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ICEMAN Review · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: information and stuff like that, which is cool. So do
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  Speaker 1: the same for this shut we're putting in work, and
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  Speaker 1: today we're putting in extra work because you know what
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  Speaker 1: time it is. Okay, I got a couple disclaimers. I
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  Speaker 1: did this during the battle, I did this after the battle.
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  Speaker 1: I did this when me and Tone shout out to Tone.
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  Speaker 1: We did an episode of that time in hip hop
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  Speaker 1: on Drake's Take Care album, a favorable review re review
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  Speaker 1: of that album. So the disclaimer is, there are no
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  Speaker 1: k bots, there are no Drake stands loud. I myself
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  Speaker 1: was always a Drake fan, was always a Kendrick fan,
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  Speaker 1: was always a cold fan. I can't pretend because of
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  Speaker 1: a battle, I need to pick a side. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: grown man. I don't need to pick no side. They
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  Speaker 1: not buying me no money. You know, the ain't not
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  Speaker 1: buying me nothing, So why you have to feel the
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  Speaker 1: need to pick a side. But when it's a battle,
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  Speaker 1: there's winners and losers, and that's the opinion. So if
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  Speaker 1: you go back and check out any of the content,
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  Speaker 1: that's where it's based in. We hip hop for real.
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  Speaker 1: If you're watch and you see it, we hip hop
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  Speaker 1: for real out here. But the disclaimer has to keep
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  Speaker 1: going though I ain't gonna front. We have to look
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  Speaker 1: at this objectively as music fans. If you're not a
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  Speaker 1: music fan and you're like a social media I like
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  Speaker 1: being in the conversation fan, get on out of here,
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  Speaker 1: you can go. You know why I say that, because
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  Speaker 1: you're not really as invested as you say you are.
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  Speaker 1: You say you're a Drake fan, but are you? Or
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  Speaker 1: you just like being on a side so you can
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  Speaker 1: do this in between getting people's find out of biggie bags. Ready,
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  Speaker 1: some of us have real jobs, not that that's not
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  Speaker 1: a real job, because trust me, I like finding out
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  Speaker 1: the biggie bags and somebody gotta make that shit. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is there's no future in your
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  Speaker 1: front okay if you can't look at these things subjectively,
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  Speaker 1: And you don't have to like Kendrick and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to like Drake, you don't have to like any
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  Speaker 1: of them. But we're here to have a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: the music. This is my Drake review of his brand
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  Speaker 1: new album Iceman. But Drake dropped three albums last night.
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  Speaker 1: Three Now. The first thought that came to my head
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  Speaker 1: was sounds like somebody trying to fulfill a contract so
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  Speaker 1: they could go independent, And when you listen to the album, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like that's the plan. You know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if these three albums fulfill his contract, but there's
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  Speaker 1: a method behind the madness and he kind of alludes
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  Speaker 1: to that on the albums. But we're only here to
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  Speaker 1: review Iceman because it's the hip hop album. The other two,
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  Speaker 1: which is what is it, Habiiti and Made of Honor,
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  Speaker 1: those are more like R and B Drake. One of
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  Speaker 1: them is an R and B joint, the other one
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  Speaker 1: is more like dance Drake. And what I like about
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  Speaker 1: him releasing these three types of albums, they're just people
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  Speaker 1: who are fans of certain versions of Drake, right, some
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  Speaker 1: people that want to argue y'o he spit. He don't
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  Speaker 1: need ghostwriters. Iceman is for you, those like myself who
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  Speaker 1: want to, you know, like the R and B stylish Drake.
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  Speaker 1: Habat He is for you, those who want Drake to
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  Speaker 1: keep making you wave your hands and move your feet.
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  Speaker 1: Made of Honors for you. And they're all three different
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  Speaker 1: looks at Drake across his career, the type of music
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  Speaker 1: he's made the approaches to the flows, right, it's all here.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it feels like he's feeling, you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to fulfill a contract so he can get out of it.
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  Speaker 1: But Iceman is the one we're going to focus on
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  Speaker 1: because it's the hip hop record, and yes, he talking
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  Speaker 1: about everything. Okay, now, ye'ah know how I do when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to reviewing albums. Three listens. Get it, you've
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  Speaker 1: seen the cover. Three listens, right. The first listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just giving you my impressions, right, I'm just going listen
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  Speaker 1: to hear what's there. Second listen, Now I'm familiar with
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  Speaker 1: the records. I'm listening to the lyrics a little bit deeper.
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  Speaker 1: I'm drawing the connections between the songs and the album
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  Speaker 1: cover and the overall concept. And the third listen is
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  Speaker 1: just to confirm my thoughts. And for those who do
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  Speaker 1: not want to sit through a long review, I like it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Some people may say, nah, but you look and Drake.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say Drake won the battle. We ain't going
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  Speaker 1: back in time and changing our bets. My bet was
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  Speaker 1: placed before the battle, and what happened is what happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's two years later, but let me tell you why
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  Speaker 1: I say I like it, and let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: some of the things I don't like. Right So, on
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  Speaker 1: the one hand, what I do, well, let's just get
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  Speaker 1: through it real quick. The album is about what is it?
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen tracks, about an hour and nine minutes, which is cool.
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  Speaker 1: You know I could do an hour, but you go
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  Speaker 1: too far over that. I don't know. Features include twenty
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  Speaker 1: one Savage, but he don't really have a verse on hand,
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  Speaker 1: so I was cool with it. Okay, it's cool with it,
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  Speaker 1: Future and Molly Santana. I'm sorry if Molly Santana somebody
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  Speaker 1: knew like he coming from the town. He's pure garbage
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  Speaker 1: because first of all, his verse was dumb short. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to be reviewing right now, but I just
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  Speaker 1: gotta let y'all know his verse was dumb short. At first,
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  Speaker 1: I was first couple of bars, I was like, okay, shorty,
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  Speaker 1: but then it was like the rest of this short
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  Speaker 1: verse was him repeating the same thing four times, get out,
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  Speaker 1: get get him out of here, get it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care where he's hot or send me the thing that's hot,
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  Speaker 1: because this wasn't it. Okay, that was it for features,
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like there are other people on here
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  Speaker 1: that aren't listed or or maybe it's just sounds or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But the album starts out with a song called make
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  Speaker 1: Them Cry, classic Drake type track. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying with some rapping, he can rap, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, I mean, I don't have any confirmation
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  Speaker 1: of any ghostwriters for this, and I'm sure if there is,
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  Speaker 1: the Internet will find him. But he definitely can rap.
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  Speaker 1: And I sort of expected him to talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Kendrick situation, the battle. I was more so looking
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  Speaker 1: for him to talk about the lossuit and he did
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  Speaker 1: throughout the album. But here's my issue, right, he said
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  Speaker 1: something that made sense to a certain part of the
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  Speaker 1: hip hop audience or the audience in general. That's not
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  Speaker 1: feeling him being you know, basically suing over a rap battle. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I'm suing the man, Drake, you have the
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  Speaker 1: man whatever he's he said, he's suing the man and
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  Speaker 1: not the rapper, and saying, you know people not paying attention, Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's not everybody we know you're suing. UMG, we're clear
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  Speaker 1: on that. All that We've seen, all the court documents.
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  Speaker 1: Every content creator is talked about it. We know, we
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  Speaker 1: know you're not suing Kendrick Lamar, but you are right
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  Speaker 1: because not like us as the basis for your case, right,
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  Speaker 1: not only deflammation of character, which has to U and
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  Speaker 1: G didn't write Kendrick's lyrics. Kendrick wrote it, and the
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  Speaker 1: whole notion of bots, which is also dressed here and
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  Speaker 1: addressed in his video where he goes to a bot
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  Speaker 1: farm and destroys the stuff. This is the thing, and
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  Speaker 1: I know, let's just say the court finds that UMG
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  Speaker 1: used bots to boost not like us, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I know, it wasn't bots in the super Bowl stadium.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't bots. Welcome to America, Drake. It was what
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  Speaker 1: people do when they really like a record, right, they
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  Speaker 1: play it to death. You don't need bots, But let's
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  Speaker 1: just say UMG was like, oh, it's going, but let's
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  Speaker 1: make it go some more with some bots. Well, then
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  Speaker 1: you open up the door for them to potentially expose
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  Speaker 1: that you've probably had bots. So you see what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like lines like this throughout the album to almost appear
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  Speaker 1: like a hero or a victim or someone sacrificing everything
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  Speaker 1: when we know how this started. Y'all remember Drop drop drop.
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  Speaker 1: He was begging for it, and because he came out
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  Speaker 1: on the loser side of it, that's what happened, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have all this other stuff. So for some people,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just saying this because it's the elephant in
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  Speaker 1: the room when you press play, anybody's wondering what is
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  Speaker 1: he going to say about this person and that person?
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  Speaker 1: And that's just it. It's kind of like he almost
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  Speaker 1: had to do it. I don't think he did. I
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  Speaker 1: honestly thought he should have taken the best from this album,
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  Speaker 1: the best from the R and B joint, and the
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  Speaker 1: best from that dance joint, and just made one album
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  Speaker 1: that probably would have been really hot. But instead he
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  Speaker 1: chose to make an album where he really I guess
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: it kind of got it out of his system by
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  Speaker 1: dressing everything. And so for some people when they hear
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  Speaker 1: Drake try to revise the battle or revise the his
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  Speaker 1: viewpoint on certain things and certain people, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be an instant turnoff. I didn't mine as much because
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  Speaker 1: you're still lost, dog, like you still lost, So telling
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  Speaker 1: me something now is not going to make me say, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he didn't lose, maybe he won. We don't do
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  Speaker 1: revisions history over here. We were outside, we know what happens.
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  Speaker 1: We know you weren't here. Because also on this album
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of peace offerings to the city of
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles and Oakland. Drake is trying to talk his
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  Speaker 1: way back in because we know he wasn't there, and
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  Speaker 1: if he was, he was, he would probably have Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jackson wig on and the cover of that we know
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  Speaker 1: you weren't there. We know what happened though, So it's
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of that on this album. And I know
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like, oh, I don't like it or whatever
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  Speaker 1: like that. What I want to point out is what's
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  Speaker 1: most obvious about this album when you press play, is
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to address everything, and he's going to
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  Speaker 1: say some things that didn't happen. And some of it
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  Speaker 1: is from his perspective, some of it I believe, most
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  Speaker 1: of it I don't because we know what happened, right.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is, don't think of this album as
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  Speaker 1: being all about that, because that's part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I do like it. Every single word out his
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  Speaker 1: mouth isn't about the battle on what happened and blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah. There's a lot more here that I like
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  Speaker 1: than I don't like. And if we're talking about lyrics
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  Speaker 1: and talking about people like, I don't really care about
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  Speaker 1: hearing entertainer disc athletes like because I really don't want
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  Speaker 1: any lebron any of y'all to respond rapping to him.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna get cooked. Put the ball in hoop. But
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  Speaker 1: he chose to do so because of what he was seeing,
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  Speaker 1: So I thought it was fine if he want to
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  Speaker 1: take his jabs at people he called friends and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. But the part that back during the battle,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna clip it, it's available on my
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  Speaker 1: channel in real time. I said I need Drake to
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: jump on Jake call. And some people say, why would
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: you say that. You know what I'm saying, He peaceful,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: you know he hooped for the monkeys. Well, the reason
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: why I said it back then was because, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: whether Drake won a battle against Kendrick Lamar, j Cole
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: backed out in a way when he had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of responsibility in this thing kind of going down like this, right,
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  Speaker 1: two of them hugging and kissing on stage. Remember that
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  Speaker 1: these things happen first person shooter, you know how he
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  Speaker 1: was talking and then he tried to go at Kendrick
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  Speaker 1: and drop the dud that he removed from a mixtape
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  Speaker 1: that was pretty good, and then he comes back outside
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  Speaker 1: and you know he's apologizing. Before that, he made a
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  Speaker 1: whole song apologizing to Drake, just for Drake to be like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be your friend. The more I
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: turned around and you were gone. At least Drake fought,
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  Speaker 1: regardless if you feel he won or not, at least
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  Speaker 1: he fought. He had the most to lose. If we
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: keep it in the buck, he was the bigger artist
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  Speaker 1: out of the three. Like universally, everybody has their you
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  Speaker 1: know what they feel about them as MC's. But that's
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  Speaker 1: what kind of made those three kind of dope. Different flavors,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You can like Drake and
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  Speaker 1: not like the other two. You can like Kendrick and
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: not like the other two. Same thing with Ja Cole.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of one of those things where I
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  Speaker 1: was waiting for Drake to say something, and I loved
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  Speaker 1: everything he said. Because it's true. Ja Cole can drop
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  Speaker 1: out of the battle all he wants, He can try
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  Speaker 1: to be the peacemaker all he wants, but the time
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  Speaker 1: to be the peacemaker was before you engaged in the battle.
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  Speaker 1: You can't throw a punch, and now you realize you
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  Speaker 1: missed and you probably gonna get beat up. Now you're
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: gonna leave. But they beating your man up. He ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna at least break it up. Since this is your
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  Speaker 1: brother and another one of your brothers, you ain't gonna
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  Speaker 1: break it up. You skated. So I did like that
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  Speaker 1: about Drake's Larry because it's probably on my favorite song
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  Speaker 1: on this album, which is make Them Pay. I like
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  Speaker 1: to beat. I like the way he's rapping. I like
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of things he's saying, especially the J Cole stuff,
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  Speaker 1: because I felt like I want J Cole to respond
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  Speaker 1: to Drake. We can't go back and change what happened
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  Speaker 1: with Drake versus Kendrick. He lost. I'm just keep saying
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it he lost. But if Drake feel like, YO, where
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: were you? Squabble up? J Cole is not going to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: do that because he just wanted to be liked in
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of ways doing those interviews. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: his album was pretty good to me. But once he
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: started doing all those interviews and being fake, poor and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: stuff like that, his name just quickly slipped out of
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the conversation. Last time he volunteered to get out of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the conversation. Now people just put him out because regardless
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: of what the noise is, people are going to like
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: this album. There's a lot of people who don't just
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: look at my coverings, you know, social media and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But as someone who considers himself a Drake fan, I
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: was looking all that time between the battle. I was
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: looking for something that would make me like at least
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: a part of what he does. I like the fact
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that the song with Future is called ran to Atlanta, right,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: little tongue in cheek. Okay, you say I run to
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Atlanta every time I need it? Okay, Well now I'm
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: going to run to Atlanta. I don't know if I
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: like the Oakland and LA and West Coast kind of
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It just feels really weird for him
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: him to extend the olive branch in the way he's
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: doing it. I don't know. Maybe it works la y'all,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: y'all rocking with Drake. I don't know. I saw some
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: people say nah, make them remember. I like that joint
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a lot. Also too hard for the radio, even though
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you know you're taking shots. But whatever, man, I expected
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: at this point, and I like the whole like with
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  Speaker 1: the intro being make them Cry, having a song make
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  Speaker 1: them Pay, and then ending with make Them Know. I
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: think it's a I think it's a good album. I
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  Speaker 1: think if if we never got the battle, and let's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: just say he don't spend as much time on here
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: talking about people, I would say this, this would be
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a good album for me. Like when for All the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Dogs dropped, most people were like nope, including me, like nope,
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  Speaker 1: And I had been saying nope to Drake albums, probably
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: like three in a row. I was feeling like, all right,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I'm about to tap out, but please do not mistake
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  Speaker 1: me liking this album for me ignoring everything he's doing
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that bring that brings your right back to Kendrick's lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: Feels like a colonizer. It feels like songs he's just
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: made a million times over. Because it is. It's just true,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it is. But the reason why I would like it
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: because I know with some people they like, man, I'm
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: good with the joints I have because if he's just
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: gonna keep making the same shit all the time, why
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: do I need to go listen to the new stuff,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: let alone. How many songs is it like eighty or
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: forty or whatever it is? Right? I feel I treated
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the same way I treat for somebody like Drake. At
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: least Kendrick. I wouldn't really like that, because he always
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: gives you a different look each album. But I feel
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: like with Drake, if that's his sound, you either like
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it or you don't. I like Rick Ross. Rick Ross
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: dropped the same exact album every time, and I'm most
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: times I like it, if not, most of it's like
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: all the time, damn it, except for maybe the last one.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Currency is the same way. Currency is saying the same things,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: rapping about the same things, having the same type beats
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: most of the time, all the time. I like it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So it's it's more about a few, a few things,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: like I'll say with this album. If you are a
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Drake staying, oh my god, you are in heaven now
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: three different albums, they not going to listen to anything
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: else for the remainder of the year. If you're a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: reasonable Drake fan like myself, where you like some you
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: don't like something, I think you might like Iceman. You know.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: The only thing is I don't know if some people
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: can get past the constant like referring to this battle
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: and everything that happened two years ago, because it really
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: clouds this album. It's like, that's what it's about. And
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: if you wanted to know what, well who he disn't
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I know it's Kendrick. Okay, well, let me just give
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you a quick list, which was clear Cali because he's
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the only one he named dropped right, jay z. He
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: makes references jay z Uh, definitely Kendrick, of course, j
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Cole for sure. I think he did it more than once,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to be honest. Probably a couple of people thrown in there,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: but not really addressed directly or even indirectly, like Rick
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Ross's probably catching strays, but he's he's kind of you
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: can clump him up in the whole rappers who's against
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: me type thing. It's a lot of that in here,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: but it's it put it this way. When Drake was
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: trying to come back from the battle before and he
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: would take jabs, they just weren't this good, you know
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: what I mean, they weren't this good. Whether I believed
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: him or not, they weren't this good. And every time,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: you know, he would open his mouth before, I would
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: feel like, here he go trying to tell us something
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: else happened, and I think the only reason and it
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: happens on make them cry, Which made me open my
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: ears to this album a little bit more was the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: fact that he showed a little bit of vulnerability in
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: some of the records about the battle, about how he felt,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and I felt like, that's what you should be, that's
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: what you should be talking about. That's what you not completely,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: but you can show confidence, but that's how you should talk.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: How it affected you, Where did you find yourself versus
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: friends and stuff like that, And he does that a
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: lot on hand, and I think that's the reason why
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I could hear him say some nonsense about the um
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: G battle lawsuit situation and feel like, whatever you can
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: say whatever, Homie Bud, this looked like you suing for rap.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: He can say whatever he wants, but you could when
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you listen to this album, you know what his goal is.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: His goal is to say whatever he feels, take it
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: or leave it, to eventually become independent and do it
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: in a bigger way his words right, and to established
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that he hasn't lost any magic. I'm putting up air
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: quotes for people audio magic as far as making the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: type of records he's made. So I think there's an
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: audience for this album just like the other ones, and
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I think some people are gonna like it and some
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: people are gonna hate it. It's what Drake will need
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to understand after this is that it's on your jacket forever,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and it's probably gonna be there forever because you sued
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: because I think, uh, And it's the last point I
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: think when it happened to jay Z. Don't listen to Tore.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: He trying to revise things. Tore wasn't outside. Look at
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: that interview with him and Nas and jay he looked
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: shook to death. He looks shook to death when he
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: reading everybody, So don't believe his car house takes on
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: jay Z, Nas Nas one. We was outside everywhere, But
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: jay Z didn't fall off. People who liked jay Z
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: before the battle still liked him. They didn't choose to
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: say now he lost the knas I ain't messing with him.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: We still messed with him. We just felt he lost
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the battle. That's it. We still went to the club
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: when he had hits and records like that. It wasn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: about the battle. It was about being fans of the music.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: So you could be a fan of jay Z and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: be a fan of Nas, just like you could be
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a fan of Drake and be a fan of Kendrick
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: if you already were. But with Unfortunately for Drake, because
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: he continues excessively to talk about it into some ways
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: contradict a lot of what actually happened in the social
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: media era. People just won't forget, like every time he
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: open his mouth, it's gonna be at least one person
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: who's gonna be like, hey, mine, or like it's gonna
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: be one person, but it's it's not gonna go await fans.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: So have you heard Drake's new album, Iceman? Do you
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: plan to listen to it? Do you not care? Are
• 28:20
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• 28:24
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