[Radio] "Charlamagne Was The Target" + Akademiks Smear Campaign | (Ad-Free Version on Patreon)

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

DJ Akademiks and Charlamagne Tha God have spent years orbiting each other as two of the most influential voices in hip-hop media.

Now that relationship appears to be broken.

After a private conversation between the two became public, Akademiks launched a sustained public campaign against Charlamagne across multiple streams, posts, and platforms. What started as criticism quickly turned into something much bigger — raising questions about loyalty, influence, media power, and whether Charlamagne was always the real target.

SaVon breaks down the mentor/student dynamic between Ak and Charla, the leaked phone call, the role Drake's ICEMAN rollout may have played in escalating tensions, Joe Budden's involvement, the Complex Hip-Hop Media Power Rankings, and why this story feels less like a beef and more like a fracture inside hip-hop media itself.

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0:00.0	Yo, welcome back to another episode of Blank Slate Radio.
0:07.8	I'm your guy, Seyvon.
0:09.5	And everything I said the last time I checked in with you guys, especially talking about
0:13.5	the Charlemagne.
0:14.6	And the academic stuff is no more Cold War, okay?
0:18.5	Like, shit is on wax.
0:19.9	It's none of the bullshit anymore. The gloves is off, take the condo
0:23.0	off, throw it in the trash. Like, T-Liggers is going at it.
0:26.9	Before we get into everything, though, I am accompanied by now. I know he's not going to
0:32.4	like this, and it is okay. He's not going to like this, but somebody got to wear and be
0:37.1	the characters in these roles
0:38.9	in pierre my friend you are dubbed the academics insider to me okay let's do it okay like to me
0:47.1	all right don't got to be to anybody else but i know like you're a streamer man yeah every time he
0:52.7	comes on i you know i have to press the button and, you know, tap in.
0:56.0	I'm definitely a chat end.
0:57.8	You know what I mean? I chat in. I like that. I like that. Let's keep it. Let's keep it PG. You keep it PG. I'm going to keep it R. All right. I like to do it. But I like that.
1:08.3	Thank you for joining me on the stream.
1:10.1	I know it's really, really late.
1:12.5	Hove just dropped the nuke.
1:14.1	We're going to talk about Hove. but I like that. Thank you for joining me on the stream. I know it's really,
1:11.0	really late.
1:12.5	Hove just dropped the nuke.
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