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Headshots All Summer · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, rest in Peace
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to Dallas pen and we're gonna talk about the state of hip hop journalism.
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New ghost Face Killer album on the Way Set the Tone, and Kendrick Lamar
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releases yet another song aimed at Drake's head. It's spooky outside right now,
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but we're gonna talk about it. Let's do it. Welcome to hip Hop
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this week. You can go and check that out. I had my guests
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on OC the Homie. We talked about Kendrick Lamar's disc or response to Drake's
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DIC, which is, well, I guess is still a this right,
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yeah, Euphoria, how we felt about it, where it stands in the
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lexicon of hip hop disc records, breaking down some of the lyrics, all
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hop joint. If you paid attention to my garage, you know, over
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the franchises that I love It's cool to love things other than hip hop as
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toys, but I also love sports. So there you have it.
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xl Man they stepping in there with the with they stepping up. You know,
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I've been looking at a couple of the tweets and the posts and I'm
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like, Okay, it's feeling like back in the day, you know,
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So big shout out to them. That's where I get some of my stories
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from. Let's get right in to the business though, So first and foremost
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we got to start off on somewhat of a sad note. But in a
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lot of ways, I think it's always positive to remember people and their impact
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in your lives. But in this case, on the hip hop game,
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specifically Dallas pen who was a hip hop journalist. Most people remember him with
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Combat Jack, you know Internet, That's how they would talk, which I
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thought was funny. I even started saying this some myself. He passed away
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recently. Unfortunately, obviously, all of hip hop was saying rest in peace,
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especially those who actually knew who he was, but as a hip hop
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journalist, there's a certain level of integrity that came along with his work.
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And the reason why I say that in that way is because now we live
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in a space of hip hop where hip hop journalism's integrity is in question and
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that has a lot to do not with the art of podcasting. I podcast,
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but the difference is is, you know, some people podcasts and school
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and I just happened to have a degree in media, so I could stand.
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I could stand a little bit. I could put my chests out a
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little bit. I know what I'm doing, God know what I'm doing.
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But a lot of the talk about hip hop journalism and it not being the
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same or just being you know, just being real with how they promote things,
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how they well, let me not say promote, how they cover hip
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hop is really like it's drawn a line in the sand and really praise on
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a lot of ignorance in a lot of ways. And when I say that,
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I mean there are fans younger. When I say younger, I'm not
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just talking about teenagers. I'm talking about other generations who are fans of certain
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podcasters and refer to them as journalists. Some of them refer to themselves as
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journalists, and when I watch some of their content, I see them make
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all the fundamental ground floor mistakes you do not make in particular ethical that you
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do not make as a actual journalist. I don't care if it's hip hop,
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video games, whatever, whatever you cover. There's just certain things as
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a journalist, certain you know, like a style guy that every newsroom has.
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There's just certain things you don't do. And they don't know this why
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because they didn't really study journalism. And it's possible to study journalism and apply
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it to things like hip hop. See people think like, you don't have
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to take hip hop or anything that's in the same situation, any genre that's
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in the same situation and apply real world journalism ethics to it. Gods just
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they just rap it. It's just hip hop. But fans appreciate a deeper
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experience when it's offered, and that's just real because we're all human. That's
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why this all goes back to the fundamentals. For example, right, I
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don't mind drink champs, but I see people who complain about certain things when
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it comes to Norri. Now I'll say this with Norri. Let's start it
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on a positive note. He tends to ask the hip hop questions that I
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want to hear from some of these legends, like questions that dated back since
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the nineties, that hip hop fans wanted to know and because it's on his
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platform, now we get the answer. So that's what makes it really good,
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and that's what makes him good at researching and finding the questions he thinks
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he should ask. The problem is is because he's not really trained like that,
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he can't help but to constantly interrupt the person after he's asked the question.
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That is a no no journalism. That's a no no in media.
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Ask your question and listen. That's what you're supposed to do. Write down
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your follow up. If they say something, write down, write down that
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follow up, but wait for them to finish talking. That's journalism, that's
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media, that's broadcasting. That's what you're supposed to do. So even though
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you may still enjoy it as is, because we can't just well, I
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mean we can, he still could nor we could go and get an undergrad
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and journalism. You know how Doper his show will become instantly because now he
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knows more about what he does. Don't be afraid of the education. That's
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all I'm saying, but to a lesser extent, because that's just a thing,
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right, that's a style. Not every person who has a podcast or
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rights does some of these things. Some of it is a mixed bag.
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Some know better than us, Like I think matth Hoffer knows I'm gonna ask
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my question and let them speak. I don't know if he has a communications
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degree, but he gets that part of it, feel me. The only
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part about his podcast that sometimes is annoying to me is there's too many people
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who are there to ask questions. So everybody leaving the show and this guy
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get Get this guy off the show, this guy off the show. I'm
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kind of glad good. It should be two of y'all. You and the
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dude who I always forget his name with the glasses. You and him ask
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questions, and you can have a side person there that's maybe like a producer,
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an actual producer who finds the question that maybe you two don't ask,
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right, But they don't talk as much. They're there to react, but
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they don't talk as much. So in a lot of ways, And I
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know I'm just talking about podcasting, but that's what people obviously consider to be
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journalism because most people do not read anymore. Cats like Dallas Penn, you
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know, and plenty of writers from back in the days, people like Elie
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Wilson, like people who ran publications, they get it. They have a
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background in this stuff. They know enough about the content and how to deliver
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it in a way that's meaningful. And in a lot of ways, it's
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tough because online you're gonna find this battle of the people who know how it
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should be, how it could be better if they would just tweak this little
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thing or do this, and then you have the people who are millionaires with
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a untrained sort of delivery style. And maybe in a lot of ways that's
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what it is going forward for hip hop journalism. Maybe that's that's what it
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is. Maybe the integrity will solely lie on the person who is the journalist,
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right, you know, like maybe a person like Rhapsody had a tweet
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similar, you know, about this whole situation and how she missed I mean,
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she said, well this was more so about radio, but she said
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something else about journalism also, and how they just missed it being more about
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talking about the art in intellectual ways that didn't have to be dumb down for
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an audience because the audience was right there with him. Most of you guys
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are doing a disservice to your audience because you already think they're dumb, so
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you're gonna give it to them dumb, and then they're gonna bring their dumb
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ass on Twitter and say it like they know that's what it is and it's
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not and look wrong and they won't even care if they're wrong, because being
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wrong is right. It just is so in a lot of ways. I
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don't mean the soapbox this whole thing, but it's just interesting to see how
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when when you have guys like this that pass away and you think about the
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work they put in, even in the early podcast in days when we're talking
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about Dallas, you just wonder, like, wow, is it just all
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gonna be academics now? With academics, I will say this, for academics,
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I would categorize what he does is more tabloid, and I think that
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makes everything he's doing fine. Right, You're gonna be on the gossip train.
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You getting the stories cool, because I mean that's what Wendy Williams did
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back in the days heavy people tuned in to get inside information at least what
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they thought was information and drama and tea and whatever you want to call it
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from her. And some of her things are coming true? Did he some
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of those things that come and troach you. Williams wasn't lying. So again,
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I mean, as long as there are those like myself out here,
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you know, providing some contexts to go along with gossip and hype and rap
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battles that we're going to talk about, I think we're good. I don't
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think certain people should get out just because there are things they don't do right,
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and I feel like they need to go back they need to go to
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school or go back to school or whatever. But I think it would help
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if they were just more informed in how they do things, if they had
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a producer who instilled things within them so they become better hosts and better journalists
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in the hip hop space. But now everybody's just you know, everything's everything's
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a trend and people just want to have their job and stay happy and get
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out of the way. And maybe I'm just old. So there you have
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it. So I tweeted on Twitter. You can follow me on Twitter at
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Vegas War. I NC we don't recognize the X because he's just gonna have
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to change it back. We just say Twitter, just stop it, just
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change it back. So all we're gonna say ever everybody, But I tweeted
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because I was just thinking back and I was like, man, when when's
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the last time we had something from the WU? And I don't mean as
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a group. Sure I would love that a group album, but I was
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like, it just feels like for all those members, they're kind of quiet.
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And as I tweeted that, then I thought about, like, well,
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Czar Face just had a joint lash year, which is led by inspect
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the Deck, So that's like Inspected Deck albums. If you were one of
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those people, like, man, we just never got that Inspected Deck album.
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Check out the Czar Face series. They're all dope, and Inspected Deck
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is like the leading MC in that group. But also I had forgot because
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maybe the album just didn't stick with me that well, even though it wasn't
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that bad at all. Method Man dropped an album not too long again,
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long ago me Flad three, and I believe that was last year also,
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so it just felt like, Okay, that's two WU members, but there's
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there's plenty of WU members and I know Riza had dropped like a couple of
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projects in twenty twenty two. It just felt like a slow rollout from a
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group that has so many members that could be really active, but just didn't
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seem like they were being active at all. And Loan Behold probably though person
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I was talking about the most that I would be excited if they announced a
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new album. Ghost Face Killer has announced he has a new album coming very
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soon called Set the Tone. Also, he dropped a new single featuring Nas
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and I think this is the first time Nas been on a ghost Face album
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ever. The song is called Scar Tissue. It's exactly what you expect from
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Ghosts, exactly what you expect from the beat, It's exactly what you expect
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from Nas. And I remember I said on this podcast not that long ago,
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something got to come out of this Nods and Wool traveling together on a
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tour, like, something got to come out of that. What I think.
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I think this song is one of those things. But I also think
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being on that tour with the Wool and that whole nostalgia of their careers and
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performing that Redman was there for a lot of dates and stuff like that,
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I think that all so helped push Nas to want to make an album with
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Primo, Like, yo, let's just give the heads what they want.
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So ghost Face has a new album coming out now. Ghost face last album
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was I think it was called ghost Face Killers, like a like a nightclub
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or restaurant style, and I remember even though there wasn't a lot of fanfare
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about it, because I don't think people really liked it like that or thought
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it was cool and forgettable, but I liked it a lot because in recent
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years there was a time between ghost Faces probably last really good project, and
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then there was all these like random projects that didn't really you know, fit
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with what you expect from ghosts right now, the ghost Faces our Face joint
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was dope. I think it was was a ghost Faces our Face and mfdoom.
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I don't know, but I think it was go Face in tsar Face
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right That was dope. But it just felt like it was a long time,
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and when ghost Face Killers came out, I was just excited because for
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a long time, ghost voice sound different, like the ghost that we know
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has a really kind of like high pitched, almost high paid pitched nasally kind
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of voice, you know, Seanda with the glass in the tank it like
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like that and that's what we like. But then it turned into the same
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delivery, but a more gruff version that where he almost sound hoarse, and
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I didn't know if that was new or he changed something about the way he
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approached performing this music, or if he was having he had a condition or
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what. I didn't know what it was. And then he was like doubling
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up his voice, so it was extra. I always hated double track,
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like I hated it when Tupac did. I really hated it. It just
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was distracted to me, so I didn't like it. But the ghost Face
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Killer's joint came out and he sounded like, oh, ghosts again, So
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I was like, oh, well, maybe he did have a condition because
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it sounds like he's back. So with this car tissue single, I kind
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of feel like, I think it's cool. It's to me, it's nothing
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earth shattering, It's it's kind of dope to hit him together. I think,
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for the most part, the reason why I'm not super hyped based off
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of this single, I mean, it has ghost Face and nas like I
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think I don't know if I like to beat as much. I think you're
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talking about the first song on a ghost Face album that features nas and that's
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the beat like that, I think that's the thing. Like my anticipation was
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high for it and it just didn't meet that. But by no means it's
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whack. I think it's a dope song. I'm just more interested in the
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album and hearing more about the album and hearing that joint. So when it
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comes out, I'll do a review obviously right here on the podcast, So
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hit that subscribe button to stay locked in. And lastly, so like I
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said earlier on in the podcast, I did a special podcast and my guests
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on the show we broke down Kendrick's response to Drake's this record Push Ups.
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Kendrick responded with a song called Euphoria. We took close to two hours of
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just talking about this record, its impact, breaking down the lyrics, how
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we felt when we first heard it, what we think Drake should do next,
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just everything right and in a lot of ways. One thing I walked
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away with is when someone is literally in every bar saying something about you,
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even if some of those things had been said and you're saying them in a
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different way. Forget what was said before by other rappers, address the things
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that are now revelations to us, right, like cease and desist on a
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like that record, like stuff like that. That was like, Yo,
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okay, Drake, what about this? What about your you know? What
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seems to be a track record of you doing this when you don't like it?
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What seems to be the situation when you send a feature request to I
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guess and look, don't get me wrong, it might have been an olive
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branch and I'm not talking about now, but it might have been an olive
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branch to Kendrick at some point you send that to him and he's like,
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nah, I'm good, I don't I don't like you for whatever. And
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it was a lot that was revealing in that record, but not just within
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that record. How that record spoke to why Drake has all these different rappers
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and producers and people in hip hop aiming at him. At some point.
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It's not hate because what I remember from y'all, Drake stands, not fans,
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because I'm a fan, Drake stands. What I remember before this Drake's
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last album, the consensus was it was not good. And that was the
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first time I seen so many people, including Stands, feeling that way,
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like they were getting on this that's why he dropped the Scary Hours joint right
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after that, and I thought, I thought Scary Hours is always dope,
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and I thought that was dope. I think it was scary. I was
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six or whatever. I thought that was dope. But it kind of fizzled
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out. Now we moved forward, and now everybody's pretending that he's huge now.
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Man, I remember how y'all was talking about Drake, so he was
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kind of down in his battle, you know, providing he responds to euphoria
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starting to heat up, but can you then dropped another song, y'all.
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Friday, May third, twenty twenty four, Kendrick lamar at I believe six
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sixteen Am in LA because I believe it where I'm on the East Coast.
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It was nine sixteen am when I saw it. I just didn't I didn't
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put through and through together on on his Instagram account, on his IG account,
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he released a new disc record called six sixteen in LA, which plays
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off of a number of songs and freestyles or whatever that Drake has released,
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you know, six Am in Toronto and stuff like that or whatever. That's
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that's the theme, that's the thing. And I like those records from Drake.
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That's the thing that Drake does. But also six' sixteen. Now
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you're gonna have to fact check me on this because I saw this on social
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media and I was like, now, you gotta be kidding me. Six
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sixteen is also Tupac's birthday. And something about six sixteen am in LA was
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win uh, I think warrants or something something was handed out regarding the OJ
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trial. I forget what it was. I don't know if it was a
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Warren or court documents or whatever it was. It's some connection to that because
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also the cover of this disc record is two Black Gloves, and then he
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stayed with the Black Gloves is the MM for Maybag Music, which is Rick
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Ross thing that's not even getting to the bars. So this time around you
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find Drake digging more deeply into things like Drake's entourage. See before he focused
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a lot on Drake as the rapper and you want to be black and blah
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blah blah. Oh now you want to be black, you want to appropriate
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blackness. But there's something not right with you, even though you're half black.
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There's just something not right with you and what you're doing. So he
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talked about a bunch of stuff in Euphoria, but this is digging a little
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bit deeper, and he alluded to this joint in euphoria and Euphoria. He
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said, let me let me pull up the lyrics, y'all, let me
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let me just go right to it and not not even not even mint any
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words. So he said, back to back, I like, this is
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on Euphoria, back to back. I liked that record. I'm gonna get
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back to that for the record now within Euphoria. He never really got back
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to that record, but I think he was talking about this record, this
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new record six sixteen. Because this is how Drake did the rollout against Meek
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Mill. Right, he dropped earlier in the week. It probably was a
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Tuesday, which is crazy. I don't know, y'all got a fact check,
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but he dropped earlier in the week, and by Friday there wasn't no
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response from Meek Mill, so Drake dropped back to back. Well, now
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here's Kendrick sort of doing back to back without calling it back to back.
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Calling it back to back would have been calling me like back to back part
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two something. That's why I don't really like Sheitha like that, because even
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though I thought Renny got busy on that joint. I was like, she
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doesn't sound the same as either, Like you should have just called it something
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else. But one of the bars that I wanted to point out in this
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new song six' sixteen in LA and this comes courtesy of a quick breakdown
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from Double Excel magazine, Kendrick Lamar implies Drake has moles in his camp on
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new dis track six sixteen in LA. And here are some of the lyrics
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that I'm gonna quote. Have you ever thought that Ovo was working for me?
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Fake bully? I hate bullies. You must be a terrible person.
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Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it. And two C slide
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up out of this one is just going resurface. Every dog got to have
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his day now live in your purpose body bag. That's not even the whole
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point, but that is an example of what this record is. And the
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beat for Euphoria was more you know, bouncy, more like the music you
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hear today for the most part, shout out to more like Keen's song Family
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Ties, whatever had that feel to it. This is like an Al Green
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sample loop that and no alien noises. Just rapping this k Dot right now,
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this k dot rapping. And the only reason why I say that because
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let me just talk real quick about the reactions from social media, and then
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we're gonna get up out of here, but real quick. You know what
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I do as a journalist in hip hop is, of course I listen to
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these records over and over and the lyrics, and I follow everything, including
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Drake's stuff and what Jake and everything. But most importantly I watch the reactions
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in the comments sections of all of this stuff, just to see what people
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are saying and who they are. Some people I can identify as old heads
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right off the back. They don't like it. They don't like euphoria,
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they don't like this, they don't get the references, they don't like the
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beats, they don't like the delivery. This whole thing is soft to them,
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right. And then you have a younger generation where this is their time,
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this is their battle, right for their error. This could be even
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their first time being of a certain age with a battle going down that's of
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this magnitude, and they don't get it either, because to them, it's
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about money, it's about popularity, and it's about vibes, and there's just
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certain box you need boxes you need to check. Now. I know a
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neutral person, maybe like yourself, would say, well, well, then
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is this even good if nobody likes it? Well, there's plenty of people
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who like it. There's plenty of people who know exactly what's being said,
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exactly what's being done. They get all the references. Now, I'm gonna
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talk about the old heads real quick, and I we're gonna talk about the
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young folk and then be out. Let's talk about the young folk first.
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For them, all that you know, triple on tandras and the quadruple on
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tanras stuff. That stuff is cool, but they more into the pick a
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side thing. And it's not all of them, not everybody young, but
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most casuals. Right, this is how they feel. But there are a
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lot of young people who love to google and research and resurface. And Kendrick
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Lamar with both records, has given them a s mortgage bard of ghosts.
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Look at everything, go look it all up and see how it all ties
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it. Yeah. Again, like I said, with the Tupac birthday being
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six sixteen and all that stuff like this is coming from them. They the
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ones like yo, let me fine, blah blah blah and I like that
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part about it because the difference is is that, whereas Drake may post a
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film that most black people haven't seen, some of us have. Don't get
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me wrong, I watch whatever if it's good, you know, poking fun
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at the hate hate hate part and euphoria by Kendrick. That has nothing to
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do with bars. That's just poking fun. Calling somebody short. Oh,
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of course we can see he's short, you know, especially on TV.
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You know when you look short on TV, you really short. Okay,
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But what is that saying. That's not saying anything when his accusations are all
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about you and your entire lifestyle and your habits, you're guessing. But when
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you go to Kendrick's situation and these young cats who would like to research,
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it's making the bars better, is making them understand, it's training them to
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listen intently when it comes to hip hop battles, and it's making it about
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skill. Drake is making it about pacifying. Kendrick is making it about electrifying.
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Now old heads soft blah blah blah. It's weak. It's the weakest
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battle ever. WHOA, No, it's not because I could come up with
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a couple of battles that were pretty weak, and the reason why we don't
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bring them up is because they were that forgettable. They don't want to hear
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a battle in this way, and in particular what basically what Kendrick has done.
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For the most part, they don't get all the references. And I'm
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not just talking about just bars, but there's some there's some references to things
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that they just wouldn't know about because it's really like on the timelines of younger
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fans. The only reason why I know is because I feel like it's my
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job as a hip hop journalist to know. And more importantly, what I
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don't know, I go and look it up and say, oh, And
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it enhances the listening experience because now you realize what sounded like Kendrick was just
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rapping and not really saying nothing. Now you realize everything he said had a
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meaning. Everything he said was a shot. Some people don't want to do
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that in their old age, and I get it. Before it was just
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really direct, you know, old heads we from we can't help ourselves.
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We from a boom back era where we like boom shots over your head.
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That's what we want to hear. Clear stuff I ain't my violence towards you.
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Even during even back during the early two thousands where you had the bean
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Seguels and all of that and everybody beefing. I used to say to my
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friends, I was like, yo, rap battles. Now it's more about
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like making threats towards one another. Because if you think about it, you
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say, all them joints like I think NAS and jay Z stood out because
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they actually were being clever, like really clever with what they were coming up
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with with their schemes and stuff. So it wasn't just threats, you know,
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it was more about schemes they were battling, whereas there were plenty of
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rappers who was just saying, you know what violence they was going to bring
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to you, even though I can'tfront. When styles P said to Beanie segu
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you could bring the baby gorilla with you he dying for free talking about I
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was like, my god, it's both it's a threat and it's bars.
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So I get it. We're just used to some really knockout, drag out
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beef type of battles. But what Kendrick is doing is still that. It's
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just in a very different way. And I'm sorry, but when you tell
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somebody, you step off that plane in La. My middle name is extortion.
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Is that not a threat? But again, it's the same reason why
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some of us don't like the NBA today, don't like the NFL today.
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Look, I get mad too, Like damn well, defense, get to
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tackle like it is what it is. It's called change. And if you
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like the old stuff, go listen to the old stuff, or listen to
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the newer cats to do the things you like. Stay out of it because
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they're shooting outside. Okay, So what do you think about this battle which
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has now kind of been filed down to Drake versus Kendrick Lamar. I'm hoping
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by the time I upload this, Drake hasn't already dropped a crazy bomb and
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now we swinging in that direction. But honestly, I just wanted Drake to
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drop one more joint and then we just judge it from there and we move
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on because at some point it's exhausted and it's just gonna get caughty after a
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while, you know, response response responsor B. Then if somebody drop I
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