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Bad White Boy But Not Em · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, Audible celebrates fifty
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years of hip hop with a new series. My thoughts on the new projects
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from Lloyd Banks and Swiss Beats, and Jack Harlowe says he's the hardest white
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boy since eminem. I'm gonna tell you right now the pause gods want to
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talk to you? Or do I have to say pause for that? Man?
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Start to show. Welcome to hip Hop Now Podcast. If you're from
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of these stories from. Let's get ready to the business. So Jack Harlow
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says, he is the hardest white boy since Eminem. I don't know why
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he would say that, especially say that in that way, but I think
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it has nothing to do with what you're thinking about. Let's read and see
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what he said. This article comes from Hip Hop dx dot com, so
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go check it out. Says Jack Harlow claims he's the hardest white boy since
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Eminem. Now let's see. The new mixtape, which the Louisville rapper announced
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on Wednesday and dropped on Friday, includes a song called they Don't Love It,
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where Harlow argues to be as lyrically talented as Slim Shady himself. Here's
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some of the lyrics for y'all. I'm gonna read the whole article. Go
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check it out for yourself. Your boys striving to be the most dominant ever,
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the hardest white boy since the one who rapped about vomit and sweaters.
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Okay, and hold the comments, because I promise you I'm I'm honestly better
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than whoever it came to your head. Right then. They ain't cut from
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the same thread like him. They don't study doing work to get ahead like
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him. They don't toss and turn into f and bed like him. Okay,
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so I haven't heard this record, so me reading it probably doesn't do
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it any justice, or maybe it does. I haven't heard it, but
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I'm just going to go out on a LMB. They called me Vegas for
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a reason. I'm gonna take a back safe than I've heard Jack Harlowe.
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Before his last album, there were singles, There were songs I liked,
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but I think I like them because you're it was kind of like a groove,
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you know, it was a groove. But I didn't like the album,
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and I definitely didn't become a fan of his. I don't dislike his
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music, but he didn't do enough for me to anticipate any new music.
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So he had a new album out obviously. Now I'm curious since he said
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this, and I definitely want to hear that song. Because you're gonna say
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something like that, you better back it up. Now, Why would he
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say that? Will who checking for Jack Harlow? This new generation or due
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respect? They kind of like you when you're hot in the very beginning.
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They like his singles, but when you start dropping follow ups, it don't
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matter if it's hot or not. Bars they will ignore your new stuff,
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whereas us old heads. Right, if we like something, we might check
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for you again, like, Yo, what do he got that's new?
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But most of us either don't know you or don't really care for you.
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Now. Me, I like certain joints that didn't like others, so I'm
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more willing to check it out just to see. But I can tell you
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right now, he is nowhere near being the hardest, the best, whatever
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way you want to characterize it, white boy, since Eminem not even close.
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You know why because most people who respect Eminem lyrically before the albums or
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whatever, whenever you first heard them. But whoever respects them lyrically knows the
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impression you have to make in order for people to even believe what you're saying.
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And I think sometimes people take the whole speak it into existence. WHOA,
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you could speaking ass whooping into existence also, but you don't want that,
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right. I don't know how that connects, but it just sounds good.
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But I'm just saying that Eminem's skill level where he comes from as an
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MC, he's a battle rapper first, growing up in a time where bars
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matter. See Jack Harlow. It's safe to be you right today in the
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lane you play in right because the level the bar has been lowered in a
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lot of ways. For people to like you, for people to say you're
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the best, people will have their preference between let's say Eminem style a rap
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in yours and say that you're better than him just because they prefer your style.
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Well, real hip hop heads know, and I'm not talking about the
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book bag Boom Bap under the Underground Cats only, I'm talking about any real
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hip hop head knows that it is when you're talking like that and you compare
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yourself to someone like that, it's about the bars. When Eminem, all
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the accolades he receives are not necessarily about the context of his music or the
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content exactly, obviously not. It's about the skill level, right because rappers
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know when you do certain things within your bars. They know what's unique,
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they know what's tough, right, Like damn he put that together that that's
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the skill level. Skill is just skill is not saying you can do you
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can rap, right, everybody rap Ai rapping, but not that. Yeah,
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but actually Ai was good. He was wrestling Peace, but he was
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better than COVID, better than Chat. But he only put out one song.
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But artificial intelligence can do that. Right, especially now the bar the
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bars getting raised. Now, you know, computers can do the software can
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do what you do. Those bars I read, they were cute, they
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were clever, but they're nowhere near impressing MCS and Eminem, whether you like
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it or not, isn't MC. You don't become a battle rapper. You
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don't become a dude who is vicious with freestyles. I don't care if he
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can't even do it anymore. History is what it is, and you can't
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rewrite it now for those who may mix this up or whatever. At no
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point in time, dude, you should or should you feel that he was
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talking about Eminem in a negative way. No, he was just they did
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a song together and it was actually was kind of dope, not on no
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bar stuff. It was just a dope record. But nevertheless, let's keep
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things in perspective. I get it now, we're all talking about you.
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Now, you're gonna get all the hits, right, hopefully I get a
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couple of hits. Subscribe right now. Your name is gonna be out there.
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But and you know how people say. You know, even if people
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even if the press is negative or people talking about your negative, it's still
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attention. It still can work out in your favor, which is true.
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But if at any point you ever want to be taken seriously as an artist,
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there's just so many white boys you're not bet at it. And I'm
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not gonna name them, but I'm pretty sure they're gonna start talking. It's
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about to be a white boy like meinlee in hip hop, and I'm kind
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of here for it because, you know what, I want to see what
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Jack Harlowe does. Maybe got some bars for y'all in the low. So
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let's let's get it. Black folks, sit back. Fifty years of hip
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hop. We're gonna watch white boys battle it out to the death. Or
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maybe not, maybe they're just ron or something like that. Audible celebrates fifty
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years of hip hop with a new series. Now. This new series includes
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Snoop Dog, Little Kim, Yasin Babe, and a couple of others.
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And essentially what it is is they're basically gonna host shows that are audio story
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storytelling, basically obviously regarding hip hop. Let me see if I could find
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a little bit of detail. Kim, this is Little Kim will offer her
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own words plus music where she will describe how she became an integral part of
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hip hop's evolution and an inspiration for female rappers. This could be pretty dope,
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now, I know, I got to start at the beginning because I'm
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not gonna sit here and assume everybody knows what audible is. I'm gonna tell
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you right now. Has nothing to do with football. Okay, that's one.
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Two. If you don't know what Audible is, Audible is an app
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in most cases, where I guess you could just call it as an app
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but software, but an app. You can get it on your phone called
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Audible where it's audio books for the most part. Right, you can go
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by you know, Can't Stop, Won't Stop the Hip Hop book, and
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you can listen to it in audio phone, so instead of reading the book,
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you can just listen to someone read it to you. And they even
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have stuff like, for example, when I wanted to try it out to
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see if I would like it, like Star Wars, right, and what
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attracted me to it, Because I'm gonna tell you all right now, I
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have a short attention span when it comes to audio books. So the fact
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that the Star Wars books has some sound design right, spaceship sounds and light
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dable sounds and all that good stuff in different voices. It kind of works.
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It keeps my tention a little bit more. But if you want a
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real example and sidebar, but connected. When I went to a vase for
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the podcast Movement Evolutions conference on the flight, I was like, I'm gonna
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listen to an audio book and I was trying to. I was like,
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I can't listen to the Star Wars joint because I ain't gonna front when they
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started talking. I'm a Star Wars fan. But when they started talking a
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little bit too much about you know, Star Wars and stuff, names of
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ships and stuff, I started drifting, you know what I'm saying. So
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I was like, Yo, I'm gonna check out a Book's a What's a
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book I always wanted to read, always heard about, but just never got
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around to either buying it or reading it. So I chose Lambreath Randy Sullivan.
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And if you know what that is, that is like before we knew
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what we knew about digging Tupac's death, this was like the source for it.
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So it's a lot in this book that's been dispas held or considered wrong
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or different theories. But when I tell you it was entertaining. It was
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so I said all that to say, when you think about this opportunity for
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rappers like for example, Y'asymbaye, his show A Dynamic Career Communications will explore
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the black star rappers brooklyn roots, faith and spirituality as well as his as
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well as his creator's inspirations. This is interesting, right because they all they
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all won't be the same, They all will come from rappers you know or
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you should know, and the content will speak to different things related to who
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they are and also probably their music careers in some way shape or for them.
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I ain't go front the little Kim one sounds interesting considering that debate.
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From time to time, people forget about Kim right shout out to the bee
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Hive. Don't act like it this before that bay Hide. I'm just saying,
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no beef will company me. But it's interesting. So let me ask
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you this. Would you guys want me to review those because I'm pretty much
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down to go through it for the sake of those that are interested. So
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if you leave the comment in the comment section and say a word, I
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at least want to know or I never listen to an audio book and I'm
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a little attempted, let me know, and if we get it popping and
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you know, we got to do a live stream and it's a nice you
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know, turnout or whatever, then I'm a highlight Audible because they're gonna need
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to sponsor and maybe we bring some things to the podcast right for you to
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try it out yourself. Who knows, maybe a discount go or a free
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audio book whatever. They kind of do that all the time. And lastly,
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so last week I decided to do not the traditional news podcast, but
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a ranking of the albums for Redman and Methems catalog. You can watch that
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video ray Hill on this YouTube channel hip Hop Now. And that was my
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way of taking a break but doing something interesting that people would want to check
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out. And you know it turn it out pretty good. It's Hoodie Vegas
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watch yourself. Okay. But in the in that time off from my weekly
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routine of news podcasts, as you know, I'm listening to new hip hop
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you know, all the time, and if you follow me on Instagram you
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can kind of stay caught up on what's out because I tend to this.
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I tend to listen to most hip hop albums for the most part that come
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out and you know, if I post that I'm playing this, I'm now
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playing or whatever, it's a good way for you to just see what's out
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and what's new. But recently, I listened to two projects this past week
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when I was on vacation, and one project was Swiss Beats project entitled hip
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Hop fifty Volume two. It's an EP. Now, if you don't know,
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there was a value one where DJ Premier produced all the tracks. This
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is a part of I believe a massive peal initiative. I believe, let's
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just make sure, let's make sure, okay, massive peal right, initiative
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to celebrate hip hop by putting out these EPs. And I'm starting to think
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that quarterly because it feels like it after these two that drop. But they're
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putting out these EPs to commemorate hip hop with new music, and they're using
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one producer to produce. I believe it's five songs every time. Let me
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just make sure, well in this case six, but to produce an EP
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five to six songs or whatever featuring a number of artists from old school artists
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and new school artists. Now, I did a review of the DJ Premier
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joint a while back, and I didn't really care for it. The best
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songs on there to me were the standouts were really for me were only two
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songs, the one with Joey Badass and the other one that featured Rhapsody and
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Remy Ma rapping right wasn't why it just wasn't as good as I anticipated.
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Well, now Swiss Beats is up next, and I'm just going to tell
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you right off the back z my impressions. I gotta keep listening. But
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the Swiss Beats EP is better than the premiere EP. It just is now,
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is it? You know? Are there no skips on EP? No?
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But there were more skips on the premiere joint for me than they were
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on here. Some of the artists featured on This Go Round nass Back.
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He was on a premier joint that should have been way better than it was.
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It wasn't. But on here it's a song called Runaway. It's actually
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better. Who else is on here? Jay Electronica is on here and it
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sounds like a Jay Electronica track, And I kind of like the fact that
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Jay Electronica is on here. You know, you don't really get the hair
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from him that much since his releases five YEO Farming's on here, Little Dirk
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is on here a buggie with the hoodie Little Wayne. But the standout track
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for me is a song called take Him Out. Its samples some lyrics from
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Onyx, right, throw your Guns in the air, whatever, and it
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features Jada Kiss, Benny the Butcher, and Scarlet Now hold On, hold
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On. Scarlet was gonna be She's gonna be one of my stories right this
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week, but I said, naw, I don't really want to devote a
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whole time to it if you don't know who scarlep is and you're saying to
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yourself, Scarlet Let, what what? She's this new female rapp out of
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the Bronx New York. I think it's the Bronx. She has this song
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that became popular. She has a couple of songs, but she has this
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one particular song that became popular on the internet. I think it's called get
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Out in New York or whatever. Now, of course, you from New
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York, you from the hood, you probably like it. Right. She
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has a real deep voice in some ways, she kind of even though they
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don't have the same voice. But I'm just her approach to ron and reminds
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me a lot of hurricane g you know, just what a deeper voice.
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She's not dumb nice. That's good for some of y'all, but she's not
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the worst thing I ever heard, And that song in particular, it's cool,
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but I needed to hear more. Well. When I hear her bars
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next to Benny and Jada kiss, I'm not turned off by him. The
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only thing I would say was her verse was a little too long, and
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I don't think I liked that because I don't feel like she was like,
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this is one of the best verses I ever heard. Let it keep going.
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I felt like there was a point where it could have ended. It
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would have been perfect. Right. But she's cool, and she's called Scarlet
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because she has a scarlet lip. I don't know how she got it.
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You can google that. I'm assuming there's something crazy, something bad. But
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nevertheless, she's all the rage right now, busted doing remixes and all that,
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and now she's on this project with Swiss Beats. But this particular song
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worth the price of admission, right worth it. So there you have it.
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Now, I'm gonna tell you, like this out all the beats or
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what you would think. It's not a boom bat fest. I know it
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says hip hop fifty, but it's all a hip hop, So don't be
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afraid when you hear five year foreign or hit that skip button because I'm not
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the biggest fan either, but I don't. I don't mind his song on
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here, but for six songs and was here and for it to be kind
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of hip hop fifty and it's good. This was an improvement from the premier
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joint. Now the next album that I listened to, and this one I
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actually had to listen to like three times, because when I first listened to
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it, I was like, Okay, it's more Lloyd Banks right the course
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of the inevitable three Pieces of My Pain. This is good, y'all,
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This, this is good. Now, I will say this, I think
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Lloyd Banks needs chill with the amount of songs. He's extremely monotone, even
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in flow, and if you're not into it, or the beats aren't crazy
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or fit him well, or the hook is not perfect. Also, it
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could become so redundant and mundane where he could be saying something crazy and you
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don't even hear it because it sounds no different than what you already heard.
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But I will say this album maybe better than the first two. The first
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one was cool and I liked it, but I think I was just happy
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to have him back, right. The second one, I felt like,
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the second album in this trilogy, I felt like was more of the same,
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which wasn't a bad thing, but I was somewhat unimpressed for the things
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I mentioned. But this third version it's better because I think this is the
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best production of the three. The production, the field, the darkness feel
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of it, right, like the whole Griselle to kind of feel, you
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know, with the grimy beats. Not to say that that's what it is,
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but you get that vibe and with his voice it's just perfect. I
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just feel I just feel like it's too long. Man. It's like chill,
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like, give us, give us fourteen. I don't care how long
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he's been gone. He just gave y'all a trilogy, right, And I
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think it's like every year basically dropped an album. So I get it.
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I get it. People, you know, just glad to have Banks back.
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Love the music. No, he's nice, we all know that,
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But I just feel like this one hits different. Is it, you know,
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one of the best of the Yeah, yeah, i'd say that is
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it? Top five right now for me, maybe, but I would have
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to wait. At against what's been released. There are probably two projects who
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or two projects that I know for a fact, I don't think this is
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better than but that doesn't mean this can't be three in the top five,
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right So we'll see. But if you're a Lloyd Banks fan, then you
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heard the past two albums and you like them, I think you're gonna love
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this one as well. I will say this real quick before I head out
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that probably sometime next month, which is right around the corner of Few from
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the Future, Get your ass out of here. It's already made for you,
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I'm saying. But next month I will probably do an episode on the
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best of the year so far. For those that follow this podcast know,
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oh yeah, I'm listening to hip hop, and by the time we get
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to the end of the year, I have a very good balanced idea of
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the best of the best for twenty twenty three and you're seeing the process right
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again. Follow me on ig at Vegas where I and C you can see
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all the albums I listened to, and at the end of the year or
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at the halfway point, you know, I'm going to talk about well what's
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the best so far? And I will say right now, twenty twenty three,
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fifty years of hip hop might be the slowest year in a long time
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when it comes to really great music early because in the year's not over.
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But in the past couple of years, once we reached that halfway point,
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I firmly had a top five, like I knew, like yo if the
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year ended now, these are definitely in my top five I had. Basically
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I had a five that I didn't think was going to change, even with
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the whole six months left. I don't have that now. I think two
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spots are locked down right now, and then the other three will have to
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be filled and then we'll see what happens. But it's fifty years of hip
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hop. I've been anticipating some surprises, some really dope albums. It's a
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couple of people who got projects on the way, like Conway who just dropped
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another single. Who knows. We'll see what happens. That's going to do
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it for me. You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, well we
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