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Bootleg Kev Ranks 2025’s Best Hip Hop Albums & Names His Album of the Year! ** Bonus Episode** · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: and let's get into it. Man, it's the boutleg kipcast.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, all right, man, it's the end of the
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  Speaker 1: year and you know, every year, like I like kind
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  Speaker 1: of try to put my own top ten albums of
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  Speaker 1: the Year list out.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to beat Out. He does it every year.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone looks forward to it, and then I kind of
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  Speaker 1: put mine out, and I wanted to just take a
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  Speaker 1: moment because like we want to start doing more these
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  Speaker 1: YouTube videos. We're just kind of talking about what's going
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  Speaker 1: on news, et cetera. But I wanted to break down
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  Speaker 1: my top ten hip hop albums of the year, and
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  Speaker 1: this was probably, in my opinion, like twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: was probably the best year for hip hop in terms
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  Speaker 1: of just like you know, totality of just quality projects,
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  Speaker 1: like in a long time. I kind of feel like
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty was up there too, but twenty twenty five, man,
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  Speaker 1: it was really tough to kind of like point it
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  Speaker 1: down to ten albums. So we do have honorable mentions,
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  Speaker 1: and I left the Cardi B album off the honorable mentions,
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  Speaker 1: which that fire.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of albums are fire.
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  Speaker 1: But let's go through some of these honorable mentions before
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  Speaker 1: we do the top ten hip hop albums of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Evidence un Learning Volume two. Shout out to ev Man
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  Speaker 1: EV's on a Run Right now I'm super excited to
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  Speaker 1: see what he's gonna do in twenty twenty six. But
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  Speaker 1: La Legend, you know, a third of Dilated People's an
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  Speaker 1: incredible solo artist had an incredible body of work this year.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Riley, who in my opinion, is one of the
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  Speaker 1: future go to the rap game. Him, Chris Patrick, Marco
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  Speaker 1: plus samar Sin, they're kind of leading like the new
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  Speaker 1: wave of what is going on. In his album he dropped.
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  Speaker 1: This year's save was incredible. Shouts to Atlanta the new
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  Speaker 1: Earl Sweatshirt album. This is like super high on a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people's lists. Liv Laugh Love definitely needs to
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  Speaker 1: be mentioned. This is an album that was tricky because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't include it in the top ten list because
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  Speaker 1: it's like a country fusion album. But I just want
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  Speaker 1: to give some love to the Big X the plug
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  Speaker 1: I hope your Happy album. It's like him rapping and
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  Speaker 1: it's all country hooks. But dude, it is like perfectly done,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's not corny. The songwriter's incredible. It flows perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: It's concise, Big X delivered. You know, when you do
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  Speaker 1: think about like a hip hop country album from somebody
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't sing, you'd be like, I don't know, this
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  Speaker 1: shit might suck.
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  Speaker 2: Not Big X delivered that album is crazy. I hope
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  Speaker 2: you're happy.
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  Speaker 1: Mob Deep Infinite another album that could have just was
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  Speaker 1: right there. Man.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm such a big Mob Deep fan.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that Havoc and Alchemists were able to
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  Speaker 1: put together this album and it's just sounds so seamless,
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  Speaker 1: like prodig you're still here with us, Like certain parts
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  Speaker 1: of the album, like I kind of got emotional listen
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  Speaker 1: to it because it really just felt like a new
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  Speaker 1: Mob Deep album.
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  Speaker 2: And they delivered.
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  Speaker 1: Man uh shot to Mass Appeal for everything they did
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  Speaker 1: this year too. I think we definitely got to show
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  Speaker 1: love Mass Appeal this year. We got to Slick Rick album,
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  Speaker 1: we got a Noaz and DJ premiere album, we got
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  Speaker 1: a day Lost Soul album, we got Big L, we
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  Speaker 1: got ghost Face, we got Ray Kwan, we got Mob Deep.
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  Speaker 1: So Mass Appeal, thank you for just delivering on a
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  Speaker 1: fucking awesome twenty twenty five and just helping keep like
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  Speaker 1: that real rap shit alive. I want to give a
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  Speaker 1: shout out to key Clock because that Glackavelli came out
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  Speaker 1: early this year. That shit was fire. I mean key Glock,
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  Speaker 1: I was. You know, Rick Ross kind of is known
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  Speaker 1: to have like just the crazy ear for beats. I
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  Speaker 1: always say he's got one of the best ears for
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  Speaker 1: production ever made. Key Glock is on his head. Man
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  Speaker 1: Keey Glock know how to pick some bangers. Man shout
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  Speaker 1: to Key Clock that Glockavelli was crazy. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: enough people talked about how good the Whis Khalifa album was,
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  Speaker 1: either Cushion Orangs two. That Kushion o'js man was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably my favorite Whiz album. He's had mixtapes and
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I loved, but in terms of like an
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  Speaker 1: official Whiz album, this is my favorite Whiz album since
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Papers.
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  Speaker 2: Loved it.
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  Speaker 1: And also I want to give a shout out to
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  Speaker 1: my woite Caski, who had an album that was called
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  Speaker 1: Black Sheep five that you know, for whatever reason, Caski
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get a lot of respect. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he's a white boy or I don't know, but Caski
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  Speaker 1: delivered an incredible album this year, Black Sheep five, the
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  Speaker 1: fifth volume of.
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  Speaker 2: His Black Sheep series.
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  Speaker 1: There's bars on there, there's crazy production on there, crazy
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  Speaker 1: song concepts on there. He used to be signed with
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  Speaker 1: Cash money for a reason because he's incredible. So shout
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  Speaker 1: out to CASKI. But let's get to it, man, the
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  Speaker 1: top ten albums of the year. We're gonna start with
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  Speaker 1: number ten. I want to give a shout out to
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  Speaker 1: our brother, good friend of the show recently got credit
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  Speaker 1: for some of the songs that made this album. In
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  Speaker 1: an interview, he did Conway the Machine Man, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. Conway the Machine number ten, You Can't Kuild
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  Speaker 1: God with Bullets. Shout out to Conway. This was personally
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  Speaker 1: my favorite Conway album since twenty twenty, since from a
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  Speaker 1: King to a God. So Conway's had moments that I
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  Speaker 1: love and albums that I've loved since then. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: this album delivered. It's crazy because it came at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year, so it's like it came that
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  Speaker 1: same day we got Nasen Primo and twenty one Savage
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Patrick's album. By the way, Chris Patrick's album
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  Speaker 1: definitely deserves to be mentioned from top end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: But Conway, Man, this album is incredible. It shows us
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  Speaker 1: why we love them, like Conway the Machine number ten,
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  Speaker 1: You Can't Kill God with Bullets. Keeping that drum work
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  Speaker 1: flag flying and delivering to the fans. Man shouts to Conway.
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  Speaker 1: So number nine, let's move on this one again could
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  Speaker 1: have been higher, but I feel like this whole list
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  Speaker 1: kind of can just be interchangeable. But we got to
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  Speaker 1: give some love to walle Man Wala. Everything is a
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  Speaker 1: lot in terms of just like listening experience. Like I
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  Speaker 1: told Walle this in San Diego last week. I was like, Bro,
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  Speaker 1: you have like a whole album of singles, Like this
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  Speaker 1: whole damn album is singles and vibes. It's vulnerable, the
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  Speaker 1: features are incredible, and there's just joints on here man,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's a whole album of joints. And then you
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  Speaker 1: got like a song like the song he has with
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  Speaker 1: Shaboozie that's like different the Michael Corleone record, which is different,
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  Speaker 1: but just joints on joints. This might be the best
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  Speaker 1: walle album and if it's not, its second place my
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  Speaker 1: favorite ambition A shout out to wale Man numb nine.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep it moving. Number eight, Dave.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about us in the States,
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  Speaker 1: but we can never give the bruhs from the UK
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  Speaker 1: enough flowers, or any flowers for that matter, Dave is
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  Speaker 1: probably one of the greatest rappers in the last decade,
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  Speaker 1: and he's the most vulnerable artist alive in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: and he delivered. Man. You know, when he dropped the
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  Speaker 1: EP with Central C two years ago, I had that
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  Speaker 1: up there for the year. It was only four songs,
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  Speaker 1: but that was more him being braggadosis and talking that shit,
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  Speaker 1: going back and forth with See, this is the Dave
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  Speaker 1: that I love. All Right, So Dave number eight, the
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  Speaker 1: boy who played the hart Man, let's start putting some
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  Speaker 1: fucking respect on the UK and their MC's let's keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving. Number seven, let's talk about Ravaon. Man, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be super mad. He's number seven, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: ran into him and can't flog down. We had an argument,
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  Speaker 1: but the good, the bad, the dollar menu Ravon I
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  Speaker 1: talked about Dave being vulnerable. Rayvaughn is special man, and
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  Speaker 1: to me this was like the first time we've seen
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  Speaker 1: Ravon freestyles. We've seen like even before he signed with TDE,
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  Speaker 1: he would have these like crazy vulnerable, like barring out
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  Speaker 1: in his front seat of the car freestyles that would
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  Speaker 1: go viral. And he's been with TD for a long
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  Speaker 1: time and he's dropped music with TDE. But I do
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  Speaker 1: feel like finally this body of work illustrated and displayed
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  Speaker 1: what I know about ray and that's that he is
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  Speaker 1: like a one of one and he's you know, Rayvaon
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  Speaker 1: has music that will like literally make me cry. There's
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  Speaker 1: a song on this album called Shasta. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: called Shasta, and it's speaking about his mom's battle with alcoholism,
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  Speaker 1: and fuck man it is. It is deep, dude, and
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  Speaker 1: another album that could have been higher. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: understand how people are making these albums of the Year list.
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  Speaker 1: They're not recognizing what Rayvon's doing. The good, the bad,
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  Speaker 1: the dollar menu. There's vulnerable shit on there, there's slaps
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  Speaker 1: on there. Rayvon will be a future just household name
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  Speaker 1: in this rap shit TDE for the usual. They're just
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  Speaker 1: batt in a thousand man. So shouts to ravon number seven.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on number six, j I D. God does like ugly.
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  Speaker 1: J I D is kind of quickly like carving his
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  Speaker 1: way into like whatever Tier is like right below when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about j Cole or Kendrick or used to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Drake, Sorry, I feel like j I D
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  Speaker 1: is like getting like he's he's kind of like him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, guys like Freddie, guys like Big Sean,
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  Speaker 1: they're just in that space right beneath that tier that
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  Speaker 1: we kind of consider like the Mount rushmore of like
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  Speaker 1: this era. But Jid is kind of like he's really
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  Speaker 1: just missing, like a real, real single off of this album,
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  Speaker 1: Like Skate was cool with Sierra, but I think like
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  Speaker 1: Community with the clips that Bob the builderline, the intro
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  Speaker 1: with Westside Gun talking that shit Like Jid is one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest rappers alive and this body of work
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  Speaker 1: is incredible. I think it's his second best album. Finding
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  Speaker 1: Forever for me will always be just goaded. But shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Jid for delivering an incredible body work and
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  Speaker 1: delivering an incredible tour and just continuing to be like
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  Speaker 1: a one of one.
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  Speaker 2: In the game. Man. So number six Gid, moving on,
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  Speaker 2: let's DWAYE. I have the album right here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I bought this with my own money. Chance wouldn't give
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  Speaker 1: it to me, so cash Aptain twenty bucks?
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  Speaker 2: Was it twenty Chance? The rapper?
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  Speaker 1: Number five star Line should have been nominated for a Grammy.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say this about Chance, man, I loved Acid Rap.
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  Speaker 1: I loved the Ten Day Mixtape.
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  Speaker 2: I did not.
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  Speaker 1: Love Coloring Book as much as the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Not to say that it wasn't bad, Like it wasn't good,
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  Speaker 1: it was incredible. People loved it. This would kind of
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  Speaker 1: cross them over. And what's crazy is the album they
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  Speaker 1: came out with after that that was about getting married.
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  Speaker 2: I actually kind of liked. But this album.
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  Speaker 1: If you think about like kind of like Chance as
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  Speaker 1: somebody who was like positioned to be like the next goat,
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  Speaker 1: the next face of hip hop, it was Chance and
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, he puts this album out about being
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  Speaker 1: married and.
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  Speaker 2: How excited he is.
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  Speaker 1: The Big Day album is what it was called, I Apologize,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like people didn't like it, and so like
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  Speaker 1: it just felt like hip hop kind of turned their
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  Speaker 1: back on Chance in this like weird way. He also
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  Speaker 1: was like super overexposed. He was doing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Shape We Show some a bunch of TV shows, He
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  Speaker 1: was in commercials. But like, the bottom line is Chance
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  Speaker 1: is like a generationally talented artist and to see him
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  Speaker 1: deliver this album, which in my opinion, the subject matter
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  Speaker 1: of this album is super important for the times we're
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  Speaker 1: living in, you know, speaking out against ice you know,
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  Speaker 1: even like the ship he's talking about with like the
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  Speaker 1: weed industry and you know black people being boxed out
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  Speaker 1: of that industry. I mean, Ride would do or Die.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much on this album that is just crazy.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite was Letters. Letters was like a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different perspectives where he's like kind of speaking from the
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  Speaker 1: perspective of preachers and it's it's kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: He told me that he had to kind of clear
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  Speaker 1: it with his pastor before he released it, but man,
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  Speaker 1: go listen to that. But the Chance album, it's spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been higher, but we only got you know,
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  Speaker 1: we only got a top five now, So let's move
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  Speaker 1: on Chance to wrap your number five what deserved now.
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  Speaker 1: Daylas Soul Cabin in the Sky this was my favorite
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  Speaker 1: album out of all of the Mass Appeal releases this year.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out to day Law because, man,
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  Speaker 1: this you want to talk about an emotional journey, This album,
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  Speaker 1: which was very much dedicated to you know, Dave who
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  Speaker 1: passed away. Man, it's just masterfully done, insane features. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: NAS has been on every single Mass Appeal released this year,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like for day Las Soul to come
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  Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty five and deliver such an incredible
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  Speaker 1: body of work. It's just impressive. Man, the secret, seeing
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  Speaker 1: the skits, everything just it's just such a seamless, amazing,
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  Speaker 1: damn near perfect hip hop album. And day La soul
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  Speaker 1: Man putting another point on the board for the Ogs
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Salute to day La and shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Mass Appeal again for giving us an amazing
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  Speaker 1: run of legendary hip hop artist drops this year. Dayla
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  Speaker 1: though Man number four, shout out to day La. So
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: go watch our interview too. We talked a lot about
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  Speaker 1: the album Cabin in the Sky number four. Number three
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  Speaker 1: could have.
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  Speaker 2: Been number two or one.
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  Speaker 1: Listen Larry June, Two Chains, Alchemist. Look, this album dropped
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  Speaker 1: in February. I think I still listen to this album.
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  Speaker 1: Damn near every day life is fucking beautiful. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Larry June and two Chains, it's almost like they were
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  Speaker 1: made for each other. Like I know that sounds hella crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but like musically, like when you hear these two guys
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  Speaker 1: just going back and forth in the most effortless flyway
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  Speaker 1: over Alchemists production, it is it is. It's like, why
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  Speaker 1: didn't we get this sooner, and I just hope that,
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  Speaker 1: like this isn't the final time these guys do an
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  Speaker 1: album together.
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  Speaker 2: Please do Life is Beautiful?
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  Speaker 1: Two? Do Life is Beautiful three? Just we need two
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  Speaker 1: chains Larry, June and al to make music together forever.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to see them live at Camp flognaw
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of these songs live and it was
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  Speaker 1: fucking awesome. Shout out to both of these guys, they're
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  Speaker 1: both legends, and shout out to the Alchemist. And with
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  Speaker 1: that being said, number two album of the year, The Alchemist,
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  Speaker 1: Freddy Gibbs Alfredo two. That's right, this was I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna lie, man, it was close for me to make
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  Speaker 1: this the number one album of the year, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people will always be like, well, Freddy's your boy,
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  Speaker 1: Like yeah, but it just is what it is. This
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  Speaker 1: is to me a classic album. I think it rivals
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  Speaker 1: Alfredo one. I actually think I know this sounds crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I think I take Alfredo two over Alfredo one, which
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  Speaker 1: I thought was the album of the year in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Freddy Gibbs is, you know, for my money, one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest rappers of all time. I think if you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be like super honest with that conversation, catalog,
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  Speaker 1: body of work, body to work, skill set, all that.
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  Speaker 1: He's a top ten guy ever. Alchemist. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the MVP of twenty twenty five in
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  Speaker 1: hip hop, it's Alchemist. I mean, Jesus, the amount of work,
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  Speaker 1: quality work this got put out this year just incredible. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it was worth the way we had to wait five years.
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  Speaker 1: The last one got Grammy nominated, this one got snubbed.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Freddy, Shout out to Al. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of one of my favorite songs of the year. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Skinny Shook two. Freddy, I mean, Freddy goes crazy all
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  Speaker 1: over this fucking project. And again, Freddy and Al together,
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  Speaker 1: please don't stop making music together. We need Alfredo three.
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  Speaker 1: And that was also one of the coolest tour moments
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  Speaker 1: of the year. I got to go see the Alfredo
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  Speaker 1: two tour two nights in a row Man and it
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  Speaker 1: was it was incredible. So shout out to Freddy, shout
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  Speaker 1: and the rollout, oh yeah, the rollout was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: They did a whole movie. Jesus, Yeah, the movie was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: They went to Tokyo and they filmed all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: shit and like again, shout out to Lambeau because Lambo
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  Speaker 1: Freddy's manager, he builds this Alfredo universe. So they got
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: these crazy they got the comic books, they got the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: merch but the rollout was wild. But no one's rollout
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: was fucking with number one. I am talking about the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: most obvious choice for the number one album of the year,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and I know everyone's picking Clips. Let God sort them out,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: but it is what it is. Everyone's just being super honest.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Got to give a shout out to the Clips for
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: anybody who knows. I've had this on the wall for
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: a long time. I've screamed at Jim Jones about push
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a T. I am a Clips head and I've been
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: wanting a new Clips album. It's been since nine, I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: think since still the casket drops dropped and like you
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: kind of are like, okay, push a T since two
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: thousand and nine has had this crazy solo run with
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: good music, and he's had his own classics like Daytona. Uh,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: but like what happens when they come back together, like
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: what is this gonna sound like? Know? And man, it
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: kind of like breathed new breadth into me as a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: hip hop fan. It made me feel so good about
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: rap this year because I have been like, man, some
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: of this shit that's cracking out here is it's just
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: like it can drain you if you're like, you know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: an old head like me. So when you have Clips
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: come out and not only put out an album that,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: in my opinion is their best album, and that is
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a crazy thing to say because they also have this album.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: S right, so one of the greatest albums of all time.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Hell hath No Fury?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I think that let God's Soarn Them out is better
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And I think Pharrell is in his fucking bag on
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: this album. He is definitely like the third member of
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the Clips on this project, which he's always been. Malice
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is rapping like the I mean, can you imagine coming back.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I think Malice is fifty two you've been kind of
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I mean he put out too no Malice projects you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: know that were dope. But for Malice to kind of
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: like come back into the game as one half of
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the Clips do every These guys did every interview, including us,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: so shout out to them. They didn't run from the music,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and they would always say that we want to do
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: all of the press because we're not running from our
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: music right, Like a lot of artists don't want to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: do a bunch of press because they don't want they
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: get uncomfortable and they' asked certain questions about shit. They
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: were like, we are not running from the music. We
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: want to face it. They did all the right media.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: The merch drops were fucking insane. I don't know if
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you guys knew how. I probably spent twenty five hundred
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: to three thousand dollars on clips merged this year, which
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: is a lot.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: With that being.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Said, back to the album. The album itself, Man, you
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: want to talk about probably the best hook of the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: year Fiico like that fight Oh hook is crazy Malice's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: verse on their screen. I mean Malice probably has three
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Verse of the Year contenders on here. The Birds Don't
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Sing nominated for a Grammy, one of the most beautiful
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: songs ever, and the album kicks off with the.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Birds Don't Sing. That's fucking crazy.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: It's such an introspective, sad song, but it's a beautiful song.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It's about them rapping to their parents, you know, like
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: each each one of them rapping a verse for their
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: mom and their dad. And you know, we got POV
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: with the Tyler, the Tyler versus fucking crazy. I just
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: feel like the Clips owned hip hop in twenty twenty five,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And if that's the case, hip hop is in a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: good place. Man. You know, If the best music to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: come out of twenty twenty five was like The Clips
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: moving over one hundred thousand units in the first week
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: and selling out their whole tour and getting nominated for
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Best Rap Album of the Year and Best Album of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the Year, overall, we're in a good place. So like
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, we have had to deal with
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the narrative of a lot of people saying hip hop's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: dying because of this billboard bullshit. Fuck the Billboard charts, bro.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Hip hop started underground. Hip hop started in the streets. Bro,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Like this shit ain't about streaming numbers. Fuck all that shit,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so for me, the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: crowning jewel of twenty twenty five, as we're at the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: end of it, and two brothers, one of them's in
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: their fifties, I think Pushing T's knocking on fifty are
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the biggest story of the year. I mean, and it's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: because they put out just a quality, classic body of
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: work and everything they did the attention to detail, everything
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: was on purpose, everything was with intent. They performed at
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the Vatican, like the Clips performed at the Vatican this year.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: That's insane, the first rappers to ever do that. So
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: it's like, if that's where we are as a culture,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: where like the Clips are being embraced right a year
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: after we get out of this crazy beef in which
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: like Kendrick Lamar becomes the biggest shit ever in shout
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to Kendrick who had that dopest tour, I mean, the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: biggest tour of the year. You know, I think we're
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: in a good place in twenty twenty five. So shouts
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: of the Clips album of the year. Let God sort
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: them out front to back, no skips, there's this is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a perfect album. It's a classic and they deserve all
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the praise and they got me feeling good. I want
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: to say a couple of things about twenty twenty five.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I want to give some props to Meek Mills verse
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: on Proud of Me on the Friday album. That's one
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: of my favorite verses of the year. I also want
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to give props to play with Cardi because Playboo Carti's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: album had some shit on there. I really enjoyed, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I'm an old head, but the Cardi album there was
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: like four or five joints on there that just just
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: work out fuel. So shouts to Carti. The NBA Young
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Boy Tour. I went to the NBA Young Boy Tour,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and as in terms of as an experience, I'm pretty
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: much went to all the tours this year, but in
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: terms of like just an overall experience of me like
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: being like, oh shit, this is this is crazy. I'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: glad I came to this. It feels like history. The
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: NBA Young Boy Tour was that for me this year.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Obviously the Kendricks says the tour was crazy, but to me,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the NBA Young Boy Tour was its own.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, like.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: This guy is he's fucking a rock star like he
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: is and I've always known that, but like it's crazy.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: You had like if you didn't go, it's it's wild.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: So shout out to Young Boy. Also want to give
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a shout out. A lot of music came out this year,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: non hip hop. My favorite album besides Clips this year
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: overall was The Weekend that wee can hurry up tomorrow?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Crazy, Oh my god, So.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the Weekend. Shouts to everybody. I'm expecting
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: some dope music in twenty twenty six. I'm looking forward
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: to another samar Sin album because she I think just
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: dropped an EP this year. I'm looking forward to Jake Cole.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's cold season right now. I'm looking
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: forward to Kendrick dipping his toe back in the water,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: which should be dope. I think we're gonna get another
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Rayvaughan album this year. I think we're gonna get some
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: new Freddy in twenty twenty six. I would put some
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: money on that. There's a Big X to Plug six
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: hundred E n T compilation album coming out now. The
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: first time they did this album was called Meet the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: six Ers. It went platinum or gold. The album I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: don't want to give away too much, but I did
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: help some shake on this album and it's gonna be
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: fucking raw. So shout out to Rosama, shout out to
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Young Hood, shout to Big X six one hundred E
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: n T Sixers album. The new one is gonna be
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: super sick. I'm curious to see what happens this year
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: with like just kind of like a guy, like what's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: big Shawn's here gonna look like, you know, like I
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: want to see what Big Sean does in twenty twenty six.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Definitely want to see what Cold does. I also am like,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with Does Alchemist take a break this year?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Does he drop some new shit with Boldie.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: We keep hearing that there's a currency Larry June Alchemist
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: album that is confirmed through currency? Actually does that come
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: out this year? I don't know anything.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Else this year.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Cook that we're looking forward to that you think might
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: be dope?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Oh that is true. Yeah, that is true, Tyler Doka.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's funny because I put my initial list together.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: So look because I was like drop, I had a
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: road trip going, and I was like, yo, I just
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: started naming albums. And it's funny because Tyler the creator
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: don't tap the glass I had in my top ten,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: but I was like, it's not really a hip hop album,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: it's more like an alternative. But the moment and seeing
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: don't tap the glass. I can't flog now. And that's
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: another thing. Camp flog Naw was crazy. I think Tyler
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: cemented himself because the chromo I went to the Chromocopia
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: tour this year, which was crazy, and then Don't Tap
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the Glass comes out and it's its own fucking thing
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: like Sugar on My Tones, all my favorite songs of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the year, and Tyler definitely delivered. Definitely it would have
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: been in the top ten. But I feel like I
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: just feel like it's I mean, it got nominated for
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Best Alternative Album or something at the Grammys, but it's incredible.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It is incredible, the Tyler album and Tyler tour this year.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I think Chromacopeia I did go. I think that was
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: this year. That's another tour that was.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I think Tyler this year for me personally, has solidified
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: himself as like.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: One of the greatest performers in the world.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And after I saw Doci, I was like, Adochi is
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the greatest performer in music right now because Doci.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: She knows her and her fucking DJ DJ is it
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Miss Milan jesus Man shout out at Doci. But look,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five is an incredible year for music.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Shots to everybody clips Tyler, shots of Freddy, shots, fucking
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Ji d Chance.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: There's probably a lot of people we didn't mention that
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: had dope years.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: But shit enjoyed twenty twenty six man, and thank you
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: all for rocking with us on the podcast, and we'll
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: be back in the new year, Baby,