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No Diddy · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast,
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  Speaker 1: The nominees for the BT hip Hop Awards are here,
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  Speaker 1: and you already know my review of Doo She's mixtape
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  Speaker 1: Alligator Bites, Never Heal and do we really want a
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  Speaker 1: new Pete Rock and cl Smooth album? Old heads, get
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  Speaker 1: but I want to know what you think about some
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  Speaker 1: business stuff. So the nominees for DBT Hip Hop Awards
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five whatever have been released,
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  Speaker 1: and honestly, I don't have to tell y'all. Y'a already
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  Speaker 1: know what it is. Some of this is familiar territory,
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  Speaker 1: which is crazy. So this is on hip hopdx dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Meghan Stallion and Kendrick Lamar lead nominees for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four BT Hip Hop Awards. Meghan is leading the way
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  Speaker 1: in nominations for awards, with Kendrick Lamar not too far behind,
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  Speaker 1: which is crazy. He hasn't put an album out, so
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  Speaker 1: you already know what it is. It's about that. Drake, Fauxpac,
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  Speaker 1: BT and Nelson nominees for the nineteenth annual show on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: September eighteenth, with Meghan nabbing a whopping twelve nominations and
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  Speaker 1: Kendrick follows with eleven and Drake has eight interesting. Cardi
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  Speaker 1: b Glrilla, Metro Booming and Nicki Minaj also scored multiple
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  Speaker 1: nominations with seven each, while Future Travis Scott. Twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: Savage and Moore received several nominations. Now, this is kind
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  Speaker 1: of crazy. We're going to get into the nominations real quick.
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  Speaker 1: But it's kind of crazy because I remember when a
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  Speaker 1: warsh I'm gonna allow me to get on my old man,
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  Speaker 1: but like my porch, I don't have a porch. I
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  Speaker 1: have ales have a porch allow me to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do this. But I just remember when multiple nominations was
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  Speaker 1: unique and special, right. It was like somebody had a
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  Speaker 1: clear cut dope album and put out some dope music
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  Speaker 1: and they had sei or eleven or ten nominations. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like literally every star that put out some form
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  Speaker 1: of music has more than five nominations. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that's a testa if that's a sign of
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  Speaker 1: how limited music is as far as artists, or how
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  Speaker 1: the newer artists aren't really making an impact or even
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  Speaker 1: being considered, should I say for some of these categories.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't really know how to take it, But
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  Speaker 1: let's get into some of the nominations real quick. Hip
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  Speaker 1: Hop Artists of the Year. These are the nominations. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: one Savage, Cardi B Damn Cardi Bat, She only have
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  Speaker 1: an album out all right, Drake Damn did Drake put?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know future Glowriller, Hendrick Lamar, Meghan the Stallion
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  Speaker 1: and Nicki Minaj. I think they might give that to
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  Speaker 1: Megan the Stallion. I don't know how successful her music
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  Speaker 1: has been, but I know she's literally been everywhere as
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  Speaker 1: far as putting out music, charting new videos, collabs, hosting gigs,
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  Speaker 1: tworking at the Democratic Convention, which I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: peopuld do that, but you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 1: her profile is up, so these award shows sometimes that's
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  Speaker 1: all that matters. You know, it's not just the music,
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  Speaker 1: So who else who should it be? Out of those individuals?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Kendrick. I mean, I know it was Disrecords, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just Disrecords. It was a whole display of
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  Speaker 1: styles and flows and different types of beats that he chose,
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  Speaker 1: and and the writing. Right, Like, we know it's all
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  Speaker 1: dis Records, but there's something special when you can write
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  Speaker 1: something like Euphoria and turn around and do six sixteen
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  Speaker 1: in LA for the boom Batpads, then turn around and
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  Speaker 1: do something so cryptic and eb is that you really
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  Speaker 1: gotta be thinking to do meet the grams and then
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  Speaker 1: you create a damn anthem out of not Like Us.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's more than some of these artists done with
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  Speaker 1: way more songs in the full on album. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, call me a bias Kendrick fan, but I
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  Speaker 1: think amongst the lists, I think Megan might get that
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  Speaker 1: song of the Year. I think we might just skip
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  Speaker 1: over this because it's trash year glow glow thriller, not
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  Speaker 1: like Us. Kendrick Mamoshi Meghan Istallion, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: that's like. That metal booming future Ken Lamar get It Sexy,
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  Speaker 1: Sexy red ftcu Nicki Minaj, I think that's that one joint.
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  Speaker 1: I like that they're playing commercials. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: Fiend with Travis Scott and Playboy Cardi Bent by somebody
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  Speaker 1: named forty one I don't know, and Agora Hills by
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  Speaker 1: Dosha Cam. It's gonna be hard to be not like
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  Speaker 1: us out of these, I'm sorry, it's gonna be hard
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  Speaker 1: to be the only thing that could be not like
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  Speaker 1: us is probably like that, So just give it to him.
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  Speaker 1: Already hip Hop Album of the Year American Dream twenty
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  Speaker 1: one Savage. I think he's trash, so he shouldn't win anyway,
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  Speaker 1: anything anything Glorella, that's the name of album. I like
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  Speaker 1: Gorialer though for All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition, now
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  Speaker 1: nobody really liked for All the Dogs, but the Scary
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  Speaker 1: Hour additions not but auditions I like. But I always
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  Speaker 1: like Drake's Scary Ours joints. I just wish she didn't
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  Speaker 1: tack it on an so I don't think that's whening
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  Speaker 1: In Sexy We Trust Sexy Red Megan, Meghan the Stallion
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  Speaker 1: one of one from Gunna Pink Friday to Nicki minaj Utopia,
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  Speaker 1: Travis Scott and we don't trust You Future in metro Booming,
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  Speaker 1: it might. I think it's gonna come down. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of fans who are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be mad because it's not somebody like Travis Scott. That
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  Speaker 1: album was cool to me. But if I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: these awards and it's sometimes it's just like Top of
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  Speaker 1: Mind and Popularity Contest. It's either gonna be Meghan or
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be Future and metro Booming because we don't
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  Speaker 1: trust you and we still don't trust you, which I
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  Speaker 1: love the title track to that Joint. We still don't
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  Speaker 1: trust you. I just think they kind of along with Kendrick,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of own the summer as far as vibe.
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  Speaker 1: And I seen that album like trending when I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was like Dad, like I, you know, the battle
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  Speaker 1: done took place. People forgot about it. Now people still
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  Speaker 1: bumping that album. So best h Hour video. Now I
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  Speaker 1: ain't really watch videos. So there's eight Am and Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: from Drake Ban for Bend. Since you see Ben forty one,
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  Speaker 1: Big Mammulatto, Boa, Megan, thee Stallion, Enough CARDI b not
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  Speaker 1: like us, Kendrick Lamar type Ish Metro Boom in Future,
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  Speaker 1: Travis Scott, Playboy CARDI. Now I saw Boa, I saw
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  Speaker 1: eight Am and Charlotte, but not like us. It's different,
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  Speaker 1: not like us. Again, it's not just the fact that
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  Speaker 1: it's a disrecord, like you forget in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 1: you forget that it's a disrecord. It's almost like, damn,
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  Speaker 1: this record is so good and I forgot it's a
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  Speaker 1: disrecord Towards Drake. But that video was extra special, like
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  Speaker 1: the colors, the different scenes, how it was shot, the
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  Speaker 1: easter eggs that not only went with what was in
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  Speaker 1: the song, but you know, it was like Kendrick was
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  Speaker 1: taking shots visually at Drake. It just was the perfect
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  Speaker 1: video for this song. It met, it exceeded diype, so
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  Speaker 1: I can't see how it doesn't win that category, all right,
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  Speaker 1: real quick, Best Breakthrough Hip Hop Artists forty one three
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  Speaker 1: ten Baby, boss Man d Lo, Cash Cobaine, Lady London,
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  Speaker 1: Sexy Red Skill of Baby, Tommy Richmond. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be between Tommy Richmond and boss Man Dilo because
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard one song from boss Man Dilo, but
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  Speaker 1: I swear his name pops up literally everywhere, and to me,
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  Speaker 1: that just says, Okay, well, maybe he's just popular. We're
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  Speaker 1: not going to go with Best Collaboration, Best Duo or
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  Speaker 1: Group Kanye West and Tye Dallar sign two Chains in
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  Speaker 1: Lil Wayne. I forgot about that. Forty one Common in
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  Speaker 1: Pete Rock, Earth Game, Fly, Yana, Boss, Future, Metro, Booming,
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  Speaker 1: Brick Ross, and meat Mill. This category is interesting, like
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to come down to either being
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  Speaker 1: Common and Pete Rock, even though they are long shot
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the type of artists who are
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  Speaker 1: here and the type of audience they command. But I
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  Speaker 1: think it might be Future and Metro Booming to be
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  Speaker 1: honest and lyricists of the Year. Now this is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one Savage, Cardi, b Common, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, What,
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  Speaker 1: MEGANI Stallion, and Nicki Minaj. Now when I say Lil Wayne,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what did he put out again? But I
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  Speaker 1: forgot he did the joint with two chains, which I
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  Speaker 1: thought was well, that was late last year. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I was here. I don't know. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: twenty one savages on him, but it gotta go to
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  Speaker 1: Kendrick literally dismantled Drake, literally dismantled this man's whole career
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  Speaker 1: in life in four songs, four very different songs that
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  Speaker 1: are crazy, uh produce of the yeah at l Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Cash Cobain, hit Boy, hit Maker, metro Boom and Pete Rock,
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  Speaker 1: Q Tip and Alchemists. My voter is for Pete Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Them beats are crazy, but I think metro Booman might
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  Speaker 1: get it. And let's see best hip hop platform. This
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  Speaker 1: is interesting. Bootleg cav Club, Shay Shade, What Complex, Drink, Champs,
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  Speaker 1: million dollars worth of game on the Radar, The Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: Clubs Joe Budden Podcast the Shape Room double XL out
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  Speaker 1: of those listed, I would say, just based off of
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  Speaker 1: what they've been doing, they might give it to Shannon
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  Speaker 1: Shop And I don't see any reason why he should
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  Speaker 1: even be listed here. They got a couple other stupid
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  Speaker 1: categories like Hustle of the Year and Best Featured Verse.
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  Speaker 1: I think Kendrick might win that for like that Impact track,
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  Speaker 1: Now that's interesting. Blessings by Nicki Minaj, Fortunate by Common,
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  Speaker 1: Get in with Me, boss Man, Dillo, Hiss Meghanie Stallion,
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  Speaker 1: Humble Me, Killer Mike. Not like us, Kendrick, Lamar, Precision,
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  Speaker 1: Big Sean and Yeah Glow, I think not like us.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna get that, y'all. Too many black folk was
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  Speaker 1: crip walking over the summer. It was just it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was everybody black and white and Indian and Africa,
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  Speaker 1: like it was everywhere. That's impact. So there you have it.
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  Speaker 1: I am not gonna watch like usual. I'll check out
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  Speaker 1: the results to see how close I was as far
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  Speaker 1: as predictions. But you know, and again I'm not on
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  Speaker 1: no super boycott of bt wars. I just don't watch
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  Speaker 1: Awards shows no more because they take a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time to watch, just to not really see a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of great performances. Usually there's one or two here and there,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody has already carved them out and put them
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube in four K where you can just watch that, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh I heard this was dope, I'll watch that. So
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  Speaker 1: it takes less time for me to absorb half of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. So I like a week off recently from
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, as some of you know, but I put out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a different episode to kind of I guess
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  Speaker 1: feel that slot, you know what I'm saying with that
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  Speaker 1: time and hip hop bars. And in that week off,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a couple of joints dropped that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really get to review, some of which I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to go back to, like Chaos is the Ladder featuring
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  Speaker 1: Conway the Machine and Ransom, two guys who are listed
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  Speaker 1: as top five spinners today. My review of that is
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  Speaker 1: simply I thought it would be better and that's that.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll see where it lands at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the year. Also, Stove God Cooks put out an EP
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  Speaker 1: on the Even website called like don't call me I'm cooking,
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  Speaker 1: or something like that, stop calling me I'm cooking, something
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  Speaker 1: like that. That's in my top five of the year.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that in the future, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to do a full on review because Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Passing and really everybody doesn't have access to it yet.
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  Speaker 1: But trust me, it's the stove Guide album or EP
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  Speaker 1: we've been waiting for. I think it's more of an EP,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a perfect follow up to Reasonable Drought. But
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  Speaker 1: there is one joint that did drop that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to review but didn't get a chance to do it
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  Speaker 1: last week, and I figured now's the time because it
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  Speaker 1: should be talked about. And as Dough, She's mixtape Alligator
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  Speaker 1: Bites Never Heal. It's a mixtape mind you, released not
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  Speaker 1: that long ago, a couple of weeks ago, about forty
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  Speaker 1: seven minutes nineteen songs. So the first time I saw
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  Speaker 1: or even heard of Dough she was the video on
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  Speaker 1: tds Instagram for I Think the joint Catfish, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, damn, Showy's nice. Ain't she down? With tde
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  Speaker 1: And in a lot of ways she reminded me of Kendrick,
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  Speaker 1: which I've heard a lot of people say, like she's
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  Speaker 1: TD's female Kendrick now, and I will say this, I
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  Speaker 1: see the similarities and I think what reminds you of
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  Speaker 1: Kendrick with her specifically, it is not her being just
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  Speaker 1: a female version of Kendrick, but more so her creativity
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  Speaker 1: and how she approaches the music right right, everything is
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  Speaker 1: in bars, everything is in quirkiness. It's almost unpredictable. Before
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  Speaker 1: you press play right you may look at a title,
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  Speaker 1: you may have some preliminary thoughts about what that song's about,
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  Speaker 1: your here to beat, and her approach can be very different.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's an excellent storyteller because I was totally
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  Speaker 1: engaged on Deny. It was a river and I love
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  Speaker 1: what she did there. It reminded me of old school
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  Speaker 1: hip hop and how creativity and artistry were at the forefront.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why I love Kendrick Lamar
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  Speaker 1: like he reminds. He brings back that excitement, that anticipation
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  Speaker 1: for his albums and where everything sounds like it could
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  Speaker 1: be very simple on the surface, it never is so,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a big part of hip hop. So with
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  Speaker 1: this mixtape, keep in mind Alligator Bites Never Heal from Doshi.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is one of the best of the year,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know. Considering everything we've gotten this year,
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  Speaker 1: if it's going to be it's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: my top five, but I'm not even sure if it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna make the top ten lists I have for Best
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  Speaker 1: of the Year just because of competition. And I only
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  Speaker 1: say that because I think this mixtape starts off extremely strong,
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  Speaker 1: and then towards the end it starts to die down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, like the songs aren't as creative and
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  Speaker 1: the energy isn't the same as it is when you
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  Speaker 1: hit them first couple of records. Now, again, there's nineteen
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  Speaker 1: songs on here, so it does take a while before
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  Speaker 1: you even get to that point. It's literally towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of the album, maybe the last five records. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely not killing her for that. But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, it's a mixtape, so it's not
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  Speaker 1: meant to be anything but a collection of songs. It's
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  Speaker 1: just the way they set up the first fifteen records,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't like everything, but I like the majority
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  Speaker 1: of it. The way they set it up, it starts
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  Speaker 1: to feel like an album. It just isn't strong enough
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  Speaker 1: at the end, Like I heard people saying, oh this
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  Speaker 1: is this is comfortable to Kendrick. Section eighty No it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's not because that was considered a mixtape, right, but
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  Speaker 1: it never it doesn't play out like a mixtape. That
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  Speaker 1: plays out like an album. And that's why some people say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Kendrick's first album is section eighty, because it feels like
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  Speaker 1: an album from beginning to end. The concept is there
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  Speaker 1: and you just go from beginning to end and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel like, oh, well, what's that song? It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: match blah blah blah. This feels like it's headed in
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  Speaker 1: that direction, but it just doesn't end strong enough to me.
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  Speaker 1: Standout tracks on here for me, Bullfrog Denial is a
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  Speaker 1: river catfish for the boom bab Heads. There's a song
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  Speaker 1: called boom Bab. I think it's pretty dope death role.
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  Speaker 1: I like Nissan Ultima and probably another joint that I'm
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  Speaker 1: not really seeing on here, or at least I don't remember,
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  Speaker 1: but again, I think it's a dope album. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: say this for her whenever they whenever TD decides to
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  Speaker 1: release her debut album, I'll say that for those who
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  Speaker 1: are wondering where she falls in the grand scheme of
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  Speaker 1: female EMCs or MC's in general, but specifically female EMCs,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: she's somewhere in between Rhapsody and the extreme of Cardi B.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Or Megan thee Stallion. Now she's not really them, but
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: she's not really Rhapsody either. She's a combination between intelligence, thought,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: perform music, sex appeal, honesty. And I think when I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: say Megan is Stallion and Cardi B. Sex appeal and
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: honesty is them as well. And uh, there's no shade
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: at Rhapsody. But Rhapsody is a rapidy rap rapper to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: most people, and I think though she falls in the
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: middle where she has an opportunity to be a huge
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: hip hop star or the ladies with Bars, that's something
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that was unattainable for Rhapsody. A lot of people like her,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: but there's a lot of people who don't mess with
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: or or whatever because she's rapidy rap. And the same
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: goes for like the Cardi B's and the Megan. There's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of people who like them, and there's a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: lot of people who don't like them because they don't
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: think they're skilled. Though she is right in the middle
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: right like she's created, she's she is a platinum album
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: waiting to happen. She is a feature, a dope feature
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: on a boom Back album waiting to Happen like she's dope,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. But I think when it
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: comes to the mixtape, if you're you know, if you're
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: into what I described about her and the music on head,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you should definitely check it out. Because I think she's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: interesting enough and new enough. But also she's talked a
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: lot about boom back and the origins of hip hop
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and how important that is to her and her music,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and they are examples of her doing boom back, not
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: just the record boom Bat, but there are examples like
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the song Catfish of her being an EMC and I
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: think it's dope, so check it out. And lastly, so recently,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: cls Move appeared on the Drink Champs podcast. It said
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: three hours on that show, and I said, no, thank you, sir,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I pay you at the door. I'm good.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not coming inside there. No, I don't want to
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: be there. Not three hours of Seal Smooth and no
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: reinterrupt them. I can't do it. But I saw a
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: lot of clips from it, and one clip in particular,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I saw what Seal Smooth talking about how him and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Pete Rock should do a new album for the fans
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: because the fans want it right. And I find that
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: interesting because if you don't know the history, p Rock
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and Seal Smooth's last real album was the main Ingredient.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I think it's their best album, to be honest, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't hold you if you called it a classic.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: You know, like to say that, oh, p Rock and
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Steel Smooth had two classics and a classic EP. I
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: would argue that at all. But that was years ago.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: That was mid nineties or early nineties. I think when
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Main and Gridy came out, probably mid or early I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: think it was like ninety three or something. I don't know,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: but that was a long time ago. That was decades ago,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and from that time on, I guess you would say,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: if you don't know, well, why haven't they worked together?
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: You're talking about all they got is classics. Why haven't
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: they worked together? They've done a single here and there,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: but there's been a lot of beef and a lot
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: of the heat in the venom was coming from cl
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Smooth and he said a lot of things publicly about
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: pe Rock that to me suggested a new album would
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: never happen. And so when you fast forward now to
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: this Drink Champs interview and you hear and see O
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Smooth express how much we should do, how him and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Pee Rock should do the project for the fans, and
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the things that he's willing to do to do that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: makes me skeptical because let's look at the landscape. Right,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: For some people, they haven't seen Celsmove since the nineties. Now,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: he've been around, He's released solo album or two, He's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: been featured here and there on stuff, he's done interviews,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: like I said, but there's some people who aren't so
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: locked in the hip hop to that like whatever happened
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to CEO Smooth right. He Rock, on the other hand,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: felt like he disappeared, but he really didn't. He did
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of production on the low. He did a
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: couple of albums with people like Smith and Wentston and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: most recently sky Zoo and Smoke Dizzer, but it always
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: felt like he was on the low. Like he was
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: still around, but he was kind of on the low
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: producing for underground artists. Now, Pete Rod does an album
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: with Common, and Common's celebrity profile is much much bigger
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: than anybody he's ever collaborated with, including cl Smooth, which
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: means because of Commons music profile, right, because of Common
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the actor profile. Remember he did win an Oscar and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: what an Oscar and not an Emmy. I forget the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: other award, but a Grammy Oscar and a Grammy for
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a song that I thought really wasn't his greatest, But
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I get it. His profile is so much bigger than
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: underground rapping or you know, we love him, but most
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: people don't know of him. Common is well known now,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: so when he releases music, there's way more people checking
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: for And now he's releasing a full on hip hop
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: style album with Pete Rock and they get they're getting
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: flowers for it, like it's in my top five of
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the year without a doubt. They have a tour going,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Pete Rock saying he hadn't been on tour in decades. Right,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: that's one thing they got going for them. Then now
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: they're starting to get nominated, right, BT Awards nominated them.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's not gonna end there. I guarantee
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you they're gonna get a Grammy nomination for that album.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you that's gonna be it. It's going. I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna win, but they're definitely gonna
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: get the nomination. So Pete Rock is like breathing again
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: because Bete Wise, he ain't fall off at all. You
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: listen to the Auditorium Volume one, I'm more enamored with
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the beats than Commons rhymes Half the time. I gotta
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: go back and just listen to see what comment say
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I missed because I just love the production so much.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: So this is where Pete Rock is right. He's on
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Drink Champs and all like he is basically taking a
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: victory lap tour. And not only is the price going
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: up for Pete Rock, but he gonna get calls now.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And he was getting calls from the underground, but now
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: they're more high pro file artists who may be looking like, well,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I want a Pete Rock beat, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: So he going to get a lot of business. Why
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: would he do a Pete Rock and Seale Smooth album
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: right now? I don't think he would, especially because him
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: in Common as a duo have now set a tone.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: If he goes back and does an album with Seal
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Smooth before he does another one with Common, that would
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: be the wrong move because as much as you the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: fans would like to think, who wouldn't want to peat
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: and cel album? I wanted it before this, I'm enjoint now.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think he can go back after decades of
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: not even making music together because he's already filled that
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: void with Common. Comment is now his cl and it's
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: been way more I don't want the words not lucrative,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: but it's been way more fruitful for him in his career,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: especially today because of the exposure that Common brings to
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: him and his production with this project. So I think,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: honestly what he should do is Auditorium Volume two and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: maybe a Volume three and then break from Common and
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: whatever else comes after that. That could be I and
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I'm announcing a Pete Rock and see a smooth final album,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: complete the complete the trilogy. I'll take that. But that
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: can't happen now. That has to happen way down the line,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and we have to see what happens with Common and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Pete Rock, like it may just get to the point
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: where we don't want to hear nothing else. Right. The
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: only person, honestly who I would want him to work
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: with on a full album because of his production and
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: how in the pocket he is is not but Nas
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: is supposedly working with Prima on the album. So I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: think what that interview did for CL it made him
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: look desperate. Now. I know he said a lot of
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: things and he's saying how he could be a man
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and blah blah blah blah blah, But a lot of
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: things he was saying in the past were extremely immature,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: extremely immature and angry, right, and he just seems angry
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: even when he's not angry, he seems like he's holding
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: on to anger. And I think he needs this Pete
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Rock and See a smooth album more than Pete Rock
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: needs it. Especially now Again, before the Common link up,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been I would have probably been excited
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: for a Pete and CL album, But now that Pete
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Rocket has done this for Common, and it's just so
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: dope the way everything is playing out. Nah, Man, you
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: don't need CL. You don't need it because you couldn't
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: even support it at this point. What would be the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: point If you can't really put a lot of energy
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: behind the release, that would just be another beef, you
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Even if he sent CL all right,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: let's start working on this album, blah blah blah, I
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: just think it wouldn't turn out well because they can't,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you know, get together and decide what is Pete Rock
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: and Seel Smooth today and then work together. Pete Rock
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and Common did that, and that's why we got the album.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: That's why we got the tour we got. Like Pete
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Rock and Seal Smooth is just people just want to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: hear hear those names again, want to hear Pete Rock say,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: They want to hear cl Smooth say. It's a nostalgia thing.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: But too much time has passed where I'm just not
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: as interested. I'm more interested in hearing another album would
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: come in in Pete Rock now again. If this was
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: closer to the nineties, I would be hungry for one,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: but everything that's occurred since then, especially the beef. Even
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: if there wasn't no beef then I'd probably think more.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: But you gotta wait now, cl because Pete Rock is
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: on a roll and I can see him producing for
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: a couple of people like, oh, Pete Rock gotta beat
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: on Kendrick Atum, pe Pete Rod gotta beat over here,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: like I could see you gotta let the wave, got
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: to let the wave happen. You can't step in there, Hey,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: well put this out. No, we're putting this out. We're
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: not going back, so we'll see it's and again. I
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: know some of y'all can't hear criticism without a meaning.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Cel Smooth his whack. I don't think he's whack. I don't.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I'm just nostalgia. I just I'm just nostalgic for what was.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: But it was so long ago, and Pete Rock has
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: something booming right now that I don't think he needs
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to take a break in order to do that, just
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: because I want to feel nostalgic again. Nows in Premier
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Doctor Dreams, Snoop coming out, HAVG and Method Man. There's
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a lot more nostalgia on the WANG, so Pete and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: cl I could wait long, or if it never happened,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even be mad. So what do you think?
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Do you want a Pete Rock and Seal Smooth album
• 35:53
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