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Big Foot Elvis · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now Podcast, a new Schoolboy
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  Q album is on the way. My thoughts on the surprise drop from hit
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  Boy and Alchemist Theodore and Andre and I have a question. Have disc records
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  a couple of places where I'm getting some of these stories from. Let's get
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  right to the business. Same schoolboy Q. Finally, we'll drop his new
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  album in twenty twenty four, specifically March of twenty twenty four. This is
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  on Hip Hop DX dot com. It says Schoolboy Q dropping new album Blue
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  Lips next month. I don't know if y'all need to say pause every time
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  you hear that, but whatever. In what's the release date? The release
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  date March first, which, considering we are in February right now. You
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  know, if you're from the future, you're probably in a whole other year
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  and you already heard it. Get your ass out of here. But if
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  you are in the present tense like myself, this album is on the way
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  because February is short. Apparently it's going to have seventeen songs. A couple
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  of titles from the track listen includes time Killers, Cooties, Germany eighty six,
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  and it says the latter being a node to Q's place of birth.
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  Okay, that's cool. Yeah, I'm not gonna go through too much on
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  this, but you can visit Hip Hop d X dot com to read the
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  entire article. I just wanted to say real quick when it comes to Schoolboy
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  Q, well, tde first, let's start with TD. I feel like
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  with that last Kendrick album and it sis in a lot of ways. TD
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  had a rhythm, and I think maybe the pandemic might have slowed that rhythm
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  down some, but they had a rhythm as a label where everybody was dropping
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  and I was on it and it seemed like everybody else was. And then
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  the pandemic happened and Kendrick you know what's his name, and his cousin,
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  Baby King or whatever was over there with him and doing some cryptic stuff,
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  and then Kendrick dropped his final album on TD, and it just kind of
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  felt like the end. Now the end doesn't mean the actual end, just
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  the end as we know it, right, So who knows what Kendrick Lamar
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  albums will sound like going forward, considering he'll have probably more control over what
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  he does, even though I don't think he lacked control, but you know,
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  maybe he'll have the ultimate say. But it just it just seems weird
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  because it was a hell of a run. You know, when you look
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  back, it wasn't like it was short, but it feels it feels dry
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  for TD. And I always felt like, even though disrespect to isa Isaiah
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  Rashad scissors different because we just talked about hip hop. It kind of felt
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  like, Yo, he need school Boy Q to bring back that feeling,
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  you know, to to grab the baton and take TD into the next stage
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  as an organization, or you know, they just signed other people and you
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  know, kind of becomes a new look. But just there's just something missing
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  from the rhythm in which these things were released. And I know he dropped
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  like a single. I think last year that was okay, but it's been
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  a while. I think the last the last school Boy Q album was I
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  think that joint blank Face, which was okay to me. I know some
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  people didn't like it, but I think similar to Kendrick and I don't put
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  them on the same level because their content is so different and how they approach
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  it. But when you're just talking about good albums, Schoolboy Q don't have
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  a whack album. In my opinion, you really don't. And that's why
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  I kind of looked at him like, okay, T twenty twenty four,
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  where we going next? Drop schoolboy Q. First, let him do what
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  he do, and then bring in everybody else. But I sometimes I feel
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  like people sleep on the other members of the crew, and I know people
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  like Jay Rock and all of that it just feels like people will be sleeping
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  your heads be sleeping on the rest of the TDE crew who are actually dope,
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  like most of them are spitterers, and then all of them really makes
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  really good music, like they really don't put out subpar stuff in my opinion,
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  But we shall see. Because even though I don't believe I mentioned this
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  as one as my highly anticipated albums, it actually is because I was anticipating
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  it last year when I thought he would drop an album. So now we're
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  about to get it soon. And considering how this year has begun as it
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  comes to releases, it's been hit or miss. Speaking of hit, hit
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  Boy and Alchemists basically did a surprise but conder not but kinda was surprise drop
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  of a project called Theodore and Andre. Don't get too excited. It's not
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  an album. It's damn it not an EP because it's only three songs.
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  Now, I remember, I think this was last year on Yeah, I'm
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  sure it was on last year on Hit Boys solo album what was it,
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  Surfer Die Swim some something like that. Whatever, h but he had this
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  record with Alchemists where he was rapping over an Alchemist's beat and Alchemist was rapping
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  over his beat and you know that was the beat switch and they had a
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  video on all of that, and remember like hearing it and he was taking
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  shot to other producers, younger producers, not legends, and I was kind
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  of like, yo, they sound good together, Like I think I could,
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  I could be in for more of this. And I remember when I
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  tweeted that hit boy either retweeted my tweet well liked and retweeted it, or
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  he responded in some kind of way like an emoji. I can't remember what
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  it is, and he kind of he responds to almost everybody, but when
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  he did that, when he responded, I was kind of like, Okay,
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  y'all, y'all working on it. And then I saw a tease recently
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  of them wearing the same outfits they wore from that original video, like teasing
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  that they were going to like switch it up and long behold, here we
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  have it. It's a full on project Theodore and Andre. Only it's like
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  on Apple it is listed as a single because it's only three songs. Right,
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  maybe EP is supposed to be like fiving up, but it's listed as
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  a single and it's three songs, And I think it's only like one feature
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  and that's like singing or whatever. I can't see his name and I don't
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  want to. We're just gonna hit the play button real quick so I can.
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  I don't want no strikes, you know what I'm saying. I don't
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  want no strikes. So let's turn it down a little bit. Featuring Jonathan
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  Hewlett. Not very familiar with him, but regardless, three songs, nine
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  minutes, and I like it. I like it. If you take the
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  song they did in twenty twenty three and make this four songs. There's no
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  skips. Now. I know you might saying it's only four songs. Trust
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  me, the albums were like twenty seven tracks where I only like four songs.
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  So having only four songs presented to the public and I like them all
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  is saying something. I think. What I like about it the most is,
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  you know, you know, the production is gonna be right. Their
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  voices kind of go together like as a group. Their approaches are different too,
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  because Alchemist kind of he raps like a boom back rapper, right.
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  You just kind of get that vibe from him, and with hip Boy you
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  get the feel of the West Coast. But you also kind of get the
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  feel of him displaying bars right, like not West Coast as in a chill,
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  laid back version, but more like game, right somebody like game,
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  not like Souls of Mischief, not wordplay on that level, but you know
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  what I mean, just more like game in Kendrick k Dot where you kind
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  of straddle the middle of it, right. You know your accent's dead,
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  but you know you kind of got bars for them too, you know,
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  little techniques and stuff like that. But I like it. I like it,
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  man, It's just it just sounds It just sounds cool, sounds good.
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  The three songs. First, I was kind of like word Then I
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  pressed play. I had to, you know, I had to go walk
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  like it was like a walk to the store and back or whatever. And
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  I just played it going there because it's only ten minutes. And I played
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  it again when I was coming back. Then I listened to it again when
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  I was in the crib, and I was like, I like this,
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  and this kind of makes me thirsty for something more. Now. I don't
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  know, I haven't you know, this is fresh off the presses. I
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  don't know what the plan is. I don't know if they plan to do
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  this a couple of times and then release like a deluxe that's just all of
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  it. That would be kind of dope. But the risk you take with
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  that is the same risk that happened with I think two other projects if I
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  can remember. One off the top is the hip hop fifty EPs, and
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  I think also with the Black Thoughts stuff, right, you risk a chance
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  of one of those joints not really being that solid, so you kind of
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  fall off the wagon as a fan, Like your attention span is, you're
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  not as hungry for it as you are. You know, when you heard
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  the first thing you like. So for me to hear a song and be
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  like, yo, I like that song, and then them to put out
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  three more songs and I'm like, damn, I like those. I kind
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  of feel like the album should be next, right, Like maybe in late
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  March April, you just like, boom, here's the album. You know,
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  do a couple of videos for these who knows. But one thing I'll
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  say is like, when it comes to the hip hop game, and a
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  lot of fans don't necessarily pay attention to this. If you're following like news
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  and hearing musicians and musicians, hearing artists producers talk all the time about what
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  they're doing and who they're with. They're recording all the time, all the
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  time. That's why you hear somebody pop up and be like, yeah,
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  me and Yay got a whole album together, and you're like what I remember
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  when Kanye say that a whole album with migos, entire album. I'm like,
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  word, but some of these things will probably never see the light of
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  day. And it's so crazy like that these things would exist. I like
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  what hit Boy's doing. Hip Boy is saying whatever the energy is, let's
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  go with it and then sit back and say is it worthy? And then
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  let's put it out. Let's not sit on it too long or do a
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  long drawn out It's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming.
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  It's coming to build up height to the point where people start talking talking about
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  things so much that they build what they think it should be, and then
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  when it comes out and it's not that people are disappointed. I kind of
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  feel like with Benny the Butcher, That's why I wanted him to be like,
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  Yo, just check out my album when to drop. You know,
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  I think y'all gonna enjoy it or whatever, or I feel like I'm the
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  best whatever, right, But instead he kind of kept going and going,
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  and all the news for him leading up to his album was about him calling
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  fans nerds right. And I think it took a little wind out of the
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  sales of his album, considering not the purchase not purchase sales, you know
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  what I mean, like a boat sails wind in the celle, you know,
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  stuff like that. But I think it it did. And I think
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  when people like myself who are fans finally got our hands on the album,
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  we were listening with a more critical ear than we would have if he just
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  would have dropped it. Now, I will say, you know, I
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  probably like it more than most, but it was, you know, it
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  was underwhelming. But this joint with Alchemists and hip Boy, Theodore and Andre,
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  it's exactly what I expected, and in some ways it's better than what
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  I expected. Did you hear it? What do you think? Leave your
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  comments in a comment section below. And last, so if you watch,
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  I'm gonna put my phone in my pocket for this one. If you watched
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  or listened to my last episode where I talked about because at the time Megan
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  Thee Stallion had released her disc record towards Nicki Minaj called hiss right and the
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  Megan's Law line, and I told you that that was a good bar.
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  It was so good that Nicki Minaj went on Instagram and everything else and just
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  was acting crazy. And then she eventually dropped a disc record called Bigfoot,
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  which is hands down one of the worst disc records I've ever heard of my
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  life. And one of the reasons why I covered it last week was because
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  I figured, Okay, if they're gonna go, if they're gonna go,
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  there on some distant stuff and you know, little jabs here, and there
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  were some decent bars, but obviously they're not entire songs. It could be
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  entertaining from a hip hop standpoint. I didn't have no lofty expectations of crazy
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  bars and nothing like that. I just wanted to hear what they had to
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  say. And it just got really old, real quick, and very disappointing
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  real quick, because it became about so much more than that. Right,
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  Oh, Nikki is the first female YouTube blah blah blah blah blah, and
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  Megan thee Stallions hisses get they run it run it up. Keep running it
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  up, y'all, keep running it up. And I feel like, did
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  y'all put these out to have us run it up? Or do y'all really
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  have a problem? Do you really have a problem? And this is actually
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  a happy thing, like a happy medium or happy accident kind of thing,
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  you know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah, Pink Friday two is this,
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  but I could use a little bit more. Oh I got a beef.
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  Oh it's running it up. Oh his hiss, And I got a
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  new project coming out, but also need some money from my old price.
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  Oh run it up, y'all because we beefing. That's what it started to
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  feel like. And then Eminem decides and I remember looking at it thinking it
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  was even real. But Eminem decides to diss Benzino on this lyrical Lemonade album,
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  which I checked out. I do not like. It's not Eminem's album,
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  but he's featured on it. And then Benzino responded with two dis records.
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  Now, Nicki Mina, I already said what I had to say about
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  Nicki Minaj and Megan the Stallion right and what eventually rubbed me the wrong way
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  about what they were doing with this. It's kind of the same thing,
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  but I think it's worse. We all see Benzino, maybe not homeless,
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  but appearing to be a little needy in a very very recent past. We
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  even seen him, even though I don't watch this, I saw the clip,
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  but we even seeing him on Vlad complimenting Eminem and contradicting damn and everything
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  he's saying in these disc records not that long ago. Right, it was
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  like he was just hat in hand him out here. Now I get it,
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  Eminem, this me emanism back. This is what's so tiring about this
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  one, in particular is the fact that does everybody forget that we already been
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  here with these two, right? It wasn't jabs. It ended with a
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  disc record by Eminem called Nail in a coffin. Heads who know y'all know
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  that was the end. It was already clear that Benzeno wasn't on the level
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  of Eminem back then. Is he on a level with him now? Not
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  really? But who cares? That's how I feel, like, who really
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  cares? And why do you have two disc records when he kind of had
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  a verse? Why is this happening? Who is it? Four? Now?
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  I'll say, just off the surface, because I don't know everybody's bills
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  from my optics from the outside end, is Eminem got aligned to a lot
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  of money based off of business moves and fifties music and just every just whatever,
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  right ben Zeno don't. I don't know what his revenue stream is.
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  I just know he was looking a little down not that long ago, right
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  like down some of the videos I saw it, and just taking a hit
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  as a celebrity off of a lot of wild stuff. So I just started
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  to wonder because it makes me think back to Machine Gun Kelly when him and
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  Eminem dissed each other. Now I thought Machine Gun Kelly's disc was on point.
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  I felt like he won that kills Shot by Eminem like it was just
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  too it was too technical, dissectical ass bars like sorry family podcast, Sorry,
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  but it was just it wasn't that cool. It wasn't like before Eminem
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  in the past would like nailing the coffin that joint was dope. But you
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  know, this joint whatever it was called, kill Shot was just lackluster for
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  someone he would have cooked easily and still has the capability to do so when
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  you look at them more recent BT ciphers, like the one with slaughter House.
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  But it just wasn't it just wasn't great, And that's how I look
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  at these disc records now, like, well, what's the point. Well,
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  when Machine Gun Kelly got into that scrap of eminem it did and take
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  too long for him to announce a tour for him to all of a sudden
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  be seen everywhere again, like he had faded. People forgot about him for
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  the most part. Album's dropping it was like a launching pad to revitalize his
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  career, and it probably did in some respects. And considering how I saw
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  Benzeno and how much online disrespect he gets from the way he looks and people
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  talking about his neck or lack thereof, and all of that, he's trying
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  to score a win because it's I put it this way, it's like when
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  you're nominated for a Grammy or you're nominated for an Oscar. It's excellent if
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  you win, because your business goes through the roof, but your business also
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  goes through the roof. If you're nominated, it's like a It's like a
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  nice It's the nicest second place badge anyone can get, is to be nominated,
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  especially when you nominated for the first time, because then that's more like
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  the potential thing like, yo, he might be the next one. I
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  feel like with this benzinot get into it with Eminem. Well, now,
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  some of these YouTube channels that pay these dudes to come and sit on the
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  couch and talk, they're all gonna want them because they're all gonna want some
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  insight into it, and they all want they want to have you so they
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  can have everybody watch you say it on their platform and they get money.
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  It's run it up. It's run it up again, and most artists,
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  and I assume Eminem two know what's gonna happen. You at least gotta know
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  by now, especially after the Machine doing Kelly thing. Gotta know by now
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  that engaging with this dude has now put a spotlight on him that he didn't
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  have that he's probably trying to get back in some way. And I'm not
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  saying anybody's right or wrong. It's hip hop. Just dis records is cool,
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  but it kind of feels cheap. And this isn't the first time this
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  has happened, right, This been put like push your t in Jim Jones,
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  a battle that goes nowhere literally now granted, push your te in my
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  opinion, killed Jim Jones with a couple of bars, but it put a
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  spotlight on Jim Jones in a different way, right, people go, win,
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  he gonna drop it like he probably he probably saw mad More followers and
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  all kinds of stuff, right, so you you utilize it. And he
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  just did a disrecord that was like serviceable, and you know, it was
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  kind of like, is push your te gonna respond? And then everybody forgot
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  because he didn't respond. Next time I saw a push the tea, he
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  was looking awkward walking down a runway during fashion Week. I don't care where
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  it was. I don't care where the clothes were. I don't care how
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  much they cost. Awkward is awkward, Okay, But I have no reason
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  to believe that pusha t did it for a certain look he did who knows,
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  right, But somebody like Jim Jones who is watching Cam and Mace get
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  busy over there and get a lot of bread and might be feeling some kind
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  of way, and now he feel like I got a little bit of attention.
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  So again, I'm not saying that these artists get together planned to beef.
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  I wouldn't put it past some of them. I'm just saying the results
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  of it. People think the results of it is who was better. That's
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  not what they think, you know what I'm saying. They may be looking
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  to see what people think about it, but all they know is somebody come
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  back to them and say, Yo, streams are up five hundred percent,
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  sales of your first album is up one hundred percent. We just sold a
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  number of tour tickets. Your Instagram live went crazy, your subscribers on Twitter
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  went crazy, and then some of it if you were releasing music and you
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  weren't even getting this kind of pop, but yet you have a battle with
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  somebody and now you poping like crazy. People like it, I mean even
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  those who don't need it, like a somebody like a Drake, like it's
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  just that energy. But it to me, in a lot of ways,
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  it cheapens the disc records and the battles that have come before. Where sure
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  they probably benefited from it as well, because people want to go buy the
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  music to hear the disc records, but these aren't even quality. And I'm
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  also even talking about eminem stuff. This is just whack all of it.
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  It's not even worthy of talking about. But I was going to ignore it,
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  but then I was like, you know what, let me talk about
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  the aspect of it that I see and that I kind of got a problem
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  with because it's just so corny to have these whack records and everybody just tweet,
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  do you you killed her? You won run it up? Blah blah
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  blah, and we all know it just wasn't that good, man, It
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  wasn't. Nicki Minaj says she got four more, four or five more?
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  Man, please don't don't don't release them? Were good. The first one
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  was enough. First one was enough. That's it, all right? What
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  do you think? Do you enjoy these battles just because they're battles? Do
• 28:56
  you think these records were actually good? And I was, you know,
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  thoughts on not only that album, but when I purchased it in what my
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