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Who Are Some of the Elite Duos in Hip Hop? · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now
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Speaker 1: Podcast exhibits new album Kingmaker is shaping up to be interesting.
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Speaker 1: Will Smith wrapping over Griselda Production. I have thoughts and
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Speaker 1: five elite duos and hip hop history. This is not
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Speaker 1: the definitive list of five. These are just five that
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Speaker 1: I'm going to choose. That's all. I'm sorry, whatever, let's
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back or maybe last year, I
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Speaker 1: talked about Exhibit back to the rap game with a
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Speaker 1: brand new album called Kingmaker, And now we have an
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Speaker 1: idea of the features on this album due to the
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Speaker 1: track listing being made available. This is on hip Hop
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Speaker 1: d X dot com. It says Exhibit taps Doctor dre Ice,
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Speaker 1: q Redman and Moore for king Maker track listing. Now
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Speaker 1: they're getting this basically from exhibits ig account where he
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Speaker 1: listed to track listing and let me see if I
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Speaker 1: could just go there. I kind of like the album cover.
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Speaker 1: It's really basic. It's just him with like a blue sky.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's a blue sky behind him wearing a
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Speaker 1: suit and glasses. But here's the track list and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna try to zoom in. It's a couple of tracks here,
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Speaker 1: play this at my funeral, everywhere I go Been a
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Speaker 1: long time. Part two, The moment featuring Buster RUMs and
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Speaker 1: Jason Martin. Earth is Over, Leave Me Alone featuring Doctor
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Speaker 1: Dre and Todd Dallasson, Belly of the Beast featuring Jason Martin,
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Speaker 1: History Genesis, perfect Alibi, Stallone featuring Stallone, American Idol featuring Simba,
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Speaker 1: Crash featuring Royceta five nine, What's this one? For the
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Speaker 1: Love featuring Ice Cube and Lornie Chia, I Don't know
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Speaker 1: how to pronounce her name? Shut Your Mouth featuring Compton
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Speaker 1: av and Butch Cassidy. Wow, wait is that the Butcher
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Speaker 1: Cassidy from Like Back in the Days? Whatever Higher featuring
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Speaker 1: Redman and be Real Success Notified featuring King T and
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Speaker 1: Cole Won eighty seven, What You Like featuring who is This?
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Speaker 1: I can't even see it now? My bad, y'all? And
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Speaker 1: Demo Genesis is on here the End of the Day.
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Speaker 1: And then hears a song called Kingmaker and the album
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Speaker 1: is out May sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Pretty solid out
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Speaker 1: in I think the number of tracks this would have been, like,
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Speaker 1: I guess this is considered almost like a double album.
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Speaker 1: Let me just say this about me as a fan
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Speaker 1: of exhibit versus maybe you so. I wasn't up on
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Speaker 1: every album Exhibit dropped when he dropped his first single
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Speaker 1: for his debut, which the title Escapes Me right Now.
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Speaker 1: I remember buying a single because I thought that song
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Speaker 1: was crazy. I liked the Exhibit's voice, I thought he
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Speaker 1: could rap. The beat was crazy, and I think I
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Speaker 1: read a review back then on his debut album and
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Speaker 1: it kind of and it might have been the source.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many mics it got, so somebody,
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Speaker 1: if you know, leave that in a comment section. But
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Speaker 1: it steered me away from buying that album at the
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Speaker 1: time because it just felt like it was I let down,
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Speaker 1: you know, as it was described. I hadn't heard it.
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Speaker 1: But we're talking about a different time where I think
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Speaker 1: I was in college at the time, going on my
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Speaker 1: sophomore year. I didn't have a you know, an income
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Speaker 1: where I could just go and get any album I
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Speaker 1: was interested in. I really was like, I'd rather save
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Speaker 1: my money for an album that I know I'm at
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Speaker 1: least guaranteed like and I won't be disappointed if I
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Speaker 1: don't like it, because you know, it just gets added
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Speaker 1: to the collection. And I kind of feel like with Exhibit,
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Speaker 1: for me personally, that took my eyes off of him
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Speaker 1: as an mc like I just wasn't paying attention. I
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Speaker 1: knew he was dropping albums, and every time I saw
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Speaker 1: an album was like, oh, he's still doing still doing it,
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Speaker 1: But I just never had the opportunity to buy any
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Speaker 1: of them, and like, I'm gonna just keep it a buck.
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Speaker 1: Maybe during the lockdown is when I started to go
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Speaker 1: back to hear some of those albums I hadn't heard
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Speaker 1: from Exhibit, and I know there's one he did where
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Speaker 1: I think Doctor Dre did either all the production or
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Speaker 1: the majority of it, and I was like, man, I
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Speaker 1: missed out on this one because this album's crazy. So
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Speaker 1: it still didn't really keep my attention enough to just
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Speaker 1: be on the lookout for new Exhibit. But because he
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Speaker 1: hadn't released in so long and this became like a story,
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Speaker 1: it made sense now to be like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I want to be there in the beginning for an
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Speaker 1: Exhibit album in a way I couldn't on his debut,
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Speaker 1: mainly because now you know, I have Spotify and Apple Music,
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Speaker 1: So when the album dropped, there's no, oh, I need
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Speaker 1: to read a review to see if it's good enough
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Speaker 1: so I could go and buy it. No, it's let
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Speaker 1: me go check it out, so expected a review of
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Speaker 1: that album when it drops, and this track listing is
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Speaker 1: pretty encouraging. I think it might be pretty dope. I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing best of the year. I don't know. We got
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Speaker 1: to hear it first, but it seems like we might
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Speaker 1: be in for a good album from exhibit, you know,
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Speaker 1: returning to the rap game. So we'll see. Speaking of
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Speaker 1: returning to the rap game, if you don't know, Will
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Speaker 1: Smith dropped a brand new album recently and he has
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Speaker 1: been making the rounds as far as the press tour
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Speaker 1: for this album to promote this album, which includes getting
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Speaker 1: the street sign named after him in Philly, and he
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Speaker 1: was there and it was dope to see, you know,
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Speaker 1: being from out there, not me being from out there,
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Speaker 1: but him being from out there. He's this huge star
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Speaker 1: and you know, coming back to the neighborhood like that,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty dope. It's dope because and you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna get on a soapbox for a little bit. I
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Speaker 1: hope you don't mind, but it's dope because I remember
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Speaker 1: being a little kid in the ghetto and you watch
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Speaker 1: celebrities and musicians on TV all the time, and you
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Speaker 1: never think you would get to see one up close,
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Speaker 1: let alone, maybe even interact with one. And when they're
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Speaker 1: from where you're from and they come back and you know,
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Speaker 1: and they're absorbing the love from the neighborhood and they're
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Speaker 1: giving out their own love to their neighborhood. That's special
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Speaker 1: for the kids. But that doesn't mean he is above
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Speaker 1: being critiqued. As an mc now, I did not review
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Speaker 1: Will Smith's album for this podcast. I didn't even because
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Speaker 1: what I heard tells me all I need to know
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Speaker 1: from it. As far as me personally as a hip
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Speaker 1: hop fan, as a fan of some of Will Smith's music,
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Speaker 1: and I like the fresh prints from back in the days,
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Speaker 1: but that guy was going after a while when you
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Speaker 1: got the Will Smith stuff right, which I kind of liked, right,
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Speaker 1: Like I like stuff like Man in Black and his songs.
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Speaker 1: I think he had just the two of us and Miami,
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Speaker 1: and I like all of those things right, They're fun.
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Speaker 1: I never looked at him like, yo, the Pards is
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Speaker 1: crazy or this or that. I just thought it was fun.
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Speaker 1: But it's been a long time since we've had a
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Speaker 1: Will Smith album, and it feels like the objective was
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Speaker 1: to get back to his roots in a lot of way.
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Speaker 1: In a way that wasn't familiar for Fresh Prince, but
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Speaker 1: felt more familiar for like Beanie Siegel or somebody. The
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Speaker 1: way he was rapping, the way he was cussing. And
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Speaker 1: recently he did a freestyle with Lemonade, a lyrical Lemonade freestyle,
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Speaker 1: referring to himself as the goat rapping over Griselda's or
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Speaker 1: is it doctor Birds or whatever? That beat and to me,
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Speaker 1: not quite sounding in pocket, not quite sounding believable, because Okay,
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Speaker 1: we know you slapped Will Smith man, but you ain't
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Speaker 1: about to pull out the stick and you know, become
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Speaker 1: a yn and light up the block, right, So it's
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Speaker 1: more like this aggressive, lyrically aggressive Will Smith. But you
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Speaker 1: don't really sound in pocket, because I'm not saying Will
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Speaker 1: Smith can't rap about some of these things, even though
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Speaker 1: we know he don't do them. Some of these guys
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Speaker 1: who rap about it don't do it either. They just
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Speaker 1: dressed the part. You know, they inflate what they did
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Speaker 1: in the drug game or the street game, especially the
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Speaker 1: drug game as far as making money, because if you
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Speaker 1: were making that much money while you're rapping, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying now, it doesn't mean you can't change
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Speaker 1: your life. I'm just saying, all right, we don't believe you. You
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Speaker 1: need more people. Now you rap about it, you know.
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Speaker 1: But to hear Will Smith doing it was something that
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Speaker 1: I just I just didn't like. It kind of rubbed
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Speaker 1: me the wrong way. Here's a couple of the bars.
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Speaker 1: Hip Hop's messy theymar Ronaldo Go scored on these boys.
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Speaker 1: I won, damn there every award on these boys, sold
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Speaker 1: out movie theaters and even tours on these boys. Feeling
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Speaker 1: like a mop wipe the floor with these boys. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I be overcoming ish that y'all be having trouble with
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Speaker 1: Let them run their mouths, I really, I mean, really,
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Speaker 1: that's what come with this. They built the wall, but
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Speaker 1: I'm jumping it and loving it. They want me to
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Speaker 1: be done with it, but I'm still having fun with it.
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Speaker 1: So when you read the bars, baby, they okay, they cool,
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Speaker 1: but when you hear the execution over the beat, it
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Speaker 1: just sounds it doesn't sound comfortable, I should say. And
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Speaker 1: I think Will Smith is probably what should have happened,
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Speaker 1: And maybe maybe that's what they think happened, but I don't,
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Speaker 1: I don't hear it. This should have worked on a
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Speaker 1: new flow for Will Smith. Like knots Now. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: preferred NAS's old flow, but who knows what that came with, right,
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Speaker 1: Like maybe he had the breath control for it when
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Speaker 1: he was younger versus now. But Nas has a new
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Speaker 1: flow and it works for him. I think Will Smith
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Speaker 1: needed another one also, just so he could sound comfortable
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Speaker 1: over the track. There were points where it just came
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Speaker 1: off as robotic like he was. He wasn't completely off beat,
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Speaker 1: but he was straying a little bit, so it sounded
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Speaker 1: like he was trying to place the words in a
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Speaker 1: way that would sound slick in his flow, but it
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Speaker 1: just sound robotic in some spots. And it and you know,
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Speaker 1: again being this aggressive in a way that we're not
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Speaker 1: used to hearing Will Smith be aggressive lyrically, it just
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Speaker 1: felt like, nah, not you. You're not in a gold conversation.
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Speaker 1: You could say it, but you're not in that conversation,
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Speaker 1: not in You've never really been in that conversation, right.
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Speaker 1: You had dope tracks throughout the years, like Summertime, Brand
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Speaker 1: New Funk and all of that. You get your respect
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Speaker 1: as an MC for sure, even doing this, But I
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Speaker 1: just think if this was the goal to like take
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Speaker 1: it back to Philly, and you want to, you know,
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Speaker 1: want to add a little new Philly. You want to
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Speaker 1: talk how the kids talking where everybody's the got. I
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Speaker 1: just needed to sound natural, man, I needed to sound
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Speaker 1: more natural. That's that was my only thing. So again,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's whack. Some people go out the
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Speaker 1: window and say it's whack. But again, this man is
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Speaker 1: fifty six years old. He's a megastar when it comes
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Speaker 1: to films. He has an all time classic and a
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Speaker 1: television show, and he's Moti platinum and gets that early
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Speaker 1: hip hop respect for what he was doing with songs
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Speaker 1: like brand new funk. Every word he said about his
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Speaker 1: status is true. He could talk that talk. I just
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Speaker 1: wish somebody just gave him a couple of tools to
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Speaker 1: sound way more comfortable when he talked that talk. Because
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Speaker 1: on his freestyle, I think he said it too like
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Speaker 1: y'all got me nervous something like that. But I thought
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Speaker 1: he was about to go crazy when he said that,
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Speaker 1: Like he just didn't sound comfortable. That's all. That's all
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I ain't hating, I ain't doing none of that.
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Speaker 1: I just was like, okay, whatever, leave your comments in
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Speaker 1: a comment section below. Did you see that freestyle, what
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Speaker 1: you think, Yes, it's not black thought at high ninety seven.
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Speaker 1: But for Will Smith, especially over that Griselda beat, what
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Speaker 1: were your thoughts? And lastly, so if you don't know,
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Speaker 1: I've been doing this for a little bit now on
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Speaker 1: slow news weeks, especially as it relates to album that
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Speaker 1: we've been anticipating. On great albums that are coming out,
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Speaker 1: everything's been slow. So I like to take the time
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Speaker 1: at the end of this episode, when available, to just
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Speaker 1: pay homage and lists some things. Right so today, as
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Speaker 1: you can see in the title, who are some of
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Speaker 1: the elite duos in hip hop history? Now me, I'm
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Speaker 1: just going to keep it to five. And I know
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Speaker 1: on internet now some people have amnesia, some people, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit slow with it. It's far, it's
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Speaker 1: just fine. We can wait for you, but you know,
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Speaker 1: trying to determine what's the duo versus what isn't and
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Speaker 1: all that. I'm just going to let you know right
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Speaker 1: now how I see a duo and how I think
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Speaker 1: it should be seen. But I can't say that everybody's
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Speaker 1: going to do that. If you have two active MC's
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Speaker 1: in a group, not three mcs, not four, not ten,
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Speaker 1: like Wu Tan two MC's. They are literally two MC's
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Speaker 1: in this group. Hands down. They happen to have a
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Speaker 1: DJ who's a part of the group. They happen to
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Speaker 1: have a producer as part of a group. That's not
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Speaker 1: a trio to me, I'm talking about two MC's where
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Speaker 1: they compliment each other, whether it's just voices or flows
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Speaker 1: in rhyms, going back and forth, and that's what the
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Speaker 1: duo does. I'm ranking it on that as a team.
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Speaker 1: Those MC's who are some of the elite at being
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Speaker 1: a team of MC's. I'm not going to name more
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Speaker 1: than five, so me not saying the one you're thinking about,
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Speaker 1: like I could give you one right now. Like not
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Speaker 1: mentioning somebody like dis Effects doesn't mean they're not an
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Speaker 1: elite du or I think they are. It's just that
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Speaker 1: I just tried to keep my list to five. So
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Speaker 1: put your list in a comment section because I love
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Speaker 1: to see who people pick, especially if it's artists I'm
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Speaker 1: not thinking about, you know, So here we go. Some
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Speaker 1: of them you may not, you may recognize Run DMC.
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Speaker 1: I think it goes without saying run DMC is in
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Speaker 1: a lot of ways a blueprint for two MC's in
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Speaker 1: a group who feel like two titans in a group.
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Speaker 1: You really can't hear them alone right or as soloists,
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Speaker 1: because you like what they do as a group together.
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Speaker 1: You know, you like that output, the back and forth,
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Speaker 1: the dope records, the versus rememorable bars. You know what
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Speaker 1: they were able to do on a lot of their
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Speaker 1: records together. And run DMC has so many examples of
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Speaker 1: being dope on the mic where it's not oh, runs
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Speaker 1: better and DMC is just okay, So I really only
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Speaker 1: wait for runs rhymes. No, I'm talking about both artists
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Speaker 1: contribute damn there equally. You may have your favorite, which
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Speaker 1: is fine out of the two, but when they're together,
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Speaker 1: it's not time to take a break. Oh DMC rapid,
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Speaker 1: time to take a break. No, I'm talking about Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just want to hear the whole song because run
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Speaker 1: DMC is dope, so and it's called run d MC
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Speaker 1: for a reason. Next you know him, you love them.
22:20
Speaker 1: You probably saw this coming. Pause damp. I hate y'all. Outcasts. Outcasts.
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Speaker 1: Most people on the internet really only think about Andreie
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Speaker 1: three thousand, when that's impossible considering their catalog and their
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Speaker 1: contributions to hits to underground hits, to the different styles
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Speaker 1: of music they've made. They compliment each other beautifully. And
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Speaker 1: even though a Big Boy had a dope run as
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Speaker 1: a soloist, because they haven't done a cat's album probably
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Speaker 1: since Idlewild that soundtrack joint. His stuff has been good,
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Speaker 1: but again, not as good as it is when you
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Speaker 1: hear Andre three thousand and Big Boy together on a track.
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Speaker 1: Same thing with hearing a three Stacks verse. It may
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Speaker 1: be crazy, but it's nothing like when those tour together
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Speaker 1: and they both give up those types of performances for
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Speaker 1: a track next Stup Mob Deep Mob Deep compliments each
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Speaker 1: other because it's not Prodigy the rapper and having the producer. No,
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Speaker 1: it was their voices, their cadence. Sometimes when they're saying
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Speaker 1: the hooks together, you know what I'm saying, like it's
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Speaker 1: the music they made together. Now, has Prodigy done some
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Speaker 1: dope stuff with his solo work and with Alchemists on
23:57
Speaker 1: the boards, Yes, but guess what had havoc? And if
24:01
Speaker 1: you don't know, Exhibit A is an album called Silent Partner,
24:06
Speaker 1: This Havoc solo. Go listen to that. It's not whack
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Speaker 1: at all, but again it's not mob deep. It's nothing
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Speaker 1: like hear and have and pe together on the track.
24:22
Speaker 1: And again, if you don't know their history, just go
24:25
Speaker 1: don't just listen to shiop ones. Don't just listen to
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Speaker 1: Quiet Storm Remix. Go listen to the albums. Listen to
24:31
Speaker 1: what they did together Survival of the Fittests. Like they
24:35
Speaker 1: compliment each other in a way. To me, that's elite status.
24:41
Speaker 1: Smith and Wesson. Now I'm adding Smith and Wesson here
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Speaker 1: because when you talk about complimenting one each other one another,
24:50
Speaker 1: whether it's one dude's voice sounds good with another dude's voice,
24:55
Speaker 1: and what they rap about sounds good together. And you
24:58
Speaker 1: know they beat selection and all that. But also with
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Speaker 1: Smith and Wesson, they're really dope with the back and forth, right,
25:05
Speaker 1: the routines, right, but more from a gutta you know,
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Speaker 1: boot camp Plex standpoint right. They sound dope together when
25:14
Speaker 1: they do that, especially with the back and forth, and
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Speaker 1: a part of me feels like, not only based off
25:23
Speaker 1: of their debut, The Shining being a perfect example of
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Speaker 1: a lot of things I'm talking about when it comes
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Speaker 1: to them as a group, but also the simple fact
25:35
Speaker 1: that I just did a Smith and Wesson tearless and
25:39
Speaker 1: if you don't know, you know, maybe you didn't hear it,
25:42
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't watch the video. But going back through
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Speaker 1: their catalog, I realized that they have more good work
25:52
Speaker 1: than bad work. Some will lead you to believe that
25:57
Speaker 1: they don't really have anything good beyond the sho Shining.
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Speaker 1: It's not true now maybe it's not again and I
26:04
Speaker 1: said this in the video, but maybe their later works
26:08
Speaker 1: doesn't give you the same vibe as the Shining, which
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Speaker 1: I was guilty of. Also, like if it didn't sound
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Speaker 1: like that, it wasn't Smith and Wesson. To me, it
26:19
Speaker 1: just was two other rappers. It's kind of like with
26:21
Speaker 1: Di's Effects once they stopped doing the eggity on their
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Speaker 1: second album. To me, they were just other rappers, you
26:30
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it's one of those things
26:34
Speaker 1: where you kind of look at it and you gotta
26:37
Speaker 1: like check that bias at the door of again, they're
26:42
Speaker 1: not gonna make the Shining one, two, three, four, five, six,
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Speaker 1: seven eight, because we wouldn't even want that. We gotta
26:48
Speaker 1: look at it, like what do they have now? And
26:50
Speaker 1: when I went back and listened to their music, including
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Speaker 1: their latest album, Infinity, there's a lot of that Smith
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Speaker 1: and Wesson routine and I talked about that's still there
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Speaker 1: and they just compliment each other because they bond is real.
27:06
Speaker 1: So there you have it. That's what four, one, two, three, four, Okay,
27:10
Speaker 1: four and five And again there's duos that I'm leaving
27:15
Speaker 1: out because I'm only doing five. But I just want
27:18
Speaker 1: to mention these the clips, two brothers, two different but
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Speaker 1: almost similar voices. Right, some of us thought they was
27:29
Speaker 1: twins when we first saw the video. We had to squint,
27:31
Speaker 1: like are they twins? And how their ROMs complimented each other. Again,
27:36
Speaker 1: you can go back and look at their work from
27:39
Speaker 1: I think they had three albums total and they have
27:44
Speaker 1: a one on the way. There's something about them lyrically
27:49
Speaker 1: complimenting each other when they rap, but they still sustain
27:55
Speaker 1: their individual individuality, right, but they're in the visual personalities,
28:02
Speaker 1: so it never found. It never sounds like you're hearing
28:05
Speaker 1: the same thing over and you got a preference, right
28:08
Speaker 1: like when it was the clips, No malt or Matless,
28:13
Speaker 1: I should say at the time was my favorite out
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Speaker 1: the group, but pushr T was just as dope and
28:21
Speaker 1: as much as we like push your te solo and
28:24
Speaker 1: we can keep going with new albums from him in
28:26
Speaker 1: that regard, a CLIPS album is what we want because
28:31
Speaker 1: there's something there with that connection with his brother lyrically
28:35
Speaker 1: as MC's and hip hop fans, that you're just not
28:39
Speaker 1: gonna get from solo projects from those two individually. So
28:44
Speaker 1: there you have it. That's my five elite duos in
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Speaker 1: hip hop history? What are some of yours? Are they
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Speaker 1: the same as mine? Are you including people who I
28:55
Speaker 1: purposely left out? You know some of my favorites, so
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