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The Fall Off Album Review · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of Hip Hop Now
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  Speaker 1: Podcast it is the review of j Cole's final album.
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  Speaker 2: The Fall Off. Let's Do It. Welcome to jip Hop
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  Speaker 1: and I give my opinion on those stories. Typically I'll
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  Speaker 1: do I'll save like an album review for the end.
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  Speaker 1: But there's certain albums by certain people with a certain
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  Speaker 1: connection to the culture that's so strong that I say
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  Speaker 1: this deserves an episode by itself.
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  Speaker 2: J Cole just dropped what he has called a.
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  Speaker 1: Hinted at and maybe not even hinted, his final album,
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  Speaker 1: and it's entitled The fall Off. You might have heard
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  Speaker 1: about this album dropping about two years ago. But then
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  Speaker 1: some things happened. Okay, you know the rollout was disrupted,
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  Speaker 1: remember that the mixtape pretty Dope mixtape might delete later,
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  Speaker 1: and then he had to delete a certain song off
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  Speaker 1: of there, like what was it seven minute Freestyle or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: which was a response to Kendrick Lamar, a dis record
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  Speaker 1: basically a response to Kendrick Lamar's verse off of the
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  Speaker 1: we still we don't wait wait a minute, we don't
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  Speaker 1: trust you, because I like, we still don't trust you.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the album, but.
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  Speaker 1: Responded to k Dot, people were like, yeah, I thought
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  Speaker 1: Cole would do a little bit better, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel like it was the worst. And then J Cole
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  Speaker 1: apologized as a video you can watch it. He was
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  Speaker 1: at a concert and he was just like something in
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  Speaker 1: his spirit or whatever. I don't know what he's saying.
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  Speaker 1: But after saying what he would do to rappers. It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty disappointing to a lot of J Cole fans
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  Speaker 1: and probably some haters who didn't like him anyway, And
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  Speaker 1: he had been trying to pick up from the rollout.
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  Speaker 1: But that battle literally the residual effects of that battle, right,
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  Speaker 1: the battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar took place in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, like that, that was that year. But
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  Speaker 1: then twenty twenty five was like the residue of that battle, right,
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  Speaker 1: not like us Grammy Awards, Kendrick got the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Drake, you know what I'm saying. I hear you
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  Speaker 2: like him.
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  Speaker 1: So it lasted for a long time, and in that time,
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  Speaker 1: Drake and J Cole were trying to be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: remember remember us I dropped something?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you still don't like what I did?
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  Speaker 1: And I thought in twenty twenty five, J Cole had
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  Speaker 1: a song called Clouds right, and it was really like
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  Speaker 1: loud right, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, it was it was a bunch of things.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought it was a dope record because it
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  Speaker 1: was the one record where he didn't, you know, really
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  Speaker 1: addressed what happened.
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  Speaker 2: He just rapped and he just rapped about something else. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Prior to that, he tried to say a few things
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  Speaker 1: about like what would have happened on that song that
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  Speaker 1: was essentially an apology to Drake port Antonio. I think
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  Speaker 1: that was the name event and it was a dope record,
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  Speaker 1: but because of what happened, it just soured people. So
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  Speaker 1: every time J Cole tried to pop out and be like, AYO,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still nice, the minute he would say anything about
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  Speaker 1: top three and blah blah blah, people would just push
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  Speaker 1: him back down. So then the rollout for the fall
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  Speaker 1: off is happening. In twenty twenty six, on his birthday,
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  Speaker 1: he releases a mixtape hosted by DJ Klue called A
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  Speaker 1: Birthday Blizzard twenty six, which is kind of a nice
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  Speaker 1: nod to DJ clue mixtape from back in the day
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  Speaker 1: called The Blizzard of ninety six. I was outside, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: The mixtape was dope, but I mean I was literally outside.
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  Speaker 1: Had a job around that time and had to work,
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  Speaker 1: and if you were here for the Blizzard of ninety six,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like how'd you get there?
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  Speaker 2: Long story?
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  Speaker 1: But the mixtape came out and he's rapping over you know,
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  Speaker 1: Black Rob beats locks like he's wrapping over these dope
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  Speaker 1: beats and he's he's going crazy from an ability standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: But he does it again.
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  Speaker 1: Right, He talks about falling out of the top three,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm cool with that because
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what happened. I didn't think he fell out.
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  Speaker 1: I think he just fell to number three because you know,
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  Speaker 1: he ain't fight for it. After he talked, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he took a swing and then he was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really want to fight. I swung on you,
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  Speaker 1: I missed, but I don't really want to fight. So again,
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  Speaker 1: any mention of that will make some rap fans roll
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  Speaker 1: their eyes at him. And he was on it again
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  Speaker 1: saying what he would do and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: But the mixtape was dope, and for me, even.
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  Speaker 1: Though I may feel like, yo, stop talking about that battle,
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  Speaker 1: like no one cares anymore at least I don't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just rap about other things, it was still a dope mixtape, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I had it as one of the best album
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  Speaker 1: slash mixtapes of January twenty twenty six because it just
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  Speaker 1: it just was, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So now we're here the fall off.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he dropped a single a record called and
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  Speaker 1: it's on the album. It's not called this, but he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he didn't want to give up the title.
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  Speaker 1: But it was like a disc to track two, right.
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  Speaker 1: He had a video on everything, and I talked about
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  Speaker 1: it on a previous episode where the concept was him
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  Speaker 1: going through his life and backwards, you know, from his
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  Speaker 1: death and just going back to his youth. And it
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  Speaker 1: was really dope, and it was an homage to Naza's
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  Speaker 1: rewind Off the Stealmatic album, and it was pretty dope.
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  Speaker 1: And when I saw it, when I heard that, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, do that. Stop talking about top three, Stop
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  Speaker 1: talking about the battles, stop talking about what.
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  Speaker 2: You would have done you didn't do it. Move on
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  Speaker 2: that song. Told me.
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  Speaker 1: I have some high helps for the album now because
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  Speaker 1: I think he's just gonna do it.
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  Speaker 2: He's just gonna rap. He's just gonna do what.
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  Speaker 1: He does right and forget about that battle. And so
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  Speaker 1: now the album is out. It's a double album. It's
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  Speaker 1: twenty four tracks. And when I say that, I mean
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  Speaker 1: there are no.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's an intro.
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  Speaker 1: There's two intros, but one intro straight up a song,
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  Speaker 1: So it's really twenty three songs straight. No other rappers
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  Speaker 1: are taking versus rapping on this project. When you look
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  Speaker 1: at the album, you know, just like looking at the
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  Speaker 1: track listing, the features aren't there. But there are features
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  Speaker 1: on the album, right. And some people can go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and put this in a comment section because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really go and do the research because I was kind
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  Speaker 1: of just trying to be, you know, a music head
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  Speaker 1: and just listen and know who's singing. And you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So Futures on here. I believe Erika
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  Speaker 1: Badu is on here. Also a couple of people are
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  Speaker 1: on here, but more so singing poetry, right, but no
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  Speaker 1: like k Dot is on a song and Drake is
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  Speaker 1: on another song.
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  Speaker 2: It is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And you know Future got a whole verse like nah,
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  Speaker 1: he uses them for hooks and to basically fill out
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  Speaker 1: the vine been the concept of the record. The length
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  Speaker 1: of this album is one hour and forty one minutes.
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  Speaker 1: To be expected, it's a double album. The label this
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  Speaker 1: says twenty twenty six Cold World Incorporated, under exclusive license
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  Speaker 1: to Interscope Records. And before I get right into the review,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say, remember he was on rock
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  Speaker 1: Nation and on this album he says he's independent.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's free, no more. He says, no more deal.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like and I'm an just spoiler alert him
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  Speaker 1: calling this his last album, but now he doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: have and he calls it his best album. Also, he's
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  Speaker 1: when an artist is free, like Big Crit for example,
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  Speaker 1: Big Crit was dope before he went to Death Jam,
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  Speaker 1: and when he went to Death Jam, it felt like
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  Speaker 1: the albums were missing something, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: Like it didn't feel like those mixtapes he created, and
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  Speaker 1: a minute he got out of his deal, it was
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  Speaker 1: like the Crit we knew was back as far musically,
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  Speaker 1: and he dropped probably like three bangers of like he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't had a whack album since he left Deaf Jam.
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  Speaker 1: J Cole saying he retires but he's independent. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe him. I believe we gonna get mixtape Cole on
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  Speaker 1: any other album he makes from hair on. And That's
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  Speaker 1: what I've always wanted from J Cole as an artist,
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  Speaker 1: right because that first his first album, I do not
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  Speaker 1: like it. There are songs I like on there, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a disappointment because his mixtape Run was crazy
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  Speaker 1: and it felt like rock Nation was trying to make
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  Speaker 1: him into Drake while at Ken Draken and every like
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  Speaker 1: all his peers who had radio singles, and maybe Kendrick
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  Speaker 1: is not in that line because Kendrick's singles that hit
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  Speaker 1: aren't really built for the radio. They just or at
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  Speaker 1: least they don't sound like it. But you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they wanted J Cole to just be like them,
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  Speaker 1: or be like Drake specifically. And I always felt like,
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  Speaker 1: that's not his length, that's not what he's good at.
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  Speaker 1: He's best when you listen to his mixtapes, he's best
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  Speaker 1: at that.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to Bill Maddick, that's him. So with this.
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  Speaker 1: Album for those and I'm sorry you had to wait
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  Speaker 1: through a little history lesson, but some people they just
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  Speaker 1: don't know all this information and you got to help
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  Speaker 1: people out, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: But two disc.
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  Speaker 1: Disc twenty nine and Disc thirty nine, now I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the concept is behind that.
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  Speaker 1: So if I don't know if J Cole has even
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  Speaker 1: done the interview yet, probably soon, but if he does,
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  Speaker 1: leave it in a comment section so you could put
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  Speaker 1: me on because I don't know, but I know he
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  Speaker 1: wanted it to feel like a double album that was
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  Speaker 1: a CD changer kind of thing, and that's why he
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  Speaker 1: used Disc twenty nine and Disc thirty nine. The album
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  Speaker 1: cover is his first drum machine. I believe he would
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  Speaker 1: make his beats. It's like his workstation. And I love
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  Speaker 1: that because that is the humble beginnings of every rapper,
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  Speaker 1: of every producer. If any rapper or producer tells you
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  Speaker 1: how much they had like it tells you that they
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  Speaker 1: had a studio, like when they were fifteen or sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: their parents got bred. But most rappers, most rappers start
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  Speaker 1: out like j Cole's album cover for the fall off
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  Speaker 1: if they're lucky.
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  Speaker 2: Some people don't even have all of that, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: They starting out with some joint where it's just like, yoh,
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  Speaker 1: Jerie only got two seconds, so I'm gonna be here
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  Speaker 1: for twenty four hours making his instrumental, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: sample this whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But for those who need an answer straight.
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  Speaker 1: Up about how good this album is, it's the best
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  Speaker 1: album of twenty twenty six so far.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know you might say, well, damn, that's we only
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  Speaker 1: really had one month. Well yeah, but there's no way
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna fall out of at least my best of
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  Speaker 1: list because it's a great album, and to summarize it,
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's the best example of everything.
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  Speaker 1: J Cole has done as an artist musically throughout his career.
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  Speaker 1: It's mixtape Cole, It's Radio Cole is different flows J Cole,
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  Speaker 1: This concepts Ja Cole's It's song for the ladies, but
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  Speaker 1: from a human perspective, you know, not super mac and
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. It boss just.
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  Speaker 1: Really a well thought out well you know really, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the main thing. It's produced well obviously, but
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  Speaker 1: as a concept for him in his life and career
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  Speaker 1: and where he's from and where he currently stays and how.
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  Speaker 2: He views the world.
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  Speaker 1: Like you, you could literally not have listen to a
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  Speaker 1: J co album ever. Hear that description, Listen to this
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  Speaker 1: album and you will get a great idea of what
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  Speaker 1: he is and who he is as an EMC and
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  Speaker 1: an artist. So when you go back a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the records that he created in the past and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the other.
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  Speaker 2: Albums all click, they all make sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a good a great introduction to somebody on
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  Speaker 1: their final album, which is not typically what happens and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's because when you listen to J Cole's
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  Speaker 1: first album, typically a rapper's debut is like your introduction
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  Speaker 1: to them, so they tell their story like thoroughly tell
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  Speaker 1: their story. But it feels like J Cole's career has
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  Speaker 1: kind of worked in reverse, like his song right, So
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the deal. And if anyone wants to know,
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  Speaker 1: how do I grade my albums? Obviously this was a
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  Speaker 1: double album, so it took me a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: time to sit with it enough to form an opinion,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: but I give it. I give albums three listens, right.
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  Speaker 1: First listen, I'm just I'm just checking it out. It's
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  Speaker 1: just playing and I'm just reacting and it's all impressions.
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  Speaker 1: Second listen, I'm listening a little bit more intently to
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  Speaker 1: the lyrics to the arrangement. You know, not only of
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  Speaker 1: the songs in order and on the different discs, but
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  Speaker 1: also the music music itself, you know, beat switches and
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you know styles and flows and everything. And then the
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  Speaker 1: third listen is really just to confirm what I think
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  Speaker 1: about the album, and as you heard, I like it
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So getting to the album real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Some of my favorite records off of here and this
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be a little on the view.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It starts well, let me just say this. It starts
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  Speaker 1: out within an intro twenty nine intro where a song
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  Speaker 1: about Carolina is playing, right, and it's a I think
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  Speaker 1: it's like a it's either a country song ORed folks song.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with it. I'm sorry. If you're from
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, you're like.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, that's you know, that's beat him in the band joke, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it, thog like it. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: That's where he's from. That's why he used it. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's dope that he did. But it kind of
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  Speaker 1: ends with some gunshots and when you listen you'll you
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  Speaker 1: kind of get the vibe of what he was doing there.
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  Speaker 1: And then the first track is a track called two
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  Speaker 1: six that I was kind of at first. I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, the man, just use your flow. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired of the the flow.
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  Speaker 2: That you know.
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  Speaker 1: Is it migos like you know that when it eight
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  Speaker 1: away type beats, you know there's a specific flow that
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  Speaker 1: Jake Cole like everybody Drake or we're using that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like, stop doing that. Your flow is enough. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and it is. But then he
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  Speaker 1: switches and I'm like, Okay, I'm not man. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: man because it's not gonna This is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be as predictable as I thought it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be when I heard that record, especially coming off this
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  Speaker 1: mixtape where he just went crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Another song, I like safety, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll say this like j Cole is holding down
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  Speaker 1: this album completely lyrically. And some of these run times
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  Speaker 1: for songs like five minutes or more.
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  Speaker 2: That's like old school.
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  Speaker 1: So that's to be commended because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys out here who don't even give you enough versus,
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  Speaker 1: let alone give you a five minute track, like some
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: cats are just not doing that anymore. Poor Thing is
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: another one. Legacy is dope. One of my favorites is
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: who the F Is You.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Because I can relate to it. It has a dope bit. Well,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: first of all, the beat is dope when it starts out.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And I believe that's the record that samples because there's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: two Mob Deep samples on this album, but that record
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: in particular samples drop a gem on them off of
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Mob Deep's third album, Hell on Earth, which will be
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: celebrating with a special episode right here on the channel,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: saluting nineteen ninety six because it's thirty years since that
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: classic album, but perfect time for Cole to sample it
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: on the song that I like a lot, and I
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: believe there's a beat switch and I mess with that too,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: so that song is high. Drumming Bass is not what
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be. It's such a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: cool vibe and his flow is smooth and everything, and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I was just like, okay, disc one or excuse me,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: this twenty nine. I'm like this, this is cool, but again,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I know there's a long way to go on this album.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: The next record right after Drumming Bass is The Letout.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I really like that one.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Because I can relate to it right And I'm not
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: saying only I, I'm just speaking for myself.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I can relate to that record.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: If you don't know what the letout is, that's when
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and you may be familiar, but that's when you know.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: You go to a club or whatever.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: You in the club and once it's all over and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you're let out of the club by security, right everybody's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: leaving the club. People black folk we like to kind
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of hang out in and round, and that's called the letout.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I know people who just went to the letouts of
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: why because that was the opportunity for them to do
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: some parking lot pamp it okay, or set up you know,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: whatever next spot you're going to with your friends or
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: some women or whatever. But J Cole raps about it
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: being dangerous, like I hope I survived to let out,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and that is true because a couple of a couple
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of situations. And again, I'm not here to spoil the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: tracks or whatever. I'm just trying to give you my
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: opinion and what and why I like certain songs. But
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: for example, sometimes when you're in the club, you may
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: have some beef with somebody, right, you don't know if
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: that beef is going to it may get settled in
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the club, right, security separates y'all get out of here,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: go dance somewhere else, But you don't know if it's
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: going to pick up once you're let out of the club.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Or you could have had a great time in the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: club and you and the homies a hype and you know,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: maybe you got a couple of numbers, maybe gonna slide
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: whatever it may be, but you don't know about somebody
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: else's beef that may be popping off outside of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: club during the letout, or the dude that got kicked
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: out because he was the aggressive.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: You don't know if he went back to his.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Car and can't and he's waiting at the letout to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: let out with it. I'm doing for people listening it
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: that did the gun fingers whatever.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: But you know what I mean.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I related to that record a lot, so it became
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite But at that point in time
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: where you know, I'm like, Okay, we're getting to the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: end of disc one or disc twenty nine, and my
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: feelings on the first disc was it's cool. You know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I like a couple of songs hearing and it's cool.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not blown away by anything. I'm not like, oh,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: this is the greatest I can't wait to hear more.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I liked what I heard and most of it was cool,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: but I was curious about how he was going to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: finish this project. Because double albums, that second disc is
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: just as important as the first, and throughout the history
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: of hip hop, there's some double disc albums where that
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: first disc is fire and that second one is kind
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of lame or vice versa.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe that first disc was okay, but then the second
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: this is better. Shout out to the game documentary two.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Both discs are flames. I couldn't believe it when I
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: was listening to it. Bud, y'all should check that out.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: So I get to excuse me. Disc number two, which
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: is Disc thirty nine, and the intro drops, which is
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: a basically an intro in a six minute song, and
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, maybe it's just gonna be a little
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: bit of more of the same, but you know this,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: this intro sounds good.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You know it's to me, it wasn't like the strongest.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Like again, there's some double albums when that sect that
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: first song off the second disc is really strong. It's like, oh, okay,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: we kick it into second gear. But I didn't feel
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: that way about this. I felt like, oh, this is cool.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Remember before this album, he dropped the video for a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: song titled Disc two Track two. Well, the name of
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that song is the fall Off is Inevitable, right, And
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: that's the song where he's rapping his life and reverse.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, you know I heard this before,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: but I thought it was pretty dope. So we're starting
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to pick up. Then the next song that I like
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a lot, the Villas, It's like, oh yeah, okay, now
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: we're talking spitting. It's kind of crazy. This two is
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: this two slash this thirty nine. It's starting to sound
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: like this is the stronger of the two.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Did.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: He drops a song called Old Dog, and I'm like, yo,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I like that, And I also a song that is
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: very relatable, right, and not just physically but mentally where
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you are even if you're not a rapper, you know
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, just where you are in your life
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and the way you think about things. And again, nothing
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: he's saying is all surface elementary raps, right. Some of
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: it is so you know what he's talking about, but
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: some of it is a lot of metaphors and similes
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, which you know.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I like.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Life sentence is a favorite of mine. J Coo is
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: very good at making relationship songs.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: He's very good at that. Y'all hated folding clothes.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I was like, this song is dope, okay, because you
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: know why, because it's real life.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I like some of the record, like cool I grew
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: up on Koolgi Rat Okay, cool Gi rap two short Scarface.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: You listen to that first Scarface album. His debut is
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: a song going there. That's what I was used to,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: but I knew that's not everybody's life. Life sentenced by
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Jay Cole is another way to make a song about
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: getting married.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: And it's flames.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, you thought it was about prison, it's not okay,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: as someone who's been married doing on twenty five years.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Trust me, I used that term life sentence all the time.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I'm joking. All right, ladies, relax. So I'm listening to it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, this too. And then I get to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: track number eight on Disc thirty nine, I love her again.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Now shout out to the homie IK.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You know, we always cipher after, you know, big releases
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and talk about things.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: But me and him said the same thing when we
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: read the title.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: We were like, this is going to be another version
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: of commons I used to love her. If you don't
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: know about that record, go look it up. Listen to it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Spoil the alert. He's talking about hip hop. He's not
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: talking about a woman. He's using hip hop as if
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: it's a woman in a relationship. I'm here to tell
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you it's been done over and over again. Even Common
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: kind of went back to the well and said how
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: he felt about loving hip hop. Numerous times people have
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: used the concept, but this is the definitive sequel to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: why I used to love her. I don't care what
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: you say, because it's that good. It's that good. Whereas
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: commons I used to love her was obviously coming from
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: his perspective and his relationship with hip hop at that time,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: so it included a lot of references to the West
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Coast in the eighties and nineties and.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Stuff like that.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Whereas this, because J Cole is younger, he's on a
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: different timeline and hip hop, and it feels like he
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: picks up where COmON left off. You know, it might
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: be a little bit of a gap in there because
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: of their ages, but he definitely picks up early two thousands,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and he talks about like, you know, how he came
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: to New York. I'm not gonna spoil it too much,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: but you know, he came to New York because that's
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: where hip hop is right and she moved to the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: A and we all know the timeline with Atlanta taking
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: over basically hip hop right very dope record, and to me,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: that's when it all clicked. It was like that song happened,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and then my brain started to go back to everything
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I heard previously, and I was like, this is if
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: this ain't his best album, this is close.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: This is number two.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And one last record I want to highlight because I
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: think it speaks to the Battle, but in a very
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: different way. And it's called what If, And you find
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: j Cole basically assuming the role of Biggie and Tupac
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and different verses and basically choosing the alternative from what happened,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: what if Big was able to do this? What if
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Pac was able to do this?
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And he goes through the timeline of almost everything you
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: can find on the internet and documentaries about Tupac and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Biggie and their deaths, and he includes it there, but
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: he includes the what if they were able to reconcile,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you know, or talk or whatever.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: And we know none of that was able to happen.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: But we also know that that rap beef wasn't the
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: cause of their demise, and I think that's a media thing,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to be honest, which J Cole mentions, but we know
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: a rap battle didn't do that because we can go
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: down the history of the best rap battles of all time,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: and Big and Pac never battled, Shan and kras One did,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Busy B and Kumo, d ice Cube and NWA, West
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Side Connection and Common like Nobody died. They exchanged this record.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Biggie and POC never really exchanged disc records. Pac made
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: one this well, maybe he made two, but it's just
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: not that's not what the result was. They didn't get
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: murdered because of dis records.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: But I heard this song.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's pretty dope because Ja Cole flows like Biggie,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't try to sound like Biggie, right, And
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: when I say sound, he doesn't change his voice. It's
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: still j Cole rapid in his own voice, but he's
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: flowing like Biggie. And then the same thing with Tupac.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: He's flowing like Tupac, similar cadences to both of them.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: And I thought that was really dope because we've seen
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: it happen where people using a AI or trying to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: change their voice to sound like them and they don't
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: really sound like them.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: But he did.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: All of this tell a story, and the only reason
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: why I feel like it was tied to the battle
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and specifically to him bowing out of the battle. Is
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: because the what if is if they didn't go that route, right,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: they didn't go that route of beefing, what if they
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: made the decision to do something else, to talk or
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: to bow out or whatever it may be. And I think,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: you know, that was probably Jacole's best way to express
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: probably the only way he should have expressed what he
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: felt at the time when he was leaving the battle
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: with Kendrick, Lamar and Drake. This is this is probably
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the only thing he should have said in regards to
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the battle in this form. And I think everything would
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: be fine. And I think everything is fine, but there's
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: going to be people who still don't like him because
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: of that. But I feel like all of that what
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I would have done in the battle? Nah, this what
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: if say it like that, you know what I'm saying,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: or even I love her again, say it like that,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: then people would be like, then you look like literally
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: look like the bigger guy. But again, when you were threatened,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the yo, if they come against me, the Gods is gonna,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the clouds are gonna.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: You didn't do none of that, okay, but this is it.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: So in summary, J Coles The fall Off is a
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: very dope album double album, one of the better double
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: albums in hip hop history?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Is it the best? That's debatable.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: For him not to have any other rappers rapping on here,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that is very commendable for a double disc, because I'm
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I'm almost positive unless there's an album I'm not thinking
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: about that it's a double album. Most double albums, including
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Life After Death and All Eyes on Me, have a
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: bunch of features. And nothing's wrong with having a bunch
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: of features, you know, it's cool to hear them, you know,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: rapping next to other people. But he held this down
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: himself and for the most part, there's a lot to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: like here. Sure, you can take the best of these
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: discs and make something that is like an untouchable classic.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: But I feel like, for what he did in twenty
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: twenty six this way and it's in his way, it's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: commendable and it's one of the best albums of twenty
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: twenty six so far. So did you hear J Cole's
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: brand new album, final album, The fall Off? Leave your
• 36:49
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• 36:52
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• 36:58
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• 37:04
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• 37:09
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• 37:11
  Speaker 1: what YouTube counts. And the hype. Give me some of
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the hype points. I don't know where they really go,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: but just hit ip okay, just hit it, and please
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: remember I have a series happening. We started with the
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: first episode, which was Tupac's All Eyes on Me and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: mcavelly albums both dropped in nineteen ninety six. It's thirty
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: years since those albums dropped, and I brought in a
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: homie hot to do you know, to review the album,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: re review it. And there's going to be a whole
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: series of albums from nineteen ninety six, twelve albums once
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: a month, and I think you should check it out.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: So until then, y'all, I'm not a critic.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: I'm a fan. Pace