar 5, 2025·1h 23m·5 clips
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    DSMP Episode 206: Disgusted & Impressed Ft. Bub Rock

    Feb 25, 2025·2h 6m
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    DSMP Episode 204: ... For You 304's

    Detroit State of Mind Episode 204 is a free-form conversation between two Detroit hosts covering a host's recent college graduation, a comparison of Detroit's poverty to Philadelphia's and Gary, Indiana's, the cultural tension between looking wealthy and actually being wealthy, and an Amazon workplace stabbing over a shared romantic partner.

    Feb 18, 2025·1h 23m·5 clips
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    DSMP Episode 205: She Baldheaded Like Me

    The hosts celebrate reaching episode 205, complain about winter weather, and speculate about a new lake forming in the Southwest.

    Feb 18, 2025·1h 31m
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    DSMP Episode 203: Can't Pour From a Empty Cup

    Feb 4, 2025·1h 52m
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    Episode 202: Juneteenth Icecream

    Jan 31, 2025·1h 58m
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    DSMP Episode 201: LONG LIVE DEEZNUTZ

    Jan 15, 2025·2h 48m
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    DSMP Episode 200: I LOADED UP THE TRUCK

    Jan 11, 2025·2h 5m
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    DSMP Episode 199: Almost 200 Episode Ft. Bub Rock

    Dec 23, 2024·2h 34m
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    DSMP Episode 198: Early 1900 YNs Feat. NovRa

    Dec 6, 2024·1h 59m
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    DSMP Episode 197: You Gotta See It Through

    Nov 28, 2024·1h 40m
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    DSMP Episode 196: XXX On The BBM Pt. 2

    Nov 22, 2024·1h 50m
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    DSMP Episode 196 : XXX on The BBM Pt. 1

    Nov 20, 2024·1h 36m
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    DSMP Episode 195: 3 Streams Of Income

    Nov 12, 2024·2h 21m
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    DSMP Episode 194: Pretending To Be Normal

    Oct 29, 2024·2h 9m
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    DSMP Episode 193: The Onlyfans Finesse

    Oct 23, 2024·2h 6m
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    DSMP Episode 192: Black Excellence with a Asterisk

    Hidden gem

    Detroit State of Mind Episode 192 is a return episode for hosts Trest and Mike (Marr) after their longest hiatus, covering personal updates on birthdays, fitness routines, and upcoming music projects — including one host's Halloween album that took two years to complete.

    Oct 14, 2024·1h 55m·7 clips
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    DSMP Episode 191: Switch the Switch For Switches

    Aug 28, 2024·2h 31m
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    DSMP Episode 190: No Introductions Ft. Bub Rock

    Aug 20, 2024·1h 49m
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    DSMP Episode 189: Lie For No Reason

    Aug 13, 2024·1h 47m
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    DSMP Episode 188: Trust No One On The Payroll

    Aug 13, 2024·1h 49m
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    DSMP EPISODE 187: Run That .... Back

    Jul 23, 2024·1h 45m
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    DSMP Episode 186: Thats Enough Twitter

    Jul 18, 2024·1h 43m
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    DSMP Episode 185: The Dog & Pony Show

    Jul 10, 2024·1h 51m
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    DSMP Episode 184: The Bub Show Ft. Bub Rock

    Jun 29, 2024·2h
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    DSMP Episode 183: A Straw For The Pint

    Jun 19, 2024·2h 21m
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    DSMP Episode 182: Beef Over Chicken

    Jun 12, 2024·1h 30m
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    DSMP Episode 181: Hear Me Out

    May 22, 2024·1h 51m
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    DSMP Episode 180: Set Up For The Wet Up

    Two individuals engage in a casual, unfiltered conversation about doubling down on their controversial stance and reflect on their week.

    Apr 23, 2024·1h 27m
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    DSMP Episode 179: Tiffany Likes Butt Stuff

    A casual conversation about life's challenges and a light at the end of the tunnel, with references to race and personal struggles.

    Apr 15, 2024·1h 23m
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    DSMP Episode 178: JUST DELETE IT

    Apr 9, 2024·1h 30m
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    DSMP Episode 177: SORRY THIS EPISODE IS LATE

    Apr 5, 2024·1h 33m
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    DSMP Episode 176: No More Reposado Pt. 2

    Mar 22, 2024·1h 46m
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    DSMP Episode 175: Make More Black Babies

    Mar 11, 2024·2h 5m
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    DSMP Episode 174: Girls Love Lori

    Mar 6, 2024·2h 20m
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    DSMP Episode 173: Content Over Everything Ft. Bub Rock

    Feb 28, 2024·1h 33m
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    DSMP Episode 172: No Snowball Effect

    Feb 20, 2024·2h 2m
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    DSMP Episode 171: Sorry For The Wait

    Feb 9, 2024·2h
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    DSMP Episode 170: Spicy Black Woman

    Jan 28, 2024·1h 35m
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    DSMP Episode 169: Dead Ni%%a Cooler Storage

    Two people discuss a vulgar rap song played on the radio and a new rapper named North Side Lord.

    Jan 15, 2024·1h 22m
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    DSMP Episode 168: Hitting The Bottom feat. Remi

    Jan 11, 2024·2h 8m
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    DSMP Episode 167: All You Did Was SMD!

    Jan 4, 2024·2h 16m
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    DSMP Episode 166: Henny Done Me Wrong

    Dec 25, 2023·2h 8m
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    DSMP Episode 165: The wHOle Selection

    Dec 17, 2023·1h 34m
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    DSMP Episode 164: Money Ain't A Issue & Time Ain't A Problem

    Dec 14, 2023·2h 5m
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    DSMP Episode 163: Tequila For Breakfast Feat. Desmond (King Jake)

    Dec 5, 2023·2h 29m