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Excited for Supreme Clientele 2? · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Coming up.
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  Speaker 2: On this week's episode of Hip Hop Now podcast, Ghost
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  Speaker 2: Space Killer officially announces the release of Supreme Clientele Too,
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  Speaker 2: Joey badass Ig live about Columbia Records delaying his album
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  Speaker 2: It's Crazy, and thirty years of Purple Tape, Ray Kwan's
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  Speaker 2: debut album only built for Cuban Links. We're gonna definitely
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into the business stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So just recently, ghost Face Killer announced officially that Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Clientele two will be dropping in August. This will be
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  Speaker 2: the third album in Massiveppill's seven album seven Icon run
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  Speaker 2: started with Slick Rick with his album Victory. Then we
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  Speaker 2: got Ray Kwan's The Emperor's New Clothes, and now, even
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  Speaker 2: though we don't officially have a date because he didn't
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  Speaker 2: say a date, we have the announcement of ghost Face Killers,
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  Speaker 2: sequel to probably his best album, a undeniable classic from
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  Speaker 2: the year two thousand, Supreme Clientele. And he also kind
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  Speaker 2: of put an explanation point on that announcement by dropping
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  Speaker 2: a new single call Rap Kingpin, and people seem to
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  Speaker 2: be excited for the most part. I like it right,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's not extra gruff voice ghosts, So I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I like the way he rhyme in his ghost face.
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  Speaker 2: But the beat, it kind of it kind of pulls
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  Speaker 2: you in at first. You're like, Okay, this is old school. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling that. Wait a minute, is that a mighty
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  Speaker 2: healthy sample? That kind of threw me off, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because I get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sequel to.
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  Speaker 2: Hands down, in my opinion, your best album. I know
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  Speaker 2: some people love iron Man, but whatever, uh, and the
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  Speaker 2: callback is not necessary because the last thing you want
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  Speaker 2: to do because people are gonna do it anyway. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's his philosophy, like you're gonna you're gonna compare
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  Speaker 2: the albums anyway. But I don't want to compare this
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  Speaker 2: song Rat Kingpin to Mighty Healthy. You know why, because
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  Speaker 2: there's no comparison Mighty Healthy. It's crazy. Okay, So I
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  Speaker 2: still like the track. I still like Ghosts and what
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  Speaker 2: he brought to the track. I wish there was a
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  Speaker 2: third verse something of that nature. Shout out to the
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  Speaker 2: homie AC I think he said, considering that beat having
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  Speaker 2: to check out by melody basically style beat, he should
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  Speaker 2: have just put rock him on the end of that joint.
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  Speaker 1: But who knows. Maybe he asked him, maybe he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a decent start for a supreme clientele too.
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  Speaker 2: But like I told you all before, man, it is
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  Speaker 2: a tall task to do a sequel, and not many
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  Speaker 2: people have been successful at maybe not capturing the same
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  Speaker 2: amount of success as the original, but being like a
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  Speaker 2: proper sequel that you could feel like I could listen
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  Speaker 2: to part and part two is an extension of it
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  Speaker 2: or evolution of it. Most recently, a success story would
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  Speaker 2: be Redman. Right, he did Muddy Waters. I was Muddy
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  Speaker 2: Waters is a classic to me, arguably his best album.
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  Speaker 2: When he announced Muddy Waters Too, and when he took
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  Speaker 2: ever to drop it, I was nervous as hell listening
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  Speaker 2: to it, like, man, this, maybe he shouldn't have called
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  Speaker 2: it this, But it didn't matter. It turned out to
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  Speaker 2: be a very very good album, a very notable sequel
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  Speaker 2: to a classic album, and one of Redman's best albums
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  Speaker 2: in probably more than a decade.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not lying. I did a wholetel list.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, not to say everything was whack, but this was
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  Speaker 2: clearly one of his better albums. It just shoots right
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  Speaker 2: up to the top somewhere, you know, either before or after.
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  Speaker 2: Doc's the name. I might say before, Okay, I might
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  Speaker 2: say before, but with Supreme Clientele too. Remember what Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Clientele did? Right, dropped in two thousand at a time
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  Speaker 2: where the rap game was very different, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: certain artists that kind of you know lost that way.
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  Speaker 2: You know, production was kind of weird around that time.
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  Speaker 2: Everything and the wo definitely was down. Like remember when
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  Speaker 2: the Woo launched, they had all these hits. It was
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  Speaker 2: like they got to a point where all these artists
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  Speaker 2: started returning with albums, their second albums, and they just
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  Speaker 2: weren't good, and it just felt like the wool was
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  Speaker 2: going down. And then ghost Face dropped Supreme Clientele. He
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  Speaker 2: recaptured that feeling that we remembered considering iron Man was
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  Speaker 2: already dope. He was His sophomore was not a jinx.
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  Speaker 2: It was really it was really dope to see and hear.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot with that album that people are
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  Speaker 2: going to have expectations for. I'm sorry, it's just the
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  Speaker 2: way it goes. People are going to have expectations that
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  Speaker 2: are huge. But from what I've seen online, most people
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  Speaker 2: like the song that's out, so we'll see. Obviously, I'll
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  Speaker 2: do a review when it drops next. So Joey Badass
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  Speaker 2: took to Instagram Live recently to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about Columbia Records delaying his album. He dropped a single
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  Speaker 2: not that long ago that I thought it was pretty dope,
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  Speaker 2: and he had a performance on Jimmy Kimmel that I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was dope too, And he was telling his
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  Speaker 2: fans August first, which is the day of this recording,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get this album and to be quite honest,
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  Speaker 2: considering what I've seen that has dropped today, it would
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  Speaker 2: have been perfect because not to say everybody's whack that
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  Speaker 2: dropped today. It was just as far as my interest.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a fan of Joey Badass, so I was interested.
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  Speaker 2: But when I saw this video like two days before
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  Speaker 2: and he's talking about, you know, the momentum he built,
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  Speaker 2: how he dropped, like everything he dropped, as far as
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  Speaker 2: the disc records and singles, they went straight to YouTube
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  Speaker 2: first just to put it out to the people. And
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  Speaker 2: he was doing the same thing here right, Well, I
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  Speaker 2: guess trying to get Columbia to just like Yo, I
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  Speaker 2: got the momentum drop it.
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  Speaker 1: For whatever reason, they delayed it now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's delayed until the next week
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  Speaker 2: or next month or next year, I don't know. But
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  Speaker 2: what was interesting about watching him talk about this and
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  Speaker 2: how he was saying how Columbia records, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: don't get it, they don't understand on what it is
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  Speaker 2: him as an artist feeding the people, you know, all
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  Speaker 2: the all the rappers speak, And I felt I fell
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  Speaker 2: on two sides right of this conversation or or argument
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  Speaker 2: if you arguing or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, one.
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  Speaker 2: I feel Joey bad As because at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the year when he decided to like basically beg Kendrick
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  Speaker 2: to hey, battle me too, and Kendrick just been on
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  Speaker 2: tour for like the majority of the year, and it's
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  Speaker 2: like we nobody wants to see that Drake and Kendrick happened.
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  Speaker 2: It was what it was stop Okay, who knows, maybe
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  Speaker 2: that was ordered by Columbia records because regulabels do get
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  Speaker 2: down like that, like, Yo, this Kendrick, see if he
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  Speaker 2: can give us some of you know, some of that
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  Speaker 2: like this Drake right, like Drake stock ain't dropped that
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  Speaker 2: much if he will engage because he looking for something,
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  Speaker 2: so you should have went to them. Kendrick's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like who what, I'm GNX, I'm in Barcelona. But with
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  Speaker 2: Joey Badass, you know, I could feel him because him
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  Speaker 2: coming off of that, you know, dropping those songs early
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  Speaker 2: on that was kind of like and then get into
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  Speaker 2: a basically a real twenty v one right where he
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  Speaker 2: was really fighting off a number of mcs from the
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  Speaker 2: West Coast based off of what he said. He kind
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  Speaker 2: of got a lot of credibility out of it. I know,
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  Speaker 2: some people didn't like his records. I don't care. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care. The last two they were good. They were
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  Speaker 2: good enough for me to feel like he won, considering
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  Speaker 2: he was literally fighting like a bunch of dudes. Drake
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  Speaker 2: in his case, he made I think it was pushups.
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  Speaker 2: He made one song and addressed a couple of people,
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  Speaker 2: but after that it was all Kendrick focused, whereas you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Joey was sort of like, oh, you want to fight,
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  Speaker 2: Oh you want to fight. Oh you want to fight,
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  Speaker 2: Oh you want to fight. So it was a couple
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  Speaker 2: of it was a couple of songs right that everybody dropped,
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  Speaker 2: and it was kind of it was like a dope time.
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  Speaker 2: So Joey had some momentum off of that. And then
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  Speaker 2: when I heard this single, even though he's still taking
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  Speaker 2: some shots, which I'm like, all right, man, move on,
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  Speaker 2: I felt it was dope. And when I watched a
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel performance, I was like, this is dope. I'm
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  Speaker 2: curious as to what this album is going to sound like.
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  Speaker 2: So on August first, I'll be in.
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  Speaker 1: Line, not.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, I'll be online, not in line,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll be in line to hear it and it
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  Speaker 2: got delayed. But I also fall on the side of
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  Speaker 2: the record label when it comes to this. Joey, you
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  Speaker 2: have a contract. We know you want to be freedom
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  Speaker 2: of expression, we know you kind of want to move
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  Speaker 2: like an indie person would, but your label has to
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  Speaker 2: be behind that market and strategy. Right There are people
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  Speaker 2: who get paid to come up with these things, or
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  Speaker 2: at least work in tandem as they should work in
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  Speaker 2: tandem with you as an artist, to help really build
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  Speaker 2: that thing to a fever pitch. And I think maybe
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  Speaker 2: they felt like, you know, even though he had some momentum,
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  Speaker 2: it kind of slowed down what you did right before
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  Speaker 2: this album is supposed to drop.
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  Speaker 1: So I get it from both angles. But I just
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  Speaker 1: got to.
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  Speaker 2: Look at somebody like Jokie Badas and say, like, dog,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to do that, what you're saying. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he also threatened to just put the album on YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: but they will take you to court, come on, man,
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  Speaker 2: or they'll take some money from me or whatever. But
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  Speaker 2: I think at the end of the day is you
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  Speaker 2: got to get off the label if that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to roll like this.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's what other people do.
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  Speaker 2: Nine times out of ten, they're either independent artists or
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  Speaker 2: there's someone there's someone who are a group or artists
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  Speaker 2: who are on a label that is one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: with them, right, one hundred percent, Like oh.
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  Speaker 1: You want to draw, Oh you want this, Drake, you
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  Speaker 1: want to.
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  Speaker 2: Do that, Let's do it like right, like rognation, Like
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  Speaker 2: look at what the clips were trying to do. And
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  Speaker 2: Kendricks Verse didn't really even have anything controversial, and death
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  Speaker 2: Jam wasn't with it. Push your t calls jay Z,
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  Speaker 2: he say hold my beer or hold my lots or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: my red stripe whatever, which is beer for those who
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  Speaker 2: don't know, and they are not a sponsor of this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know they were out of the deal.
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  Speaker 2: But they got the ideal rollout for themselves, like one
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  Speaker 2: of the best rollouts for an album in hip hop history.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like they were gonna make sure the
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  Speaker 2: hype was always there, there was always something added. They
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  Speaker 2: were everywhere you can imagine, write, breakfast club, tiny desk,
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  Speaker 2: just everywhere, all at the same time. And then everybody's
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  Speaker 2: loving the album, buying vinyl and all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: then boom tour perfect similar to what Kendrick did off
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  Speaker 2: the strength of gn X like every time you thought, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he gonna respond, no, he's doing the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Oh he gonna respond, No, he's just wanting a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of Grammys.
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  Speaker 2: So Joey, if you want the same kind of deal
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  Speaker 2: out of Columbia, you guys probably should have been on
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  Speaker 2: the same page. And I'm not saying they weren't. Maybe Joey,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they were. Maybe everything Joey did was a part
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  Speaker 2: of Columbia, and Joey vadd as his plan, but he
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  Speaker 2: felt the album was ready to be dropped and they
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  Speaker 2: were like, nah, but just wait.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: But nevertheless, from what I can gather from the video,
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  Speaker 2: he seemed like, you know, obviously extremely disappointed that the
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  Speaker 2: album wasn't dropping, and I feel them As an artist, man,
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  Speaker 2: when you feel like it's go time right now, you
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  Speaker 2: want to. But I'm also curious because he obviously, as
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  Speaker 2: an artist, believes in this project. I'm just wondering how
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  Speaker 2: good it will be. I'm just like, I'm hopeful. I
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  Speaker 2: just hope it ain't one of those things where you know,
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  Speaker 2: as an artist, you feel like it was my great
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  Speaker 2: work blah blah blah, and then we hear it and
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  Speaker 2: We're like, it's I.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, So it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see Joey Badass on IG Live complaining?
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  Speaker 1: Do you Well, here's a better question.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think artists who want to be artists and
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  Speaker 2: don't want to know executive producer dancing all in the video?
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'll relax. Do you think.
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  Speaker 2: Artists who want to be artists should just skip major
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  Speaker 2: labels all together? We know these things sometimes comes, these
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  Speaker 2: deals come with having like nice budgets and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 2: But do you think we're just at a time where
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  Speaker 2: you don't need them.
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  Speaker 1: You can build this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You may have to hire a couple of people who
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  Speaker 2: did certain things you can't do, but beyond that, it
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  Speaker 2: may cost you way less just to drop your music
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  Speaker 2: and have a team that can give you a significant rollout.
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  Speaker 1: So leave your comments in the commons section below.
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  Speaker 2: And lastly, the date is August first, two and twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: and it is the thirtieth anniversary of Ray Kwan the
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  Speaker 2: Chef's debut classic album only built for Cuban links. If
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  Speaker 2: it was around back then and you bought the cassette,
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  Speaker 2: you know it's also referred to as the purple tape
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  Speaker 2: because the tape was purple.
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  Speaker 1: That's why.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe I lost my purple tape a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago. I even lost the purple CD. But I
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: have the purple vinyl and it's pretty dupe. Right, it's
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  Speaker 2: right back there and behind me. If you're watching on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: For myself personally thinking about this album thirty years later,
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  Speaker 2: the first thing that comes to my mind is the
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  Speaker 2: fact that it's coming up on actually towards the end
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  Speaker 2: of this month, thirty years since I started my freshman
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  Speaker 2: year in college, which is crazy. Nineteen ninety five was
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  Speaker 2: a crazy year for hip hop. Same thing with ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm in school and all the things that people
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  Speaker 2: talk about, debate about all that, it was just happening
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  Speaker 2: in real time and I was just surrounded by hip
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  Speaker 2: hop heads.
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  Speaker 1: But I remember when I remember where.
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  Speaker 2: My hype started for this album, and it was in
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  Speaker 2: I believe in ninety four, either ninety four or early
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen ninety five, when I saw that Ray first
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  Speaker 2: of all, I heard on the radio, so I went
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  Speaker 2: to go get it because you know, I could hear
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  Speaker 2: the hook. But Ray Kwan and ghost Face had the
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  Speaker 2: song the single Heaven and Hell that was featured on
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  Speaker 2: the soundtrack to the movie Fresh. Now, I never saw
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  Speaker 2: the movie Fresh, but I saw that video and I
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  Speaker 2: heard the song and I was like, Yo, that don't
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  Speaker 2: sound nothing like the Wu Tang album. Like that song
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  Speaker 2: is crazy, you know what I'm saying. And I kept thinking, Yo,
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  Speaker 2: Ray Kwan's album might be legit. So when it dropped
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  Speaker 2: day one, I was writing the record store, I know
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  Speaker 2: my spot back in the day's Beach Street in downtown Brooklyn,
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  Speaker 2: Fulton Street, and went there. I think I bought the
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  Speaker 2: CD first because I don't remember, well, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: let me take that back.
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  Speaker 1: I did buy the tape first.
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  Speaker 2: Later when the tape broke or somebody stole it, is
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  Speaker 2: when I got the CD. But I just remember, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I had a working walkman at the time,
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  Speaker 2: so I had to just you know, open it on
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  Speaker 2: the bus and look through and you know all of that.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I wrote a chapter about this in
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  Speaker 2: my book. But I just remember when I got home,
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  Speaker 2: there was some things I needed to do before school, right,
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  Speaker 2: like kind of getting clothes together and stuff like that,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: and I was it wasn't like I was leaving tomorrow,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: but you know, I think I might have had a
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: week or so left, and I just remember like getting
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: myself situated to that album.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Right just my moms wasn't home.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: We had like this big boombox joint, and you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the base was crazy on there, so I was like,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna play this on there, and I just remember listening,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and I remember the intro striving for Perfection, And I
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: remember at first not just really like knowing like what
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: kind of skit is this? Until I started listening, I'm like,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: oh wow, this is like a we got one more
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: chance at this, you know, to get out of this
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: street stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like this is it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: You know, this is glory, you know, like like they
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: were saying, I'm not trying to be, you know, sitting
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: on a little two hundred doll my life.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I got big and better.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Plans like and I was just sitting there like, you
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: know what for somebody like me who's getting ready to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: go to college, this intro is so relatable to me.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Like sure, I wasn't no drug dealer, you know what
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. But I wasn't. I'm not a part of
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a family. Well now I am, right, because we all
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: had a lot of us have degrees, but at the time,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: my brother, my older brother, was like the only person
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: in the family with a degree, and I was up next,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: and I knew what I wanted, so I was looking
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: at striving for perfection, like word, you know what I'm saying, God,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: when my my babies in there, God mess around my
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: grand Like I was on. I was feeling all of it,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and I just remember, you know, all the songs like
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Hitting in the Wool, Features and obviously Knowledge God was
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: dope and Incarcerated Scarfaces Knives was on head. You know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: everybody had like another name other than their name, right,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Like this was the first time you saw that on
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: only built for Cuban links because that's how they were listed,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: like method Man aka Johnny Blaze, you know, ghost Face
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Killer aka Tony Starks, iron Man. That's where all these
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: other monikers came from. And then it was dope because
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Nas was the only feature outside the WU and it
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: was like Nas aka Escabaar and it was like, yo,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: this is just dope. And then you know we heard
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: songs like verbal Intercourse and Nas. I think he might
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: have got a hip hop quotable and a source for
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: that joint. It was just top to bottom a very
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: very dope album. And I really liked the way they
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: set it up in the Wu Tang American Saga Show.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Now I know, ghost Face and Ray Kwan say, oh
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: it's not true and all of that, who cares.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: It was still good television.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: And even if they tell us the real story, just
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: knowing how it was done on this show, it just
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: tapped into the nostalgia I had for the album. Now
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: with Ray Kwan, obviously he just dropped the new album
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: and he went on to have Only Built for Cuba
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Links two, which was another great sequel to a classic album.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And you know he had his slip up with the
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Immobilarity after this album.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: But I did.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Basically an album ranking for Raycorn albums, and the majority
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: of his albums are good.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Mobilarity is really.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: The only one that I could comfortably say it's whack right,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: and everything else is either good or great or classic right.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: So I just feel like on the anniversary, the thirtieth
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: anniversary of Only Built for Cuban Links, it should be celebrated. Man,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: if you loved that album for back in the day,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: played today, you know, if you got t shirts.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know, the sneakers.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: That came out a while ago, the actual purple tape
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that was re released, the vinyl whatever go on social
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: media celebrate the classic hip hop album. It was just
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: one of those albums like the Ellmatics and It Takes
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: a Nation of Millions and the Paid in Full and
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: run DMC's Raising Hell. It's like them cornerstones and hip
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: hop that to me, are similar to people loving like
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Marvin Gaye's What's going On and Stevie Wonder's Songs in
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the Kia Life and Michael Jackson's Off the Wall. Like
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: even though I love those albums too, this was my
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: time and you know, get ready to go off to
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: college and kind of ever since high school really and
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: maybe even junior high.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: School, like sinking myself into music.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: And the messages and kind of learning from certain rappers
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: good or bad, but at the end of the day,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: being entertained only built for Cuban links.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: If I was describing for.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Someone who's like, Okay, well, what kind of album is it,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: think of it like Street Mafia flick right, It's Coke
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Rat before Coke Rat was Coke Rat. You know, there's
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: even sniffing at the beginning of one of the records, right,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and they don't have a cold. You know, it's this
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: predates the clips, you know what I'm saying. This predates Griselda.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: You know, it inspires all these guys who we like now.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And it's just a very dope album.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: So I know there'll probably be sales on vinyl or
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: new vinyl release and things like that. You know, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: if you had the album digitally for a while, just
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: go and support it, man, because the more we support
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: what we consider to be real hip hop, the more
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the people with the power to present real hip hop will.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Feel like, not only is it profit the bulb of
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: this interest.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: So there you have it. Where were you when ray
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Kuon dropped only built for Cuban links? Were you in
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the essence because you wasn't even born yet, or you
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: a grown man with kids, or were you like me,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: about to go to school, college or high school or
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: whatever and you had the purple tape in your deck?
• 28:23
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• 28:25
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• 28:25
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• 29:18
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• 29:20
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• 29:23
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