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Back II Back · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Coming up. On this bonus episode of Hip Hop Now Podcast, j Cole
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  finally responds to the Kendrick Lamar disk and he drops a new project. As
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  soon as I think I'm out, they pulled me back in. Let's do
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  it. Welcome to Jipop Now Podcast, as it be from the future.
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  You know what to do? Show ass out about that so disrespectful leg hip
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  hop is say this today. Let's get right into the business. What up,
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  y'all? I am your host Vegas and this is hip Hop Now Podcasts,
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  to know what that's all about, whatever perpose come with that, visit the
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  link in the description of this episode. No shout outs to any news outlets,
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  because we back to back. We back the back. I called myself
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  like YO, took a week off, you know, get some health issues
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  done. Come back. Let's just do an episode to recap what's happened since
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  then talked about the whole Kendrick Lamar Drake metro Booming future Jake Cole situation and
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  was satisfied, uploaded and boom. J Cole responds not only with a response
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  to Kendrick's challenge lyrically seven minute drill. We'll talk about it, but also
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  he drops what, in my opinion, was a highly anticipated mixtape. I
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  guess called Mike delete later. And typically I don't do episodes solely based off
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  of one album review. I don't do that no more. I kind of
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  incorporate that within the entire show. But since this is a special occasion,
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  including a hot topic on social media as far as the battle goes, or
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  if you want to use that word battle, I felt the need like we
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  should talk about it real quick, you know what I'm saying, talk about
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  the project, review the project, yes, I've listened, and I've listened
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  more than once, and also talk about j Cole's response and how I feel
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  about that and what could come next. Who knows what's going to happen this
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  weekend. Kendrick lamarket, I'm not going to do another episode. I'm Kendrick
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  answer after I've already recorded and uploaded this. I'm not you ain't gonna hear
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  what I got to say until the next show next week, But I'll say
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  this, hip hop is at least the conversation around hip hop is reinvigorated.
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  The conversation around hip hop lyricism is reinvigorated. When we have situations like this,
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  high profile artists who have a certain level of skill that choose to battle
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  each other. People go online, people talk, people show their allegiance.
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  It gets kind of crazy. So let me put a few disclaimers out there
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  for those who may be new to my talent. If you like what you
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  hear or see, subscribe. We're trying to get to five hundred subscribers.
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  We need your help make it happen right now. But the album or the
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  mixtape or whatever it's supposed to be. For those who don't know, J
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  Cole has been teasing this project for a little while now, maybe you were
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  a little blinded by the fact that this whole battle thing came into play,
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  and now you because I saw some people like yo, J Cole gave him
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  a whole project dog. This project was coming out anyway, we've been talking
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  about it. He's been doing promo for it, Mike delete later, the
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  hashtag you can find it weeks ago. Right, it was always a part
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  of the plan now response to Kendrick that's new, but Mike delete later dropped.
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  The only reason why I call it a mixtape and not an album is
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  because the album is also being promoted, and that's somewhere down the line.
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  It's called the fall Off, right. So everything that we've seen thus far
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  from j Cole, as far as features versus here and there and obviously this
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  project are all kind of like promotional tunes leading up to this big album from
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  him, which I appreciate because you know J Cole tends to He doesn't he
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  doesn't completely go away between albums. He'll give you features here and there.
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  But lately I felt like, you know, his feature has been crazy lately,
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  so there's a little bit of hunger. And for a dude like him,
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  who you know, kind of made his way on some mixtape stuff first,
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  it seems only right for him to do something like this. So Mike
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  Delete Later, which is available everywhere, it's even as a mixtape, is
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  about what twelve songs and forty three minutes. As far as the total time,
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  features include Cameron Young, Dreau, Gucci, Maine, Abs So in
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  Daylight for You, Battle rap people including people from his what's his name?
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  How you say a homie name? Bass Boss? I don't know. I
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  kind of like him, but I don't think I ever heard him say his
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  name, and I'm not a huge fan. Kind of like when I hear
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  him, but not enough to go listen to more music heard the first album.
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  But nevertheless, if you watch this channel, if you listen to this
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  podcast, you know our review albums by giving it at least three listens.
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  At least The first listen is for impressions. The second listen is to listen
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  a little deeply to the lyrics and the music and the concept and the sequencing
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  of the project. And the last listen is kind of to confirm my thoughts
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  positive or negative. And for those that can't wait or don't care about the
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  context in which how I feel, just want to know that you like it
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  or you dislike it. I'll say I like it, but let me explain
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  to me, Mike delete later is nothing that a J Cole fan has never
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  seen. It's just not It's just new J Cole. It's J Cole showing
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  the different styles he's shown throughout his career. That includes giving you bars on
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  some boom back stuff, that includes you know, wrapping over trap sounding beats
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  with a different flow, but that also includes and it's really only one track,
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  and it's probably the J Cole I like the least. The singing J
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  Cole, raise your hand if you. I mean, obviously somebody likes it,
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  that's why he's done it throughout his career. But I don't see why
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  he does it. Maybe he likes to do it, or maybe he goes
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  maybe he go to show he performed the song where he's singing Paul Abdo.
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  Yes, that's a real thing, and he see the reaction from the crowd.
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  He knows they like it when I do that, right, And he
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  might even hear people like me who like not don't Yo, why are you
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  doing that? And the only reason why, the only reason why I don't
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  like it, It just don't sound good to me. Right, It's not
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  the worst singing I ever heard in my life. It's just to me unnecessary
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  for someone who's so skilled on the other end of hip hop that this singing
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  on a whole record is a gimmick, and it's not even a gimmick that
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  works for you. That's my whole point. It's not that he can't sing.
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  He could do what he wants. It's just the simple fact that I
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  don't think it works for j Cole to me as a fan. Some people
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  like it, Like I said, for me, it's an instant skip like,
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  oh word, straight up, Now tell me the way that skip button
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  a boot. If I want to hear Paul ab due, I listen to
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  Paul ab dude, and I'm not even gonna listen to Paul lab dude.
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  So there you have it. But don't get it confused. There's plenty of
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  bars on here. There's just some very dope records on here, Like I
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  like the first song Pricey what Ari Lennox like that joints dope, Crocodile tills
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  He's dope. I'm not excited by Ready twenty four featuring Cameron, which is
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  basically I'm ready the twenty twenty four version. The original one was Cameron and
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  Dipset's, most notably Juwe Santana. And what I think I don't like about
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  it is it's not a spin on that beat, it's basically that beat,
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  and j Cole is kind of rhyming. Well, his delivery is like Julee
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  Santana, And I kind of feel like Jews Santana was a big, like
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  an equally as big part of the success of that record back in the days.
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  Now, I get that Cam and Jules and Jimmy and them they kind
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  of like on different sides and all that, but don't do that record if
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  you ain't gonna have Cam and Jules Jews Santana on there, like and then
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  you basically doing his cadence Like it just felt weird. Again, j Cole
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  way nicer than Jules Santana. To me, I've never been the biggest Jews
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  Santana fan, but I'm not gonna take away things that he did back then
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  that I thought it was dope, and his verse I'm Ready was a part
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  of that energy like it was. So it just kind of felt weird.
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  But if we call it a mixtape, well this is this fair game,
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  Like I'm not mad at it. So there you have it. Other songs
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  that I like, Sticks and Stones is dope for if you want some bars
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  away whatever. And again, overall, I think if you're a J Cole
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  fan, you're gonna like this because he's giving you exactly what you want.
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  I'll say it again, I doubt the majority of the fans are like,
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  why he's not singing more? Nobody's saying that. But if you like J
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  Cole spitting over a trap beats, if you like J Carr having J Cole
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  having bars and boom back beats and you know, being real lyrical, I
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  think you'll like this joint. Honestly, tweak a couple of records and you
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  probably could have called this the final album. So it makes me wonder what
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  the fall off is gonna sound like, because if it's anything close to this,
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  I think it might be a wasted moment. And the only reason why
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  would be a wasted moment is because I think this Kendrick and Metro boom booming
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  and future and this whole pick asides battle thing, it's kind of got in
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  the way of J Cole's rollout for this album, right because I've seen people
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  online talking about the record were about to talk about, right, the response
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  to Kendrick and not talking about the project, like do y'all even like the
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  project? You know? And I'll say this, since we're getting into seven
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  minute Drill. That's the response record their songs on this very project that are
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  better than that, and that's kind of a shame. So the song is
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  called seven minute Drill and has a beat switch starts out with a beat that
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  beat and flow from J Cole. That really sounds like something Drake would do
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  more than anything, and maybe that was the plan, but that seems kind
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  of stupid. I mean, well, let Drake take the first half then,
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  but Drake probably like, nah, you're gonna get the boom bap and
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  then try to have me do what I do on some this stuff. But
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  then it switches to a beat that's more hardcore and you get a little bit
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  more detailed bars from J Cole. He still didn't say his name, He
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  still sneaked this and like Kendrick said, and I think that's what's disappointing about
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  it. Now, some people will be like, what you want is light
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  jabs. You're right, it's light jazz. It is like jazz. You're
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  absolutely right, light jabs, But we're not here for light jazz. Because
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  the thing is is Kendrick's bars were like jazz, but his energy was like
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  I'm ready for a full on fight. So to me, it's like Kendrick
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  swung on you and he didn't land, and it's like you purposely miss your
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  punch because he your brother. I'm confused, J Cole, what what are
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  we doing? You don't have to put everything out, but that position up.
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  It's like sliding the fly, but nobody believes you. Fam I don't
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  care what Kendrick does on records. Now, he's still k dot from Compton
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  in the minute he goes in that bag. You have we learned nothing from
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  Ether? Have we learned nothing from Ether? Listen, children, adults,
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  y'all get it, but we're gonna talk to children real quick. J Cole
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  quoting Takeover. Basically, four albums and twelve years. I could divide,
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  calling the first album a classic, saying the second one was boring, but
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  they gassed it. You're talking about the pipper Butterfly. Where were you and
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  when was this ever? I know that get Richard died trying and to pimple
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  Butterfly. Two very different albums, two very different kendreds. I don't disagree
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  with that, but that's what that's what we give him flowers for, right,
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  like being different. That's why at least most of us. That's what
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  I thought. That's what we were saying up until j Cole said something different.
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  We were giving him flowers because every time he came out with an album,
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  it wasn't the same as the other ones, and most people thought them
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  were good, thought it was good. Now what he had to say about
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  missed him around the big Steppers. I could see some people feeling that because
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  one thing about that album, why it was great from an artistry standpoint.
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  Concept albums to that degree don't really have that much replay value in a genre
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  where people like to get dressed to this, get hyped for that. You
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  know, oh it's summer time. You're not putting on big If you got
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  to choose between Kendrick My albums, you're never putting on that one for any
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  of those molds. But are you doing that with Ja Cole? I don't,
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  and I own all his albums, even the one I don't like,
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  and it's the same thing Kendrick. So it just seemed like what he was
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  saying was uneven because jay Z also said something, Ja Cole, we don't
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  believe you you need more people. We can't. You can't say that about
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  them, especially you cannot say that about the pimper Butterfly. That's just invalid.
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  But what the children tend to miss is that quoting that line so heavy,
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  as if Kendrick has been putting out so many duds since Good Kid,
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  Mad City, and they forget when another man who j COO's quoting on a
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  song he's quoting, thought another dude wasn't the dude he used to be,
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  and he lepped around and found out with a song called Ethan. Now,
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  revisionists, because that's what we're really talking about. Revisionists would like to say
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  jay Z won the war, which is so stupid because if jay Z lost
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  the battle, there is no what war? What are you talking about?
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  This Hip hop is all battling until it's done, you know what I'm saying.
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  Anything outside of that does not matter, because fates can change and Nods
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  can be rich and jay Z could be poor and then Nids help him out.
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  I'm not gonna say Nas won the war because he helped jay Z out.
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  He helping a man out, you know why, because they were cool
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  and that's basically what this battle in this song is. Because I feel like
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  when Kendrick, well, not with Kendreck when J Cole was talking about Kanye,
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  for example, I could feel more venom and reality and what he was
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  saying about Kanye than anything. Well, he's just responding to Kendrick because it
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  feels like he feels the need to respond, you know, because he got
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  to protect his reputation in some way. But it also comes across as lazy
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  to lean on a few things that aren't necessarily true, you know, and
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  forget what we think you could have told me in a million years that J
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  Cole feels this way about these things. It's essentially why he keeps saying my
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  brother, my brother, my brother. He don't really want to do this.
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  But it's fine because I don't look at it as an alpha J Cole.
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  Hell no, it's not an l for J Cole. Honestly, I'm
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  good with these two responses, you know, right here, hold on,
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  like my my joint going crazy because we we had an earthquake hand Jersey,
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  so everybody text him. Uh. But I'd be cool if the light jazz
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  between Kendrick Lamar and J Cole ended right here, because we want that other
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  dude, and I say we I'm talking about Kendrick and Compton. Okay,
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  we want all three we want to do, we want the catalyst for all
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  of this. See that's the problem. You know what I'm saying. You've
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  ever been in a situation on on your block, group of friends, maybe
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  a team, maybe you play for a team, and you know the wrong
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  two dudes of fighting when they probably should be jumping the instigator and instigated quiet
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  because he's just so happy that the smoke ain't on him. That's what Kendrick
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  need to do. Kendrick need to just say yo, I apologize cold d
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  D D da da da, but don't play me the We can spa or
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  whenever, but back to Aubrey that's what we need. So long story short,
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  might delete later. Is a good project from j Cole. I mean,
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  the brother been on point the this is cool in some ways, I
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  gotta be honest. In some ways it kind of spoils my anticipation for this
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  project because now it's all people are talking about, and it's that tip of
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  the tongue and it's hard to digest the other records without looking like is he
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  talking about him on that? Like it just I don't know. It's taken
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  away from my enjoyment. But nevertheless, it's still hot. I think there's
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  a couple of songs here and there I skip no way near skipping like half
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  the project? Is it in my top five of the year? N because
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  it feels like a mixtape. It feels like here's some songs that I'm not
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  gonna put on the final album. That's what it feels like, and I
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  don't see any problem with that. If you're a person who a J Cole
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  fan and you know you're anticipating his new album, but you need something to
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  hold you over, and I think this is dope enough. What do you
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  think about J Cole's new project, Mike delete later? Are you feeling it?
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  Are you a J cole fan? Does it make you a J Cole
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  fan? Or do you feel about his response to Kendrick Lamar light bars?
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  Thought they should have been better? This was good enough, like jazz from
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  both but you're waiting for the main course. Leave your comments in a comment
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  you know enjoy this kind of content. Until next time, y'all. I'm
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  not a critic I'm a fan Peace,