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Down By LAW · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, l L Cool
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  J and Iced Tea go hunting for iconic hip hop treasure in a new series.
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  My thoughts on Killer Mike's latest album, Michael and Push Your t Finally
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  Collapsed, Back at Jim Jones and a song preview that Jim Jones is not
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  impressed by. Yeah, and we're gonna talk about it. Let's do it.
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  Welcome to Jim Hop Now Podcast. Gift you from the Future. You're
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  gonna do show outside of don't disrespect the lea. Hip hop is heavies,
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  Dadum, Let's get right into the business. What up, y'all? I
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  am your host, Vegas. This is hip Hop Now Podcast, A podcasts
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  where I'm getting some of these stories from Let's get brighton to the Business L
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  and l cooj to you or go to you and iced Tea are going hunting
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  for iconic hip hop memori bilia. I refer to them ass treasures because I'm
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  a hip hop head. This is a part of a new series by A
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  and E in conjunction, I believe with the Universal hip Hop Museum which is
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  being built. Yeah follow me, you know you're hiring and something like that,
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  you got jobs, whatever. But I think this is a very very
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  very very very dope idea. You know why, because of the fact that
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  you have a hip hop museum that you want to be like the official hub
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  for hip hop that people from out of town can come and visit. Maybe
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  you do a Hall of Fame type thing and maybe that's where the ceremonies tend
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  you know, take place or whatever. Just something to fish you for hip
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  hop, right, And what better way to promote this build then to you
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  know, like have a show dedicated to finding the types of items from hip
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  hop history to put in the museum and to learn about some of those stories.
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  It's almost like a preview to the museum before the museum is up,
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  right, So you would like you see something you would want to like go
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  right to check it out in person and learn a little bit more so,
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  I think it's a very dope idea. There's some opportunities for myself to be
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  a part of it, but I'm not going to talk about that until it
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  becomes a reality. But nevertheless, this is an A and E show.
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  It's called Hip Hop Treasures. This is a report from Deadline, able to
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  premiere on August twelfth. If you're from the future, you are say,
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  you've probably already been in a damn museum. It's your ansty Nevertheless, if
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  you're not from the future, hip Hop Treasures, which will premiere on August
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  twelfth on A and E, and it features these two mcs on a hunt
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  for the genre's best known and best loved memorabilia. I saw and I'm not
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  gonna play anything for you guys, and you know you just go check it
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  out. Hip Hop dx dot com has a story on it that you could
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  also check out. But I saw the trailer, and when I saw the
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  trailer, I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna watch because,
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  to be truly honest, y'all, as much as I watch TV, I
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  don't watch a lot of TV. I watch more sports than anything, and
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  occasionally, if if something hip hop related is dope enough that I really want
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  to check it out. I will, and this seems interesting but in some
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  ways for me personally, not you, but for me, I'm definitely gonna
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  go visit the Universal Hip Hop Museum, right, And this is kind of
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  like a spoiler for me. I like to walk into a museum where I'm
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  interested in every damn thing in the morning and just know that I'm gonna probably
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  read every damn thing in there, and I just want to I want to
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  be like a kid in the toy store, you know, wherever those still
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  exist, that walks in and it's just like, oh, you know,
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  it's Jammaster Jay's chain, you know, and oh you know Onyx suits from
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  the Throw Your Guns in the Ad video, and you always ice cubes Jerry
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  Curl. But I mean, I'd be amazed if Jerry curls there but now
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  still wet from the eighties or the nineties. But you know what I mean,
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  I kind of don't want to know. And the trailer was like enough,
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  But again, the museum is not gonna be open anytime soon, so
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  who knows. Maybe maybe I'll check it out. Maybe I'll do another review
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  series, right like I did with the woo tang thing. Have somebody you
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  know, people who are watching it. I bring them in as guests.
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  We talk about each episode, right, I don't know fan out or whatever.
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  So you tell me in the comments section, is that was some kind
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  of content you would like the watch, right and then maybe do another live
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  stream. Who knows, but it sounds dope. Push your Tea recently shared
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  a snippet from the Louis Vaton fashion show that went down where Pharrell, who's
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  in charge? I guess of the earth been section of Louis Vuitton. But
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  no, seriously, uh this was Farrell's, you know, debut of of
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  the things he has designed. Jay Z performed. Jay Z's jack jacket was
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  tough like it was tough, man. I was looking at that jacket like,
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  I don't think I care how much it costs. I want it,
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  Okay, do I got it? I don't know. But Farrell was kind
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  of his ouph and I ain't gonna front him, Rihanna. I think Asav
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  Rocky had the same thing going. That was that was Minecraft. Y'all come
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  on now, stop the kids spot that from the Minecraft. I know Minecraft
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  when I said that's what that was, But who knows, maybe somebody who
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  like it or freaking in a certain way as far as what they have on
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  with it, that it'll look dope. But to me it kind of looked
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  like, Okay, Minecraft camouflage, Um, it is what it is.
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  But Push Your T and No Malice were together and they have a song together,
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  and it kind of leans towards the rumors of a possible Clips album,
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  and just on the surface from what I heard beat wise and rhyme wise,
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  it took me right back to that era Clips, and I was like,
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  man, I can't wait till they like drop this album or whatever. But
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  in the lyrics for Pushing T was some bars for Jim Jones, And if
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  we rewind back, Jim Jones was basically talking down on a Push the T
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  about him not necessarily having any like popularity or anybody really remembering a verse or
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  him being cool, just all these kinds of things to dispel honestly, sound
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  like dispelling what people about Push your Teeth like he's looking at him like,
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  well, why is he popular? Right? How is he nice? When
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  nobody can remember or recite some things he said? Right now? Jim Jones,
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  it's the same thing for you, Jack, And we don't even know
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  if you wrote half your stuff. I'm willing to put money down you haven't.
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  But in those bars from push your t let me see if I have
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  him, I do have him. So here's the bars that felt directed at
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  Jim Jones, and I quote beware of my name. That's their delicate,
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  delicate. You know I know where you're delicate. Crush you to pieces out,
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  hume a breath out of it. I will close your heaven for the
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  hell of it. You think i'd be valor amongst veterans. I'm watching your
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  fame escape relevance. We all in the room. But here's the elephant you
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  chase. You chasing a feature out of your element. And those lab diamonds
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  under inspection, the question marks block your blessings. It's no tombstone in the
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  desert. I know by now you get the message. He doesn't have to
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  say anything else. If you don't get it, I'm sure I understand.
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  Oh it's sirie Jim Jones on my watch. I don't know, but you
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  don't have to. If you don't get anything that was said there, head
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  over to hip hopdx dot com thank you again, so that you can you
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  can read the words and comprehend them, or you can just rewind back what
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  I said. But nevertheless, it's not about just insulting the person. When
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  it comes to battling, it's about skill and technique and wordplay and the heaven
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  and Hell lines room elephant like you have to catch those to understand how this
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  little bit, these little bits of little bitty bits of bars are almost like,
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  let's not even start this battle because it's over before it started. You
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  know why, Because we know Jim Jones pedigree and he is not known for
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  being technically sad. He can make some dope records. Don't Sleep El Cappo
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  that was one of my albums of it. Yeah, that joint was crazy,
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  But he's really just probably going to go the insult insult route because I
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  don't know if he could rap to this level. But Jim Jones did respond,
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  and this is what he had to say, and I hope people can
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  hear it that that was not a top fifty verse fifty. So that's what
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  he had to say. That's not a top fifty verse. Still down in
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  my top fifty. Jimmy, what what are you even talking about? Who
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  are you even talking to? Is this is somebody playing a trick and taking
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  something else. You're absolutely you like you're talking about something totally different. Who
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  said anything about top fifty? Who said anything about your top fifty? Here's
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  what I found, Sirie. If you don't, all we're saying is,
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  yeah, this smoke has your name on it. Address it. Jimmy's old
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  enough to know real hip hop. He know real hip hop when he hear
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  it. He know real hip hop battle when he got one. This ain't
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  the days of joking and saying smacking koufies off, but they don't really got
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  no bars. Stop playing with that man. He's warning you with this verse.
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  So what I like to see I would I think curious to hear a
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  jim I'm not writing them off, right, I'm not totally writing them off,
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  but he needed to stop playing. You said what you said as an
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  MC. The MC responded, and now you're sort of acting like you're above
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  a real rap response by saying, oh not much fifty fifty. That just
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  means the verse ain't ready yet from whoever rating it. Okay, it ain't
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  ready yet, But Jimmy, you need some bars. I could give you
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  something for pushing. I don't know if it'll help you, but to keep
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  you, you know, a bove water at least least the water be ready
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  to you to this area. I'm not gonna say it because then the pause
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  gods are gonna come in and start saying, you know ao, so you
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  know what I mean above water. So we'll see how this plays out.
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  Not a battle that most should care about, but interesting nevertheless. And I
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  think push your t just made it interesting for me because I almost believed that
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  I didn't even acknowledge it when Jimmy first started talking. So we'll see.
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  And lastly, Killer Mike put out a brand new solo album, I think
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  his first solo album and well over five years. I think it's called Michael.
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  It is fourteen tracks, fifty four minutes total. So basically the basic
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  like if you want to put out an album and you're wondering how many tracks,
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  how long, this is exactly what you should do. Especially for a
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  listener like me. This is just enough for me to get the vibe of
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  an album and break out. Now, those are you who watched this podcast
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  or listen to this podcast? No, I listened to these like four reviews.
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  I listen to these albums like more than once. But this is generally
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  my impressions, but I have heard it at least three or four times.
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  Right, and last week, if you're from the future, get your ass
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  out of here. But last week I did my top five hip hop albums
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  of the year so far. Well, I'm here to tell you I ain't
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  always shure time. One of those albums just got bumped because Killer Mike has
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  always been dope, right, especially what Run the Jews. I got something
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  specially for y'all next week in regards to Run the Jews. But he's always
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  been dope. I love the whole Run the Jews run. With that production
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  combined with LP, who is also featured on this album, it's just I
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  can't get enough of it. I love every time they drop it because it's
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  always that music is just always different. Well, this project Michael by Killer
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  Mike is no different. But it's not for those who are Run the Jews
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  fans. It's not that even though there is a track that features that kind
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  of production, but it's not that. This is such a great combination of
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  solo Killer MinC, Run the Jewels, and just a veteran hip hop MC
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  who has something to say. It's it's like an autobiography of a man's past
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  and present, right and future in a lot of ways, very dope features.
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  There's a ton of features on here, but y'all like that now.
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  But the great thing about this album is the features work and they don't get
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  in a way. Celo Green is on the title trackdown by Law, which
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  is probably what grabs you the first time you press play, because that beat
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  who That beat is so crazy that I think I put that on repeat before
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  I finished the album because I just was like, Yo, this beat so
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  crisp and it's knocking at I just want to hear it again right. Also,
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  Masi's featured on this album I'm not Gonna go through Everybody. Todd Dallas
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  signs on Hair Currency to Chains, Future LP obviously of Run the Jewels,
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  Young Thugs on there, and also, as everybody had talked about on the
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  track called Scientists and Engineers Are three thousand Now. Quick sidebar. What would
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  have been a story on this podcast but it isn't anymore, is the fact
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  that Killer Mike had confirmed that Are three thousand was working on a solo album,
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  but then he backtracked on that and said he was really high during that
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  interview, and that's incorrect. I think he was telling the truth. But
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  I think that because of the type of artists Andrea three thousand is, he
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  doesn't want to talk about anything unless he has what he wants from the project,
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  which you can understand, right, because then you start building this anticipation.
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  People make up in their minds what they think the album's going to be,
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  and then sometimes those expectations aren't met and people are disappointed in Alice Whack
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  and you blew it for him, right, So let it be a surprise.
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  Let it be a surprise. Three Stacks got an album and is out
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  now boom, So we'll see. But the reason why this album makes my
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  top five of the year so far, and it's going to be really difficult
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  to bump this one out, it is just because of the care that it
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  was put into this album. Now, a lot of people, you know,
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  when they pick their top five or whatever, they're just looking for artists
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  to be dope spitters, have dope beats. They could head not too right,
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  just have a vibe for me and your top five of the year.
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  But for me, I think some of those albums can be the best of
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  the year, right, Those types of albums but I think those that rise
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  to at least my top five, they have to do more in a lot
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  of ways, or they have to do that vibe extremely well, right,
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  extremely well, to the point where it's infectious and I can't stop listening and
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  I gotta give it up, Like, yo, this is just it.
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  This is one of the top five. But with Michael, it's it's the
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  it's the little things, right, It's the clarity in Big Mike's voice so
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  you can hear his lyrics. It's the sincerity in his words, right,
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  It's it's the delivery. Also, you have to convey your feelings in a
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  way that connects with us, right, like whether we went through his situations
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  are not, we understand it because he sounds so sincere and how he spits
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  it right. The production, it just works where every track just works well
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  for what the song is. Now, don't get me wrong, there are
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  two or three songs here and there that didn't really blow me away as far
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  as the production and the lyrics and the theme, but they fit well amongst
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  the entire theme of the album. So I may not be crazy about the
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  individual song, but I see how it fits into the overall theme, right,
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  And then the features to have this variety of features on the album predominantly
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  a lot of people from Atlanta, right, But it doesn't feel like,
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  oh, well, I gotta make this Atlanta album, so let's do and
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  talk about all the things that Atlanta so everybody gets it. If you don't
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  know half the stuff that's being said, n't even know that the majority of
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  the artists that are on here are from there, it wouldn't come across.
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  And I think that's the dopest way to do it, because it's still repping
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  Atlanta, right, They're still saying things that are unique to Atlanta. But
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  it doesn't feel exclusive, right if you're not from there, it feels inclusive.
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  It feels like, Yo, this is for my town, and this
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  is how we present it, and you're welcome to join us, you know
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  what I'm saying. So in a lot of ways, you know, it's
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  a it's a personal telling of his life, as you know you can see
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  with the album cover, you know it's a school picture of him in his
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  younger days. But you get to learn a little bit more about Big Mike,
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  I mean Mike the Killer Mike, and you know what his life has
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  been up until this point, and it's just such an honest album, mature
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  album that I think it's one of the best of the year, and it's
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  in my top five of the year. Now what I moved out, Well,
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  you're just gonna have to wait towards the end of the year to see
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  what's still there. But it's easily in my top five as a result,
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  because it's just a very dope album. So check it out when you get
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  the chance. What do you think about Killer Mike's latest album, Michael,
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  Are you're a fan of Killer Mike? Did this album make you a fan?
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  Let me know in the comment section below. Also Push your T and
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  Jim Jones, do you even care about a potential battle? Or is it
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  already over? With the bars that Push your T displayed, leave your comments
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