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Dre Wants Perfection · 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: more flowers for the clips, this time at the Vatican.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Dre has a diplomatic album he produced that will
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Speaker 1: Never Drop.
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Speaker 2: In my review on.
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Speaker 1: The official release of Jay Electronica's other solo album, Act two,
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Speaker 1: along with a bonus Yeah it got complicated last night,
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Speaker 1: interesting albums and topics throughout the year. So if that said,
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Speaker 1: stories from. Let's get right to the business stuff, the clips.
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Speaker 1: It's a situation where the clips are essentially the biggest
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Speaker 1: thing of the year. We might as well come out
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Speaker 1: with it and just say it, right, Even if you
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Speaker 1: didn't like the album, it's hard to pause. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to not agree that their album captured a big moment
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Speaker 1: in hip hop and a similar way to the Drake
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Speaker 1: in Kendrick Lamar battle. Right, everybody was talking about it,
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Speaker 1: everybody was going to the tour. Not everybody, but you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, buying vinyl, like that's probably the
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Speaker 1: first time I bought vinyl for a new album right away,
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Speaker 1: like I had to have it, which is something I
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Speaker 1: went out and did the rollout right, the tiny Desks
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Speaker 1: being on all the shows giving quotables and interviews, Malice
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Speaker 1: turning into memes, Malice being like probably MC of the
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Speaker 1: Year easily. And I don't only say that because of
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Speaker 1: the Clips album, because if you listen to the record
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Speaker 1: community on on Jid's album.
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Speaker 2: Malices Verse, it's crazy.
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Speaker 1: And he's been a guest on a couple of other
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Speaker 1: projects where he got busy, and he's going to be
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Speaker 1: on MOB Deeps album also, but well, the Clips will
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Speaker 1: be on MYB Deeps album.
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Speaker 2: But that's what I mean. It's like the Clips have
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Speaker 2: just been big and now they just did something even bigger.
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Speaker 1: Right, So this week it was this is on Hip
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Speaker 1: Hop DX dot com. Clips performed first ever rap concert
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Speaker 1: at the Vatican. At the Vatican, the Clips Coke rappers,
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Speaker 1: I stuffed a blizzard in a Honda Civic white glove service.
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Speaker 1: I am Luigi at the Vatican. Now, I didn't watch set,
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Speaker 1: so the only song I heard was probably the most
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Speaker 1: appropriate song for the Vatican, I assume, which was the
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Speaker 1: first song off the album where they talk about you know,
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Speaker 1: their parents and passing, which is a song that it's
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Speaker 1: it's almost like a perfect set of for the album.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna review the album. Uh again, you
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Speaker 1: can check it out on the channel. We did a
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Speaker 1: whole breakdown review and all that good stuff. But I'll
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Speaker 1: say this, every time the Clips start to die down
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Speaker 1: and we start to get in the groove of other
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Speaker 1: albums as far as their exposure in the public, something
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Speaker 1: else happens to remind you. Right, Like you know, when
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Speaker 1: it starts to die down a little bit, there shows happen.
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Speaker 1: And then it was like fighths the song with Stove
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Speaker 1: God cooks on the hook started to rise and then
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Speaker 1: stove God was getting on this attention. It was like
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Speaker 1: and it's just going right back to the Clips album.
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Speaker 1: And like I said, when I review Jid's album, I
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Speaker 1: feel like that's one of the best albums of the
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Speaker 1: year and the Clips are on it. And it's a
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Speaker 1: good chance that, you know, from what I've heard so far,
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Speaker 1: like with the Mob Deep Stuff, Clips are on that.
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Speaker 1: So by the end of the year, it's just going
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Speaker 1: to be crazy. It's going to be a crazy victory
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Speaker 1: lap for the Clips.
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Speaker 2: And I love it.
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Speaker 1: And one last thing, every time I hear a song
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Speaker 1: from that album, I want to go listen to the
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Speaker 1: whole album. Like it's hands down the number probably the
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Speaker 1: number one album.
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Speaker 2: You know how they do those year end reviews.
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Speaker 1: On Apple and Spotify, Clips is going to be at
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Speaker 1: the very top of mine. It already is when you
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Speaker 1: look at the replay list for my account, Clips is right,
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Speaker 1: like damn it, the whole ablems there. So I think
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Speaker 1: it's a dope look for the Clips to do something
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Speaker 1: like this. And what I liked about it more than
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Speaker 1: anything is it felt like it should be then And
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Speaker 1: I don't know why it was. Maybe it was the
9:17
Speaker 1: you know, I think they I believe it came out
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Speaker 1: in tuxedos, and you know, it was kind of like
9:22
Speaker 1: Na's performing Illmatic was like a classy affair. But it's
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Speaker 1: something about the articulation, articulation when they're rymen, when they're
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Speaker 1: really when they're roymen. That's what's most important. The technique.
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Speaker 1: They sound like, every word matters, every word is worth
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Every word is art right, and that's
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Speaker 1: how they perform. Also, so to be at the Vatican
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Speaker 1: and the way it looked also was just like it's perfect.
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Speaker 1: They could probably do a whole other tour, but just
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Speaker 1: do it like Nas with this with the symphony and
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Speaker 1: they ensuits.
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Speaker 2: There's something to be said about that.
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Speaker 1: Like when I was watching Nas, I'm like, damn, he's
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Speaker 1: performing Illmatic and the talk about Project Halways and crack
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Speaker 1: and all and crackheads. But somehow this is still feels
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Speaker 1: like high brow, you know, like like hey, yo, don't
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Speaker 1: don't weigh your dusty times to this event, even though
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Speaker 1: some people did, but I thought it was dope.
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Speaker 2: Next same.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Dre apparently produced some songs for the diplomats back
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Speaker 1: in the days that are in the vault and apparently
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Speaker 1: will never be released.
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Speaker 2: That's what's being said.
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Speaker 1: And this is allegedly allegedly unreleased music, but somehow I
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Speaker 1: don't doubt it. This is also from hip hop d
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Speaker 1: X dot Co Doctor J. Doctor Dre reportedly has a
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Speaker 1: load of unreleased music he made with Diplomats. According to
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Speaker 1: Tony Yayo, Now I know what you're going to say, like, wait,
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Speaker 1: what gen you and it Tony ya yo, Like what
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Speaker 1: the hell? But remember, like Tony Yo has a relationship
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Speaker 1: with Dre also, and he was around fifty and you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Dre talks and all that good stuff.
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Speaker 1: But this was on Shannon Sharp's podcast Club Shayshe which
11:31
Speaker 1: I do not watch, but I do watch Nightcap.
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Speaker 2: I like Nightcap for sports.
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Speaker 1: Uh, and he revealed this if I could get past
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Speaker 1: it to god damn advertisement he said, and I quote,
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Speaker 1: doctor Dre is just a real picky MF. He did
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Speaker 1: records with Dipset and that ish ain't never come out.
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Speaker 2: He did.
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Speaker 1: He did records with certain people and they never coming out.
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Speaker 1: But he's like a real particular N word. I remember
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Speaker 1: that he used to tell fifty to do one line
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Speaker 1: over and over again, do it over say like this,
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Speaker 1: and I understood. Sometimes it's not what you say is
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Speaker 1: how you say it. Dre is an efing perfectionist. That
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Speaker 1: was an experience. Now, if you are extremely close to
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Speaker 1: hip hoppy, you pay attention to everything. This is not
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Speaker 1: news doctor Dre being a perfectionist to the point where
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Speaker 1: if you don't get it right, you're not coming out.
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Speaker 1: You might get dropped from the label. It's just how
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Speaker 1: particular he is. But I feel like how Snoop feels.
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Speaker 1: Snoop feels like I don't care if he asked me
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Speaker 1: to say the same word one hundred times over because
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Speaker 1: I know when it's said and done and that album
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Speaker 1: is finished, it will.
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Speaker 2: Sound like perfection.
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Speaker 1: And if you watch this podcast enough, if you listen
13:03
Speaker 1: to an album, like some people when they think of
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Speaker 1: doctor Dre, they only go back to Compton, right, which
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Speaker 1: obviously some of that's there, But the albums that you
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Speaker 1: really need to listen to to really hear Doctor Dre
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Speaker 1: at the master level of sound quality. Compton album which
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Speaker 1: was dope. I know you hate it on it, but
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Speaker 1: it was dope. But listen to that joint in this
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Speaker 1: recent missionary album. The sound quality, the crispness of people's voices, lyrics,
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Speaker 1: articulation like it's so great. It's similar to what I
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Speaker 1: was just saying about the clips, right, it's and I
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Speaker 1: don't even think that music is dope, but I don't
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Speaker 1: think quality wise, it's on the level of what Dre does,
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Speaker 1: like what he did with Marsha Ambrosia.
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Speaker 2: Like if you have.
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Speaker 1: Good headphones, but if you have excellent headphones that really
14:03
Speaker 1: especially like the over the ear joints that take advantage
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Speaker 1: of the quality of the sound, the and they kind
14:10
Speaker 1: of represent if it's plugged in, right and not bluetooth.
14:13
Speaker 1: If it's they kind of represent what the engineer, what
14:19
Speaker 1: the producer, the artists created, right.
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Speaker 2: It's not a dumb down version, a compressed version.
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Speaker 1: It's like every everything they wanted you to hear, you
14:31
Speaker 1: need some really quality headphones in order to take it
14:36
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. And you know, streaming services like
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Speaker 1: Apple will and now Spotify have lossless audio, so you
14:43
Speaker 1: can really get that because there are plenty of albums
14:47
Speaker 1: I know, for me just a little sidebar where you know,
14:50
Speaker 1: I've heard them for years and you know maybe they've
14:54
Speaker 1: added spatial audio.
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Speaker 2: Or something like that.
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Speaker 1: And the minute I got headphones that could take advantage
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Speaker 1: of some of that, I was like, Wow, this album
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Speaker 1: sounds different, Like I'm hearing things I don't remember hearing
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Speaker 1: in the records previously, and they were there, but they
15:11
Speaker 1: were subdued, like for example, Biggie's Somebody got the what's
15:18
Speaker 1: the YouTube term when you don't want to well, I
15:22
Speaker 1: don't get amount of tize anyway. Somebody gotta die, right,
15:27
Speaker 1: I remember back in the days, me and my friends
15:30
Speaker 1: like played around with the audio and we can only
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Speaker 1: hear the backtrack and it was like a big and
15:38
Speaker 1: puff created like a whole damn movie under Somebody Got
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Speaker 1: to Die, like with sound effects and everything.
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Speaker 2: All you heard was the talking, the steps, the rain,
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Speaker 2: like it was crazy.
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Speaker 1: But we had to do something with the stereo in
15:53
Speaker 1: order to hear that right, and we just listened to
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Speaker 1: it like, damn, it's crazy, it's dead because you really
15:58
Speaker 1: couldn't hear it in the song. You can hear that
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Speaker 1: there were things happening in the background, but it wasn't clear.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: I listened to that same song a couple of days ago,
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Speaker 1: the remastered version that I bought a while ago, and
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Speaker 1: now that background was like it was almost too clear,
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Speaker 1: So I was, you know, I liked it, but then
16:22
Speaker 1: at the same time, I was kind of like, my
16:26
Speaker 1: tension span is going from Biggs lyrics to that and
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Speaker 1: back and forth. But I said all of that to
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Speaker 1: say that is how doctor Dre rolls like. He is
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Speaker 1: a perfectionist. He does not want to put anything out
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Speaker 1: that he doesn't feel is up to par. And it
16:45
Speaker 1: was the main reason why we never got Detox because
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Speaker 1: Doctor Dre didn't feel like it was ready for prime time,
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Speaker 1: which is unfortunate because everybody we talked about it was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: songs is crazy, blah blah blah. But Doctor Dre like, Nah,
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Speaker 1: this ain't it. This is not what I want to do. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: I get the feeling in this day and age, we'll
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Speaker 1: probably hear something, whether it's from the diplomat side, Rock
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Speaker 1: Him stuff, Eve whoever, and whatever else he got in
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Speaker 1: the vault that's on lot.
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Speaker 2: But I don't think doctor Dre will release it himself
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Speaker 2: because he don't want us to hear that. So lastly,
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Speaker 2: speaking of in the vault.
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Speaker 1: And coming outside, but maybe everybody already played Freeze tag
17:44
Speaker 1: and now they're going to eat dinner in you late
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Speaker 1: Jay Electronica has officially released his solo album at two
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Speaker 1: the Patents of Nobility, the turn that's a lot. But
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Speaker 1: he also released a written testimony leaf flets. Now, I
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Speaker 1: know you're saying to yourself, what the hell is going
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Speaker 1: on and what is that? Back in twenty twenty, when
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Speaker 1: Jay Electronica released a surprise to most of us. This
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Speaker 1: was during the lockdown and all of that with COVID
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, he released an album called A Written Testimony.
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Speaker 1: Everybody was like, let's go listen to it. But when
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Speaker 1: we listen to it, be like, damn. Jay Z is
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Speaker 1: on every record, and he sounds way better than Jay
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Speaker 1: Electronica on here. It's almost a jay Z album, the
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Speaker 1: way he commands his bars on hand and he's getting busy,
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Speaker 1: like jay Z was rapping in the way he had
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Speaker 1: hadn't rapped years on that album, which was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be Jay Electronanica's album.
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Speaker 2: And I liked it. I know some people who didn't
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Speaker 2: like it.
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Speaker 1: I know some people who was like, yo, we waited
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Speaker 1: all this time for Jay Electronica to drop an album
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Speaker 1: like ten years, and when he drops one, not only
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Speaker 1: is jay Z on damn every song, but he's also.
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Speaker 2: Out shining Jay Electronica.
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Speaker 1: So Tom and not that much time, maybe a week
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Speaker 1: or two went by, and then all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: an album appeared That was j Electronica's solo album and
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Speaker 1: it featured jay Z but maybe on a song, a
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Speaker 1: song or two, maybe like three songs and one is
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Speaker 1: like the hook and then some talking. But for the
19:47
Speaker 1: most part it was like, oh, this is the album
19:50
Speaker 1: we were waiting for, but apparently it was leaked. Now
19:56
Speaker 1: all of us had it and continue to have it.
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Speaker 1: But it was kind of weird because when you listen
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Speaker 1: to the album, if you know, you said, to yourself,
20:10
Speaker 1: is this the album Just Blaze was talking about? Because
20:15
Speaker 1: he was really talking about it, and this album is
20:19
Speaker 1: really like low key and this just doesn't I don't
20:24
Speaker 1: think this is what just Blaze was talking about. So
20:29
Speaker 1: with that being said, back then, I probably did a
20:31
Speaker 1: review of the album. But because the album is now
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Speaker 1: officially released it's out, I listened to it. It's basically
20:41
Speaker 1: the same album, I think, even quality wise. The covers
20:45
Speaker 1: different that Written Testimony Leaflets has the exact same cover
20:53
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, And on the one hand, it
20:58
Speaker 1: feels like okay, and by the way, this is I
21:02
Speaker 1: know Jay Electronica. I believe is off of rock Nation
21:06
Speaker 1: now and maybe signed to Griselda. I think that was
21:10
Speaker 1: the word. But these projects, all three of these albums
21:14
Speaker 1: I mentioned, including a written testimony from twenty twenty, are
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Speaker 1: all distributed through rock Nation, it says it.
21:23
Speaker 2: So I went ahead and did.
21:25
Speaker 1: What I typically do when I review album because I
21:28
Speaker 1: hadn't listened to this album since probably twenty twenty. At
21:34
Speaker 1: two features fourteen songs and clocks in around forty three minutes.
21:42
Speaker 1: If it features Rikabadu, jay Z and a couple of
21:51
Speaker 1: other people who I can't see their name, so whatever.
21:56
Speaker 1: One feature is Ronald Reagan, but it is a feature
21:59
Speaker 1: if you just playing stuff. So when it comes to
22:03
Speaker 1: the reviews, if you don't know, I gave it three listens,
22:06
Speaker 1: one just to get my impressions. The second listen is
22:10
Speaker 1: to kind of listen a little bit more intently the
22:13
Speaker 1: goal of the album, the theme, the music, all the thing,
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Speaker 1: all the things about the album. And the third listen
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Speaker 1: is just to confirm my thoughts for the quick reviewers.
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Speaker 1: I have the same opinion I had in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: It's okay, a written testimony is better?
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Speaker 2: Now? What does that say?
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Speaker 1: Knowing that Jay Z's on damn near every song of
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Speaker 1: that album. It says that I think in summary, right
22:44
Speaker 1: that some people are going to be extremely disappointed if
22:51
Speaker 1: they never heard this album, and some people are going
22:54
Speaker 1: to be extremely happy. And I'm gonna tell you why
22:57
Speaker 1: those two are so different. The people who would be
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Speaker 1: extremely disappointed are the people who when they heard Exhibit
23:08
Speaker 1: A through C, but especially Exhibit C, that was the bar.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me, that was the expectation for a Jay electronica
23:19
Speaker 1: album that they've waited ten years to hear, right, And
23:24
Speaker 1: if you didn't have the bootleg now you was waiting
23:26
Speaker 1: fifteen right, fifteen years so because this album does not
23:33
Speaker 1: sound like Exhibit ABS. Maybe A, but it definitely doesn't
23:39
Speaker 1: sound like Exhibit C at all that energy you got
23:43
Speaker 1: from a Jay Electronica it's mostly not here, right. The
23:50
Speaker 1: type of that type of production is definitely not here. Now,
23:54
Speaker 1: there's some dope production, because there's some dope records here,
23:57
Speaker 1: but we've been listening to these records from the album
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Speaker 1: for over a decade now, and that's not even that's
24:06
Speaker 1: not alive for like over a decade, like for example,
24:09
Speaker 1: Shiny Suit Theory with Jay z Man, we was we
24:14
Speaker 1: had that record eons ago. You know what I'm saying.
24:17
Speaker 1: I don't know how long is the eon, but you
24:19
Speaker 1: get it a long ass time ago. Okay, that's what
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Speaker 1: it means. But I kind of felt I'm not.
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Speaker 2: Gonna lie that for the other people who would love
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Speaker 2: this album.
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Speaker 1: This is a sequel to Style Wars, right, remember the EP,
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Speaker 1: that EP slash album that kind of that features Act
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Speaker 1: one right, that people discovered, like myself discovered Ja Electronica
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Speaker 1: and really dug his use of like samples of people
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Speaker 1: talking of from like cartoons or in that case is
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Speaker 1: Willie Wonker. Like people enjoy like this eclectic, mixed bag
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Speaker 1: of beats, some beat teams, rapping over with Dyla also
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Speaker 1: and delivery, and it was it was just kind of
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Speaker 1: it was the reason why we liked Jay Electronica. So
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Speaker 1: it's like there's two different versions of him, right, and
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Speaker 1: this album is the original. It's not the just Blaze exhibitsy,
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Speaker 1: it's the original version. So when you go into it
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Speaker 1: with that mind state, if you've heard Style Wars or
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Speaker 1: you own it, when you listen to this, everything makes sense.
25:43
Speaker 1: The you know, the long intros with you know, Ronald
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Speaker 1: Reagan talking it's like you you were here for that
25:53
Speaker 1: because that's what it was. You know what I'm saying
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Speaker 1: early on, you don't really care about the fact that
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Speaker 1: there isn't an exhibit see kind of song on here,
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Speaker 1: because it's really about the messages, the journey, the elements
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Speaker 1: that bring this album together to make a complete statement again, poetic, eclectic,
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Speaker 1: all these things. But to me that stuff is niche right,
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Speaker 1: It's not for everybody. Some people will find this album
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Speaker 1: to be completely boring and they'd be like, oh, I
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Speaker 1: like that shiny Soup joined with jay Z he got
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Speaker 1: busy on that I went from war in the war
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Speaker 1: and like, like, your that bar was crazy. Yes it is,
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Speaker 1: but unfortunately you're not getting the album or we're not
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Speaker 1: getting the album that we expected. Now, granted, given this
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Speaker 1: fact that this was leaked and everybody had it and
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Speaker 1: it felt like everybody heard it, only the people who've
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Speaker 1: never heard it are probably going to jump on it
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Speaker 1: or didn't have it or don't have it anymore.
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Speaker 2: I probably I take that back.
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Speaker 1: I probably listened to it twice because I felt like
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Speaker 1: when it leaked around the time of a written testimony,
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Speaker 1: I felt like, Wow, I like this better.
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Speaker 2: So I was just listening to that.
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Speaker 1: But somewhere down the line, I listened to this album again,
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Speaker 1: maybe like in twenty twenty one, just to see and
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Speaker 1: I felt the same way. I felt like, I don't,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I think this could have worked for him
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Speaker 1: before Exhibit SE when Act one was Act one in
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Speaker 1: some of those mixtapes, when those things were out.
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Speaker 2: This probably would have worked at.
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Speaker 1: That time, which is, you know, like oh nine or
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Speaker 1: something or twenty ten, you fast forward that many years
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Speaker 1: in advance after Exhibit C.
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Speaker 2: Kind of made Jay Electronica name and hip hop.
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Speaker 1: People wanted that, and we do not hear what just
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Speaker 1: Blaze was talking about in this album, So just real quick.
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Speaker 1: The other release today, Written Testimony Leaflets, seven songs, twenty
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Speaker 1: eight minutes, features include Quentin Miller, who y'all know him
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Speaker 1: from Drake.
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Speaker 2: And Dram y'all know him from Drake. This one, honestly,
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Speaker 2: unless you.
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Speaker 1: Really, really really really loved Jay Electronica and you just
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Speaker 1: want all the things you didn't get, this is for you,
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Speaker 1: because quite honestly, I probably won't listen to any of
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Speaker 1: this ever.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a certain level of interest, but it's
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Speaker 1: just not it's just not the time, not after the clips,
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Speaker 1: not after every Supreme clientele too, not after all jed like,
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Speaker 1: not after what we've been getting.
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Speaker 2: So maybe.
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Speaker 1: Because of Jay electronica situation, maybe we're going to get
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Speaker 1: new music on Griselda and maybe this is before we
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Speaker 1: get there. Let's put out the things officially. So have
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Speaker 1: you heard Jay Electronica's album Act two? Where you disappointed
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Speaker 1: when you finally got a true solo album from Jay
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Speaker 1: Electronica or were you completely satisfied because this is the
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