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Do You Like Sequels? · 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: Lil Wayne reveals the track listen, and guest features for
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  Speaker 1: the Carter six. Massive Pel Records announces seven new albums
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  Speaker 1: from seven hip hop legends, and my thoughts on wis
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  Speaker 1: kalif is a new album sequel cush An Orange Juice
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  Speaker 1: Part two. Sequels don't always turn out to be good,
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  Speaker 1: but it's about we Maybe it is good. Who knows,
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  Speaker 1: right into the business. So, if you have been living
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  Speaker 1: under a rock, Lil Wayne the super Bowl thing, we know,
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  Speaker 1: he said he's not interested, we weren't interested. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: keep it at that. But what we are interested in
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  Speaker 1: is another sequel to Lil Wayne's Carter series. Now, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this should be the last one, because
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  Speaker 1: there must be a reason why he is now up
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  Speaker 1: to six installments within the Carter series, and honestly, they're
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  Speaker 1: not all good, right, Like one to three is solid, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even some would even call at least two
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  Speaker 1: and three classics. Four was cool, but yeah, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like things fell off a little bit. Five was also like,
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  Speaker 1: probably less exciting. While Lil Wayne has released the track
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  Speaker 1: listing for the Car to six, which I believe is
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  Speaker 1: due out in June of twenty twenty five, that's this year.
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  Speaker 1: If you're from the future, twenty twenty eight, he's probably
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  Speaker 1: already on the Car at ten. Right, Relax, But with
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  Speaker 1: that being said, let me just make sure. Hold up,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even have the link available. What am I
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  Speaker 1: doing with a minute? Something ain't right here. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: this live on the spot. Because he released the track list,
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  Speaker 1: but he also has the features that will appear on
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  Speaker 1: the album, which kind of scares me a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna front because we just we're just
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  Speaker 1: in an age of hip hop where features tend to
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  Speaker 1: dominate every project and though sometimes I like the collaborations
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  Speaker 1: and don't mind them, like are we just getting lazy
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  Speaker 1: in hip hop? Like with multiple sequels, like with what
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to talk about now, as far as the feature,
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  Speaker 1: So here's the track list and let's see if we
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  Speaker 1: just get to that. He posted this on well, actually
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  Speaker 1: this is Roland Stones. I guess he got the cover
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  Speaker 1: the No, that's something else where the hell is the
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  Speaker 1: track listing? This is? This is? This is not good.
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  Speaker 1: This came via interview, I believe, but so he didn't
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  Speaker 1: really reveal a straight up track listing, but he did
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  Speaker 1: talk about some things. So this is coming from the
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  Speaker 1: cover story of Rolling Stones and this is on hip
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  Speaker 1: Hop dx dot com where I'm getting this. Weezy confirms
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  Speaker 1: a number of high profile and in some cases unlikely
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  Speaker 1: guessed on his next he card of six, including Miley Cyrus,
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  Speaker 1: YouTube's Bono and opera singer Andrea Bocelli. I believe that's
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  Speaker 1: how you pronounced that. The project, due out June six,
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  Speaker 1: also features Machine Gun, Kelly Dance, Whole Legend, Elephant Man
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  Speaker 1: or Word, and Wayne's fifteen year old son Cameron behind
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  Speaker 1: the boards. The lineup of producers include Ye Cleft, Jean Weezy,
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  Speaker 1: and possibly Kanye West. How y'all leave your comments in
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  Speaker 1: a comments section below. How do y'all feel about that
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  Speaker 1: lineup of performers and producers. I'll go first. I am
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  Speaker 1: y'a'll usually use the term like cautiously optimistic. I am
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  Speaker 1: not optimistic at all because I just don't know where
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  Speaker 1: this can go now. Lil Wayne performing, as you have
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  Speaker 1: seen has mostly been a disaster, right because he just
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  Speaker 1: like the last thing we saw, he looked like he
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  Speaker 1: was so high on stage. He was in the stupor,
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  Speaker 1: which is crazy. But when when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: singles and the music he releases, they don't typically sound
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  Speaker 1: bad to me. It's just funny that people don't really
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  Speaker 1: flock to it. And maybe they'll do that this time
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  Speaker 1: because people chose the side. Like you know, y'all'm riding
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  Speaker 1: with Wayne. He should have had the Super Bowl, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I like Kendrick I like Wayne, I'm checking out both
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  Speaker 1: and maybe he has something to prove. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, let me just say this, and also, that
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  Speaker 1: was advocate. I didn't think I would like jelly Roll
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  Speaker 1: on the Snoop and Dre album that released not that
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  Speaker 1: long ago. I was like, Uh, that sounds like it's
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  Speaker 1: something I'm not going to like, And I was kind
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  Speaker 1: of wrong. I enjoyed it. Right now, did I go crazy?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Do I want to hear more from that collaboration.
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  Speaker 1: I do not, But for what it was and the
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  Speaker 1: collaboration it was, and I think it had a lot
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  Speaker 1: to do with Doctor, I think it was cool, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Lil Wayne, I'm hoping, you know, Miley Cyrus is
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  Speaker 1: used in a way that sounds dope. You know, Bono
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  Speaker 1: from YouTube. I was gonna say YouTube from YouTube. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, I hope he's used in a way that's
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  Speaker 1: beneficial to the track. Right But I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: want Wayne to to go in lyrically, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Musically, I want the beats to be like
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  Speaker 1: hardcore rapping. You know, I don't mind a couple of
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  Speaker 1: songs for the radio as long as they're not so cheesy.
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  Speaker 1: That stupid deduction Wise, I don't know what a y
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  Speaker 1: cleft beat sounds like in twenty twenty five, and who knows.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I've heard songs where why Clef did the production,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't know he did the production, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. And Kanye, I at least say this as long
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  Speaker 1: as he's not rapping because of things he likes to
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  Speaker 1: say in his raps to try to push people to
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  Speaker 1: the edge of not liking him for whatever reason. But
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  Speaker 1: production wise, he's still there. I'm sorry. Production Wise, every
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  Speaker 1: time I hear a beat, I'll be like, well, I
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  Speaker 1: like to beat, but then I usually don't like his versus,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see. And honestly, before I've read this, I
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  Speaker 1: was assuming there would be more in line as far
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  Speaker 1: as features in line of like more hip hop artists basically,
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  Speaker 1: and not that everything has to be that, because unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be what everybody else does. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: these features again are well placed and utilized in ways
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  Speaker 1: that they compliment what he's already created. I'm just hoping
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  Speaker 1: is dope and I will review it on his channel
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  Speaker 1: and I'll let you know is one of the best
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  Speaker 1: albums of the year, Yes, or no, we shall see.
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  Speaker 1: So huge announcement happen this week for the old heads,
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  Speaker 1: for the kids who respect the old school of hip hop.
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  Speaker 1: We're mostly talking nineties and some eighties here. Also for
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  Speaker 1: mass Appel Records announced campaign a rollout of seven albums
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  Speaker 1: from seven hip hop legends now. One of those albums
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  Speaker 1: includes the nas And premiere album, which is highly anticipated,
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  Speaker 1: probably the most anticipated of this lineup. But this lineup
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  Speaker 1: also includes Dayla Soul, a solo Ray Kuon album, a
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  Speaker 1: solo ghost Face album, a Mob Deep album, a Dayla
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  Speaker 1: Soul album, and an album from Big Al and what
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  Speaker 1: they say and maybe it's out now, but as far
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  Speaker 1: as the news is out now, if the album's out now,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be great too. But a special guest, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we've already figured it out that it was slick Rick.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I got caught off guard because I was like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: if they rolling out the red carpet after saying that
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  Speaker 1: list of names, maybe it's rock Kim, because I knew
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  Speaker 1: rock Kim had mentioned I think last year that he
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  Speaker 1: had another, like a straight up real solo album dropping
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  Speaker 1: like that he was working on. So I was assuming,
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  Speaker 1: thinking like that would be crazy, but just as crazy.
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  Speaker 1: The legend he's referring to is slick Rack, and slick
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  Speaker 1: Rick hasn't had an album since the Art of Storytelling.
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  Speaker 1: And if I'm not mistaken, that was nineteen ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: So that is a big announcement considering that's more than
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  Speaker 1: twenty years I believe, right, Yeah, that's more than twenty
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  Speaker 1: years ago. So I'll be curious and I'll say this,
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  Speaker 1: slick Rick only has four official albums in his catalog.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's his debut, right, Great Adventures to slick Rick.
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  Speaker 1: The second one, The Ruler's Back. I believe that's the
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  Speaker 1: name of that one. Behind Bars. Now, those three albums
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  Speaker 1: kind of came out around the time he was in jail,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously his debut he worked on to a t.
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  Speaker 1: The Ruler's Back was kind of like some album that
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  Speaker 1: was being worked on, but he wasn't there for the
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  Speaker 1: entire production of it, and Behind Bars was clearly he
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't. We got some other songs and he's not here.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's nineteen ninety Nine's The Art of Storytelling.
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  Speaker 1: When he was free, he was out, and he got
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  Speaker 1: a nice boost from collaborating with Outcast and it was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good album. And what I'm basically saying is
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  Speaker 1: with those four albums, I really only feel like one
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  Speaker 1: of them are whack, and it was the one he
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  Speaker 1: was in jail, behind bars when they dropped. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of optimistic because some may say, well, what's the
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  Speaker 1: last thing he'd done on the track to make you
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  Speaker 1: think he's still that guy from even ninety nine. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago he did a song with
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  Speaker 1: Most Death aka I Sen Bay on his album I'm
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  Speaker 1: blanking on the name, but the joint with the red
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  Speaker 1: cover and I believe the name of the song was
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  Speaker 1: Auditorium something like that. But Slick Rick's verse on that
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  Speaker 1: Most Deaf album was a clear standout for me of
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  Speaker 1: oh he still got it, and more than that, his
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  Speaker 1: style of rapping and storytelling it's still worth listening to.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound dam They're like, oh, here he go,
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  Speaker 1: he's still doing that thing. Like nah, it works today,
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  Speaker 1: so we're hoping for more. Now, let me just really
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  Speaker 1: quick go through my thoughts on some of those releases
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  Speaker 1: and how I feel as a hip hop fan and
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  Speaker 1: a fan of literally everybody they talked about. Na's the
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  Speaker 1: premier obviously, highly anticipated, cautiously anticipating a very good project, right,
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  Speaker 1: And that has more to do with the production, which
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  Speaker 1: sounds weird. But Premier's production can sometimes be very predictable nowadays,
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  Speaker 1: like he just goes for a certain mode. Some people say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: but that's his signature sound. Maybe he wasn't here for
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  Speaker 1: the game Star days. The only thing that was signature
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  Speaker 1: for Premier on the beats was him scratching the name
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  Speaker 1: of the song or scratch the name of the artists.
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  Speaker 1: That was predictable. But you go listen to albums like
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  Speaker 1: Hard to Earn a Moment of truth. He got a
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  Speaker 1: variety of beats and they're all crazy. So I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of hoping for that variety to return as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: the same things he's been doing when he's produced a
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  Speaker 1: song here and there. So we'll see day La Soul now.
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  Speaker 1: The rumor is the day Lat Soul album is an
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  Speaker 1: album that day La Soul was working on in the
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  Speaker 1: past that I believe was produced by Pete Rock and
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  Speaker 1: large Professor. If it's that album, which does feature Rest
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  Speaker 1: in Peace Dave truegoing from day La Soul on it,
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  Speaker 1: this means this would be like a Lost Day Last
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  Speaker 1: soul album that Mass Appeal is now bringing to the masses,
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  Speaker 1: which would be crazy, especially if it's it would be crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Mob Deep. We've talked about that Mob Deep album. We
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  Speaker 1: know that havocs working on a production. Alchemist is helping
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  Speaker 1: out with the production. We believe Nas is featured on
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  Speaker 1: that album. Nos could potentially be featured on all these albums,
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  Speaker 1: which would kind of be weird, you know, because it's
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  Speaker 1: his label to have them on all of them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but some of them it makes sense. And having talked
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  Speaker 1: about having Prodigy versus that they could work with now,
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  Speaker 1: I hope when he says this, these are complete verses,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I could if hooks need to be worked,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. But I hope this is complete versus
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  Speaker 1: from Prodigy lost versus from you know, the past, mixed
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  Speaker 1: with some more current versus. I'm cautiously optimistic is an
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  Speaker 1: understatement with that album, because I am not. I am
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  Speaker 1: not very excited. I want to be and I want
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  Speaker 1: it to happen, you know, as I guess the last
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  Speaker 1: of my Deep albums. But I just don't know what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get. And I believe they played a snippet
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  Speaker 1: at a show, and it sounded cool, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: really hear it, and I couldn't really get the vibe
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  Speaker 1: of what was happening. So I don't know. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: We know for a fact it's coming out this year.
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  Speaker 1: Who else Ray Kwan? Now I'm a little disappointed because
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  Speaker 1: I remember he did an interview during the Lockdown with
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven and he announced Cuban Links the only Built
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  Speaker 1: for Cuban Links three is in the works. That was
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five years ago. What makes me a little like,
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  Speaker 1: come on, man is the fact that Ray Kwan himself
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  Speaker 1: says this album is called like the Empress Close, which
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  Speaker 1: means it is not Cuban Link three, which makes me
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  Speaker 1: feel like I don't know, because I'll tell you about this.
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  Speaker 1: I did a tearless on Ray Kwan's catalog, and he
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  Speaker 1: has more dope albums than not, but he has kind
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  Speaker 1: of this, He kind of developed this hot cold hot
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  Speaker 1: cold hot cold thing with his albums, right like, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: only Built for Cuban Links is a classic. He drops
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  Speaker 1: a mobilarity, it's his whack album hands down in his catalog,
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  Speaker 1: But then he comes back with like the Lex Diamond Story,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was a good album, and then he
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  Speaker 1: came back with Cuban Links two, which I felt like
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  Speaker 1: was a great album, and he was on a streak
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  Speaker 1: after that with another dope album, but then it dropped
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  Speaker 1: down again with Like Fly International. It just I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to expect from Ray Kwan, And though like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he has mostly good albums, I'm assuming this
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  Speaker 1: would be another good album, but I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who's doing the production. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be crazy. I don't know. Same goals for
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  Speaker 1: ghost Face, who just released an album that most ghost
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  Speaker 1: Face fans passed on because they just didn't like it.
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  Speaker 1: Me I was in that same boat. Some of it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with something that, you know, ghost Face
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  Speaker 1: can't really he can't really help write. His voice is
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more gruff, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's a delivery choice, but it's not the ghost that
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  Speaker 1: like automatically locks me in when I hear the ghost
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  Speaker 1: for you know what I'm talking about, Seanda and she
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  Speaker 1: in a barber shop looking for all the Blue like
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  Speaker 1: that one. Like before there was West Side Gun, there
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  Speaker 1: was ghost right, and even though his voice is not
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  Speaker 1: similar it was more high pitched and hype, you know,
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  Speaker 1: splatic gas like I like that Ghost, but the gruff
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  Speaker 1: voice Ghost is just one that it just doesn't do
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  Speaker 1: it for me. And ironically, Bars he performed like a
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  Speaker 1: one of them freestyle joints. I forget where, but that
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  Speaker 1: joint was like going viral and people were spreading everywhere
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  Speaker 1: and they like, this's the Ghosts we want to hear.
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  Speaker 1: But what's so crazy was he was performing a song
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  Speaker 1: on his last album that sounds the same. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing there, but people were dismissive of it.
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  Speaker 1: So is that last album on master pil secretly great?
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  Speaker 1: It is not. The second half falls off a cliff.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm optimistic because I think ghost Face knows that
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  Speaker 1: he I think he knows people weren't big on that
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  Speaker 1: album and considering and I would think this for everybody involved,
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  Speaker 1: considering the lineup and everybody gets to take their shot
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  Speaker 1: at releasing a dope album. You would think people want
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  Speaker 1: to have one of the dopest albums, like ghost Faces
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  Speaker 1: would want to be like, my joint's crazy? Who else?
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  Speaker 1: So we don't stay too long on this, So we
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  Speaker 1: said mob deep they are so obviously with that, I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited for, like what it's going to be na as
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  Speaker 1: the premier ghost ray. So Big L. Apparently I read
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  Speaker 1: the description where they said the Big L album will feature,
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  Speaker 1: you know, stuff he was working on, and they got
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  Speaker 1: some other things like just they didn't get too into detail,
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  Speaker 1: but stuff we never heard before along with and this
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  Speaker 1: is what they said, re releasing a lot of rare
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  Speaker 1: freestyles and projects, probably his debut and the joint the
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  Speaker 1: Big Picture, probably in a bigger and better way with
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  Speaker 1: some bonuses. So I think that's though Honestly, the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they're saying a new Big L album probably scares
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  Speaker 1: me more than just giving us a better sounding version
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  Speaker 1: than the albums he did release with, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: a deluxe version of that, like the deluxe of I
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: was gonna say, the Big L, what's the code again?
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I forgot that quick. I'm getting old. Yeah, I'm sorry,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: But the Bigger Picture, I wouldn't mind that, right, Like,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: if you release a deluxe version and it's like ten
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: more tracks on it, I'll take it, you know, because
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it's just the Bigger Picture is just if that's the title,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I think that's it. But it's just a dope variety
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  Speaker 1: of big l stuff, and to me, when you do
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  Speaker 1: posthumous albums that you gotta plug in features for the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: bigger picture. Was one of the better ones that did
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that because it was some unexpected guest features like Big
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Daddy Came. But then Big Daddy Came's verse was kind
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: of crazy too, and I was like, this album is alright,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: so we'll see. And the last one, like I said,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: slick Rick all these years, I'm absolutely interested in what
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that would sound like. Now. What I don't want. I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: don't want slick Rick to collab with everybody. I also
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: don't want and this is no shade towards any legends.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I don't want him to pull out all stops for legends.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: The only legend I request on this album is Dougie Fresh.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I don't care what y'all say. Let Dougie Fresh get
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: on the beat box or mixed the beatbox with another
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: beat Let them let the get Fresh crew reunite on
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: this album. Doesn't have to be the old album. But
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear guys who I think are dope,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: who I also think shouldn't be on a Slick Rick
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: album because they jump don't fit. Now Part of me
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: would say, I don't think I would have thought that
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the outcast collab seem out of place, because I don't
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: really look at outcasts like ultimate storytellers. They told stories,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and they've told some dope stories. But it'd be different
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: if he was linking up with somebody who was also
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a well known storyteller, right, Like I don't know, like
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: ice Cube, right, I know he's a older cat, but
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he's known for telling stories, and it would be dope.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: If they literally collaborated on a story but played characters
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: in slick rick fashion, that would be all how about this?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I am getting? How about this? Nas is pretty good
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: at that. Also, he got a couple of joints storytelling.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: You get some of the at least four, let's say,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: well known for having great stories in a catalog. I'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: not talking about the one time LF did it or
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the one time this one did it. I mean, like
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you know them for it, right, Like Devin, the dude
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you could throw. You can put him a slick work
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: on the track and I will be ooh, I will
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: be happy because I know it's gonna be funny, you
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I don't know, but that's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: what I think. What do you think about this Master
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Appeal rollout in twenty twenty five from seven legends. Are
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you excited at the prospect of all of these being
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: dope or do you feel like it could be a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: hit of this type situation. Leave your comments in a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: comments section below. I read them, I like them, I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: pin them, I respond to them. And lastly, so since
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: we've been talking about sequels on here, one of the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: sequels that just dropped for what some would call a
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: younger generation, but there's a generation younger than them, to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: be like, they ain't young, they old school, so you're
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: just older. I'm including myself and don't call me young.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I ain't your uncle, okay, but I like og I'm
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: not a gangster, but I like that old generation. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: don't know whis Khalifa dropped the sequel to his wildly popular,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: celebrated probably close to fifteen years old, something like that,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more cush In Orange Juice and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: obviously this is cush In Orange Juice two. The album
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: in total has twenty three songs and the total runtime
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: is one hour and sixteen minutes. Features include Smoke, Dizzer,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: of course, Don Tolliver rm R. I don't know who
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: that is. Chevy Woods, he's dope. Larry June of course,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: ju CJ Max B. Now this is an interlude, but
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. L Russell's on here, Todd Dollason is on here,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Jason Martin gunna ot Genesis. I don't think oh, I
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: was looking for him. Terrace Martin's is on here, and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: so is Currency. That's what I was looking for, like
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: he got to be on this joint. For those who
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: may be new to this podcast, reviews work like this.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Three listens. One time, just get full impressions, just no expectations,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: just let it rock, just play it. Second listen now
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen more intently to what the goal was hit,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: as far as the beats, the rhyms, the entire album aesthetic.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the album cover, which I believe is cover of
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Earth with like weed growing out of it, which is
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: like okay, And my third listen is just really to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: confirm my thoughts. For those who don't like too much
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: detail and just kind of want to get to like
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: how you rate it, I'd say I like it. I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: like it now as a sequel to the original, I
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: think it's a perfect sequel. And here's the thing. When
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: you are making a sequel to a highly regarded album,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: right like Illmatic or Only Built for Cuba Links, you
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And you're saying, this is part two,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Like Do or Die Too, It's a slippery slow because
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: expectations get high because of how people love that original release.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: But I think what most rappers should do, and some
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: have to success is release a project that expands upon
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: that concept. It's not better than it's like getting more
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: songs based off of that original, right, So never look
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: at it as is it better? Is it the same? No,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: it's just more right. That's when you really lock people in. Yo,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I like it for this time, and that's how I
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: feel with this album. I feel like the expectations for
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: you if you never heard the original, I definitely think
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you should check it out first. Let it rock until
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: you know you've had your feel of it, because you
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: might love it and not like this, but it captures
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the same exact vibe. Right, we talk mellow beats, chill stuff,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you know, jewelry, sun beaches, you know, palm trees, Like
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: just chilling is the perfect album to release in spring,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: heading into summer, because a lot of people make playlists
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in this day and age, and they kind of look
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: for certain vibes for when they're driving, or they're chilling
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: on a beach somewhere, or they're having a drink or
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: they throwing a party, and this album has a number
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of songs that are perfect for that vibe. Now, some
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: people say, yo, I don't buy music to be like
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: ambient sound in my house while I'm having like a
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: dinner party. I want to listen to her. I want
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to get into the lyrics. I want to vibe with it.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I want to relate to it. I think some people
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: take put it this way, people saying being relatable music
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: being relatable sometimes can be very overrated because your definition
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: of it is strictly a portion of it, which is,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: you know, I've this is the type of music I like,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: whereas relatable really means I can relate to doing that.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people, for example, who may say, well,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I can't relate to Eminem's lyrics, but I don't think
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Eminem's lyrics are made to be relatable unless you are
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: a psycho. But they're in the same breath. They'll say,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: push your team but unless you sow the most coked
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: of all time, you can't relate to him either. So
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: it's more about preference. What do you want to hear
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: when it's time to sit down listen to hip hop?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Some people don't want to hear all that quirky stuff,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Eminem saying, some people don't want to hear nothing, but
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: we talk from somebody like whisky. But some people really
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: like the vibe of certain things, right, or they like
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the variety in hip hop, and they say, hey, when
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I want to laugh or be like damn, I might
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: listen to Eminem. Right. When I want to cool out,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: smoke or eye, I'll listen to something like Whisker Leaf
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: or Currency. So I think this album in general, it
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: is a worthy sequel to the first Cush and Orange Juice.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's better than it, but I think
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: this album is definitely one of the better albums of
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the year so far because it's focused. It knows what
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: it is, and you should know what it is before
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: you go in and listen to it. Because again, a
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: lot of people want some new hip hop but don't
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: really take a step back as it relates to their
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: taste to say what exactly do I want to hear
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: like when I just want to hear like I just
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: want to hear gun bars all day. I'm Griselda to death.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I might get into some locks if I'm like, Yo,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I just want to hear somebody talk about coke and
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: lavish likes. Okay, I'm gonna listen to I'm gonna listen
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to Push your Tea. I'm gonna listen to Rick Ross.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: You know, if I want to hear somebody, you know,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I just want to hear some something cool currency Wits Khalifa,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and I believe this album. If you like that kind
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of stuff, it's worth checking out. Now it's a long album,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: like it's an hour and sixteen minutes, But if you
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: have the time, and you know who knows you cleaning
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: up your house, cleaning up the yard for the summertime,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you got a decent drive somewhere, it's worth checking out.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: So what do you think about Wits khalif a sequel
• 33:50
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