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The Realest Sh_t I Ever Wrote · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Coming up on this week's episode of Hip Hop Now podcast, Loup b a
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Fiasco announces a new project entitled Samurai. My thoughts on Rhapsody's latest album Please
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Don't Cry and is Hit Them Up by Tupac the greatest this record of all
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time? I got a few thoughts considering I got a biggie shirt on today,
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Let's talk about it. Welcome to Jim Pop Now Podcast. Ask to
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Do from the future. You know what to do? Get your ass out
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Five hundred is easy. I think we can get to five hundred before July
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first, and again I have some more content coming. So one thing I
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would like for you to do, and I know I'm being a little long
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winded, but this is you know this is a partnership me and you,
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Right, I want to know what people want to see, right, because
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I have my tape series Tail of the Tapes coming back pretty soon. There's
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twelve episodes of that. That's one thing as far as content, But there
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are other things I could do, and one of them, well, let
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me just say this. I've also done Tearless right, where I review albums
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from a certain artist catalog and I kind of rape them. There'll be more
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coming from that. But also one thing that I'm flirting with doing, and
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I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I think it'd be fun
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because it's sparks conversation is list right top ten greatest hip Hop Albums, top
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ten MC's top ten Greatest This Songs. If you would like for me to
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do like list, I could easily do that because it's not a problem for
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me. I'm a hip hop hit. So if that sounds like something you
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would want to see and talk about and debate or whatever, leave that comment
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in a comment section and I will definitely look out because it's going to be
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more content coming to the YouTube channel anyway. Now. Big shout out to
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hip Hop DX dot com, Old hip Hop dot com even though they've been
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posting things that I'm sort of like, yo, they saying hip hop what
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is this? And ambrosia for heads? And which are a few places where
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I get some of my stories from. Let's get right into the business stuff.
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So Loop a Fiasco has announced that he has a new project dropping soon,
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a new album called Samurai and the first single is the title track Samurai
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and this will be his ninth studio album. Supposedly it's going to be released
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on June twenty eight, which it's a little bit refreshing sometimes. Well I
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won't say that because don't get me wrong. Ghost Face announced a new single,
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Scar Tissue featuring Nas in the very next week. The album dropped,
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and I was excited for it. I'm not too mad at Loope announcing a
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new album, having a single out, but the album doesn't come out until
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June twenty eight. I'm okay with that. Things used to be different a
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long time ago. It would be like new singles album album next year.
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You're like, what you know what I'm saying, So I'm fine with it.
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What I do appreciate is I don't like when Loope because I've said some
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things on this podcast but I'm a Loop a Fiasco fan again. I put
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my money where my mouth fits. Homie's nice and he makes dope music,
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but I don't like when he's on the outside looking at somebody else situation.
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And not that he can't have an opinion, but it always comes from a
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position of critiquing in a negative way. Now, I'm not saying he's a
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rotten person he hates because everybody says. It's like saying respectfully and then saying
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something disrespectful. Okay, sometimes he does that and it's like, dog,
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just do you right? So I like when it's like I'm just gonna show
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y'all, don't tell us anybody can get it, and what you write and
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how nice you are, we do not care because we already know this.
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But most fans who want you to go out a Kendrick or somebody else really
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do it because maybe they don't like Kendrick or they don't like this other rapper,
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or like like, yeah, okay, he went at Royce, and
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ironically Royce didn't really respond where I thought he would. But also in a
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lot of ways, it shows how much you matter. So to me,
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Loupe, you show people by your work forget dis records, forget back and
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forth, and me as a loop A fan, I don't really care about
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him doing that unless somebody's bothering him, then I get it, But don't
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be jumping out. Anybody here can get it, and people just go they
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get out of here. Man, why given an ask you roach like that
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looks worse like game? For those who don't know, Game released to dis
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record like a week or so ago. Already for that, uh towards Rick
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Ross. Rick Ross just said, y'all starving and just laughed with the veneers
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all in the camera. You don't want to be that guy who in the
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disrecording that bad. You don't want to be that guy. This is the
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second time you're being ignored after going into the studio putting in what you thought
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it was your best word. Game just make an album. Dog nineteen ninety
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two. I tell y'all, I think it's a classic. I think it's
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a classic Dog. I love it, maybe because I'm from the nineties,
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but the game's album. I love it. So that's how I feel with
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Loope, Like Yo, Samurai Cam digging it, Okay, I'm kind of
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digging the cover too, Like I'm digging the first songs the loop A,
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I like, you know, not brooding and you know so technical that you
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gotta like commit to trying to figure it out. No, it's right in
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the pocket. It's exactly what. It's the cool loope mixed with the kick
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and push loope. And to me, when you can bind those that's when
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I think it's the best of what he does. So I'm looking forward to
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this project and I'm just hoping that it lives up to xtra dictations that I
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have, but I think it will. I mean, I'm hoping I could
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just say top five because for the year, because I think Loupei is more
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than capable of making that kind of music. And then also what also scares
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me, and it's the last thing on it. If Kendrick does have an
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album coming out, please don't drop no way near him, Loupey, Please
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don't because they're just a number of people who are just going to ignore you
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because they not like us is some are not even here. It's the song
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of the Summer already, you know. It's just it's just too much fun
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considering everything is being said in the song, and I just think once Kendrick
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drops an album, especially if it's a good album and he hasn't missed yet.
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I just I just think it's going to dominate as far as the conversation.
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No matter who drops what that's dope, that's gonna be the conversation.
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People are either gonna not like it and talk about not liking Kendrick album all
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day every day on social media, or love it and do the same thing,
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or overplay it and call it a classic and how it's better than the
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Allmatic and everything. So let's let's just hope. I know, for me
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my personal listening, I'll be fine. I can. I can really love
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album, a good album from one of my favorites, like a Kendrick,
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and still listen to Loope and say, Yo, this joint is hot too.
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I just want more for Loope so he could stop feeling like he got
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a you know. Yeah, so y'all can see still here, like we
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know, dog, you're nice, but relax, all right, so we'll
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see what happens. Speaking of albums, that a single came out and you
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know, we knew we had like almost a month before the album would dry.
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But Rhapsody has finally released her latest project called Please Don't Cry, It's
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about twenty two tracks with some interludes in there, only coming in at about
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an hour and five minutes as far as listening time. Features on Now on
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the hip hop side include Lil Wayne also hip Boy I think he did the
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lead single Asteroids, but also features like ever kabab Du and a couple of
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other people on this joint on his album, and the album is basically a
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very very personal, almost like reading a diary kind of album from her.
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And even though Rhapsody is always spoke from the heart, made thoughtful songs right
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mostly about relationships. I think that's what attracted me to her music early on,
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was the fact that she could talk about relationships and from a woman's perspective,
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and as a guy, wouldn't really be turned off because I couldn't relate
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or like maybe I'm like, yo, why you want it? Like stuff
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like that. So I kind of feel like this one is a little bit
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different for those who are new to my process. I listened three times.
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One the first time it's just impressions. The second time is to confirm what
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I heard. The third time it's just well, the second sea I'll mess
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it up. The second time it's to listen more intently to the lyrics and
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the concept and stuff like that, and the third time I listen is usually
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just to confirm what I heard, whether I like it or not. It's
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still more impressions basically, but it is a review. I don't think I
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need to sit with an album for a week or two in order to understand
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it. Because I'm listening, I compute the stuff information as it as I
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hear it. You know what I'm saying, So there you have it.
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And for those who just want to know the score right away, I would
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say it's a good album, but I think it's an album that will get
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forgotten quick. Now let me explain for those who want a deeper explanation.
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I don't think this is a whack album by any means. I don't think
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this is a boring album by any means. I just think it's so specific
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like Mister Morale and the Big Steppers as far as concept goes, that some
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people, when they choose to listen to music, they don't want to commit
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so much to the listening experience. I know, for me, listening to
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this album and having been a Rhapsody fan for years now, I kind of
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feel like and I'm trying to be sensitive with this, you know, so
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maybe I'm blanking on the words to find to say, but I'm gonna just
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say what I mean. But I was kind of bored of the constant self
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reflection, not because it's this project, but because it's kind of what she's
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done. It's sort of like with Mary J Blige. Right, I love
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Mary J Blige, I'm a big Mary J Blige fan whatever, but at
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some point, and this is what fans do, but at some point it
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was like, damn, well Mary ever find love? Like that's how you
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would feel, like, hey, will she ever be happy? Man?
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We were on the fifth album until she was happy and then I like it.
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And then when she got into a bad marriage and it was like strength
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of a woman, I'm like, it's it. She back? So you
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know what I mean? With Rhapsody, I think in a lot of ways,
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what I probably and I'm gonna get into what I do like, but
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what I probably didn't like initially was feeling like, Okay, this is a
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self reflection album. This is an album where you're looking at the height of
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your success and looking at all the doubters and the lack of support and people
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talking trash about you and all this other stuff, and you're trying to deal
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with that, and you're trying to shed a facade to be you, and
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it's deep and it's dope from that level. What bored me about it was
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I felt like, this is the first time I feel like this album probably
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connects more with ladies who feel this way because my personality and probably some ladies
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some other ladies too who wouldn't like some of it, is that at some
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point, where's your strength on the other side? Right now, there's songs
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on there where she kind of displays that and puts her foot down about the
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way people feel about her stuff like that, But to me, those aren't
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as strong as the tracks where you're saying how much you don't like this or
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like that or like the industry, and like I get it. It almost
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comes off as being mad as a defense for how vulnerable you really are.
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And what I do appreciate about the album is her being vulnerable. But she's
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always been that way, and I think that's why for me, it's sort
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of like, Okay, well, on the next project, I need you
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to rise from the ashes and just be who you are and spit and not
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worry about what's being said on the outside. I think that's the part that
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kind of dragged it down a little bit for me, was it felt like
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and she made not in real life feel completely like this, but it felt
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like she was just way too overly concerned with the conversation outside of what she
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does, and dedicating too many songs, too many lyrics to that. Now,
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accepting the project as it is, almost as a diary and a reflection
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on these inner feelings, I think is great. The music's great. The
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thing she touches on right, family, religion, relationships, male and female
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speculation, celebrity status, like all these different things that you want from an
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artist, from an artist, not a rapper. I feel like Rhapsody is
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an artist. You just gotta understand that this is what you're coming here for.
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So while I say it's good, and I say all those things that
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some will perceive as being this overall negative, it was just the things for
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me that told me I can appreciate what she created because she didn't just throw
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something at us. Musically, I think it's tight Lyrically, I think it's
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tight. I just think as a fan of hers who really loved her,
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last project, Eve, which was almost like, you know, honoring black
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women. Well, I say, like, but it was. I would
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prefer that because that's coming more from a position of strength, and maybe that's
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the whole thing, right that album Eve was coming from a position of strength.
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I think that album should have been nominated for Grammy, to be honest,
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And this album is coming from a vulnerable standpoint, which is fine.
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And again, I don't want to be one of those fans who asked for
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more from artists and then when they give it to us, you can plain
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and it's not the other thing. But at the end of the day,
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if you've heard enough of Rhapsodies music, you can kind of see where I'm
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coming from. And in today's rap game, the way everything is microwave,
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the way albums come out and people listen to them, talk about them,
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and they forget that. You can easily forget about this because it feels like
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extra somber when people are partying to not like us and coming off of a
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much higher frequency of energy in the rap game. So again, will it
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make my top five of the year? No, I don't think so.
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She has before. I don't think this will this year. I mean again,
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I don't know, because I will continue to listen because I'm a fan.
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But I found myself identifying the songs I liked and knowing that there were
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songs I'll probably never listen again too. And I think you have to have
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a deep connection to her subject matter in order to really really feel it.
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And there are a lot of people who will, right, There's a lot
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of people can relate to what she's saying without being rap stars like she is.
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But people tend to forget when it comes to artistry again, mister Morale.
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And the big stepper is when when j Cole and Drake was trying to
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play like it was whack. Some people agreed, right because they was like
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yo, But I never went back and listened. And I don't think it's
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because it's whack. I think it's because it's such a commitment, because the
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subject matter is just so heavy, right, so you have to like say,
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this is what I want to here. You know, it's the same
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thing I mentioned with Loop in the first story, right, lup A fiasco
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to me isn't like, oh it's Sonny outside, let me throw on that
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loop a nah man. I want to hear that. I want to hear
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what Rick Ross be making. I want to hear that, right, I
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want to hear that lavish lifestyle when the sun is beaming on me. And
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I got the shades and I got the New Kicks on it. That's what
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I That's what you want, right So, And I'm not saying Levrasity album,
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you gotta like, well, I'm sad, so I'm I as well
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put this on, Like I'm not, I'm not saying that. I'm just
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saying, when it comes to conceptual albums that are heavy in this way and
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in Turtle in her case, you really got to commit to listening to it
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and you gotta sort of be in that space. And I just felt like,
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I think the album made me sad when I was listening to it,
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and I was listening to it in the gym, and never in gym have
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I about the tempo, the concepts and stuff like that. But after a
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while, I'm like, it's Friday, it's Sunday, I'm in the gym,
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I've been losing weight, blah blah blah blah blah, and now this
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this album's kind of sad, you know, So maybe that's what it is.
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Have you heard Rhapsody's brand new album, Please Don't Cry? Do you
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like it? Are you're a Rhapsody fan? Leave your comments in a comments
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section below. I would love to hear from others. Will it be in
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my top five of twenty twenty four? I doubt it? But will it
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be one of the best albums over the year. Yeah, because it's not.
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It's not whack. It's just not whack. It's probably one song I
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skipped now. Like I said, it's like twenty something tracks, So there
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you have it. And lastly, so coming off one of the greatest,
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I gotta say, one of the greatest battles in hit pop history, considering
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not just the output of songs, but everything that followed it, social media
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craze, and the fact that with all that back and forth with songs,
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a party record basically ended it for Drake, which is ironic and crazy all
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at the same time. I know he responded after that but that, but
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he might as well not have done that, because it's already forgotten in a
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lot of ways. I know Drake fans haven't forgotten it, but guess what
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you're gonna be just like jay Z fans a year from now, ten years
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from now talking about he won, No, he didn't just like Ether one,
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Ether one, not like us. Meet the Grams won two punch knockout
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fights over Let's party, but because of the battle, and everybody on the
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end of it saying, you know, greater this song of all time,
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which is not what people are saying, like not like us. They probably
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saying Meet the Grahams more than anything. And then they come, you know,
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they come everybody with a list and stuff like that. And one particular
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list that dropped from the legendary Elliet Wilson on hip hopdx dot com one hundred
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greatest disc Songs in Hip Hop History ranked. Now, y'all know me.
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I don't typically do lists. I will if you would like to see that,
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leave your comments in a comment section below, let me know, or
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hit me on bars or hit me on social media at Vegas World, I
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NC if you would like to see lists coming from me, and I'm on
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the brow. You know what I'm saying, bars, But the only thing
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when it comes to these list is music is highly based off of good music,
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all bad. But the opinions are based off of just that opinions,
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and everybody has an opinion, and everybody are affected by this record in one
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way or another. So when it comes when someone drops the list, it's
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never the perfect list. You may get a situation where people like, yo,
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I'm not you know, some people may say, yo, I'm not
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mad at that list. You know, which is which is cool? You
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know if you're not mad at it. But let's just start with the last
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ten and then we're going to go to the top ten and then I'll tell
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you what I think. And if you don't know by reading the title,
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Tupac is number one, but not for that soon at one hundred, Big
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Sean Feature and Kendrick Lamar at Jay Electronica Control, y'all know, Really it
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was just Kendrick Lamar's verse that wasn't necessarily a disc. Some took it as
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not, but it was more of a challenge to his peers, so we
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get it. Ninety nine The Game Buttons. When this Joe buddens little Kim
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Black Friday, I think that's a slept on this record, maybe because I
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saw the video once Kim was in a project hallway, like I thought it
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was crazy. This and Nicki Minaj Jazz Jazz od over one of them.
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I'm glad this is even on the list. One of the most slept on
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jay z Is ever. Jazz O was in his bag on this song.
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In his bag. If you don't know gold, look it up over right
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like over Oba without the age. Jazz O killed this record and no one
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ever mentions it, which is crazy. Fifty cent be a gentleman, Cameron,
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you gotta love it past de Troy, no more play in Ga.
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That's number ninety four. Jez twenty four to twenty three. Rick Fross Mafia
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Music. I did not know if that was a disc record, but whatever,
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Mob Deep featuring Little Kim Quiet Storm Remix. Now, the only reason
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why that's listed is because of Kim's verse. Kim's verse was going directly at
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Foxy's and then Foxy was on the song with a component Noriega bang banging.
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Her verse was crazy. But again you don't hear too much about that because
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christ Storm Remix was a club record that dominated so and Drake charged up.
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That's number ninety. Now, let me see if I could get to the
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one hundred real quick without doing the video having to watch me scroll a little
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crazy. I'm almost there, Nola, We're just about there, and most
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of this is predictable. Number ten like that, now again we know the
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project, we don't trust you? Was, you know, pointing at Drake
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and like that, mostly because that's where Kendrick Lamar decided We're not doing subliminals
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no more. I'm going straight at Drake and j Cole on this record.
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Number nine lost ones for Laurence Hill. Absolutely a lot of times you don't
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even hear this being named as one of the greatest disc records, but it
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is one of the most fun and shit moments. And this is a female
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versus a male and it was nothing. I tell you nothing why Cleft could
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say because Laurence Hill smoked him? Who you going to scrimmage? Like you
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the champion? You might win some, but you've just lost one. Lauren
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was in a back comments to be wording you. It's a family podcast,
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so I'm not going to say the B word. You want to talk about
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dissecting one of my heroes in ice Cube slinging Saint Ives and bean pods in
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the same sentence, busy. But who's after that? Number seven? Ice
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Cube? No vaciline. How this is not the top five? I do
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not get it? But whatever ice Cube taking on n W a n w
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A wasn't a group that fell off at the time. There was the world's
30:19
most dangerous rap crew. At least that was the Moniker and he killed it.
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Push your t story of eight. It don like, what is this
30:33
boy name? I feel like that's not even his name, but you know
30:36
that's the one who's like, why you hiding the child while you let that
30:40
boy come out playing border patrol Like that just shut the battle down when it
30:45
came to Drake because it was like, oh wait a minute, you got
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it. You gotta see that's what everybody did. Number five Takeover jay Z
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kill your drama, I kill you mother up and ants with a sledgehammer.
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Don't make me do it till you've done it, because I overdo it.
31:04
So you won't confuse it with just rap music acts nods. He don't want
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it would hold you knew? Who? Do you know? What? Will
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you know? Who? We keep that between me and you? Who takeover?
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Whoo they came out? Takeover was a beast That was number five.
31:22
Drake back to Back. I think Drake back to Back should be in the
31:26
top ten. I don't think it should be in the top five. I
31:30
think no Vasaline has to be in the top five. But whatever, this
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is Elliott Wilson's list, killing mik mil killing him. That is that a
31:41
world tour or your girl tour? My god, just getting bodied by singing
31:48
it, like if you want to give Drake a win in a battle,
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it was definitely that one. So number three Not Like Us, my guy,
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he got Not Like Us. It's a crazy this record. It's crazy
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for a number of reasons. And I don't know if I think if I
32:07
made my own liss, I might go meet the Grams more than Not Like
32:14
Us. But I think Not Like Us makes the top ten strictly off the
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fact that he made a bop that rebuttled a lot of what Kendrick I mean,
32:24
what Drake was saying. And it's probably the one of the only records
32:30
on this list that's a number one hit. Crazy, number one hit this
32:37
and you everybody partying to your demids. It's crazy, like you can't even
32:42
go to a party because the DJ feels like, I gotta play this because
32:45
it'll get the crowd going. So number two ethan NAS's response to jay z
32:53
Man Listen, so so many came to hang it with IRVD Big and Eminem
33:00
murders you on your own, like we could just keep going and going like
33:06
the stuff that now is saying, like you tiebohole trying to work it out.
33:13
You're trying to get brought Ask me if I'm trying to acknowledge. Nah'm
33:17
trying to kick the issue. You need to learn though that etha that makes
33:21
it so burned slow? Is he dame diddy, Dame daddy or dame dummy.
33:27
Oh I get it, you biggie, and he puffy then he put
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the man. When that came out, y'all, it was literally what you
33:37
have witnessed today with Drake kind of his celebrity and his popularity looming larger than
33:46
Kendrick Lamar, even with Kendrick Lamar's accolades to be set down to the shadow
33:53
realm based off of old school back and forth battling. That's exactly what Now
34:00
did with he He poked. He was truly poked the bear, and once
34:05
ether came out, no one cared what he came out with. Now we
34:08
did for a second like, oh we got it super ugly, okay,
34:13
But then we was like, nah, he just mad because this ain't even
34:15
like good on some rapping stuff. Jay Z's way better than this, and
34:20
we know what happened later in the Blueprint two and all that, But the
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battle was over, Etha, it was over. But at number one,
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it's Tupac's hit him Up. Now. Not gonna go too long because we
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having some technical difficulties with the audio and the video, but let me just
34:39
say this, hit him Up is not number one. There's so many reasons
34:46
why it's not number one. It has nothing to do with Brooklyn, has
34:50
nothing to do with Biggie or me personally being a Biggie fan. I think
34:55
against our odds is way better, way better. Tupac disrecord for a number
35:02
of reasons than hit him up. Sure, when you go to hit him
35:07
up, it's the beat, you know, player's anthem. It's Tupac flipping
35:13
the grab your if you love hip hop, to grab your glocks when you
35:16
see Tupac, call the cops when you see too, Like all of that
35:21
was ill. First verse was Tupac. It was venom. I even like
35:27
in the beginning when he's kind of like talking kind of low like no friends,
35:30
like he about to set it. I love that part of it,
35:34
but it's literally a verse from an hook from Tupac and then some talking.
35:40
The minute the outlaws get out the way, Yo, get out the way.
35:45
I'm like, Nah, we don't want to hear from y'all. We
35:52
only want to hear from pot. Why is this the dis record? To
35:57
me? That knocks it down a peg? Everybody else named in that top
36:01
ten is straight up them putting in work against their rivals, against all odds.
36:08
It's so dope because not only is it dis records aimed at rap rivals,
36:14
but also street dudes. And I felt like, when you talking lyricism,
36:21
that's probably one of the best Tupac songs ever against all odds, just
36:24
be the really ever wrote truth that spoke against all odds up in the studio
36:31
getting blown like it's just a way better record and it's all Tupac and it's
36:38
everything he has to say. So it's hit him up a top ten.
36:43
I think so in a lot of ways because if anything is ten right,
36:49
because you can't get away from the fact that it is a disrecord, right
36:53
that had a video that had Tupac going at Biggie and every Junior Mafia and
37:00
Mob Deep and all of that. But at the same time, it's just
37:07
not to me. It was more of a shock value thing. See,
37:12
the takeover had the shock value of jay Z just coming out and saying,
37:16
assnas, he don't want it, well hold right, so he was challenging
37:21
him. But then he did a whole verse breakdown and the rest of the
37:24
song is about other guys and stuff like that, right, and jay Z
37:29
really don't have had a verse about nots when you think about it, But
37:31
it's not the same because it's a whole disc record featuring jay Z talking about
37:37
all these rifles, right, including nots. He just dedicated one verse two
37:43
nons specifically. And also, it wasn't really a battle between Tupac and Biggie
37:51
because Biggie never really responded and some people use that to say, well,
37:55
yo, he lost because he never responded. And I don't know if it
38:00
was ever truly a battle because all of this stuff happened within like, let's
38:07
just say a year, All of this energy from POC, all of the
38:09
you know, west Side, all of that was like ninety six and then
38:14
he was dead before the year ended. So if anything, if Biggie would
38:21
have released the record on his album, which came out March the next year,
38:24
it would have been tacky anyway, right because he died. But even
38:30
before Tupac died, I mean we hear that certain people that Biggie wanted to
38:36
do it, or certain people say, yeah, he was this in Tupac
38:37
on hair, but it was leaded blah blah blah. But one thing that
38:42
was clear because Big said it, and it was being said by multiple people
38:45
at the time. That's not what Puff wanted him to focus on. He
38:51
didn't want to get rouled up in a back and forth on record because he
38:54
wanted to get this money. And I think Big was listening to Puff because
39:00
again, when you didn't want to rhyme over juicy because you thought it'd be
39:04
whack, but you did it because this guy said it would be a hit.
39:07
And then this guy was right, and you realize you need to listen
39:13
to him to a fault because he also listened to him going out to La
39:17
around that time that you could see him wanting to That's why you get all
39:22
these Biggie subliminals about pot and certain songs. But he couldn't just come out
39:30
and just make a disrecord because I think he would have been happy to do
39:32
so, and he sort of did the same thing with the nases and stuff
39:37
like that on kicking the door. So in a lot of ways, you
39:40
can't say he was afraid of that smoke because everybody seen the video Biggie come
39:45
from Battle Rap he battle in front of the boat Degga outside. So it's
39:49
not about not wanting to do it. But if you see in a certain
39:52
level of success and the guy who's helping run the label says, yo,
39:59
we're not doing it, you know you probably just listen now. Also again,
40:04
Tupac dying probably pulled all that energy out of big anyway, because now
40:10
Tupac's not even here, so you're not gonna dis them. But for this
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list, I think a lot of what's in the top ten is right.
40:19
I just may have a different order. If I had to pick a number
40:24
one of all time, well, let's not say that we read that and
40:30
the Bridges Over was not in the top ten. How does that work?
40:36
The bridge is Over is like ether in a lot of ways, is like
40:40
no vasaline in a lot of ways. It's a career crushing type joint.
40:47
I'm going to say, in no order. Top five to me would be
40:55
Ether, no Vasaline, Bridges Over, and then these two slots become a
41:05
balance between I don't know and maybe so right, I think Meet the Grams
41:13
makes it into the top five because the more you listen, the more the
41:16
more the other songs and the responses are tied to the situations with Drake that
41:23
it just becomes crazy, right, Like you can see, the thought process
41:30
is beyond methodical. This we called. We say to those other records like
41:35
he dissected him, No, meet the Grants. It's a dissection of your
41:40
rifle. There's so there's that, and I would I would put Drake in
41:49
in Back to Back, and it's not about beats or was he as nice
41:52
as the rest of them. I just think we got to a point,
41:57
especially with that battle and again with battle with him and Kendrick. I think
42:02
Drake's timing and everything he said in Back to Back at that point in time
42:09
was just glorious to watch. And it's not even the greatest beat, it's
42:13
not the greatest flow. It was the timing and the fact that he was
42:16
playing me no big time. And again, there are other records. Now
42:22
I haven't gone through the one hundred, but there are other records that to
42:27
me could fall in the top ten or that I feel like should be on
42:31
this list, like second round knockout from Cannabis. I think, drop a
42:36
gem on him where Prodigy gets to respond to Tupacs, hit him up and
42:40
stuff. He say, you know, I have the whole New York State
42:44
aim in that face. You know, like what else you say? You
42:50
catch your flashbacks of robberies in Manhattan? You know what happened? Sixty g's
42:53
worth of gun clapping? Who shot you? You probably screamed loud in the
42:57
opera New York gotcha? Now you want to use my mob as a crutch,
43:00
which you think you can't get bucked again once again back in the house
43:06
like probably he was getting crazy now he didn't respond to jay Z like that
43:09
because I think that sledgehammer joint just just baby pictures. They just killed him.
43:16
But I said all that to say list a subjective. We all have
43:22
our favorites. That list moves around because that common diss is crazy too,
43:28
And you know, at the end of the day, it's battling as a
43:32
part of hip hop, you know, having some of these old school artists
43:37
and people saying it's counterproductive and da da da, I mean you ain't paying
43:40
attention, Homie is very productive. Ask Kendrick if it's counter productive. It's
43:47
very productive. And the thing is is if this promotes Kendrick to be a
43:53
bigger artist than he already is, it's in good hands because he's not going
44:00
to create some garbage fluff music when he decides to drop an album. It's
44:07
not counterproductive. What's probably counterproductive is, you know, during that stretch,
44:14
I think a lot of people weren't paying attention to any other music getting dropped
44:19
at all. They had the eyes of the hip hop community and outside of
44:23
that on them. But I think it's back to business now. So we
44:28
got Ghosts and we got Rhapsody, and we got a new Conway album,
44:31
we got a mac Hombie album. Like, we're back in business. So
44:36
you know, don't it's fine, you know, but it's hip hop,
44:40
man. It's battling and it's going to be things. And nobody got hurt.
44:45
And you know, if things happen, and you can't really tie it
44:49
to people sitting there with their pens, because sometimes it happens with people who
44:54
are outside of hip hop and some will say, well it's because of well
44:59
guess what. There's plenty of people getting murdered across the world, and it
45:02
ain't because of no hip hop records. So hip hop ain't really adding to
45:07
something that's going to happen anyway. So let's just focus on the art form
45:13
and the true nature of competition, which is what it was, and let's
45:19
just have fun with hip hop because that's the thing. It was fun to
45:22
be online talking, debating, looking at this, watching breakdowns, making videos
45:28
myself, talking to people who are hip hop heads, you know, about
45:32
this and that, and how drake joints sound and how Kendrick's joints sound.
45:37
This records is a part of hip hop, the conversation, the competition,
45:40
this is all a part of it. It's always been there always, So
45:45
it's not counterproductive today because you're older and they're not talking about what you got
45:52
put now. I'm checking for you. But let's not hate because this attention
46:00
is dominating everything in the press because you know it's over now, you know,
46:06
just new music from Drake and Kendrick is all I want to head.
46:07
That's it. I wan't hand them on dis records from them too, that's
46:10
it. I want to hand them over. We got enough. So what
46:14
do you think about that? Top one hundred list. Think you should check
46:17
it out if you've never heard some of the records, they have links to
46:22
some of them on that website on hip hopbx dot com. Let me know
46:27
what you think. Do you think Hit Him Up should be number one?
46:30
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46:34
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