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Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now Podcast, protecting Artists from
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Artificial Intelligence, My impressions of the new album from rock Marciano Marciology, and
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I have a few thoughts about this metro booming future Kendrick Drake, J Cole
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and whoever else Lumberjack match we got going on because I wasn't here last week.
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Let's do it. Welcome to hip Hop Now Podcast, to you from
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of hip hop content. Now, elephant in the room, it's not me,
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it's you. But last week I had to take a week off.
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Brother was damn bad. I'm even down bad now, but you know I
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didn't drugged up, so I'm feeling good. I don't feel anything. But
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if you've ever had issues with your wisdom too, or any sensitivity with your
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teeth to the point where it's throbbing, you don't want to talk. You
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don't want to talk about any you want to talk about hip hop, You
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want to talk about anything, be anything going on. All I did was
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tape my thoughts because I didn't want to talk. So I took the week
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off, which was good, you know, some breathing room. A couple
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of things happened, So a couple of these stories we have today or thoughts
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for me are basically me kind of catching up on bigger stories. Obviously,
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there's some things happening in this week. There's some things that happen, No
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Diddy, but we don't really talk about stuff like that here, you know,
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unless we have to. But we rather focus on music in general,
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right, and what you can go out and play and listen to and your
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thoughts about hip hop in general. So big shout out to hip Hop dx
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dot com, all hip hop dot com, and a couple of places where
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I'm getting some of these stories from. Let's get right into the business though,
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So this is coming from hip hopdx dot com and it says Nicki Minaj's
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Q tip and Chuck d back campaign to protect artists from artificial intelligence. Now,
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everybody listening and everybody watching, there's a reason why I created a show
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like this. You know why everybody's not following the news. Everybody's not following
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the trends. Everyone is not in the know. So that being said for
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the people who don't know, or the people who kind of know but don't
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really know whatever happens. It kind of was a thing that was trending for
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a while. When you know, all these ways to generate music for some
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of your favorite artists using their voice but using artificial intelligence, it got rampant.
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I mean, dudes was making full blown Drake albums that sound better than
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the album Drake released. I think when I talked about this before, I
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did a whole episode on you know, artificial intelligence and what it could mean.
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But I think it's gotten a little out of hand and it makes me
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think back. Now, if you're a gamer, you feel me, especially
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if you're a sports gamer. We're just getting NCAA football back after almost ten
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years or so of not having it as a part of an annual release like
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we do with Matt and a lot of that, and not just football,
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but also NCAA basketball in a way, and that had a lot to do
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with the fact that using a player's likeness, right ed O'Bannon had a case
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because he was basically used, as you know, the cover athlete in the
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Star in a game of nc double A basketball used to play for UCLA really
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without his permission, Like you know, you're using his likeness in this game
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and you're making millions of dollars and he's not seeing a dime of it,
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right, And this is before nil and players getting paid. This is probably
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part of this is part of the catalysts of that, right of why it's
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changed, and to me, it's changed for the better. These schools have
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been making money off these kids forever. But nevertheless, I just remember being
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in like you know, the comments of videos or forums for it and seeing
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people who were ignorant to what likeness meant to the point where they were like,
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Yo, we gotta lose these games just because you know, you know,
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they use his likeness, Like, what's his problem? What what do
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you mean? It's his face, it's his career, it's him. If
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you're going to use something that is uniquely need to sell your game, I
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need a bag. Right, That's kind of what we're's that's what we're dealing
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with here. In a lot of ways when it comes to artificial intelligence.
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If a dude can go and make an entire Drake album, right, it
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sounds like Drake, like all the way down to the breaths that he takes
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in his music. You could literally go to a corner of the web where
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a lot of people probably dwell. But it's not like you're not going to
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Twitter or anything like that and say, Yo, this is on the low.
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Drake has this one album he recorded all about love or whatever, you
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know, you know, how big down and it's never coming out, but
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I have a copy. Five dollars, two dollars, three dollars. There
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are people who will believe it. Don't ask no questions, even with knowledge
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of AI, or they don't have any knowledge of AI because there's a lot
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of people who just don't know what the news means when they talk about that
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stuff. So in a lot of ways, you've seen it. You've seen
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it with deceased rappers, right, this Tupac song, this Biggie song putting
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Tupac voice on Biggie Records and vice versa, Michael Jackson rapping. You've seen
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all this craziness in the world of entertainment. You can't do that. But
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because AI was never factored in this way, especially with a lot of things
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with the Internet or what artists are going through with streaming, because it was
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never factored in to their contracts to make an agreement about likeness and usage and
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blah blah blah that now they're fighting to say, Hey, this is kind
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of unfair, because what can we do, right, what can you do
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if Drake puts out an album officially that we don't like, But this other
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album that this AI guy did that has Drake's voice in his cadence and the
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type of music he will make, and this album is better. That's going
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to impact Drake. And I'm just using Drake as an example. Imagine somebody
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who doesn't have the financial stability of a drink, and they have to battle
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somebody making something better. It kind of kills momentum, right, And of
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course there's some people, you know, go get the real thing. But
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I'm telling y'all the stuff I'm pointing out to Drake Joint because I thought that
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was the best I heard as far as usage of AI. So it's been
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pretty crazy. But nevertheless, hits a little bit from the article just to
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get into a Nicki Minaj, Q, Tip and Chuck the among a huge
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group of artists supporting a campaign to protect artists from having their music violated by
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artificial intelligence. An open letter organized by the Artist Rights A Line sets out
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their opposition to the use of AI within the music industry after tech companies such
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as YouTube began experimenting AI making tools experimenting with The open letter says we must
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protect against the predatory use of AI to steal artists' voices and likenesses. The
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artists also called upon tech companies to not undermine or replace the human artistry of
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songwriters and artists or deny its fair conversation for our work. So you can
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check out the whole thing. Then there's even an Instagram for the Artist Rights
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Alliance the process. So munch of plus artists sign open letter calling on AI
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developers tech platforms not to devalue music and undermine artist rights. Now, I'm
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a tech person, so I love new technology. I'm also an artist person,
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and I totally I don't care what you feel about their music. I
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totally agree with them because this is what you have to be careful of.
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When you just say no, it's all good, it's promotion for me,
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they will make it so you won't see a dime and you won't own it
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and your AI version supplants you. Right, Yeah, we don't want to
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sign a new deal with you. We've been working out this thing with this
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Drake Clone music and actually it's more popular than you, so bye bye whatever.
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Right, Obviously it would never happen that way, But that's the extreme
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right where we saw it, where they somebody record label. Oh, this
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was like a year or so ago a record label signed an AI rapper and
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everybody went crazy like what what kind of blah blah blah, And it never
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happened. They only did it because they knew what was coming, right,
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because what they would want ultimately is to officially create an artists that's popular that
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they can tweak down to the tea and there's no human emotions with that.
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Right now, it becomes almost like analytics for music, right that's and it's
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already like that, to be honest, there's certain like when, for example,
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when you think about a hit record and you see all these names on
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it and you don't really hear what was done, Like damn all those people
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worked on it, Like what they do? Would you hit the one drum
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and he hit the other? Like what? But there's a lot that goes
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into that. If you could feed that into an AI software and create the
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type of artist that is going to get you the money you need because it's
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going to have the popularity and it's going to be catchy and capture the crowd
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and become some kind of trendy thing. To do that AI will because for
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one, you don't have to really pay that AI. Right, maybe you're
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working with Google and you're paying them. Maybe there's a partnership with them,
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like there's a way to keep certain artists out because you have ghost writers,
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right, And just to end it, because I don't want to spend too
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much time with this but in a lot of ways, what you could do
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is there's a ton of people I don't care if you're hip hop or now,
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there's a ton of people who have ghostwriters to a certain level. Right,
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I'm talking about the successful hit making artists. There's some people who ain't
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even hit makers. I got them, But you will never know who the
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ghostwriters are in some instances, right, you can take off an army of
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writers and really only have one that works in tandem with the AI software.
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Because in a lot of ways, it's a job waiting to happen, if
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it hasn't already happened. It's a job that a lot of people are gonna
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wind up applying for, whether it's on the low or by accident or by
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proxy. Because if you know how to use the tools, you can get
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the best out of it. And if you are a songwriter by nature,
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then you know how to tweak it so it's not off. And this is
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artificial intelligence is gathering data. It's going and looking looking for data, but
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it's also gathering data to the point where it's learning what you already know as
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a songwriter, and soon it won't need you when we give it that command
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like Yo, write me a song about the sun, moona stars and the
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pyramids and the conscious rappers coming through the spaceships, and it will it will
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go ahead and do that. You know how, I know because I've done
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it. Coming up on my next project, I have a song that will
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you will show you just what I'm talking about. I've already done it.
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And is it the greatest song I ever made? No, but it's pretty
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remarkable to know that I didn't write it. I described it and I let
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it use my voice and it sounds exactly like me. It's scary, y'all.
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And it's what Drake says, scary hours. It's scary hours. So
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I don't know. We'll we'll see, and we'll see if that actually comes
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out, because if it sounds wack, what's the point. But nevertheless,
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it's possible. It's very possible, and it's only going to get better as
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the technology gets smarter and more efficient, and it's going to be easier for
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anybody to do it. Like I said on my special where I talked strictly
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about AI, I said, the number one thing that is going to open
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the door for is if you've always wanted to rhyme and knew what you would
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talk about, but you just didn't have the skill to put them words together.
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You don't have to worry. Now, put your voice in the AI
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machine. You tell them what you want to rap about, right, You
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want to rap about weed all the time, and it just created even creates
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the hooks. I'm not lying. So there you have it. What do
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you think about artificial intelligence? What these artists are doing? Do you agree?
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Are you afraid of AI and where it could go? I'm kind of
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back and forth. I'm afraid of it in this instance what I mentioned,
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but there are other uses for it where it's pretty dope, so we shall
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see. So while I was out on injuries Nerve list with my dental issue,
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Rock Marciano dropped his latest album, Marciology. It is a fourteen track,
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forty six minutes in length album with a lot of production by him.
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I don't know who else did production, because you know, we don't get
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credits on these apps anymore, so I would have to do some digging.
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But nevertheless, I know he did production on it. Guest appearances include Crime,
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Apple, Larry June, Flea, Lord jay Worthy, and I'm not
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gonna hold right. You know you know my scale if you don't, my
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first three listens. My first listen is for impressions. My second listens is
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sort of to listen a little bit more intently, a little deeper as far
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as the lyrics and the concepts and the beats and how it all comes together.
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And the third listen is to confirm my thoughts about the whole project.
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Well, given I've had more time to listen to this than most albums,
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I've listened to it a lot. And my fast verdict for those who just
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want to know how I feel. I don't like it, But let me
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explain. Is it whack? Not by a long shot? Little YACHTI is
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whack. I will never say Rock Marciano is little YACHTI never not even close,
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not even close. But some of y'all like to say he's nice or
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the best doing it right now as an MC, and I say no,
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Now, obviously that's your opinion, is my opinion, whatever, But I
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feel like if I say Ransom is nice, that's the bar for being nice,
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not the actual bar. But you know that that's the limit, right,
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and you can be a little bit up under that. You don't have
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to be as nice as Ransom. But you you could be like, yo,
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he nice too, right. I feel like my history, well,
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let me just say this. My history with Rock Marciano is this. When
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he first came around with Buster and them, I thought he was the nicest
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one in that crew. I was like, they got somebody, you know
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next Rod Digger too, but he was another baby. Sham was kind of
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nice. Let me not front but wait was that his name? I don't
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know, but I thought Rock Marciano was nice, and a lot of his
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early projects, especially when I was hosting The Hip Hop Show and be More,
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you know, I really messed with him, right because hip hop was
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in a different space and he was doing you know, he was kind of
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keeping Boom alive in a certain way. But then there was this switch where
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I had stopped listening and I picked it back up because I heard so many
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people talking about him and how dope he was, and I remember just liking
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him. So I was like, yeah, let me listen. And it
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felt different. It felt like it sounded like a man who to either two
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things. Because I don't know this man. I don't know what he thinks.
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I don't know what his motivation is. This is my observation though either
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he believes his own hype. Therefore he believes whatever he says is going to
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be hot, which is what I see from a lot of his fans,
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the big fans, not just anybody who likes it, but big fans or
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hip hop. And this is true. Hip hop has become so warded down
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that he's just feeding the machine. Now. When I say that, I
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mean it's kind of better, Like don't hurt me, but it's kind of
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better. The more simple you are, the better it is for the listeners,
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because not everybody can catch your bars like that. Some people have been
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listening to ours for years and missing all kinds of bars. You know what
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I'm saying. Listen to the pushr TE. They just because they don't hear
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it, right, it's so technical whatever. But sometimes when you say something
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that's cool that they can relate to, you're nice to them because they can
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recite it, they can repeat it. And that's the thing in hip hop
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now, like it just makes sense. And that's not new, right,
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because early on in hip hop it was simplistic, right, but nobody said
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that it was just catchy. You said the lyrics, you like them,
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you can relate to him. The end. It was in the nineties and
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East Coast specifically, when it became really technical and almost became the bar for
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being dope. Right, if you wasn't this technical with it, you wasn't
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a lyricist, so you wasn't nice like that. And hip hop has never
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just been one thing, just never, So on one hand, I feel
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like, well, maybe that's what it is, because when I listened to
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rock Marciana Rhyme, I feel like I'm a bigger fan of rock Marciano's production
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than I am of him as a rapper. I don't think he's bad as
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a rapper. I think he says a lot of cool shit. Sorry it's
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a family podcast, cool with whatever. If your kids listening, it didn't
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happen. But you know what I'm saying. I think he is what the
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young kids call a vibe. Right to me, I used to call it
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like mood music, Like if I just want in some boomback and some slick
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talk, I get it. And honestly, I'm not even mad at anybody
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who really likes this album or any of the other albums he released, because
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I say the same thing about Rick Ross. Rick Ross is basically talking about
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some of the same things all the time, but I like the production,
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I like the vibe of it. I like, you know, what he
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says and how he delivers it. So it was almost the same as Rock
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Marcy. And I know some people get Rock Marxy way better than Rick Ross
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blah blah blah whatever. All I know is that the first song on this
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album, Marciology, almost made me turn it off because I was looking for
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a point in time where I could just be in that kind of mood where
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you put this boom bap on, you know, take you back to the
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block on it, that joint and I remember the beat then really catch me.
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And when Rock Marcy started Ramen, I was like, this is just
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like that Higgy skit, remember when he was like how nineties rappers be and
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he was like possible babb it was vegetable eating us. It was just like
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that. I was like, yoh, what's the what's the difference. And
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again, I'm not looking for every rapper to to put some kind of puzzle
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together that I got to figure out, because even I get tired of that
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and want to hear somebody like a currency or whoever. So in a lot
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of ways, I was just like oh whatever, And I feel like going
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through the album, there was more than that I like than I disliked.
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But I on my listens, I just felt like, I'm listening to this
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because it's out. It's the center of conversation right now. In the minute
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something else drops, I'm gonna forget about it, or I'm just gonna go
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back to the joints that I truly like. Like I said, when my
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Benny the Butcher joint, Benny the Butcher's album was a letdown for me because
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I thought it would be better. It wasn't whack. But here we are,
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and it's one of the albums I go back to and listen because it's
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enough to satisfy for me. That feel that boom bat field, that street
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talk, that slick talk, but the bars are just a little bit more
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potent now. The lead single, which came with a video, what was
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it called Gold Gold Crossboat rhymen wise is everything I just said. But production
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wise, man, we already got enough People talk about rock. Marciano is
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the best rapper. That's cool. I don't agree with y'all, but that's
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cool. When we talk about boom bat beats, y'all better put some respect
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on that man, name that man. When I wasn't really like look checking
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for Stove God and I heard Rose Roy's break lights. It's not just Stove
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God that makes that song dope. It's that beat, and I'm like,
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yo, people talk about you know yo, Okay, hit Boy and Nas
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the dead thing. I want to Premio. I still want my Primo and
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Nas. No, give me rock Marci on the Beats and Knives. Okay,
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give me that. If you want to do a new illmatic, gather
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all of them dudes now and do that right now. I'm not talking about
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go back to Pete rocking up. No, Like, who's the new crop?
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You know? Okay, y'all want Darrenger, Okay, Boom Darrenger,
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rock Marcie for sure, because for all the beats that are on this album,
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again, I don't know which if he did all of them, I
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know most of them we did, but some of them I just didn't.
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I don't know, like you know me the Alchemist they wanted to. But
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nevertheless, just his production in general, he doesn't have a He has a
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signature sound, but he doesn't. You feel me like he doesn't have a
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sound because to me, like Premier became predictable over time, where you just
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know it's Premier. It kind of has the same rhythm, it's just a
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different beat. Rock Marcie joints. It's just like it's everywhere, like Yo,
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if you haven't heard the song gold Crossbow, I don't think I've ever
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heard a beat like that before. And it reminds me of when I first
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heard Rizard, when I was like, yo, I don't think I've ever
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heard beats like this before, or samples like this that you turn into beats.
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It's pure gutta boom bab and I think in a lot of ways there's
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some people who love rock Marci because of that, Like it's not really oh
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well, yeah, he ain't better than Push Your Tea, but the production
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he does and the way he lays his vocals to it, I mess with
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that whole vibe. I get it. So when I say it's not good,
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I'm just saying I don't see myself listening to it for very much longer.
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To be honest, is it one of the best of the year.
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Well, at the end of the year, I always revisit the bigger releases
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the South. The albums that I said were dope, just to you know,
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check myself and see what happens. So I can't say that I'll be
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listening to this because I feel there's a lot of boombab artists's category. But
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I really love the production and I listened to Group Home and I think Rock
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Marcy is better than both of them. So I mean, I'm saying,
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what do you want from a brother? But what do you think? Do
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you like rock Manciano's new album, Marciology? Are you a big rock fan?
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How do you feel about his bars? What do you think it is
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about him that his fans gravitate towards What are they Why would they say he's
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so consistent? What do they really like about him? You know, if
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you're one of those people leaving comments in the comments section below, I'm no
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hater. I like to learn why people like certain artists, whether I agree
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or disagree. I just know what I felt listening to this project. And
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lastly, so we're not going to spend a whole lot of time on this
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because I was on injury reserve and I was, you know, a little
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let to the party, but I wanted to share my thoughts on uh,
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not just the Kendrick lamar verse going at J Cole and Drake, but just
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the simple fact that it was on an album called We Don't Trust You but
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produced by Metro booming with Future as a standout MC, and just the fallout
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from that, so to speak, and the theories of who's this and who
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why we ain't heard a response yet. Drake, you know he you know
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how he go. It's all about I'm not gonna be your friends. Mostly.
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J Cole is really focused on his tour. The at least that's what
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it seems, unless he's gonna put it on the upcoming album, which could
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happen. But and a lot of and and I have spoken about it,
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but I just have further thoughts because of the Metro him in future part,
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I feel like, oh, and let's not add well, let's add you
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know, Rick Ross bumping the Kendrick dish and staring in the camera, and
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I'm like, Andy, Greg, you got problem and Ross got problems.
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Now this is the thing in a lot of ways. It's it's made battling
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and hip hop different because what Kendrick is doing is what we know right,
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He's being very direct. I'm dissing you in him. Let's go who won
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it. I don't think he did it and just said I only got a
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verse. I think he got. I think the clip is full for whoever
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want to respond when they respond, right. I think J Cole don't even
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want to do this, which I'm not even mad at him for that.
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I think part of his reason for saying the Big three was to acknowledge Kendrick.
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But I think Kendrick don't like Drake, and if damn sure don't like
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you teaming up with Drake, and I think Drake knew it when he was
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giving you flowers on stage. I think it makes a lot of sense for
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a lot of things he was doing that felt like he was gathering allies in
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some ways, like twenty one Savage and all that, and that a battle
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was happening, but it wasn't out there. And this album, along with
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Kendrick's verse, puts it out there. But I gotta say, after we've
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had some time to breathe, if J Cole responds, it will be in
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a probably a very mature, you know you or my brother kind of way,
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which is cool. I don't think it's gonna be vicious at all,
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and I think Drake will continue to do subliminals and inbrects and like he's doing
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now. And the one thing that I don't like around this whole situation is
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people talk about the response time now, and you know, people can talk
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about whatever they want to talk about, but my whole thing is, like,
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Okay, in battles in the past, and I'm talking about just hip
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hop history, responses didn't happen right away. They just didn't like they happened,
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and you waited right Sometimes you waited months before that person actually responded,
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and then it just kicked things back up. I think when Drake did Back
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to Back it was the first time. That's what makes that song have so
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much power because everybody was anticipat and and then Drake just said what we were
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thinking when he was going. When he was you know, he put out
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that one record which nobody remembers this and Meek and then when it it was
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like a week later, he put out Back to Back, you know,
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like, Okay, y'all take him forever, here's another disc record, right,
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So it kind of felt like Drake changed the expectations for responses with his
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battling all the time. But I think with this one, it's difficult for
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him to just jump in because he know Kendrick is not Kendrick ain't on that
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type of time. Kendrick is probably ready. He probably been ready when he
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did. Like, that's probably light. That birds is probably light compared to
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what he holding waiting for you to jump out the window. And honestly,
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it's kind of smart for them to take their time and be measured if they're
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gonna say something, because you you want whatever your response to be to have
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enough of an impact to at least make it debatable. Right, even if
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Kendrick comes out with a song that's better afterwards, at least you can have
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people can argue for what you did. Because if you jump out the window
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real quick and you make something that's kind of weak and this man come out
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with another one, he reads you up and down, it is over.
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There's nothing you ask jay Z ask jay Z takeover. There was only one
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verse that was about Nines that it had four verses, only one of them
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joints was about Nines. Ethe was all about jay Z, but it took
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months to come out. And jay Z try to off emotions, try to
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jump in the booth and did super ugly at first. It wasn't the original
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beat and two. It was probably one of his worst performances is especially as
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a dude who can battle, because it was all emotions jump out the window
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and everybody knew it. Even the stands knew it. They try to rewrite
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history, but we know what happened. We were there. He lost.
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Okay, he said it, but it could have been better because then jay
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Z could have said, oh, here's my full song now. Instead we
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had to wait a year later where the damage was already done. Most people
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don't even remember that the song Blueprint two is essentially like a dis record towards
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nons. If that would have dropped closer to when Etha dropped, it would
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have been a different conversation. But because he had already put super ugly out
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and that became the response, the ref was like yo, like what they
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do in WWE with the axes, Like nah, man, this dude hurt,
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Come help. So I don't know. I'm at this point. I
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was kind of I was hyped when that Kendrick joint came out. Obviously Kendrick's
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my favorite artist, but I like the other two just as much. I
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got a lot of their music, if not all of it. But then
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there's a part of me that feels like, I don't know. This is
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kind of getting corny because as good as Drake has been in most of his
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battles, even whether you feel he won or lost, I'm kind of tired
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of seeing him. And I don't think Kendrick and j Cole will have the
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same type of energy as two people who really don't like each other. You
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know, you know they're having a difference of opinions, but them brothers will
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their two temperaments. They would come right back together and be Paul's okay and
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be cool and nobody would care. Like with jay Z and Nows, people
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don't want to let that go. Tubac and Diggie, they ain't even really
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bad on people don't want to let that go. And it'd be nice.
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Old fans can debate here and there, but it's nothing like to catch.
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You know, who didn't mess with each other in the beginning don't really mess
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with each other now. So we'll see what do y'all think. Y'all waiting
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for, you know, Drake and Jacoble to say something. Maybe they've already
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said something, and you know, this whole thing coming out when it's coming
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