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Sleepers in the Catalog · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of Hip Hop Now Podcast,
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Speaker 1: it is slept on albums in some of my favorite
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Speaker 1: artists catalogs. That wasn't difficult to understand, was it? Let
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Speaker 1: I still have originals, not this new stuff, original original
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Speaker 1: illmatic right behind me, from back then ninety four, sitting
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Speaker 1: back there. You know what I'm saying, stuff like that,
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Speaker 1: if you enjoy content like that, whether it's from a
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Speaker 1: learning perspective, right, Yo, I wasn't even born in ninety four.
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Speaker 1: I was born in two thousands. But you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: going back to the nineties to watch it. You know,
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Speaker 1: if you were around and you were like yo, I
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Speaker 1: just like nostalgia stuff like this, like the shirt I
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Speaker 1: got it right now. Everybody who knows me knows Ice
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Speaker 1: Cubes Death Certificate is my favorite hip hop album of
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Speaker 1: all time. Do I rank it as the best? I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think so. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I did a top five before, But for me, things
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Speaker 1: like that change. You go back and listen to albums again.
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Speaker 1: You realize an album that maybe wasn't your favorite but
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Speaker 1: you liked it. You realize it's age like fine Wine,
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Speaker 1: and you're like, yo, this might low key be the
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Speaker 1: greatest hip hop album of all time. That's not illmatic.
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Speaker 1: You know, for some people it's illmatic. But to me,
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Speaker 1: if I'm a guest right here on the spot, you
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Speaker 1: put me on the spot, I would say, don't hold
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Speaker 1: me to it. But I really feel like public enemies.
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Speaker 1: It takes a nation of millions to hold his back.
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Speaker 1: Could be the best hip hop album of all time.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't argue you down if you said it wasn't
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Speaker 1: and you said something like Illmatic or Run deem Ceased,
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Speaker 1: Raising Hell or give rich a Die Trine or whatever
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Speaker 1: the albums that people hold up to being like the
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Speaker 1: best of all time. But today we're here to do
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Speaker 1: something a little bit different. I don't necessarily see lists
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Speaker 1: like this, or at least this variation of a list,
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Speaker 1: but today we're doing slept on catalog albums. So I
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Speaker 1: went ahead and I thought of like five MC's who
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Speaker 1: catalog I have most of the music, and now they
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Speaker 1: have these, you know, they have longer catalogs of music right,
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Speaker 1: and their albums in their catalog that over time people
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Speaker 1: forget how dope the album was, so they essentially become
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Speaker 1: slept on. So it's not to say that when the
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Speaker 1: album dropped it was slept On or that or anything
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Speaker 1: like that. It's to say that when you go back
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Speaker 1: and you take into account someone's catalog, especially if they're
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Speaker 1: a dope artists, it was made you know, classics and
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Speaker 1: multiple good albums. There are really good albums that people
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Speaker 1: just forget about. They just don't get mentioned. Because when
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Speaker 1: you've done like fifteen albums, you know, there's the ones
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Speaker 1: that people know like that's the classic, and then there's
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Speaker 1: those that they don't always name that we forget how
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Speaker 1: dope it was. So I only have five, no particular order,
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna share my screen on the video sign.
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Speaker 1: So you could just watch me work. Okay, let me
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Speaker 1: just make sure we're gonna do some switch rules real
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Speaker 1: quick with the sharing of the screen. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: have this available or ready beforehand. But nah, that's not
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Speaker 1: what we're doing. Y'all see that. Maybe I need to
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Speaker 1: move my logo. Nah, not necessarily. That is good enough.
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Speaker 1: Let's just move over o bit that's all. Boom, there
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Speaker 1: we have it. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: just go through and my first one, my first album
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Speaker 1: is Eric B and Rock eems Don't Sweat the Technique. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you're looking at the screen, let me see if
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Speaker 1: I can go to the page. Apple Music has it
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Speaker 1: down as one of their essential albums. Now, if you
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Speaker 1: go to social media and lists and stuff like that,
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Speaker 1: you almost never see that album listed as one of
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Speaker 1: the essentials. But I think it's incredibly slept on. What
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Speaker 1: did you say? Real quick? The fourth and final Eric
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Speaker 1: B and Rock album, nineteen ninety two's Don't Sweat the
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Speaker 1: Technique arrived just six years after the duo transformed the
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Speaker 1: sound of hip hop thanks to Rockiem's Incomparable or Incomparable
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Speaker 1: I guess Ron Kraft and Eric Bee's Clatterie James Brown loops.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was like Marley Maul and Lunch Professor whatever.
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Speaker 1: If don't sweat the technique, the musicians closed out their
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Speaker 1: game change and run with jazz samples, head cracking snares,
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Speaker 1: soulful horns, and manic tempos. Like we're not going to
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Speaker 1: read all of that. But I think this has slept
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Speaker 1: on because I remember back when It's dropping ninety two,
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Speaker 1: that's when I was giving my little money to go
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Speaker 1: buy albums and stuff like that. And I remember with
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Speaker 1: this album in particular, it was the first time I
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Speaker 1: had the opportunity to buy a brand new Eric Being
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Speaker 1: Rock cam with my own money. Right. All those other
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Speaker 1: albums that dropped, I wound up having them sometimes secondhand,
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Speaker 1: you know, like somebody gave me a copy or whatever.
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Speaker 1: But I was never able to like, Oh, Eric Being
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Speaker 1: Rock Caim got new album Let Me Go By. This
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Speaker 1: was my first time, so there was a little bit
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Speaker 1: more of an attachment to this album for me, and
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Speaker 1: the album was very different. I mean, you see the
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Speaker 1: album cover, right, that's like in living color, you know,
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Speaker 1: back then this is the nineties. All the colors, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of like Black Pride, and all of that also,
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Speaker 1: But when I started playing it, one of the things
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Speaker 1: that drew me to even wanting this album was because
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Speaker 1: it sounded different from what I was used to from them.
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Speaker 1: And the lead single was What's on Your Mind Right,
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Speaker 1: which is a sample curious by I can't remember the
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Speaker 1: name of the group from the eighties, which you know,
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Speaker 1: some people didn't like, some people did. But to me,
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Speaker 1: the way rock Hem is flowing over that beat like this,
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Speaker 1: that's one of rock Him's best songs ever, to be honest, right,
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Speaker 1: we know paid and for a follow like we know
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Speaker 1: all them joints, but the way he's rapping and this
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Speaker 1: is this is like a rockins version of a love
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Speaker 1: record and it's still like boom backed out. I like
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Speaker 1: the drums on it, like it's really dope and rock
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Speaker 1: Him saying some dope stuff, you know, a master on
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Speaker 1: the mike. But what I liked about this album a
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Speaker 1: lot was the infusion of the jazz samples. And this
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Speaker 1: was around the time ninety two, ninety three or whatever,
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Speaker 1: ninety one, you know, between Tribe, Gangstar and all of that.
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Speaker 1: This was like sound There were a lot of jazz samples, like,
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Speaker 1: for example, don't sweat. The technique got a lot of
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Speaker 1: horns in it. This album has a lot of joints
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Speaker 1: man like I like teach the children, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of that had to do with just bars. There are
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Speaker 1: a lot of bars on here if you read or
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Speaker 1: listen to the audio version of rock Him's what you
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Speaker 1: call it biography. What I liked what he did in
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Speaker 1: the book was he talked a lot about songs and
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Speaker 1: song like lyrically, like in depth, right, like breaking down
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Speaker 1: his own verses and where he was when he wrote it,
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Speaker 1: what was his mind thinking about why he put the
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Speaker 1: worst together in the way he did. And he did
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Speaker 1: like a song or two off of each album. And
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Speaker 1: when he got to this, I don't think it was
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Speaker 1: Teached the children. I think it was the other record,
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Speaker 1: Casual TV the War. I like that joint that had
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Speaker 1: some good horns on it. Rest a sure relaxed the
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Speaker 1: pep keep the beat, oh my god, keep the beat fire.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, and like we all know
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Speaker 1: if you can see it. No, the ledges on this
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Speaker 1: album wasn't just on the Juice soundtrack. It was also
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Speaker 1: on this album. So I think just to start this off,
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Speaker 1: Eric B and Rock ems don't sweat. The technique needs
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Speaker 1: to be mentioned more when you're talking about every beat
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Speaker 1: and rock Him's run because in a lot of ways
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Speaker 1: it's not better than Paid in Full, that's like bulletproof,
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Speaker 1: but in a lot of ways it's more complete than
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Speaker 1: the other albums he dropped prior to this. It just
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Speaker 1: is like, you know, it's just better songs, not necessarily
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Speaker 1: just beat wise, right, because that's that's a debate, right,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it is, but that's a debate
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Speaker 1: whether you prefer the beats on those albums versus this.
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Speaker 1: But as far as like a complete album where rock
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Speaker 1: Hem is just in a pocket that's comfortable, and we
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Speaker 1: know he's comfortable because the brother has a jazz background,
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Speaker 1: so he knew what he was doing, he knew how
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Speaker 1: to rap to him. There you have it. The next
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Speaker 1: one I have up on my list is Out of
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Speaker 1: Commons catalog and that being and if you know me,
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Speaker 1: if you watched or listen to my podcast, you probably
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Speaker 1: know what I'm going to say. It's not listened as
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Speaker 1: an essential, so relaxed, but it's here and it's called
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Speaker 1: Finding Forever. Now, there's some people who are just like me,
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Speaker 1: they feel like, well, yeah, everybody thought this was dope,
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Speaker 1: this was the follow up to Be. But I swear
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Speaker 1: it's only a few people who ever mention it. When
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Speaker 1: they're talking about Common, it's like they it's rightfully, so
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Speaker 1: they only mentioned one day. It all makes sense if
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Speaker 1: they do, and then like water for chocolate, and then
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Speaker 1: they go right to be. And that's like the three
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Speaker 1: app Common albums that always get mentioned. And he has
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Speaker 1: more than that in this catalog, but this one, this
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Speaker 1: one was special. Let's read a little bit of a description.
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Speaker 1: When Common and Kanye West link up, they bring out
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Speaker 1: each other's soulful sides. The eight tracks Kanye produced on
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Speaker 1: Finding Forever are full of ventage samples, crooning gospel choirs,
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Speaker 1: and fresh R and B hooks, all of which beautifully
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Speaker 1: underpin commons thoughtful rhymes. Now that description sounds whack because
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Speaker 1: because it feels like, well, what do you mean crooning
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Speaker 1: in and gospel and R and B? Like is this
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Speaker 1: a hip hop album? In a lot of ways, I
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Speaker 1: listened to this more than I listened to B because
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Speaker 1: B was almost like a statement, right, like let's just
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Speaker 1: get in the studio, get you back in pocket. Common
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Speaker 1: after Electric circus and take what's the best of what
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Speaker 1: we've done and put it on the album, and you know,
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Speaker 1: you back out right, you out here. This was more refined.
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Speaker 1: This was taking b in saying Okay, now we're gonna
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Speaker 1: make an album. You back in pocket. You had to
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Speaker 1: come back. Now it's time to make an album album.
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Speaker 1: And in two thousand and seven, that version of Kanye
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Speaker 1: to Kanye that everybody say they went back right, we
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Speaker 1: ain't coming back, did his thing on this project, along
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Speaker 1: with having a Dila joint on him. But when you
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Speaker 1: go through, it's only thirteen songs, it's under an album
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Speaker 1: an hour. This album just sounds so great, the mixture
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Speaker 1: of Kanye's beats and his contributions. Like on south Side,
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Speaker 1: which is a dope record, it feels a lot like
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Speaker 1: b on some songs, But then it also feels a
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Speaker 1: lot like the five of One Day. It all makes
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Speaker 1: sense along It just kind of felt like those three
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Speaker 1: albums I mentioned right, One Day It all makes sense,
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Speaker 1: like Water for Chocolate and Beat Finding Forever sounds like
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Speaker 1: if you just took a combination of all of those
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Speaker 1: and put it on one album. Right, That's how it
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Speaker 1: sounds and feels again, so far to go with Common
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Speaker 1: and D'Angelo, which also appeared on Jay Dillar because he
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Speaker 1: did the beat. Jay Diller's album The Shining Break My
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Speaker 1: Heart reminds me of something that would have been on B.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it was planned to be on B. It's just
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Speaker 1: a lot the people right kind of reminds you of
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Speaker 1: the corner. But the people I love the people that
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Speaker 1: beat listen again. When this album dropped, most heads thought
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Speaker 1: it was dope, like I said, But as time has
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Speaker 1: gone on and we've gotten other projects good or bad
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Speaker 1: from Common, the consensus and most people minds when they
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Speaker 1: say his dopest projects, they usually go to those other three.
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Speaker 1: I said. For somebody who's never heard comments catalog, they
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Speaker 1: would be missing out if they never heard Finding Forever.
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Speaker 1: Like me personally, when this album dropped, it was in
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Speaker 1: heavy rotation like be was in heavy rotation for me.
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Speaker 1: But there was like a song or two I would
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Speaker 1: skip because it always felt disjoined after a while, because
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Speaker 1: it didn't feel like an album, just felt like a
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Speaker 1: collection of songs that were just happy to have Common
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Speaker 1: back and form that we weren't graded on a scale.
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Speaker 1: From a brother who's released some really complete albums, and
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Speaker 1: this was him returning back to something that to me
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Speaker 1: felt like. Now, this is the comment. I know this
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Speaker 1: is complete. He's in the pocket the beats. This is perfect.
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Speaker 1: Leave your comment in a comment section below, not only
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Speaker 1: about the two albums I mentioned, but with Common. Do
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Speaker 1: you feel like he was best with No Ide Dilla
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Speaker 1: or Kanye West. I'm not answering that question, but y'all
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Speaker 1: can in the comment section. All right, let's get into
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Speaker 1: the next one, because we don't need this to be
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Speaker 1: a long episode. Next up, I'm gonna go to somebody
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Speaker 1: more on the newer side of things, Conway the Machine,
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Speaker 1: and you'll be surprised because I know sometimes people think,
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Speaker 1: oh yo, it is this is that, But for me,
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Speaker 1: it's this album from twenty twenty one, right, that's kind
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Speaker 1: of pandemic, is kind of lockdown ish. Lob Makina, I
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Speaker 1: think that's how you said, love Makina. I hope so
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Speaker 1: correct me in the common section below. But I remember
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Speaker 1: when this dropped and I gave it my you know,
18:04
Speaker 1: I gave it the quick listen, and I believe he
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Speaker 1: dropped a couple of projects. Let's see, real quick. I
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Speaker 1: believe he dropped a couple of projects that year. Now
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Speaker 1: he only really dropped two If It Bleeds It Can
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Speaker 1: Be Killed. I didn't really like that one as much,
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Speaker 1: and that was coming off of loving from King to
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Speaker 1: a God, Like I love that album. But when this
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Speaker 1: joint dropped first in twenty twenty one, If It Bleeds
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Speaker 1: it Can Be Killed, I was just kind of like, eh,
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Speaker 1: not as good as I thought. But when Lamkina dropped,
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Speaker 1: I was like, yo, this is kind of return to
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Speaker 1: form of that Griselda sound. I think it was more
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Speaker 1: so the bars. Let me not say to Gazelda sound.
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Speaker 1: I think just the bars Conways bars on this album
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Speaker 1: are crazy. Like he has so many instances on his
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Speaker 1: own projects where it almost feel wasteful that he got
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Speaker 1: so many moments of dope songs, dope versus dope bars
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Speaker 1: all together, and sometimes they land on projects that most
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Speaker 1: people aren't really checking for. And I feel like this
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Speaker 1: particular project didn't get talked about as much in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one. Don't get me wrong, some people did, but
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Speaker 1: as time went on again, like I said, when people
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Speaker 1: think about their favorite Conway to Machine projects, I just
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Speaker 1: don't hear about this one that much. And I think
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Speaker 1: its slept on for a number of reasons, and it
19:42
Speaker 1: had a couple This is when he was introducing his
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Speaker 1: drum work Squad, so they had a couple of tracks.
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Speaker 1: This is when I first heard the Well. First of all,
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Speaker 1: this song is crazy since the Abagat. I wish I
19:54
Speaker 1: could play it, but I don't want no strikes. But
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Speaker 1: it was the first time I heard Love the Genius,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, yo, I like her because she
20:01
Speaker 1: got a voice like Hurricane G. But rest in peace
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Speaker 1: Hurricane G. But I think she's just nicer with it.
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Speaker 1: And obviously at the end there's the Griselda you know,
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Speaker 1: Posse couple, Westside Gun and Benny the Butcher. But even
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Speaker 1: like Bruise of Brody was crazy clarity. Two hundred pods
20:25
Speaker 1: with two chains, don't sleep on two chains. When two
20:28
Speaker 1: chains know it's about bars, he brings the bars. When
20:32
Speaker 1: it's about trap, he'll go do the trap thing. But
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Speaker 1: he's shown on a number of occasions. If y'all want bars,
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Speaker 1: I could be there on any track with anybody. But again,
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Speaker 1: this isn't a this wasn't a long album. Well actually
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Speaker 1: it's eleven songs forty minutes, still under an hour. But
20:55
Speaker 1: if you've never heard this Conway the Machine Project. I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying it's doper than like Rejects two or whatever,
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Speaker 1: but I think it deserves to get mentioned as some
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Speaker 1: of his better projects. Because I wore it out in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. I might listen to it today because
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Speaker 1: it's been a while. I'm just saying, all right, two
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Speaker 1: more next up. This one is from a legend in
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Speaker 1: the game, from the legendary routine Klan the Jizz like
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Speaker 1: most people, and I wasn't on strike or anything like
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Speaker 1: that when it happened. But Liquid Swords Drop, which is
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Speaker 1: a classic, and Beneath the Surface, which is actually a
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Speaker 1: pretty good album, but it was a little underwhelming coming
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Speaker 1: off of Liquid Swords, and then I kind of checked
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Speaker 1: out after that, and then somebody put me on to
21:51
Speaker 1: pro Tubes, which released in twenty thirteen. Now you're talking
21:56
Speaker 1: about really being into jizz a heavy in the mid nineties,
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Speaker 1: and in the late nineties, he drops an album and
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Speaker 1: I'm a little underwhelmed, and I never really come back
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Speaker 1: to anything he's doing. I don't know what he's dropped, like,
22:12
Speaker 1: I don't know anything. And somebody says, Yo, just a
22:16
Speaker 1: got an album called pro Tools and I'm like, oh,
22:21
Speaker 1: that's a dope title. It's just a what can we expect?
22:27
Speaker 1: Those face gets a lot of credit for maintaining and
22:30
Speaker 1: carrying on the Wu Tang sound, which I agree, and
22:34
Speaker 1: I think in a lot of ways that brought Raykon
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Speaker 1: back to that sound eventually. And trust me, Raykon has
22:41
Speaker 1: more albums that are dope than not, and Mobilarity is
22:45
Speaker 1: his worst. But besides that, everything else is either good
22:49
Speaker 1: or great. But there is one that's made that came later,
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Speaker 1: But this to me was more in line with that
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Speaker 1: wou sound Jizzus pro Tools too bad. That is not
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Speaker 1: a write up for it. But with that being said,
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Speaker 1: you know some of the usual suspects Ahead Master killing Rizza.
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Speaker 1: Check this out. Twenty thirteen short race featuring Rock Marciano.
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Speaker 1: Y'all know, y'all love him. True Master was on here.
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Speaker 1: Who else from the ru Rizz is on here again.
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Speaker 1: He even had a song like labels, remember like how
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Speaker 1: he was doing that or whatever called alphabets, which was crazy.
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Speaker 1: This album is an album that sounds like the wool.
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Speaker 1: So for those when I say slept on, for those
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Speaker 1: who like man I checked out after Liquid Swords, I
23:48
Speaker 1: see all those other albums. I feel like this. Some
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Speaker 1: people even talk about the Jizza and Mugs joint more
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Speaker 1: than they'll talk about anything else. It's liquid swords and
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Speaker 1: maybe you get them talking about the album he has
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Speaker 1: with DJ Muggs. But Pro Tools to me, which was
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Speaker 1: his last out solo album, was really good and a
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Speaker 1: lot of people haven't heard it, which is crazy. So
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Speaker 1: if you find a time, check out Jesus pro Tools.
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Speaker 1: It's a very dope album. I like it. I go
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Speaker 1: back to it frequently, you know, every now and again. Again,
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Speaker 1: everything is there, the bars, the production, and when you're talking,
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Speaker 1: just the intelligence because he's like one of the intelligent rappers.
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Speaker 1: You feel like you get smarter when you hear him talk.
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Speaker 1: So that's that. And lastly, and this one may be controversial,
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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you how I feel the way
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Speaker 1: I feel. This is jay Z. And you see these
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Speaker 1: essential albums here. Now, they probably got every jay Z
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Speaker 1: album day and then listit as essential. But this one,
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Speaker 1: most hip hop heads think it's garbage, but it's not
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Speaker 1: Blueprint three. Well, the Blueprint series isn't what it probably
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Speaker 1: should have been, right. I think the first Blueprint is
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Speaker 1: a classic, the second Blueprint was a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a disappointment. It was a double album, and honestly, if
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Speaker 1: he paired it down to the best songs, I think
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Speaker 1: it would have been pushing that classic status. Also, he
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Speaker 1: eventually did it with some like Blueprint two point one,
25:38
Speaker 1: but that don't count. You don't get to do a duover.
25:42
Speaker 1: But he was doing what we said. Blueprint three was
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Speaker 1: a very different time. It's two thousand and nine and
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Speaker 1: jay Z's out here, and in two thousand and nine
25:51
Speaker 1: was when the Big Three were around, and the Willets
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Speaker 1: and the Meek Mill. It was like a new generation.
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Speaker 1: So read a little bit about it. By the time
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Speaker 1: the Blueprint three arrived in two thousand and nine, jay
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Speaker 1: Z's relationship to rap had gotten complicated. He'd headlined rock
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Speaker 1: oriented festivals like Glastonbury I think that's how you say that,
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Speaker 1: and materialized at shows by Brooklyn bands like Grizzly Bed,
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Speaker 1: saying he hoped indie rock might help shake up what
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Speaker 1: he saw as the stagnancy of hip hop, which is
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Speaker 1: crazy to say that. I didn't even know he said that.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's why the head taped this album. The Blueprint
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Speaker 1: three positions him as an elder statesman of rap, one
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Speaker 1: who condemns trends death of alter tune y'all remember that,
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Speaker 1: but who isn't afraid of the crossover moves that made
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Speaker 1: him famous in the first place. See Rihanna featuring Kanye West,
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Speaker 1: Run This Town, Alicia Key's Empire state of Mind. At
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Speaker 1: one point on the Blueprint three, Jay claims he's sold tomorrow.
26:59
Speaker 1: His watch says yesterday, but on the precipice of forty,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't forty. He knows better than to worry about time.
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Speaker 1: After all, plenty of rappers have excelled at the game.
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Speaker 1: Jay Z wrote the rules. We don know about that.
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Speaker 1: But a lot of people don't like this album in
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Speaker 1: particular because it had a very commercial feel. It had
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Speaker 1: a ton of features and big features like big artists,
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Speaker 1: new present. I don't think anybody from the past was
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Speaker 1: on here, like Rihanna, Kanye West, Alisia Keys, Young Jeezy,
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Speaker 1: Swiss Beats is on here, Drake is on here, j
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Speaker 1: Cole Kid, Cuddy on here, Pharrell and mister Hudson right.
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Speaker 1: Fifteen songs, one hour exactly. But what I liked about
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Speaker 1: this album is the way jay Z was talking to y'all.
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Speaker 1: That's the best parted this album. So you may not
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Speaker 1: like some of the beats. I know some people hate
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Speaker 1: Swiss beats, so they don't like some of that. But
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Speaker 1: jay Z was talking on this album, and that's what
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Speaker 1: I liked about it a lot. What we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: That beat was crazy too on there. But when you
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Speaker 1: hear what jay Z's saying, he being real, Like, you know,
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Speaker 1: we like to debate the state of hip hop, so
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Speaker 1: this was like a state of the Union address for
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Speaker 1: jay Z. Thank you. I don't really remember that much.
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Speaker 1: I think I liked it. I don't know. Death of
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Speaker 1: Altitune got everybody's attention, which was dope Run this Town
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Speaker 1: was a big hit. I still like this to this day.
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Speaker 1: Empire State of Mind is probably more hated now than
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Speaker 1: it was when it first dropped. I was so so
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Speaker 1: on it. Now I'm kind of more on the hate train,
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Speaker 1: like I'd rather not hear it. I think they just
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Speaker 1: wore it out real as it gets. That's adult record.
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Speaker 1: Jeezy got busy on there by the way, onto the
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Speaker 1: next one. Hey, I like the two step. I know
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Speaker 1: some of y'all onto the next onto some of y'all
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Speaker 1: don't like that. Some of y'all want to be head
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Speaker 1: nod to death or just death stand people when you
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Speaker 1: listen to hip hop, and that's cool too, But I
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Speaker 1: thought this was a nice little bot with Swiss beat
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Speaker 1: off that with Drake to me was disappointing. Drake was
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Speaker 1: hot at this point in time. They eventually did it
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Speaker 1: had a better collaboration on the song pound Cake with
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Speaker 1: What's the album? Nothing was the same I think it
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Speaker 1: was on there, so that was a little disappointing. A
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Speaker 1: Star Is Born with j Cole was also disappointing. I
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Speaker 1: expected more to be honest. Venus versus Mars was kind
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Speaker 1: of cool, you know, men and women and relationships. I
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Speaker 1: love already Homeward Kid cutting I'm already home, like you
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Speaker 1: don't worry about me, I'm already there. One of them
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Speaker 1: songs I mentioned onto the next one to me. These
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Speaker 1: bars got me into it. When jay Z said, hove on,
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Speaker 1: it summarizes this album and anything you may feel about
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Speaker 1: this album and this version of jay Z not being
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Speaker 1: the one you love from the past. Hove on the
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Speaker 1: news people like, how come people want my old ish
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Speaker 1: by my old album? I'm saying, what what? What? What
30:44
Speaker 1: more do you want? Right? To me, that's pack them up,
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Speaker 1: clean them up, ship them out. Right. Jay Z gave
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Speaker 1: you a ton of albums to make you a fan.
30:56
Speaker 1: And if you don't want if you want him to
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Speaker 1: regurgitate what he did or be exactly what the Blueprint
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Speaker 1: was before, or reasonable doubt or whatever by my old
31:08
Speaker 1: album and it's okay. You can listen to the joints
31:11
Speaker 1: you like only but A thought that was a hot
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Speaker 1: bar and I always quote it to this day. Hate
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Speaker 1: featuring Kanye. I don't really remember that. I think the
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Speaker 1: only thing with this album, I think after that joint
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Speaker 1: Already Home, it kind of goes downhill a little bit,
31:28
Speaker 1: right because some of that crossover stuff isn't working towards
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Speaker 1: the end of the album, especially Young Forever. I hate
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Speaker 1: that record. I hate it. Unnecessary, didn't sound dope. I
31:43
Speaker 1: get jay Z likes that record. A lot of people
31:45
Speaker 1: like that Forever Young record, but just wasn't good, very forgettable.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it plays at certain stadiums with certain crowds cool.
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Speaker 1: I don't care. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: this is a very slept on album in his catalog,
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Speaker 1: the Blueprint three, especially slept On album cover. It's pretty dope.
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Speaker 1: I remember back then when this drop. I think when
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Speaker 1: I bought the Blueprint three, it came with a T shirt,
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Speaker 1: a black t shirt but had those three red lines
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Speaker 1: across it. Very dope album, refreshing album. So there you
32:22
Speaker 1: have it. Those are five only five albums and some
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Speaker 1: of my favorite artists catalog that I think are slept on.
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Speaker 1: They just don't get mentioned in a lot of conversations
32:36
Speaker 1: when talking about artist's catalogs. Obviously, he has albums that
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Speaker 1: are way better, but he has a lot of albums,
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Speaker 1: and I think this is one of the better ones.
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Speaker 1: So what do you think? What are some of yours?
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Speaker 1: hip hop fan. If there's an album I feel like
32:57
Speaker 1: you mentioned that, I have to go back to and
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