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Rap, Wrestling & White Rappers - #87 · The Grounded Show

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Different now. Yeah, they about to go crazy. Yo. If one
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of y'all could look it up real quick, just look up what they did,
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how they sold just now, because I know they just they just took
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them off. They about to take them off the market because they went private.
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The TKO company, the ones that bought WWE. I don't know if
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they company, right, all right, man, Yeah they went private.
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Said yeah, they somebody bought them and took like a private equity firm or
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something like that, and they're going to come off the market. And they
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and supposedly it'sa like twelve billion silver Lake. Oh that's a big firm.
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That's how much they sold for se well, it says going private and deal
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valued at thirteen billion. Thirteen billion, Bro, that's like they just they
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just acquired them to not saying that they're losing they're losing WWE at all or
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anything, because they probably still going to manage it and kind of keep the
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same infrastructure and everything. But dang bro to buy it and then to flip
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it like that already. Yeah, immedia flip Definitely. You think that attributes
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to list Man stepping out of the picture. I think it's like a mix
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of Vince McMahon leaving as far as like his outdated ideas and stuff, because
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he had been stifling the company for a lot of years with the old man
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stuff, you know what I mean? And you tell yeah, and him
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and him leaving new new blood coming up. Ari Manuel, he's a he's
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a crazy brain. Nick Con crazy brain. Nick Con was an agent for
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a lot of years, you know what I mean. Before he got involved
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with the WWE. He was I know he skipped Bayless's agent or he was
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or is still, but he was. I believe he was the Rocks agent
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before. Ari E. Manuel. But he's a big agent, uh,
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Nick Kahn. Ari Emanuel the Rock obviously the Rock just coming back and being
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involved. He's bringing a lot of eyes to the products, like the He's
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not like the holding shareholder, but he's on the Board's on the board.
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Yeah, So he definitely has some kind of stake in it, and he's
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on He's on the ww TV a lot right now, and a lot of
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people are kind of like anticipating when is he going to go back to Hollywood.
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But the thing that's kind of going on is like he got a lot
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of money probably tied up in the WWE thing and it's doing well and him
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being there is leading to better business and bigger numbers and stuff. So he's
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probably like, man, I'm gonna just stick around and see what happens here,
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you know, right. He always talked about how the wrestling thing is
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like there's nothing like it anyway, So he's probably loving that he's making bread
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now, you know what I'm saying, Like on a big level. But
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he also said like he's able to expand the Rocks persona to a level he
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always wanted to and they never allowed him to when he was really in that
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point in his career, and I think that's why he left. And now
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that he's back and he can do what he wants now this new this new
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Rock persona, the Heel Rock, the Master. Yeah, he's going crazy.
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He's going crazy. WrestleMania is going to be crazy. I want to
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watch it for sure. Now. Yeah. It's like I said, I
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feel like it's a big thing of Vince McMahon just stifling creative ideas there,
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and the creative pretty much drives the business when it comes to wrestling, because
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the main thing about wrestling as a wrestling fan is you don't like to be
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associated with it when it's corny, you know what I mean, Because there's
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a lot of times where wrestling is just cringey, like you can't show it
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to anybody, You can't bring your friends around and put wrestling on because it
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just comes off so corny that even you as a fan, you don't even
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want to watch it like that, you know what I mean. So they're
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kind of bringing back like that factor of like, Okay, we're going to
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pay attention to what we're doing when story wise, so people are actually invested
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and actually feel like this is a dope thing going on once you suspend your
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disbelief and kind of enter the wrestling world, you know what I mean.
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Yeah, And wrestling has seasons, and like people, you know, when
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you watch a TV show and they drag his story out for more than a
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few seasons. Because I remember the whole Roman Rings rain, the fans hated
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it. He's been like the longest running tenuere champion main character in wrestling forever,
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and I was waiting for it. And now like you got Koree Rhodes
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coming in, and I think the Rockets is holding Rains there longer. But
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I see, I see why I like the whole blood long story they got
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going on, like it's good. It's good, Like it feels like the
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attitude they are all over again coming back. It's the closest to it,
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for sure. Yeah, for sure. They're like cussing again. You know,
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they're actually like bleeding, you know, the wrestlers are getting all bloody
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and stuff. This is a man wrestling, you know, it should have
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a certain kind of vibe, you know what I mean, And it was
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missing it for a long time. So it's dope to see it's like coming
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back around and actually attracting people to watch it and actually talk about it in
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a way where they're not embarrassed about it. Yeah, I agree, yo,
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Man. Something that's been coming up on my timeline a lot is these
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white rappers rapping ad fast, talking about how many words they know, and
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it's the same flow, the same like breakdowns in the flow, and they're
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always talking about how they're such great rappers. Dog who actually listens to this
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stuff? Bro? White rappers like a dog? It's so funny like and
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ironic that you're that. That's how you really know you're just missing the essence
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of what hip hop is when you're just getting on the track explaining to me
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why you're a dope rapper. Like if you're doing that, you already lost
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bro facts. Yeah, it's it's actually really annoying to be honest with you.
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Don't get me wrong, Like I get the talent in being able to
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like rap fast, but like actually rap about something like don't rap fast,
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about how you can rap fast and rap good, and like you know what
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I'm saying, because that's it's it's really counter productive. You're not really rapping
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feeling and I be feeling and I be willing and killing bro yeah, every
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individual, and they're always telling you how bad the other rappers are. It's
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it's it's just such a like predictable formula and just a repetitive sound. And
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it's so hilarious to me because I always feel like this happens a lot also
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with like the rappers that feel like they're like of the culture rappers, you
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know what I mean. Like there's a certain kind of rapper that hangs out
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in a certain scene and holds a certain sense of like where it's like they're
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almost dedicated to being whack, you know what I mean. It's like they
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want to make sure that people will not listen to their music no matter what,
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you know what I mean. They're always doing things to make you not
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want to listen, and they want to defend it from the point of view
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of now we're staying true to hip hop. Like dog, I listen to
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hip hop from the eighties now and it sounds way better than what they're trying
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to pass off as rap right now. You know what I'm saying. It
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don't got nothing to do with me not understanding or you preserving the culture or
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whatever that case is. It got all to do with this shit is whack.
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The raps changed, man, for sure. And that's the thing too,
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It's like you can't. It's like they want to cultivate the whack part
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slash, like their interpretation of what they think rap really should be. But
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it's like, nah, bro, that's that's not what he was doing,
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man, that's not what was going on. Like TikTok rap now, even
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like what you consider rap now, you you will find those pockets of the
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people that's doing it with a new sound but rapping the right way, you
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know what I mean. Like one of those that comes to mind, you
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know, and he's kind of like a little more season now becredy you know
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what I'm saying. The way was and like how he's putting his verses together
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and stuff. He's in that lane of like the new artists and and those
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kind of sounds. But when you listen to him, you're like, oh
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no, he's saying something different, you know what I mean, Like you
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could do it without sacrificing the likability of the music, you know what I
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mean? Right right exactly. That's that's the reason, like I don't enjoy
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it, like with the hip hop beefs that go on, Like I don't
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I feel the beef. It's more outside of just rapping and doing it crazy
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ass. This track now, it's all about the show and the the performance
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of it is, Like, it's not just about rapping anymore. Bro.
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That's why I love that Kendrick verse dog like that because he was just spitting
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his ass off. It was just straight up on Wax, I'm calling you
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out like this on Wax, I'm a better rapper? What's up? You
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know what I mean? It was no direct direct hits exactly and layered layered
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lyrics and just Bro just executed to the t to the t. And that's
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people enjoy that, Brod, I'm not gonna lie. I have not heard
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a song from that album. I just put that on repeat. I haven't
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even took the time to listen to the album. Literally, that's like my
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go to listen to first song when I get in the car, you know
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what I mean? Because this man and that's kind of what I'm saying,
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bro like he was. It was a disc But honestly, if you don't
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even know what's going on, or you're not really tapped in a rap like
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that, you could just listen to it and think he's just talking to shit.
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Yeah, you know what I mean, because he's he's just basically just
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popping off. But us, you knowing the backstory, we know it's deliberate
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and like a direct shot, you know what I mean. The boys heard
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that song, heard the whole album, and then me and my other boy
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in the same chat. It's like three or three my boys, and he
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was like, oh, why did Camuit go so hard at Drake? And
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I was like j Cole too, and they're like what And I was like,
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didn't you hear the song? They're like yeah, And I had to
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send them the lyrics and send them the references are like, wow, we
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didnt even catch it. I was like, yeah, if you listen,
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you know exactly what he was talking about it now. He was just basically
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straight up saying, now all this conversation, there is no conversation, and
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just be on you. Yeah, and bro, it's it's kind of like
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I was saying with like the old school rappers and stuff, like he found
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a way to make something just dope. And it was at this but like
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like you was even saying, people wasn't even catching like certain parts of it.
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And like I said, if you don't know nothing that's going on,
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you don't even you won't even catch any of it. It'll all go over
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your head and you'll think he's just fitting, you know what I mean?
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Man, that really And I even hit up Quincy after I heard that because
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it just gave me like that feeling of like that hearing that song in that
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verse just gave me the feeling of like being in the studio collaborating, like
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coming up with some dope stuff that you know is dope, and just the
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energy like it made me. It made me like need that feeling, you
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know what I mean, Like it gave me that flashback like damn, bro
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being in the studio when you're just like in a pocket and then you know
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you're you're putting together a track and you just know like you're hitting it out
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the park. Dog Like that's just what that that track gives me, Like
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as far as the vibe goes, you know, Like also it's something that
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this tracks make me do. As I go back to the history other rappers
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and I'm like, all right, what is Jake Cole been saying? And
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one thing I noticed, Ja Cole has been saying a lot about Big step
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is in his music. Yeah, so I'm like, Damn has this has
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j Cole been saying about Kendrick for a while now? Yeah, there was
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an interview that, Man, it's a little vague, but I'm pretty sure
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it was Ja Cole a little while ago that he kind of alluded to him
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and Kendrick are always kind of like at each other, you know what I
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mean, just because that that friendly rivalry is always there, you know what
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I mean? And you know, J Cole has never been shy about talking
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about stuff in rap and if like same thing, like if you know the
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history, you know what he's talking about. Certain things like he's talking about
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certain rappers. You know that that false Prophet song, Like different versions were
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for different rappers, you know, And it's really dope, man, It's
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just really dope that right now, there's so many guys putting in that work,
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like as far as rap goes, and just like the crazy part of
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like lumping Future and all that, like he's such a different artist, but
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still on that level, you know what I mean, Like you don't look
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at him, you know, you think you're teaming up though, who Future
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in Kendri Metro and Kendrick Do you think that's a fair advantage? I mean,
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it was definitely a very deliberate we choose in sides thing, you know
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what I mean. Yeah, And it's that that I don't know, man,
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Like I'm not saying I'm for like any kind of like friction or anything
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like that, but I like that energy of like, Okay, you on
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that side, I stay on that side, you know what I mean,
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Like when you know what it is, like you don't got to fake the
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funk, you know, it's just it just is what it is. But
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I feel like that competitive spirit is listening hip hop right now, you know
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what I'm saying, Like that too, Like you know, we obviously,
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you know, minus all of the extra stuff that came with that. You
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know what I'm saying. Back in you know, the nineties, you know
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what I'm saying, Tupac Big and all that stuff. Like the competitive nature
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of hip hop always made people keep their pin sharp, you know what I'm
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saying. So like we always complain about like how people are lazy with the
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music, now you know what I mean? Like that competitiveness keeps people sharp.
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So I really like that aspect of it. I really hope that Cole
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Drake or somebody do something from what I saw Drake throwing tantris at the concerts.
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Man's that's what I'm saying. It's it's it should just be raped.
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Just rap, just rap, yeah, just rap. No, But you
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know what I saw a comparison, and I'm not sure it was. It's
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like hip hop today is compared to like boxing, And what hurts boxing so
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much is the people that are on top are so afraid of going at each
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other, so afraid to lose. It's so afraid to take that l that
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they just rather because if too, if you got two greats with no losses,
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someone's gonna take an l out of that they're so afraid to do.
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But that's what we need, that's what the people want. People want to
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see the best of the best go against each other, and I think you
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get more respect about going against someone who's as good as you, even if
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you take an elder like well, at least at least he went at them,
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you know. Yeah, I think it's also a little bit of Back
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in the day, there just wasn't as many spots either, Like hip hop
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was kind of like in a certain box and there was only a certain amount
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of that like crossing over, so they were literally competing for spots as a
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posts. And now like everybody got their own audience, everybody's eating, everybody's
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doing whatever they want to do, and they're not really like hindered by each
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other. So they're literally not competing, you know what I mean. Like
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I'm over here making my money, You over there making your money. So
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you know, what's the point. But it's dope When you got people like
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j Cole, you got people like Kendrick, you got people like Drake,
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All three of them, you know, think they're the best and they don't
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got a problem saying it. So that friction is always kind of there.
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Yeah, I definitely would like to see that a little bit more. For
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sure, Who's you can't but know that who's that dream of Fest Dream Dream
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bill Fest's going to be there? Yeah? For sure, he's always there.
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It's like performance since the tracks drop. Yeah, so I'm interested to
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see what happens if he said, if he mentions it, he better say
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something. Dang. Imagine he debuts a tractor, That's what I'm saying.
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I imagine he brings Drake out, dang, and they just do a double
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team disc like dance a huge this together. Yeah, that's gonna be dope.
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I'm actually hyped for that. Who's in that line of the Line's good?
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I haven't seen it. It's all right. It was better last year
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and the year before that. No, I missed last year and last year
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he actually did have Drake out there. I know. I know he might
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have him again the way you know what I'm saying, like the way they're
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really like choosing sides right now. We'll see if he's there because the way,
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uh, I think Drake is like doing shows and right now, so
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we'll see if it lines up. But I know, like the headliners are
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NICKI Minaj. It was Chris Brown, but I don't know what happened with
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that, But now it's fifty c j I D is going to be out
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there school boy Q litt yachty bro on seeing Chris Brown, that replacement is
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wild. Though, I know, you know, people are hot. People
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are hot. Personally, I am excited. How you're gonna replace Chris Brown
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with fifty Yeah? Bro, Like what is that they got the special?
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Yo? That's not even in the same at all. Yeah. People are
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hot, bro, people are hot. And then the thing is they dropped
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on April fool on April first, so people was like, yo, just
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a joke, like like for real, Like, dang, yeah, I'm
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a I'm a fifty cent fan dog, like a big fifty cent fan.
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But what a left turn, bro, Like they say Jack Queiz staying,
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say I'm Arion. You know what I'm saying. They say Sammy Nah,
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they said fifty cent dog dog what Yeah? Greenville Fest? Yeah, Bro,
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that's so random. Dog's Maceona said. Though me personally, but I'm
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ecstatic because because Robin actually had bought Take Secrets Brown. You hot? Oh
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that was me. There's mad females that is hot right now there's mad females.
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That's tight. But yeah, no I'm excited. I'm just how my
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wife will react. I we were, I was like, Yo, we
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about to see fifty I mean we about to see Chris Brown this weekend?
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My way, we about to go see Chris Brown is weekend And we pull
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up and it's like what we here? We can get the drummer popping,
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like what be? Like, what is going on here? Dog? Ain't
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no serenading an equivalent replacement? Yeah, I don't know what happened with that.
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Now that's crazy. But he's on tour right now, so I don't
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know. If the schedules didn't line up, what you know, what may
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have happened. But he was supposed to stop at Dreamville on his tour,
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so I don't know what happened. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. They
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tried to do that to me. Chick fil A one time. I pulled
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up and I ordered check it out, now, check it out, check
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it out. I pulled up and I have ordered the troop right, check
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it out? Dog? I ordered you know the big soup there is like
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nine bucks. Bro. I'm already tight that my wife likes that soup off
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rip is dumb expensive bro nine dollars and then the size of it is like
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it's not even a big bro, like it's like a little soup. But
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anyway, so I ordered the soup pull up to pick it up. They're
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like, Yo, we're out of soup. Would you want to take a
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macaroni and cheese side talk? The macaroni and cheese size is like three dollars.
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I was like, Yo, that's not even almost like a fair comparison,
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you know what I mean, Like, just cancel my whole order.
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I'm not paying nine dollars for a macaroni and cheese side Like it just doesn't
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make any sense, like and she was like really thinking like this was gonna
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happen like no, Like she was like kind of like confused that I wanted
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to cancel it, Like, Yo, this is a six dollars difference in
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what you're trying to offer me as consolation, Like where do you think that
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I'm just going to accept that and just be on my merry way hit it
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with the now chief. I couldn't believe it. They tried me one time
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with that with a shake too, like that frozen lemonade thing. Man that
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thing is mad good. But that thing is like six bucks. Yeah,
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like, no way, you're crazy to give me an ice cream. It
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looked like taking eyes, get me ice cream ice cream two dollars with a
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small couple of lemonade for bro. I reply, I fucking report that shitber
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easy. If they don't get me ketchup, no, dead ass, I
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need, I need, I need some money back. Oh yeah yeah.
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I don't play around with the pizza delivery either, like crazy. Yeah.
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I always pay the tip in cash, like because I used to just leave
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the tip before, and I always put like twenty five to thirty percent depending
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on how much I'm ordering. But they would like just do stuff. That
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was like, bro, why am I get why I might give you bread?
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Like there's no way. The other day they came and dropped off some
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Dominoes and Buddy was like, Yo, my bad, I forgot to drink.
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If you still want it, just called a store. If I still
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want it, just called a store. No, who doesn't want to drink?
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Why would I order that, bitch? And what the store gonna do?
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So I called the store and he's like, I'm like, yo,
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the guy whatever whatever? I told him? What the guy told me.
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Buddy pulls up the receipt and he tried to get slick with me. He's
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like, sir, there's no soda on this receipt anyway, so why would
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you think we're bringing then, Like, as he was talking, he's seen
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it. He's, oh my bad, I sit here at the bottom.
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I wasn't the driving right away. I'm like, yeah, bitch, hung
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up the phone. Felt real GANGSTU about it. You gotta report that shit.
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I won't. Fucking yeah, I report everything because give me my discount.
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Yeah. We had talked about that recently in the chat too. Like
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what especially nowadays after COVID, Bro, if I'm spending the money to have
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the luxury of going out or whatever, Like, if I'm paying extra for
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something to be easier for me, It's not like before where it was like
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a couple bucks, you know what I mean, like twenty eighteen, you
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know, inconvenience feed was like two three bucks. Now that shit will add
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up to like fifteen bucks. You know what I'm saying, Like order something
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and all of a sudden you're paying close to twenty bucks and fees. You're
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like, what the hell, bro? I saw I saw somebody posted a
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sign in front of subway the other day, and just five years ago you
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can get a fight out of foot long And now the marketing six dollars six
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inches, b Like, get out of here, bro, get out of
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here, crazy man, that's Joe Biden. Bro, that's I think he's
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gonna get his canceled, right. We did, we did, bro.
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Employing Joe Biden has been looking like he'd be looking like me when I leave
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the fucking bars in the middle of the night, like yeah, you got
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what you gotta, I got it, I got Oh my god, we
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finally get a run on TikTok and Joe Goo's ham Im just saying this.
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I just didn't sleep. That's what my nickname should be. You know.
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It's crazy, though, man, how much everything has just gone up and
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and like we're just like chugging along like it's cool, you know what I
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mean, Like just from every angle in the last five years, it's just
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gotten like like things don't even make sense anymore. Bro. I think about
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like I gotta vote this here, like damn, I gotta make a decision
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and vote yes, wild bro. Man, you know the worst part about
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the economy is that, like in my living in it, yo, facts,
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Like it's that facts. But it's like I've never seen it turn around.
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It's always gotten worse, Like I've never seen it just say oh yeah,
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I know gas was high last year, but we're just gonna fix it
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this like it's always gotten worse, like you know what I mean. So
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I don't know, but it's such a weird thing. Cost the housing.
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Bro. I had a little reunion with a bunch of old friends from high
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school and back in the day, and I'm asking theory where I live,
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how much you cost to live there? Facts? Facts, what's in your
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area? Cause it's just crazy. There's no that we want to move to
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right now. Everything is just over the top for no reason. Man,
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It's why. And it's like it's just everything too because like even from like
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the business side, like I'll be dealing with the county for like permits and
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stuff, and bro, it's wild, like the stuff that they're requiring and
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asking for, it's like they don't even consider that, like we're like human
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beings, you know what I mean, Like where in your mind doesn't make
25:51
sense that regular people are going to do these things that you're asking, you
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know what I mean? Like they make it so like they make it so
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you have to know something, You have to like have an end somewhere,
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you know what I mean, Because you just as like a normal person saying,
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let me go by the book and figure the south Dog. You will
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never see it, like you will get jerked around so much and you will
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pay the cost of just the ignorance of the situation is just so crazy,
26:18
Bro, It's a fuck up situation. We're gonna keep chugging along, man,
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you know, it's crazy with you know, we were talking about Kendrick
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and j Coole and all that stuff. Like even with that, like that
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record, there's just a certain vibe like certain times in life and just as
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artists that you could just capture that in the song and people people want,
26:42
Like I was one of those fans that I would hear certain artists and then
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I'll be like they'll drop something else and I'd be like, why you couldn't
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just do what you did the first time, like just a new version,
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you know what I mean. And that's something that shout out to my boy
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J Man because he described it perfectly, like with future future is like the
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iPhone, because like he's just gonna upgrade and give you the new model every
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year, you know what I mean. It's not gonna change much, but
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it's gonna be reliable and it's still gonna be your go to, you know
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what I mean. Like it's a rare thing of where future is like really
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just you know, giving you the same vibes but just updating it, you
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know, every time, and it's still just hitting. You know, not
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a lot of artists could do that. You can't really just recapture the vibe,
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like you know, even fifty cent Bro when he was coming out,
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but he just got shot, like he almost died, like he should have
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been dead. I don't know how many times, like he not. He
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not only had her survivor streets, but like then the industry turned on him.
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So then you got to deal with the politics of like just people's opinions
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and that all that bullshit. And he just ends up working with Doctor Dre
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and Eminem and just blows up and puts out the album. It's like,
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dog, how can you There's no way he could capture that feeling again,
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you know what I mean, Like he could come out with more dope music
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or whatever, but like nothing's ever gonna hit like that. Because that situation
28:07
is just unrivalable, you know what I mean, Like you can't make that
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happen againts, you know, it's a crazy thing, like you know,
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Young Doll one hundred shots, like you know the and believe Me, Like
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those are if y'all don't mess with dog Bro one hundred shots and believe me,
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like those are two tracks like that he dropped after he got shot and
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like into some situations and stuff like bruh, crazy crazy, Like it's just
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you capture a certain vibe with music and not not even just like crazy street
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music like that, but like just any song, like even somebody, even
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people like Steely dan Bro, like they just caught like they're like a seventies
28:47
and eighties rock group that they just caught the right vibe of people rights mixes
28:52
of music styles and just created a whole sound that was like different and new
28:59
but like also felt familiar at the same time. And they were just locking
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in with certain grooves that they just created a sound and a vibe with their
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with you know, their first album, the first two albums really but like
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they could just never do it because it's like how can you change music again,
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Like just off a whim. You know what I'm saying, you can't
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put yourself back in that same time and the same everything you were going through
29:23
in that certain time exactly. Music is just so like capturing like the energy
29:30
in the room even you know what I'm saying, It's hard to just do
29:34
on a dime. You know what I'm saying, Like there's there's a demand
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now like as an artist to put out a lot of music. And just
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my opinion, bro, Like I just I know if I like artists that
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don't drop so much music, because you know, whenever you know, it's
29:52
cool if you drop a lot of music, I'm gonna check it out if
29:53
I like you. But I'm pretty much know in my head it's mostly gonna
29:59
be whacked me and I'm gonna like, like maybe a couple of songs because
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you just can't. I just feel like you really just can't capture that magic,
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you know, fifty times a year and then it's just gonna hit you
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know what I mean, it just can't happen. Like to me, it's
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just not a thing where it's it's doable. You know. That's why people
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like Kanye Is is so valuable, you know, Drake Kendrick j Cole because
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they're you know, dropping new stuff but capturing the moment they're in in such
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a way that everything hits. And Jake Cole is one even like that.
30:30
I always feel like if you're kind of too young, you can't even really
30:33
appreciate it until you get a little older because of the way that he's rapping
30:37
in the things he's talking about, like you literally like gotta go through you
30:41
literally gotta go through it to feel it, you know. Mm hm No.
30:48
The last Kanye album brought me back. It brought me back a lot,
30:52
especially that back to Me song, Like that feeling that that song gives
30:56
me is the old Kanye, the old uh just slapper tracks and feel good
31:02
tracks and energy like you can't help yea but to just fucking feel good when
31:07
you listen to that shit, Like and I'm not even a big fan of
31:11
the words or what he's rapping about. It's just like it's a good feeling.
31:15
The sound is so good man, Like I can't help but just have
31:18
good energy the second I hear I could listen it over and over and over
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and over and I get tired of it. Like that kind of music is
31:26
the kind of music that I wish every artist just put everything into and just
31:30
can't putting out. But it takes a lot to make those kind of records,
31:33
that's for sure. You just got to be in a good space.
31:36
You could tell. And that's why I appreciate artists like uh, you know,
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Kanye, and you know all the artists you mentioned, because you can
31:42
tell what kind of headspace they were in by the music that they put out,
31:48
you know what I mean. Like and I think that that is very
31:52
telling of an artist because you know, like you said before, lest you
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can't capture the same magic or the same moment, because as we live our
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lives, we are going to always have different moments and different things happen to
32:07
us and experiences that create new new feelings and emotions. And as artists,
32:13
we just are going to articulate different feelings. You know. Yeah, me,
32:17
what kind of wind down with this? But like me and my wife
32:20
was talking the other day just about how you know, just the excitement behind
32:27
different phases in life, even just you know, you go through certain stages
32:32
like me and her right now, we're going through the stage where we're like
32:36
building our businesses up, you know what I mean? Like we're trying to
32:38
like set ourselves up really good for the future and you know, to not
32:43
be you know, old and trapped in a cycle that we don't want to
32:46
be trapped in. So we're just trying to make those moves. And it's
32:51
just thinking about knowing that those situations are going to change and then you're going
32:57
to be in that next phase and then the phase after that, and it's
33:00
just exciting to think about how you know, there's stuff to look forward to
33:05
always, you know what I mean. Oh yeah, And I just thought
33:08
it was something that I never honestly is something I never really thought about before
33:13
until recently, you know what I mean, Like just looking forward to like
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stuff that's coming and you know the phases that are going to come with it.
33:22
And it just was something that I wanted to talk about, just be
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from that aspect of like, man, it's dope to know, like there's
33:30
just more life on the way and just more opportunity to do dope things.
33:35
You know. Yeah, I always look at you know, current situations,
33:43
like for example, with you and what you guys are doing right now is
33:45
like the planning of the seeds, you know what I mean, And like
33:49
I feel like you're right now at a place of sprouting, you know what
33:52
I mean, and kind of seeing the light you know, at the end
33:54
of the tunnel so always. I don't know, I just think that that's
33:58
a great way to kind of look at it, you know what I mean.
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That's facts what you think, Joe, No, I think, And
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like you know, you mentioned the next days of life, and and one
34:10
thing, uh that the passing of a good friend of mine taught me is
34:15
like I plan all those seats so much, you know, getting here,
34:21
preparing moving back, setting myself up like my job and for my health and
34:27
getting my routine, and now I'm in it, and I'm like, I
34:30
just want to enjoy it, man, I need to enjoy it. I
34:32
need to enjoy where I'm at now and be present and stop thinking about the
34:37
next thing for a while. You know. We had an amazing seven day
34:43
cruise with the family, and we got a few more trips coming up,
34:47
and like, I just I just need to enjoy ship for a while.
34:51
Yeah, every everything set up, you know, this is the we are
34:55
enjoying our crops. Everything has sprouted and now we enjoying it and there's no
35:00
more that I need to seek out and look for and just ride this enjoyment
35:06
out and be president, just be grateful and be happy for where I'm at,
35:09
because I worked really fucking hard in the last year and a half to
35:13
get where I'm at today, and I need to just chill and enjoy it
35:20
and just enjoy it. I feel like it's a delicate balance and it's not
35:24
an easy equation to figure out. But living in a moment while also taking
35:30
the steps and planning for the future. It's kind of like that thing where
35:36
constantly trying to figure out every day I feel like, you know what I
35:38
mean, And it's just keeping those things in the forefront will always help you
35:44
kind of just maintain their perspective on both sides of taking in the moment you're
35:47
in and how life has grown for you and stuff. But at the same
35:52
time, what am I doing for tomorrow? Yeah? I like that,
35:55
Yeah, definitely my this is the plan for the rest of this year,
35:59
and then next year twenty twenty five, is going to be back in business.
36:02
All right, what we're doing, where we're going, what's the next
36:06
move? But I decided for the rest of this year, I'm gon write
36:08
it out, enjoy it, just enjoy what comes. What I got planned
36:13
the time with people, improving myself. That is my plan for the rest
36:19
of this year, for the next last three quarters of this year. Times
36:22
Fly Yo, Times Flying Man. Yeah, facts man, it's already April.
36:27
Time is fucking flying. Yeah man. We re opened the salon September
36:31
of last year, so talking about we already like six months in crazy I
36:37
remember talking about it. Yeah, that's crazy, oh man. But Yo,
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tonight is Call of Duty night and America cousin rebef Yes, sir,
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we're back. Hopefully there's some white rappers that get on so I could just
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hit it with machine gun fires. But yeah, man, stay butttered.
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