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Clipse Album Overhyped? · 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 is releasing a memoir. Freddie Gibbs and Alchemists announced
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Speaker 1: a new collaborative album, Alfredo Too, and singles leaks and
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Speaker 1: anticipation for the clips new album Let God sort them out?
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Speaker 1: Are we getting a little too hype for this? Will
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Speaker 1: we be let down? Let's talk about it?
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Speaker 1: Cameron announced recently that he will be releasing a memoir.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to hip hopdx dot com to get the
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Speaker 1: details before I tell you how I feel, because how
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Speaker 1: I feel is probably how you feel. This is on
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Speaker 1: hip hopdx dot com. Cameron announces he will be releasing
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Speaker 1: a memoir for publishing Giant Simon and Schuster after inking
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Speaker 1: a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars deal. The book
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Speaker 1: will chronicle the dipset legends, rise in hip hop, and
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Speaker 1: late career pivot to being a successful media personality with
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Speaker 1: his own talk shows. Killer Cam's memoir will also take
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Speaker 1: fans behind the scenes on some of the most iconic
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Speaker 1: moments throughout his electric life and career. And here's a
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Speaker 1: quote from Cam, I'm happy to have this deal done.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully the book will be released February of twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: And that everyone can take something from my memoir when
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Speaker 1: they read it and really hold up. I'm looking at this,
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Speaker 1: and says Cameron Incs.
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Speaker 3: Six digit Okay, whatever, I thought it was a sixth
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Speaker 3: book deal. But it's just six digits, which is nothing
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Speaker 3: to sneeze at. Do you want a Cameron book, a memoir,
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Speaker 3: a retelling of his life story and moments and things
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Speaker 3: like that. I am definitely interested in this book from
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Speaker 3: the standpoint of Cameron, from what I know as a fan,
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Speaker 3: as a not only a fan of hip hop, but
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Speaker 3: just a fan of his music in general, and being
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Speaker 3: of a certain age where I was there for when
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Speaker 3: he first got on you know, and the.
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Speaker 2: Type of music he made and the labels he was
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Speaker 2: a part of.
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Speaker 1: I was there for the Rockefeller situation when he joined,
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Speaker 1: when he left all the things there Rucker Park, with Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: Jim Jones getting dropped, people accusing him of running on
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Speaker 1: Jim Jones.
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Speaker 2: When you watch Cam talk.
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Speaker 1: Especially when he addresses these stories of the past, he's
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Speaker 1: already given away way too much that could have been
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Speaker 1: sold in a book to be honest, right, get people
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Speaker 1: back to reading books. But essentially he's given away some
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Speaker 1: things that I've always wanted to know right via interviews
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Speaker 1: and all of that's cool, and I'm pretty sure he
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Speaker 1: has more to share and more detail, and not just
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Speaker 1: about gossip and hip hop stuff for him personally and
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Speaker 1: things that has happened. One thing I've liked about Caim
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Speaker 1: is that he will rap about what he's going through,
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Speaker 1: right like when Cam because some of y'all don't know
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Speaker 1: Cam used to be like that pause, but like, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of built he had. He wasn't a skinny dude.
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Speaker 1: And I remember when he lost a ton of weight
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Speaker 1: and everybody was like, is you know, especially back in
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Speaker 1: the nineties, it was one of two things, you have
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Speaker 1: aids or you on drugs one of the other. So
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Speaker 1: people assume those but what really happened was he had
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Speaker 1: an illness that caused him to lose weight IBS irritable
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Speaker 1: bowel syndrome. He rapped about it in a dope record,
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Speaker 1: to be honest, but it was about his life. So
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm most interested in with Camp. It's not
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Speaker 1: only because he has a story to tell that has
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Speaker 1: all these different things that happened in his life, including
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Speaker 1: as a celebrity as a rap star, but He's good
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Speaker 1: at telling his story. He's just really good. So I
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Speaker 1: can't see this book being anything but a bye when
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Speaker 1: it drops, like, buy it when it This is better
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Speaker 1: than the album. I know some people want an album,
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Speaker 1: but I'd rather I like, sometimes i'd rather hear Cam
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Speaker 1: talk about it, then I would like to read about it.
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Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure there'll be some I soon, some
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Speaker 1: mention of Jim Jones, who was, you know, part of
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Speaker 1: his life. You know, Cam didn't do Dipset all by himself,
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't him and just Jimmy, right, it was,
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Speaker 1: it was the whole crew. So I'll be curious to
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Speaker 1: see his direction. I hope he talks about a lot
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Speaker 1: of these different things that people know or sort of know,
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Speaker 1: even his own experiences, right, talking about getting shot DC
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Speaker 1: and the guy threw up the rock sign and you know,
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Speaker 1: like I wonder if he's just gonna go there.
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Speaker 2: In a memoir.
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Speaker 1: And obviously he'll talk about his mother and that importance
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So I'm looking forward to it.
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Speaker 1: You leave your comments in a comments section below. Next story.
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Speaker 1: Freddy Gibbs and Alchemists have now announced a sequel to
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Speaker 1: their collaborative album Alfredo, the original Alfredo, I believe. I
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Speaker 1: can't remember when they dropped originally, it had to be
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Speaker 1: maybe three years ago. His's my thoughts on this announcement
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Speaker 1: based off of Alfredo last time. First of all, Alfredo
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Speaker 1: was Grammy nominated. I do remember that part, and I
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Speaker 1: think it's either twenty twenty two or twenty twenty three
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Speaker 1: that it was Grammy nominated. As a big fan of
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Speaker 1: Freddy Gibbs and also being a fan of Alchemists, I
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Speaker 1: was a little underwhelmed.
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Speaker 2: It had more to do with the production.
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Speaker 1: And when I say that, it's only because Freddy Giz
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Speaker 1: at one point, probably like twenty twenty on, like maybe
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Speaker 1: even twenty twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, like he put out
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Speaker 1: a lot of contents. So there was like a certain sound,
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Speaker 1: a certain energy behind Freddy Gibbs his music and Alchemists
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Speaker 1: in recent years had really fallen into this drumless, slow,
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Speaker 1: super slow tempo vibe kind of sound, which to me
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Speaker 1: doesn't mix well with Freddy Gibs because he has a
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Speaker 1: rapid way of spitting right, and that's really the best
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Speaker 1: Freddy Gibbs, to be honest. If he has to slow
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Speaker 1: it down, it's still good, but he can really only
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Speaker 1: slow it down to a certain point because the way
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Speaker 1: he punctuates his syllables.
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Speaker 2: That's part of the reason why I like him.
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Speaker 1: And if he has to slow it down some because
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Speaker 1: Alchemist is on this slow, delayed kind of sound and
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Speaker 1: beat rhythm, then is he really producing Freddy Gibbs to success.
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Speaker 1: Well apparently yeah, right Grammy nomination. A bunch of people
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Speaker 1: love that album. I do not hate it. I like it,
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Speaker 1: but it's not one of my goal tos. So with
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Speaker 1: Alfredo Too being announced, I think we'll get something that's good.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we'll get something that's better, but I
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Speaker 1: would like to be surprised. I mean, it's just kind
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Speaker 1: of where things are as far as Alchemist's production, so
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Speaker 1: can't complain. I'm not sure when this is scheduled to drop.
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Speaker 1: It just says coming soon, so we'll see. But I
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Speaker 1: am anticipating it because again, it's Freddy Gibbs. Lyrically, he's
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Speaker 1: just one of the dopest MC's out there spitting. He's
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Speaker 1: top five for me when it comes to spinners right,
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Speaker 1: and it's not just barwork his again, his de livery
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Speaker 1: slash flow wordplay tendency to be serious and humorous genuinely
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Speaker 1: in his lyrics, and it always makes for great entertainment.
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Speaker 1: And if you are watching this and you're like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've heard of the dude, but I ain't never really
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Speaker 1: check out his music, I wouldn't say Alfredo is the
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Speaker 1: first you should listen to, because I just feel like
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Speaker 1: he has more music like with mad Lib and other
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Speaker 1: producers that are a little bit a little bit more
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Speaker 1: high energy, and to me, that feels more like essential
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Speaker 1: or not hesential, but quassential. Freddy Gibbs Like, that's Freddy
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Speaker 1: Gibbs Lane, that's his pocket with Alchemists. It's like, this
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Speaker 1: is a project with this producer and it sounds this way,
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Speaker 1: which again doesn't sound bad. It's just that I'm going
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Speaker 1: to check it out because I like both, you know,
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Speaker 1: both dudes producers and rapper. But I just remember how
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Speaker 1: I felt when I heard the first one, and I
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Speaker 1: was just kind of like, I like it, but I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I guess I expect a little bit more,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see Alfredo.
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Speaker 2: Two.
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Speaker 1: Are you anticipating that album? Let me know, leave your
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Speaker 1: comments in the section below. And lastly, unless you've been
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Speaker 1: under a rock on social media. The Clips have social
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Speaker 1: media in a choke hold, every interview, every single every
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Speaker 1: by the CD, by the album here, which that vinyl
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Speaker 1: looks kind of crazy. I might buy it without even
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Speaker 1: hearing it, which is which is something.
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Speaker 2: I don't do every leak.
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Speaker 1: So the Clips I think officially have two singles out right.
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Speaker 1: In my opinion, both of them are fire. They also
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Speaker 1: did a I guess like a listening party on a
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Speaker 1: rooftop and a number of people were filming as they
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Speaker 1: played records, and they posted some of these clips no
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Speaker 1: pun intended from the listening party. Two clips in particular,
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Speaker 1: or one in particular that's a clip, the other one
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Speaker 1: I don't think I saw it, but I heard the track.
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Speaker 1: One clip you're basically getting Kendrick Lamar's full verse from
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Speaker 1: the song he's featured on on The Clips's forthcoming album,
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Speaker 1: Like God saw Their mout Right. I listened to it,
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Speaker 1: but then I cut it off right not because it
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Speaker 1: was bad, because it was flames and I wanted to
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Speaker 1: hear it in full glory right with my headphones the
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Speaker 1: over I want to zone in when I hear the
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Speaker 1: Clips album. But then also I heard some of Naz's
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Speaker 1: verse from the song he's featured on the album and
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Speaker 1: that sound five. So and I know for some people
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Speaker 1: maybe there's even more out there, But for me, I've
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Speaker 1: heard the two singles. I've heard these portions of these
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Speaker 1: snippets from the album, which is kind of like hearing
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Speaker 1: four songs already off the album. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: hear no more. You know why, because the Internet is
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Speaker 1: in a frenzy. We haven't heard one thing whack yet,
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Speaker 1: which with that happening, and I think they're building it organically.
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Speaker 1: At first, I was like, this album's too far out, man.
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Speaker 1: People are going to start the loose them, know they not.
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Speaker 1: The anticipation is through the roof, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: if the Internet can handle it. If the rest of
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Speaker 1: the album is made. And some people say to themselves,
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Speaker 1: if those four joints are that hot, how can the
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Speaker 1: rest of the album be made?
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Speaker 2: It happens.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes, you like, all I heard was Flames and some
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Speaker 1: other songs on the track Listen you ain't here? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you be like, oh, I kind of don't like this
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Speaker 1: one and I don't like that one.
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Speaker 2: It happens.
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Speaker 1: So I'm posing the question, is there too much hype
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Speaker 1: for this album. And I know that sounds weird to say,
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Speaker 1: because you want a lot of hype, a lot of
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Speaker 1: anticipation for not only the return of the Clips to
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Speaker 1: hip hop, but the fact that it sounds so good
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Speaker 1: for the production par real on the production sounds so good,
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Speaker 1: Like it's not just the fact that the beats knock.
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Speaker 1: I could tell that this album has been mastered. It
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Speaker 1: sounds like it was massive by Doctor Dre because to me,
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Speaker 1: that's the bar. Like I love the album Compton, But
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Speaker 1: what I love about even more than the music, and
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people didn't really care for
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Speaker 1: that album, it's some of it's the best quality I've
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Speaker 1: ever heard in hip hop. When I hear albums like
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Speaker 1: Compton from Doctor Dre, when he did Missionary with Snoop,
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Speaker 1: when he did the what is It Casablanca with Marsha
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Speaker 1: and Brosier, Like sound quality alone, it sounds crazy. And
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Speaker 1: when you listen to the Clips official singles that you
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Speaker 1: could listen to on streaming services, it's the same kind
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Speaker 1: of deal. It's like yo, And it's not just the
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Speaker 1: music and the mastering, right, because all that sounds pristine.
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Speaker 1: But the Clips are known for being articulate as hell,
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Speaker 1: right with every word, with every syllable. They make sure
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Speaker 1: everything is clear from their performance. So when you match
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Speaker 1: that with the mixing and mastering and then what Parrella
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Speaker 1: is doing with the production, that plays a role, right like,
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Speaker 1: because the songs have to be good for us to
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Speaker 1: like them. But once you get past that, the sound quality,
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Speaker 1: the delivery, what's being said, all of that comes into play.
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Speaker 1: And this album can't drop soon enough. It's supposed to
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Speaker 1: be dropping on July eleventh, and we probably got what
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Speaker 1: three weeks or so left till we get there, and
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking we'll get one more single before then.
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Speaker 2: Right. It's almost as if they're doing something.
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Speaker 1: New school and old school at the same time, and
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Speaker 1: I think it's working in their favor.
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Speaker 2: Right back in the days, you know, you're getting.
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Speaker 1: Hit with singles or the big single, and then another
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Speaker 1: single as the album is dropping, and then a third
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Speaker 1: one some time after they've sold to keep the sales going.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that's what they're building with Dys. They're
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Speaker 1: building the anticipation for this album. And I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: lie to you, it's been a long time since I've
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Speaker 1: pre ordered an album. Long time I usually wait because
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Speaker 1: of streaming services to listen to music, and if I
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Speaker 1: like it a lot, then I go and buy because
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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I'm listening to it so much, I
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Speaker 1: might as well support in a you know, in a
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Speaker 1: monetary way. But with this, I'm like, I might as
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Speaker 1: well pre ordered. I want to own this. How can
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Speaker 1: it be whack? That's what I'm saying, how can it
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Speaker 1: be whack? You got Nas and Kendrick on the same album.
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Speaker 1: Na's coming off of adult run with hit Boy. He
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Speaker 1: also got his own rollout with DJ Premer Happening that
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Speaker 1: we hope is hot this year. And then Kendrick, we
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Speaker 1: already know what's happened with him with the album with
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Speaker 1: g and next the Battle.
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Speaker 2: The tour, the super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like and just to cherry on top of
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Speaker 1: the fact that def Jam passed on this project, jay
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Speaker 1: Z said, I'm not afraid of no ghosts.
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Speaker 2: And it's like, y'all could come.
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Speaker 1: Over here to rock Nation and we know these artists
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Speaker 1: have the freedom of expression to do this and it
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Speaker 1: sounded hot. To answer my own question, clips album overhyped yep,
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Speaker 1: and it deserves to be because it's the best thing
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Speaker 1: cooking right now far and we haven't even heard it,
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Speaker 1: but I'm anticipating, you know, some great things. Maybe there's
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Speaker 1: a whole verse on it too, but who knows. What
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Speaker 1: do you think? Are you anticipating the Clips brand new album?
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Speaker 1: Let God sort them out? Are you a Clips fan?
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Speaker 1: Do you like the records you've heard? Do you like
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Speaker 1: the snippets of features from Kendrick and Nas? Leave your
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