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What Did Keffe D Say?! · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Speaker 1: Coming up. On this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast,
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Speaker 1: e Bro was told by a female MC that most
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Speaker 1: female rapper fans don't like rap. I review Game's newest album,
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Speaker 1: The Documentary, Part three, and we'll also talk about the
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Speaker 1: latest news on the kevd Tupac murder case, as well
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Speaker 1: and a couple of places where I get my stories from.
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Speaker 1: Let's get ready to the business. Same. So this is
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Speaker 1: this is like brand new to me because I didn't know,
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Speaker 1: you know, I look at the news, but you know,
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Speaker 1: it's just so much news and information on social media
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Speaker 1: and in general and not just hip hop that this
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Speaker 1: one escaped me. But the title says and this is
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Speaker 1: on Hotnew hip Hop dot Com. Ebro claims popular woman
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Speaker 1: Rapper told him most female MC fans don't like rap.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy. Let's see what we're saying. So it says
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Speaker 1: Ebro was on his live show today where he told
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Speaker 1: his co hosts that one female MC wasn't exactly pleased
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Speaker 1: with her fan base over the plot dickens. Okay, let's see,
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Speaker 1: we can just get straight to ebros quote. Here we go.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of hip hop fans that are
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Speaker 1: Drake fans and Kendrick fans. This is what Rosenberg said.
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Speaker 1: But there's also a sect of Drake and Kendrick fans
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Speaker 1: that are not hip hop fans. They were just rooting
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Speaker 1: for them in a battle. There are they're like team supporters.
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Speaker 1: So let's see what Ebro said following that there's so
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Speaker 1: many ads in this site. This is Ebro now this audio,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna play it because I'm gonna just
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Speaker 1: keep it one hundred with y'all, like sometimes it's a pain,
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Speaker 1: but I'll quote it. This is Ebro talking about the
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Speaker 1: female MC who told them that female fans don't really
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Speaker 1: like rap, even if they're fans of this female artists.
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Speaker 1: She said, the problem that a lot of women who
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Speaker 1: rap have is that most of those fans who like
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Speaker 1: women rappers, they're not hip hop fans. They're fans of
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Speaker 1: that woman, her esthetic, where she's from, whatever she was. Like,
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Speaker 1: I grew up a hip hop fan. I want all
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Speaker 1: of it, the ratchet stuff, the smart stuff, the street stuff,
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Speaker 1: the pop stuff. Now I know why he would avoid
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Speaker 1: saying who this is because we all know sometimes there's
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Speaker 1: a quote or statement or depending on who the person is,
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Speaker 1: it may bring some unwanted attention. But I think the
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Speaker 1: benefit was that last line from this female EMC, because
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Speaker 1: that is the description of a big girl. A b
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Speaker 1: girl is a hip hop head. They don't care what
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Speaker 1: it is. They don't care if it's male female. They
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Speaker 1: there for the bars, like she said, they're here for
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Speaker 1: the ratchet stuff, the street stuff. They're here for all
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Speaker 1: of it. But to Rosenberg and Ebro's point, or this
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Speaker 1: female MC's point, it's so true. There's so many casuals
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Speaker 1: in the game commenting on the game more than ever,
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Speaker 1: and it has a lot to do with social media
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Speaker 1: and feeling like you play a role in the conversation,
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Speaker 1: no matter how significant or low. People want to join
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Speaker 1: in the conversation. And that's great because that's what's at
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Speaker 1: its core, that's what social media is for, right, for
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Speaker 1: you to kind of congregate talk about things. But there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of people who aren't as invested as
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Speaker 1: they would like to say, and that's when you get
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Speaker 1: into the fake shit. Yes, we curse on this podcast now,
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Speaker 1: or at least this one, but you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: It's like it's more important to start the conversation right
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Speaker 1: because then you can be like, yo, this tweet went viral,
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Speaker 1: you know, and you feel like you had a little
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Speaker 1: celebrity status because of social media. And it's fine, you know,
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Speaker 1: I get it. A couple of people who you're fans
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Speaker 1: of or important people in the community of hip hop,
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Speaker 1: you know, like your joint retweet start talking to you,
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Speaker 1: follow you, whatever it may be. It can feel good
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Speaker 1: because you admire them, so you're excited that they admire you.
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Speaker 1: But there's so many people who are thirsty to even
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Speaker 1: be at that level that they will spend every day.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure during that battle on both sides, right,
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Speaker 1: I'm a Drake and a Kendrick fan. Right, it wasn't
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Speaker 1: really about picking side. I just wanted to see the battle, right,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm from the hood. I want to see
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Speaker 1: the fight. You know, Like sometimes the fight go down,
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Speaker 1: you know, two of the people. You don't break it
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Speaker 1: up real quick, like yoh love, let me see real quick,
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Speaker 1: let me see what happened. And when they get too series,
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Speaker 1: that's when you break it up. Right, That's how I
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Speaker 1: felt as a fan of Drake's music and a fan
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Speaker 1: of kendricks music. Now, Kendrick's style and everything else is
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Speaker 1: probably closer to who I am what I relate to
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Speaker 1: than Drake's. But at the end of the day, for
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Speaker 1: me and my life, they're both still entertainers. Right. Some
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Speaker 1: people don't feel that way. Some people feel like they
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Speaker 1: got to pick a side they like. They especially pocket watching,
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Speaker 1: they like. They think Drake got more money, and that's
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Speaker 1: something they like. They on Drake's side, they like his songs,
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Speaker 1: better understand his music there on that side. Same thing
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Speaker 1: with Kendrick, Right, you feel like, Yo, I liked the
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Speaker 1: fact that he's conscious, but he's also popular music. You know,
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, and it just turns into
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Speaker 1: you know, casuals and stands and fans and hip hop
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Speaker 1: heads and just a whole battle. So going back to
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Speaker 1: her specifically pointing out female fans of hers, it's also true,
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Speaker 1: but it's not exclusively true when it comes to the
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Speaker 1: females because there's a lot of guys who do the
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Speaker 1: exact same thing. Any guy who was watching that battle
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Speaker 1: and decided to talk about who sold more records, they
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Speaker 1: identified themselves. You're not a hip hop head, You're not
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Speaker 1: even a guest. You snuck in, get out, Okay. So
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Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, that's kind
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Speaker 1: of what it is, and it's unfortunate, but it's where
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Speaker 1: we are because I remember there was a shift in
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Speaker 1: the early two thousands, and shout out to the HOMIOK.
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Speaker 1: We used to talk about this when he was hosting
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Speaker 1: The Baltimore Show, a strictly Hip hop on WEAA eighty
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Speaker 1: eight point NINEFM that I once was a host of
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Speaker 1: as well. But we were talking about that shift, like, Yo,
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Speaker 1: these kids coming up and this is not even the
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Speaker 1: kids now, like the adults. Like these kids coming up,
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Speaker 1: they just cared more about how cool somebody is. They
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Speaker 1: don't care that Rick Ross was a CEO. So I
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Speaker 1: mean I don't care either. But back in the days,
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Speaker 1: that would have been a death kiss to Rick Ross, right,
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Speaker 1: not that rappers need to commit crimes in real life
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Speaker 1: because then they all would be locked up, but to
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Speaker 1: just know that he's talking this way and he was
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Speaker 1: a CEO, that would have been it. But there are
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Speaker 1: people who again like his aesthetic, he's rich, they like
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Speaker 1: his status, they like the people who he's connected to.
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Speaker 1: So the music is almost like last on the list,
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Speaker 1: and I could see that for some female fans. So
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Speaker 1: the only thing I'll say that's wrong about that statement
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Speaker 1: is that it only signaled out the female friends are
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Speaker 1: fans when same goes for the males, and not just
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Speaker 1: with male artists. Some of them just like styles, right.
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Speaker 1: You know, you may prefer what Bahamadia and Rod Digger
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Speaker 1: were compared to Little Kim and Foxy everybody rapping. Everybody
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Speaker 1: got dope songs. But you may prefer that or vice versus.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know, leave your comments in a comment
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Speaker 1: section below, let me know what you think about that statement.
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Speaker 1: It'd be dope to know who told Ebro this, but
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Speaker 1: I get why he didn't put it out there. So next,
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Speaker 1: so the game has been teasing for a little bit
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Speaker 1: that another sequel to the documentary was on the way,
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Speaker 1: this being the documentary. Three. Yes, there's been three of them.
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Speaker 1: I know some people like what three? I thought he
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Speaker 1: just had the one. No, there's been three or there
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Speaker 1: are three now, And y'all know how I do when
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Speaker 1: it comes to reviews, I give it basically. I listened
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Speaker 1: to it three times. First time impressions, second time, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to listen a little deeper to lyrics, concepts, all
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Speaker 1: that good stuff, beats. And then the third listen is
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Speaker 1: just to confirm my thoughts and for those who need
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Speaker 1: a quick review, it's okay. Could have been better. Trim
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Speaker 1: some of those songs off and make one album instead
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Speaker 1: of a double album could have been better, but it's cool.
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Speaker 1: So the documentary three by Game, which is now released,
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Speaker 1: is essentially a double album, similar to the documentary two
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Speaker 1: or two point five. I think that's the same thing,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know. Game just be doing too much.
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Speaker 1: But there are basically twenty four tracks on here double album.
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Speaker 1: The album comes in at an hour and twenty eight minutes.
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Speaker 1: Features of there are a lot of features on here,
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Speaker 1: like Black Thought, Marsha and Bros Is on here, who Else?
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Speaker 1: Eve Forty's on here, production from Mike and Keys, who Else?
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Speaker 1: Cool and Dre had some production on here. Party next
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Speaker 1: Door is on here. I'm spoiler alert that was a
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Speaker 1: straight up skip. I didn't even hear the end of
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Speaker 1: that record. Kanye's on this album, Drake's on his album,
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Speaker 1: Lil Wayne, and Snoop Dogg, and there are a couple
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Speaker 1: of other people on here. And this is why I
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Speaker 1: say what I said about this album. I argue for
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Speaker 1: Game all the time on social media, just unprovoked. I'll
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Speaker 1: just be like yo, Game got a couple of albums
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Speaker 1: that could be considered classics. Nineteen ninety three, Go look
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Speaker 1: it up. Very dope album. I'm just saying, very dope album.
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Speaker 1: But the problem with Game when he releases great music
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Speaker 1: is he always gets in a way of its own progress.
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Speaker 1: He has become synonymous with antics and being considered in
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Speaker 1: a tensionhre and seo raps if you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: algorithm chaser or let's just keep the things going like
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Speaker 1: algorithm aggressor or whatever. You know what I'm saying, Avenger adventurer,
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Speaker 1: whatever way you want to slice it. He does things
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Speaker 1: to get attention on his music, like Kanye, because for
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Speaker 1: Kanye it used to work, right. Kanye would say something crazy,
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about Kanye's been doing this for a
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Speaker 1: long time. It's not just recent, but he would say
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Speaker 1: something or do something, and then not that long after that,
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Speaker 1: an album would drop, an album would be dope, and
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Speaker 1: everybody would love him. And I feel like Game sometimes
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Speaker 1: tries to do that right, but it always backfires. Anytime
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Speaker 1: you decide you're going straight up this eminem in a
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Speaker 1: ten minute song, and eminem doesn't respond, and hip hop
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Speaker 1: basically doesn't respond, you look real sad. You just do.
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Speaker 1: And I hate that because when I press play on
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Speaker 1: games albums, I find more hot music and bars, but
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Speaker 1: most people aren't willing to even press play because of
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Speaker 1: all this stuff he does outside of it. It's just
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Speaker 1: it's just distasteful. So when we get into the album,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, like this, the album don't start
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Speaker 1: until track now, before the Life. Those first three songs,
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Speaker 1: they're not whack, but they were so blood man subpar
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Speaker 1: in concept and delivery and beats in some cases that
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Speaker 1: I was already disappointed. But I knew there was twenty
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Speaker 1: four tracks. I'm like, all right, the whole album can't
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Speaker 1: sound like this. And the only reason why I say that,
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Speaker 1: let me just get into that real quick is the
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Speaker 1: opening track, Jesus is cool, but you know it didn't
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Speaker 1: get me amped, but it was cool. Love It or
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Speaker 1: Hated is a sequel to Hate It or Love It
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Speaker 1: featuring fifty Cent, But on this album, Love It, I
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Speaker 1: Hated Hated features Snoop Dogg and it features basically the
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Speaker 1: same beat, and it's not good to me. It to
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Speaker 1: me is like leave it alone, leave that song alone.
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Speaker 1: And it's a theme this this is a theme throughout
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Speaker 1: the album, and I'm going to tell you what that
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Speaker 1: theme is a little bit and a little bit. Then
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Speaker 1: there's Steppers, the third track featuring Lil Wayne. Now, after
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Speaker 1: hearing Lil Wayne and Buster on that Jay Diller beat,
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Speaker 1: talkya shit that came out like a week or so ago,
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Speaker 1: and Lil Wayne sound fresh and revived. I mean it
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Speaker 1: could be old, you know, but who cares. Everybody was
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Speaker 1: height like, Yo, this prime Wayne rapping right here? This
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Speaker 1: one is it? Steppers? I was like daydreaming while I
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Speaker 1: was in the gym, I was forgetting to listen. Just
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Speaker 1: took me away. But then when we get tracked number four,
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Speaker 1: the life things pick up game Game proves me right
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Speaker 1: everything I said. The boy can rap. He can rap.
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Speaker 1: Like stop looking at all them antics and all the
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Speaker 1: things he's done. We know he does it. Man, he's
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Speaker 1: light skinned like my kids. They can't help it sometimes. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but track four, it's the game. I know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's the sound and the lyrics and the delivery
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Speaker 1: and the cadens that to me keeps probably keeps his
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Speaker 1: fans checking his music because I know it does for me.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, there's a there's a couple of
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Speaker 1: songs like I like the song twenty Deep with Mike
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Speaker 1: and Keys. That song is That song is fire. I
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Speaker 1: even like the song with Drake No Breaks. Now it's
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Speaker 1: clearly a Drake sounding song, but there's a theme. Remember
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Speaker 1: I told you there's a theme happening here. Just stay tuned.
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Speaker 1: I like the song Sticks that comes on after that,
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Speaker 1: right geeking. Even forty Nights with Kanye, like Do for
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Speaker 1: Love was okay, but this is where things get a
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Speaker 1: little tricky. Forty Knights is the tenth track on here,
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Speaker 1: the song with Kanye West and Mike and Keys, and
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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like, you know, that first ten
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Speaker 1: tracks it's good because most of it was good, damn
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Speaker 1: the all of it, except for those maybe those two
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Speaker 1: tracks Snooping, Little Lil Wayne, Like those are the ones
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Speaker 1: where I was just like, I'll probably never listen to
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Speaker 1: these again. But out of two out of ten being
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Speaker 1: bad is not bad. So that's that's a great first
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Speaker 1: half of the album. By the time we get to
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Speaker 1: Do for Love, it becomes clear to me, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: Game said, this is for the ladies, because several of
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Speaker 1: the tracks not The rest of the second half he
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Speaker 1: does get back into his bag towards the end, but
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Speaker 1: definitely track eleven to let me see that kind of
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Speaker 1: mixes up. But trust me, it's a lot more tracks
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Speaker 1: that are for the ladies. Starting with track eleven. Do
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Speaker 1: for Love was cool, but again, all I could think
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Speaker 1: of is Tupac you sucker for love, and like do
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Speaker 1: for Love, and this just isn't or says do you
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Speaker 1: love me? My bad? I'm thinking of a sample I
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Speaker 1: heard on him do you Love Me? I like do
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Speaker 1: you Love Me? I like the concept. I like they waited,
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Speaker 1: the way they laid the song out. It's once you
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Speaker 1: get to the run it up song with Leon Thomas. Now,
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Speaker 1: I like Leon Thomas a lot, but there's a part
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Speaker 1: of me that feels like, and here we go with
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Speaker 1: the themes that while A had the perfect rap R
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Speaker 1: and B nostalgic nineties R and B style album last year,
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Speaker 1: that's what it is. So now when I hear samples
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Speaker 1: or anything referencing something from that album, and not that
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Speaker 1: Leon Thomas hasn't been on everybody's album, and not that
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Speaker 1: Game hasn't done songs like this before, I start to
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Speaker 1: feel the kind of way not because that one song
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Speaker 1: but because they're way more after that. So right after
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Speaker 1: that party at Games featuring Party next Door, that was
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Speaker 1: an instant. It was the only one I didn't listen
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Speaker 1: too straight through because I was like, man, this is garbage,
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Speaker 1: and I skipped it after a while, right, and then
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Speaker 1: the song Baby comes on and I'm like, oh man,
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Speaker 1: we in full on for the ladies' mode, and again,
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Speaker 1: not the worst song, but it started to take away
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Speaker 1: from the momentum of that first half. Then in the Way,
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Speaker 1: which features Tiger, and I was like, hey, can we stop?
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Speaker 1: The ladies are diet okay? And then there's a song
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Speaker 1: called the Part that is clearly a gn X style record,
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Speaker 1: and it also features Lefty gunplay. That song with Drake
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Speaker 1: was also kind of like a gn X style. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying Game is never made or wrapped over
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Speaker 1: these types of beats, but it just reminded me, and
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Speaker 1: Game reminds you throughout the album. By mentioning gn X
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Speaker 1: about five six times, the same thing he mentions Kendrake
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Speaker 1: about five or six times, not disc records, right, but
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Speaker 1: just acknowledging the difference between those two and on one
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Speaker 1: song later acknowledging that directly acknowledging that him and Kendrick
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Speaker 1: have no beef. Right, But here you are making all
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Speaker 1: these GNX references and GNX style songs, and now you
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Speaker 1: got left the Gunplay not saying you never recorded with him,
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Speaker 1: but we know what Kendrick having him on his album
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Speaker 1: did for Lefty Gunplay. Okay, I think he won a Grammy. Yay,
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Speaker 1: he actually did win a Grammy. So after that, it's
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Speaker 1: a joint called Hella that features E forty and the
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Speaker 1: game starts out rapping like E forty is the theme again.
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Speaker 1: I'll get to the theme at the very end. Watch,
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Speaker 1: but you should be able to catch it. What I'm saying,
23:49
Speaker 1: nothing to hide. I ain't gonna lie. I don't even
23:51
Speaker 1: remember that record, but I think it was cool. La Monster.
23:56
Speaker 1: I kind of like that joint. Then game has a
23:59
Speaker 1: song I don't call Meet the Parents. Y'all remember Blueprint
24:04
Speaker 1: two jay Z probably one of his best storytelling songs
24:09
Speaker 1: of all time. Game has a song called meet the Parents. Now,
24:13
Speaker 1: what I do like about this is the fact that
24:16
Speaker 1: the game shows a lot of emotion and his story
24:20
Speaker 1: is a lot about his life, and I think this
24:23
Speaker 1: is probably Game's most honest record to date. Like, you
24:29
Speaker 1: know how I say, like he gets in the way
24:31
Speaker 1: of himself and kind of comes across as an attention
24:33
Speaker 1: hore and blah blah blah and all these negative things
24:37
Speaker 1: that suggest there's some insecurities in him. And insecurities can
24:43
Speaker 1: come off of a based off experience. We're not all
24:45
Speaker 1: teflon dons and shields. I have insecurities as well. But
24:49
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he used that concept to
24:53
Speaker 1: express his own feelings about his parents and neighborhood. And
24:58
Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot of things you heard before,
25:00
Speaker 1: but he has a lot of emotion behind it. So
25:03
Speaker 1: I felt like that was an adulte record just for
25:05
Speaker 1: the power behind it, or be it the same title
25:10
Speaker 1: as jay Z's song Meet the Parents. Thing. Okay, just wait,
25:15
Speaker 1: just wait. The pen he got some he got some
25:20
Speaker 1: crazy bars on here. I'm not gonna lie. First, I
25:23
Speaker 1: was like, okay, the pen. There was one line I
25:26
Speaker 1: can't remember it, and I was like, ooh, I like that,
25:29
Speaker 1: and it just reminded me. It reminded me what I said, like,
25:32
Speaker 1: y'all be sleeping. The boy can rap. He can rap rap.
25:36
Speaker 1: Not that boy, not that Canadian dude. This one he
25:41
Speaker 1: can rap. He can get busy, but he just gets
25:48
Speaker 1: in his own way sometimes. Then the Cookout featuring Larry June.
25:53
Speaker 1: I am not the biggest Larry June fan, but this
25:56
Speaker 1: one's cool. I like Larry June over some real West
26:00
Speaker 1: Coast sound and stuff, right or I do like him
26:05
Speaker 1: as a part of the album that was out earlier
26:10
Speaker 1: this year with I Think a Spiral Staircase with Alchemist
26:14
Speaker 1: Currency and Larry June. This record was cool. I Won't
26:19
Speaker 1: be Afraid I Believe has a shade sample features Black Thought.
26:26
Speaker 1: I think Black Thought is on a hook. I can't
26:28
Speaker 1: remember if we had a verse. This is a double album.
26:30
Speaker 1: I haven't listened to a double album. I had to
26:31
Speaker 1: listen to a double album three times in a row. Okay,
26:37
Speaker 1: but it's a cool record. The last record I really like.
26:41
Speaker 1: It's called Game Recognized Game. It features Marsha and Brosia
26:45
Speaker 1: and se Levy or Selvie. I don't know how to pronounce
26:51
Speaker 1: her name. But this is Game taking a concept of
26:58
Speaker 1: Game in twenty two talking to Game at the start
27:03
Speaker 1: of his career and throughout his career, and it's more
27:07
Speaker 1: of a I'm immature and I'm mature. Now we know
27:12
Speaker 1: you're not mature because you keep doing these immature moves
27:16
Speaker 1: before every album. But if you didn't know anything about
27:21
Speaker 1: all those antics and you just listen to the music,
27:24
Speaker 1: this is dope record. This is one of the best
27:27
Speaker 1: because a lot of a lot of rappers have kind
27:32
Speaker 1: of done the especially I'm talking more so like Famous.
27:35
Speaker 1: If we don't know who you are, dog, we don't
27:37
Speaker 1: know what you were like when you were a kid,
27:38
Speaker 1: unless you got a great story, okay, But him talking
27:44
Speaker 1: to himself, his younger self and referencing the things he
27:49
Speaker 1: went through through his life is dope because you get
27:53
Speaker 1: young games mindset, which you kind of know right like
27:56
Speaker 1: with the fifty cent g unit situation, you kind of
27:59
Speaker 1: know him, but then you get older game that gives
28:04
Speaker 1: you his perspective on those decisions today. And I think
28:10
Speaker 1: that's very dope. Now, theme wise, somebody just did this Nas,
28:19
Speaker 1: Nasty Nas, Escabar, remember Nas and DJ Premier and NAS's
28:26
Speaker 1: I think he basically, well you spoiler alert, I guess
28:29
Speaker 1: he kills Nasty Nas and Escabar to be who he
28:33
Speaker 1: is today. It's kind of like similar in a lot
28:36
Speaker 1: of ways. But the Nas joint what I liked a
28:42
Speaker 1: lot about that joint is Nasty Nas sound like Nasty Nas,
28:47
Speaker 1: Esco sound and rapped like Escobar and New Nas I
28:52
Speaker 1: guess twenty twenty six sound like himself. So it really
28:57
Speaker 1: felt like three versions of Nas all rapping on the
29:01
Speaker 1: same track. Here. I had to listen to the words
29:07
Speaker 1: to know current game versus back in the day's game,
29:11
Speaker 1: because current game is clear, you know he all you know,
29:15
Speaker 1: his voice is low. He's like, yo, I didn't do
29:17
Speaker 1: that back then. I need to bib it right while
29:20
Speaker 1: he's trying to spit the wisdom. I guess that's the
29:21
Speaker 1: wisdom coming out. But then younger game is not like,
29:24
Speaker 1: really aggressive, so you can't tell the difference. He's also like, yeah,
29:29
Speaker 1: I'm about to go shoot up this shoot at fifty
29:32
Speaker 1: cent and it's like, oh wait a minute, Okay, so
29:34
Speaker 1: that's the younger one because he's talking about something that
29:36
Speaker 1: happened in the past. But if you don't know all
29:38
Speaker 1: of this, you don't know who's talking to who. Now
29:42
Speaker 1: I know, I said it's a great song, but it's
29:44
Speaker 1: a great song because I have context, and I just
29:47
Speaker 1: gave you context. But if you're listening straight up, you
29:52
Speaker 1: might be like, yeah, who's talking to who fan. I
29:56
Speaker 1: don't know, so all in all, the theme that I
30:02
Speaker 1: was alluding to, and I know we're going along on this,
30:05
Speaker 1: but this is double album post is. The game takes
30:13
Speaker 1: a lot of styles, a lot of ideas, a lot
30:16
Speaker 1: of hooks, and he flips them in most cases. But
30:22
Speaker 1: it's excessive, right, I just said something right, game recognized.
30:27
Speaker 1: Game is similar to what we just heard from Nas
30:30
Speaker 1: with Nasty Nas Esco Escobar Nas. Right the joint with
30:36
Speaker 1: Eve forty, he's rapping like Eve forty. Meet the Parents
30:39
Speaker 1: is a jay Z song that was pretty popular with
30:43
Speaker 1: jay Z. I like what he did with it, but
30:46
Speaker 1: it is the part featuring Left the Gunplay feels Nyg's
30:52
Speaker 1: on here feels like a gn X type song, you know,
30:56
Speaker 1: same feel style. I don't even know if Left the
30:58
Speaker 1: Gunplay has a verse. I do remember like him saying
31:03
Speaker 1: a hook the party at games sounds like a Drake record.
31:13
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep going there's another record. You know, maybe
31:17
Speaker 1: I'm reaching, but it kind of reminded me of what
31:20
Speaker 1: while they did, and I'm I'm pretty sure one of
31:23
Speaker 1: them was running up with Leon Leon Thomas and there's
31:28
Speaker 1: there's a couple of themes and you know, lastly love it.
31:32
Speaker 1: I hate it. It's Game doing games, so it's like
31:35
Speaker 1: he's he's not name dropping as much as he used to,
31:41
Speaker 1: but he's doing it in a very different way. He's
31:43
Speaker 1: doing it with themes like and I don't know how
31:47
Speaker 1: to feel about that, because I wasn't a fan of
31:49
Speaker 1: the documentary because at first I thought it was cool.
31:53
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, his name is the Game, so
31:55
Speaker 1: he's gonna reference all of these hip hop artists in
31:59
Speaker 1: more moments and stuff like that. But then I realized, like, well,
32:02
Speaker 1: we don't really know about you until he dropped Doctor's
32:05
Speaker 1: Advocate and then he had more of an identity. So
32:10
Speaker 1: with that being said, documentary three is cool. I think
32:15
Speaker 1: the DJ Drama mixtape was better, but this isn't bad.
32:20
Speaker 1: So if you're a game fan, most of the stuff
32:25
Speaker 1: you would like, Like, honestly, if you really took the
32:28
Speaker 1: best out of this, you can make a fire probably
32:31
Speaker 1: close to classic album, like if it was you just
32:33
Speaker 1: took fifteen songs off of here, But that's not the case.
32:38
Speaker 1: We got to review it as it is, and it's cool.
32:44
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to run it back because there's
32:45
Speaker 1: a lot of records I do like, but there will
32:48
Speaker 1: be way more skips in subsequent listens, you know, so
32:55
Speaker 1: we'll see. Have you heard the game's album? Do you
32:58
Speaker 1: even check out games music? Leave your thoughts in the
33:01
Speaker 1: section below. And lastly, so y'all, I'm going to try
33:12
Speaker 1: to make this quick because this is basically a long
33:16
Speaker 1: episode and I don't like to do those, but at
33:21
Speaker 1: the same time, I feel like this is necessary. So
33:29
Speaker 1: if you don't know Keith E. D who was a
33:35
Speaker 1: Compton crept back in the days, associated with bad Boy
33:39
Speaker 1: for security purposes and on that side of the East
33:44
Speaker 1: Coast West Coast War where you know, you know Sugar
33:47
Speaker 1: Knight had the bloods on his side, and the whole
33:52
Speaker 1: history and rumors of how Tupac was murdered, right And
33:59
Speaker 1: for those who don't know who listening and you know,
34:02
Speaker 1: may not have all the details, I'm not going to
34:04
Speaker 1: go through all of them, but essentially the events that
34:10
Speaker 1: really led up to it is one the tension between
34:15
Speaker 1: both camps, really Shug and Diddy that you know how
34:20
Speaker 1: that goes if you both running with the entourages, the
34:23
Speaker 1: beef is on, and there's so many things that happened
34:26
Speaker 1: in between that showed you that there was no love
34:30
Speaker 1: on that, you know on the other side, especially once
34:33
Speaker 1: Tupac came to Death Row. That's kind of what Tupac
34:36
Speaker 1: kind of wrung the alarm on beef with bad Boy.
34:41
Speaker 1: But the actual events Las Vegas that led up to
34:46
Speaker 1: Tupac's murder had to do with a chain being snatched
34:51
Speaker 1: from a death Ro camp person early in the week,
34:56
Speaker 1: and the one of the assailants, right who beat up
35:02
Speaker 1: this dude happened to be Keithy's d's nephew, right, baby Lane.
35:08
Speaker 1: And that's the video you see of Death Row Tupac,
35:14
Speaker 1: you know, sug Knight jumping somebody in the Las Vegas
35:18
Speaker 1: hotel after the Mike Tyson fight, right, and the or
35:22
Speaker 1: casino after the Mike Tyson I think it was Bruce
35:26
Speaker 1: Selden fight. Was Bruce Sheldon took a dive. I'm just saying,
35:30
Speaker 1: I'll watch boxing. He took a dive because he wasn't hurt.
35:33
Speaker 1: He didn't want to get hit no more though, So
35:37
Speaker 1: that happens, and as a story as you know it,
35:40
Speaker 1: you know, Tupac and Suge Knight are now driving to
35:46
Speaker 1: Shugs Club in Vegas. I think it's called six six
35:48
Speaker 1: to two and somebody shoots up the car, and the
35:54
Speaker 1: longstanding history and known in the streets was that Keith
36:00
Speaker 1: d his nephew who was jumped Baby Lane, and two
36:04
Speaker 1: other guys were in the car and they were the
36:07
Speaker 1: ones who shot up the car with Tupac in it,
36:11
Speaker 1: where She'll got graized in the head and Tupac took
36:16
Speaker 1: multiple shots and died the following week. From that and
36:24
Speaker 1: right now, and this is like thirty years later, this
36:27
Speaker 1: is the first time anybody has been on trial for
36:31
Speaker 1: Tupac's murder. And if you're asking yourself, like, damn it
36:36
Speaker 1: took thirty years for that, well, yeah, because the rumor
36:39
Speaker 1: is that Crooking cops were involved in some way, and
36:45
Speaker 1: there was one theory that they did the shooting, but
36:51
Speaker 1: mostly in the Biggie murder, which is also connected. But
36:57
Speaker 1: then also them knowing something was going to happen and
37:02
Speaker 1: letting it happen is the theory, right or the word
37:07
Speaker 1: on the street. Now, I know you asked yourself thirty
37:11
Speaker 1: years later, you know what's going on? Where is everybody?
37:13
Speaker 1: Everybody in that car that's allegedly shot up Sugar Night's
37:19
Speaker 1: car with Tupac in it is dead except for KEFD
37:24
Speaker 1: and in most cases died a long time ago, especially
37:27
Speaker 1: Baby Lane. And the only reason why Keifd is on
37:34
Speaker 1: trial for murder beyond being the person who was allegedly
37:38
Speaker 1: in the car, it is because he ran his mouth.
37:46
Speaker 1: And I just have one example of that. So Keith D.
37:49
Speaker 1: When he was released for prison on something else a
37:52
Speaker 1: few years ago, he released a book called Compton Street
37:56
Speaker 1: Legend Notreus kefd's street level accounts of Tupac and Biggie's murders,
38:03
Speaker 1: death Row origins, sug Night, Puffy Combs and crooked Cops.
38:08
Speaker 1: They put all that seo in there. They want you
38:11
Speaker 1: to look at that type and be like, oh, I'm
38:12
Speaker 1: buying this. And for those who are wondering, I didn't
38:15
Speaker 1: buy this, are you crazy? I'm not supporting that man.
38:18
Speaker 1: He killed Tupac. You know what I'm saying. And I'll
38:23
Speaker 1: tell you why I believe that. I believe that because
38:28
Speaker 1: the statue of limitations were over when keiv D was
38:32
Speaker 1: released from prison. And you know, like I know, if
38:34
Speaker 1: you are on YouTube, every street legend from every town
38:40
Speaker 1: can get a little bag if he's willing to come
38:42
Speaker 1: on these content creators YouTube channels and talk about it
38:47
Speaker 1: in detail, so it's a way to come out of
38:51
Speaker 1: jail and get a bag right away. And why him
38:54
Speaker 1: because this is KEVD and Tupac and Biggie's murders are
38:58
Speaker 1: unsolved and the statute of limitations is up for him.
39:02
Speaker 1: And he also back in I think two thousand and eight,
39:06
Speaker 1: before he was free, was telling on tape because he
39:12
Speaker 1: had immunity. So he told the stories in detail back
39:20
Speaker 1: then in two thousand and eight. And when did this
39:22
Speaker 1: one come out, I'm not sure when the book. The
39:25
Speaker 1: book dropped in twenty nineteen. Here he is again. Then
39:30
Speaker 1: he went on a tour again of podcasts, answering their
39:34
Speaker 1: questions in detail, and I mean down to the point
39:40
Speaker 1: of the shooting, what he saw, what he thought, what
39:46
Speaker 1: he did, what they did beforehand, like telling the story
39:50
Speaker 1: of yeah, we went to the to the we was
39:56
Speaker 1: looking for tupacting jump my nephew, my nephew only eighteen.
40:02
Speaker 1: Why he snuffed my nephew. There's some gang stuff is
40:05
Speaker 1: get back time said he went to sixty sixty two
40:10
Speaker 1: waiting for them, didn't see him, was trying to was like,
40:15
Speaker 1: all right, well they not out here, you know, we
40:17
Speaker 1: catch him another time let's bounce. Then said he heard
40:22
Speaker 1: some chicks saying Tupac tupac, and then he like, oh there,
40:26
Speaker 1: didy' go right there, and then they went and shot
40:29
Speaker 1: up the car. This is KEVD telling us in the
40:32
Speaker 1: book and interviews. You can just google. You can go
40:35
Speaker 1: write the YouTube and like KEVD said, and you will
40:39
Speaker 1: find everything he said. And it's some of those videos
40:43
Speaker 1: you're watching and say to yourself, this gotta be the dumbest. Well,
40:48
Speaker 1: after that book and podcasts, YouTube tour, the cops said,
40:53
Speaker 1: oh you think you are way away, were coming to
40:57
Speaker 1: get you. And he been in prison ever since, or
41:01
Speaker 1: he've been in jail ever since, and now he's on
41:04
Speaker 1: trial when there was no trial for like thirty years.
41:09
Speaker 1: And one of the key things before I just say
41:11
Speaker 1: a little bit about what I've seen in the trial
41:17
Speaker 1: is I remember an interview with Suge Knight, and Suge
41:20
Speaker 1: Knight said, you solve one case, you solve them both.
41:26
Speaker 1: Suge Knight don't want to snitch. He definitely don't want
41:29
Speaker 1: to be called to the stand. But that says a lot,
41:34
Speaker 1: and Keith d had already said a lot. Right, So
41:39
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell y'all real quick from the book perspective,
41:43
Speaker 1: because I read it and his name, by the way,
41:46
Speaker 1: is Dwayne Davis aka keep d. If you're interested in
41:54
Speaker 1: it from just knowing KEPD is saying everything, Okay, he
42:01
Speaker 1: just going, He just keeps going and then kept making
42:07
Speaker 1: me turn the pace. I can't believe he said that.
42:09
Speaker 1: I can't believe he said that. I can't believe he
42:10
Speaker 1: said that. It was the same thing from the interviews.
42:15
Speaker 1: Do I suggest you buy it? I mean, just know
42:19
Speaker 1: that you're who you're supporting when you buy the book.
42:22
Speaker 1: The proceeds are going to Dwayne Keefey d Davis. And
42:28
Speaker 1: if you're a Tupac fan, or you just don't like
42:31
Speaker 1: the idea that this man had anything to do with
42:34
Speaker 1: Tupac and Biggie maybe not Biggie Murder, but you know
42:38
Speaker 1: what I mean, then don't buy it or get it
42:47
Speaker 1: the way I got it five finger discount. But I'm
42:50
Speaker 1: just saying I wasn't going to support I'm sorry, I
42:53
Speaker 1: just had to say it. I mean, if they're gonna
42:55
Speaker 1: knock on my door, hey man, you stole the digital book,
42:58
Speaker 1: then I'll pay the ten dollars or what. But I
43:02
Speaker 1: just found it compelling to read for two reasons. It
43:07
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, here's well, let me just say
43:12
Speaker 1: the main reason. Here's someone documenting what most of us
43:17
Speaker 1: have already known now to the casuals into the mainstream public.
43:23
Speaker 1: They're like, Tupac's murder has never been solved, and they
43:26
Speaker 1: don't know nothing else. They're like East Coast, West Coast,
43:28
Speaker 1: and he died and that's it. And then Biggie died
43:30
Speaker 1: and that's it. That's all they know. But for those
43:33
Speaker 1: that know, and not even on just a rap level,
43:36
Speaker 1: just people talking in the streets, and it's just making
43:40
Speaker 1: its way, not just through Cali but everywhere else. We know,
43:47
Speaker 1: Tupac gets Tupac snuffs a crip who is known as
43:53
Speaker 1: a killer. They retaliate, Tupac snuffs them and Bloods jump them.
44:01
Speaker 1: Then Crip's getting a whip in return fire, resulting in
44:06
Speaker 1: Tupac's murder. And then they go back to the hood
44:08
Speaker 1: and it's blood and crypt gang war all over the place. Now,
44:18
Speaker 1: this is the first week of his trial, and when
44:20
Speaker 1: I tell you every day has been spicy, it's on
44:24
Speaker 1: court TV, y'all. Yeah, I think you can go back
44:28
Speaker 1: and just watch every day if you want to, and
44:32
Speaker 1: it's compelling now the first week like open the first
44:38
Speaker 1: day opening statements, kepd's lawyer took a very interesting position
44:46
Speaker 1: that I think based on law, not what we know
44:50
Speaker 1: we know, but based on law, could get KEYPD out
44:56
Speaker 1: of this situation. And that's the prosecution can't place him
45:03
Speaker 1: in vase. When Baby Lane is getting jumped, Kefd's not.
45:08
Speaker 1: No one could say KEVD was right there when the
45:11
Speaker 1: shooting happens. No one can say KEEFD was in the
45:15
Speaker 1: car when they pulled up to sixty six y two.
45:20
Speaker 1: There was no one who could say he was there.
45:25
Speaker 1: So that's the best. That's probably why KVD took it
45:28
Speaker 1: to trut because his lawyer is saying, you can't prove
45:32
Speaker 1: that he was there to do to murder Tupac or
45:35
Speaker 1: be a part of it. But the most compelling part
45:40
Speaker 1: is keefy D identified himself in books and videos. He
45:48
Speaker 1: said everything like you don't need another witness, like man
45:51
Speaker 1: who saw you? He said, I saw me, I was
45:55
Speaker 1: there and this is what I did. I'm telling you
45:59
Speaker 1: this is crazy. Then there was another day where mob James,
46:04
Speaker 1: who used to be the head of Sugar Night's security,
46:09
Speaker 1: basically street security. We're not talking about official security, you know,
46:15
Speaker 1: walk around and with the bloods and all of that.
46:18
Speaker 1: He was there and he's like, you know, I changed
46:20
Speaker 1: my life and all of that, and I don't want
46:22
Speaker 1: to put this man in jail. I'm gonna tell you
46:24
Speaker 1: right now, if you are even remotely interested, look at
46:28
Speaker 1: keithy D's face on day one in court and look
46:33
Speaker 1: at his face when he's looking at Mob James. When
46:37
Speaker 1: I saw his face, I was like, Okay, so that's
46:40
Speaker 1: what the West Coast means by bloods and crips in
46:42
Speaker 1: its internal war. Because my god, I never seen somebody
46:46
Speaker 1: have so much hate in the courtroom where you're locked
46:49
Speaker 1: up and you can't even get to him, and you're
46:51
Speaker 1: both old, but you still have this hate in your eyes.
46:56
Speaker 1: And Mob James was like, you know, even though we
46:58
Speaker 1: don't like each other, I'm not trying to send you
47:00
Speaker 1: to jail. Keevy D didn't flinch. He was just you
47:04
Speaker 1: can't see it because of my hat. But he was
47:06
Speaker 1: like stone, like he wanted to. Like you could see
47:11
Speaker 1: the history of their relationship, which is all negative in
47:16
Speaker 1: keefy D's eyes, and you could tell Mab James is
47:20
Speaker 1: over it because he's lost a lot, and I think
47:23
Speaker 1: that's why he is where he is in his life.
47:26
Speaker 1: But Keithy d Face was like, I don't forget, so
47:32
Speaker 1: that was interesting. And then you know, there was cops
47:35
Speaker 1: from the scene for those who don't know, like Tupac was.
47:41
Speaker 1: He was shot up and when the cops got to
47:44
Speaker 1: the scene, he still was coherent enough to talk and
47:49
Speaker 1: one of the cops who rode in the ambulance with
47:52
Speaker 1: him was like, you know, you know who did this,
47:55
Speaker 1: and he was like, now we'll take care of it.
48:00
Speaker 1: Crazy And remember there was a one bicycle cop who said,
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, I'm with the police and blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: And what Tupac say to him, fuck you Like he's shot.
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Speaker 1: He shot up and he's still talking like this, right.
48:20
Speaker 1: Wish he was still here because you know, I'd rather
48:23
Speaker 1: hear him reflect on those situations from being an older
48:28
Speaker 1: man than to have him like go out in that
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Speaker 1: way and die because some people won't get the message,
48:36
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I'm pretty sure Tupac
48:38
Speaker 1: will prefer people learn from his situation rather than you know,
48:43
Speaker 1: feel like yeah, Pa, that's why Pak was better than
48:47
Speaker 1: let it getting shot up in cool Okay, you will
48:51
Speaker 1: never make that cool to me. But I kind of
48:55
Speaker 1: feel like, looking at this situation and what I read
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Speaker 1: in the book and what I watched in those videos,
49:08
Speaker 1: I don't think KEVD is coming home. And if KEVD
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Speaker 1: is found guilty, you know, El's not coming home Puff
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Speaker 1: Daddy Diddy, he is not coming home. The minute Diddy
49:24
Speaker 1: is about to be like, all right, serve my time
49:26
Speaker 1: for that crazy, you know, freak all stuff. They're gonna
49:30
Speaker 1: be like, oh, but what about this Tupac murder? You
49:32
Speaker 1: coming with us? And I know some people who haven't
49:35
Speaker 1: been following might say, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa Wait,
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Speaker 1: what you mean Diddy murdered Tupac? Well, the South Side Cryps,
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Speaker 1: which KEVD was a part of and had a relationship
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Speaker 1: with Puff through this guy named Zip. I think Zip
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Speaker 1: was from Harlem. They used to do security for bad
49:58
Speaker 1: Boy and the rumor, if you even if you've seen
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Speaker 1: the Diddy documentary, because they do talk about it, there
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Speaker 1: is that Diddy's beef with shook Knights specifically and his
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Speaker 1: team had gotten to the point where he was so afraid,
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Speaker 1: allegedly that he put money on Tupac and shook Knight's
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Speaker 1: head to get them, you know, killed. I mean, I
50:26
Speaker 1: don't amount of times anyway, So like I say, but
50:31
Speaker 1: apparently some time it passed and there wasn't wasn't an
50:35
Speaker 1: opportunity for them to cash in on that. And my
50:40
Speaker 1: theory has always been that maybe they needed the money
50:44
Speaker 1: later on and they didn't ask, like, yo, you still
50:48
Speaker 1: want this, and they just took it upon themselves to
50:51
Speaker 1: set up a situation where they would collide with them
50:54
Speaker 1: and have an opportunity, you know, which is kind of
50:58
Speaker 1: what happened, you know. And again this is all speculation
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Speaker 1: and rumors, just like the rumor that maybe did he
51:06
Speaker 1: is paying for his lawyer, which I heard is a
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Speaker 1: public defender. But if he's a public defender, he was
51:12
Speaker 1: pretty good in opening statement, so that would be crazy.
51:18
Speaker 1: But they're trying to draw the connection, and they talked
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Speaker 1: about this in court that did he paid for Tupac
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Speaker 1: and Suge Knight to get shot up and murdered and
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Speaker 1: keefd in the South Side. Crips cashed in on that
51:37
Speaker 1: and got Tupac and allegedly they went to Zip like, yo,
51:44
Speaker 1: where's our money? Tell Puff, and Puff sent five hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand to Zip, which is half right, half of a
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Speaker 1: million dollars. You only got Tupac, you didn't get Suge Knight,
52:00
Speaker 1: but the money never got to the South Side Crypts
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Speaker 1: because they said that Zip kept the money right and
52:08
Speaker 1: told him Puff didn't pay. Now, if you go again,
52:12
Speaker 1: watch some of those videos online of Keith d talking there.
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Speaker 1: There are several videos when he was free where he
52:21
Speaker 1: was making this ominous how you say ominous? Uh? Please?
52:29
Speaker 1: So to speak to Diddy about taking care of them, right, Yo,
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Speaker 1: we looked out for y'all blah blah blah. Take you know,
52:38
Speaker 1: y'all need to take care of us, blah blah blah.
52:40
Speaker 1: And you can look at that as like, Yo, they
52:42
Speaker 1: did a lot of security early on and backed them up,
52:46
Speaker 1: you know. And maybe he just he hurting and he
52:50
Speaker 1: just wants some you know, a little something for that.
52:53
Speaker 1: Or maybe because he was telling everything because he thought
52:58
Speaker 1: he could never go to jail, that he just decided
53:03
Speaker 1: I could talk freely, Diddy, where where my money at
53:08
Speaker 1: from thirty years ago? You owe me? So it's it's
53:14
Speaker 1: all crazy, And a lot of times on this podcast,
53:18
Speaker 1: I don't really necessarily like to talk about things out
53:22
Speaker 1: happening outside of the art, but this is so significant
53:28
Speaker 1: in hip hop Biggie and Tupac's murder that it almost
53:34
Speaker 1: feels especially me having to you know, reading that book,
53:38
Speaker 1: I felt like I needed to talk about it. And
53:40
Speaker 1: one last tidbit that connects Diddy and south Side Crypts
53:47
Speaker 1: and specifically as it relates to Biggies murder. We know
53:50
Speaker 1: all the rumors behind the biggest Biggies murder and whether
53:53
Speaker 1: it was cops or Death Row or Death Row hide
53:56
Speaker 1: Harry cops or just retaliation. Keefy D in that book
54:02
Speaker 1: also says, and he senative interviews that they were at
54:06
Speaker 1: the party that Biggie and Puff and bad Boy were
54:12
Speaker 1: at right before Biggie got murdered, and certain crooked cops
54:17
Speaker 1: were there and Bloods and Death Row associates were there,
54:22
Speaker 1: and Keefy D says he went up to Diddy like, yo,
54:26
Speaker 1: y'all good, y'all need some protection, blah blah blah, and
54:28
Speaker 1: did he said, nah, We're good. So there's so much
54:34
Speaker 1: that this case Biggie and Tupac's murderers are about to
54:37
Speaker 1: be solved. It's unfortunate that both their mothers aren't here
54:42
Speaker 1: to witness this and get some answers and some justice.
54:50
Speaker 1: But in the case of Biggie, you know, his children
54:52
Speaker 1: are around and people always say Tupac has a daughter,
54:57
Speaker 1: but I don't wear I don't know so ma maybe,
55:00
Speaker 1: but his family in general, his brother Mopreme, like you
55:03
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like people can can can get
55:08
Speaker 1: some justice fortunately out of this situation, because I don't
55:13
Speaker 1: think KEVD after doing that is I just don't think
55:18
Speaker 1: he's going free. And some testimony that I saw today
55:25
Speaker 1: where the cops or like keefd was wearing a wire
55:29
Speaker 1: to try to trap Zip to eventually get to Diddy.
55:37
Speaker 1: What y'all call that? Uh, that's a snitch, right, see
55:40
Speaker 1: I right, informant VD, and he ain't flinch when it
55:49
Speaker 1: was being said, you like, And so this is crazy.
55:54
Speaker 1: And this is the reason why I felt like this
55:56
Speaker 1: was going to be a long episode because I needed
56:00
Speaker 1: to say everything I need to say about that situation,
56:04
Speaker 1: because it's been a whole week and it's been action
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Speaker 1: packed every time in that courtroom. And even though it
56:10
Speaker 1: may feel like some are covering it and some and
56:13
Speaker 1: others aren't, trust me. When that verdict come down, whether
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Speaker 1: he go free or not, it's going to take over
56:21
Speaker 1: the conversation in hip hop. So let me know what
56:25
Speaker 1: you think. Have you been following the case, what did
56:29
Speaker 1: you hear from the streets back then, what have you
56:32
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