Shaheem Reid and mixtapes go hand in hand. Plus it’s been an interesting year for mixtapes. 2008 hands down has folks buzzing more about the hottest mixtapes in the streets vs. who released the best album.
Shaheem can be seen every week on the ‘Mixtape Monday’ segment which airs on MTV, MTV Jams and MTVnews.com. He also writes the ‘Mixtape Monday’ column for mtvnews.com.

In addition Shaheem is also well known and respected for co-creating the very controversial MTV News program ‘Hottest MCs in the Game.’ If you’ve been in a hip hop black hole and don’t know about The MTV Hip Hop Brain Trust it’s the MTV program which features an annual ranking of the top ten Hottest Hip-Hop artists/albums, etc in the game.

When the 2007 list was released heads everywhere (we’re talking GLOBAL) went crazy. Everybody’s got an opinion on who’s the best.

Tune into this Fridays’ show to learn more about how Shaheem became well known through the game as a hip hop historian, what it takes to make it to the top of the MTV news food chain, the best mixtapes crrrently circulating and who the hottest mixtape rappers are right now.