Eric Diep is a freelance hip-hop writer and journalist.
He is also a former co-host and co-producer of The Rap Writers Show, where writers talk about rappers a.k.a. the podcast that no one asked for.
A hip-hop nerd from the Northwest, he previously held positions as a news writer for BET and an editor at XXL where he once traveled to 50 Cent’s Connecticut mansion for a G-Unit cover story and interviewed Tony Yayo and Kidd Kidd near a pool. He worked on the 2013 and 2014 XXL Freshman classes, profiling Dizzy Wright, Angel Haze, Troy Ave, and Lil Bibby, respectively.
He is currently a freelance news editor for Complex.