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Ben Shapiro Retires From Rap · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So that's it, folks. It's over. The short and beautiful rap career
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  of Ben Shapiro, otherwise known as Doctor Dradel, is over. It's done.
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  If you want to hear somebody rap about compound interest, you're gonna have
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  to go somewhere else. And here's the headline. Ben Shapiro makes huge announcement
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  about rap future after dominating the charts. And as I've said earlier, I
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  found this absolutely hilarious and a great way to start off twenty twenty four.
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  And this experience, which I enjoyed very very much, prove two things.
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  Number One, for all the success of this song, there is no universe
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  where Ben Shapiro rapping isn't at least just a little bit cringe. I mean,
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  it's Ben Shapiro, for God's sakes, and the fact that it is
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  just makes the fact that it became a number one song on iTunes all the
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  more awesome and hilarious somehow. I mean, this was worth it just for
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  the left big media meltdown, says Daily Wire editor emeritus. Ben Shapiro definitely
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  got everyone's attention on Monday when he announced his retirement from the rap game after
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  dominating the charts for more than a week. The host of The Ben Shapiro
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  Show collaborated on the music video Facts with Canadian wrestler turned rapper Tom MacDonald in
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  a song that takes a swipe at the insanity of things in our culture like
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  gender identity and defunding the police, and the song quickly became the number one
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  song in the country and top the hip hop rap category on the iTunes charts.
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  And here is Ben Shapiro making his announcement on Twitter, breaking Facts by
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  I Am Tom MacDonald featuring Me has now finally dropped from the top slot on
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  iTunes. After ten days of pure magic rap, Honikah is over, and
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  so, with tears in my eyes, I have another announcement to make to
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  all the little homies who have been lifting me up since I began this journey.
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  It was an inspired moment, a musical supernova. But now the time
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  has come from you to walk away from my art, and so today I
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  announced that I am retiring from rap to spend more time with my family,
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  words which nobody ever predicted they would hear. It's been real, dogs,
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  and never forget the music never dies so long as the beat is in your
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  heart. Rip Doctor Dradel twenty twenty four to twenty twenty four. He even
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  got a shout up from Nicki Minaj. I just listened to it. Ben
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  Shapiro, not bad, congrats on number one. She's saying that to Ben
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  Shapiro. If you don't find this hilarious until the end of your days,
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  there's something wrong with you. But I think there's a point in this,
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  kind of a hidden point in this, which is worth looking at now.
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  Of course, both Tom MacDonald and Ben Shapiro have big audiences, and they're
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  able to rally people to buy their content and support it and get them to
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  number one on the iTunes charts, and they beat out the likes of Nicki
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  Minaj and Megan the Stallion and others other famous artists. And I have to
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  wonder if getting this to this song facts to number one, if that says
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  more about the popularity of Ben Shapiro than it does about the popularity and the
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  power of all those other artists, because they may have, you know,
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  hundreds of millions of listens on like Spotify, and it makes me wonder how
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  much of that is people actually seeking them out, and how much of it
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  is just it's served up to people, just in playlists, just in curated
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  playlists from the streaming platforms. Because if Ben Shapiro gets the number one on
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  the iTunes charts ahead of people like Taylor Swift, who is way more known
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  than Ben Shapiro, it makes me wonder how much the music industry itself is
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  kind of an illusion and how much of it is just manufactured by people behind
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  the scenes who are really making the decisions on who listens to what, because
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  don't forget, the iTunes chart is based on actual sales, how many people
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  actually bought the song. But with that said, let's just end this with
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  rip doctor Dradel. This is probably the perfect time to stop and leave this
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  as a beautiful, hilarious, crystallized moment in time. Anyway, That's all
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  I got to say about that. Please subscribe, like and share sharing It
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  really helps me out. I thank you for that. I will see you
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  next time.