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Does the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Matter to Hip-Hop? · 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: So Eminem didn't call ryn Fest the N word and
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Speaker 1: there is video receipts to prove it Outcasts and Salt
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Speaker 1: and Pepper make it into the Rock and Roll Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame. Have some thoughts on that. And Lloyd Banks,
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Speaker 1: hip hop dot com coming through with the receipts in
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Speaker 1: some of the places where I get some of these
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Speaker 1: stories from. Let's get right to the business. So last
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Speaker 1: week I reported, well, first of all, if you're from
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Speaker 1: the future and it's already happened, and come on, dog,
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Speaker 1: know everything already okay, But last week I reported on
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Speaker 1: Romfest talking about a rap battle that took place in
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Speaker 1: I think like ninety eight again, you know, with him
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Speaker 1: versus Eminem, And in this interview that he was in
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Speaker 1: he said that Eminem called him an N word, which
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Speaker 1: was like WHOA what to you to your face in
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Speaker 1: front of people, and nothing happened. It was almost unbelievable,
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Speaker 1: but we had no reason not to believe him unless
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Speaker 1: you were there, right, So it turns out that was
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Speaker 1: not true. That was not true. So as a hip
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Speaker 1: hop journalist in this sense, because that's what my podcast is,
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Speaker 1: you know, we were looking for the truth and shout
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Speaker 1: out to all hip hop dot com who received the
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Speaker 1: complete footage. Now I'm not trying to be that guy,
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Speaker 1: but we know in twenty twenty five things could be edited.
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Speaker 1: Of course, that could happen anytime, but you know, with
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Speaker 1: AI we can tweak things, right. You know, you can
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Speaker 1: watch a video that's blurry from ninety eight with Eminem's
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Speaker 1: back to you and you hear the rym and rom
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Speaker 1: could be edited right, But we're gonna go where the
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Speaker 1: story is because I don't think rom festus said anything
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Speaker 1: about out. Here's the story. We're being reported by hip
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Speaker 1: hop dx dot com. Ronfest claimed that he was called
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Speaker 1: the N word by Eminem during the rap battle in
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Speaker 1: the late nineteen nineties. However, it appears that was not
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Speaker 1: actually the case, according to All hip Hop, who received
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Speaker 1: complete footage of the rap battle in question from D
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Speaker 1: twelve's Kuneva. I didn't listen to D twelve. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what Timmy David said. Who are these niggas? I
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Speaker 1: just never listened to D twelve. I'm sorry. Eminem does
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Speaker 1: not say the racial slur at any point during the exchange.
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Speaker 1: The footage proofs that Romfest misremembered the line Eminem threw
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Speaker 1: at him, and you can go to All hip hop
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Speaker 1: dot COM's instagram. They have the video up there. I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna warn people who probably like to listen to
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Speaker 1: this podcast and don't generally hear curse words, you might
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Speaker 1: hear a few when I play this video, so let's
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Speaker 1: play for the audience. So there was a lot of
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Speaker 1: cuss words, but I didn't hear the N word. So
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Speaker 1: let's see if he said anything else. Okay, I'll just
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Speaker 1: read the lyrics also if you couldn't hear that. However,
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Speaker 1: in the footage, Eminem can clearly be heard rapping, I'll
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Speaker 1: let my razors split you till they have to staple
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Speaker 1: stitch you, and everybody in this fing place will miss
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Speaker 1: you if you try to turn my facial tissue facial
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Speaker 1: issue into a racial issue. And at the end at
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Speaker 1: the end of this article, it says Rampest has yet
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Speaker 1: to comment on the development. While Eminem did not respond
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Speaker 1: to the initial accusation, bad Boys Moving silenced, twelve Guy
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Speaker 1: added back, So honestly, it was reported people reacted to
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Speaker 1: it because there was no reason to not trust ron Fest,
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Speaker 1: because I don't think he gave us a reason to
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Speaker 1: not trust him at any point. You know, but this,
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Speaker 1: and I watched the video when he talked about it,
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Speaker 1: hearing this, knowing what he was saying, watching his face
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Speaker 1: as he was saying it in the interview. He knew
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Speaker 1: he was lying because he had an interview and he
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Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, say something that would get some
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Speaker 1: traction with news media, and it did well hip hop media,
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Speaker 1: and it did. But Now this looks bad. This looks
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Speaker 1: bad because if ron Fest came out and be like,
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Speaker 1: hey man, I'm standing right there that video was edited,
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Speaker 1: then whatever, But clearly it was not said. So let's
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Speaker 1: move on. So this past week it was announced, well,
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Speaker 1: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced who was
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Speaker 1: going to be inducted into the twenty into the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five class. And they've been doing more than one
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Speaker 1: hip hop artist seems like each year, which I think
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Speaker 1: is dope, and this year is outcast in Salt and
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Speaker 1: Pepper getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now,
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Speaker 1: I know cats have been saying this for years, and
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Speaker 1: maybe you are young hip hop head, you know, getting
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Speaker 1: your feet wet mouth full of similarc I guess pause
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Speaker 1: on that whatever bars also, but you may be saying,
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Speaker 1: but it's the rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Who cares?
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Speaker 1: And why and why do they get in versus somebody else.
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Speaker 1: I'll into both for you, shorty, okay, and don't call
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Speaker 1: me young. I'm not your uncle, okay, but you can
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Speaker 1: call me o G. That's cool. I kind of like that.
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Speaker 1: But I felt like, well, I feel like, on the
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Speaker 1: one hand, with the first question or whatever, is the
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Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as it relates to
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Speaker 1: rappers getting in. When you look at Outcasts and Salt
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Speaker 1: and Pepper, who are hip hop legends in the game,
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Speaker 1: They've done so much to represent hip hop in so
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Speaker 1: many different ways, especially being from two different regions. So
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Speaker 1: I kind of like that as well. This hip hop
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Speaker 1: is not one burrow. Hip hop is not one city
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Speaker 1: or coast or nothing. It's all of it. It's global now,
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Speaker 1: let's just keep it a buck. It's global now, okay.
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Speaker 1: But I kind of feel like when it comes to
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Speaker 1: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a rapper,
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Speaker 1: they do look at a certain level of success, right,
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Speaker 1: which is not exactly how we look at it, right,
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Speaker 1: Like they Outcasts have sold records, Salt and Pepper have
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Speaker 1: sold records. They have whether it was intentional or not,
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Speaker 1: they have crossover hits, right. They have fans that are
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Speaker 1: not just all hip hop fans. And I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: that's a bad thing. That's actually a good thing, right
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Speaker 1: because you spread what real hip hop is and some
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Speaker 1: have played with that and you know, kind of gone
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Speaker 1: off the deep end and lost a little integrity with
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Speaker 1: what they create. But at the end, of it all.
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Speaker 1: It's about the fact that this group is bigger than
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Speaker 1: just the hip hop category, right, and that's how they
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Speaker 1: get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And
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Speaker 1: it makes sense for that kind of criteria. But when
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Speaker 1: hip hop heads talk about, well, you know, like which
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Speaker 1: is gonna happen because there's the hip Hop Museum going up,
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Speaker 1: but we talk about our Hall of Fame, well, then
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Speaker 1: it's different because it's not just about sales. Sometimes it's
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Speaker 1: not even I mean, you have to have impact, Like
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Speaker 1: they're not letting anybody into a hip hop Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: You have to have some form of impact, but it
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to mean that you've sold you've went platinum. Right.
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Speaker 1: Rockhem is one of the greatest rappers of all time
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Speaker 1: Cougi rap. Also, they've fathered in style and cadence and
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Speaker 1: influence some of your favorite rappers to this day, some
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Speaker 1: of the people you feel comfortable calling to go. Those
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Speaker 1: are just two examples. Similar on the West Coast with
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Speaker 1: Ice Cube and Snoop. They've influenced so many, right. But
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Speaker 1: the thing I want to get back to with rock
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Speaker 1: Him and Kuchi raps specifically, they didn't sell a lot
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Speaker 1: of records now, the way you hear us talk about them,
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Speaker 1: you would think platinum was easy, especially for an album
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Speaker 1: like Everic being Rock. EM's paid it full. It's it's
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Speaker 1: a monument in hip hop because it was just so Uh.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say Mount Rushmore, That's what I really meant, uh.
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Speaker 1: But it's just such a staple cornerstone within hip hop
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Speaker 1: that the minute you mentioned it for hip hop has
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Speaker 1: that's the thought like, and if it was an official
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Speaker 1: hall of Fame that hip hop has tried in the past,
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Speaker 1: it kind of failed and didn't have the I think
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Speaker 1: through the so and so so didn't have the staying
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Speaker 1: power of what the rock and roll rock and Roll
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame is to feel like the official hip
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Speaker 1: hop in a hall rock him's getting in quick, He's
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Speaker 1: getting in before a lot of the people who are
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Speaker 1: in the rock and roll Hall of Fame, and I
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Speaker 1: don't believe rock is in the hip hop Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: And that's why that's the difference, right You, for one,
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Speaker 1: the people who are kind of running this and you
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Speaker 1: get to vote, because I voted myself for Outcasts and
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Speaker 1: Salt and Pepper, But the people who like at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day would probably decide this, And I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of loose on you know, how these things work,
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Speaker 1: because I doubt it's just to vote, because I think if,
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Speaker 1: for example, rock Him started to put Up started to
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Speaker 1: do a campaign to get into the Rock and Roll
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame next year, and it was solely based
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Speaker 1: off of public voting, he getting in because hip hop
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Speaker 1: is gonna show up for Rocket. But that just makes
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Speaker 1: me think this is a different kind of hall where
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Speaker 1: you have to have some commercial success and he just doesn't, right,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't. He doesn't come close to having the type
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Speaker 1: of success that Salt and Pepper had with some of
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Speaker 1: the hit records in the nineties that you know people
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Speaker 1: love like Shoot and What a Man and all of
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Speaker 1: that and all the other work they did, but also
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Speaker 1: their foundation within hip hop, like I love Tramp to
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Speaker 1: this day. I love that record. It's probably my favorite
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Speaker 1: Salt and Pepper record. I'm not gonna lie. And then Outcasts,
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Speaker 1: what more can you say? Outcasts? Shout out to Tony
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Speaker 1: from Into the Dome podcast. He put it best on
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Speaker 1: on Twitter where he said Outcast doesn't have an album
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Speaker 1: that sounds the same, not one, not one our When
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Speaker 1: I think in total, they have what five or maybe
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Speaker 1: six counting Idlewild, Let's go through it, Southern playlistic at Aliens,
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Speaker 1: stink on the stink on Her. What's what's the other one?
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Speaker 1: I'm forgetting Quemini and yeah, so it's six because Love
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Speaker 1: Below and speaker Box and then Idlewild soundtrack, which I love.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why people hate it it. I like it.
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Speaker 1: It's good. But none of them sound the same. All
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Speaker 1: of them are different. And you know what what Idlewold
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Speaker 1: the movie was whack. I agree with that, boss, but
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Speaker 1: the music was great. And when you think about all
19:43
Speaker 1: this stuff about Delta Blues in the movie centers idle Whild,
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Speaker 1: it is kind of ahead of its time. You know,
19:52
Speaker 1: my voice get high. You know, it's go back and
19:57
Speaker 1: go back and watch the movie. It's terrible. Let's just
20:00
Speaker 1: go back and watch it. There's no vampires, and it relaxed.
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Speaker 1: But when you listen to the music and those influences
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Speaker 1: and what they were going for, they were kind of
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Speaker 1: already putting the spot like on black music in that way,
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Speaker 1: or blues in general as far as influences back then
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Speaker 1: and Outcast has so many different albums like It's almost
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Speaker 1: like you can pick a version of Outcast that you like.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So they've sold records, They're
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Speaker 1: a huge group. I would love for them to after
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Speaker 1: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announce, just do it,
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Speaker 1: right on stage, announce a shadow drop. Okay, I said
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Speaker 1: it like an old man. But that's because I listened
20:44
Speaker 1: to the children. Okay, I listened to the kids when
20:46
Speaker 1: they talk gay Vegas. Love the kids. A shadow shadow
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Speaker 1: drop for people who are older is basically like a
20:55
Speaker 1: surprise drop of music, or that term is kind of
21:01
Speaker 1: popular in the video game world. But right there on
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Speaker 1: the stage, you know, we want to think, we want
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Speaker 1: to think, we want to think, we want to thank South.
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Speaker 1: Got something to say out New Outcast albums dropping tonight
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Speaker 1: at midnight, boom. The frenzy that would ensue online on
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Speaker 1: social media anticipation would be crazy. And I ain't talking
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Speaker 1: about no EP. Also, don't want no thirty songs, right,
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Speaker 1: just a clean, maybe twelve song new album from Outcasts.
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Speaker 1: Here you go tour with whoever coming later. Man listen
21:41
Speaker 1: first of all, Pauls. But man, listen, listen when I
21:46
Speaker 1: tell you. Okay, that's how the old heads used to
21:49
Speaker 1: talk to us and be like what it was just
21:53
Speaker 1: it would just be dope, So we'll see. Congratulations to outcasts,
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Speaker 1: Congratulations to Salt Pepper, who don't always get mentioned when
22:01
Speaker 1: we're talking about female mcs in a hip hop game.
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Speaker 1: Salt Pepper got something to say, all right. And lastly,
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Speaker 1: so this week we got a couple of new drops
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Speaker 1: of music or projects in general, and I was trying
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Speaker 1: to decide on which album EP I should review, and
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Speaker 1: then I kind of thought like, well, why don't I
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Speaker 1: just do a quick review of all three? Now I
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Speaker 1: do these reviews just to inform the hip hop heads
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Speaker 1: who might be looking for something new or want to know, like, yo,
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Speaker 1: is this still good? Is he still good at what
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Speaker 1: he does? What else is out? Blah blah blah. So
22:48
Speaker 1: if you don't know, I rate albums and EPs and
22:52
Speaker 1: projects by giving them three listens. The first listen is
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Speaker 1: just me kind of vibing and listening to what's being presented.
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Speaker 1: Can listen is now I'm gonna listen more intently to
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Speaker 1: the lyrics, connect the concepts, all these different things, like
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Speaker 1: really get a deep dive into the album, really pay
23:12
Speaker 1: attention to what the artist is presented and the third
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Speaker 1: listen is just to confirm my thoughts. So first up,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do three albums, real quick, three projects, real quick.
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Speaker 1: First up, brand new album from Lloyd Banks, who has
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Speaker 1: been feeding the hip hop public. It was like Lloyd
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Speaker 1: Banks disappeared for a while, even though some of us
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Speaker 1: who know, especially in that fifth days the Halloween, having
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Speaker 1: mixtapes crazy and I kept wondering, like why does he
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Speaker 1: make more music? Well, when the pandemic went down, Lloyd
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Speaker 1: Bank say, you know what, y'all're about to get a trilogy.
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Speaker 1: Upon trilogy, He's released probably like six albums and something
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Speaker 1: crazy and a couple I think like two or three mixtapes. Well,
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Speaker 1: his latest album AO and three, despite my mistakes, it
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Speaker 1: is eighteen songs. And when Lloyd Banks, he don't do
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Speaker 1: he doesn't do a skits. So he giving you eighteen songs.
24:15
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about two minutes here, one minute
24:19
Speaker 1: and twenty one seconds. No, he old school. He giving
24:22
Speaker 1: you a couple of five minute records and all at
24:25
Speaker 1: eighteen of them joints. But it only clocks in at
24:28
Speaker 1: one hour and five minutes, which is still fun. Guest
24:33
Speaker 1: features include Ransom Styles p ghost Face. First of all
24:39
Speaker 1: those three, they're versus on his album Chef's Kiss, perfect
24:46
Speaker 1: collaborations on perfect songs. What do I feel about this album?
24:53
Speaker 1: Just straight up on a rated I think it's definitely
24:56
Speaker 1: one of the best of the year. I wouldn't put
24:59
Speaker 1: it in my top five because I feel like he
25:02
Speaker 1: could have even though the songs are dope, he could
25:07
Speaker 1: have removed maybe four or five songs from it because
25:14
Speaker 1: Lloyd Banks is very monitor his delivery. His inflections really
25:20
Speaker 1: don't change that much. But he's dumb nice with the pen,
25:25
Speaker 1: so that's why you pull up to listen to what
25:27
Speaker 1: he got to say. And again, the guest appearances are great.
25:32
Speaker 1: But what I like most about this album is sometimes
25:37
Speaker 1: sometimes Lloyd Banks can put out a project and the
25:41
Speaker 1: beats are so so right, Like the last Halloween Havoc,
25:45
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, that's cool. My expectations were much higher,
25:48
Speaker 1: but it's all right this one though. The beats of
25:52
Speaker 1: fire and again, these songs are longer than you're used
25:58
Speaker 1: to hearing. Hopefully I don't have to say pause after that,
26:04
Speaker 1: but it's just like it's it's great. So I think
26:08
Speaker 1: that was it for me, right, Like when I'm getting
26:10
Speaker 1: to like the tenth song. I kept feeling like the
26:15
Speaker 1: album was about to be over and I didn't. I
26:17
Speaker 1: didn't realize, like, yo, there's mad songs left, you know
26:21
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's kind of it's kind of
26:24
Speaker 1: like a gift in a curse, right, Like it's dope.
26:27
Speaker 1: You should love it. I think if you don't listen
26:30
Speaker 1: to a lot of hip hop, and you know, you
26:33
Speaker 1: kind of like live with the one or two things
26:35
Speaker 1: you like, and you like Lloyd Banks, you'll like this album.
26:40
Speaker 1: It's enough there to keep going listening. You know, you
26:43
Speaker 1: can recite the lyrics and all that. I really like
26:46
Speaker 1: what he did with art of rap if you want
26:49
Speaker 1: some real hip hop lyricism, wordplay, flipping, you know things,
26:56
Speaker 1: you know, because it's about rap and he does a
26:59
Speaker 1: lot of mentioning names of rappers. But you'll see just
27:04
Speaker 1: listen to that record. It's the way he ties it together. Though, yeah,
27:09
Speaker 1: I think it's a dope album. Won't be in my
27:12
Speaker 1: top five because of what I said earlier about how
27:16
Speaker 1: long the album is and with him kind of being monotone,
27:21
Speaker 1: you know, you can My mind started to drift a
27:23
Speaker 1: little bit as we got like past track twelve, So
27:27
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a great album. Listen to it
27:29
Speaker 1: for yourself, Decide for yourself. Another project that dropped. It's
27:35
Speaker 1: being listened as an album. But dog, this is an
27:37
Speaker 1: EP A need a Butcher released at EP called Excelsior
27:44
Speaker 1: Right where did I hear that from? Like Back to
27:48
Speaker 1: the Future or something like that. Whatever, But it's seven songs,
27:54
Speaker 1: twenty minutes in twenty three seconds, so that is definitely
27:58
Speaker 1: EP territory features. He has, Uh who else is on hand?
28:06
Speaker 1: I can't see most of these people. I do not
28:08
Speaker 1: know who they are, Okay, but Bodie James is on hand,
28:12
Speaker 1: and y'all know, or maybe you don't know. I'm not
28:14
Speaker 1: the biggest Bodie James fan because I'm not the biggest
28:18
Speaker 1: fan of his style of rap, which is that disinterested,
28:23
Speaker 1: you know, stupor kind of rap flow. But boldly showed
28:29
Speaker 1: up on this record. He got a little energy on it.
28:31
Speaker 1: It's called a duffel Bag Hotti's Revenge, and I think
28:36
Speaker 1: I know when I said that he played like what
28:38
Speaker 1: I think the idea was kind of like a real
28:41
Speaker 1: laid back kind of joint. As far as the album,
28:44
Speaker 1: stoles p is crazy on here on a song called
28:47
Speaker 1: Toxic stoles P. I know he mentioned maybe a year
28:51
Speaker 1: ago that he was going to record a final album.
28:53
Speaker 1: I think that final album is going to be crazy
28:56
Speaker 1: because Stiles. When I heard him rapping on it and
29:00
Speaker 1: he's on the Lloyd Banks joint, I'm like, Oh, that
29:03
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a man who needs to retire. No,
29:08
Speaker 1: that sounds like a man who needs to just don't
29:11
Speaker 1: make albums all the time. At one point, Stoles People's
29:14
Speaker 1: coming out with albums like it felt like every week.
29:17
Speaker 1: And it was a lot because some albums were really dope.
29:20
Speaker 1: He was never really whack, but some albums were just
29:23
Speaker 1: kind of like yah, And I said, I'll do a
29:26
Speaker 1: tear pist. A tear pist? Wow, what is a tear pist?
29:30
Speaker 1: What is that? Blame it on the allergyes, y'all tearless?
29:36
Speaker 1: Where I rank Styles Pie's catalog. I thought about doing
29:41
Speaker 1: it for the Locks in general, but not just as
29:45
Speaker 1: group albums, but just all the Locks solo joints. The
29:52
Speaker 1: Jadakiss is the one where you can look at it
29:54
Speaker 1: and say, oh, it's just a couple of albums. I'll
29:56
Speaker 1: do that, But Styles and She have so many albums.
29:59
Speaker 1: I don't if I could do it, I don't know,
30:02
Speaker 1: So maybe I'll just do that tearless for Styles because
30:06
Speaker 1: he's put it in a lot of work and I
30:07
Speaker 1: think his catalog is step slept on. As far as
30:11
Speaker 1: this Benny the Butcher project, I'm a big Benny the
30:16
Speaker 1: Butcher fan, and I gotta watch my words because last
30:20
Speaker 1: year I wasn't like too hyped about his album and
30:25
Speaker 1: then I wind up not the summertime Benny joined the
30:30
Speaker 1: one like Everybody Can't Go. I think that was the
30:34
Speaker 1: name of the title. I'm the name of the title
30:36
Speaker 1: name of the album. We're going to end this podcast
30:38
Speaker 1: quick boy, because I am the meds got me going
30:42
Speaker 1: crazy with this allergy. But I talked about that album
30:47
Speaker 1: last year and I was like, yeah, I'm kind of disappointed,
30:49
Speaker 1: but da da dah. And then the more I listened
30:51
Speaker 1: to it, I was like, Okay, I like the album,
30:53
Speaker 1: but what was I thinking? I think it's going to
30:57
Speaker 1: be the same for this whereas I don't feel like
31:01
Speaker 1: this is top notch. Benny the Butcher rhymen like his
31:04
Speaker 1: best rhymen. Ever, I like the beats, I like some
31:10
Speaker 1: of the rohms. You know, I think it's good. I
31:14
Speaker 1: don't know if it's gonna make the Best of the
31:16
Speaker 1: year because it's not extraordinary to me like the albums
31:20
Speaker 1: that I would add to the best of the year
31:23
Speaker 1: so far, at least right now. Maybe it would make
31:28
Speaker 1: the list, but that's recentcy bias basically when it comes
31:32
Speaker 1: to that. So that's that. If you like Benny the Butcher,
31:38
Speaker 1: this may be hit a miss. I'm curious to see
31:40
Speaker 1: what people think. Leave it comments in the comments section below.
31:44
Speaker 1: And lastly, there was a new EP from Jericho Jackson. No,
31:49
Speaker 1: that's not the other Jackson brother who was adopted. That's
31:53
Speaker 1: a group featuring rapper l Zi and producer Crisis. They
32:00
Speaker 1: did a project a while back that is really dope.
32:04
Speaker 1: I think it was self titled Jericho Jackson. Yeah, Crisis
32:08
Speaker 1: and Elzi are Jericho Jackson. I'm probably gonna spend that
32:11
Speaker 1: again because it's been a while. They released that in
32:13
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. It was like critically acclaimed when it came
32:17
Speaker 1: to the hip hop heads. I believe I had it
32:19
Speaker 1: as one of the best of the year, maybe not
32:21
Speaker 1: top five. They got a new EP called I Am Him.
32:27
Speaker 1: But I will say this, it's cool, but it's really
32:32
Speaker 1: only three songs, three short songs, and the other six tracks.
32:38
Speaker 1: I mean the other three tracks are instrumentals of those songs,
32:42
Speaker 1: So it's thirteen minutes total. And I'm a little disappointed.
32:51
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna front. I kind of expected more. I
32:54
Speaker 1: guess my I was hyped a little bit because I
32:58
Speaker 1: thought we were getting an album, right, and maybe this
33:02
Speaker 1: is to lead to an eventual album. And these are
33:06
Speaker 1: the quote unquote throwaways from what we're going to get
33:11
Speaker 1: to that I say you should have dropped the album,
33:15
Speaker 1: because honestly, I'd rather you just go for it with
33:19
Speaker 1: everything you've got than to give us three songs that
33:22
Speaker 1: are not whack at all but just kind of like cool.
33:27
Speaker 1: So again, if you're a person that don't listen to everything,
33:32
Speaker 1: and you have the things you like and you like
33:34
Speaker 1: that first album, this might be a nice little, you know,
33:37
Speaker 1: sample size for what's to come. But I was just
33:40
Speaker 1: disappointed because I expected a little bit more. And when
33:44
Speaker 1: I say that, I mean just more songs. So I'm
33:48
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be listening to it, but I don't even
33:50
Speaker 1: feel like as an EP it's gonna make my top
33:54
Speaker 1: of the year, because for me, I'm listening to a
33:58
Speaker 1: ton of hip hop and and that competition is crazy.
34:04
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta have something that's dope. And we
34:06
Speaker 1: got so many albums that we know are coming this year.
34:11
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm saying, so, there you have it. Have
34:15
Speaker 1: you heard Roy Banks's new album, Benny de Busher's new EP,
34:20
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34:26
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34:33
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