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Let Me Shyne · 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: my thoughts on the new album by Shae Noir, The
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  Speaker 1: Lotus Child. Rizza says that New York losing originality was inevitable,
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  Speaker 1: and there is a new documentary about Shine. They may
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  Speaker 1: shed some light on the unfortunate incident that changed his
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  Speaker 1: life Forever.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four, new or something else. Let's do it though.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to your pop now podcast. If you from the future,
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  Speaker 1: Really quick updates on the channel. If you haven't checked
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  Speaker 1: them out, check out my series Tale of the Tapes,
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  Speaker 1: you can if you watch it on video, you can
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  Speaker 1: see the cassettes behind me. I have some over there also,
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  Speaker 1: that's a bootleg CDEs do if you try to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from back of the day, you know, but there's really
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  Speaker 1: a series about those cassettes when I purchased them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where I was, what I think about the albums and
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  Speaker 1: back then, like put it this way, you know, let's
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  Speaker 1: let's just a little sidecar real quick with this.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying as a music fan, as
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  Speaker 2: a hip hop add if you know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but back in the day day, compared to today,
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  Speaker 1: I still brows in the same ways.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I used to go to the record store and just
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  Speaker 1: be in there, even if I knew I was buying
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  Speaker 1: one album, just being in seeing what's out, reading, like
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  Speaker 1: talking to the DJ, all kinds of stuff. And I
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  Speaker 1: did the same thing if you fast forward now with
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  Speaker 1: streaming right every Friday, I go to like Apple Music
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  Speaker 1: or Spotify, just look in different genres and see different
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  Speaker 1: genres that I'm interested in, but see what's new, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And just now I have the opportunity to listen to
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  Speaker 1: the entire projects if I wanted to. But those cassettes
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  Speaker 1: was more so like make a decision. You got ten dollars,
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  Speaker 1: you got twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: What are you going to do? What are you going
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  Speaker 2: to buy?
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  Speaker 1: And the majority of the time I was not leaving
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  Speaker 1: with that money in my pocket.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of those cassettes somewhere hit or miss.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing about back in the days, I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: just delete it from my list of albums from my
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  Speaker 1: library on my phone. Back then, you just had to
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  Speaker 1: eat it, like, yeah I bought it wasn't that great,
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  Speaker 1: But here it is in my collection. So it's dope
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  Speaker 1: to go back and see some of those and it's
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  Speaker 1: some things I picked up after the fact knowing they
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  Speaker 1: weren't good, like a recent episode I did with mob
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  Speaker 1: deeps Original, a Mob Deep's real debut album. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Juvenile have so check that out on
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  Speaker 1: the channel. Big shout out to hip HOPDX dot com,
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  Speaker 1: All hip Hop dot Com, Double Excel mag and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of places where I'm getting some of these stories
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  Speaker 1: from Let's get right to business stops. So recently, as
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  Speaker 1: in right now, Shye Noir dropped her new her latest project,
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  Speaker 1: a new album between twenty four entitled The Lotus Child.
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  Speaker 2: I Gotta keep it a Buck.
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  Speaker 1: I was absolutely anticipating this album, mainly because if I
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  Speaker 1: could find it real quick, because I want.
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  Speaker 2: To get the name right and I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: can't find it real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Shade and Want dropped the EP this year called The
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  Speaker 1: Chocolate The Color Chocolates. Yeah messed it up anyway, The
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  Speaker 1: Color Chocolate Volume one very dope EP. Ransom was on
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  Speaker 1: it Your Old drew evidence.
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  Speaker 2: For a long.
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  Speaker 1: Time, it was sitting in my best of the year
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  Speaker 1: and in a lot of ways it still is. But
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  Speaker 1: to keep it a buck with y'all, I think the
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  Speaker 1: album is going to replace it, and I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: But the album Lotus Child is only about eight songs
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  Speaker 1: and it's about in half an hour, like twenty eight minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Notable rap features is a Rhapsody on a song called
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  Speaker 1: black Girl which is really dope, super dope, and another
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  Speaker 1: song features thirty eight special.
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  Speaker 2: Shaye Noir is on the production.
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  Speaker 1: That's one thing some people don't like to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: but Shade Nowa is not just a rapper, not just
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  Speaker 1: a female rapper, but she also produces a lot of
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  Speaker 1: her music, and I believe Status Selected Dud did some
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  Speaker 1: production on this album. Now, for those who are new here,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to quote unquote reviewing an album, I
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  Speaker 1: like to give it three listens. The first listen is
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  Speaker 1: impressions only. Second listen is more so about listen intently,
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  Speaker 1: what is this album?
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  Speaker 2: What do they have to say?
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  Speaker 1: You know, the concept, just embracing everything that's being presented,
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  Speaker 1: the beats, the secrec in all of that. The third
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  Speaker 1: listen is literally just to con firm what my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on it. And my thoughts on this album is that
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  Speaker 1: it is a great album. You know, it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the best of twenty twenty four. And when I say that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that when you look at some albums
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  Speaker 1: that people consider the best this year, that it's better
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  Speaker 1: than Obviously this is my opinion. And you know, if
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  Speaker 1: certain albums don't make my list. It's because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like these albums are better than But what I mean is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you can just take an album like
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  Speaker 1: this and put it up against every other album that
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  Speaker 1: dropped this year and say is it better? Because it's
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  Speaker 1: not just about beats and rhymes. It's about what she
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  Speaker 1: has to say. It's about the conviction in her voice
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  Speaker 1: when she says, It's about the variety of the beats.
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  Speaker 2: It's about the.
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  Speaker 1: Overall themes, about all the contributions from the people featured,
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  Speaker 1: or singing the poets people or talking skits, whatever, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's all of it, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: And it's how it all comes together. And if you.
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  Speaker 1: Are pressing play and by the end of it you
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  Speaker 1: want to run it back, or even if you don't
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  Speaker 1: run it back right away, you say to yourself, that
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  Speaker 1: was a good use of my time.
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  Speaker 2: That was really good.
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  Speaker 1: I got to know Shae Nowir a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I got to know her skills a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better. I feel like she's better whatever whatever it
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  Speaker 1: may be. You know when you're satisfied after the first
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  Speaker 1: listen that you're working with something good and as I
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  Speaker 1: ran it back. It felt like it felt like when
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  Speaker 1: you sit on a couch that you might buy in
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  Speaker 1: the furnished furnishure store. Right, you know, you don't know
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  Speaker 1: it looks soft, but you don't know what is going
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  Speaker 1: to be when you sit down and you start to
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  Speaker 1: sink into it, you know what I'm saying, and you
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  Speaker 1: start to feel comfortable, and say, I could see myself
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  Speaker 1: sitting in his chair watching sports, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying at home. I know I'm going a long way
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  Speaker 1: to say a bunch about this, but I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to express why I think this album is that good.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The EP was really good to me, But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: the EP is like four songs and she did a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the same things, a lot of the same
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  Speaker 1: thematic things.
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  Speaker 2: There, and she told some dope stories in that EP.
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  Speaker 1: And it's tough for me to say that a four
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  Speaker 1: song EP is better than the eight song EP when
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  Speaker 1: the eighth song EP is good. Now, if you've never
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  Speaker 1: heard Shade of Shade the Watch, you got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of material. I wasn't a fan out the gate because
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  Speaker 1: I felt like the production and her rhyme and were
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  Speaker 1: just kind of par for the course right, like it's
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  Speaker 1: she could be a male off female.
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  Speaker 2: This type of rapping, this type of subject matter.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part, these types of beats are what
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  Speaker 1: I'm just used to hearing, and at some point you
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  Speaker 1: just go to who you know, right, I can't do Oh,
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  Speaker 1: here's a new one.
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  Speaker 2: Here's another new one, here's another new person, here's another.
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  Speaker 1: I can't keep doing the new people, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, especially when they're not that much different from
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  Speaker 1: the others as far as what they offer. And that's
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  Speaker 1: male off female. But there's something special about Shaye Nowair
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  Speaker 1: and her care for her music and knowing that she
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  Speaker 1: can take the reins as the MC as well as
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  Speaker 1: the producer. It makes the music for me, especially when
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  Speaker 1: it's good, a little bit more impactful. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: like Big Crit, you know what I'm saying, Because with
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  Speaker 1: Big Crit, the first time I heard him, I love
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  Speaker 1: this project, and to know that he wrote everything and
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  Speaker 1: he made all the beats. When I first heard them,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, this is a person who is not
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  Speaker 1: outside doing no nonsense. Like when they were making this,
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  Speaker 1: they were you gotta be that focused because you're making
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  Speaker 1: all of it. You're making the beats and you're writing.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of how I feel about Lotus Child. Now,
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  Speaker 1: will it crack my top five of the year? That's
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  Speaker 1: tough because my top five of the year as it
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  Speaker 1: stands right now, which I ain't gonna say until we
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  Speaker 1: get to the end of the year, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty solid.
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  Speaker 1: It's the five albums I have right now on my
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  Speaker 1: top five. When I say, I listen to them religiously
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  Speaker 1: when they came out, and when I go back, it's
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  Speaker 1: not for one listen, I go right, I feel right
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  Speaker 1: back in that bag to running it back. Those are
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  Speaker 1: my top five, like they really got to be my
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  Speaker 1: top five favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Will this be in my best of the year? I
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  Speaker 2: think will?
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  Speaker 1: I have no reason not to include it, and I
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  Speaker 1: think just out of respect for other artists and the
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  Speaker 1: slots that I a lot for, you know, best of
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  Speaker 1: the year, I'm not gonna somebody would have to put
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  Speaker 1: out two classics for me to put them in this
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  Speaker 1: list twice. So I kind of feel like, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to choose between her EP and the album, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to choose the album.
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  Speaker 2: But I love the EP. So there you have it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear.
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  Speaker 1: Shaye Noware's new album, The Lotus Child. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: even heard of her? You have a streaming service, you
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  Speaker 1: should check it out. But leave your comments in a
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  Speaker 1: comments section below. Obviously I will read your comments and
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  Speaker 1: I will respond. You know, sometimes it's the emoji. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's like word or facts. Sometimes it's just like what
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  Speaker 1: are you even talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Who knows? It depends on what you type.
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  Speaker 1: So Rizza said recently, and I'm gonna go to a
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  Speaker 1: shout out to hip HOPDX dot com where I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: this story from. Rizza argues it was inevitable that New
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  Speaker 1: York hip hop would lose originality. Now, this was in
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  Speaker 1: a he had an interview with Complex, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: I quote from my seat since I've been here almost
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning, the thing that New York may have
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  Speaker 1: stepped away from is its own originality. But it's almost
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  Speaker 1: natural that's going to happen, because before we didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: nothing else. There was no other renditions. It's like when
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  Speaker 1: you go back and as a scientist and you study
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  Speaker 1: doctor Dre and you listen to him taking his early
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  Speaker 1: production from Ina, you still hear that the breakbeats of
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  Speaker 1: New York is still the foundation. But eventually, as he's
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  Speaker 1: getting better and better, he's incorporating instrumentation. Those instrumentations then
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  Speaker 1: come back to us. And then when you start listening
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  Speaker 1: to Biggie with Diddy's production, you're hearing instrumentation and people
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  Speaker 1: are playing the notes over. So we continue to inspire
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  Speaker 1: each other. So then when the South becomes the dominant
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  Speaker 1: force of hip hop and you're growing up, and then
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  Speaker 1: someone like Asap Rocky is able to hear that and
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  Speaker 1: love hip hop, love the cadence of New York, love
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  Speaker 1: the swag of New York. But he's been listening to
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  Speaker 1: that musical creation. Then he blends that into his creation,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll just go over because I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: read the whole damn article, but I damn never read
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  Speaker 1: all the quotes. And then eventually, like Joey Badass, he
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  Speaker 1: takes it back to what New York was, bringing it
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  Speaker 1: into it. But yet still he's melodic in his hooks.
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  Speaker 1: So in this amalgamation of everything now and New York
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  Speaker 1: is in that now, will New York step out of
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  Speaker 1: that and bring something really, something totally new to the table.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So Rizza said a lot there about New York about
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  Speaker 1: New York hip hop.
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  Speaker 2: I am from New York. If you haven't guessed while
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  Speaker 2: watching the video, go Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Rizza, right. I agree with Rizza from
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  Speaker 1: the standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: Of because hip hop has become popular.
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  Speaker 1: In so many different regions and so many different regions
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  Speaker 1: of specifically the United States have kind of led the way.
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  Speaker 1: But however, long whether it's the Southwest Coast, New York,
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  Speaker 1: a state for a second or two or whatever, people
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  Speaker 1: will be influenced by it if you like it, and
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  Speaker 1: New York is no different, right, especially now we have
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  Speaker 1: with the with the Internet and social media, we have
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  Speaker 1: so much access to everything around the world. Just like
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  Speaker 1: people who have access to be from another country and
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  Speaker 1: watch me do this podcast or listen to this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're you're being influenced by more than what's just
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  Speaker 1: around you.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of people I know, from south to different
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  Speaker 1: areas of the country who said, yo, I'm a hip
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  Speaker 1: hop head. But growing up I felt like I was
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  Speaker 1: the only one, none of my friends listening to hip
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  Speaker 1: hop like that. I couldn't turn a radio on. I
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  Speaker 1: barely had access like you know, I would get the
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  Speaker 1: source magazine when I could get it. I would get
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  Speaker 1: the music however I could get it. But literally, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a thing where it was all around me.
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  Speaker 1: And the same goes for regions being exposed to each other.
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  Speaker 1: Now everything is everything, Like where you're from may not
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  Speaker 1: even matter at this point. And obviously you can point
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  Speaker 1: to hip hop artists from the West Coast or heavily
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  Speaker 1: heave heavily influenced. Did I even say that, right? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know by East Coast styles of hip hop right
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  Speaker 1: bars technique, there's plenty of West Coast cats that spit
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  Speaker 1: just like that Jay Electronica being from New Orleans. If
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  Speaker 1: he didn't say it, his whole style is what would
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  Speaker 1: be considered a New York style, right, and vice versa.
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  Speaker 1: So it was only a matter a time or inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: Like Rizis said that you would see people out of
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  Speaker 1: New York who are influenced by those outside of New
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  Speaker 1: York because it used to happen the other way all
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  Speaker 1: the time. And that's only right because I know, for
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  Speaker 1: me as a fan, I never went to the record
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  Speaker 1: store in Brooklyn, New York in the nineties and said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, give me whatever's from New York. It wasn't like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: New York Artists Session, it was all together. West Coast
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  Speaker 1: was there, you know what I'm saying. Some South Cats
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  Speaker 1: was there, but I like to go to the record stores.
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  Speaker 1: That was like, yo, we got everything. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Because when I'm looking at the Source or
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  Speaker 1: other magazines and I'm learning about artists from other places,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if they're raving about a particular album, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter where they're from. I want to get that album.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like it's part for the course. Now
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  Speaker 1: there are those people who who don't even want to
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  Speaker 1: hear none of that, right, Like south of South New
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  Speaker 1: Yorker's New York. West Coast is West Coast, but it's
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  Speaker 1: never been that. West Coast has always showed man love.
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  Speaker 1: Like all you gotta do is watch an interview with
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  Speaker 1: somebody like MT eight saying how much he loved and
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  Speaker 1: he says we you don't even just say him. He
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: loved EPMD. I loved EPMD. And what does the West
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Coast at epm D have in common. Well, EPMD is
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the tories for rapping over the funk style beat sample
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and funk. I love funk, so I was drawn to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: EPMD and obviously drawn to the West Coast sound, which,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: especially in the nineties was heavy on sample and funk,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: including Doctor Dre. So Riz is on point with his statements.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people who would rather
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: continue you as a divide, but that divide ended a
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: very long time ago. And honestly, it's for me as
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a music fan in general, beyond hip hop.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: It's right up my alley to.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Like certain artists, like I prefer Joey Badass not sounding
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: like he's from boot Camp Click in the nineties. I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: was there for that, and I still listen to boot
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Camp Click in the nineties and whatever they do, that's new.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: So I don't need a new artist, even though it's
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: nice sometimes, but I don't need a new artist to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: mimic that. I like what Joey Badass has become. And
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I know y'all may look at one record and say, oh,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that singing joint. Nah, that's not even his catalog. That's
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: what he's doing right now. I prefer him to experiment
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways and mix and combine a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: lot of elements because he's always going to be from Brooklyn.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: He's always going to be a New Yorker. Anytime he
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: needs to flip that switch and get in that bag,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: he will. The same reason why people slept on Kendrick
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in the Battle. They're thinking, oh, you're gonna make alien
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: noises and say some weird stuff and blah blah blah.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And then he makes a song like six ' sixteen
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: in La where it's just straight bars over al green sample.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh you forgot who he was. He makes
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a song like not like us, Oh you forgot I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was from Compton. So all the barriers and stuff like that,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: as far as what coast and what music and who
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: should listen to? What if if that's how you look
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: at music then and you like being limited and cool, right,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe none of none of the other stuff resonates
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: with you. And that's okay. And I'm not even being sarcastic,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that's literally okay. But this is the world and rizzards
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: just put it down, so hey, and lastly, all right,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: so I'm not even gonna hold y'all. I have been
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: slacking when it comes to hip hop documentaries. There's so
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: many that drop that I did not watch for one reason,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: or another run DMC bizmarcking bis Markey was tough because
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I think I was gonna be sad.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: And on and on and on.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Some of them I'm able to catch but or will
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: catch eventually. But hey, there is one documentary coming up
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that I am really interested in, to the point I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: just may watch it because I'm interested in learning the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: intimate details of not only the incident but everything. There's
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a documentary on the way about Shine, formerly of bad
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Boy Record, notoriously linked to the shooting in the club
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that broke up Diddy and j Low, but also put
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Seane in prison and ultimately got him deported. Right now,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: he's since been free and he's since been a major figure.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Where he's from, which I believe is Belize.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: So here are the details regarding this Seawan is getting.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: This is on Hip Hop DX, so go to their
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: website check it out.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Seawn is gearing up.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: To release a documentary about his life, and he's getting
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: candid about the nineteen ninety nine shooting alongside Diddy that
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: he ultimately went to prison for. In the trailer, the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: rapper turn Politician maintained his innocence and echoed his previous
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: sentiments that he was the fall guy for the incident.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: It's a quote from it. It says I was absolutely
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: set up to be the fall guy. One of the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: most difficult parts of it was watching everybody succeed. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: spent ten years in prison, but I was able to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: move on this document A documentary entitled The honorabro Sean
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Hitshulu on November eighteenth. I am going to watch this
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: because there's something to be said about a comeback story
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: like this. A dude who's not bitter. He's not doing it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: He could have did that a long time ago. He's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: not bitter. He's just about telling the truth of the matter.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And we've heard from one of the victims. She straight
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: up said Jeddy was the one that shot me. Jeddy
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: got off. I didn't do anything, you know what I'm
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: saying now, said in one of his records. I don't
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: like the way he did it. This shine with different lawyers, like,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: there's a lot there and what Sean has to say
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: about watching everybody succeed, I could feel that because just
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: imagine that you didn't do what they said you did,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: but you did something in defense of a person who
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you were trying to be loyal to and you go
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: away and it's like, literally, that's it. You are in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: jail for ten years, You're getting deported. Your life could
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: be over. Most people would be done for, but Sean
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: has triumphed. And those who don't know Sean's like origin
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna just give it from a hip hop
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: fan perspective, he had a controversial way to go at it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Sean literally, I think only has two albums, right. He
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: has his bad Boy debut and then he has another
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: one that's like the Godfather something whatever. And the first
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: one on his debut had a couple of hits on there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: But the controversy around Sean was did he tried to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: sign somebody who sound like Biggie? Now, when you hear
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Sean talk, he doesn't sound like Biggie. But back then,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: especially when he was premiered on a total record, The Flow,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: they were going for Biggie with the Flow big time.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I remember when I first heard it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I was in the club in DC, and I think
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the DJ said something like, yo, y'all, like this gad
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: is a gad sound like Biggie? Oh he was lying
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: like Biggie back, you know. And I remember when the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: record hit. I was standing still in the club, me
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and my friends was you know, we were standing still
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: in the club because it was like, what and you
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: hear Sean on this total record and you're kind of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: like yo, You're like yo, I mean that kind of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: sounds like Big, And it was like mixed emotions, right,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: because for one, it was like, nah, there's something wrong
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: with this, like the AI thing, right, something's wrong with this.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: But by the time Sean released his project, you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I kind of felt like, you know, it's not the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: same as Big. He's not even close to Big. He's
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: not as skillful as him. He has a voice that's
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: sort of similar, but if you're listening closely enough, it's
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: really not similar to Big at all. And he just
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't successful as an artist. But he really only had
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: one album on this label. He didn't really get a
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: true opportunity at a second album, and you know, his
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: life was changed forever.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: So for me, part of what makes me want to
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: watch this is that.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Journey, right, Like hearing from him directly, even though I
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: read articles back in the days and I know da
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: lah blah, but hearing from him directly, how he got
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: on his interactions would puff around around that time, how
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: he felt about how he was received. I know Lil
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Kim was not feeling him whatsoever obviously the incident and
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: where he is today, and I just think it's a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: compelling story, even if you're not a big hip hop fan,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: because it's just the reality and he's here, He's lived
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: to tell the story when it could have gone bad
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: in any direction at any point given the situation. So
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Are you gonna watch this documentary?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Do you even care about Seanne? Did you like his
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: album back in the days? I think it's grown on
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: me over time. Back then, I was like why did
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I buy? But now you know, every now and again
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I'll hit play and I'm like, Okay, it wasn't it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't that bad.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: It was cool.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I really like the Commission record though, more than anything.
• 30:11
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