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Do You Want the Blog Era Back? · 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: Cameron accused of stealing the song and sort of agrees
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  Speaker 1: with it fifty cents. The Massacre celebrates the anniversary, but
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  Speaker 1: is it sophomore Jinks or dope album? And Hip Hop
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  Speaker 1: Dx asks whether j Cole, Whis Khalifa and others are
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  Speaker 1: restoring the feeling of the blog era. I hope so
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  Speaker 1: the blog ever was dope, But do we really need
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  Speaker 1: it back? I don't know, let's do it. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Jia Pop Now Pop Fat ask did you from the future?
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  Speaker 1: You know what to do? Show as out of my back.
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  Speaker 1: Don't disrespect the leg hip hop is said to day.
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  Speaker 1: That's get ray to the business. What up, y'all? I
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  Speaker 1: you're new, but because the initiative as of maybe twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, right the fifty year of hip hop building,
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  Speaker 1: the YouTube channel went from somewhere around one hundred two hundred,
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  Speaker 1: the same year, and then set a goal for five
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  Speaker 1: thousand but this year, and guess what, we've already hit it.
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  Speaker 1: So shout out to you, whether you've been here, whether
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  Speaker 1: the shorts, ip post big shout out to the people
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  Speaker 1: who post. I share right because that's what it's really about.
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  Speaker 1: I find dope things, hip hop related, funny things, quirky things,
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  Speaker 1: battle rap, whatever, and I share it as a short.
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  Speaker 1: So stay locked into that. Shout out to you if
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  Speaker 1: that's what you like. But there's more content on the way,
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  Speaker 1: and something in particular that should be dropping very soon
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  Speaker 1: and maybe dropping short of kind of around the time
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  Speaker 1: of this episode. If you're from the future, you already know. Man,
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  Speaker 1: come on with twenty episodes. They may get your inside.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Spoiling everything, but no. So recently,
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  Speaker 1: Smith and Wesson put out their latest album, entitled Infinity.
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  Speaker 1: I reviewed it on a episode of Hip Hop Now podcast.
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  Speaker 1: You could check that out if you want to know
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  Speaker 1: what I thought, But it got me to thinking, and
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  Speaker 1: one thing I said in the podcast was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you do a tear list of Smith and Wesson's catalog,
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  Speaker 1: because truth be told, I heard some albums and there
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  Speaker 1: were other albums I didn't hear, and thinking about Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Wesson's place in hip hop. While reviewing their new album,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I felt like I needed a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more context about their journey lyrically, spiritually, as men,
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  Speaker 1: musically and all of that. Now spoiler alert, my opinion
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  Speaker 1: doesn't change about the album, but my opinion really wasn't negative.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a good album, right, But there was
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  Speaker 1: a part of me that was so attached to The
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  Speaker 1: Shine and their debut album that it was making it
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  Speaker 1: difficult for me to even prepare to listen to a
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  Speaker 1: new album. Wow, I've already gone through all of the albums.
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  Speaker 1: It's about seven of them, and I have an episode
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  Speaker 1: a tearless a ranking of Smith and Western albums and
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  Speaker 1: if you know. I've done a couple of these over time,
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  Speaker 1: ghost Face, eminem Snoop, ray Kwon, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: Meth and Redman like these things. Doing these tearless are
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  Speaker 1: good for the simple fact that, you know, you really
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  Speaker 1: get to get a feel for a catalog instead of
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  Speaker 1: really just kind of sort of using your memory. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe you only remember like one or two songs from
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  Speaker 1: one album or never heard an album. So stay tuned
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  Speaker 1: for that on the channel right here. Subscribe for more.
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  Speaker 1: It should be good. And just for those who don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I like to make the category something related to the artists,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll much just give you a hand, big Brooklyn Staff.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do it. We will be Brooklyn Staff.
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  Speaker 1: I might put a hat on. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: I will put a hat, okay, but stay tuned for that.
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  Speaker 1: That will be exclusive to YouTube, because I think the
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  Speaker 1: visual plays more into the podcast episode and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure if it would be I don't know. If you
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  Speaker 1: listen on audio and you prefer, let me know, I
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  Speaker 1: can release it as an audio podcast, but I think
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  Speaker 1: visually you receive it better because you get to see
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  Speaker 1: the categories, get to see the album covers. Get to
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  Speaker 1: see me like a little bit on the screen. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll see but right now. Exclusive to YouTube, So if
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to an audio form, the link to the
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  Speaker 1: YouTube channel is always in the description of the episode
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to, so you can always get there and oh,
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  Speaker 1: let me check it out. Oh that's what he looked like.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff like that, all right, Big Shadow, Hip Hop, DX
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  Speaker 1: dot Com, Double XL mag A couple of places where
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting some of these stories from. Let's get right
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  Speaker 1: into the business. So if you have never heard of
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  Speaker 1: this cat, I you know, I'm not gonna hold you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but he comes from Terror Squad. Those who
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  Speaker 1: know Terror Squad was that just just go back a
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  Speaker 1: decade or so. It's not a little bit more. But
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  Speaker 1: Cuban Link, you know what I'm saying, part of the
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  Speaker 1: Terror Squad recently accused Cameron we'll stealing a song. Check
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  Speaker 1: out what's here. So this was on Cuban Link's YouTube
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  Speaker 1: show where he basically talked about how well he said
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  Speaker 1: Cam and Mace stole cam Ron's I guess that was
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  Speaker 1: his debut single, Horse and Carriage. It was a big
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  Speaker 1: single for him on his debut album, and and Cuban
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  Speaker 1: Liink accused them of stealing. So let's see what exactly
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  Speaker 1: was said? Okay, real quick, that was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: my single. The next thing I see is efin Horse
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  Speaker 1: and Carriage with Mace, Cam and f and Pun, which
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  Speaker 1: used the same reference as the hook, which originates from
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  Speaker 1: Desi Arnez in his Orchestra nineteen forty eight song Cuban Abby.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see, we might have missed something here in a
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  Speaker 1: recent episode. This is coming from Hip Hop d X
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  Speaker 1: dot Com. In a recent episode of his YouTube show,
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  Speaker 1: the Cuban Born rapper explained that he once put together
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  Speaker 1: a song, Oh that's what I see. That was a
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  Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy routine in the presence of Mace and sang
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  Speaker 1: him the hook. Ah, that's where it happens. So the
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  Speaker 1: story is that we wondered what Cam and Mace would
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  Speaker 1: have to say, and Cameron says this. He basically said,
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  Speaker 1: let me find the quote real quick, my bag, my
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  Speaker 1: bag yard. He actually addressed it on his YouTube series
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  Speaker 1: Talk with Flea and says neither he nor Mace directly
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  Speaker 1: stole the song, but Cuban Link may have a case.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what Cuban Link is talking about
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  Speaker 1: as far as Mace overhearing his hook and may steal
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  Speaker 1: in the hook. This is what I will tell Cuban
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  Speaker 1: Link though, if you sang your hook in front of
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  Speaker 1: Lance on Rivera, then you may have a case because
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  Speaker 1: Un came up with that hook'm Rivera is the one
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  Speaker 1: who came up saying he wanted to sing the Ricky
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  Speaker 1: Ricardo hook. If you ever sang that hook in front
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  Speaker 1: of Lance, you may have an argument. But Mace didn't
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  Speaker 1: come up with that hug. Interesting now, for those who
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Un, Rivera blanks and Rivera is the guy
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  Speaker 1: who signed Cameron along with Biggie. It was Biggie's business partner.
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  Speaker 1: It was big. It was what Biggie was working on
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  Speaker 1: was a side deal with UN to release artists, and
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  Speaker 1: Cameron was one of those first artists. Now we know
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  Speaker 1: that Un was stabbed apparently back in the day, allegedly
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  Speaker 1: because he was bootlegging Jay Z's album. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was the third Sean Carter's joint supposedly. Now I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that's the reason why we can go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: say undid it. And I think I think unpassed away.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know affirm that in the comments, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you this much. In the record industry, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: par for the court. It happens. Not that everybody's that
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  Speaker 1: way because obviously not. But they're stealing. Is stealing is
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  Speaker 1: not something that is foreign to the record industry. People
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  Speaker 1: done stole beats, rhymes, flows, hooks and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of times, like if you think of
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  Speaker 1: somebody like Cuban Lank Hats are so eager to create
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  Speaker 1: something dope and they're just in this creative space to
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  Speaker 1: share that. They don't think about this part of it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't think about the fact that you're working on that.
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  Speaker 1: But this guy could put that out quicker with these artists.
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  Speaker 1: And if Cam is saying UN came up with that hook,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, right, doesn't matter if Mace was there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he might have. Now Mace might have been like, ain't
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  Speaker 1: that the same hook that Cuban Link said. But again,
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  Speaker 1: the way that reckon the street works, you never know, right,
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  Speaker 1: like not saying that this happened or could have happened
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, but it's a possibility that you know, people
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  Speaker 1: can offer people money and they're not gonna offer you publishing, right,
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  Speaker 1: they offer you money first for certain things and ideas
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  Speaker 1: or credits or whatever. But you know, Cuban Link didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: so obviously that didn't happen, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently Cam and Mace didn't know either. It was
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  Speaker 1: a big hit for Cam as far as you know,
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of his career, but it's not and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Cuban Link said this, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying in general, it's not responsible for his success.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times people think, you know, if one
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  Speaker 1: thing was taken from another person, then they just took off. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be able to duplicate that and do more
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  Speaker 1: than just that. So whereas horse and Carriage, especially for
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  Speaker 1: us hip hop heads at the time, was something kind
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  Speaker 1: of stabb wasn't used to hearing from Cam Mace. We were,
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  Speaker 1: but Cam, as far as the beat and that kind
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  Speaker 1: of hook or whatever, they made it what it was.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Because it's not just the beat,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just the hook. Cam and Mace or let's
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  Speaker 1: just say Cam in particular did his job with the
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  Speaker 1: with the lyrics, so it's messed up if things definitely
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  Speaker 1: went down that way. And you know, if you think
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  Speaker 1: about it, it's just sort of like, you know, ideas
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  Speaker 1: like that, you gotta hop on them, get them out
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  Speaker 1: and take off with them because somebody else will run
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  Speaker 1: with it. It's sort of like the whole a Drake
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  Speaker 1: and the song what was the name of the song?
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  Speaker 1: Not zero to one hundred? Yeahs zero two one hundred?
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  Speaker 1: Where that was? You know that beat and Drake's feature
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be for a Diddy album. When it
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen, Drake just put to join out and did
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  Speaker 1: he new can't really do nothing with it now unless
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  Speaker 1: you want to do a remix with him. Can't do
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  Speaker 1: nothing with it now. That song belongs to Drake put
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  Speaker 1: it out eternally attached to him. So it is what
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  Speaker 1: it is, No pun intended, no unintended, and the big
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  Speaker 1: pun Cuban link. That's what whatever. Fifty recently celebrated a
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  Speaker 1: twenty years of his sophomore album, The Massacre, And there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of conversation around this album, and I'll just
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  Speaker 1: let you know my thoughts. The anticipation for a follow
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  Speaker 1: up to Get Rich or Die Trying was crazy. You
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  Speaker 1: know why, because Get Rich or Die Trying was huge
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  Speaker 1: for fifty cents. So when The Massacre was releasing, I
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  Speaker 1: should have known by the album because when I saw
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  Speaker 1: the album Cou, I was like, damn, this is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like same thing over but instead they like drew
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  Speaker 1: muscles on them, Like this is kind of weird for
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  Speaker 1: a follow up, but whatever, who knows what it's going
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  Speaker 1: to sound like. And then when I finally heard the album,
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  Speaker 1: I was highly disappointed because on Get Rich to Die Trying,
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  Speaker 1: they might not be any skips if so maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: one you know, I know for me the pimp joint
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  Speaker 1: and kind of get a little stale for me, but
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  Speaker 1: it still is the joint that you can let rock sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: And this album in particular, The Massacre was retreading a
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  Speaker 1: lot of familiar ground as far as the themes and
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  Speaker 1: the club hits, and like when I heard Candy Shop,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, man, this is this is so whacked
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  Speaker 1: to me? Like and it was whacked to me because
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  Speaker 1: it was clearly because Eminem was doing the same thing
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  Speaker 1: around this time. It was clearly like going back to
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  Speaker 1: the well to try to give you that same feeling
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  Speaker 1: you had in the club but in the club was different.
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  Speaker 1: Candy Shop was just sort of like, we're gonna try
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  Speaker 1: to get the same hits in and there were too
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  Speaker 1: many of those that didn't hit. That took away from
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  Speaker 1: the songs that did, right, Like what's the joint? Like
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Love Thing? I think that was the name of
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  Speaker 1: the track, like that, that track is crazy, Oh here
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  Speaker 1: we go, like I like in my hood, Right, Piggy
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  Speaker 1: Bank was a this song, so you know, that's always fun.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the other choice? Ski mass Waves thoughe a
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Love Thing was the record I was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And when you listen to this album, it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hit a miss, right, Like every time you get
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  Speaker 1: to a record that you like, you get a song
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  Speaker 1: like gat Man and Robin featured in eminem I could
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  Speaker 1: that was why, right, or Candy Shop records like that,
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  Speaker 1: or Disco Inferno, like why why is this here? You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And when you think about it, right,
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  Speaker 1: iify telling the story. The album could have been something
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  Speaker 1: totally different, could have been a great follow up because
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  Speaker 1: he basically gave a lot of records about the artists
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  Speaker 1: that could have appeared on this particular album. Right, like,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at some of the like, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the eminem joint could stay, but like Candy Shop
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  Speaker 1: and Disco Inferno, if you replace that with Magic Stick
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  Speaker 1: for Little Kim and just one of the joints he
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  Speaker 1: did with Game, this is a different album, let alone
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  Speaker 1: the other record that he had would a Game because
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  Speaker 1: I'm forgetting they hate it, I love it, and I
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  Speaker 1: forget the other one. But those two records were huge
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  Speaker 1: for the Game. But if they were on the Massacre
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  Speaker 1: forget about it, it just would have been like, Yo,
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  Speaker 1: this this album is crazy. It's a great follow up.
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  Speaker 1: So there are a lot of people who feel like
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  Speaker 1: I feel. But then there's a bunch of people who
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  Speaker 1: loved this album and they say, yeah, Candy Shop was
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  Speaker 1: kind of blah blah blah, but you know, I really
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  Speaker 1: mess with what's here. And I think it just comes
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  Speaker 1: down to all the stronger cuts on this album, strong
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  Speaker 1: enough to make you want to listen to the entire
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  Speaker 1: album and maybe skip the joints you don't like. For me,
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  Speaker 1: it was sort of like it was just too many
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  Speaker 1: to me that were like really bad. That just makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel like I just wish they were going from
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  Speaker 1: the album. Now, we live in a stream in society
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  Speaker 1: where you know, if you own the album, or you
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  Speaker 1: could take the Wax songs off and just rock we
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  Speaker 1: what's good. But that's not how it was released. So
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  Speaker 1: what do y'all feel about it when fifty dropped his
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  Speaker 1: My Bad Tis sophomore album, The Massacre? Or you hyped
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  Speaker 1: anticipating it or you satisfied when you got the album?
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel like I feel that there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of wack joints on there. Leave your comments in
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  Speaker 1: the comments, sex Low. I do read them, and I
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  Speaker 1: do respond and least so there's been a lot of
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: talk about the blog era hip hop, so much talk.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Tony from Into the Dome podcast. We
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  Speaker 1: do a podcast that it appears right here on this
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  Speaker 1: feed called Back Time in Hip Hop, and one of
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  Speaker 1: our recent episodes was about the blog era because it
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  Speaker 1: seems like people are getting nostalgic for It's so nostalgic
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  Speaker 1: for it that j Cole has a blog again and
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  Speaker 1: releases music on it, in particular the Joint Clouds. Now,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: yes it's on streaming services, but it's more about the delivery,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: which Khalifa wound up doing. The remix of that, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: there's all kinds of other things going on real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just go to hip Hop DX, where they
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  Speaker 1: say blog era back with a question mark. How J Cole,
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  Speaker 1: Whiskhalifa and others are restoring the feeling. So let's see.
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  Speaker 1: In recent months, a number of hip hop stars, from
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  Speaker 1: J Cole and whiz Khalifa to Big Sean and Chance
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  Speaker 1: of Rapper have quietly been helping to recapture the essence
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  Speaker 1: of one of the game's best loved periods, the blog era,
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  Speaker 1: to getting in the mid two thousands, this digital revolution
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  Speaker 1: redefined hip hop and breathe new life into the genre
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  Speaker 1: as Internet piracy was crippling the music industry at large.
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  Speaker 1: Pioneering websites like Noah Right, I Forgot About Not Right,
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  Speaker 1: Two Dope Boys, and on Smash wrestled power away from
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  Speaker 1: traditional gatekeepers such as radio stations, record labels, and magazines
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  Speaker 1: Spearhead and a new wave of online tastemakers that shook
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  Speaker 1: up the game. So I'm not gonna get too deep
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  Speaker 1: into this because it really kind of goes over the
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  Speaker 1: blog era, and I kind of wanted to see what
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  Speaker 1: they were going to say about what's happening now. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can check out the article on hip Hop d
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  Speaker 1: x dot com about this, but they essentially talk about
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  Speaker 1: what I just said. When you think about those names
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  Speaker 1: J Cole Chance to rapper with Khalifa, Big Sean. They
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  Speaker 1: were pivotal in the blog era, right, Like they got
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  Speaker 1: their name up. They put out some classic material, debatably
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  Speaker 1: better than what their major releases are. Depends on what
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  Speaker 1: you like and what you don't including also well contributors
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  Speaker 1: that also were included were like Lil Wayne and others. Right,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a dope time. But what I feel
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  Speaker 1: now is no, you can't really or the feeling of
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  Speaker 1: that error. You can be nostalgic for it with the
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  Speaker 1: song here and there, but it will never be what
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it was because of what they mentioned, right, that was
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: a specific point in time where that's where hip hop was,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that's where the music was, that was the business. That's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: what you should do right at the time, blog about
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: it post release music there, talk about it like this
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: really free way of doing things. But we know the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: blog eraror ended because it became more about record labels
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: doing some of those things right, and the lines blurred
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: between mixtapes and albums and now you couldn't just go
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and download the latest Jaco or whoever. I mean. Jaco
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: joints never really came to a price tag, but in
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: general it was just like you either buying it on
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: thatpif dot car or you gonna buy it from iTunes,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's just kind of ended with the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: piracy with everything else, like streaming services ended the blog
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: era in a lot of ways, and record labels did
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: also when it came to access, Like, for example, it
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: was just like, no more reason to check two Dope
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Poise to see what was new when you can just
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: open up your phone, Like if you have an iPhone
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and you go to Apple Music and they have a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: whole section of new releases and hip hop, and the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: things that you would have got exclusively exclusively on a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: mixtape are now right there on the streaming service. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: there was just no reason to visit these sites anymore.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I do like the idea of restoring the feeling because
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: truth be told, you know, look at the artists they
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: named and when they are now right, everybody's not whack,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: But they're so far removed from the time when it
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: was the blog era that it's nice to see them
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: go back a little bit. You know. It's kind of
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: like when people who are NAS fans wanted Illmatic too forever, right,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and Naz just wasn't going to comply. He may give
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you a song of two here and there that kind
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of restores that feeling. But I feel like it wasn't
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: until the album with him and Hip Boy Magic that
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I really felt like, oh, this kind of sounds like
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: old NAS, Like his old flow is in there a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: little bit, and the beats and the cover art was
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: old NAS. It was Illmatic NAS on the cover, right,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: not the album cover of Ellmatic, but a photo from
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that time when he made Ellmatic and it was released,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and that joint was like in the source or whatever
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: that picture. So that kind of restored the feelings. That's why,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Like there's some cats who wanted not to do that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: for decades, and they look at this hit boy Run
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: that's usually the favorite because that's that's the closest you
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: get to Illmatic, Esko knos right without going back and
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: listening to Illmatic or it was written and stuff like that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: So I don't mind them restoring the feeling from a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: blog era standpoint, I think out of the four named
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: chance the rapper is probably the one who should really
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: embrace it more because apparently, even though I liked his
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: second album, apparently there's a lot of fans who weren't
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: feeling it. And he hasn't dropped in a while. He
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: dropped singles here and then he can use a refresh,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a reset, you know, in order to remind people of
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: his contributions to the mixtape in the blog error. So
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: there you have it. Are you nostalgic for the blog error?
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Is this what you want from j Cole? You know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: go lead blose and get a little snippet of a
• 26:11
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• 26:40
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