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Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, the Game releases
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a dis record going at Rick Ross and the Internet wants to know who asks
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for this? My thoughts on new projects from Conway the Machine and ghost Face
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Killer and l L COOJ wants an outcast album and not a flute album.
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That is true, but we also want your album, Uncle el, Let's
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do it. Welcome to Jippop Now Podcast. If you're from the future,
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you know what to do. Get your ass out about so disrespect the leg
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hip hop is say this today, escat right into the business. Whatever,
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got established few things, you know, and then we go from there.
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So first and foremost, I mean, we done had what probably will go
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down as one of the most epic hip hop battles of all time. I'm
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not saying it's the best, but considering not just the output of the songs,
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but the rollout the social media, the back and forth, like hip
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hop was alive and breathing. Do not believe what quest Love says. He
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just scared but me and the Homy tone from into the doome dot Com did
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a brand new episode of my side podcast from this one my companion podcast called
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That Time in hip Hop, which is about history and nostalgia and preservation of
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hip hop moments. We felt the need to make a new episode because Kendrick
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Lamar versus Dre where's the moment in hip hop? Whether you like them or
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not, whether you feel there were better battles or you know they're better rappers.
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Now whatever the case may be, you couldn't escape the conversation around it,
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which means it had impact and not just on hip hop heads. So
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check that out if you're listening to audio form. It's available on audio form,
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Big shout out to hip HOPDX dot com. And that's it this week
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because that's where I'm getting most of my news from. Shout out to them,
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Shout out to all the online publications that I use to source the news
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for hip hop and you know, and to basically narrow it down to me,
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what are the more important stories beyond not beyond, but that focused specifically
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on the music and not anticks outside of the music, because honestly, you
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can go anywhere else the tabloid. But if you know an album drop which
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we got too, we gotta talk about that you may be interested in and
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you kind of want to get a you just want to hear somebody's opinion on
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it before you press play or before you buy it. I got you a
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little bit later. So with that being said, let's skip right into the
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business. So, you know, Kendrick dropped not Like Us, and then
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Drake dropped the Heart part six, and those were like literally the last two
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disc records. Most sensible hip hop heads who are just judging bars and not
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accusations knew when they heard not Like Us, this battle is over. Now
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we all listen to Drake's response, because you know, it came in a
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timely fashion where you had to like, yo, well let's see, maybe
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it's not over. But then in that, you know, came a lot
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of contradictions, and the overall consensus online was that this battle was over and
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Kendrick won and it was a great fight and all of that. But the
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whole time that this stuff has been happening, there's there have been a couple
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of people who have nothing to do with this back and forth trying to find
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their way into the conversation. Now, I don't take anything away from Rick
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Ross because he was a target of Drake so rightfully so he responded within two
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hours, by the way, after pushups came out and he's been he's he's
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the one who led the charge on hashtag BBL drizzy, which is so which
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is funny. Rick ross videos on social media and him talking at the end
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of the dis record are all better than the actual dis record and that's what
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makes it funny. So it was cool, right, he was a part
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of it because he was targeted, just like a couple of other people,
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like a SAP and all of that. One person who no one was thinking
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about. I mean, maybe i am, because you know, sometimes he
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put out some really dope albums that get slept on, but was the one
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person who constantly tries to insert themselves into things they shouldn't insert themselves into.
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And I know maybe that's pause, But what I'm saying is the game decided
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to have some disparaging words towards Rick Ross. I guess that's because he may
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feel some kind of way about what Kendrick is doing now how he got the
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West Coast, but it would be foul to go at Kendrick in defense of
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drink. So maybe he feels like, well, I'm gonna support Drake by
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going at Rick Ross. We don't we don't want to hear that, and
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you know why for those who don't know, like yo, why would you
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Why wouldn't you want to hear him game? He's a good rapper, right,
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Yeah, he's way better now to me than he was in his debut.
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I didn't like him on his debut. He was literally a name dropper,
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that's all he did. Like everything he said over over the course of
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time. He has some really dope albums where you have to give him credit,
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like the Red album, the nineteen eighty two Drink, the nineteen ninety
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two albums criminally slept on Doctor's Advocate, right, the double album he had
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like He's just he says, some really dope albums. He has a nice
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catalog, honestly, when it when you when it's all set and done.
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Now, he got some duds, but when it's all set and done,
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he has more positive on the hip hop side than anything. But the reason
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why his last album, I can't even remember what I liked about it because
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I was so so annoyed by the fact that he was gunning for this eminem
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battle that just seemed like it was coming out of fit are And then is
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that post too? Come on, man, y'all got chilled? And then
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The song was ten minutes, and only people who really hate Eminem or really
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hate the conversation around Eminem was feeling it. But most people felt like,
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even if I don't like Eminem, what is Game doing? I don't even
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want to hear that. I don't even like him now I like Game as
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a rapper. And this new song, which is entitled I think it's called
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Freeway's Revenge, meaning Rick Ross got his name because Rick Ross named something like
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Hubert. I don't know. His real name is something else, like Anthony
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was something regular, right, But he took the Rick Ross name from a
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famous drug dealer from back in the eighties who the show's FX show Snowfall was
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based upon, right, kind of based off upon his life, and he
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would be the Franklin character. But Rick Ross, the real Ricky Ross,
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Ricky Ross, Freeway Ricky Ross, right, because there's also a Freewing right,
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but Freeway Ricky Ross. He kind of was known for having like a
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ball head and a beard, like a big beard. So Rick Ross kind
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of, you know, co opted everything from the name to the beard,
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the ball head, all of that, and you know, oh, what
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Game is doing on this song, Well, let me just say this,
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well, let's let's just get to some bars. Well, okay, I'm
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losing myself. I think it's a dope record because again, I like being
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I mean, I like game, I like the track, I like the
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way he ramen, I like the wittiness of it. It's just that we
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didn't ask you to come out of the woodworks and start dissing people. It's
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a clear cry for attention, given the fact the entire West Coast is jumping
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based off of the not Like Us song that Kendrick heads out. It's just
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really showing these emotional cats can't keep still. They can't and may be the
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first one to say they have haters. But but that being said, I
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kind of wish this song wasn't a disc record it was about anything else with
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the same performance, with the same wittiness, because I think it's really dope.
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But I hate the fact that it's a disrecord, so I didn't really
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want to hear much of it after I listened the first time. But here's
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a couple of bars for y'all, and I quote you twelve lemon pepper wings
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from a heart attack. Academics give this n word an ozempic starter pack.
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See I like stuff like that. It's dope. This ain't the Kendrick beef.
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My Drake sings songs, shots ring out the neighbor. Better have his
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ring on. Let me see there some other ones over here. And this
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was aimed at this aimed at gunplay. Yeah, your baby mama told me
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you like to get peede on. You are a CEO. That's the last
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time you had keys on. I like that one. And we know you
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treat gunplay like he a peon and he knows some ish that ain't cool for
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him to speak on now Again, if he wasn't so annoying throughout his career
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when it came to attention seeking, and this was an actual beef, and
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it was a clear line to us, like knowing what's the static, what's
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the situation between him and Rick Ross, then it would be par for the
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costs. Yeah, you're gonna miss each other. But it clearly just looked
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to me like he didn't like all the Rick Ross jokes about Drake and his
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money. And he tweeted he said it's always the fat and word with skinny
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legs talking ish and thats just tell me he's just he's just scrolling through he's
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just watching this whole situation and he's thinking, how can I get involved?
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Oft BBL Drizzy, I got you. I'm gonna I'm gonna get at this
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wing Stop cat right, which is so stupid because when you say that,
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like you, Rick Ross has a lot of money, probably because of his
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investments, which includes Wingstop. Like Wingstop, I don't care where you're from.
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Maybe you're from Montana or something like that. No respect to Montana,
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but I'm just saying, uh, and Wingstop was it. But most people
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didn't really know about wing Stop until they started to pop up. And Rick
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Ross right, Lemon Pepper and when when And I'm gonna just speak for us
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black folk. When we tasted the Lemon Pepper wings, we was like,
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yeah, this is the new this is the new spot to go to.
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And like I'll say, because I live in the suburbs, now, y'all,
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that's that's what education and success looked like. You know, I'm sorry.
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I love where I come from, but we were poor and I ain't
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rich. But what I will tell you is what I don't expect. I
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expect this in the hood, right, go to the wingstop. It's crazy.
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I expect that. But here in the suburbs, especially on the weekend.
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That parking lot is crazy in front of the wingstop. So it's like
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slander. I get it the wingstop, Rick Ross. But sometimes it's difficult
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when you already be in desperate with entering yourself into a battle that had nothing
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to do with you or a beef. Like some people like say they had
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nothing to do with you, and we know Rick Ross definitely got more money
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than you. You can you're gonna try to slander the investments and say heart
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attack when Rick Ross lost all this weight, and like, yeah, it's
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still a big dude, but he ain't the dude he used to be.
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I think people forget how big he actually used to be. So at the
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end of the day, again you pressed play on the song. It ain't
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bad at all. It's just really what game does, right. He's he's
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always looking for a way to create hype around whatever. You know, maybe
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he got an album coming or whatever, but all just around himself to get
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a bag or whatever it is. And it just comes off really corny,
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and sometimes I think it does more harm to his career because again when I
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go and tell people the albums, he has that afire They just think about
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him and the name dropping and just the thirstiness, and you know they don't
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even want to listen. And I'm telling them, like, Yo, nineteen
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ninety two is an incredible album from this dude. It's it's damn there perfect.
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It's like a classic. Damn They're perfect. But some people don't want
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to press play because of who it is and his pedigree and what people know
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of him. And here he is again, right, Nobody remembers that eminem
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disc. Nobody said, Yo, this rinks like top ten. Nobody cares
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only people. We only cared when he had to break up with g Unit.
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That was probably the only time we cared about the back and forth in
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a distan And even when him and Joe Budden was going back and forth like
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that was the ever that we really cared. Now it just feels like he
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does it for attention, and it's pretty clear. So L cool J recently
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did an interview and he talked about Andre three thousand, specifically saying, how
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put the fluke down. Now I'm not quoting hum, but put the fluke
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down, get with Big Boy and make another outcast album. That's what we
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want, And to that, I say yes. That's what we want,
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and the other people who were there in this interview, and actually I think
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it was the joint the shop where I think that's Lebron James's show, like
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roundtable situation and a barbershop kind of sort of setting, or at least the
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chairs are something like that. I don't know, but at the end of
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the day, you know, there were people who were kind of defending the
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flute album. No, I like it. I meditate to that, here's
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what happens, and this is to me, this is what the problem is
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when I see people arguing about that because of who it is. And ThReD
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three thousand can make a flute album if he wants, he can make ten
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of them if he wants. That's a totally different genre of music. If
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you can't remove yourself from thinking that's a rapper and trying to listen to him
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play a flute as if it's him reciting versus, you're just never going to
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be happy because that's just nonsense. It's madness. Why would you even think
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that, like this man, I made a flute album. If you don't
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want to hear Anddred three thousand playing the flute, not press play. If
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you want to hear him rapping, go back and listen to our cares.
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And that's the problem. A lot of times, people like, why would
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you press play on something you know you're not gonna like, because that's not
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what you want. And I remember, right before the Flute album dropped,
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I listened to an interview with Andred three thousand and he talked a lot about
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anxieties and a lot of those being tied to meeting expectations musically as hip hop
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and having something to say, and he just didn't feel like he had inspiration
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in regards to hip hop. Now, yeah, you may get inspired to
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write a verse here, a verse DA and stuff like that. I can
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relate to that, you know, as a as a person who used to
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rap heavy and right rhyms back in the days all the times and make songs
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and all that. And I wasn't even trying to get a deal, but
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I was just into it that much. For me. Now it's it's better
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to like every now and again write a verse or song, and you know,
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you get I can have a year that passed before I do that again,
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but it's really when the moment strikes you. So I get what he's
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saying like, yo, you know, I don't just want to do it
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to do it because people feel like I need to do this album. But
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then once the flute stuff died down a little bit, he did another interview
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one hundred and three thousand where he said that he would love to do another
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Outcast album. You know, if you know that inspiration is there in a
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lot of ways. I think it is. I think him coming out with
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this album and hearing how so many people want him to come back to rap,
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and whether it's a solo album or an Outcans album, that once you
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see the admiration for what you've done, that may inspire you to do more.
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Right, you're not going to convert the hip hop faithful to now listen
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to you know, atmospheric music and what is it? Forget the term that
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was explained to me of what it was. It's almost like soundscaping. And
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you know, like if you're playing Zelda and you're on a quest, quest
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to get the Blue Flower and you hear the flutes playing and all of that,
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right, and I think it's cool as the instrumental And again, he
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can make as many as he wants, but at the end of the day,
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if and then we know it's there because we've heard some of your more
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recent verses in years, so you don't you never when you put pen to
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paper, you never sound whack. So I would think, what's what's wrong?
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Would would one last? One? Last Outcast album? And I think
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also the recent passion of Rico Wade may also push that into a reality because
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I don't really believe in it, like it, don't black your blessing and
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you know, don't black your gift because you may feel like, man,
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I love playing the flute. It's a spiritual situation for me. This is
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my calling, this is my blessing. But sometimes there's just things in life
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that hint towards you should do that, even if it's once you should you
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should do that. I think. I think if you did it, and
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if you you and Big Boy got together, you made some new music,
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the chemistry is there again, and you know, the ideas start flowing.
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Then you do a tour where you get to perform not only music from this
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new album but also your hits and all the love because I get him dealing
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with some anxiety with all of that that I just mentioned. But I think,
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like when you think about you know, Andre, when's the last time
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you did a tour. I think it's a totally different audience now, bro,
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Like, I think the audience now they want to give you flowers so
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much that it may feel comfortable for you now you know, that's why it
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might be the right time. But again, you know Outcast, that is
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big expectations. Their their album run is I like to say flawless, and
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I'm including Idlewild. I liked it. I think they just make great music.
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And considering idle Wild was the last thing that he did that wasn't as
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well received, I don't think that should have took you out of what you
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loved doing for so long. So there are plenty of things you could talk
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about. Naj just did six albums. How if you ain't inspired by that,
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I don't know what. Well, so we'll see. And lastly,
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so this Friday, May tenth, I believe if you're from the future,
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you know what, the dude, get yours out of here. Man,
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you already heard these albums. Stop Playing is a notable release date coming off
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of a battle with you know, for a newer generation. But there's two
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albums really today that kind of play really big into the nostalgia of an older
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generation, one with the newer artist who kind of keeps that boom back feel
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alive, and another one of legendary artists from the legendary group the Wu Tang
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Klan. The new artists being Conway the Machine with an album called Slant Face
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Killer you get It and ghost Face with his new record deal with Mass Appeal
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and the lead single with Non Scar tissue. The name of his new album
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is called set the Tone you know, like it Like It. Tony starts
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two face killer albums today and we're gonna start with Conway. It was the
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album I listen to first and again I do three yes, I'd listen to
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both of these albums three times and record time, Like I just really just
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played them like back to back to back to back, back, from last
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night to the gym, everything until the point I recorded this. So,
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uh, three listens. First listen impressions. Second listen, let me listen
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a little bit more deeply to this record, you know, lyrics and things
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like that concepts. Third listen is just to confirm my thoughts. So the
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first one up, slam Face Killer by Conway the Machine features uh include method
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Man, Stove, God, cooks his on, Heir Keith Glock, Swiss
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Beats, don't get mad, It's not that bad bars tech Don ray Kwon,
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which Raykwon I don't believe. Even rhyms is more of like a speech.
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It's a dope speech. It's a it's a ray Kon speech. What
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do he say? What he said? We we the Golden Globes like what?
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But that's why we love the wove Man. The album is clocks in
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around an hour and six minutes, and I'm not gonna hold you my overall
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opinion of it. I think it's good. I think it's I think it's
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good. I think oftentimes when it comes to Conway to the Machine you you
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maybe like last year, won't he what he won't do? Won't he do?
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Or whatever? At first, my expectations were so high that I kind
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of didn't like it. I thought it was like guys, just a collection
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of songs, and then over time I wounded up like loving it, and
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I think it was in my top five last year. This album starts off
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very strong, like very strong, and we heard some of these songs right
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like with Cool and Dre and the other joint with Joey Badass the record Muddy
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with Stove God Cooks is just mad. It was mad though when I heard
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Dad, what I was like, Oh, okay, that's what we're doing,
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right, Give Give is the joint with Cool and Dre, which was
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crazy like bars. The one with method Man is crazy, uh flee lords
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on it like that one's called meth Back. And I think at some point
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this album takes a turn, and I think that turn will be the decided
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factor for fans on whether on how much they liked this project, because right
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before that interlude, Yo, it's like, Yo, this might be this
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might be top five of the year already when that interlude hits, which is
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like an interlude in a song featuring key Block, and key Block is more
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like the Kids today right with the sort of like the trap beats and stuff
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like that. So the beat is like that, and I was cool with
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it because Conway kind of in the last couple of projects he sort of always
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had one of those. So that's fine with it, like, Okay,
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here we go, hear this one. But then after that, the music,
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like the energy, the momentum changes with this album. Whereas the boomback
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beats and features were crazy and all of that all up into the interlude,
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and it just felt like they used that interlude song as a way to separate
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one sound from the other, and not all the songs on the ladder half
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sound like that. But it's just not as strong as how the album started.
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Like I liked the song with Jade Worthy, but by the end,
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I was like, man, this is just not as good as how it
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started. Like I was really hyped in the beginning. Now again, there's
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fourteen tracks on here. That interlude doesn't really arrive until track nine, So
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the majority of the album I do like, and I like a couple of
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songs again on that back half, But even like the song raw with Tech
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nine, I didn't like the beat and a lot of it had to do
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and I started to think, like, why you pick his beat? And
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I looked down on my phone and I was like, Oh, because it's
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a Tech nine kind of beat. I don't like stuff like that. Why
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get a beat like, Oh, I'm gonna have Tech nine on him,
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So let me get a Tech nine style beat. Nah, man, just
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get a beat that's dope and let let Tech nine cook. You don't know
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what he gonna do with it. Don't give him like a he's a Tech
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nine style beat and then now you have to adapt to it. I just
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it just fell off. And I don't know if that was the case or
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whatever Tech nine might have been, like yo send whatever. I just know
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it was. I was looking at that skip button, y'all, like how
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much long left phone? Oh it's almostself Okay, I'll let you live.
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So again, I think it's a good album. I don't I think it's
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a great album or anything like that, but I think it's a good album.
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I think time will tell how much I like it. But depending on
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what we get throughout the year, I could definitely see it being a part
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of the best albums, not in my top five, because the albums I
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currently had that would make my top five I think are better than this.
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And it's questionable if that's Benny Awesome because I started out with the Benny album
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kind of like but now every time I go back to it, something feels
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right. So we'll see. Now, before we finish, let's get into
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the ghost Face album. Set the Tone, Guns N' Roses. That's what
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it's called, Set the Tone, Guns and Roses. It's about nineteen tracks
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but also include skits it's about fifty three minutes in length. Features include like
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Jim Jones, Sheikh Lutes, Ramen, method Man, this new dude called
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Iceman. There's a couple of features mostly singers on here, John Rules on
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hair Fat Joe, Kanye West, Busta ROMs Is on here, Remy mis
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on here. A lot of features for a ghost Face album, and I
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know that scared some folks when they saw the track list, and they scared
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me because I was like, who is Trevor Jackson? Like, Yo,
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you just got anybody on here, right? And I figured, like,
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Yo, this must be just a bunch of massive pill people. They trying
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to like shoehorn in so that us ghost Face fans will discover these other cats.
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But really it's a lot of singers and for reasons, I'll say now
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right off the bat, what's my rating for this album. I really like
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it. I really like it, but I think it also suffers from the
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same exact thing I just said about Conway of the Machine, because it starts
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off really strong even with the features, and ironically, scar tissue feature in
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NAS is definitely my least favorite because all the other features feel like they fit,
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and I think with ghost Face and nas. I think they need a
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different beat with a different feel, maybe even something slower where you know,
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they could really get into the bar. So I didn't really care for Scar
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tissue that much, but it's not offensive. And again, when you going
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through this album, and in this case, instead of it being an interlude
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that separates the music, it's like after Skip two, which is track ten
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on the album, it turns into the club and I don't even know if
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it's a club in twenty twenty four, it might be a club in like
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nineteen ninety eight, to be honest. And what I mean by that is,
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well, before we get to that, let me just give you a
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couple of highlights, right. I think the first track is cool with Jim
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Jones and she gluches, but honestly, it kind of felt like a throwaway.
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And I think a solo ghost Face song should have been the first song
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you heard, because the first verse you hear, I mean, the first
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voice you hear on a ghost Face album is Jim Jones talking, even though
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ghost Face has the first verse. So that kind of had me kind of
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like, maybe this should have been a little bit lower in the track listing.
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It just doesn't feel like the first song Pair of Hammers with methad Man
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Crazy is everything you expected. Skate Out to Sea with Ray Kwon it is.
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It's what they do. The singing on there is what. It's the
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type of singing that would have been sampled on a Ray and Ghost song,
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right, So I think it fit the beat those two raman. I told
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you my thoughts on a Scar tissue Kilo in the Safe with Iceman, I
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didn't mind it. I think that Iceman dude. I like him. He
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was dope and he kind of fit with ghost Face, so I liked it
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a lot. No Face with ghost Face and Kanye was dope. My favorite,
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probably right now, is a song called Champion Sound, which has some
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dance hall, like a dance hall kind of hook, and the beat and
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the samples familiar, but it's all ghost Face and it's dope. It's dope.
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It's definitely going in my Hip Hop Now podcast playlist for twenty twenty four,
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which I'll share as we get closer to June when we start to talk
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about what are the best albums of the year so far? Right, So
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again, like I said with that second skit, the first skit is gold,
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right, you know, ghost Face starts out top Dead of live serials
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and then he goes on to name a couple of serials. But after that
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second skit we start to get Wizard of Poetry ghost Face. Now, if
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you don't know ghost Faces catalog like that, he put an album out called
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a Wizard of Poetry something like that, which was geared towards the ladies.
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So you know, I had a lot of R and B singers on that,
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and even though all of the beats weren't necessarily like club songs or R
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and B sounding songs, because they really weren't, now all of them,
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that album, to me is really good, like you know, from songs
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like Stay and the other record he got with Fabulous, where Fabulous plays like
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this, dude, I guess that's sleeping with this woman and they doing a
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little acting. So it's dope. And ghost Face is always done well over
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R and B sounding things. He's never sound out of pocket. But this
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is the most I've ever heard on a ghost Face album that included so much
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boombap. It is probably a deal break it for a lot of people.
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For me, it's fine, but it kind of got worse as it went
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on, right like plan B, which is the eleventh track on Here,
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I was like, okay, was talking to the ladies. I get it.
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Then track twelve, which featured jah Ru, I was like, okay,
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we're going back to the well again. I don't know if I like
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this one, but cool. This is probably the first song I really don't
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like. Locked in with a Z. I was like, okay, Ghost
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and a Z over this style. Be I hear it, but it sounds
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but it's it's tough to say right because Asy and Ghosts were out back then,
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and I can't say, well, this sounds like something that should have
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came out back then. But if they record together now, well what should
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it sound like today? But this so I think me liking it was more
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so like nostalgia, like yeah, this is how I like to hit a
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Z over these tracks, which is true and Ghosts, so I kind of
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like that record. Then another skid hit. Then things kind of go off
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the rails because ghost has a song called touch You, and I'm like,
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oh, we're still on, and we're still on, we still want it
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and all right. Then the next song with buster rhyms and I'm a Blame
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and SURRANI I'm a blame Buster rhyms. Buster RUMs put out that whack album
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block Okay, it wasn't that whack, but whack for buster album Blockbuster,
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where you know he did all these different sounds, and you know he loved
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to do the dance hall sound and all of that, and that's fine.
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I just when I listen to Blockbuster by Bust Rhymes, I was like,
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this just isn't for me. I wait for the Buster that I know to
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return, but you just don't expect to hear this on a ghost Face album.
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There's nothing I can think of that remotely sounds like this ever in ghost
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Face's career. But then I press play on a song called Trap the Phone
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and it's literally a trap record. Well, ghost Face not sounding good over
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the beat. I don't care what you say. I don't care how many
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albums he released. We love him. He got classed, but we can't
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critique him and it doesn't always have to be positive just because of who he
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is. The song was terrible. I didn't get through it it. I
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don't care what you say. It's one thing because similarly old nas did it.
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Go back and listen to them Kings disease, trap songs, some songs
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was hot. Okay, they were, so maybe that's the case. Maybe
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maybe you need a hit boy to come in and say, Yo, do
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this, do this, do this, because it just didn't sound good to
39:22
me. It sounded like Smike said, Yo, you gotta you gotta do
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one to you know, get them kids. Maybe not stolen that, Yo,
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you gotta get one of them in there, you know, to get
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them kids and those faces not a dummy. He like, Yo, Okay,
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I'll try it. He tried. Then there's the outro, and then
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there's the song yep with Remy Mind, which really feels like it has the
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same formula as his song with Jada Kids Run, but it's not as good.
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So overall, I think if you like ghost Face, you're gonna like
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a lot of the songs on here, because I know I like more than
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I don't like. I just think towards the end, like I said with
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the Conway record, the momentum is lost, and I feel like, considering
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nineteen tracks and what four skits? You The skits were cool, so you
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could have kept them, but you probably could have dropped about four songs and
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made this a solid album. That's it, just four songs. It would
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It would have been a nice package of an album, but I don't know
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what the goal was with those, and please don't make any videos for those,
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like make video with the one with az right that still has that feel.
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But I just was I couldn't believe it because I was smiling listening to
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that first half of the ghost Face and when the second half hit, I
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was like, oh, oh, I don't know about this. So there
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