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  Speaker 1: Welcome to jipop now pot fat as if you from
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  Speaker 1: the future, you know what you do, show us out
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  Speaker 1: of my.
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  Speaker 2: Back, so disrespect to leg like hip hop and say
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  Speaker 2: the stays get right into the business.
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  Speaker 1: What up?
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  Speaker 2: What uh?
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  Speaker 1: What uh? What be up? Be down?
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  Speaker 2: People sewing, you know, because because they got cooked in
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  Speaker 2: a battle uh divisive album, you know, g n X,
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  Speaker 2: all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see if I can turn this music down
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  Speaker 3: a little picked though, because I don't wanted to dominate
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  Speaker 3: the conversation, so to speak. But we're just gonna get started.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to a impromptu spur of the moment pop out
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  Speaker 2: episode live stream of me getting ready for the best
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four on my list here I wrote
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: See I'm in the future already. Let's let's see if
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  Speaker 1: that music gotta be lowered.
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  Speaker 2: That dude gotta shut up? Okay, mainly because you know
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  Speaker 2: around this time, as you've seen right, Apple Music has
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  Speaker 2: their recap of what you've been listening to the whole year.
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  Speaker 2: Spotify is on the way. From what I understand. YouTube
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  Speaker 2: music started first, which was interesting because they kind of
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  Speaker 2: set it up where, at least for me, the videos
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  Speaker 2: that are labeled. Music that I watched are like at
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  Speaker 2: the top of my list. So like when the whole
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  Speaker 2: battle was happening and I was going to like Kendrick's
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  Speaker 2: YouTube to listen to like Euphoria.
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  Speaker 1: And stuff like that, or watch the Not Like Us.
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  Speaker 2: Video, those rank pretty high because you know, that's where
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  Speaker 2: I was doing my listening before it hits streaming services.
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  Speaker 2: So their list is weird YouTube music. But I guess
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  Speaker 2: if you use YouTube music, then it's not weird for you.
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  Speaker 2: But you also have like Rolling Stones, who did a
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  Speaker 2: top one hundred I think albums of twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Probably on this week's show, I'll talk about that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: unless there's another list to talk about. But right here
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  Speaker 2: on Hip Hop Now podcast, every year I do a
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  Speaker 2: best of twenty twenty whatever, right, I've been doing it
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  Speaker 2: for a minute, especially in video form.
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  Speaker 1: It's well video form is kind of new.
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  Speaker 2: But what I found is I needed a system that
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  Speaker 2: worked for me, you know what I'm saying, and wasn't
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  Speaker 2: too overbearing for people who you know, want to just
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  Speaker 2: know what was hot this year, but they don't want
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  Speaker 2: twenty five to fifty one hundred albums. And I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's more beneficial to break it down to at
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  Speaker 2: least fifteen, ten being great albums from this year and
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  Speaker 2: five being what I think were the best of this year.
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  Speaker 2: So even if you look at my top five and
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  Speaker 2: you heard them and you're not feeling them, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: you didn't hear everything, the ten will give you a nice,
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  Speaker 2: you know, idea of some of the other albums that
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  Speaker 2: were dope.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: This year started off semi strong because it was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of albums that dropped earlier on that I was
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  Speaker 2: kind of like, yo, you you just gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 2: put these in your top five now because they were
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  Speaker 2: just that good early on. And then you know, we
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  Speaker 2: hit some lows with certain albums that were highly anticipated
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  Speaker 2: that I didn't necessarily like, some albums that were highly
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  Speaker 2: anticipate anticipated that I didn't necessarily like a lot, or
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  Speaker 2: I was disappointed, but then found myself listen and then
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  Speaker 2: over time, you know, I was like, Okay, well I
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  Speaker 2: listened to it that much throughout the year has to
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  Speaker 2: be one of the best, at least to be So.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of that going on with me and
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  Speaker 1: what I do.
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  Speaker 2: Around this specific time is I listened to everything I
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  Speaker 2: have on my list, because I have my list already,
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  Speaker 2: but my list is you know, changing because of quick
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  Speaker 2: drops or albums I didn't know what were coming out
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  Speaker 2: or like, for example, I'm kind of trying to hold
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  Speaker 2: off and I will for this draining Snoop to see
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  Speaker 2: where that lands for me. So far with the singles,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't gonna front.
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  Speaker 1: Oh shout out to Yin's vacation mode.
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  Speaker 2: Now, man, I'm working. I'm just home. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: working from home. This is my work though. But Yo,
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  Speaker 2: it's a thing where I listened to everything again regardless
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  Speaker 2: of when it came out, and just to double back
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  Speaker 2: because I was going to say what I thought about
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  Speaker 2: the Snoop and dra singles. I think the first two
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  Speaker 2: singles were Dope, the one would sting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of yeah on.
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  Speaker 2: It could be a skip depending on what else is
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  Speaker 2: on the album. Also for me, it could be a
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  Speaker 2: skip where it lands on the album. If that's like
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  Speaker 2: the second to last song on Snoop and Dre's Missionary
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  Speaker 2: album and the last track is dope and the majority
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  Speaker 2: album is dope, I might let it rock because it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that bad. It just was Snoop and Dre set
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  Speaker 2: a tone with those first two singles, and now you
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  Speaker 2: hear this new song with stinging.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of like it's all right, but again.
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  Speaker 2: Around this time of year, while a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are dropping their best of the year. Previously, I used
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  Speaker 2: to get closer to the new year or closer to
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  Speaker 2: the Christmas holiday and then released months. But I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to release my list on the what is it the sixteenth?
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  Speaker 2: It was my show debuts on Fridays, so I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to release my list on the twentieth, right, so we
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  Speaker 2: still got some time. I think Snoop and Dre drop
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  Speaker 2: on the thirteenth, which is next Friday, so.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have some time in between then.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, the albums all review and listen, but going back
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  Speaker 2: and listening to the albums that dropped, the albums that
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  Speaker 2: I had.
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  Speaker 1: On my list, it's just more so confirmation of my thoughts. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Some albums dropped a while ago, some are pretty recent.
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  Speaker 2: Some like for example, Dog Pound's album We All, What
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  Speaker 2: is It?
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  Speaker 1: We All? We Got? We All, We Got cmb yo.
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to that album really like this year,
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  Speaker 2: like daily. I was just I kept playing it over
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  Speaker 2: and over. It just was meeting some stand up for
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  Speaker 2: me as far as expectations. Were also surprised to me
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  Speaker 2: in some ways, and it just fit my mood at
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  Speaker 2: the time, So I just kept listening to it. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So albums like that, you go back after months of
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  Speaker 2: not hearing it, say, you know, was it just that time?
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  Speaker 2: You know, wasn't just the mood I was in at
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  Speaker 2: time and it kind of fits or I listened to it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, does it sound the same now? So it's
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  Speaker 2: just a lot of that, you know, with this list,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, to be fair, like there are things
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  Speaker 2: that some people like them not be on my list
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  Speaker 2: because you know why it's my list. That's why, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. It doesn't mean it's why. It
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  Speaker 2: just means that I had to take this list and
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  Speaker 2: squish it down to something precise and something where I
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  Speaker 2: could talk in detail about these albums or at least
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  Speaker 2: give you, you know, regarding the ten, the good ten
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  Speaker 2: I called them. I could something that I can at
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  Speaker 2: least go and say, yo, this was great because of
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  Speaker 2: it's real quick. This was great because of that real quick.
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  Speaker 2: And the top five will be the ones I will,
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  Speaker 2: you know, elaborate on and there's a lot to consider. Man,
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  Speaker 2: We've had a couple of recent albums shift my list.
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  Speaker 2: When I did this Best of the Year so far,
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  Speaker 2: Like in June, I had a top five that I
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  Speaker 2: was like, anything.
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  Speaker 1: Can come along and bump some of these records.
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  Speaker 2: But right now I feel solid about this, Like if
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  Speaker 2: there was nothing else better than these top five at
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  Speaker 2: that time in June, I'm good with this top five.
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  Speaker 2: Just for context that top five, and I think most
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  Speaker 2: of them survived. One was Lavish Misery with that was
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  Speaker 2: Harry Fraud and Ransom. It was basically an EP. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not the biggest fan of Harry Freud's beats. It just
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  Speaker 2: depends on who he links with, the type of production chosen.
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  Speaker 2: But I was listening to it all the time, right
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  Speaker 2: that was one one mixtape I guess you call it
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  Speaker 2: a mixtape that I've been champion and Davies and scram
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  Speaker 2: Jones for the Love. It kind of had this obviously
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  Speaker 2: a love theme, but it was really like the theme
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  Speaker 2: was really like nineties sitcom and black sitcom, should I say,
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  Speaker 2: like Living Single and Mark.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of excerpts from those shows.
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  Speaker 2: And samples right like the Living single theme is sampled
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  Speaker 2: on this joint, and I thought for Davies, like, yo,
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  Speaker 2: this is him doing something different that I could rock with,
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  Speaker 2: because sometimes Davies could be monotone, even within his projects,
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  Speaker 2: not just his voice.
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  Speaker 1: It could just feel like then you.
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  Speaker 2: Just released this the other day, But this was very different,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying hearing them talk about relationships,
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily in a sap the way, but in a
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  Speaker 2: way that you know, most most dudes, I assume, can
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  Speaker 2: relate to. That was one Shae Nowir had an EP.
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  Speaker 2: I forget the name. It was something with chocolate it.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't have all the lists in front of me,
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  Speaker 2: I thought that EP was dope. What else made that?
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if some of that stuff is here?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to give away my list.
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  Speaker 2: Like us Kingpin in ninth Wonder, the super Golt was
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  Speaker 2: on my top five.
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  Speaker 1: So my top five.
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  Speaker 2: At that time in June, you know, so far was
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  Speaker 2: solid to me because it was like, what what I
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  Speaker 2: choose for my top five is it?
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  Speaker 1: Yo? Give me all the boom.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody that had bars, you know, give me all the
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  Speaker 2: boom back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everybody that was growling on the mic and
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  Speaker 1: threatening you. You know that's my top five. It's solid. Now.
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  Speaker 2: My musical palette is a little bit more varied than that.
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  Speaker 1: Is that here, of course it is.
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  Speaker 2: I love boom Back, and I love hardcore hip hop,
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  Speaker 2: and I love bars. But hip hop is fifty one
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  Speaker 2: years old, so to me, enough time is passed for
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  Speaker 2: a variety of hip hop sounds to be more acceptable,
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  Speaker 2: more palatable. A lot of people have done boom Back
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  Speaker 2: in that very same way for decades now, So sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you just have the right amount of he got it
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  Speaker 2: right or she got it right to get on my
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  Speaker 2: list without having to do nothing else, and then sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's well, maybe you did it in such a way
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  Speaker 2: that you stood out from your piers. Also, one thing
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to know about top tens, especially on top
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  Speaker 2: fives or whatever between twenty four, especially as you see
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  Speaker 2: new list drop, is the fact that there are some
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  Speaker 2: projects that I'm from notable artists that I know some
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  Speaker 2: people haven't heard because they released it exclusively on sites
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  Speaker 2: like even where you had to go buy it, as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to it being on Spotify, Apple Music and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. And in some cases, some very dope albums
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  Speaker 2: like Ransom released some dope stuff, but most notably that
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to point out Stove God Cooks put out
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  Speaker 2: a joint. I guess you could call this an EP
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  Speaker 2: called stop calling me, I'm cooking, And when I tell you,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of what we've been waiting for. It is now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's still available, but since we're
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  Speaker 2: doing the live stream, let's see. I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: the name of this website, but I'm gonna just put
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  Speaker 2: it even. Wait, why yo, Microsoft, do not want to
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  Speaker 2: use ban with the you know, no offense respectfully, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to use band. I want to use Google. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: get right to it. Stove. Let's see still Uh nah,
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  Speaker 2: looks like it's still there. No, no, no, no, it's
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  Speaker 2: not still there. Look check this album and share my
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  Speaker 2: screen with y'all. Real quick content unavailable. The content you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to access has been removed from even due to
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  Speaker 2: a copyright infringement claim submitted under Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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  Speaker 2: by Baby Grand Global Corporated.
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  Speaker 1: Now can you even see it? Or they just all
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  Speaker 1: they like?
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  Speaker 2: Man, you can't even look at it, But as you
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  Speaker 2: can see, that's what that that's what that was with
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  Speaker 2: stove Guard. Now I was able to get it before
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  Speaker 2: that happened, And that's probably a case of of samples,
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  Speaker 2: because he has a lot of samples on that joint,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's why.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it. I'm not sure what it was, but
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  Speaker 1: now is literally not available.
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  Speaker 2: So the dilemma for me who listens to that like
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  Speaker 2: frequently and consider it one of the best of the year,
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  Speaker 2: can I really do that given the fact that my
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  Speaker 2: list is predicated on providing insight into stuff you can
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  Speaker 2: go check out. But if it's not available anymore, can
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  Speaker 2: you go check it out?
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. It may wind up an honorable mention.
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  Speaker 2: If it's available around the time I record my best
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  Speaker 2: of the year, then I'll add it to my list,
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  Speaker 2: either top five or part of the ten. But another
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  Speaker 2: thing that stood out to me is there were a
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  Speaker 2: lot of.
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  Speaker 1: MC and I say this it's rare, but kind of
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  Speaker 1: was a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of MC and producer like one producer albums I
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  Speaker 2: talked about Snooping Drake getting back together to release it
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  Speaker 2: was ll kooj Q, Tip with the Force but most
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  Speaker 2: notably Common and Pete Rock with the Auditorium Volume one
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  Speaker 2: you know which everybody loved. I expect to see it
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  Speaker 2: at the top or at least mentioned wherever it may fall,
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  Speaker 2: And damn there everybody in hip Hop's Best of the
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  Speaker 2: Year list, I would be surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you're a young head and you kind of listen.
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  Speaker 2: To a whole another lane of hip hop, then I
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  Speaker 2: kind of get it, you know what I'm saying. But
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: if you kind of listen to traditional hip hop or
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  Speaker 2: you have a varied palette when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: music that drops, then I can understand the fact that
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  Speaker 2: it could be on some list but not all. But
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the hip hop hiphob it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be on everybody's list. The crazy part about that
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  Speaker 2: is towards probably the summer until now, we got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of releases, y'all, and it's literally pushed out albums
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  Speaker 2: that you know, in projects and EPs that I have
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  Speaker 2: been listening to all year because I just feel like
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  Speaker 2: this new thing is better. Still love that thing that
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  Speaker 2: I had to push out of the top five or
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  Speaker 2: the top ten, but this new thing is better. And
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the new stuff that's dropped, you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: some of it could be recency bias, but for the
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  Speaker 2: most part when it comes to my list, anything that's
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  Speaker 2: new that appears in.
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  Speaker 1: My top five or top ten.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me, I listened to it thoroughly and again, going
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  Speaker 2: back over every project I have listed, well, it made
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  Speaker 2: sense to put some in and take some other things
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  Speaker 2: out just because you know it's it becomes.
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  Speaker 1: Monoly mine to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget Blue and xIDE also dropped the joint called
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  Speaker 2: Love the Ominous World. But there is one that I
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  Speaker 2: will reveal that's not in my top five, but I
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  Speaker 2: had in my top ten because when I reviewed it
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  Speaker 2: on my podcast, I was kind of like, it's good,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know if it's the best of the
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  Speaker 2: year because I didn't like you Tip saying running back,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I hate that song.
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  Speaker 1: I skipped.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I skipped that song, but I found myself listening to
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  Speaker 2: it like every day after a while, and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know if it was you know, my affinity for ll
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  Speaker 2: COOJ and q Tip or legends in hip hop, or
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  Speaker 2: the fact that it was just good and it was
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  Speaker 2: different from everything else I had been listening to. But
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I was listening to it, so I had to consider
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the fact that I was listening to it in the
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: same way as I talked about with dog Pam, and
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, with a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: later releases from the likes of Kendrick Tyler, the creator
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: and Freddie Gibbs, who else.
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  Speaker 1: I had to throw it do she? You know? Do
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  Speaker 1: she is not that recent?
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  Speaker 2: But you know what I mean, Like unexpectedly, I had
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: to find ways to get these in my lists, and
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I had to compare it to what was there. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at ll Cuja in the Force like I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you're gonna make it, doog, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you're gonna make it. So we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: But right now it is on the chopping block. When
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I look at my list, like let's just say snoop
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  Speaker 2: and dra joint is like great, and everybody's talking about
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  Speaker 2: it and how they love it.
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  Speaker 1: Some gotta go, y'all, something gotta dull and well, who ja?
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  Speaker 1: The Force is on the chopping block. Now. Some will say.
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  Speaker 2: I know you got rock Merc on it, and I
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  Speaker 2: will say.
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  Speaker 1: No, I do not. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I review this Marciology Joint this year. I listen to
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  Speaker 2: it multiple times. I don't think it does anything for me.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm more of a fan of the production
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  Speaker 2: than I am of the ROMs, And to me, that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make a best of the year. If for me,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: right like now, if you love the aesthetic, you love
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the way he rhymes and his cadence and his voice
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  Speaker 2: and the production, it should absolutely be your best of
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  Speaker 2: the year. But when I put an album on and
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  Speaker 2: I'm struggling to be invested in what he's saying.
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  Speaker 1: Not across the board.
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  Speaker 2: I got songs on there I like, don't get it Twisted,
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  Speaker 2: but I just can't consider it over albums where, whether
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I was making a list or not, I'm really digging them.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: It's just difficult to do that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And one thing I'll say about my list this year,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of my favorites who literally are
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: fighting for their spots, right Kendrick, is it because I
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: like the album? I reviewed it right here on the channel.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: You can go check it out. I know it's very divisive.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Some people hate it, some people love it, some people
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: think it's cool. It is what it is. I can't
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: say I love it. I love what he did with it.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: But when you start talking about love, you know what
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: You know that's a little.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: That's a little different when you start talking love factor,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and I kind of feel like with the Kendrick Joint,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: it's like, if I had the place it somewhere in
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: this catalog. It's not top three, not for me, but
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's one of the better albums, better
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: constructed albums of the year, and that's you know, he's
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: one of my favorites, but one of my other favorites.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Benny the Butcher put out what three albums, two solos
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: and one with thirty eight Special, and one of those
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I listened to a lot, and the other two I
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: kind of like, but I just don't see a place
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: in my list for them because of everybody that's released.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And it's not necessarily comparing like, oh, well, you got
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Stove Guarded, why not this Benny album? Or you got
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Kendrick and why not this Benny joint is better than that.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: That's not really how I'm doing it based off of
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: everybody's opinion. It's more so by opinion. When I press play,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: what happens? Am I engaged? Do I like the songs?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: If I'm trying to learn the lyrics? Do I know
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: the lyrics already? You know how many times do I
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: just go to it, you know, hopping the whip guy
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: drops somewhere what I want to listen to? Okay, Like
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I said, with the Dog Pound Joint, Common and Pete Rock,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: it was the no brainer. This is new, I've been
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: loving it. Let me hit play, let it rock. And
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: then there are some albums I feel like I'm just
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: putting them on to, like, you know, give give my
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: favorites their streams.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: One thing I'm going to say, and this is another
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: one of my favorites, and I don't think it's going
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: to change unless he happens to drop an incredible album
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: within the next couple of days. Conway the Machine is
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: not even in my list. That's I'm heard of. He's
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: always been on my list because he's one of my
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: favorites and I like a lot of what he does
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: and what he's released this year hasn't been terrible. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: would say, definitely check out every project he's touched, including
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the project he did with Ransom recently. I just don't
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: feel like I listened and it was better than what
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I was, you know, including in my list. So obviously
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: everybody's list is subjective, you know, you like what you like,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you have your favorites, it's going to be a certain
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: level of favoritism. But I feel like this year for
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: my list to kind of be sketchy on some of
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: my favorites being in my list and some of them
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: not even making it because I feel like they were
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: just better overall projects. You know, I gotta keep it
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: one hundred. I gotta keep it folk, you gotta keep
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: it real, like yo, it's just not going to be there.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: But then they are, like, you know, Freeway and Jake
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: One's Stimulus Package too. That seemed like there was a
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: lot of hype when it dropped, but you don't hear
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of people talk about it.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: But the album is great.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: It's a worthy successor to the first Stimulus Package album
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: by those two. So it's things like that where I'm
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: not really being driven by what's popular, because if that
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: was the case, you know, I would have a rock
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Marciana on my list because I want to make sure
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: those heads know like, yeah, I'm in the alliance with you,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: but to me, I may not have him, but maybe
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I have Loop as Samurai on it, which some heads
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: would be like yeah, you know, so you can't really
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: follow the crowd. At least, that's not what we do
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: here on Hip Hop Now podcasts. You just have to
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: usually it is be a hip hop head. You know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you tap into social media and other lists to see
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: how other people are thinking. I do it more so
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: to see if I missed anything, because that's a real thing.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: There could be something incredibly dope from an artist and
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: everybody just haven't discovered it yet because maybe they're new
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: or they're underground.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: And again I reiterate.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I feel like my job with this podcast, being a
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: news podcast, is to put you on to certain albums,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: you know, or give you my perspective.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: You may not like Kendrick's new album. Maybe you watch
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: my review and say.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see where y'all coming from, but I still
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: don't like it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: That's fine.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Or you may say, oh, I didn't catch all of that,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: or you know, oh I didn't think about that. Okay,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: well maybe I'll run it back. That's the whole point.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: It's for the music fans. It's for the lovers of
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: music and this hip hop and there's just so much
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: to choose from now. Full disclosure, I do not have
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: my own album that you can kind of hear in
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the background here best start a vintage the album. Shout
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: out to kill who produced it. I have it out
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: there for your consideration, a best of twenty twenty four.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: But I will not be naming my own album and saying, yo,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: it's crazy, y'all should listen.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Because bl blah blah blah. Of course, I feel my
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: stuff is great and.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Could be a companion next to a Kendrick or a
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: dog Poun or Comedy Pete Rock, But that's for y'all
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: to decide. It's not for me to tell anybody and
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: say it should go in there. So again, my best
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four lists will drop on the twentieth,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: which is a Friday in audio form and video form. Yes,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: like last year, I will have a Santa Claus hat
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: on with the hoodie because that's what it is.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: People kind of liked it last year. Why not do
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it again.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll put like hang some stuff, you know, some
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Christmas stuff around, so y'all I could see Maybe I'll
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: return to the Dungeons of Rat, you know, with the
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: cassette to stuff, but I don't know it'd be COVID.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: That's why I had the hoodie. But before we get
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: to twentieth and that drops, and I'll probably record that
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: in advance and make it available in events so people
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: can you know, hit the notification bell to be notified when.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: The Coast live.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: But Friday the thirteenth, next week, December thirteenth. That Friday
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: is a special episode where I will be ranking ice
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Cube Ballance. I don't know how I didn't do this before.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: The rankings do well on the channel, but they're not
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: gang busters or nothing like that.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: They're fun to do.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I give the categories, names and phrases that are attached
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: to ice Cube specifically, I've done other people like Common
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and ghost Face and Snoop. More recently, I did a
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: ranking of Daylight Soul's album so you can check that
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: out on.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: The channel hip Hop Pod.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: But the ice Cube ranking was interesting because obviously his
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: first four albums, I was on them when they dropped,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: so I know them intimately. But then when he became
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: West Side Connection, which I don't include that in the
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: rankings because I try to keep it solo. But it
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: is a great album. But you know he was this
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: in New York. I was like, yo, man, I'm a
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: big fan. He ain't gonna be this in my own.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I ain't buying it, you know what I'm saying. But
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: it wasn't even just that. It's when he became the Yay.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: He became that that ice Cube with the carnival hat
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: on the cover and the staff of Knowledge or whatever
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: he had in his hand. I checked out. I was like,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: oh the ice Cube. I life is gone. So I
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: went back and I listened to ice Cube's entire catalog,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: including his newest album, Man Damn, and I ranked them.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: And what's interesting about these rankings is not really the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: fun of going back and listening to all these albums
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: and putting them in order, you know, you think they are,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: and giving your opinion and a couple of jokes here
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: and there.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: But you realized, like I did.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: With The Daylight Joint, that certain albums you thought were
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: bad weren't that bad.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: You just didn't hear the entire album. Like, for example,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Warree Piece Value two.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I realized I never heard that album because once he
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: got to the don Mega Yay Yay, Yeah, I was like, oh,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I'm out. So there's different situations that arise when you're ranking.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: It's just a fun thing to do, and you know,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of people like to watch stuff. I watch
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: stuff like that on YouTube all the time. But please know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: all of this content will be available obviously in video
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: form on YouTube at Hip Hop Pive, but also on
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: audio form except for the ice Cube ranking rankings. I
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: don't put an audio form only because you're really only
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: getting seventy five percent of what's good about those shows,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: because visually it's just better to see the albums and
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: see the categories and stuff like that, you know, at
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: least that's what I assume.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: But maybe I'll have something else, you.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Know, on the side for people who are listening instead
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: of watching, and you can listen to podcasts on YouTube.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: But also please know, and you can see it right there,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: were on the road to one thousand subscribers right here
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: on YouTube. Right now, we are probably at seven hundred
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: and sixty something, so.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: We almost there, you know.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: We hit that eight hundred and it's literally only two
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: hundred to go. I appreciate everybody that pulled up hit
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: that subscribe button, whether you were here because you like
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: the shorts that I post on YouTube, right which aren't
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: all this kind of stuff, or you just like content
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: like this, And I'll do more live streams in the future.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: I just was trying to find a way to do
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: them when they had purpose.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: You know, I get it. Sometimes you can just pull
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: up people will watch you like this, like he drinking
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: water on the stream I'm watching. I don't do I
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: can't watch people do that.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: But some people just want to hang out with you know,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: you're dead live hit the chat, you know, things like that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Box. But I'm going to
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: do more live streams and video wise. I have some
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: other things down the line. I don't know if I'm
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: gonna do a lot of interviews because I don't do interviews.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: And it's a slippery slope once you start doing interviews,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: because I already get emails from all kinds of people
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: from all walks of life. You know, Hey, you know
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I'm a classical artist, but I did this hip hop thing.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Can I get an interview?
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: No?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Man, No, who want to hear from you? Jack? Like, oh,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: So I didn't do many interviews, but I did a
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: great interview recently with Marcus J. Moore, who wrote the
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: daylight soul book High in Rising, which became controversial and
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: dominated social medialy my feed until Kendrick.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Dropt and everybody forgot about it.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: But I think it's a very insightful interview that will
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: give you a perspective on the debate of whether it
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: should be supported or not, which is everybody's prerogative. But
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: that's the only interview officially that I've ever done for
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: this podcast, and I kind of feel like there are
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: more that can come. There's some people who ask for
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: interviews where I can see an angle where I could
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: do it, but I don't know if the audience will
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: be interested enough. So we'll see. And also look sidebar.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Also like I'm a just level with y'all. Since it's
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: a live stream, I got a request for interview with
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Spoony Gen. Now some of y'all don't even know who
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: that is, but whether you're a kid like.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Me and eighties or even older, you know who Spoony
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: G is.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: He's a pioneer in this game, and some consider him alleged,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: you know, formerly a part of Treacherous Three.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: He had his own.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Singles and hits at the time, like Godfather and stuff
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: like that, and somebody reached out to me and it
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: was Hood.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: You know, I know Hood because I come from the hood.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: It's not really psyched hood, but I know what I'm
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: reading when I'm like, hey, that's not proud for grammar.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: But regardless, I was like, I could probably do that interview,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: but I don't necessarily do interviews. And two, my biggest
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: fear is the fact that I'm not in a studium
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: where I can bring a guest in with the mic,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: a professional mic, a professional environment, and capture the conversation
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: in the highest of quality feel what I'm saying. So
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I would have to rely on whatever equipment Spoony g
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: has And I'm not trying to judge, and it may
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: still happen. But the email was like, Spoony just came home.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Some of y'all only on the internet. Y'all don't know
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: what that means, or you know, because of the internet,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: you know, I came home, Mean brother was locked up.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Okay. I don't know if his internet is there.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he has to use a phone,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: if it's going to be the highest quality video and audio.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he can have it set up
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: where it's stationary as opposed to you know, like like this,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: like how some people do interviews, Like yeah, man, you
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying hip hop is crazy back then, Hey, Yo,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: what up?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Many?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I don't want that because then they'll ask me yeah,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: but then they'll ask me, yo, when is it dropping?
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I'll say, never wear Refirs nineteen, never hate because it's
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: a terrible interview because you can run your audio. So
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: those are the things I think about and why I
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: haven't done more interviews. I can't confirm. I can't. I
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: don't even know the words secure, the or whatever the
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: word may be, because I'm blinking right now. I can't
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: guarantee that their audio and video will be good enough.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Don't even have to be excellent, just good enough for
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: people to hear and see them.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: So again, he's not the only one. But at the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: end of the day, I just.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: I want to be careful and I want to be
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: confident that any interviews I provide will be good on
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: the audio side and on the video side. So we'll see.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I'm holding onto the email. We'll see what the yins
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: would you say? Plus Missus Smith not letting just anyone
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: in her house. Forget Missus Smith, I'm not letting anyone
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: in my house. I don't even imagine I'm gonna just
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: leave it alone.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: But there you have it. You know, best of twenty
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: twenty four is loaded.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I've been listening to some of the albums I have
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: on my list, just trying to confirm this.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I don't have Freddy Gibbs.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Here, Buddy, probably gonna get in there because this album
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: is dope, which means somebody got it dump and it's.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Struggling in that category.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: But nevertheless, you could follow me on everything except Twitter
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: because I'm not on it anymore. At Vegas World, I
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: n see as you see whereas it right here, boom everything.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: You can literally type that into TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, I
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: think Facebook. I have a Hip Hop Now podcast page,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: and Blue Sky, which is really new. I've been on
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: it for a little while, but it's what I use.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: It's my Twitter alternative in this instance. But definitely hit
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: me up, let me know what you're thinking about, and
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: before I go, let me know about an album you
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: think I should consider in my Best of the Year.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I will. I've listened to a lot.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: If you look at my Instagram, I post everything I
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: listened to this year, regardless if I loved it, hated it,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: or whatever, because I was listening to it. So I
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: put like now playing. If there's something you think, like, yo,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: did you check out this or did.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: You check out that? Let me know I ain't understand everything.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Today I was listening to an album that young Chris
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: had that I was like, Yo, this is dope. I
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: had no idea this was out. So you can leave
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: that in a comments section below. Thanks for everybody that
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: checked out the stream. Obviously, this will be available on
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: the channel, you know for people to check out, and
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I respond to comments, but most importantly subscribe, hit that
• 40:26
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• 40:29
  Speaker 2: kind of content.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: So my Twitch followers and people like you on Twitch.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I don't usually do this on Twitch, but.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I do a lot of gaming. I do only game
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: on Twitch. So if you looking like, oh you are,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: you'd be playing games. I don't necessarily play with the
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: camera on because really, this is all you would see.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Like.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: I don't talk a lot, you know, even if I'm
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: playing Fall of Duty multiplayer, I might be like, oh
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: think that mother, Like I might say that, but I
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: don't necessarily go live there unless you want me to.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh So until next time, y'all. I'm
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: not a critic. I'm a thing, peace,