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J. Cole Returns! · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of Hip Hop Now Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: John Forte passes away in the Internet, celebrates his work
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  Speaker 1: Corrupt of the Dog Pounds hospitalized with a very serious
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  Speaker 1: health issue, and j Cole drops the Fallout album cover,
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  Speaker 1: release date, new song and video. Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to hip Hop Now, pot Fatness. If you from
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into the business. What up, y'all? I
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of great content, I have some coming up this
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  Speaker 1: year that's pretty dope. But shout outs, just keep the
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  Speaker 1: shadows going really quick. Shout out to everybody listening to
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  Speaker 1: audio form because this twenty twenty six marks ten years
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  Speaker 1: of Hip Hop Now Podcast in audio form, specifically now.
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  Speaker 1: The video came about seriously about two years ago on
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  Speaker 1: this channel. I've you know, I've tested and tried a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things. This channel was a bunch of different
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  Speaker 1: things before it was like my testing ground. But officially
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  Speaker 1: the year of Hip Hop fifty and twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: I started doing the video version of this podcast. But
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate commemorate ten years of Hip Hop Now podcast
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  Speaker 1: with myself, we are going to celebrate the year nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six and a number of dope albums from that
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  Speaker 1: year that have their thirtieth anniversary. Now, the thing is is,
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  Speaker 1: in the past, I've done shows where I'm talking all
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  Speaker 1: about ninety six in general. But this time I decided,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we focus on twelve albums once a month
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  Speaker 1: with a guest and kind of revisit and review the time,
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  Speaker 1: the album and why we think the album is a classic.
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  Speaker 1: So I got a couple of those episodes in the chamber.
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  Speaker 1: Some will land on the anniversary, some will you know,
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  Speaker 1: within the year or roughly around the anniversary. But look
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  Speaker 1: out for the first episode to land on January thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: where I have my man ach helping me out, helping
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  Speaker 1: me start this run of special episodes, and the topic
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  Speaker 1: will be Tupac's all Eyes on Me and mcavelly, but
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  Speaker 1: in general for Tupac, specifically nineteen ninety six because that
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  Speaker 1: was the last year TUPAC was actually alive. But when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the two albums, the success and all
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  Speaker 1: that happened, this is a This is a two hour show, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: and me and I really dig deep into those albums.
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  Speaker 1: Our feelings and what went down in nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: So stay on the lookout and if you see them
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  Speaker 1: popping up, you know and the schedule, hit the bell
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  Speaker 1: button that reminds you when those episodes this episode goes live.
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  Speaker 1: Big shout out to hip HOPDX dot com, all hip
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  Speaker 1: hop dot com, social media in general, in any other
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  Speaker 1: place where I get my stories from. Let's get right
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  Speaker 1: into the business. So this show, this episode, you know,
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  Speaker 1: coming into the new year, is already starting off a
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  Speaker 1: little sad and I have some you know, some stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's a little bit exciting at the end. But we
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  Speaker 1: must acknowledge those people who have contributed to the hip
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  Speaker 1: hop culture anytime these things go down. And John Forte,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know, used to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: the refugee camp with the Foojis played a nice role,
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  Speaker 1: a pivotal role, if not, you know, as far as
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  Speaker 1: his introduction in their nineteen ninety six album, the highly
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  Speaker 1: successful album for the Foujis kind of put John Forte
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  Speaker 1: on the map just being a part of that and
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  Speaker 1: not even not even just being a part of that album,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he was actually dope, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And two years later, in nineteen ninety eight,
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  Speaker 1: he released his debut album on Roughhouse Records, entitled poly
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  Speaker 1: Si Very slept on Album, Very You know how slept
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  Speaker 1: on it is? I slept on it now. I only
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  Speaker 1: say that because nineteen ninety eight is another one of
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  Speaker 1: those monster years. Believe me, we can go down the line,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not today. But there were a lot of albums,
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  Speaker 1: and I know for myself, there was a point in time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, before the streaming services, where if you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to hear album and it wasn't getting played on a radio,
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  Speaker 1: you had to go buy it, or maybe a place
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  Speaker 1: like Tower Records or something like that, some record storey
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  Speaker 1: you can go in. They let you listen to albums
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  Speaker 1: before you purchase them. But if you wasn't set up
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  Speaker 1: in any of those situations, unless you wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: and get that album, you would never hear it. And
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  Speaker 1: I remember hearing a song or two, and I think
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  Speaker 1: I heard the single off of the poly Side album.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was I'm not sure which one it was.
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  Speaker 1: What the single was, the one with why Cleft. It
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  Speaker 1: might have been God is Love, God is War or
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nine Flash the Message. I think it was that one,
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  Speaker 1: and I just remember the record kind of reminded me
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  Speaker 1: of their was Staying Alive joint off of where he
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  Speaker 1: was featured, and it's kind of like his debut on
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  Speaker 1: The Foujis. It was almost like the same feeling and formula.
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  Speaker 1: And I think around that time, you know, again, two
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  Speaker 1: years later and a bunch of hip hop has happened,
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't feel like it would piqued my interest, right.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't make me want to go listen to the
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  Speaker 1: album hearing that, and I believe that was on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: And again, back then, you don't get many shots at
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  Speaker 1: it impressing someone who's a hip hop fan, like if
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  Speaker 1: that's your single, if it's not working, it's not working,
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  Speaker 1: and you better hope you get another single to be
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  Speaker 1: in rotation. And it just got to the point where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, time passed and I know some people had
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  Speaker 1: said it was a dope album, and a few years back,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yo, you know, because of streaming services,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, let me go listen because it
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  Speaker 1: was something I can go right on my phone and
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  Speaker 1: just listen to it. And I remember feeling like, man,
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  Speaker 1: this this album is right up my alley as far
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  Speaker 1: as hip hop goes, but I missed it, but everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows the story. There was a time after that where
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  Speaker 1: John Forte wound up getting locked up. I believe he
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  Speaker 1: was in the FEDS and all of that, but then
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  Speaker 1: he was able to get out. And recently, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he passed away and he was only like fifty something,
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  Speaker 1: which is, you know, terrible to think that some people
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  Speaker 1: only get that amount of time on this earth. But
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  Speaker 1: while he was here and what he left, and this
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  Speaker 1: ain't the only album you can go find from John Forte,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, he left a lot of great work,
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  Speaker 1: collaborated with many people. I believe he had a family
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  Speaker 1: beyond a family, So rest in peace to John Forte.
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  Speaker 1: Check out poly Side if you a hip hop head
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  Speaker 1: and never heard it. If you like John Forte, even
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  Speaker 1: if you liked him on the Fujis, you should check
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  Speaker 1: this out. He's a pretty dope dude. Voice flows had
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  Speaker 1: You know he can rap next to DMX, rap next
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  Speaker 1: to Fat Joe, not new Fat Joe. That you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of like old Man. Ain't be lying all
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  Speaker 1: the time talking about Fat Joe the Gangster. Okay, Joey,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about that one that was like in the
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  Speaker 1: field was active with the rapping. So again, rest in peace,
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  Speaker 1: John forteen. Next more bad news unfortunately, but recently Dazz
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  Speaker 1: put up a dazz of the dog Pound for those
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  Speaker 1: who don't know, put up a post on Instagram with
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  Speaker 1: a picture of Corrupt and it said God said we
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  Speaker 1: shall live and not die. I want to send a
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  Speaker 1: big shout out to my big brother Corrupt, get well,
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  Speaker 1: speedy recovery. Need all fans to send Corrupt and get
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  Speaker 1: well message flood his Instagram. Tell him how much we
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  Speaker 1: love him. Rest in peace to my cousin Joe who
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  Speaker 1: named and others that we lost. So I need everybody
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  Speaker 1: to hit Corrupt and let him know that we love him.
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  Speaker 1: From his little brother Dad's life is serious and what
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  Speaker 1: he said, dog Pound gangsters for life. God first. So
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  Speaker 1: apparently Corrupt was hospitalized recently with some serious health issues.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't have the details about what those health
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  Speaker 1: issues are. And if you've been around long enough, if
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  Speaker 1: you've been around certain types of people in certain neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 1: there was a change in Corrupt at some point physically
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  Speaker 1: and even in some ways. You know. There's some interviews
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  Speaker 1: I saw man where he looked. I couldn't tell if
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  Speaker 1: he was just high off of something else or drunk
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  Speaker 1: or medication, because medication could do that to you, can
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  Speaker 1: delay you a little bit. But I knew he was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with something, and you would see it over time,
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  Speaker 1: and he never really looked like he was healthy again.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of just looked the same after seeing that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, good days and bad days kind of situation.
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  Speaker 1: Dog Pound, maybe two years ago, dropped one of the
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  Speaker 1: best albums of the year according to me, fire Fire album,
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  Speaker 1: West Coast album. Corrupt was there for all of it.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully, you know this, this brother gets the help
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  Speaker 1: he needs and gets better. I would second dazz Is
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  Speaker 1: sentiments right there. If you're a rant fan and you
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  Speaker 1: really a big fan of dog Pound or just a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of Corrupt, apparently he needs this, so definitely
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  Speaker 1: hit up his ig. I think up mostly does ig.
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  Speaker 1: So hit up his ig, you know, drop a message
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  Speaker 1: in there, and hopefully the brother is in a situation
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  Speaker 1: where he can read those messages, because sometimes that will
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  Speaker 1: help you in some ways, even if it's just in
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  Speaker 1: having a higher spirit, you know, at the moment while
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  Speaker 1: he deals with these health issues. So shout out to corrupt,
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  Speaker 1: one of the illess on the mic. Okay, don't sleep,
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  Speaker 1: go listen to stranded on Death Row. When I heard corrupt,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, who's that? And lastly we hear
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  Speaker 1: y'all we are here. We were finally here. J Cole
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  Speaker 1: has finally started the official rollout, no more teasing and
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  Speaker 1: testing the water. Like y'all like me, y'all don't like me.
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  Speaker 1: J Cole is like, I'm outside. I'm just I'm out here. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The fall Off, if you don't know, is in our
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  Speaker 1: album that J Cole has been talking about for years,
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  Speaker 1: teasing in a lot of ways for years. It hit.
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  Speaker 1: It hit a you know, i's gonna say a pothole,
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  Speaker 1: but sinkhole hit a sinkhole on the way to being
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  Speaker 1: delivered to us. Let's rewind just a little bit for
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  Speaker 1: those who don't know, but back in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: the rollout for the fall Off album was on the way,
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  Speaker 1: but we were getting this mixtape first called Mike Delete
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  Speaker 1: Later and the mixtape was really dope. It's really dope.
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  Speaker 1: Then there was a song on there responding to Kendrick Lamar.
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  Speaker 1: It was essentially a disc track responding to Kendrick Lamar's
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  Speaker 1: shot at him and Drake, and then J Cole went
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  Speaker 1: to a show and said he didn't want no more
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  Speaker 1: smoke with his battle and stuff. He's bound out. I
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  Speaker 1: remember he was, you know, I remember what he was saying,
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  Speaker 1: and I was so pissed at him because I'm a fan, right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Jacob and he talked so much
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  Speaker 1: about being the best and what he'll do to rappers
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  Speaker 1: and blah blah blah, and this record was somewhat lackluster.
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  Speaker 1: And then he was turning around and bound out of
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  Speaker 1: the battle, and a lot of people gave him flack
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  Speaker 1: for that, including myself, But I never lost interest in
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  Speaker 1: the falloff. And so fast forward, we know what happened
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  Speaker 1: with the battle. J Cole tries to drop a song
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  Speaker 1: here are every now and again. He dropped one song
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  Speaker 1: that was clearly apology to Drake for whatever role he
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  Speaker 1: played in, which is a good sentiment, right, But at
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  Speaker 1: that point in time, as far as hip hop tension,
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  Speaker 1: and I ain't talking about real street beef, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about rappers MC's that's what we're talking about. It felt
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  Speaker 1: too soon, and it felt like we don't want to
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  Speaker 1: really hear from you man, because you bowed out. Drake
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  Speaker 1: got jumped and now you apologize. He got jumped by
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  Speaker 1: one person. But you know what I mean. But last year,
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  Speaker 1: and I've said this on this podcast before, he dropped
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  Speaker 1: a song called Clouds, and I was like, that's the
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  Speaker 1: pocket forget. Don't even bring up that battle unless you
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  Speaker 1: have something extremely unique to say about it that people
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  Speaker 1: can be like. I could dig that and just move on,
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  Speaker 1: let them move on. But Clouds was that record. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I like this joint. Well, now j Cole
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  Speaker 1: is back and now he's like the fall Off album
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  Speaker 1: has come out. No more waiting, right, So this is
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  Speaker 1: on hip hopdx dot Com. JCOB reveals the fall Off
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  Speaker 1: album release date and artwork, so catching the hip hop
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  Speaker 1: world by surprise. On Wednesday, January fourteenth, the Dreamville rap
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  Speaker 1: star announced that his long awaited seventh album will be
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  Speaker 1: released on February sixth, which is at this point in time,
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  Speaker 1: about three weeks away. We know you're watching this video
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  Speaker 1: and it's later in twenty twenty six or twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: You already heard out. Okay, you already know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's Joe Ass out of here hit the light button though,
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  Speaker 1: and then he also right, so he gave the release date,
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  Speaker 1: gave us the album cover, and before we can like
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  Speaker 1: really dig in, and you know how the internet does,
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  Speaker 1: they start finding Easter eggs and stuff like that, and
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  Speaker 1: with the day and which that kind of is. With
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  Speaker 1: the date, with the artwork, he drops a new song
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  Speaker 1: and a video. The song is entitled This to Track two,
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  Speaker 1: which some believe hints at a double album, but I
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  Speaker 1: sort of feel like it may hint at something else. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if it's a J Cole double album, I wouldn't mind it,
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  Speaker 1: as long as I think he's gonna need to have
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  Speaker 1: some surprising features. I think Kendrick needs to be on
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  Speaker 1: his album. I think he does the boy he did
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  Speaker 1: everything wrong, so he don't need to pop up on
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  Speaker 1: anything because we don't know what he's gonna say. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're done with the battle. It's it's been almost two
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  Speaker 1: we're headed into two years. Okay, it's over. But I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, like, can right, get Kendrick on that joint
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, make the second disc him and Kendrick
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  Speaker 1: only I don't know. Finally get that meaningful jay Z feature.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember if he ever got a feature from
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  Speaker 1: jay Z on the album. But even if he did,
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  Speaker 1: which I kind of feel like, I think he did
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  Speaker 1: get another one. Jay Z hasn't wrapped in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Make this a big deal. Beyond you saying it's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal based off of your career. That's still a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. But make it a bigger deal. Make it
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  Speaker 1: like I don't want features on everything, but make it.
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  Speaker 1: Start studing, make those features count, make sure it's dope.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to tell him how to do things.
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  Speaker 1: But what I feel from this first single, it feels
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  Speaker 1: like it's going to be special now. The song this
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  Speaker 1: to Track Too is basically like an homage to NAS's Rewind.
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  Speaker 1: The song Rewind from Nas appeared on his album Still Madic,
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  Speaker 1: and it was Nas basically telling a story backwards, right,
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  Speaker 1: a story of his day backwards, right. So he's starting
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  Speaker 1: at the end of his day and going all the
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  Speaker 1: way forward to the first thing he did. Right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: j Cole is doing the same thing as far as
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  Speaker 1: the story and telling it backwards, but it's his life
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  Speaker 1: and it starts out with him in a grave, which
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  Speaker 1: I was like, this is kind of dope. The word
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  Speaker 1: play is there, the video does an excellent job of
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  Speaker 1: interpreting the lyrics visually and not all literally, like it's
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  Speaker 1: really like, I don't want to overuse this word, but
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  Speaker 1: it's really like artistic, you know what I'm saying the
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  Speaker 1: way it plays out. And if I was going to
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  Speaker 1: gripe about something, because I think the song is dope, right,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's cool. If I was going to gripe
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  Speaker 1: about something, it's I would have wanted him to play
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more in the area of when he
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  Speaker 1: was older, right where he starts as a as like
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  Speaker 1: a grandfather and talk about the future, right like what
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  Speaker 1: you see in your future. He kind of skipped from
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  Speaker 1: grandfather to like now and then started to recap his history,
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  Speaker 1: which again it was still dope. But I was texting
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  Speaker 1: with the homio and he said this, and I totally agree.
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  Speaker 1: The video does a lot to make this song what
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  Speaker 1: it is, right because if it was just a record, Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: some people just never get these things right. They call
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  Speaker 1: themselves hip hop has, but they're not even casuals, Like
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  Speaker 1: they can't even listen to a song and break down
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  Speaker 1: some of these things or hear some of these things.
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  Speaker 1: So the video was a smart idea because that way,
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  Speaker 1: visually you can match what's happening with the words and
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  Speaker 1: kind of follow along in a lot of ways. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a very dope way to start this to remind
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  Speaker 1: people that he can rap, right, That's never been in question,
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  Speaker 1: regardless if he wanted to engage in a battle or not,
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  Speaker 1: regardless if I like it or you like it or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Jco can write, he
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  Speaker 1: can rap, he can spit. The only thing that we
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  Speaker 1: were saying at that time when it happened was it's
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  Speaker 1: ironic to call yourself the king the greatest rappers. You
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: better not. And now when the fight's on, you out.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't even really a fight, considering you and
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  Speaker 1: this dude and you were cool. It was more it
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: was going to be like a sparring session. But he
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  Speaker 1: kind of ducked out of it, and probably because of
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: where things were going. Right, So I don't completely fold
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  Speaker 1: him for not one to engage in that. I just
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  Speaker 1: feel like he has a lot more to offer than
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  Speaker 1: just saying he's the best, and I think at some
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: point he started to do that more than anything and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: got away from why we like him. I mean, the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: dog the dude made a song about folding close with
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: his shorting and I thought it was dope. Some people
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: made fun of it, but I thought it was dope.
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  Speaker 1: He made a whole album kod that was kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, looking at kids with drugs and everybody over
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  Speaker 1: and addressing that in a positive way. This is what
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Ja Cole does. Man, He's a writer, he's an artist,
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  Speaker 1: thinks of concepts. He's a lot like Kendrick Lamar in
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  Speaker 1: that way. So if that's the goal for him here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all in for it. What do you think about
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  Speaker 1: J Cole's new record and the fall off? Are you
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  Speaker 1: anticipating the album? You know? Are you done with j
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Cole because you didn't like what happened with the Battle?
• 24:31
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  Speaker 1: the YouTube channel every week and definitely stay tuned for
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  Speaker 1: twelve hour one a month celebrating thirty years of the
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  Speaker 1: album some of the classic albums from nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a number of yess and when I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, it will be worth your while. Every episode
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: feels completely different, and it should, but it really does.
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  Speaker 1: So until next time, y'all. I'm not a critic, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a fan. Piace