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Er'body Can't Go · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, Nikki and Meghan
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trading bars and I'm kind of here for it. Birdman believes the South needs
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more credit for keeping hip hop alive, and my thoughts on a new album,
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the New Death Jam Album from Benny to Butcher. Everybody can't go.
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That's not what you think. Let's do it. Welcome to hip Hop Now
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Podcasts. If you from the future, you know what you do, show
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ass out of life, so disrespect the leg lean. Hip hop is here
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this today, escat right into the business. What up, y'all? I
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am your host Vegas and this is hip Hop Now podcast, a podcast specifically
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learn more, visit the link in the description of this episode. Now,
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before I get started, I have a new segment on YouTube, strictly on
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YouTube, exclusively on YouTube, called Tale of the Tapes. If you're watching
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on YouTube, you can see right behind me a bunch of cassette tapes that's
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not all of them. It's some of them. There's some right over there,
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so the pile over there is the deep dive. But the segment is
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really about talking about these tapes when they came out, when I bought them,
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what I think at the time, how do I feel today. Obviously
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a lot of this music you can find on your favorite streaming service, so
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if you don't collect tapes, or you don't collect final or any physical media,
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you can still check them out. And there's some joints that just don't
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get mentioned. Like my first episode was about the Boogey Monsters album their debut
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album, what is It? Riders of the Storm the Underwater album. Check
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that out. I also did p Rock and Seal Smooths second album, The
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Main Ingredients. So if you just like the quick bites, quick listens on
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it like two minutes three minutes max each episode. And the plan is to
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do this at least maybe four times a month or something like that, or
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close to it or whatever. I kind of wanted to be a weekly thing,
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but right now I'm starting out with Thursdays and Fridays, and if it
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gets good traction and you subscribe, then I'll keep it going. But I
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have other ideas that'll come along the lines as well that will come to this
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of that, you like this episode, subscribe to this channel. What I'm
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trying to do on YouTube trying to get to five hundred followers. I've already
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conquered the audio side of podcasting. I've been in the game for years.
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I've been in games for years, man, but now on YouTube, I've
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done things here and there, but never consistently. Now fifty years of hip
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hop behind us, consistently on YouTube bringing you content, including one thing that
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I think I'm going to bring back because I kind of like it as a
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variety for content. It was a segment I used to do called the Rap
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Game, where I would play a video game and talk about hip hop,
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right, something that I don't cover on the weekly podcast or in any way
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that I could just talk about. Usually it's better for me to play sports
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games and do that because if I play anything else, I can't concentrate.
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So if you would like to see what that was about, just check my
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playlist. I have a couple there that I did in the past, but
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I'm trying to do it in a bigger and better way, probably be on
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camera this time, so you don't just listen to me. You get to
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see me as I say these things. You know what I'm saying. Some
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people want to see it, brother, so it's cool, but subscribe.
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You gotta do that. Big shout out to hip Hop DX dot com,
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places where I'm getting my stories from. Let's get right into the business.
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So what y'all don't know? Because when I did this, it kind of
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happened between my break and I thought about doing it for the podcast, but
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I didn't. I listened to Pink Friday too, and the last Nicki Minaj
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album I probably listened to in its entirety was probably Pink Friday right, mainly
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because of all the noise arounding them, and I must say I wasn't offended
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by it at all. I thought it was cool. I thought sound quality
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wise it was excellent. I felt like Nicki was mostly entertaining. I think
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there should have been maybe less tracks on it, but in general, the
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only thing I would say just felt And again I don't know her entire catalog,
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so correct me if I'm wrong, but I just kind of felt like
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she was stuck in this kind of like anger mode and throwing subliminals and stuff
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like that. Well, one of those people she threw shots at was Megandi
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Stallion and recently Meghani Stallion released a disc record where she takes shots back and
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then NICKI comes back on her Instagram live and I think she either says it
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or plays a snippet of a couple of bars of her her taking shots back.
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And the reason why I'm talking about this it's not because I'm the biggest
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fan of their music. You know, I like a song or two here
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and there, but I'm really not h I like the bars like this,
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thising, this little dissing. I'm like, okay, you know, because
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it's one thing to just say something about somebody, you know, to disparagingly,
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like yo, you whack or you know you'll get your head done or
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whatever. You ladies, some of you ladies be to Now this is how
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some of you ladies be dissing each other. H But what I liked about
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this it was like I wasn't mine hearing a straight up, you know,
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battle between the two. So let's go to some of those bars. That
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I mentioned it. Now, let me just say it disclaimer. I know
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my audience, I know the demographic. I know most of y'all around my
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age or close to it. And you do not listen to either of these
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two at all, and you're probably saying to yourself, these bars are whack
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before you hear them. They may be whack to you, But I like
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hip hop and I want to see at least they're talking about something different from
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what they usually talk about. But it's a family podcast, so I'm not
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gonna say what it is, but'all know what it is. What's that song?
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Wap? That's usually all they say. So it's refreshing to see this
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battle. This is on hip Hop dx dot com. It says Nicki minaj
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Your Meghan d Stallion trade venomous bars as few the Knights over hiss this.
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Nicki Minaje has responded to Megan D Stallion with some bars with some bars of
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her own after being dissed on hits. Now his is Meghan's this record.
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So here are some of the bars aimed at Niki from Meghan D. Stallion,
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and I quote these holes don't be mad at Meghan, these holes mad
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at Meghan's law. I don't really know what the problem is, but I
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guarantee y'all don't want me to start now. I like what Hip Hop DX
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did here because I know you might be saying, well, she's not mad
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at Megan, she's mad at Megan's law. It's Meghan's law. Wow.
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The Meghan's Law line is clearly aimed at Nicki Minaj's husband, who had some
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you know, some sex offender rape. He did time for rape of a
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sixteen year old and all of that. Meghan's law is a law aimed to
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lord. Let me just read it. Specifically, it references the federal law
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requiring authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders. That's
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what Meghan's Law is. So you're not mad at Megan, you're mad at
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Meghan's law because, yeah, her husband is a scumbag and we all know
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it. I like that. But then Nikki responded on her ig after saying,
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what does she say? Bad ish? She like six foot? I
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call her bigfoot the bee fell off. I said, get up on your
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good foot. Y'all know what she's talking about. She's talking about Meghan getting
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shot in the foot and blah blah blah talking about I call it a bigfoot.
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I like it. Yeah, I'm sorry, I like it. I
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think sometimes we just need to go there right when the energy is that,
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and you know it's a little jad's hand in. Sometimes you just gotta go
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there. So there you have it. I'm curious to hear more. I'm
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gonna check out the Meghan Stallion song in general. I just hope, like
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that's not all it is, you know what I'm saying, because then I'm
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gonna tap out right, don't talk about all this other stuff, and then
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throw one shot and then that's it. No, let's go in. Let's
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go in, ladies, let's go in. Let's just say yo, you
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can't rap, and just go in. Get some ghostwriters. If you can't
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do it yourself, I don't know everybody else does, so they have it.
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Birdman believes. I know, I know the South needs more credit for
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keeping hip hop alive. And this was sort of sparked because of twenty twenty
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three, which was fifty years of hip hop, and how he felt looking
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at the recognition. He felt like it just wasn't enough homage being paid to
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the South. And honestly, I can agree, But it's not just the
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South, if you as me, I feel like West Coast was kind of
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shrunk down into those who cross, you know, regions, right like,
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sure you're gonna see Ice Cube and West You're gonna see West Coast legends like
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that, like Snoop and Dre and stuff like that. They're gonna get their
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flowers. Why because they connect with more regions, just more regions than locally.
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But there are some groups that do the same thing. They're just not
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as successful as far as record sales and maybe being the household name right that
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they were kind of forgotten, you know. And I think some because of
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social media, some were getting their flowers, right, Like Souls and Mischief
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was getting they flowers. Because everybody loves ninety three till Infinity. That's like
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a timeless records. It's one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time
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for a number of reasons. Even a video I liked a lot, but
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not just them, know, just giving props. And I feel like I
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agree with baby because I don't think, well, I let me say this.
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I don't think the South kept hip hop alive, right, I think
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it brought it to where it is today. Which is the number one genre.
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But that's a build up of fifty years. There was a time in
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the early nineties, right, there was like this turning point in the mid
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to early nineties where most hip hop acts didn't really Bailey went gold, and
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we're talking about legends. Bailey went gold. Bailey almost never went platinum.
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You had to be special, you had to be el Josiah to go platinum.
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But that's one guy. And then in the mid to late nineties they
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started to sell ridiculously to start to make more money, and then from there
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on it rappers making money like that. It never went back. Now,
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sure there were times where hip hop was declining in record sales, but that
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was happening with music in general, and someone's going to rise to the top,
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right, That's kind of how it works. That's how competition works.
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You start declining, that's like being on the scene. You know you to
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die. You start declining, but this other dude going off, people start
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to look at him more than you, even though you were did start right,
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So you got to bring yourself back up. And I think it's not
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that it kept it alive because it wasn't on a respirator. It did what
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it was supposed to do. For a long time, it was New York.
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Then it was the West Coast heavy like as far as the tension of
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hip hop is on them, and now for the last a number of years,
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might be twenty. To be honest, the South has been leading to
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charge and I think it's because and this is no slight, because this is
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just real, the South style of rapping. And I'm not talking Fonte and
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Jay Electronic and people who got bars. I'm talking about most of the rappers
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you know from the South that aren't like spitters. It's more digestible for more
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people. It's easier to learn the lyrics, it's easier to digest the hook
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if it's not as complex, and some people prefer that even I remember one
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dude told me before, like, you know, I like Biggie, I
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like some jay Z man, but you know, in my region, man,
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just like we just like it slow. We like to have like the
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one requirement is that base got a thump. Beyond that, y'o, just
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talk about some stuff I can relate to, nice catchy hook, something I
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could bump in my ride, and that's it. And there's nothing wrong with
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that. Like I'm a big currency fan because of that. I just like
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the vibe of it, right, And when I want to go and listen
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to some intricate bars and stuff like that, then I'll go to the rapidly
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rap dudes. If I want some some thugs and gangs and stuff, I'll
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go to that. There's nothing wrong with hip hop having a variety of sounds
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because then you consume more. But I think in recent years it's just it's
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just easier for more people to digest. Right. So in some ways it
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took rap to another level. That's what I could agree with. But I
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won't say it kept it alive because I don't think it was dying. I
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think sometimes when people their business is not doing as well, then they say,
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oh everything's fallen off. No you falling off? You know what I'm
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saying, Like, come on, and really, to be honest, we
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look at young money, right, is that all South? Nicky from what
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Queens? You know? We know Drake from Canada. So I think in
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a lot of ways, it's not just the South. I just think there
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was time for something different. We heard a lot of New York, we
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heard a lot of West Coast what's different? And Atlanta and the South was
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different right in this iteration. Sure there was outcasts, but you know,
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dudes like Future and Migos and everybody from Atlanta. It was a different sound
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and vibe that maybe was more in a pocket for them, but was more
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digestible for everybody in hip hop. If that makes sense? What do you
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think? Is he right? You know? I do agree the South didn't
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get enough respect during Hip Hop fifty, But keeping it alive, I don't
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know, what do you say? And lastly, so Benny the Butcher just
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dropped his new album called Everybody Can't Go Now. Y'all know how I do
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when it comes to this is strictly impressions, or it's kind of like a
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review, but it's impressions. I like to give it three good listens.
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Right First, there's that first listen. I'm just trying to hear what you
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got, what you got? Second listen, I'm listening a little bit more
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closely now. Sometimes in that first listen, I already know it's hot.
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On the second listen, I'm like trying to be sure, right, I
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heard what I heard. Third listen is just like do you like it or
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not? And I'm not gonna hold y'all, this is okay, this is
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underwhelming, This is mid And I hate to say that because next to Kendrick
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Lamar and Conway, Benny is probably one of my favorites. And I've spoken
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on this podcast about his him kind of talking a lot about it right in
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advance, you know, hyping it up, which is cool, boxes do
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that the greatest of blah blah blah cool. But if you look like like
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yo, you look like you're losing in the fight, well then there's another
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thing. And then also the battling back and forth for fans and calling them
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nerds just because they questioned some of the things he say about being you know,
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death Jam, bringing a feeling back of Death Jam when Exit did it,
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and all that stuff. Even though I didn't like a lot of that,
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it still didn't keep me from listening to this album. It still didn't
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color what I heard when I was listening to be like, yeah, look,
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this ain't ex It's just it is not Benny. Now, let me
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just give y'all some stuff right real quick, thinking about this album, the
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tail of the tape, so to speak. We know Benny got bars,
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so I wasn't expecting him to be whack at all, and I don't think
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he is. I think he can still rap. I think things he say
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is still dope. It just is. This album is produced by hip Boy
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and Alchemists. You don't get no better than that if you're trying to be
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great on some hip hop stuff. So you got Bars, you got hip
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Man, and you got Alchemists all hot at the same time. This might
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be his best project, right. Added to that, you also have features
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from Lil Wayne, who else you got, Snoop Dogg, Stove, God
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Cooks right, Jada Kisses on here, and then of course Westside Gun and
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Conways on head. Also. It just sounds like this is an early top
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five for me out the Gate haven't even heard it. It is not it
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is. It's one of those things where it's not bad, but you just
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kind of say, when you're done with it, you kind of say,
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huh. I don't know if I like that as much as I thought I
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would. So when I went and listened a second time, I was like,
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all right, you know, hurt everything, let me get into it.
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And I was even more bored with it now on the third listen,
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it was like, yeah, it's not bad and it's just underwhelming. Shout
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out to Salt in the game. Not like she made up that word,
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but you know, she said what I was thinking. But it was just
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really underwhelming. And now one thing that I don't want to happen. And
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this is for me and you know, my listening experience and how I feel
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about it. But last year I said almost some of the same things about
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Conway the Machines, what was it? Won't he do? Why won't he
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whatever? And later on it made my top five because as I would go
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back to it because he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm gonna go I'm
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gonna keep going back until I am sure. I don't care if it's ten
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listens and I'm like, yeah, it ain't it, And I wind up
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liking that album way more. But I think that album production wise, just
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has a little bit more energy to it. And I feel like the songs
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that Benny have on here are cool. But there's some skips. There's like
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maybe three maybe for songs. When I got to like the second listen,
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I was like, I'm forcing it with this one. Let me just skip
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it. You don't like it, Vegas, why are you trying to listen
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to that? You know, you don't like it. You're trying too hard
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to like it. When you got to do that, it's just not good.
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It's just not connecting with me. And I kind of felt like,
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well, is it gonna be the same thing, you know, end of
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the year, you know, after the hype has died down and I know
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what the project is and I just go listen to it when I you know,
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go work out, which I already did, but uh, do some
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housework or whatever. Am I gonna feel differently? I don't think so.
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Man, the Conway joint, I didn't initially like the beats, but then
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I grew to appreciate him because of his bar work, right, His bars
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kind of made the beats better than me. With this, I kind of
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feel like some of Alchemist's joints are too sleepy for me. The joints that
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really hit are so dope. Like I like the joint Braun. I'm like,
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this is Benny, but it really only happens like maybe two more times
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with that same kind of energy. Like on the song with Snoop Back Again.
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I think that song's crazy, right. I like it, I love
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it, and I'm like, why isn't it more this right, Like,
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you can't have a bunch of hype songs, but yo, maybe just shorten
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the joint so it's just tighter. The song with Amani Caesar, I don't
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like it, man, and I don't mind her. I kind of like
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her, you know what I'm saying, But it's not just her. It's
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just like the whole vibe is just really like y'all supposed to like it because
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it's me and I do like some of the things he says in some of
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the records, though I ain't gonna front because I always feel like some rappers
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talk about the same things and don't talk enough about themselves, and I feel
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like he does a lot of talking about himself in ways that make sense.
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But there's certain I guess points of his life that he keeps revisiting that kind
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of makes me feel like and correct me if I'm wrong, But why don't
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you just make a song about your entire song about your brother that pass like
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a timeline because he's touched on it on a number of occasions and to the
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point where yeah, you can piece them all together and say, okay,
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well here it is, but just do that, you know. I feel
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like I already know what you are when it comes to the drug talk and
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money and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, you
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gotta out of music out there already, and now we start to get to
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the point where we like what else you got, And there are only a
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certain few that could easily come out and talk about the same exact thing that
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they always talk about, you know why, because they dropped like every two
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years, whereas with Benny. Sure he doesn't drop a full length project every
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year. Sometimes he takes that off. You have to drop an EP,
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but we don't. We hear from him all the time, so we don't
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get to miss him, and by the time he comes back, he's rapping
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about the same thing you've been rapping about the entire time. We didn't have
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an album, So it's a big disappointment for me as a Benny fan.
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Is it whack? No? If you're a Benny fan lyrically, you're gonna
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be with it. Some of the tracks, you're definitely gonna be with it.
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But I felt like the first two singles with the one would Lil Wayne,
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It's kind of grown on me a little bit. The joint with Stove
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God felt like it probably should have been better, and I think that's production
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more than it's those two. But at the end of the day, I
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just felt like, man, I was waiting. I was waiting for this
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joint and it's just not what I thought it was gonna be. But I
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will say this, Benny usually releases an album and then he does like the
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plugs I met ep. I think when we get another one of those,
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it'll be exactly what we're looking for, you know, even if it's just
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the production, it's different. And I hate to say that because Alchemists and
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hit Boy a dope, but this ain't it. Man. What do y'all
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think? Do y'all like Benny the Butcher's brand new album? Everything or everything?
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Everybody? Can't go? Leave your comments in a comments section below.
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