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Best Albums of October 2025 · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on a bonus episode of hip Hop Now Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It is the best recommendations I have for you for
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  Speaker 1: October twenty twenty five, the best, not all of them.
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  Speaker 1: twenty one k, so good. So if you like this
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  Speaker 1: kind of content, this conversation about hip hop recommendations for albums,
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  Speaker 1: because you're like, yo, a bunch of albums keep releasing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's good. I don't know what's what.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who dropped. This is the episode for you.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get right into the business. October twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five was similar to.
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  Speaker 2: July.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was July, No August, my bad August
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five because a lot of albums dropped,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of albums dropped.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of albums dropped on.
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  Speaker 1: Halloween alone, that doesn't make them all good. So if
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  Speaker 1: you would like to know what I thought about the
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  Speaker 1: other months, I made one full video that just goes
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  Speaker 1: over each month and the albums that I was able
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  Speaker 1: to listen to that I thought were the standouts of
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  Speaker 1: the month. So here are the standouts for October twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. First up, a complete obvious as far as
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  Speaker 1: one of the best albums released in October, Mob Deep's
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  Speaker 1: infinite and like more than we could have asked for
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  Speaker 1: as Mob Deep fans that liked it right, those that
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  Speaker 1: liked it everything from Prodigies versus feeling like he was
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  Speaker 1: there to record this entire album with Havoc and Alchemists,
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  Speaker 1: to the nods of notification not notification but well, I
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  Speaker 1: guess for some that you know Prodigy is no longer
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  Speaker 1: with us, but it felt less like a reminder that
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't here and more like it was a nice
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  Speaker 1: touch kind of thing, like see you on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: It just it just felt like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay, you know he's no longer here, sad and
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  Speaker 1: all that good stuff. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: this is why we listen to mob Deep throughout the years.
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  Speaker 1: This is why we love the Prodigy, and this album
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  Speaker 1: Infinite doesn't dwell on that either. It's straight up Mob Deep,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the way you know them, the way you
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  Speaker 1: love them, like Big Noise is on the album.
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  Speaker 2: All that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So now's of course great album, hardcore hip hop at
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  Speaker 1: its finest, and a great sind off because I assume
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  Speaker 1: this is the last Mob Deep album where ever get
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  Speaker 1: a perfect send off for one of hip hop's legendary groups.
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  Speaker 1: Also a dope record that was released Hip Boyant Alchemists
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  Speaker 1: Goldfish Now, Hip Hooy and Alchemy had been teasing these
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  Speaker 1: types of collaborations for the last few years. Right when
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  Speaker 1: they did that one joint. Damn, I can't remember the
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  Speaker 1: name of the song now slipping into Darkness right where
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  Speaker 1: they're both they both had beats is a beat switch up,
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  Speaker 1: but hit Man's rapping a hit man, hit Boy's rapping
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  Speaker 1: over Alchemists beat, and Alchemist is rapping over Hip Boy beat.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, this is dope because the first
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  Speaker 1: of all the beats they had were dope in that song.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 1: They're not like super bar Kings or nothing like that, Like,
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  Speaker 1: so you're not going to be like yo, what Alchemists
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  Speaker 1: said was right, like, you know, you may have a
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  Speaker 1: few moments like that, but that's not why you come
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  Speaker 1: to listen to these guys. And I feel like with
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  Speaker 1: the album Goldfish and that EP they released, I believe
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  Speaker 1: like last year or so, which was really dope but
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  Speaker 1: short because it was a real EP, right like for
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this album carries on the tradition of
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  Speaker 1: their collaboration and again as MC's disserviceable, I think of
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  Speaker 1: their types of raps being the same reasons why mainly
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  Speaker 1: Alchemists in this case, same reasons why you know people
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  Speaker 1: like a Boldie James or or even a Rock Marcy. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's the flow. I'm not trying to say he better
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  Speaker 1: than Rock Marcy. I'm just saying it's the flow. Alchemist's
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  Speaker 1: flow reminds me a lot of Rock Marciana's flow.
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  Speaker 2: And and hit Boy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he says things that you know you could
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  Speaker 1: either relate to or you don't, but all of it
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  Speaker 1: together just sounds cool, interesting to an extent, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's I was listening to it. I felt like,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm listening to an album more than I have to,
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  Speaker 1: it must be good, right. I'm not forcing myself to
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  Speaker 1: listen to this album. I was like, Yo, this album's cool.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. It's cool.
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  Speaker 1: So they had it another album, Ruben Vincent and Ninth
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  Speaker 1: Wander Welcome Home. This album's great. From the first time
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  Speaker 1: hearing the Albi Shore flip on what I think was
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  Speaker 1: their lead single, I think it's called Go Get It,
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  Speaker 1: to hearing another track and another track, and then finally
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  Speaker 1: the album drops and I'm like I had to shout
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  Speaker 1: out to I had to text kids the album and say, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: you need to check this out because this is the
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  Speaker 1: type of album, types of albums we miss, all the
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  Speaker 1: types of albums we praise other bigger artists like Kendrick
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  Speaker 1: Ford and stuff like that, because albums became at one point,
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  Speaker 1: albums became about a bunch of hit singles, or at
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  Speaker 1: least trying to make a bunch of hit singles. And
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  Speaker 1: there's some albums that are great for that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the purpose, and it doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 1: any other way if it works. But then there are
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  Speaker 1: those albums that feel like experiences or journeys or introduction
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  Speaker 1: to an artist in this case for me, that tells
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  Speaker 1: you what you need to know. About them and really
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  Speaker 1: not being able to predict what you're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: from ninth from Ruben Vincent, and by the end it
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  Speaker 1: just felt like, Yo, this is a well put together
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  Speaker 1: album with some dope beats, dope beats, thoughtful rhymes. Again,
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  Speaker 1: everything's not a bar fest. Everybody's not trying to be
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  Speaker 1: the greatest spider ever. Some people are artists, right, They
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  Speaker 1: write with their pen. They could probably do the freestyle
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  Speaker 1: and give you all those bars too, but they're a
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  Speaker 1: bigger artist than just that. And there's no issues with
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  Speaker 1: being a bar king versus somebody who can create a
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  Speaker 1: great album. But this Welcome Home album, I had no
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  Speaker 1: expectations and I didn't even know what it was about,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest. And even though I'm not even from
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  Speaker 1: these parts, you know, like from North Carolina and all that,
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  Speaker 1: I assume Ruben Vincent is from North Carolina. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I believe he says so that it was relatable, the
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  Speaker 1: welcome home part, whether you coming home from college, the military, prison,
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  Speaker 1: being away just because you went away. There's something about
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  Speaker 1: that welcome home vibe that I feel like they captured
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  Speaker 1: in this album. With the skits, which are small, but
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  Speaker 1: they work within the confines of the songs and the
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  Speaker 1: album concept. But great album, honest to me, one of
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  Speaker 1: the best of the year. We almost over, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: if I said that is a good chance it'll still
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  Speaker 1: be there by the end of this year. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see also released Chik Looch Gorilla Ween eight or seven.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look real quick, because.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I didn't know there was that many.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it's up on the screen because you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: that's how the future works. You you find out later
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  Speaker 1: and then you just place it in Gorilla Weens seven.
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  Speaker 1: I said eight, But I'm in the future. But I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you this right now. I might have heard
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  Speaker 1: only one of these joints previously. Not that I don't
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  Speaker 1: like Sheik Louch as a rapper. I think he's criminally
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  Speaker 1: slept on in the Locks. But Locks fans know, we know,
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  Speaker 1: they all can spit. I don't know if you've heard
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  Speaker 1: all the Gorilla Weens from I really hate the name.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie uh from Sheikh Looch. Please put
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  Speaker 1: your critique of this album versus or this project versus
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  Speaker 1: the other entries in the series, because I don't really
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  Speaker 1: have a point of reference to say it's the best,
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  Speaker 1: but I can tell you this much, it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the best of October because.
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  Speaker 2: She rap.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of the reasons why you like Griselda
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  Speaker 1: and all that that that was the lots before them.
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  Speaker 1: Before Griselda, it was the Lox. So Griselda is responsible
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  Speaker 1: for bringing boom Back back to the forefronts. But they
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  Speaker 1: are not the fatherest of it. Obviously it needed all
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  Speaker 1: the locks in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: They're more They're more related to the locks than you
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  Speaker 1: would think regards to the you know, the three man
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  Speaker 1: crew type situation. But she gluch on this album. You know, the.
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  Speaker 2: Rhms are there.
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  Speaker 1: It's hardcore raps and I love his beat selection. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think for some rappers that could be a difference maker.
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  Speaker 1: Some guy like like, for example, Lloyd Banks. He released
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  Speaker 1: another entry into his Halloween Havocs series and I ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna lie, I really don't like it. I like his
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  Speaker 1: album that he released earlier this year more than that.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not because he fell off or he can't rap.
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like when Lloyd Banks has really dope beats,
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  Speaker 1: not just just boom Back beats that you could get into,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean it has to be like some really
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  Speaker 1: dope production that's more vibrant than.
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  Speaker 2: He comes across.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's when he's at his best, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like chic looch he kind of has that energy.
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  Speaker 1: He's not monotone, so when he has great production, it's
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  Speaker 1: even better, you know what I'm saying. And not to
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  Speaker 1: compare the two, but you know, one's in my Best
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  Speaker 1: of October and one isn't. And they both got Halloween themes.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have it, Halloween, you have it.
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  Speaker 2: Three. I think that's my favorite. I'm gona line two more.
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  Speaker 1: Mick Jenkins and Email and Murder of Crows. This was
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  Speaker 1: an album that I didn't listen to when it dropped.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Dad End and Hip Hop. I think
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  Speaker 1: they did their best of the month.
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  Speaker 2: I guess. I think I forget what video was, but
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  Speaker 2: they mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: I had listened to Mick Jenkins projects in the past,
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  Speaker 1: didn't really get a chance to get to this one.
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  Speaker 1: But because of what was how it was talked about,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I should probably least put an
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  Speaker 1: air to it. And it's a really good album. It's
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  Speaker 1: a really good album. Mick Jenkins is not gonna cheat
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  Speaker 1: you if you need more than the usual rapper rhetoric.
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  Speaker 1: Right when it comes to me as a fan, trust me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not choosing side. You look at my catalog of music.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be songs you like, and then there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be songs this person may like and you made dislike
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  Speaker 1: and that person made dislike because I'm not listening and
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  Speaker 1: liking everything obviously, not if I could say I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really care for the Slick Rick project, I love slick Rack,
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  Speaker 1: but I love variety and hip hop, and I love
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  Speaker 1: artists that can be more than just the typical rapper.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They rap with substance. They talk about things that happen
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  Speaker 1: to all of us every day in our lives, that
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  Speaker 1: we experience that most rappers never to about. I just
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  Speaker 1: did a review on that Tupac book, talked a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about Brenda's Got a Baby. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why Tupac captivated me as a fan with that
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  Speaker 1: video and that song was because that's not like a
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  Speaker 1: new story, especially for back then. It just wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: new type of story. But the fact that a rapper
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  Speaker 1: hadn't at least on a mainstream level, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about somebody from around your way who had a
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  Speaker 1: similar song before Tupac. We don't know him, fan, we
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  Speaker 1: don't know him. Okay, congrats to him, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: know him. But on a mainstream level, Tupac did that,
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  Speaker 1: and it was one of those things where I was like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even think rappers could rap about this type
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. It just never dawned on me, and Tupac
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  Speaker 1: did it masterfully. So I feel the same way when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Mick Jenkins and the album, not that
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  Speaker 1: everything is that deep, but if you if you're familiar
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  Speaker 1: with his music, it's going to be more than Braggadocia's raps.
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  Speaker 1: Yo check out my bars or crime Stories, which are
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  Speaker 1: more so par for the course for most rappers today.
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  Speaker 1: And for a while, like let's not pretend it's Nick
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  Speaker 1: and the last one originally wasn't going to be on
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  Speaker 1: this list, but I listen, I listen again, that I
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  Speaker 1: listen again, And even though I feel like Hills Have
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  Speaker 1: Eyes Too is the best in the series, Hills Have
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  Speaker 1: Eyes three is not that bad, I'd say for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. When it comes to Westside Gun, who has released.
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  Speaker 1: I believe I think he's released four or five projects,
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  Speaker 1: maybe closer to four. He'lls Have Eyes two and three
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  Speaker 1: and twelve are the best, and twelve I have in
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  Speaker 1: my best of the year. He'lls Have Eyes two. It's
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  Speaker 1: almost like I'm feeling some kind of way like I
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  Speaker 1: need to put it in the in my top ten
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  Speaker 1: or top fifteen or whatever. But he'lls Have Eyes three,
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  Speaker 1: I think continues the momentum of the second entry. It's
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  Speaker 1: not as good, but at least that momentum is there,
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  Speaker 1: And why say is not as good as just because
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  Speaker 1: it's it reminds me it's closer to Hells Have Eyes one,
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  Speaker 1: which was extremely short. This project is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: longer than that. It features like Benning, a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: I was wanna say, banc Benny the Butcher's on there,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it stole God is there?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: It's both the James there. I don't I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. But in general, Rome Streets is there.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking of. It's a dope project.
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  Speaker 1: The only the only thing is and obviously I recommended
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  Speaker 1: if you liked Westside Gun and if you liked the
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  Speaker 1: projects he's released this year. This is another one you
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  Speaker 1: would enjoy. But the only reason why like some of
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  Speaker 1: these albums will not make my best of the year
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  Speaker 1: is because there's a lot of albums to compete, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a lot released in October that's not on
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  Speaker 1: my recommendations from some of my favorite artists. Does it
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  Speaker 1: mean I'm not listening, No, it just means that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel like amongst the ones that I really liked,
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  Speaker 1: those PRIs meant the standard for me. What were some
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  Speaker 1: of the best albums of October twenty twenty five for
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  Speaker 1: you leave them down in the comments. I definitely check comments,
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  Speaker 1: especially especially if you know of an album, even just
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  Speaker 1: through the year, an album that you're like, Yo, I
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  Speaker 1: think you need to check this one out because I
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  Speaker 1: think it's one of the best of the year. Chances
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  Speaker 1: are maybe I didn't even hear it, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, And especially if I see a reoccurring theme
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  Speaker 1: of a specific album that it seems like everybody heard
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  Speaker 1: and likes, I'll go check it out because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: one of those guys who who needs to be prepped.
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  Speaker 1: If something is dope and enough people are saying it's dope.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go see why. So there you have it.
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