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Hip-Hop Karen · 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: my thoughts on Drake Sewing over, Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us,
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  Speaker 1: hip Hop dx's ten blog era mixtapes that deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be released on streaming services, and hip hop Goldenage dot
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  Speaker 1: Com does their best of twenty twenty four list. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go over it because you know I go over
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  Speaker 1: everybody else and so why not, y'all?
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  Speaker 2: So let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to jip Hop Now, Pop fat if you from
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  Speaker 3: the future, you know what you do show as out
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  Speaker 3: of so disrespect the leg. Let me hip hop can
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  Speaker 3: say this today.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get right into the business whatever, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Right. We hit five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Now, where's somewhere around seven hundred down seven oh two
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  Speaker 1: something like that, whatever it may be, something, well put
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  Speaker 1: it this way. I don't know if it's seven o
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  Speaker 1: when we get to one thousand, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: people who have been listening on audio, have no desire
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bread and butter, that's the foundation of the show.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of content on the channel, recently, as some of
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  Speaker 1: you who follow Channel No, I've been doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you know, special episodes and just yesterday. If you're
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  Speaker 1: from the future, you know it happened a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: But get your ass out of here. You already know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say. I did a live stream talking
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  Speaker 1: about the process for myself when it comes to best
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four list or best of the year
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  Speaker 1: list in general. On here, I typically talk about my
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  Speaker 1: process for reviewing an album, which is the three listens, right,
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  Speaker 1: but I felt the need to kind of expand upon
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit more to let people know that
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  Speaker 1: as we start to gear up towards the end of
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  Speaker 1: the year, and some people have already been releasing their
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  Speaker 1: best of twenty twenty four one list that I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go over today from another website, hip Hopgoldenage dot com.
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  Speaker 1: My process is different from a Rolling Stones, a hip
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  Speaker 1: hop dx's a hip Hop Golden Age and So it's
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  Speaker 1: important for me just as a hip hop fan to
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  Speaker 1: check out other people lists see if I missed anything,
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  Speaker 1: but also to check out their process. And in that video,
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  Speaker 1: I basically break down what my process is and what
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  Speaker 1: it's been like creating a list where now you have
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  Speaker 1: so many hip hop albums, unless you're just gonna list
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  Speaker 1: them all that you like, you have to break it
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  Speaker 1: down to a system that's digestible and a resource for
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  Speaker 1: hip hop.
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  Speaker 2: Heage who want to know, Yo, what was dope this shit?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, I know that's how
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  Speaker 1: I would be, you know if I wasn't creating the
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  Speaker 1: content and listening to all this music myself. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what that is. Big shout out to hip HOPDX dot com,
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  Speaker 1: Hip Hop, Goldenage dot com, Double eSeL mad dot com. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of places where I'm getting some of
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  Speaker 1: these stories from. Let's get right into the business stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna start this right at the top because
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  Speaker 1: I haven't done the weekly news show in maybe two
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  Speaker 1: weeks now, and a lot has happened, but the Drake
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  Speaker 1: and Kendrick thing carries on some of it worthwhile, right
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  Speaker 1: Like when Drake releases music that we could check out
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  Speaker 1: or j Cole or like Kendrick who just released gn
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  Speaker 1: X check out the Channel four my review and breakdown
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  Speaker 1: of that new album. But Drake recently submitted what is
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily a lawsuit but almost like a probe into
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  Speaker 1: what he claims is, you know some practices that led
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  Speaker 1: to the success of Not Like Us, and those practices
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  Speaker 1: being using bots and payola with radio.
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  Speaker 2: For those who don't know, bots is just.
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  Speaker 1: A way to bypass you know, a human pressing play
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  Speaker 1: on that stream maybe once or twice for that same song,
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  Speaker 1: but having a bot programmed to literally play that song.
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  Speaker 2: Over and over and over and over.
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  Speaker 1: Again, twenty four hours a week, whatever, just to increase
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  Speaker 1: the popularity of the record so that it appears it's
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  Speaker 1: this big popular thing. Or you know, I only listen
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  Speaker 1: to country music, but somehow they're referring Not Like Us
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  Speaker 1: on Spotify and with payola. That's just something that's just
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  Speaker 1: been a part of music. You know, it's not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: something you're supposed to do, but it's been a part
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  Speaker 1: of commercial radio for a long time, where you know,
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  Speaker 1: you pay DJs to give you more spins on the
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  Speaker 1: radio to talk about your record to hype your record
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  Speaker 1: up to go in the club, if that's still a
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  Speaker 1: thing with DJs and you know, play your record and
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  Speaker 1: hype it up at the club, like really boosting the
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  Speaker 1: presence of that song. Now, just for that one action
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  Speaker 1: by Drake, he is a hip hop Karen for the
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  Speaker 1: next thing, but for that one action, just from my perspective,
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  Speaker 1: it seems stupid because if someone asked me, forget not
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  Speaker 1: like us, forget Drake and Kendrick. I'm a fan of both,
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  Speaker 1: so just relax. But if someone had asked me, yo,
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  Speaker 1: do you think record labels use bot to increase the
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  Speaker 1: popularity of their artist's music, I would say, hell yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think they do that, And that would be for everyone,
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  Speaker 1: including Drake, who is also a part of Universal Music
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  Speaker 1: Group who he's suing, along with Kenchick Lamar being a
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  Speaker 1: part of that scene. So if there's any truth to
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  Speaker 1: what Drake is saying, I'm pretty sure there's evidence of
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  Speaker 1: them doing the same thing for him. It's like Paola,
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  Speaker 1: It's like you're not supposed to do it, but everybody
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  Speaker 1: does it. It's like the NFL, You're not supposed to cheat,
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  Speaker 1: but everybody cheats, you know, it's just about who gets
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  Speaker 1: caught right and then the other.
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  Speaker 2: Proposed probe, I'll call it pause.
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  Speaker 1: I guess into the not Like Us song is defamation
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  Speaker 1: of character, saying that Universal Music Group could have stopped
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  Speaker 1: the record coming out about him that called him a pedophile.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, remember both Kendrick and Drake are a part
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  Speaker 1: of Universal Music Group. They both have different you know,
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  Speaker 1: agreements with them as artists, as businessmen and all that
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  Speaker 1: good stuff. This is where the hip hop Karen Park
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  Speaker 1: comes into play. Never in the history of battle rap,
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  Speaker 1: for which because I don't care if Drake has made
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  Speaker 1: us two step, for which Drake has been a willing participant.
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  Speaker 2: Waybe for this Drake is he loves battle rap. He
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  Speaker 2: loves that energy.
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  Speaker 1: Is the reason why he would take on a pusher
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  Speaker 1: t a Joe butten Kendrick Lamar, you know what I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Saying, like a meek mill like he's witted.
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  Speaker 1: He's witted, and I gave him a lot of props,
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  Speaker 1: not only for always taking on battles when with his
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  Speaker 1: success he he does not have to right but specifically
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  Speaker 1: this battle and in contrast to j Cole, where I
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  Speaker 1: kind of feel like at least Drake fought right. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't put out one diss record said now I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of here, let me go make my heads.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. Let y'all broke at Stay where y'all at? All? Right?
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  Speaker 1: No, he engaged back and forth to the end, even
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  Speaker 1: with he had the last I won't say the last
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  Speaker 1: laugh because the laugh was on him, but he had
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  Speaker 1: the last say in this particular battle when he put
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  Speaker 1: out the Heart Part six, which was his response to
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  Speaker 1: not like us right. So, in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 1: I always looked at it like Drake is a hip
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  Speaker 1: hop head because of that, because he wants to continue
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  Speaker 1: the battle. But when I see this, it's like, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: but you think you should win. You from that era
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  Speaker 1: of everybody gets a trophy, you're gonna call the police.
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  Speaker 2: So the whole thing is just weird. I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: I don't take it that series.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, UMG released a statement basically saying what what
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  Speaker 1: are you even talking about?
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  Speaker 2: That's my summary of it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think there were some tactics behind it for Drake, right.
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  Speaker 1: The tactic wasn't to actually sue because you got to
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  Speaker 1: prove it after a while. And you talk about defamation
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  Speaker 1: of character, well, you can be countersuited because if you're saying, oh,
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  Speaker 1: in this exchange, he's referring to me as a pedophile
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  Speaker 1: and it's hurting my brand. Well, Kendrick could turn around
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  Speaker 1: and say, well, he started calling me a wife beater.
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  Speaker 1: He start of saying my wife be outside in the streets,
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  Speaker 1: and that you know, my friend is actually the father
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  Speaker 1: of my son with my wife. Like, that's defamation across
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  Speaker 1: the board. Like, so that's what I mean. I can't
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  Speaker 1: take it that series. But in the hip hop world,
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  Speaker 1: Drake's hip hop pass has been officially revoked.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care how much you like him. I don't
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  Speaker 2: care how much you.
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  Speaker 1: Prefer the moist raps that he writes, and sometimes they
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  Speaker 1: have other people who write for him, not of all
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  Speaker 1: of which I disliked, let me be clear, But the
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  Speaker 1: moist error is over. Its back to creativity and thinking.
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  Speaker 1: And if Kendrick's bars don't do it for you, that
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  Speaker 1: is fine. We got so many other dope people out
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  Speaker 1: here that y'all never talk about because y'all don't really
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  Speaker 1: care about the bars. Y'all know about thirty eight Special
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  Speaker 1: and Bennie and Conway and Ransom and all these dudes
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  Speaker 1: who give you all the boom back head nods. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: just want to be a part of this conversation. And
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to drink in that side, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: your hip hop pass is revoked. Never in the history
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  Speaker 1: of hip hop battles and back and forth and this
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  Speaker 1: record has anyone publicly I'll give drinking out publicly done
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  Speaker 1: something like this just hasn't happened. So those are my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on it. It'd been a while since I was
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  Speaker 1: here to even talk about it, but nevertheless, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it is when it okay, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: So hip Hop DX recently did a story called ten
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  Speaker 1: blog ever mixtapes that deserve to be released on streaming services.
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  Speaker 1: You can find this on hip hop Com in the
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  Speaker 1: news section. And I think a lot of this has
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  Speaker 1: to do all this topic. It's coming from the fact
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  Speaker 1: that J Cole has been releasing all of his mixtapes
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  Speaker 1: on streaming services, which occurred during the blog era. I
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  Speaker 1: put out what it's not called a tweet, but the
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  Speaker 1: name is skeet and I feel funny saying that, but
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  Speaker 1: a post on Blue Sky about you know, like when
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  Speaker 1: these J Cole mixtapes like to come up and warm
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  Speaker 1: up and Friday night lights his streaming services, and so
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  Speaker 1: many people rejoice to finally have them when I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I've had them digitally in my iTunes library for decades.
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  Speaker 2: What y'all doing now?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you know, maybe you was younger and you just
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  Speaker 1: had all these joints on CD, and now that's just
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  Speaker 1: not what you do or what I do.
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  Speaker 2: So I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I digitied my stuff back then a long time, so
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  Speaker 1: I had it.
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  Speaker 2: But also, speaking of blog era, where were you with
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  Speaker 2: the PIFs dot com? You can download them joints.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand rest in peace that pith What a time,
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  Speaker 1: but the blog era, what a time to be alive.
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  Speaker 1: Are a lot of people on podcasting, hip hop podcasting
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  Speaker 1: and YouTube who were not active. They wasn't outside their content.
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  Speaker 1: Their shows do not date back to the blog era.
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  Speaker 1: Some of us are the veterans. For me in particular, sure,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do a video version of my podcast. My
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  Speaker 1: podcast has been around since then. I had a actual
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  Speaker 1: blog that I would write until y'all stop reading and
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  Speaker 1: not just reading me. We all of us writers have
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  Speaker 1: two dope boys to think headline and video. That's all
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  Speaker 1: that's all, give me the album you know, headline and
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  Speaker 1: what album?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, can I play it? Cool?
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  Speaker 1: So the blog err was an interesting time. But what
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  Speaker 1: I like about this list that I'm going to skim
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  Speaker 1: through really quick is just the fact that that era
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  Speaker 1: of mixtapes was special. Like mixtapes existed before the blog
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  Speaker 1: era and the blog era, let me just say is
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  Speaker 1: this is from hip hop d X especial in influential
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  Speaker 1: period of hip hop from the mid two thousands to
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  Speaker 1: the early twenty tens. The difference between the mixtapes before
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  Speaker 1: that they were DJ driven and they were literally mix
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  Speaker 1: tapes cassette with not just one artist but several artists,
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  Speaker 1: and it was actual mixing, you know, wigga wiggers with
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  Speaker 1: the turntables. But this blog era of mixtapes was more
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  Speaker 1: so like almost like albums that weren't official. They were mixtapes.
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  Speaker 1: So you may get original songs and original beats on one.
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  Speaker 2: Mixtape another mixtape, it.
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  Speaker 1: Might be original songs, original beats, classic records from that artist,
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  Speaker 1: a freestyle you know, over somebody else's beat.
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  Speaker 2: But what drew most people was the original content, right
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  Speaker 2: because now you were getting your artists to do a
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  Speaker 2: mixtape that you.
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  Speaker 1: Could literally look at it like that, But that's an
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  Speaker 1: album that those are beats I never heard of, over
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  Speaker 1: roalms I never heard of, but it's just on this
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  Speaker 1: platform and it just was a dope time. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of artists who built their names off of that, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like J Cole was big on a mixtape scene before then,
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  Speaker 1: but everybody has classic mixtapes. Drake got some, right, Kendrick
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  Speaker 1: overly dedicated, was is Fabulous went on a nice run,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying with the summer shootouts and
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  Speaker 1: the other one, what was the black tape? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember. I'm losing my mind. Y'all know which
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  Speaker 1: one I'm talking about, because everybody loves them. But for Fabulous,
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  Speaker 1: it was like people who liked his bars, but his
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  Speaker 1: albums always gave you more radio friendly tracks, you know.
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  Speaker 1: These mixtapes were the soul tape series. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: mean to say. For Fabulous, these mixtapes were like their
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  Speaker 1: way of getting the version of fabulous they like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: And for J Cole, for me in the beginning, it
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  Speaker 2: was that.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just get to this list real quick before
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  Speaker 1: I go on too long with this, and hold let
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  Speaker 1: me make sure this is actually their story. Now they're
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  Speaker 1: just telling the story of mixtapes during the blog Era site.
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  Speaker 1: So one his we're gonna go through all ten real
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  Speaker 1: quick because we got a big list on hip hop
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  Speaker 1: Golden Age. Next, so Frank Ocean's Nostalgia Ultra that was
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  Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. Very dope, but that's more of a singing.
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  Speaker 1: But that mixtape was crazy. Ain't go front Tyler to
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  Speaker 1: the creator, bastard. I didn't really like Tyler back then
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  Speaker 1: because he was more shock rapping. Not that I don't
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  Speaker 1: like shock rap, but I just was. I guess I
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  Speaker 1: was up a certain age where I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear that. That's for kids. Earl Sweatshirt, Earl.
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  Speaker 1: I like Earl Sweatshirt more back then. Do I do
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  Speaker 1: now than I do now?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Hold up, I didn't give you on the dates. Tyler
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  Speaker 1: the Creator was O nine, Earl was twenty ten. Lil
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  Speaker 1: Wayne the Drought three in two thousand and seven. This
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  Speaker 1: was Lil Wayne like he was killing it with the albums,
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  Speaker 1: he was kill it with the mixtapes. This is probably
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  Speaker 1: not my favorite out of what he's released, but it
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  Speaker 1: still was a dope mixtape. Rick Ross Rich Forever. This
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  Speaker 1: is when I started liking This is twenty twelve. I
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  Speaker 1: started liking Rick Ross a little bit more, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: y'all kind of like what he does. Big Sean finally
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  Speaker 1: Famous Volume three twenty ten called Big. I've never been
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  Speaker 1: a Big Sean fan, So maybe I'll check this out
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  Speaker 1: and then discover what it is that people like about him.
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  Speaker 1: I think he could rap. I just I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I like his voice. Wilele and ninth
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  Speaker 1: wonder back to the feature twenty oh nine, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine. This was dope. This is the wilde I missed,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest. Dom Kennedy The Yellow Album twenty twelve. Yo,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big West Coast West Coast sound right, not
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  Speaker 1: West Coast rappers that sound like they're from New York.
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  Speaker 1: I like them too, talk about the game, but I
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  Speaker 1: also love West Coast sound right, that laid back sound.
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  Speaker 1: Rappers that's laid back where it's not about bars, it's
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  Speaker 1: just about saying cool stuff. And Don Kennedy the Yellow
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  Speaker 1: Tape was that. If you like that, check this out.
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  Speaker 1: Don Kennedy got a whole series of albums that are
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  Speaker 1: pretty dope, especially early on Action Bronson Blue Chips twenty twelve.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I did not touch this because even though later I
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: did like some of what Action Bronson was doing, around
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: this time Blue Chips, I was like, Yo, who is
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: this dude that sounds like ghost Face? How is this
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: not a technical five? That's just what it was. Vic
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: mensa Internet tape. I think that's what that's called twenty thirteen.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Actually never heard of that, or maybe I did a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: while back, but those are the ones they have listed.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Do you remember some blog era mixtapes that were dope
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that are your favorites? I know me Big crit is
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a big one if that's considered the same time.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Wis Khalif was cushion, Orange Juice was dope.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Currency has a number of dope mixtapes, Asad Rocky Chance
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: to Rappers.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: So there's a few.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: From that blog era that honestly, I feel like I
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: need to just collect these joints because that's like a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: classic time and maybe I'll just do an episode where
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: we just go over that, like straight up mixtape blog
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: era mixtapes, classics and stuff like that. And lastly, so
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: as y'all know we are at the point where we
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: are approaching.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Very quick.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: The end of twenty twenty four. A lot of projects
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that have been released EPs, albums, mixtapes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I won't tell you I've.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Heard them all, but I've heard a lot, and I've
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: heard the important ones for the most part. And I
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: created a system for myself where it's fifteen you know
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: joints that I recommend as the best of the year,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: with five of them being my top five. And now
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: is the time where everybody's releasing this their lists, and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: my list will be out in the next two weeks.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I think December twenty.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Is the date I'm going to release it, so you
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: have some time and Snoop and Drake got some time
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to get in my list. If it's dope like that,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: we'll see also Nasen premier if they ever drop. But
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: in finalizing my own personal twenty twenty four lists, I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: do frequently look at other people's lists, mainly sometimes to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: find like albums that I'm like, oh that came out,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Oh I didn't hear that, or this particular album is
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: showing up on a number of different lists. Let me
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: listen to it. If I haven't already, so it's kind
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of that thing. But also it's just interesting to see
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: what people liked this year. So hip Hopgoldenage dot Com
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: shout out to them did a their annual that's the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and they don't hold back when it
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: comes to the number and we're not gonna go over
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: all of them. We're gonna go over those that appear
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: at the end of the list, meaning the bottom that's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: what I mean, and that I assume or.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: The most popular or the best of the best.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but we're just gonna go through some
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: of them, if not, if it's not too many. But also,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like the honorable mentions is crazy, Like the list is crazy,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and it's part of the reason why I file my
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: list down because if that if I post almost everything
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: as a part of my best of the year, it
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: just wouldn't be that special. Because you know, somebody got win,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: just like we told Drake Yo, somebody got a win fan.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Somebody got to be the best of the best, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: it's something to shoot for next year. So what I'd
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: further do, Let's go through hip Hop Golden Ages lists
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and the first one I see they have his is
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the Death of Slim Shady KUDEI gra I'm not mad
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: at this pick at all because as an Eminem fan,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I like the album. I feel like it should be
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: his life album. It should be your last album, because
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: for what the album represented conceptually and the way it
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: was executed, it should.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Be like that's it, y'all.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: You want to hear some m I got plenty of
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: albums out there, hot, whack, all of that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Go listen to those.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: So next up they had Benny the Butcher in thirty
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: eight Special, Stabbed and shot too.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not mad at this at all. You want bars
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and boom back there you go. Do you want to
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: get shot at? Go listen to that. They want to
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: get shot and stabbed. Listen, you won't get shot and stabbed,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: but you know what I mean? Like you want that
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: kind of rap, hardcore, rat streets, nothing better, Enoch waiting
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: for something to happen.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Now, I had no idea what this is in pardon me?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I should be sure share my screen for those online,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: because why not? Why not just share your screen? Okay,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: maybe I can't share my screen. Okay, yes we can.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Here we go, boom. There you have it with sharing screens.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: How about that? But this is the album. You know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: it got the snakes and alligator fighting and I don't know.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Let's grab a little bit of information. It's called Waiting
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: for Something to Happen with these snakes and alligators. Waiting
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: for Something to Happen is a solo LP by Enoch,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the Florida based producer and long standing member.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Of Sign I think that's how you pronounced that. Going
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: from a mix.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Of emotions including grief, confidence, fear, and ambition, this project
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: reflects the complexities of modern life. Enoch and listed a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: great lineup of hip hop icons and underground splitters, including Artifacts,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: sat X, Kool Keith, Psycho, lest Rock, This Monster, Elzi,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and Guilty Simpson.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I might need to check this out. I had no idea.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Leave your comments in the comments section below if you
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: know of Enoch all right, next up, they have copyright
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the Last Supper. I do remember this. This is more
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: underground for y'all. Logic is listed here with Ultra eighty five.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Y'all know how I feel about Logic. Like the dude,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: he just his whole style is chump. I'll elaborate if
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you want me to, but not right now. Vic Minster
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in August Banan. I think that's how you pronounce his name,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: psychological cheat cheat five. They got the five mics on
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the cover. I didn't hear this, I said, Vic Menster,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Vic Spencer.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I might check this out.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest fan of Vic Spencer, so that
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: was my apprehension, like one of those things where I'm
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: almost guaranteed not to like it because I don't necessarily
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: like the artists, or I might dig it. But we're
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: in the deliberation of Best of twenty twenty four, so
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I can't be wasting no time in telling you real
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: bad man and Luca Temple needs water, village needs man.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: They going under the underground? What is this? It's a
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: psychologue us no like.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, philosophical exploration into the essence of community, spirituality and transformation.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I know I didn't say what I was trying to pronounce.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I just was reading ahead instead of paying attention to
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: what I was reading. That's all. It's a radio trick.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: You know, you're saying words that you're looking at, but
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: you're also reading wants to come, so you don't mess
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: up radio host Kitty.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: What else we got here? Man?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: We are under the underground for sure, I need a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: damn dialect coach. Ever Ever Living Sound and slim Line
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Mother Echo Chamber.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: What the hell is this?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Si Marshal Law and Skit Slam also known as Black
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Oh Bet, y'all, This might be Fire as Black Belt
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Poems formed, the duo of Ever Living Sound Echo Chamber
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: is a collaborative LP with UK producer slim Line Mother,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: drawing inspiration from the sounds of nineties legends like Pete Rock,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Q Tip and Large Professor and my shared just went away.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. Let's let's try to share screens
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and keep sharing them, don't you know. Don't do me
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: like that? Okay, keep sharing. Don't do me like that
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: unless I stopped it by accident. Professor Slime Mother's beats
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: set a dope backdrop. Ever Living Sounds, bars and flows
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: are in sync with the instrumentals, culminating in an exceptional
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: album that feels like a nostalgic nod to nineteen nineties
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: hip hop, sure to resonate with fans of the era.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna front this album cover is fire and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: from what y'all described hip Hopfoldiage dot Com. I'm gonna
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: listen to this joint. I know I was laughing, but
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the joke might be on me because my hip hop
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and nerdism is kicking in just looking at it. Bodie
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: James and Nicholas Craven Penalty of Leadership. I'm not mad
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: at this because this is hands down the only Bodie
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: James album I think I've liked.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I like this joint.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It was it was I I'm gonna tell you now,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I don't have it in my best of the year.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: But that's not because it wasn't good.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Uh schooly D schooly D, or cause that Nixers or
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: oh wait, that doesn't say Nixers crazy. That's why Okay
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: schoolly D has a new album that's crazy. Uh, Young
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Morpheus and Alexander Spit waking up and choosing violence Young Morpheus. Wow, man,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: they you talk about underground if you if you have
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: any interest in underground and under the underground rappers, go
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to hip Hopgoldenage dot com. They are putting me on.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I can't listen to all of this, but yeah, like
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: this everybody. They just making up names at this point.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Hold up Brother Ali and Unjuil Love and Service I
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: think this was released recently, No in April. Okay, brother
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: a Lee usually puts out some pretty dope work, so
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: that's probably alight. Now, really an expert, the blip do
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: this list is crazy? Okay, we're gonna have to We're
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: gonna have to be those people who just look for
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: what everybody else knows. Okay, Crime Apple and Big Ghosts, Wazooka.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: What else we have here? Mute and Academy keep Holly Alive.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, they kind of put me on
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the things. I don't know if all this stuff is
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: actually good, but it made their list, so DJ Mugs
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and ras Frisco the Eternal. Now if I said that wrong,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: trust me. I don't know who that guy is. I
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: know who DJ Muggs is. Uh Oh, kill a priest?
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I know I can't pronounce this. Okay, Praxis rebis Theme
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: High Ploma audio Listeners. You're gonna have to forgive me now.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you I like this. I'm gonna
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: be up front when it comes to kill a Priest.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: It's a hip hop guilty pleasure for me. I may
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: not know what he's talking about, not one word, but
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I like some of it only if the production is
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: straight up boom back that mixes with all that mesaphysical
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: rap and stuff. So I'll probably check this out just
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: for my personal reasons, because I have no reason to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: believe it's gonna push anything off my top list at
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: this point. A couple other guys, what's this Eddie Kane
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: and Big Ghosts Last Exit to Brooklyn.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I remember hearing about that jam Hemes being the Hinge?
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Is this Themes?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I think you know this isn't the Griselda Cat, but
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I have heard of this guy, which is cool. This
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: is an album that honestly I forgot about, but it
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: was pretty dope. Tyler Quality and Jay Rose the roles,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the confidence of knowing social media posts aside. If you
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: like Tip Tyler Quality, you're like this album. He also
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: put out an album with Madly this year called Liberation.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I think that was also dope. Tyler was two for
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: two this year, but not one made my list. I'm sorry,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Schoolboy Q Blue Lips. I was kind of disappointed in
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: this album, So just for spoiler's sake, this won't be
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in my top five.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I don't feel it was whack.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: It just didn't scratch the itch that I thought was
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: gonna happen when he dropped because Schoolboy Q doesn't have
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: an album I dislike. But this just didn't meet my expectations.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: To be honest.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Daniel's son in Future Wave bush Man Bodega.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Album covers Fire Ain't Go Front, Wow, this made you
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: listen mc Light one of one. I'm gonna tell you
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: like this. I don't do no charity. I love emc Light.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: She's from BK. She's a legend in the hip hop game,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: not just as a female rapper, but as a rapper period.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: And this album wasn't that good to me. It just wasn't.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: It wasn't. I gave you the listen. I moved on.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: This is a dope one gang Green heads up Win
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: tells you lose alchemists on the beats and some rhymes
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: as well as oh No, check this joint out. I
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: don't think they have a whack album in their catalog. Ah,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: here we go Rhapsody. Please don't cry. Ah, you've heard
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: my thoughts about that. Let's just keep it moving. One
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: thing I think I'm gonna do since this list keeps
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: going crazy. This is Vince Staples album that dropped to
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: share a lot of people like it dark times. Maybe
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I started backwards, so let's just skim to the top
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and see what they have on the other end, and
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: then we then we out right this album. I just
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: listened to Elucid's Revelator. It is not for me. I'm
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: gonna just tell you all right now, it's not for me.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not with that. Billy Woods. I kind of like Elucid.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: It's it's too much. I'm sorry, it's I know it's dense,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I know, I know it makes sense on some level.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I know it's not the typical rhyme styles and beats
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but I think it's too off
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: base for my taste. Bar see how easy that was,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: h Mac Homie, rich ass Haitian. This is adupe one, y'all.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: If you haven't heard it, check it out. Obviously. Calm
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: and Pete rock the Auditorium Volume one. Let's do maybe
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: two more Jpeg Mafia I Laid down My Life for you.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I listened to that one. It was cool, it was cool.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be in my best of the year.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: I think he's had better projects than that one. And lastly,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Ka the Thief next to Jesus rest in peace Kyle
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: who passed away recently. Let's see what they say CAUs
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: The Thief next to Jesus is a profound exploration of faith, morality,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and survival, displaying the Brooklyn mcs unmatched ability to turn
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: life's complexities into poetic verses. Man that first sentence for
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: this description was bars they get who wrote that it
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: was nice. This ninth solo effort sees Cad doubling down
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: on his minimalist but potent style, drawing listeners into his
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: introspective world where every word carries weight and every beat
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: serves a purpose. The album continues the journey he's taken
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: listeners on throughout his career, offering new insights while remaining
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: rooted in the stark realism that has defined his work.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I listen to this album, that's a great summary of
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: this particular album, But for me personally, it's not going
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: to be in my best of the year, which is
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: only fifteen. Doesn't mean that it wouldn't land somewhere along
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: down the line. But we're not doing long down the line.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: We're only doing fifteen. You know what I'm saying. But
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: there you have it.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: That's hip Hopgoldenage Dot com. You can visit they site.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: You can check out all the albums they listed. Like
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I said, they put me on this two joints, the
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Killer Priest joint and that other one you know with
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the robots DJ and on the cover that I was
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: laughing at. But the description was potent for my taste.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And then the album I'm like, oh, the nerd and
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the hip hop is So I think it's a good resource.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: So shout out to hip Hop Goldenage dot com. Obviously
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: this is subjective, this is their site. You know, me
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: not liking certain albums they posted does not matter. It's
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: what I like and what I don't like versus what
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: they like and don't like. But nevertheless, dope stuff, dope
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: to see. Hold up, why is my windows just still sharing? Okay,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but there you have it.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: As we gear up for hip Hop Now podcast is
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Best of twenty twenty four.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Check out the other content on the site, like our
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: review and reaction.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: To Kendrick Lamar's latest album GNX.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: A ranking of day La.
• 40:53
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• 40:58
  Speaker 1: week will be a ranking of ice Cube albums. Right
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