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Switch Sides on em · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Coming up. On this week's episode of Hip Hop Now podcast, Q Tip
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teases a trilogy of new albums the fan fall off theory. We'll talk about
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it and what projects do I have in my current listening rotation. We we
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gotta spend some time on something else. I'm just saying, but we'll talk
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about it. Let's do it. Welcome to your pop now podcast. As
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get right into the business. So q Tip recently celebrated a birthday. Happy
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birthday to the legend and hip hop, production and rapper. All of that.
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Do not debate, do not revise history. I said what I said
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the track on quest q tip, but he basically got a lot of fans
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excited, included this fan. I even put it, even put a T
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shirt on. That's how I like. That was about new music. And
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we know in the past he had mentioned this album called the Last Zulu,
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you know that he was working on. Well, apparently he's working on three
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albums, which I like it. But I'm afraid right, let's let's just
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get to the information. This is coming from hip hopdx dot com. Q
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Tip sparks fan excitement with new music teaser. A new seed has sprouted.
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Okay, I don't know what that means, but he's a quote from q
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tip on Twitter of you guys and thanks for the wishes. Music come and
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stay tuned. So when a fan asked them, when you say music,
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do you mean all three? Q tip replied, three, but some title
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changes on one of them. No, algorithm, A new seed has sprouted.
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So the all three is the three albums that he's referring to and the
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working titles. In twenty twenty one or in twenty twenty was algorithm Ryo Diaries
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and the last Zulu. Now I didn't remember. I don't remember this from
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twenty twenty, but it was twenty twenty. Y'all know some things we just
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hope we don't remember. But I I am excited, especially since that was
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four years ago and it's been even longer since the last T called quest album.
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Q Tip as a soloist is interesting because it's it's almost like a career
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that doesn't really exist. Yet he does have albums, right, He had
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the one joint that had viborate thing. I think it was called qualified or
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amplified. I don't know, amplified. I think that's what it was called.
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I did not like it. That's why in my memories, Like obviously
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there was a few joints on there, but I didn't like the direction of
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the music, especially considering you know, you talk about the abstract poetic.
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I kind of wanted that vibe. And then he did another album which I
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don't know why. I can't remember it at this point in time, but
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it's the one where he got like the MPC in front of his face and
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he got sued on that album was dope. That was the to me,
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that was the pocket for a q Tip be that guy, you know what
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I'm saying, some hip hop, some soul, a little flavors of jazz,
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like just really soul fulfilled to his project. And then there was a
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at one point it was unreleased, but I think it's available on streaming services.
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The joint called Camal the Abstract. Now, most people woun't like that
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because that's less of the q Tip, you know, as far as rapping
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goes, and this was more of musician q Tip. You know, sure
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his vocals are on there, but it's just not the q Tip you're accustomed
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to. And I think that's what makes Q Tip as a soloist a little
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strange to anticipate because he's kind of you don't you can't predict what you're gonna
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get from him, right The stuff you don't like, you don't know if
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you're gonna get that. The stuff you do like, you don't know if
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you're going to get that either, So it's a little frustrating. But if
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he's talking about a trilogy of albums and hopefully a real rollout that we can
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get behind, then I'm willing to listen to whatever he drops because I like
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the idea that I think he's probably sitting on a ton of music over the
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past couple of years, and maybe it's time to release it. So we'll
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see, because I just hate when dudes like that, who you know,
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probably stay in the line, but often just don't release anything. Maybe they
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produce for other people, but as far as their own music, just really
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don't release anything. And they say stuff like coming soon, like we've been
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hearing Muddy Waters too from Redman is coming soon for so long that I don't
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even care. And I love Muddy Waters and I love Redmn, but at
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this point time, I don't know what that project is because if it was
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that hot, you would have put it out. Maybe you're looking for a
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situation. I get it right, You don't just want to put something out
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and get pennies for your hard work over the years. But stop teasing it
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because it's not it don't have I'm not it. I don't have any anticipation
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for it. I don't know when it's gonna drop. I don't know if
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it will drop. But I also know that if Eric Summon ain't doing the
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bulk of the production, I probably won't like it. I'm just saying how
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I could be wrong, but hey, we'll see. But this this looks
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interesting from Q tip, But in twenty twenty he teased it and now you
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know, four years later, it just happens to be his birthday and he
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teasing again, and I don't know if. I don't know if I could
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get that excited. So we'll see when it comes out. So we got
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to stop the press. This is real quick. Me Tony from Into Dome
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Into the Doome dot Com and Kill from Apartment five ft podcast did a collaborative
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special bonus YouTube exclusive episode talking about jay Z jay Z Well it kind of
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fits, don't it, talking about j Cole's apology to Kendrick Lamar while he
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was doing his Dreamville Situation Festival on stage. For those who don't know those
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who are listening audio form, I'll put the link to that episode in this
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episode's description so you can go and check it out yourself, because it was
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YouTube exclusive, partly because this podcast is a family podcast and it is typically
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no cussing, but we were cussing a lot on that joint, so I
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was like, well, I'll just make it a YouTube joint, because honestly,
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I didn't want to sit there and clean an hour and thirty minutes episode.
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I just didn't want to do it, but nevertheless, it'll be available
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check out if you're on YouTube, check that out also. But this is
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the craziest battle of artists I've ever seen in the history of hip hop.
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It really is in a lot of ways. It reminds me, and I'm
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gonna tell you why, of the Avengers teaming up to fight Danos. At
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this point. The latest news after the apology, J Cole shows up on
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a surprise appearance on stage with Bass I think that's his name or Boss,
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and he kind of forgets his lyrics as he's rapping. Now, these kinds
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of things happen, right, You got so much music, so many songs.
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Yes, it's your job to perform and write music, so honestly,
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anything and everything you do should be top of mind because it's what you do
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for a living. So I'm not gonna crush J Cole for that, but
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the internet is, and they really crushing them now because Metro Booming and Future
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released their follow up to an album that was just released not that long ago
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that contained the Kendrick disc that this Drake and J Cole. That album was
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called We Don't trust You. This new album, which is all new,
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not a deluxe, it's called We Still Don't Trust You, and it features
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the Weekend who throws some shots at Drake asap Rocky who also throws shots at
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Drake, but also J Cole and Jacob's not dissing Drake, He's just rapping.
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And most people, probably like myself, believe this is something that was
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recorded way back. But in this game of chest or Checkers or whatever,
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metro Booming in future are doing assembling the Avengers against Drake. Now, they
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just threw down the extra Big Joker because they put an album out that has
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a J Cole verse on it, the album directed at Drake that also features
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J Cole. Drake fans Drake Stands. I'm a Drake fan, but there's
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Drake Stands and that's what I want to talk about. Are referring to Drake
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without a disrecord response to anything like that yet as Thanos, and they're saying
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it from a position of power, right show he must beat Danos. They
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teaming up against him. Dog Thanos died in Endgame. I don't know if
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you want to beat Thanos. You might want to beat Thanos in Infinity War
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but when Endgame happened, they killed them twice. Sorry if you haven't seen
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the movie, but it happens. Okay, still good to watch both of
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them. But J Cole being on this project. You know, the Internet,
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they sometimes y'all don't think things through. Sometimes y'all ignore the context for
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the headline. You know. It's like when you see a big free on
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something and you're like, oh, it's free, and they got all kinds
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of poisons and stuff like that and whatever. So everybody trying to say J
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Cole switch sides. Now, of course switch sides. It's just a perfect
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move by metro Booming in Future to put J Cole on this project because it
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just feels like I'm gonna get where it just against him. And what makes
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it feel like J Cole is even though he's not doing it. But what
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it makes it, why it makes it appear that way, is the fact
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that when Jacole apologized to Kendrick, he basically was bailing out of the situation.
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Right, Kendrick is dissing me and you, Me and you. That's
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all we got c MB, right, it was just me and you.
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You go in. I might be hyped a little bit because you kind of
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win it, or at least he went in first. Oh he caught catching
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man straights. Okay, but wait you quit? Okay, you know I
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know your spirit and all that good? All right, cool, I get
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it. Let me give my disrecord up. Wait what you're on a side?
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You're on ay album now, They're gonna be number one again next week
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and you with them. You're gonna get a bag for this. You might
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get a plaque for this. This is crazy. Now the fan fall off
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theory. I don't want to be that guy, but this is the theory,
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and then I'll tell you what I think about it. The theory is
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is that j Cole is doing all of this to fall off amongst the fans,
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right because this new album coming up is called The fall Off. Right.
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So, Kendrick, this is me. I put out a whack this.
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Everybody says it's like they argue, Yo, it wasn't really that blah
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blah blah. I commit a cardinal sin and hip hop. I bow out
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of a battle that's not beef. It's not dangerous. It's just a battle,
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and I'm out because I couldn't take what people thought about it. Then
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I go on stage to do a show and I forget my lyrics. Man,
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I'm falling off. And then it appears that when I was in alliance
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with this dude, I'm on the other side the fall off. That's the
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fan theory or the stand theory that's starting to spread around a little bit now.
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Some people really like it because it's almost like a method actor, right,
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just every day walking around preparing for a role that you have no idea
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about, so you just think, oh, he's crazy now, like Joaquin
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Phoenix did it right, Remember when we had the big beard and crazy hair
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and glasses and he was going he was going on talk shows. He was
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doing all kinds of crazy stuff. But it was just for a film.
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Method acting. Right. Here's even a little smaller one when people thought,
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Yo, Denzel getting old and looking washed because he had the one big mustache.
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And then you realize he's in a Western and that's why he had the
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mustache and he cut it off after the movie. People think this is all
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a part of j Cole's playing for his album Rollout for the fall off.
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Now, if he revealed that to be true when the album dropped, I
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get it, but I don't know if you can recover from it. People
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don't like being tricked. They don't like being food into believe in something just
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for you to say the jokes on y'all. It was all a part of
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the fall off. And when you think about it, someone spend too much
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more time on this won't move on to something better when you think about it,
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right, I would like it as a concept, especially if you use
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you know, or you ask permission. Right. You get some of the
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things that academics was saying about you, Joe, butten's other random people on
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podcasts, like how everybody was talking against you. Maybe they in on it
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so they can get the sound bites on the album. Maybe they in on
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it. I just don't think the reaction is going to be what he would
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want. It could be a fall off for real. Right now, I
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don't think j Cole is falling off. I just think he's just having a
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bad run at it. But I don't think this is the way to go.
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I don't think this is the way to go. I'd rather him use
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some of that as a result of what's happening, but not do a haha
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got y'all. You know what I'm saying. It was the rollout for this
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Out, because is everybody a part of your album? Rollout Future, metro
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Booming a part of that, Kendrick a part of that, Drake a part
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of that. Like, the only thing that would be acceptable of Aha,
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we Got y'all is if Drake, Kendrick and j Cole say Boom Big Three
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album we Got y'all and it's fire, then I'll just be happy, Like
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hey, I'll be happy more so for Ja Cole to be like, okay,
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good man, because I was gonna say, you're looking soft. I'll
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take that. Those three. I think that would be actually dope because I
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think they could cover so much ground musically as artists. I would love it.
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But they just being J Cole's thing. Nah man, the internet is
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not forgiving. It will just make you look cornier if that's what you're doing.
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But if you say, and I don't know, maybe the fall Off
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starts with a song called the Big Three and the Big Three are on it,
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Yeah, then maybe I don't know. So I don't know. We
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just have to hear this album. I hope this isn't true. I hope
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there's a whole different situation with The fall Off, because at the end of
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the day, we just live in a world where even if people love what
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he's doing and champion it, they will forget about it soon, very soon.
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Everybody was just talking about Diddy every day and then it's happened, So
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something else can happen and we just switch off to that, so we'll see.
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And lastly, so with all of this, who's better the Big three?
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We still don't trust you. We don't trust you. Album. You
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know, there's a lot more music out there. Might delete later, right,
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there's a lot more music out there then, you know hip hop social
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media would suggest. And in June, around June or whatever, I usually
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do the best of the year so far, and I wanted to do a
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segment that now I'm not even gonna do it because I didn't want to really
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commit to having to do that every month. But I wanted to do a
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segment where I said, basically, and I had brought a guest on,
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these are the best albums of this month, because so much music gets released
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that it's hard to keep up on, Like I have albums in the queue
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that came out this year that I haven't listened to yet. Because I also
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don't want to move through music so quickly that the ones I like I never
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listen to or I never go back because now I got ten more I got
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to listen to for the first time. But usually I don't let that stop
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me, and there's always those projects that are in my heavy rotation. Like
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I'm usually they're my go to's. Now, there's a lot of music that
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came out, but I just want to keep this simple for that well,
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a lot of music that came out that I think is dope. If I
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had to do a best of the Year, a lot of this music would
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be in it. But I'm only going to stick to the three I am
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listening to currently because I just did my go tos, so one of them
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would be Huss Kingpin and Ninth Wonder's Super Goat. When I tell you,
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let me be clear, this came out in January, right when I tell
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you that, I listened to this all the time, and I didn't listen
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to Huss Kingpin all the time. I think there's something about what he does
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lyrically that goes so well with the dope. Production of ninth one is production
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on here is just perfect for me. It's just perfect. It's a perfect
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album with variety throughout the subject matter obviously, and don't get it twisted.
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It's not like crazy, but it's enough, right, It's enough to fit
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the vibe of this album, and it's so dope like it it's so dope.
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So that's one that's in my heavy rotation to this day since January.
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Going strong Benny the Butcher, everybody can't go now. If you watch my
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review of this album, I came away disappointed, but I still felt like
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it was a good album. I'm a big Benny the Butcher fans. It's
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Kendrick Ransom, Conway and Benny Like when they have new music, it don't
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matter. I'm downloading instantly because I know I'm gonna like it. And I
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was a little disappointed because I thought this album would be better, But every
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time I press play is meeting what I need at the moment. Right as
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far as the music now, will it be in my top five at the
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end of the year. I don't think it will survive, to be honest,
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because it's not just about how often I listen to them, but it's
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about the overall quality of the album. And I just feel like some projects
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that have come out, and some that have probably come out, I don't
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see it being in my top five, but I do see it being in
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my best of the Year category because it's it's one of my go tos right
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now. I just throw it on and it's exactly what I want to hear,
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you know what I'm saying. In my third and this is difficult because
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there's a couple of joints that I would have put in this category, but
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it's Davies and scram Jones for the love. Now, the first two joints
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I mentioned, Husk Kingpin and Benny the Butcher, are kind of in the
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same lane, right, boom back, hardcore lyrics, gangster lyrics, whatever
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you want to say, right. Benny's album is a little bit more on
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the mainstream, polished version of that, if that makes sense, and the
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Husk Kingpin joint is more on the underground feel right, Well, this is
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more of variety. This is not Davis being a bar king. This is
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Dav's making a project about relationships, right, and not in a corny way
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or way that doesn't seem true to him. That's what I like most about
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it. Sometimes when rappers make records for the ladies, they make what they
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think rappers usually, right, They rhyme a certain way with their voice,
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like they're talking to the ladies, like they emulate ll in a lot of
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ways, which makes sense, right, go anyway, right, immlate the
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goat. But it's one of those things, right like where you just kind
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of like, I know, with me sometimes I kind of tune out.
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But the wave Dave East does it, it's so sincere and true to who
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he is that it's a relatable as a dude. It's relatable, and I
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love the nineties aesthetic that comes with this album, mainly sitcom aesthetic. Right.
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Martin really plays a big the whole Martin and Gina stuff, some living
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single in there. Like I just love it, man, and I really,
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I really feel comfortable saying it will probably be in my top five of
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the year because I like variety and I like when artists do something different but
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they fully commit to doing something different. Those are my three as far as
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heavy rotation. I listen to either one of those three at least once or
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twice a week. Obviously there are others, and just for a bonus,
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I'll give y'all bonus of rotation two albums or two projects that could replace the
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two of the joints in this rotation, one being Ransom and Heavy Fraud Lavish
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Misery. That's a really dope joint. Just bars, That's all it is,
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is just bars. That's what ransom do you listen? Listen to this
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man he's technician with the bars. And the other one is from a while
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ago, but I'm still bumping it. The Color Chocolate Volume one EP.
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But Shade in the Wild Ransom's on here, also your old Drew evidence for
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track EP. It's really dope. She can honestly ride out the year with
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that project, even though I know she got an album coming. If this
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is a preview or what's to come, I'm with it. I like it,
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like it a lot. So there you have it. What is in
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your heavy rotation? Three albums? Two honorable mentions? Leave it in the
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comments section below. Maybe I've heard them, maybe I haven't. I would
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love to check them out. Obviously, there's a list of music coming that
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I have in the queue to listen to. Maybe i'll review them here.
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I'm not sure, but there's so much more hip hop out there than this
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hip hop beef where honestly, it feels like we've been waiting for it to
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explode, and it keeps imploding in a lot of ways. Subscribe wherever you
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