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Best Hip Hop Albums of 1995 · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Speaker 1: This week on hip Hop Now Podcast, we celebrate Morgan
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Speaker 1: State University's homecoming by talking about the best hip hop
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Speaker 1: albums from my freshman year nineteen ninety five.
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Speaker 1: I do have a book, so to speak out on
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Speaker 1: substack five chapters of My Experience with hip hop is
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Speaker 1: called Experience hip Hop, and it's really about my journey
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Speaker 1: through purchasing classic albums and what I was doing at
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Speaker 1: the time the context of where we were dating from
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Speaker 1: the eighties to the nineties to the two things and
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Speaker 1: all of that. Five chapters up albums covered have been
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Speaker 1: death Certificate, low end Theory by trial Coquest. Well, let
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Speaker 1: me say this because some people don't know, right, death
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Speaker 1: Certificate by ice Cube, trical quest, low end theory, WU
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Speaker 1: tangs into the WU. Right, what else did I do?
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Speaker 1: I'm starting to forget now, Nazi z Elmatic and the
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Speaker 1: fifth one I think is one we're going to talk about.
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Speaker 1: are everywhere bars. Now let's get into the business nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety five. So in nineteen ninety five, I graduated from
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Speaker 1: Boys and Girls High School on Fulton Street in Brooklyn,
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Speaker 1: New York, Bedford Suyvesant area, where I was born and raised.
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Speaker 1: If you can't tell, you know by the brother Swag
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Speaker 1: albums I put out hat all of that.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I am from New York. Yes,
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Speaker 2: you guessed correctly.
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Speaker 1: And I attended Morgan State University, which is located in Baltimore, Maryland, Biore, Maryland.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, on a business scholarship. You know that
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Speaker 1: I won along with some other loose scholarships here, and
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Speaker 1: they don't get excited.
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Speaker 2: I didn't. Didn't.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a full ride. It was just a little
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Speaker 1: bit of money. But I was appreciative. I was a
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Speaker 1: marketing major entering the School of Business Earl Graves School
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Speaker 1: of Business, by the way, and during that time, you know,
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Speaker 1: I can't wind up changing my major to media because
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Speaker 1: I was more interested in doing something directly connected with
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Speaker 1: music that was creative. Even though marketing and working in
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Speaker 1: the music industry could have been the same thing. I
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Speaker 1: kind of wanted to get much closer to the music
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Speaker 1: than that and I felt like radio and other content
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Speaker 1: creation things was my lane, right.
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Speaker 2: I wanted to create the content.
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Speaker 1: I didn't really want to market the content, even though
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Speaker 1: that's in my blood. And while at Morgan State, I
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Speaker 1: was right right, I was rhyming. I you know, I
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Speaker 1: had just started rhyming in like a year before, So
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Speaker 1: now I'm about a year in with my pen you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying and DJ before I lived hip
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Speaker 1: hop coming up as a kid in Brooklyn, New York.
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Speaker 1: Also my second home Queensbridge. I spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: weekends in Queensbridge. So my exposure to hip hop across
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Speaker 1: New York City and everywhere I was, the radio, television, everything,
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Speaker 1: all of that came with me to be more to
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Speaker 1: Morgas State University just to run into dudes who also rhyme,
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Speaker 1: and some dudes shout out to Clark who had like
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Speaker 1: studio in the dorm room, and you know, I was
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Speaker 1: able to cut my first demo with them and just
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Speaker 1: rhyming with dudes around me, my friends that rhymed and
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Speaker 1: all that good stuff. And for those who watch and
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Speaker 1: who know I was never a part of black you
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Speaker 1: booked that, but some of y'all don't even know what
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, but those who know, y'all know.
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Speaker 2: But you know, with.
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Speaker 1: Doing that obviously and being who I was as a
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Speaker 1: hip hop fan, obviously, hip hop was huge around that
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Speaker 1: time on campus, not only us doing it, but just
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Speaker 1: talking about everything that was out. And in nineteen ninety five,
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Speaker 1: a number of notable hip hop albums dropped, right, Some
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Speaker 1: people's favorite some people some albums that are classics, some
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Speaker 1: follow ups at are disappointments, some classic debuts like it
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Speaker 1: was a it was full of a dope hip hop
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Speaker 1: that was new, you know what I'm saying. Like sure,
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Speaker 1: you had other artists who like ll KOOJ and coug
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Speaker 1: Rap dropping albums which kind of felt dope because those
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Speaker 1: albums were dope, like Missus Smith and like four five
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Speaker 1: six I think it was Cougie rap album. But you
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Speaker 1: also had debuts from like ODB and Goodie Mob. And
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Speaker 1: you know, you had people like Master Ace continuing his
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Speaker 1: legacy based off the Juice Crew but doing something different.
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Speaker 1: So there was just so much music dropping that was
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Speaker 1: new and refreshing, along with some veterans who put out
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Speaker 1: quality work. That's what's dope about it, right, You get
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Speaker 1: the debut the Big l In the same year you
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Speaker 1: get an album by Caris One That's dope and Do's
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Speaker 1: Effects that's dope.
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Speaker 2: Right. So nineteen ninety.
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Speaker 1: Five was a very interesting year in hip hop and
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Speaker 1: a formative year for me because I'm making a transition
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Speaker 1: from being in high school and now trying to adjust
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Speaker 1: to college, not only the curriculum, but also just the
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Speaker 1: lifestyle being in college. Like, yo, we was partying every day.
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Speaker 1: And when I say that, I am not lying one
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Speaker 1: I think one of two weeks me and the homie
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Speaker 1: wood out to him. I think we went to a
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Speaker 1: party every day. No lie, like on a Tuesday, just random. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's about seventeen people in here, but so what like,
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Speaker 1: So it was a very different year, and it was
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Speaker 1: before you know, the shiny suit era kind of took off, right,
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Speaker 1: Biggie and all of that had already popped it bad
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Speaker 1: Boy had already popped. But one thing about ninety five
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Speaker 1: was boom back, bring supreme right and lyrical content and
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Speaker 1: original styles were probably more important than they had ever
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Speaker 1: been in hip hop. It's part of the reason why
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Speaker 1: you hear guys who just swear by the nineties specifically,
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Speaker 1: maybe ninety three to like ninety eight or.
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Speaker 2: Something like that.
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Speaker 1: Right, there are people who or even you know, you
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Speaker 1: can even dial it back maybe ninety six, but they
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Speaker 1: have people who swear by that era of hip hop.
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Speaker 1: And it has a lot to do with the production.
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Speaker 1: It has a lot to do a lot of newer artists,
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Speaker 1: and it definitely has a lot to do with skills,
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Speaker 1: pen game, lyricism, songwriting, all of that, like the attention
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Speaker 1: to detail. If your pen game wasn't right, it didn't
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Speaker 1: matter who did your Beats group Home also dropped in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five their debut album, which to most is
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Speaker 1: a classic, Off the Beats alone, honestly literally off the
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Speaker 1: Beats alone. That DJ Premier produced the whole album. But
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Speaker 1: that's what I mean. There was a lot going on
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Speaker 1: in that year musically, so I decided on Morgan State's
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Speaker 1: Morgan State Universities Homecoming to do my top five of
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. Now, also along with that, before we
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Speaker 1: get into the top five, I'm going to give you
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Speaker 1: three honorable mentions as well as a slept On.
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Speaker 2: Now, let's start with the slept On.
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Speaker 1: I think an album in nineteen ninety five that slept
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Speaker 1: On and I don't believe it was slept on back then.
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Speaker 1: I just think when people think of a lot of
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Speaker 1: albums from nineteen ninety five that were dope, this.
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Speaker 2: One almost never gets mentioned. And that's Onyx. All we
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Speaker 2: Got is Us.
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Speaker 1: This was yx sophomore album, and it was surprisingly dope
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Speaker 1: and very different from their debute.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: When I say surprisingly dope, what I mean is when
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Speaker 1: Onyx dropped with their debute. You know, they had the
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Speaker 1: ball heads and it was like a real style and
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Speaker 1: it was almost like a gimmick. You know what I'm
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Speaker 1: saying that we were into back then, because I think
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Speaker 1: that came out like ninety three.
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Speaker 2: We were into.
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Speaker 1: Back then, but ninety five was different because now you
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Speaker 1: know had Wu Tang debut, you didne had Na's debut,
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Speaker 1: you didn't had Biggie debut.
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Speaker 2: So who's checking for that back then?
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Speaker 1: That's how much music changed on the East Coast from
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Speaker 1: Onyx's debut to their second album. And honestly, All We
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Speaker 1: Got is Us is an album that I think you
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Speaker 1: should check out if you know Onyx enough to be like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was cool, but I never heard that you should
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Speaker 1: check it out. So my top three songs off of
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Speaker 1: that album would be Last Day's the beat. The feeling,
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Speaker 1: the vibe of that record crazy per snatches again, kind
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Speaker 1: of that Onyx flavor, but the production was so boom
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Speaker 1: back and hard hitting. And my third favorite is Walking
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Speaker 1: New York And it ain't really about nobody else.
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Speaker 2: Because I don't care.
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Speaker 1: I don't care where you're from, and I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to wrap me being better than you. I don't care
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Speaker 1: about that. What I liked about the record was it
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Speaker 1: felt like New York and prior to guys throwing gang
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Speaker 1: signs in New York, hearing Frediro Stars saying we don't
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Speaker 1: throw gang signs in New York, it was true and
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Speaker 1: it was dope the way they did it. Now, I'm
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Speaker 1: not here to vouch for no gang members because I
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Speaker 1: ain't one and never have, never will.
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Speaker 2: Okay, talk about current guys.
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Speaker 1: They could do what they want to do, But back
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Speaker 1: then that was the distinction on one of the distinctions
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Speaker 1: between you know, New York streets and like Cali streets
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Speaker 1: or whatever. I do like the answer from Dog Pound
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Speaker 1: with Snoop off the Poet of Justice soundtrack, like throw
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Speaker 1: your guns in the air, we don't care like throw stuff,
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Speaker 1: so check it out now. Honorable mentions. These are three
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Speaker 1: albums that probably would have made my top five, but
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the top five I have is so
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Speaker 1: solid to me that they had to go. Tonical mentions,
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Speaker 1: one being Smith and Wesson's The Shining Straight Up Brooklyn
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Speaker 1: You Want Brooklyn nineteen ninety five Thames and Hoods Hoodies
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Speaker 1: Like this is it Thames and hood This album smells
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Speaker 1: like Thames and Hoodies and hallways and breaking up blunts.
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Speaker 1: Now I didn't hang out no damn hallways breaking up blunts,
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Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, right. Also Bone Thugs
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Speaker 1: in Harmony E nineteen ninety nine, Eternal. I'll say this,
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Speaker 1: back when it dropped, I didn't have money to buy everything,
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Speaker 1: but I heard songs. I liked a lot from them,
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Speaker 1: and I remember somebody let me hear the album back then,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I get it now.
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Speaker 2: I get why.
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Speaker 1: Easy East signed them, and I get why people like them.
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Speaker 1: They're just dope and again, original styles. Back in nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety five, they could have easily just been the next,
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Speaker 1: you know, the next group of we rapping about the
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Speaker 1: streets cats, but they were very different. Obviously, jealous ones, envy,
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Speaker 1: fat Joe, I'm not gonna hold you. I was not
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Speaker 1: a Fat Joe the gangster fan. I felt like he's
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Speaker 1: not really nice like that. All he does is curse
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Speaker 1: and threaten people.
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Speaker 2: That's it. That's all I heard, right, I know is
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Speaker 2: you gotta Flow, Joe, But it was just.
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Speaker 1: Mad curses and I was just like, I don't think
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Speaker 1: he's saying anything beyond curses and threats. The jealous Ones
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Speaker 1: Envy heard that joint. I got to cassette somewhere back
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Speaker 1: here heard that joint. And there is not a skip
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Speaker 1: on this album. I think that's perfect. It's one of
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Speaker 1: Fat Joe's beat. If you're gonna say Fat Joe or
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Speaker 1: you're gonna ask the questions, does Fat Joe have a classic?
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Speaker 2: I think he has two, and this is one of them.
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Speaker 1: So now let's get into my top five hip hop
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Speaker 1: albums from nineteen ninety five in order. Something that's very
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Speaker 1: difficult for me to do, to be honest, but I'm gonna.
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Speaker 2: Keep them in all that.
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Speaker 1: At number five, Goodie Mob, Soul Food, favorite tracks off
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Speaker 1: of this album, Dirty South, Cell Therapy, and the title
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Speaker 1: track Soul Food When I Say Originality.
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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety five, this is what I'm talking about. Man.
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Speaker 1: Even the songs I named right Dirty South Right this
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Speaker 1: is where we're from, beat as hard to rhyme and
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Speaker 1: is hard on their big boy performance is crazy on
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Speaker 1: that song. Also, then you have a song like Cell Therapy,
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Speaker 1: which is dark and kind of like Southern boombat feel
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Speaker 1: to me, but extremely catchy.
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Speaker 2: Who's that peeking in My window? Bile Nobody now?
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Speaker 1: Like I remember when I saw the video, I was like, Yo,
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Speaker 1: this this is hard like this, this record is dope.
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Speaker 1: And lastly, the title record Soulfuld anytime a rapper could
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Speaker 1: say a heap of helping a fried chicken macarthy and.
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Speaker 2: Cheese and kind of greens and beat like.
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Speaker 1: I'm in like you literally made me hungry like saying that,
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Speaker 1: but just a dope record and the song is soulful.
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Speaker 1: This album, this album contains all of that energy from
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Speaker 1: those three songs throughout, and I think it's one of
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Speaker 1: the more creative. I think in some ways it can
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Speaker 1: be slept on because I think people are so enamored
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Speaker 1: with outcasts that they missed goodie mom standing right next
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Speaker 1: to them when it comes to quality music coming out.
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Speaker 1: You know that Camp in Atlanta and organized Noise so
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Speaker 1: soulful right. Number four Tupac Me Against the World, Favorite Songs, Temptations,
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Speaker 1: Dear Mama, and the title track Me against the World.
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say this, back then, title tracks were
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Speaker 1: always good, like almost always right soon as you got
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Speaker 1: to the title track.
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Speaker 2: But okay, I see why they named it.
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Speaker 1: This what I liked about Tupac and these different records
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Speaker 1: is and probably this is the main reason why I
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Speaker 1: liked Tupac is because he made music that was so relatable.
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Speaker 1: Even if he was necessarily going through what he was
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Speaker 1: talking about.
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Speaker 2: You felt it.
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Speaker 1: You either knew somebody like that, or maybe you're discovering
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Speaker 1: this situation through Tupac's lyrics. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: sincerity and the way he spit like on Dear Mama,
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Speaker 1: right like this is his mama, this is his life,
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Speaker 1: this is how he felt. And one line from Dear
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Speaker 1: Mama that really struck a chord with me at this age,
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Speaker 1: at this time in nineteen ninety five was my anger.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't let me feel for a stranger When he was
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Speaker 1: talking about his father not being in his life and
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Speaker 1: I was dealing with the same thing, and I felt
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Speaker 1: like who I connected with Tupac, not just with that line,
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Speaker 1: but that line really struck a chord with me because
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Speaker 1: it was it's something you feel, but it took someone
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Speaker 1: else to verbalize it, to say, yep, that's that's exactly
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Speaker 1: how I was feeling. So classic material Number three Jizz,
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Speaker 1: Liquid Swords, Liquid Swords. These are my top three songs
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Speaker 1: off the album, Liquid Swords, Fourth Chamber and shadow Boxing
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Speaker 1: Liquid Swords. If you saw the Wu Tang American Saga
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Speaker 1: television show and how he was kind of like coming
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Speaker 1: up with that hook.
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Speaker 2: When I tell y'all that beat they used to play this.
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Speaker 1: In the club, which is crazy because you, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're not really dancing with a shorty. But back then
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Speaker 1: the women was into the bars just as much as
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Speaker 1: the fellas, so they may just you might just be
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Speaker 1: wrapping back when the ncige came, like you might be
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Speaker 1: rapping back with shorty as you're kind of dancing whatever.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's what you're doing. But like that beat
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Speaker 2: was crazy.
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Speaker 1: And the way Jigsel was flowing, it was like I
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Speaker 1: felt like listening to Jizz, I was getting smarter, right,
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Speaker 1: like when you listen to Chuck d and like Carress
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Speaker 1: one the teacher Carriss one right, you.
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Speaker 2: Feel like an X clan shout out the X claim.
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Speaker 1: You feel like, Okay, I'm learning about myself as a
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Speaker 1: black man. You know what I'm saying. They teaching me
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Speaker 1: about this. With Jizza, you felt like, nah, this is
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Speaker 1: intellectual rap. I felt like an intellectual but it was Boombag,
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Speaker 1: which was extra dope.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, Fourth Chamber. First time I heard Killer Priest on there,
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh wow, this dude is this dude
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Speaker 1: is dope, I judge wisely, if nothing ever surprised me.
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Speaker 1: Lounging between two pillars of ivory crazy right, ghost face
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Speaker 1: on there, and then obviously with shadowboxing with method Man,
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Speaker 1: that beat is nuts. Like if that beat gets you
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Speaker 1: in before you hear a bar and then Jizza and
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Speaker 1: method Man kill it.
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Speaker 2: So there you have it.
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Speaker 1: Number two, Mob Deep the infamous favorite songs Shook One's
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Speaker 1: Part two, children, there's not one Shook One's actually it
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Speaker 1: was a part one, but this part two is the one.
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Speaker 1: You know, give up the goods and right back at you,
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Speaker 1: give up the goods featuring Big Nooid, right back at
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Speaker 1: you featuring Raycon and Ghosts. These are just records that
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Speaker 1: just moved me instantly when I heard it. I remember
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Speaker 1: the first time, the first time, I you know what's
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Speaker 1: crazy real quick. The first time I heard Shook One's
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Speaker 1: Part two wasn't because I saw the video. I think
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Speaker 1: I read about it in the source and I went
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Speaker 1: and bought the single, and the single contained Shook One's
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Speaker 1: Part one and Shook One's Part two. And this is
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Speaker 1: before Infamous dropped, and I remember digging Shook One's Part one.
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Speaker 1: But to all the killers in the one hundred dollar bills,
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Speaker 1: that build up is iconic.
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Speaker 2: To really swear.
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Speaker 1: Got no feelings, not feelings, feelings, that's what we say.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, got no feelings. I'm getting hype, y'all.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go listen to some of this.
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Speaker 1: But mab deeps the Infamous was such a turnaround from
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Speaker 1: their debut album, Juvenile held that it was a completely
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Speaker 1: different group at that point in time, and honestly, coming
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Speaker 1: off the back, I'm gonna say pause, because I know
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Speaker 1: some of y'all can't take it off the shoulders or
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Speaker 1: whatever you want to say of it. Maybe that's worse
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Speaker 1: all of it's worse of Nazis zio Madic coming out
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Speaker 1: of Queensbridge right like Nazis zial Madic was literally the
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Speaker 1: return of Queen's Bridge based off of what happened in
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Speaker 1: the Battle with Boogie Down productions with the Bridges over. Now,
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Speaker 1: sure there were artists from QB that came out before then,
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Speaker 1: but Illmatic kind of put eyes all eyes on Queen's
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Speaker 1: Bridge again and for Nasa to do what he did,
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Speaker 1: and then for mob Deep to follow up with this album,
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Speaker 1: it was like Queensbridge was back NASA's in the Survival
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Speaker 1: of the Fittest.
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Speaker 2: Video like it was a moment in time.
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Speaker 1: It was the beginning of the Duns, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, the Dun language and all that. So mab
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Speaker 1: D's infamous album Dope Album Dope assists from q TIP
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Speaker 1: on the production side, helping out like song like right
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Speaker 1: back at You. The way those drums hit is ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: the way them drums hit on, give up the goods,
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Speaker 1: big noise verse like classic material. All in nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: five Man the Freshman Year, you know we just we
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Speaker 1: can gifts and this is not even all of them.
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Speaker 1: And lastly, my number one, if you haven't guessed it already.
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Speaker 1: Ray Kwan, the chefs only built for Cuban Links aka
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Speaker 1: per Will Take for the purple cassette that that was
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Speaker 1: the album came with the album that was the album
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Speaker 1: back in the day. I even have the vinyl which
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Speaker 1: is Purple Purple Vinyl Classic Album. Top songs for me
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Speaker 1: on this album Knowledge God coarcerated Scarfaces in Heaven and Hell.
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Speaker 2: Listen. We were not prepared for this album.
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Speaker 1: I remember this album came out, believe in August, right,
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Speaker 1: so I'm gearing up. I think the next week I'm
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Speaker 1: getting ready to go to college. Right, nerves uncertainty, but
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Speaker 1: also optimistic about my future because I dreamed about that.
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Speaker 1: I'm the second person in my family to graduate from college.
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Speaker 1: But at this point in time now I'm on that
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Speaker 1: path to doing so. Right, And this album comes out
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Speaker 1: a week in advance. And when I say I basically
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Speaker 1: sunk into this album, I remember I was like packing
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Speaker 1: or cleaning up or something like that, probably cleaning up
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Speaker 1: my room, and I just put the joint on and
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Speaker 1: I just remember, like, as I'm doing things, I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this intro kind of sick, you know. Oh that song
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Speaker 1: is crazy, Oh that song is crazy. Oh wait, Nas
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Speaker 1: on here, wait a minute, that's shocked by the skit
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Speaker 1: they talked about Biggie. It was like it was everything right.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 1: It was such a mirror on nineteen ninety five at
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Speaker 1: the time when you think about how big Wu Tang
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Speaker 1: became and you had Jizz dropping the album, o dB
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Speaker 1: dropped an album that year, method Man had dropped an album,
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Speaker 1: and you most for the most part, like everything was
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Speaker 1: a classic that was coming out. You know, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to get into debate. You know, methad Man album.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a classic, uh, but you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Like there was just a lot going on,
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Speaker 1: and then you have nods from Illmatic really like Nas
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Speaker 1: being the first non WO member.
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Speaker 2: I remember hearing on a Woo project, right.
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Speaker 1: Because method Man was on Biggie's album, but Biggie wasn't
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Speaker 1: on metha Man's album. As far as rappers, and also
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Speaker 1: everybody had a nickname now on this album, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, from iron Man and Noodles or whatever,
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Speaker 1: Golden Arms and all that, Johnny Blaze and this was
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Speaker 1: the first time you saw nas Escobar, which Nas actually
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Speaker 1: mentioned on Mob Deep's infamous album on a song called
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Speaker 1: IFO and Z where he says nas escabar moving on
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Speaker 1: your weak production. Right, So this was the Escho season
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Speaker 1: before it was written like building up. But to take
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Speaker 1: it back to ray Kuon featuring ghost Face Killer, where
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Speaker 1: it wasn't like they were a group even though it
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Speaker 1: feels like a group album. This was Ray Kwon's and
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Speaker 1: it took on a mafioso kind of theme to it,
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Speaker 1: and it was just dope, man.
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Speaker 2: So there you have it.
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Speaker 1: Those are my top five hip hop albums from nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety five. What's in your top five? Leave your comments
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