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Watch the Party Die · 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: It's the thirtieth anniversary of the Notorious vi Igs Ready
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Speaker 1: to Die album Flutes classical music and jazz hip hop albums.
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Speaker 1: What does that all mean? And Kendrick Lamar is chosen
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Speaker 1: to be the headliner for the Super Bowl halftime show
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five and some people are mad at
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Speaker 1: jay Z. It's time to watch the party die.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it. Welcome to hip Hop Now Podcast. If
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Speaker 2: you from the future, you know what you do? Show
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Speaker 2: ass out of so disrespect the leg.
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Speaker 1: So y'all today, it's September theeenth, twenty twenty four. If
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Speaker 1: for you it's September the thirteenth, twenty twenty five, well
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Speaker 1: why are you taking a year to watch this episode?
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, though, subscribe rode to five hundred, but nevertheless,
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Speaker 1: get your ass out of here. But September thirteenth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety four, the Notorious Big released his debut album, Ready
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Speaker 1: to Die Now. For those that was outside back then,
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Speaker 1: you know what it was like. You know the hype
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Speaker 1: leading into that album. You know how it was all
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Speaker 1: over the radio, especially if you was in and why
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Speaker 1: I'm not too sure about other places, because I was.
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Speaker 2: I was in New York when that album dropped.
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Speaker 1: You basically know what it was like around the time,
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Speaker 1: the climate, you know, the songs, the excitement around the
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Speaker 1: album when it dropped.
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Speaker 2: Really quick.
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Speaker 1: For me, you know, I was a Biggie fan because
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Speaker 1: I had heard him on Heavy D's a Bunch of
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Speaker 1: n Words, the song off the album Blue Front Funk.
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Speaker 1: Then I heard his single off the Who's the Man
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Speaker 1: soundtrack called Party in bull Ish and I was like, yo,
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Speaker 1: I really kind of liked this, dude, I.
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Speaker 2: Want to hear more.
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Speaker 1: And then came the Mister c Rest in Peace to
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Speaker 1: Mister C DJ Mister C Mixtape The Best of Biggie,
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Speaker 1: where it was solidified, Like I told myself when I
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Speaker 1: heard that, especially when he hit the intro, which is basically,
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Speaker 1: you know, for those who don't know, mister C's Best
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Speaker 1: the Biggie was like a mixture of unreleased Biggie records
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Speaker 1: at the time, some demo stuff, but a number of
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Speaker 1: features that he did with R and B artists, hip
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Speaker 1: hop artists and all kinds of stuff.
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Speaker 2: From Luke to you know, Mary J. Blige and stuff
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Speaker 2: like that.
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Speaker 1: But the intro was like a freestyle that Biggie did
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Speaker 1: that's just so crazy, and I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: people forget about it. So the hype was real for Biggie,
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Speaker 1: especially in New York, especially in Brooklyn, And when the
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Speaker 1: album dropped, I just remembered it was I knew it
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Speaker 1: was going to be good. Just how it started, right,
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Speaker 1: Biggie's being I think, well, yeah, he's being born in
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Speaker 1: the intro, and it kind of goes through different stages
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Speaker 1: of his life and ends off with him leaving prison
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Speaker 1: and saying he never gonna come back, and then it
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Speaker 1: gets right into the album where things done changed. Classic
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Speaker 1: album without a doubt, really set Big up to be
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Speaker 1: one of the top MC's, one of the top rappers
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Speaker 1: in the game at that time, helping to swing the
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Speaker 1: pendulum in the directional at least the attention of hip
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Speaker 1: hop fans in the area of the East Coast because
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Speaker 1: Death Row was like on a roll and they still
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Speaker 1: won't't to roll around this time. But now Bad Boy
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Speaker 1: Records was establishing themselves. They had already had Craig Mac
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Speaker 1: who had a hit, but Biggie solidified Bad Boy Records
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Speaker 1: with his debut album, featured Method Man on their you
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Speaker 1: Know production from Buck Wolde to DJ Premier. I think
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Speaker 1: Lord Ferness also Easy Mob, of course, you can't forget
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Speaker 1: Easy Mob. Just just a very dope album that had
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Speaker 1: so many different styles and looks. Because Biggie was transitioning
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Speaker 1: from the you know, Biggie got the hype like the
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Speaker 1: hype version of Big right to the mellowed out you
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Speaker 1: know Big Poppa's style or delivery or really more like
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Speaker 1: I guess Warning was like both styles, but definitely you
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Speaker 1: can see the change in his style happening. I remember
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Speaker 1: when I first heard Juicy. I wasn't a big fan
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Speaker 1: of Juicy because you know, I just heard partying bul Ish,
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Speaker 1: I had heard just playing, you know, the when he
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Speaker 1: talked about all the R and B singers he would
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Speaker 1: sleep with kind of thing on, some playful stuff, and
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Speaker 1: Juicy was just so different. You know, it was like,
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Speaker 1: why do you have this beat? Why are you doing this?
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Speaker 1: Because typically a beat like that with a rapper would
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Speaker 1: have been strictly about the ladies. But what I love
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Speaker 1: about Juicy is the lyrics because it was literally it starts,
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Speaker 1: it was it was all a dream.
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Speaker 2: If you're watching on video, I got the biggie shut on.
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Speaker 1: It was all a dream and a lot of rappers,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people who are trying to make it
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Speaker 1: out of humble beginnings or should I say the ghetto instead,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. In his case, it was hold up,
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Speaker 1: I got my mic in the shop, my bag there
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Speaker 1: would go boom, But you know what I'm saying. It
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Speaker 1: was for me being in high school at the time
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Speaker 1: and getting very close because the following year I was
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Speaker 1: going to go to college.
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Speaker 2: So it was like.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to have a future that was better than
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Speaker 1: my present, but all I could do was dream at
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Speaker 1: the moment because I had so many more steps to go.
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Speaker 2: To achieve those goals.
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Speaker 1: So for Big, it was like I was here on
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Speaker 1: the block at one point, and now look at all
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Speaker 1: of this we have, look at what we're doing based
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Speaker 1: off of, you know, rapping. So it was a dope
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Speaker 1: story from a hip hop head situation because he shows
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Speaker 1: a lot of love to hip hop in the song
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Speaker 1: to telling his own story and the album plays out
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Speaker 1: in that way. A lot favorite record on there is
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Speaker 1: probably every Day Struggle. It's easy to say unbelievable because
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Speaker 1: it's probably literally the dopest you know and the what
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Speaker 1: with Method Man was crazy, But Everyday Struggle is my
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Speaker 1: favorite record off of there.
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Speaker 2: For what I just said, I.
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Speaker 1: Mean, it was Biggie doing what he does one of
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Speaker 1: the things he does best, storytelling, and every Day Struggle
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Speaker 1: was really like the grounded version of Juicy, right. Juicy
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Speaker 1: was more like I'm telling this story from my new
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Speaker 1: mansion and everybody's happy and we're toasting with champagne and
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Speaker 1: every day struggle was like, I don't even think that
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Speaker 1: dream is a reality. I'm here down on the ground
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Speaker 1: my homies, you know, dying out of state, and all
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Speaker 1: these things are happening, and I.
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Speaker 2: Don't know what the future holds.
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Speaker 1: So ready to die when you look back at it
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Speaker 1: in thirty years. Obviously a classic, but I think if
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Speaker 1: you've never heard it because you're younger or you're just
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Speaker 1: new to hip hop, regardless of your age, you should
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Speaker 1: listen to it because it's one of the reasons why
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Speaker 1: we like certain artists more than others. Biggie's telling his story,
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Speaker 1: and he's telling a story also that may not necessarily
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Speaker 1: be his, but he's also telling his story within the album,
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Speaker 1: and he's one of the greatest storytellers in hip hop history.
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Speaker 1: So not only do you get to know big but
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Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, you get to know a lot.
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Speaker 2: Of his peers, and you get to know what a.
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Speaker 1: Lot of people are thinking in the hood, you know,
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Speaker 1: as opposed to just saying, oh, rappers, gold chains and
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Speaker 1: girls and stuff like that, but you really get to
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Speaker 1: know their motivations to this point, and I think Ready
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Speaker 1: to Die was one of those great albums that did
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Speaker 1: two things great again, which is told Biggie's story but
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Speaker 1: at the same time told a story that a guy
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Speaker 1: who's ready to die and really doesn't care and has
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Speaker 1: all these things happening and ends up. You know, not
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Speaker 1: to spoil it, but the last record is called Suicidal Thoughts,
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Speaker 1: so very dope album classic. If you've never heard it
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Speaker 1: or it's been a while since you ran the album back,
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Speaker 1: you should check it out. Two thousand and twenty four
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Speaker 1: has seen some very notable hip hop albums released, a
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Speaker 1: historic hip hop battle like for it to be the
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Speaker 1: fifty first year of hip hop, after celebrating fifty years
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Speaker 1: of hip hop like it's it's been a great year
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Speaker 1: so far for the music, for the hip hop conversation
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Speaker 1: in general, it feels like in a lot of ways
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Speaker 1: lyrically musically where course correcting and not getting rid of
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Speaker 1: certain artists and types of music, but just saying art
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Speaker 1: matters in hip hop specifically, it matters in hip hop.
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Speaker 1: But one thing that's happened in twenty twenty four since
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Speaker 1: we're talking about art, is we've had at least three
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Speaker 1: that I know of. Notable hip hop artists make albums
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Speaker 1: outside of the genre. Now, the one that comes to
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Speaker 1: mind for most is Andre three thousand making a flute album.
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Speaker 1: Now we call it a flute album because honestly, I
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Speaker 1: think we just love the joke of saying a flute
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Speaker 1: in hip hop and Bobby Humphries is dope, so don't sleep.
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Speaker 1: But it was more so an alternative album for him.
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Speaker 1: In the name of the album, for those who don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's called New Blue Sun.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: So, Andrey three thousand, three stacks of outcasts finally returns
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Speaker 1: to music with an album, and he's playing the flute. Now,
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Speaker 1: spoiler alert, every time we saw him in between that time,
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Speaker 1: he was playing the flute in public, so it makes sense, right,
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Speaker 1: he was kind of building towards what he was gonna
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Speaker 1: do anyway, which is kind of dope from that standpoint, right,
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Speaker 1: And I'll say what I think about all these albums
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Speaker 1: after that, then Riza mentioned this, and I thought it
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Speaker 1: was like a hypothetical. But Rizza said, oh, well, I
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Speaker 1: have a classical album that I'm gonna put out, and.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, what.
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Speaker 1: First, Andre, Now you Risen and Riza put out that
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Speaker 1: album and it's called a Ballet through mud Rizza, Colorado
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Speaker 1: Symphony and Christopher Racket, right, and obviously this is a
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Speaker 1: classical album. Then I look up and I'm like, well, wait,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, what is going on JUICYJ. For those
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Speaker 1: who don't know, they like, wait a minute, is anything
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Speaker 1: like the dude from the movie Half Bait with Dave Chappelle,
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Speaker 1: Like the guy who was fighting the squirrel Master. I
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Speaker 1: don't think his name is JUICYJ. But it was really close.
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Speaker 1: But JUICYJ of three six Mafia Fame said I'm releasing
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Speaker 1: a jazz album, and at first, you know, I love jazz,
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Speaker 1: so I was kind of thinking, like, well, does he
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Speaker 1: play instruments, because this could potentially be interesting. And then
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Speaker 1: I saw he was teaming up with like Robert Glasper
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Speaker 1: and a couple of people, some real legit people in jazz,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, this might be good, but I
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Speaker 1: don't know if these I don't know instrument he plays,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think he sings, but he's not really
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Speaker 1: singing for the most part. But it's categorized, at least
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Speaker 1: on Apple Music as a jazz album. So Andre three
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Speaker 1: thousand gives you an alternate alternative album, Riza gives you
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Speaker 1: a classic album, and JUICYJ gives you a jazz album
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Now, I know you're saying to yourself,
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Speaker 1: all of them have to be whack because they're not
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Speaker 1: hip hop. No, but I will say this, if I'm
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Speaker 1: going to give you a quick review, because I listened
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Speaker 1: to all three, I would say Andre's album is an
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Speaker 1: acquired taste. It's not terrible, but at the same time,
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Speaker 1: I'll never listen to it again because it's just not
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Speaker 1: the alternative type of music I like.
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Speaker 2: It's more atmospheric, you know what I'm.
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Speaker 1: Saying, Like you playing that in like a store or whatever,
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Speaker 1: you know, like if you sell tea or candles or
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Speaker 1: something you just got that, let that rock out. It's nice.
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Speaker 1: Or you're on an elevator and that's playing. It's nice,
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Speaker 1: but don't I don't really do that. Like I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to drive to it. I'm not going to clean
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Speaker 1: up my house to it. I guess if I had
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Speaker 1: a dinner party, you know, with some Horty Tody people,
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Speaker 1: I could probably throw that on and it'd be nice
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Speaker 1: to rock out, you know, in the background. But not
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Speaker 1: something I would listen to again because it just didn't
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Speaker 1: leave a big enough impression on me as a music
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Speaker 1: fan to listen again. Regardless if it's Andre three thousand
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Speaker 1: with Juicy J a jazz album, it starts off where
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this might be better than I thought.
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Speaker 1: But then I realized this album ain't nothing but a
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Speaker 1: hip hop album. Now there's some jazzy tunes and they're
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Speaker 1: jazz artists musicians playing on the record. But I think
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Speaker 1: I was more into Juicy J when he was trying
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Speaker 1: to do what felt more like spoken words than when
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Speaker 1: the majority of the records he's rapping, and his style
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Speaker 1: of rapping does not match of jazz music. But let alone,
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Speaker 1: most of the beats don't sound like jazz.
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Speaker 2: It just sounded like hip hop.
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Speaker 1: So I just had to turn it off after a while,
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Speaker 1: like this is not what I thought it was gonna be.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know why it's in a jazz category.
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Speaker 1: To me, it leans heavy in the hip hop section.
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Speaker 1: That's where it should be as far as how it sounds.
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Speaker 1: But Rizza Ballet in the Mud, I said, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: all three of these albums I have the Sony m
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Speaker 1: fours or whatever. Right, nice quality. I guess you would
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Speaker 1: call him high quality. Headphone go over your ears so
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Speaker 1: you kind of sink into the sound. And I did
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Speaker 1: that for all three, you know, to kind of absorb everything, right,
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Speaker 1: because I like bands and I like instruments, so I
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Speaker 1: want to hear everything. I want to hear the quality
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Speaker 1: of everything. And when I did that with Riza. Now
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Speaker 1: I have an Apple Music subscription, and Apple Music also
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Speaker 1: offers an Apple Classical app, so the app it self
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Speaker 1: is specifically design top the bottom for listening to Apple
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Speaker 1: I mean, not Apple listening to classical music. So I'm like, okay, boom,
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Speaker 1: I got some writing a dude, and put the headphones
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Speaker 1: on and I'm gonna listen. Riza has the best one
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Speaker 1: out of it because I really like it and it's classical.
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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of classical. I have a
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Speaker 1: ton of jazz. I don't have a lot of classical.
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Speaker 1: I don't have any classical at all. What am I
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Speaker 1: talking about? Nothing in my music collection is classical. Riza
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Speaker 1: is the first. And the reason why I say that
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Speaker 1: is because this does it. When I say classical music,
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Speaker 1: we all think baching stuff like that, right, basically stuff
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Speaker 1: we might not listen to if we don't listen to
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Speaker 1: classical music. But Rizza's version of classical sounds like Rizza,
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Speaker 1: and it sounds more like scoring a movie. So if
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Speaker 1: you think about Rizza's style, and it's heavily or at
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Speaker 1: least in the past, heavily and influenced by music, you
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Speaker 1: were hearing a Kung fuol Flay right, like think of
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Speaker 1: like Into the Dragon, right. They did a lot of
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Speaker 1: dope things with music in that movie, especially with the
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Speaker 1: intro to the different fighters, like Jim Kelly, Jim Kelly,
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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly right now, is that buffalo whatever?
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about? The brother Okay, but.
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Speaker 1: They did a lot of dope stuff with the music,
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Speaker 1: you know, the scoring when they were introducing them, like
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Speaker 1: Bruce Lee and all of that. So in some ways
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Speaker 1: when I was listening, I was like, I guess this
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Speaker 1: is classical and ballet with a riser vibe. So it's
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Speaker 1: really like hip hop by way of classical. If you
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Speaker 1: get what I'm saying, I guarantee you you press play
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Speaker 1: on it, you're gonna be like this, it is classical.
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Speaker 1: This don't sound nothing like Beethoven. This almost sound like
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Speaker 1: hip hop. Put it this way. When I heard it,
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Speaker 1: I kept thinking, if Ghosts and like Ray and Gizzl
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Speaker 1: or whatever would rhyme to these beats, this will probably
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Speaker 1: be a dope woul tang album and be very different.
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Speaker 2: Right, there's no like super drums.
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Speaker 1: No, it's not boomback, but the way it sounds, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't sound so far away from hip hop that it's
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Speaker 1: not hip hop, but it doesn't sound so hip hop
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Speaker 1: that is not classical, If that makes sense. It's a
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Speaker 1: perfect goal between. So again, think about Rizzi's scoring in
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Speaker 1: different films he's done, and think about those early albums
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Speaker 1: that always had a Kung Fu flick influence, not in
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Speaker 1: the skits or what he's you know, sampling voices, but
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Speaker 1: within the music from Kung Fu flicks. So what do
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Speaker 1: I think about this whole you know, artist doing different things.
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Speaker 1: I don't mind it, because if you watch this podcast
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Speaker 1: for a certain amount of time, lilu YACHTI did like
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Speaker 1: a rock album and I liked it, and I don't
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Speaker 1: even like Lil YACHTI.
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Speaker 2: Now did he make the greatest rock record ever?
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Speaker 1: Or it needs to be in a conversation with such
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Speaker 1: and such, no but I thought it was good enough
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Speaker 1: to not be hip hop and still be enjoyable, right,
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Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be mad if more artists who seriously
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Speaker 1: had the talents and seriously knew those genres of music
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Speaker 1: to create in that space instead of you know, saying
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that genre of music and sort of
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Speaker 1: disrespect it because you know, maybe just put a cowboy
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Speaker 1: hat on you, Like I made a country album but
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Speaker 1: it sounds like hip hop. But you could tell Rizza
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Speaker 1: had an idea of what he wanted to do, and
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Speaker 1: he's in a lot of ways been doing it since
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Speaker 1: he was producing for The Woo, even like with the
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Speaker 1: second album where he had people from symphonies playing and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: So I think y'all should check it out. If you're
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Speaker 2: that interested.
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Speaker 1: You have to be a music fan, because if you're
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Speaker 1: going in there looking for Bobby Digital or The Woo
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Speaker 1: or early Riza or whatever, and you don't your mind
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Speaker 1: to hear a classical album but made by Rizza, you
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Speaker 1: may not like it. Those other two albums, the Juicy
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Speaker 1: Jay Joint, I don't even listen to. It's not jazz
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Speaker 1: okay to me, it doesn't sound like jazz sounds like
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Speaker 1: hip hop. So and lastly, all right, it's been a
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Speaker 1: long week. Okay, it's been a long week. The NFL
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Speaker 1: season kicked off. Go Birds Fly, Goles Fly last week,
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Speaker 1: and on the day that the NFL was kicking off,
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Speaker 1: Batman Ak Kendrick Lamar pops out on Twitter and social
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Speaker 1: media in general and post a video I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: headlining the super Bowl this year. And when you watch
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Speaker 1: the video, there's some there's some shots in general, considering
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Speaker 1: he just came off a huge battle, most notably saying,
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Speaker 1: you know, you only got one opportunity to win the championship.
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Speaker 2: No round twos.
23:11
Speaker 1: Now, the whole round twos is because Drake and his
23:14
Speaker 1: minions meaning academics, have been promoting Uh wait for round two,
23:20
Speaker 1: wait for the second round here, wait wait wait wait wait.
23:24
Speaker 1: But then Kendrick was like, I'm doing I'm headlining the
23:26
Speaker 1: super Bowl. You've never done it? Who cares? What Mal says?
23:30
Speaker 1: Maul lives in Drake's lap, like abroad, Okay, even if
23:35
Speaker 1: he just likes him a lot. Dog I like Drake too,
23:38
Speaker 1: But what you're doing, you know, like, do you have
23:41
Speaker 1: a lady? What she think about your behavior? That's what
23:46
Speaker 1: I mean.
23:47
Speaker 2: But then they kind of switched and it's like, oh, well,
23:52
Speaker 2: you know Drake was turning he turned down super Bowls.
23:56
Speaker 2: Now I wouldn't.
23:58
Speaker 1: I don't feel like that could be a lie that
24:01
Speaker 1: he's turned down super Bowls to headline. But I think
24:05
Speaker 1: that's also stupid, and I think he would have taken
24:09
Speaker 1: the opportunity to headline, especially this super Bowl, because that
24:13
Speaker 1: would have been a strike, a little like he's lost
24:16
Speaker 1: the battle, but that would have been a nice I
24:19
Speaker 1: can come back because now you have to watch me
24:23
Speaker 1: on the super Bowl, but no, you're gonna watch Kate
24:25
Speaker 1: Dot instead. Right, But then social media and not all
24:32
Speaker 1: hip hop fans started to blame jay Z because the
24:38
Speaker 1: super Bowl's taking place in New Orleans in February of
24:42
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and there are a lot of people
24:46
Speaker 1: who felt it should have been Lil Wayne. Now what
24:51
Speaker 1: also transpired is and Lil Wayne did respond. But before
24:56
Speaker 1: Lol Wayne responded to this announcement, Nicki Minaj, Juvenile Master,
25:03
Speaker 1: p Baby all gave their opinions on Drake. I mean,
25:11
Speaker 1: Kendrick being chosen over Little Wayne, as if that was
25:16
Speaker 1: the choice, We're gonna choose him over Little Wayne. Where
25:19
Speaker 1: the choice was no, we're choosing Kendrick Lamar.
25:24
Speaker 2: Period.
25:26
Speaker 1: And Nicki Minaj in particular was really irate about it,
25:30
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what she does now. She rents
25:33
Speaker 1: and goes live and all of that. Because I don't know,
25:36
Speaker 1: I guess she tried to take down Megan thee Stallion
25:39
Speaker 1: and she's almost hotter than ever at this point. And
25:43
Speaker 1: you know, talked about like jay Z being a hater
25:45
Speaker 1: and why punish Lil Wayne because you hate Baby Me
25:49
Speaker 1: and Birdman, And.
25:50
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, like, why jay Z hate y'all? Why would
25:54
Speaker 2: he do that?
25:55
Speaker 1: But do they not know jay Z just as a fan?
26:00
Speaker 1: They know him better than I do, But as just
26:02
Speaker 1: as a fan, Yeah, I know this man. It doesn't
26:06
Speaker 1: care what I got to say because he's well above
26:08
Speaker 1: y'all at this point financially and business wise and career wise.
26:15
Speaker 1: So there were a lot of people who said a
26:16
Speaker 1: couple of things. I think Master P was probably the
26:19
Speaker 1: most respectful with what he had to say as far
26:23
Speaker 1: as you know.
26:25
Speaker 2: And most of them wanted you to know that it.
26:28
Speaker 1: Was not about Kendrick, and it was just about them
26:33
Speaker 1: not selecting Lil Wayne to headline this particular super Bowl halftime. Now,
26:40
Speaker 1: where's all this coming from? And again, this whole thing
26:44
Speaker 1: I'm doing right now is for people who just don't
26:47
Speaker 1: know what all the fuss is about and for those
26:50
Speaker 1: who just want to get the timeline right. Well, Lil
26:53
Speaker 1: Wayne did a interview I think back in January where
26:59
Speaker 1: the interview or asked him about the super Bowl. Hey,
27:03
Speaker 1: the super Bowl is going to be in New Orleans
27:05
Speaker 1: next year, how great would it be for you to
27:08
Speaker 1: do the halftime show? And he expressed how much he
27:11
Speaker 1: would love it and how much, like you could see
27:13
Speaker 1: it in his face, how much that would be so
27:16
Speaker 1: awesome to do right. And he said something about like
27:22
Speaker 1: getting it right, you know, or or putting in work
27:26
Speaker 1: ahead of time in order to secure that. What I
27:32
Speaker 1: don't think Lil Wayne anticipated. And not to say this
27:36
Speaker 1: has anything to do with him catching strays, but the
27:42
Speaker 1: Drake and.
27:44
Speaker 2: Kendrick battle showed you how hot Hendrick is right now. Now.
27:52
Speaker 2: He was quiet for.
27:55
Speaker 1: The most part, but then he couldn't need the first
27:59
Speaker 1: person shoot it, and he he was like, you know,
28:00
Speaker 1: I'm kind of tired of all of this. Let me
28:02
Speaker 1: just go in and we just do a friendly fade.
28:06
Speaker 1: And then Drake took it too far, so then Kendrick
28:09
Speaker 1: took it even further and the end result was a
28:13
Speaker 1: bop Not Like Us that just became this phenomenon and
28:16
Speaker 1: will probably win awards if politics don't play a role
28:21
Speaker 1: and that song winning and probably will be performed at
28:25
Speaker 1: the halftime at the halftime show because it was a
28:29
Speaker 1: huge record this year.
28:31
Speaker 2: It'd be different if it was a huge record for hip.
28:35
Speaker 1: Hop, then don't perform that at the super Bowl even
28:38
Speaker 1: I would say that, but you almost can't do the
28:43
Speaker 1: super Bowl without performing Not like Us.
28:46
Speaker 2: It just seems weird to not do that. It does.
28:52
Speaker 2: I went to I was in Bmore.
28:54
Speaker 1: I went to an Orioles game and they had it.
28:58
Speaker 1: They played it, they played the whole but they played
29:00
Speaker 1: Daylight like us because they was you know, Orios was
29:03
Speaker 1: beating up on the White Sox, and I was just like, man,
29:06
Speaker 1: this thing is just everywhere, and homecoming season is around
29:10
Speaker 1: the corner. When those campuses get crowded, you are going
29:14
Speaker 1: to hear that record. Whether it's the band or at
29:17
Speaker 1: a party you go to, you're gonna hear it.
29:20
Speaker 2: It's going all the way. It's going to be a year.
29:22
Speaker 1: So with that being said, Kendrick is so hot right
29:26
Speaker 1: now as an artist that it makes sense that it
29:33
Speaker 1: would be him and not over little Wing. Now, a
29:40
Speaker 1: lot of the things that came about that people talked
29:43
Speaker 1: about and reasons why and blah blah blah it's his
29:45
Speaker 1: hometown and why you're going to give it to blah
29:47
Speaker 1: blah blah.
29:48
Speaker 2: Let's be clear. The super Bowl is the super Bowl
29:53
Speaker 2: halftime show. It's never about getting an artists who's from
29:58
Speaker 2: the town. Rihanna when she performed, she is not from Phoenix.
30:05
Speaker 1: Beyonce performed when the super Bowl was in New Orleans
30:10
Speaker 1: maybe ten years ago, almost she's from Texas.
30:16
Speaker 2: We can continue to go.
30:17
Speaker 1: Down the line of people performing at the super Bowl
30:22
Speaker 1: and not being from there. Now, logistically and professionally, it
30:27
Speaker 1: would be stupid to do that because as you hit
30:30
Speaker 1: each town now you have to decide.
30:35
Speaker 2: You're thinking, like, who's here. We gotta go get.
30:38
Speaker 1: Such and such now because this is the most popular
30:41
Speaker 1: artist here.
30:42
Speaker 2: It's stupid.
30:45
Speaker 1: Nobody does that and they've never done that, so why
30:47
Speaker 1: would they do it now? Also, the selection process for
30:54
Speaker 1: who is to perform is a committee decision. Now Jay
30:58
Speaker 1: Z is still in charge of that thing. But it's
31:02
Speaker 1: a committee decision, right, people have to sign off, including
31:08
Speaker 1: the city of New Orleans.
31:11
Speaker 2: So if.
31:14
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne was kind of making a campaign for it
31:17
Speaker 1: early and this committee still decided to go with Kendrick,
31:22
Speaker 1: it didn't really have anything to do with where people
31:25
Speaker 1: were from. Now, let's just talk about a lot of
31:28
Speaker 1: people were arguing Lil Wayne's merits and history. He's a legend.
31:32
Speaker 1: If there's a hip hop Hall of Fame, he is
31:34
Speaker 1: a first ballot legend. I've liked Lil Wayne since Cash
31:38
Speaker 1: Money Days, you know, the Carter series, the mixtape, run everything.
31:46
Speaker 1: But Kendrick is the hottest hip hop artist right now.
31:50
Speaker 1: Every time he drops, everybody drops to say he dropped
31:55
Speaker 1: another one? What is it a disrecord? Blub blah blah.
31:59
Speaker 1: He stops everything you're doing on social media? Who album
32:03
Speaker 1: you were talking about? Every you have, everybody stops to
32:06
Speaker 1: hear what he's gonna do. You want that person to
32:12
Speaker 1: put eyes and butts and seats or whatever the phrase
32:16
Speaker 1: is when the super Bowl comes, right, you want.
32:20
Speaker 2: People to be hyped to watch.
32:22
Speaker 1: When they announced it was Usher, which was in Vegas,
32:24
Speaker 1: and Usher's not from Vegas. He did a residency, but
32:27
Speaker 1: so has a number of artists done residencies in Vegas, right,
32:32
Speaker 1: Jodas is doing a residency. Jodas is not doing a
32:35
Speaker 1: halftime show. Wu Tang of all groups had a residency
32:42
Speaker 1: and they don't have to. So you get what I'm saying.
32:46
Speaker 1: But you look at everything that was being said and
32:52
Speaker 1: why and who and if it's jay Z, it's a
32:57
Speaker 1: committee decision period, business, not emotions. This is the reason
33:01
Speaker 1: why some of you guys have the jobs you have
33:05
Speaker 1: because your understanding of industry and business and professionalism is limited.
33:11
Speaker 1: And that's okay because as long as you're seeking knowledge,
33:15
Speaker 1: I don't have no static with you. But if you
33:18
Speaker 1: are the type who don't want to hear that it
33:20
Speaker 1: should be him, then you don't know what you're talking about.
33:23
Speaker 2: Now.
33:26
Speaker 1: Hendrick did drop a song after that announcement, and not
33:32
Speaker 1: the same day. He waited a little bit, everybody started arguing,
33:35
Speaker 1: and he dropped a song called Watched the Party Die
33:39
Speaker 1: and it was released on nine to eleven, which is crazy.
33:44
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's some connections with that. Maybe not.
33:47
Speaker 1: It's also was the night of the MTV Video Music Awards.
33:53
Speaker 1: I think that probably had more to do with him
33:56
Speaker 1: not getting I don't think he won any awards or
34:01
Speaker 1: one for Not Like Us, which I think he probably
34:04
Speaker 1: should have, and that could be a politics thing, but honestly,
34:08
Speaker 1: I never watch award shows, and everybody wasn't talking about
34:13
Speaker 1: the award shows when he dropped that record. They were
34:15
Speaker 1: talking about Kendrick that was trended. The ward show was
34:19
Speaker 1: like after like, you know, okay, well now we can
34:22
Speaker 1: see what happened at the ward show. Shout out to
34:25
Speaker 1: the go LJ who did a great performance. So in
34:30
Speaker 1: the song watch the Party Die is less of a
34:33
Speaker 1: disrecord to Drake and more of.
34:38
Speaker 2: Like a end of the party, last call for alcohol.
34:42
Speaker 1: You know, he released all these disrecords and partied out
34:45
Speaker 1: when Not Like Us and this is kind of like
34:47
Speaker 1: the end of the party, wine down type of song.
34:51
Speaker 1: And it's just really a lot of reflections on people
34:55
Speaker 1: in and around the business of music making.
35:00
Speaker 2: Dope.
35:02
Speaker 1: And again he furthers the I don't want to say
35:07
Speaker 1: the narrative. That's what people say when they basically say
35:10
Speaker 1: something's made up, and it's the story that's not true.
35:13
Speaker 1: But he furthers the reason why he was chosen to
35:18
Speaker 1: do the Super Bowl halftime show, not just because of
35:22
Speaker 1: the disrecords, not just because he's had successful music, but
35:27
Speaker 1: everything he's done recently to go from you not even
35:32
Speaker 1: seeing him to being the main person you pay attention
35:36
Speaker 1: to every time he pops out. And I'm pretty sure
35:42
Speaker 1: that last minute Apple what it was it, Amazon Music
35:47
Speaker 1: La pop Out Concert or Inglewood or whatever it was
35:51
Speaker 1: pop out Concert also had a lot to do with
35:53
Speaker 1: it as well, I'm assuming so.
35:58
Speaker 2: So that was dope.
36:00
Speaker 1: But as all of this was happening, and I'm going
36:02
Speaker 1: to wrap it up, but as all of this was happening,
36:05
Speaker 1: then Lil Wayne decided to make a video to chime in,
36:10
Speaker 1: and part of me was kind of proud of the
36:13
Speaker 1: fact that he didn't jump out there real quick and
36:17
Speaker 1: respond to this.
36:19
Speaker 2: But then.
36:21
Speaker 1: I got a little upset when I learned that he
36:24
Speaker 1: did make a video, and then I calmed down a
36:28
Speaker 1: little bit when I watched it. Now I'm just gonna
36:33
Speaker 1: say this, and this ain't got nothing to do with
36:34
Speaker 1: the fans, because we can do what we want, we
36:36
Speaker 1: can feel how we want. But to Nicki Minaj and
36:41
Speaker 1: Juvenile and even Master P, even though he's being you know,
36:44
Speaker 1: cordial about it, in peace about it, and definitely Birdman,
36:50
Speaker 1: it's extremely unprofessional because guess what, they're not just people
36:54
Speaker 1: out like they're not somebody out in the court playing
36:56
Speaker 1: street ball. And I'm like, you're being unprofessional like the
36:59
Speaker 1: Street were in the street but they are professional recording artists, executives, producers.
37:05
Speaker 2: And all of that.
37:07
Speaker 1: And I felt it very unprofessional because even though you're saying,
37:12
Speaker 1: you know, no disrespect to Kendrick and you know, I
37:15
Speaker 1: love Kendrick and all of that, as you say it
37:18
Speaker 1: should be Wayne, I wonder about you, the fact that
37:23
Speaker 1: you would just go and do that, the fact that
37:25
Speaker 1: you would just only look at jay Z when you
37:29
Speaker 1: know it's not just him. Now you may feel like, well,
37:33
Speaker 1: I know it's not just him, but he's the person
37:36
Speaker 1: we got in the room that we can tangible, you know,
37:39
Speaker 1: that's tangible enough to go to and say, yo, Wayne
37:43
Speaker 1: want to do this?
37:44
Speaker 2: Can you help us out?
37:48
Speaker 1: But it just makes me feel like and shout out
37:50
Speaker 1: to the homie ad because we did a little coaching
37:52
Speaker 1: cipher on this, Okay, Like for one like you, you
37:58
Speaker 1: sound like you needed more than Wayne. Because if I'm
38:04
Speaker 1: not mistaken, if Wayne gets to do the Super Bowl
38:08
Speaker 1: halftime show without a doubt, you're gonna see Baby on stage.
38:13
Speaker 2: Without a doubt.
38:14
Speaker 1: How the hot boys are coming out on stage without
38:16
Speaker 1: a doubt, Nicky and Drake are coming out on stage.
38:23
Speaker 2: So it wasn't just Wayne's opportunity.
38:27
Speaker 1: It was an opportunity that they miss out out on also, right,
38:33
Speaker 1: And judging by their anger and all of that, it
38:36
Speaker 1: felt like y'all don't have too many big deals on
38:41
Speaker 1: the table, because if you did, you wouldn't jump on
38:43
Speaker 1: social media trying to stir up a campaign to say
38:47
Speaker 1: it should have been Wayne Bars. But Lil Wayne's video
38:51
Speaker 1: is very different because most people like Lil Wayne, right.
38:57
Speaker 1: It's not many people I've heard that just don't like him.
39:01
Speaker 2: Right.
39:01
Speaker 1: Him and the clips had they thing, but I had
39:03
Speaker 1: more to do with Baby, and his video is more
39:08
Speaker 1: so of how crushed he felt by not being chosen
39:15
Speaker 1: and how he didn't rush to make a video about
39:18
Speaker 1: it because he was trying to keep from crying essentially
39:23
Speaker 1: about it. And he also kind of blamed himself for
39:28
Speaker 1: not preparing for the fact that it could have been
39:31
Speaker 1: a no. He was so convinced that it would be
39:36
Speaker 1: him that he told himself it was going to be
39:41
Speaker 1: him at halftime. I give them props for that, because
39:44
Speaker 1: most people don't admit stuff like that, right, Like, why
39:49
Speaker 1: did I sell myself on it so much? It tells
39:52
Speaker 1: you that he felt it wasn't about entitlement for him.
39:57
Speaker 1: He just thought he'd be the perfect one to do
40:00
Speaker 1: do it as a legend from New Orleans.
40:03
Speaker 2: Now. Granted, if any if that battle.
40:08
Speaker 1: With Drake and Kendrick Lamar just played out on some
40:11
Speaker 1: hip hop stuff and it was really only us that
40:14
Speaker 1: picked a winner and moved on, Lil Wayne might have
40:18
Speaker 1: been a choice. But to his point in that original
40:22
Speaker 1: interview where he was asked, where he said, I got
40:26
Speaker 1: some work to do to get there. Well, let's look
40:29
Speaker 1: at the timeline I checked for Lil Wayne music. He's
40:36
Speaker 1: re released mixtapes, He's put out singles, singles that I
40:40
Speaker 1: thought was hot that I put on best of the
40:42
Speaker 1: year so far. But I hear pete from y'all. I
40:49
Speaker 1: seen mad slander thrown in his direction. I seen hype
40:55
Speaker 1: for two seconds because a mixtape from back in the
40:58
Speaker 1: days is now available on stream.
41:00
Speaker 2: But then I ain't see nothing else.
41:02
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about like maybe a week of you
41:06
Speaker 1: talking about Lil Wayne. The most I've seen around Lil
41:11
Speaker 1: Wayne is that he probably doing the show with Skip
41:13
Speaker 1: Bayless that that's the most hype. So even though he's
41:21
Speaker 1: not going to be tapped to do the super Bowl
41:25
Speaker 1: and only do new material this year.
41:28
Speaker 2: Obviously it's about his catalog.
41:32
Speaker 1: Kendrick is so hot right now and if they're looking
41:36
Speaker 1: to go with a rapper, it just makes sense. Now
41:42
Speaker 1: if they didn't all come out and jump out the
41:44
Speaker 1: window and do this, I would put money down that
41:49
Speaker 1: Kendrick was going to bring out Lil Wayne and cash
41:52
Speaker 1: money anyway, right, because that's how Kendrick gets down. But
42:00
Speaker 1: now that they've done all of this, and he may
42:02
Speaker 1: still do it, it's a lot of time. Now that
42:05
Speaker 1: he's done all of this, Now it looks now it's
42:08
Speaker 1: awkward because now some people would think, like, oh, Kendrick
42:13
Speaker 1: just cleared the piece of his joint just so they
42:17
Speaker 1: could get on because they was crying. You know what
42:19
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like it just makes it all awkward now.
42:22
Speaker 1: And this is the last thing I'll say about it.
42:25
Speaker 1: And it has more to do with the professionalism or
42:30
Speaker 1: like thereof from people like Nikki, not necessarily Lil Wayne.
42:35
Speaker 1: I get it, but Baby and most of the new
42:41
Speaker 1: Orleans except for Jay Electronica, but we ain't gonna get
42:44
Speaker 1: into that because he went kind of heavy because he
42:47
Speaker 1: was defending jay Z.
42:49
Speaker 2: But they were.
42:52
Speaker 1: Highly unprofessional in my opinion, because if you lose out
42:57
Speaker 1: on a deal, you lose out on a deal. When
43:00
Speaker 1: you put it out there to the public, you're messing
43:02
Speaker 1: with the money. And in a lot of ways you
43:04
Speaker 1: think you're messing with somebody else's money, you're only messing
43:07
Speaker 1: with your own. You may have made it so people
43:11
Speaker 1: really want to see what Kendrick going to do. Now
43:14
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and you've probably made it.
43:17
Speaker 1: So he's like, who at the door? Who to bring
43:21
Speaker 1: out on?
43:21
Speaker 2: Stays with me?
43:23
Speaker 1: Oh, Lil Wayne, Yeah, you can come, homie. You know
43:26
Speaker 1: I've looked up to you and all of that. You
43:28
Speaker 1: can perform everybody else stay outside. That's how you've made it.
43:35
Speaker 1: And thinking that whole no fly zone thing that you
43:40
Speaker 1: think that applies to the NFL into the city of
43:44
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Now y'all outside with the guys selling T shirts.
43:48
Speaker 1: At this point, you're not really touching nothing because you can't.
43:54
Speaker 1: We always and when I say that, I'm talking about
43:57
Speaker 1: black folk, we always like to look at each other
44:01
Speaker 1: when we're mad when it wasn't just jay Z's decision right.
44:07
Speaker 1: And what I think is most unprofessional about all of
44:11
Speaker 1: this is not only to air it out in the public,
44:18
Speaker 1: but Kendrick is a fan. He looks up to Lil Wayne,
44:25
Speaker 1: and even if you say we're cool with Kendrick blah
44:27
Speaker 1: blah blah, state, it still makes them feel some kind
44:30
Speaker 1: of way about whether it's anger or disappointed or kind
44:35
Speaker 1: of really don't want to do it, or just hate
44:38
Speaker 1: the industry in general because of all of this that's happening.
44:42
Speaker 1: It's kind of one of those things where it's not
44:45
Speaker 1: Wayne versus Kendrick, it's just making us look bad as
44:51
Speaker 1: a people, a people who have businesses, who have money,
44:55
Speaker 1: who have cloud not knowing how to deal with business. Accordingly,
45:02
Speaker 1: all of that talking man go get a different deal.
45:06
Speaker 1: The super Bowl is a huge event, so I understand
45:10
Speaker 1: how Wayne feels, but that doesn't mean you can't go
45:15
Speaker 1: and do other things to make up for it. Put
45:21
Speaker 1: that Carter album out, make sure it's the best it
45:24
Speaker 1: can be, especially now that there's a lot of people
45:27
Speaker 1: who feel sorry for you.
45:30
Speaker 2: Get them. Sympathy plays too right.
45:36
Speaker 1: Cash money records Reunion Tour do better. People saying it
45:41
Speaker 1: was trash when they were at the essence veest y'all
45:45
Speaker 1: fighting amongst each other. We're not gonna ignore when jay
45:50
Speaker 1: Z was the one who paid Little Wayne's taxes to
45:53
Speaker 1: get him out of a buying.
45:57
Speaker 2: Not Birdman.
46:01
Speaker 1: Berdman was also the one who wasn't even paying Lil
46:04
Speaker 1: Wayne is money jerking him. We all know this is
46:08
Speaker 1: well documented. Son Young Felg has a replacement for Lil Wayne.
46:15
Speaker 1: We forgot about that.
46:17
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
46:19
Speaker 1: So with all of that being said, and there's even
46:21
Speaker 1: more to talk about, but this is probably the longest
46:24
Speaker 1: episode of Hip Hop Now podcasts I've done in a while.
46:29
Speaker 1: I just wish we would concentrate more on great music
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Speaker 1: and celebrating each other. Because there's no one who thinks
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Speaker 1: Wayne is whack or washed up, and that's why he
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Speaker 1: can't perform at the super Bowl. I think if he
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Speaker 1: got the super Bowl, he would give it. He would
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Speaker 1: look to give his best performance ever. And this isn't
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Speaker 1: the only super Bowl. Doesn't have to be in New Orleans. Hell,
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Speaker 1: half the time I look in the sand, I don't
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Speaker 1: see us in the stands, see us on the field.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be that okay, and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to It just means Kendrick gets hot right now
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Speaker 1: as professionals recognize that and move on. Because if you
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Speaker 1: can't move on, I wonder like, do you not have
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Speaker 1: anything else going on? Or were you telling bill collectors, Yo,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be performing at the super Bowl and don't
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Speaker 1: take my whips And now you got to tell them
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Speaker 1: that money ain't coming through. I don't understand. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not talking about Wade. I'm talking about the people who
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Speaker 1: he would potentially bring out if he were performing. I
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Speaker 1: like to think Kendrick is going to do something to
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Speaker 1: celebrate New Orleans and New Orleans hip hop, and I
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Speaker 1: think hip hop in general, and I think it's going
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Speaker 1: to be a treat and I think people will instantly forget.
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Speaker 2: About all this Nazise. What do you think?
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Speaker 1: Do you think it was a no brainer to have
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Speaker 1: Hendrick perform or do you think it should have been flitting?
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