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Unprecedented Runs · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast, Pete Rock and
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Comment announced a new nineties inspired album together BG is Home, Cash Money Reunion
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Tour on the Way, and my thoughts on Nas and Hit boys latest project
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Magic three. That's six albums, y'all since twenty twenty. Unprecedented. Let's
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do it. Welcome to hip Hop Now podcast. If you from the future,
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Though. Recently it was announced that Pete Rock and Common we'll be working
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on album together that's nineties inspired, and Pete Rock says it will bring excitement
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back to hip hop. I'm gonna hold my thoughts for afterwards, but no
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shade. I'm excited, but let's get a little bit more into it.
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This is on hip hop dx dot com on Wednesday, sets him a thirteenth.
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The legendary producers shared hip Hop Dx story about his upcoming project with the
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Chicago MC to emphasize how special he thinks it's going to be ours. You
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ever missed that feeling of a good release in hip hop? Remember how exciting
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that felt? We both we both excited. As a mug. I always
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feel like I got something to prove. But it's just fun to make music,
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competing to make music, good music with all different personalities involved. Today
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just got gotten dry. We love him pop and you know and you will
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know how much. Stay tuned if you love hip hop. I messed that
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all up, my bad. Just a couple of things I want to say
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before you know again, no shade, but they have to be acknowledged.
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Pete Rocket, sky Zoo kind of already did this with Retropolitan. They may
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not have said nineties, but it had a very New York nineties feel to
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it as far as production and artwork and marketing, and it was very very
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dope. So you should check it out. So I'm extremely excited to see
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Common working with Pete Rock on something like this because there's no way it could
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be whacked. To be honest, there's no way it could be whacked.
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Pete gonna come with the beats. Common is gonna be reinspired comments from the
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nineties if you don't know. But I have a little bit of an issue
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with almost phrasing hip hop as not being competitive or not really having exciting releases.
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That is not true. It's just not for a number of reasons.
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Right. Ransom is killing it. If you never heard of Ransom the Brother,
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he hasn't put out a dug in like three years, just EP's album,
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EP's album, just Dope, Bars Beats Everything. Then there's a whole
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bunch of other people, including sky Zoo, who have released dope hip hop
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that people were excited to check out let alone, somebody we're going to talk
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about a little later who released six projects in three years. I believe it's
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three years, and the excite eatement around every release is crazy. Now,
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maybe Pete is not personally excited for a lot of these projects I'm talking about,
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but he does have a point, So I would just say he's now
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jumping into the fray of the excitement He's They're not him and Common are not
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causing the excitement. They're jumping into the excitement that already exists. I am
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extremely excited for this because Pete Rock is still make dope beats, and I
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just hate the fact that he doesn't get utilized. But some of the bigger
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names, you know, it's dope that people go and work with Premier as
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a video and Premier is in a video and all of that. And I'm
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not saying that that doesn't exist for Pete Rock, but not in the same
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way, you know, not the same type of exposure. And we talk
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about Pete Rock, so Common has a nice profile because of his acting and
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his awards and his music. So I'm curious to see, you know,
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because there's probably different Common fans. I'm saying it probably is some people who
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never heard One day it will all make sense. It didn't know his name
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was common Sense before it was common Sometimes the fan base is like that.
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But I'm just hoping they embrace what these brothers are gonna do because I am
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excited. You know, I'm not gonna lie, but just be clear.
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You know there's already excitement happening over projects. You just have. You guys
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have to join, that's all. And the more the merrier, who get
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your act together. We need a new album. We need something that just
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brings back the feeling because the show. I'm ranting, but the show brought
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back the feeling and the fact that they didn't capitalize off even solo careers.
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They didn't capitalize off of it or Liquid Sol two or Supreme Clientele too,
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or Cuban Link three or Into the Wood two, you know whatever. You
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know what I'm saying. Whatever, so everybody capitalize off of it. Plus
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Havoc said there was gonna be a new Mob Deep album, So hey,
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talk about excitement, all right? Moving along BG's home. If you didn't
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know Bg of Cash Money Records, you know what I'm saying, Like the
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Hot Boys, Cash Money is on me like I'm come on now, you
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know, I'm acting like, oh hey, come on now, you know.
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But it's dope that he's home. I love when uh, you know,
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I would prefer brother never got locked up, but nevertheless, it happened
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and he's home. I do like the fact, as MC myself, that
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dudes like that, when they get in these types of situations, they just
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write all kinds of songs, all kinds of thoughts. Probably unfortunately, because
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they've been sat down now they could focus and be creative and do all the
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things that maybe they didn't really cherish as much because they had all these distractions
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which eventually led them to imprisonment. But sometimes when you're in prison and you're
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a writer like that or creative, you have the time with your own thoughts
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to create. So we've seen all other couple casts like Tupac and all of
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that. So it's dope that he's home. And I saw a video when
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he came home and baby was there, and yeah, but nevertheless, Birdman
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is teasing a cash money reunion tour, and I remember I think Wayne said
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this a while back that he wanted to wait till, you know, everybody
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could be together but now Julie has been around. You saw him on Tiny
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Deaths. Little Wayne is ramping up, he on a new NAS Album's kind
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of crazy. I'm just letting y'all know. Turt been home, right,
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So everybody man like, they all around, They all around, So it
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would be dope if they did a tour. It would be dope if somehow
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they could just grab the tail end of a man. I gotta say,
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pauls ya know what I meant. But the end of the year, just
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like try to get something together. And now I don't know what state BG
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is in to perform, let alone record. But nevertheless, the nostalgia of
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a Cash Money tour would be crazy, right. It would be crazy because
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that was a big moment in hip hop for New Orleans, for the South.
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It to this day, some of those influences are still around, so
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it might be kind of crazy. And Birdman says he's already putting up one
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hundred million. Of course he said that. But what do you think you
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know? Are you a fan of Cash Money records back in the day?
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Bla blame juvenile BG, turk low easy, you know what I'm saying?
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What was this joint? The block is hot and all that and fireman or
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whatever. I ain't like that one, I'm sorry, but it would be
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interesting to see and just dope that they're all hair, you know, and
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and out and alive and hopefully healthy healthy, and I don't know. I'm
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about to go listen to my best to cash money now because I'm I'm not
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gonna lie. I'm kind of hyped on a low. You know, it's
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dope. It was. It was something that kind of ended and everybody went
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they separate ways and had their own hits and stuff like that. But I
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just like bringing a band back together, you know. That's what's dope about
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it. So whatever you may think about that or the first story, leave
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your comments and content section. Although, and lastly, so I didn't want
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to spend a lot of time this week just like ranting and talking and blah
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blah blah unless it called for it, right, That's what the podcast is
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about. So this is going to be a shorter version of what I typically
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do. But recently we found out that NAS and hit Boy had another project
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coming and it was like the final project as far as their collaborations. Because
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what NAS had been teasing or mentioning before about being in this creative space.
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He was talking about another project that did not include hit Boy as a soul
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producer, but like always, put up a teaser on his ig it said
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the finale, NAS fans started getting hyped. Then it was like Magic three
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is on the way. Magic two dropped in July. I did a review
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of it. It was cool. It was it was decent. Not one
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of my top five of the year, for sure, but it was cool.
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And so when I'm like, oh, Magic three, wait, damn
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already now, Just so you know, NASA hip Boy have done six have
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released six projects and basically three years. I think they started in twenty twenty
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with The King's Disease series and eventually we also got this Magic series, which
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is a trilogy of two trilogies. And I'm trying not to get hype,
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but two trilogies in three years, which is crazy. And it's one thing
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to have six albums and most of them are garbage except for two. It's
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another thing to not have one whack project good. It's fine. There's nothing
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wrong with being good. There's nothing wrong with being decent. Kids call it
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mid doesn't mean it to me. It doesn't mean it's the worst. It's
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just yeah, not quite like the first Magic. So eventually the cover was
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released and then the track listing and it's like, oh, there's only one
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feature, Little Wayne's on there, but there's fifteen songs. So finally,
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on NAS's birthday September fourteen, they released the finale, Magic three, the
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finale of six albums with hit Boy that has been un presidented not only because
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of the output in the short span of time, but the quality and the
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fact that this is a legendary rapper with a young producer and they're making magic.
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I'm sorry I didn't I had to just we know it's called magic.
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I'm just saying, but it's just incredible because it's never been done before in
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hip hop. No one in hip hop, including the goat L L cou
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J, has done this now, this late in the game, that kind
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of output. Say what you want about a song too here and then the
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majority, the overwhelming majority of it is hot. Nas is the worst beat
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picker just died. Because if you put out six joints in the majority that
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beats his fire, it just makes up for whatever was whacking the past as
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far as beach, because there were some don't try to act like it wasn't.
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But again, this song, I mean, this album has fifteen tracks,
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comes in at forty five minutes in length, which is great for me
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because I like, you know, vibe listening. If I really like it,
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I'll play it back now. Y'all know how I do when it comes
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to my reviews or my thoughts. I like to listen at least three times,
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not fast or back to back and back. But unless it's so dope
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I listened to it three times in a row, then that's crazy. You
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might have a classical hand, but it's a good way for me to get
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my you know, get the initial impressions in the first listen, kind of
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listen a little deep on the second listen by the third list and I kind
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of know how I feel. And I'm just gonna stop because I know some
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people want to just know how I feel. I don't feel that Magic three
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wouldn't enter my top five of the year. Obviously, over the course of
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the rest of the year, I'm going to continue to listen to a couple
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of joints and maybe maybe it ekes in, but it initially no, it's
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not a name, is it? The worst of the Magic series, not
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at all. I think it's debatable whether it's the best because the first Magic
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was so dope because it was a surprise release, and then those first couple
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of songs like Joe Black and all of that, and Speechless was like yo.
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Then it had young Nas on the cover. It felt like he just
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went back at the time, and so there was a lot of energy behind
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that one. But when you go back and listen, some of that is
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still there. I just don't I feel like Magic three is. It's really
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a very reflective project, like Nas in this whole run has reflected over his
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career, people we met in the industry and all that good stuff. But
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because he's turned fifty and a lot of those thoughts of being fifty years old
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and where you are in your life with your relationships and your music and your
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business, it just feels like a king on his throne. You know.
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I know that sounds cliche to say, but it does lyrically. And I'm
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not gonna lie. When I first hit play the first two records, I
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was like, I don't know, and my gripe is not the music or
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what he has to say. It's just I'm not the biggest fan of the
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New Nah's flow because I feel like it doesn't match every beat. Sometimes it's
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just happening and the beat is just happening, and it's not a synergy between
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the two. And that's what I liked about a lot of the songs that
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were really dope like it. They fit Notiz, but his lyrics are really
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good. And I'm not talking on like, I'm not talking about all that
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space, you know, like you know i'll put the coke in the I'm
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not talking about that. I'm talking about just a man, a grown man,
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talking to a beat. And maybe it's because you know, I'm closer
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to his age and I can relate a lot to where he is in his
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career, and maybe that's why it. The lyrics hit me in a different
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way than it may hit someone else who's in a whole nother space. But
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on a second listen, those songs didn't bother me as much. And I
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think it was because I think the middle it was a little sketchy, but
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the middle to the end are really strong, and it kind of makes up.
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So when you come back and listen to that track again, now you
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get the project. You get Okay, I get it, you know,
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what I'm saying. I see where you are, nas, I see what
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this was all about. I like it, so I feel like it's better
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than Kings Magic two. It is by long shot. Magic two felt like
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Lost Tapes. Three. This feels like an album, right, It just
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feels like King's Disease four If you ask me, it really does. So
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there you have it. I think it's I think it's a good album.
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I think it's one of the best of the year. Is it in my
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top five? I don't know. Man, my top five running real strong
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and I don't know, but we'll see by the end of the year.
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What do you think about the news uh nas project? If you subscribe to
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this channel or the audio podcast, you know, I literally just did a
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nas cat log rating that included Magic two, and just for those who watch
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that, I will just say Magic three is nasty now, but go watch
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the video because then you know what I'm talking about. That's gonna do it
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