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Jay-Z pt 2 · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

• 0:32
  It's deprogram the podcast where we try to get you into an artist
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  and we've already tried the first time, we're going to try
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  again because there was even more albums for us to cover.
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  Its Jay-Z Part 2 and Rudy you reach out to me a couple weeks
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  ago and I believe your words were something to the tune of
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  the streets. Need hip hop, the streets need
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  Jay-Z Part 2 so that put it in motion.
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  Rudy, why are we here? Why is Jay-Z in two parts?
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  This is he. Yeah, and that is correct.
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  I think I said the streets. Need a part two of this.
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  You know me there's something something.
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  It was calling out to me about about this s JZ.
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  I cast out. Yeah, not me know, you know, you
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  know obviously Jay-Z has a very vast discography dating back to
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  96 and and there's just a lot of music and I think one episode
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  couldn't contain the, all the greatness that is Izzy.
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  So so at the split up a little bit.
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  Yeah, so Ronald, you know, anything that you would like to
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  add about the second half of Jay-Z's discography because we
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  cut off at Black Album. So we're starting at Black
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  Album, anything that you want to say about why we would do two
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  parts, it just make a comment that if you didn't listen to Jay
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  Z from our part, one of this, then you're a and murdered and
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  B, you're probably never going to listen to Jay Z.
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  True. That is true.
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  I will also say that this is probably one of the last two
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  partners that will do. I don't think I've actually
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  officially put that into the air but I'm trying not to do.
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  I know there's artists that are going to have a lot of music but
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  we're trying to not do two-parters but I felt like
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  since we did a part one we have to do the part 2 for Jay-Z
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  because there's a lot of important stuff here with a lot
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  of his like, biggest biggest hits.
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  Come on this back half that were covering here and so when it
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  when it comes down to it, I hear actually I want to scroll down
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  and give an exact number because we split the we split it.
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  Almost exactly in half and this will tell you what's up, 97
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  songs in the back half of his catalog and that doesn't even
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  include any of, you know, like whatever features he's doing.
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  I mean, it does include Watch the Throne.
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  But it doesn't include any of like the side Ventures.
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  This is just straight Jay-Z records. 97 more tracks that
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  were covering here so Rudy as you're going through those 97
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  tracks. What are you looking forward to
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  to put together for your 24? This I have a few things in
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  mind, like I feel like there's some, some songs, some jazzy
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  songs that are just gets too important for the culture,
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  right? And also just commercially, I
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  guess like it's commercially recognizable.
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  Like is it the Big Jay Z song that it just?
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  You can't leave it out of the conversation but at the same
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  time to I have some personal favorites, a lot to me.
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  That's kind of weighing all those different things to come
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  up with just like a good concise, you know, Jay Z 20, but
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  very difficult. Obviously, there's just so much
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  to go around so much to come through and Ronald know what it,
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  what was your? How did you put it together?
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  How did you come up with your 20?
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  I'm actually piggyback off of what Rudy said said that it's
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  very difficult to come up with this one.
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  I thought was going to be easy as like oh man Wilson these out.
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  I'm style sometimes and well, first off, I realized that, you
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  know, 444 and holy grail. I didn't really listen to as
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  much as I thought and at the risk of sounding like a culture,
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  vulture damn you Dame Dash, you know.
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  I mean Rudy's, completely correct.
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  Like Jay-Z is vital to the hip-hop culture and when he's
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  not making music you can tell that there's a huge void in
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  there that other artists. Try to fill out but they just
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  can't do it. Yeah.
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  And so before we move into like you know the actually I guess
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  I'll let me let me talk about how I put my list together.
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  As you can tell the integer energy.
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  Because not kicked in I'm a little sluggish my apologies of
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  the Wings yet. I don't have the wings but I
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  will get there. So as I'm putting to giving my
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  list like Again difficult just the massive music in and of
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  itself. Like there's there's not a ton
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  of stuff that you just kind of go and nah.
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  Nah, nah, I don't need that and then and then you start trying
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  to figure out. Okay.
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  Well, what do I what do I want to bring and there's Is a good
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  number of albums? So like I do want to represent
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  each of the album's, you know, at least one song each from each
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  of them. So you're figuring that out.
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  And then once you realize okay, I've got all these covered and
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  then it's like you're here you're dropping bangers.
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  You're leaving bangers off your list.
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  So can I I have a point to make to that.
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  I feel like I feel like watch the throws a cheat code and as
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  such Sica. I personally looked and I judged
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  songs from that album a lot more harsh than I did any other
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  album. And that's simply because to me,
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  you know, it takes two of the best to ever do it and it puts
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  them together and you know, when you're trying to make Cuts
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  you're like man, how do I how do I balance The Black Album?
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  Or you know, Blue Point print three with like Kanye and J and
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  like Beyonce's Unlike what 90% of those tracks as well.
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  It's not fair and, you know, at one point I wish I'd brought up
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  the point of like maybe we should drop this because that's
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  not, it's not fair to the rest but you know I think so.
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  Here's what I found with Watch the Throne, I did the same thing
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  Ronald just so you know I was harsh with rock.
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  Watch the Throne because because it's two greats like that is too
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  big time dudes doing it at their best.
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  Just on the same record. So I still kept a few things
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  here, but like, going through the second time, those were the
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  first ones. I looked to drop.
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  I was like, looking for any excuse to get it off.
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  I'm like, okay, this does doesn't do this, this doesn't do
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  this, it's gone gone gone. I found a cut like a couple
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  methyl or more specifically a message song, no spoilers.
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  And I was like, okay, I'm going to keep that.
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  Yeah. But then like again like I kind
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  of wanted to shift the focus to Jay-Z what he does and he
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  already put Kanye on like he's not putting Connie and Connie is
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  already on its own like yeah I and I mean I agree with you
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  guys. I did the same thing too and I
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  had to kind of really be harsh. I you know to that point like I
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  think they're some level I'm I'm a little Like my list.
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  I'm a little disappointed because I did have to leave off
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  quite a few songs that like, you know, you would think have to be
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  in the conversation, I limited, the number of tracks, I took off
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  of Watch the Throne and a few other albums for that reason.
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  So the little so this this could go any number of ways.
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  This could go beautifully. This could go.
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  Yo, we're all going to agree or this could go.
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  We're all we all found our favorite record and we're all
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  kind of clinging to that. So to that point, Rudy based on
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  the conversation, we've just had, how many do you think we're
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  going to get through unanimously?
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  okay, well I'm gonna say Eight or nine.
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  Wow, it's actually. Yeah, that does seem like oh
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  wait, that's this out of 10. Okay, wait now yeah yeah I'll
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  say like 44. Yeah yeah
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  yeah. Especially considering what you
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  guys just said about watch. And I think we'll get 26.
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  Okay. My inclination is to split the
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  difference but I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to go
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  one lower for the final say here I'm going to go 3.
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  If that feels low 44 seems like the right number to me because I
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  feel like we might all have kind of different stuff from all the
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  different records so we could we could be all over the place
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  here. All right, so one of us will
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  have the final say and we are going to take a quick break and
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  when we come back we're going to get in to some gameplay.
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  And with that, the name of the game is deprogram, the three of
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  us have come through the back. End of jacey's catalog, starting
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  at The Black Album, going through 444 and have come picked
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  out, 20 songs that we are now going to match together in an
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  attempt to create a top 10 starter kit for you in case,
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  you've never given Hove the time of day, which what's wrong with
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  you, go back to listen to part 1, listen to that, listen to
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  those songs, and then come back, listen to this, listen to these
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  songs, and we're gonna go from there.
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  I don't know that this was my favorite one.
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  I'm always a sucker. Okay, so the very first track is
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  interlude and that's, you know, that's one thing.
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  But the very next track is, basically, the story of Shawn
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  Carter. And it's, like, laying the
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  groundwork from, for what we're about to do.
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  And really, when you really think about the back half of his
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  catalog, him becoming a mogul. You gotta know who, Sean, Carter
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  is December 4th. Mmm.
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  Oh yeah, I got that one. I have that one as well.
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  I love the song. This is one of my all-time
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  favorite. Make sure it's on my phone,
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  actually. I love the touch of having his
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  mom in there, too. I thought that was so brilliant
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  with the the nice. The stories about him being born
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  about him as yeah, as a kid. But like we can't, we can't do
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  part 2 without saying, by the way, this is Sean Carter.
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  And this is how he came into the world.
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  Yeah, I just think that is a if if he just had the back half of
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  Of his catalog. And this is the introduction to
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  just him just in general, not even just the back half of his
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  catalog. You like, oh shit, yeah word.
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  Yeah, that's not even getting into like the beat.
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  I love the beat. All right, Rudy says so.
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  Damn good. Yeah, you know, I said it a lot
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  last time. He's just smooth man, and I
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  believe it's even in December 4th.
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  We're like, because wasn't the knock on him?
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  Like he's just stealing Biggs lines.
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  Yeah, it does not think it's so much of that.
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  Okay. You know, I'm not going to give
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  that away, but I think the line here and in this, I think it's
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  in December 4th of, it's not, it's It's coming up, eventually
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  he goes, if you think I'm stealing big lines is to.
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  I'm just beating up my brother like, yeah, you know, like it's
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  not that. It's just, that's my man.
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  And I never understood that to. Like, I never understood people,
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  you know, like, when not said, or how much would be these
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  Rhymes gonna come out your fat lips, or whatever.
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  I like, I always looked at it, as him in kind of showing love
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  and and and referencing like it's always been that way, you
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  know me like no one we all know Biggs line.
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  Yeah. So when he references It's a oh,
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  yeah, that's not too big that means.
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  I'll get it. Yeah.
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  All right. I don't see that as a criticism,
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  like, I never understood that, but people do will say it.
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  Yeah. It's just, it's always just kind
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  of like a fun, like, hip-hop Easter egg thing when someone
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  else, when someone references like a classic hip-hop line or
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  whatever. Yeah, these Rudy.
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  Um, all right. So I don't want to pull out the
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  big guns yet so I'm gonna do one where I don't know.
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  I don't know if we're all going to be on the same page of this
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  but I picked part 2 on the Run Beyonce.
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  I don't have that. Actually, I do have that.
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  That is on. Yeah, that is Unholy Grail.
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  Oh yeah. Here you go.
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  Let me put this in alphabetical order.
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  There we go. I have no problems with the
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  Beyonce songs but I don't know how many I have.
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  So just to for spoilers. alright, Ronald All right, I'm
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  going to go back to what you were talking about and that line
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  that you quoted is actually from my pic, which is what more can I
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  say, which is right after December 4th.
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  I mean like that just you know, December 4th and of that man.
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  And then you actually get into those three singles right after
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  that. And you know it just kind of
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  shows you that even on what is I don't want to call Black Album
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  like a lesser album because like that was his comeback album but
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  it goes to show you the Firepower.
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  This guy actually has. Yeah, I got what more can I say?
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  I got it. No, I don't have that one.
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  That's not a bad first round. Nothing went into the into the
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  dumpster. So that's not bad.
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  All right, let's say one thing real quick.
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  Sure. I just because we're we're
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  talking about December 4th earlier, and the you mentioned
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  Jay-Z being smooth. And, you know, I heard a quick
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  line from December 4th way said I was conceived by Gloria And
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  Agnes Reeves who made love under the sycamore tree which makes me
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  a more siga MC than my mama with Glee like how what a cool way of
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  saying you know he was saying these are my parents right?
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  Yeah it's not those so don't lie like that whole that whole song
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  just has a lot of kind of slick talk like that but I just really
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  enjoy. It is funny that he calls
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  himself Jay-Z and like it's not that far off from Jazz and while
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  he doesn't have like that dead noise, quality that That you
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  know, jazz is known for that. He does have that, that smooth
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  jazz quality to him and there's a lot of like horns in his music
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  and stuff and it is funny that he's one letter off.
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  Really from Jazz, but he's that smooth.
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  Just like Smooth Jazz, that's not.
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  Okay. Man, I was listening to these
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  and I felt good about all of them.
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  Okay, how about show me what you got?
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  No, I don't have that. And I've been online.
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  I do not have that one, either. It's bound to happen.
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  But it's such a good song. Yeah, that's a great one.
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  So now doesn't Kingdom Come. Me Cuts did have to be made and
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  that's actually made my final cut like 30 minutes ago.
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  Like some of these that you guys are going to have that, I don't
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  go to hit that removed from this playlist and your you
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  immediately want to go. No, I didn't mean it.
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  All right, Rudy All right, kind of going to jump around.
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  Let's go to 444. I got the song Bam.
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  Nope. I do not have that one either,
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  that's the Damian Marley track to.
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  Oh yeah, it's the no live in. I'm a gangsta.
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  No live in a tenement. Greetings to the is one of those
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  men on a summer day. Dude, I think here's the, here's
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  the problem with these misses and I say this a lot on the
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  program so like if this is your first time here, it's your first
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  time hearing it. If you listen to every episode
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  you're probably tired of hearing me.
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  I don't always have an answer. Some of these, I will have
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  answers for this know, I don't really just.
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  I listen to it on the wrong day. Mmm.
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  Alright. Ronald I'm trying to think where
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  I want to go. Right now.
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  I'm very well. I think this is a pretty great
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  album blueprint 3 I've Got A Star is Born.
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  Nope, I cut that one. Not a hostage.
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  Yeah here we go. It's a good one though.
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  Here we go. I gotta tell you, man, like
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  Blueprint 3 was hard for me because it wasn't my favorite.
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  But I felt like every song had a place at the table and I
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  couldn't figure out which ones I wanted to bring.
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  So this is where we have a conversation.
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  You have to look at each Blueprint, album in context of a
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  time that it was released. If you go and you look at this,
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  this blueprint three, you look at it 2009-2010, like basically
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  at the birth of Drake your J Cole's.
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  It was about a year after 808 and heartbreaks it come out and
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  like hip-hop hits started kind of to go emo.
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  Yeah. And and I feel like this album,
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  you know, he says I don't dance of auto-tune, you know, he's
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  like he's like dude I'm like 40. How am I the toughest MC out,
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  you know? Yeah and I could have made an
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  argument for each one of these songs.
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  Songs on this album saying all right this should be what you
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  listen to Because at that time this is what was you know this
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  is what the culture was. Yeah.
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  But on that out on that song in particular, if you look at every
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  artist that he talks about like you know, Drake ended up
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  becoming the monster that he is even like J Cole.
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  You know, like I feel like he's super slept on.
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  But that's kind of my piece. Yeah, yeah, no.
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  I'm definitely an agreement with that.
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  And and I think it's kind of cool that he had.
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  Like, you know, those are Jayco feature on that album.
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  Those are Drake features as a Cutty feature and, and like,
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  those are those are kind of like the leaders of the new kind of
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  wave pop at the time and stuff. But I don't know.
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  I thought it was cool that he corporated all of that and in
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  his album as well, I think to your point, Ronald it is it is
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  cool to think about He's putting these cats on on blueprint,
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  which is the blueprint. Like I mean, the man knows what
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  he's doing, man knows what he's doing.
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  All right. How about I made it?
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  Now. What album is that on?
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  I unfortunately am using my Spotify list and so I don't
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  think I have that though. It was it is I don't have that
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  one. It's American Gangster.
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  Track 8. Quickness in American Gangster,
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  that's Kingdom Come. All right, Rudy.
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  All right. Um, I will just to follow up
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  Ron's Uncle bottom, blueprint 3 and and kind of how it was kind
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  of making a statement about music at the time.
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  Let's go with DOA. That's a lot of tune.
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  Of course, it's in the combo. Because that was just it.
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  Justin, we had this talk last time.
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  God, I know man. But the thing is like he's I'm
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  telling you like there was a reason, it's a stupid reason but
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  it's a reason he's calling it death of auto-tune, but on
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  tuning dead man like he didn't really kill auto-tune like, I
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  know that wasn't the real sentiment of what he was saying.
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  But I was like, well, I gotta have a reason to cut it.
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  So to be honest with you, I think you can kind of take that.
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  I blame a lot of it only or cone and like 300 and then like, you
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  know, the crappy did with YouTube music.
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  And it's like, alright, well this is how you become rich in
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  the rap game. Use a lot of auto-tune and
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  unfortunately, where we're at and that third verse.
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  So there's this this show on BTF it that they put on you.
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  Who were basically have a rapper sit in, and they like, give them
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  lyrics and they have to guess who the artist is.
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  And who was it? It was, I think Redman didn't
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  listen there, and they gave him a couple lines from Death of
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  auto-tune and of course, he realizes recognize those jays
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  Jays for us and stuff, but I read as one of my favorite
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  rappers. He's up three for me and I, when
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  he Started reading it. He had so much Glee, his face as
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  he was reading it and stuff. And he was just talk about how
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  it's one of the greatest, you know, one of the greatest verses
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  of all time. And but I just I just
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  appreciated that, you know, that I don't know like like, you
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  know, lyrics especially the third verse is enjoyed
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  universally by other rappers to and and stuff.
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  And because of the, yeah, he definitely just spazzed on it,
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  so yeah. To that point actually.
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  I feel like this is kind of like that.
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  Now, J is the king of subliminal disses.
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  I feel like a little bit of this is him like kind of needle and
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  Kanye saying, dude, you need to go back to like your first three
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  albums because like 808 and heartbreaks its it's awesome but
• 25:58
  like one time. Yeah.
• 26:03
  You know, I think you're too much.
• 26:05
  Yeah. UT pain into me?
• 26:07
  Huh. Exactly.
• 26:08
  Yeah, that was my take was that was that was my, I honestly
• 26:13
  thought that that was the point of it until like, I actually
• 26:16
  listened to it and I was like, oh no, it's more of a general
• 26:18
  statement. But I do think.
• 26:20
  Yeah. Like there was there was a
• 26:21
  needle to yay at it. So and I believe it because you
• 26:26
  know, J's the king of these kind of subliminal, you know,
• 26:30
  subliminal this is or subliminal whatever I like that.
• 26:33
  That makes sense to be based on just, you know, how he operates
• 26:37
  and They were at odds for a minute there too weren't they
• 26:39
  like? I don't, I don't know the
• 26:41
  timeline of it but was that before or after Watch the
• 26:43
  Throne. I don't know, or Watch the
• 26:47
  Throne. But this was after Big Brother
• 26:52
  where there was kind of like a lot of like you know, Kanye this
• 26:55
  and it that Jay talking about how he's his rival.
• 26:58
  Yeah. And by that point man, you know
• 27:03
  Jay has to know like look this guy, you know?
• 27:06
  Yeah I brought him up but I mean you know where we're not like
• 27:14
  We're battling for record sales here.
• 27:16
  Yeah yeah, alright. So DOA gets the to, it still
• 27:21
  gets the hang around Ronald Europe, let's the.
• 27:27
  All right. Um, I'm actually gonna go to
• 27:32
  Watch the Throne. I'm going to say made in
• 27:33
  America. Hmm, nope, my God.
• 27:38
  No, I don't have that one either.
• 27:42
  Yeah, it's To make some hard cuts on that album.
• 27:47
  And what more can we say? Yeah, I'm in my number from
• 27:52
  earlier because man, tough crowd that first round was good.
• 28:01
  I mean, look, we're still playing well, we're just not
• 28:03
  getting anything through this. Definitely was one of my last
• 28:09
  cuts. All right, you guys want one of
• 28:15
  my Watch? The Throne Cuts if you want.
• 28:18
  One of my blueprint cuts. I'll let you decide.
• 28:25
  All right. So since I didn't, here's the
• 28:27
  one I took instead of death of auto-tune this is because I'm a
• 28:30
  New Yorker. Like even though I'm not from
• 28:32
  the city, like there is always this this pride of New York and
• 28:35
  I understand if you guys don't have it but like this I also man
• 28:42
  like bacon pancakes. Like every time I see that song
• 28:47
  I have to share it. It's Empire State of Mind.
• 28:53
  I have it. Yeah.
• 28:54
  Oh my God, I'll tell you what. So like I said in the beginning,
• 29:00
  you know, we have to kind of weigh a bunch of different
• 29:03
  things. Like like that one right there
• 29:04
  is an iconic, Jay-Z song and it was huge and and all that, but
• 29:11
  just wasn't really one of my personal favorites so I don't
• 29:15
  know. I, I was debating keeping it in,
• 29:17
  but there's again, there's just so much, too much else that's
• 29:20
  out there. Yeah.
• 29:24
  I understand our kids. My kids know this song.
• 29:27
  Yeah. Like it's before you said that
• 29:33
  Rudy, I was going to make. I was literally going to say
• 29:35
  this is this to me is the penultimate song of Hit the
• 29:38
  second half of his career. Yeah.
• 29:41
  Yeah. But I've said, I can't make that
• 29:44
  argument now. So obvious In ways that most of
• 29:54
  his songs don't like it. It lays down.
• 29:59
  And what I mean like you said your kids are fans.
• 30:01
  So like invites. It invites people in that maybe
• 30:05
  normally wouldn't have their ear tuned towards what Jay-Z does so
• 30:10
  yeah. All right Rudy.
• 30:15
  Okay let's do. Let's go to Watch the Throne.
• 30:21
  I guess that's do. As to gotta have it.
• 30:27
  I don't have that one. Yeah.
• 30:33
  Well I guess we don't gotta have it ouch.
• 30:36
  Sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I know what I'm doing next round.
• 30:42
  You guys will get my watch. All right, Ronald I'm gonna I'm
• 30:53
  gonna stay on watch Thrones I must say No Church in the Wild.
• 30:59
  Hell yes there we go. One of my well the greatest
• 31:04
  songs ever made my opinion. Dude, we think like what is a
• 31:09
  God to a non-believer? Like what beautiful?
• 31:15
  So I'll say this. This like cuz this is track one.
• 31:20
  Yeah. And so when you hear this almost
• 31:23
  the rest of the entire record is disqualified.
• 31:26
  Yeah, because this, this is like, this is this is what I
• 31:29
  need this. This is it.
• 31:31
  I mean I have one other song from the record but like this
• 31:35
  was this was both. The reason the reason it was
• 31:40
  easy to make, Watch the Throne cuts.
• 31:43
  And the reason I paid attention to Watch the Throne so it's like
• 31:47
  double edged. Yeah.
• 31:49
  And it's just just listen to this like it's not not moody but
• 31:53
  like menacing. Yeah.
• 31:56
  And it builds and builds on my God, it's the first time I heard
• 31:59
  this song went numb. I felt my soul.
• 32:01
  Leave my body for a second. It's unbelievable.
• 32:05
  She's literally has everything. Just sounds are getting work by
• 32:08
  30. What man you don't want to play
• 32:13
  Luca and the game seven fucking guy.
• 32:17
  All right No Church in the Wild is Ronald I'll guess I guess
• 32:23
  I'll stay on. Watch the Throne I'll play my
• 32:24
  other. Watch the Throne cut.
• 32:26
  Murder to Excellence. That was one of my last Cuts
• 32:43
  while it may not be one of my favorite songs on the record, I
• 32:47
  couldn't ignore the message and felt like this is going to come
• 32:50
  with me. All right.
• 32:54
  For a lot of people compare to pimp a butterfly with the Watch,
• 32:59
  the Throne, by the way, this is the quick little side, but yeah.
• 33:05
  All right, Rudy. All right, so let's do.
• 33:13
  Go back 444. Let's do Family Feud.
• 33:15
  Oh yeah, it stays alive. All right, Rudy and Ronald, and
• 33:26
  Ronald. All right, let's see.
• 33:32
  I've got killed Jay-Z. Yeah, man.
• 33:35
  Oh no, I don't have it, but yeah.
• 33:39
  I mean he said intro though. Yeah excellent intro really sets
• 33:43
  the tone for that out and yeah and I mean it.
• 33:47
  Yeah that again I've said this a lot on the show like you're
• 33:53
  getting to that last record you feel like I'm in cool.
• 33:56
  This is probably where all easy cuts come and nah and then he
• 34:01
  sets the tone with kill Jay-Z like you're just automatically
• 34:05
  on high alert from there on out you're like oh okay.
• 34:08
  There's something's happening on 444.
• 34:10
  I got to listen and it was very mad because so that means a
• 34:15
  harder Cuts. Well so, I mean like this, you
• 34:19
  know, this kind of showcases, you know, I think it was Kanye
• 34:22
  that said, like I wanted more of the the street Jay-Z not the
• 34:25
  introspective Jay-Z but there's definitely two artists in there.
• 34:29
  And I kind of find myself like like in the more introspective
• 34:32
  one more because I find it harder to relate to the street
• 34:36
  side, you know? Just because I mean I can't
• 34:38
  that's not something I really know but on stuff like this,
• 34:42
  where he's like, man like what did I do to the world?
• 34:46
  And I feel like this long, he's asking himself that I did.
• 34:48
  I leave the world a better place you know, like Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:56
  I think I think one thing I think I agree with you on that
• 35:00
  because I think certainly, you know, as I've gotten older like
• 35:06
  I definitely tap more into the warrant respective Jay-Z as
• 35:10
  well. So Jefferson JC my whole life,
• 35:12
  you know, well, I was a lot younger than him obviously.
• 35:15
  But my eye, he's always had wisdom in what he was saying.
• 35:20
  Regardless of, if he's talking like Street stuff or whatever,
• 35:23
  there's always Some kind of Timeless wasn't that he would
• 35:25
  have like Street smarts I guess but like with with like the 444
• 35:31
  era Jay-Z and just this kind of is more introspective side it.
• 35:37
  I think it's even more powerful though because you know like you
• 35:41
  know I think he looked at things a lot more like critically and I
• 35:45
  think you can as you get older and as you kind of start to
• 35:48
  question things more you can kind of relate to that I guess a
• 35:51
  little bit. Yeah but more so I definitely
• 35:53
  kind of agree. And you don't know if that's
• 35:57
  going to be it. Yeah we don't know how many more
• 36:00
  like albums Jay-Z's got it in. You know I mean I feel like for
• 36:04
  force it you know. Yeah I mean and if it is like
• 36:08
  what a fucking career. Yeah he doesn't mean he's done
• 36:12
  so much. He didn't have to do anything at
• 36:14
  the like this whole this whole thing like that we're doing
• 36:17
  today, didn't have to be done. Like people couldn't retire on
• 36:21
  the first half of his career and Because of Famers like, oh yeah,
• 36:26
  he could have stopped The Black Album.
• 36:27
  Yeah I'm easily. And that would have been it
• 36:30
  would have been fine but I mean then you miss out on all this
• 36:34
  stuff. So after are at this point in
• 36:37
  the game we have six through to the conversation, we have to
• 36:40
  unanimous, so we're still in ntp territory but there is still
• 36:44
  plenty of game to play. And I keep looking at this one,
• 36:48
  I keep skipping over it because it's a hit and I never know, I
• 36:51
  never know what the hits with y'all but Dirt Off.
• 36:54
  Your shoulder. Yeah.
• 36:57
  But yeah, I mean, yeah, there we go.
• 37:01
  Kind of have to. Yeah, that's how I felt about
• 37:06
  it. Like I kept thinking this is
• 37:07
  probably not my favorite of his his singles but also, how do I
• 37:12
  ignore it? And it's Right there.
• 37:16
  Berlin, man. Dick, ulis, have you guys seen
• 37:23
  the seen the video of the first time?
• 37:25
  He like, this is a video of like his DVD on black on like this
• 37:31
  DVD that he had made and showed a clip of England.
• 37:36
  Come into the studio, just playing beats form.
• 37:39
  And a lot of the Beats he was playing, Jay-Z was kind of guy,
• 37:41
  whatever. And then Timberland saves this
• 37:44
  Eat for last. He pulls it out, he starts
• 37:47
  playing and Jay-Z at first, he's just sitting around whatever,
• 37:50
  you know, looking in the air whatever and as soon as till it
• 37:53
  starts playing at JC just stands up and looks around like are you
• 37:56
  kidding me? Like yeah, he looks inspired and
• 38:01
  it's electable and stop playing it for a second, then he's like,
• 38:04
  oh, that's gonna leave or whatever and then he plays it
• 38:06
  again and yeah, it was magical. It's good to see.
• 38:10
  I have seen that and I watch that video.
• 38:12
  Dude. I still watch that video to this
• 38:14
  day because Like you see Timberland kind of fuck him.
• 38:17
  He's like, yeah, I got this last one but, you know, he plays like
• 38:19
  two seconds up and he turns it off.
• 38:20
  He's like, well, I guess that's it.
• 38:22
  And Jace is like a fucking serious dude.
• 38:25
  No that's the one. It's not so good Timberlands
• 38:32
  already on at this point, right? Because Black album is what 2000
• 38:36
  2001 2003 2003. Okay.
• 38:38
  So yeah Dylan's already on but like not like this is like still
• 38:44
  on the And I think right? Like he hasn't had a lie ahead
• 38:50
  Missy. Yeah.
• 38:51
  He had Magoo. Yeah, I mean Liam is see he had
• 38:58
  genuine and I think at that point he was yeah and start
• 39:02
  working with it started working with Timberlake already to I
• 39:07
  think. So my timeline as first film,
• 39:09
  wasn't I think it was that year but but also he had a pretty
• 39:13
  solid relationship with Jeff. Because they he did Big Pimpin.
• 39:16
  Mm, yep. Yeah, then in a bunch of a bunch
• 39:19
  of cuts from volume 3, I think. And so that's why OV toe that
• 39:24
  shows you my oh yeah, my timeline.
• 39:26
  But he's got a thing for, for VA.
• 39:30
  Like, he works with Pharrell and I actually, we already talked
• 39:33
  about a Neptune saw, I think, at some point, which the Braille to
• 39:37
  so. But, all right, there's just so
• 39:41
  much talent VA, though, you know, I mean, it's hard to
• 39:43
  overlook. Look, bad people.
• 39:46
  People continue to do so so true.
• 39:49
  All right, Rudy, okay. All right, let's do it.
• 39:56
  Let's do public service announcement.
• 40:00
  I'm going to reduce myself. I ain't got it.
• 40:03
  I don't have it. Don't have that.
• 40:07
  I thought for sure, I thought for sure you guys would have it,
• 40:11
  so I wouldn't need it. Oh man, this is how you play the
• 40:16
  game if some did something wrong place.
• 40:20
  You play too hard on that input Empire, State of my knowledge
• 40:27
  AZ. Let's dig it up here because
• 40:37
  that is probably part of it too. Publ, I, there we go.
• 40:47
  It's this one. It's called inner loop.
• 41:06
  Damn it. It's too.
• 41:13
  Oh my God. Which is even crazier because
• 41:17
  that makes the Black Album, like you go that in the December 4th
• 41:21
  and what more can I say in the Encore change clothes, Dirt Off
• 41:23
  Your Shoulder dude, threats dope?
• 41:27
  Yeah. II didn't realize how much I
• 41:31
  love that album until like yeah there's a whole like, you know,
• 41:39
  can I take this as a segue into mind?
• 41:41
  Yeah it's your turn. Yeah, I'm gonna say Moment of
• 41:44
  clarity. Oh no, let's track 8 on Black
• 41:54
  Album again playing the game there.
• 42:00
  I thought I thought. Wow, blackout, miss a dope
• 42:03
  album. Yeah.
• 42:04
  Oh yeah. Very very good.
• 42:08
  For the record. I both of these jams came up.
• 42:13
  When I asked listeners, what's essential for for Jay-Z Black
• 42:19
  album, on both of those came up, one of clarity and public
• 42:23
  service on him again. Yeah, interlude was less playing
• 42:28
  the game and more, so me just not putting two and two together
• 42:32
  moment. And Clarity was me playing the
• 42:34
  game for sure. Okay, let's see if we can get,
• 42:39
  you know, I don't know if I have anything to get us back on the
• 42:41
  same page, now that I'm looking at it.
• 42:46
  How about we take it back to four for four?
• 42:51
  How about Legacy? No, I was brown.
• 43:01
  Daddy, what's a will? Come on, man.
• 43:08
  What is his legacy? And I tell you, one of the
• 43:10
  reasons I fuck with this and I got this a lot on 444.
• 43:15
  I don't know, like, if Jay had a relationship with doom, but
• 43:19
  these beats remind me a lot of doing this stuff.
• 43:22
  Oh yeah, yeah, and I'm sure you did.
• 43:28
  Yeah, sure that sometimes I don't know where again my
• 43:31
  timeline is always fucked so I don't know where 444 comes out
• 43:34
  in relation to Dooms passing. But, you know, maybe doing
• 43:39
  passes and he's like, man. Now I really got to think about
• 43:42
  what the fuck is my legacy. This song specifically reminds
• 43:46
  me of doing again. That's huge as Jay-Z.
• 43:55
  All right, Rudy Okay. All right.
• 44:00
  So let's go lift off Not just through.
• 44:09
  Nope, I ended up that was one of my last cuts and it was so
• 44:17
  difficult because that, that track I was like, man.
• 44:20
  This is When you have those three artists on a track, it's
• 44:26
  got to be Perfection and I can't say that that album.
• 44:29
  Is there that track isn't perfection but I don't.
• 44:36
  Yeah. At least you have at least some
• 44:39
  sort of an answer for it. I don't, I don't remember where
• 44:42
  it fell off. It just did.
• 44:44
  Alright. Ronald Tough here.
• 44:52
  I'm gonna clear out the Black Album for me and say 99
• 44:54
  Problems. Oh yeah.
• 44:57
  Well we don't have the unanimous but at least it's still around.
• 45:00
  Like, I mean it's Rick Rubin. Yeah, I know.
• 45:03
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 45:05
  I mean again, like clearly you're not wrong, I had it.
• 45:10
  I thought for sure that was going to hit like early like I
• 45:13
  was going to easily drop that off and I'm listening to it.
• 45:15
  I'm like Now this seems like the seem like like it needs to be
• 45:19
  around and I finally came back over to it and I'm like I'm
• 45:22
  listening to it and this is one of the ones again that made me
• 45:25
  mad because I'm like I'm about to do this list and 99 problems
• 45:30
  isn't going to be one of the 20 that's not getting in like it's
• 45:34
  yeah. Like if even as you're listening
• 45:37
  to it you feel like it should be here and it's like yeah.
• 45:42
  But like I want to bring some of these other tunes and so yeah.
• 45:45
  Yeah. Definitely get that.
• 45:47
  All right, so let me look at this real quick before.
• 45:51
  Is that was 99 problems with you Ronald?
• 45:53
  Right. Yep.
• 45:55
  So we've got three unanimous, we've got seven in the
• 45:57
  conversation. Worse comes to worse.
• 45:59
  If we don't hit another thing from here on out, we have our
• 46:03
  list. So there's still plenty of
• 46:05
  gameplay. We can still find each other
• 46:07
  here. And here's another one that I
• 46:09
  just keep scooping past and I keep I look at it, I keep going
• 46:14
  past it, no hook. Nope, I don't need a hook for
• 46:25
  this. Yeah.
• 46:34
  I mean, I'm not trying to say like I thought for sure that one
• 46:36
  was in but I didn't think it was going to go into the trash.
• 46:40
  Yeah, I just love this sound.
• 46:57
  All right, really? I will stay on American
• 47:02
  Gangster. This one is Rock boys.
• 47:05
  Building tonight's okay, no. Go doesn't get the three but it
• 47:11
  gets to hang around. Yeah, Rudy and Ronald Alright,
• 47:18
  Ronald I'm gonna stick on American Gangster with a say
• 47:21
  hello? Yeah, man.
• 47:24
  No dice. Yeah.
• 47:27
  Yeah. This is what I figured was going
• 47:30
  to happen is twos. We were one person was always
• 47:35
  going to be like yeah I know. All right um where am I now?
• 47:41
  Which shoot, we're there. I'll stay on American Gangster.
• 47:46
  Pray. Yep.
• 47:50
  All right, it's got to and if I'm not mistaken, that's another
• 47:56
  Beyonce. If it is, she isn't listed and I
• 48:02
  don't, I feel like she just talks on that album possibly or
• 48:06
  on that track possibly. I think so.
• 48:11
  I think I remember that. All right, Rudy.
• 48:19
  All right. Let's do my God.
• 48:29
  What's it called? The red one, the red album you
• 48:32
  come. I don't have that one.
• 48:35
  I do not have that either. So I'm thinking Ronald gets his
• 48:43
  turn. Will go one more.
• 48:43
  Gonna dump out. All right, let's see if I can.
• 48:52
  Get us, get something here. I'm going to say from blueprint
• 49:00
  3. I'm going to say real, As It
• 49:04
  Gets No, a variety. I think.
• 49:22
  Three shit. Right here.
• 49:27
  It's up. This is hard.
• 49:41
  All right, so that's the kind of track that gets my ass kicked.
• 49:49
  All right? Um, so I don't know which one is
• 49:53
  best for me to do for my last one.
• 49:57
  Here, I'll go Magna Carta. How about Picasso Baby?
• 50:02
  And I know that. I think I might know what my
• 50:16
  final say might be. Maybe we'll see.
• 50:22
  All right, Rudy let's do. Edwards in Paris, man.
• 50:32
  I don't get it. I don't but did you say you do
• 50:35
  Ronald? I do I do.
• 50:39
  Is it okay? If I say Nigel's a yeah, it's
• 50:49
  it's one of those weird things where it's like, okay, I know I
• 50:51
  can't say it but, you know, I'm gonna stop there because, yeah,
• 50:59
  it was an interesting one, like one where they played on the
• 51:01
  radio because they view like this next song is in Paris.
• 51:07
  So side. Note too that like that's one
• 51:10
  track. I play for my kids and I'm
• 51:13
  telling them I'm like, look ya'll kid.
• 51:15
  Y'all cannot say this word and in my 4 year olds like Oh you
• 51:18
  mean motherfucker and I'm like, well yeah, don't say that one
• 51:23
  either but especially don't say this like I started telling me
• 51:28
  telling my kids, like you can say, curse words around me.
• 51:33
  Yeah, as long as you use them correctly, you can say it around
• 51:36
  me, but don't say that school because people are Weird about
• 51:39
  language this word. However, nah don't say it, don't
• 51:43
  say it just don't. All right.
• 51:47
  Ronald Damn mud. I'm trying up over here, huh.
• 51:57
  Success. I know the one with nas right?
• 52:03
  Yep that was if I had to guess like 22 23 somewhere around
• 52:11
  there. It was definitely my last ones.
• 52:19
  I don't really have a reasons like Nas felt like you know,
• 52:26
  it's kind of It's a great song. But it's also Jay and Mars, and
• 52:33
  right. Is it kind of a cop-out?
• 52:40
  Maybe. Yes.
• 52:42
  And I gotta be honest, this is what I was saying in the
• 52:44
  beginning about how kind of like the list but I'm kind of
• 52:47
  disappointed with mine, you know because there are a couple that
• 52:51
  like if I could rescind I would do no right because you know I
• 52:56
  can make a good case for The The J and Nas and Empire State.
• 53:01
  And to honestly but yeah it's you know, here's where we.
• 53:05
  I think all three of us agree with how we've kind of failed on
• 53:08
  this. Because for example success.
• 53:11
  Yes. It's a good song and yes it's on
• 53:13
  my list but like should it be on my list as compared to lift off?
• 53:21
  And it's a travesty in my opinion but it goes to show you
• 53:25
  like the grading level of Watch the Thrones versus everything
• 53:29
  else. Yeah, you know.
• 53:30
  Yeah. You know, I think I think I took
• 53:36
  that same harsh thing to success that same thing I took to watch
• 53:41
  the throne and like I said it was like 22 23.
• 53:44
  And I'm like, okay. But this is Jay and Nas and this
• 53:47
  is like essentially the reconciliation.
• 53:49
  I think there was something before this, but like they've
• 53:52
  reconciled. And so it's like this to me.
• 53:55
  This feels like a cop-out, but like, does it belong?
• 53:59
  Yeah, like So, you know, it just my reason for cutting it was
• 54:06
  because it felt like a cop-out, but it very easily could have
• 54:09
  been, you know, 17 18, 19, 20 easily.
• 54:13
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 54:14
  All right, let me see me at make sure I'm Mark that.
• 54:16
  Yeah, I think the first song they did together was on naz's
• 54:20
  album, right? I think it's called like black
• 54:21
  Republican or something. Yeah, I think you're right.
• 54:23
  Then this one here. All right, so before we get into
• 54:29
  dump out here we are exactly where we were.
• 54:31
  Last time I said it three through unanimously.
• 54:35
  There's still a chance that we hit one but we have a
• 54:38
  conversation there's 11 through to the conversation that we're
• 54:41
  going to have to end up chopping down.
• 54:42
  So just to clear out my list here and I'll start at the top.
• 54:46
  I guess I got thirty something. What we talking about?
• 54:53
  I've got that one but I don't have them.
• 54:57
  All right, reminder. Nope, somewhere in America.
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  Heaven. Nope, and last but not least
• 55:11
  four for four. No, nope.
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  What we talking about. Everything else was in the
• 55:20
  trash. All right, just do you want to
• 55:23
  go ahead and dump out whatever you got Rudy.
• 55:26
  Yeah, I lost one. I got beach chair.
• 55:34
  No, but I cut that one. Yeah.
• 55:38
  Yeah, that those okay. Uh, I got ignorant, shit.
• 55:46
  Thank you. Nope.
• 55:50
  And then my last two or Tom Ford and Lucifer I have loose firm.
• 55:58
  You okay, there you go, good. Let me go.
• 56:01
  All right. It's all and again, just for
• 56:07
  that was one that listeners brought up Lucifer.
• 56:11
  Oh yeah. All right.
• 56:12
  Ronald is a gift. Just for shits and giggles.
• 56:16
  You want to get out, whatever you got.
• 56:18
  Of only have two left. I have already home and I have
• 56:22
  the story of OJ. I wanted, I wanted to keep that
• 56:26
  one. Yeah, those are.
• 56:29
  All right. So we get 3, which means
• 56:33
  surprisingly I get the final say and I think we know where I'm
• 56:38
  going, but maybe not, maybe not, we'll see.
• 56:43
  So, all right, we got 13 that we need to trim down to seven.
• 56:48
  We've got 99 problems, DOA Empire State of Mind Family Feud
• 56:52
  kill Jay-Z Lucifer. N in Paris part 2 on the Run.
• 56:57
  Pray Rock boys and the winner is say hello.
• 57:00
  What more can I say? What we talking about?
• 57:03
  Alright, um of those Rudy is there one that you're looking at
• 57:07
  your like you know what, I should have had that?
• 57:12
  Um do you mind running through? That was one more time.
• 57:15
  Sure. That 99 Problems DOA Empire
• 57:21
  State of Mind Family Feud kill Jay-Z Lucifer.
• 57:28
  And in Paris part 2 on the Run pray Rock boys.
• 57:34
  Say hello. What more can I say?
• 57:37
  What we talking about? If there is one that I probably
• 57:42
  should have kept, I think a state of mind probably kept.
• 57:46
  Yeah. About the almost no matter.
• 57:49
  The only other one which I feel like is a is a must is that that
• 57:54
  rock boys. Once I do that I think that was
• 57:57
  one of those one on my list. So alright.
• 58:00
  Well look, I mean we have the room, I mean, unless unless
• 58:04
  Ronald thinks there's something more important to go in first, I
• 58:07
  can I can throw my support behind it.
• 58:10
  Because you guys had it, I was the way I was the odd man out.
• 58:15
  All right, I don't have a pressing argument, all right,
• 58:18
  let me rearrange this Z to A so I can look at it better.
• 58:23
  All right, Ronald, so we put we put Empire State of Mind
• 58:29
  through. We put Rock boys through, is
• 58:32
  there one that you're sitting there looking at?
• 58:34
  Like, come on, we need, we need that.
• 58:41
  Whether it be well looks like you had all of these.
• 58:46
  Yeah I don't like which ones didn't I have?
• 58:49
  I'm looking at it. You literally had all of them.
• 58:53
  You had all of these twos. So you can either say Rudy was
• 58:59
  wrong about one or I was wrong. Okay.
• 59:13
  Hold on, let me go back. Alright so our man's Cove is a
• 59:16
  motherfucker. I got you, man, 99 problems.
• 59:19
  So this is what's left 99 Problems.
• 59:21
  DOA Family Feud kill Jay-Z Lucifer in Paris part to pray.
• 59:28
  Say hello. What more can I say?
• 59:30
  What we talking about? That's the last one.
• 59:32
  What we talkin about? I'm I would make the argument
• 59:37
  that Nigel's in Paris needs to make it through.
• 59:42
  Yeah yeah just on the strength of you know you can't really
• 59:50
  hold up like the rest of the songs and say yeah this one
• 59:53
  comes close to this one like The very, very important I think in
• 1:00:01
  the in the the discography that there's there's levels, you
• 1:00:06
  know? And that's just yes it's not
• 1:00:09
  fair that it's Kanye and J but at the same time life's not
• 1:00:14
  fair. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:16
  So they did that shit. Oh yeah, you gotta let him have
• 1:00:20
  it. All right, I'm no was too, by
• 1:00:24
  the way. So now, let's take the other
• 1:00:27
  way. Rudy, if of the songs that are
• 1:00:29
  left one that you're like, it's cool that I got this far but it
• 1:00:34
  can probably go home now. Okay, I'm sorry, do do mine.
• 1:00:39
  Kind of run it through that one. Last night I made a quick want
• 1:00:44
  to make sure I have 99 Problems, DOA, Family Feud Kill Jay-Z,
• 1:00:53
  Lucifer. Part 2.
• 1:00:56
  Pray. Say hello what more can I say?
• 1:01:01
  What we talking about? Okay, who is quite a list?
• 1:01:10
  I think out of all of that. I like, what more can I say?
• 1:01:17
  But I don't know man, I don't know if it hangs with everything
• 1:01:20
  else, isn't it weird? That that's the that's the
• 1:01:24
  thing. We're thinking.
• 1:01:26
  What more can I say? What more can I say?
• 1:01:29
  Is looking like the odd man out like that, hit that hits hard,
• 1:01:36
  but does it hit hard enough? All right, let's put it on The
• 1:01:41
  Cutting Room floor. All right.
• 1:01:42
  Same question to you. Ronald something that's kind of
• 1:01:44
  sitting around, that's like yeah.
• 1:01:53
  So I can't say what more can I say, cuz I feel like that one
• 1:01:56
  should go, it's out. God.
• 1:02:01
  I mean when you when you put all that stuff up like that I gonna
• 1:02:05
  have to say we talking about. Hmm.
• 1:02:12
  Yeah. But I would say that because,
• 1:02:14
  you know, I would say DOA and 99 Problems have to stay Family
• 1:02:22
  Feud again. That that one's got to stay.
• 1:02:30
  What are my other options there? Kill Jay-Z Lucifer part to pray
• 1:02:35
  and say hello. Okay.
• 1:02:40
  So now it's now that I think about that, it's actually a
• 1:02:42
  toss-up between say hello in that.
• 1:02:49
  I would say to cut. Say, hello, actually, because I
• 1:02:51
  really like what we talked about.
• 1:02:53
  So let's lose. Say hello.
• 1:02:58
  So now basically, you guys have three more before I get my
• 1:03:04
  final, say-so it sounds from the from the sounds of it.
• 1:03:10
  You guys are sold that two of those are probably 99 problems
• 1:03:13
  in DOA. Am I in correct?
• 1:03:15
  In my assumption here? To to stay.
• 1:03:18
  Yeah. To to go into the list, a
• 1:03:21
  million percent. Yeah, those two definitely have
• 1:03:23
  to go in, I think. All right, so let's do that.
• 1:03:27
  So that'll bring us up to 8. And then you guys can figure out
• 1:03:33
  which of these ones who also gets to go in.
• 1:03:37
  So we got Family Feud kill gz, Lucifer part to pray.
• 1:03:42
  And what we talked about if you could only have one of those
• 1:03:45
  Rudy which one I have one of them to go in now I feel like It
• 1:03:57
  kind of want to Champion part 2 because it because it just the
• 1:04:05
  the Jay-Z Beyonce, I mean that angle, which I don't think it's
• 1:04:12
  really represented. But yeah, they don't things
• 1:04:14
  representing the full list. Okay, I'm so, yeah, like I'd say
• 1:04:19
  that one Ronald. If you only had one of those,
• 1:04:23
  Which one would it be? Can I concur here?
• 1:04:28
  Yeah, yeah that actually makes it easier.
• 1:04:30
  So I I feel like I feel like the rest of them are just so damn
• 1:04:35
  similar in the slightest of Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and
• 1:04:42
  concur here. All right, so we'll put that
• 1:04:44
  through in that leaves it to my final say.
• 1:04:46
  And I got, to be honest. I'm I'm not going where I
• 1:04:50
  thought I would go kill. Jay-Z still there, sitting
• 1:04:52
  around, we have nothing from 444.
• 1:04:55
  And to me that's a travesty I'm going to put kill Jay Z as my
• 1:04:58
  final say. Yeah.
• 1:05:02
  Here we go. Easier Choice than it than I
• 1:05:05
  thought it was going to be. Clap it up.
• 1:05:10
  We we have done it. Let me put it to you.
• 1:05:12
  Wow here this what it couldn't be done.
• 1:05:16
  Yeah, said they were wrong. Alright.
• 1:05:19
  So here's our 10. December 4th Dirt Off Your
• 1:05:22
  Shoulder. Dirt Off Your Shoulder Empire
• 1:05:25
  State of Mind. No Church in the Wild Rock boys
• 1:05:28
  and in Paris Nigel's in Paris. Has 99 Problems DOA part to kill
• 1:05:33
  Jay-Z Rudy. Let's crank up on the heat here,
• 1:05:38
  which one of those 10 would be the one that you would Point
• 1:05:42
  people to for the backpack back, half of Jay-Z's catalog.
• 1:05:46
  So okay to me it's rock boys. Man that song right there dude
• 1:05:51
  and I think it's just personal favorite in terms of I guess
• 1:05:55
  what, Hypes me up the most nothing does Like like that song
• 1:06:02
  and there's a lot of slick talking on it to its and and and
• 1:06:05
  and yeah like you mentioned the kind of the jazz jazz ish
• 1:06:10
  quality that the Jay-Z has and stuff even though that I guess
• 1:06:15
  that's not the big corporate a lot of like horns and things
• 1:06:17
  like that. I guess it's really more
• 1:06:18
  cinematic and and kind of big band sounding but I love that
• 1:06:25
  ambience in that field you know kind of reminds me of the 40s
• 1:06:29
  and 50s. These and all that.
• 1:06:30
  But yeah I know it's a lot of slick talking that big band
• 1:06:35
  sound and and the overall sound just drive it over the top for
• 1:06:39
  me. So that's what I would say.
• 1:06:41
  What do you think Ronald? I mean, thanks to all the
• 1:06:47
  hustlers and most importantly, you the customer meeting.
• 1:06:55
  You can argue that like I would, I would say, Empire State of
• 1:06:58
  Mind. But, you know, the way that Rudy
• 1:07:00
  explained it like if I'm in the gym and I'm thinking, like I
• 1:07:04
  actually do listen to the song and the gym, and I don't listen
• 1:07:07
  to Empire State of Mind in the gym just because it's like,
• 1:07:10
  yeah, Alicia Keys, you sound great.
• 1:07:13
  Are you saying something there? J?
• 1:07:14
  But you're not, like, I'm not moving with you on that.
• 1:07:18
  Hmm. Look, you'll be hard pressed to
• 1:07:22
  get an argument against anything from American Gangster for me.
• 1:07:25
  So let me go ahead and solidify that rock.
• 1:07:27
  Boys is our number 10. Why did my phone disconnect?
• 1:07:32
  How dare you being? There we go.
• 1:07:37
  We have done it. Rock boys in the winter is a
• 1:07:41
  bag. That is our number 1 December
• 1:07:44
  4th Dirt Off Your Shoulder Empires Empire.
• 1:07:47
  State of Mind. No Church in the Wild Nigel's in
• 1:07:50
  Paris 99 Problems. DOA part 2 and killed Jay-Z
• 1:07:54
  round out our 10. Let's Get the Rock boys.
• 1:07:56
  A little moment in the Sun. He traps buffoonery with eulogy
• 1:08:18
  eulogy and it's not in that Kanye way where it's like, you
• 1:08:24
  just kind of made it up and try to make it rhyme and it by
• 1:08:29
  saying it by like extending a syllable one way or.
• 1:08:32
  Yeah. He just he did that.
• 1:08:35
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• 1:08:37
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• 1:10:34
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