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Does Joey Bada$$ Look Desperate? · 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: Joey Badass sends shots at Ray Vaughn and Daylight while
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Speaker 1: my store from Let's get bring to the business thuff
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Speaker 1: so Big Sean Joey Badass and adds so put together
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Speaker 1: a freestyle video. I forget the name my bad I
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Speaker 1: forget the name of the people who do it, but
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Speaker 1: it's like a three sixty video. You know they're Ramen.
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Speaker 1: They've got a couple of dope videos out but they're
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Speaker 1: ramen and the cameras like going around in the circle.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's pretty dope visually. And this freestyle
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Speaker 1: was interesting because we know what Joey Badass did at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year calling out West Coast really,
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Speaker 1: you know, because it was very vague about it. He
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Speaker 1: tried to explain himself in this one, but I don't really
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Speaker 1: buy it. Call it buddy kind of does. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to Joey, but he kind of, he doesn't. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: touch on he addresses that freestyle and the people who
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Speaker 1: responded to him back then, most notably Ray Vaughon out
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Speaker 1: of TDE and also Daylight. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: legendary battle rapper. If you don't know to say who's Daylight?
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Speaker 1: Who is that? Trust me, I'm afraid to hear his
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Speaker 1: rebuttal to this. But those two in particular, while also
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Speaker 1: kind of still talking about Kendrick and something that came
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Speaker 1: a little bit later. But what was interesting that you
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Speaker 1: would think is, oh, Absol's right there, that's that's Kendrick's homie.
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Speaker 1: It's West Coast all day. And I think they did
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Speaker 1: a really dope routine where when it was Absol's turn
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Speaker 1: to go. He turned to Joey and he was spitting
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Speaker 1: to him, but it was like a back and forth,
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Speaker 1: like I know, but like I loved it because it
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Speaker 1: was like, this is what it's about, right, It ain't
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Speaker 1: about no beef. So Rayvon chilled with the physical threats.
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Speaker 1: He can rap, don't get it wrong, he can rap.
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Speaker 1: But what they displayed Big Sean as and especially Absol
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Speaker 1: and Joey Badass being in this together right sorry, Big
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Speaker 1: Sean is happening again. It's like the control verse, which
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Speaker 1: they kind of touch on. But I think it was
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Speaker 1: still dope because it showed some solidarity in hip hop
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Speaker 1: that y'o, we could be competitive, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So I think it was dope in that manner. Might
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Speaker 1: have been crazy if it was Daylight Rayvaon and Joey
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Speaker 1: Badass that did it, that might have been crazy, but
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Speaker 1: Joey would have got jumped. So right off the heels
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Speaker 1: of that, Rayvon is like, here's a new is a
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Speaker 1: dis record called whole Error with the video here you go,
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Speaker 1: And I like he's pretty dope. I think his first
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Speaker 1: response when he was rhyming over the hard part six
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Speaker 1: not that Drake Trash, the one on gn X, I
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Speaker 1: thought that was fire. This one was like, Okay, this
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Speaker 1: is kind of a warm up kind of thing, But
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Speaker 1: I don't think he should have came with a warm
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Speaker 1: up when your originally was so dope. But nevertheless, Ravon
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Speaker 1: still had bars. Not too long after that, Joey drops
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Speaker 1: a joint call I think the Finals and he goes
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Speaker 1: directly at Rayvon and he breaks him down to the
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Speaker 1: organic compound, like he breaks him down right, And I
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Speaker 1: just felt like joe that was the freestyle siteher thing,
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Speaker 1: and that was the best to me, that Joey sound
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Speaker 1: lyrically out of all these back and forth stating back
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Speaker 1: to the beginning of the year, that was the best
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Speaker 1: because he was like laser focused on Rayvon. The thing
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Speaker 1: is is where Rayvaughn, a lot of people don't know him,
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Speaker 1: and they don't really know a lot about him, even
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Speaker 1: though you know the interviews are out there is the
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Speaker 1: album that came out was pretty dope or mixtape or
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, so he was able to do a
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Speaker 1: lot of flips, but it's a lot of unknown. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know if Joey badass saying what he's saying
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Speaker 1: about his relationship with TD and blah blah blah. I
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Speaker 1: don't know the strength of that, right, but it's crazy
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Speaker 1: to be disting a dude using a lot of top
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Speaker 1: dog and TDE references when you just did like a
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Speaker 1: comrade freestyle with Damn. I'm gearing to call him daylight Abs,
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Speaker 1: so stop sleeping on as sol By the way, stop it.
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Speaker 1: He could spit all right, and you see it. So
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Speaker 1: as of this recording, we haven't heard anything from Rayvaughn.
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Speaker 1: But in that same finals freestyle from Joey Badass that
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Speaker 1: this song towards Rayvon, he's still baiting Kendrick. Now this
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Speaker 1: is the thing, right, there's two sides of this. First
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Speaker 1: of all, you'll received if you're watching the video reseed
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Speaker 1: the hat in Brooklyn all day, right, So that's one, right,
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Speaker 1: And I don't like, Oh you see the shirt too.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, the real king of New York.
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Speaker 1: Everybody else is pretended, but you kind of you see
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Speaker 1: it in a way where and I hate to say this, well,
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Speaker 1: let me say this also, I'm not just from Brooklyn.
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Speaker 1: I don't just like Joey bands because it's from Brooklyn.
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Speaker 1: I like Joey Bannas like I like a lot of
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Speaker 1: his music. I checked for new album songs, even songs
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Speaker 1: that some people don't like from Joey Banns. I like.
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Speaker 1: I like him. He's dope to me, And I felt
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Speaker 1: like in January his freestyle is just so unnecessary because
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Speaker 1: nobody was asking you if if they wanted you to
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Speaker 1: battle Kendrick, like nobody. Some people care because they want
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Speaker 1: Kendrick to go down for what he did for Drake.
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Speaker 1: Some people care because they're not really into Kendrick style
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Speaker 1: of music and they're more into Joey Badass style of music.
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Speaker 1: They think that Joey Badass is more about bars than
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Speaker 1: Kendrick is. I don't know how you look at this battle.
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Speaker 1: You just didn't get a lot of what was said.
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Speaker 1: That's why I get you just didn't get a lot,
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Speaker 1: Like you have to know. It's like with battle Rack,
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Speaker 1: right like I said with Ravon, you have to know
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Speaker 1: enough about this person as a spectator for some lines
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Speaker 1: to hit. If you didn't know Drake had a questionable
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Speaker 1: history online that you could look up before AI and
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Speaker 1: all of that with the minors, then those lines might
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Speaker 1: have been like what do you mean you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, the naming of his crew. You might not
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Speaker 1: even know who's baka gotta wear a case? Why is
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Speaker 1: he around? Like maybe you don't know who that is?
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Speaker 1: So in battle rap in general, you have the same thing.
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Speaker 1: You go back to jay Z and now as you
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Speaker 1: can go back to all of this, if you don't
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Speaker 1: have the context in order to hear the rhymes and
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Speaker 1: get what they're talking about when they're taking shots at
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Speaker 1: each other, it's a you're listening to a totally different situation,
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Speaker 1: a totally different battle. And one thing about Joey Badass
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Speaker 1: as a fan that made me ask this question does
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Speaker 1: Joey Badass look desperate? Is because I remember he dropped
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Speaker 1: probably my favorite, well I won't say favorite, but one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite albums of his American Badass, not too
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Speaker 1: long after The Pimp a Butterfly, and it had the
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Speaker 1: same tone as far as the concept right, which which
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Speaker 1: is where why would you dys Kendrick? But at at
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Speaker 1: that time, I was like, man, this is a really
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Speaker 1: dope album, but nobody's going to care because to Pimple
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Speaker 1: Butterflies out and it's already checking that box. But what
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Speaker 1: Joey did wasn't exactly like in the same way that
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Speaker 1: to Pimple Butterfly did like musically, to Pimple Butterflies, everything
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Speaker 1: is black music in general. It's not just hip hop,
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Speaker 1: whereas Joey's musical side for that album was hip hop.
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Speaker 1: But it's still about black lives matter, still about black
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Speaker 1: men young, you know, black men in general getting killed,
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Speaker 1: or police brutality and all of that. It had all
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Speaker 1: the same beats and it was very dope to me.
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Speaker 1: There was room for both. But when that album didn't
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Speaker 1: hit in a way it should have, then it kind
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Speaker 1: of went back to the well with what people were
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Speaker 1: familiar with and put out an album. I think it
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Speaker 1: was the Joint. I think he had one between, but
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Speaker 1: most notably the joint that was called two thousand, which
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Speaker 1: was a sequel to his nineteen ninety nine record He Got.
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Speaker 1: I think he had Diddy, think he had Diddy on
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Speaker 1: it doing it. Scared shit, Oh pardon me, family, podcast
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Speaker 1: my back. Sometimes they slip out children, but also nas like.
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Speaker 1: He had all these code signs of him lyrically, and
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Speaker 1: it still didn't pop in a way I think he
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Speaker 1: wanted it to, even though his fans were there Yold
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Speaker 1: Barnes is back, Don't Sleep with My Homie and all
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Speaker 1: of that. It felt like he was like not getting
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Speaker 1: the attention he wanted, and it felt like he has
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Speaker 1: it's time for him to have a new album out
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Speaker 1: and instead of you know, his the new singles he
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Speaker 1: put out that didn't really crack for people like that,
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Speaker 1: what's the Past Poor and Luggage or something like that.
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Speaker 1: I liked it, but a lot of people didn't like
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Speaker 1: it because it wasn't Bars, and he was doing a
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Speaker 1: lot of singing. So I think to satisfy himself and
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Speaker 1: to satisfy those fans who want him to be about Bars,
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Speaker 1: he's just decided I'm gonna just start disting because it's claid.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's what y'all want. And in a lot
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Speaker 1: of ways, he's right. This is probably the most universal
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Speaker 1: attention he's gotten on his music maybe ever. Right, it's
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Speaker 1: not saying he's not successful and he didn't have dope
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Speaker 1: albums and people don't like him. He's almost like Big Sean,
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Speaker 1: it's like damned if you actually when you look at it,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of like an underlying THINGU man, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna move on that promise, Big Sean, Joey Badass, and
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Speaker 1: I keep getting in say Daylight and as so oh
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Speaker 1: kind of have the same careers in a lot of ways.
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Speaker 1: Big Sean is probably the most successful. Then it's Joey
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Speaker 1: than his abs Soul, but they always exist in the
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Speaker 1: shadows of others, right they It's never like Joey dropped something.
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Speaker 1: He rolls above Drake or he rolls above you know,
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Speaker 1: Big Jean or Kendrick right, same thing would ab So
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Speaker 1: he doesn't even rise above his peers on the label,
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Speaker 1: right and with Big Sean, with him, even though he's
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Speaker 1: more successful. His last album, which was pretty good, was
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Speaker 1: dropped during his battle and know everybody forgot. Everybody forgot
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Speaker 1: or didn't look So I get it. I believe there's
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Speaker 1: a little bit of desperation because in a lot of ways,
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Speaker 1: this is the way he's getting people's attention, and maybe
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Speaker 1: when he drops his album there'll be more people incline
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Speaker 1: to listen to see what it sounds like, even if
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Speaker 1: they're there to hear another Distracord. It's just a way
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Speaker 1: to draw attention. I think it is desperate because I
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Speaker 1: think if you're going to ascend to a level that's
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Speaker 1: bigger than where you are. You just got to do
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Speaker 1: it with great music. Period. You can't. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: can try to find ways to market yourself, but calling
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Speaker 1: out Kendrick to possibly get ignored will probably backfire, you know.
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Speaker 1: I know he doesn't want to battle Rayvon in daylight
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Speaker 1: like they haven't. They haven't achieved the success Joey Badass
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Speaker 1: is achieved, right, even at his level, which is, you know,
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Speaker 1: not just way below Kendrick if you ask me, but
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Speaker 1: still credible. I don't think he wants to accept his position,
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Speaker 1: and in a lot of ways, I'm not mad at that,
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Speaker 1: because that's what hip hop is about, right. If Kendrick
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Speaker 1: can go on control and call everybody out and say
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Speaker 1: step your bars up, watch the party die, and so
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Speaker 1: can Joey. I just feel like this is probably one
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Speaker 1: of the most pointless battles ever, not because there's not
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Speaker 1: bars involved, but because, like, he clearly wants Kendrick to
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Speaker 1: battle him, but he's just battling the other dudes because
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Speaker 1: they're the ones who responded, but he wont Kendrick. And
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Speaker 1: I think Kendrick does not care about this, and he'll
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Speaker 1: probably address it in some small way. I just hope
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Speaker 1: it doesn't turn to another battle because on a grander scale,
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Speaker 1: I love hip hop, I love battles, but styles make fights,
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Speaker 1: and depended on the matchup, I'm not as interested in
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Speaker 1: this matchup as I would if it was somebody way
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Speaker 1: more credible, Like not that Kendrick should spend the rest
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Speaker 1: of his career battling, but if someone like eminem is
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Speaker 1: just decided I'm going for Kendrick going at his head pause.
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Speaker 1: I'm interested in that one because I think lyrically and
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Speaker 1: what could be said would be more interested than what
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Speaker 1: Joey's doing right now, just or battled Daylight. You know,
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Speaker 1: no disrespect to Rayvon, but Joey battling Daylight is more
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Speaker 1: impressive to me than it would be battling Ravon, because
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Speaker 1: Ravon in the hip hop game, even though he got
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Speaker 1: some joints out, he's still unproven, he's still new with
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Speaker 1: the TDS stamp on him, not necessarily new to the game.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see where things end up. But honestly, I'm
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Speaker 1: loosely listening because I don't care. Next story, stoles P
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Speaker 1: was in an interview recently and he was talking about
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Speaker 1: very aggressively the difference between him and Jim Jones lyrically,
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Speaker 1: and he just summed it up like I'm a bar
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Speaker 1: master and I've been on tracks for such and such,
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Speaker 1: such and such and such, such and such and such.
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Speaker 1: Now talking about desperate, this should be right up. Jim
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Speaker 1: Jones alley. He's been begging anybody who would listen to
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Speaker 1: battle him. Why because it just brings more attention to
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Speaker 1: your music. Now, I will say this, honestly, he don't
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Speaker 1: need any attention on his album that he dropped at
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Speaker 1: the church front steps this year, because I like it.
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Speaker 1: I think it's dope, and I think it's one of
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Speaker 1: the best of the year. I do. But when it
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Speaker 1: comes to comparisons between him and styles P, and where
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Speaker 1: this is coming from is like I think Versus is
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Speaker 1: supposed to come back and that's a potential battle. But again,
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Speaker 1: Styles make fights unattended, and we all know Stoles P
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Speaker 1: will wipe the floor with Jim Jones, wipe the floor
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Speaker 1: with him. He is not there, not on the same
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Speaker 1: level Jim Jones. What he makes that I like, it's cool,
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Speaker 1: it sounds good, it sounds good to the beats. It's
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Speaker 1: a certain vibe, not the old Yian vibe. Well yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of some of that, but you don't have
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Speaker 1: to be one to enjoy it. I think there's just
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Speaker 1: something to be said about him even if he ain't
20:48
Speaker 1: raining it, because that's another thing, but his commitment to
20:54
Speaker 1: what he says, right, because everything he says is a
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Speaker 1: jewel for you to grow up on. Lot of things.
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Speaker 1: You could tell this a struggle with him personally between
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Speaker 1: the streets, the church and like family and him trying
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Speaker 1: to balance all of that and it makes him dope.
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Speaker 1: And what stoles stoles Pe brings to the to a
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Speaker 1: battle is a lot of the same things that you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't think right. He got the street side of him also,
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Speaker 1: but Stout's pet catalog has a lot of conscious music
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Speaker 1: in it, so he's like street conscious, kind of like
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Speaker 1: when you know n W A s Thus kind of
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Speaker 1: got in that bad. But when it comes to technique
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Speaker 1: bar work. Never was I blown away by a Jim
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Speaker 1: Jones verse, right, never was as even as an MC.
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Speaker 1: I was like, hmm, I just think Jim Jones says
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Speaker 1: some cool ish, right, but stoles P can say the
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Speaker 1: cool ish, but he will break you down as an MC.
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Speaker 1: What he said, bar Master, he's not lying. He is
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Speaker 1: arguably the best one in the Lox. There was a
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Speaker 1: point in the time where I didn't think that I
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Speaker 1: thought a kiss was but early kiss was a monster,
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Speaker 1: and she too, she kind of still is. His current
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Speaker 1: verses do nothing for me, and I don't say anything
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Speaker 1: because it's Jadakiss. I love Jadakiss, but I don't think
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Speaker 1: Jadakiss is as hungry as it used to be. I
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Speaker 1: think stoles P is always humble. That's why he would
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Speaker 1: say this. So I'm not gonna watch your verses. Of
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Speaker 1: those two, I would accept one disrecord from Jim Jones
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Speaker 1: and one disrecord from styles P because I know what's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's gonna end now. I will be surprised
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Speaker 1: if I'm like, oh, Jimmy Joy, I just don't think
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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. So what do you think about that
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Speaker 1: hip hop heads watched this channel, they listen to this podcast.
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Speaker 1: I know the answer. But do you think Jimmy even
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Speaker 1: has a chance in a versus against stows P. Jimmy
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Speaker 1: got hits. He got a couple of hits, but stoles
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Speaker 1: P have a couple solo joints too, like one or
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Speaker 1: two of his solo joints. I don't know they matched
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Speaker 1: Jimmy in some way, so we'll see. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to see it at all, to be honest, but you
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Speaker 1: know what I'd rather see stowns versus kiss. That's a versus.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to that. Shout out to uh what's his name?
23:45
Speaker 1: Says that lastly. So last year in my best of
23:54
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four in my top five was Snoop and
24:01
Speaker 1: Doctor Dre's album Missionary and No, it wasn't doggy Style,
24:07
Speaker 1: it wasn't the chronic. It was let's just say bigger
24:13
Speaker 1: and sound and approach and features. And I thought it
24:17
Speaker 1: was really good, right, I thought it was really good.
24:20
Speaker 1: I liked it a lot. And then in January, Snoop
24:25
Speaker 1: took all that goodwill, all that momentum, and flushed it
24:30
Speaker 1: down the toilet when he performed at We're not saying
24:36
Speaker 1: his name on this podcast on the current president's inauguration.
24:42
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm just gonna give y'all disclaimer, write out
24:47
Speaker 1: the box. I don't need entertainers I like, of any form, film, music,
24:54
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, even podcasts, who had the same
24:58
Speaker 1: political views as myself or vote for the same person.
25:03
Speaker 1: Now as a black Man. Sure I had better expectations
25:08
Speaker 1: for someone like Snoop. Nelly kind of looked desperate. Ain't
25:12
Speaker 1: gonna front Soldier Boy. He did what he did and
25:15
Speaker 1: he ain't shy about it, So I'm not even mad
25:17
Speaker 1: at him, and he probably who knows, he might have
25:19
Speaker 1: voted the other way. But Snoop, on the other hand,
25:23
Speaker 1: was kind of disappointing, you know. And I think even
25:27
Speaker 1: though I didn't deliberately stop listening to Missionary because of that,
25:34
Speaker 1: it just put a bad taste in my mouth. And
25:37
Speaker 1: you know, I was like, I'll revisit it because I
25:39
Speaker 1: liked it. So I think Brother Malcolm X said do
25:44
Speaker 1: not look to entertainers for advice or views or leadership
25:51
Speaker 1: on things like the world's troubles or politics or whatever.
25:56
Speaker 1: And I believe that, and I believe that Snoop, just
25:59
Speaker 1: like Nelly, just like Soldier Boy, did it for the money.
26:04
Speaker 1: But when your base is on the other side, well
26:12
Speaker 1: they start to look at it like we're not messing
26:14
Speaker 1: with you no more. We don't trust you. But Snoop says,
26:21
Speaker 1: is It a Crime? Which is the title of his
26:24
Speaker 1: latest surprise album, where he's now also working with Spotify.
26:31
Speaker 1: After having issues with the way they pay out, so
26:34
Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe his books look different than most artists now.
26:38
Speaker 1: But it's a surprise album from Snoop that just dropped
26:41
Speaker 1: called Is It a Crime on Death Row Records, which
26:45
Speaker 1: I always smile when I see that. It's twenty one
26:50
Speaker 1: songs but only clocking in and an out, so it's
26:55
Speaker 1: not a long album at all. It's just that some
26:59
Speaker 1: of those songs he could have took off. I ain't
27:00
Speaker 1: gonna friend he could have took them off. Okay, So
27:04
Speaker 1: for those who don't know who are new here. When
27:06
Speaker 1: I review albums, I give him three listens, right, first listen,
27:10
Speaker 1: I'm just checking out what's there. Second listen, Okay, now
27:13
Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen a little bit more deeper into the
27:16
Speaker 1: lyrics and the concepts and the beats. And the third
27:20
Speaker 1: listen is just to confirm my thoughts. So for those
27:23
Speaker 1: who want to quick review, this is a good album.
27:29
Speaker 1: This is one of Snoop's better albums, and typically he
27:33
Speaker 1: doesn't do to back good albums in my opinion, So
27:39
Speaker 1: then you have that. Is it best of the year? Nah?
27:43
Speaker 1: Will it be in my top five? No, but it
27:49
Speaker 1: could be within that section of albums that I call
27:53
Speaker 1: the best of the year, But we have a long
27:55
Speaker 1: way to go in twenty twenty five, so it may
27:58
Speaker 1: fall out of that quickly. Right now, I will say
28:05
Speaker 1: this well really quick. Features on the album include October London.
28:10
Speaker 1: I feel like they used October London just to sound
28:13
Speaker 1: like Marvin Gay. Like you know who is we had
28:15
Speaker 1: on Head? We wish we had Marvin Gay October and
28:20
Speaker 1: that's his whole purpose on death Row. So he need
28:23
Speaker 1: to get out of there if he want to get
28:24
Speaker 1: out of Marvin's shadow. Who else is on Head? La
28:28
Speaker 1: Russell or is it l Russell? I don't know how
28:31
Speaker 1: you pronounce it. Who else wis? Khelifa is on this album?
28:36
Speaker 1: Correll is on his album? Sexy Red is on his
28:40
Speaker 1: album I'm gonna just review that one real quick. Sexy
28:44
Speaker 1: Red can't rap to me, like at all, Like she
28:48
Speaker 1: can't rap. She can't rap. There's a difference between your
28:53
Speaker 1: saying things and you're rapping, but she can't rap. Rap
28:56
Speaker 1: is karaoke to her. It's not embedded. Everybody don't have
29:01
Speaker 1: to be a bar king. But when you look at
29:04
Speaker 1: somebody like low Realer, you could tell she likes to rap.
29:07
Speaker 1: You may not like the rap, but you could tell
29:10
Speaker 1: the way she spits it negative stallion Cardi B you
29:13
Speaker 1: could tell they they know rap, they know how to
29:17
Speaker 1: have that energy. Sexy Red sounds like she has trouble talking,
29:23
Speaker 1: let alone rapping. And don't worry, it's not just about
29:26
Speaker 1: the ladies, because that's how I feel about twenty one Savage.
29:30
Speaker 1: He can't rap to me, So this song is trash, right,
29:35
Speaker 1: But out of twenty one songs, skipping is cool. In general.
29:41
Speaker 1: I feel like with this album, it starts off very strong,
29:46
Speaker 1: very strong, like you start thinking like, oh he's oh
29:50
Speaker 1: Snoop Snoop is back two for two, and then you
29:54
Speaker 1: start getting a mixed bag of sounds songs because I
29:57
Speaker 1: think the beginning tracks are more boom back soul, full
30:02
Speaker 1: West Coast sounding like you get all those different vibes
30:06
Speaker 1: early on that kind of set the tone for the album,
30:10
Speaker 1: and then you start to get a lot of these
30:12
Speaker 1: experimental kind of joints. Right, he got one joint that
30:16
Speaker 1: I feel like, Damn, I don't have the name down
30:21
Speaker 1: of the track, let me just look real quick. Yeah,
30:23
Speaker 1: it's just one track that sounds like a beat that
30:27
Speaker 1: Kendrick would have chose with the vibe that Kendrick would
30:30
Speaker 1: have done right, like not boom Back, not West Coast,
30:36
Speaker 1: almost kind of quirky sounding but fun. So I don't
30:40
Speaker 1: think it's bad. I just it just threw me off
30:43
Speaker 1: because the way the album starts, like I said, the
30:46
Speaker 1: Sexy Red Joint is black to me, but the majority
30:51
Speaker 1: of the music on here is pretty dope for Snoop.
30:55
Speaker 1: And then also he addresses in a direct but indirect
31:01
Speaker 1: hip hop way the inauguration and honestly, the bar is
31:07
Speaker 1: really putting more emphasis on money than political position, which
31:14
Speaker 1: what I said earlier, I think Snoop did it for
31:17
Speaker 1: the money, and I think that bag was so big
31:21
Speaker 1: he didn't care what people thought. To be honest, now
31:23
Speaker 1: he cares why too late man can't keep doing that.
31:29
Speaker 1: And then also he sort of addresses well not sort of,
31:33
Speaker 1: he addresses what Kendrick was saying, specifically whacked out murals,
31:41
Speaker 1: and he admits to making the wrong move. And this
31:45
Speaker 1: is the thing with stupid Man. He he is a
31:51
Speaker 1: walking contradiction. He will do and say things depending on
31:56
Speaker 1: them mode, you know what I'm saying, And it's kind
32:00
Speaker 1: of like he want to be left alone to playing
32:02
Speaker 1: his madden and call of duty in his crib in
32:05
Speaker 1: its downtime, but then he want to pop out and
32:08
Speaker 1: say things and do things on the main level, Like dog,
32:11
Speaker 1: you're famous, this is you already know. This is the
32:15
Speaker 1: famous life. So as much as people will praise you
32:18
Speaker 1: for things, they will also criticize you, and a lot
32:21
Speaker 1: of times deservingly some not a lot of times. But
32:24
Speaker 1: you know, if that's what it is, then you know
32:27
Speaker 1: you take it whatever it may be. So is it
32:31
Speaker 1: a crime by Snoop Dogg? If you like Snoop Dogg albums,
32:37
Speaker 1: if you didn't like the last album, you may like
32:39
Speaker 1: this one because it's a different vibe. It's closer to
32:42
Speaker 1: Blue Carpet Treatment, which is the when you're talking about
32:48
Speaker 1: Snoop albums like Doggy Start Style and there's a couple
32:51
Speaker 1: of good ones, but blue Carpet treatment is it, And
32:55
Speaker 1: I felt Missionary was kind of that. But I think
32:57
Speaker 1: this is dope. It's just a mixed bag when you
33:00
Speaker 1: get to that half waypoint if you don't like those
33:06
Speaker 1: different styles of records that already boom back or straight
33:09
Speaker 1: up West Coast sound. So what do you think about
33:12
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