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GNX Album Review · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: know and can't tell by the title the video on
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  Speaker 1: the background, Kendrick Lamar dropped an album. Now we knew
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: an album was coming. We're just still in a win
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  Speaker 1: like we didn't know that around the Super Bowl maybe
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  Speaker 1: maybe Christmas so Black Friday. Nah, Kendrick says, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: pop out when you don't think I'm coming now, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: like he did with all the other stuff like Euphoria
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  Speaker 1: and all the you know, go, Kendrick dropped again. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of become a theme. And I think I saw
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  Speaker 1: it on Blue Sky. I was on the timeline and
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  Speaker 1: the dude was like, Yo, Kendrick just dropped. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: not the type to just believe some random dude on
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  Speaker 1: my timeline disrespect. So I just went to Spotify and
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  Speaker 1: right there at the top g n X, Kendrick Lamar's
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  Speaker 1: brand new album just released. Twelve songs, forty four minutes
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  Speaker 1: and twenty seconds of content, a number of features, especially
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  Speaker 1: on the West Coast, And I instantly hit up the
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  Speaker 1: HOMEIOK and a couple of other people and said, Yo,
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  Speaker 1: this dude's just dropped it out.
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  Speaker 2: He just dropped an album.
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  Speaker 1: A when you got the text, when you laid eyes
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  Speaker 1: on the oh yeah, it's an album. It's not AI,
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  Speaker 1: It's not this or that. What were your thoughts because
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: you were working?
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  Speaker 3: Right, I was at work, man, but I thankfully when
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  Speaker 3: you text me, I was just I was going on
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  Speaker 3: my lust break twelve o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, when I seen the text, it was
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  Speaker 3: just like sugar honey, ice tea, like, oh, like, yo, okay,
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: we we bag on, we bag out, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I clicked.
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  Speaker 3: The the link that you sent and the snippet for.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, what is that the first track morals?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that started playing, but it started playing like
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  Speaker 3: right on the most controversial part like that that was
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  Speaker 3: something too. So I'm like, I'm like, yo, hold up,
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  Speaker 3: like I want to I want the real experience, like
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  Speaker 3: I want to hear it from beginning to end. So
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  Speaker 3: then I went to YouTube and YouTube like the arrangement
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: wasn't right because I'm looking at what you said, I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at what's on you. I'm like, yo, the arrangement.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh nah, I ain't doing that, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. And so I went to iTunes or
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  Speaker 3: music Apple music, my bad older brother here, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Apple music, you know, and I saw, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I hit the purchase button.
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  Speaker 2: Man, let's go, you know what I mean, hit.
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  Speaker 3: The purchase button and press play to get the full experience.
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  Speaker 3: And thankfully it was on my break, so I got
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  Speaker 3: to hear everything, and then I had to go back
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: to work. So it's like, couldn't really like absorb it
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  Speaker 3: like that, but I got enough to hear what was
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: going on, listen to the whole album, but like to
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: really to get my run back, because you gotta run
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: things back.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't really get the runbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel you like, for me, my experience was
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: like you know, at first, you know, it was confirmation right,
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  Speaker 1: like is this it? And Kendrick was on Blue Sky already.
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  Speaker 1: That was one thing that kind of I think tipped
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: some of us off that what is he about to do?
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  Speaker 1: You know, is he moving because he's not gonna say
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: he's moving from Twitter to Blue Sky, but or is
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: they just finding the spot in a way that you know,
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  Speaker 1: like Chuck d and Dayla Soul and all these other
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  Speaker 1: people did. So it was kind of like a flag.
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  Speaker 1: And when I checked his Blue Sky, it was like
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: it was right there. It was like maybe the only post.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, once I just knew, like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: is the album. This ain't no AI, this ain't no Lucy's.
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  Speaker 1: I just went ahead and was like, Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen. You know what I'm saying. Sony
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  Speaker 1: m For's they don't sponsor anything. Got the proper base
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  Speaker 1: will absorb all the quality, you know, whatever they doing
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  Speaker 1: with mixing and mastering, put this on, put the call
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: of duty black ops on, and just went in and
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  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna front. A couple of times I was like, man,
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: the controller, like let me hold on?
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: What do he say? Like you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: What do you say? Right there? With the reward factor?
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  Speaker 1: And I wound up listening to it three times in
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: a row. Now, typically I don't do that, Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be in the gym and I'll listen to the
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  Speaker 1: album and then maybe I get home and I listen
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: and then because I know I'm going to do you know,
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  Speaker 1: the show, I'll do that like confirmation listen like did
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  Speaker 1: I think it was good or bad? Kind of listen.
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  Speaker 1: But I just with with Kendrick. If you don't know
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  Speaker 1: when you're watching this with Kendrick Lamar. Specifically, I said
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  Speaker 1: this when I did a little short like reaction of
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  Speaker 1: video today that's on the channel on this channel that
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  Speaker 1: Hendrick can sometimes if you're not paying close attention, can
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  Speaker 1: just sound like he's just rapping, like it's just words
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  Speaker 1: and he's just rapping. But if you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: he's talking about, then that's when it could sound like that.
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  Speaker 1: But if you catch one thing, then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a domino effect. It's like the verse opens
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  Speaker 1: up once you catch the one thing, like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 1: what this is about, so then you want to rewind,
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  Speaker 1: and then everything that sound so normal, runner the male
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  Speaker 1: words and ron all of a sudden becomes this metaphor
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  Speaker 1: for something much deeper than you thought it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be, you know what I'm saying, Like we did
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  Speaker 1: with six sixteen, Like that title alone, it's like, yo,
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: it's two by birthday and his father's day, and that's
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: when Kendrick woke up like it was it was all
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: these easter eggs and yeah, it just was one of
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: those things where I kind of wanted to absorb what
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: the album was and what it was about. So when
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: you gave it that first listen, especially when you went
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: back and listen, what was like an overall impression of
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: this album, Because we say that, like Kendrick as no
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: no elms in his catalog, and here's an album coming
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: off of a battle that we assume has a concept
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  Speaker 1: because he never puts anything out without a concept. What
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  Speaker 1: did you think about the album initially just running through
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  Speaker 1: the tracks and then once you got to really dig in,
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: what were your thoughts after or were they the same?
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I thought that this was pop out the album.
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. You know what I'm saying, This sounded like
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: what was going on on that stage.
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  Speaker 3: This sounds like just unadulterated West Coast, but you know,
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: the new the new millennium.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is what we sound like today. This
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  Speaker 2: is what it is today.
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  Speaker 3: And you know with that, that that passion, that aggression,
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: whether me not say aggression, the competitive you know, that
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: competitive approach that we saw at the pop out and
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: then when we got towards the like the middle, when
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: the other West Coast brothers started popping out, it's like,
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, oh so we're doing this.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: Is what's going on?
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: Like, oh we really were really at the pop out
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: like yeah, so that whole yo, you know, you know
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: this comes from the other the blogger, you know, the
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: blogger or something, you know, like Drake fans whatnot, Like, Yo,
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: he ain't gonna show love to none of them people
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: that was on stage and he ain't never gonna hear
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  Speaker 3: from them again.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: Well we can, you can.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: You can stop saying that now, like that didn't age
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: well because here you.
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  Speaker 2: Go, you know what I'm saying in.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Full effect, unadulterated, unapologetic, you know. To me, yeah, it's
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: like pop Out the album, you know, and folks, I've
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: been hearing some takes about it like yo, you know,
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: just don't really have like a concept to it. But
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: that that wasn't my initial thought.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought that this was pop Out the album,
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: that was the concept.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because when you pointed that out like at first,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: you know, on the first listen for me, you know,
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: it's more so you listen to the beats at different flows,
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: the approaches. You're trying to catch bars here and there,
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: but everything's so new you're just trying to navigate through
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: the album on that first listen, especially when it's so
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: much hype behind it because it just dropped. I'm reading
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: social media. Everybody going crazy. You know, people are posting
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: ads there listening to it, so they'll put a thought
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: out there about a song and yo, this might be
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: my favorite and blah blah blah. So I was kind
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: of like scatterbrain with it the first time, and the
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: second time listening looking at the cover, catching some of
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: the themes, I was like, yeah, you're right, this is
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: first of all, this is like a straight up West
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  Speaker 1: Coast album, right, like we're gonna plant that flag. It's
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: all West Coast. But it's like he's also leaning heavy
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: in the hip hop category.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Yes for sure.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Under lying like thing there with the not just the
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: whole Big three and goat thing, even though there's you know,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: mentions of goats and stuff like that, but he's still
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: stunting on that level and name dropping here and there,
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: whether it be positive or negative. But then, like you said,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: then I'm looking at all of it, and in the
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: back of my mind, I'm thinking about all the dis
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: tracks and everything he said it knows, and I'm like,
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: you know what, I don't know if he already had
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: this shit or he just said we need to everything
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: needs to capture everything I did from euphoria, like like
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: that was more so come outside and play, and then
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: everything was strategic from Euphoria on. It's incredible because like,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: how do you do that? You know what I'm saying,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Like you can't predict? Well, then again maybe you can,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: because you know the light skin dude's been throwing shots
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: for a very long time and you're throwing them at
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Batman and Batman is like, oh, no, I've been had
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a plan for all of y'all. I've been had it
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: for all of y'all. But I agree. I was listening
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, this is like every time
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: we fall back and it happened, he just restarts that
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: engine of how it started all over again. And I think,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: you know, in a lot of ways, it just makes
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: it even more excited to check out now.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: For those who don't know, right, we said his twelve
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: songs on here, and if you know Kendrick Glamar, the
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: East Eggs are not only in the lyrics then the
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: cover in the car right that he got there, which
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: is the what is that thebutick? What is it called?
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Damn? Now?
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I forgot that grand national something I don't think it's
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: an experience. It's grand actionally something. It's the name of
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: the type of card that was produced in nineteen eighty seven,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and it's probably a popular West Coast whip at one time.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I believe that's the connection. Also, I'm pretty sure there's
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: way more to that. But those are the surface things
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: that kind of come up. But also, you know on
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the album, they're not like us video the tea's that
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: we got in the front that everybody was like, what's that?
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: You know, well that is the second song when an
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: album called Squabbled Up, and man, hearing it by itself
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: is just like gets it's everything we kind of thought
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my favorite track man words squabble Up.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Squabble Up. Man, Yo, it's yo. That joint. It made
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: me feel like a kid again. Man. You know, maybe
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Phil took me back to being a child.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: When the the Debbie Dead sample, you know drops, you know,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: for the for the chorus, it's like, you know, I
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: hear the music joint like.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yo, yo, that is like the little the little kid
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: dancing at.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: The cookout, like you're trying to do the hip hop
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: dance at the cookout, Like I was just like wow, Like, yeah,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: so that's that's my actually, my favorite song on the
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: on the album.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: And for those watching, obviously we're gonna get into the records.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to point that one out because that
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: was like the first thing we heard from this album.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: He also released a video that you see in the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: background with a song that's not on the album. Yeah
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: about that, which is again Batman being Batman. He's just like, yeah,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: oh this, well, I don't know. He's an album. We're
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: gonna be We're gonna be around the you tie the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: chestnuts roasting on the fire. He's gonna be like pop
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: out again again, like, oh, it's a double album. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: didn't tell y'all. That is the rest of it. But
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: also before we get into the tracks, one other thing,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: one other song. I just want to shed some light
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: on the Heart Part six. An I did not even
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: listen to it yet, but when I saw it there,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, so he's not even going to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: try to change it. He's just gonna say, nah, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: do the Heart Part six, not that dude. I talk
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: about the fact that Kendrick for those who don't know,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: because I know it was a wipeout season when you're
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: not like Us, So you don't even think Drake responded
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to that, but he did with a song called The
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Hard Part six. Now, it didn't catch any win because
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Not Like Us was already a smash when they dropped.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: But also Drake was sounding all defeated at the end,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and honestly, he kind of teased this album at the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: end of that song as well, saying you probably got it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I knew you're about to drop and all sad, ship.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: But when you heard, because you heard it before me,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: when you heard the Heart Part six, what was your thought,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: given the fact that this is a part of a
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: stellar series of songs for Kendrick.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, that it was.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: It was absolutely what it needed to be.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: It's absolutely what it needed to be.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I was not expecting the SWV sample, I was. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: wasn't expecting that, And yeah, so I said, squabble up
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: made me feel like a kid, a little kid. The
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Heart Part six took me back to feeling like a teenager.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, Yo, he's.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Talking about first of all, the SWV sample, Then he's
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: talking about how you know tde how they first met
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: and the brothers is huddled up in the studio and
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: and how he's just like you know, the little dude
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: behind you. And it's like, Yo, if Jay Rock get on, yo,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: that's that would have been good enough for me, you.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Know, yo. Great great, great, great part.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Of the series because it's his series, so great part
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: of the series.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And it's like, Yo, what Drake track? What Delete the track? Yo? Yo?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Delete delete delete the track?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: It don't even it don't exist no more like that
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: is like what's that? Like?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: The only the only.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Reason to keep it around is just to see how
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: dirty you got done over Like that's the only reason
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: they need to exist. Otherwise delete the delete the track, yo, like,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: And that's what I thought was so great. It's like, Yo, Kendrick,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: don't have to tell you, oh yeah, you're gonna have
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: to go ahead and delete that.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna go ahead and do what I do.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do I do.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: And it's not it's really nothing else to talk about.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: What track? What this is the hard part? Six?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Like I don't know what he talking about over there,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Like right, that's what that's what this is.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: That's what that did.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Like I like, yeah, man, it's great job, man, great,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: great work.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Great work. Yeah, you I had to.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I had to hold my patience in order looking
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: at that title as I went through the album, knowing
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: there was some ship there for sure, I guarantee, like
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: all the other songs, I didn't know what to expect,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: but there I was like, damn, I know when I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: get to hard part six, that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Might be the one.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: But it was. It exceeded my expectations because he said
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he's already told a coming of age tale of himself
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: so many times, but never in this way, never of
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: this intimate, never in a way that answered a lot
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: of questions about him with TDE leaving TDE, how they
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: begin his feelings, and his feelings were pretty honest, like
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: like you said, being content with j Rod getting on
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: or being excited to be a part of a label meeting.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying where you know now? I mean,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: he has his own thing, but you know, there's probably
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: most artists that probably relate to sometimes not wanting to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: be a part of those things. But you know, it
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: was his excitement of getting on and now's the time
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to shine kind of thing. And like you said, the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: SWV sample, I love that record. I just heard it
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the other day, like, damn, I need to run that back.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: This dude puts it on an album. It's like, oh man,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: like it's crazy, but let's let's get into the tracks
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: on the album started with the number one song, the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: first thing you hear when you press plays called why Murals.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: When I saw whacked out, I was like, oh no,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: he's killing them again, Like let me press play, because
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I knew there was something there, but not what I expected,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you know, and some of it I did not catch
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: until after the fact. To be honest, I like on
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: a you know, like a runback certain.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Lines ot.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Kendrick decides to pull little Wayne out the rehab and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: smack him around a little bit and then put him.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Back real subtle, too subtle.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Professionally, professionally Lil Wayne, and point out the elephant in
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the room. No beef is just let's read the boss
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: used to bump the carter three. I held my roly
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: chain proud, irony. I think my hard work. Let Lil
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Wayne Dann all right, when you heard them boars, what
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: did you think about Kendrick addressing the whole Super Bowl
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: fiasco or halftime stow fiasco.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: It's needed my my thought was I'm all for it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I'm all for it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Lil Wayne.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: You can get some of this work too, and listen,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be that will definitely cause like a divide
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: and civil war and hip hop. But look, man, you know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: just we gotta stay sucker free.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Man. We gotta stop with this, you know what I mean?
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Like, I just don't like how that went down, how
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: that was how they tried to carry yo.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Like yo, man, And that is a theme throughout the album,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: like Yo, the brother worked to get there, like he
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: ain't just that wasn't it wasn't it wasn't a nepotism.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a gimme yo. He worked for that spot, right,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: And for for Wayne to do all that crying, it's like, yeah, Yo,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: you need some STRAIGHTENINGI Yo, you need some straightening.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Yo.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You got straighten up, yo? Or or sit.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Down or something like yeah we need an intervention, something
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: like what we gotta do, like yo, like you feel
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: that strongly where to work at?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Where's the work? You know?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Like even with the clip that we see online of
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: him talking to YG and he said, you know, I
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: just gotta work hard, and I gotta make it undeniable.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Where was that? Okay you said that back then? Where
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: At?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: What happened? And this was before this brother even got chosen.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Where's the undernovel work? Right?
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So come on, man, like, yeah, so I was that
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: was all for you know, go ahead, tap him on
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: the chin, you know, see what you see what you.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Want to do like I got.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I got worked for you too, if you want. That's
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: how I took it. Some people might not, might not
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: look at it that way, you know what I mean.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: But it was a little little warning like yo, you know, hey,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I thought I because the lines after I don't know
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: them exactly.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, he said something about that turned me to
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: an Eskimo or something.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: But go ahead, yeah whatever, all right, So used to
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: bump the car to three. I help my roly chain,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: proud irony. I think my hard work let little Wayne
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: down whatever whatever, though called me crazy, everybody questionable, turned
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: me to an Eskimo. I drew the line in decimals.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I drew the line, turned me to an Eskimo.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Oh now I know where I stand. As far as.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Compete, you have now put yourself you You have identified
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: yourself as a clear competitor. Now like first it was
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: hey homage of course, I ain't gonna you know, be
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: whacked on the track and try and let nobody out
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: round me. But it's you know all I guess friendly
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: or respectful.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: But now like yeah, draw the line, like yo, that's
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: that's how you feel, you just And the thing is
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: it goes.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: In line with the theme whacked out murals, Like it's
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: an overall theme like they were doing that to your
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: toyo murals in LA. But it's like Wayne, you was
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: doing that at the same time, like you just gonna
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: ex out my legacy because you and your feelings about
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: you not getting picked, you just gonna overlook my work
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: and try to uh passive aggressively downplay me.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, Yo, that ain't that Ain't that
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: ain't right that it deserves retaliation. I just I you know,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: it deserves some get back a response to something. Maybe
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: you ain't got straight up bomb on him, but it
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: on some.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Man like it needs to be addressed, like Yo, what
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: is what's that about? Right?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: One dude on on some YouTube channel I think it
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: was in the comments, said well we know one thing,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: k that wouldn't be bringing out Lil Wayne during that
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: time the super Bowl halftime show, which I thought you
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: would like, you know, it's all love nah, not Batman. Batman,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: like what I got you on the hit list.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: You go to continue book right on the prep book,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: I got you you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Right, some dreads out here I got I've got something for.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You right like next Phase. And look for those who
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: are watching who or listening, uh who, like you know,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: don't really know the details. And you know, I wonder
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: why it's It's not like what we're displaying right now
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: isn't a Lil Wayne versus Kendrick just off of what
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you prefer right, not a preference thing. It's what happened.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Kendrick was announced as the headliner for the super Bowl
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: halftime show that's happening in February of twenty twenty five.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Lil Wayne and Cash Money and many Fresh and all
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: these cats, the Master p all came out making videos,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: tweeting all kinds of stuff saying that you know, Lil
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Wayne was snubbed, and you know jay Z's trying to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: get back and all these different things. Right, it was
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: really about, you know, Lil Wayne should have gotten it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And then Lil Wayne puts out a sappy video like
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: he's like he's dehydrated because of the situation and saying,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you know, he worked hard, he worked his ass off
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: for which I was trying to say, like, what what
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: was that you didn't put an album out? I don't know.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was a business thing, or maybe maybe he
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: worked hard on sobriety. I don't know. Maybe it's that
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: because the truth be told, right, we see what we see,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: we know what we know as a businessman, which I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: saw at the New Orleans little weezy.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: And a thing.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: You do not want to put some on stage if
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you know there's some kind of pre existing thing there.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: And there's footage as in Spess of situations where Lil
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Wayne just look WrestleMania where he just didn't look like
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: even a litl Wayne that was dope on stage, forget
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: being better and stuff like that. So I wonder if
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: it was all not saying it's that, But I wonder
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: about things like that because nobody's ever going to say that.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: But we know, we see everybody in the comment say it.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: It's just on a business level, they're not going to
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: say it. And he looked it, But I just didn't
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: like the way he was saying, how he worked his
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: ass off, but there was nothing that us the fans
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: could see. We saw what Kendrick was doing. See what
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: he's doing now. It's perfect for the super Bowl. But
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the other thing, ladies and gentlemen, is when he did
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: do the Little Louisiana Festival, he didn't look that great.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Performing wasn't a the world but it wasn't. That's not
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: something you want to see at the super Bowl. Has
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to be clean and has to be like entertaining beyond
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the songs, which is what Kendrick does. But also he
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: said it was taken from him, and he never congratulated
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Kendrick in one instance. Nothing, He never really acknowledged it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: He just kind of went with the energy now now
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and many fresh and all of them at least they
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: came up to the fence with some of it just
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to acknowledge. But it was after the fact, after, you
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: you know, basically through fits. So for Kendrick to have
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: a line that says, I rocked with you, but you
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: don't want to acknowledge my work, and you want to
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: make it seem as if I took something from you,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: so to speak, well, you know, sorry, sorry my hard work.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Let you damn you know what I'm saying. And he
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: also said won the Super Bowl, and Na's the only
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: one that congratulated me. All these niggas agitated. I'm just
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: glad they showed their faces. Quite frankly, plenty of artists,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: but what he said, plenty of artists, but they outdated,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: old ass flows, trying to convince me that you they favorite.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: This is not for lyricists. I swear, it's not the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: sentiments a double chandra. I want y'all to fill this
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: ish now. I remember that. Now. I didn't know Nas
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: was the only one, but I remember seeing NAS's posts.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: What do you think about that? As far as you know,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the stuff he's saying about Lil Wayne the Super Bowl,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: he addressing that, but also it felt like he was
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: taking it beyond Lil Wayne by saying Na's the only
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: one that really showed love. And then he's saying old
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: ass flows in outdated Who he talking about?
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I thought he was talking about Wayne. I might be reaching.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I might be reaching, you know, but he might be
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: talking about anybody that was like complaining. He might be
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: talking about Mace, might be talking about Cam. He might
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: be talking about Judy, you know what I mean, like
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: all these the veterans, you know that again you would think.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: You would you would think would be happy.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: You know, like like like Biggie say, you know hip
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: hop that made it this fall, You would think it
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: would be that.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: But nah, because it ain't the dude that.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I guess the dude that you was
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: rooting for, you know, like, ah, then we're gonna do
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: this whole.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Again, passive aggressive.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: And I mean to Cam, Cam said, I think he said,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: you know, no disrespect or whatever, but it should have
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: been Wayne.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: But it's like, yo, man.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I just I vehemently disagree with that.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, because Joe, this ain't no gimmes.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: It's no gimmes in this. You know, it's no gimmes's business.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Where is the work right now? The work right now?
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: And then okay, you can you can look to older
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Super Bowls and you can say, well, Prince didn't have
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: anything at the time, but look what he did when
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: he actually went on at So it's just nothing was questionable.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: But if we look at and we you know.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I don't want to keep this about Wayne, but if
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: we look at Wayne's recent work, it's questionable. So how
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: do you just think, oh, yeah, you ain't give it
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: to Wayne?
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: No, we didn't. Why should we because of twenty twenty
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: years ago? You know, like as a.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Perform like show me point to something that should say yeah, absolutely,
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: you know, like he gonna get on it and he
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: gonna give a great performance. Show me that in the
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: last three years. Like if you can't show me that,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: then what are you talking about? Like it could it
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: could be a liability now right right? You brought up
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: a good point, like you know, work hard, I got
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: sober up and clean up.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I mean he got the hits to do the Super Bowl?
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, let's yeah, let me he has
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: the hits to do it right.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: He can even clean it up even though those hits
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: could be questionable as far as like the subject matter,
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: he has enough and where he can clean it up
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: at it himself. But that's the thing, like when we
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: talk about work as an MC as a performer.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Can you do that right? And I think the answer
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: is no.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I think you're just gonna get up there and do
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: you like what we've seen you do and these other performances.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: But we've seen this dude right here, I mean.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Mid mid verse, you know, stumble but get like a
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: freestyle just that he could get back on point to
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: continue the rest of the song, you know what I'm saying.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And yeah, like as people that are like maybe like
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: EMC's or used to rap, you can tell that, oh yeah,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: he flubbed that a little bit, but he got back on.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: But like to the uninitiated, to people that ain't looking
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: into it that deep, they probably they are, yo.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: He just he gave like an a scoopsive bar that
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: we never seen before, like we never heard before.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, that's like shown enough true MCing
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: performing you know, and yeah, Wayne within the past three years,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: come on, man, it's just.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: It's it's ridiculous.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I think the way that the brother handled it on
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: whacked out Murals is uh, it was a good way,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: a great way to handle it.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: And it's it's other layers to this, like.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's just me if I'm reaching,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: but even with that beat, it's like and throughout the album,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: because we we we talked about this, so you you
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: pointed this out. There is a an air of homage too,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: of paying homage throughout this album, and I thought, even
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: on this whacked out murals, this was at the beat,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: the baseline sounds like friends. M dude, it's slower. You know,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: it sounds I was like friends, which was used by
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Houdini friends. That's what I'm referring to audience.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Bordini friends. How many of us have the friends?
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: And then Nas used it if I ruled the world, dude.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: And then also as a bonus. I don't think this
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: was official anywhere. I think this was only like freestyles
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: and mixtapes Tupac Troublesome, Trouble the Troublesome.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Like so, but this was like slower. So I don't know.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm looking into it too deep. Maybe my hip
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: hop crates is too deep for people.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: But I'm like, yo, all that was like within this,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: within this track, and then you're just bombing out. And
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: then he mentioned like, yo, Na's the only one that
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: showed me love.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: And then later on.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: You hear.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: We were gonna get you. There's a couple of instances
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: of that that, you know, like I said, didn't stand out,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: but the more you listen, you're like, is he doing
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: what I think he's doing? Like on another layer, and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: then it makes you want to look at those records
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: and how it connects to the overall picture head because
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: you know, he didn't just have smoke for for a
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: little Wayne and I felt the need that we needed
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: to really talk about it, because this is Kendrick Lamar's
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: response to a number of things that happened where he
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: didn't say nothing the entire time. All these people, you know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: old Wayne should have got blah blah blah. So even
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: though he had addressed it in a couple of lines,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: we need to talk about it. But also the last
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: thing he addressed before we move on, Snoop, Now, I
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: didn't hear this the first time He's said. In the
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: same song Snoop posted Tailor Made, which was Drake's disc
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: record that eventually was pulled because of Tupac's state, where
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Drake used an a well, he used Tupac's voice on Ai.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Snoop's voice using AI to have them wrap their disappointment
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: for Kendrick. Now, just morally, Tupac is not here, Why
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: are you doing that in a battle? You're telling the
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: people this would Tupaca think I get what you were doing,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: But there was another way to do that. But his
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Kendrick's response to that, because he never responded to it
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: in this way all those songs except for it in
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: My Battlings whatever or AI. But he said, Snoop posted
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: tailor maid. I prayed it was the Edibles. I couldn't
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: believe it. It was only right for me to let
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: it go. Now at the same time he's saying no
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: big him, he's also saying I was just hoping he
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: was high, because why why why Snoop he put the
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: chain around my neck? I was crying on stage they
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: passed the touch Why would he co sign of all
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: records on Drake's side this one? You know what I'm saying,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: But he said he still let it go. But also
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: because you know the Internet, at the comments sections the timelines,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, that's why Snoop wasn't at the pop out.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: They was like, oh who had the door? Oh was
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Drake and Snoop?
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Drake, uh well was on Snoop was on tour.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: But you know he responded though, he responded, yeah, he
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: said you said it was that.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: He's like yo. He's like He's like yo, it was aible.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Look Snoop's a grown man. And plus that song him
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: and Dre got all right down bananas.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah you put me on that that joint. That joint
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: is crazy.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Crazy, but perfect answer, you know what I'm saying for
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: a situation like this, because he de escalates anybody who
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: wants to go and take that and ball it up
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and create it into something else.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Like what I read on the.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Timeline, like, oh well that's why as it wasn't at
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the problem, but a hell of a way to start
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the album, to address right up front everything I wanted
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: to know, what I thought about such and such?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Are you go? Uh?
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: And then it gets into Squabble Up, which I thought
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: was really dope because after you get the listeners reeling
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: from you know, what some would call a disrecord, but
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I feel more like this this is a little bit
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: different than a disrecord. M you give them the reminder
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: of the snippet that was there before, not like us
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: for Squabble Up, which we talked about. Then you hit
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the third track Luther.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I love the way they use Luthor's singing in this
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: because it felt seamless and almost even though I know
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: the song, it felt like he was he was brought in,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: you know, and rest in peace. Luther Evangels is not
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: alive y'all. But it felt like it wasn't just plucked
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: from a song. It felt like a natural part of
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: this record. And I believe Sissu's singing on this record.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it sounded like it. Yeah, but you know,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: a very dope record and a change of pace, you know,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: as far as the album, the sound, even if you
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: want to say radio play, you know, kind of opened
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: it up for that as well. Go back to some
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: of the reception behind mister Morale and the Big Steppers.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: You know, they they're just people who just want, you know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: that new thing to get dressed to before they go out,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: or the joint in the car. You know, they don't
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: really want to talk about the inner feelings and stuff
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: like that. But here's Kendrick giving them that. Now, let's
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: just get into the other song though, Man in the Garden,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I made me go back because I was just going
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: through the album and I was like, Yo, that third verse,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Man in the Garden, Man at the Garden, I'm sorry,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: I what are your thoughts on this? On this track
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: in general, and you know, in that third verse specifically.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Man, that was.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: You know, that was like the paying homage to to
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: to nas Man the one mic and then you know
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: that whole dark at the end of you know how
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: you think you deserve to be called the greatest? I
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: think that's the line, and.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: He ends it on that.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: On that line, so it's like he paying homage to
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: one of the greats with knaves and then at the
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: same time he's thinking his claim like yo, I deserve.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: I'm in that conversation too.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: And then we can't forget these other dudes like, yo,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: how you even think you like?
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: Yo?
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: How do they even think they could deserve? They ain't
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: rapping like this.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: It's it's like again, it's layers, like yo, you you
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: hear her, I'm rapping and if you you know know
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: your hip hop, you know what this is influenced by,
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: you know, one of the greats, and you know how
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: he kicked it off right, and so I'm right in
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: line with that.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I'm locked step with that.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: How are you even gonna even think about these other
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: dude like are you are you serious? Like and it's
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: crazy like I've seen a take. I've seen a take,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: and I just I just have to mention it. But
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: that was one of the negatives. That was I guess
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: one of the complaints about the album, like people were.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Saying, you know, things were derivative, and yo, I don't.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know how I really feel about that.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: That he that he did that, you know, like that's
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: nas one mic so now okay, oh you're gonna do it.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: And it's like.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: I just my initial thoat was like, yo's hip hop,
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Like I get what he's doing.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: And then in the first song he shouted him out,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Like did we not just hear him shoot shout him out?
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: So you know, I don't want to get in other
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: people's takes and all of that, but it's like, what,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: I don't understand what people be with listening?
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: What is this? Like what what what are people doing?
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: Like denias like, oh, that's that's derivative.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: I don't really know how I feel about that.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: That that the s w V. You don't you gonna
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: use that?
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: It's like you got so many resources at your disposal,
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: why would you do that?
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: I would think you would do something do something else? Why?
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: But it's like, yo, we this is a hip hop
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: we sample what is going on here? What is what
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: And needs be like intellectual dudes like or supposed to
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: be hip hop intellectuals, and it's like, what is this,
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: Like I don't want to I don't understand, Like I
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: get it with style, like if you don't like style stylistically,
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: but some of these things are like hip hop things.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: This is very hip hop. It's it's very very hip hop.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Like yo, I'm I'm rapping.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: I'm getting even my compassion as far as my delivery.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: What I'm talking about is being one of the greats
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: and I'm explaining you or arguing my case why I
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: deserve to be in that spot. And sure, did I
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: borrow from NAS for this particular song? Sure, yeah, but
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: again I just shot yo, this was the only dude
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: that gave me my props for where I'm at today
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: or as far as my next moves.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: So how is that like out of bounds?
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Like you know, yeah, I might have just derailed dot
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: comvo with that, but nah, I get it because it's
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: a deeper conversation when it comes to like all these
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: reactions and all the content creators that go online that
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: react live and like I said earlier, people who are
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: listening and tweeting while they're listening, and it's there's a
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: culture of at least was trying to be the first
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: to respond or to point out something that everybody else
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: didn't catch right to critique it in the way as
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: if you would would have because you make beats so
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: you understand music. There was a better way to do that,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying than that way. And it
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: seems stupid because Kendrick doesn't do anything in one song.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: It's all tied together. It's all it's always all tied together.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Like he said, he makes a point to say nas
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: was the only one who shouted me out, and I
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: saw somebody says one dude, because he was shooting from
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the hip responded, I mean reacting to this album saying like, yeah,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: we ain't say jay Z. But the thing is like
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: jay Z already congratulated him for the super Bowl.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah that was the that was the statement. The statement
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: got released, right.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: But again, he's a part of the process. So when
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: they when they brought k out in yo blah blah
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: blah blahh Hova's apart. Either he's in the room or
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: he makes the call. We already know jay Z has
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: signed off because Kendrick's going to be on the stage.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: So it just seems it just seemed weird for this
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: dude who I was watching to shoot from the hit
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: without realizing, like jay Z has the deal to do
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: these things.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: So he wants to.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: He wants the album liner, he wants to oh yo,
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: and don't forget jay Z, like, yo, you don't want to,
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Like hell, come on yo.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: No, no, we weren't even thinking about it. He's thinking like,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: you know, well, hey, Doc could be saying something about
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: jay Z because he didn't congratulate Kendrick. And it's like,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: but he's a of the deal making. Yeah, So I'm
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: kind of I kind of just feel like when it
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: comes to online, I'm just used to people not paying
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: attention and then getting upset because they don't get it.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying When you tell them, yo,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: it's because it seems so simple to get once somebody
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: points it out to you. But now you're mad because
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: you didn't catch it because you're the guru. But here's
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: some of the lyrics from the third verse. I feel
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: like I just started at the top just because it's
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: so connected. But well, it's pretty quick. Put a smile
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: on my mom. This is Oh, let's just say this
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: man at the garden for those who don't know. Put
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: a smile on my mama. Good health and good calma. Yeah,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: she deserves it all. One hundred mirrors out and Compton.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Remember me.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I kept my promise. Yeah, we deserve it all. A
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: better life than my daughter made, my son take it
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: further than his father. Yeah, he deserves it all. A
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: close relationship with God. Whisper to every whisper to me.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Every time I close my eyes, he say, you deserve
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: it all. Keep these bitch niggas away from me, keep
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: all my blessings faithfully, keep my essence contagious. That's okay
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: with me. I burn this bitch down. Don't you play
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: with me, or stay with me, or stay with me.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: I'm crashing out right now. No one's safe with me.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I did it with integrity, and niggas still try to
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: hate on me. Just wait and see. Now here's the
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: part that I was talking about, the ending. More blood
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: be spilling is just paint to me, dangerously, nothing changed
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: with me. Still got pain in me. Flip a coin.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Want the shameless meat or the fameless famous me? How
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: annoying does it anger me to know that names can
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: speak on the origins of the game I breathe. That's
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: insane to me. It's important. I deserve it, though, because
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: it's mine. Tell me why you think you deserve the
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: greatest of all time, motherfucker, I'm saying. Man, when you read,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: when you read it, you know what I'm saying, Like you,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: you're not caught up in the beat, and you're not
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: caught up in a flow, and you don't have to
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: hit rewind. You can go to genius because that's why
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: right now you can read it and just that ending
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: says a lot. There's a lot you can pour into
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: that from what you already know. And you're mad about
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: the sample. Use your heart and not your mind, like
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: it's the layers. It's not about oh that was a hit,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna use it. It's always the layer. As soon
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: as you say use your heart, my bad, that's for
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: the heart part, sax. But again, use your heart, not
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: your mind. It still connects. I thought you meant right.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Listening to this with listening, it's still a connects.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: But this being like one mic for the same some
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: of the same reasons, some of the same themes that
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Nas had in his song. This is basically it. But
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: what people got to get used to, especially the old heads.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: We came up using records and samples and stuff like
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: that of a time before us, and that generation bought
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: that hip hop because they like, make your own I'm
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: a musician. Make Prince was like that, you know, make
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: the sound from scratch. Don't go and just take my
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: joint and chop it up, and says you We do
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: the same thing. We guarden you know, we guarded our
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: music saying you can't use it and it's not creative
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: when all of it is a sample of a sample
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: of a sample of a sample of a inspiration of
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: an inspiration of an inspiration. And Nazis one mic came
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: out in two thousand and one. How long does it
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: have to be before anybody can reference some of these things,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? So again with you know,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: when you messing with Kendrick in a lot of ways,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: you could spend a lot of time dissecting song by song. Well,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: we kind of wanted to point out those themes, especially
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: the theme of that I said of paying homage, right,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Like the first one is about friends and people. He
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: thought it was cool and mentors and all that good stuff.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: And that's layer that's not in your face. The track
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: and called Friends is not the same beat. It's slowed down.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: But heads are like, wait a minute, how many others?
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Yo?
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: That's such a such you know what I'm saying? I
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: want a man at the garden. I was like, Yo,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: this is one mic, so let's get into the other
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: song where I was like nah. This is when I
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: was like, nah.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: He's rhyming like.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Over the over the coat, over the cock beat.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, who else used them conds of sounds
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: nahs back in them days? Like in the in the
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: ninety six You know what I'm saying, what's the joint?
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it made the album. Maybe not
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: ninety six. Maybe I am money is my bitch, you
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like the straight vacation sounds and ship.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Vacation guitars where you go get the coconut and destroying it,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: you sit down with the wine shirt.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: But the song is called Reincarnated. Now when you hear reincarnated,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: obviously there is the beat like as we mentioned, and
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: the flow and and it's that reminds you of part.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: But he's saying a lot in this record, what did
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: you think about this song.
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I gotta go back and listen. I still got
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: I still gotta go back and listen. I'm gone off
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: of the flow and the beat, and I'm trying to
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: I know, he's rapping from the perspective of different different characters,
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: and yeah, like, you know, I guess some.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Of these these other vloggers, they're a little I guess
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: faster than me, but they're saying, like, yo, he rapping
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: from the perspective of God towards the end, and he
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: talking to the devil, And I'm like, what, Like, I
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: didn't even I didn't even hear that. I just heard
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: junkies and stuff in the beginning. I'm like, well, who's
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: this dope thing that he talking about. I'm still trying
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: to pick it apart, like, well, who's that.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: He's because he's done something similar on other songs before,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: where he's rapped from the perspective of some someone else.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: So I'm thinking, like, yo, this is like is he
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: talking about Billie.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Holiday in the second verse?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: Like you know, that's that's what I thought, you know,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: But you know, other folks are saying, nah, like it's
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: the devil, you know, And I guess the Devil got
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: into those first two on the first verse and then
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: on the on the second. On the third versus God
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: and Devil talking talking to yo, I gotta go back
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: and listen.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Like it's it's it's bugged out.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: That's a bugged out, bugged out track, the delivery, the beat,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: all of that is hot and all.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Of that is sharp.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: But when we talk about the layers, I really gotta
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: go back and listen to really pick it apart for
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: me to get that aha moment, because I didn't get
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: that immediately.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Did you get you? Did you get it?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: Nah?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Man? Off the first break, I knew he was doing something,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: but I wasn't catching everything. But I wasn't gonna like
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: constantly rewind songs because I figured, you know, i'd be
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: running it back. But then when I went back on
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: further listens, then I got the God and the demonside
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: of it. Oh what I what I knew I was
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: missing initially that I you know, I didn't necessarily hear
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: in the beginning, but I'm like, it's called reincarnated, so
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: I'm missing who he's describing in these verses. So when
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I went back, that's when I heard, like the Billie
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: Holiday stuff where I was like, oh, this is this
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: is Billy Holiday, right, the drug habits, vocalists, Chicken circuit, right,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: black woman. I'll read some of it for people. Another
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: life had placed me as a black woman in the
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Chitlin circuit, seductor vocalist, as the promoter hit the curtains.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: My voice was angelic, straight from heaven. The crowd sobbed
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: a musical genius. What the articles emphasized had everything I wanted,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: but I couldn't escape addiction. Heroin needles had me in
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: fetal position, restricted, turned on my family. I went with
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: wherever cameras be cocaine, no private planes for my insanity.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: So open those discipline, never mind sentiments. I need drugs
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: to me and eight Ball was the penicillin. I'm not
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: gonna read all of it, but at the end of
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: the day, it's it's clearly Billy Holiday or he's has
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: to be Billy Holly now because the Chitlin circuit, it's.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Like Billy Holliday.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, Whitney kind of some of the other stuff.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: But maybe that's the whole thing of reincarnated. That shit
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: keep coming back. That's that's the theme.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Like when you read the lyrics, because the first starts
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: with my present life is Kendrick Lamar. So it's almost
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: like it's this soul that's jumping bodies, you know, in
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the first second and then the third verse, but with Kendrick,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: it's more of a battle and it's more discovery of
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: what's going on. But you know what else they made
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: me think of it. I don't think he going this
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: deep because I don't remember any references towards it, towards it,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: because he's just talking about being reincarnated into these different bodies.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: But it's a lot like the show from the I
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: think late eighties, early nineties. Yeah, like you know, like
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: taking that because for those who don't know quantum Leep,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: you know this one doctor and this other scientist from
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the future or jumping in, Well, he was jumping in
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: the bodies of people from the past to change things.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: The only way he can jump to hopefully jump home,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: but to jump to the next person, was to try
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: to change something for the better within a person. You
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying now, He could never fail, right
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: because then you know you're dead or lobotomynes, whatever. But
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: in this case, this is more so it almost feels
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: like someone who's talented but haunted by demons at the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: same time, and Kendricks said that a lot lately about himself,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So when I heard it,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: like you said, initially, I didn't catch all of this,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: but now I'm like, wow, you mean to tell me
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: I might have to just sit with a song and
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: just wait till like, okay, okay, okay, I got it all,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and didn't move on to
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: the next one.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: Right, didn't.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: We have a conversation like, Yo, this is what it
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: was like, right right, Like know everything we said was wrong?
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: He was talking about this, You're like, what like.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: Crazy one of the other tracks I want to talk
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: about man TV off. When this came on, I was like,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: not like us, like it. It literally felt like DJ
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Mustard said, I'm just gonna remix not like Us, and
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: We're going to do a version that's not focused on him.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: But there are parts of the lyrics that you can
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: tie to that dude and somebody else and whoever else
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: you want to. I've seen a lot of talk, a
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: lot of people loving this record. When you heard TV off,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: what was your thoughts?
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just thinking, like, Okay, he got it,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: he got another one, he got it, he got another one,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: and then the whole Mustard yelling Mustard.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, he want.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: To make sure Mustard gets his just dude, you know
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: what I mean?
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Which is which is cool?
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: Like that's that's dope, Like you you're not gonna forget
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: his name, like he is not he is stapled and.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Hip hop. For sure, he was in there, but now
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: yeah he's yeah, he's really in there now. Yeah. Man,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: I just thought I thought.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: It was a dope, dope track, you know, again West Coast,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: but just upbeat.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: I like what he did with the horns. I'm like, yo,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: are they attempting to get something together and ready for
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: the super Bowl? Like are you gonna? Are you You're
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: gonna do this at the super Bowl?
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: Because I think in this in this track, he's talking
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: about New Orleans in this track, So I just I.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Thought it was dope. You know what I mean?
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: You're right because I felt the same way when he
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: said the end of the last line of the song
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: says walk in New Orleans with the etiquette of l
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: a yelling, and then he you know, hits the mustard
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: but I get the feeling he's gonna say Mustard like
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: that on stage, and then you're gonna hear the white
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: because you know, ain't nothing about white people with a
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl anyway, They're just gonna be like, hey, hey,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Mustard on the beat, like oh like, oh no, obviously
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: I'm joking, but you just don't know what it could happen,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, It could. And you know
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: what made me think about that was when I heard
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: this record, I wondered, Okay, maybe this is the you know,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: it's not not Like Us. It has a very similar
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: vibe to not Like Us. And it's, like you said,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Mustard's out front, because even even with Kendrick's lyrics on
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: not Like Us being so catchy the way it starts,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: it's catchy to people who didn't even hear Mustards dropped before,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because it's how the song
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: kicks off. And I thought like, well, maybe they can't
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: do not Like Us, or they don't want to do
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: not Like Us because of how long ago, but they
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: could do something that kind of gives you that vibe.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: But was probably more interesting was how he started the
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: third verse ain't no other kings in this rap thing.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: They siblings, nothing but my children. One shot for those
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: who don't know that, Biggie bars from kicking the door.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: Not Tori's b ig Now we just said it, big
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: nas pack the Houdini in there too. That's kind of
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: like a statement is feeling like would have been if
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: he wasn't off the edibles, he might have snu But
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: it's a statement of I'm a part of this realm
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: of mcs in this game, you know. Oh, and I
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: just found it was I just found it kind of
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: crazy that he was. It caught me off guard to
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: hear that, because the god.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Did not expect that.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I say how he followed it up right?
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: He ain't no other kings in this rap thing, the siblings,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: nothing but my children. In one shot, it disappearing, I'm
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: in the city with a flag be getting thrown like
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: it was my past interference.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't, man, I don't know.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: Man like, Yo, I got it in the thing. Yo,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: leave yo alone. Yo, leave him alone. Yeah, leo alone,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: man like? And he say on the other joint, like, yo,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: we can do you wanna flip the coin which ones
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: you want which one you want, like.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: The Shameless Meat or the famous me Yeah.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: Because Yo, he about rapping. Yo, He's about rapping yo.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: I think I think this.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: Album definitely makes that clear.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: If if people didn't understand it before, I hope they
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: get it now. He's about rapping. He's about his West Coast,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. It's not just weird voices.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: He got that.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: He got that too, you know what I mean. But
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: it ain't just that like he's he's about rapping that.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: I think this is like for those people who didn't
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: see the like the Lil Wayne.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: Uh the video when he's Yo, Lil Wayne, you.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: Can't quit and he's just like in the studio just
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: saying Lil Wayne versus and stuff like he's got some
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: of that energy on hered but lo Wayne, but it
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: ain't for you no more like you know what, let
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: me get back to the to the to the legends
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: then like since you just show yeah, okay, that's cool,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: you know, like like du like hip hop revolves around
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: you or something like yo, you not you are not
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: my only influence.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: Like Okay, it's.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: Crazy man, It's it's it's wild, yo, it's a it's
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: a wild conversation having to think about and you know,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't know jealousy, I don't know, insecurities, complexes,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: but it's it's interesting to think about. And again, I
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: just commend YO for just staying on your square and
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: do work.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Man, just you your work. You know.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what, Like, I'm glad you said
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: that because I think, like, you know, obviously, we decided
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: to do this as a reaction and kind of like
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: a review of this album, mainly because of, you know,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: everything that's transpired this whole year with hip hop, but
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar specifically.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: And to.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Like, I don't want to stay cold because I don't
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: necessarily know the quote, but Kendrick has been very clear
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: in the battle, starting with not Like Us and throughout
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: this album that he does not care anymore. I don't care,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: Like if I'm in the crib, I'm quiet. You know,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: y'all may not like that I'm not outside a lot,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, this is what
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: I do and if y'all want to do something, do it.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: Y'all wanted me outside, now I'm out head. This is
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: how I'm outside, and I think it's just you know,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: it's tough to talk around it when you're talking about
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: his music because it's just it's just embedded in what
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: he's saying. And he's basically when they say, when somebody
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: tells you who they are, believe him. It's like, we
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: can't not talk about how he's feeling about Liuayne and
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: how he may have felt about Drake and that other guy.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about real quick, because this is supposed
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: to be a good week for him.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: His whole rollout is like.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Side show, like I don't forgot, like, oh yeah, that's
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: on streaming services.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, damn.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: The last one I wanted to mention though, just so
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: we not like falling down on every song. It's the
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: final song Gloria. Now, at first, I ain't gonna front.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: I got caught like doing something else while I was listening,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: and I'm you know, I'll go to look at the
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: track and I'm like, oh, you know, it's like a
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: story with a shorty and blah blah blah. And then
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: at the end he says, in his own way, ain't
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: no bitch like my bitch because that bitch been my
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: pen And I'm like, well, wait a minute, because you know,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: I'm here and everything else, and I'm like, oh wait,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: So I rewind back and the first line is me
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: and my bitch got a complicated relationship. And then everything
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: he said I started to think about his pen. Everything
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: was a metaphor for his pen on a song that
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: I thought it was about somebody knew, like, oh, maybe
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: telling story you know about somebody new around the way.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: Let me listen. Nah, he keeping it hip hop again.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: It's the It's.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Let me just read a little bit, just so people
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: get a sense. Me and my bitch got a complicated relationship.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: She's so controlling. I noticed it ain't no playing with
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: I met her when I was off the porch as
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: a teenager, which most mosts, you know, that's when they start.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: She said.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: One day I would write my wrongs and see paper.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: Hold up, No, he didn't sit right, my right, because
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: the way it's spelled.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: We started out young, looking for some identity, made a
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: thousand mistakes, but never did we lack chemistry. Wrapping my
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: hand around your waist, that was back when you did
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: whatever I say, dreams of selling narcotics, running blocks or
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Robert Banks. I was in love with you, didn't know
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: what it was with you kiss you in back of
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: the classish you in the back of it? Yo, If
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: y'all I ain't never like again, I know there's some
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: people be like yo, these k bots were going crazy
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: over nothing. Oh if you ain't never wrote rhyms in
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: class when you're supposed to be paying attention, that's what
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: the kiss you in the back, that's whatever. Kiss you
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: in back of the class just to get a buzz
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: with you. Some niggas wanted you, but they weren't committed,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: be occupied playing John Madden and bullshit. I'm just gonna
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: stop there. But again, this is what I was talking
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: about early on with Kendrick. I just felt the need
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: because the music was happening in my ears and I
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: was doing things to kind of not pay attention.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: And when I.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: Popped back in, I'm like, oh, you know, oh, it's
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: spouted shorty. I might have to running back to hit
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: the story from the beginning. And then I heard that
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: the shorty is a pending and I'm like, well, wait
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: a minute, what did he say? And now all the
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: lines turn into metaphors again for his commitment to hip hop.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: She just has a name called Gloria but it's really
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: more intimate than just common doing hip hop. You know,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: I used to love her or even though this wasn't
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: about that, but he alluded to it with the Me
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: and My Bitch start, which is Tupac, you know, talking
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: about his gun, me and my Bitch. So it's one
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: of those things where he's throwing in easter eggs. He's
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: given you metaphors. He's reminding you of songs like I
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: used to Love Her, But it's still an intimate story
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: like Man at the Garden that's all his. It's about
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: him and his pen specifically hip hop, where honestly, as
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: an MC, you can be a little bit more original.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: When you heard this joint to like end off the album,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: not only what were your thoughts about this song, but
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: once you came to the conclusion of the album, you know,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: how did you feel after listening to it?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So by the time I got it was the
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: same thing, like, I'm.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: Like, yo, this is I thought the song was dope.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: I had a feeling it was deeper than the surface level.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: And then when he said.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: My pen at the end, I'm like yo, I felt
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: like yo, I gotta go, I gotta run this running
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: back and shit like, but.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: It's like to end it that way.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: It he's talking about his skill, he's talking about.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: What again, what he brings to the culture.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: And this is like and I know, I know they
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: probably gonna call me Kate Bot and all of this,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: and I'm taking it too far. But it's almost like, yo,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: you know, on to Pimple Butterfly, I love myself. It's like,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 3: once again, he's self motivating even at the end, like yo,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: I love my pen and I love what it brings
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: to this culture, you know what I mean. And he's devoted,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: devoted to it. So, you know, great way to great
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: way to end the album. Great song, you know what
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, Great way to.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: End the album. Yeah, man. And overall my thoughts are
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: it's a great album.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: Man, It's a great album that the only I got.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: Reservations are questionable about the one song, the title track,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, the GNX and even with that,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: it's questionable, But at the same time I respect it
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: because this is giving the little homiees some shine, like yo,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: let me get the homies from.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: The city, some Sean from comp to some shine. You know.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I might not agree with it, and it
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: might get skipped. It might if I'm close enough to
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: the to where you know, by listening apparatus, it might
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: get But like if I'm cleaning up or something and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: it's just one, I'll let it rop, you know what
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, because that's the homies doing a thing.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: That's the pop out, like they popping out, like so.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: Let them get let them get some shine. But everything else, man,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: This this man's testament to hip hop.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: How he feels right now about it.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: But then I think by the time we get to
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: the end, like recentering himself, like, yo, well I'm still
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: devoted to this and I'm in love with my fan,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: so I ain't leaving her, you know what I mean,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: I'm still devoted to it.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: And yeah, man, it's the most hip hop West Coast
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: stripped down.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's very it gets Like with Luther it
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: gets very lush. With Hard Part six gets very lush,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: and with Dodger Blue it gets really really lush.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: Right, But everything else is it's like, you know, very hip.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: Hop's you can't confuse confuse it.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: It's definitely some hip hop, you know what I mean? Now?
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: Is it rabbity rap?
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: Rap?
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Rap rapping and rapping, and mm hmmm, I.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: Would say reincarnated is right, right, sure, that's definitely some
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: rappity rap rapping, right, you know, it's not like metaphors, Well,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: the whole song is, but it's not like punchline, right,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: But yeah, man, I think it's a great contribution to
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: his catalog.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: I do have the sneaking suspicion that this may he
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: might got another one in the kiddy based on this
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: what this play in the background, Like that song is
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: not on here and we already got that, but squabb up.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: It's like, yo, you setting this up again, like you
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: about to you about to hit us with the one.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: Like I just have a sneaking suspicion.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: But you know, if that's not the case, I think
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: that this is, you know, a great contribution to to
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: his catalog.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: But it is the most stripped down.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: It reminds me of what like like a little bit
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: like push your te like push your tea as like
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: the stripped down it's just yo, heartbeats rapping. It does
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: have a theme, you know what the theme is, Like
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: it's loose, you know, you really pay attention to really
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: pay attention to the bars and stuff.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, now you can get the theme, whereas though you.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: Know, with Kendrick, he's got the theme layered and like
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: with the skits, and then by the time you get
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: to the end, it all builds together and you're like,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: oh shit, Like he was talking to Tupac the whole time,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 3: like you know what I mean.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: Like it's it's not that And I think that that
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: was good. I think after this.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: Whole thing with Drake and just getting rid of him,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, or getting him out of
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 3: here as far as comparing to him, can people compare
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 3: airing him to Kendrick? Just ending that whole debate. Okay,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 3: Now we're gonna get back to some music, but we're
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: gonna have We're gonna have fun with it. But I'm
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 3: gonna be extra competitive. He's gonna be extra competitive, but we're.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: Gonna have fun. Like, Yo, let's have fun.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be extra West coast with it and obnoxiously
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 3: West coast. Yeah, unapologetically West coast.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: You make a great point because you know, like that
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: was the one song on my first listen that I
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: ran back immediately because you know, I realized it was
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: the last song and it had a concept, so I
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: wanted to see you know, okay, well he's the type,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: he's just a deep thinker. So I'm thinking, like it
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: has to mean something greater for the album, this last song,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: you know, and I didn't want to miss it, and
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: it kind of does. Like you said, the whole theme
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: is like, you know, the pop out album and you know, well,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: what's the byproduct? Well, the PopOut is a byproduct of
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: the battle, right, and what's the battle about? It's about
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: superior lyricists period, rapid, you know, no no big threes,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: just big k means and stuff. So I think it
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: ended being about his pen which was the conversation the
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: entire time and the reason why Drake lost, because Kendrick
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't just calculated when he dropped or what rumors came out.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: It was all strategic and like things he said, each
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: the eggs that were then, like you said, you know,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: not like us finally has a video, we all press
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: play and we hear a different song first, and everybody.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: You can go back and look at the reactions, everybody's
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: reactions like, oh, what's this like when you're doing that?
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: From layers of you know, as far as like again,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: like your rollout, you're being strategic, your lyrics, You're being strategic,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: the videos, You're being strategic, even this video because you know,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to be me up Scottie to
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: another Kendrick upstairs the way you get down, I'm like,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: what does that mean? You know what I'm saying, Like
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: is that the first video from this album officially? And
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: what does it mean for him to pull up in
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: the whip and look up there?
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: And one of the songs he's saying that car was
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: a car you always wanted kind of thing. So it's
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: what I enjoyed about it was the fact that Hendrick
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: is good money. If you're a fan, this man doesn't
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: have a bad project at all, whether it stops or
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: another one comes out. He may you may have ones
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: you prefer more than others, but there's some of our
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: favorites where we just like this one album they drove
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: was not it? Well, Kendrick, It's like they're never the same,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: They're all different. They all kind of have a theme,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: but they all play into who he is. It's like
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: we thought good Kid Mas City was him writing this autobiography,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: this whole catalog. It's this man's biography and he's just
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: writing it every time, but it's masked as a bop
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: or a Boombat track or you know what I'm saying,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: or West Coast joint. And with that being said, I
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: will also say, like when we look at the drop,
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: one of the things I analyzed in my I guess
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: an impressions video or you know, my reaction video was
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: the fact that earlier this week, J Cole had his
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: one hundred gigs for Your Headtime and he put out
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: a you know, a rundown of Yo, We're gonna do
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: this this way. We're gonna release this you know content,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: we're gonna build up, we're gonna what Draper is, and
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: we're gonna remind you why you like J Cole, remind you.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: Of who he was.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: The first mixtape is now available on all your streaming platforms.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: But guess what, it became available after this drop and
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: nobody cared anymore. So again with Kendrick, he didn't have
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: to even save your man this time. He just said, oh,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: you're doing that. I get the feeling. Kendrick is sitting
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: in front of Mad Music and Buttons and Ship where
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: He's like, go ahead, nigga, go ahead and do that.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, and super Bowl one hundred for your headtop
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: super Bowl commercial. You know what I'm saying, Yo, it's
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: take the obi whole picture. Okay, Uh, the party's over
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: with these these black ass boom right, but go ahead.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: What we're gonna say, Nah, I was just gonna say,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: it's work.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: It's just work. Like I'm not diminishing J Cole's work,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: you know. Okay, let me remind you of why you
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: like be in the first place.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: But it's like.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: It's like, Yo, this dude is messing that up because
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: it's like, Yo, what are you done for me lately?
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: Like we wanted, Yo, give us.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: The newness like it us you know what I mean? Like, Yo,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: we we shouldn't even need that, Like Mike delete later.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 6: Should be holding us over while we got a hundred
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 6: gigs that your head topping like that should be holding
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 6: us over, right, Like if I think for if for
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 6: some folks, it.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: Does, I don't me dominated right, yeah.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: I think let me, let me, let me, let me
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 3: ease up, let me back. I think you know, folks
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 3: got strategies. Jco has a strategy and like you said
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: the strategy. Hey, let me show you all, remind you all.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: Let's let's take a journey back. I'm gonna but it's
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: it's I mean, yo, man, it's it's.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: Another m C to compare to. That's just what it is,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: am I I'm gonna. We're gonna do this whole.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 3: Your marketing and promotion when they can say your your gimmicks,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: your marketing and promotion, you know what I mean, Like, Yo,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: This whole rollout or Yo, why you like me?
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: And all of that and I'm just drop a song
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: Hart Part six, one song on my new project?
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: Did it give you all of that?
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: One song over over a beat that will give you
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: the feels? But it's also tied to the lyrics and
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: the theme of this series. It just it's it's crazy
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: because when when J Cole popped out before, you know,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: everybody talk everything, including me, everybody was tearing them down
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: because of you know what he said it would be
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: and you know if I had a loss and again
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: and this and this is worse, this is a whole album.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: It was already bad enough that when Drake and J
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: Cole would pop out and say something or do something.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: And you'll see in the comment section somebody quoting uh
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: Kendrick lyric for one of his songs and it would
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: fit to a t you know what I'm saying, Like
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: you do this, oh port Antonio, somebody like I thought
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: it was weird when I saw them hugging and kissing
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: on stage, and it's just like it's just the gates
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: everything they trying to do, you know what I'm saying,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: Like or like Drake does the video, you know what
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. With the hoodies on and in the mall
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: and dudes are online like, oh, the ovihos are in
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: the mall, grown ass ovos in the mall.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: You hanging out on the mall like looking for the miners.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: Like it's like it's like they can't do nothing. I
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: think it's kind of like I, uh I said, I
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: was gonna say, tweet it rest in peace, Twitter. I
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: don't have a Twitter no more, but I posted every
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: time Jermaine tried to just clear the outside. Okay, boom
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: here y'all go hunting against for your headtop remember this
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: coming out the fall off and and Kendrick just drops
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: and everybody just moves to the side. Now, granted there's
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: something obviously you can listen to both, but it almost
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: brings everything back. The apology, you know, the bad bulls,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: you know, the things he said, and the sandals on
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: the beach is not great, you know, like sandals and
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: socks on the beach, like fam, what are you doing?
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Like you know what I'm saying.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: You try to be so whatever. But at the end
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: of the day, it's it's crazy because as much as
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: the battle was a thing that happened and we said, well,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: we said that we had our fun with it then
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: and there, and Kendrick's giving us some great content to
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: go over, it's just it just brings it all back
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: up again, whether Drake says something that makes people go
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: back there or Kendrick just makes a statement. And this way,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: even though Drake knew it was going to happen, I
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: just find it interesting that he dropped around this time,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: you know. And I think the only name was ice
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: Cube dropping an album, which is no comparison, but I
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: will say this twenty twenty four was the West Coast West.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: Coast Bat like the.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: Old Dog Pound album. It's in my top five of
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: the year. I played that throughout the summer. But then
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: you had Blue Yeah, Schoolboy Q obviously, well now you
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: have Kendrick, you had DJ Quick Compilations, like you had
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: all these West Coast joints that was just rocking and
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: taking over. And it's like Kendrick just capped it off.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: Even though Snoop and Dre about to drop in December,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: It's like anybody's saying anything other than twenty twenty four
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: belong to the West Coast is lying to them.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you line, you line. Yeah, I mean.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting because now you got young thug home,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: so you know it's it's gonna be interesting. We'll we'll,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 3: we'll see. But you're right, definitely, for twenty twenty four,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 3: the West Coast was on the was on the money,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: and it's in its hip hop like now mind you
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 3: you know they got some of the you know, the
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: stuff that people wouldn't probably did, wouldn't like, you know,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 3: but they're the people that are in the forefront, you know.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, they are carrying it and it's it's it's
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 3: good music.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I'm saying.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Vince Staples right, then you got she
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: got Tyler the creator too, So I right.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: Like like, oh look this because this shortly posted. I
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: don't man, I don't think I have it in front
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: of me. This shortly posted something that had like all
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: the albums from the West Coast that dropped, and she
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: didn't even have here.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: It is right here.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: So she did have She had Kendrick, she had Tyler
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: up here, she had Larry June, she had abs so
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: Blew and Ags Anderson Pop acknowledged forgot about that joint
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: Vince Staples, but you know dog pounds down here, a
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: couple of West Coast joints that will wind up on
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: a number of people's best of the year. And this
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: is just like another statement. And he, you know, he
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: obviously with the music, with some of the lyrics, he
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: pigs up California big time and points out, you know,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: those people who were haters. And I just find it
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: interesting because I know we're gonna go away from this album.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: Hear more things.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: Somebody gonna figure out the whole puzzle, you know, like yo, well,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: he's sitting on I don't know the piano or whatever
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: that is in the back bobbing. That's actually this picture
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: of Louis Armstrong at the rally like you know, like
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: what like what's the name of the rally GNX, like what?
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: And even though there's some people who hate that, I
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: just find it funny because people like it when Marvel
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: do it all the time you watch Marvel shows, that's
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: content creators can just be like, Okay, this episode, like
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: that mask in the back over there is So I
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: just think it's dope for Kendrick to think about, you know,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: the whole Easter egg hunting and keep people chasing the
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: carrot till he's done, to go off into the sunset
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: or back in the back cave. Well, yeah, man, they
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: I have it. What do y'all think about Kendrick Lamar's
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: brand new album g and X available now for you
• 1:38:28
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• 1:38:31
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• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: because I know for some people it's tough to follow
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: the lyrics of any rapper, let alone a rapper again
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: who can sound like he's just talking about a different
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: subject like Gloria, when he's clearly talking about something else
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: and you gotta line up the metaphors. What do you
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: think are your Kendrick Lamar fan? Is this album so?
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: So?
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: Is it number one for you? Leave your comments to
• 1:38:58
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• 1:39:02
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• 1:39:08
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• 1:39:11
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• 1:39:13
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• 1:39:16
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• 1:39:18
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