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  Coming up. On this week's episode of hip Hop Now Podcast, Drake takes
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  shots at Pharrell and push Your Tea Far Roman teases a sequel to his debut
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  album, Internal Affairs, and an update on my top five albums of twenty
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  twenty three so far, and a little bit of a bonus. Let's do
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  it. Welcome to hip Hop Now Podcast. GIF you from the future.
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  You know what to do. Show as out of my back, don't disrespect
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  the leg leg leg hip Hop and Taity Stadium. Let's get right into the
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  business. What up, y'all? I in your host Vegas and this is
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  hip Hop Now Podcast, a podcast design specifically to keep you caught up on
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  all things hip hop, music and culture that happened throughout the week. Big
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  in the description of this episode. Big shout out well, first of all,
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  fifty years of hip hop, but also big shout out to hip Hop
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  dx dot com. Yeah they really the only outlet I went with this week,
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  so big shout out to them. All Right, let's get right into
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  the business. In a new song on the new album from Travis Scott Drake
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  featuring Drake, Drake decided to send a few choice bars in the direction of
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  push your Tea again, but not only push your t also Farrell taking shots
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  at the whole Louis Vutton thing. Seems kind of weird, but nevertheless,
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  let's see what the nonsense it's all about. I swear Drake takes aim at
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  push your Tea in Farrell when Travis Scott's melt Down collab. Okay, so
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  let's get to the bars. Let's not even play with y'all. Here's the
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  bars from Drake, I melt down the chains that I bought from your boss
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  if I f about all that heritage ish since v not around, the members,
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  don't hung up the Louis They not even wearing this now, this is
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  kind of crazy. Let's see. Drake appears to be referencing the custom chains
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  that Farrell auctioned off last year and which Drake, which Drake was later seen
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  wearing in his JumboTron ish popping video. Interesting, the v in those bars
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  means, what was oh yeah, Now I don't know how to pronounced Virgil's
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  last thing, So forgive me. I didn't do the research in advance.
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  It's cool or Virgil. Hey, that's what we're gonna say, because we're
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  not gonna Butcher. It was the late fashion icon who worked with Louis Fauton.
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  He designed some kicks also for Nankees, some really dope I did,
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  you know, like just a lot of swag with him. He passed away
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  and Louis Fatton chose Forever to take his place as their designer. That's the
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  remember that's the one where he did the fashion show and there was one outfit
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  where they looked like minecraft. And then there was a rumor about a woman
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  designing a specific bag um like turn it into a take basically taking the Louis
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  bag that when you go in the Louis store and you buy something and they
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  give you a little, you know, carrying bag like any other store.
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  She turned that carrying bag into a bag bag, right, not the slag
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  bag but like a purse, right, but a bag, saying that the
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  new Louis bangs that look like that are basically her design. Now, before
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  we get into all that with the fashion, just no you know dapper days
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  to do that back in the days, yet in trouble for a little while,
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  but now they kind of work with them. Yes, it's even if
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  it's a bag to carry your items out of the store. Of course,
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  the bag itself is still their design. The idea that you chose to turn
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  that bag into a bag, it's a dope idea and maybe they should have
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  approached you about it. But guess what, they don't pack because you took
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  their thing and made something new on top of their thing. Get what I'm
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  saying, So you can't really see them. But regardless, let's let's get
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  to the bars. So I honestly, I am not sure where this is
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  coming from. It feels like a couple of episodes ago we were talking about
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  Jim Jones and push your T and push your T has some choice words for
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  him, and Jim Jones decided to wrap in front of close bodegas and trash
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  cans. But nevertheless we all forgot about it, and now here's Drake bringing
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  up old beef. Now do I really care? Now? I really don't.
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  I really don't. Because the bars were so light, the flow was
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  so predictable on a song that I feel like in a lot of ways,
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  he messed it up trying to add this nonsense to it when it could have
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  been what it was. Do I feel like Push your T should answer light
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  light bars for light bars, you know what I mean? Like previously Push
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  your T gave in their previous battle, Push your T gave Drake some light
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  bars as baked, right, and then he dropped a song, and then
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  Drake had a free style and then Push your T finished it with the song
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  about you know, Drake's son and all that. Who we all know,
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  man? And maybe this is debate for Drake, right, Like maybe he
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  doesn't want to because remember Jay Prince stopped him from releasing the follow up and
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  all that, so maybe he wants to rekin do that battle in some ways.
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  But I say this, Drake, we don't care, man. It's
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  something about this coming back up again. This was pre pandemic type beef rap
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  beef. I don't want to. I don't want to hear from this again.
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  I want if Drake is in a battling mode, pick a fresh battle
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  on me. Pick a fresh one. You could go at Kendrick if you
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  want, because if we're gonna go, you know, direct battle ballfa Bard,
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  it's going down. Didn't choose somebody else who you didn't already get cooked
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  by because he outed your son. You can't change history, not gonna rewrite
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  history now, just let it go. So that's my opinion on it.
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  I could care less, but you never know. Something may happen and I
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  might feel like, okay, let's do it. So we'll see. Farrell
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  much teased a new album, but it's also a follow up to his debut
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  album, Turnal Affairs. Now. Turn of Affairs was and probably arguably the
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  best album in his catalog. I believe this is back when he was on
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  raucus right, some of that was slowed down, like his success. Some
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  of his success will slow down because of the whole legal battle with the use
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  of the Godzilla sample on his lead single, but now Here. He is,
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  fresh off of rock album, coming back to hip hop, but going
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  way back to the beginning for a sequel. The sequel obviously will be titled
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  External Affairs. So the debut was Internal Affairs. This is what it's called
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  External Fairs. Somehow, some way Cameron would want us to say, pauls
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  but I digress or boosting. I will say this, Well, let me
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  just say he teased it by releasing a video basically a video that actually was
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  the intro to his two thousand and eleven album War, which was an acronym
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  that I can't remember anymore. And interest Elba was the voice on that intro
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  and it mentioned today, but today is July twenty seven, two twenty three.
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  If you're from the future, the album probably already came out out of
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  him man. But nevertheless, my thoughts on album, which is slated because
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  I believe the teaser said twenty twenty fourth, so next year sometime maybe excuse
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  me, maybe next year around this time he'll drop it. Here's my thoughts
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  on that. When it comes to us getting a new farareh manch album,
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  it's about damn Town on a hip hop side, It's about them time.
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  One of the most slept on but most dopest mcs ever inspired many mcs,
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  including Eminem. Right when you look at their styles of rhymen, it's night
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  it's the same thing, right, Eminem just talk about some crazy stuff,
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  but the word play and the technique it's farare mancho Day in a lot of
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  ways, and or really probably more now than ever. But I kind of
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  feel some kind of way about the sequel thing. Not that he can't do
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  it, He's fully capable. But the minute, the minute, the minute
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  you say this is part two to that album that you look for back then
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  you set the expectations. It's I'm just being real, that's just what happens.
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  You set the expectations for your listening to audience, right, especially when
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  you're teasing like a year out. That means you are giving for those who
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  haven't heard the original or haven't heard in a while to listen and absorb it
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  again like it's new. So when you release the sequel, those expectations are
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  gonna be like you either meet this or it's trash, which is not always
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  the case. Right. An album good but not a perfect follow up to
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  a debut, And what's a perfect follow up? Well, what did that
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  album do? Anytime you're calling it apart two of anything? You have set
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  the expectations, and the expectations are whatever people think about that part one,
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  that debut, that first album, So that's the part I don't like.
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  A brand new example is Naz and hit Boy with Magic two right now.
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  When it came to the King's Disease trilogy, they were just up into anty,
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  like those albums get better as you go up and sometimes being so appreciated
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  even more now because it was it was the first, right, but they
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  met the expectations with each version of King's Disease, and it just means that,
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  Oh, when you said Magic, I thought about the time when y'all
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  dropped the first Magic and my excitement and my elation over it being dope.
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  But this one isn't capturing that same feeling because it's kind of different. It's
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  not really sequel. It's not a sequel that feels like it connecting anyway beyond
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  the cover or the style of the cover. So I said all that to
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  say, we'll just wait to see because at the end of the day,
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  I'm a music fan. I love Farrell marsh music. I listened to his
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  music all the time, you know, waiting for a new album to drop.
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  So if he's working on this and it's going to be a sequel in
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  his pedigree, he typically does not miss. There's probably one Farremont solo album
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  that is not one of my favorites because it's more singing than rapping. Oh
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  when it comes to the rapping joint, he does not disappoint So I'm extremely
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  optimistic about this album releasing in twenty twenty four. And lastly, so as
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  y'all know, or if you don't know, you need to go back and
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  check it out. This is around the time all the hip hop magazines and
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  websites and aggers, well magazine and bloggers, y'are not even around anymore,
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  really, right, but you know what I mean, websites, podcasts,
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  whoever, people online on social media. Around June is when it's like,
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  what are the best of the years so far? So I fell in line
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  and did mine like usual. And I said in that video a couple of
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  weeks ago that this top five can change tomorrow. Well you know what happened.
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  It changes you next week, Killer Mike dropped the Michael, and all
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  of a sudden I needed to make room. Well, y'all, even though
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  my palyst isn't completely changed, it's changed. And I don't know if I'm
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  going to do this up to a point right, maybe up to maybe through
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  September. I'll do like checkups on my top five for the year. Now,
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  my top five of the year isn't just the top five. I also
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  will mention albums that I thought were some of the best of the year,
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  right because even though I may not pick an out or two that you're thinking
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  about, it doesn't mean I haven't heard it. It doesn't mean that it
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  won't end up on my best of the year lists. But it just means
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  that for my personal top five, it did not make that list. But
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  being on the bigger lists in general is what you want. So real quick,
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  I'm just gonna recap really quick and tell you what's in my top five
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  right now. July addition. Right, so, the first one you heard,
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  Killer Mike Michael. If there had to be a top one, it
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  would be that one because it is just so well produced, it thought out,
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  and it is just great work in general. I already did a review
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  or impressions on it, so you can check that out in one of my
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  previous episodes, Ransom and Nicholas Craven Director's Cut four. At the time that
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  I did my Top five of the year, this was out, I mean,
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  of the year so far. This album was out, but it was
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  only available on Ransom's Like, a site he partnered with to release it,
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  and I hadn't purchased it yet. But then once it had the opportunity to
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  actually hear it. I was like, yeah, there's no way, no
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  way, this doesn't make my time five. This would be tough to top
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  by Ransom, let alone anybody else, but he did. They also just
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  released deleted scenes, which is like a secondary series, as they do for
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  every time they release a director's cut, they release a deleted scenes version that
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  one. I haven't heard yet, but god forbid, I have two and
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  some projects in the top five. I wouldn't do that, but maybe this
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  new joint bill replace that one. Who else? The other halfbum might have
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  jay Peg Mafia Scaring the Holes I got to title down, don't care,
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  I got it jay Peg Mafia and Danny Brown. I should say I just
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  liked this album, man, because this is just a different vibe of energy.
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  And I'll say this right, anybody who goes to check it out know
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  this. There are a ton of albums and are this some of our favorites
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  who are dropping music to share where Let's keep it real. The subject matter
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  is exactly the same. Let's just keep it real. They're just saying things
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  things in a different way over different pets. So the Mafio so gun clapping,
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  the Cooke King's fourteen chains, the jewelry mentioned cat, the how much
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  money, how much gas they smoke, all like, We're gonna get a
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  million of those. And I'm not complaining because I love boom Back, but
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  sometimes you gotta remember that hip hop was more than boom Back. And honestly,
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  my lists always reflect the variety of taste I have. Right, It's
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  not always all albums from one region. Right, I'm from Brooklyn. It's
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  not always going to be everybody from New York because my taste is much much
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  more expensive than that. Right, So Jay PEGMFI and Danny Brown Man is
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  there's some comedy, there's some there's some high energy beats. It's it's just
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  different stuff, man. So to me, if you are a music fan
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  and when it comes to checking out somebody album, it's like an experience for
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  you. This is one of those put the headphones on man and work out,
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  or or do something around the house, clean up the house, something
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  where you can really occupy yourself and hone into the lyrics and listen and also
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  have a good sound quality going in your air at the same time, because
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  the production value is not something to ignore as well. So statics selector round
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  trip if Boom back is what you want, but you want a compilation where
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  the beats aren't all the same. The pairing of the mcs, seeing the
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  work, they just make sense. And it features everybody Status selector round Trip.
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  It's gonna be difficult for this one to come out of my lest something
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  hot. It's gonna have to drop where I'm like, what can go?
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  Sorry? Status selected, but right now statics selected round Trip. Check that
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  out. That's like perfect for fifty years of hip hop in the last joint
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  that stayed in my top five. But I won't I kid you not.
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  It may come out it's Mickey dumbing. Nobody bleeds like Flair stuck on this
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  project. The man didn't release more. He probably got four projects this year
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  already. I've only heard one because I just keep hitting Rewind. I just
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  like the vibe of this joy and I think it's a little bit of the
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  nostalgic wrestling. It's a little bit of the you know, Rick Flair's flair,
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  and and the production value is just boom bapping. It's just dope,
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  and it's it's sort of in a lot of ways. And this is no
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  disrespect to him or to who I'm about to say but it reminds you of
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  back when Griselda didn't have big deals and they which just dropped these albums and
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  it was all about concepts, you know. And you can hear it in
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  the production, you can see it in the cover. And West Side Gun
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  still does that, so don't get it twisted. But the only difference is
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  Mickey Diamond is not gonna blow your way as an MC, right Like,
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  You're not gonna be like, yo, you did you hear that? Like
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  he's not one of those mcs, but he's perfect for what needs to be
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  done on his album right Dope beats, Dope bars repeat. Now. The
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  only reason why I say I don't know if it would remain there because there
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  was a project that was released this ship that in every indication I could include
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  it on this podcast, I said to myself, this ain't it. I
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  don't know what, but this ain't it. But I'm a big fan of
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  Conway the Machine and the compilation came out and I didn't really like that.
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  I didn't do impressions on it, but I'm just letting and I really like
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  that. And then I just kept listening and I started liking it more and
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  more and more and he kept getting closer and closer to my top five.
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  The album is called what He Won't He Do It? And it's not in
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  my top five right now, but it's in my best of the year.
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  It's made its way to that, and I don't know, man, you
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  can't ignore when you are choosing to listen to a specific album over other albums.
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  I reviewed Lloyd Bank's album Eye listen to it in its entirety again yet
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  and it's not bad at all. There's a couple of projects that were not
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  bad that I just kind of stopped because I had a rotation which just solid.
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  This rotation is solid. This top five so far from Me will give
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  you like enough of a hip hop fix to cover all categories, right,
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  And that's typically what my top five is now. I know somebody say,
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  well, where the track at? Well, when somebody drops somebody dropped something
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  and I pressed play, and I'm like, I've been listening. Oh yeah,
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  it's an end because I don't care who it is now. I ain't
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  gonna lie. I've been listening to I'm not. I'm a fan of me
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  Goes, but I wasn't the biggest fan of Offset. I always felt like
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  his bars were kind of phoned in right delivery and stuff like that, But
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  he's been grabbing my attention later and when he dropped his album, I'm gonna
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  I'm gonna check it out, see what it is. You know, what
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  if it's good or not, if I like it enough, I mean,
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  you know, it's a long time till the end of the year. But
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  what I'm saying is there's a lot more music on the way. That just
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  is we didn't even hit the part of the year where it feels like everybody's
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  dropping the album back in the blog and right, I used to call it
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  the fourth quarter of blitz. Once we got to like Thanksgiving, like November
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  time, it was like everybody was like, boom boom, boom boom.
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  Year's about to be over. Even in December, you're just getting albums and
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  a lot of times you get a lot of heat. So there's probably a
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  ton of projects that are on the way. Right there's the LLL and q
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  Tip project that's supposed to be releasing this ship knowing LLLL is going to release
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  on hip Hop's Birthday, and we'll see what that's about. But my list
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  is definitely gonna get shuffled. So no matter how many praises I sing all
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  of these projects, at some point we gotta be getting the good music right
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  because it's been a very slow year so far. So we'll see, we
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  shall see. What do you think? What are some of the albums that
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  you listen to but maybe maybe listen to our album you don't even feel like,
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  well, now, this can't be the best thing. Yeah, I
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  like it right now, but this won't be in my top five. And
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  one thing I put on Twitter and I saw a couple of responses, but
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  in general, what albums should people be talking about? Right? Because there's
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  some really dope albums that recently came out like Odyssey and Black Milk and a
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  couple of other folks that have dropped joints right, So I don't know.
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  It's gonna be interesting end of the year, to end fifty years of hip
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  hop and move on into the future. So we'll see. Leave your comments
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  in a common section below that's going to do it for me. You can
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  I'm not a critic, I'm a fan. Peace,