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Wise Up · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Coming up. On this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, styles P
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lays out his plans for a final solo album, Rollout, Benny the Butcher
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calls Lloyd Banks one of the top MC's ever, and Common and Pete Rock
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drop a new single and more info on the upcoming collaborative album. It's day
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three for three, two for two. Whatever way you want to slice it,
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dog, let's do it. Welcome to your top now podcasts. If
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so I've been on a rampage because there are a lot of people people who
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want more content, and I said, more content is coming and it is
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here. So in not last week, but before that, I did a
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top five albums of all time, Top five MC's of all time, and
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top five beats of all time. Obviously it's all subjective, it's my opinion.
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Most of it has to do with how I feel about these beats.
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Obviously, there there's so many beats, classic hip hop beats, from microphone
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fiend to you know what I'm saying, just so, just so many.
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I love the Benjamins beat. But I explain why I chose the five I
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did when it came to beats, when it came to album, when it
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came to came to mcs. So again, sure it's my personal list,
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but also I feel like it's a list where I can explain why these five
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of each category should be in your top five or at least in the top
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ten, or why generally it would be, you know, in a list,
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so you can check out that. But also if you're like, yeah,
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it's cool, you know, the old school's cool, But what's good,
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what's new? I did my annual Best of twenty twenty four so far,
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and it's a single episode. Typically I just use these weekly episodes to
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do that, but I decided, like, you know what, why don't
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I just go ahead and knock this out the proper way and just make it
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more or less a bonus episode. So I went over about a good nineteen
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projects, some albums, some EPs that I think are the best of twenty
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twenty four so far. If I had to pick my top five, they're
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in that list, and you could definitely tell which ones I'm highest on to
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the ones that I think are just dope. And I'm gonna just tell y'all
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now, man, this Dog Pound I've been there. I'm playing it like
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every day. And that doesn't mean there's not other dope stuff out or I
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don't listen to things but or other music. It's just that it's just been
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perfect for my mood at the moment. And those are the types of things
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that weigh in to my top five of the year at the end of the
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year. So we'll see, because word on the street is Doctor Dray and
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Snoop dropping next month in July, so who Knowlse, you know, it
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might be all death Row West coast all in my top five, so we'll
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see big shout out t hip Hop DX dot com at double XL dot com
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and brosing for heads in a couple of places where I get these stories from
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let's get ready to the business styles P had is now laid out the plans
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for his final album. If you don't know, stoles p is planning to
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retire from hip hop and instead of doing like just one solo joint in saying
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this my last album, he has a plan to roll out three projects.
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Now, I'm not gonna hold y'all. I could have sworn he said the
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same thing last year, and we got a project and I thought it was
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cool, but I thought it was one of the three, and then we
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didn't get anything else. Now is this story again? So maybe I got
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it wrong, but I was in plus the reception not saying people were saying
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it was whack, just a lot of there wasn't really a lot of conversation
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around it. I kind of in a lot of ways, I kind of
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felt like, damn, am I the only one that heard it? You
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know? And this was the album last year. So apparently it's a three
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part plan for his final solo so this is what he said. This is
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what he posted on Instagram. Last solo album will be a three part series
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broken up Ghost of the Past, ghost of the present, Ghost of the
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future. And then at the end he put Memoirs of a Gangster and a
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Gentleman. Now, I don't know because that's four so I guess the three
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parts. Maybe he's gonna do like an EP rollout for all three and then
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the final album is Memoirs of whatever, And he says this, I believe
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I have run myself down a tad bid over the past few years, being
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a super hard work in m SEE and a health advocate for one. For
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one, I'm not really that great at multitasking. It's actually my drive that
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keeps me going, and that slack falls back on my family, business partners
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and co workers. I thought about it harder and came to the conclusion that
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I need to walk away from my solo career period. I think I gave
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y'all enough. So for those who are wondering, he's really just talking about
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his solo career. So that means you'll still get stoles p on a Los
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album because if I'm not mistaken. This signed to Rock Nation and then release
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maybe two albums. I think so far on that label, one or two.
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So the solo career I give and I ain't gonna hold y'all. Stous
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P has put out mad music, Like if you're if you were like a
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quasi Locks fan, or you're this is pre versus because we know some of
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y'all wasn't fans and now you act like you've been Locks fans forever. Pre
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versus. A lot of people really only would check for Jadakiss when he dropped
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something, and that start to dwindle, and some people the heads would check
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for styles P because he was putting in a lot of work, and then
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people forget to check for chic solos and he drop a lot of albums.
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If I had to look at Styles's career thus far as a soloist, I
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think it's really solid. Like I think it's really solid. I think it's
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better than some people who haven't heard all his music, from the mixtapes to
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the albums, to the collaborative EPs like with him and Dave East, the
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album he had with him and Havoc. Like stoles P has been putting in
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a lot of work outside of the group, The Lox so maybe maybe we
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do a tearless we do a ranking of styles P solo albums, because he's
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got a ton of them, and he's got some dope mixtapes. And honestly,
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again, I think there's a lot of people who have no idea and
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they figure, you know, because some people do stuff like, oh well,
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I ain't really hear nothing, so it's probably not that good. Yo.
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Dog. Is way too much music out and there's so much good music
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getting ignored because you're waiting for a wave of people to talk about an album.
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Sometimes you just gotta go dig it and find it. And somebody like
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styles P, you shouldn't have to dig. You know his pedigree, and
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trust me, if you knew the locks and you like them for all three
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artists. Kiss is a little debatable. You should go and check out their
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catalog because it's mostly heat and I only say Kiss is debatable because when it
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comes to his albums, for the most part, you're not getting what you
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think you're gonna get. Like you're getting one or two or three of the
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Jada Kiss. You know, you know the Jay Kiss you still have Versus
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and then the other ones. He's more tapping in with new talent from different
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regions, so you know you make money that way. You go today town,
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you get ladies and gentlemen. J juice man. He does songs with
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these cats. Stoles P just give you bars, give you to sing,
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gangs to stuff that you know from the locks, but he also gives you
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consciousness. He's been putting in a lot of work. Even this rollout is
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a lot. So well see, I'm gonna obviously put my head to those,
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but if you want to see stoles Pe ranking, I'll definitely be down
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to do it because I've heard them all. So unless there's something I haven't
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heard, I literally heard all of his albums because I'm probably a bigger fan
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of him as a soloist than I am of Jadakiss and She. So they
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have it. What do you think about stoles P? Leave your comments in
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a comment section below. Benny, what you're called? Lloyd Banks one of
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the top MC's ever And it was in a video I think it was like
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an interview or maybe just him being live or whatever, and he said,
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like that's just a dude you can't mess around with when it comes to bars,
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Like if you're gonna be on the same song or he just feels like
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he's just that crazy when it comes to I don't use the word catchy,
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but I guess like clever rhyme schemes and stuff like that. And I'll just
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say this to Benny the Butcher. You preaching to the choir, okay,
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because I remember a time before Lloyd Banks dropped basically his trilogy of albums since
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I think like twenty twenty, where he was like officially back back to most
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people because it was albums and they had just packed with it. Even if
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you don't even go back and listen to anything else he's done, and you
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just listen to those three albums, you'll hear exactly what Benny the Butcher is
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talking about. But what I wanted to say is, prior to that,
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he was still dropping like mixtapes. The Halloween Havoc mixtape series is crazy.
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I think in a lot of ways, I feel like it better than the
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last three albums, and I didn't necessarily dislike. I think the only thing
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with Lloyd Bank's besides the bars and trust me, you could be nice,
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but that's not the only thing that counts is he can be monotone, which
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is fine, but he doesn't always convey emotion right. He can talk about
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something serious, right, Like these last three albums there was a lot of
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you know, serious subject matter for him. But I couldn't tell the difference
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between a dude who's rapping like about that and a dude who's rapping about the
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streets. And he sounded his emotion. His inflections do not change. And
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some people like that, and and I don't mind it as much, but
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I think if the bars are like okay on a certain record and the beat
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isn't that great, then him being monotone is way more noticeable. And sometimes
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it's hard to shake that as a listener because you're like, yo, you
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board on board, you know you soundboets on now on board. So I
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said all that to say, baby, Butcher's right. Regardless, I used
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to feel like him and Fabulous had the they kind of approached their verses in
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the same ways as far as how they would write as opposed to what they
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right about, but how they put their bars together, and the difference is
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fabulous. Even though he can somewhat sometimes be a little monotone, he does
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have different inflections and he just does different types of records, so the beats
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sometimes can always sound really bright. You know when I say bright, you
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know, like the energy is up not fast, but you know you have
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a slow beat that's kind of like raises your blood pressure a little bit,
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and then the bar is on there and you're like, oh yeah, I
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like this joint. What I think I want from Lloyd Banks after getting the
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trilogy of albums, because I think he fulfilled the bar thing for everybody who
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just want that. What I really want from him now is to collaborate with
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somebody that I don't know where they compliment each other lyrically, Like I don't
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I wouldn't want to Benny the Butcher and Lloyd Banks project because I already know
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what that's gonna sound like, and them two together is not gonna it's not
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gonna sound any different than if you ask me then listening to Conway and Bennie
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together. I think what made Lloyd Banks dope was that fifty was different from
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him, and Yay Yale was different from them, you know, Young Buck
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was different, like everybody was different, you know what I'm saying. How
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they approached it, no matter if they were talking about the same things.
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So I think in a lot of ways, having that would what, I
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don't know, kind of like extend his lyrical life at this point because do
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I want another album? Sure, of course, you know, but at
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the same time, I like the energy more so on the Halloween Havoc series.
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Then I did the trilogy of albums that he put out, which I
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think, really, I'm only man on the last album. The first two
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were I think. The last one I was kind of like, well,
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it feels like more of the same, whereas the Halloween Have It joy and
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I think Halloween Have It Three is my favorite. Halloween Have It Four just
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felt like, Yeah, this is the this is the Loyd Banks, this
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is the production, this is the energy I want to hear on his project.
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So well, see, I think he's energized by all of this attention
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and putting it work in this way, and you know, one of the
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best ever. I think you can make a case for him being top fifty
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maybe, but we would have to make that list and see who's on it
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and who's not on it. But it'd be difficult to leave him out,
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I tell you that much. And it don't mean he's fifty either. You
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know. The dude is nice. So they have it end. Lastly,
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so Common and Pete Rock have been ramping up for the release of their collaborative
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album. They've been hitting interview circuit, you know. They and been on
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math Hofer podcasts and been on drink camps. I think I watched about thirty
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forty five minutes to Drink Champs and then I was like, it's like,
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it's like two more hours ago. I can't do it. And it wasn't
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that I wasn't interested. It was just like, I don't know if I'm
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if I got enough within the time I watched to keep watching. So I'll
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just look for clips as they pop up from various interviews from these individuals.
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But this is coming from hip hop DX dot com and says coming and Pete
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Rock announced album release date, drop new single Dreaming and I Ain't Gonna hold
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y'all. The first the first single called wise Up that sample the Bridges over
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by mc shann. I was like, I didn't even know I wanted this,
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Like this is this is hip hop? You know what I'm saying?
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This is hip hop the beat, the way that Pete made the beat,
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COmON doing what he does. People pretending like yo he getting back to like
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I heard the later albums. He's still rhyming the same way. He just
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got Pete Rock on the beats. That's the difference. So to me,
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Coment never really fell off. He just didn't make the music that you like.
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But now you're getting that. And COmON talked I will say this.
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Com And talked in interviews about what inspired him, and he said during the
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lockdown, you know, he had a lot of time to reflect and he
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was just listening to nineties hip hop like crazy, like that's all he was
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listening to. He was just going through albums listen to it, and that
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energy just fueled him. And he comes from that time, you know what
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I'm saying. And you know he thought to link with pe Rock and here
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we are. So the album set to be released on July twelfth on streaming
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plat streaming platforms, but also they'll be CD, vinyl, an cassette available.
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The album is called The Auditorium Volume one, which is interesting because that
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means they probably did enough records for a volume two and maybe a volume three,
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so we'll see. But the latest song, Dreaming is let me say
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this, the common is dope on it as usual, but I gotta say
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this. I tweeted it or whatever. But what Pete Rock did with that
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beat, with that sample, I'm just like, I don't know if Pete
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Rock made them joints new or he been sitting on him. But what I
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do know is Na's a Premier. You have something to shoot for now.
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I know Na's gonna be in the pocket. But Premier, we're gonna,
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We're gonna. I like what you did on the dog Pound joint. But
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let's be real, it's the sound we're used to hearing from Premier, to
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be honest, But what Pete Rock is doing with these beats with Common I
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have I don't know if I've even really paid that much attention to what Common's
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saying because I'm like, yo, this beat is crazy. So shout out
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to Pete Rock for sure. Obviously shout out to Common also, But this
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album is based off of the two songs I heard, even though I believe
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there was a third record that they started with that I don't believe is on
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the album. I did have an idea of the amount of songs on there.
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I saw the put it this way. The back cover is available for
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you to look at the number of songs and who's on there. It ain't
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loaded with a bunch of features from hip hop artists at all. I think
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Blao is on there, and maybe two other people I know Pasta News is
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on there, Ayla Soul or pos or whatever I call them there, So
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I think I think I like that idea of let's not let's not do what
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people do now, because having a bunch of features is fine with me personally,
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but doing that as a way to market the album, Like, yo,
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look at all these features, you know what I'm saying, And maybe
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that's the reason why people aren't going too crazy about it. And it's really
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making you focus on Pete Rock and Common and what they did together, and
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it's sounded dope so far. I cannot see this not being in my top
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five of the year. If the beats are going to be like this,
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there's one feature I wouldn't mind if they did it, Like, let's just
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get Common and Nons one more time on a track. You know they did
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a They had a dope track on the Dream of Believer album. I believe
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Ghetto Dreams that was what it was called. That song was crazy comment and
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now it's killed it and I'm like, can we get another one? Of
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those you know. But if this is volume one, volume two will probably
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have a couple of joints, so we'll see. Man, what's your excitement
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level? Or comment? And Pete Rock, have you heard Wise Up and
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Dreaming? You should because if you're a hip hop head, this is like
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Christmas for you. To be honest, leave your comments in a comment section
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