Mega Ran

Rapper Mega Ran recorded A Very Random Christmas in 2011, then updated in in subsequent years to make it what he calls "a living album." In our conversation, he talks about how A Charlie Brown Christmas inspired the album, and how the project emerged from a desire to fill the Christmas hip-hop void.

As a part of the conversation, we talked about the sketchy history of Christmas hip-hop including OutKast's "Player's Ball" and Jeremih and Chance the Rapper's Merry Christmas, Lil' Mama, and the songs that were a part of his Christmas growing up. 

New Orleans' producer AF the Naysayer provided our theme music, and he has a new seven-inch 45, "Adelheid," on Strange Daisy Records.