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Best of 2025 So Far · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of Hip Hop Now podcast,
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  Speaker 1: it's the best of twenty twenty five so far.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it. Welcome to hip Hop Now, Potts. If
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  Speaker 2: you from the future, you know what to do. Show
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  Speaker 2: ass out of my past life.
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  Speaker 1: So disrespectful leg hip hop is say to today.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get rightful to the business whatever, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I A'm your host Vegas and this it's hip Hop
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  Speaker 1: up on all things hip hop, music and culture that
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  Speaker 1: subscribers to this podcast right here on YouTube. We met
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  Speaker 1: our goal for the year. You know how like you
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  Speaker 1: get to work and you're like, I'm done with all
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  Speaker 1: my work and it's eleven o'clock, I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: and basically stay on social media the whole time. So
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing that, but we're going to chill for
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  Speaker 1: the goal. And you know, the goal to me at
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  Speaker 1: this point, considering how quickly we got to ten thousand subscribers.
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  Speaker 1: Right now we're at twelve thousand, knocking on thirteen. I
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  Speaker 1: think twenty five thousand is the next goal. I doubt
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  Speaker 1: that will happen before the end of the year, but
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  Speaker 1: you never know, I might go vite, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But shout out to everybody, and especially shout
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  Speaker 2: Not subscribe.
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  Speaker 1: So if you enjoy this content, and you know, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's this weekly podcast or the shortsip post or the
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  Speaker 1: special episodes, and I got a few more coming up
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  Speaker 1: special episodes like my reaction videos, like I just did
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  Speaker 1: a third video recently talking about the origin not the origins,
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  Speaker 1: but what is coke rat basically, So it makes sense
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  Speaker 1: if you like something to subscribe it, like comment all
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  Speaker 1: that good stuff. But today is a special episode of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. Is an episode I do annually. As we
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  Speaker 1: approach the end of the second quarter, we will be
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  Speaker 1: at the halfway point of the year, and like I
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  Speaker 1: say when I do my best of the Year podcast episodes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm working on that end of the year list every
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  Speaker 1: day throughout the throughout the year. So all the projects
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  Speaker 1: that drop everything you know I'm listening to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: surprise drops, drops we know about right like Little Wing
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  Speaker 1: Carter six. If you was looking for my review today,
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  Speaker 1: it's not that good, So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm building.
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  Speaker 1: I'm building that list throughout the year, and typically by
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  Speaker 1: the halfway point there's some strong candidates. But this year
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit different. I feel like the list
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  Speaker 1: is full of good albums and I got maybe like
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  Speaker 1: thirteen joints for y'all good albums, but maybe one or
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  Speaker 1: two are those joints that I feel like by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year they'll still be on this list
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  Speaker 1: because we got a lot coming up.
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  Speaker 2: So what I'll further ado.
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  Speaker 1: I know some people want to get right into it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into the business.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So like I said, this is a quick list, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna run through them. I'm gonna give you some of
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on some of the albums. But here are
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  Speaker 1: some of the albums I think are the best of
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  Speaker 1: the year so far. Starting at the top, No Order, Relax,
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  Speaker 1: and No Order whatsoever. Starting at the top. One hundred
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  Speaker 1: Grand Royce with his album It's Personal Too. I was
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  Speaker 1: introduced shout out to yents. I was introduced to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred Grand roys through the first part you know It's Personal,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, Man, these beats a dope.
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  Speaker 2: Homie Karam like, I like this.
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  Speaker 1: So I've always kind of kept my eye on his music,
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  Speaker 1: and he's done some stuff with Dame Grease that was dope.
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  Speaker 2: But this year he.
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  Speaker 1: Dropped a sequel to the album I was introduced to
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  Speaker 1: him by, and Man, one thing about this dude is
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  Speaker 1: you can't never call him a wack beat picker because
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  Speaker 1: I love almost every beat he picks. I never look
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  Speaker 1: at the beat and be like, ah, that could have
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  Speaker 1: been better. They're always dope. So if you want boom back,
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  Speaker 1: you want familiar samples. That's what I really like about it,
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  Speaker 1: like flips on familiar samples. You should definitely check this
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  Speaker 1: joint out. And again, the bars are there. It's boomback.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know what comes with
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  Speaker 1: the territorial boom back. The beats make your head nah
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  Speaker 1: like it's worth to listen. West Side Gun twelve. I
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  Speaker 1: review this on the one of the episodes of Hip
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  Speaker 1: Hop Now podcast and I said, straight up, I think
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  Speaker 1: this is probably going to make my top five of
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  Speaker 1: the year. We'll see what happens, but this is a
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  Speaker 1: great album from Westside Gun. If you stayed away from
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  Speaker 1: Westcott Westside Done for a little while, or you like
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  Speaker 1: Stove God Cooks but haven't really heard anything since Reasonable Doubt,
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  Speaker 1: I mean reasonable Drought. This is my This is probably
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  Speaker 1: what you want to check out. There's probably one song
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  Speaker 1: on here I skip, and that's saying a lot. And
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  Speaker 1: it's also featured on this album as st Nax. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a very dope album from Westside Gun. One of
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  Speaker 1: the early candidates for my Top five of the year.
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  Speaker 1: I mess with it heavy. I listened to it like
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  Speaker 1: all the time, So check that out. Next up. Snoop Dogg,
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  Speaker 1: is it a crime? Snoop Dogg just dropped Missionary with
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  Speaker 1: Doctor dre At like I think. In December of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, I'm thinking we're not really going to get
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  Speaker 1: another album from Snoop, you know, probably a year or
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  Speaker 1: two or whatever, you know, and I was thinking like
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  Speaker 1: it would be different, But it felt like Snoop saw
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  Speaker 1: the reception of that album, which I thought was great,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe people who saw Doctor Dre and Snoop getting
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  Speaker 1: together had an expectation that was more chronic Doggie style
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  Speaker 1: and not necessarily what they make today, which is not
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  Speaker 1: lacking my opinion, but I get it that people wanted
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  Speaker 1: a more LBC, you know, harder edge Snoop, and I
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  Speaker 1: think this album gives you that. Like Off the Rip,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't do much talking about you know, the whole
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  Speaker 1: performing at that president's inauguration, but he does address it
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  Speaker 1: in his light and he moves on. And I think
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the better albums of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Next up Lloyd Banks AO and three. Despite my mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be in a couple people who's
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  Speaker 1: like top five of the year easy, you want boom,
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  Speaker 1: bad beats, you.
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  Speaker 2: Want bars upon bars upon bars.
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  Speaker 1: If you know Lloyd Banks and what he does is
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  Speaker 1: like a technician with the bars, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: this project is one of his better albums recently. I
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  Speaker 1: know there's some people who like everything he's released recently.
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  Speaker 1: For me, he can be a little bit monitor, not
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  Speaker 1: a little bit a lot of bit monotone, which if
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  Speaker 1: you have a ton of songs with a ton of
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  Speaker 1: verses and the songs are longer, they can all blend together.
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  Speaker 1: I think this project is a little bit different because
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  Speaker 1: because of the production, the production provides you with that variety,
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  Speaker 1: and it feels like the production kind of sets the
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  Speaker 1: tone for what you're gonna hear. So I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what I like most about it, because it made me
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  Speaker 1: get through the whole album without getting that feeling of man,
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  Speaker 1: this just feels so redundant. I'm not even listening to
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  Speaker 1: his lyrics, no bar work, and the guest features on
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  Speaker 1: here are the same, like dudes like Ransom Styles P.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's on here, Like those dudes that you
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  Speaker 1: know can can rap rap, they bring it on this record,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's just a dope album. This will
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  Speaker 1: probably make my top five a year strictly off the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's refreshing to just hear different hip hop
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  Speaker 1: and not different for different sake, but mainly because it
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  Speaker 1: sounds good. Sounds like really good and it's still in
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  Speaker 1: that hip hop bag. It's not in that bag that
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  Speaker 1: blurs the lines between pop or some other genre of music.
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  Speaker 1: It's straight up hip hop. But it just sounds really good.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of it has to do with did
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  Speaker 1: I even say the album this is SOB and No
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  Speaker 1: Id from the private collection of Saba and no Id.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Saba's lyrics are varied, the subject matter
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  Speaker 1: matter is varied. He sounds poised on these records in
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  Speaker 1: the pocket, all that good stuff, and no Id from
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  Speaker 1: the producer's standpoint, it's the same thing variety, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, music that like. Put it this way,
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  Speaker 1: I could listen to somebody like Currency all day every day.
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  Speaker 1: Why because it's more about the vibe of it than
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  Speaker 1: it's about whether those lyrics are similar to the lyrics
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  Speaker 1: on the other song and if that beat is a
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  Speaker 1: similar feeling to the nah Man that's what I.
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  Speaker 2: Came there for.
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  Speaker 1: But when somebody can make you really listen to the
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  Speaker 1: things they're saying and kind of reflect and relate and
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  Speaker 1: all that good stuff, now you're talking and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like on this album with Saba and no Id, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hard to knock it out of my top five,
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  Speaker 1: Like we're gonna have to have some stellar albums this
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  Speaker 1: year in order for it to leave my top five,
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  Speaker 1: because right now I could easily pencil it in.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the top five.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, Too Short, Sir, Too Short, Volume one, Freaky Tales.
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  Speaker 1: I just like it because it's classic. Too Short on
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  Speaker 1: a new album, right Some people feel like, oh, if
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  Speaker 1: he's not doing anything different, I'll just go listen to
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  Speaker 1: the old albums. You're right, Too Short got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of older albums where he's doing all these same things.
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  Speaker 1: But what I like about it is that it's new
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  Speaker 1: and I like the production, and Too Short is hilarious
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  Speaker 1: to me. It's early nineties vulgar. I'm gonna just warn
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  Speaker 1: you right now. It's not like he uses the B
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  Speaker 1: word and that's it, or he might make a reference
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  Speaker 1: towards a lady doing something. No, it's early nineties hardcore lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: So if you cringe yet hearing certain things, don't even
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  Speaker 1: press playfam I don't know how you heard the first single.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, Jim Jones at the Church Steps These This
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  Speaker 1: is one of those joints that will make it it will.
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  Speaker 1: It will make the best of the year for me
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  Speaker 1: because I just like it. It's just dope. I like
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  Speaker 1: when Jim Jones raps like this. I like when his
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  Speaker 1: production value is not only varied but kind of soulful
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  Speaker 1: in some ways, and he rhymes perfectly in pocket. He's
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  Speaker 1: like if Rick Ross was from New York. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he's like. Like he talks about the same things all
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  Speaker 1: the times, but it doesn't matter. It just sounds dope,
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  Speaker 1: and I just like his cadence. I don't necessarily like
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  Speaker 1: seeing him dress like, you know, like Dusty Rhodes at
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  Speaker 1: the Bowling Alley or whatever that video was for who
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  Speaker 1: Cares or young yn. I think it's whack for him
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  Speaker 1: to even dress or act like that at his age,
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  Speaker 1: But that is no way, there's no way put it
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  Speaker 1: that way. Bars if that's how you put your boss
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  Speaker 1: that I could listen to this album and let what
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  Speaker 1: I think about how he dressed or how he's acting
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  Speaker 1: in public deterred me from the fact that this is
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  Speaker 1: a very dope album. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people ignore this type of music from Jim Jones because
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  Speaker 1: they feel like, now, I can't really mess with that dude,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know him. I don't need to mess
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  Speaker 1: with him. It's just it's just a very dope album.
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  Speaker 1: So if you liked L Capo, you'll like this. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying. Next up, DJ Fresh Late Night Freeway Vibes.
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  Speaker 1: That's an instrumental album from DJ Fresh. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: like the I thought I had it down here, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like the thirteenth volume something crazy. But
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  Speaker 1: what I like about it is one of those instrumental
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  Speaker 1: albums that you could just put on and rock to it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not boring.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like some people can't just listen to an
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  Speaker 1: instrumental hip hop album then when the ain't some bars
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  Speaker 1: on that And sometimes I can feel like that, But
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that when the beats are bare right,
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  Speaker 1: like they're simple right, it's a loop, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: loop that continues to happen until it's finished, right like
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  Speaker 1: three minutes in, you're still.
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  Speaker 2: On that loop.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what these DJ Fresh instrumentals are. They have
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  Speaker 1: take on the life of their own. They have a
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  Speaker 1: personality with everything that's in that's included within the beats,
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  Speaker 1: how they begin all kinds of stuff. So I really
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  Speaker 1: mess with it for that reason. A couple more next
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  Speaker 1: step Smith and Wesson Infinity. I was a little like
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  Speaker 1: so so, and again I don't know if this will
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  Speaker 1: make my best City year by the end of the year,
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  Speaker 1: because again, there are a lot of albums on the
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  Speaker 1: way that are highly anticipated. You know, they don't have
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  Speaker 1: to live up to that anticipation for most fans. But
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  Speaker 1: this album Infinity from Smith and Weston is pretty dope,
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  Speaker 1: produced by Ninth Wonder and the Soul Council has a
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  Speaker 1: number of bangers on there, but it could potentially be
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  Speaker 1: one of those albums people forget because it came out
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  Speaker 1: so early in the year. But if you haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: it and you're a fan of Smith and Wesson, check
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  Speaker 1: it out. I did a review on one of the
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  Speaker 1: past episodes of Hip Hop Now podcast, but also I
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  Speaker 1: did a ranking of Smith and Wesson albums, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: going back listening to the progression of that group up
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  Speaker 1: into this album Infinity, it just makes sense lyrically, musically,
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  Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. So check that out. Our
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  Speaker 1: next up a dude who I did an interview right
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  Speaker 1: here on this podcast. You should check that interview out.
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  Speaker 1: I am God stity of God. If you require extreme
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  Speaker 1: bar work articulation of words, I Am God never fails,
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  Speaker 1: never fails, Like you can listen to like you listen
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  Speaker 1: to the first record off the Joint, and it's so
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  Speaker 1: potent with like just not only just bar work and technique,
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  Speaker 1: but just execution of that technique, clarity of his voice
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  Speaker 1: as he says these words, as he enunciates, and not
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  Speaker 1: in an overtly way like I think that's what I
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  Speaker 1: like about Push a T in particular, Like it's the
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  Speaker 1: way he enunciates when he talks about all this. He
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  Speaker 1: makes everything with all his coke. He makes everything sound
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  Speaker 1: bigger than what he's actually saying. Right, it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really basic with someone else not saying the bars
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  Speaker 1: are basic. But his execution of the verse is part
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  Speaker 1: of what makes his versus dope. And that's the same
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  Speaker 1: thing what I Am God. It's his delivery that makes
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  Speaker 1: you pay attention to the words, and when you're paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to the words, you kind of catching the gems
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  Speaker 1: and the bars and you're like, man, this dude is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: The album is also.
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  Speaker 1: Next up Dave easton Ransom The Final Call I'm Not
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  Speaker 1: Gonna Lie man like. Ransom did two recent collaborations right.
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  Speaker 1: He did one with Conway last year that I kind
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  Speaker 1: of like got into after the fact because they're both
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big fans of both Conway and Ransom, but
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I expected a little bit more and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it felt like the you know, the music didn't
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  Speaker 1: match them teaming up, and the chemistry wasn't what I
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  Speaker 1: thought it would be, but it wasn't bad at all.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of how I felt initially with the Davies
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  Speaker 1: and Ransom right. It felt like, Okay, Davies, you take
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  Speaker 1: your turn, and then Ransom takes his turn. But as
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  Speaker 1: I go back and spin it, spin it more men,
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  Speaker 1: I listen to this on a regular basis. Is it
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  Speaker 1: top five for me at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt it, but it definitely will be in my
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  Speaker 1: best of the year because I think if again, if
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  Speaker 1: you enjoy bar work and underground beats, this with a
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  Speaker 1: theme with a theme in the final call, I think
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  Speaker 1: he would enjoy this joint Wu Tang Clan Black Sampson
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  Speaker 1: the Bestard Swordsman. This is not one of the better
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  Speaker 1: Wu Tang projects, but it's also not one of the
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  Speaker 1: worst it's somewhere in the middle where to me, it's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's good for what it is. There's not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of noise around it, because again, every time the Wu
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  Speaker 1: Tang's coming out, we wonder if Rizzard's gonna be on
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  Speaker 1: the boards, and lately he's not on the boards, and
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  Speaker 1: it has to do with him not wanting to retread
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  Speaker 1: ground production wise when it comes to that familiar Wu
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  Speaker 1: Tang sound. I wish one time he would just do
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  Speaker 1: that so that we can get a riser produced album
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like the Wool, you know and love at
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  Speaker 1: least a combination between their first two albums. But that's
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  Speaker 1: not where Riza is. So we get Mathematics, which is
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  Speaker 1: not bad trade off. It's just that in order to
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  Speaker 1: get something that resembles the Wool sound, Mathematics is your
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  Speaker 1: guy for the Wool and this album having a blaxploitation
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  Speaker 1: theme to it. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Will
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  Speaker 1: it be top five of the year for me? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not even top five right now? Is it one
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  Speaker 1: of the better albums of the year so far? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is. So if you like the Wu you like
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  Speaker 1: the Wo sound. All the members of there on the joint,
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  Speaker 1: including Rizza.
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  Speaker 2: Check this out.
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  Speaker 1: You know you might dig it, because if you're waiting
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  Speaker 1: for Rizza to dial it back to thirty six Chambers
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  Speaker 1: or Wu Tang forever, you're gonna be waiting forever. Because
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  Speaker 1: he said so, like nah Man, I'm trying to I'm
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: trying to create something different. And the last one I
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: have on my list is Exhibit Kingmaker. This is an
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: album that released recently. Exhibit was away from the game
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: for some time, so this is kind of like a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: comeback album for him. And if you like Exhibit and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: his music, if you haven't heard Exhibit before, not to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: say that you should start here, but this is.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: A really good album, a really good album. I dug it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I messed with the themes, I messed with the guest appearances. Ironically,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the song with Redman was the one I didn't like
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that much, which is weird because I love Redman, but
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: it was like it was okay. I guess I was
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: expecting more. But again, production is right. Exhibit sounds fresh,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: sounds hungry, and it's an album in the same vein
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: that albums used to be made.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a concept, but it's not like every song is
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a play on that concept, but the concept is felt
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and heard throughout the project, and I just think between
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and the way it's mess it too. It sounds excellent,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: like if you put headphones on with it, it sounds great.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: But I just enjoyed because it felt like Exhibit took
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: his time with this record and it's a good album. Now,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I know nowadays good isn't enough for some people. They
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: need you to say it's in your top five, or
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: if it's the best of the year, it has to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: blow them away. I think music, we say music pasting
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: music is subjective. When I talk about some of these albums,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you may not like some of these albums. You may
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: not like some of these artists. I'm not here to
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: convince you. I'm just telling you from what I've heard,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and I've heard a lot that those that I just
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: gave you are the best of the year so far. Now,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: when it comes to my best of the year, which
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: will happen in December, and this list will go, you know,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: will be reshaped. Right now, there's two slots for my
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: fifteen at the end of the year. Because what I
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: do at the end of the year is I give
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you ten albums that I feel are some of the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: best of the year, and then I give you my
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: top five and right now, that was like thirteen, right,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: so there are two who we can put in there,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and then throughout the year, like once I get a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: solid fifteen. As albums release, especially if they're great, some
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: things will come off this list and you say to yourself,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: because you're not on social media all the time, well,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: what's coming up?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Well, my friend is rumors of a mob Deep album,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: obviously a posthumous album for Prodigy with Havoc and Alchemists
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: on the boards. There's also the mass appeal seven albums
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: from seven legends on the way. Those seven albums being
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Slick Wreck, which is up first, that'll be out pretty soon,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: big Al, ray Kwon, ghost Face, who Else, Daylight Soul,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I'm forgetting somebody else, Nasen Premier, and then who's the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: other person? I cannot remember? Noazen Premier, Slick Rick ray Kwan,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: ghost Face, big Al, Daylight Soul, and mob D. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: could I forget mob D when I just mentioned mob D,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: but also more recent dropping in July, You from the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Future Get your gass out of head. The Clips have
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a brand new album. They have a single out right now,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Lord have Mercy. I heard a snippet of another song,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Lord Have Mercy, Lord Had Mercy. We about to get cars.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Beats clips are fact. So what's in your best of
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the year so far? Did you have some of the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: albums I had? Please leave album suggestions joints you feel like.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yo, this dropped this year. I think you should check
• 24:53
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