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Go to Albums (Livestream) · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Speaker 1: audio podcasts, or maybe you saw a thumbnail, or maybe
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Speaker 1: you saw a topic about hip hop. So what I
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Speaker 1: wanted to do today is something a little bit more
1:11
Speaker 1: free form audience engagement. I know you're trying to make
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Speaker 1: that a bad thing. It is not. It's been a
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Speaker 1: part of radio and television for years. You're supposed to
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Speaker 1: do it when you are a creator of content. So
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Speaker 1: what I wanted to talk about today and I wanted
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Speaker 1: to share with some of y'all, is the fact that
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Speaker 1: this is for the music lovers. This is for the
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Speaker 1: music fans out there, those who cherish their CDs when
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Speaker 1: they had it, collect vinyl, have a library, even if
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Speaker 1: it's a digital library of music that some would call extensive. Right,
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Speaker 1: maybe you have some joints in your collection that are
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Speaker 1: hard to find, records and stuff like that, just different
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Speaker 1: things like that, you know, honestly, because there's a thing
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Speaker 1: that some of us music lovers like to do, like myself,
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Speaker 1: and maybe it's just myself, I don't know, but I
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Speaker 1: like to go back and listen to older music, right, Like,
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Speaker 1: whether it's albums, it don't matter if it was last year,
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Speaker 1: ten years ago, twenty years ago, before I was born,
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Speaker 1: wherever it may be. Now, we're gonna keep it hip
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Speaker 1: hop because this is a hip hop podcast. This is
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Speaker 1: a hip hop podcast. Just want to let y'all know
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Speaker 1: that we want to keep it hip hop for this regard.
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Speaker 1: But as I scroll, because you're looking at my Apple
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Speaker 1: Music collection, I know it just says me, But I
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Speaker 1: was playing some of my music, but you won't see
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Speaker 1: me scroll past a number of albums that you're gonna
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Speaker 1: be like, Hey, that's not hip hop? Is that Kit Cutting?
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Speaker 1: Is that Diddy? Is that. I don't know. I was
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Speaker 1: trying to think of a name, but then I started
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Speaker 1: thinking of like movie stars and shit, is that Prince?
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Speaker 1: Is that? Whoever? Right, Jimmy Hendrix, whoever? But we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about hip hop because one of the things
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Speaker 1: that I know for me as a hip hop head,
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Speaker 1: that I like to do. You know, I don't listen
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Speaker 1: to our album and then dip out. I basically love
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Speaker 1: to go back to those albums that I loved and
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Speaker 1: maybe haven't heard in a while. And one of the
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Speaker 1: things that made me come up with this as a
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Speaker 1: topic is the fact that, honestly, a lot of people
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Speaker 1: will argue every day, all day on social media about
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Speaker 1: the same albums and artists from the pats And sometimes
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Speaker 1: when people do things like you know that new gn
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Speaker 1: X album, when's the last time you heard it? You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Or that new Snoop album, when's
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Speaker 1: the last time you listen to that? Was it really great?
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Speaker 1: And the thing with me is what when was the
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Speaker 1: last time I'd listened to? It? Takes a nation of
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Speaker 1: millions in its entirety, it's a long time ago. Bro. Now,
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Speaker 1: It's not to say that I don't sometimes go back.
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Speaker 1: But again, even classics I'm not going to all the time,
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Speaker 1: but I can accept that it's a classic, you feel me.
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Speaker 1: So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna just go
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Speaker 1: through a couple of joints I have listening. Now, what
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Speaker 1: is the best way to do this, I guess so
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Speaker 1: you can see album for him first and foremost. Shout
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Speaker 1: out to everybody tuning in now. Tron says, should have
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Speaker 1: kept my cassettes. Still got the vinyl and CDs though.
4:48
Speaker 1: I kept my cassettes, but it was only because when
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Speaker 1: I bought a house, it was just in a box
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Speaker 1: and it went in a garage and through two houses
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Speaker 1: that I had, one in Baltimore and here. I honestly
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Speaker 1: didn't even touch them joints until Viidel had a resurgence
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Speaker 1: and I wound up buying a record player that just
5:09
Speaker 1: so happened to have a cassette player. So I was like, oh, well,
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Speaker 1: let me go digging them cassettes. And then when I
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Speaker 1: saw what I had. You know, if you watch this
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Speaker 1: podcast in the past, when I was like in my
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Speaker 1: garage aka the Dungeons of Rap, I had some of
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Speaker 1: the album to sets behind me. Actually they're right there,
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Speaker 1: but you can't really see them. If you look see
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Speaker 1: what my finger point right there? A couple of them
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Speaker 1: are right there. See these. Though I got rid of
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Speaker 1: CDs a while ago, I ain't gonna lie. At some point,
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Speaker 1: way before the music streaming streaming services came about, it
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Speaker 1: was really during the iPod and MP three era where
5:50
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, imagine if I could walk around
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Speaker 1: with a device that has my entire music collection. Previously,
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Speaker 1: it used to to be what album am I taking
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Speaker 1: with me when I go to work or I go
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Speaker 1: to school and stuff like that. But then what you know,
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Speaker 1: when it came to that, yo, it was like, you
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Speaker 1: mean to tell me I can have my entire library here.
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Speaker 1: So my CDs got liquidated, okay, but but not all
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Speaker 1: of them. There was some CDs where I was like,
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Speaker 1: I need to keep this because this is the original
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Speaker 1: Illmatic CD I bought ninety four. This is the original
6:32
Speaker 1: Reasonable Doubt with the gun on the CD. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm talking, real heads, No, not the death Jam release,
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Speaker 1: the one Reasonable Doubt where it's like the little whatever.
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Speaker 1: I ain't in a hood like that. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what the name of the gun is, but you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, you know, keeping CDs like that.
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Speaker 1: But when it came to my CD rack, sold all
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Speaker 1: them joints, man, I ain't gonna lie sold all of them.
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Speaker 1: I wrote a post about it because of you know,
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Speaker 1: it was the blog error at the Times, so that
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Speaker 1: was that, Yince, what up? Man? I don't know what
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Speaker 1: that means. So I'm just gonna keep it moving. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what do you say? Nel Trance says, I usually go
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Speaker 1: back to Death Certificate or at Aliens, definitely resist revisit
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Speaker 1: a truck called Quest. What else you said? I go
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Speaker 1: back to BEDP by all means necessary for sure. Do
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Speaker 1: you go back to that more than A Criminal Minded
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Speaker 1: or any one of his other albums? Let me know,
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Speaker 1: because that's interesting. There's a lot of people again who
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Speaker 1: will talk about classic albums, but the album that we
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Speaker 1: typically go back to is like something else, right, Like
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Speaker 1: I almost never go and listen to Illmatic in its entirety,
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Speaker 1: but I'll do that for it was written and I
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Speaker 1: think that may have something to do where about where
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Speaker 1: I was at that point in time in my life,
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Speaker 1: which was what was at ninety six, so I was
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Speaker 1: like in college. It was my second year of college.
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Speaker 1: Matter of fact, it was the summer of me being
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Speaker 1: a business major at Morgan State University and having a
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Speaker 1: job slash internship at Chase Manhattan Bank, not the bank,
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Speaker 1: but like the corporate joint, because you know, I'm a
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Speaker 1: business major. I'm trying to trying to get it going.
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Speaker 1: And this was before obviously the situation with the World
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Speaker 1: Trade Center the Twin Towers. But I was working like
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Speaker 1: right there, and I remember I bought it was written
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Speaker 1: at a record store right down there, and I was
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Speaker 1: listening to that reasonable Doubt tribes what was the name
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Speaker 1: of the tribe joint beach ROMs in life had dropped
8:54
Speaker 1: like I was just buying music, you know, because they
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Speaker 1: were paying me and they wouldn't really giving me no work.
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Speaker 1: Me not keep it U up hunting like that. Let
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Speaker 1: me see what yent says. Lost all vinyl to Katrina
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Speaker 1: Damn still have all my cassettes, don't have many CDs, man,
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Speaker 1: I think losing all the vinyl probably hurts more, at
9:16
Speaker 1: least to me, like especially since vinyl was kind of
9:20
Speaker 1: made a comeback, and there's just something about the sound
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Speaker 1: on vinyl, especially with particular records, Like when I bought
9:29
Speaker 1: Songs in the Key of Life on vinyl, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I've had it digitally, I had it on CD, but
9:35
Speaker 1: when I played it on vinyl, I was like, damn,
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Speaker 1: this is like this old school man sniffer eight off
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Speaker 1: the table. I'm joking, I'm joking. I've never done drugs.
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Speaker 1: New Tron says, yes I do. I wasn't outside when
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Speaker 1: Criminal Minded dropped, so when I did go back, by
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Speaker 1: all means necessarily stuck with me even though I did
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Speaker 1: Criminal Minded. That's dope, that's dope. I could dig that.
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Speaker 1: Man again, it's it's situational when it comes to music
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Speaker 1: in general. So what I'm gonna do right now? Oh
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Speaker 1: hold up, this is real quick against what you say.
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Speaker 1: It took a long time to get over that loss
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Speaker 1: for sure that I'm gonna go to one with most
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Speaker 1: people know, right and no Trounce just said it. Hold up,
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Speaker 1: I ain't term keyboard on y'all. Hold up. My kids
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Speaker 1: told me I'd be moving too slow, you know, Like, hey,
10:34
Speaker 1: look man, I don't do this all the time, Like yeah, okay, yes,
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Speaker 1: if you don't know, this is hands down my favorite
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Speaker 1: album of all time, so of course it is a
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Speaker 1: go to or me at least twice a year. Sometimes
10:54
Speaker 1: it might be a record of two here and there.
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Speaker 1: I bumped, like, yo, I ain't hear that joint a
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Speaker 1: long time. But when you talk about an album that
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Speaker 1: I never get tired of that I could literally again
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Speaker 1: twice a year go back and just play this joint
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Speaker 1: like I'm hearing it for the very first time, and
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Speaker 1: it's just such a dope album. Because again we're talking
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Speaker 1: about times in our lives and when albums and connected
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Speaker 1: with us. You know, at that time and in nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety one, gonna get my gun to shoot, hold my bag,
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Speaker 1: you know, the lyrics in my head. But as soon
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Speaker 1: as I see the album couple, I'm like, but in
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Speaker 1: ninety one, and I wrote an article about this on Substack.
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Speaker 1: This was around the time my mother was like, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to give you kids allowance, and we like what,
11:49
Speaker 1: we can't even get snacks from the bold dagga and
11:53
Speaker 1: you're gonna give us allowance. You know, I had to question, like,
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Speaker 1: what is my mother doing? She's selling drugs down something
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Speaker 1: I didn't know. But all I know is that when
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Speaker 1: it came to that allowance, I was going to get
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Speaker 1: to music and if I saved up enough, I would
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Speaker 1: probably get a game, you know, a video game or whatever.
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Speaker 1: But this, that Certificate was like the second album I
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Speaker 1: purchased with my money, with my allowance. And I and again,
12:24
Speaker 1: this is what you can read my article on substack,
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Speaker 1: And when I post this video, I put a link
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Speaker 1: to my substack in there because I wrote exactly this
12:32
Speaker 1: story I'm telling you. But I remember the first time
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Speaker 1: my mother gave me allowance and I was going to
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Speaker 1: the record store. She was like, don't buy no music
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Speaker 1: with no cuss words in them. And I was like,
12:48
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I'm about to do. And the good
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Speaker 1: thing for me was my mother didn't pay attention to
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Speaker 1: the parental advisory sticker that says explicit lyrics right on
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Speaker 1: the damn cover, because she was like, let me see
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Speaker 1: what you got, and I was I was scared to tell.
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Speaker 1: I was like, and she was like, oh, what's this about.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, he's doing with some righteous you know, brothers,
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Speaker 1: get together, you know, form a bond, and and then
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Speaker 1: I was off to my room to listen. Okay, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: Death Certificate All Time Classic arguably the best album in
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Speaker 1: Ice Cubes catalog. Some will say different. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: a couple of comments before I go to the next joint. Definitely,
13:39
Speaker 1: if you're watching, don't be afraid to leave your comments
13:42
Speaker 1: in a comments section when it comes to your go
13:45
Speaker 1: to music and you can put some R and B.
13:48
Speaker 1: I won't throw you out the window. Nothing like that.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, let me see, let's allowance. Yen says, is
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Speaker 1: it shown? Ron pays mechanis old brother man, tronis criminal minded.
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Speaker 1: So many mm hmm. So on a regular you go
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Speaker 1: back to these joints hm nel. Tron says a stick
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Speaker 1: of work against those who thought they would hinder the kids. Absolutely, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: because when the kids hit the record store and they
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Speaker 1: saw that parental advisory, they gonna be shooting and cussing
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Speaker 1: and killing on this album right here. We was like, oh,
14:32
Speaker 1: excuse me, sorry, I'd like to buy this one. Like
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Speaker 1: now you know what I'm saying. All right, So here's
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Speaker 1: another one. And again, if you watch my podcast, you
14:44
Speaker 1: already know what I'm about to type. All you gotta
14:47
Speaker 1: do is see one word. Hold up, we're not doing
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Speaker 1: Apple music though, we're doing my stuff. Okay, that's the problem.
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Speaker 1: Do rag Dynasty Okay to play on the music and
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Speaker 1: get them brothers any money? Okay, three sixty waves do
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Speaker 1: Rag Dynasty twoenty and twelve. I don't know if you've
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Speaker 1: ever even heard of this album. I have a million
15:13
Speaker 1: times over and over this album for those who may
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Speaker 1: be wondering what the hell is that and what kind
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Speaker 1: of photo shot with Kareem with the due Rag going
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. First of all, I thought it was ill,
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Speaker 1: but second of all it since y'all love them and
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Speaker 1: know them now Produced by Alchemists, this album is a
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Speaker 1: boombap head's dream, like you know the dude, you know,
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Speaker 1: your friend or whatever, where he like nod his head
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Speaker 1: to sleep listening to the beats. This is the kind
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Speaker 1: of music and they say boom bap if you don't
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Speaker 1: even know what boombap is, this is what it sounds
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Speaker 1: like like this. I didn't expect this. I put it
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Speaker 1: this way. I didn't expect to like this that much.
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Speaker 1: So with my podcast, I tend to listen to albums
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Speaker 1: that you know obviously are popular, or I see a
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Speaker 1: little chatter about it on social media, or maybe I'm
16:12
Speaker 1: seeing a ton of like underground hip hop sites talking
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Speaker 1: about and reviewing it. So I'll go and give you know,
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Speaker 1: those albums a listen and I'm like, okay, cool. You
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Speaker 1: know Alchemists on beats, I know some of the rappers, Oh,
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Speaker 1: Prodigies on here, you know. So it was one of
16:28
Speaker 1: those things where I was just gonna listen and I
16:30
Speaker 1: was in the gym and I was like, this joint
16:35
Speaker 1: kind of crazy, you know what I'm saying. I was
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Speaker 1: in there like I think, I kind of like this joint,
16:42
Speaker 1: and all I did was run it over and over
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Speaker 1: and over again, to the point where I feel like,
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Speaker 1: at least once a year at least sometimes I forget.
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Speaker 1: Somebody said, yeah, that dude rag Dynasty, and that said
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Speaker 1: that means, oh yeah, I didn't fill my quota, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, So do rag Dynasy, especially the Joint,
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Speaker 1: like all of them. Well, I ain't gonna say all
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Speaker 1: the tracks. The majority of the tracks in here are five, right,
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Speaker 1: So this is the solid album for the most part.
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Speaker 1: But the Prodigies, Joint, fish Meat, that beat, like, that's
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Speaker 1: the part I kind of don't get about people who
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Speaker 1: love Alchemists now in a way because the beats don't
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Speaker 1: necessarily sound like these, And I know some of it
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Speaker 1: is drumless. I know people like that or whatever, but
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Speaker 1: and I'm not mad at him for doing it, to
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Speaker 1: be honest, but du Rag Dynasty's three sixty Waves is
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Speaker 1: it is prime alchemists, trust me, prime alchemists. Let's do
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Speaker 1: a little roulette with some of this, just to make
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Speaker 1: it interesting. This is a zip and see because I
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Speaker 1: think there is This might be another one for me.
18:07
Speaker 1: Since we talked about Prodigy, Prodigy and Alchemist Albert Einstein
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, I might like it a little bit more
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Speaker 1: than H and I C. I'm not gonna hold you.
18:23
Speaker 1: I might. I think lyrically Prodigy is better on H
18:27
Speaker 1: and I C. But as far as collaborations, and I
18:31
Speaker 1: felt like this was the project where I felt like
18:34
Speaker 1: lyrically Prodigy was somewhat back to form. But I love
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Speaker 1: this joint. Let's go to some of the comments real quick.
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Speaker 1: Let's see, oh ish due rag dynasy Yins, did you
18:55
Speaker 1: put me on this album? Or Vegas? Did you mention
18:57
Speaker 1: this apartment? Either way, I know I talk about it
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Speaker 1: all the time. Yen says, three sixty Waves is dope?
19:10
Speaker 1: What is this? So? Book Book of Human Language is
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Speaker 1: a go to? Okay? Now, Tron What the hell is that?
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Speaker 1: I do not know? Maybe I do, but that is
19:27
Speaker 1: definitely under the underground for me for right now, because
19:31
Speaker 1: I don't have the greatest memory. So you might say, nah,
19:34
Speaker 1: it was the joint you know, doctor Dre did the book,
19:37
Speaker 1: and I might be like, all right, okay, I got
19:40
Speaker 1: it now ODB returned to the thirty six. You know
19:46
Speaker 1: what when that album dropped. Let's just say I was
19:51
Speaker 1: entertained by it, but I almost never go back to it.
19:56
Speaker 1: I'll listen to Shimmy Shimi, y'all, I listen to h
20:00
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Zoo, but I almost never go back to it
20:04
Speaker 1: because there was a point in time when I was
20:06
Speaker 1: listening to that album where I was like, Okay, he
20:09
Speaker 1: playing too much what my dog? He playing too much Olo?
20:17
Speaker 1: No Trump saying Ron were for Oh yeah, that's why
20:21
Speaker 1: I don't know. Nobody knows about the mixcept Nick. Yeah,
20:24
Speaker 1: because Nick has every album. Trust me, Literally, when I
20:28
Speaker 1: know I don't have a certain album, like yo, Nick,
20:30
Speaker 1: can you send me you know Frankenstein and the Fellowship
20:33
Speaker 1: of Free Styling And He'll be like, ay, I got you?
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Speaker 1: Who is that? All right? What's another one? To stay
20:42
Speaker 1: on topic? Surprisingly for some people who don't know. This
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Speaker 1: is a go to for me for time to time.
20:50
Speaker 1: Onyx sophomore album, All We Got Is Us Onyx is
20:57
Speaker 1: pretty slept on in a hip hop game. Let me
20:59
Speaker 1: tell you a lot of people only think about the
21:01
Speaker 1: ball heads in that first album, but they gonna realize
21:05
Speaker 1: that Honest had four straight albums that were bangers all
21:10
Speaker 1: the way up to what ninety eight. I think Shut
21:12
Speaker 1: Them Down was to I think that was what it
21:14
Speaker 1: was called, was the fourth album, and I think it
21:18
Speaker 1: dropped in ninety eight and they had the track with
21:20
Speaker 1: DMX on it. But their sophomore release, All We Got
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Speaker 1: Is Us is crazy beats ROMs Tom. This was ninety five,
21:33
Speaker 1: so I was like a freshman at college and I
21:37
Speaker 1: remember we was playing this joint like crazy last Days,
21:41
Speaker 1: that last Day's beat that might be one of the
21:47
Speaker 1: that might be one of the greatest beats in hip
21:51
Speaker 1: hop all time, not the because I know some of
21:55
Speaker 1: these people like you know List and stuff like that. Alway,
21:58
Speaker 1: is it better than no? I didn't say that, but yeah, Honxt,
22:04
Speaker 1: All We Got is Us is definitely one of my
22:05
Speaker 1: go tos. Let's see, we could spend that well real
22:08
Speaker 1: quick we got anything here that Bob Marley is for sure?
22:15
Speaker 1: What else we got obviously Midnight Maradas. Now I go
22:24
Speaker 1: back and forth between Low End Theory and Midnight Maradas
22:28
Speaker 1: as far as like running it back. But for years
22:31
Speaker 1: I used to listen to Low in Theory like religiously
22:34
Speaker 1: because it's my favorite Tribe album. So in a lot
22:37
Speaker 1: of ways, I was like neglecting Midnight Maradas. And one day,
22:41
Speaker 1: you know, I just put it on, like, let me
22:43
Speaker 1: listen to this. I haven't heard it in years, and
22:45
Speaker 1: I played that joint and I just went on a
22:47
Speaker 1: role of constantly playing it because you just forget, you know,
22:51
Speaker 1: albums are classics. Nostalgia tells you automatically, this album is great,
22:57
Speaker 1: it's flawless, it's a class is all these things. But
23:02
Speaker 1: half the time you haven't even gone back to listen
23:04
Speaker 1: to him. And when I go back to this album,
23:07
Speaker 1: no line like especially Award Tour. A Ward Tour just
23:11
Speaker 1: feels good when you hear it. Man, Like, I just
23:14
Speaker 1: love that record. But you can't say lyrics to go
23:19
Speaker 1: greatest Tribe joint all time? Yeah, what he did with
23:23
Speaker 1: that mini rip it in, Oh my god. I remember
23:27
Speaker 1: being on a bus when I bought this joint and
23:29
Speaker 1: they got to that song and I was just listening.
23:33
Speaker 1: It was almost as you know how you kind of
23:35
Speaker 1: go into I ain't gonna say nothing crazy, but you
23:39
Speaker 1: start daydreaming and you're still listening to the music. You're
23:43
Speaker 1: looking out the window of the bus, not really looking
23:46
Speaker 1: at anything specifically, and I just remember thinking, like, damn,
23:50
Speaker 1: this is how hip hop albums should be, because it was.
23:54
Speaker 1: It was just so dope. And this was like nineteen
23:56
Speaker 1: ninety three. I know some people, you know, especially y'all
24:00
Speaker 1: on social media, you know you bought every album. You know,
24:03
Speaker 1: you was a grown man when it came out also,
24:06
Speaker 1: so you had a different reflection of it. It was
24:08
Speaker 1: ninety three, dog, I was a kid, Okay. It was
24:12
Speaker 1: making an impression on me, and I was happy to
24:14
Speaker 1: have it with my allowance. I probably spent my whole
24:17
Speaker 1: allowance on it. But I'm saying nel Strown, Hell yeah,
24:22
Speaker 1: Midnight Marauders. I actually loved songs of people's instinctive travels. Yeah,
24:27
Speaker 1: you and my brother, because every time you bring it
24:29
Speaker 1: up to me, I to be like, I don't care
24:32
Speaker 1: about that one. I just don't. But they don't get it.
24:39
Speaker 1: Towards there's a couple of joints off of it, especially
24:42
Speaker 1: some of the remixes are crazy on there. All right,
24:46
Speaker 1: well his one, I mean heads no, but I go
24:55
Speaker 1: back to it frequently. Not because he came out with
25:00
Speaker 1: a part two, which I thought was fine. The Part
25:02
Speaker 1: two was fine, but because again nineteen ninety six, this dropped.
25:09
Speaker 1: Red Man was like my favorite rapper at the time,
25:12
Speaker 1: and it was unbelievable. It has a ton of skits,
25:16
Speaker 1: but back then that was just how hip hop was,
25:20
Speaker 1: and redmn skits were funny. They worked with the music,
25:24
Speaker 1: they worked with his personality. Yeah, I mean I love
25:29
Speaker 1: that album for sure. All right, what's another one I
25:33
Speaker 1: could go to real quick, let's see and they exists here,
25:37
Speaker 1: but the group chat will appreciate that one. Killer Priest
25:43
Speaker 1: Black August. Okay, what I like about this? He not
25:48
Speaker 1: talking none of that. The pyramids collapse on top of
25:51
Speaker 1: the sun and then begun it like, no, we don't
25:54
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. Okay, this is the Killer
25:57
Speaker 1: Priest who was from Brooklyn, who just so happens to spit. Yes,
26:03
Speaker 1: got knowledge youself, but it doesn't dominate the tracks. This
26:08
Speaker 1: joint was released in two thousand and three, and honestly,
26:10
Speaker 1: at the time, I slept on it big time because
26:14
Speaker 1: I liked Killer Priest. I had heavy mental But after
26:20
Speaker 1: a while I kind of lost track of his stuff
26:22
Speaker 1: and somebody told me, like, naw, he released some joints,
26:25
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, Bud, is he ho tep rapping?
26:29
Speaker 1: Because you know, like some of that I could Some
26:34
Speaker 1: of it I could rock with. But when you start
26:35
Speaker 1: going too far, like I was talking to a tree
26:37
Speaker 1: one day, then I'm out. I'm out because I don't
26:41
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. But this one Black August
26:45
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, boom back, Okay, straight up, boom back.
26:53
Speaker 1: Let me see what's another one? Oh? Hello? Hold up?
26:57
Speaker 1: I don't This ain't a go to, but I take
27:01
Speaker 1: every chance I can to tell people Sticky Fingers the
27:07
Speaker 1: year two thousand. Sticky Fingers probably paused now right saying
27:12
Speaker 1: his name. Black Trash, the Autobiography of Kurt Jones. This
27:18
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest hip hop concept albums of
27:23
Speaker 1: all time. I'm not lying to you. I stayed away
27:28
Speaker 1: from listening to this. The Little Homies was like, yo,
27:32
Speaker 1: you have to. I just take some time and just
27:36
Speaker 1: listen to it. Because I was dismissive, like, who's listening
27:40
Speaker 1: to Sticky Fingers? In two thousand, ONYX dropped him what
27:44
Speaker 1: ninety three? I don't want to hear this. Then I
27:49
Speaker 1: heard a single. I think the single was to join
27:53
Speaker 1: What's it come on? Yeah? I heard a single and
27:56
Speaker 1: then I heard another song. I think I heard My
27:58
Speaker 1: Dogs is my Boons? And I was like, well, the
28:01
Speaker 1: songs aren't whack, that's for sure. But when I listened
28:04
Speaker 1: to the album, it was just great from a storytelling standpoint,
28:08
Speaker 1: because he literally made an album where he told the story.
28:13
Speaker 1: A lot of rappers will say yeah, story blah blah blah,
28:16
Speaker 1: but no Shade. One of my favorite rappers, ghost Face,
28:21
Speaker 1: did that, and it was disjointed because I had trouble
28:24
Speaker 1: following based off lyrics and stuff like that. He wound
28:28
Speaker 1: up on a certain album getting it together, but Sticky
28:32
Speaker 1: Skits led into the songs, which led it into Skits
28:36
Speaker 1: was letting everything. The continuity was crazy and I kept thinking, Wow,
28:42
Speaker 1: what kind of discipline you have to have in order
28:47
Speaker 1: to make all these things work? And what was dope
28:50
Speaker 1: was even the guest features like Ray kon Here who
28:53
Speaker 1: Redman h This was a court like song, but it
28:58
Speaker 1: was like a posse cut with Rod Digger on it.
29:01
Speaker 1: Who else was here? Somebody else was on this joint.
29:05
Speaker 1: I think eminem was on here. Yeah, what if I
29:11
Speaker 1: was white? What if I was white? Like but everybody
29:14
Speaker 1: played a character in the story. It wasn't just oh
29:17
Speaker 1: I'm Redman, Oh I'm just Cannabis. No, Like I think
29:21
Speaker 1: Redman was like the judge and Cannabis might have been
29:24
Speaker 1: a lawyer. If you a hip hop head and you
29:30
Speaker 1: just don't need hip hop to be one thing and
29:34
Speaker 1: you want some variety and creativity, check this out. Follow
29:39
Speaker 1: the lyrics, that's all you gotta do. Follow the lyrics.
29:42
Speaker 1: Liking the song is just, you know, a bonus. Let's
29:46
Speaker 1: go to some comments really quick. Hold up, didn't mean
29:51
Speaker 1: to go to that, Yo, Muddy Waters. That's my favorite
29:54
Speaker 1: Redman album. This gets much play throughout the year. I
29:59
Speaker 1: feel you damn no pyramid emoji when you need it.
30:05
Speaker 1: No whole tep talk on this album. Why ain't say
30:09
Speaker 1: that it's there because it's killer priest. But if you
30:13
Speaker 1: listen to some of his like more current music, it's
30:18
Speaker 1: all whole tap except for one that dropped not that
30:21
Speaker 1: long ago. I was like he's back, you know, so
30:24
Speaker 1: let me see slept on in this Damn I gotta
30:27
Speaker 1: do my homework. I guess you talk about the Sticky
30:29
Speaker 1: Fingers joint. Yeah, Ad that Sticky Fingers album? Is that?
30:35
Speaker 1: Hold up? This reminds me of the Prince Paul album
30:37
Speaker 1: concept wise, yup, exact same thing, just a little bit
30:41
Speaker 1: more hardcore because you know it's Sticky Fingers. But man,
30:46
Speaker 1: I was sleeping hard and you know, the little homies
30:50
Speaker 1: was like, you need to wake up? Okay, what else
30:55
Speaker 1: we got here? Go to? You see, I got some
30:56
Speaker 1: joints here. You already know Michael Jackson in here somewhere
31:01
Speaker 1: his one. I go back to this album more than B.
31:08
Speaker 1: I might like it, bet, And a lot of that
31:11
Speaker 1: has to do with the fact that B was dope Commons.
31:14
Speaker 1: B by the way, was dope because he had dropped
31:20
Speaker 1: Electric Circus after dropping Light Water for Chocolate, which you know,
31:25
Speaker 1: arguably is a classic, and it was dope and a
31:27
Speaker 1: lot of j. Dillar stuff and Electric Circus just was
31:33
Speaker 1: noted at the time, and people thought Common had changed,
31:36
Speaker 1: and he fell off and then he came back with
31:38
Speaker 1: Kanye with BE but it felt like, let's do some
31:43
Speaker 1: songs to bring you back, So they did a couple
31:46
Speaker 1: of songs. But Finding Forever from two thousand and seven
31:51
Speaker 1: is like Kanye and Common making the album right, like
31:54
Speaker 1: really taking their time with an album. So many dope
31:59
Speaker 1: joints on here. Outside joint with Kanye West is crazy.
32:04
Speaker 1: So far to go D'Angelo produced by Dyla, Like, this
32:09
Speaker 1: album is pretty solid. How long is It's like fifty minutes,
32:14
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, Like when you got them twelve
32:19
Speaker 1: track maybe thirteen track albums and they don't take up
32:22
Speaker 1: more than an hour of my time. This is the
32:27
Speaker 1: albums I like to go back to, and I like
32:29
Speaker 1: it because in a lot of ways, it wasn't like
32:34
Speaker 1: I feel like Common at a certain point had an
32:37
Speaker 1: agenda with his albums, you know what I'm saying. That's
32:40
Speaker 1: what it felt like, Like not that you can't, but
32:43
Speaker 1: like like he was forcing concepts and sometimes the songs
32:48
Speaker 1: will mostly hit a miss. I felt like he was
32:51
Speaker 1: comfortable here, you know what I'm saying. Like the first
32:54
Speaker 1: time I heard One Day that all makes Sense, which
32:58
Speaker 1: is another one of my go to sure I felt
33:01
Speaker 1: like Common was just coming up with topics and just
33:05
Speaker 1: going for it all the time. But at the end
33:09
Speaker 1: of the day, yeah, finding forever. It was one of
33:12
Speaker 1: my favorites, one of my go tos from common throughout
33:16
Speaker 1: the year. What else we got? Spend the rule at
33:21
Speaker 1: up real quick. She was here a couple of joints,
33:25
Speaker 1: but not really any go tos for me. What else
33:29
Speaker 1: we got and shout out to whatever? Some more recent
33:34
Speaker 1: stuff up here? So oh yeah, because we go on
33:36
Speaker 1: to recent. So let's go way back because since the
33:38
Speaker 1: dates are here, let's go way back, not the dates
33:42
Speaker 1: of release, just when I uploaded them. Joints, not hip hop,
33:46
Speaker 1: but you already know. Okay, here's a goal to probably
33:53
Speaker 1: the one Jay Electronica project I go back to on
33:58
Speaker 1: a regular basis Star Wars ep J Electronica two thousand
34:05
Speaker 1: and eleven before Exhibit see because some of you, like
34:10
Speaker 1: you know, Jay Lennard, Jay Electronica, philosophers, you know, historians.
34:19
Speaker 1: It begins for you with Exhibit C. Look, man, look
34:23
Speaker 1: look at track Look at the goddamn track list, and
34:26
Speaker 1: it's not here because guess what it wasn't out now
34:29
Speaker 1: I know it says twenty eleven. That's probably wrong, okay,
34:33
Speaker 1: because if you know iTunes, you know you put music
34:36
Speaker 1: in there, and they've changed the album cover and everything,
34:40
Speaker 1: so there's probably probably twenty eleven I fixed all of this,
34:44
Speaker 1: but it definitely was earlier than that. But this was
34:47
Speaker 1: the album where or not the album, but the EP
34:50
Speaker 1: slash mixtape with Jay Electronica wrapped up a lot of
34:54
Speaker 1: della beats. But the one that probably got him a
34:59
Speaker 1: lot of notice is the last song Eternal Sunshine the pledge.
35:05
Speaker 1: If you didn't know, Jay Electronica is also a producer.
35:08
Speaker 1: And again I've told this story a thousand times, but
35:13
Speaker 1: Jay Electronic not Jay Electronica Most Death. I went to
35:16
Speaker 1: see Most Deaf at Carnegie Hall with Robert Glasper, and
35:20
Speaker 1: again this is before Robert Glasper black music. This is
35:23
Speaker 1: like early time. And I was really going because most
35:27
Speaker 1: was going to be there, and I knew Robert Glasper
35:30
Speaker 1: from the jazz world, but went there. You know, Most
35:35
Speaker 1: surprised me because he was doing all types of other stuff.
35:38
Speaker 1: You know, he was doing spoken word, he was singing.
35:40
Speaker 1: He sung Poison by BBD and it sounds good, which
35:45
Speaker 1: was crazy. He did a ghost face record. He was
35:49
Speaker 1: like covering records and then he was like, yo, I'm
35:51
Speaker 1: gonna cover this one record. From this dude. You may
35:55
Speaker 1: or may not know him. You know what I'm saying.
35:58
Speaker 1: His name is Jay Electronica. And then he quoted like
36:02
Speaker 1: a line from the term sunshine, and then he went
36:05
Speaker 1: on to wrap the whole thing, and I remember like going,
36:09
Speaker 1: this is during my Space days. I remember going straight
36:13
Speaker 1: to my space because I think that's where he said
36:17
Speaker 1: he saw him or something like that, and realized that
36:21
Speaker 1: I had already listened to it. I just didn't realize
36:25
Speaker 1: most knew about it. So again, if you want to
36:30
Speaker 1: hear what it was like to hear an untainted pre
36:36
Speaker 1: exhibit c Jay Electronica, you can track this EP down.
36:41
Speaker 1: I don't think it's on streaming services because you know,
36:44
Speaker 1: it was like a mixtape. This was the blog error,
36:47
Speaker 1: so you know, cats were just uploading their joints and
36:51
Speaker 1: you know, getting popularity based off of that. What else?
36:56
Speaker 1: You're going to do a couple more before we head out?
37:01
Speaker 1: What's here? His one? Oh? Shoot, almost like lost it?
37:06
Speaker 1: His one that is a some time ago to now.
37:09
Speaker 1: The singles just here, but I do have the album.
37:11
Speaker 1: I actually have the actual cassette. Back then, Show Busying
37:15
Speaker 1: ag Runaway Slave. This was one of those albums. I
37:21
Speaker 1: bought in ninety two with my allowance money, and I
37:29
Speaker 1: felt like I was really learning something, you know. Not
37:32
Speaker 1: that they were deep and heavy with some edit Paul's okay,
37:38
Speaker 1: with some educational raps. It was just that it was
37:41
Speaker 1: such a variety of content, you know what I'm saying,
37:45
Speaker 1: when it came to the bars, when it came to
37:48
Speaker 1: the beats, the selection of the beasts, Like when you
37:51
Speaker 1: hear a song like party Groove on there, that was
37:54
Speaker 1: dope that I had heard a lot at block parties in
37:57
Speaker 1: New York. But then when I heard soul Clap, I
38:01
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, what is this like? You want to
38:05
Speaker 1: talk about true early essence of boom back? That is it?
38:10
Speaker 1: For sure? Show Bus and Aggin says ag slept On.
38:15
Speaker 1: In my opinion, yeah, I don't think he gets his
38:18
Speaker 1: flowers because at one point he was like he was
38:22
Speaker 1: pretty popular definitely in New York City as a as
38:27
Speaker 1: an MC. But yeah, as time goes on, unfortunately people
38:33
Speaker 1: forget and then they keep keep it moving. He's one
38:38
Speaker 1: of my go to right here. Now, this is part one.
38:44
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me see if there's a part two.
38:47
Speaker 1: I mean that was part two. Let me see this
38:50
Speaker 1: if I have part one I think I do. Yeah,
38:54
Speaker 1: this is probably Can I click on it without playing it?
38:58
Speaker 1: Oh nope, we don't want to pay y'all. Hold up,
39:04
Speaker 1: let me get things together. Can you go to album
39:09
Speaker 1: the show an album? Yes, Summertimes Shootout Fabulous first mixtape
39:18
Speaker 1: in this mixtape series. I know a lot of people
39:21
Speaker 1: only know the Soul tapes because of the types of
39:24
Speaker 1: samples that was used. But you are sleeping on the
39:27
Speaker 1: Summertime Shootout series. For Fabulous, not everybody was sleeping. But
39:33
Speaker 1: check it out where I got it from that Pith
39:35
Speaker 1: exclusive back then. That's when that Pith was still rolling.
39:43
Speaker 1: Fabulous mixtape game is slept on big time, Like I
39:53
Speaker 1: have some of the albums as you saw as I
39:56
Speaker 1: was going through the list. But if you a person,
40:01
Speaker 1: if a person says to you, like when you see these,
40:03
Speaker 1: you know who's better, and they'd be like Fabulous or Jadakiss,
40:07
Speaker 1: And you see a lot of people saying Fabulous, but
40:09
Speaker 1: you think to yourself, how is he better than Kiss?
40:14
Speaker 1: And you're comparing albums, but you're not thinking about his
40:19
Speaker 1: has three styles on mixtapes that are classic, but Fabulous
40:23
Speaker 1: has full on mixtapes that are classics. You know what
40:28
Speaker 1: I'm saying to most people. And let's not forget when
40:30
Speaker 1: they were both on the same album. When they did
40:33
Speaker 1: that album together, Freddie versus Jason Bad was cooking like
40:39
Speaker 1: I was all day. I was kind of surprised too.
40:41
Speaker 1: I was surprised at Jada Kiss. I'm like, this ain't
40:43
Speaker 1: the kids I know. But when I say sometimes Shootout
40:48
Speaker 1: series is dope, I think Part three was just okay.
40:51
Speaker 1: Do I have that one too? No? I think Part
40:55
Speaker 1: three was like cool but didn't really live up to
41:00
Speaker 1: who you know what was there as far as that series.
41:04
Speaker 1: So I don't know. All right, let's see maybe we
41:08
Speaker 1: could find two more in here on some random stuff.
41:13
Speaker 1: I have a lot of go tos, so this will
41:17
Speaker 1: become a series sort of because there's a lot of joints,
41:21
Speaker 1: you know, I go to. I don't just listen to
41:23
Speaker 1: new music all the time. What else we got here?
41:27
Speaker 1: This is dope too, hold up Black Milk and that
41:31
Speaker 1: turn It Now, this ain't a rap album, but if
41:33
Speaker 1: you like yourself some music, you know musically, Rebellion sessions dope.
41:41
Speaker 1: I don't know why they didn't continue, but it was
41:44
Speaker 1: it was dope to me. And here we go Big Print,
41:50
Speaker 1: the Turn of Forever. I think it just celebrated the anniversary.
41:55
Speaker 1: I think he called it an album. He was like, yo,
41:56
Speaker 1: I just want to, you know, celebrate my album. I
41:59
Speaker 1: was like, that's an album. This was before this is
42:01
Speaker 1: before the death Jam record deal that he wound up having,
42:07
Speaker 1: And honestly, this was the project that made me a fan.
42:12
Speaker 1: You talk about a producer slash rapper who could do
42:16
Speaker 1: both well. Also, I felt like all of the artists
42:21
Speaker 1: or the rappers from the South that I like in
42:23
Speaker 1: the nineties, he was kind of like, it's kind of
42:28
Speaker 1: like how people look at Kendrick, Right, there's something about
42:30
Speaker 1: Kendrick that reminds you of early West Coast hip hop,
42:34
Speaker 1: but he's not a copy of that, right, he's inspired
42:38
Speaker 1: by I felt like Big Chrits music was inspired by,
42:43
Speaker 1: you know, Outcast and Goodie Mob and April and MJG,
42:48
Speaker 1: like the UGK. Like, I know it's Texas, y'all can
42:53
Speaker 1: have that battle between who's South. I don't know. It's
42:56
Speaker 1: all South to me, Okay, but this if you've never
43:01
Speaker 1: heard a big crit I'll say start with this because
43:03
Speaker 1: this is the one that got me in. If you
43:06
Speaker 1: like music that you could sit back, chill, but it's
43:10
Speaker 1: also dope, and the dude is like rapping, like you
43:13
Speaker 1: could tell he's nice with the pen. It's almost like
43:17
Speaker 1: when I heard this, I was like, damn, why doesn't
43:19
Speaker 1: he have like a bigger deal? And then he got
43:23
Speaker 1: the Death Jam deal. But the thing about that deal
43:26
Speaker 1: with Death Jam, it felt like every time Krick dropped
43:29
Speaker 1: an album, nothing was living up to what he had
43:33
Speaker 1: done when he wasn't with a major. Nothing to me
43:38
Speaker 1: at that point in time, because he had a couple
43:40
Speaker 1: of albums or mixtapes or whatever before the Death Jam
43:44
Speaker 1: deal that was so dope. And after he left Death Jam,
43:49
Speaker 1: I think he put out like a double CD, which
43:52
Speaker 1: I think it slept on. Maybe talk about that later.
43:55
Speaker 1: Maybe that could be a loudstream just breaking down Big
43:57
Speaker 1: Crit stuff. It was that like it was like he
44:02
Speaker 1: returned to form, like he figured out what was wrong
44:06
Speaker 1: with his music when he was on Death Jam or
44:09
Speaker 1: what was missing and brought that back. But return of forever.
44:14
Speaker 1: I'm about to listen to this after this live stream
44:18
Speaker 1: Big Crit twenty eleven one of my favorites, and let's
44:21
Speaker 1: just find one more. Uh, what's one more? Let's go
44:27
Speaker 1: somewhere here in the middle of Yeah, this is this
44:30
Speaker 1: is one. This is definitely one one of my goal
44:32
Speaker 1: tos for sure. Jay Dillar is to Shining. I listened
44:36
Speaker 1: to Donuts a lot, but this is the one I
44:40
Speaker 1: go back to more frequently. Two thousand and six. Busters
44:44
Speaker 1: on this album common Like I mentioned earlier with what
44:50
Speaker 1: you call it with D'Angelo on the hook, so far
44:53
Speaker 1: to go, that's that joint you probably heard a million times.
44:57
Speaker 1: This is the type of album where I say, at
45:00
Speaker 1: least production wise, because you can think of a number
45:03
Speaker 1: of you know, whether it's a doughnuts or some slum
45:08
Speaker 1: village stuff that you can introduce somebody to Jay Diller.
45:11
Speaker 1: But this is one where I don't want anybody to
45:14
Speaker 1: get afraid. Some people be afraid of boom back as
45:17
Speaker 1: soon as soon as they like, is it going to
45:19
Speaker 1: be like you know, you know, I want want my
45:21
Speaker 1: tens and they be like, yo, I don't want to
45:23
Speaker 1: hear that. This is the type of album. I'm like, Yo,
45:27
Speaker 1: listen to this very production on this album from Jay Dillar. Yeah,
45:34
Speaker 1: yet E equals and that that beat like this is
45:40
Speaker 1: one of those albums again can be your introduction to
45:44
Speaker 1: Jay Dillar and his music because it's it's stellar. That's
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