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Sleeping on the GOD · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast,
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  Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes has momentum with this Diligent two album, produced
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  Speaker 1: Rock Kim's new song A Different Kind I'll tell you Why.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into the business stuff first up. So
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  Speaker 1: Buster Rhyms just dropped a new single called did I
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  Speaker 1: Forget That Quick Hold on Spas My Bad Spas? Produced
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  Speaker 1: by the late Great Jay Diller, Dope record vintage Buster Rhyme,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the Buster. I like this Buster, right. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like coke flipping and bubbling and all that street
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  Speaker 1: Talkbuster unless it's mixed with this old Buster. But this
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  Speaker 1: is the Buster Rhymes. I like dope beats. Jay Dillard.
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  Speaker 1: There's like three beats on this one song, so it's
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of beat flips. And when I heard it,
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  Speaker 1: because he teased it on Instagram, a couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: even one time with Jay Diller's mom's mom Duke's checking
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  Speaker 1: it out and head nodding, and I was right there
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  Speaker 1: with it. I was like, Yeah, this is the Buster.
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  Speaker 1: I want to head. This the Buster and Dila. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know, back in the days, Buster and
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  Speaker 1: J Dilla had an album called Diligence, right, Buster rhymes
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  Speaker 1: all the production being handled by Jay Diller. Well, this
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  Speaker 1: is a sequel and the album's coming out soon. Diligence
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  Speaker 1: too is the name of it. And when I heard
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  Speaker 1: the single, because I was listening today in the gym,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, man, I miss j production style right like,
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  Speaker 1: I find that. And this is not a knock on anybody,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously they're songs that I like that are new
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  Speaker 1: and albums I like that are new. But there was
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  Speaker 1: something about J Diller's craftsmanship when it came to him
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  Speaker 1: making beats, and you know what that is, something very simple, unpredictable.
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  Speaker 1: You just didn't know what you were going to hear,
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  Speaker 1: so you just had to wait, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And it's never simple with him, It's never simple. And
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  Speaker 1: if you listen to this new Buster singlespass, you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm already hype off the first beat that's playing. Then
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  Speaker 1: when the switch beats, I'm like, oh, this one's cool too.
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  Speaker 1: I like this. And then it was a third and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, okay, now now this is highly
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  Speaker 1: anticipated for me. If this album can sound any like
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  Speaker 1: anything like this all the way through, it doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to be the same thing, doesn't have to be the
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  Speaker 1: same vibes, because we know Jay Dillar, that's just not
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  Speaker 1: his style to repeat over and over again. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited. I'm not gonna lie. I'm really excited for
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  Speaker 1: this project. And truth be told, I haven't been excited
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  Speaker 1: for Buster's projects in a minute because the last few
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  Speaker 1: have kind of been letdowns. Right. He did that one
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  Speaker 1: joint where what was it, Blockbuster and he tried to
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  Speaker 1: appeal to the to the youngins, and it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, yeah, I don't know about this, and then
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  Speaker 1: he tried to double back and be like the Buster,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Dragon's here, and it was kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was better than that album, clearly, but
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  Speaker 1: it still was lackluster to me, and I was just like, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe Buster just doesn't have that effect on us anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the last time was probably you know, It's
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  Speaker 1: extinction level event two where it was like, man, this
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  Speaker 1: Bust album is incredible. That was really the last time
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  Speaker 1: I felt like that. Chris Rock thousands of skits aside.
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  Speaker 1: I wish they would release a version just with one
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  Speaker 1: of those, not the hundreds that appeared. But nevertheless, this
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  Speaker 1: is probably the first Buster album since that one that
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  Speaker 1: I could find myself like truly excited for because I
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  Speaker 1: know Dyla did every track and it's kind of reflex
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  Speaker 1: when you think about, you know, all the MC's and
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  Speaker 1: producer pairings that have happened, Nas and Premier, who else,
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  Speaker 1: Q Tip and l Corrupt and Battlecat like what Pete
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  Speaker 1: Rock and Common like. There's so many right that Clips
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  Speaker 1: and Pharreal getting back, There's so many that's been really
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  Speaker 1: dope where you know one producer and the rapper and
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  Speaker 1: that sit and Buster has the ace, he has a
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  Speaker 1: whole album just all J Dillon. That's about the drop.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait. Let us know what you think. Do
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  Speaker 1: you like the new single spass Buster Rahms, produced by
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  Speaker 1: Jay Dillar? Are you anticipating this album as much as
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  Speaker 1: I am? Leave your comments in a comments section below.
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  Speaker 1: Next So I'm a hip hop fan. I'm a hip
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  Speaker 1: hop head. Day one, I've been in Park Jams. I
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  Speaker 1: was a little kid, but I was there right New
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  Speaker 1: York City, hey day prom grew up in the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: You already know how y'all loved the nineties. Man, I
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  Speaker 1: was active. Me and my friends were outside around this time,
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  Speaker 1: and we were spending a round the time. So we
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  Speaker 1: was in them the real ciphers where you know you
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  Speaker 1: ain't really saying nothing. People get quiet while you rap.
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  Speaker 1: While you rap it, you know you don't hear no
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  Speaker 1: or you don't see no serious head nod. So we
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  Speaker 1: was outside. So when it comes to hip hop, I
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  Speaker 1: know it through and through, you know, just growing up
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  Speaker 1: as a as a part of it. And a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, Rock Him the God. He was the
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  Speaker 1: only one I would call to God when people was
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  Speaker 1: calling jay Z Hovah, I was like, nah, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: doing that. Now I do because it's kind of like, man,
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  Speaker 1: the man has had a career, so he deserves that.
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  Speaker 1: But the God. Everybody know who the god is jay
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  Speaker 1: Z No, Noa's no, they all know it's rock Him, right.
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  Speaker 1: And a couple of years ago, he released his autobiography
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  Speaker 1: which if you're watching on video, like behind that next hat,
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  Speaker 1: it's sitting right there, you can see the you can
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  Speaker 1: see the ra the rock whatever, you can see his name. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but I was like, oh, this is a rock him
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  Speaker 1: has a book because at one point, for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: Rockkim really didn't do any interviews, so you just didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear from him. And I would always check for his music,
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  Speaker 1: but the one knock I always had on the later music,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't release that much. I think Seventh Seal
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  Speaker 1: was after he or before he released the book, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: And what I didn't like about that album was I
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  Speaker 1: felt like the beats weren't good, so you couldn't really
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  Speaker 1: hone in on Rockim's lyrics and say this was dope.
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  Speaker 1: Like sometimes it's tough to do that. Somebody like prime example, right,
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  Speaker 1: Nas Nostra Damas at one point and probably still considered
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  Speaker 1: to be his worst album. Right, I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: his worst album now, I think not serious I said it.
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  Speaker 1: But the one thing I always used to say about
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  Speaker 1: Nostra Damas is I didn't really like those beats and
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  Speaker 1: I really didn't like some of those hooks. But Nas
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  Speaker 1: didn't miss a beat with the bars. If you're just
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  Speaker 1: listening to his versus, there's nothing whack about that on Nostradamus, right,
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  Speaker 1: But I felt like with Rod Kim, considering his style
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  Speaker 1: finally became old that he needed better beats than what
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  Speaker 1: I was hearing on the seventh Seal. So even though
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  Speaker 1: I always check for him, I just was never optimistic.
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  Speaker 1: And then he you know, the book came out, and
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  Speaker 1: when I read the book, you know, I gave it
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  Speaker 1: a glowing review because I felt like, Yo, if you're
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  Speaker 1: an MC, you have to read this book. If you
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  Speaker 1: care about lyrics, you have to read this book. Because
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  Speaker 1: what he does in the book is obviously he gives
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  Speaker 1: you his thoughts and his reasons and all virgins of
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  Speaker 1: his style and why he wrote certain songs and what
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  Speaker 1: he was thinking. But it's like a real breakdown of
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  Speaker 1: some of his verses on songs that I was kind
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  Speaker 1: of met on. And when I'm reading it and hearing
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  Speaker 1: him explain it, and then I go back and listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, still a technician with it. So fast forward,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he drops that they said, oh, Rockim got
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  Speaker 1: a new album, But it was like that compilation thing
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  Speaker 1: where he was on it, but it was a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other people on it, And again, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: at least a majority of the beasts were lackluster and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a true rock Him solo. So I just
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  Speaker 1: felt like four years besides that book, rock Him content
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  Speaker 1: was always a letdown for me. You know, it just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't hitting the way it used to. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about Eric being rock Cam. I'm talking about when
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  Speaker 1: he started his solo run, right, at least those two
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  Speaker 1: albums that he had, it's been a long time that
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  Speaker 1: the one I think that's the name of that one,
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  Speaker 1: and then the master Right, like those two of the
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  Speaker 1: last times the beats and the bars matched. Fast forward,
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  Speaker 1: rock Him says he has a true solo album coming
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  Speaker 1: out along with the album with Corrupt and Masterkiller, and
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  Speaker 1: that's just a whole different vibe, but like a true
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  Speaker 1: solo album coming out. And then he dropped the first single,
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  Speaker 1: what is It Different? Kind a different kind? And I
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  Speaker 1: saw the video first. So I'm watching the video and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, well, this is a better beat for
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  Speaker 1: sure than he's had in a while. And then I'm
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  Speaker 1: listening to the lyrics and it's a thing that's similar
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  Speaker 1: to a Z right. Rock Kim has a very specific
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  Speaker 1: flow that's not really going to give you many peaks
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  Speaker 1: and valleys and changes, and it doesn't really switch up.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of like he's doing what he wrote.
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  Speaker 1: But even though this beat is a better beat, do
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  Speaker 1: they match? And there were times where it felt like
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  Speaker 1: rock Keim was just going and the beat was just happening.
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  Speaker 1: So I really wasn't invested. I was like, well, this
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  Speaker 1: is better than before. I could give it that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not disappointed, but it's just okay, right. And where I
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  Speaker 1: felt like I slept on it was because I kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just like y'all right, all this new music drops,
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  Speaker 1: you like, listen to it real quick. You either add
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  Speaker 1: it to your playlist or keep it moving. And I
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  Speaker 1: felt like, damn, I got to give to God another chance.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really listen to his lyrics like that, like
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  Speaker 1: what he was doing, what he was setting up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And it made me think about that book and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, all right, let me double back, put the
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  Speaker 1: headphones on, right my sony m force real ones, know,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, let me just listen to to
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  Speaker 1: the bars. And when I listen to the bars, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I slept the veteran god, first ballot
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. He putting the words together, and I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't paying attention because I was looking for all. I
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  Speaker 1: was looking for stuff instead of just listening. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: that happens, right, Sometimes you just listening for something to
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  Speaker 1: be hot. And when I listen to the bars, and
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  Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I'm not telling you you can
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  Speaker 1: go press play and you're gonna be like, Yo, this
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest thing I've ever heard of my life. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is he still
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  Speaker 1: has it. And I just feel like, even though this
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  Speaker 1: is a better beat, I think it needs. This album
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  Speaker 1: from him has to be produced. And when I say that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about give rock Kim all the
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  Speaker 1: dopest beats. I'm saying, Yo, douce it. Make sure he's
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  Speaker 1: in pocket at all times, even if he's just going
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  Speaker 1: make the beat, put him in pocket. Right, you can
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  Speaker 1: do that. It's not impossible because what he's saying and
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  Speaker 1: how he you know, again reading the book, knowing how
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  Speaker 1: he thinks when he writes his rhyms, I kind of
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  Speaker 1: had to listen with that air, and when I listen
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  Speaker 1: with that ear, I'm like, hmm, he's opening bars the
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  Speaker 1: in hell I'm o Cyris, like all those lines that
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  Speaker 1: I kind of just missed, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And I know on the internet, everybody's his story in
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  Speaker 1: everybody knows everything. Everybody had every album right, everybody caught
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  Speaker 1: everything first. I'm a human, okay, So for me, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I catch it, sometimes I don't. Sometimes you may point
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  Speaker 1: it out to me and I'm like, oh word, I
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  Speaker 1: don't hear that. But this was me really like, let
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  Speaker 1: me get to God another chance, and I'm glad I did.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm obviously going to approach his new solo album
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  Speaker 1: whenever it drops with that in mind. You know, rock
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  Speaker 1: Kim is a technician. He basically fathered technique in this
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  Speaker 1: way right because we know KRS and g rap and
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  Speaker 1: Kine all influenced a certain style of rapping that influenced
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  Speaker 1: a lot of rappers you love today. So what do
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  Speaker 1: you think about rock Him's new single? You like it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like it's okay even if you catch
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  Speaker 1: in the bars? Leave your comments in a comments section below.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, I did a video a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a month or so ago, that was the best
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  Speaker 1: hip hop albums and mixtapes of twenty twenty six so far, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I did mention how even though there's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of albums that have been released, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: been a slow year for bangers. Last excuse me, last
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  Speaker 1: year was totally different, right, It felt slow, and then
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  Speaker 1: the clips dropped, and then Massiveppeal was dropping all these
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  Speaker 1: dope albums, and there were other people dropping dope albums
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  Speaker 1: in between. So it just felt like there was so
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  Speaker 1: much music that you could assure somebody be like, no,
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  Speaker 1: trust me, this is hot. Right, some of those albums
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  Speaker 1: I'm still listening to. But twenty twenty six it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of been different, you know. It felt like we came
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  Speaker 1: down a notch from those highs, but there still were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of dope albums released. In July. I saw
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  Speaker 1: a number of albums where I'm like, this is a
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  Speaker 1: nice crop. So here are are, in my opinion, the
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  Speaker 1: best hip hop albums and mixtapes of July twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just gonna run through them quick. I can't
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  Speaker 1: say too much because it's too many of them. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: First up, starting off with the homie what Up Vern,
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  Speaker 1: He has an EP called just Because I was able
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  Speaker 1: to listen to it a few days ago, and production, vibe, bars, storytelling, concepts,
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  Speaker 1: everything you want from a project from a hip hop artist,
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  Speaker 1: and probably for me at least more important than that.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those albums you could ride to, or
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  Speaker 1: one of those EPs you could ride to. Because the sound, right,
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  Speaker 1: the sound is just really chill but still hardcore. Here
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  Speaker 1: lush sound in here, vibes sounding there and again. When
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  Speaker 1: an artist can talk about lyrics and I mean not
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  Speaker 1: talk about lyrics but have bars, but also have concepts
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  Speaker 1: and have some storytelling, it just makes for a more
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  Speaker 1: complete project. So check that out. I said I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk a lot, and here I go talking a
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  Speaker 1: lot about one Rick Ross set in Stone. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care what fifty say, I don't care what you say.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what the one dude on TikTok said, Man,
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  Speaker 1: you ain't growing nigga. You don't know me. But I
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  Speaker 1: felt like, and I reviewed it here, that this was
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  Speaker 1: a good album. Now is this an album that should
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  Speaker 1: be at the top of the charts. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: So Rick Ross ain't doing nothing different, right, but if
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  Speaker 1: you like it, you like it. You know, if you
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  Speaker 1: like Minx in Miami. There isn't much on there like that,
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  Speaker 1: but there was enough on it for me to like it.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: So Rick Ross set in Stone Rooms Street, Socket to
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  Speaker 1: My Pocket, very dope project. A lot of people already
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: have it as a top five of the year, So
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: check that joint out because he has this new situation
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: with mass appeals. So Gang Green, Alchemists and oh No
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: better than McDonald's. I just like this because this is
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: just this is just hip hop, right, it's just hip hop.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: You know what I said about j Diller earlier, unpredictable beats.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That's that's kind of what Alchemist is providing here. Rom
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and wise, it's kind of what you expect from Gang Green.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: But also similar to what I said in a past
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: episode about Blue and Exile, I feel like when it
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: comes to Alchemists and oh No, they don't have a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: weak project together. They don't. And this is more proof
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: so Nim's and Ron Brown's I should Boom You too.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Now you already know if you watch my best of
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the Year so far, I should Boom You their first
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: project is already in my Best of the year just
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: boom Back Bars, Brooklyn Harlem. You know what I'm saying,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: humor dope, but this is just more of that, to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: be honest, And I'll say this for those people who
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: may have liked the first one, the second one has some,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you know, some different vibes on it. It ain't all
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: boom Back, but a lot of those songs that sound
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: like they could be dance records, they're really just the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: type of music that kind of runs New York City
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: right now. And the next one to check and when
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you look at the cover of this album, they're holding trophies.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: So it's a real New York vibe. And when we
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: say New York vibe, we're not only talking about the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: nineties because it's not the nineties anymore. Okay, snap out
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of it. But that opening song talk check it out, Okay,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Apollo Brown, No Pressure, No Diamond. This is an instrumental
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: album by Apollo Brown, dope producer that's been around for
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a long time work with a number of notable artists.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Had a classic to me with oc called Trophies. But
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: this instrumental album is similar to what I said about
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: what a vern it's just you can you man, you
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: gotta drive. Like I was driving into New York City
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the other day, I just put it on. It was sunny,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: windows down. I don't have no phantom or nothing like that,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: but you know how to go. When you listen to
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: something good, you driving, You got some gas in the tank,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: maybe a little money in your pocket. Soundtracks, this is good.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And honestly, this is good enough to possibly make my
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Best of the Year because I like it that much.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So we'll see another. One that's probably gonna squeak into
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: my best of the year is Corrupt and DJ Battlecat
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: tels from my hood. This is quintessential West Coast hip hop.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And when I say that, I'm not talking about new stuff.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about what we've known since the nineties. Like
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that vibe Corrupt, it's healthy, he's back, he cares about
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: making songs and stuff like that. And Battlecat gives him
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the perfect soundtrack for this album. It's so West Coast.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's not gn X, West Coast g and X is
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: more like New West Coast Sam. This is more like
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: old school. A lot of funk beats, you know what
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Just a very specific vibe and I like it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I play it a lot, so like right now, it's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: in my heavy rotation. You know, it's just a perfect
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: combination between me playing something like I Will Boom You,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: which is like straight up New York, and then this,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: so it's perfect, you know what I'm saying. For the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: old heads, I'm loving them. And lastly, the last one
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I have is Onyx. It all started in Brooklyn. Yes,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Onyx is from Brooklyn. We know they say south Side
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Jamaica Queen's Mother. Yeah, that's where they kind of came up.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: But like the album says, it all started in Brooklyn, right,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: A lot of people be sleeping on Onyx projects, a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: lot of people will be sleeping on Fredro's beats. Onyx
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: has a bunch of albums. For some people, it stopped
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: with that shut them down joint because remember the shout
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: out to Onyx. They had three straight bangers in a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: row as far as albums, and then I think people
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: stopped listening. And you know, I myself was like in
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and out with some of their albums. You know, one
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: minute I check out an album, I'm like that's cool.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Then I'll miss like three other albums that drop. Then
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I see another one. So I saw this was coming out,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and you know they had work Brooklyn, so I had
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to pull up like, oh, what you're talking about and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it's dope. It's a dope project. So there you have it.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the best album slash mixtapes of twenty twenty six.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I mean of July twenty twenty six, or any of
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: those albums in your rotation. Let me know in a
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