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Wayne Rappin' Nonsense? · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Speaker 1: Coming up. On this week's episode of Hip Hop Now podcast,
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Speaker 1: l Russell says that Lil Wayne lacks substance in its music.
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Speaker 1: Rock Nation begins a rollout for the thirtieth anniversary of
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Speaker 1: Jay Z's debut album Reasonable Doubt and my review of
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Speaker 1: the brand new Baby King album Casino. We're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: Let's get right into the business stuff. Larussell says that
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Speaker 1: Lil Wayne Blacks substance in his music. Now, you may
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Speaker 1: be saying one or two things, the hell is Larussell, Well,
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Speaker 1: Larussell is a formerly independent rapper for the most part
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Speaker 1: who's pretty popular, especially online he could rap. I'm like
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Speaker 1: so so with his albums because sometimes I like when
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Speaker 1: he does a certain thing with the bars. Sometimes I
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Speaker 1: feel like his freestyles are better than his actual songs,
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Speaker 1: and that's a problem in hip hop, like yo man,
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Speaker 1: and not that songs are bad, but they just don't
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Speaker 1: really do it for me like that to become a
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Speaker 1: big fan. But I'm always checking because he can rap,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and that's who he is,
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Speaker 1: right And he recently had a campaign where he was
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Speaker 1: trying to sell so many copies of his new either
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Speaker 1: mixtape or album or whatever, and he had a goal
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Speaker 1: and all that online campaign, you know. So he had
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Speaker 1: a lot of tension and he was brought in for
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Speaker 1: interview on a particular podcast where they were talking about
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Speaker 1: a previous guest who didn't like Lil Wayne period and
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Speaker 1: it was mainly because he felt like Lil Wayne never
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Speaker 1: really has anything to say. And the Russell kind of
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Speaker 1: doubled down on that, basically saying that I'm not quoting,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of paraphrasing, but basically saying, you know, Wayne
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Speaker 1: was his guy coming up, and he feels like now
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Speaker 1: that he gets older and he goes back to the music,
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Speaker 1: including some of the music Wayne drops now and feels
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Speaker 1: like he never really added anything of substance with all
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Speaker 1: these albums and mixtapes and verses and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: And I think they named like one song that they
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Speaker 1: can least remember where he did talk about something regarding
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Speaker 1: just you know, just life, and it became a big
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Speaker 1: thing online, right, because you know, they love arguing on
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Speaker 1: social media, and you know, some people were coming for
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Speaker 1: the Russell because they feel like, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: like Wayne, is they God the way some people feel
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Speaker 1: like about Tupac or Big or maybe even Eminem Right,
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Speaker 1: they feel that way about Lil Wayne, like jay Z Right,
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Speaker 1: they feel away like he was a generation defining rapper
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Speaker 1: s MC that cannot be denied. There are a lot
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Speaker 1: of there's a generation of kids right that literally drew
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Speaker 1: locks and dressed like Lil Wayne, Right, and it is
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Speaker 1: you just can't deny it. Now, how do I feel
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Speaker 1: about it? I feel conflicted a little bit because Lo
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Speaker 1: Russell's not lying, right. The majority of Wayne's music is
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Speaker 1: just you know, rapping randomly, right, Oh look, let me
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Speaker 1: just turn off the notifications because it's really driving me crazy.
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Speaker 1: Rapping kind of randomly right in his lyrics and lyrics
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Speaker 1: about something important. It's not that they're nonexistent, it's just
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Speaker 1: that they're drowned out by all of the repetitive lyrics
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Speaker 1: and music he's released over time. Now, that sounds very negative,
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Speaker 1: but guess what it's not, because this is hip hop,
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Speaker 1: and hip hop has never been one thing right. So
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Speaker 1: he may have this revelation that, oh, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: out now and I'm you know, I'm of age and
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Speaker 1: I and I look back at the music I loved
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Speaker 1: to death and swore by and realized that they weren't
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Speaker 1: really saying anything. While l Russell, that's your prerogative. Every
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Speaker 1: MC who decided to start writing raps started out basically rapping,
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Speaker 1: like Lil Wayne. You know what I'm saying. I don't
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Speaker 1: mean style, I just mean you know, you're just rapping.
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Speaker 1: You're rapping about everything in a verse, right. Some guys
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Speaker 1: stayed in that lane. Other guys became you know, conscious
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Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. Wayne's style of rap is
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Speaker 1: absolutely accepted in hip hop because it's the origins of
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Speaker 1: hip hop right. Some of the first MC's it was
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Speaker 1: all about cold rocking the party and the rhythm and
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Speaker 1: flow and you know what I'm saying, So the expectations
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Speaker 1: weren't there for him to say something deep about the
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Speaker 1: Black Panther Party. That just wasn't your expectations. But also
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Speaker 1: I get what the Russell's saying, because he's not lying
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Speaker 1: if he felt if he put Wayne on a pedestal
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Speaker 1: and thought he was all those things, but now that
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Speaker 1: he's an adult, he realizes he's only these things in
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Speaker 1: hip hop. This is what he talks about. He could
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Speaker 1: be disappointed, but to me, that's no knock on Lil Wayne,
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Speaker 1: because some of it's true. But what he was great
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Speaker 1: at he was great for a reason. Like if people
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Speaker 1: don't like you and they want like, man, why he
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Speaker 1: ain't talking about the movement, then they just won't buy
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Speaker 1: your stuff, they wouldn't listen to you, they wouldn't go
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Speaker 1: to your shows, none of that, because all of it
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Speaker 1: is acceptable in hip hop, and unfortunately with a lot
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Speaker 1: of newer generations and not everybody, they tend to separate things. Now.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about that in the Baby King review
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Speaker 1: a little bit later, but they tend to separate certain things.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I heard one content creator on YouTube
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Speaker 1: when you know, shout out to him when I was
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Speaker 1: watching his video and he was he was sort of like,
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Speaker 1: you know, some people listen for your brand, and I
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Speaker 1: kept thinking, how do you do that? How do you
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Speaker 1: listen to a brand? In hip hop? Right now? Is
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Speaker 1: that everything you say that defines you and that's your brand?
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Speaker 1: But then this is hip hop. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: brands exactly like that. Who just rhyme about a bunch
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Speaker 1: of stuff like fabulous is one of those guys. But
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Speaker 1: you're not there for him to be common right, somebody
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Speaker 1: like that. You're not there for him to be when
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Speaker 1: Kendrick likes to talk about conscious stuff or Jacole or whoever, right,
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Speaker 1: you're there because you like Wayne's voice, you like his flow,
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Speaker 1: you like his beat selection, his hooks are catchy to you,
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Speaker 1: and that's what you like about him, not his brand.
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Speaker 1: And maybe you call that his brand, but it just
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Speaker 1: sounds stupid. Man Like in the actual business world, when
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Speaker 1: we talk about brand, we talk about the raptics, okay,
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Speaker 1: But nevertheless, I don't disagree with l Russell, but I
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Speaker 1: sort of I do. In regards to him feeling like
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Speaker 1: he should have other expectations for someone like Lil Wayne.
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Speaker 1: Lul Wayne was attractive to you as an MC because
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Speaker 1: of what he offered, so he can you can't now
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Speaker 1: be like, yo, he's she kind of ugly. Now now
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Speaker 1: you liked her and she's the same. So what do
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Speaker 1: y'all think? Your comments in a comments section below. I
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Speaker 1: got a friend who I was like. I told y'all, like,
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Speaker 1: we know he not swagger down, pat call this Patricia.
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Speaker 1: We know man, we know it's like it's fun. Okay,
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Speaker 1: relax next same. So in June, jay Z Rock Nation
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Speaker 1: hip Hop, those who are outside will be celebrating the
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Speaker 1: thirtieth anniversary of Reasonable Doubt. I hear on this episode
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Speaker 1: on this podcast channel have an episode along with a
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Speaker 1: few other episodes scheduled to celebrate the year in nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety six, and Reasonable Doubt is one of the albums
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Speaker 1: on the schedule, And you want to stay tuned and
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Speaker 1: locked into this channel, so subscribed for that episode because
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Speaker 1: trust me, it's going to be authentic Because me and
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Speaker 1: my guests were outside back then out at HBCU seeing
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Speaker 1: jay Z perform a number of times. Wave Forget billion
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Speaker 1: are before he was a millionaire, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Like that Lexus that was in the video was also
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Speaker 1: the car they got in to leave, and there was
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Speaker 1: no other like it. It's it's we have some stories
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Speaker 1: for y'all as well as review on the album at
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Speaker 1: the time but recently just now and if you're from
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Speaker 1: the future, come on, man with you and already you
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Speaker 1: already know what happened. Okay, you just got to this
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Speaker 1: video late. Okay, get your ass out there. But rock
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Speaker 1: Nation released ah and the day today is February twentieth,
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Speaker 1: released or re released, but for the first time, as
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Speaker 1: they say, and I didn't know if it was. But
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Speaker 1: jay Z's lead single off of Reasonable Doubt, which was
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Speaker 1: Dead President's has the same cover from back in the
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Speaker 1: day with Jay in the car and like some early
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Speaker 1: photoshop or whatever. And I believe it has both Dead
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Speaker 1: Presidents on it. See that's that's the jewel, right because
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Speaker 1: there was a video version, but around the time the
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Speaker 1: single was out, there was a whole other version with
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Speaker 1: other verses that was out, which I believe was like
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Speaker 1: Dead President's won, you know what I mean. So, and
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Speaker 1: it has the instrumental so it's literally the single that
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Speaker 1: dropped back in the day, but now available on digital
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Speaker 1: streaming platforms. So what do I think about that. I
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Speaker 1: don't care. I don't care. I'm a big fan of
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Speaker 1: that album. In A reason why I say I don't
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Speaker 1: care is because every time there's a big digital release,
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Speaker 1: like when people was like, come on, man, why Daylight
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Speaker 1: not on the streaming services, I was like, I got
17:09
Speaker 1: all of them right here. You know why, because I've
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Speaker 1: been at them. I had them on CD and ripped
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Speaker 1: it like in the early two thousands, and then it
17:20
Speaker 1: stayed in my iTunes forever, and then you know, back
17:23
Speaker 1: in the naps to days, you know, back in the
17:27
Speaker 1: five finger discount digitally days, you know, I acquired some
17:34
Speaker 1: other albums and hard to find records and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: So in a lot of ways, I don't have the instrumental,
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Speaker 1: so that would be cool, but I doubt I'll listen
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Speaker 1: to it. But I have both versions of Dead Presidence.
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Speaker 1: So I think the best part about this is that
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Speaker 1: maybe someone who's a jay Z fan but never really
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Speaker 1: went back or even liked reasonable doubt. Maybe the rollout
18:06
Speaker 1: people talking about the album, like right here on Hip
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Speaker 1: Hop Now podcast, we'll give them better contexts about who
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Speaker 1: jay Z was at the time the singles. He wasn't
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Speaker 1: on Deaf Jam yet, right, and he wasn't the biggest
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Speaker 1: artist to drop that summer, Like, do not let people
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Speaker 1: lie to you. It was so much that happened in
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Speaker 1: ninety six. Trust me, if you had jay z album,
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Speaker 1: you are a true head who already knew he was
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Speaker 1: dope and that the album was dope. It was something
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Speaker 1: that caught on after a while. Reasonable Doubt caught on
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Speaker 1: after a while, But nah, there were bigger acts, one
18:52
Speaker 1: in particular being the fact that or two being the
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Speaker 1: fact that Tupac was out outside and dropping you know,
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Speaker 1: two albums in ninety six, and then it was nas
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Speaker 1: and Biggie was still around even though his album wouldn't
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Speaker 1: come out to the next year, He's still around doing
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Speaker 1: you know, Junior Mafia and all kinds of stuff. So again,
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Speaker 1: there'll be an episode where we talk in depth about
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Speaker 1: reasonable Doubt. But I think it's cool that rock Nation
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Speaker 1: decided to do this kind of rollout, and I hope
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Speaker 1: they I hope they like continue it because I don't
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Speaker 1: know if everything is on social media, but that single
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Speaker 1: is not social media on DSPs, but that that single
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Speaker 1: was was dope, and it was kind of like everybody's
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Speaker 1: real introduction into this new jay Z who didn't wrap
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Speaker 1: like the fool snakers, right like he got rid of
19:52
Speaker 1: the figure that back of all that. Yeah, get out
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Speaker 1: of here. You know what I'm saying. We've grown now.
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Speaker 1: It's nineteen ninety six. But and it's one single in particular,
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Speaker 1: I wonder if it's already on digital platforms, but Dead
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Speaker 1: President's single available the Dope part Is is also available
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Speaker 1: on vinyl, cassette and CD. So if you're a collector
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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna lie, I might I might pick
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Speaker 1: it up on vinyl because that would be dope. I
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Speaker 1: don't own any singles on vinyl because I try to
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Speaker 1: keep it to a minimum into albums, but I might
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Speaker 1: not mind having that on vinyl. But I'd rather see
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Speaker 1: what they do with the anniversary of the album reasonable doubt,
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Speaker 1: because then that's probably where I would spend my vinyl money.
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Speaker 1: So let me know what you think. You ever heard
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Speaker 1: both the versions of Dead Presidents? What did you think
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Speaker 1: were you on to jay Z back then in ninety six?
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Speaker 1: So did it take a little while for you to
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Speaker 1: hear the album, hear the singles and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: So leave your comments in the comments section below on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: And lastly, so y'all know how I do when it
21:13
Speaker 1: comes to album reviews. I give these albums three listens.
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Speaker 1: One is to just hear what's there. Another listen is
21:22
Speaker 1: to like really listen deep to the lyrics and you know,
21:27
Speaker 1: the concept, especially if it's an album that has a concept.
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Speaker 1: And the third listen is just to confirm my thoughts.
21:35
Speaker 1: And this is not always the case, but generally the
21:39
Speaker 1: case when it's a new release. It's in the gym
21:43
Speaker 1: with me while I'm you know what I'm saying, whatever
21:45
Speaker 1: I'm doing, it's in the headphones. I'm listening intently. So
21:49
Speaker 1: I can bring a review to you now for those
21:53
Speaker 1: who need a quick review, here you go. So the
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Speaker 1: name of the album that's released, Casino is the sophomore
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Speaker 1: album from Baby King, who debuted I believe was about
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Speaker 1: five years ago, and I believe he also won a
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Speaker 1: Grammy for that album. But this album, Casino, is eleven tracks,
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Speaker 1: thirty seven minutes. He's on PG Lane, which is Kendrick's label.
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Speaker 1: He's also Kendrick's relative. If you didn't know that cousin,
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Speaker 1: I believe, and this album's good. This ALM's good. Now
22:37
Speaker 1: let me tell you why. For me, it's good. And
22:44
Speaker 1: I don't like to compare albums, but in this instance,
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Speaker 1: I have to. Right, Baby King dropped again like five
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Speaker 1: years ago, which is crazy because it doesn't seem like
22:56
Speaker 1: it's been five years. Maybe it's a little last that
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Speaker 1: just seems far away, but whatever, it was a while
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Speaker 1: ago and maybe four something like that. And I remember
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Speaker 1: when I heard the single for Family Ties, and I knew,
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Speaker 1: like before I even well before I even heard it,
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Speaker 1: I knew this was Kendrick's little cousin. So when I
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Speaker 1: press play, you know, I'm interested to hear what he
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Speaker 1: has to say because I'm a big Kendrick fan. So
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, well, let me see what Baby King got.
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Speaker 1: And he was cool, and the music was typical for
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Speaker 1: the time, because that's kind of what a certain generation
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Speaker 1: expects from you. They need a slap, right, not old
23:41
Speaker 1: people listening, not an actual slap. They just say that
23:44
Speaker 1: the song slaps. They like it a lot, that's what
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Speaker 1: it means. So I was like, I like this song,
23:50
Speaker 1: but what I don't like is I it's hard for
23:54
Speaker 1: me to like a new rapper who sounds like the
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Speaker 1: rapper that either related to or from the same neighborhood
24:05
Speaker 1: or whatever, because then I start to feel like, well,
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Speaker 1: if I already like them and I'm invested in them,
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Speaker 1: what makes you any different? Like why would I like you?
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Speaker 1: And I just wasn't hearing enough. And I know for
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Speaker 1: a younger generation, it's easy, right, because when Kendrick dropped,
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Speaker 1: there was a generation that was around his age, if
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Speaker 1: not younger, that this was their new guy, right, this
24:35
Speaker 1: was a guy who was out while they're coming up. Right,
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Speaker 1: Like a lot of old heads expect you to like
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Speaker 1: have the same level of admiration for older artists because
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Speaker 1: of their history. And that's true because I'm a big
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Speaker 1: like earth Wind and Fire fan dog, I'm not that old.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't outside In some cases, I wasn't even born
24:58
Speaker 1: when they were at their height. Right, Maybe I'm exaggerating,
25:02
Speaker 1: but I wasn't listening to No earth Wind I Fire
25:05
Speaker 1: as an infant, okay or toddler. But when it came
25:11
Speaker 1: time for my error, which probably is like the nineties,
25:17
Speaker 1: I was high on everybody who was new because it
25:21
Speaker 1: was my time. You know, I was graduating from high school.
25:23
Speaker 1: I was going to college, you know, I was starting
25:26
Speaker 1: a new job, so I was into it. So the
25:29
Speaker 1: same could be said for Baby King. Right this generation
25:33
Speaker 1: who may look at Kendrick as old school, but they'll
25:38
Speaker 1: take a new version in Baby King. So that was
25:41
Speaker 1: kind of my thing. And I think when I went,
25:44
Speaker 1: because I heard all these people talking online about how
25:48
Speaker 1: dope he was and I saw he wanted to grab
25:50
Speaker 1: me and all that, I was like, man, maybe I
25:52
Speaker 1: need to give him a second listen, And I just
25:56
Speaker 1: it just didn't do anything for me because I was
25:58
Speaker 1: just like, well, if he does it sound like Kendrick,
26:01
Speaker 1: or maybe Kendrick started it sounded like him, I mean
26:04
Speaker 1: that happens, Okay, then he sounds like another rapper who
26:10
Speaker 1: does the same type of flow over the same type
26:13
Speaker 1: of beat. So I just didn't know who Baby King was.
26:18
Speaker 1: And for me as an old head and hip hop,
26:21
Speaker 1: especially on your debut, that was the opportunity to get
26:24
Speaker 1: to know you. Wow, Casino is that album the Rollout?
26:33
Speaker 1: And for those who may be interested but they like
26:36
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, the rollout he had and
26:41
Speaker 1: I believe it was like three videos sort of is
26:44
Speaker 1: a perfect sort of is a perfect precursor to listening
26:50
Speaker 1: to the album. And some might say, well, I gotta
26:52
Speaker 1: watch a video to enjoy the album, because the album
26:57
Speaker 1: is much deeper than a bunch of okay, okay, old person,
27:03
Speaker 1: you're keeping up. It's not a bunch of people getting slapped, okay,
27:07
Speaker 1: a bunch of dope songs or hot songs or well
27:10
Speaker 1: what like what old people saying? I don't know whatever.
27:15
Speaker 1: But those videos served as like mini docs promoting their album,
27:21
Speaker 1: watching him work on the album, but most importantly like
27:26
Speaker 1: vintage footage from his mother and baby King like small King,
27:33
Speaker 1: like baby Baby, and the way the way the mini
27:38
Speaker 1: docks were cut was so interesting that prior to this
27:44
Speaker 1: album dropping, I was like, they better not drop the
27:48
Speaker 1: ball with this album. And I'm not talking about just
27:51
Speaker 1: hot songs, but if you're gonna show us all of that,
27:56
Speaker 1: it better be tied to what you're rapping about, at
27:59
Speaker 1: least in a large part. And it absolutely is. So again,
28:05
Speaker 1: I think it's a dope album. Check it out. If
28:09
Speaker 1: you're even a little bit skeptical, watch those documentaries like
28:13
Speaker 1: they're perfect. They're perfect for the album, right. But the
28:18
Speaker 1: theme of Casino, you know, his family moved to Las Vegas,
28:23
Speaker 1: so he grew up in Las Vegas. For the most part.
28:26
Speaker 1: Features on this album include Kendrick Lamar of course two
28:30
Speaker 1: shorts on here. But like I said, the album is
28:35
Speaker 1: thirty seven minutes and y'all know how I feel perfect, Like,
28:40
Speaker 1: don't go beyond an hour because you might lose me. Now.
28:45
Speaker 1: J Cole did a double album, so that was cool.
28:47
Speaker 1: But guess what, I haven't listened to it in a
28:50
Speaker 1: minute because I know the commitment and I like that album.
28:55
Speaker 1: But what I found for myself listening to this album was,
29:01
Speaker 1: especially on the second listen, is the song that I
29:06
Speaker 1: was like, I know that's going to be a skip
29:08
Speaker 1: for me, wasn't. And then there was another song and
29:13
Speaker 1: somebody pointed this out online because they was like, and
29:16
Speaker 1: it's called Dramatic Girl. The well, the previous song I
29:21
Speaker 1: was talking about was called Circus Circus Freestyle, which now
29:25
Speaker 1: I kind of like because I listened to his lyrics
29:28
Speaker 1: more and I'm like, oh, he's saying a lot and
29:29
Speaker 1: then like personal stuff. It doesn't sound like it on
29:34
Speaker 1: the surface because of the beat and how he's rapping
29:37
Speaker 1: until you listen to the bars, right, That's why we're
29:42
Speaker 1: here right to listen to the rapper rap and then
29:45
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, okay, and then it's fine. But the
29:50
Speaker 1: other song that someone online was like, yeah, this one
29:54
Speaker 1: of them TikTok joints you know you gotta do for
29:57
Speaker 1: the business of making records, and it's called Dramatic Girl,
30:02
Speaker 1: And honestly, I didn't think about it like that, And
30:06
Speaker 1: on the first listen, I was like, wow, like he
30:09
Speaker 1: going this far, But then then I kind of started
30:14
Speaker 1: to like it. And I'm gonna make a quick point
30:19
Speaker 1: about what this person on social media said about Dramatic
30:24
Speaker 1: Girl being like a TikTok record. He's not lying, Like
30:28
Speaker 1: I could hear it, and I could see it that
30:31
Speaker 1: there'll be plenty of videos made for something like this.
30:36
Speaker 1: TikTok is the new radio. I know, songs get played
30:41
Speaker 1: on the radio like they used to, and we call
30:44
Speaker 1: them radio records, but having a big radio record is
30:50
Speaker 1: not the same as having a big TikTok record. It's
30:55
Speaker 1: not so I get it, but it's interesting that it's
31:00
Speaker 1: happens in this way now with hip hop, and there's
31:03
Speaker 1: a lot of rappers they'll never make a TikTok song,
31:06
Speaker 1: but sometimes you don't have to make something specifically for it,
31:11
Speaker 1: but this one dramatic girl. Yeah, I could see that easy.
31:16
Speaker 1: But when I was listening to the album, starting off
31:19
Speaker 1: with the opening track No Security, I'm not gonna lie like,
31:25
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I don't think I've ever heard
31:28
Speaker 1: his voice like that, like, you know, like his actual voice,
31:32
Speaker 1: not him projecting and kind of having that Kendrick you know,
31:36
Speaker 1: like like a puberty rapping voice. You know what I'm saying,
31:40
Speaker 1: like your voice kind of cracking situation. Because that was
31:44
Speaker 1: kind of where I was like, Kendrick baby came, I
31:46
Speaker 1: don't know who's Then Casino comes on. Now this is
31:51
Speaker 1: one of those records where he does rap like that.
31:56
Speaker 1: But that beat this crazy, okay because I think I
32:00
Speaker 1: don't know you can leave it in a comment section,
32:02
Speaker 1: but I think they flicked some sounds from slot machine
32:08
Speaker 1: in the casino. Now, they have a part that plays
32:11
Speaker 1: that's clearly a slot machine, but I'm talking about the
32:14
Speaker 1: beat sounds like a sound you would hear in that
32:18
Speaker 1: slot machine. And the beat is crazy because I had
32:22
Speaker 1: the earbuds in with like the extra base and I
32:26
Speaker 1: was doing crunches and I was like, I don't know
32:29
Speaker 1: if I'm paying attention to the lyrics, but this record
32:32
Speaker 1: is motivating a brother. Okay. Then there was Birds and
32:37
Speaker 1: the Bees and I thought that was a clever record,
32:39
Speaker 1: that was dope. Good flirts with Kendrick and Momo Boyd.
32:44
Speaker 1: I like that record. I like what they're both saying.
32:48
Speaker 1: I really like the beat House. Money is Dope. Another
32:52
Speaker 1: record that I like a lot. I am not a lyricist.
32:57
Speaker 1: The song with too Short is who. Also, I'm not
33:01
Speaker 1: mad at it. Highway ninety five Part two also, and
33:06
Speaker 1: I said what I thought about Circus Circus Freestyle and
33:09
Speaker 1: Dramatic Girl. But the last track No Blame. Throughout the album,
33:17
Speaker 1: those little mini docs paid off throughout the album based
33:20
Speaker 1: off things he was saying, I felt like I knew
33:22
Speaker 1: Baby King now, like I knew who he like, I
33:25
Speaker 1: know him now. And he rapped about a lot of
33:28
Speaker 1: that stuff and explained a lot of what you were
33:32
Speaker 1: watching in the documentary without being you know, literal literal
33:37
Speaker 1: and his explanation but not saying doc one has this
33:41
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But No Blame told you so much
33:45
Speaker 1: more about his relationship with his family, his mother, his grandmother,
33:51
Speaker 1: his mother and grandmother's relationship. It's a dope record. It's
33:56
Speaker 1: very deep. This album is what historically in hip hop
34:03
Speaker 1: rappers would release first. This is his good Kid Mad City.
34:10
Speaker 1: Now I'll tell you this, Do not think about Good Kid,
34:15
Speaker 1: Mad City and say oh part two, let me dive in. No,
34:19
Speaker 1: him and Kendrick are two very different rappers, and on
34:23
Speaker 1: this album sometimes I was like, is that baby King?
34:27
Speaker 1: Like he was unrecognizable because when he used his voice,
34:31
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, that's O his real voice sound.
34:33
Speaker 1: And then he used that puberty flow. That's what I'm
34:36
Speaker 1: gonna call it, and I was like, okay, yeah, I
34:38
Speaker 1: know he raps like that. But then there are other
34:40
Speaker 1: times where he's singing and taking different you know, like
34:46
Speaker 1: straddling the lines between singing and rapping and as an
34:51
Speaker 1: MC as a rapper, right, And I know I said singing,
34:55
Speaker 1: but he's rapping on the most of the album, like
34:58
Speaker 1: ninety eight point nine Present. You have to be into variety.
35:05
Speaker 1: You have to be you can't hear the first track
35:09
Speaker 1: on here or the last track and say I want
35:12
Speaker 1: more of that now, I feel like you, yeah, I
35:15
Speaker 1: want more of that also flow wise, But I do
35:19
Speaker 1: understand that what made him popular basically was the fact
35:26
Speaker 1: that he can do other stuff with his voice, with
35:30
Speaker 1: his flows, and I don't think he's as nice witted
35:37
Speaker 1: with like on some straight up rapping, because I didn't
35:40
Speaker 1: really hear anything like that. But that's not what this
35:42
Speaker 1: album is. This album is more about him telling his story.
35:46
Speaker 1: And there's a quote from an interview with him, and
35:49
Speaker 1: this is the last thing I'm gonna say where he
35:53
Speaker 1: said the things he's talking about in this album about
35:57
Speaker 1: his family and his personal life, things he was embarrassed
36:01
Speaker 1: to talk about. So he was never gonna put it
36:05
Speaker 1: in a song. You know, you might talk to your
36:06
Speaker 1: family and things like that, but he was never gonna
36:09
Speaker 1: put his feelings about this in a song in an
36:13
Speaker 1: album because he was embarrassed by it. But then he
36:18
Speaker 1: came you know, he probably talked to people, maybe got
36:22
Speaker 1: some therapy also, and he found a spot within himself
36:27
Speaker 1: where he was comfortable enough to talk about it. And
36:32
Speaker 1: he just made me a fan, you know, absorbing all
36:36
Speaker 1: of that. So who knows. I'm not expecting him to
36:41
Speaker 1: do this every album, but this particular album, Casino is
36:45
Speaker 1: a dope album, a solid album, maybe one of the
36:49
Speaker 1: best of the year. But we'll see by the end
36:51
Speaker 1: of the Year where it lands. What do you think
36:54
Speaker 1: about Baby Kem's brand new album Casino. Are you a
36:59
Speaker 1: fan of Baby you know what I'm saying. Did you
37:01
Speaker 1: like the first album? Do you not care? Whatever? You
37:05
Speaker 1: whatever your review of him and this album, leave it
37:10
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