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Best Album Reactions, Best Album of 1998? - #95 · The Grounded Show

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Oh podcast. Now there we go. You can hear me? You hear
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me? I can't. I can all right, brother, once again,
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welcome to the Groundest Show podcast with your boy. Let's just Sanchez coming to
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your live and direct from Floyd that you hear me And I'm here with my
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dog Joe for an easy Joe. What's going on my guy? Yeah?
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Man, episode, we're gonna be here holding it down well a boy,
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Q top. It's gonna be uh out this week, but we go hold
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damn it, yes, sir. Right right when I was booting up,
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man, I realized every time, you know how every time we record,
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like we usually put some in the background, like just some low music or
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just some kind of vibes just to kind of make the atmosphere dope for the
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for the pot and everything. Bro. I pretty much put the same thing
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on every time, and it's always the Craig David Born to do an album
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like I just shuffle it for whatever reason. Every week, I just find
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myself going back to that and just running that the whole time. Like I
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don't know what it is about. I don't know if it's like a comfort
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thing, just because like it's like an album that was like real impactful to
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me when I was younger, and I just remember listening to it or what.
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But like just hearing it in the background makes you feel good, you
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know what I'm saying. Yeah, you need that kind of stuff because we
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get too wrapped up in conversations and I think that apps brings you, brings
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you back down and like slow down with it. Yeah, it gives you.
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It gives you that vibe of like those best conversations that you have,
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like when you're just randomly like sitting around with a couple of people, got
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some music playing in the background and y'all just chopping it up about life,
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you know what I mean. Like those be the conversations that always hit the
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most, you know. So I don't even like, yeah that so I
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don't even like trying to like set up situations where you're like gonna have that
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kind of moment, you know what I'm saying. Like some people try to
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kind of fabricate that kind of thing, and it's like, nah, you
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just gotta it just gotta happen, you know what I mean, Like it
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just got to come together that way, and like those for those conversations to
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hit, it just has to be like a perfect storm, you know what
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I mean. I agree, those those combos just flow, they'd be like
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eight hours long. You'd even realize. Facts. But yeah, man,
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last week we was talking about that Apple Top one hundred list. It was
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a big conversation throughout the week, and there was a lot of interesting comments
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on the stuff that we said, and just people's takes me ever got mad
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of our opinions for sure. Yeah, yeah, facts. It's funny,
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man. We were talking about that before too, Like when I be seeing
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them comments, bro, Like, it just makes me laugh because I just
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I don't know what it is, like, I just imagine it, like
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in a lighthearted way, I guess, Like I don't. I don't imagine
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it like as a serious thing. I just imagine that somebody trying to be
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funny, you know what I mean. So it just makes me laugh,
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and it also simultaneously makes me think, like dang, like people really be
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like living or dying off these things like what these comments say. Like I
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don't give it a second thought once I see it, you know what I
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mean. It's like I just see it and then I carry on with my
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day, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't think any of
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us got a reaction. They got a reaction out of any of us.
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I just hit them. I did everything with the crying face. Oh yeah,
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yeah, it's funny, man, hilarious. They feel that way.
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Yeah. One of the things that a lot of people were saying that was
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like a valid point I wanted to hear your opinion on it was you know,
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I brought up a point when talking about all time albums that they need
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to be a certain age to even be considered, because like you need to
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give them that time to like go back and listen to it. And a
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lot of people was disagreeing. They were saying, Bro, you know you
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know something's classic right away. You know that time doesn't make something better.
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You know that music is just a vibe thing, like there's no time stamp
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on it, which is you know, I could see that point of view
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of it, But for me, I'm speaking about it from the point of
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view of like I was a big Juell Santana fan when I was in my
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teens, you know what I'm saying, And at that time, he was
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in my top rappers list, like top five. You know what I'm saying,
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Like you couldn't tell me many rappers that were better than Jewel Santana in
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my eyes at that time. Bro. Right now, I don't even think
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he's in my top fifty. Bro. You know what I'm saying. I
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would have told you at that time that what the game's been missing was a
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classic album. You know what I'm saying Right now, it's more like a
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nostalgia thing. You know. You hear it and you're like, oh,
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dang, I remember I used to like this song. But it's not some
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stuff that you're going to throw in your regular rotation. You know, No
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disrespect to him. He does have music like that that that I go back
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and listen to, like from the form Me to U album and like just
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certain records here and there. I love that rain Drops one, you know
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what I mean, where he sampled that five heartbeat joint. But he's he
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was a dope artist at the time. But you know, twenty years later,
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I'm not like, dang yo, that album is a classic album,
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you know. So that's my point of view on it as far as like
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music needs time, because like, you don't know something is great unless you
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listen. You can listen to it when you're ten twenty thirty forty fifty like
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it. It just always gives you that feel and you never feel ashamed to
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play it loud, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, what do you
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think about like time and how that affects music and how people receive it?
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Here? Yo? I think he No, I think they had they had
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valid points on there, but I would I would have just saying that part
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of being the great greatest sound of all time is the length of time that
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people that you stayed in rotation. It does play a part of it doesn't
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have to play a major part of it, but I would say that is
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an attribute of one of the greatest albums of all time if that's just one
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of that actually relaxed and that's what it is. But if it's that good,
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everything else makes up for it. So I get it at that point.
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But I still think it matters. Yeah, maybe not in this listing,
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but it still matters. Yeah, definitely. I Mean, obviously my
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opinion is that as well, because that was what they were coming at me
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for, was just that opinion that I feel like in each time. But
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it's like, it's not even a disrespect to the music. You could love
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it now and it could be a classic for you now, and it could
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still be a classic for you ten years from now, but it could also
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be a dud for you ten years from now, and then you know,
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the whole you know, it's a classic thing goes out the window. So
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I don't know, but one of my favorite comments from clown photos one oh
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one, I wanted to shout them out specifically because I just think it's so
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funny that somebody would make a page like with like a gimmick, you know
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what I'm saying, and then like talk crap to people and stuff. You
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know, that's just that's hilarious. Bro, Me and my boy back in
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the day, we made a Facebook, I mean a MySpace account. It
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was called I forgot what it was called. But it was like we made
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up two characters and made like took a picture of them. It was like
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honest Abe Lincoln and somebody else. Bro, I forgot, but it was
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like two stupid names, and it was like a troll account, you know
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what I mean, Like the early stages of like a troll account would be
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you know what I mean, just thinking about like people doing that now like
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as adults, Bro, it's just hilarious to me, dog, but he
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brought up a point about basically saying, like, how can we judge anything
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when we like little Baby, you know what I mean? Like how we
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even qualify? Yeah? Oh yeah. But I was like, Bro,
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like do you have to like only classic, like critically acclaimed music to be
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able to give your opinion on music? You know what I mean? Like,
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I know that there's plenty of songs that I enjoy that they're just to
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me, they're just sliders. It's not something that you know, the lyrics
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are particularly deep or whatever. It is just a joint that bops, and
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sometimes a joint just bops, you know what I mean. There's plenty of
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music, and you know, specific music from certain artists, like, for
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example, like Future. Bro. Sometimes like people will tell me, like,
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Bro, you like Future and they'll like quote certain things, and I'll
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be like, I got none to say to that, because I feel,
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you, Bro, some of it is ridiculous. But it's like I can't
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tell you why I like it. I just like it. It is what
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it is, And I don't think you gotta be you know, only listening
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to you know, top tier artistry to be able to give your opinion on
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music. You know what I'm saying, You gotta still have the discernment as
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far as like a listener to know like, hey, this is just supposed
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to be fun, this is supposed to be deep, This is supposed to
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make me feel this way, you know what I mean? Like everything don't
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got to hit the same way. Yeah. No, I think having a
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wide range variety of music you listen to it increases your opinion. So you
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gotta hear you gotta like other things that not but else because you hear a
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different sound out than than other people do. I think that plays a part
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of it. And I grew up into two the time, and even close
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friends of mine any time at a music opinion like well, yeah, well
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you listen to this, it's like so it's I gotta do what we're talking
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about right now. Yeah, they be the same genre of music, So
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it's something you you like. I said, I think you can like who
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you like and and still have a very strong opinion and inaccurate opinion of music
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that it was talked about today. Yeah, And it's funny man, how
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like low key something always comes back to little baby pause, like why why
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is he like the square root of everything we talk about. Somehow it just
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ends up in little Baby Dog. Like it's crazy. He's like so considered
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a big, big artist though. Yeah, I guess it's just it's also
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because he's so relevant that like he gets attached to like Gonna, he gets
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attatched the future, you know what I'm saying, Like, and you always
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yeah to Drake, you know what I'm saying. He comes up in all
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these like commer Station. You know, Kendrick shouted him out one of the
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disses, you know what I mean, Like when you're the people who just
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don't like represent her, Actually you haven't good ass career going. Yeah,
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And it even goes back to like the Drake thing, like you know,
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you don't have to only listen to hippity hippitie hop, you know what I'm
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saying, Like that's not a valid excuse to try to like be little Drake,
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you know what I mean. As much as I'm not the biggest fan,
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I'm not going to say, Oh he's whack, you know what I'm
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saying, Like he's just not for me, you know, just because he's
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not you know, getting on a sample from the seventies and getting this crazy
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cadence and rapping a certain way like that doesn't have anything to do with anything
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because rap is so diverse, dog like from like even from the very beginning
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of hip hop, like every area had a distinguished sound that was so different
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from the other areas where it was just everybody's interpretation of what rap should be,
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you know what I'm saying. So it's like for you to say rap
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is this, it's like nah, bro, like you can stay rap originated
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somewhere and that it's the original sound and it's the essence of what rap is.
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You know, when you're talking about New York rap, you know,
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grinding New York beats, that vibe, Like when people talk about bringing that
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sound back, you could, you know, historically say that that is the
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hip hop sound just from the point of view of that's you know, pretty
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much what what everybody made their variation of was the New York sound because that's
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what they heard first, you know what I'm saying. But still at the
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end of the day, everybody got a different sound. And you can't say,
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you know, Texas rappers are whack just because there's rapping a different way
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that you're not used to. It's like, bro you're not from there.
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You're not feeling the vibe, you're not living what they living, so it's
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not hitting you the same way it we'll hit somebody else. It's the same
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way we listen to this Florida music or Kodak Black or something and people will
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be like, ah, like Kodak, But I'm saying I've been. I'm
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pretty sure you as well, because you be all around too, like I've
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been out west. When they're like Kodak Black, y'all listen to Kodak Black,
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Like what are you talking about? And then they talked to me about
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Dom Kennedy like he's the goat. Yeah, they love him out there.
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It's like they're all listening to him, and it's like, bro, here
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people don't even know who Dom Kennedy is and they're like what and they go
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on, Dom from the West Side would love or one into that's my ship.
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Yeah he's dope too. And it goes back to that thing like until
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you out there vibing and really like taking in what people are, you don't
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know, you don't know what that sounds means, you don't know what you
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like. Yet that's the same thing with like Little Baby and Gunna and like,
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I never caught myself ever listened to a Gunner album until this one,
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because now, like y'all, not just y'all, but people put me onto
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like what they're sam is supposed to be in their style of hip hop,
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and I'm like, oh, yeah, well they do that really good ship.
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It's hard. Yeah, I'm enjoying the Gunner for the first time.
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Like I said, I would have never gave it a chance of not trying
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to underst what kind of music, that style of it is, what kind
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of hip hop it is. Yeah, my best example for that is something
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that I've told y'all before, but I don't think i've said on the podcast,
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like me being a big fan of Freeway and originally not liking Freeway at
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all, because when I first heard him, he got a different way of
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rhyming. So it's not hitting on the two you know what I'm saying,
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Like he's not he's not rapping in just four bars where it's like these two
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lines rhyme, the next two lines rhyme, the next two lines rhyme.
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Like it's not like the format that you're used to. So the first time
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I really heard him, it just caught me so off guard that I'm like,
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bro, this dude is so whack, Like I just couldn't even understand
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how he was on the record type stuff. You know, I'm like,
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bro, they let him get on this Like this guy's terrible. And then
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I had a homie that was like grew up in that like North Philly area.
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He's a dog, I'm telling you, bro, like people in Philly
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dog, this Freeway is like the goat. Bro, you know what I'm
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saying, Like you gotta you gotta understand, like he's rapping like a different
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way. And when I really caught the flow, like if it wasn't for
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him, like really like breaking it down and really trying to like really push
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it, like yo, listen, like you really got to understand. Like
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once I caught the flow rap and it started rhyming to me, I'm like,
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oh man, like I understood what he was talking about. Like damn,
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Freeway is nasty, bro, nasty nasty. But he's probably like the
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easiest most shocking display of like somebody that you could listen to that if you're
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not really used to that sound or you're not listening to it with the same
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ear, like you're not going to catch it. You know. Now what
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we do bro, when we do track is still on my favorite about time.
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Yeah, man, so the sun come up, when the sun go
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down. He got classic hip hop joints, like where like anybody that's a
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fan of rap, they could start rapping something like like you said, the
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what we do, you can start rapping that. Everybody's gonna remember it.
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The flip side a good chance a lot of people remember it, you know
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what I mean. But scifically that what we do? Oh man, that's
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just like a hip hop staple. Yeah, and flip side was you got
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served? Nobody ever go forget that, bro. I've never seen you guys
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served. Wow, that's like not seeing Titanic. I've never seen Titanic,
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but that's like that, dog. I seen Titanic in the theaters as a
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little kid. No, I got dragged out there, bro, because my
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mom wanted to see it and if she didn't bring me, there's no way
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she was going to see it. Four and a half hours was it in
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that theater? It was like three hours or something like that. I think
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I was just laying down the whole time from what I remember. But yeah,
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man, this was an interesting comment that I saw as well that I
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wanted to dive into. I pulled up a list here of just general albums
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that came out in nineteen ninety eight, because someone said that Lauren Hill being
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the number one album was crazy because it wasn't even the best album that came
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out that year. Oh yeah, And I was like, oh, okay,
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let's see, because I never really ever thought about it from that point
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of view, Like, was Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill the best
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album of nineteen ninety eight? So I'm gonna run down some albums for you
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that came out in nineteen ninety eight. All right, So we got outcast
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Aquiminine that came out in ninety eight. I would I would venture to say
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that you would have Miseducation above Equimentine. Yeah, right, I probably would.
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Also, I don't EQUIMENTI didn't have as many bangers, you know what
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I mean? Like over time people start appreciated more, But the Miseducation had
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a harder impact versus that one as soon as it came out. Yeah,
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And like the big song out of Aquimini was what Rosa Parks pulling up the
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thing here? Yeah, Rosa Parks. I mean, that's the only song
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that like a mainstream music fan will even know from that album is Roads of
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Parks. The other joint is the artist storytelling, which that's like a hip
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hop cut, like somebody, you know, people don't really listen to the
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artist storytelling. Even though that song is like one of my all time favorite
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songs, but it's definitely not you know, those two songs are not strong
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enough to put it above Angel that that was a classes which one? You
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said, spotylicious number twelve? What list are you looking at because I'm looking
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at just like a general list here. Oh the song you're talking about I'm
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tripping? Yeah, yeah yeah. For me, honestly, it was really
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just those two songs, Like I wasn't really the skew it on the Barbecue
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was something I messed with a little bit just because of the Ray Kwon thing,
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and it's like it's a cool little vibe, like the historical significance is
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kind of what made me really like rock with that song more than it just
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you know what I mean, Like it's a good song, but it's not
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you know, all that. But I could agree with that. We got
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to here the most definitile lied Black Star album, although it is a very
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critically acclaimed and revered hip hop project. Definitely wouldn't say it's better than the
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Miseducation. To me, I don't think so. I couldn't do that.
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That was when we start getting a little bit a little bit trick, all
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right, So I'm I'm gonna throw a little a little softball first. But
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Gang Star Moment of Truth dropped in ninety eight as well. It wasn't as
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good as the album before it was. It was kind of like the end
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of that run, you know what I mean. So I wouldn't put it
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above Miseducation, but it is. I think so far all four of those
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are in that top one hundred of the of all time albums. Yeah,
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yeah, I think Quemen and I maybe was on it. Yeah, we
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would have to verify. Yeah, well, I think Black Star and le'st
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me just saying Moment of Truth. Yeah, Now, this is the part
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where I started, you know, separating myself from Miss Laurence Hill. No
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disrespect but capital punishment, big fun Yo. I was going to bring him
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up earlier about the time. That was gonna be one of the examples of
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time that album still goes hard today and that was just one album and his
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time was cut short. Bro, time matters along your last matters, especially
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after you die. Bro, still not a Player punished me freaking. There's
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led chest song you Ain't a Killer, I'm Not a Player, super lyrical
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with Black Thought, the dream Shatter. Nah, this album was crazy.
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You came up fast money Nah, Bro Twins deep cover, Bro, this
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was Yeah. This was the one one of the classic lines I faut Joe
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ever did in the middle a little literally, Bro, I can't put I
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can't put mis education over capital punishment. Same. I'm ad in Capital Punishment
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from my gym playlist to morn Damn, I forgot all those bangers. I'm
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curious for your for your opinion on this volume two Hard Knock Life. That's
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my all time favorite album. So you're putting that above the Lauren Hill Ship.
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That's my all time favorite jay Z Nah, that's my all time favorite
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jay Z album. So what does that mean? Does that mean that it's
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over mis educationation or not? I would put the Blueprint the Black album above
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that, but those are my favorites. That's all. That's all the song.
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Mm hmm. That's interesting. That's interesting all right for sure. For
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me here it's dark and hell is hot. Dm I'm putting that over Lauren
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Hill. But that's third taste pause. There's only certain fans. How's it
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going down? I can feel it? The start is something the f D
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A yo nah bro. But those two albums compared side by side are like
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different sizes of the spectrum completely. It's two genres for sure. It's it's
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different lanes, but like still lyrical content like you know, bar for bar,
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if you will, song for song, I'm taking his dark. Come
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on, bro, come on, that's an album right there. That's an
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album that's a that's like, that's the album that you know what I'm saying,
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that's bro. People forget DMX's impact and his run and how on top
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he was when he dropped his music. But then that goes back to what
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you were saying about the longevity thing. A lot of people aren't going back
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and listening to DMX. If you are more than likely you got Gene shorts
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and tims on fancts and so listen to Pandora Radio radio. You remember that,
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Remember when that was like the cool thing, like the mixes on Pandora
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like Radio four hundred degrees by Juvenile. I'll put the Lauryn Hill above that.
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Yeah, that was definitely not my my down South, you know what
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I mean? Like it was a different and down South than my down South.
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I rocked with it, but it wasn't like on that level for me.
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System of a Down, System of a Down, that's not for me.
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You don't like System of a Down. I liked a couple of songs,
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but it's nothing that ever played on I'm a big fan of System of
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a Down. Yeah, I gotta yeah, people always listen to this ship.
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Yeah, but I'll give you that one. That's definitely a very specific
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thing. Flesh of My Flesh, Blood on My Blood dropped in ninety eight
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two, what right? What? Nah? Bro Sleeping is so good?
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Nah? Bro. Slip is my favorite album, I mean, my favorite
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h and the one you know other cats got Love for Me, Love for
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Me, busloves Mean Now Dog Slipping is one of those songs that I can
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never skip. And I don't know if you've noticed this, but Slipping is
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not you can't find a dirty version on streaming anywhere, the original dirty version
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of Slipping. It's not on streaming anywhere. Bro, the only one you're
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gonna get is a re record or the edited version of it, and they
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lost that master. I don't know what it is. I don't know if
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it's some kind of rights thing, I don't know. I don't know what
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it is, bro, because I know it's on the original albums, you
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know what I'm saying, So they can they can get a high quality rip
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from the original albums at least, So it's like why I probably say the
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original files from that one, yeah Bro. For me, same thing,
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I have to like always keep the files of that album like on my computer
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because if not, I can't listen to Slipping Dog, and I'm not trying
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to listen to No Slipping Clean. It's not even the edited version, it's
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the clean version where like the words are replaced. Bro. I don't even
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know how yeah that was. That was terrible. First came to Woo everything
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that is a clean version. I forgot. That's not how the she got
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also flat what oh man? Bro? Nothing nothing fishes me off more than
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the clean version of a song, especially when you hear the intro drop you
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know what was a classic culprit of that growing up for me, living it
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up by Jo Rowland case because it was such like it was such a well
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known intro and such a hard drop in that beat, like and just that,
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Like as soon as you heard that, you're like, oh, and
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then it drops and it's the edited verse, the clean version, the worst,
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bro, the worst think I got talking to love all my bros and
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do all my shows like what it saw slapshot hard to be edited version.
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In fact, some songs I feel like they should just be like, nah,
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bro, you getting this explicit or you're not getting it at all?
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You know what? Let me tell you this situation that I realized that I
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ran into my life. I listened to the can I get a? Can
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I Get It? With jay z Ja Rule and Roxy No what that was
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a Foxy can I Get it? What's the skinny taw skinny girl name?
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She was a rapper in the rock Charlie Baltimore? Was it? It wasn't.
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It wasn't Foxy on that song can I get her? No? Uh?
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Trying to blink a mill a mill? Okay, yeah, I remember
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what that is? All? So I heard the main It wasn't edited,
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it was a clean version, So it's a mainstream when replaced with different words,
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and that is the one I remember, and anytime I would hear anyone
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played off the album, it's completely different. Like John Ruth switches up his
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whole version. Yea, yeah, it's a whole different Yeah, a whole
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different song. And I'm like, damn, like they went too much on
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this. I was like, I'm going back to the clean version. So
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I always prefer the clean version over the dirty version. Dirty rats, I'm
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going back here the same thing. I'm still not a player, but he's
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still like, hey that there's a there's a dirtier version of that. Yeah,
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yeah, then the clean one. I prefer the clean one where at
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the end Joe says beating dudes down something silly Exactly, you don't say that
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in the clean one. Yeah, No, I like the dirty I always
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like the dirty version though, I always. I'm telling you, I wouldn't.
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Nothing would make me more mad. Joe, bless my mom, thank
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you so much for doing this for me. But she bought me to get
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rich and I try and clean version dog version I downloaded off line wire.
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I'm like, I'm straight on this. I'm listening to the real one,
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because ain't no way some songs are too much like yo, I said,
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like radio and on occasion like walk comes on you know Cardi b a Mega
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It Stallion. Yeah, I don't, I don't. They just got sound
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effects. Like she barely said any words in the entire verse. I've never
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heard that song, Like I'm like little pieces when it was like big,
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but I never actually like listened to the whole song. Yeah, that's produced
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by a M two Yeah, facts, and I'm not sure if that's let
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me let me double check before I say it, because it's a cool little
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connection. H hm, let me pull it up here one quick such al
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right, Yeah, I don't know if he did this exact one, but
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a producer, I mean a engineer from out here in Orlando. He came
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up at some of the studios around here shout out to source. He did
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a lot of those I don't remember which. I don't remember if it was
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Savage or what. But he was mixing a lot for Megan at the time.
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And he came out of Orlando and he got you know, multiple Grammys,
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you know, working with Megan and them, and he was bro he
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was out here giving those Hollywood quality mixes, you know what I'm saying.
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And then just like nobody took advantage while he was here. I'm mad that
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when I worked with him, like I wasn't like the artist that I am
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now, you know what I'm saying, Like the songs that I got mixed
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from him are like nowhere near my best work, Like I wasn't. I
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wasn't nowhere near as polished as I am now, Like with singing back then
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as I am now, Like it would be so dope to work with him
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like with the different you know, just under these difference set of parameters now
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than than before. You know what I'm saying. But yeah, shout out
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to Orlando man having hands on like the biggest records in the world. Man.
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Like, even the same thing with the comedy scene right now, man,
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Like I was even just talking to Freddy about just getting more involved in
30:18
that scene just because I'm seeing, like, Bro, these dudes out here
30:22
are dope. Like we got like class A comedians coming up in Orlando right
30:27
now, and people just don't even know. Like you could literally go out
30:30
to a random show in downtown Orlando, like on any night of the week
30:34
and see a comedian that's like a regular working comedian that you're probably gonna see
30:40
on some you know, on TV or some some big scales very soon,
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you know what I'm saying. But yeah, to kind of put a bow
30:48
on the album, thinks we kind of went off on a tangent. It
30:52
kind of does seem like you can make a case for Miseducation being the best
30:56
album of ninety eight, but did you actually look up ended up the best
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album of the year. I mean, it's it's the fact that it's the
31:06
number one album of all time in Apple and there's still a question of if
31:10
it was the best album of ninety eight. It's kind of like those two
31:14
things kind of can't go hand in hand, you know what I mean.
31:17
Yeah, but commercially and just look, like I said, looking at the
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albums that came out in ninety eight and looking at it also through the lens
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of what you were saying, like the taste and like the genre that these
31:29
albums are in. I mean, there's really not anything that pops out to
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me that I could say on a big scale was a better album than mis
31:37
Educational Laurence Hill. That's true, very very good point. So, you
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know, and it goes back to like the fact that we're talking about this
31:48
is even like making it seem like we're not Lauryn Hill fans or something like
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Laurynce Hill. Miseducation is still like in my rotation and has songs that like
31:56
are in my all time favorite songs, you know what I like. It's
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not even like something where it's like a disparaging thing or anything like that.
32:04
It's just, yeah, it's just you know, talking shop about music.
32:08
You know what I'm saying, And it goes back to what we were talking
32:10
about with you know what your tastes or whatever. Bro, anybody's qualified to
32:15
talk about music and give their opinion. That's even like me as an artist,
32:17
I always say, like, you know, what are you doing to
32:22
make people not rock with what you're putting out? Because at the end of
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the day, Bro, if a song is dope and it makes you feel
32:29
dope when you listen to it, like, you can't fight that. You
32:30
know what I'm saying and what people say, which is why somebody like Drake
32:36
is going to always win. I'm not a big fan, but I can
32:38
still put together the greatest hits of Drake songs that I like and listen to
32:44
it all the way through. You feel what I'm saying. It's like for
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me to be able to pull out, you know, thirteen to seventeen Drake
32:51
songs that I could say, Yo, this is a dope album worth of
32:53
music. And I'm not even a fan of dude, like from the point
32:57
of view of like really always checking out his music and stuff like that.
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It tells you, like what level of artists he is and why he is
33:05
in the position he's in. Same thing with Lauryn Hill, Bro, That's
33:07
why she's been able to just live off of that album and really just say,
33:12
hey, y'all, y'all, I made this, so you're just gonna
33:15
deal with it, you know what I mean? Like she can do it
33:17
because that music has the people on that much of a choke hold, you
33:22
know what I mean. People want to so bad be able to say I
33:25
saw Laurence Hill perform X Factor, you know what I'm saying. Like they
33:29
want to be able to say I seen Lauren Hill perform Everything is Everything.
33:32
Like they want to be able to live that experience and feel that vibe.
33:37
And when you do that to people, like you can't say anything, you
33:42
know. That's why all them comments came through, bro, just because people
33:45
were so affected by the music that when you talk something about it, they
33:50
feel like you saying something about because it's so entrenched into who they are,
33:53
you know what I'm saying, And that's the dope think about music in general,
33:59
and you want to be saying people do do feel strongly about how music
34:01
made them feel it shit and strong enough to reply to our stupid ass comings
34:09
exactly. But hey, we love it, keep it coming, we take
34:14
it. We take it in good spirit for sure. Man, at the
34:16
end of the day, it's all content. At the end of the day,
34:21
my music opinion has no baron or who I am as a person,
34:24
So you know, bombs away. It's not ever getting financial advice. Yeah,
34:30
facts, this is not financial advice. This is just music opinion.
34:37
But yeah, man, I'm dropping magazine Friday to thirty first. Man,
34:42
I'm super hype. I've had that song tucked way longer than I'd like to
34:46
admit, just because of Bro, when you're making music, it's a lot
34:52
of money involved. I just opened a business, you know, so that
34:55
the money is not in abundance right now, so you got to prioritize different
35:00
things. If I could drop a song, I mean I got enough music
35:05
that I could drop a song every week, you know, and and be
35:07
rocking for a good year and some change, you know what I'm saying.
35:10
But Alas, it's not the situation I'm in right now. But everything is
35:15
about its ebbs and flows, and I'll be back in that space, back
35:20
in that groove sooner than later. And everything is happening in the way it's
35:24
supposed to happen, bro, So it's just it is what it is.
35:29
And when I do drop, just make sure y'all checking it out, y'all
35:31
vibe into it, y'all sharing it, you know, everything, everything helps
35:37
that link. Yeah, facts, I'm gonna post this video to man pre
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saved link in my bio. That helps a lot for you know, the
35:45
music getting on other people's feeds. And you know, if a lot of
35:49
people are pre saving it and listening to it, it'll just organically pop up
35:54
for other people just because it becomes the popular song, you know what I
35:58
mean. And that's what, you know, propel my music up to this
36:01
point. Like I'm blessed that me focusing on the actual music itself and putting
36:09
out what I've put out has put me in a position where like people are
36:14
checking for my music because they're just checking for good music, you know what
36:17
I mean. Like I've been able to slide by without having to do all
36:22
the social media stuff and you know the same way that everybody else does.
36:27
And I'm not saying that I'm going to slide by forever, you know,
36:30
without having to do it all. But you know, it's definitely been humbling,
36:37
you know what I mean, like seeing people really affected by the music
36:40
the same way we talk about, you know, with these artists. You
36:43
know, I would I would love to just be in that air for somebody,
36:46
you know what I mean, where they hear somebody saying, yo,
36:49
he sucks, and they take it personal because my music just means that much
36:53
to them, you know what I mean. Facts, But yeah, man,
36:57
what's good with you? My guy? Anything you want to leave them
37:00
with, I'll be out next week. You know. This time next week,
37:04
I'm being cam couon and join a good fact the board. Yeah,
37:07
celebrating myself and three other my close friends are fortieth birthdays. Yeah, man,
37:14
y'all, y'all been having that in the tuck for a little while,
37:16
and I know you've been looking forward to it for like, I feel like
37:19
it's been a few years that you've been talking about that. Well, no,
37:22
no, no, for the last year we talked about it, but
37:25
we finally decided like maybe six seven months ago and we booked it then,
37:30
and like now it's actually next week and it's great. You hadn't been flowing
37:32
it around though, like for a little longer than that. Maybe, no,
37:36
no, no, I guess it just feels like a long time.
37:38
But I know I've heard you talk about this trip in particular, like a
37:42
few times, so it's dope you're feeling reflective or anything, or you think
37:47
it's something that once you take the trip, it's going to be something that
37:52
get you hoping. I'm hoping up. Yeah, right now it's hitting forty
37:55
is not really doing anything for me. Definitely going uh, you know,
38:00
make my mindset better and I have it to my routines, but I've been
38:05
doing that starting this year, so I just want to roll right into it.
38:10
But yeah, I think maybe after the trip, after celebration, all
38:13
that and all the talks, long eight hour music in the background, drinking
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hand talks, then I'll sit back and reflect on the last four years of
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my life. You gotta take it all in there, yo, stay bottom.
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Put stop us, stop not pusty, do not tusdytop not after not
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a not after a