Dissect's Cole Cuchna is joined by friends Camden Ostrander and Margeaux Labat to discuss their favorite music of 2025, including...
Favorite Musical Moments (04:09)
Favorite "Underground" Albums (13:09)
Favorite Albums of the Year (31:20)
Favorite Songs of the Year (1:13:05)
You can listen to a playlist of their picks here.
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Host: Cole Cuchna
Guests: Camden Ostrander, Margeaux Labat
Audio/Video Editor: Kevin Pooler
Additional Production: Justin Sayles
Theme Music: Birocratic
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1:48:27
The 21st Century Song Draft
The LSS crew is back with a year-end draft to celebrate the quarter-century mark in music. Cole, Charles, and Justin draft songs across five different categories: Best Song, Worst Song, One-Hit Wonder, Moment Maker, and Personal Favorite.
Who won the draft? Hit the comments and let us know.
Hosts: Cole Cuchna and Charles Holmes
Producer: Justin Sayles
Video Producer: Kevin Pooler
Engineer: Kayla Talley
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1:19:45
The 10 BEST Clipse Bars on 'Let God Sort Em Out'
Clipse’s Let God Sort ’Em Out is Dissect’s pick for Best Rap Album of 2025. In this episode, we break down 10 of the most mind-blowing bars from the project, line by line, decoding the layers of wordplay, cultural references, and religious symbolism that make this album so lyrically dense.
🎵 Chapters
00:00 Pusha T, “So Be It”
01:40 Malice, “Ace Trumpets”
04:25 Pusha T, “Ace Trumpets”
07:14 Malice, “M.T.B.T.T.F.”
09:29 Pusha T, “P.O.V.”
11:42 Pharrell, “So Be It” Sample Breakdown
14:01 Pusha T, “Chains & Whips”
15:42 Stove God Cooks, “F.I.C.O.”
16:51 Push & Malice, "FICO"
19:40 Malice, “So Far Ahead”
21:44 Malice, “Birds Don’t Sing”
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The Most GENIUS Number Bars in Rap History
From Rakim to Kendrick Lamar, this is the story of hip-hop’s obsession with numbers.
Dissect's Cole Cuchna breaks down the evolution of “number bars” - a lyrical tradition where rappers use math, numeric sequences, and wordplay to showcase technical skill and encode hidden meaning.
Beginning with Rakim’s groundbreaking verse on “My Melody” (1986) - a quatrain built around groups of seven that secretly mirrors his own 21-letter name - we trace how MCs have used numbers as both a mathematical signature and a symbolic device for decades. From Melle Mel’s divine 7-count in “Superrappin” to Jay-Z’s “22 Twos”, Biggie’s “Ten Crack Commandments,” and Mos Def’s “Mathematics,” numbers became an essential part of hip hop tradition and lyricism.
By the 2000s, artists like Lupe Fiasco, J. Cole, JID, Vince Staples, and Kendrick Lamar transformed number schemes into complex storytelling tools. We unpack everything from Lupe’s hidden 3–2–1 countdown on Kanye West’s “Touch the Sky” to Kendrick’s quantum-level equations on “Nosetalgia.”
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Rosalia's 'LUX' is a Masterpiece
In this emergency episode, Cole shares his initial thoughts on Rosalia's new album LUX, plus provides a brief breakdown of the album's four movements, and shares how its beginning and end connect thematically and narratively.
How are you feeling about LUX? Comment below.
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Analyzing the music and meaning of one album per season, one song per episode. Join host Cole Cuchna as he dives deep into albums by Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Radiohead, Beyonce, Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean, and more. Let's Dissect.