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- 1:52Speaker 1: Get there dropping footage.
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- 2:02Speaker 3: was amazing, amazing, and then now that now this, I'm like,
- 2:05Speaker 3: of course they just can't let the king.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Is that why you didn't want to go see the
- 2:08Speaker 2: movie yesterday?
- 2:09Speaker 3: No?
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- 2:12Speaker 2: go yesterday.
- 2:13Speaker 3: And you didn't text me back what it was. How
- 2:15Speaker 3: dare he try to act like like I'm the reason
- 2:17Speaker 3: why we didn't go to the movies. I said, Yo,
- 2:21Speaker 3: were still going to the movies or what I know?
- 2:22Speaker 3: We got an early recorded right.
- 2:24Speaker 1: And he didn't taket me.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Back after I did. That's what that's on me. I'm
- 2:28Speaker 4: not always the best.
- 2:28Speaker 1: That is why I don't like light skin.
- 2:30Speaker 2: I'm not light skin about okay?
- 2:33Speaker 1: Anyway? So today, oh shut down, absolutely not. You know
- 2:42Speaker 1: what I'm not anyway?
- 2:45Speaker 3: Today on what we're gonna be talking about top five
- 2:48Speaker 3: best storytelling records.
- 2:50Speaker 2: A favorite topic of mine.
- 2:51Speaker 1: This is a hard one.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Honestly, I thought it was gonna be easy, but I'm like, damn,
- 2:55Speaker 3: there's so many.
- 2:57Speaker 2: There's so many, there's a lot, there's so many.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Let's get into it, all right, guys, it's to what
- 3:03Speaker 1: hip hop questions. Let us listen.
- 3:05Speaker 3: Today we're talking top five best storytelling rap songs. But
- 3:08Speaker 3: I want to know Mouse and d Block like to you, guys,
- 3:11Speaker 3: what makes a good storytelling record?
- 3:13Speaker 2: Oh? I mean one telling a story? Yeah? Got to
- 3:19Speaker 2: tell a story. Yeah, you know it's right there. Sometimes
- 3:25Speaker 2: you got to take it right there or make forgure
- 3:28Speaker 2: that's good, doing more than enough, but not doing too
- 3:33Speaker 2: much right where Like.
- 3:37Speaker 4: I think when people get just to do a good storytelling,
- 3:42Speaker 4: you don't have to.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Have like the greatest lyrical decksterity. You just have to
- 3:44Speaker 2: be able to keep somebody's attention for three minutes, right.
- 3:48Speaker 4: So I think sometimes the lyrical miracle rappers do a
- 3:52Speaker 4: little bit too much.
- 3:55Speaker 2: I'm not the hate like that type of rap. I
- 3:58Speaker 2: like it.
- 3:58Speaker 4: I'm just saying some time they can do too much
- 4:02Speaker 4: and you lose people because you have to keep people attention.
- 4:05Speaker 4: I think, to be honest, I would love to hear
- 4:09Speaker 4: a storytelling record from like g Z.
- 4:12Speaker 2: I think GIZ does it good.
- 4:14Speaker 4: I think GZ does it like an amazing job of
- 4:16Speaker 4: keeping you captivated and engaged throughout songs. I would love
- 4:20Speaker 4: to hear him just tell one story, which he kind
- 4:22Speaker 4: of did on this last mixtage with Drama, talking about
- 4:27Speaker 4: I think it was like something Michael Jackson cry. I
- 4:31Speaker 4: think that's the name of the song he's talking about. No,
- 4:34Speaker 4: it's says not the name of song. I forgot named
- 4:35Speaker 4: the song. But he's talking about like his homeboys, all
- 4:37Speaker 4: his friends passing. Sure, it wasn't like one linear storyline
- 4:41Speaker 4: about one person, but it's still it's stayed on topic.
- 4:45Speaker 4: So I would have loved to hear more stuff like
- 4:48Speaker 4: that from him. But I just think being able to
- 4:50Speaker 4: keep someone's attention almost like writing a movie, you know,
- 4:53Speaker 4: being able to keeping me on the edge of my
- 4:56Speaker 4: seat for the next word.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, nothing black.
- 5:01Speaker 5: I was just gonna say, just like any story beginning,
- 5:03Speaker 5: middle and end, you know, I think that middle part
- 5:06Speaker 5: sometimes gets lost as far as like creating those steaks.
- 5:09Speaker 5: I think that's why Biggie does such a good job
- 5:11Speaker 5: on a lot of his storytelling wraps is that he
- 5:14Speaker 5: has that middle park that kind of gets you, gets
- 5:17Speaker 5: that has the stakes in it, you know, especially now
- 5:19Speaker 5: I got a story to tell, you know, that middle
- 5:21Speaker 5: part where the man walks in, man walks in and
- 5:24Speaker 5: he has to figure out what to do.
- 5:25Speaker 2: You know.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for me, I really like like records
- 5:30Speaker 3: that evoke emotion. So like you're telling the story of
- 5:33Speaker 3: maybe something I've been through, or like something somebody I
- 5:36Speaker 3: know has run away.
- 5:39Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know why that jump. I
- 5:45Speaker 2: don't know why that jumped.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Not bad, You've been practicing something that's familiar.
- 5:50Speaker 3: Who's inspired that? No, you said something that special? Yeah,
- 5:54Speaker 3: something that's familiar, something that I'm like, Damn.
- 5:56Speaker 1: I feel this.
- 5:57Speaker 3: So that's what that's what gets me going when it
- 6:00Speaker 3: comes to storytelling records.
- 6:01Speaker 1: So let's start off.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Let's do it. Start with me you first, Yeah, come.
- 6:04Speaker 1: On, I know, right, it's so hard to pick.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, can we do honorable mentions?
- 6:12Speaker 1: Are you guys doing a specific order?
- 6:14Speaker 2: I have mine in order.
- 6:17Speaker 1: My one is just the one and then the rest of.
- 6:20Speaker 4: Your number one is your number one, two, three, four, five, Yeah, yeah.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Mine is in order.
- 6:24Speaker 5: Let's get some honorable mentions out.
- 6:26Speaker 2: So my honorable mention is Keisha song.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Wait, can we do honorable mentions at the end, because
- 6:31Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Make my five?
- 6:33Speaker 2: See, get your shit together.
- 6:36Speaker 6: You can name one that's not gonna make your five, Okay,
- 6:39Speaker 6: yeah I can't.
- 6:39Speaker 4: Actually I'm gonna say Keisha song by Kendrick Lamar.
- 6:43Speaker 2: That is like it's not on my five.
- 6:45Speaker 4: But it's it's a it's a huge, huge favorite of mine,
- 6:49Speaker 4: like since SEC Like, I think you had two records
- 6:52Speaker 4: on section eighty that were like super heavy and storytelling.
- 6:57Speaker 4: I want to say it was that song and Timmy song.
- 7:01Speaker 4: Tamn song obviously was a little bit more playful, you know,
- 7:03Speaker 4: like with the whole. You know, the girl ended up
- 7:05Speaker 4: turning you know, queer at the end. But Keisha song
- 7:09Speaker 4: just you know, telling that story of the young prostitute.
- 7:14Speaker 3: Kenrick actually has a ship little His first album is
- 7:17Speaker 3: one big story, like I love it. Even his early
- 7:21Speaker 3: mixtape it's too many. But that's that's a good one.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Yeah, what about you the honorable mentions.
- 7:28Speaker 5: I put something that's a little fun just a Friend
- 7:31Speaker 5: by bis Marky. Yeah, just a great story.
- 7:35Speaker 6: Stop Tomato Tomato for that on the what we're talking
- 7:43Speaker 6: about the greatest we're talking about that time the.
- 7:46Speaker 1: New Generation flipp did the commercial.
- 7:50Speaker 2: That had Mark Did that song stand at tot time?
- 7:52Speaker 2: I did the Or did Mario's remix stay at touch Time? No?
- 7:56Speaker 5: Not Mario remix.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Mario's remix?
- 7:59Speaker 3: Absolutely whoa wa wait to show wait to show your
- 8:06Speaker 3: age block?
- 8:09Speaker 2: No, Marry what are you ready for me? Bridge? You
- 8:16Speaker 2: called me anytime? You ooh any time?
- 8:20Speaker 7: Said it doesn't matter whoa whoa whoa.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Don't fight the feeling. Don't fight the feeling. So oh girl,
- 8:32Speaker 2: and they not doing that. They're not doing that. But
- 8:34Speaker 2: we should change the.
- 8:35Speaker 5: Name of this podcast to wash Young and somewhere in the.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Middle and somewhere in the middle.
- 8:43Speaker 2: What about you, Ana listens, we're just putting anything up
- 8:46Speaker 2: there now.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Wait, that's your only one.
- 8:48Speaker 5: I got misfat Booty by most stuff too as your
- 8:51Speaker 5: honorable mention. But there's another honorable mention that I think
- 8:54Speaker 5: we need to talk about what you better not say it.
- 9:00Speaker 5: Stan is a good storytelling song.
- 9:02Speaker 1: The Tomatoes Today, Derek got all.
- 9:09Speaker 2: All yours today. It's a good story. Though. It's a
- 9:12Speaker 2: good story, good story end. I mean, if a black
- 9:16Speaker 2: man wrote that, he'd be locked up.
- 9:17Speaker 5: I gotta say, I.
- 9:18Speaker 3: Think form a movie another similar.
- 9:25Speaker 2: What the FU.
- 9:27Speaker 5: When Clark Kent was on here, he talked about Kendrick
- 9:29Speaker 5: and Eminem's similarities, a sense that he's talking about stuff
- 9:33Speaker 5: that's unspoken right in white, white families. So it is,
- 9:42Speaker 5: I know, I didn't think over all. I think the
- 9:44Speaker 5: worst part about stan Is is when Eminem comes into
- 9:47Speaker 5: the song at the end. I think the guy from
- 9:50Speaker 5: the point of view of the fan, when he comes
- 9:54Speaker 5: in at the end, it feels kind of like milk
- 9:57Speaker 5: toast to me.
- 9:57Speaker 2: It feels like, I mean, like that song doesn't live
- 10:00Speaker 2: without that, the song does not connect her. But yeah,
- 10:03Speaker 2: that song doesn't that So Sharper. You know, it's like, yeah,
- 10:06Speaker 2: but I'm saying it was.
- 10:07Speaker 4: That song doesn't become the hit it does without that,
- 10:10Speaker 4: like because no one was, no one's playing, no one's
- 10:14Speaker 4: playing that song.
- 10:16Speaker 5: There's also am of like and we should be together,
- 10:19Speaker 5: just like all that ship that he was going out there.
- 10:22Speaker 5: Stan became a part of the vernacular after that. Yeah,
- 10:26Speaker 5: you know, I think it's a very it's a you know,
- 10:28Speaker 5: it's a great song. It's not my top five.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Though it sounds like it's close to your.
- 10:35Speaker 1: I say that I would go with Lupe Fiasco. Paris Tokyo.
- 10:39Speaker 3: It's one of my favorites.
- 10:41Speaker 1: You don't like Paris Tokyo.
- 10:42Speaker 5: I thought you're gonna say Kick Push.
- 10:44Speaker 3: Kick pushes one too. But I like Paris Tokyo because I.
- 10:47Speaker 2: Just feel like I want them to ann.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Anyway.
- 10:54Speaker 3: I love Faris Tokyo is one of my favorite records
- 10:56Speaker 3: just in general, because it's a guy who's saying I'm working,
- 11:00Speaker 3: but you're still with me, like in spirit, and then
- 11:04Speaker 3: eventually she does actually get to go with him to
- 11:06Speaker 3: like Paris into Tokyo and travel the world and as
- 11:10Speaker 3: he makes money on music, and I just fuck with
- 11:12Speaker 3: it because I am a girl who's working and making
- 11:14Speaker 3: money on music, so I feel it.
- 11:16Speaker 1: So anyway, Wow, I don't like.
- 11:18Speaker 5: Your parents the other any other outsideer. Do you want
- 11:20Speaker 5: to get to that layer?
- 11:21Speaker 2: Neither.
- 11:22Speaker 3: I guess I'll go with ice Cube. Today was a
- 11:29Speaker 3: good day.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Okay, wow wow, Okay, that's goode. I'm not mad. I
- 11:34Speaker 2: also would like to say I forgot to mention what
- 11:37Speaker 2: we mean you talked about slow down that I think
- 11:39Speaker 2: about it is Brandy Brand Nubian like yeah, like that's yeah.
- 11:45Speaker 1: That's don't let it go to your head.
- 11:47Speaker 3: That's the other one, because I feel like it's half storytelling,
- 11:51Speaker 3: half not ishue. But I listen to that record a
- 11:53Speaker 3: lot when I just be looking at the culture and
- 11:56Speaker 3: things that it's happening.
- 11:58Speaker 2: Or just I want y'all know Niledge thirty.
- 12:00Speaker 3: When I interact with certain people, I just be like,
- 12:05Speaker 3: she's been here before, this brand Nuvian to get my
- 12:08Speaker 3: mind right, because these niggas is crazy.
- 12:11Speaker 2: We're out here listening and touching Monday and good she's doing.
- 12:16Speaker 5: Some Internet nerds realized the actual day ice Cy was
- 12:19Speaker 5: talking about. They put it all together.
- 12:21Speaker 2: What day was off?
- 12:22Speaker 5: The day is February twenty third, nineteen ninety three.
- 12:25Speaker 2: The Lakers, because last night it's actually pretty easy.
- 12:28Speaker 5: Oh you have to do it all points and looked
- 12:30Speaker 5: at all of it.
- 12:30Speaker 4: Oh you have it's not hard at all. Last night
- 12:33Speaker 4: the Lakers beat the SuperSonics. So all you have to
- 12:34Speaker 4: do is look up the night the Lakers beat the SuperSonics.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Shake them up, shake them up, shake them up, shake
- 12:40Speaker 2: them throw it in a circle.
- 12:43Speaker 5: It's a little and authentic. Got a triple double?
- 12:47Speaker 2: No, it's not.
- 12:49Speaker 4: Sometimes that let me know you won't be playing basketball
- 12:51Speaker 4: with the homies, because sometimes.
- 12:53Speaker 2: It just be your day and it feels like you
- 12:56Speaker 2: fucked around and got a triple double. And it might
- 12:58Speaker 2: not have been a strong double. Ten ten tents, might
- 13:02Speaker 2: have been ten turnovers, might have had ten turnovers tennis
- 13:06Speaker 2: is and you might have got blocked ten times. But
- 13:10Speaker 2: you fucked around and you got a triple double. We
- 13:12Speaker 2: didn't say. He didn't say what kind of triple double?
- 13:14Speaker 5: It was true, that's true.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Can we start with my number five or I number one?
- 13:18Speaker 1: Number five?
- 13:20Speaker 3: Because my number one is so important to me and
- 13:23Speaker 3: I would be pissed if y'all said, hold on, let
- 13:25Speaker 3: me get to these tomatoes. Oh, he's ready because I
- 13:29Speaker 3: put some young niggas on here because I knew y'all
- 13:31Speaker 3: was it.
- 13:35Speaker 2: I love the show.
- 13:38Speaker 5: This is Wash.
- 13:43Speaker 1: What why Wash the Young One? And somewhere in the
- 13:47Speaker 1: middle of featuring the Wash the Young.
- 13:49Speaker 2: One and soon as long as everyone knows who's h.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I am definitely young somewhere.
- 13:58Speaker 2: No, no, you have to fuck now, it's somewhere lost.
- 14:01Speaker 2: All right, let's do it. I'll kick it off. My
- 14:03Speaker 2: number five The Artist Storytelling by alcas I love that
- 14:09Speaker 2: I love me personally, I love cohesiveness, and I love
- 14:14Speaker 2: I mean outcast is my I've said this with a
- 14:15Speaker 2: multiple occasion Outcast of my favorite group. But as a
- 14:20Speaker 2: kid growing up in New York, I didn't hear those stories.
- 14:22Speaker 2: I didn't hear it that way.
- 14:25Speaker 4: You hit You know that one hundred three thousand verse
- 14:27Speaker 4: probably one of my one of my favorite hundred three
- 14:29Speaker 4: thousand verses, just talking about the young girl, like there
- 14:33Speaker 4: was just so much stuff nuanced that I was hearing
- 14:35Speaker 4: that you didn't expect to hear from a person from
- 14:37Speaker 4: the South. And you know that might have been just
- 14:38Speaker 4: my young ignorance at the time. I also love that
- 14:43Speaker 4: the artist storytelling isn't the only artist storytelling.
- 14:46Speaker 2: It's four of them.
- 14:47Speaker 4: Yeah, and each one I don't know about two, but
- 14:50Speaker 4: each one two is not my favorite.
- 14:53Speaker 2: But like three and four.
- 14:54Speaker 3: That's the one with no.
- 14:56Speaker 2: I think that's three. Three has Lickoric. Four is him
- 15:00Speaker 2: and the drama. No, I don't think so.
- 15:04Speaker 5: The artist storytelling much is on my list. Is the
- 15:06Speaker 5: story of two women, Susie Screw Susie's and Sasha and Thumper.
- 15:11Speaker 5: Sasha he calls her Thumper because she's one is a
- 15:16Speaker 5: very promisciuous woman. The other is a drug. I think
- 15:21Speaker 5: it's I think it's a great song.
- 15:23Speaker 4: Like I said, you don't hear those stories, you know
- 15:24Speaker 4: what I mean, Like you weren't hearing those stories. And then,
- 15:27Speaker 4: like I said, there's something about that southern drawl that
- 15:31Speaker 4: Andre three thousand was in the middle of, like crafting
- 15:34Speaker 4: at the time, that just literally pulls you in.
- 15:37Speaker 3: Oh you know what, he's on part one.
- 15:38Speaker 4: He's on the first one, I think a sample. Oh okay,
- 15:42Speaker 4: but slick Rick is on the third one.
- 15:44Speaker 2: You're not on the second. Yeah.
- 15:46Speaker 3: No, that's a that's a great one. That's definitely on
- 15:49Speaker 3: my list too. But this is on your list. I'm
- 15:50Speaker 3: taking it off my list, so I can just give
- 15:52Speaker 3: you somebody else favorite line and that song su.
- 15:58Speaker 2: I think that I think that intro my favorite, just
- 16:01Speaker 2: the way he played with the the way.
- 16:03Speaker 4: He sung it, the cadence. I don't know if I
- 16:05Speaker 4: have a favorite. To me, it's not one of those.
- 16:07Speaker 4: It's like, I goes back to what I was saying
- 16:09Speaker 4: earlier about lyrical deckstery. I don't think it was so
- 16:11Speaker 4: much that the line. There were favorite lines.
- 16:13Speaker 2: It was the through line that got me, like as
- 16:16Speaker 2: if I was watching a movie and then hearing, you know,
- 16:21Speaker 2: hearing big boys look, hearing Andrea's look, and then I
- 16:25Speaker 2: really loved the way Andre brought in his verse. So
- 16:28Speaker 2: the girl name said, like it just was like okay.
- 16:30Speaker 2: It was like.
- 16:33Speaker 4: It was like sitting in a bathtub and just letting
- 16:35Speaker 4: the water fill up, if that makes sense, right, Like
- 16:39Speaker 4: You're just okay, I'm comfortable. I'm here wherever you want to,
- 16:43Speaker 4: wherever you want to take me, I'm going at this point,
- 16:46Speaker 4: production was phenomenal. You want to be when you grow up,
- 16:50Speaker 4: she said, she said, she said alive, She said, I
- 16:54Speaker 4: want to be alive.
- 16:55Speaker 1: I really liked the beginning. It's this small thing that
- 16:58Speaker 1: I love.
- 16:59Speaker 2: That what from the drop, I'm ready for nihilist production. Yo.
- 17:02Speaker 5: I love that that whole organized?
- 17:06Speaker 3: Was it organized?
- 17:07Speaker 2: Organized? Noise?
- 17:09Speaker 1: Beautiful? What makes their production so great? I think to me,
- 17:13Speaker 1: it's just like you could.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Hear the soul and the beats absolutely once they start
- 17:17Speaker 3: rapping on it, It's just like magic that China.
- 17:21Speaker 4: It was all there, and then the end with like, yeah,
- 17:26Speaker 4: actually know some of.
- 17:27Speaker 3: The skins blow on me. I'm like, this should have
- 17:29Speaker 3: been on the album where you can like skip it,
- 17:30Speaker 3: not on the song where I got here the whole thing. Whoa,
- 17:33Speaker 3: You're so disrespectful And I'm not even talking about this
- 17:37Speaker 3: on the mis education Lauren.
- 17:38Speaker 1: I've always got to hear a skit. I'm so tired
- 17:41Speaker 1: of hearing that.
- 17:41Speaker 2: L Oh, what's happening here?
- 17:45Speaker 1: I love love, Heaven'll been in love every t.
- 17:52Speaker 2: J.
- 17:52Speaker 5: I can understand when it's coming.
- 17:54Speaker 2: Are you so you love them? I love you? Yes?
- 17:59Speaker 4: My thing with skin you if you put it on
- 18:02Speaker 4: the album, you gotta live with it. So when you
- 18:05Speaker 4: got to skip that works, you need it, You've got
- 18:07Speaker 4: to skit that doesn't work?
- 18:08Speaker 1: You keep this?
- 18:09Speaker 2: No, the album is not do you remember? I?
- 18:12Speaker 1: Oh, God, don't give it skip its own track.
- 18:15Speaker 2: I guess it's because it's a part of the song.
- 18:18Speaker 3: Yeah, But now when I'm trying to put it on
- 18:19Speaker 3: a playlist, you got a whole skit leading into the
- 18:22Speaker 3: song that I know.
- 18:22Speaker 2: You got to go into app Let me tell you,
- 18:24Speaker 2: go into Apple like we used to do back and
- 18:27Speaker 2: day and you you you remember we used to.
- 18:30Speaker 4: Be able to go yeah on iTunes, used to be
- 18:31Speaker 4: able to scrub you could. You used to be able
- 18:33Speaker 4: to change the time, so do that. Well, I don't
- 18:37Speaker 4: know if you can still do it on iTunes, but
- 18:38Speaker 4: back in the day you could. You remember when I'm
- 18:40Speaker 4: talking about like it used to be, like if the
- 18:41Speaker 4: song is like five minutes, you could go in there
- 18:43Speaker 4: and stop the song at like three.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Well, that's great.
- 18:46Speaker 3: I don't know if you can still do that on
- 18:47Speaker 3: my playlist, like I can't with these skits, Like you can.
- 18:51Speaker 4: Do it if it's downloaded to your computer computer, not
- 18:54Speaker 4: if it's like on Apple Music.
- 18:55Speaker 3: Got it.
- 18:55Speaker 5: But speaking of skits, with daylight back in all our minds,
- 18:59Speaker 5: three high and the eyes and skit is what the
- 19:01Speaker 5: whole game show that's happened?
- 19:03Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say, And even from listening to the
- 19:05Speaker 3: Daylight record, Daylight Album, Like it's making me a fan
- 19:09Speaker 3: of scratching, like I've always wanted to know, just so
- 19:13Speaker 3: hip hop pers or DJ Puris can't come and be.
- 19:15Speaker 2: Like you're not ready to.
- 19:17Speaker 3: But now it's like I actually like it sonically in
- 19:19Speaker 3: the music. I know when I hear it like on air,
- 19:22Speaker 3: i'd be like, do less and just play the record.
- 19:24Speaker 1: But it's a time and the place, and I think
- 19:26Speaker 1: it was done well.
- 19:27Speaker 2: The hope, the hope, Remember you asking me the favorite
- 19:32Speaker 2: the hook, the holk, the Hooklet y'all get the hunk
- 19:38Speaker 2: your back. Now it's like that and like that, and
- 19:42Speaker 2: it took me a lot of Let me also say
- 19:44Speaker 2: this because I know sometimes you know, our peers can
- 19:47Speaker 2: be on these platforms and do sometimes accidentally or even
- 19:51Speaker 2: on purpose, sound like you know historians.
- 19:53Speaker 4: Like yeah, I'm a historian a different way where like
- 19:55Speaker 4: it didn't hit me. I didn't know what the fuck
- 19:57Speaker 4: they was talking about for the longest.
- 19:58Speaker 2: It didn't hit me until but because like I told
- 20:01Speaker 2: you before, like my introduction to outcast was music videos
- 20:07Speaker 2: that would like like on rap City and then be
- 20:12Speaker 2: in my house.
- 20:13Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember that, but I know
- 20:15Speaker 4: you do, so like being my house would be like, well,
- 20:18Speaker 4: I guess you know, being older now you realize like
- 20:20Speaker 4: all the labels would have all these printed up CDs
- 20:23Speaker 4: and whatever then sell obviously they would have in a warehouse,
- 20:28Speaker 4: and then you can like subscribe to the CDs place,
- 20:31Speaker 4: so you you'd get like what was it that deep black? Sorry,
- 20:34Speaker 4: you get like ten CDs for like ninety nine cent,
- 20:38Speaker 4: and then the next time you'd order, like I guess,
- 20:41Speaker 4: you'd pay full price, and then you got like another
- 20:43Speaker 4: sixteen for like six cent. So like like Columbia Records,
- 20:48Speaker 4: there was like Columbia House, there's Columbia, there was being Mine,
- 20:51Speaker 4: there's somebody else.
- 20:52Speaker 2: But yeah, so that's how I got at Aliens.
- 20:56Speaker 4: And so I had At Aliens as a CD as
- 20:58Speaker 4: a kid, I didn't I'm just like like the music.
- 21:00Speaker 2: I didn't know what the hell was going on.
- 21:02Speaker 4: And like Outcast just every time they were on my TV,
- 21:05Speaker 4: they fucking grabbed my attention, like whether it was like me, you,
- 21:11Speaker 4: your mom, cousin too, very like cadlag Dog, like just
- 21:16Speaker 4: everything about them always encapsulated.
- 21:22Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's like yeah, there go again, talking that ship.
- 21:27Speaker 4: My duck, Like yeah, we're talking about two guys who don't.
- 21:31Speaker 4: They don't really get their credit. They don't get the
- 21:33Speaker 4: credit they deserve.
- 21:34Speaker 5: Big boys workplaces.
- 21:35Speaker 2: Like he's phenomenal. But I think that just happens.
- 21:38Speaker 4: And I've been you know, I've been a victim of
- 21:40Speaker 4: it as well, Like I've just jumped off the boat
- 21:44Speaker 4: and been.
- 21:44Speaker 2: Like, oh, I just think that's the greatest, which I
- 21:46Speaker 2: do believe.
- 21:47Speaker 4: I do believe one hundred three thousand is top three
- 21:49Speaker 4: greatest lyricists of all time. But man, big boy does
- 21:54Speaker 4: not get his credit for one just being as nice
- 21:56Speaker 4: as he is too, standing next to one hundred three
- 21:59Speaker 4: thousand being just as nice as he is.
- 22:01Speaker 3: So that's a good one. So you currently listen to
- 22:06Speaker 3: what hip hop questions, legends and lists will be right
- 22:08Speaker 3: back after this break.
- 22:12Speaker 2: What you got now?
- 22:13Speaker 5: What you got?
- 22:15Speaker 3: So for my number five, I'm just get this out
- 22:18Speaker 3: the way.
- 22:18Speaker 2: Here we go.
- 22:21Speaker 1: It's J Cold Lights.
- 22:22Speaker 3: Please are you? And you know what Jacob want another
- 22:24Speaker 3: one that I would just put Kamma J Cole lights
- 22:26Speaker 3: please Comma sideline story and I have to put you
- 22:31Speaker 3: don't like sideline story.
- 22:33Speaker 2: You're these are yours? These are your pick. I'm just saying,
- 22:37Speaker 2: he has songs that you are just skipping over.
- 22:40Speaker 3: Which one do you think should be.
- 22:41Speaker 2: It Dreams Dreams?
- 22:44Speaker 1: No, that's the one where he killed the boy. Yes, yeah, that's.
- 22:47Speaker 2: Not you Got Dreams and then knows the other one Enchanted.
- 22:52Speaker 1: Oh I love Enchanted, but yeah it's.
- 22:54Speaker 2: Not my pick five. I just said that.
- 22:58Speaker 3: So I'm going with J Cold Lights Please because that's
- 23:00Speaker 3: the first J Coot record I ever heard, and you
- 23:03Speaker 3: know that's my favorite rapper, so it's just like, yeah, yeah,
- 23:09Speaker 3: you see it now, So.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Love Cold Lights Please.
- 23:12Speaker 3: And then I also really like Sideline Story because it's
- 23:16Speaker 3: him just talking about like being in the rap game
- 23:20Speaker 3: and being unappreciated and just waiting for like his moment
- 23:23Speaker 3: to get up off the sideline. And I resonate with
- 23:26Speaker 3: that because you know, I'm in the entertainment industry and
- 23:30Speaker 3: it's a lot of shit I'm dealing with, So the
- 23:35Speaker 3: record just parallels to my life. So yeah, I like
- 23:38Speaker 3: the Sideline Story by Jay Cole.
- 23:40Speaker 2: Not mad at it. Not mad at it.
- 23:42Speaker 5: I mean I think what happens in Lights Please that
- 23:45Speaker 5: really appeals to you as far as with the storytelling.
- 23:47Speaker 2: Of it all.
- 23:48Speaker 3: I mean I really That's why I said slash sideline story,
- 23:51Speaker 3: because sideline story really resonates more with me than Lights Please,
- 23:54Speaker 3: Lights Please.
- 23:55Speaker 1: Is just him saying like he got this girl. She
- 23:58Speaker 1: bad as hell.
- 23:59Speaker 3: He's trying to like tell her about he's trying to
- 24:02Speaker 3: talk to her about real life ship that's going on,
- 24:04Speaker 3: but she just wants to fuck. And you know what,
- 24:07Speaker 3: he always he always falls victim to wanting to fuck
- 24:11Speaker 3: because like pussy is power and he's hypnotized by the pussy,
- 24:14Speaker 3: but and horny, and you know, he's trying to be
- 24:19Speaker 3: more of an intellectual, but she just wants to fuck,
- 24:22Speaker 3: and that's just what that's about.
- 24:23Speaker 1: So sideline story is more I think fitting.
- 24:27Speaker 5: But shout out to Cole, who's got next mouse?
- 24:32Speaker 2: I just like making it awkward. I just enjoy making
- 24:35Speaker 2: it awkward. Sometimes you didn't say you agree with me,
- 24:40Speaker 2: all right?
- 24:41Speaker 4: So once again mine is in order number four, ghost
- 24:46Speaker 4: face Killer. All that I got is you now my
- 24:50Speaker 4: favorite I want to I have this because it's like
- 24:53Speaker 4: my favorite line, or not my favorite line, my favorite setup.
- 24:56Speaker 2: So he said, family ain't family no more.
- 24:57Speaker 4: We used to play ball eggs after school, eat grits
- 24:59Speaker 4: because we was poor. Grabbed applies for the channel fixed
- 25:02Speaker 4: to hang on the TV, rocking each other's pants to
- 25:05Speaker 4: school wasn't easy.
- 25:06Speaker 2: We survived, whining snotty knows with no coachs. We kept
- 25:09Speaker 2: it real, but the older brother still had jokes. Sadly,
- 25:12Speaker 2: Daddy left me at the age of six. I didn't
- 25:14Speaker 2: know nothing, but Mommy neatly packed.
- 25:16Speaker 4: A shit so like that was like my that Like
- 25:20Speaker 4: I used to like rap that like it was mine.
- 25:23Speaker 4: Like he just painted a story that I knew so well,
- 25:28Speaker 4: like you know what I mean, just you know, to
- 25:30Speaker 4: take it there growing up black man in the community,
- 25:33Speaker 4: like in a black community, you see this, you see this,
- 25:37Speaker 4: like there was times where we was damn bad, not
- 25:40Speaker 4: like you know what I mean, not as bad as them,
- 25:42Speaker 4: but like it resonated, and I think, off rip, it
- 25:45Speaker 4: resonated like that was one of the first songs I
- 25:48Speaker 4: remember listening to her as a kid, with the tears
- 25:50Speaker 4: well Enough, Like to this day, I listened to that
- 25:53Speaker 4: song the Tears are Gonna well up, like because it's
- 25:56Speaker 4: so real, and I feel like even if it was
- 26:00Speaker 4: the song that I couldn't personally resonate, like if I
- 26:02Speaker 4: hadn't seen that with my cousins, if I wouldn't seen
- 26:04Speaker 4: that with myself. It's one of those songs where he
- 26:08Speaker 4: painted such a vivid picture. I felt like I was there.
- 26:12Speaker 4: I know, I know people like that, you know what
- 26:14Speaker 4: I mean, the people, the people up the street from
- 26:16Speaker 4: when we grew up. That was the first people I
- 26:17Speaker 4: ever met on Section eight. That was the first people.
- 26:20Speaker 4: They was at the end of all block. They were
- 26:22Speaker 4: the first people I ever met on section eight. And
- 26:25Speaker 4: we knew, you feel what I'm saying, Like we knew,
- 26:28Speaker 4: they knew they were on Section eight. That seemed they
- 26:30Speaker 4: knew the foodston They're going to Jimmy's, you know what
- 26:32Speaker 4: I mean, up there on Straight Path to get the
- 26:34Speaker 4: sandwich with the with the stamps, you know what I'm saying,
- 26:36Speaker 4: Like I seen that with my you know what I mean.
- 26:39Speaker 4: So like to see that and they hear that at
- 26:42Speaker 4: the time, you know, I'm young. Yeah, it resonated and
- 26:45Speaker 4: that that last that hit me, you know what I mean.
- 26:48Speaker 4: It kind of reverse for me because when I was
- 26:51Speaker 4: six is when my mom met and married the man
- 26:54Speaker 4: that raised me. But up until then, I was a kid,
- 26:57Speaker 4: I knew what it felt like not to have no dad.
- 26:59Speaker 4: So like where he says, you know, his dad left
- 27:01Speaker 4: when he was six. I kind of got a dad
- 27:02Speaker 4: when I was six, but it resonated with me, so
- 27:05Speaker 4: that right there or that got you, Like I said,
- 27:08Speaker 4: I listened to that once a month and it's still
- 27:11Speaker 4: the tears going well up every time, and everything was
- 27:14Speaker 4: just perfect. I think we understood, at least for me
- 27:18Speaker 4: growing up, I understood, like ghost faces bigger than just
- 27:21Speaker 4: a rapper.
- 27:22Speaker 5: That was his first big step out from the.
- 27:25Speaker 4: World, and like it was bigger than just some bragg
- 27:28Speaker 4: of doses fly gangster rap. It was like he used
- 27:32Speaker 4: his voice as an instrument, like for the first time
- 27:35Speaker 4: for me, Like his voice cut is just as important
- 27:38Speaker 4: as the strings on the sample and the keys on
- 27:40Speaker 4: the sample. Mat of course, Mary jay on that on
- 27:43Speaker 4: that hook is amazing. The video video is amazing.
- 27:47Speaker 5: The video and also for me, the familiar part that
- 27:50Speaker 5: now I mentioned, like the roaches out of the Cereal
- 27:52Speaker 5: box line, that was familiar for me growing up in
- 27:54Speaker 5: the projects. We did have roaches everywhere in the projects
- 27:57Speaker 5: going up, Like it was you turn on the lights
- 27:58Speaker 5: in the morning. That shit was really really real, the rots,
- 28:01Speaker 5: water bucks everywhere.
- 28:06Speaker 3: Listening to you describe the emotions evoked from the record
- 28:10Speaker 3: evoked to other records in my brain, but I'm like,
- 28:13Speaker 3: all right, I don't have time to name them all
- 28:16Speaker 3: so much, but I'm gonna go with Clock with No
- 28:18Speaker 3: Hands by Black Thought. And I really like this record
- 28:22Speaker 3: because he's just talking about like dealing with like family
- 28:27Speaker 3: and friends and how frustrating it can be. And it's
- 28:33Speaker 3: just it's just a real ass record, like you know,
- 28:37Speaker 3: you could cut other people off in your life, like
- 28:39Speaker 3: you know, there's like coworkers, you don't really like you
- 28:42Speaker 3: only got one family, you know, you just gotta deal
- 28:45Speaker 3: with it kind of thing. So this record Clock with
- 28:48Speaker 3: No Hands is fucking a damn near perfect song, just
- 28:53Speaker 3: if you're going through that and you're in that thought process,
- 28:57Speaker 3: especially like I feel like when it first drop, well
- 29:02Speaker 3: I don't even know actually want to fill out. But
- 29:03Speaker 3: when I first found out about.
- 29:04Speaker 1: It, come on.
- 29:08Speaker 3: When I first found out about the record, I was
- 29:11Speaker 3: still in Maryland, but it really resonated me. When I
- 29:14Speaker 3: got to New York and I was by myself, and
- 29:16Speaker 3: I guess I had time to reflect on family.
- 29:21Speaker 1: So yeah, and just Black Thought, it is.
- 29:23Speaker 2: Just an amazing artists, amazing lyricist.
- 29:26Speaker 3: Probably one of the best rappers period definitely underrated.
- 29:31Speaker 2: So.
- 29:33Speaker 3: Judging by mouth's face, I guess so agreed. Okay, all right,
- 29:38Speaker 3: all right.
- 29:39Speaker 5: Next the artist peer Pressure by Kindrack shout out to
- 29:45Speaker 5: Kendrick get in love on the fucking list the yeah yeah,
- 29:52Speaker 5: I mean I think the whole thing about you know,
- 29:54Speaker 5: for the Holmianes line, and he keeps on saying like,
- 29:56Speaker 5: I'm sober, but the Homies, I went to homies, I
- 29:59Speaker 5: went to home. Means when he says something, I'm usually
- 30:02Speaker 5: not violent, but I'm with the Homianes. That ship is
- 30:04Speaker 5: just it's real for a lot of people going.
- 30:08Speaker 2: Let's drop k DoD off because that his mama's been
- 30:11Speaker 2: because I know he's trying to fuck on Cherain to
- 30:13Speaker 2: night you're mad. In fact, drop me off too, I'm
- 30:16Speaker 2: trying to funk on something to neck. Man, it's such
- 30:18Speaker 2: a dumb ass back then, well, the whole hook.
- 30:21Speaker 5: Like one day it's going to burn you out. I mean,
- 30:23Speaker 5: that's just you gotta figure out. I think as everybody.
- 30:26Speaker 2: Growing down, you have to figure.
- 30:27Speaker 5: Out what you do with your friends and how you
- 30:32Speaker 5: need to create that separation.
- 30:33Speaker 2: At some point, they just yo, can we oh man?
- 30:36Speaker 2: I know it's your song, but can we talk about like, Yo,
- 30:39Speaker 2: Kendrick was, Kendrick was not he wasn't human on Good Kid,
- 30:44Speaker 2: Mad City, but specifically on Auto peer Pressure when he's
- 30:48Speaker 2: talking about it's the way he merges his cadence with
- 30:53Speaker 2: the beat, with the with the beat, the actual beat,
- 30:56Speaker 2: but also taking beats, which is leaving that pocket of
- 30:59Speaker 2: air in between words.
- 31:00Speaker 4: So like when he says we hit the black, say
- 31:04Speaker 4: hit the black. He hit the crib looking for anything,
- 31:07Speaker 4: and Nintendo hit the black from them, and he's like,
- 31:09Speaker 4: who it was righty right, made a left and made
- 31:12Speaker 4: it right and made a left one lucky night with
- 31:15Speaker 4: the homies.
- 31:16Speaker 1: I like how he called him not human.
- 31:18Speaker 2: He's not human. If you listen to that song, listeners
- 31:23Speaker 2: at home, I want you to stop the show right now,
- 31:25Speaker 2: press for us, and I want you to go listen.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Can we play? Can we put that part in it?
- 31:30Speaker 2: Can we just put that part left the right part?
- 31:32Speaker 4: Can we put that either that part or the part
- 31:34Speaker 4: where he's talking about the actual breaking, Because the part
- 31:36Speaker 4: where he put the actual breaking is the way I
- 31:38Speaker 4: realized we're not dealing with a human.
- 31:41Speaker 2: Because the way like I can't even.
- 31:45Speaker 4: As a person who's not a rapper, let alone, a
- 31:47Speaker 4: rapper of his his caliber. I can't even re enact
- 31:51Speaker 4: it the way he did it, but it's like the
- 31:53Speaker 4: way he's like just the way it's like a snake
- 31:56Speaker 4: moving through a room, the way he put those words
- 31:59Speaker 4: together that he was just like, you know, in search
- 32:02Speaker 4: of it, in search of anything, like, because he could
- 32:04Speaker 4: have said looking.
- 32:05Speaker 2: For in search of any and then it was.
- 32:08Speaker 4: That's crit shout out to you, d Block, because I
- 32:11Speaker 4: definitely forgot about that record, and I, like I said,
- 32:14Speaker 4: I had Kendrick for my honorable mentions, but yes, or
- 32:18Speaker 4: the peer pressure.
- 32:20Speaker 5: A lot of story, Duckworth is.
- 32:22Speaker 2: Duckworth is like I think I think people one that
- 32:27Speaker 2: being at the end of the album he's a he's
- 32:29Speaker 2: a nutcase.
- 32:30Speaker 4: He's not human, but just that story being a true
- 32:33Speaker 4: story and the way he told the story, he's not
- 32:38Speaker 4: human like Kendricks is not human in the way that
- 32:42Speaker 4: he performs these records.
- 32:43Speaker 1: Hell of a solid four was four?
- 32:45Speaker 2: That was just four? All right? Number three. I'm sitting
- 32:49Speaker 2: in the crib dreaming, somebody got died A big.
- 32:54Speaker 1: Dang mine is a biggie one too?
- 32:56Speaker 3: What is a different one? Bi got masked?
- 32:59Speaker 4: He want to put you to sleep. You want to
- 33:02Speaker 4: put your sleep, You wanted to put you out of sleep.
- 33:04Speaker 4: You got some night top stories, but said. I'm sitting
- 33:07Speaker 4: in the crib dreaming by lid Jets and coops, the
- 33:09Speaker 4: way Salt shoots and how they sell records like Snoop.
- 33:12Speaker 2: I'm interrupted by a doorbell three point fifty two. Who
- 33:15Speaker 2: the hell is this? It gets up quick cocks my ship,
- 33:18Speaker 2: stop the dog from balk and proceed like I feel
- 33:22Speaker 2: like I got to like you're you're so invested, you
- 33:27Speaker 2: get what I'm saying, like.
- 33:30Speaker 4: If you pay, if you're like outside of all I
- 33:32Speaker 4: got is you. These other songs are catching me from
- 33:34Speaker 4: the then from the beginning, Big says this, and I
- 33:39Speaker 4: feel like I'm gonna sound like I'm selling being extra,
- 33:42Speaker 4: but this is really hot, like ingest music. Every time
- 33:46Speaker 4: I hear the record, I feel like I'm sitting down
- 33:49Speaker 4: and the TV credit just open up and you see
- 33:52Speaker 4: the big pin. It's like a like a like an
- 33:54Speaker 4: allegory film, like like uh Wu tang is doing has
- 33:59Speaker 4: done over this last season. I feel like I'm watching
- 34:01Speaker 4: the allegory, like I feel like.
- 34:03Speaker 2: I'm watching what he's talking about. I want to see
- 34:07Speaker 2: this movie he's chilling, dreamingly, jets and coops the way.
- 34:13Speaker 5: He brings, and he also mentions that when he drops
- 34:16Speaker 5: like snoop, like something's going on at that time, it's
- 34:20Speaker 5: just he just says, like very non nonchalantly, like actually, like.
- 34:23Speaker 2: He said, and I get to walk and you see
- 34:26Speaker 2: this big, hulking figure walking around with the GAT. He's like, yeah, big, yeah,
- 34:30Speaker 2: it was going on.
- 34:31Speaker 4: Somebody gotta die. Let the gun shots go. Somebody got
- 34:35Speaker 4: to die. Nobody has to know that kid. He's crazy.
- 34:42Speaker 3: My big record, which is number three, is every Day Struggle,
- 34:46Speaker 3: And I was like, it was hard to pick one
- 34:50Speaker 3: of him because he can do we can do a
- 34:52Speaker 3: top five best big storytelling. Yeah, just on him because
- 34:56Speaker 3: he got so many. But you know, I've always liked
- 34:58Speaker 3: when big rap, fastatory stuff, so I like the second person.
- 35:02Speaker 3: He's like, I mean, I got the master pan.
- 35:06Speaker 4: On my way to Maveryland in two texts take over
- 35:09Speaker 4: the Projects, they call it two texts. He told two texts,
- 35:12Speaker 4: and when he sparked a bunch like the answer next
- 35:18Speaker 4: Biggs nuts.
- 35:19Speaker 2: He was nuts. Yeah.
- 35:21Speaker 3: His storytelling is just phenomenal and I just love it,
- 35:24Speaker 3: Like with in the crack of ass to make a
- 35:32Speaker 3: quick cash.
- 35:34Speaker 2: They got, he said, when they got his bitch, he said,
- 35:37Speaker 2: I hold the damn should be holding three.
- 35:42Speaker 1: For the whole family. True, g that's me.
- 35:47Speaker 4: I don't want to live no more the time they
- 35:49Speaker 4: hear death knocking at my front door. Living every day
- 35:52Speaker 4: at the trestle, another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle.
- 35:56Speaker 2: Right, people, do you understand lucky you was to lift
- 36:01Speaker 2: through that?
- 36:02Speaker 5: Oh my god, I can tell you my number three
- 36:06Speaker 5: is who the fuck is this page me?
- 36:08Speaker 2: That's your number three in the morning, your number two.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Let me tell you that your number two and your
- 36:14Speaker 2: number one better be phenomenal.
- 36:16Speaker 5: Picture.
- 36:17Speaker 2: It's my nigga pot from the barber shot. So he
- 36:20Speaker 2: was in the gambling spot. I heard the intricate plot.
- 36:23Speaker 2: A niggas water stick, your light, flying papers, cable, slow down,
- 36:26Speaker 2: love your piece dropped the caper. Remember them niggas up
- 36:30Speaker 2: you that you grew up? It got nice with Yeah,
- 36:35Speaker 2: that's my nigga fame from the pros. I didn't say
- 36:37Speaker 2: that love dis respect. I didn't say this it Clark
- 36:41Speaker 2: returned the niggas that you do from back when when
- 36:43Speaker 2: you was locking minding figures. Now to here you're blowing
- 36:46Speaker 2: up like night Troll and the water through your way
- 36:49Speaker 2: pipe slow, hold than me? Now water you got tell
- 36:55Speaker 2: me what you want to do? Man? Why didn't my paper? Damn?
- 37:00Speaker 5: I think what's going on in that song? Like even
- 37:02Speaker 5: the fact that the whole part like I didn't say
- 37:04Speaker 5: them like that storytelling is so specific. No, I'm not
- 37:09Speaker 5: talking about those guys else You're you're ready incredible, because like.
- 37:14Speaker 2: He wasn't human.
- 37:16Speaker 5: And also like the paranoia that you feel in his songwriters,
- 37:20Speaker 5: like he was really fucking nervous about like what you
- 37:22Speaker 5: think all the guns.
- 37:23Speaker 2: For what you think? I was just about to say
- 37:25Speaker 2: that what you think all the guns is full? He
- 37:29Speaker 2: said in the feet of Gunpowder. So they trying to
- 37:33Speaker 2: talk about.
- 37:34Speaker 5: This, I mean, the psychosis that was going to his
- 37:38Speaker 5: head and a lot of his lyrics.
- 37:40Speaker 1: It's just like you he got too many, honestly he
- 37:43Speaker 1: got because.
- 37:45Speaker 5: How could you want to live like that? You make
- 37:47Speaker 5: all this money to get out of the hood, and
- 37:48Speaker 5: then you just like it's so sad how it ended.
- 37:51Speaker 5: But it's just like when you think about once he
- 37:53Speaker 5: got out, he had this whole other.
- 37:57Speaker 4: And they say he was really paranoid, like Little Season
- 37:59Speaker 4: and said like in those latter you know, in that
- 38:02Speaker 4: latter part of at least when they were recording that album,
- 38:04Speaker 4: he was really pardo, especially after the accident.
- 38:08Speaker 5: And we've seen even more recent stuff with you know,
- 38:11Speaker 5: pop smoke and all these guys who've been.
- 38:13Speaker 2: Damn, why don't want to stick me from my paper? Damn?
- 38:17Speaker 2: Why didn't want to stick me from my paper?
- 38:19Speaker 5: Great song and I and I put that ahead of
- 38:21Speaker 5: another Biggie song, which I think Mouse may talk about
- 38:24Speaker 5: later because of the entertaining part about the guy with
- 38:27Speaker 5: what the the auto tune did on the voice, as
- 38:31Speaker 5: if he's calling from itself. I just think I love song.
- 38:36Speaker 5: I think Mouse is going to talk about maybe later,
- 38:38Speaker 5: but it's just I think the entertainment value of Warning is.
- 38:41Speaker 2: The entertainment values with all of these records. Big does
- 38:44Speaker 2: something no matter if it's all ready to die, no
- 38:47Speaker 2: matter if it's on his feature Like Big, you can
- 38:50Speaker 2: tell and you can appreciate it as like you know,
- 38:54Speaker 2: with with hindsight, how talented he was and how intelligent
- 38:58Speaker 2: he was. You know, well even the worst rapper is
- 39:02Speaker 2: you know, kind of.
- 39:04Speaker 4: Kind of a bit more intelligent than the average person,
- 39:07Speaker 4: because you have to be entertaining. I think there's a
- 39:09Speaker 4: level of intelligence that has to go into entertaining.
- 39:11Speaker 1: People, right, I disagree with this thing, but okay.
- 39:14Speaker 2: Big was so entertaining he because he attacked it like TV,
- 39:18Speaker 2: like you think of you know, he painted a picture.
- 39:22Speaker 2: You're now listening to the what hipov questions legend. The
- 39:24Speaker 2: list will be right back after the break.
- 39:28Speaker 1: All right, Number two.
- 39:30Speaker 2: My number two.
- 39:33Speaker 4: This is it's my favorite. But if I have to
- 39:36Speaker 4: be honest, it's number two. I just think and I
- 39:39Speaker 4: think I've crafted my list based on like a hard criteria. Right, So,
- 39:44Speaker 4: although this is my number two is my favorite storytelling
- 39:46Speaker 4: rap of all time, I understand it putting it number two,
- 39:52Speaker 4: even number three on some people's list, I don't understand
- 39:55Speaker 4: it not being on people's list.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Meet the Parents by.
- 39:57Speaker 4: Jay Z, Meet the Parents on jay Z on the
- 40:00Speaker 4: Blueprint two is the It's like a master class in storytelling.
- 40:06Speaker 4: Not only is it a master class in storytelling, you
- 40:09Speaker 4: can tell he was influenced by one of the greatest
- 40:13Speaker 4: storytellers ever, Biggie, and you know Blueprint two starts off.
- 40:17Speaker 4: Blueprint two starts off with the conversation with Big in
- 40:21Speaker 4: hole and Faith on the hook and you know.
- 40:24Speaker 2: So just to see. As the album progresses, we get
- 40:27Speaker 2: Meet the Parents where jay Z is literally rapping about
- 40:31Speaker 2: a father killing his son, and he talks about you know,
- 40:36Speaker 2: he says, he said, seems like the young seems like
- 40:41Speaker 2: the end of every young black life. It's this line.
- 40:43Speaker 2: Damn him already, because then we saw some of us.
- 40:47Speaker 2: He fought like us, talk like smacked him, get the
- 40:50Speaker 2: wall even you know what I mean. And he's like,
- 40:52Speaker 2: even how he ended six shots into your kin out
- 40:55Speaker 2: of a gun. Niggas be a father, you're killing your son.
- 40:58Speaker 2: Meet the parents and talks about isis and and Mike,
- 41:02Speaker 2: and Mike.
- 41:03Speaker 4: Was just this. He wasn't really the one to love her, right,
- 41:06Speaker 4: there was a nigga names want to take it out
- 41:08Speaker 4: the city life. But what he said, he said about
- 41:11Speaker 4: isis like this. She iis loved this city. She liked
- 41:15Speaker 4: the Gucci sneakers, the red.
- 41:16Speaker 2: Green and right. She was so turned on when he
- 41:18Speaker 2: first saw the fight. They had to go home and
- 41:20Speaker 2: she had a shower twice.
- 41:22Speaker 4: Like he paints this picture, you feel like you were
- 41:25Speaker 4: in bedsty and you know Mike and you know Isis
- 41:29Speaker 4: you know they son, You could see them. You could
- 41:32Speaker 4: see them like you can almost like paint this young
- 41:35Speaker 4: man's face, like just.
- 41:38Speaker 5: Did think about it? Is that he didn't know was
- 41:39Speaker 5: his son, right, he had no idea that this was
- 41:42Speaker 5: his son, that he that he but.
- 41:44Speaker 2: He had no because that's how far removed he just
- 41:46Speaker 2: on like there was so much it's like a it's
- 41:49Speaker 2: like a scor Saves.
- 41:50Speaker 5: Or Spiker tragedy. Right, So you talk about the father
- 41:55Speaker 5: killing on sons, those Greek tragedies, Yeah, electric complex, the
- 41:58Speaker 5: mother has sex with on some all like those classic
- 42:01Speaker 5: Greek storyline and.
- 42:02Speaker 2: You look at it and you're like.
- 42:05Speaker 4: Everybody's I don't know how long it took jay Z
- 42:07Speaker 4: to craft a song. If somebody told me it took
- 42:11Speaker 4: him a year to craft the song, I would be
- 42:12Speaker 4: like you damn right.
- 42:13Speaker 2: Because if you think about a movie, right, like deb
- 42:16Speaker 2: like you you're a producer or director, like even to
- 42:19Speaker 2: get to what we do every day, it's not just
- 42:22Speaker 2: you know me and I look great, but there's still
- 42:23Speaker 2: is some part where you're like, all right, hey, what
- 42:25Speaker 2: are we talking about. We'll go here, we'll go here.
- 42:29Speaker 2: So on these like longer shoots when you're doing your
- 42:31Speaker 2: documentaries and things of that nature, it's like, Okay, we
- 42:35Speaker 2: know how I want to start. I know how I
- 42:36Speaker 2: want to finish, and we have to fill all the
- 42:37Speaker 2: sin and then when I fill this stuff in, you know,
- 42:41Speaker 2: this interview is really a splice of like because I
- 42:43Speaker 2: really want to touch on like five or six more
- 42:45Speaker 2: things from this interview. He had to do that.
- 42:47Speaker 4: Jay Z had to do that, almost as if he
- 42:49Speaker 4: was writing a script. There was character breakdowns that you know,
- 42:52Speaker 4: you had to like what he said. He said, like
- 42:55Speaker 4: you talk about the dad Mike and he's like this MoMA.
- 42:59Speaker 4: He says, oh, mom is baby. He said, if that
- 43:01Speaker 4: baby was mine, it would be more dog.
- 43:03Speaker 2: So is Mama's baby pop is maybe like you know
- 43:07Speaker 2: what I mean? Like and now that's become something in
- 43:10Speaker 2: the in the ethos, right, everybody says it.
- 43:12Speaker 4: Now you know, you watch more Mama's Baby pop is
- 43:15Speaker 4: maybe you know what I mean? And you just look
- 43:17Speaker 4: at that and it's like, how the fuck did you
- 43:19Speaker 4: come up with this? What was going in yet? But
- 43:22Speaker 4: it's not that hard to think, like I don't know,
- 43:26Speaker 4: I didn't it could have been you know, I'm thirty three.
- 43:29Speaker 4: I never I didn't hear it before Jae MoMA's Baby
- 43:31Speaker 4: pop is.
- 43:32Speaker 5: Maybe I don't it might have been like an old
- 43:34Speaker 5: school saying, I don't know if it was on wax,
- 43:36Speaker 5: but I think the peeling of the onion that you're
- 43:38Speaker 5: talking about. He starts off, just saying, this is your
- 43:41Speaker 5: typical stuff, rainy night night, Yep, you know this kind
- 43:44Speaker 5: of and then there's more layers to this. Yeah, I
- 43:46Speaker 5: think that's what is amazing.
- 43:47Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the in every layer felt I'm gonna sound
- 43:51Speaker 4: like such. I probably sound like sound every time we
- 43:54Speaker 4: talked about hip hop. I could smell the rain the
- 43:57Speaker 4: first time I'm listening to it, I can smell the rain.
- 44:01Speaker 2: I can feel that that moment where jay.
- 44:06Speaker 4: Z says the moment he says, he tells her young
- 44:11Speaker 4: and get off the block. But the younger it ain't
- 44:13Speaker 4: buzz stood him, he said, but in him he saw
- 44:16Speaker 4: something like a bird Nate scene from the old He says,
- 44:19Speaker 4: like a sign from the almighty Lord. You know what
- 44:23Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like I'm I feel like I'm and you know,
- 44:26Speaker 4: I have my own you know, I mean issues with
- 44:29Speaker 4: my biological father.
- 44:30Speaker 2: So I'm really connected.
- 44:31Speaker 4: I'm really feeling like I've stood there, I stood you
- 44:34Speaker 4: know what I mean I'm stood in front of this
- 44:35Speaker 4: nigga like playing with me, like you know, and and
- 44:38Speaker 4: what jay Z said, J said, he said, he's like
- 44:40Speaker 4: a like a like a self, like he's seen him,
- 44:42Speaker 4: but like he's like he's looking at himself, but more mature.
- 44:45Speaker 4: I've been there, I've stood in this man face and
- 44:47Speaker 4: had issues with him and look at him like damn,
- 44:51Speaker 4: he canna look like me.
- 44:52Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
- 44:53Speaker 4: I've been there, So it's like you know what I mean,
- 44:55Speaker 4: Like you're standing there. No, I always boom him, but
- 44:59Speaker 4: I'm just sitting there like I' been in this situation
- 45:00Speaker 4: where there's tension between us, and I'm like looking at
- 45:03Speaker 4: him and it's like in my mind, I want to
- 45:05Speaker 4: do this to him, Like I want to do something
- 45:07Speaker 4: to this man, but there's something that's stopping me because
- 45:12Speaker 4: there's an innate connection between us, and I don't think
- 45:14Speaker 4: this man is I don't think it's reverbing to him.
- 45:18Speaker 2: I don't think he's seeing it the same way in
- 45:21Speaker 2: my mind. And that happened with me.
- 45:22Speaker 4: So to hear jay Z talk about with Mike and
- 45:25Speaker 4: his son, he's like, he's like, you know what I mean?
- 45:28Speaker 4: He said, what do he pulled out, pulled out a
- 45:30Speaker 4: brand new theory. But you know, you say what you
- 45:33Speaker 4: know what they say about he who hesitates a war,
- 45:36Speaker 4: he who hesitates his last didn't even blank for his mind.
- 45:41Speaker 2: Went meet the parent. Yo, that what kind of line
- 45:46Speaker 2: did that to say?
- 45:47Speaker 5: He calls me the parents of the last the last
- 45:50Speaker 5: line of the parents, the parents.
- 45:55Speaker 2: That's my favorite.
- 45:58Speaker 4: That's my number. It's my favorite of all time. But
- 46:01Speaker 4: number two. It's a number two for a reason.
- 46:04Speaker 3: Okay, my number two, I'm gonna go with. I feel
- 46:07Speaker 3: like it's way less a sentimental as what Mouth just said,
- 46:12Speaker 3: like that was some real ship just now. I'm like, damn,
- 46:14Speaker 3: all right, Yeah, that's that's great. But I think mine's
- 46:17Speaker 3: is like a fun one. Everybody likes Troy.
- 46:21Speaker 2: They reminisced sob my god, I'm not gonna song.
- 46:26Speaker 3: That record is just the beat is great, the story
- 46:29Speaker 3: is great.
- 46:29Speaker 5: It is about want to heavy these dancers.
- 46:32Speaker 4: Yeah really I thought that was about no Troy.
- 46:39Speaker 5: It's about one of Heavy's backup dancs.
- 46:41Speaker 2: Troy is one of the boys. Yeah, I never put
- 46:47Speaker 2: on two togethern't know that.
- 46:48Speaker 5: Yeah, someone said I think on Twitter recently, like you know,
- 46:52Speaker 5: there's been no better eulogy song than Troy.
- 46:56Speaker 1: That's a eulogy song when.
- 46:59Speaker 5: They reminisceed my god, wow, the horns, those horns.
- 47:04Speaker 2: Man.
- 47:04Speaker 5: He used to find.
- 47:06Speaker 4: First of all, Mecca the Soul Brother one of my
- 47:08Speaker 4: favorite albums, one of my favorite albums of one of
- 47:11Speaker 4: my favorite albums across any genre of all time, like
- 47:14Speaker 4: p Rod. But you talk about as good as Mecca
- 47:20Speaker 4: and the Soul Brother, is Troy being the song that
- 47:23Speaker 4: stands out?
- 47:24Speaker 2: Said so much.
- 47:25Speaker 1: Record listen to it again.
- 47:27Speaker 3: I thought that was him talking about his life and
- 47:30Speaker 3: I thought so too, But it's.
- 47:31Speaker 4: Just certain things wasn't making sense with like interviews and stuff.
- 47:34Speaker 4: So I didn't put two in together until d Black
- 47:36Speaker 4: just said it. And then when I think about it,
- 47:37Speaker 4: reminists over you, Troy. If you look it up, Troy
- 47:40Speaker 4: is one.
- 47:41Speaker 2: Of the boys. You know, it's heavy in the boys.
- 47:43Speaker 2: One of the one of the boys name is Troy
- 47:45Speaker 2: and he did die yeah.
- 47:47Speaker 3: Yeah, forget this the days the way back, even just
- 47:50Speaker 3: down to so he just that's his good friend. Because
- 47:53Speaker 3: he talked about mom being the youngest, always.
- 47:55Speaker 2: Had yoh my god, just that yo're talking about getting out.
- 48:00Speaker 1: Check it positive over negative for a woman to master.
- 48:03Speaker 3: It's like, what you're gonna do.
- 48:07Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 48:08Speaker 3: That's impressive. That's actually really impressive.
- 48:11Speaker 1: I didn't know that, all right.
- 48:12Speaker 3: Number one or number two.
- 48:14Speaker 5: Number two is, here's a little story. I got the
- 48:20Speaker 5: it's not going to be here. It's not gonna be here.
- 48:25Speaker 2: I gotta flip this table. It was poor through this
- 48:29Speaker 2: table that once upon a time, not long ago, people
- 48:32Speaker 2: with pajamas and lived life slow with justice. Justice.
- 48:36Speaker 7: If people weren't behaving like that author cook, there was
- 48:38Speaker 7: a little boy who was led by another little boy,
- 48:41Speaker 7: and this is what he said, me and U K,
- 48:43Speaker 7: we're gonna make the cash robbing old folks and making
- 48:46Speaker 7: it dad.
- 48:47Speaker 2: They did. Money came with it, but one can't stop
- 48:50Speaker 2: it like you had it, you robbing up and try
- 48:53Speaker 2: to rob it was yo. That ships, Yo.
- 48:58Speaker 4: But if you talk about stort like if you just
- 49:01Speaker 4: think about it, I know I be dragon ship. But
- 49:02Speaker 4: if you think about it like yes, high like.
- 49:04Speaker 2: That, I know I be draggon.
- 49:06Speaker 4: I know, I know I love I love hip hop.
- 49:10Speaker 4: I know I know I be dragon ship. I love
- 49:14Speaker 4: hip hop, and I make no qualms about it. Yes,
- 49:17Speaker 4: it's not just your fucking Patty and everyone's gonna sing
- 49:22Speaker 4: poo putt song. Think about what he's saying in the record.
- 49:25Speaker 4: He's saying some fly ship. He's telling a fly story.
- 49:28Speaker 4: Like no, he said, no need for static, No, no, no,
- 49:31Speaker 4: no no, and he gave him a slap. Little did
- 49:33Speaker 4: he know the little.
- 49:34Speaker 2: Boy was strapped, said watch you hit me straight for
- 49:38Speaker 2: the cops.
- 49:39Speaker 7: Kid me like you talking about even talking about dave shoes,
- 49:45Speaker 7: walk to no soap me bullets, hurry up, running the cop,
- 49:51Speaker 7: back up bank shot.
- 49:53Speaker 1: Each time that you gotta say a record, it reminds
- 49:55Speaker 1: me of another record.
- 49:56Speaker 3: Give an honorable mention.
- 49:58Speaker 1: Y'all gonna laugh.
- 49:59Speaker 3: But this is a story all about how much life
- 50:03Speaker 3: turned upside down.
- 50:06Speaker 2: I think that's a fun but I think that goes
- 50:07Speaker 2: back and I'm not shooting. I think that goes back
- 50:09Speaker 2: to what I was saying, like a few seconds ago.
- 50:11Speaker 2: I think that's a fun song, dance to tell the story.
- 50:14Speaker 2: It's a fun song. List no flash, this is a pioneer.
- 50:19Speaker 2: I thought that was a I know, but I thought
- 50:21Speaker 2: it was a No, that's not a.
- 50:23Speaker 1: Real record, that's just TV interest.
- 50:25Speaker 2: So it wasn't the original, it wasn't right.
- 50:28Speaker 5: Well, we talked about on list about you know, we
- 50:30Speaker 5: can't give the pioneers. I mean, pioneers are pioneers, you know,
- 50:34Speaker 5: like when we had the groups just because your person
- 50:37Speaker 5: pioneering storytelling song. So it gets a lot of points
- 50:40Speaker 5: from me. But it's also like, just when you listen
- 50:43Speaker 5: to it again, some of those slick ricks Cadence that
- 50:45Speaker 5: you when he says this seem funny. So don't you
- 50:47Speaker 5: dare laugh? It's like there's something about the upbeatness of
- 50:50Speaker 5: the song still, but the kid is shot by the
- 50:52Speaker 5: cops at the end, right, so just when you realize
- 50:55Speaker 5: that the darkness.
- 50:57Speaker 3: Sure, I feel like Children's story probably if we're just
- 51:01Speaker 3: talking about like most famous, it's probably number one.
- 51:03Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about the most famous. Yea, I think
- 51:06Speaker 2: I think it will go.
- 51:07Speaker 4: I think it's number two to what you just raped.
- 51:09Speaker 4: I think fresh friends about let number one? I think
- 51:12Speaker 4: I honestly, yeah, I think those the most popular. Yeah, yeah,
- 51:16Speaker 4: I would say, but.
- 51:17Speaker 2: Also honorable mentioned the message Oh yeah in sugar Hill
- 51:24Speaker 2: the rapper's delay. Those are story records. Yeah, you haven't
- 51:29Speaker 2: been a somebody eating.
- 51:31Speaker 3: But you know, as we talk about this, I'm like, damn,
- 51:33Speaker 3: I think a lot of songs tell stories, but then
- 51:36Speaker 3: they're storytelling records. Because when you were talking about Damn,
- 51:40Speaker 3: I think the number three version number.
- 51:42Speaker 2: Three, my number three was I can't remember my number three.
- 51:49Speaker 2: I think I got to die.
- 51:50Speaker 3: Your number three reminded me of how I felt about
- 51:53Speaker 3: when I heard Queen Latifa Unity.
- 51:55Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not really a storytelling record, but she
- 51:57Speaker 1: is telling the story.
- 51:58Speaker 3: She walks down the street a dude, disrespect BacT and
- 52:01Speaker 3: she's like, who you calling the bitch? Respect Unity And anyway,
- 52:05Speaker 3: that's how I felt. But I'm like, it's not really
- 52:07Speaker 3: a storyteller record.
- 52:08Speaker 1: Does she telling us.
- 52:10Speaker 2: Storytelling?
- 52:11Speaker 1: It's hard.
- 52:12Speaker 4: It sucks you right then it's like, like I said,
- 52:14Speaker 4: like allegory, like you're stuck and you're just like when
- 52:17Speaker 4: the song ends, you feel like you're watching credits instead
- 52:20Speaker 4: of the next song is going.
- 52:21Speaker 2: That's the way I kind of see it.
- 52:23Speaker 1: Number one, Let's get to a mouse.
- 52:27Speaker 2: Damn doors for you, even all my mother fucking holes
- 52:30Speaker 2: for you, Frank pussy with with the Kodak. It's the
- 52:35Speaker 2: mad Tech. Come on, man, I got a story to tell, Biggie.
- 52:38Speaker 2: I got a story to tell by Biggie for so
- 52:41Speaker 2: many reasons.
- 52:42Speaker 4: Once again, it's layers upon layers upon layers, you know,
- 52:46Speaker 4: it being about motherfucking Anthony Anthony Mason, you know, the.
- 52:51Speaker 2: New York Knicks fucking bully.
- 52:52Speaker 5: That was my guy on the next two.
- 52:54Speaker 2: I loved him all all my people loved him, all
- 52:57Speaker 2: my old heads loved him.
- 52:58Speaker 5: That Nick team of the early nine.
- 53:00Speaker 2: He was amazing.
- 53:01Speaker 5: Hopfully, Mason starts.
- 53:03Speaker 2: It was so crazy, but like just big, just what
- 53:09Speaker 2: what y'all over? There?
- 53:09Speaker 3: Don arm legs.
- 53:13Speaker 5: Like legs.
- 53:15Speaker 4: But but it's so dope because that's his career. That's
- 53:18Speaker 4: that's but but also that's five. That's five percenter. That's
- 53:23Speaker 4: five percent. Now the five arm leg leg that's the
- 53:29Speaker 4: five that's the together. Yeah yeah, but like I don't play.
- 53:36Speaker 1: That's a great number one?
- 53:37Speaker 2: Is that the man? Listen from just you're engaged from there,
- 53:41Speaker 2: like just from the minute you hit that.
- 53:45Speaker 3: Check it out.
- 53:47Speaker 2: Talking about oh my niggas, the niggas crib. I like,
- 53:56Speaker 2: so yeah, like after what you said, got the head,
- 54:00Speaker 2: got the bread, I'm gone.
- 54:04Speaker 1: Now that's a great number one.
- 54:05Speaker 2: Like you just said, like you were, I don't the
- 54:08Speaker 2: first time. I don't know, man, I keep saying this
- 54:10Speaker 2: shit like the first time. Every time I heard, for
- 54:13Speaker 2: the exception of.
- 54:16Speaker 4: For except the three out of the forty record, three
- 54:18Speaker 4: of the four, three of the five of these records,
- 54:20Speaker 4: I'm on the edge of my seat every word because
- 54:23Speaker 4: you know, obviously you got.
- 54:24Speaker 2: All that I got.
- 54:26Speaker 4: He just recant in his life say and with Dard storytelling,
- 54:31Speaker 4: you know, I was a little you know, I was
- 54:33Speaker 4: a little green. I didn't know what he was talking about.
- 54:34Speaker 4: I just enjoyed what they were.
- 54:37Speaker 2: So I wasn't on the you know, there's no it
- 54:39Speaker 2: didn't connect now that connected. There was no. It wasn't
- 54:43Speaker 2: a ride. I wasn't like, oh, what's next? You know
- 54:46Speaker 2: what I mean? But with these other three on the
- 54:51Speaker 2: edge of my seat, what is going to happen? Will
- 54:55Speaker 2: be will Big make it out next time? On Dragon
- 54:58Speaker 2: ball Z?
- 54:58Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, Like, that's that's what
- 55:00Speaker 4: I'm here. Like so like when he's like, you know
- 55:05Speaker 4: what she said, what she said?
- 55:06Speaker 2: He said, tell me cool?
- 55:07Speaker 4: He said, no, no, he said he when Big told
- 55:10Speaker 4: the girls that you better tell your man be cool,
- 55:12Speaker 4: she don't know.
- 55:13Speaker 2: I'm cool as a fig gas head. I don't want
- 55:16Speaker 2: to blast him, man, but I can in the window.
- 55:19Speaker 1: I'm trying to even though the situation.
- 55:21Speaker 4: You look, it came to me like a song I wrote,
- 55:25Speaker 4: Come boy, it can't tell me yo. First of all, inception,
- 55:30Speaker 4: it came to me like a song I wrote. Wait, nigga,
- 55:33Speaker 4: this is a song you wrote. Wait again, nigga, Wait again, nigga.
- 55:38Speaker 2: You don't even write. You don't even write.
- 55:42Speaker 1: Oh my god, no, great record. That's a that's a
- 55:45Speaker 1: good one.
- 55:48Speaker 5: But before we get you your one, because I want
- 55:51Speaker 5: you to finish, can I just tell you what my
- 55:53Speaker 5: number one is? I wonder you I think you finished this?
- 55:56Speaker 5: Yeah no, but my number one is black Steel in
- 55:59Speaker 5: the r of cast pump Endemy And I think you know,
- 56:02Speaker 5: I got a letter from the government like that song
- 56:05Speaker 5: to me is a is a great story that you
- 56:07Speaker 5: can when you talk about the visualization, you can see
- 56:11Speaker 5: all that happening as he's talking about with the prison
- 56:14Speaker 5: rate and just like just them getting to the helicopter
- 56:17Speaker 5: on top of the prison and getting out and just
- 56:19Speaker 5: shooting its way out. I think that's the dope.
- 56:21Speaker 1: I think that's a fair one.
- 56:24Speaker 3: It don't resonate with me, but that.
- 56:27Speaker 1: What I just I know it's a great one.
- 56:31Speaker 2: Dad, it's like one of the record.
- 56:33Speaker 4: It's yeah, like we can always acknowledge how great some
- 56:36Speaker 4: ships even if it don't resonate.
- 56:37Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, but mine?
- 56:41Speaker 4: Wow, I just want to tell you why you put
- 56:45Speaker 4: a lot of pressure on yourself. You said it's better
- 56:47Speaker 4: than I got to.
- 56:48Speaker 1: I think it's better.
- 56:49Speaker 3: But they're in different lanes because, like you said, like
- 56:51Speaker 3: I got a storyteller is entertainment where this is?
- 56:55Speaker 6: This is really If you say waterfalls, I'm gonna flip
- 56:58Speaker 6: because Left Eyes Verse was so crazy.
- 57:01Speaker 2: At the launches.
- 57:05Speaker 1: No, my number one is common I used to love her.
- 57:08Speaker 2: You are you kidding me? Better than a story to.
- 57:11Speaker 1: Tell common I used to love her absolutely.
- 57:13Speaker 3: That's one of the best hip hop records period, like,
- 57:18Speaker 3: and it's great because it talks about like hip hop
- 57:22Speaker 3: in its purest form, and then it's transformation, I mean, yeah,
- 57:25Speaker 3: as it evolves to like mass media selling itself, whereas
- 57:29Speaker 3: to now you're trying to tell me that certain records
- 57:32Speaker 3: are great.
- 57:32Speaker 2: When it's a rund like common Sense.
- 57:40Speaker 1: I used to love her. It's great, and I will
- 57:42Speaker 1: never forget.
- 57:43Speaker 3: I thought the record was like cute as I'm listening
- 57:46Speaker 3: to it, because I thought it was about a girl.
- 57:48Speaker 2: I'm like, we've been wrapping this whole episode opening this
- 57:51Speaker 2: song up. Bro.
- 57:52Speaker 3: I met this girl when I was ten years old,
- 57:54Speaker 3: and what I love most she has so much so
- 57:57Speaker 3: she was old school when I was just a shorty.
- 57:59Speaker 3: Never throughout my life she would be there for me
- 58:02Speaker 3: on a regular not a church girl. She was secular,
- 58:05Speaker 3: not about the money. The stuff is Mike, check it up.
- 58:07Speaker 3: But I respected her.
- 58:08Speaker 1: She hit me in the heart.
- 58:10Speaker 3: A few New York niggas had did it in the dark,
- 58:13Speaker 3: but she was there for me, and I was there
- 58:15Speaker 3: for her, put out a chair for her like. I
- 58:17Speaker 3: just really liked the way he dressed hip hop up
- 58:19Speaker 3: as a woman.
- 58:20Speaker 1: And then at the end, no, not as.
- 58:24Speaker 3: My friend's nigga.
- 58:25Speaker 1: Why because why is that sip?
- 58:27Speaker 2: Because I know a few New York nigga did the dark.
- 58:30Speaker 2: I'll pulled up the chair for hunks.
- 58:32Speaker 3: Anyway, So I didn't like that.
- 58:34Speaker 2: It was a dig. I ain't like that. Yeah, that
- 58:38Speaker 2: was a little dig. That was a little dig. That
- 58:40Speaker 2: was not it.
- 58:41Speaker 1: He was just saying, like.
- 58:43Speaker 2: Adult New York niggas was doing her like she was
- 58:49Speaker 2: a whole.
- 58:50Speaker 3: Well then she broke to the West Coast, and that
- 58:53Speaker 3: was cool because around the same time, I went to
- 58:54Speaker 3: way to school and I'm a man of expanded, so
- 58:56Speaker 3: why should I stand in a way? She probably get
- 58:59Speaker 3: her money in LA and she did so that she
- 59:01Speaker 3: got big fu for what was foul. She said that
- 59:03Speaker 3: the pro black was going out of staff, like I
- 59:05Speaker 3: just like how he broke down the eras of hip hop,
- 59:08Speaker 3: Like yes, was fell in love with it.
- 59:10Speaker 1: He fell in love with.
- 59:11Speaker 3: It when it was in the New York scene, but
- 59:13Speaker 3: he wanted a piece of it for himself. He sees
- 59:15Speaker 3: her going out west and he starts expanding, which, by
- 59:17Speaker 3: the way, commons commons evolution from his first album to
- 59:21Speaker 3: his second album is two different commons, which is I
- 59:25Speaker 3: think he's explaining that also in the record.
- 59:28Speaker 1: So just so I want to talk about y'all's hip hop.
- 59:32Speaker 3: I was just like, oh, like that emoji the brain
- 59:35Speaker 3: is like lifted, and you're like, quick question, put that
- 59:38Speaker 3: emoji in my face.
- 59:39Speaker 5: But do you think when she goes into the West
- 59:41Speaker 5: Coast side of things that he actually has a little
- 59:43Speaker 5: bit of this, Like you know when he says, now
- 59:44Speaker 5: black music is black music, and it's all good. So
- 59:47Speaker 5: when he says that line is he kind of like
- 59:48Speaker 5: still looking at her differently? You think, I mean hip
- 59:51Speaker 5: hop is the herd, right, So is he looking at
- 59:54Speaker 5: it differently?
- 59:55Speaker 3: Based question the way he said he wasn't salty. She
- 59:58Speaker 3: was with the boys in the hood.
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: But do you believe it? Sure it was because they
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: got into a beef right after that.
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: I think they got into a beef for other reasons,
- 1:00:06Speaker 3: not because of that record, because like even Erica, but
- 1:00:10Speaker 3: I do love.
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: In my life.
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: He's got to ask you, which one do you like better, though,
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: love my life.
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: Or that I like I used to love her better,
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: but I love the Erica I do record too. But
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: I'm to Darren's question of do I think he was salty? No,
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: because he says the boys made her better to grow.
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: I had to let her to be the Jeddah and
- 1:00:28Speaker 3: I understood that looking for cheese.
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: That don't make her a hood right.
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: In fact, she's a queen to me, like Beams on me.
- 1:00:34Speaker 3: I love it when she sings to me like, oh
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: you know you like I think when it comes to
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: like my POV of hip hop and what it means
- 1:00:52Speaker 3: to me, I love I used to love her.
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: It's like all the songs I named are songs that
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: really resonate.
- 1:00:58Speaker 5: The first time you guys heard that song, did you
- 1:01:00Speaker 5: know what the metaphor was right away?
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: Way? Because somebody introduced it to me.
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: I knew that.
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: They told you. Somebody told me.
- 1:01:07Speaker 4: My cousin was like like that was when I was
- 1:01:10Speaker 4: getting into my lyrical bag, and I was like, yeah,
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: like having like creating my standard of rap. And my
- 1:01:16Speaker 4: cousin like, yo, listen to this, like he rapping about
- 1:01:19Speaker 4: hip hop, Like it's not a woman, it's hip hop.
- 1:01:22Speaker 4: So I already went into it knowing, which kind of
- 1:01:24Speaker 4: helped because I was able to come down one thousand percent.
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: Sure. If I listened to it the first time, I
- 1:01:27Speaker 2: would have been like, Oh, he's talking my hip hop.
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: I'm like, what girl he talking about?
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: The whole stop you would have thought she was a
- 1:01:33Speaker 3: whore girl from New York to.
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: No.
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: I was watching I saw it on the countdown. I
- 1:01:42Speaker 3: got in TV channel and I'm just watching it. I'm like,
- 1:01:44Speaker 3: this is a vibe.
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: This is a vibe.
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: This is the vibe.
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: Who I'm talking about, y'all.
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: I'm like watching TV.
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: Oh ship hip hop? I'm like, call dad, you know
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: what this song about?
- 1:01:57Speaker 5: Common Car wait a minute time out common sense.
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: No, No, I'm talking about when did you discover this song?
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: Because you said you picked up a cell phone?
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: Well, no, a phone like the house phone. All okay,
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: she's probably like two thousand and four.
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, okay, that's okay. I my parents discovered
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: the song yesterday.
- 1:02:17Speaker 3: They couldn't afford a babysitter, you know something, the crib,
- 1:02:20Speaker 3: be in the creb whatever.
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: But I call him up a parents, real niggas.
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: No, I'm like, Dad, I just found this song. He's like,
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: I played that song your entire life, Like, you don't
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: know that song.
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: I'm like, like, not at work? You never you remember
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: you remember calling your parents at work to ask something dumb.
- 1:02:37Speaker 3: No, my brother used to be getting on my nerves.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: Shout out to just hell, okay, I speak to, I
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: speak to to have some first chokes, put some in
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: the oven.
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: Joe, he's standing at the door.
- 1:02:49Speaker 3: I keep telling him to get out, but he's just
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: standing at the door, like, oh man.
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good way to end.
- 1:02:56Speaker 5: It was as far as that storytelling raps, A great
- 1:03:00Speaker 5: storytelling rap, Yeah.
- 1:03:01Speaker 3: I think I got a storytellers more like he said,
- 1:03:04Speaker 3: more like spins, you're not. It's not suspenseful one. I
- 1:03:08Speaker 3: used to love her. It's just a story.
- 1:03:10Speaker 4: But he takes I don't argue with it being a
- 1:03:14Speaker 4: fucking master craft of a song, of a storytelling song.
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: Just say that I got a storytelling No, no, it's real.
- 1:03:20Speaker 3: People, all right, you know what, Let's make this a poll.
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: Let's make it a poll.
- 1:03:24Speaker 3: Let's do it, all right, guys, me.
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: And Moss want to know who do you Who do
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: you think has a better storytelling record?
- 1:03:30Speaker 3: Is it common? I used to love her?
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: Or biggie, I got a story to tell.
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: Drop comments in the section below.
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: Click the poll.
- 1:03:38Speaker 4: All of that, we make sure d block a king,
- 1:03:40Speaker 4: Make sure we got a nice clip to post. I'm
- 1:03:42Speaker 4: posted to the page. Make sure I want to see that.
- 1:03:45Speaker 4: Because this is ridiculous, that would be so.
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: Let's collapse that one.
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: Okay, so people can yell at your people. Your people
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: are probably gonna agree with me. Don't don't bring the
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: book community who don't?
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: Did he shima? Did he just make up?
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: All?
- 1:04:04Speaker 5: Right?
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: Any any last words?
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: Yeah? I got a story to tell.
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: Speaking got a.
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: Story and tell you got anything going on that you
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: want shout out real quick?
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: The same thing I always got going on. Man, it's
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: the what I question.
- 1:04:19Speaker 4: Like the list each and every Monday, got next door
- 1:04:20Speaker 4: each and every Monday, and track karaoke on the road.
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: Make sure you get your tickets. Check karaoke dot com.
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: You got something coming up. You got a whole bunch
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: of stuff coming up? What's going on?
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: You've got a whole bunch of stuff going up too,
- 1:04:32Speaker 3: Like you forgot about Broccoli Fest by the way.
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: Oh my god, Yes, I'm not gonna talk about your jobs.
- 1:04:38Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Well, that's why we're such good brother and sisters,
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: because we hold each other.
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: I'm excited to see.
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: You know your schedule, you know, we just don't know
- 1:04:46Speaker 2: our own schedule.
- 1:04:47Speaker 3: Bracy is gonna be dope though.
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: Yes, insane. I cannot wait.
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: It's gonna be dope. All right, I got a special visitor.
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: Who who, there's somebody popping out?
- 1:04:59Speaker 3: No, all right, anyway, I'm so annoying, So all right,
- 1:05:04Speaker 3: I just wanted to shout out my Amazon show every
- 1:05:07Speaker 3: Wednesday night on Twitch makes you guys tune in.
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: It's called rotation.
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: Arguing with y'all.
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: Yeah, so what I do with mouse? Honestly, after arguing
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: with him I'm ready to argue with anybody. Mouse has
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: got me prepped and ready for war. So shut up
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: to Mouse for that makes you guys.
- 1:05:23Speaker 3: Tune into Rotation every Wednesday, and then make sure you
- 1:05:26Speaker 3: guys tune into AMP every Tuesday and Thursday twelve pm.
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: Tune in and listen. But we're just more so playing
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: new music on there.
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: Like what you got going on? You got stuff going on?
- 1:05:35Speaker 5: I got the what hip Hop Questions listening list every
- 1:05:37Speaker 5: Monday in the documentary documentary.
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: More on that later to.
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: Come and we'll be back.
- 1:05:47Speaker 4: My favorite thing about hip hop is you know when
- 1:05:50Speaker 4: people know, like when they do interviews niggas, that would
- 1:05:53Speaker 4: be my favorite thing, Like that's how I know niggas lit.
- 1:05:55Speaker 4: That's that would be my like marker for how to
- 1:05:57Speaker 4: let you are like throwing the stuff you can't talk about.
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: Like I hate when the artist come up to there.
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: Oh yeah, just dropping this day, just dropping this day now,
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: ask them if when just coming. We're working on dates
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: right now. You know, third quarter, you know, look out
- 1:06:09Speaker 2: for that third quarter. That used to be my favorite.
- 1:06:12Speaker 2: Second quarter, your second we come in, we come in
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: early second quarter. I be like, yeah, this is lip.
- 1:06:19Speaker 3: Okay understandable. I got some things I'm working on to
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: that I can't really talk about yet for second quarter,
- 1:06:26Speaker 3: second third quarter. Yeah yeah, I'm wait to Q three
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: to drop some more bombs, clue bombs. All right, Next
- 1:06:36Speaker 3: Monday to another episode of The Wedding Questions.
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: Can you start with.
- 1:06:43Speaker 3: That isnay, We'll be back next Monday. Till next time, guys, He's.
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