Murder on my Mind Podcast

Murder on my Mind Podcast follows hip hop to the places its worst headlines end up: courtrooms, prison yards and murder cases. DJ MTK, who announces himself alongside the West Coast Radio name, runs it as a reaction show. Several episode titles carry the word REACTION, and the excerpts bear it out. He plays a clip, then answers it. The clips come from everywhere. A news report reads the Sean Combs verdict count by count, audio in the documentary reactions revisits Tupac and Biggie, and street-media voices such as Whack 100 and Hoodie Hood weigh in on prison stabbings and street disputes. Combs comes up more than once, in 'EP 53: P Diddy NOT GUILTY & DENIED BAIL!' and in reactions to two documentaries, one of them on Netflix. In those reactions the host follows the allegations back through Uptown Records and a Harlem childhood, and calls the result 'a very poisonous seed'. He sees power and money behind the pattern, and he says outright that he does not think the story is over. He still questions the sources. On one documentary he notes that 50 Cent is an executive producer with his own motive, and suggests there is another story behind the story. He is more cautious still in 'EP 52: Tory Lanez Stabbed x14 Times in Prison - Reaction', where he calls the race-war explanation spreading on hood vlogs an assumption and sticks to what has been presented. The title of one roundup episode strings together murdered rappers in Memphis, the ASAP Rocky trial and Blueface in prison. Inside it he does research on the mic, checking NBA Youngboy's release and a charge in a 2020 highway shooting in Dallas, with audio from the yard at Lancaster State Prison in the mix. The Nipsey Hussle episode turns on a run-in between Rockstar 2800 and Nipsey's brother Blacc Sam at the Marathon Burgers grand opening. The host plays Whack 100's response, then tells his own story of a triangle beef between friends he grew up with. Asides like that run through the show. Near the end of the verdict episode he brings up his own bad relationship with his father and urges listeners to read Cassie Ventura's testimony for themselves. The sign-off on Nipsey carries the show's clearest conviction: a wish to see Crips and Bloods come together and ask why they were set against each other. That fits how he describes the work, as trying to change the culture in communities he calls poisoned. The talk is heated and often profane, and the material includes killings, sexual abuse allegations and prison violence. Someone following the Combs case can start with the verdict episode. Someone more drawn to street politics could start with the Tory Lanez or Blacc Sam reactions.