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Might Delete Later · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, Action Bronson announcers
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I'm back as he Readi's a new album. J Cole teases a nuisance might
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delete later ahead of his album The fall Off, and when did sales become
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a bigger qualifier than skills? We definitely gotta talk about this. Let's do
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it. Welcome to jimp Hop Now Podcasts. Shod you from the future.
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who's the best, what's trending on social media? While Benzeno crying like that
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whatever, you know, it would be dope to do that. And I'm
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thinking about maybe a Friday's kind of thing, or who knows, maybe a
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Sunday, you know, right before the work week hits. You know,
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you sit there, chop it up, then you go about your business.
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for heads in a couple of places where I'm getting some of these stories from.
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Let's get right into business. It feels like new music is ramping up
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right, we had a couple of albums drop, projects drop, some of
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which it's put it this way, I'm not trying to jinx it, but
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last year it felt really slow once we got to like June, which was
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like the halfway point to say, you know, what are the best albums
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of the year so far? Now, if twenty twenty four ended today and
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I had to pick a top five, I think I have one. Now
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we know there's an entire year and a bunch of stuff probably gonna drop,
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so there'll probably be a lot to choose from. But right now, it
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feels like there's a couple of joints and I think some people are sleeping right,
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And I'll tell y'all a couple of joints like Shaye Nawa got a dope
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EP that I've been bumping, hus Kingpin in ninth one that got a dope
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album I've been pumping, you know what I'm saying. Match the Ace and
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Marco Polo have a dope album that I've been listening to. So there's a
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couple of joints now that are like really worthy of your rotation, you know.
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But we'll get into that later. But there are teases of other things
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happening. For example, Action Bronson. He recently and let me pull up
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the article real quick and be professional about it. He recently kind of gave
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an update on his new album. He's been quiet for a while, lost
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some weight. He looked good, you know what I'm saying, because he
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was really overweight, which is good. But also and let me just get
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the tweet, because he tweeted the follow up finishing up new album. Johan
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Sebastian Bach Lava the Doctor. What the hell? Kind of okay, it's
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hard to not rap when I was blessed with the art. I'm back again
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and again. I feel them right. As long as you have the appetite
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to create as an artist, if you're a true artist, you'll never stop.
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At some point, You'll just never stop in some capacity. You will
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never stop doing what you do because it's just in you. Right. If
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you stop, there must be some traumatic situation that makes you spies the art
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and you don't want to go back to it. And I don't mean even
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releasing it. I mean I know people who you know have music that we
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were probably never hear because they were just in there creating. You know,
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they don't want to release it or put it out. I don't know why,
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but you know, just put it out and let it do what it
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do. But nevertheless, I feel them on that. My thing with Action
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Bronze, I have a complicated history with Action Bronson, most like day one,
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Action Bronson fans talk about the I Think It's Blue Chips mixtape, and
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you know, they loved them ever since then. And for me at that
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time, that's when I first heard him, I was like, Nah,
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this dude sound way too much like ghost Face for me right back then,
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just way too much. And I just I dismissed it instantly because I'm a
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hip hop head from back in the days, and certain rules is just like
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you can't help the way your voice sounds. But certain things is just like
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there's a time where you wouldn't have been out. You wouldn't have came out
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because no one would have signed you in hip hop because they would have said,
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yo, he sounds exactly like ghost Face. You know, dudes like
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Russell Simmons, let's just take it back there for a while and not talk
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about the other stuff. You know, would dismiss you might even think what
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you're doing is bite and even though you can't help you kind of sound like
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him when you rap, but obviously the influence is there. Even when he
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had the situation with ghost Face back in the days, which was kind of
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if you ask me, him being tired of the conversation around him sounding like
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ghost Face but being asked a question on National TV and responding the way he
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did, and then Papa Wool pulling up at Sean Price's funeral on him,
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and then ghost Face making one of the best dis records of all times that
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wasn't even a disrecord, it was just a video of ghost Face talking in
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the camera and it was It was dope. It was one of the greatest
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things ever, was the most ghost faced thing ever. It was dope.
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But there was a point in time, probably right before that, where I
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really liked Action Brunson a lot, Like he had this one mixtape I can't
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even I can't even remember half the stuff, but he had this one mixtape
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that came out. It was like an EP style joint where I was like
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kind of feeling this joint. I listened to it in the gym and I
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could hear the nuances that separated him from ghosts. So I was like,
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oh, I could I could hear what's unique about him, even though on
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the surface he'll strike you as someone who sounds like ghost Face. And then
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he put out the one that One album, which is hands down my favorite
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from him, Mister Wonderful, And I think what I liked about that album
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so much was the production choices, because it gave it a feel that I
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think was unique to him. And I always felt like, and not to
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say that it wasn't done, but I don't think it was done ever again
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in that same way, because it was a lot of like psychedelic classic rock
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sample kind of joints that and it sounded just sound dope, especially the way
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he was rhyming like songs, like acting crazy like it was. I loved
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it. But then after that the other albums that he released, none of
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them really stuck with me like that. And I know he was kind of
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like dealing with some things and what he's doing now what I just said probably
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happened before every album I'm back, you know, bobs blah blah blah,
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and I just always felt underwhelmed, And maybe because I just liked mister Wonderful
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so much that I felt like that was his pocket that was his square that
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he could own. Sure, you can't sample sixty seventies rock psychedelic stuff for
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the rest of your career, but you know, teaming with the right producer,
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which I assume you know mostly will be alchemists, you could kind of
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do that. But it wasn't just the beats on his later projects. It
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also was his pen game, I think, or mister Wonderful his personality was
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at one hundred and twenty. I think the whole sounded like ghost face thing
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coming to a head with the wool took a little wind out of his sales.
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Now, don't get me wrong, there's times I heard a verse here
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and there where I was like, ed, I want my hand action Bronson
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again. I'm hoping That's how much I like mister Wonderful. I'm hoping he
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can get back to that confidence level given the fact that he's lost some weight
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and he looked good. He lost the weight. You look good if you
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know what it's like to gain some serious weight, and even it could be
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serious for you. Like for me, I've never really been like obese,
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but I've been too big for my height right, I'm five to nine.
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I've been too big for my height at times, and when you drop fifty
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even sixty pounds, which I've done before, it's no better feeling in the
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world than liking the way you look, liking the way you feel, and
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that energy going out into everything you do. So I'm hoping musically, the
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first time I press playing on something, I'm like, yeah, that's it.
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We be back. So we'll see. Speaking of teases for albums,
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if you've been under a hip hop rock somewhere, ja Cole will I assume
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this year we'll be dropping his album The fall Off. I think it's his
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seventh studio album. Ja Cole doesn't have a ton of albums like Drake.
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Drake has a lot of albums, a lot of projects, I mean,
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but he also has a lot of mixtapes, so you gotta put it all
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together. But he had announced his joint and this was supposed to be like
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his last excuse Me album before he does whatever play soccer. I don't know,
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but everybody's anticipating it, right because his last album was really dope.
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It was. It was probably the most lyrically well, I won't say lyrically
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focused. It was probably the one album that you could point to from J
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Cole to say yo, on that album, he was just about Bars period.
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Like if you know, he got other albums that have concepts and songs
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and catchy hooks and most of them are dope, but his last album was
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really about like Bars, if you ask me, and just like the lead
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up to previous albums, whether they were the same content or not. J
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Cole has dropped a teaser called Mike Delete Later with a video that's kind of
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like people said, it's like an ode to the whole DVD era, if
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you know what that's about. The DVD era hip hop, A lot of
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dope stuff, a lot of underground stuff happened in the DVD era. But
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if you are wrestling fed or you at least remember wrestling from the late nineties
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early two thousands, it reminded me a lot of nWo their promos with the
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black and white drunge kind of look and stuff like that, like just a
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throwback to the nineties and all of that was the nineties, right. The
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DVD era started in the nineties, late nineties so to speak, maybe even
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close to mid but it really took off a little bit later. But when
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I tell y'all, this man is rapping on he's rapping in the best way
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he's ever wrapped ever. And I don't I don't understand how or why.
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And I think because there may be two things. There may be a level
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of doubt about him being the best of the three. That's Kendrick and Drake,
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right or you know. And when I say that, I'm not just
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talking about bars, right, I'm talking about just when you look at the
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three, and you look at for most people, and we'll get into that
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a little bit later, success level. Right, Well, when it comes
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to success level, Drake is at the top, and then it's Kendrick,
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and then it's Jake Cole, and it's like, well, how do you
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separate these three? Well, musically they're all three very different. But with
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Drake he kind of has his lane and every now and again he has some
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bars for y'all know, a little scary hours or whatever. Same thing with
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Kendrick. Kendrick might give you a song or two where he reminds you he's
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still kot right, but no real commitment to just being nice with it.
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And j Cole that is his lane. I'm gonna be the dude that y'all
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gonna say, yo. He could just he's just nice. He's probably the
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best lyricists out the crew, right, And I think when you look at
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it now, especially the fact that Kendrick does more conceptual music than anything because
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let's keep it a buck, Kendrick had like a flat top fade when when
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he was like about bars, you know, and BT safe and TDE.
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Since then, he's become more of an artist, right with the music and
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Drake he's more hip pop, right, not hip hop, but hip hop.
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He does both. He does hip hop, but he kind of makes
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a lot of songs that are pop records to be real, and everybody loves
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j Cole because of bars and might delete later is no different. The only
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thing, it's the only thing I'm afraid of, y'all. He's done this
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in the past where he's dropped now he didn't do it with the last album.
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Last album kind of fulfilled the promise. But he'll drop like a teaser
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or a freestyle or a song that's like boom back, bars, crazy,
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all of that. It's a lead up to the album and then when the
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album comes out, usually none of the music, except for maybe one or
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two tracks, are anything like that freestyle, right, And to me,
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I never. I get it, but I didn't always like it because you
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gave us a boomback kind of album with Bars. You gave us a Bars
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album already, so I get it, but I kind of feel like,
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don't get people hyped up to anticipate the album that really doesn't include that sound
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like that, because that's why you get albums like what's that one album for
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your Eyes Only? Where I didn't think it was a bad album, to
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be honest, I just thought that the anticipation coming off his previous classic twenty
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fourteen Forest Hill Drive, set a sting that, oh he back to give
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you some more of this. Oh wait a minute, they folded close,
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right. I took it for what it was. That's what I like about
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Ja Cole. He just kind of makes his music is thoughtful and he'll just
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make whatever he thinks should happen, and some people feel like he should do
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other things. And I think that was the case as far as people's like
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disappointment in that particular album. I get the feeling based off of what he's
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done with his previous album, how he's killed like every feature he's been on
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from Drake's Album to Benny the Butcher's album and now this freestyle. I can't
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even see a future for this album not containing a lot on the bar side
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of things, right, So we'll see because J Cole, if I'm looking
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at this correctly. Ever since Forest Hill's Drive, he's kind of like dipped
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his toe in conceptual albums like for Your Eyes Only was clearly like conceptual,
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right. It might have been about relationships, not heavy, not Drake style,
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but it may have had a heavy tone relationship music. But I thought
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that was fine, right. Even the other joint what is It kod which
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I really liked, a lot of people didn't like it because they wanted J
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Cole and I always call it mixtape Ja Cole because Mike Delete Later is clearly
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mixtape Ja Cole. Some people just want him to do that. But I
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like his concepts. I like him because they're never just done to say,
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yeah, you know how some of these rappers and artists be here. So
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you know, one day I was looking at the moon and I figured,
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like, you know, maybe I make a song about each crater on the
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moon or eat or where the moon lands in the scot like dog Relax.
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Nobody want to hear that, Boss, because it's just too much. So
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I'm almost anticipating some form of concept considering what he just gave us. Because,
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to be honest, as dope as that last Jacob album was, I
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think I forget what it was called, like Comeback Season or something like that.
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I don't want that again because I feel like it was really aggressive and
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dark and angry, and I feel like Ja Cole can do a couple of
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different things now. I don't want the glorious Stefan singing hook Jacob either.
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I think that's who's hook straight up, No, No, Paul Abdou,
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I don't want him doing that no more. But I don't think he does
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because he haven't done it in a while, So we'll see. I don't
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know what to think. Honestly, this is dope, but I have to
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sit back and wait. And what makes it and it's the last thing I'll
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say about this. What makes it difficult to feel comfortable in my anticipation of
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his album are the fans, some of you J Cole fans, and I'm
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a J Cole fan, but some of you J cole stands are ridiculous.
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And if I read way too many of your tweets or your videos or here,
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you talk about this album at midnight and you haven't even heard all of
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it. It just sours the experience for me because I know it can't be
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as great as they're saying now. Don't get me wrong. Could but chances
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are with most projects, you haven't even had enough time to digest what's being
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said, what's being presented on an album to call it a classic. By
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morning, you just have it. You may like it a lot. Most
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classics are like that. It's rare that you hear an album and say yourself,
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it's a classic. It's happened before. When I heard Get Rich of
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Die Trying Like, I went to the I went to the record store back
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then got the album. I think I'll pop the DVD in first one or
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the other. When I heard that album and I heard each song, I
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already knew this is this is a special one. This this is one of
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those albums where you like, this will be considered a classic. Now.
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I know there's people who don't like it. I don't care you. Maybe
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you wasn't around, but that album in fifty cent it was dominating radio,
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streets whatever. It was dominating. And I wasn't even n n y when
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that dropped. I was in a whole other state and city and it was
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still dominating, like it was Queen's you know what I'm saying, So I'm
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hopeful. What do you think? You know? Are you? Did you
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hear it? First of all, did you hear the Mike delete later teaser
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from JCole? Are you hyped for this album? Are you kind of like
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me, like waiting to see what you're gonna get? Leave your comments in
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a comment section below on YouTube. Also, you know, you can hit
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me up on social media and we could talk about it as well. And
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last, so, hip hopdx dot com posted an article with Cormega and he
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had some things to say that I feel have been talked about since the nineties,
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but it almost felt like a perfect time to double I can talk about
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it since the nineties was a long time ago, right, So again,
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the article is on hip Hop dx dot com. It says Cormega ponders when
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numbers replaced skill in rap, somehow the lines got blurred. Here's a quote
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from Cormega. The thing that made these albums special was they caught your attention
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before you even listened to it, and they all had no jewelry and cause
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it said, etc. As the vocal point. Their vocals were the point.
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The beauty of us as a culture is the ability to make something out
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of nothing or to maximize the potential of what we had. Somehow the lines
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got blurred and numbers became more important than artistry. Excessive spending and bragging replaced
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the main thing rappers should brag about, which is skilled. And he went
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on to like post a series of classic albums like or album covers on his
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Instagram, like a Doggy Style and the Chronic and album from Kanye and Nas
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cort Maker. You preaching to the choir. Okay, you preaching to the
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choir. But I'm glad you're preaching because it's absolutely true as it relates to
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hip hop specifically in the era that everybody loves the eror that everybody calls the
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Golden age, even though I think the late eighties is the golden age,
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and I feel like the nineties is like a resurgence of hip hop. You
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know. But he's right now two things. One to his point of you
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know, people not having jury and cars like that and the music being pure.
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I think that could be true for any up and coming artists because you
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just don't have the bread yet. I think some people look at these younger
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artists and be like, yo, look at all the money they got.
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But they they made their money off of YouTube before they even got the main
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deal, So they doing it differently, right They like, for example,
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right Glow Thriller. I'm not really a fan, but if you look at
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the song that got her popping on YouTube, it is very low budget.
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There's no wardrobe, probably no makeup besides the makeup they put on, but
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no one cared. They loved it. Now she could you know, Now
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she got the jewelry, got her head done, blah blah blah, she
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got the whole thing. But this is after her humble beginnings. And maybe
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that speaks to Cormega's point about you know, it be more pure at one
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point, but specifically talking about that time with the nineties, I think it's
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just as simple as rappers at one point weren't big sellers, right, They
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didn't have big record sales at all. They were just a chosen few.
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Right ll would go platinum, run deem See would do they thing. It
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was like a chosen few really had dope record sales EPMD. I always used
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to wonder when I was younger, like, why they always talking about going
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gold and all of that, And I didn't realize how big of a deal
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that was for hip hop at the time because not everybody was achieving that.
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And I'm talking about some of our legends in the game weren't selling that much.
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You know, their singles would do crazy on the radio and stuff like
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that, but they weren't golden plat some of them weren't even gold artists,
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you know. But I think in the nineties, and as much as people
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like to talk about it, that whole death ro bad Boy era brought money
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to the game and Nas Illmatic did not sell, but Doggie Style did,
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right, So it was almost like the old era of hip hop artists,
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like you could be very dope, right Illmatic is like you would think Illmatic
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was diamond the way people talk about it. But it went platinum just a
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couple of years ago, literally just a couple of years ago. And you
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know, back then, you felt like, well that's what happens. You
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know, Snoops is a bigger artist. He's the one that's gonna go platinum.
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Nas isn't as big, but people love him on the same level.
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Right, But then that bad Boy and and Death Row era just took off,
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especially once Tupac came home and joined Death Ro and cats had more money,
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and that that's why the era of people talking about money got so big,
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because it wasn't just like the shiny suit era. It was that they
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were just more rappers eating on a level that was only exclusive to people like
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LLKOJ and run DMC previously. Right, So now more people were able to
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eat. Now, the compromise was like, you know, you put on
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that shiny suit. You know, you had to make club records. You
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know, you had to have some kind of club record in order to get
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in on some of this, right, and most artists did. Nas flipped
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a lot of his style and music to be more appealing to crowds who were
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listening to you know, the club death Row records and the club bad Boy
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records. Right. He wanted to be in that mix, and he eventually
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got in that mix. And I feel personally at that time it was the
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best of both worlds with some of these artists, because hip hop comes from
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partying and dancing, so let's not be anti that just because of the shiny
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suit era, and you wanted the dirt bomb era to be king. The
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dirt bomb era was cool early nineties, right, I was with y'all man,
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I had the fatigues and I was with it, but that was hip
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hop. It was different errors. But once people started getting money, you
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kind of went back to dances. But people started talking about the money more
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and it became less like, for lack of a better term, grassroots rapping
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and more about status rapping. And it was fine because you still got like
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somebody like a DMX who was highly successful, but he wasn't like Mooley in
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the Sky. He wasn't doing all of that, but he was still successful.
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So it was dope. But like Big said, more money, more
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problems, and the more money hip hop got, the more diluted the art
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became. Because it seemed like, well when Pe was talking Black Power or
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NAS was talking Project Always, everybody loved those albums. It was classics,
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but you know they didn't do numbers like when we got Life After Death and
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All Eyes on Me, So we need to do more of that stuff,
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right, those hits, those types of artists, those big artists, and
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it just throughout time it just stayed on the like the money thing kind of
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became that's all you really got to talk about. Like, when you're a
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rapper, let me hear some you know, like let me double back.
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When you're a rapper, wants to dealt me hear something. Man, if
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you ain't like, you know my bathtub, let up my walls, do
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a three six if you ain't, if you ain't talking like that, some
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people not really feeling you right on a on a grander scale, there's gonna
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be people who love your music whether you talk about this stuff or not.
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But the main, the main thing is it became important or more important because
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of the business. The business seeped into the lyrics, the production, the
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strategy of releasing artists, whether you are talented or not, and it became
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if you would like to be barking book bag, dude, do that over
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there. You not getting on the radios if you're DMX not DMX rapper.
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But if you're a DMX type rapper today, he chances are you not getting
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the same look because that was that time and now it's really about Honestly,
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I feel like sometimes is it even about catchy records? It's not even about
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that, like the Rinto era, even though there's a lot of people who
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didn't like it. One thing I'll say about it. Having catchy hooks and
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catchy songs have been a part of the record industry forever. So every song,
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I'm like, oh, it's a dance, I can see why people
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like that. You know, Oh it's a chant, I can see why
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people like that. But now it's not even that. Now it's like,
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say the same thing. It's almost like buzzwords, right, Like, if
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you use AI right, you can create whatever you want, honestly, just
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by typing in what you want and then it'll just gather information and create it,
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right, whether it's an image of a video or paragraph or whatever.
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That's what I feel about some of these new rappers today, and it's same
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thing for the ladies. There's just certain things you need to say and keep
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saying them on every song, on every hook, over and over again,
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because it's almost like these are the the buzzworthy words, right. This is
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the seo, right, this seo hip hop era where it's not really about
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skill, it's about if I say this word this many times combined with this
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word this many times, and I'm being real, like, analytics is a
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big part of all of this. Then people will react because people like this.
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So it's not as simple as well, people like when people talk about
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money and ladies talk about the China. No, it's about hm such as
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such was very successful and she said da da da da. And when I
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look at her counterparts to do the same things, and I look at all
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the numbers, do more of that include this, And it's just to wrap
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it up and to speak to Cormega's overall point. As fans of hip hop,
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and I'm not just talking of the nineties, but those who are coming
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up now and maybe somewhere in the you know, twenty tens, maybe twenty
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fifteen on. It's kind of become a measuring stick. And a lot of
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rappers in the nineties started that measuring stick, you know, like you you
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didn't do numbers or like, you know, like it became about the numbers.
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So jay Z said it, Men live, women lie, but numbers
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don't. And it became about it became like almost the law. If you
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are not successful, if you are not popular, you are not adult artists.
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But the great thing about music and history is the fact that you have
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people who are around who remember a time, who are still out here doing
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it. Who can show you this is what artistry is. Concepts, bars,
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thought, food production, roll out album cover videos, promo freestyles on
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different la ligas, folk mass deflects. There's a way to work the system.
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And the good thing is, unfortunately it doesn't always equate to sales.
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But the good thing is is you have a lane where people love artists ackut
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freestyle. Like they're young cats who listen to all these you know, Globe
38:02
Wheelers and all of them, right, all of them, but they love
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that black thought freestyle with funk Master reflex. So it's kind of like the
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game changes and you gotta change with it. It's sad that it's not what
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it was once before, but there are artists who keep that essence that Cormega
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described alive. You just have to be a hip hop head and watch watch
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the hip hop wave right see where they at, see who people are talking
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about. And here's one last thing because it's a very long episode for me,
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the best way for you as a true hip hop head to keep your
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eye on the quality music. And I'm talking to a person who is just
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like man, I don't even know. I turned on the radio, I
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hear trash and turned it off. None of my friends listened to hip hop
38:59
like that anymore. I just have no way of keeping my eye on who
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might be dope and who you know who to look out for. I think
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all you gotta do on your phone, on your laptop or whatever is google
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best of list from the past couple of years and look at the albums that
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appear on most lists. Right. And I don't mean oh well, I
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looked at Rolling Stones and I looked a complex. You can but also look
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at hip hop sites. Find the hip hop sites you never heard of,
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like some of those that I mentioned on the show, like hip Hop DX.
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And once you once you like google that and you see a pattern,
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you'll be able to navigate to those who are dope. You're gonna find at
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least one and be like, yo, I like this, dude, this
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is more like I remember in the nineties. And then you can just go
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down a rabbit hole with his music and it'll lead you to similar artists.
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That's one thing I'll say for streaming services. Let's just say, like,
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man, yo, I listen to hip hop. Yeahs man White Family blah
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blah blah, man I miss boomback, and you stumble across Conway the Machine.
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Well on streaming services, you know, once you don't listen to all
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Conway and Griselda, you can look at the bottom, for example Apple Music,
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and they are suggested artists who are similar. And that's what I mean.
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There's a path to the hip hop you enjoy. What do y'all think?
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Do you even care whether a record sells or not? You know,
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does that qualify it as quality? Right? Leave your comments in a comment
40:45
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