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Hip Hop Media Mafia · 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: Complex releases a hip hop media power ranking list.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not on it.
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  Speaker 1: My review of Azy's latest album Do Wade three and
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  Speaker 1: did the Boomback Resurgence Peak a few years ago?
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  Speaker 1: But that being said, a big shout out to hip
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  Speaker 1: hopdx dot com, which I don't know if they still
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  Speaker 1: kind of exist, but some of the things I've seen
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  Speaker 1: on their site influenced some of my thoughts here and
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  Speaker 1: also Complex and places like that where I get some
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  Speaker 1: of my stories from Le's get right into the business,
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  Speaker 1: same all right, off the top off the rip. Complex
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  Speaker 1: put out a list. And I know when when you
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  Speaker 1: say Complex put out a less man, it's like, it's
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  Speaker 1: like who number one? Well, this list is different. It's
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  Speaker 1: called the hip Hop Media Power Ranking, the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six edition. Now I don't follow Complex enough to know
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  Speaker 1: who was last year's number one and all that, because honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. Okay, I'm better than all put me
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  Speaker 1: on their podcast, you'll see. I'm just saying, you put
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  Speaker 1: me with Jada in Fat Joe. You can put me
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  Speaker 1: in whatever that room or bunker. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: if I want to be there with academics again, but
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  Speaker 1: we're going to We're going to talk about it, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So Complex's complex fourth annual hip Hop Media Power Rankings
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  Speaker 1: here and in the year with no dominant stars and
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  Speaker 1: no breakout moments, the people shaping raps conversation matter more
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  Speaker 1: than ever. I totally totally agree with that last part.
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  Speaker 1: The people shaping raps conversation matter more than ever. And
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  Speaker 1: you know why I say that because I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: and old heads may not like this, but remember when
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  Speaker 1: the DJ was the influencer.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when.
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  Speaker 1: The host on the radio show was the influencer because
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  Speaker 1: they had the scoop on the music from your favorite artists,
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  Speaker 1: on new artists and things like that. Now in this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: hip hop media culture, specifically online, specifically video based, it's
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  Speaker 1: sort of like those are the places you go to
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  Speaker 1: stay updated, right, including this one. Right, Like, I know
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  Speaker 1: there's people who watch me but also watch other content creators,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like that's almost more powerful than the
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  Speaker 1: artists who are now capable of having a podcast or
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  Speaker 1: doing a live stream. It just is, honestly, And not
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  Speaker 1: to say that we can't just watch the artists, but
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  Speaker 1: if you can go to a platform and get informed
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  Speaker 1: on the things you care about from a hip hop perspective,
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  Speaker 1: it's no longer the radio. It's online. So with that
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  Speaker 1: being said, and radio is still around, but you know
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  Speaker 1: it strolling. With that being said, this list so let's
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  Speaker 1: let's say this real quick. I want to read so
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  Speaker 1: we can have some context. I'm going to read their
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  Speaker 1: complex's key takeaways. Real Quick Complexes twenty twenty six Hip
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  Speaker 1: Hop Media Power ranking maps who really moves the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: In a year where rap.
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  Speaker 1: Has no dominant stars or over arching storylines, the media
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  Speaker 1: figures matter the most. The list now ranks not just
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  Speaker 1: individual personalities, but also platforms like the Art of Dialogue,
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  Speaker 1: which I subscribe to that channel I started watching Vlad
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago. The Art of Dialogue is the
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  Speaker 1: same format as Flag gets the same people for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, that Flag could get. But it's a brother. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm just saying. A complex also added writers to
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  Speaker 1: the mix. Okay, okay, writers Pulling up power here means
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  Speaker 1: cultural influence who can spark and steer viral rap debates.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone on the list was also asked to provide a
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  Speaker 1: temperature check on the genre, what they love about rap
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  Speaker 1: right now, and what they hate. Find their responses below
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  Speaker 1: so you can go to the page and check all
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  Speaker 1: that out. I just want to see who is in
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  Speaker 1: the top five, because we don't got a lot of time. Man,
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  Speaker 1: we going guys A lot of times. It's about thirty
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  Speaker 1: five people on this list. So we're skipping through and
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of people who I think the
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  Speaker 1: list is a little thorough, a couple of people who
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  Speaker 1: I definitely watch as I continue to go. Wow, I
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  Speaker 1: just scroll past Constana and I am not in the
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  Speaker 1: top five. Now I'm really interested. Okay, brows too high.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw him pass, but he's way too high. Okay, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this list is gonna be different. It's gonna be very different.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Starting at number five, Charlemagne, the God. Okay, well, I
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  Speaker 1: will say this. Charlemagne does have a lot of influence,
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  Speaker 1: but I really feel like it's faded. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about whatever he does money wise. I know he
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  Speaker 1: probably still making deals and all that. I'm just talking
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  Speaker 1: about the cultural heartbeat. Like y'all watching Charlemagne like that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just me. All right, let's go to number four. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: This I did not anticipate Fat Joe and Jadakiss at
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  Speaker 1: number four ahead. Now, I don't think they should be
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Charlemagne. I think this is a popularity thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think Charlomagne has more influence than Fat Joe and Jadakiss,
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  Speaker 1: but I think people like their show. One thing I
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  Speaker 1: do like about because I don't really watch, but one
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  Speaker 1: thing I do based off of the clips I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that when they bring somebody on
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  Speaker 1: their previewing music, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: It. It's like radio, right, It's like radio.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't sit there and listen to Fat Yo
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  Speaker 1: talk and lie the whole time, So it should have
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  Speaker 1: been a Locks podcast. But I get it all right.
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  Speaker 1: Number three DJ Vlad. You knew this was gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all still watching, y'all still subscribed, y'all still complaining, but
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  Speaker 1: you're still watching. Flag should absolutely be in the top five.
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  Speaker 1: You know why because all those i'm a boycott him,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't listening. I did it, okay, because what am
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  Speaker 1: I gonna lose? I don't care, right, But there's so
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  Speaker 1: many people who still watch, even content creators that kind
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  Speaker 1: of like was going at Vlad. They still check out
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  Speaker 1: his stuff, And I don't care if you don't hit
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  Speaker 1: subscribe button the minute you press play, chit ching, you're
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  Speaker 1: supporting Vlad the minute you press play. Now, you can't
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  Speaker 1: help if things is on your feed and they just
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  Speaker 1: happen right or you get but you can so tell
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  Speaker 1: them to mute DJ vladd. A lot of people just
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  Speaker 1: don't do it because he's still getting content that they
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  Speaker 1: want to see. So he should be in the top three.
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  Speaker 1: Number two Joe Budden, Yeah, I could influence popularity.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't miss a beat really.
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  Speaker 1: When Rory Maul left the show and they're outside of
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  Speaker 1: the top five by the way, Yeah, I can't argue this.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like Joe's only ahead of lad because
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have that you know, police thing would have
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  Speaker 1: having people on the podcast, you know, rating on themselves
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  Speaker 1: and other people. So yeah, but it's interesting who's number one?
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  Speaker 1: And I think I know it is DJ Academics. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this, I don't subscribe to DJ Academics. I
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  Speaker 1: don't instantly make him an adversary because of where he
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  Speaker 1: fell within the battle and how much he claises Drake,
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  Speaker 1: which is one thousand true. But when the battle was
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  Speaker 1: going down and songs were popping up and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: Academics was on it. Like I watched him at one point,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, he he is the fastest on this joint,
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  Speaker 1: Like whether he's getting things directly from Drake or or
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  Speaker 1: even directly from Kendrick like it seemed like he was
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  Speaker 1: the one. He was at the what do you call
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  Speaker 1: like the apex. I don't know, he was at the
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  Speaker 1: center of this battle as a hip hop media guy.
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  Speaker 2: He just was.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to like them, but I could see
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  Speaker 1: him being ahead of Lad. And what's crazy is excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Vlad's probably working a little harder than him because he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's getting guessed.
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  Speaker 2: Got to pay some of.
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  Speaker 1: Them or all of them, you know, like he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Glad is doing more with his content. But DJ academics
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  Speaker 1: like in his basement drinking with a chat open and
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  Speaker 1: a phone and it's like, oh, such and such about
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  Speaker 1: to send me. He gets it, he plays it, he
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  Speaker 1: reacts to it like I am jealous. The easiest job
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  Speaker 1: you get, you know what I'm saying, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: have enough of a following to have rappers during the battle,
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  Speaker 1: like Yo, I'm about to send you this stay alive
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  Speaker 1: even though they're using you. I can't argue with the
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  Speaker 1: number one. Now, I can't argue with the number one
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  Speaker 1: based off of complexes context around this list. But if
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  Speaker 1: you want to know my opinion in general, none of
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  Speaker 1: these and words should be number one because in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways, let's just go through real quick.
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  Speaker 2: None of it.
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  Speaker 1: None of the people Joe Budden right, maybe to a
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  Speaker 1: certain extent. Definitely not Vlat, definitely not DJ Academics, Fat Joe,
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  Speaker 1: and Jadakiss to a certain extent. But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: they're rookies in this when I watch them as host.
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  Speaker 1: Charlomagne Leaguard might be the only one who's looking at
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  Speaker 1: culture as he creates and says things and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else is kind of hype. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: What can I say? How can I bads out? What
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  Speaker 1: can I critique? What can I debate? And I know
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  Speaker 1: there's an appetite for that stuff, so I can't hate
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  Speaker 1: on it at all. There's definitely a huge appetite for
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  Speaker 1: debates and lists and arguments and crashing out on podcasts
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And you got to feed the people, right,
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  Speaker 1: Who cares if a bunch of people, nah man, I
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  Speaker 1: want to know when Coumo d gonna get back into booth.
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  Speaker 1: That's the hip hop I'm pulling up for it. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: making that dog You make it, you know, why because
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  Speaker 1: if it's not just general information like what I do
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  Speaker 1: right with's some hip hop perspective, is what I do?
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  Speaker 1: Then you crashing out or making a list or something
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  Speaker 1: that everybody's doing. And that's kind of what this list
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  Speaker 1: is about. That's why academics would be number one. Because
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  Speaker 1: he again, I gotta tip my cap. This dude is
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  Speaker 1: just up in the room like me, live every day,
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  Speaker 1: just coming downstairs. Look like he got the same shirt
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  Speaker 1: on every day. And so what because he cake it
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  Speaker 1: off and he has a huge influence. And I know
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  Speaker 1: when this Drake album dropped, even I'm gonna go over
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  Speaker 1: here to see, like, let's see how much he lays
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  Speaker 1: because that's what he did. Okay, next same. So recently
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  Speaker 1: it was announced that A Z would be dropping a
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  Speaker 1: third installment in the now Do a Dye series. A
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  Speaker 1: few years ago, Do a Dye was thirty years old.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's ninety five, made thirty years and I
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  Speaker 1: believe to commemorate that, or at least before that, he
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  Speaker 1: dropped maybe it was two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Before that, he dropped dou Dye Too.
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  Speaker 1: Now, my review on Doodye Too was it wasn't that good, right,
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  Speaker 1: But I and again as generalizing, it wasn't that good
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  Speaker 1: because it was bloated to me, like the first four songs,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this ain't it. But then the
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  Speaker 1: fifth song I was like oh. And the sixth song,
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  Speaker 1: oh oh oh, And then there was a couple of
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  Speaker 1: more this ain't it, and it was like twenty four tracks.
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  Speaker 1: Then I think he put out a deluxe or maybe
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  Speaker 1: that was the Deluxe, and it just felt like they
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  Speaker 1: recorded a bunch of songs for the album and they
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  Speaker 1: just put probably all of them on there.
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  Speaker 2: So there was no rhyme or reason.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't feel like it was connected to the original
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  Speaker 1: in any way but the name and album cover, and
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  Speaker 1: so for most people it was made as a result
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  Speaker 1: because some people can't get past the fact that I
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  Speaker 1: got to skip four songs before I get to the
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  Speaker 1: good songs on the album. That has damned their twenty
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  Speaker 1: four songs. So then it was announced a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago that AZ was putting out an album on
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  Speaker 1: Massive Pill Records, which you know NAS is affiliated with,
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  Speaker 1: and I was optimistic because I was like, well, considering
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  Speaker 1: what they just did with these seven legends, where really
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  Speaker 1: I only disliked one project and that wasn't even that bad.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, this is probably a really good look
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  Speaker 1: for AZ, But why do Word Died Part three? You
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  Speaker 1: know when part two wasn't well received like that at
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  Speaker 1: least overall definitely not about me. So Door Died three
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  Speaker 1: is here now. It's out on Mass Appeal. It is
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  Speaker 1: not twenty four tracks, it's only thirteen like the original.
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  Speaker 1: Do U Die like a shorter album? That's what I
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  Speaker 1: mean time wise? It is only thirty four minutes now.
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  Speaker 1: I could just spoiler alert. Didn't feel like that felt
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  Speaker 1: like an hour, and I don't know if that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing or bad thing. Guest features include Nas, Mike
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  Speaker 1: and Keys, Mike and Keys on a couples Joints, Mumu Fresh,
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  Speaker 1: Jada Kisses on this album but it's mostly asy now,
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  Speaker 1: y'all know how I do when I review albums. It's
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  Speaker 1: three listens, right, First listen is just to get my
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  Speaker 1: initial impressions. Second listen, Now, I'm gonna listen a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more intently. I'm gonna, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Like.
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  Speaker 1: Lock in on the themes that are being presented. Like everything,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really listening closely to what this album is, especially
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  Speaker 1: for things I might have missed. Just running through it
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  Speaker 1: on my first listen and my last listen is just
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  Speaker 1: to confirm my thoughts. And for those who need quick reviews,
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  Speaker 1: like Nigga, what's the score.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's good. I think it's good.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's definitely better than Doworded Too, probably easily
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  Speaker 1: and Door Died Too to me, isn't whack. It's just
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  Speaker 1: bloated this album, you know, I like the shorter albums,
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  Speaker 1: being shorter with thirteen tracks. He rapping on the intro,
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  Speaker 1: in the outro, and it's really only I think one
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  Speaker 1: skit what I like the most about this album because
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  Speaker 1: as he ain't never stop being able to rap right,
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  Speaker 1: like he never lost that ability to rap the same way.
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  Speaker 2: He may be a little older and may not be as.
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  Speaker 1: Aggressive as Asy was when he was younger, but everybody
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  Speaker 1: was like that, right, he's not that young anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But it's also not slow and boring.
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  Speaker 1: And what puts this Door Did three ahead of DOADT
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  Speaker 1: two for me is I don't have the complaint any
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  Speaker 1: longer that ass picking the wrong beats. This album is
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  Speaker 1: like this is the pocket. This is why we liked as.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying this is why he sound
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  Speaker 1: dope on Life's a Bitch and while he sound dope
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: on sugar Hill and more money more probably I mean
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: more money, more murder, more homicide. Right, Uh, damn, what's
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: gonna happen? Because I said that whatever you two, but.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Like it was one of
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: those things where I was listening, I.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Was like, finally, like an easy album again where I'm
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: not questioning the production choices.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: They all fit. They all fit.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: One thing I would say that maybe I don't like,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: but it's not a bad thing, you know what I'm saying,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't keep me from enjoying the album is
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: all of the callbacks to the original album.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: And I mean not him just saying that it would
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: die in the year came out. I mean like we using.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Sound bites from that album, and I don't know how
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I feel about that. And then also like a bunch
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of sequels right give Me or give Me right with
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: nas now give Me the World with Jadakiss singing the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: same hook. Basically, Uniqueness is essentially this album sugar Hill,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: what's the other one? Still Jackie? Remember Hole happy Jackie?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Well he returned and the beat flip is that beat
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: being flipped. But with all of that being said, I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: still like all of it. I still like all of it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Like I think, I'm just more relieved that AS's rapping
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: over beats that fit his style and not just taking
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: beats and he's rhyming the same, but the beat is
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: just it's too much for his flow, Like this is
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: not what Asy sounds best over. And that's and that's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: like somebody who's been listening to his albums throughout his career,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: not just you know, after Pieces of a Man, I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: was out, like I was listening to it over his career.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And sometimes he'll have a song and I'm like, yeah,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: this is the Asy I know. And then they'll have
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: another song where I'm like, well, this beat is for Mop.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't be rhyming over this because it's not matching
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: your smooth flow and your words really like that, So
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and I get it right, Like A Z's a hip
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: hop head, he might have felt certain beats and like, yeah,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I want to spit over that, but his approach needs
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: his always used to say this, he needed something like
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: like with Rick Ross, right that vibe. Rick Ross is
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: perfect beat picker because it matches his lyrics to a
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: t if everything is lush and you know sounds rich
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: before he start talking about being rich. That's how a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Z should be at all times. It should be some cool,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: cool beats right, the most aggressive beat songs.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Like more Money, more Murder.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Mohamicide right slow so he could really get the word playoff.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: So that's what I mean, man, I think this album
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: is a good album. I think if the last album
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you heard from Az was Do or Die one, you
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: might like this for nostalgia purposes. But I feel like
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it at least this album is a better sequel to
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: his debut than Part two was. Part two felt kind
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: of like everything in the kitchen sink and I'm gonna
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: just throw Do or Die two on it, And it
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: just wasn't an album that you know, worked for me.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And ahead of this review, I went back and listened
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to Door Die one and two just to make sure
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you know, it was fresh in my memory. So again,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: hearing this new album was like, yeah, I kind of
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: this feels like you're adding on you know.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: It may it may.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Be too many callbacks for some, but I feel like
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: it's a cool album dropped out of time, and AZ
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: deserves its props, So there you have it. And lastly,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be quick with this because I've been
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: trying to make these episodes shorter, and this is not
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: one of these shorter episodes. But as a hip hop
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: as a part of hip hop media, I feel like
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the boomback resurgence that gave us obviously Griselda and kind
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: of boosted Rock Marciano even though he was out there anyway.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: But the wave, right, the wave that gave us all
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: these cats mac Hamie, like everybody you can think of,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking about thirty eight Spash, like that
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: whole wave of boom back, coming back or coming back
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: to popularity, not necessarily coming back and dominating hip hop
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: us it because it never really did that, but at
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: least coming back to a respectable audience, not just a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: bunch of curmudgeons with Jan Sports from the nineties, who
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: are the only ones that know this Now it got
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to a point where everybody know it, like everybody know
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Westside Gun and the ad libs and all that. But
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: it felt like it peaked a couple of years ago, right,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: maybe two maybe more maybe two maybe two is safe.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is is because
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: right now, at the pace at which shout out to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Ransom also, but at the pace at which these boombab
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: artists have released music over time, I think they oversaturated
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that market. And not that it's dead, right, not that
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: they still not that they're not putting out dope music,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: but I think the audience has settled. Right, you checked
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: for who you like, or you may feel eh, all
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: of this sounds the same. I listened to the new
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: stuff and I'm like, it's not better than what happened
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: two years ago, right, It's not better than Tenne Talk three,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna just keep running back Tenna Talk three.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: And I think what's also.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Kind of staggering the boombap ness that we witnessed over
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years is the fact that the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Clips dropped and Stove God got a real good look
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: on there, and I think he got a look that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: was a crossover look, right, Like they are fans that
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: didn't know Stove God until that Clips album.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: And were like, yo, who's he?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And everybody was talking about you know, I remember Cam
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: talking about him, you know what I'm saying, same thing
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: with Fat Joe, and it felt like Stove God is
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: about to just open the door wider for boom Bap
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to just happen all over again. And in an ironic twist,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: an underground label like Baby Grant is the one holding
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: it back. So I think in general, the saying boom
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Bab's resurgence peaked two years ago. It's true, like when
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Benny used to drop My Timeline was just everybody talking
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: about it. Now sometimes I feel like I'm the only
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: one listening it. Westside Gun may have the most buzz
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: around his releases because of how he doesn't and because
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: how he's more of a character. He's more of a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: personality than his counterparts and Conway, everybody knows he's nice,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: so when he releases something new, you just confirmed what
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you already know. So it just feels like same thing
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: with Rock Marciano. I know Rock Marciano hardcore fans who
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: are like, yeah, this one.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Was all right. They tired, y'all, They're tired.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Stove Guy was the most interesting thing from that Boombap
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: situation that felt like it was going to like keep
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: it going, And as we got hyped and ready to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: anticipate what we were going to hear, we just didn't
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: get it. So I don't think boom Bap has gone
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: back to excuse me, to where it was, where you know,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: it didn't have like an industry eye on it. I
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: don't think that's happening. I just think that the guys
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: who do this on a regular basis, those are nicest
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and we're a part of the wave. I just think like,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: if you're a fan, you're probably checking for it or
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: their new release, but you're not as hyped as you
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: were a few years ago, mainly because we get so
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: much from them that and like, let's just say, within
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the span of three years, it feels like we got
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: enough music for twenty years. So when you come to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six and you're like, y'all, I got three
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: projects dropping, it's like, no, you don't, man, I got
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: twenty five of your albums and I just started listening
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to you two years ago. How you got more than nas?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear it, and it could be it
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: could be fired. So I don't know, what do you think?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Do you think the whole Boombab resurgence is still thriving
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and going or do you feel like it's or you
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: feel like me, like you check for who you like
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and that's pretty much it. The hype, the wave, the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: looking to see what everybody else thinks about the album.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: That's kind of overweight. Also, you know, what do you
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: think about hip hop mediating? You know what shows do
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you watch to? Do you watch them for those reasons
• 33:13
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• 33:16
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