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See Yalls Nerds · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast. Hip hop was
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  number one in twenty twenty three, but do sales equal quality or popularity?
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  The tenth anniversary of Isaiah Rashad's debut, Sylvia's Demo needs to be discussed,
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  and Bennie the Butcher calls fans, nerds and declass his new album will be
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  the best death jam album since DMX's debute. We have to talk about this.
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  Let's do it. Welcome to Jim Hoop Now Podcasts. Did you from
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  What up y'all? I am your host Vegas and this is hip Hop Now
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  Podcasts, a podcast specifically designed for you to stay caught up on all things
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  hip hop, music and culture that happened throughout the week. It's twenty twenty
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  four. If you missed it, I did a whole show that was a
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  preview twenty twenty four, mainly about what albums I expect, what albums may
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  happen, and what albums I wish would happen. And no Detox is not
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  on it. I've moved on. Finally, Dre is never going to Dre's
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  sitting on so many projects and albums because he doesn't deem them perfect that we're
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  just missing out. And I get it. I get it, Dre.
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  If it ain't perfect, it ain't right. And for a man who maybe
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  that after Man Presents was his weakest album, everything else has been gold.
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  So I get it. I get it. And when I say that,
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  I'm talking about the Chronic Chronic two thousand and one as well as the Compton
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  album. That Compton album, like Yo, the sound quality, it was
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  a good album, you know in general. But man, if you got
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  a good system or in your car, in your house, you know,
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  just something where headphones, something where you can get all the intricacies in the
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  sound out through your this is audiophile talk through your speakers or whatever you're using
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  headphones, You have a greater appreciation for what he means when he does perfection.
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  and a couple of places where I get some of these stories from Let's
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  get right into the business. Say, hip hop was number one in twenty
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  twenty three, But like I said in the intro, if you're listening to
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  audio version, what does that mean? Right? So this article comes from
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  hip hop DX. Hip Hop ranked number one genre of twenty twenty three despite
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  slow sales start. So I'm gonna read a couple of lines for y'all.
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  Then you have to go and support hip hop DX. Read the whole article.
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  Hip Hop may have had a slow start in the commercial space in twenty
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  twenty three, but yeah end reports indicate that it's still reigned supreme upon ross
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  in the finish line. On Wednesday, January tenth, chart Data shared that
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  R and B slash hip hop was the number one genre in the US in
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  twenty twenty three, with two hundred and seventy seven point twenty seven million total
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  album equivalents sold. That's twenty five point three percent of the market. And
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  then for those you know who don't want to do the math, it's spread
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  amongst the other genres of music like country and rock and all that stuff,
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  right, but hip hop dominates with the line's share of that. Now,
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  what's interesting about this? And I should probably follow chart data on Twitter.
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  That's just me. What's interesting about this is there was a conversation in twenty
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  twenty three about the performance of hip hop right, why records aren't really selling
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  like they used to. That's not really news, right because I think streaming
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  services and especially now when you have retailers like Best Buy, Target deciding,
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  you know, physical media isn't it anymore, because it isn't right when new
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  albums drop, no one's no one's driving well two we all, but no
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  one's really driving to their local record store if they still exist in your area,
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  or we're not counting vinyl that's a whole different thing. Or going to
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  you know, the local Target or Walmart to be like, yo, I
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  gotta go get I heard you know, Benny the Butcher new albums out,
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  Let me go get it. That's not a thing anymore. It's unfortunate,
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  but it's not what happens. Right. The music enthusiasts for the most part,
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  and the fans, we either stay up for the release at midnight so
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  that we could hear it and then go and tweet about it and all that,
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  or like me, if you're an old man, like I listened to
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  it in the morning when I'm in a gym, because that's what I do.
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  But never do I sit here and say, yo, I gotta go
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  pick that up because why because it's just super convenient, right, Like it's
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  already the album's already loaded here. It's the same thing with video games.
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  Right. We used to go midnight madness, Oh new Madden's out, Go
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  wait online and get it. Do that No more. I pre order it
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  in advance, it downloads at midnight. I feel like checking it out at
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  night, I do. If not, I wait in the morning, it
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  already have it, right, Like jay Z said on one of his songs,
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  I'm already home. Okay. So in a lot of ways, the
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  way we consume new music and music in general, and it's kind of like
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  the gift and a curse. But it has changed. And what makes it
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  the gift for a music fan like myself is I get to listen to more
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  than I would have back in the day where I had twenty dollars and I
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  came here to buy two albums, and for the most part, I couldn't
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  listen to all the ones I was interested in. I almost had to know
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  what I wanted or be curious enough to go and buy it right to check
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  it out. Now you can sample everything. You can decide I'm gonna just
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  stream it. You can decide I'm gonna buy it from iTunes or whoever.
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  But it's just a different world. And I think when you think look at
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  these numbers, hip hop is within every genre for the most part. Right,
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  It's influences all over the place. That's why they clump, especially more
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  than ever now, that's why they clump R and B and hip hop together
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  because I mean a lot of these singers, they damn their rapid. To
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  be honest, they're not really singing singing right, you don't get enough ballots
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  to show their skill in their genre of music, which is closely related to
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  soul music than anything. It's more like hip hop and it's it's in everything.
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  So it makes sense. But the question is is it the number one
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  genre because of quality or popularity? I think it's the latter, as much
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  as we may feel like there are artists who completely release nothing but quality music
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  all the time. Now, I'm not just talking about an older generation,
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  but I'm talking about a younger generation. Even Cats who's been in the game
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  for like ten years, or whatever. They do not add up to the
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  majority of music that's getting released that's making this popular, making this art film
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  popular. A lot of it it is artists who some of y'all don't like.
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  You know what I'm saying, It's all of them. It's that whole
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  fact that the conversation around hip hop is stronger than the music itself when you
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  look at you know, all of it. And that's a problem for a
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  music fan like myself because I like quality, you know what I'm saying.
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  I like catchy stuff, and you know, there are a couple of things
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  I rock with because I'm like y'all, I like it. It's cool,
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  right doesn't have to be barking, music, doesn't have to be boom back.
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  But if it's cool, I like it right now. That doesn't mean
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  I'm as invested in your music as I was with a Nas or jay Z
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  you know, or Big or Pok or people like that who generally released quality
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  music. Right most death Cougi rap, you know. And I know there
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  would be a debate on Okay, well, yeah, it's popular, but
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  it's popular because it's good. No, it's not not in every case because
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  I will literally watch people on social media defend and artists by using their finances
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  or their popularity right or record sales, And that was always a thing.
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  They never really quote the music and what they're doing with the music. They
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  only defend yo it's lit, or they only defend the finances and the popularity
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  of it. But quality music can get you both of that at and both
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  of those things anyway, right now, I'm trying not to be biased,
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  but I know Kendrick is my guy. He's able to be popular and make
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  money and still have in tech within the art he creates. Now not many
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  people get that nowadays, and and I dig it. But that's a great
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  example of there was a time where you made money and you were just as
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  popular because your music was good and it was thoughtful. Talking about what you
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  bought that ain't really original, I mean it's not. But maybe if you
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  do it in a unique way, it's dope. But a lot of y'all
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  are not doing it. Yeah, yeah, there's no uniqueness to what you
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  do. You say what everybody else is saying, talking about your vagina.
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  Because it's a family show, we're gonna say, but John, we're gonna
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  go with that as your basis for who you are and why you're dope.
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  Come on, man, who who were impressed by that? Virgins? Maybe
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  maybe not even in so you see what I'm saying, Like, there has
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  to be more than just popularity. Now, it's dope that hip hop is
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  as popular as it is. But this debate is not gonna go anywhere because
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  music lovers from decades of music of different genres know when they see quality work.
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  Just look at Tea Paine and his covers posted that Covers album months ago,
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  nobody said nothing. I told you how he was sanging, came out
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  with a live version, did some videos, and now you're like, oh,
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  keep paying and sing without the Come on, Jack, let's let's just
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  move on to the next topic. The tenth anniversary of Isaiah Rashad's debut Sylvia's
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  Demo happens right here in twenty twenty four. If you from twenty twenty five
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  and you're watching this and it's mad, old, get your ass out of
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  here. You already know, man, you already know. Okay, But
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  two things about the tenth anniversary of this project or this debut and why I
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  chose to point it out. I don't hear enough about this brother Isaiah was
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  shot. He's nice with it on the mic. He puts out quality work.
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  We talked about quality, right, but he just doesn't get enough love
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  in my opinion, right, Like, there are a number of people who
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  are here being talked about all the time who are also nice, who I
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  don't know lyrically, they just not as thoughtful about what they write and say
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  or personal, well, let me not say personal. Maybe it's personal to
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  them. I feel like Isaiah Rashad is a very dope EMC. When I
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  first heard this debut, you know, I was, I was excited.
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  I was extra excited when he signed to TDE because I was like, Yo,
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  that's where he that's where he belonged. Right, it fits, it
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  makes sense, it works, But I gotta, I gotta, I gotta
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  keep it a buck. Sylvia's Demo is a very dope album by Isaiah Rashad,
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  and if you haven't heard it, you should check it out. It's
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  it's a throwback to the times where albums were albums. They were experiences.
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  They weren't a collection of singles, they were experiences, right, intro,
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  interludes, things, themes tying together, you know, to make one whole
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  thing just all of that good stuff right where you walk away. I like
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  this cat right potent. The music is potent. Okay, the beats on
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  that joint were dope. But I think the reason why most hip hop heads
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  that at least those around me that I know, don't really talk about him
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  like that or no of him, but you know they're kind of like that,
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  it's because I don't think his TD releases ever really lived up to the
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  status that Sylvia's demo set or as far as the expectations, because I know,
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  for me, I was like, yes, he's on it, he
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  got the debut, it's about the it's about to go down, and I
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  liked it, but it just didn't feel the same, and you know what
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  it felt like it don't get me wrong, his follow up, his first
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  album on TV was pretty dope, right. I don't think Sylvia's demo was
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  on TDE when it was released originally, so I don't know, correct me
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  if I'm wrong. But follow up, well, I think it was called
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  Rising Tirade or something like that. I do own it. I just hadn't
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  listened to it in a while. That just forget me. I'm just gonna
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  look through my less record look real quick the Sun's tirade I had it right.
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  I just felt like something was missing and I liked it. But it's
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  a lot like when I first heard j Cole, or when I first knew
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  I really liked him, you know, versus when he signed with rock Nation
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  and he had a demo, right, I mean our demo, he had
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  his debut album. I felt like his mixtape run set a certain standard for
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  what that debut was going to be. He was on a label that made
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  sense for what I had heard on a mixtape, and the album was far
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  from who I knew that that cat to be the same thing with Big Crick
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  heard them mixtape joints, sign a depth gym, you like boom, he
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  got money now it's like to go crazy, and it did not because something
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  was missing. It is difficult for me to even describe what that is,
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  but I'm going to try. I think there's something to be said in certain
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  instances where you record this thing when you're hungry for that deal, when you're
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  hungry for that situation and you have something to prove, and sometimes when people
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  achieve that goal of landing that deal, getting that kind of respect from that
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  standpoint, now they don't have the same drive, so they're kind of searching
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  for that drive because the drive was to officially get stamped, and sometimes you
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  gotta drop a dud or not really live up to expectations in order for that
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  fire to come back. In some cases, I feel like with Big Crit
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  he back now. Every after he left Death Jam, I've liked every project,
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  including the EP he dropped in twenty twenty three. Late twenty twenty three
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  he fell back. Same thing with Jay Cole had that first album. I'm
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  like, Nah, something something ain't right. This ain't it. It's not
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  the guy no, and drop Boring Center and I was like, Okay,
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  I'm starting to ham him. And then he dropped his classic that I'm not
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  gonna name, but y'all know what it is for those who don't know,
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  twenty fourteen Forest Hill Drive. Okay, it's a classic. Stop it.
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  But he's back, right, j Cole's back. The dude from the mixtape
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  was back. So I I feel like with Isaiah Rashad, he hasn't gotten
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  to that point yet, Like he's kind of there, but he's not.
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  But maybe he evolved, but maybe he didn't necessarily have to evolve because he
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  was already evolved on the debut, right, Sylvia's demo, I already felt
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  like he was a mature artist, right, So I don't feel like,
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  oh, he matured more with these, and you know you don't like it
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  because he matured. No. I liked him because he sounded like he was
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  already mature on the debut, So give me more of that. And I
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  think it has more to do with the production choices than it does what he's
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  doing with his pen, because I feel like his pen hasn't changed that much.
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  I just feel like the production was just better on Sylvia's demo than me.
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  It just it showed it was more range. I'll just say that much.
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  It was more range in it, right, whereas now it feels more
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  polished when it doesn't need to be polished. Sometimes it's okay to maintain a
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  certain sound and stigma because it works for an artist. I always say this.
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  When I first heard Wu Tang, I didn't think anything about, oh,
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  this joint needs to be e cute, Oh it need to be mastered.
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  Oh we needed to know it was just grimy. We in a room
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  were making dope hip hop, were making gun sounds that don't even sound like
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  gun sounds on who cares? This joint is crazy? Sometimes it's okay to
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  just do that. That's all I'm saying, not that Isaiah Rashad needs to
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  do that, because I think what he needs to do is just find that
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  fire again. And I could be wrong. I mean he might be like
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  what fire? I am whatever, man, But as a fan, I
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  feel like it hasn't been the same since its debut. So if you haven't
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  heard it and you have a streaming service or whatever, you just straight by
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  music. I think if you like hip hop and you're not biased one way
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  or another, you should check out Isaiah Shad's Sylvia's Demo is a tenth year
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  anniversary. He also has a tour for this project and why because it's his
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  best project. Of course you have an anniversary of ten years, it's his
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  best joint. So we'll see what the follow up is after that. And
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  lastly, if you know me, then you know that my two favorite rappers,
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  as far as its just me picking too, but my two favorite rappers
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  where it's like when they releasing a project, I'm in. Like, even
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  if I'm not feeling the first single, two singles, I don't care.
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  I'm in it's Kendrick Lamar and Benny the Butcher, and Benny the Butcher has
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  been very vocal about his album leading up to its release. I think it's
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  called Everybody Can't Go, which I think is a dope title because it's true
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  everybody can go. But I don't think I've liked this campaign for his album.
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  I don't think it's necessary. I already think you're dope. A lot
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  of people already think you're dope. He originally was getting that blogs and you
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  know what he says, blogs, but I don't know the blogging ever is
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  over, so I guess he's talking about videos and stuff that content creators make,
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  right, that's what they call, not bloggers bloggers right or type but
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  that ever's done right. We know they're hip hop outlets that still do words
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  like hip hop d X, but that's not the point. It's not enough
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  of them to harm your legacy. But he, you know, he's had
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  words for them, you know, and doesn't like critics and stuff like that.
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  And I talked about my feelings on that, and I just think,
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  what do you mean once you put your art out into the world, no
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  matter if you're making a movie, did you drew a picture or whatever.
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  It's going to get critiqued. Stop acting like it was a different world at
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  some point, or a different world from where you come from for those who
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  are much older. But now, like it's like a week before I think
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  his album comes out, he already dropped two singles from which it wasn't it's
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  not whack. It just it just wasn't capturing the feeling for me. It
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  was cool. But yeah, but now he's released a third single. And
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  by the way, if I hadn't mentioned, he's working with hip Boy on
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  his joint, so you know, we're looking for some magic. And I
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  think the third single is exactly what I wanted, right. It's a song
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  called bron is straight up what you know from hip Boy and what you know
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  from Benny to Butcher joined is hot. Right, Album's on the way.
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  But then Benny the Butcher decided he was gonna do more talking. This is
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  what he said when blogs, and I quote because they mean when blogs post
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  ish like this, they'd be trying to get reaction out of y'all, and
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  y'all take debate because y'all love to banter on this app talking about Twitter.
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  I was speaking on creating a missing feeling in the deaf jam building. Can't
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  wait to drop my ish on you nerds who are gonna hate either way.
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  The Butcher coming now. He was responding to someone retweeting that quote from Benny
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  to Butcher. Here's the quote from Benny to Butcher. I'm gonna have the
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  best hip hop deaf jam album since DMX's debut album. The blogger or the
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  tweeter in this case, whose old head energy? I think I follow him?
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  I don't know. He said those are some big shoes to fill.
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  What did he say that was so wrong? Benny the Butcher. DMX debut
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  went platinum, then he dropped another album on Death Jam same year, in
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  nineteen ninety eight, that also went platinum in the same year as his debut.
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  Right, that's the difference. Tupac had two platinum marvels within this same
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  year. But Tupac I've already been around for years, right, so he
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  also had popularity on his side, whereas DMX had some instant popularity enough to
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  drop two albums within his debut year and have them both go platinum. Benny
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  de Butcher is not going to do that with one album. But that's not
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  why I listen. My thing is two things. This dude didn't say nothing.
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  Man, All he said is those are big that's a challenge. All
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  you got to say is I'm here to meet the challenge. That's you get
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  a lot more respect from that than getting sensitive and calling people nerds and trying
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  to, you know, go behind their words and say, well, he's
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  really trying to say, is this negative thing about me? No, those
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  are big shoes to fill. Right. What DMX did is it wasn't light
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  work. It wasn't It was a combination of a ton of things. Now,
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  what I'll say in your Deaf Jam debut, which feels weird because I
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  mean, damn, we already got a couple joints that I consider classes from
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  Benny the Butcher, and now you got a debut you already debuted. The
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  thing is with this is that name calling which you started. It's not gonna
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  get you more fans. You need more fans to even live up to the
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  quote that you just said. Now what you meant, Okay, I could
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  dig it. Maybe you feel like there's a certain energy that was around that
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  surrounded DMX's debut that you're gonna bring back to the deaf jam. My only
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  question to you, and maybe someone told you I don't know, but you
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  wasn't in the room to know what the climate was around it, you know,
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  around that time with DMX being out and being as hot as he was,
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  you really only know as a fan what the climate was for fans with
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  DMX. So my thing is will it be that for you? Because I
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  know for me, if the rest of the album is in the same lane
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  as his bronze song, well it's going to be another dope project from Benning
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  the Butcher. Because I will say this, I don't think the brother missed,
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  so I understand the confidence. But at the end of the day,
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  there's a difference between me and a bunch of dudes knowing you're dope and the
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  ladies also knowing you're dope, because, believe you me, there are a
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  number of ladies who don't even know who some of these cats are, but
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  they knew d Max was. There's a lot of variables that go into it.
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  Now again, I hate doing this, I hate saying this, but
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  sometimes it's better to say as little as you can. You may feel this
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  way, save it for the locker room talk. Don't tell the public because
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  there's some people who won't take your comments lightly right. They'll just hate on
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  everything you do for now. They'll turn up they hate. The hate that
• 30:30
  you say exists will be turned up, and there will be people who will
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  join the hate party versus those who are like, yeah, I could dig
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  it, let me see, let me listen. So I don't think this
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  person was trying to get out of me. He just said those are big
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  shoes to feel. And then Benny just was like, you nerds gonna hate
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  anyway. And I usually like stuff like that because it's the word, right,
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  Like these dudes aren't nerds, know what I'm saying. This one in
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  particular, there are nerds, like he was checking. He followed you for
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  a reason, dog, you like your music. So I don't know.
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  I just wish some of these rappers would stop paying so much attention, stop
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  being so sensitive about it that you type it, maybe tape it, you
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  know, look at it for a little while, like yeah, nerds,
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  and then delete it. Don't send it, don't post it, just type
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  it you know it felt good, or find a better way to say it.
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  Just say I think I could live up to the challenge and bounce because
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  you already know. Some of them Twitter cats are gonna do nothing but run
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  down and like or what do you mean? Or you can live up a
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  test you can hardly man ignore them. Just do what you do, man,
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  That's why that's why we liked you. Y'all was just doing what y'all
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  did. But the more you set yourself up for this kind of conversation around
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  your music, the vocal minority will be the loudest and it will feel like
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  it's everybody, but it's not. Some of us are just like, I'm
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  gonna just frestplay if it's dope. You know, I'm a rocket. You
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  know it's the best of the year. I'm gonna call it that, but
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  I'm gonna listen first. I'm not gonna judge it in advance like some people
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  will do, or like he's implying bloggers and nerds to, because I consider
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  myself a nerd. I got you know, I got lightsabers over there,
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  and I'll make me use them joints, you know. Whatever. What do
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  you think though? What do you think about Benny the Butcher's comments? Do
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  you think you could live up to the legacy of dmxa's debut album. Leave
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  your comments in a comment section below, what do you think about the other
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  stories I add, you know, like, what are your thoughts. I
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  do read the comments, I do respond, and I'm trying to get to
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  five hundred subscribers on YouTube. So if you're watching on YouTube, or you
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  never watch on YouTube, hit that subscribe button anyway, especially if you're like
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  it, hit that life button. Most importantly shared with people you know enjoy
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  this kind of content until next time, y'all. I'm not a critic,
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  I'm not a narrative. I'm a fan. Hey,