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Snub Season · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of Hip Hop Now podcast,
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Speaker 1: hot Boys Reunion on stage at Little Louisiana Festival, amongst
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Speaker 1: other things, My thoughts on a new album by apps
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Speaker 1: Sol sol Berger, and Grammy nominations are here. Let the
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Speaker 1: snub talk begin. Let's do it. Welcome to jip Hop
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Speaker 1: where I'm getting some of these stories from. Let's get
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Speaker 1: ring to business though now so earlier in the week
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Speaker 1: or maybe last weekend something like that. But Lil Wayne
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Speaker 1: had his Lil Wayne Liluisiana Festival, right. It was really
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Speaker 1: like a celebration of Lil Wayne. And it was the
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Speaker 1: first time in a very long time. You saw the
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Speaker 1: hot boys on stage, right BG obviously Wayne, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Turk who turks my guy? Uh turk
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Speaker 1: Manny Fresh is there? Juvenile obviously Birdman performing at hit
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Speaker 1: Lil Wayne performed as well. He was given the key
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Speaker 1: to the City in New Orleans, all that good stuff,
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Speaker 1: you know, and he even gave a speech about the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl saying it was taken from him or snatched
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Speaker 1: away something a term to that effect. So here are
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Speaker 1: my thoughts on what I heard and saw. I think
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Speaker 1: Lil Wayne should definitely be celebrated in more than just
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Speaker 1: New Orleans. Right. He is a legend in the game
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Speaker 1: when you look at his history, the music, the features,
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Speaker 1: the mixtapes, the bars, the transitions and styles when he
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Speaker 1: started the albums, the Carter series, like he is certified
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Speaker 1: to be in the Hip Hop Hall of Fame without
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Speaker 1: of doubt. Right. Seeing the Hot Boys on stage is
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Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. Man. I have a playlist I made
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Speaker 1: years ago before there were streaming services and they would
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Speaker 1: make playlists for you or you can make playlists. I
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Speaker 1: made it based off the music I had just celebrating
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Speaker 1: the Hot Boys. And every time I play that joint
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Speaker 1: and I'm like wow, and this is no card and stuff, right,
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Speaker 1: just the early cash Money days, and I just be like, wow, man,
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Speaker 1: Cash Money had a serious run back then, like it's
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Speaker 1: all hits, literally all hits on this joint and seeing that.
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Speaker 1: Seeing the reunion was dope to see because it's like,
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Speaker 1: why with the Hot Boys, we I mean, we know
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Speaker 1: why a lot of people were locked up and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that, but you know, kind of we kind of
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Speaker 1: got robbed from having the hot boys pop in the
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Speaker 1: way Wou Tang does. Right, Like, if Ghosts was the
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Speaker 1: one who was mainly popping at the time, that didn't
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Speaker 1: mean you weren't gonna hand me, that didn't mean you
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Speaker 1: weren't going to hear from Gizzo inspected that, right, And
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Speaker 1: I feel like with the Carter series and low Wayne's career,
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Speaker 1: at some point it was just him and you know,
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Speaker 1: again BG was locked up and there was situations, but
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Speaker 1: it was just sad that we couldn't get you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe Beg's on Carter too, unless he is, and I
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Speaker 1: don't remember, but you know what I mean, just a legacy.
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Speaker 1: So it was great to see them. The Key to
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Speaker 1: the City I got, I got a hope. I'm not
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Speaker 1: even gonna hold job. The Key to the City felt
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Speaker 1: so much like a Constellation prize for not getting the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl and all the things him and his comrades
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Speaker 1: had to say about the super Bowl being in New
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Speaker 1: Orleans and the city and you know, feeling snubbed by
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Speaker 1: the city in some ways because why didn't he have
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Speaker 1: a key to the city anyway already like he'd been
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Speaker 1: he'd been so successful that he could have got a key.
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Speaker 1: Birdman could have got a key like they had it.
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Speaker 1: I think master P has a key. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but you would think that that would have already happened
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Speaker 1: at some point. Apparently it didn't, and it happened here
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Speaker 1: also master P said like February sixth or eight, something
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Speaker 1: like that would be you know, officially in New Orleans
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Speaker 1: Lil Wayne Day, which is cool, but again, could have
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Speaker 1: did that a long time ago. You didn't have to
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Speaker 1: wait to try to make the statement about how he
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Speaker 1: should be the performer and the super Bowl this year,
9:41
Speaker 1: for those who don't know, the performer and the super
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Speaker 1: Bowl will be Kendrick Lamar. And there was a whole
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Speaker 1: thing that happened with that. As far as really the
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Speaker 1: cash money young money side, Drake didn't say anything and
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Speaker 1: he wasn't there. He meanwhile, he was at the Raptors
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Speaker 1: game trying to mean mug people and no one's afraid,
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Speaker 1: literally no one. But the speech that Lil Wayne gave
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Speaker 1: regarding the super Bowl halftime performance being snatched away or
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Speaker 1: whatever he said taken from him, which wasn't the terminology
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Speaker 1: he used initially, initially when he put out that sappy
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Speaker 1: video looking sad, and I'm just gonna be quite frank
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Speaker 1: with y'all looking like a junkie every time I see him.
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Speaker 1: Let's just be real, it is what it is. We
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Speaker 1: would like him to not be a junkie, we would
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Speaker 1: like him to get off of that stuff. But he's
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Speaker 1: clearly been struggling for years, and it shows he looks
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Speaker 1: older than the people who are older than him. And
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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like when I saw that original video, Lol,
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Speaker 1: Wayne was saying mainly like he almost set itself up
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Speaker 1: to feel bad about not getting it because he was
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Speaker 1: so convinced he was gonna get it. And he kept saying,
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Speaker 1: I work my ass if I work my ass off,
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, are you just talking about your whole career,
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Speaker 1: because of course yes you did, But if you're talking
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Speaker 1: about recently, well, all you got to do is watch
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Speaker 1: some of the performance and it's pretty terrible. And I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about Lil Wayne's performance. I watched WrestleMania this year.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, Lil Wayne performing, Finally somebody who
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Speaker 1: I don't feel like I have to go and wash
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Speaker 1: clothes until the next match starts. So I was waiting
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Speaker 1: for a little waiting to come out. And when it
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Speaker 1: came out, it was a shortened and expected set. And
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Speaker 1: I think it was that way because he was completely terrible.
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Speaker 1: And who knows, he might have been high and they
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Speaker 1: might have been like, yo, dog, give you a shout
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Speaker 1: out and get the hell off the stage. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, but that performance was
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Speaker 1: terrible and from what I saw, I didn't watch the
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Speaker 1: whole thing. From what I saw from the Little Louisiana Festival,
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Speaker 1: he was pretty terrible. I could not have imagined that
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Speaker 1: at the super Bowl with the world watching that that
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Speaker 1: would have been an embarrassment for him. That would have
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Speaker 1: been bad for somebody who clearly spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: time doing drugs. That might have sent him to a
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Speaker 1: place right to get that moment. And you know what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen. Social media is going to roast him.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. They've already roasted him for
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Speaker 1: this because they were looking like that's who was supposed
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Speaker 1: to perform at the So I said all that to
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Speaker 1: say this, I think he needed to get off of
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Speaker 1: it right, You got a new album on the way,
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Speaker 1: You got the hometown hero, look out the batteries in
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Speaker 1: your back, go forward. Super Bowl can happen anywhere because
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Speaker 1: guess what, every Super Bowl halftime performing is not performing
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Speaker 1: in their hometown the majority of the time they are not,
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Speaker 1: like literally the majority of the time they are not
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Speaker 1: performing in their hometown. So let's just stop with that there,
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Speaker 1: because every time we have moved on here, they come
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Speaker 1: bringing it up, snatched away from me. The dog, get
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Speaker 1: over it. You're okay, you have so many more accolades.
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Speaker 1: You would love to do the super Bowl. It's been
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Speaker 1: to New Orleans a couple of times and it was
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Speaker 1: not y'all. And I don't think you should feel like
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Speaker 1: it should be y'all now just because you just want
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Speaker 1: to point at jay Z. He's taking jay Z out
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Speaker 1: of the equation. It wasn't saying nothing before, and don't
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Speaker 1: say naw okay now. It would be dope one year
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Speaker 1: and maybe it's when it does come back to New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: To have cash, money and no limit, just tear it down.
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Speaker 1: I would love that. But Lil Wayne got to get
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Speaker 1: itself together because I've seen him perform in the past
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Speaker 1: and it was way better and he's not that old
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Speaker 1: to not do the things he used to do. He
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Speaker 1: did was walk fast across the stage like I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: and he was doing that then it just he sound bad.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know. What did you think about Lil
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Speaker 1: Wayne's performance at the Little Louisiana Festival. Am I'm off base,
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Speaker 1: you know with his feelings about it? Should he move
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Speaker 1: on at this point because it's not going to change.
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Speaker 1: We'll see. Do you feel like Kendrick should invite him?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like they've been very unprofessional.
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Speaker 1: I'm petty like that, but maybe Kendrick is, so we'll see.
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Speaker 1: So recently, Absol dropped a brand new project, ab Soul
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Speaker 1: of TD. When Kendrick Leffett was I'm like, oh, there's
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Speaker 1: no one else there. No, there's plenty of other people there,
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Speaker 1: you just probably don't know them. But app Soul is
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Speaker 1: one of the Supreme Spiders, original Spiders from TD. If
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Speaker 1: you don't know who I'm talking about, if you watch
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Speaker 1: Kendrick's pop out concert when he did six sixteen in
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Speaker 1: La Dude came out with shades on and Ken you
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Speaker 1: was just spitting while he was sitting there with him,
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Speaker 1: like Bobbin that's Apps. So Appsol is dumb nice He's
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Speaker 1: put out a dumb bunch of projects, like I think,
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Speaker 1: not last year, but maybe the year before. He had
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Speaker 1: the joint called Herbert. He has a decent to solid catalog,
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Speaker 1: but I believe he's one of the most overlooked Mcason
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Speaker 1: tde So. He released a new album this shire called
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Speaker 1: sol Berger, dedicated to a friend who passed away. The
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Speaker 1: album itself is about fifteen songs. I think one of
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Speaker 1: them is get to be Honest. No, actually it's a song.
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Speaker 1: Fifteen songs clocking in around fifty four minutes in length,
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Speaker 1: which is as far as I'm willing to go when
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Speaker 1: it comes to albums today. A couple of the features
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Speaker 1: on this album include Jason Martin, Vince Stables, Doshi who
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Speaker 1: Else on a TDD, Dallas Son, Jed or Jid whatever,
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Speaker 1: Loupe Fiasco, and a couple of other people know Kendrick
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Speaker 1: give you Wondering. Y'all know how it goes when I
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Speaker 1: review albums three listens. I gave it the good three
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Speaker 1: listens versus impressions. Second is to really dig deep into
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Speaker 1: the lyrics. The beats, the concepts, how it all comes together,
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Speaker 1: and my third listen is to confirm my thoughts and
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Speaker 1: my thoughts really quick. It's a good album. Is it
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Speaker 1: top five of the year? I don't think so. Is
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Speaker 1: it good enough to be best of the year. I
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Speaker 1: could see it making a couple of people's best of
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Speaker 1: the years, But I will have to say I was
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Speaker 1: a little underwhelmed. And this is coming from a person
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Speaker 1: who's listened to multiple projects from the Dudes, and I
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Speaker 1: have my favorites, but I was a little underwhelmed because
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Speaker 1: I guess I expected a little bit more from it.
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Speaker 1: It felt initially like this was going to have a
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Speaker 1: concept or a theme, and it kind of does, but
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Speaker 1: it kind of doesn't. Also at the same time, it's
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Speaker 1: like one of those things where you know this is
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Speaker 1: dedicated to a homie, and you hear the skitch, you
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Speaker 1: hear the mentions, but they're not woven within every track
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Speaker 1: in some way to complete a theme of this album, right,
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Speaker 1: It's just kind of like that's the overall theme. But
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my spit record, I'm gonna have my
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Speaker 1: talk to the Late, oh my Bars record. For those
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Speaker 1: who don't know my song for the ladies, like you know,
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Speaker 1: my neighborhoods joints a couple of storytellers. So when it
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Speaker 1: comes to artistry, yes, it is one of the best
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Speaker 1: of this year because most of the TV artists are
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Speaker 1: not thin. Later when it comes to the subject matter
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Speaker 1: and the things they like to talk about, and Apso
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Speaker 1: has a lot of uh, I don't want to say demons,
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Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Like, he has a
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Speaker 1: lot of personal issues that he was able to articulate
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Speaker 1: on numerous songs, and I felt like, you know, that
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Speaker 1: was dope. But similar to the Rhapsody thing, it's a
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Speaker 1: very complicated situation. Rhapsody's album is very good. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: keep my attention and it's tough to say that when
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Speaker 1: someone makes such a personal album, and I feel like
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Speaker 1: with Abs Soul, I hear him when he says certain
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Speaker 1: things and I'm locked in. And then there are other
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Speaker 1: times the overall tone of the album feels almost somber,
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Speaker 1: even when the beats are upbeat, and I don't think
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Speaker 1: I liked how it was making me feel. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, right,
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Speaker 1: Like maybe it's a situational thing. Right, I was listening
19:37
Speaker 1: in the gym. Maybe listening in the gym where I'm
19:40
Speaker 1: lifting weights and trying to get pumped up is one
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Speaker 1: thing for an album like Buster or somebody else. And
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Speaker 1: not to say that I haven't listened to introspective albums
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Speaker 1: in the gym, but sometimes the music isn't hitten enough
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Speaker 1: to keep my attention, Like I have to remember, Oh,
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be listening to what he's saying instead
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Speaker 1: of it becoming background music. So I know that sounds
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Speaker 1: really negative, but again, I think if you're an absolute fan,
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Speaker 1: I don't think you'll be disappointed at all. I'm not disappointed,
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Speaker 1: but I think if you had an expectation of something crazy,
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Speaker 1: because I feel like with him, it's almost as if
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Speaker 1: he has to impress as if it's the first time
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Speaker 1: every time. Just because he's one of the lesser known
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Speaker 1: within TDE, he doesn't need to give anybody a reason
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Speaker 1: to feel man on his music right, because then they
20:44
Speaker 1: might not come back. So I'm curious to see how
20:48
Speaker 1: others feel about it, but I know, for me giving
20:51
Speaker 1: it the three listens, it's one of those albums where
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Speaker 1: I'm probably gravitating towards certain songs, but I'm not in
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Speaker 1: love with the album as a whole. So those are
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Speaker 1: my thoughts. Have you heard Absloe's brand new album, sold Berger.
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Speaker 1: Leave your comments in a comments section below on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: I'll read them and I'll comment or like it or
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Speaker 1: whatever you say. Just don't say nothing crazy, Okay, just
21:17
Speaker 1: don't say nothing crazy. And lastly, so it is this season, man.
21:26
Speaker 1: The Grammy nominations are now officially here. I think Beyonce
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Speaker 1: has the most nominations, probably of all time. As a
21:35
Speaker 1: result of these nominations coming out, I feel like, I
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Speaker 1: know we're gonna talk about hip hop, but I just
21:42
Speaker 1: gotta say this. I kind of feel like that's more
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Speaker 1: of a consolation prize because the Country Music Awards did
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Speaker 1: not acknownce her at all, and she put out a
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Speaker 1: country album, so it's more like, well, you won't acknowledge it,
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Speaker 1: but we will. So there's that butt on the hip
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Speaker 1: hop side and Andre three Stacks and the Flute album
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Speaker 1: has been nominated not in hip hop, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I have a look at I hope not. But he
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Speaker 1: does have a Grammy nome, which is insane to think about.
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Speaker 1: Here's some information though. This is on hip hop dx
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Speaker 1: dot com. The Recording Academy unveiled the eagerly anticipated nominations
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Speaker 1: on Friday, November eighth, ahead of the sixty seventh annual
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Speaker 1: award ceremony, which takes place on February second at Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles Crypto dot com Arena. Beyonce leads all artists with
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Speaker 1: eleven nominations thanks to her chart topping Cowboy Carter album
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Speaker 1: Material from, which appears in multiple categories across different genres.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy within itself as expected. Kendrick Lamar, who also
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Speaker 1: makes a big splash thanks to his dominant this song
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Speaker 1: against Drake If Not Like Us, receiving five nonvein nations Wow,
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Speaker 1: including the Covenant Song of the Year and Record of
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Speaker 1: the Year category. I told y'all he walking away with
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Speaker 1: either both or one of them, because I get the feeling,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's Shaboozi and then there's the million dollar
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Speaker 1: Baby joint that are like tough competition for not Like Us,
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Speaker 1: Not Like Us as getting one of those awards. It
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Speaker 1: has to. It's not even about the disrecord. It's about
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Speaker 1: the reaction to the disrecord, the fact that it stayed
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Speaker 1: on the chart for so long, right along with euphoria,
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Speaker 1: but also it was a social media windstormman like this
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Speaker 1: every version people made video like there's no way it
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Speaker 1: doesn't win one of the records of the year's Songs
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Speaker 1: of the Year, which I'm kind of like, what's the difference?
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Speaker 1: But whatever, even though Songs of the Year may lean
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Speaker 1: more towards the lyrics, which is crazy because of what
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Speaker 1: he's talking about. We'll see. But let's get into wild
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Speaker 1: hip hop d X gotta I gotta chill with the ads.
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Speaker 1: I get it, it's how you pay bills. But I
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Speaker 1: can barely scroll, like literally can barely scroll. All right,
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Speaker 1: So let's go through the nominations. I'm gonna make predictions
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Speaker 1: for each category like we do every year. And then also,
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Speaker 1: I am not going to watch the awards ceremony unless
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Speaker 1: Kendrick is gonna perform, not like us, I gotta see that.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I might not watch it. These joints
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Speaker 1: are too long nowadays. I always catch the highlights in
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Speaker 1: the morning. No harm No Five Best rap oulbum, Wow,
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Speaker 1: JCole Mike delete later. I guess he didn't delete it
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Speaker 1: Common and Pete Rock the auditorial value One shout out
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Speaker 1: to Pete Rock Congratulations, Joshi Wow, Alligator Bites, Never Heal, Eminem,
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Speaker 1: the Death of Slim Shady kind of thought that would happen,
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Speaker 1: and Future and metro Booming. We don't trust you man.
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Speaker 1: I love those two albums. I don't know what it
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Speaker 1: is like. I don't hate Drake. I just love the
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Speaker 1: approach to like outside the battle, like Future metro Booming
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Speaker 1: and what they were doing with it. I think that's
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Speaker 1: what I like about it. Out of that best rap category,
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Speaker 1: who should win? Who should win? It's kind you talk
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Speaker 1: about bringing hip hop? That would be it? Who will win?
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Speaker 1: It might be Future and metro Booming. I think so.
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Speaker 1: Maybe Best Rap song Rhapsody featuring Hip Boy asked Royds
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Speaker 1: that song was though Kanye West and Todd Dallasson featuring
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Speaker 1: Rich Kid and Playboycarti Carnival, Future and metro Booming featuring
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Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar. Like that Kendrick Lamar not like us in
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Speaker 1: glowreala Yeah, Glow? Who will win Best Rap song? Not
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Speaker 1: like us? Has to win? It's better than like that,
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Speaker 1: and it literally is who might win? Not like Us?
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Speaker 1: By Kendrick Lamar. It's better that I just said that, right, Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's who she win. If this whole battle didn't even
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Speaker 1: go down like that, and Not Like Us wasn't in
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Speaker 1: this category, I think Glowrilla winning would be dope because
26:48
Speaker 1: I don't have her album, but I really like her songs,
26:53
Speaker 1: and I think it's because I like her personality, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, I feel like she just
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Speaker 1: says what she feels and that's it. It's not like,
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Speaker 1: let me say the rhetoric thing like she's really there's
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Speaker 1: some level of thoughts. No, she's not a barking but
27:08
Speaker 1: a lot of people like that song. So I think
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Speaker 1: if Not Like Us wasn't in this category, Glowriller would
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Speaker 1: win Best Rap Performance. Cardi B Enough Common and Pete
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Speaker 1: Rock feature in pastinoose When the Sun Shines Again, Doshi Nissan, Ultima,
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Speaker 1: Eminem Houdini, Future Metro Booming featuring Kendrick Lamar like that
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Speaker 1: glow Rilla, Yeah, Glow Kendrick Lamar, not like Us? Go ahead,
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Speaker 1: give it to Kendrick Aus or Not Like Us. That's
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Speaker 1: what I think. Who should get it? But who will
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Speaker 1: get it? I think maybe like that would take this
27:47
Speaker 1: category to be honest. Best Melodic Rap Performance. Wait, so
27:54
Speaker 1: this is a sing song the people on he Okay,
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Speaker 1: I guess so, I don't even know this person's thing.
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Speaker 1: Jordan A. Tucci featuring Klanni. Name of the song is Klani,
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Speaker 1: Beyonce featuring Linda Martel and Shaboozi Spaghetti, Future and metro
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Speaker 1: Booming featuring in the Weekend. We still don't trust you,
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Speaker 1: Lotto Big Mama Man, I hate that song and Rhapsody
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Speaker 1: featured at Erika Badu three am. Rhapsody is the main
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Speaker 1: state in the Grammy's Good Looking Out People who whatever?
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Speaker 1: Who should win? We still don't trust you, y'all? I
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Speaker 1: love that song and I'm sorry Future, metro Booming featuring
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Speaker 1: the Weekend I love that song. Who will probably win
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Speaker 1: is probably Beyonce. I'm sorry. She probably Album of the
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Speaker 1: It's overall Andre What Andre three thousand, the Blue Sun
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Speaker 1: Album of the Year nomination incredible, beyond say he Ain't
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Speaker 1: going uh, Beyonce, Cowboy Carter Sabrina Carpenter, The Short and
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Speaker 1: Sweet Charlie, whoever this person's name is? With Bratt Jacob
29:10
Speaker 1: Collier with was this the Jesse just volume for whatever?
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Speaker 1: Billy Eilish hit me Hard and Soft. Wow, that's that's
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Speaker 1: the name. Of hurts the pause, uh chapel, it's just
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Speaker 1: all but being on hip hop, and then it's again
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Speaker 1: on out of this song of the Yeah, let's see
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Speaker 1: song of the Year. Obviously, kendrickson there. Nothing else hip hop.
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Speaker 1: Record of the Year. Kendrick not like Us is in there.
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Speaker 1: Nothing else hip hop. Well, let's look real quick because
29:41
Speaker 1: of what I said earlier. Shaboozie's here with the bar
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Speaker 1: song Wow. Million Dollar Baby's not here. Beyonce's here with
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Speaker 1: Texas holding So this might come down. Song of the
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Speaker 1: Year might come down to Kendrick and Shaboozi unless they
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Speaker 1: give it to Beyonce. Record of the Year. The Beatles
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Speaker 1: are in here, which is nuts. Beyonce, Texas holding his
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Speaker 1: hair again, Kendrick Gamar's head again. No Million Dollar Baby, Man,
30:14
Speaker 1: I thought that's almost popular. I guess I was wrong.
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Speaker 1: Best New Artists. I think though she should win that.
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Speaker 1: I think she's dope R and B R and B,
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Speaker 1: R and B. I think that's mostly it for hip hop.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of other categories up here where
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Speaker 1: hip hop kind of falls in there in some ways.
30:39
Speaker 1: Beyonce's all over this list, like they've mentioned, literally all
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Speaker 1: over here. Best alternative jazz album. Wow, I'm not even
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Speaker 1: gonna read that. I think Kean Harris whoul Win that
30:53
Speaker 1: I think that's it for hip hop. Yeah, it feels
30:58
Speaker 1: like it like hip hop. It's a sprinkled hair and there.
31:02
Speaker 1: It's crazy that a disc record has five nominations, a
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Speaker 1: dis record about one of the biggest artists in the
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Speaker 1: industry today even now still and how that was celebrated
31:18
Speaker 1: the Shaboozie Joy that song, I don't like that song, Like,
31:22
Speaker 1: I don't think it's good at all. Like I appreciate
31:26
Speaker 1: it being a brother and I appreciate his success, but
31:31
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a good song. I think it's
31:34
Speaker 1: a very catchy song because it borrows from a familiar
31:39
Speaker 1: hip hop record. But Million Dollar Baby, I am. I'm
31:44
Speaker 1: shocked that song was really good. I really like it
31:48
Speaker 1: felt like put it this way, y'all, some of us
31:52
Speaker 1: be outside during the summer, you know what I'm saying.
31:54
Speaker 1: I like to go to the beach. We ain't do
31:56
Speaker 1: a bunch of crazy stuff. We did some things, but
31:59
Speaker 1: I like between not like us and Million Dollar Baby
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Speaker 1: on the radio in cars, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: On social media, Like I had to learn about Shaboozi, right,
32:14
Speaker 1: Obviously it's not in my lane anyway, so that's why
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't see a friend talking about it and blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah. But those other two I just knew it
32:23
Speaker 1: and obviously Beyonce. So I don't know, man, the Grammys
32:29
Speaker 1: of the Grammys, do you think they got the Album
32:31
Speaker 1: of the Year category? Right? I think in some ways
32:38
Speaker 1: just got to go to Common and Pete Rock, man,
32:40
Speaker 1: I hope so, like I think Future and Metro Booming
32:44
Speaker 1: might get it just because of the commercial success. But
32:49
Speaker 1: what the buzz and what Common and Pete Rock were
32:53
Speaker 1: able to establish with something that was a pure boom
32:59
Speaker 1: back celebration of hip hop. Coming together between a producer
33:05
Speaker 1: and Pauls a producer, a legendary producer, a legendary hip
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Speaker 1: hop artist to make something that sounds fresh and new
33:14
Speaker 1: but pays homage to hip hop was so dope. And
33:18
Speaker 1: there was so much hype around that album on social
33:22
Speaker 1: media and so many people talking about it. It's going
33:24
Speaker 1: to be in a lot of people's top five of
33:28
Speaker 1: the year, for sure, But I just kind of I
33:33
Speaker 1: think that whole battle it handled a good portion of
33:41
Speaker 1: this year, Like from what April May through to maybe September.
33:50
Speaker 1: You know, we finally was starting to shed some of that,
33:53
Speaker 1: you know, from that battle, and it didn't matter whether
33:56
Speaker 1: it was future metro booming making their albums Kendrick five
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Speaker 1: pag or four packup disc records for Drake. I am
34:05
Speaker 1: surprised that the j cole now Mike delete later is
34:09
Speaker 1: It's not a bad project. That was just a bad
34:12
Speaker 1: disc record that he put on there that he eventually
34:15
Speaker 1: took off, which was the seven minute Drill. I don't
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Speaker 1: think I don't think he should win Album of the
34:22
Speaker 1: Year at all because the Common and Pete Rock were
34:26
Speaker 1: better for a lot of other reasons, but they're very different.
34:29
Speaker 1: But I feel like his battle on his apology silenced
34:36
Speaker 1: that project in a lot of ways. People stop listening
34:40
Speaker 1: to it, you know, not everybody, but people stopped listening
34:44
Speaker 1: to it, and people stopped talking about it. So for
34:46
Speaker 1: it to win Album other Year based off the merits,
34:50
Speaker 1: that is good. It's cool, but I could think of
34:52
Speaker 1: some other albums that were just as good and just
34:55
Speaker 1: as deserving. So and no surprise, you know, kind of
35:02
Speaker 1: maybe a surprise a little bit at least, maybe singles
35:05
Speaker 1: and stuff, LL and q Tip. No nominations, none that
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Speaker 1: I could see on the hip hop side, So there
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Speaker 1: you have it. The Grammys is not a measuring stick
35:17
Speaker 1: on whether music is good or not. Is just a
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Speaker 1: little bit of everything. But I'm just glad that now
35:23
Speaker 1: they include more hip hop that most people are saying
35:30
Speaker 1: are the best of the year. The dough She Joint
35:34
Speaker 1: is extremely surprising because it's literally like a mixtape for her,
35:38
Speaker 1: But it's a dope album and a lot of people
35:41
Speaker 1: have been rocking with a lot of people like her.
35:43
Speaker 1: But I don't think she's gonna win. So there you
35:45
Speaker 1: have it. What do you think about the hip hop nominations?
35:47
Speaker 1: Do you watch the Grammys? Do you feel like there
35:50
Speaker 1: are albums that were missing? There are songs that are missing.
35:54
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35:56
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