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Pop Out and Showed · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, legendary hip hop
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  film Beach Street is coming to the stage. New album from the Clips is
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  now officially confirmed. In my review of Kendrick Lamar's pop Out concert Man listen,
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  if you have the opportunity to watch it, go ahead and watch it.
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  Unless your Aubrey, Let's do it. Welcome to jimpop Now podcast.
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  Ask did you from the future? You know what the studio? Get your
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  know what it is, all right. Big shout out to hip hopdx dot
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  these stories from. Let's get Bright into the Business SA, so recently Let's
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  and Derry Breakdancing hip hop film Beat Street celebrated forty years forty years of existence.
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  If you're too young to know, and maybe you never watched Beach Street
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  at any point, you should check it out because as much as you hear
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  people talk about the history of hip hop and or saying there are five elements
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  to hip hop, is not just rapping. I know nowadays we think it
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  is just about MCing and rapping. It's not. It's about graffiti artists,
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  it's about breakdances, about DJing, obviously, it's about rapping, it's about
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  the slang, it's about the fashion, and Beat Street was one of those
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  films that gave you, along with wild style and breaking and stuff like that,
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  gave you a look into that world at that time. And honestly,
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  I think a daylight today, especially after that concert last night, I think
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  people need to be reminded of what hip hop really is at its core,
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  and it's about artistic expression in these various ways, you know what I'm saying,
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  And it's the reason why it's the most popular genre in the world as
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  far as you know, Let's streaming numbers tell it. So, you know,
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  the fortieth anniversary of B Street comes up, and then some really dope
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  news just happened not that long ago, which is crazy. This is coming
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  from hip Hop dx dot com and says Nas. Yep that NOS teams up
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  with Arthur Baker to bring Beech Street to the stage. Nas has played a
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  key role in disseminating the craft and culture of rap to unique places, and
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  he is now joining forces with a fellow industry veteran when a new thing production,
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  so, let's say. On Friday, June fourteenth, the New York
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  City native attended the fortieth anniversary screening of Beach Street at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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  At the event, that'sco announced that he will be developing a stage adaptation
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  of the nineteen eighty four movie about the early days of hip hop. In
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  addition to taking on the role of producer, he will also work on the
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  soundtrack. This is this is excellent, man. This is the type of
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  stuff that should happen. This is being smart about the preservation of hip hop
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  culture. Right. It's not just enough to have a museum, which we're
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  gonna have in the Bronx pretty soon, an official museum, I should say,
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  which I assume will have an official hall of fame. We hope but
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  also, well, you know the different films and documentaries, and last year
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  was fifty years in hip hop, and it feels like this is the perfect
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  way to commemorate hip hop, to preserve it. Now, I probably would
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  have chose Breaking, but I think Breaking focuses so much on the dancers and
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  the pop lockers and the breakdancers. Beach Street is kind of all of it.
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  So I get why that would be a play. And it has a
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  storyline, you know what I'm saying, has an interesting storyline, so who
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  knows. Now I would like it to be a musical. I ain't go
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  from a musical would be dope because if you could watch musicals like what's the
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  one joint? That man? We heard about it for years and I can't
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  even remember Hamilton. There we go Hamilton, Right, that was a very
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  dope idea and it worked. But this is something that is hip hop.
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  And if you can have Rainbow, which is one of the characters rapping about
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  you know graffiti and you know tags and the cops and like, this could
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  be really dope. If done correctly and you get the right people to do
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  it for theater, it could be huge, right, and I mean Broadway
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  Tony Award winning Huge. That's how we're talking. So it's an excellent idea
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  and I'm glad it's being done. So let's keep our eyes on that.
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  If I'm still in the Tri State area, guess what, I'm coming home
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  to watch it. Okay, but I'm here now, so hurry up.
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  Nine. The Clips that being Push your T and Note Malice or male us
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  back in the days, but he no Malice now have announced officially along with
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  Pharrell, that a new Clips album is officially being produced by Pharrell and on
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  the Way Now. This was in an interview with Vulture. Their last album,
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  To the Casket Drop, which was pretty dope, dropped in two thousand
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  and nine, which is crazy. That's a very long time ago. Here's
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  a quote from pusha T. I think the album shows the supreme maturation of
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  a rap duo. I think this is where you get the difference between taste
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  and philip. The music is curated. This is a high taste level piece
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  of work. You can only have that level of taste when you have the
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  fundamentals down to a science. I think it's been definitely missing. Then there's
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  the competitive aspect, so I'm not gonna read well, let's no math.
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  Let's added. This is smart basketball. It's fundamentals, and not only that,
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  it's authenticity. It's what rap should look like if you're real about your
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  craft, real about your experience experience, real about your storytelling. It's bringing
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  the fans along to see the growth, not trying to fit in or fabricate.
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  I like the way y'all talking. I like the way y'all talking clips
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  because, for one, when you say all of that, you better back
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  it up. That's one. Two. I think if you just listen at
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  the last two albums from push your t as far as that expertise and fine
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  tune in something that's part of the reason why like Daytona and I forget the
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  other one, the last last one likes some of these cats now be having
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  like sentences for their albums. I don't remember. It's like it's hard,
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  but it's wet, pause like I don't remember the name. Put it in
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  the comment section. But I think in a lot of ways, the quality
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  of those last two releases from him says exactly this, like you're no longer
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  wet behind the ears in the rap game, trying to assert yourself, trying
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  to find your footing. It's more of a I've established how good I am,
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  my flow, how varied I could be in my flow, my beat
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  selection, how all the songs come together. That's the curation part that he
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  mentioned. All of this is about fine tuning and going down to every little
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  detail of making sure it is as close to perfect as you can get it.
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  And I like the sound of that. And I like the sound of
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  that more so for a CLIPS album because truth be told, during the time
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  of the Clips, No Malice was my favorite out the group and it and
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  for those you internet dudes who once you say one guy is your favorite,
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  that means the other guys whack. That is not true. I thought they
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  were both crazy, but if I had to choose one, I resonated more
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  with what what and how malice? Was Rymen or no Malice? Now was
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  Royman like? He just I just thought he was dope. Like that song
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  they got with Off the Till Till the Casket Drop album with with Cameron Uh,
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  I forget the you know outside of Pope's e Jake in the Fries high
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  at your Uncle, that one Malice verse on there is crazy. Go listen
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  to it. So I am optimistic because I think even though we've heard him
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  rohund now, I don't think he's whack because he's not that guy anymore.
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  But I think what he needs to learn based off of his newer music as
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  no malice. Talking about your past is what rappers do, so you're not
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  necessarily promoting it by talking about what you used to do. Jay Z's built
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  the entire career off of that, and he talks about what he does now.
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  So I think if malice approaches it not from a standpoint of, you
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  know, shaming it, but almost embracing it because of who you are to
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  now now you know, like it's it's a part of your fabric. It's
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  what Malcolm X did right, Like it's it's you know, I used to
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  be this guy and now I found outledge yourself and now I'm this guy and
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  this is what I used to do and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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  like being descripted because to me, that level of storytelling, I'm not at
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  least me and fans who think like me are not from an error where if
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  you're not doing all these things, then you're whack, because please please tell
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  me that all these dudes are doing all these crimes, they saying they rhymes
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  bars because at the end of the day, a lot of them would not
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  be free. We see it happen. Bobby Schmurder thought it was cool to
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  put some real stuff in bom You in prison fan? Right, ar Ad
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  thought it was cool to be telling y'all blah blah blah, really do this,
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  blah blah blah you in prison fan? Casting over two times yo yo
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  yo yo, get in prison. That's that's not what the history of rap.
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  The Cougie Rat beinfree. He done, had war with the mafia and
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  everything on his record. Nobody takes anything away from Cougie Rat, and that's
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  what his music has ever been about. He doesn't have to commit a crime.
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  Hip Hop and rappers are also storytellers. So if no Malice approaches his
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  lyrics similar to what he did when he was with the Clips, but more
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  from an introspective standpoint, but still being descriptive about what it is and blah
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  blah blah, you don't have to say this could happen to you now.
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  I think it would be dope up against what we're used to hearing from Push
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  your t because the only thing is with Push Your t he's good. I
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  don't know what he's like without Coke Rhymes anymore. Right, He's become like
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  the ambassador of Coke Rhymes right, way more than he was with the Clips
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  as a soloist. That's what he is. And do I even want to
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  hear him without him going there? I don't know. But at the end
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  of the day, I think this could be some heat because there's a lot
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  of things that's happened fifty years of hip hop, and especially this year.
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  There's a lot of things that's happening that I could tell are inspiring hip hop
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  heads old and new to care more about what they create. And it's all
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  like we got ll back and sounding crazy. We got you know, Nas
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  and Primo supposed to be working together, Pete and Pee Rock and Common sounded
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  crazy, right, Like we had the Kendrick Gamar and Drake battle, which
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  was a hip hop thing right, all the height behind that. It's just
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  there's a number of things that have been happening and that are gonna happen,
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  are gonna occur at least this year that I think will inspire a lot of
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  people to create and do better, not really make music to feed the machine
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  of business so they can stay rich, or they could keep their security around.
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  But more so, do both create really dope music, because when you
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  create really dope music, the rest or the money will take care of itself.
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  It's all about it catching on with people. But if you can't catch
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  on with people without a bitcoin or some kind of other thing to get them
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  interested, they will never be interested. So hey, you have it.
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  And lastly, so last night, right I'm missing the NBA. I'm like,
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  oh well, let me just play, you know, playing a couple
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  of games in my franchise in two k and then I start getting a couple
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  of text messages from people, text messages, WhatsApp, you know, tweets,
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  all kinds of stuff for about Kendrick, and everybody's assuming I know what
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  they're talking about because nobody's using his name, like yo, he going in
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  blah blah blah, And I'm like, what is but I forgot? Tonight
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  is the PopOut concert. So Kendrick Lamar put on a concert basically called like
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  Kenny and Friends or Kennon Friends, which featured a number of different sets like
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  DJ Mustard and a couple other DJs, and they brought people out and all
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  that. But obviously he closed out with his set, and I missed the
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  earliest set, so I got to watch those, but I caught the very
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  beginning of Kendrick Lamar's set, and you know, I turn it on,
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  turn on Twitch and he's performing Euphoria, which, for those who don't know,
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  is his first ficial Drake. This record that came out right like that
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  was a verse that kind of drake dropped push ups and then Kendrick responded a
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  little bit later with Euphoria, and then you know what happened after that The
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  set was you know, he opened with Euphoria, but then he and the
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  crowd was rapping along with it. Like first of all, everybody was like
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  yo, he opening with Euphoria, so that was already crazy. Then he
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  would perform some of his hits and then he did six' sixteen in LA.
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  Now, just as a hip hop head, that's my favorite one because
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  the beat along with how Kendrick is flowing. And when Kendrick did that joint,
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  ab Soul came out, and I think he brought ab Sol out because
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  around the time they dropped, there was this like viral not viral like that
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  but video that was going around of Abs Souls singing the intro like it survived
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  somebody line, I think somebody. So he had ab Sol do that part,
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  which was a dope idea because not only is it a part of the
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  song, but it also ties into what some people saw online at the time
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  from ab Sol. So he performed that joint and then later he would do
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  a number of songs that he brought out. He did basically a lot of
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  joints. He brought out the TD rap fans, not so Sis, it
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  wasn't there, but the rap dudes, black hippie dudes. Brought them all
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  out. You know, Schoolboy Q was out there. Who else was out
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  there? Jay Rock was out there. So he kind of you know,
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  he did songs with them, brought him out. Now, he didn't do
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  Meet the Grams, which I thought was I thought that was good because that
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  disrecord, even though people love that dis record, that's probably the the etha
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  of the competition between him and Drake. I don't know if that's necessarily a
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  show song, because it doesn't work if you don't do all the verses,
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  and then that's a long song to do all the verses in this way,
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  and it's a very intimate diss record, so I was kind of glad he
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  didn't do that. So he also brought out Doctor Dre, and Doctor Dre
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  performed two songs like Still Dre and California Love, and I thought that was
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  dope too, And I remember texting people like, yo, when he does
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  not like us, this crowd, which was already crazy during the whole set,
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  is going to go crazy when he finally hits that, So I'm thinking,
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  how he gonna make that the last song? He did it six times.
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  He performed that record in some ways six times for the sixth God Now,
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  just to be clear, he didn't perform the entire record six times.
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  He did two versions of it. The first version when he started, first
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  of all, he had Doctor Dre say I see that people, which is
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  crazy, right. Then he performs like the first second verse up to a
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  minor, that part right, and he dwells on it in like dances right,
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  and the crowd is still a minor like they still going with it.
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  Then you hear I see that, and he did, and he does it
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  again, but this time he lets the crowd do most of the rapping on
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  the lyrics, and it kind of it was crazy. He stopped again on
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  a minor did the dance, and then he did it again, but this
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  time he did the whole song, which was crazy. And then I think
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  on the fourth, fourth, and fifth time he started. I think by
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  the time of the time he did it, he had already brought out all
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  these people from LA, from NBA stars from LA like Russell Westbrook and Jamar
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  DeRozan. Lebron was in the crowd, but he ain't from LA, so
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  just stay your ass in the crowd. Uh, you played for the Lakers,
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  so what uh? But he brought out all these people, you know
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  what I'm saying, the mcs, you know, different sets, different blocks,
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  all on stage, bloods, crips, all on stage, unified.
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  He took this huge picture with them in the middle and when he performed it,
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  performed the song for what I for what was basically the fifth time.
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  It was amongst all these people who were dancing on the stage and it was
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  so dope aause he was just walking through. Cameraman was on point because cameraman
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  had like the perfect it wasn't chaotic shots of Kendrick. It was like that
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  because you know, you could be bumping into people and lose Kendrick somewhere and
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  in the crowd. But it was perfect because it was like he had the
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  perfect amount of space. Even when he would give somebody a pound, he
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  really didn't disappear within the crowd. And he's performing the song and they all
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  dancing like the sea walk into all they was just it was all Cali up
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  there. It was crazy, and then then it kind of broke out into
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  like a little dance battle, and I kept thinking to myself, this is
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  the blackest performance I've seen in a while, because this is like having a
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  camera within a party. For those who don't really go to the club,
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  whether it's now or in the past, or you've never been to a back
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  club, this is when it's a good time at the club. No fighting,
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  no nonsense, no nothing, like everybody is. Everybody there is just
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  cool with each other and they don't really even know each other like that.
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  It was just a dope display. And the sixth time was the fact that
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  they just played the record or they played the instrumental as they were leaving out
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  and Kendrick. You can still hear Kendrick saying some of the song. So
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  it was obviously the entire show was more than that. But I think for
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  that display, which was basically worldwide because yeah, the concert was happening in
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  Inglewood, California. It was also on Twitch excuse me, Amazon Music,
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  because you had they let people who react to things, they let them stream
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  it while they reacted to it, because that's how I initially saw some of
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  it, and then I switched over to Apple Music and some stuff on YouTube
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  and stuff like that, not Apple Music, Amazon Music, and it was
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  just it was a spectacle and it was another reason why he's in my top
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  five all time. Right, he ain't got no whack releases, stop it.
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  But also it shows how he continues to help carry help not the only
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  one, but help carry the torch of hip hop in various ways, and
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  not only a celebration of hip hop by bringing out people like Doctor Dre and
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  he's not even on TD anymore, but bringing out his peoples from that way.
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  He built his own stardom from TD performing all these different records, you
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  know what I'm saying, from all his albums, but he's also celebrating black
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  folk right our culture. And honestly that when he was performing and all those
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  people were on stage and it wasn't just dudes. It was kids, it
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  was women, it was all everybody. That was like a live Like if
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  I had the bottle, because that's not the only thing, but if I
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  had to bottle up what black culture is when it comes to camaraderie and celebrating
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  and partying and having fun. That was a snapshot into what we mean.
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  Those are the intangibles that Aubrey seem to try to manufacture but can't do plicate.
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  I'm just saying, well, let me take that back. He can
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  duplicated enough. Because don't get me wrong, I am still a Drake fan.
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  I still bumping my stuff. So it is what it is. But
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  it's a lesson, right, you can't when it's organic, it's a different
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  feeling. So to all the online oh this guy was paid to play bots.
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  Everybody does that. I'm pretty sure. I guarantee you because I saw
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  it in real time when Family Matters and Meet the Grams, drop Meet the
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  Grams, views and streams were going crazy, and I was like, damn
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  that many people watching and listening if some of those were bots? Cool?
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  Now, good reporting. I forget who it was. I think it was
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  Double XL magazine When there was a screenshot of the payouts. The payoffs weren't
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  necessarily coming from an LLC, so it was difficult to confirm that Kendrick or
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  his team or his label paid this person for bots, because if you know
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  anything about business, you can't just start making up names when you're sending money,
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  like to do taxes and all that. So it need to be raal
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  okay where the money's coming from. So even if it was real or not,
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  Box is a part of the game. They'll podcast people who are on
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  YouTube who pay for bots in order to push their views and their subscribers to
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  a certain point where they meet the criteria of the algorithm. I don't do
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  that, and that's why I need you to subscribe. I'm doing it the
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  organic way, right. If you like what you like, subscribe. So
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  it was a great show. You could still go and watch it. I'm
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  probably gonna check out the earliest sets just to see what happened there. But
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  again, the legend of Kendrick Lamar continues to grow. And after all of
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  this, because that battle was a moment in history, and so was this
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  show all this year, it's only right that at some point point, whether
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  it's the summer or the fall we get the next album because honestly, it's
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  about that time for him anyway. So it's crazy, but it's what we
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  I did a best Albums and EPs of twenty twenty four so far.
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  If you missed that episode, check it out if you can find some hip
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  hop in there. I know there's some people who I didn't include. I
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  included because I ain't think it was successive. Yeah, but you never know,
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  because we are only at the halfway. I may go back and listen
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  to a couple of albums to be like, you know what, this album
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  deserves to be on this list. So until next time, y'all. I'm
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  not a critic, I'm a fan. Cace