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Sweeps Week · 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: my thoughts on the new collaborative album from the Alchemist's
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  Speaker 1: Two Chains in Larry June Ou Tan Klan announces a
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  Speaker 1: brand new album for twenty twenty five, and Kendrick Lamar
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  Speaker 1: wins five Grammys for the disc record not Like Us,
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  Speaker 1: and he also reflects on the song in an exclusive interview.
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  Speaker 1: We probably still won't get the answers we're looking.
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  Speaker 2: For, but we'll get something. Let's do it. Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: jimp Hop Now Podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: If you from the future, you know what this do
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  Speaker 1: show ass out of. Don't disrespect the leg La la
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  Speaker 1: hip hop is said the stadio. Let's get rightful to
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  Speaker 1: the business.
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  Speaker 2: What y'all?
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Vegas and this it's hip Hop
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  Speaker 1: that have been listening. I appreciate y'all. Hope this podcast
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Granted in a different world, but maybe you're caught up
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  Speaker 1: on everything. Well, maybe you like I ain't got no
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  Speaker 1: time to be looking up to hip hops. Hey, I
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  Speaker 1: am your resource.
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  Speaker 2: Use me. Okay, not in that way, but you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Use it as a resource and more importantly, share with
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  Speaker 1: people you know enjoy this kind of content. Before we
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  Speaker 1: get into the show, I just want to send a
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  Speaker 1: resting peace and condolences to the family of IRV Gotti.
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  Speaker 1: For those who don't know, IRV Gotti passed away recently
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  Speaker 1: after reportedly suffering a stroke. He was fifty four years
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  Speaker 1: of age. Closely linked to the label Murder Inc obviously
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  Speaker 1: with jar Ruhl and Ashanti and all of that, but
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  Speaker 1: also a pivotal figure in the hip hop game as
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  Speaker 1: a producer, as a DJ as a record exec that
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  Speaker 1: helped the careers of jay Z.
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  Speaker 2: In DMX.
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  Speaker 1: And this was probably the first video that I saw
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  Speaker 1: where I actually got to see who IRV Gott he was.
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  Speaker 1: This is Mike Geronimo's if you're listening via audio, this
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  Speaker 1: is right Mike Geronimo's It's real. I'm not this family podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I Ain't Gonna Say the Word single cassette single from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety four on Blunt Records and IRV Gotti, who is
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  Speaker 1: listed as DJ EARV for Top Dog Productions. In nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety four, he produced his record Classic hip Hop Record
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  Speaker 1: for the heads who know. If you call yourself a
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  Speaker 1: head or kind of sore off, hip hop don't matter
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  Speaker 1: if you're old or young or whatever. Do the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: on Mike Geronimo. He was a very dope dude back
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  Speaker 1: in the nineties. He did a dope drink Champs. His
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  Speaker 1: first album was Crazy, But this was the single I
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  Speaker 1: went and bought it back then in nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, with earth Gotti, with everything that's happened,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's unfortunate when things like this happen. You
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  Speaker 1: just don't know when your time will be up. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Fifty four is young. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: you're fifteen listening to this, nineteen twenty or whatever. When
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  Speaker 1: you hit fifty and somebody tell you, yeah, at fifty four,
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  Speaker 1: you know you will no longer be here.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like I got more time, Like what's up?
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  Speaker 1: So appreciate the people around you, tell them you love them,
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  Speaker 1: and appreciate the fact that you're here. You know, don't
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  Speaker 1: waste any time. You know, That's kind of how I
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  Speaker 1: live my life. I don't waste anytime. If there's something
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  Speaker 1: fun I want to do, I'll do it. There's something
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  Speaker 1: I want to experience and I have the means to experience.
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  Speaker 2: It, I will do that.
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  Speaker 1: If there are things I don't want to deal with
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  Speaker 1: because it's negative energy, I won't because I know that
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  Speaker 1: time is precious. And then IRV Gotti's short time on
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  Speaker 1: this planet, he did a lot that impacted a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people's lives, especially some in a positive way. So
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  Speaker 1: rest in peace to him. Now, big shout out to
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  Speaker 1: Hip HOPDX dot com, Hot ninety seven dot com and
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  Speaker 1: a couple of places where I'm getting these stories from.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into the business. So I talked about
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  Speaker 1: this last week, The Alchemist, two Chains and Larry June
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  Speaker 1: announced an album they put out late I think like
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  Speaker 1: two or three singles. I think one video or two
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, for a new collaborative album that they
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  Speaker 1: had coming out called Life is Beautiful. That album has
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  Speaker 1: been released. I've listened to it and this is my review.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The album is eleven songs, only thirty six minutes and
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  Speaker 1: fifty three seconds. From what I could tell and what
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  Speaker 1: I can remember, there are no features, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there should be any features. Alchemi's on beats, two
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  Speaker 1: Chains in nur June on the rhymes. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: know my podcast and you know my review scale, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe not my scale, but my review process is three listens, right,
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  Speaker 1: First listen, I'm just here to hear what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Second listen, now it's time to really listen.
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  Speaker 1: Let me hear with them bars sounding at least hear
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  Speaker 1: what those beats sound like. How is this concept all
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  Speaker 1: coming together? Is it a concept? Stuff like that? And
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  Speaker 1: the third listen is really just to confirm my thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: and my thoughts can be it's whack or I like
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  Speaker 1: it right, so straight up for those who don't like
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  Speaker 1: to hear breakdowns and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: I was just say this, I think it's a cool album.
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  Speaker 2: It's a cool album.
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  Speaker 1: Early in the year that probably will people will forget
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  Speaker 1: about you know, soon the minute we have bigger releases.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not because the project is terrible and I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying it's good. It's because we get so mu's music
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  Speaker 1: within a year that unless you put something out stellar,
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  Speaker 1: people will forget about it, you know, by the time
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  Speaker 1: we get the end of the year and best of
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  Speaker 1: the years and stuff like that. Some people, most publications,
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  Speaker 1: hip hop publications do a good job of like keeping
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  Speaker 1: track of some of these things. But I'll say this,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not a fan of Alchemist Beats Up Today,
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  Speaker 1: go on hit the exit. Fan, go ahead, get on
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  Speaker 1: out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Though.
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  Speaker 1: If you are not a fan of Larry Jones, disinterested
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  Speaker 1: rap staff, go and leave, man, while you're still here,
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  Speaker 1: just get out this go man, we don't need you.
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  Speaker 1: You're off the clock. If you're not a I ever
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  Speaker 1: been a fan of Two Chains, why are you here? Okay, So,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't like any of these guys and you
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  Speaker 1: don't like any of their output, don't go and listen
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  Speaker 1: to one track just so you can justify like not
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  Speaker 1: liking them. You didn't like them anyway, Okay, Now if
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  Speaker 1: you're cool with them or you're a big fan, you
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  Speaker 1: may like this.
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  Speaker 2: Me I can't say I'm the biggest Two Chains fan.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't a fan like that in his early stages,
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  Speaker 1: but then he showed me like he could spit when
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  Speaker 1: he's done features and stuff like that, so I like
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit more now. Alchemist goes without saying
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  Speaker 1: I've always liked Alchemists. I don't necessarily like everything he
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  Speaker 1: does on the production side nowadays, but sometimes it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's blah, Right, Mary June, I'm not a fan
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  Speaker 1: of the disinterested flow, But again, like I said last.
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  Speaker 2: Week, when he did.
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  Speaker 1: One of the albums, I think it was in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three that he dropped where the beats will more
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  Speaker 1: like ride to West Coast sounding, you know, or down
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  Speaker 1: south really, but probably West Coast more than anything sounding
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  Speaker 1: beats that I think fit Flow so much that I
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  Speaker 1: dug it it was cool. This project is along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: To me, I think there are no real surprises or
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  Speaker 1: standouts on the production, but that doesn't mean it's all bad.
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  Speaker 1: Some beats are better than others. Larry Jun's performance is
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  Speaker 1: better in some cases than others. Right, one minute, he
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  Speaker 1: can sound like he's high out his mind, the next
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  Speaker 1: minute he sound kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Two Chains is just vibrant, like he exudes personality in
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  Speaker 1: his bars, And I think that's what helps me enjoy
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  Speaker 1: this project a little bit more, because if Alchemist is
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  Speaker 1: on his dreary drugged out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying they drugged out, but that's how it sounds. Right.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like everybody hi.
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  Speaker 1: Right, if his beats sound like that, and then Larry
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  Speaker 1: June sounds like that, I'll be bored very quick, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I think because Two chaines in there, there's something.
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  Speaker 1: His ROMs are interesting, right, he just says interesting stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're barking and you like YO and it's like
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  Speaker 1: Ransom album, no it's not. It's not for you go
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  Speaker 1: over there and do hip hop calculations. This is for
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  Speaker 1: everybody who want to cool out.
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  Speaker 2: So in general, it's a cool album. It's cool, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's no big deal.
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like, especially for me, we're about to
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  Speaker 1: get a whole bunch of albums heading into the spring,
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  Speaker 1: and forget about the year, and I just feel like
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  Speaker 1: this is not an album that at any point, once
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  Speaker 1: we start to get other music as quick as like
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  Speaker 1: next week, that I'm gonna go back to, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's the worst thing in
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  Speaker 1: the world, but I think for some people this might
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  Speaker 1: be cool. You may listen to it more than I do.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. I'm saying. That's That's all I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying about it. Next story. So recently I listened to Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, shout out to Neltron who sent me
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  Speaker 1: the interview that who did the interview? I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: say Rick Ross, but it's not Rick Rubin. Rick Rubin's podcast,
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  Speaker 1: which I love what he does with his commercials or ads.
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  Speaker 1: I love the style of it, Like if that's creative,
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  Speaker 1: I might bite that, just do it in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: But he did an interview with Riza and it was
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  Speaker 1: like a two hour into And usually when I see
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that, I'm like, I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I was around I know enough about Riza to
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  Speaker 1: not sit there and wait to hear things I haven't heard.
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  Speaker 1: But I heard a lot that I hadn't heard from
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  Speaker 1: Risen I think mainly because maybe he was comfortable and
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  Speaker 1: who he was talking to, and he was sharing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of info. Now for those wondering, shout out to
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  Speaker 1: kill who asked me this, No, he didn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: the flood because it happened and those.
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  Speaker 2: Records are going, so I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think in some cases he gets tired of talking
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  Speaker 1: about him because maybe maybe it hurts right to lose
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  Speaker 1: all of that, But it'd be dope.
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  Speaker 2: If he like kept the damaged stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And then technology got to a point where they were
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  Speaker 1: able to by magic ormost or whatever, was able to
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  Speaker 1: like fix some of it. You know, maybe we get
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  Speaker 1: the original to Cal album the Inspected, that album we wanted,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not happening. But the interview was great, and
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  Speaker 1: there was one part in that interview where Rizzi said,
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  Speaker 1: we got an announcement coming up this year. The Wu
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  Speaker 1: has an announcement, so stay tuned for that. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember I kept thinking, and I might have said this
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  Speaker 1: on my preview shot. I was like, man, I think
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  Speaker 1: the Woo won't drop an album, like because it's been
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  Speaker 1: a while. Well it's been almost a decade since the
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  Speaker 1: last time the Wu Tang Clan dropped an album, and
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  Speaker 1: now they have announced a brand new album and check
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  Speaker 1: out the title Black Sampson the Bastard Swordsman from the
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  Speaker 1: Wu Tang The Saga Continues collection. That's a crazy long title,
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  Speaker 1: but that feels like if it feels like the Wool
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  Speaker 1: is back, you know. This is on hip Hop dx
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  Speaker 1: dot com. The project will be released on Record Store Day,
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  Speaker 1: April twelfth.
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  Speaker 2: That's not that far and.
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  Speaker 1: Feature contributions from all living members of the legendary rap group.
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  Speaker 1: The twelve track LP is in its entirety produced by Mathematics.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Mathematics does a great I'm a pause right here, but
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  Speaker 1: Mathematics does a great job of making Wu Tang sound
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  Speaker 1: and beats. He really does. Butans woof fans want to
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  Speaker 1: hear entirely produced by the Riza. Now, I will say this.
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  Speaker 1: He talked a lot about his early days and what
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  Speaker 1: he was always trying to do. He was always trying
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  Speaker 1: to get to the next level. He never wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make anything that sound like the old stuff. If you
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  Speaker 1: listen to that interview, you could hear it when he
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  Speaker 1: says it. He is not interested in rehashing sounds and
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  Speaker 1: flavor from the original Wu albums. He'd rather have somebody
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  Speaker 1: like Mathematics who can do that stuff and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: he helps tweak if he's executive producer or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But this is somewhat disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: I think honestly, I think Mathematics produced the best WU
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  Speaker 1: album in years, which was The Saga Continues in twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that was like the best sounding WU album
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  Speaker 1: in years. So it's not a bad thing that he's
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  Speaker 1: producing the whole album. I just wish one time Rizzo
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  Speaker 1: would say I'm just gonna try to, you know, jump
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  Speaker 1: in that bag that I was in back then and
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  Speaker 1: create sounds in that vein bugle whatever.
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  Speaker 2: What else, which means there are no ris a beats.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking to variety, Mathematics detailed the thinking behind a unique title. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the album has a certain feel to it. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Omas Black's votation movies. You have movies like Black Samson,
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  Speaker 1: Black Sees Us, and Superfly. Those are the types of
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  Speaker 1: movies that I was raised on in the nineteen seventies.
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  Speaker 1: The Fastest Swordsman part of the title is an old
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  Speaker 1: to the old Karate Flecks because that's what I grew
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  Speaker 1: up on as well with me as well as the
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  Speaker 1: Wu Tang that's something we had in common. We all
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  Speaker 1: love the old karate flex. Fastest Swordsman is one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorites, and he I'm not gonna I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to read the whole article. Yeah, we're just gonna leave
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  Speaker 1: it alone. We're gonna leave it alone, right there. My
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on it. I'm not mad, and I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it again. If you haven't heard Wu Tang Klan's
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen albums Soccer continues, do yourself a favor and
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  Speaker 1: go listen. It was Better than Better Tomorrow and eight
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  Speaker 1: Diagrams and all them black Wu albums that you know.
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  Speaker 1: I was with Ray Kwan where he like Yo, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the Wo Sam, so it's in good hands production wise.
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  Speaker 1: And I like the theme because I feel like people
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  Speaker 1: like Ghosts, method Man, probably all of them, but Ghost
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  Speaker 1: Ray especially Ghosts will thrive on an album that has
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  Speaker 1: a theme like this because it's kind of the things
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  Speaker 1: they've always done with their music anyway, whether they're talking
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  Speaker 1: about it or in skits or sampling stuff. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: definitely interested. I'm definitely looking forward to it. I'm almost
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost excited, almost almost excited.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Are you excited for this new Wu Tang album dropping
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  Speaker 1: in April on Record Store Day? You're gonna get the
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  Speaker 1: vinyl in all of that, You're gonna check it out?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you tapped out from the woo and you
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  Speaker 1: only listen to the first two albums because maybe you
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  Speaker 1: feel like those are the only ones that are good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Leave your comments in a comment section
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  Speaker 1: below and back slip, so I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: were under a rock. But last Sunday, the Grammy Awards
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  Speaker 1: took place, and as predicted in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 1: but not really but kind of sort of on this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: not like us claim five Grammys, and it was. It
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  Speaker 1: was incredible to witness and I don't really I don't
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  Speaker 1: watch award show so I didn't really watch the award shows.
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  Speaker 2: I catch the highlights.
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  Speaker 1: I followed timelines of other people watching and the Grammys,
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  Speaker 1: like Twitter feed and stuff like that to kind of stay.
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  Speaker 2: You know, updated, but other, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, there were other winners like shout out to Rhapsody,
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  Speaker 1: who won a Grammy for one of her records off
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  Speaker 1: her new album Do She who won a rap hip
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  Speaker 1: hop album or rap Album of the Year.
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  Speaker 2: But when it.
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  Speaker 1: Came to the records and the video, Kendrick Lamar really won.
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  Speaker 2: Five Grammys for a disc record.
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  Speaker 1: And well, let's go over to what those Grammys are
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  Speaker 1: for those who don't know, Best Rap performance, Right, that's
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  Speaker 1: one best rap song. I believe it was the other
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  Speaker 1: one best Video, Best Song, like the Song of the
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  Speaker 1: Year and Record of the Year. That's crazy And some
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  Speaker 1: people say, oh, well, you know what, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: These are not even rap. Those two aren't e the
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  Speaker 1: rap categories. That means the competition was anybody, not just rappers.
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  Speaker 1: And for it to be a disc record, that's also
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  Speaker 1: calling Drake a pdf. Well, I mean it's unprecedented. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is. It's unbelievable. We knew the song
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  Speaker 1: was popular, we knew it wasn't bots, right, bots didn't
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  Speaker 1: vote Drake. I'm sorry, unless you're gonna sue them, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they increased the box on the award shield and that's
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  Speaker 1: how he got it. It is a statement that not
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  Speaker 1: only did he lose, but he lost an epic fashion
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  Speaker 1: A dude, thish you. He had a couple disrecords, but
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  Speaker 1: he this you and one of those songs. The last
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  Speaker 1: song he puts out about you wins five Grammys.
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  Speaker 2: That is crazy. That that is crazy in itself. Not
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: an album, right, not an.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Incredible album, that whole bunch of videos blah blah blah
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  Speaker 1: and just by accident, not like us as on there,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and it also wins. No the song only crazy. And
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: what made the situation even crazier is you and the Grammys. Man,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: they must not liked it. They must not like them
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: because they were making sure to capture not just certain people,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: but to show you that everybody was into it. Who
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: madded Beyonce bopping to it like yeah, this is my joint.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift got the broom sweep. She putting up the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: glass like toasting to Kendrick. I mean, she was sout
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: up as she always is, but I'm saying, first of all,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: go birds, I ain't playing that, you know, but I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was just looking at that like, Yo, that's that's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: jay Z smiling like And then Kendrick's speech, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he dedicated I think the Record of the Year to
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  Speaker 1: his wife, Whitney Crip walking in well girlfriend, baby Mama.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know his partner.
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  Speaker 1: Crip walking in the not like us video and then
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  Speaker 1: he said to jay Z, I know you like the
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  Speaker 1: crip walk.
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  Speaker 2: It was just.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm Drake and Drake is doing a tour in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, probably after because we know he watched,
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  Speaker 1: We know he watched. He comes out on stage with
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the if you ever saw the television series, the Netflix
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: series that's now on Disney Plus lou Cage where you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: know his signature was like this hoodie he was wearing
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and had bullet holes in it. Well, Drake came downstairs, downstairs,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: was walking down to the stage at this tour in
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  Speaker 1: Australia with a similar hoodie on with bullet holes in
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: it and smoke coming out the back. And as he's
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: walking down the steps, his face he looks defeated, but
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you know what it is, he's playing the victim. And
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: again we're not going to rewrite history. Drake was asking
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Kendrick for this drop. He wanted him to drop so bad.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: He was trolling on ig. He was putting it in
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  Speaker 1: disc records. He was like drop. They were counting down
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the days to win. Kendrick driving was taking them so long.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: He ain't got nothing, blah blah blah and Drake Alsto
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: was the one who started bringing in mentioning family names
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and that's how we got to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: songs like not like a calling Drake a PDF.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And the thing is is he's not calling him a PDF.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Because that's the thing he feels like calling him and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it's catchy to people.
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  Speaker 2: Just do this.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he is, but it's just way too much
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: like funny business on the Internet of Drake looking like
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: a PDF right from way back and now he's thirty seven,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: looking defeated with smoke coming out his back as he
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: walks down to do his own talk. It's crazy that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: man is going through it. Stieg just awards like the Grammys,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: basically saying, man, this song was great.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Let's give it five war. It's just crazy.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: But also, Kendrick is going to be performing the halftime
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: show at the super Bowl. It's a bad month. It
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is Black History Month, by the way, it's a bad
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: month for Drake. It's a bad month for Drake. So
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: super Bowl's coming up. Apple Music conducted an interview with
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Drake I mean with Drake with Kendrick Lamar, and he
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: was asked a couple of questions that weren't necessarily direct,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: like yo, what you think about when Drake did this,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: But we're more so about the.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Song, not like us.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And you know his thoughts about winning five Grammys for
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: essentially a battle record, a disc record, not a beef
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a battle. He said this, and I quote my intent
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: from day one was to always keep the nature of
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: hip hop as a sport. I don't care how much
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: MFS look at it as far as a collaborative effort.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: That's cool too, But I love when artists grit their teeth.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I still watch battle raps, I still watch smack Url,
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  Speaker 1: from Murder Move to Loaded Lux to tay Rock to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: my bro day life. This has always been the core
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  Speaker 1: definition of who I am. I don't think it was
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a thing for this year. I think it was just
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a continuation of what I've been doing. And then he added,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: what I will say about this year is was it
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: was more from a space where I think a lot
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of people were putting raped to the back and you
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: didn't see that grit, you didn't see that bite anymore. Obviously,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: you can check out the interview. It's on YouTube. It's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: on like Hot ninety seven joint because I think Ebro
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: did the interview with somebody else I forget I forget
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  Speaker 1: her name.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: But do we agree with him? Of course if you're
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: a hip hop head. Of course hip hop this is
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: what people. Whether you're young and you just don't know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: or you are outside of the culture. You may think
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: because you like the records and you followed the beef,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: that you're inside, but you are outside until you are
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: approved by real hip hop heads. Because hip hop is
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: different from.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Other genres of music, it has always been about being competitive,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: being the best. Sure, you can go to other genres
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of music and find people who are trying to be
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the best in music, but with hip hop, it's an
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: actual battle all the time. It's just that sometimes it
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: becomes a direct battle where now you have to show up,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and you have to show up. Shout out to the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: YouTuber Screwface who said, you know, he says hip hop
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: is a sport, and he also said something I also
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: agree with was like Yo, before record deals, MC's battled
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: each other like that was commonplace. DJ's battled each other,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: that was commonplace. Graffiti writers, could you know they competed
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: against each other break dances still, but especially before record contracts,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: battled each other.
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  Speaker 2: So that's all this is.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And Drake himself said on Lebron James's The Shop or
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: whatever that joint is called.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Podcast or whatever.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: He said this following the Pusher t back and forth,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that I studied battle rap for a living. No, you're
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: den't now you den You watch it, you're a fan
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of it. You you have triumphed at it. But when
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: met with guys, and I thought Meek mil was one
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of those guys, but I think he was. He was
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: feeling himself to when he took too long and Drake
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: got him. But against guys who were raised in this,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and that's what Kendrick is saying. This is, this isn't new.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: This is a continuation of what I've already been doing
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: all the time. So I think it's dope. I'm looking
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: forward to the halftime show on this very channel on YouTube,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and obviously the audio will be available later. Me and
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: a home are gonna do a reaction video to the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime show because I feel like it's gonna
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: be enough that a reaction is warranted. If it's not,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: maybe it's just a quick pop in and yo it
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: was dope and blah blah blah.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But with Kendrick Lamar.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I gotta believe that it's going to be something exceptual,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: exceptional because it's not just about your music with him,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it's about the visual presentation and the perponents. So coming
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: off of five Grammys off of this record, it's gonna
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: be a hell of a week.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Go birds.
• 29:39
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• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Until next time, y'all, I'm not a critty, I'll fair peace.