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Slept On Albums from the 90s · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 2: All right? Cool. So what we're getting into now is
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  Speaker 2: a series that I was going to do a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago because in the 1990s, I've purchased plenty of
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  Speaker 2: albums over time. I started getting my own little money
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  Speaker 2: and buying cassettes back in like, I think like 92
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  Speaker 2: is when like my collection started. Prior to that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was getting dubs of albums from, you know, family
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But around 92, 91 is when
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  Speaker 2: I was able to like, probably 92 more than anything,
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  Speaker 2: when I would start to like buy cassettes, buy my
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  Speaker 2: own music, a lot of which I still have. And
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  Speaker 2: then obviously CDs, vinyl here and there, vinyl more recently.
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  Speaker 2: But social media and hip hop heads on different social
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  Speaker 2: media platforms love to talk about the 90s. Right. And
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  Speaker 2: what I found was at some point there were a
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  Speaker 2: couple of albums that I know young me from back
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  Speaker 2: then would have enjoyed, but I missed them for one
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  Speaker 2: reason or another. So what we're going to do is
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  Speaker 2: talk about five hip hop albums that I slept on.
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  Speaker 2: And I say slept because even though I couldn't buy everything,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? Even if I wanted it,
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  Speaker 2: there were some albums that I was willing to forego
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  Speaker 2: for others because I was like, well, this and that,
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  Speaker 2: you know? So you'll hear my reasons why I didn't
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  Speaker 2: get some of these albums. But in hindsight, and especially
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  Speaker 2: during the digital age, being able to really sit with
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  Speaker 2: these albums and check them out after hearing maybe people
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  Speaker 2: talk about them like, yo, this was ill, that was ill.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my five. So let's get right into the business.
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  Speaker 2: First one up out of 1997, very busy year in
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  Speaker 2: hip hop, Artifacts, second sophomore album, That's Them. Now their debut,
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  Speaker 2: let me just go back real quick on here. Their
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  Speaker 2: debut from 1994, so three years past was Between a
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  Speaker 2: Rock and a Hard Place. This is an album that
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  Speaker 2: I had. I loved to death back then. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of those, if you're younger, you know, this is
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  Speaker 2: one of those albums when people talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how grimy and lyrical and stylish and all those good
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  Speaker 2: things that the mid, probably more so the mid-90s were.
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  Speaker 2: that's not Illmatic, that's not Gangstar, that's not Black Moon Wu-Tang.
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  Speaker 2: There were others who also contributed and that was the Artifacts.
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  Speaker 2: So I love this album and I had it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on cassette. But by the time, in 94, I was
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  Speaker 2: still in high school and I was really limited to cassettes.
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  Speaker 2: So by the time you reach 1997, I'm in college, right?
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  Speaker 2: Two years in college. And there's just other things on
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  Speaker 2: my mind. And this is an album that, that I
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  Speaker 2: completely slept on because I remember hearing a couple of
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  Speaker 2: people talk about this. It came out in January of 97,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of people talking about this album. And I
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  Speaker 2: just kind of felt, well, for me, the time had
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  Speaker 2: passed since the days of me loving like wrong side
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  Speaker 2: of the tracks. What I love so much about like
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  Speaker 2: that song, wrong side of the tracks off the debut
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  Speaker 2: album was like, wow, these rappers, they rapping about writing,
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  Speaker 2: which is graffiti, you know, similar to Nas' song on
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  Speaker 2: the Nas and DJ Premier album of the song Writers. Like,
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  Speaker 2: the thing I love about that song is what I
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  Speaker 2: loved about the artifacts, right? It was kind of like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: the subject matter is about the writers. But I kind
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  Speaker 2: of felt like that time had passed, and when this
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  Speaker 2: album dropped, I just wasn't really interested. And then over time,
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  Speaker 2: I kept hearing Artifacts and 31 Bum Rush, right? And
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, that's the Artifacts album? Like the
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  Speaker 2: second one? The one I would look at that cover
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  Speaker 2: a million times and never purchase knowing I loved the
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  Speaker 2: first album? So this for me in 1997, That's Them
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  Speaker 2: was definitely a slept on album because hearing it now,
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  Speaker 2: I love it and I would have loved it even
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  Speaker 2: more back then in time. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: I would have loved it. I know it. Just listening
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  Speaker 2: to it, I'm like, I would have loved this album.
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  Speaker 2: So I missed out. Next, Master Ace Incorporated, Sitting on Chrome.
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  Speaker 2: This dropped, definitely didn't drop in 2012. Let's get the
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  Speaker 2: original because this is the deluxe. Here's the original here.
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  Speaker 2: The original dropped in 95. 95. Well, let's see what
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  Speaker 2: month that was. That was January. Well, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: This dropped the same day as the Artifacts album. Crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true? If so, that's crazy. But it was
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  Speaker 2: an album that I was transitioning. Well, not yet, but
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  Speaker 2: I was getting ready to transition from high school to college.
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  Speaker 2: So it's 95, final half of the school year before
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  Speaker 2: I graduate. There's a lot of feelings at the time.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember seeing the video. Actually, I bought the
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  Speaker 2: single to INC Ride when it came out because I
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  Speaker 2: liked the song a lot. I was like, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of like this. But there was something about Master
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  Speaker 2: Ace Incorporated that I was feeling like I might not like,
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  Speaker 2: even though they had an album before that called Slaughterhouse,
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  Speaker 2: and I slept on that one also. But this one
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  Speaker 2: should have been right down my alley because it tells
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  Speaker 2: the story of Master Ace being from Brooklyn, having his
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  Speaker 2: cousin from the West Coast come through, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the beats are inspired by West Coast sounds. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you've been watching this podcast for a while, And no,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as far as how I felt about early
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  Speaker 2: 90s West Coast hip hop, I loved it to death.
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  Speaker 2: But I wasn't really in the mood to hear like
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  Speaker 2: East Coast rapping over West Coast if it wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: EPMD sound. Right. But EPMD kind of came out with
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  Speaker 2: that sound. Whereas in, you know, early 90s, I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to hear West Coast accents. about West Coast blocks. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to hear somebody from Brooklyn say Compton. Like
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to hear them talk. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: was part of the reason why I was just like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I like INC Ride and that's why I bought the single,
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  Speaker 2: but I just didn't feel like I was interested enough
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  Speaker 2: to buy the album. Well, I made a big mistake, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Because now I listen to it a couple of times, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: since it's dropped. bought it a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, I missed out. This album is
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  Speaker 2: everything I would have liked back in 1995, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been another album I could put in
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  Speaker 2: my little cassette deck. Or I think I had a
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  Speaker 2: CD player, like a Walkman at that time. It would
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  Speaker 2: have been another one of those albums I could have
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  Speaker 2: rocked to You know, and just been in my zone
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  Speaker 2: while I'm, you know, on transit to work or to
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  Speaker 2: school and stuff like that. So definitely missed out on
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  Speaker 2: this one. Also, if you're watching this, give me five
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  Speaker 2: of your albums you believe you kind of slept on
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  Speaker 2: from the 90s and you had to go back and listen.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Next. All right. Next up. Yes. Souls of Mischief, 1993.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, 93 till infinity. As much as I love
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  Speaker 2: the song and the video and couldn't get enough of
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  Speaker 2: the song, that was all I listened to back then.
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  Speaker 2: In 93, I had to make choices. You know, this
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  Speaker 2: released in February of 1993, a day before Valentine's Day,
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  Speaker 2: February 13th. And back then, I just didn't go listen.
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  Speaker 2: And I think there's probably a pattern here with some
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  Speaker 2: of these albums also where not only sometimes it came
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  Speaker 2: down to choices and how much money I had and
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  Speaker 2: what I was willing to pay for, but the Source
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  Speaker 2: magazine had a huge influence on what I would go
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  Speaker 2: get also, right? Like if they would give an album
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  Speaker 2: of artists I never heard of, And they gave him
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  Speaker 2: like four mics. And, you know, maybe the review was
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  Speaker 2: like really good and detailed and it sounded like something
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  Speaker 2: I would like. And, you know, maybe I heard a single.
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  Speaker 2: I would go get it. But it's weird with Souls
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  Speaker 2: of Mischief. I love 93 Till Infinity, but I was
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  Speaker 2: never compelled to go get the album. So big shout
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  Speaker 2: out to the a couple of people online who, who
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  Speaker 2: told me like, yo, go back. I think you should
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  Speaker 2: go back and check it out. I think you will
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  Speaker 2: like it. And I was blown away by how dope
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  Speaker 2: it was. And you know how, uh, a group or
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  Speaker 2: artists could have a song that's really good, like 93
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  Speaker 2: till infinity. And you feel like, yeah, but is that
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  Speaker 2: the only thing I like? Like, I may not even
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  Speaker 2: like him on anything else, but that type of record. Nah, man,
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  Speaker 2: I was sleeping. Okay. I was snoozing. Okay. Because when
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  Speaker 2: I went back and listen, the bars, the beats, especially
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  Speaker 2: the bars, like you get some of that in that, uh,
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  Speaker 2: title track, but it's a lot on the, uh, album.
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  Speaker 2: Spitters from the West coast, basically. And, um, What's crazy
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  Speaker 2: is like, when you read this description, when Souls of
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  Speaker 2: Mischief's still teens named their debut 93 Till Affinity, did
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  Speaker 2: they somehow know they were about to enter the canon
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  Speaker 2: of underground rap? Or that these gymnastically rhymed, groove-infused, witty,
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  Speaker 2: and endlessly cool songs, especially with the titular one, we
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  Speaker 2: know what that one is, would go on to inspire
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  Speaker 2: an LP Outcast's first a film. Oh, wow. Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know that, but we're not going to read all that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's gone too far. But you see what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: if I read that paragraph when this was out, I
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  Speaker 2: would have got the album. I just, it just, at
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  Speaker 2: that time, man, if I had money like that, I
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  Speaker 2: probably would have had all these albums. But I really
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  Speaker 2: slept on this one. And again, when I went back,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, I went back maybe five years ago,
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  Speaker 2: something like that. Or maybe it's 10. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe it was okay it wasn't 5. It might
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  Speaker 2: be closer to 10 years ago when I went back
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  Speaker 2: and listened. I'm assuming. But yeah, it's an album again.
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  Speaker 2: 1993 in the headphones. I would have really enjoyed this.
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  Speaker 2: I think I was more so in my boot camp
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  Speaker 2: bag around then. So I was so thirsty for anything
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  Speaker 2: coming out the boot camp. Click and The Woo was
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  Speaker 2: going to be out because, again, I know The Woo
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  Speaker 2: dropped in the fall of 93. But I had heard
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  Speaker 2: a couple of Woo songs, not just Protect Your Neck
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  Speaker 2: and Method, man. I had heard a demo version of Cream.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a demo version. I had heard
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  Speaker 2: some tracks already, Can It Be? So I was kind
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  Speaker 2: of laser focused on, well, whoever that is, when they
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  Speaker 2: come out, that's the one I want. So let's get
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  Speaker 2: into the next one. Next. Royal Flush, Ghetto Millionaire. This
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  Speaker 2: is another one of those albums where I heard the
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  Speaker 2: song Ice Down Medallions with Noriega on a Clue mixtape,
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  Speaker 2: and I really liked it a lot, but I never
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  Speaker 2: felt compelled to get the album because I was like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, well, this dude's new, and he sounds cool,
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  Speaker 2: but What's really special about him? And is it the
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  Speaker 2: beat in Nori that I like? And this is 1997.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much out right now. So many dope artists,
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  Speaker 2: so many dope new artists who are like some true
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  Speaker 2: spitters at the time. I'm not looking at anything that's
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  Speaker 2: not grabbing my attention. You know what I'm saying? And
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  Speaker 2: Royal Flush was just like a cool song on a mixtape.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how I felt. And probably a few years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yo, let me, I always hear cats say, yo,
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  Speaker 2: Royal flush ghetto millionaire was crazy. And sometimes this is
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  Speaker 2: the thing. Sometimes when I hear people say that, especially online,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, you know, either it's something they like that
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't like, or they're nostalgic for an album that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really that big or even that good. Like Big
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  Speaker 2: L's debut. Right. I think, Big L's debut is looked
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  Speaker 2: at being better than it was back when it released.
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  Speaker 2: Because he passed, because of the freestyles, because he's this
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  Speaker 2: unsung story where he never really got a chance to
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  Speaker 2: really cash in on his potential. So sometimes people invest
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  Speaker 2: more with that. But back when somebody like Big L
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  Speaker 2: was out and that debut came out, we knew he
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  Speaker 2: was nice. But for the most part, that album was
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  Speaker 2: a disappointment you know what i mean so like with
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  Speaker 2: royal flush who does not have the kind of bars
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  Speaker 2: that big l has does not have the kind of
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  Speaker 2: momentum he's just coming out of queens and he got
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  Speaker 2: the nori single and nori's hot at the time with
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  Speaker 2: it with his debut being hot it's classic to me
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  Speaker 2: i'm sorry n-o-r-e that's this is classic okay uh went
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  Speaker 2: back and listened to this and i was like yo
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  Speaker 2: i slept I did not know Royal Flush was this
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  Speaker 2: good of a rapper, right? I just didn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I felt like there were a bunch of different versions
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  Speaker 2: of a guy like him already out, especially from Queens.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, man, I'm already got Prodigy, Capone, Noriega, Nas. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, man. Mike Geronimo. Like, I don't need any more.
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  Speaker 2: I was sleeping, okay? Yeah. Because when I listened to it,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, man, this is dope. This is 1997
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  Speaker 2: hip hop, especially from New York, especially from Queens. Salute
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  Speaker 2: to Royal Flush, man. I slept on this. And lastly,
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  Speaker 2: now this album, Still I Rise, Tupac and the Outlaws,
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  Speaker 2: released in 1999 for those keeping score. This is about
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  Speaker 2: three years after Tupac has already died. When Tupac died,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: if you wasn't outside for this, when Tupac died and
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the Machiavelli album came out, which was official death row,
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  Speaker 2: there was like a hundred Tupac mixtapes with all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of songs that basically, I guess, leaked when Pac passed.
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  Speaker 2: And in a lot of ways, it was exhausting to me.
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  Speaker 2: I just kept feeling like, well, I'll wait for Death
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  Speaker 2: Row to like put together something meaningful instead of going
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  Speaker 2: through all these songs that maybe Tupac didn't even want
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  Speaker 2: us to hear half of them. So typically I would
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: turn a blind eye to Tupac releases and especially once
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  Speaker 2: they became fishy because this project wasn't released on Death Row.
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  Speaker 2: It was coming out of Tupac's estate But I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that at the time. I just was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: here's another one. And I just ignored it. Several years passed.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to say about 20. About 20 years
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  Speaker 2: passed since 1999 when I finally listened to it. Shout
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  Speaker 2: out to my homie who was like, yo, you should
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  Speaker 2: check that one out. And you know what? Let me
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: tell you a quick story. This is how you know
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  Speaker 2: I'm a music fan. I'm a hip hop head. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not just about what's new or only what's old.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I have a lot of Tupac in
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  Speaker 2: my collection, but I don't have everything. I kind of
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  Speaker 2: have the things I like, right? Which is limited to
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  Speaker 2: like Me Against the World album or Eyes on Me
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  Speaker 2: and Machiavelli and then like his greatest hits. I also
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  Speaker 2: had the, what's the other one with the black cover?
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. Well, hold up. Let's just look so
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  Speaker 2: I can just show you in real time. Why don't
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: we do that? Right. Just show just show in real
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: time because I want to call it something else. It isn't.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a posthumous album. Like you see all
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  Speaker 2: these albums like I used to look at those like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't listen to none of that. Are you still down?
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  Speaker 2: That was. one that I was like, I tried. And
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  Speaker 2: I love songs like Hellraiser and Thug Style. And I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto, right? What else is
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  Speaker 2: on here? Definition of a Thug Nigga, that was on
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  Speaker 2: Poetic Justice. when I get free, I kind of like
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  Speaker 2: that joy. Do for love, I love. Right? So I
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  Speaker 2: kind of skipped around, but as a whole, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: really like it. And I also didn't like the fact
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  Speaker 2: that for one, you know, Tupac and Biggie were both dead,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't like posthumous, let's put something together and
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  Speaker 2: say new album from this person. Because it always felt like, damn,
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  Speaker 2: if they were here, would this be what Would this
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  Speaker 2: be an album they would want us to hear? So
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  Speaker 2: I kind of felt that way about Still I Rise,
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  Speaker 2: and I was never really a fan of the Outlaws
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  Speaker 2: at all. At all. Until I heard this. I heard
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  Speaker 2: Still I Rise, and I was like, wow, this is
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  Speaker 2: a true Tupac and Outlaws. The album cover's dope, for one,
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  Speaker 2: but this was a true group album. Not Tupac and
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  Speaker 2: the Mother Niggas, right? Tupac and the Outlaws, a group album.
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  Speaker 2: They are the Outlaws. And when I listened to it,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, man, I don't hear enough about this
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  Speaker 2: when people are talking about Tupac albums that they love.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I wasn't the only one that skipped it. Now,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I know why I skipped but I just didn't hear
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: enough about it. Like some of those other albums, people like,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: you know, I know Eminem produced one, but they were
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: the posthumous joints, right? Where it's like, oh, Eminem's on
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the track with Tupac. I don't want to hear that.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I'm an Eminem fan and I don't, Tupac and, no, no,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Tupac and Eminem, I don't want to hear together. Tupac,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, Eminem and Busta, yes, right? But Tupac and Eminem, nah.
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  Speaker 2: But this album felt so authentic and, And I believe
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  Speaker 2: this was an album that was supposed to be released.
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  Speaker 2: I forget the story behind it, but didn't come out.
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  Speaker 2: So it was like a true album that Tupac and
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the Outlaws worked on together. And it sounds like it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: And it's very dope. And if you're wondering, well, which
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Tupac we talking about? Well, it's not really Death Row Tupac.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like Tupac right in the middle between
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Me Against the World and All Eyes on Me. So
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: he's kind of like a little bit of both. And
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: it works. And I like this a lot. I listen
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: to it quite frequently. Sometimes when I'm in the mood
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: to listen to some Pac that maybe I don't know
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the lyrics or anticipate the songs. And I kind of
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: just want to check out something. It felt new for
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: me at the time. So there you have it. A
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: lot of late 90s, mid 90s albums, please in the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: comment section, let me know five albums you slept on.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: And it could be from different eras, five albums from
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the 90s or from the 80s, hip hop, keep it
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: hip hop, or the 2000s, 2010s, whatever it may be,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: it's interesting to have the conversation. And let me just
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: say this, one of the reasons why these albums I
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: talked about, I would consider albums I slept on just
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: has a lot to do with hip hop in general
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: right and the the era is changing for the most
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: part right like those early 90s albums I was the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: source magazine and my little $ 10 and go get the
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: tape I know everything about the album time to listen
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: but as you go to the those mid to late 90s,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: and I'm in college, some of these things I'm seeing
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: advertisement for, like Still I Rise, and I'm just not
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: going to get it because I'm kind of like, you know,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: formulating my opinion based off of things I know that's
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: happening at the time that may not all be true
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: for the product, right? So in a lot of ways,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: it's just to say, if you have even a small
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: interest in in an album or an artist, especially today,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: especially if you have a streaming service and a lot of,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: a lot of, some of them offer free tiers, I
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: think is worth checking them out, even on some snippet
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: things or, you know, previews or with ads, because if
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: you really truly love music and love hip hop and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: more than anything, love discovering new music to listen to,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but that brings me joy. OK,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: so I love the fact that even though I slept
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: on these five albums going back and listening, I felt
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: like I was stumbling across new music that I needed
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: to add to my library because I liked it a lot.
• 25:10
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• 25:38
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