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2025 Preview Show · 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: It's the twenty twenty five preview show. Happy New Year,
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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Welcome to jipp Hop Now, pot fat
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Speaker 1: as if you from the future. You know what to do.
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Speaker 1: Get your ass out of my past life. Don't disrespectful
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Speaker 1: leg like ye hip hop is say to stay. Let's
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Speaker 1: get rightful too the business. What up, y'all? I am
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Speaker 1: your host Vegas and this it's hip Hop Now podcasting
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Speaker 1: podcast specifically designed to keep you caught up on all
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Speaker 1: things hip hop music and culture that happened throughout the
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Speaker 1: week or that happened throughout the year. Happy New Year
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Speaker 1: to you and yours. It is twenty twenty five. Now
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Speaker 1: were good. We were all good, Like we're all safe,
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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully and all that good stuff. And what
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Speaker 1: we do here with this show is we do a
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Speaker 1: preview of what the new year will be. So first
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Speaker 1: and foremost, let's turn off my notifications on my computer
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Speaker 1: because it's going crazy right now. I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: For first and foremost, big, super big shout out to
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Speaker 1: all the subscribers to hip Hop Now podcasts on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: We have reached one thousand subs. It feels good to
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Speaker 1: be on the other side. In twenty twenty four, a
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Speaker 1: thousand was like my goal for the year. Right. Obviously
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Speaker 1: you can get more than that, especially if you go
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Speaker 1: viral for a video or whatever. But there's certain things
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Speaker 1: I'm not willing to compromise in order to get my
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Speaker 1: subscriber count up. Right, Everything is organic with me. It's
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Speaker 1: about the culture's about the music. It's not about court trials.
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Speaker 1: It's not about beefs unless it's that interesting. And when
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Speaker 1: I say beefs, I'm not talking about battles that y'all
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Speaker 1: call beefs. I'm talking about beefs, like real beef. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying in the streets. But the goal
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Speaker 1: was a thousand, and we hit that in record time
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Speaker 1: right before twenty twenty four ended, which was dope, and
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Speaker 1: mainly because we started the year. I might have been
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Speaker 1: somewhere around don't quote me on this, but I might
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Speaker 1: have been somewhere around two hundred or something like that
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Speaker 1: when it came to subscribers, and you know, obviously I
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Speaker 1: pumped out content here and there, some shorts, some other videos,
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Speaker 1: my weekly podcasts, some special videos, collaborative videos with other podcasts,
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Speaker 1: just to kind of keep the content flowing, but content
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Speaker 1: that would interest people like you, and I feel like
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Speaker 1: that helped escalate it, along with spreading the word people
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Speaker 1: like you. If you share the podcast, I don't care.
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Speaker 1: If you share it with twenty thousand people and two
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Speaker 1: people click on it and two people decide to subscribe,
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Speaker 1: that's more than what I had. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So again, big shout out to everybody who came through.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm not gonna say, oh, well, now, the goal
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Speaker 1: is two thousand, because obviously the goal is always to
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Speaker 1: go up, right, but I will say the soft goal
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Speaker 1: right now is five thousand, right, five thousand subscribers to
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Speaker 1: keep growing the channel. I've got a steady pace going,
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Speaker 1: so I think we can kind of get there. But
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Speaker 1: it's a long road and I'm not even gonna jinx
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Speaker 1: myself in twenty twenty five. Also, big shout out to
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Speaker 1: all the news outlets over the years to be honest,
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Speaker 1: but especially in twenty twenty four, where you know, I
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Speaker 1: grab some of the stories that were interesting and spoke
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Speaker 1: about those, reacted to some of those, but in general,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four from a new standpoint from a hip
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Speaker 1: hop standpoint, I think was a very big year for
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Speaker 1: hip hop, coming off of twenty twenty threes, fifty years
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Speaker 1: of hip hop, where it was this complete celebration. I
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Speaker 1: literally decided to keep my podcast going just because it
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Speaker 1: was fifty years of hip hop and I was gonna
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Speaker 1: end it because I'm like nine years in now, so
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Speaker 1: obviously we've got to get to the tenth year, which
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Speaker 1: would be in twenty twenty six. But you know, it
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Speaker 1: was a crazy situation where you're kind of trying to
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Speaker 1: look at Okay, twenty twenty three was fifty years of
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Speaker 1: hip hop? What's next? Is it worth it? Is it
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Speaker 1: going to be the same old thing that we had
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Speaker 1: in previous years? But I think something changed, And I
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Speaker 1: think something changed in like twenty twenty with the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: with the lockdown, something about things that were born out
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Speaker 1: of the lockdown that brought true the true essence of
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Speaker 1: hip hop, beats and bars, regardless of where you're from,
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Speaker 1: whether you're from the South, where you're from the West coast.
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Speaker 1: West Coast had a huge year in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Props to them, and a lot changed. But when I
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Speaker 1: say that, I'm talking about like you go back and
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Speaker 1: look at the albums that dropped in twenty twenty, right,
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of dope albums that dropped that year,
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Speaker 1: But specifically I look at and I'm not saying he's
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Speaker 1: responsible for all of it, but I look at NAS's
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Speaker 1: run with hip Boy, right, which started around the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: and how impressive it was, and how it wasn't just
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Speaker 1: an older audience that was excited every time Nas and
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Speaker 1: hip Boy dropped. It was like everybody who loves hip hop,
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Speaker 1: regardless of age. And I think he sparked something and
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Speaker 1: other artists right at the same time during the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: co'mon talked about really only listening to old schools stressed
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Speaker 1: like nineties and eighties, and like that's all he did
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Speaker 1: during the pandemic, which inspired him to reach out to
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Speaker 1: somebody like a peat Rock and create what many have
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Speaker 1: as best album of the year. Grammy nominated The Auditorium
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Speaker 1: Volume one. Right going out of that time, you know,
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Speaker 1: and got to be inspired in some ways by NASA's run.
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Speaker 1: Same thing with seeing ll come back to the game
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Speaker 1: with Q Tip and finally even though they were talking
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Speaker 1: about that album for a long time, but finally put
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Speaker 1: it out and have it well received. Snooping Doctor Dre.
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Speaker 1: Snoop been releasing albums like forever, but now he finally
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Speaker 1: got back with Doctor Dre on a project and it
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Speaker 1: was excellent. Right, So there's so many instances of hip
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Speaker 1: hop basically coming back, and that's just from the old
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Speaker 1: school side. Then we get the battle with Drake and
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Speaker 1: Kendrick and Jacole you can count on my guess, and
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Speaker 1: you know, you feel like bars were back, because sure
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Speaker 1: there was the Internet tactics, and you know what Grake
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Speaker 1: or what Drake was trying to do as far as like,
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Speaker 1: you know, the stories and trolling and trying to do
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Speaker 1: a lot of Internet stuff, and Kendrick just kept dropping records.
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Speaker 1: He kept dropping records and one thing, and you know,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to spend too much time on that
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Speaker 1: battle because there's things to talk about later in this episode.
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Speaker 1: But one other thing that stood out was the fact
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Speaker 1: that even though Kendrick was just dropping, each song covered
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Speaker 1: a flow or a vibe or feeling or a type
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Speaker 1: of beat or type of flow I should say from
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Speaker 1: Kendrick in hip hop, right, you wanted your bars straight
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Speaker 1: up bars kind of boom babs. You get something like
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Speaker 1: six sixteen, you want a ruthless this track, you get
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Speaker 1: something like Meet the Grams. Then you get something that
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Speaker 1: none of us would have predicted. It not like us,
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Speaker 1: like really like a jam, but it's a disc record.
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Speaker 1: And then there's euphoria, which is to me kind of
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Speaker 1: all of it. So when I look at twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: four and I look at all these things that happened
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Speaker 1: from a great battle, and that's not to take anything
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Speaker 1: away from Drake, because Drake was fighting and I like pushups,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like hip hop did well in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four coming off a fiftieth anniversary. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying when I talk about all the old school
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Speaker 1: artists that re emerged quote unquote new school artists or
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Speaker 1: the leaders of the game, so to speak with Kendrick J.
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Speaker 1: Cole and Drake, regardless of how it turned out, and
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Speaker 1: now with twenty twenty five, it's like, okay, what's next. Also,
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Speaker 1: just one quick note, I want to know, even though
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Speaker 1: this wasn't in my best STU show because it was
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Speaker 1: released on Christmas, Eve Redman's Muddy Waters Too did not
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Speaker 1: disappoint me. I was actually pleasantly surprised. Is it a
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Speaker 1: classic No, it doesn't come close to the original. No.
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Speaker 1: Is it one of Redman's better albums? Yeah? I put
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Speaker 1: it top five for him, put it top five. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go in any order, but I'll just
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Speaker 1: tell you out of his catalog, what's my top five?
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Speaker 1: And I feel like it's Muddy Waters one, right, what
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Speaker 1: the album? There's a dark side? What else? Muddy Waters too?
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Speaker 1: And probably Docked the name, which I wasn't the biggest
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Speaker 1: fan of. But it's not a whack album at all.
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Speaker 1: But those are the five when it comes to Red Man,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's something significant considering what he's released
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Speaker 1: over the years that I did a little a tear
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Speaker 1: list with him and Method Man, and I rated those
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Speaker 1: albums to come back in this way with a sequel
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Speaker 1: where you could just basically close the casket on your
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Speaker 1: career because nobody was checking for new Red Men at all.
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Speaker 1: But this Redman only make albums like this. Now let's
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Speaker 1: get into what we're going to talk about for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five. So every year I do these previews, what
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Speaker 1: I like to do is simply tell you about some
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Speaker 1: albums that are scheduled to drop in twenty twenty five. Right,
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Speaker 1: and some albums that are rumored to drop, and then
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Speaker 1: I have also I have like my wishes for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five and they're usually ridiculous. And yes, Detox is
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Speaker 1: not there at this time. I think I gave it
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Speaker 1: up last year. I was like, all right, we're not
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Speaker 1: gonna get an album called Detox. Dre has moved on.
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Speaker 1: I think the Snoop and Doctor Dre album was that
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Speaker 1: it was like, Yo, you're not gonna get Detox at all.
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Speaker 1: So I moved on. Okay, but I have other wishes.
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Speaker 1: But let's get into a couple of the albums that
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Speaker 1: are highly anticipated to just anticipate it from myself out
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Speaker 1: of curiosity. Some of those albums include J Cole's The
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Speaker 1: Fall Off I'm not gonna hold job. J Cole ducked
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Speaker 1: the Battle. Kendrick said on like that I want to
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Speaker 1: see what that problem about. He said, I don't. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna take it on the chin, homie, I don't want
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Speaker 1: no smoke. And most people kind of wrote J Cole
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Speaker 1: off like for good, forever, for the moment, whatever, And
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Speaker 1: I think for me, Mike delete Later took a hit
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Speaker 1: because Mike delete Later was a dope mixtape if you
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Speaker 1: will from j Cole and I think once he put
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Speaker 1: that seven minute drill diss to Kendrick on there and
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Speaker 1: then took it off and apologized, I think it sucked
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Speaker 1: all the life out of that project, out of the
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Speaker 1: launch of this album. But I gotta believe that if
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Speaker 1: he had been planning this for as long as he has,
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Speaker 1: it's some heat on it. And I think the best
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Speaker 1: thing he can do to keep people from pouncing on
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Speaker 1: him every time he pop out is to just add
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Speaker 1: that Kendrick feature. Hey man, I'm sorry, you can say
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Speaker 1: sorry in person, whatever, Add that Kendrick feature and let
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Speaker 1: it be that, right, Just let it be that. So
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Speaker 1: I'm really curious as to what Ja Coles to fall
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Speaker 1: off is going to sound like, whether hearing him saying
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Speaker 1: I'm a top five MC or goat or whatever. It's
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Speaker 1: still nice with it, but there's just something about dunking
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Speaker 1: a battle. It was a battle right that. You know,
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Speaker 1: we ain't gonna get into it, but it's just something
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Speaker 1: about that. I've talked about it at nauseum and other
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Speaker 1: videos last year. Go watch those if you want to
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Speaker 1: know my full opinion on the whole duck In the
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Speaker 1: battle thing kind, but I'm still anticipating the album. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I am gonna press play Kanye West.
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Speaker 1: Bully not the only reason why this is on here
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Speaker 1: because I think I tapped out after Vultures with ty
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Speaker 1: Dallas sign right like it was cool. But I was like,
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Speaker 1: this is a bunch of nonsense. Whatever, there's a crowd
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Speaker 1: for it. Well, this album Bully that Kanye West has
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Speaker 1: been teasing. It's supposed to be you getting the old
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Speaker 1: Yay back. Remember how everybody's like, yo, I missed the
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Speaker 1: old Kanye, Yo, I miss y'all. I missed. This is
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Speaker 1: supposed to be that now. I will say this. On
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Speaker 1: the production side, he hasn't really left. He might choose
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Speaker 1: to make different styles of beats, but they always sound
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Speaker 1: good to me. The music always sounds good, whether I
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Speaker 1: like his newer projects or not. But something about the
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Speaker 1: o Ya Back, like he can still he can still rap,
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Speaker 1: he can still spit it. He still sounds like the
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Speaker 1: yay You know. It's just that the music has changed
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Speaker 1: over time and the subject matter has changed to something
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Speaker 1: that most people, not most people, but people who want
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Speaker 1: the o Ya back don't like. This album is supposed
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Speaker 1: to be oh yay. Now when we say oh yay,
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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be that, well, that means college dropout,
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Speaker 1: late registration, graduation, maybe a little easies, my beautiful Dog,
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Speaker 1: twisted fantasy, you know, like something, so we'll see. I'm
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Speaker 1: curious to listen for that reason alone. This is highly
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Speaker 1: anticipated because I thought it was going to drop this year,
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Speaker 1: but then when I saw them in depth, Jym like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we signed, I was like that, I will make coming
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Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty four, but in twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: I think, So that's the clips. Let God sort them out.
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Speaker 1: I love the title. I love the title. I cannot wait.
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Speaker 1: I love Pharrell's brand of boom back if you will.
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Speaker 1: It's always clean, but it knocks, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: It's always very different, and it just fits the rapping
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Speaker 1: styles of no Malice, No Malice and push your T.
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Speaker 1: And if we're not going to get a Pusher T solo,
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Speaker 1: I could wait, and because I'd rather have a clipse,
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Speaker 1: I'd rather have that break because Pushing T really gave
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Speaker 1: us two back to back joints before this, So in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, I'm definitely looking forward to that. Lil
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Speaker 1: Wayne the Carter six. I was not really interested in
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Speaker 1: this because I feel like the Carter series hasn't been
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Speaker 1: that good since maybe Carter four. But for me personally,
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Speaker 1: Carter three was like the peak of it, and everything
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Speaker 1: else has kind of been downhill. Not saying every record
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Speaker 1: was whack on those other albums, it was just like
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Speaker 1: it was hit or miss. It was like, oh, this
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Speaker 1: one's crazy, These are trash. Oh these two a thote,
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Speaker 1: These are trash. So I'm curious as to what this
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Speaker 1: is going to be, especially coming off what he called
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Speaker 1: a super Bowl halftime performing snub. Now no one agrees
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Speaker 1: with that except for those who are woe is me crying?
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Speaker 1: Ask people like he was right, but according to him,
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Speaker 1: he's moving beyond that right. He reached out the Kendrick
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Speaker 1: to actually congratulate him like a real professional does. Even
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Speaker 1: if you're disappointed, this is your counterpart. It's saying, you know,
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Speaker 1: you don't got no problems with him unless you do. So.
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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like Wayne has some motivation now.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that album was sounding like prior
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Speaker 1: to this situation, but now that he has some motivation
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Speaker 1: to show why he's crazy, not mentally crazy, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. But why he called himself a goat?
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Speaker 1: Why he think he should have got to have time performance?
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Speaker 1: This is the album that will have to say that
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Speaker 1: because the performances haven't said that. We know he got
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Speaker 1: the hits to do the Super Bowl, but he got
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Speaker 1: to make twenty twenty five his year, right Kendrick. Kendrick
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Speaker 1: owned twenty twenty four. He owned it. It was just
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Speaker 1: too crazy. He owned it. But now it's time for
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Speaker 1: Lil Wayne to look at what Ell did, what Snoop did,
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Speaker 1: what Common did and say, Yo, I'm gonna remind you
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Speaker 1: of who I am. Also, So that's part of the
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Speaker 1: reason why I anticipate that project Nas and DJ Premier now.
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Speaker 1: They said it was coming later this year. I did
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Speaker 1: not believe him at all. Why because I kind of
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Speaker 1: feel like NAS needs Premier to jump in a new
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Speaker 1: bag of beats because most of the beats that Premier,
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Speaker 1: including the little teaser preview song and they did the
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Speaker 1: formula was what you expect from Premier today, right, and
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Speaker 1: we need Premier to do some beats that are unexpected.
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Speaker 1: We know Nas in the pocket coming off the hip
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Speaker 1: Boy joint features and all that. It really hasn't missed,
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Speaker 1: but we need better from Premier and from what I hear,
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Speaker 1: you get that, but you're gonna get it in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five. Now. I would love for it to be
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Speaker 1: a springtime pop out kind of thing. You know, you
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Speaker 1: hit us with a single in the springtime, and then
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Speaker 1: you hit us with an album eventually, but definitely, I
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Speaker 1: think this album's coming in twenty twenty five because even
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Speaker 1: though people have been waiting for years for this to happen,
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Speaker 1: I think again, when you look at what Common and
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Speaker 1: Pete Rock did, when you look at what l L
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Speaker 1: and q tit did you look at, especially with Snoop
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Speaker 1: and Doctor Dre did, It's like you have to generate
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Speaker 1: the feeling, right. Snoop and Doctor Dre decided to take
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Speaker 1: a route that was more so like iconic, like yo,
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Speaker 1: we're not this isn't nineteen ninety three, nineteen ninety two,
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Speaker 1: this is where we are now, and I loved it
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Speaker 1: for that. LLL and q tip felt like they blended
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Speaker 1: styles right, which you know from ll blended with the
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Speaker 1: production you know from q tip right at least q
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Speaker 1: tip now and then we're common in Pete Rock. The
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Speaker 1: goal was to capture the essence of back in the days,
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Speaker 1: and I think they did that. So DJ Premier and
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Speaker 1: NAS have to find an identity, and I think getting
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Speaker 1: something that sounds like everything they've done previously. Not to
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Speaker 1: a t, but that feeling of when you first heard
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Speaker 1: NAS is like when you first heard New York state
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Speaker 1: of Mind. You know what I'm saying, Like that they
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Speaker 1: need just these crazy DJ Premier beats with the NAS
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Speaker 1: you love in pocket, you know what I'm saying, rapping
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Speaker 1: about whatever. So I don't know. We'll see what we
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Speaker 1: get from it, but one can only hope. Freddy Gibbs
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Speaker 1: it mad Lib Montana, Freddy Gibbs and mad Lib or
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Speaker 1: two for two, two for two, this being the third
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Speaker 1: joint from them, I'm optimistic. There's no way, there's no
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Speaker 1: way this would be a miss in any way whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: Freddy Gibbs always puts it in the best work lyrically.
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Speaker 1: Mad Lib works with him very well, so I'm expecting
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Speaker 1: great things from that project. Something I was recently announced,
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Speaker 1: formerly known as Most Deaf, Yassin Bey and Alchemists have
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Speaker 1: a project coming real soon called Forensics. I ain't gonna
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Speaker 1: hold y'all. This is not highly anticipated for myself. It
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Speaker 1: would have been if it was nineteen ninety eight or
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Speaker 1: two thousand or some somewhere around that time. But nowadays
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Speaker 1: there are times where Alchemists can produce. I don't know
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Speaker 1: he can produce to well. I won't say this because
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Speaker 1: it sounds more like, well, that's what you should do, right.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes he can produce in a way where he's dumbing down,
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Speaker 1: if that makes sense, because the artist has a certain
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Speaker 1: flow and vibe. So sometimes the beats are just they're
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Speaker 1: just whatever, you know what I'm saying. They don't catch
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Speaker 1: your ear at all, right, They just kind of there,
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Speaker 1: and some people love that. But we know he could
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Speaker 1: do better because I think when he was producing with
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Speaker 1: hit Boy, his beats were way better. Was the Alchemists
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Speaker 1: who I knew. And then there's Yastin Bey, who on
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Speaker 1: the Black Star two album sound like the most disinterested
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Speaker 1: rap I ever heard in my life, not because what
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Speaker 1: he was saying, but how he was saying it. He
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Speaker 1: just didn't have a level of energy we were used
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Speaker 1: to hearing from him. He's almost mumbling with it, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, even though he's not. But you
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Speaker 1: go back and listen to his flows before there was
23:17
Speaker 1: just a little bit more energy in his delivery. You
23:22
Speaker 1: take that delivery that's disinterested and added to beats that
23:29
Speaker 1: almost sound disinterested, you may have a very boring ass album.
23:35
Speaker 1: But I am leaving hope up front just in case
23:44
Speaker 1: it's what I hope it is. And most Death hasn't
23:50
Speaker 1: done a solo project in the minute, so it might
23:52
Speaker 1: be way better than I anticipated. So I don't know.
23:56
Speaker 1: We'll see also next year that had been announced. Comment
24:01
Speaker 1: and Pete Rock The Auditorium Volume two, I'm gonna tell
24:05
Speaker 1: you right now, I'm just his hype for this as
24:08
Speaker 1: part one, because to me, if you're gonna make a
24:11
Speaker 1: part two, it better be better, or it better be
24:15
Speaker 1: so close that you can't tell, like which one is good,
24:20
Speaker 1: which one is the better album? Better be that because
24:25
Speaker 1: remember Prime DJ Premier Royce the five nine first project
24:32
Speaker 1: was like, damn, this is dope idea. I'm glad they
24:34
Speaker 1: did this. The second one was like, eh, yeah, that's enough.
24:39
Speaker 1: I don't want that to happen. I don't think it'll happen.
24:42
Speaker 1: Pete Rock is just crazy with the beats. I think
24:44
Speaker 1: that will get you in. But I think they probably
24:47
Speaker 1: recorded so much Music initially that they have enough bangers
24:53
Speaker 1: left to say Volume two and maybe Volume three, so
24:56
Speaker 1: we'll see. Now here's a list of people who potentially
25:03
Speaker 1: have albums coming out because something has been said, announced
25:07
Speaker 1: or whatever, or just speculation that you know, yeah, it's
25:11
Speaker 1: about time for them to drop Mob Deep. Havoc said
25:17
Speaker 1: that him and Alchemists were working on a Mob Deep
25:22
Speaker 1: album with original Prodigy vocals included. Posthumous albums don't always
25:29
Speaker 1: do great. I think what Premier did with Gangstar was like,
25:36
Speaker 1: do that sounds like Guru is a part of it?
25:40
Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah, if you're gonna have a thousand
25:44
Speaker 1: features and one Prodigy verse here and half a verse
25:48
Speaker 1: there and no hooks and stuff like that like GM
25:54
Speaker 1: as well, just stop or just make an EP of
25:56
Speaker 1: the best of what you have and put that. I'll
26:00
Speaker 1: be good with that as a final Mob Deep album.
26:04
Speaker 1: Who else? Methad Man and Havoc. They shot a video
26:09
Speaker 1: for a song, but the album never released this year,
26:13
Speaker 1: so that's something to look forward to. I'm hoping Havoc
26:17
Speaker 1: because methad Man's problem with his albums haven't always been
26:22
Speaker 1: he lacks production. Because his production on most of his
26:25
Speaker 1: albums isn't that bad over the years, but it's him
26:32
Speaker 1: holding down an album lyrically by himself, and his features
26:38
Speaker 1: always sound excellent, but then when you get to the album,
26:43
Speaker 1: you always feel like there's not much here, you know,
26:47
Speaker 1: in regards to substance. So hopefully working with Havoc, there's
26:52
Speaker 1: some kind of magic there between the two that you
26:55
Speaker 1: know makes for a better metha Man album than there's
26:59
Speaker 1: been probably since meth Lab two. Me Flab three wasn't
27:06
Speaker 1: that bad, but I think meth Lab two probably was
27:09
Speaker 1: his best in years, so we'll see. Also, Gangstar Premier
27:16
Speaker 1: kind of teased that there would be another Gangstar album
27:19
Speaker 1: and then he released a song that to me was
27:21
Speaker 1: just it was blah, Like if you told me, like
27:26
Speaker 1: if the album's going to sound like that, say, hey,
27:29
Speaker 1: these are records we worked on on during some of
27:32
Speaker 1: your favorite albums, but they never made the cut. It's
27:36
Speaker 1: Gangstar lost tapes. I'd be all in right. I think
27:40
Speaker 1: Maine Source did that, like there was an original kind
27:43
Speaker 1: of version of Breaking Adams. No, it wasn't that. It
27:49
Speaker 1: was what would have been Maine Source's second album, and
27:54
Speaker 1: I thought the way it was done was perfect because
27:57
Speaker 1: it already places you within the context stuff when this
28:01
Speaker 1: stuff was recorded. So that tells you why the beats
28:05
Speaker 1: sound older, the music, the voices, whatever. Right, it gives
28:10
Speaker 1: you the context around what you're hearing, and it kind
28:13
Speaker 1: of prepares you for the sound. Right. So I kind
28:18
Speaker 1: of want that for Gangstar because that first single I
28:20
Speaker 1: was just kind of like, what is this? Is like
28:23
Speaker 1: a Gangstar throwaway? Right? This doesn't feel like we put
28:29
Speaker 1: some new stuff together for a new album like their
28:32
Speaker 1: previous album, which I thought was pretty dope and should
28:36
Speaker 1: have been the end of Gangstar's catalog. But who knows,
28:40
Speaker 1: maybe Premiere got some joints Buster Rhymes, Buster, I think
28:46
Speaker 1: around this time last year released I think it was
28:51
Speaker 1: around this time last year, I can't remember, but this album, Blockbuster,
28:56
Speaker 1: that he basically did a lot of records would have
29:00
Speaker 1: a lot of younger artists. The sound was younger as
29:03
Speaker 1: far as the type of production, and most people were
29:08
Speaker 1: very disappointed, including myself. I'm all for him doing that,
29:12
Speaker 1: but it was almost like he was playing their game
29:16
Speaker 1: instead of collaborating for real, for real, Like, oh, I
29:20
Speaker 1: made a beat that you know a day's youth would
29:24
Speaker 1: be on, and then I'm going to rap on it
29:27
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, it just felt like he was
29:29
Speaker 1: pandering to a younger audience instead of truly collaborating. And
29:34
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe that was their version of truly collaborating.
29:38
Speaker 1: But it just didn't do well for Buster because his
29:42
Speaker 1: fan base isn't younger kats, and they're not going to
29:46
Speaker 1: jump on board just because you put, you know, somebody
29:49
Speaker 1: they like now on your album. It's just better for
29:52
Speaker 1: you to do you and bring them along, you know,
29:56
Speaker 1: in that way, and then you induce people to what
29:59
Speaker 1: you do. So Buss has already been teasing. He has
30:03
Speaker 1: a song out already and I forget the name of
30:06
Speaker 1: the album, but it's definitely dropping very soon. The Roots
30:13
Speaker 1: are also rumored to have an album this year, so
30:16
Speaker 1: is The Game. Apparently he's working on Documentary three. I
30:20
Speaker 1: don't have any reason to believe it'll be whack, because,
30:23
Speaker 1: even though I'm not the biggest fan of the first documentary,
30:26
Speaker 1: which has more to do with name dropping in every
30:29
Speaker 1: instance than it has to do with it being a
30:32
Speaker 1: good album, Documentary two is slept on. It was a
30:37
Speaker 1: double album, and when you make a double album and
30:41
Speaker 1: both discs are crazy, I can't see game fumbeling with
30:48
Speaker 1: this third one, so we'll see. Also rumored to release
30:53
Speaker 1: a Griselda compilation, which hasn't happened in a minute. I
30:57
Speaker 1: think maybe twenty nineteen was the last time we had
31:00
Speaker 1: one of those. I wrote Gang Start twice Crazy fifty
31:07
Speaker 1: was supposedly working on his final album for a long time,
31:11
Speaker 1: so maybe we'll get that. No, we do not want
31:14
Speaker 1: fifty in eminem I've never liked a record they collaborated
31:20
Speaker 1: on together. I never like it always felt like two
31:23
Speaker 1: different worlds colliding and it don't sound good. Okay, but
31:27
Speaker 1: there's some people who might want it, so whatever. And lastly, Drake,
31:34
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see what he drops. If it's a
31:38
Speaker 1: bunch of you know, round twos and all of that
31:41
Speaker 1: is it's just not it's going to fall flat. But
31:44
Speaker 1: if it's just a bunch of good music, who knows,
31:48
Speaker 1: he might the boy he might be back, not back
31:52
Speaker 1: all the way, but back enough to be like, okay,
31:55
Speaker 1: you know, let's two step and the rumored Kendrick got
31:59
Speaker 1: enough album situation right. He dropped GNX in twenty twenty
32:04
Speaker 1: four out of no where, and everybody, for the most part,
32:07
Speaker 1: a lot of people seem to love it. He has
32:10
Speaker 1: the super Bowl performance coming up, and chances are an
32:15
Speaker 1: album Wive dropped before during with Kendrick. I'm thinking he
32:19
Speaker 1: gonna leave the stage at the super Bowl and it's
32:22
Speaker 1: gonna be an album on Apple Music and Spotify. Just
32:25
Speaker 1: waiting because everybody gonna say what song was that that
32:29
Speaker 1: he did? Like at the beginning that he opened with
32:32
Speaker 1: what was that? And then the album drop and is
32:35
Speaker 1: on it kind of like squabble up, right, So we'll see. Now.
32:41
Speaker 1: To end the show off, I'm gonna do a couple
32:44
Speaker 1: of wishes, a couple of wishes I have for twenty
32:47
Speaker 1: twenty five, So let's start at the top with that.
32:52
Speaker 1: I want to see albums from jay Z. I think
32:57
Speaker 1: it's time, jay I think it's time to do one
33:01
Speaker 1: last final This is it. I'm probably not gonna rap
33:08
Speaker 1: or make an album anymore. I think people, especially now
33:14
Speaker 1: want to hear from him and hear what he has
33:16
Speaker 1: to say about certain things. And I kind of feel
33:19
Speaker 1: like when you look at everything that's transpired from hip
33:24
Speaker 1: hop turning fifty and people feeling like jay Z wasn't
33:29
Speaker 1: really a part of all of the celebration, right, whether
33:32
Speaker 1: he chose to or not, but he wasn't. The most
33:37
Speaker 1: he did was his exhibit in Brooklyn that was all
33:39
Speaker 1: about him, which is a Jay thing to do. But
33:44
Speaker 1: I've been asking for an album since four for four,
33:47
Speaker 1: so we'll see if we get that. I would love
33:50
Speaker 1: a Wu Tang project. Man. I feel like they missed
33:52
Speaker 1: the boat, you know, when they had the finale of
33:55
Speaker 1: the show. I think a new album from the Wolves
33:58
Speaker 1: should have dropped. Yeah, either we get that or we
34:02
Speaker 1: get the forbidden album that's you know, been circulating and
34:07
Speaker 1: here and then you know, something from the Woo. Speaking
34:10
Speaker 1: of the Wou, I want Supreme clientele too, that ghost
34:15
Speaker 1: has been talking about for years, and especially I want
34:19
Speaker 1: only Built for Cuban Links three because the thing is
34:22
Speaker 1: is not many people are talking about it. But during
34:26
Speaker 1: the lockdown and an interview, what I believe was with
34:32
Speaker 1: it was either with the Breakfast Club or it was
34:35
Speaker 1: Hot ninety seven with e Bro, But I feel like
34:38
Speaker 1: it was the Breakfast Club. Ray Kwan said it himself,
34:44
Speaker 1: it's time to complete the trilogy we're working on. Only
34:49
Speaker 1: Built for Cuban Links three that was that would be
34:54
Speaker 1: close to five years now since he said that, So
34:58
Speaker 1: hopefully in twenty twenty five, we get that I'd like
35:01
Speaker 1: another Little Brother album. Why not? You know. I like
35:05
Speaker 1: the fact that they came back. You know, they had
35:08
Speaker 1: they had a documentary and all of that. But the
35:10
Speaker 1: album that they dropped was good, but it still kind
35:14
Speaker 1: of felt like they were they were putting the training
35:17
Speaker 1: not the training wheels, but they were getting back on
35:19
Speaker 1: a horse whatever that means, you know what I'm saying.
35:22
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like prime Little Brother, so to speak.
35:30
Speaker 1: It just felt like, oh, Little Brother's back. But I
35:33
Speaker 1: kind of wanted more. So hopefully they drop an album.
35:36
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind a new album from Rick Ross. I
35:39
Speaker 1: also wouldn't mind Easy Taking one more crack at it.
35:44
Speaker 1: I wasn't the biggest fan of Do or Die Too,
35:46
Speaker 1: but it wasn't terrible. I was highly anticipating his album
35:52
Speaker 1: with Buck Wow, totally produced by Buck Wow, and I
35:56
Speaker 1: was highly disappointed, mainly because of the beats. And I
36:00
Speaker 1: feel like with a Z he needs a specific style
36:04
Speaker 1: of beats that matches with his lyrics because depending on
36:10
Speaker 1: the type of beat, like when I say, okay, this
36:13
Speaker 1: is what a Z needs real quick, as needs what
36:18
Speaker 1: Rick Ross has made a career off of and I'm
36:21
Speaker 1: talking about the lavish, lush sounding tracks. You think about
36:26
Speaker 1: songs like the Flies with nas As floating on that
36:30
Speaker 1: type of beat. You think about sugar Hill, right, floating
36:34
Speaker 1: on that type of beat. Life's a bitch, right as
36:40
Speaker 1: needs songs that match his delivery, his style, his personality,
36:46
Speaker 1: and I feel like you can't just give him anything
36:48
Speaker 1: and everything because he sounds off and it sounds wag
36:52
Speaker 1: and it makes it takes away from his lyrics. So
36:56
Speaker 1: I feel like one more album from him, maybe just
37:00
Speaker 1: league maybe you know what I'm saying, Like somebody who
37:03
Speaker 1: can create that soundscape for him, and I think it
37:08
Speaker 1: would come out super dope and I think a lot
37:10
Speaker 1: of people would love it. So and lastly, Doche, I
37:18
Speaker 1: would like it. I would like an album from Doche.
37:21
Speaker 1: I mean Alligators Bites Never Heal was basically a mixtape
37:27
Speaker 1: but still made everybody's That's projects of not everybody's but
37:31
Speaker 1: some people minds projects of the year, right, So there
37:37
Speaker 1: was that. Now his his three things that I would
37:47
Speaker 1: like to see happen in twenty twenty five. Number one,
37:55
Speaker 1: I need all my favorites to be more calculated with
38:00
Speaker 1: their releases and as examples I'm saying Fanny de Butcher, Conway,
38:07
Speaker 1: The Machine, and Ransom, I feel like it's dope to
38:11
Speaker 1: get multiple projects from them within a year. But what
38:16
Speaker 1: I don't like is that sometimes they feel like we're
38:20
Speaker 1: just getting projects right. Some are better than others when
38:27
Speaker 1: you look at the totality of what's released. Like let's
38:30
Speaker 1: use Ransom for example. I like mostly everything I heard
38:36
Speaker 1: from him this year. I didn't get to hear the
38:38
Speaker 1: joint that was only on his on even dot com,
38:42
Speaker 1: but from what he released ep wise and then the
38:46
Speaker 1: collaborative album with Conway, I think you could have just
38:50
Speaker 1: made a very dope album with all of it. To me,
38:54
Speaker 1: that would have put it in the you know, best
38:59
Speaker 1: of the year category in most cases, right, because how
39:02
Speaker 1: can you have a Ransom and Conway album drop? And
39:07
Speaker 1: when I look at most of these best of twenty
39:10
Speaker 1: twenty fours, I don't even see it. You know, it's crazy.
39:14
Speaker 1: So I would want more of that, right, Like I
39:18
Speaker 1: felt like with Benny the Butcher, right, even though I
39:21
Speaker 1: loved Everybody Can't Go, towards the end of the album,
39:25
Speaker 1: it starts to taper off. But he released Summertime Butch
39:30
Speaker 1: that has some joints on it. You could have took
39:31
Speaker 1: some of those, we could joints off the depth gen
39:34
Speaker 1: release and put some of the higher points of Summertime
39:37
Speaker 1: butch on there, like I just need them. And the
39:41
Speaker 1: same thing with Conway. Right, Conway released probably three projects
39:45
Speaker 1: this year. Slat Face Killer didn't really do anything even
39:49
Speaker 1: though it had some joints on there. Again, he had
39:52
Speaker 1: the project with Ransom, he had another project in between,
39:55
Speaker 1: I believe, I just can't remember, But that's what I mean,
40:00
Speaker 1: Like instead of a project that's you almost had it,
40:05
Speaker 1: or man, I wish there was a little bit more,
40:08
Speaker 1: and then you keep releasing different projects throughout the year.
40:11
Speaker 1: I know what it does financially, you know what I'm saying.
40:14
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I just think one project
40:19
Speaker 1: or two, write an EP and an album that are
40:23
Speaker 1: the best of the best that you're going to give
40:25
Speaker 1: people for this year. It resonates more with people, like
40:30
Speaker 1: if you're looking for people to spend the going to
40:33
Speaker 1: spend more because of the simple fact you know you're
40:36
Speaker 1: just giving them high quality hip hop and it's not piecemeal.
40:42
Speaker 1: So second thing I'd like to see happen no more
40:45
Speaker 1: around twos. Drake versus Kendrick. Kendrick versus Drake is over.
40:52
Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned. I don't want to hear
40:55
Speaker 1: no more shots subliminals from either right. I just want
41:02
Speaker 1: them to get back to the music. The battle happened,
41:05
Speaker 1: it was a great time in hip hop, but it's over.
41:10
Speaker 1: Hendrick one, Drake lost. It doesn't take anything away from
41:15
Speaker 1: Drake losing when he was fighting the battle. Whereas J
41:20
Speaker 1: Cole was like, I'm out. I don't care what happens.
41:22
Speaker 1: I'm out. Do let me out right. So I don't
41:29
Speaker 1: even want it. I don't even want Drake, don't even
41:32
Speaker 1: do it. Don't do it, man, don't come out with
41:34
Speaker 1: a bunch of disrecords. Don't come out tooting your lips
41:38
Speaker 1: and trying to look tough and saying things and trying
41:41
Speaker 1: to pull the wool up. It was boxed the whole time,
41:44
Speaker 1: like no, we don't believe you. You need more people
41:47
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Move on, both of y'all, Okay,
41:52
Speaker 1: break it out. That's what I'm saying. No more round twos,
41:56
Speaker 1: no more ramps. I don't want to see any other
42:00
Speaker 1: battles either, unless it's that compelling. But I'm looking at you,
42:05
Speaker 1: Lord Jamar and Fat Joe, stay away from the booth.
42:08
Speaker 1: I don't care what you guys got to say about
42:10
Speaker 1: each other. I just kind of feel like dope to
42:15
Speaker 1: get that battle. The way it played out felt calculated
42:19
Speaker 1: but also random, and it was more exciting than we
42:23
Speaker 1: could have anticipated. So I don't need anybody going to
42:27
Speaker 1: manufacture a new battle or rekindle a battle that bent over. Okay,
42:34
Speaker 1: So there's that. And lastly, I just want to see
42:39
Speaker 1: more great releases from old school artists, right legends in
42:46
Speaker 1: the game. Great releases. Not I released an album rock Him,
42:52
Speaker 1: but great albums, you know what I'm saying, where you
42:55
Speaker 1: could tell the lyrics, the sound, the quality of the sound,
43:00
Speaker 1: the beats, the concepts lyrically and sonically, the album cover right, Like,
43:08
Speaker 1: just make dope music again, don't make music to say
43:12
Speaker 1: the legend you know has new music out and the
43:16
Speaker 1: music is weak. Like, no, if rock Him is coming
43:21
Speaker 1: back out with an album when she said he would,
43:24
Speaker 1: I need him to be welcome home. I need dudes
43:28
Speaker 1: with production that's crazy to lace him right. Don't charge
43:36
Speaker 1: this man a bunch of money's rock Cam, because if
43:38
Speaker 1: the brother was going tomorrow, then all these dudes would
43:42
Speaker 1: be like, Yo, you know what Rockim was. We'll give
43:44
Speaker 1: him some fire beats. Man, give rock him some beats. Okay,
43:48
Speaker 1: Row we know you can make beats, but get away
43:50
Speaker 1: from that machine. We need you to spit okay, And
43:54
Speaker 1: I need a nas and rock him definitive collaboration on
43:59
Speaker 1: this album, probably produced by Premier or somebody crazy like
44:03
Speaker 1: not Okay or Bank. Somebody gonna make something that sounds monumental.
44:10
Speaker 1: But I just want to see more of that because
44:12
Speaker 1: when you think about what we said about l L
44:15
Speaker 1: and Common and Snoop and Redmend, I need y'all to
44:23
Speaker 1: do that. If you dropping an album, if you old school,
44:26
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's KR orres one click Rick
44:30
Speaker 1: ice Cube, I know you dropped an album, but Nope,
44:33
Speaker 1: not that one. But you know the Buster's coming out,
44:39
Speaker 1: like we need the older, the legends, the the guys
44:46
Speaker 1: who started the game, the guys who pushed the game forward.
44:49
Speaker 1: We need quality hip hop coming out in twenty twenty five.
44:54
Speaker 1: And I think between the guys I mentioned, they gave
44:58
Speaker 1: everybody enough g on work to say this is how
45:02
Speaker 1: you make music now when you are legend, like in
45:07
Speaker 1: the nineties, you know what I'm saying, or the eighties
45:10
Speaker 1: or whatever. Not everybody can do that, but I think
45:15
Speaker 1: though it all takes motivation and inspiration. That's all it takes,
45:20
Speaker 1: to be honest, to tap back into that, even if
45:23
Speaker 1: it's just one time, to tap back into who you
45:26
Speaker 1: used to be. Also, I wouldn't mind an EPMD album
45:31
Speaker 1: like I think it could be crazy. I think it
45:34
Speaker 1: could be. So there you have it. This has been
45:38
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five previous show for Hip Hop Now Podcasts.
45:42
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46:21
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