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Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now
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Speaker 1: podcast and unreleased track listing for A Biggie's second album,
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Speaker 1: Life After Death is made available. Looking back at ten
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Speaker 1: years of Kendrick Lamar's second album, to Pimp a Butterfly
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Speaker 1: and crashing out for engagement, let me explain, we're talking
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Speaker 1: to the rappers today. Let's do it. Welcome to jip
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Speaker 1: of let's get right into the business. What if y'all?
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Speaker 1: I am yours Vegas and this is hip Hop Now Podcast,
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Speaker 1: So not only to content, keep your eye on other things.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of interviews, the last interview I did was with
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Speaker 1: You can check it out. It's not no three hour joint,
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Speaker 1: I Am God Interview. Big shout out to Hip Hop
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Speaker 1: DX dot com, Double XL mag in a couple of
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Speaker 1: places where I get my stories from. Let's get Ready
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Speaker 1: to business, doc say so. Apparently there is an unreleased,
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Speaker 1: well previously unreleased track listing for Biggie's second album, Life
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Speaker 1: After Death, an album that I believe is Diamond now
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Speaker 1: or Ben Diamond for the who don't know that, Diamond
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Speaker 1: is ten million records. So that's how you hit diamond.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's not that. You know. Few of your favorite rappers
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Speaker 1: who you would think and singers who you would think
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Speaker 1: have sold plenty of records you would think they would
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Speaker 1: be diamond, but they're not. It's an exclusive list. Look
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Speaker 1: it up. But if you don't know me, I am
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Speaker 1: a Biggie smallest fan, not just because I'm from Brooklyn, right,
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Speaker 1: And do not pretend like everybody from Brooklyn was a
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Speaker 1: Biggie fan, because that would be true. But obviously there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of people will were for me. He's
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Speaker 1: my favorite rapper all the time. I just connected with
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Speaker 1: his music and his style and his thought process more
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Speaker 1: than most of my favorites throughout the years. And Life
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Speaker 1: After Death was an album that it was a bittersweet
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Speaker 1: in ninety seven, album dropped because it dropped a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks after Biggie was murdered, and I remember going
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Speaker 1: to the record store. I was in Bmore that day.
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Speaker 1: Me and the homies went to the record store now Sidebar.
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Speaker 1: We already had the album like kind of on bootleg
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Speaker 1: and some kind of piece together pieces obviously not in
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Speaker 1: the best quality, but we had been rocking most of
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Speaker 1: it for a while, so this was the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: get the official with a ton of songs we haven't heard.
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Speaker 1: And I remember being in the record store and it
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Speaker 1: was like silence. It was a line too, It was
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Speaker 1: like before the record store opened. It was a line
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Speaker 1: and it was like silence on the line, and everybody
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Speaker 1: was looking at each other kind of new right, Like
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Speaker 1: if this was I don't even know if there would
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Speaker 1: have been a line out of the door, like obviously
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Speaker 1: it would have sold it. Bigie was still alive, But
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you know, line out the door
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Speaker 1: before the rec store opens. Probably, But there was just
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Speaker 1: a vibe in the air air because we knew what happened,
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Speaker 1: and we knew why we were there. So it's interesting
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Speaker 1: to learn some more stuff about it. So this is
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Speaker 1: coming from Hip hopdx dot com and it says Biggie's
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Speaker 1: original Life After Death track list leaks with unheard songs
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Speaker 1: and surprise guests. Wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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Speaker 1: they have the audio, because if they have the audio,
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Speaker 1: y'all gonna hold it. Y'all have to hold on. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna get it. But the article also says Biggie's original
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Speaker 1: track list for Life After Death Death has surfaced, revealing
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Speaker 1: several unreleased songs and a few surprise collaborations. The track list,
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Speaker 1: which was unearthed by the Instagram account ninety two Bricks,
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Speaker 1: stems from a January nineteen ninety seven listening party Okay
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Speaker 1: for the now iconic album, which was originally titled Life
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Speaker 1: After Death Till Death Do Us Part. I remember that
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Speaker 1: at the event there were twenty eight tracks played, four
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Speaker 1: more than the twenty four that appeared on the final version,
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Speaker 1: although one song appears twice on original track list, which
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Speaker 1: may have been a printing era, suggesting the album was
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Speaker 1: originally twenty seven songs. The original original track list feature
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Speaker 1: is not only a completely reworked order, but five songs
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Speaker 1: that have yet to be heard by the public. That's
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Speaker 1: interesting because as much as they've repurposed Biggie songs to
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Speaker 1: kind of create new ones, as usually songs you know
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Speaker 1: that are being repurposed for now, which they all suck
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Speaker 1: if you ask me, or they're taken something from early
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Speaker 1: Biggie like pre Ready to Die demo tape, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe even Preparing for Ready to Die, which is hit
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Speaker 1: or missed sometimes when you hear those lyrics, but Biggie
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Speaker 1: from ninety seven, maybe ninety six unheard. It's crazy. There
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Speaker 1: must be some race issues, because I don't know why Diddy,
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Speaker 1: I gotta say his name. I don't know why he
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Speaker 1: didn't put those out in some form or like on
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Speaker 1: the anniversary edition, which is crazy. Who knows. Let's see
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Speaker 1: the original track list feature is not only a completely
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Speaker 1: reworked order, but five songs that have yet to be
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Speaker 1: heard by the public. These include Once Upon a Time
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Speaker 1: featured Fat Joe, I think I remember that, Staying Alive.
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Speaker 1: I think that was all the mixtig Staying Alive, and
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Speaker 1: untitled tracks produced by Rizza Easy Mob in DJ Clark Kent.
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Speaker 1: This is crazy town. I am going to book Hold up, y'all.
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Speaker 1: Hold up. I'm going to bookmark this for myself because
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Speaker 1: I need to go back and do some research. But
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Speaker 1: thinking about that and shout out, shout out to them,
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Speaker 1: what's the Instagram again? Ninety two bricks? Shout out to
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Speaker 1: ninety two bricks. You might want to go follow them
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Speaker 1: if they're breaking stuff like this. We need these. We
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Speaker 1: need all samples to be clear, we need all the rights,
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Speaker 1: We need the producers to give the okay, we need
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Speaker 1: all of that, and we need a new and who
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Speaker 1: knows maybe what's in the works, but we need like
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Speaker 1: a new deluxe version of Life After Death with all
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Speaker 1: the sound quality being great. Need it? Okay? You may
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Speaker 1: not need it. You may be like hi, Baby's Cool whatever,
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Speaker 1: or get out of here. I don't care what you fear, okay,
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Speaker 1: But for those of us who love the notories b
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Speaker 1: I G aka Be Small aka Big Popper aka Frink White,
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Speaker 1: we need that, okay. So we'll see if we get it.
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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go digging. I don't know about y'all. Recently,
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Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album, to Pimp a Butterfly celebrated ten
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Speaker 1: years now. It sounds crazy, but it's not that crazy,
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Speaker 1: because town just passes and we forget, and you know,
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Speaker 1: we move on to other things, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: now something is five years old, but ten years old,
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Speaker 1: thirty years old, and just for me personally as a
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Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar fan reflecting on his catalog, you know, the
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Speaker 1: stuff that's happened today, but specifically that album, coming off
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Speaker 1: of what I would definitely call a classic in Good
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Speaker 1: Kid Mad City, to Pip a Butterfly could have went
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Speaker 1: in any other direction, Like it's a very different album
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Speaker 1: from Good Kid Man City in concepts and be told,
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Speaker 1: my chihit just lowering by to Cameraman Cool in concepts
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Speaker 1: and beats and flows, inspirations collaborators. Right to Piper Butterfly,
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Speaker 1: I had a lot of jazz cats and people like
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Speaker 1: Blao and Andre three thousand collaborate to try to make
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Speaker 1: something special. And when I reviewed this album back in
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Speaker 1: I guess that was twenty fifteen, I liked it, but
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Speaker 1: it took me some time because now you know, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty vision basically, what is it? Hindsight is twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty messing it up, twenty twenty seven vision on television whatever.
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Speaker 1: Looking back at it, you know, Kendrick has this when
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Speaker 1: you look at his albums, he has this pattern that happens.
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Speaker 1: Right when you look at Good kid Man City, It's
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Speaker 1: kind of like you get the jams, you get the
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Speaker 1: street talk, you get all of that, right. And then
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Speaker 1: to Pimple, Butterfly was like a concept album, right. It
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Speaker 1: was like a dedication to black men and kids boys,
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Speaker 1: as you say, black people in general, Tupac it was
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Speaker 1: really about. It was really themed in a way that
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Speaker 1: spoke to black men with most of its songs and
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Speaker 1: most of its themes. And then after that you got Damned,
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Speaker 1: which was kind of like Good kid Man City, where
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Speaker 1: you get you know, you get the jams, you still
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Speaker 1: get the storytelling, but you kind of get the traditional
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Speaker 1: hip hop album right and then and we're not counting untitled,
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Speaker 1: I know it was in there. But then you get
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Speaker 1: mister Moron the Steppers, another concept album right where it's
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Speaker 1: really focused on this theme and though you may find
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Speaker 1: a jammer too in there, it's really about the concept.
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Speaker 1: And then you come to twenty twenty four with G
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Speaker 1: and X. Hopefully I'm not leaving anything out. I think
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Speaker 1: that's all the albums. But with G and X, now
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Speaker 1: you're back to the Jams. The theme may be West Coast,
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Speaker 1: but there's a lot more bops on the project. So
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Speaker 1: we would assume Kendrick's next album is going to be
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Speaker 1: another concept album if it keeps that up. But to
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Speaker 1: pip up Butterfly was the first time he did it
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Speaker 1: and coming off an album that most people consider his
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Speaker 1: best album in his catalog, So it was a chance.
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Speaker 1: You know, you could you could have hit that sophomore slum,
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Speaker 1: you know, if people weren't feeling it. But I think
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Speaker 1: the timing of this type of album was perfect because
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Speaker 1: you know, there was the whole Black Lives Matter movement
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Speaker 1: where his song, his single alright, kind of became a
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Speaker 1: theme for that and you know, like when he performs,
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Speaker 1: people can get upset, like at the super Bowl that
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Speaker 1: he didn't perform that one, So it had probably his
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Speaker 1: most memorable hit because people are holding onto that alright
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Speaker 1: song more than the jams he got on the Kid
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Speaker 1: Mad City. But at the time, again when I did
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Speaker 1: the review, what I liked most about it was the
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Speaker 1: fact that it also was the other underlying theme in
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Speaker 1: this album was the inspirations from black music. Right. There
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Speaker 1: was jazz elements that were funk elements. Kendrick even like
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Speaker 1: for example, for those who don't know, if you listen
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Speaker 1: to gn X, you listen to Reincarnated, right, it's basically
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Speaker 1: a Tupac beat and he's rapping blight Tupac, same flower
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Speaker 1: was Tupac, same inflections in his voice that Tupac would do. Right.
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Speaker 1: So when you go back to the Pimple Butterfly, I
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Speaker 1: forget the record, but Kendrick has a song where he's
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Speaker 1: basically rapping like James Brown would talk on records, right,
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Speaker 1: and it's really like a funk filled kind of jam
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Speaker 1: type thing. So to Pimple Butterfly, if you ask me,
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Speaker 1: is a classic because nobody at that time was doing
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Speaker 1: something like that, taking those kinds of chances. And I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about musically, you know, doing that in a way
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Speaker 1: that honors Black music and not only hip hop. Sure,
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Speaker 1: like if you want your hardcore you know, Kate Dot boomback,
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Speaker 1: you know, The Black of the Berry was that for sure,
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Speaker 1: But there were other records, right, So it was just
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Speaker 1: an album that had so much going on with it
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Speaker 1: musically that. Yeah, some people didn't like it when it
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Speaker 1: came out because good kid Man, they want a good
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Speaker 1: kid Man City Part two. They wanted that vibe and
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Speaker 1: that's why those fans probably like damn. But people like
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Speaker 1: me who like it, who like it all. I don't
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Speaker 1: mind a concept album as long as the concept is
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Speaker 1: something I can sink my teeth into, as far as
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Speaker 1: you know, listening to it, enjoying it, you know, because
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Speaker 1: there is entertainment, but also walking away with some I
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Speaker 1: don't know, some gems that I could reflect on myself.
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Speaker 1: And I don't mean necessarily like y'all do with jay
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Speaker 1: Z where where you know, Kendrick's like, hey, man, clean
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Speaker 1: up your house, and I'm like, he told me I
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Speaker 1: should clean up my house, man, yo, he's something nests, No,
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Speaker 1: clean up your house yourself. I'm talking about gems of
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Speaker 1: things you can relate to. That's what endures us to
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Speaker 1: artists that we like, right is we can relate to
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Speaker 1: them in one way or another. You know, you could
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Speaker 1: be poor and relate to somebody who's talking about money
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Speaker 1: all the time, because typically in hip hop, they're not
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Speaker 1: just talking about having it, but they always talk about
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Speaker 1: where they were and how they got it. And that's
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Speaker 1: what you can attach yourself to if you don't have money, right,
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Speaker 1: the journey to get the role to the richest, so
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Speaker 1: to speak. So I think it's a great album. I
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Speaker 1: think it's a great album to go back to in hindsight,
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Speaker 1: especially those who feel like who may like Kendrick Lamar,
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Speaker 1: are now more than they did before, or they just
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Speaker 1: start getting into this music going back and listening to
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Speaker 1: Piper Butterfly and understanding why it was that right, because
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Speaker 1: a lot of people and I'm not throwing any shade
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Speaker 1: because I do it with certain artists. Also, I have
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Speaker 1: a lot of meat music. When I just want to
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Speaker 1: hear something like this new Westside Gun album. I just
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Speaker 1: love the whole vibe of it, right, I love the bars,
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Speaker 1: I love the beats, I love everything's being said, except
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Speaker 1: for when that one part where he'd be kind of
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Speaker 1: I don't really like that. But for the most part,
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Speaker 1: I just like it, so it doesn't have to be,
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Speaker 1: you know, intellectually engaging and all that stuff and oh
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Speaker 1: I need to walk away with Jim's No, I just
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Speaker 1: like it because it's dope. But when I do want
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Speaker 1: something that feels good like that, then I'll go listen
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Speaker 1: to Pimp a Butterfly. If I haven't listened to miss
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Speaker 1: Them around the Big Steppers in a while, maybe I
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Speaker 1: you know, I give myself to listen to that, Or
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Speaker 1: if I just feel like listening, I want to listen
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Speaker 1: to the kid cutting kids see Ghosts, I'll go listen
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Speaker 1: to that. So I just want to say that there's
18:55
Speaker 1: a difference between a music fan and a fan of
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Speaker 1: hip hop. Right A fan of hip hop could like
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Speaker 1: all of hip hop, or they might just like boom Back,
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Speaker 1: or they might just like music they could ride to.
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Speaker 1: All of that's cool. But what Kendrick did with the
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Speaker 1: Pimple Butterfly again, with that theme of black music and
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Speaker 1: black people and black men and boys and celebrating and
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Speaker 1: talking about it to a depth that we can relate
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Speaker 1: to on a number of levels. I think it's worth
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Speaker 1: another listen ten years from now. It was great music,
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Speaker 1: and I was surprised when he got the Pultzer for Damn.
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Speaker 1: I thought they deserved it for to Pimple Butterfly because
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Speaker 1: Damn is a great album, but it's mostly what we
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Speaker 1: would expect. It's just straight up a hip hop album.
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Speaker 1: To Pimple Butterfly was art sonically musically. So what do
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Speaker 1: you think about to Pimp a Butterfly ten years later?
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Speaker 1: Did you like it when it came out? Did it
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Speaker 1: grow on you? Do you not care? Do them alien
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Speaker 1: noises that Kendrick be making make you say nah man
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Speaker 1: camstas man making alien noises? Leave your comments in a
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Speaker 1: comment section below. And lastly, so I know you've seen it.
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Speaker 1: I've tweeted and posted about it and all that good stuff. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter, but it's complicated. I'm on Bosky and
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Speaker 1: everything else. I'm everywhere at Vegas World. I ain't c
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Speaker 1: but and he's not the only one, maybe the only
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Speaker 1: one that's been extreme right for Kanye West crashing out
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Speaker 1: with an album on the way, It's nothing new. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing new now. You may have preferred the crashouts of
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Speaker 1: the past, right, you may have found the funny, you
21:09
Speaker 1: may have agreed with him, but some of these more
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Speaker 1: recent crashouts, you know, slavery was a choice and Swashika
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Speaker 1: chains and stuff. It's just stupid at this point. And
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Speaker 1: the only reason why I don't just look at Kanye
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Speaker 1: West as being like, oh, he's racist or blah blah blah,
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Speaker 1: is because he's been doing this since day one. He
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Speaker 1: always feels like he and most people's like as far
21:42
Speaker 1: as athletes and competitive rappers, like to stay in the
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Speaker 1: underdog position even if they're not in the underdog position
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Speaker 1: because the music, the momentum, their drive isn't great if
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Speaker 1: they ain't got to fight their way out of it
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Speaker 1: to be at the top, even when they're already at
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Speaker 1: the time, even when they're already rich or popular or whatever.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of what fuls them, what fuels their music.
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Speaker 1: And with him in particular, he's always done this, right
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Speaker 1: from award shows, being on stage doing stuff. Now, I
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Speaker 1: even question him saying George Bush don't care about black
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Speaker 1: people on the nine to eleven thing, right, because he
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Speaker 1: was right and I was glad he said it, But
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Speaker 1: did he say it because he needs to take every
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Speaker 1: opportunity to put the attention on him. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's just that what he does now after decades of
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Speaker 1: doing it, as far as saying things for attention, makes
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Speaker 1: me question the things that I like. That he said
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Speaker 1: that word for attention to some people. Well, now he's
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Speaker 1: just ridiculous. Now he's looking for what can I say
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Speaker 1: to get everybody to look at me? And I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: keep going until they are all looking at me. And
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Speaker 1: now it's getting to the point where it's so sad
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Speaker 1: that he does that. That's not it's not gonna work
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Speaker 1: the way it used to, right, he used to benefit
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Speaker 1: him before. You know, all the fashion industry don't want
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Speaker 1: to let me in. I make my own slave homeless
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Speaker 1: people clothes that look like skin or whatever that But
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't buy that stuff. But you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like he just kind of does
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Speaker 1: this all the time. The first time, you know, he
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Speaker 1: did it in a way that was kind of like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I kind of like that was like when fifty was released.
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Speaker 1: At fifty, Semple was releasing his album Curtis and I
23:51
Speaker 1: think Graduation was being released by Kanye West, and it
23:57
Speaker 1: was like who will win the battle? Blah blah blah,
24:00
Speaker 1: And at first they tried to play it up like
24:01
Speaker 1: it was beef. Then you know it's more about marketing.
24:05
Speaker 1: Obviously Kanye one, because Graduation is my favorite album in
24:09
Speaker 1: his catalog. But he's just kind of been doing this
24:14
Speaker 1: and now he's at a point where, excuse me, he
24:18
Speaker 1: has this album that he leaked. I don't know how
24:21
Speaker 1: that goes. When you say you lead your album, you
24:25
Speaker 1: released it when we call releases leads. I think it's
24:31
Speaker 1: called Bully Volume one, and some people heard it. I
24:34
Speaker 1: haven't because I think I'm tapped out at this point.
24:38
Speaker 1: But he releases, He releases that joint on the heels
24:41
Speaker 1: of the Swashika chain and wearing a Swashika shirt, trying
24:45
Speaker 1: to just row people up in public online, and then
24:49
Speaker 1: it goes on these ranks, and then he went on
24:51
Speaker 1: a rank a particular tweet that he deleted when he
24:55
Speaker 1: talked about jay Z and Beyonce's twins and he used
24:59
Speaker 1: a word that's not even politically correct anymore, about them
25:05
Speaker 1: being mentally challenged. As you said, I don't even know
25:10
Speaker 1: if that's it now, but about them. But then he
25:13
Speaker 1: deletes it. But that that was the thing that got
25:18
Speaker 1: most people really around him, right because you were already
25:23
Speaker 1: doing dumb stuff, right your wife, nikkid, And every time
25:26
Speaker 1: we see it, we got questions about that. We're kind
25:29
Speaker 1: of worried about the kids being around you at this point.
25:33
Speaker 1: And then you turn around and do that, but then
25:35
Speaker 1: you delete it real quick. Come on, you need to
25:41
Speaker 1: go get some serious help. We know he admitted to
25:44
Speaker 1: suffering from being bipolar and whatever else, and we know
25:50
Speaker 1: it feels like the change happened once his mother died,
25:53
Speaker 1: because if you watch that documentary on Netflix, especially the
25:59
Speaker 1: first part where you get to see him with his
26:02
Speaker 1: mother for the first time in their relationship. Some people,
26:07
Speaker 1: obviously everybody loved them. Well, I won't say everybody. Some
26:10
Speaker 1: people don't, but most people should love their mama and
26:16
Speaker 1: have a relationship as a child, you know, and as
26:20
Speaker 1: an adult with their mama on a certain level. Right,
26:23
Speaker 1: it's my mother, boom. But Kanye has one of those
26:27
Speaker 1: relationships where they were almost like friends also, and she
26:32
Speaker 1: was like his his ground. She would she grounded him basically, right,
26:37
Speaker 1: like she kept him grounding, as she said, when he
26:40
Speaker 1: was around her, it was a different vibe. It was
26:42
Speaker 1: a different Kanye, right. He kind of she was his calm,
26:48
Speaker 1: so to speak. So we know that the whole situation
26:52
Speaker 1: probably played into where he is today. And honestly, and
26:58
Speaker 1: I'm really not trying to to wish this on anything,
27:02
Speaker 1: but he could become he could arm himself at some point,
27:07
Speaker 1: because I don't know why you would want to drive
27:09
Speaker 1: the height up so high with the things you're saying
27:15
Speaker 1: just for people to listen to your album. There's a
27:18
Speaker 1: lot more going on there and he's the only one
27:22
Speaker 1: crashing out to this level for engagement. But like I said,
27:27
Speaker 1: Jim Jones to me, he been doing that every five seconds.
27:31
Speaker 1: He want to say every five seconds, we put ten
27:34
Speaker 1: million up so we could box your face, box your mouth.
27:38
Speaker 1: Shut up, man, No nobody wants to see that. And
27:42
Speaker 1: the more you make these let's do this together, even
27:47
Speaker 1: if it's back and forth, and the dudes that ignore you,
27:51
Speaker 1: it just makes you look desperate. You're looking to battle everybody.
27:57
Speaker 1: Nobody responds. You look in the battle, push your teeth
28:00
Speaker 1: and you make a response in front of clothes, bodega's
28:03
Speaker 1: and garbage cans. Probably in the place you don't live,
28:07
Speaker 1: right because you got money? Why would you? Why would you? Whatever?
28:12
Speaker 1: It just looks desperate and these ain't. These aren't the
28:16
Speaker 1: only two rappers doing things like this right like again,
28:21
Speaker 1: like Jim Jones album. I like it, but I think
28:23
Speaker 1: a lot of people won't hear it because they don't
28:25
Speaker 1: like the way he's been getting that right. He seems fake.
28:29
Speaker 1: He's coming up on the wrong side of his spat
28:32
Speaker 1: with Camra. But it's not just them. It's not just Kanye,
28:36
Speaker 1: it's not just Jim Jones. It's other things other rappers
28:40
Speaker 1: do and maybe not crashing out, but do things that
28:45
Speaker 1: take away what take away some of the admiration we
28:48
Speaker 1: may feel about them musically, Like ghost Face, right, ghost Face,
28:55
Speaker 1: he's just in the big cooin and it feels like
28:59
Speaker 1: somebody is running his account and he's cool with it.
29:03
Speaker 1: And I guess when people start complaining, that's when they
29:06
Speaker 1: pop out. I'm working on music. That's why people follow
29:09
Speaker 1: you though they don't care about Bigcoin and all of that.
29:12
Speaker 1: You know, make a separate page for that and talk
29:15
Speaker 1: all it goes face Bigcoin, I mean, straight up and
29:18
Speaker 1: dang like, make that over there, and then the people
29:21
Speaker 1: who are into bitcoin, especially into it because it goes
29:26
Speaker 1: let them go over there. But it's been happening because
29:31
Speaker 1: a lot of these rappers in a lot of ways,
29:34
Speaker 1: when you show this level of desperation, there's something you need.
29:38
Speaker 1: With Kanye, he says all of this, and people bob
29:42
Speaker 1: his music. So I don't know if it matters that much.
29:46
Speaker 1: Same thing with the clothes with him, but I think
29:49
Speaker 1: for him the engagement matters personally, whereas somebody like Jim Jones,
29:56
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's just trying to sustain something, right.
29:59
Speaker 1: He business slowed a little bit, and the more he engaged,
30:04
Speaker 1: the more people go to be like, let me check
30:06
Speaker 1: out his music, and the streams go up even though
30:09
Speaker 1: they don't pay a lot, Maybe the bookings increase and
30:13
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And honestly, again, I think his new
30:16
Speaker 1: album is good, like really good to me, hold up
30:20
Speaker 1: my chair going down again. They're gonna they're gonna have
30:22
Speaker 1: to fix this log. But all in all, it's a
30:26
Speaker 1: trend in hip hop that I don't like personally. I
30:31
Speaker 1: don't I don't like when Tyler Quality argues with people
30:35
Speaker 1: every day all day. I don't need to see that
30:38
Speaker 1: on my timeline. Dog. I just want to know what
30:40
Speaker 1: you're working on. I just want you to talk hip hop.
30:44
Speaker 1: I can't say that he should have to or anybody
30:47
Speaker 1: like him should have to, but again, it sort of
30:50
Speaker 1: taints what you liked about them. That connection I talked
30:55
Speaker 1: about early early on, with being able to relate to
30:59
Speaker 1: somebody once they once you realize they're more into the Shenanigans,
31:06
Speaker 1: whatever they may be, you can't really right. And if
31:09
Speaker 1: you can't rock with that, then they're not relatable to
31:13
Speaker 1: you no more. Then you're less likely to check out
31:16
Speaker 1: their new album in some cases, depending on who you
31:20
Speaker 1: are and who they are. So I don't know what
31:23
Speaker 1: do you think about this topic, Rappers crashing out for engagement?
31:29
Speaker 1: Do you not care? Do you like some of it?
31:32
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31:35
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