After pulling stories out of names like Snoop Dogg and The Game in season one, Spitfire with Shirley Ju returns in April with Too $hort, Vic Mensa, Slug, Shordie Shordie and more.
After a very solid first run, Spitfire with Shirley Ju is coming back for season two. Stay tuned!
If you watched season one, you already get it. This isn’t a press junket in disguise or another podcast where artists recycle the same talking points. It’s short, loose, a little chaotic in the right way, and actually fun to watch. Shirley links up with people she already has a real rapport with and lets the conversation go where it goes.
That’s the whole thing.
Season two drops in April and brings in a new mix of guests, including Too $hort, Vic Mensa, Shordie Shordie, Slug from Atmosphere, Princeton Perez, Loe Shimmy and Lil Tony. It’s a wider net, but the energy stays the same.
What made the first season work wasn’t format. It was access and trust.
Shirley Ju has been doing this long enough that artists don’t treat her like a random interviewer. They open up. They joke around. They tell stories they probably weren’t planning to tell that day. And because the episodes are tight, you get straight to the good stuff without all the filler.
That’s how you end up with moments like Snoop Dogg explaining why he doesn’t share blunts anymore, or The Game going off about his biggest smoke session pet peeve: lip gloss. You get G Herbo talking about catching Snoop smoking his weed. You get Uno the Activist saying he hates sativa. Dave East has his own reasons for not passing the blunt, completely different from Snoop’s. Havoc lays out his weed …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
