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Go to Albums: Alchemist Edition · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So a little while back, I did you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think originally it was like a live stream of some
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  Speaker 1: of my go to albums, right, albums in my collection
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  Speaker 1: that I frequently go to and listen, say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's that time. But yeah, let me listen to this,
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  Speaker 1: let me listen to that. And I have a million
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  Speaker 1: of those, so I could keep doing that over and
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  Speaker 1: over because I have a music collection. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to brag in nothing like that because most of it
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  Speaker 1: is digital, but it's extensive because I like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of music and it's not all hip hop. But this
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  Speaker 1: is a hip hop show, keeping things in the realm
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  Speaker 1: of hip hop. We have a special version of go
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  Speaker 1: to hip Hop albums for you today, and that's albums
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  Speaker 1: by Alchemists. Now, quick caveat. I know some of y'all
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  Speaker 1: really only exists on the internet. So whatever the conversation is,
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  Speaker 1: that's all you ever talk about. I've been down with
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  Speaker 1: Alchemist music for a very long time. Alchemist is just
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  Speaker 1: not what he makes now. And he's definitely not only
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  Speaker 1: a person who collaborates and produces albums for artists like
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  Speaker 1: the Freddy Gibbs series or producing Currency or Boldie James,
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  Speaker 1: you know all these people. He Griselda, you know, Comway
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  Speaker 1: the Machine, Conway to the Machine really.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, like the and that could be a
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  Speaker 2: whole other list.
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  Speaker 1: There are whole albums that he's produced for artists that
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  Speaker 1: are pretty dope. But when I'm talking about here, it's
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  Speaker 1: more so Alchemists as a producer on display, and it's
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  Speaker 1: more like producer albums.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So there's albums he put out that are instrumental albums.
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  Speaker 1: There are albums that he put out that are more
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  Speaker 1: so like the typical I produced all these beats. I'm
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  Speaker 1: bringing all these rappers to rap over them. So here's
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  Speaker 1: five for me out of Alchemist's entire catalog.
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  Speaker 2: When I want to hear, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Alchemist beats, whether it's just instrumental or Alchemists showcasing his
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  Speaker 1: beats with a bunch dope rappers, I go to these five,
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  Speaker 1: starting right at the top. Two thousand and nine Chemical Warfare.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you can consider this like the first of
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  Speaker 1: a few, and I mean a very field because he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of turned it into something else now as far
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  Speaker 1: as when he produces. But few albums from like back
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  Speaker 1: in the days where you know, you had the DJ
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  Speaker 1: Klue album, The k Slave Rest in Peace, Folk Master
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  Speaker 1: Flex album, Pete Rock. You know what I'm saying, Like
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  Speaker 1: this was Alchemist's situation.
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  Speaker 2: Chemical Warfare was crazy, right.
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  Speaker 1: Dropped in two thousand and nine July seventh, of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and nine. Fifteen songs on here fifty five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not going to take up a.
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  Speaker 2: Bunch of time.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've never heard of this album, the features
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  Speaker 1: alone should make you go right to whatever streaming service
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  Speaker 1: you use, preferably purchase it. Support hip hop but Coogi
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  Speaker 1: raps on here, Snoop Snoop is on a dope song
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  Speaker 1: on here, so don't sleep, Prodigy of course, eminem Evidence,
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  Speaker 1: Blue tayl Lib, Kwali, three to six, Mafia, Maxwell, the
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  Speaker 1: singer Twister, Gang Green, which Alchemist has a pretty dope
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  Speaker 1: you know. That's that's like his group. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they got anything whack, to be honest, together what else
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  Speaker 1: is here? Fabulous is on here, Dog Pound. This album
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  Speaker 1: is stacked with features, and when I tell you the
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  Speaker 1: beats are crazy, the beats are crazy. And this is
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  Speaker 1: more of the Alchemists that used drums right, that had
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  Speaker 1: more of a variety, Like if you think about Alchemists
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  Speaker 1: producing for Mob Deep, that's the type of production that
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  Speaker 1: was on here. Not to say that I don't like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of what's out now, I'm just saying if
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  Speaker 1: you're coming here with expectations of Alfredom. Some of that
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  Speaker 1: vibe is here, but for the most part it's this
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  Speaker 1: was Alchemists when this is him in his prime, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak. So that's a dope project. Another one that's
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  Speaker 1: a compilation in the same regard released in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seven, so that there was something earlier. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of missing it because this is part three of
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  Speaker 1: the Cutting Room Floor, but part three, to me, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably the dopest out of this series of albums. I
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  Speaker 1: said Chemical Warfare was number one and nine, but I
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  Speaker 1: think I think these started like early two thousands, but
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  Speaker 1: Cutting Room Floor three has what it was about, like
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  Speaker 1: twenty six songs, I think because I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: this extra music is on the end of this. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I added as a why iTunes be dripping,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty minutes in length.
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  Speaker 1: Features include Nas Ray Kwan, Ray Kwan or two Joints,
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  Speaker 1: Havoc Mob, Deep Poogie Rap Again, Rick Ross and Meek
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  Speaker 1: Mill Blue is on here, component Noriega the Large Professor
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  Speaker 1: fifty Like if you ever heard Mechanic on the fifty
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  Speaker 1: cent Jane the mixtape Alchemists did that beat, It's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's a gun cocking on that joint.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy. I think I said evidence.
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  Speaker 1: The evidence is on here Action Bronson for Sean styles P.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, you.
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  Speaker 1: Heard the names, but more than the names, the beats
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  Speaker 1: are just crazy. Alchemist was in his bag in the
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  Speaker 1: early two thousands. You think he in his bag now
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  Speaker 1: in the early two thousands, you know, Alchemist was a
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  Speaker 1: force to be wrecked with and the production.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's go to a few others I have on here.
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  Speaker 1: Another one I have, and this one is strictly an
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  Speaker 1: instrumental album. It's a series called Rapper's Best Friend. It's
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  Speaker 1: called Rapper's Best Friend, an instrumental series by Alchemists. This
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  Speaker 1: is part five, and this is probably my favorite. There's
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  Speaker 1: twelve tracks on here, thirty six minutes dropped in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need no more than thirty six minutes of
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  Speaker 1: straight up instrumentals unless you're trying to sharpen your sword
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  Speaker 1: like the Woo would say that, which means you're practicing ryman. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: shopping your schward. You know what I'm saying. But nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: one of the joints on here that I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to.
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  Speaker 2: But when Benny the Butchers dropped ten to Talk two? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Is it Tennis two? I'm getting confused now I know
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  Speaker 1: there three of them. I think had to talk to
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  Speaker 1: Rubber Bands and Waits. I didn't realize it was on
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  Speaker 1: this mixtape because I mean this instrumental album, because I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't heard it in a while. So when I went back,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and that's what's kind of dope
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  Speaker 1: about hip hop instrumental albums, especially Alchemists and in Dyler too.
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  Speaker 1: But you find out, like if you heard a song
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  Speaker 1: that you liked on an Artists album and like the
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  Speaker 1: album's crazy, that song get is Crazy, beats crazy, and
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  Speaker 1: then you just happened to listen to one of these
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  Speaker 1: instrumental CDs and you're like, hey, Alchemists did that, that
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  Speaker 1: was on here first, and this album has a couple
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  Speaker 1: of them, including Imperious Wrecks off of Sean Price's album.
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  Speaker 1: It was the album well entitled Imperious Rex but it
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  Speaker 1: dropped after he passed away.
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  Speaker 2: I liked it a lot. I don't know if people disliked.
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  Speaker 1: It, but that song, the beat, with Sean Price's voice
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  Speaker 1: and lyrics, pure uncut boom bat like put it in
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  Speaker 1: my veins. Okay, don't put it in your veins. But
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  Speaker 1: it's metaphor. It's hip hop. It's a metaphor. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you like instrumental albums, Alchemists the series alone, Raper's
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  Speaker 1: Best Friend is dope, but part five is my favorite,
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  Speaker 1: just to you know, just to rock out too and
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  Speaker 1: listen another one for me. This is more of a
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  Speaker 1: showcase album, also featuring a couple of artists.
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  Speaker 2: This is closer to an EP than anything.
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  Speaker 1: But nevertheless, I just I kept it on repeat in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: That's yacht rock two. The vibes on this joint.
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  Speaker 1: This is like if you live in a place where
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  Speaker 1: the sun is out and it's nice weather like generally
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  Speaker 1: all the time, or you know it's summertime, you know
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  Speaker 1: New York, or if you own a home and you
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  Speaker 1: got a back yard, you're on the beach, whatever, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe you just want to feel transported. Maybe it's winter
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  Speaker 1: and the weather sucks, but you got these dope headphones
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  Speaker 1: that you can isolate the cold and the sounds outside
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  Speaker 1: of that, and it just kind of go to some
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  Speaker 1: of those destinations, those warmer destinations I mentioned. This is
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  Speaker 1: a very dope hip hop album production wise that feels
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  Speaker 1: like that also includes some dope records from Big Boy
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  Speaker 1: Action Bronson's on Head, Willie the Kid, Gang Green Again,
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  Speaker 1: Gang Green, I believe is on everything except for the
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  Speaker 1: instrumental album Boldie, James Rock, Marciano, Benny de Butcher, Conway,
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  Speaker 1: Big Twins. I like Big Twins rapping over Alchemist beats.
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  Speaker 1: With that voice, he just sounds dope. But I love
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  Speaker 1: this joint. I go back to this frequently, like I
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  Speaker 1: might listen today. That's what it's like, all right. And
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  Speaker 1: the last one on my list go to album from
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  Speaker 1: Alchemists another beat showcase. But also this one is like
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  Speaker 1: an instrumental album that also has rapping on it. It's
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  Speaker 1: almost like those different albums I named where you know,
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  Speaker 1: the instrumental album straight up instrumental, but then you had
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  Speaker 1: these other showcases. This is kind of like both and
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  Speaker 1: the same. So there's a lot of beats and instrumentals.
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  Speaker 1: I mean beats and instrumentals. I guess you can call
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  Speaker 1: them like vignettes or segues on interludes, but I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about like musically that weave in and out of beats, music, sounds,
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  Speaker 1: all these combinations of things and then a rap are
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  Speaker 1: just rapping out of no way.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, this is really good.
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  Speaker 1: And that album is Russian Roulette dropped in twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see thirty songs on here, but only forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The majority of this album is really like an experience.
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  Speaker 2: Alchemists ain't made an album like this since.
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion, features on here include some of the
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys you know, AG you know from
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  Speaker 1: show Business, AG, Evidence Rock, Marciano's on here, who else?
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  Speaker 1: Guilty Simpsons is on here for Sean And what I
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  Speaker 1: like about it do rag Dynasties on here? What I
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  Speaker 1: like about it is it just feels like an experience, right,
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  Speaker 1: like not, yo, let me go to this song and
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  Speaker 1: that song, skip this one. This It feels like you
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  Speaker 1: have to listen to it without skipping or else you're
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  Speaker 1: not getting the full experience of what he presented. And
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  Speaker 1: I just love the way it sounds, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. It sounds like artistry. It sounds like somebody
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  Speaker 1: who had a vision beyond the other albums, which are
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  Speaker 1: pretty dope, beyond you know, like yo, let me just
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  Speaker 1: take all these hot beats, get all my favorite rappers
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  Speaker 1: to rap over them and boom. It's dope, yes, But
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  Speaker 1: Russian Roulette is more like you're so engaged in the
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  Speaker 1: soundscape he's created musically that when somebody starts rapping, it's
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  Speaker 1: almost a bonus. And I know, back in the days,
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  Speaker 1: I used to feel like I don't even need the rapping,
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  Speaker 1: just let the beats rock. But they do add an
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  Speaker 1: element to it. And there's some people who really don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hear, you know, thirty minutes of just instrumentals,
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  Speaker 1: and I get it. But if you a hip hop
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  Speaker 1: head and you get into all the things I just mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: it's a perfect album to just check out ride to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, listen to the elements, listen to what he's
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  Speaker 1: doing here and presenting, and I think you enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: So those are my five go to albums from Alchemists,
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  Speaker 1: as I receive an email from Alchemists. Obviously, again, there
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  Speaker 1: are so many collaborations in his catalog, and maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'll do next. What are your top five Alchemist's
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  Speaker 1: albums where he displays his beats. It could be the
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