October 13, 2025 • 18 mins
On today's podcast , Hosts Ramses Ja and Q Ward look at Rap Superstar Kendrick Lamar's ongoing success in the world of music.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. This is the
QR code where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes.
The man you are about to hear from was once
upon a time one of the fastest human beings in
the world. He's the Q in the QR code. He
goes by the name of Q word, so we're.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Not going to hyperbole on this show. The R in
the QR code goes by the name ramses Jot and
he puts twenty on ten sometimes, especially when he's talking
to you all about me. I was an All American
sprinter in high school. So one of the fastest people
in the world. If that means like the top thousand
(00:41):
fastest people on earth, than sure one of the fastest.
Makes it seem like I'm like top three or four
or five, and I wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well listen, I'm a big fan either way, but we
needed to stick around. We're gonna be talking about Kendrick's
extended victory lab. I'm really excited to talk about that,
But right now it is time for q Ward to
talk to us about how the president rewards loyalty over merit.
In his clap back, Q.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
When loyalty replaces expertise. All of us have to pay
the price. Perhaps I wanted to talk about how, if
we're looking at the failures of our nation, our shortcomings,
the gaps, the places where we're falling most short right now,
(01:31):
how many of those failures begin in the top chairs
of the people who are running the whole thing. So
what happens when the people running America's most powerful agencies
are chosen not for what they know, but for who
they praise. Because right now we're watching a government stacked
(01:54):
with loyalty hires instead of leaders. Some people would say
they didn't earn it, and you can feel it everywhere,
from disaster zones to defense briefings to the Department of Justice.
The cost of incompetence is no longer theoretical. It's showing
(02:15):
up daily in our real lives, real failures, and real
actual danger. This administration appointments read less like resumes and
more like resolutions of devotion, Cabinet seats being filled by
people whose only qualification is a pleasure allegiance to one man.
(02:42):
Take Pete Hexseth, handpicked to run the Pentagon, the former
Department of Defense now named cruelly the Department of War
with zero experience managing anything close to a military bureaucracy.
(03:04):
He's a television pundit, suddenly and out of nowhere, responsible
for the largest workforce on the planet. At FEMA, career
experts are warning Congress that their new leadership lacks the
skills to coordinate disaster response, saying flat out that another
(03:26):
Katrina lever failure is now more likely than ever. This
is not abstract. It's why hurricane victims can't get timely aid.
It's why policy decisions change by the hour. It's why
generals are ignored while cable TV commentators write national security doctrine.
(03:52):
When the people in charge don't understand the systems they
control everything downstream collapses, training, funding, oversight, and in most cases, morale,
even though in today's climate it's hard to tell because
again some members who are under the control and leadership
(04:16):
of these people are also loyalist. Government has become a
stage play where the script is loyalty and the ending
will very very easy to predict. Chaos experts would call
this a competence gap. In complex systems, one bad decision
(04:38):
from the top multiplies one hundredfold. A defense secretary without
management experience, risk military readiness. A FEMA head without logistics
training means slower rescues, longer suffering, and even in some
cases death. A justice department led by loyalists instead of
lawyers erodes the rule of law. It se when the
(05:01):
people who swear to defend the constitution don't even understand it,
every citizen, no matter your loyalty, is less safe. This
is what happens when a movement trades governance for their
own perceived grievances. When drain the swamp flips to fill
(05:24):
it with your friends, when power becomes a prize instead
of a responsibility, and while the congratulate themselves for shaking
things up, the rest of us are left rebuilding what
their ignorance destroys. Start with our schools, our hospitals, flood zones,
and ultimately the trust of the citizens. In the real world,
(05:49):
expertise saves lives. Loyalty, however, for a man with a
very fragile one, saves people's egos. So our clap back.
We don't need more cheerleaders placed in charge. We need competent, skilled,
(06:14):
qualified adults. We don't need soldiers of ideology. We need stewards.
Those with integrity, because every time they hand a powerful
desk to someone unqualified, it's not just a bad appointment,
it's an act of deliberate negligence against the very people
(06:37):
and the very constitution they swore to serve. In this case,
loyalty might and seemingly always does win you a job,
but in order for this country to be safe, we're
going to need more in the way of competence, and
right now, our country and its people deserve a leader
(07:00):
who can do more than just salute himself in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's kind of a scary time, of course, but it's
so mind blowing that they made such a big deal
out of DEI special carbouts quote unquote that they were
trying to re chronicle it have special carbouts for black
people and positions just for black people, and how unfair
(07:32):
that was. And black people weren't qualified for these things,
and d I stood for didn't earn it. And the
literally the president, the source of all this, hires his
friends people with no experience, with no qualifications, no education,
toward the toward the ends of you know, the positions
they now hold. And the same people that push back
(07:55):
against DEI are super silent right now, like, yeah, this
is normal. It's really sad and hypocritical. All right, let's
have some dialogue. Let's talk about something that I don't know.
It makes me a little happy, Kendrick's extended victory lap. Okay,
so first thing, I will tell you what happened. Q
(08:16):
said to me. He sent me this video. He's like,
Rahm's just check this video out. And it's like Kendrick
Lamar at a concert. And I'm like, oh, okay, you know,
we send stuff like this back and forth all the time.
And I looked at this video and I have to
describe it to you because of course you're listening to me.
But this video was amazing. It was amazing. It was
(08:41):
just Kendrick on a stage. I mean, a stage is
like an understatement. It was a I don't know what
that was it was. I mean it was a stage, sure,
but like the crowd meant that it was more than
a stage. It was like it was a sea of
people and he just commanded that crowd and they just
(09:02):
jumped up and down and responded to his music. It
was beautiful to see and I'm like, oh my god,
when was this? And it was like from yesterday or something,
and I'm like, yo, he's still doing his thing, and
Q was like, yeah, man, he is all the way up.
He's just not in the country right now. He's like
doing the world tour thing and he's killing it, man,
(09:24):
And I'm like, yo, what a trip. So I wanted
to see, of course, like if this was the same
thing going on elsewhere. It turns out that it absolutely is.
Cue I actually confirmed that. He said that. You know,
there's some other videos of him in other parts of
the world south of my places. You would not expect
a crowd like that period. You wouldn't expect a crowd
(09:46):
like that to exist. And they're all at a Kendrick
Lamar show with just Kendrick go on state. It blew
my mind. The video that comes to mind was from
where Q Argentina was the largest one.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But if you search Kendrick Lamar Live Family Ties, you'll
see this sea of shorts. So what all these creators
are trying to capture is the moment he, as you said,
commands these massive seas of people on command jump. Sure
(10:21):
the song playing is Family Ties. It sounds like victory music.
It sounds triumphant.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That so became.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And a drum and yeah, him and Baby King song
family ties, and then you see tens of thousands of
people on command, almost in unison, like they rehearsed it. Jump,
but it doesn't look like people jumping. It looks like
waves of sound, waters or whatever. And it's happening all
(10:50):
over the world. It turns out the most tame crowds
he performed to were right here at home. Once he
got on an airplane and start crossing bodies of water,
it turned into something different. And this cultural moment, and
this is not hyperbole. We've never seen it before by
anyone in almost any genre of music, like music festivals
(11:14):
where there's several acts command these kind of crowds. Yeah, yeah,
maybe single person on stage with just the sound of
his voice. And I'm like, I've never seen it before. Yeah,
so watch this, watch this.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I remember the thing when I first saw it, because
I mean, I don't know. I haven't been to Argentina yet.
Maybe one day i'll go. But I've heard some interesting
things about Argentina. They have like a lot of connections
to like Nazi Germany, and I don't know if they've
turned over a new leaf. But that's just the most
recent knowledge that I know about a place like that, right,
(11:50):
So when I saw that Kendrick was there, I'm like,
oh my god, all these people came out to see
Kendrick Lamar, right, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And a place with those that you would typically see
at soccer matches, right, it was crazy. In those parts
of the world, tens of thousands of people go to
watch football, yeah, the original football, not the NFL football,
and those type of crowds come to see teams that
they've been loyal to for generations. This is a single
(12:22):
man from Compton, California shout out all parts of the
world with crowds that I've never seen before. And it's
not just that they're there, it's how they're responding to
the music.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yes, if you get a chance, just google.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Kendrick Lamar family ties and pick a country type Germany type,
Brazil type, Spain type, Chili type, Argentina type, Mexico, and
you will see something that you've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That's so special. All right. So if that were everything,
that would be plenty, but it's not. So I'm going
to share an article this from hnahh dot com Hot
New Hip Hop For those in the know. This is
the words from H and H. All right, Kendrick Lamar
already won big last year, but he opened his mouth
(13:11):
again with the GNX album and another and other collaborations
under his belt. Can I appause you for a second? Yeah,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
There's a reason opened his mouth is in quotations.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Okay, I'm not I'm not there yet.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Helped me out in their battle last year, Drake an
effort to taunt Kendrick, and the battle record said.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Kendrick just opened his mouth. I remember.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now, someone go get him a Grammy right now. After
he said that, Kendrick Lamar released a song called not
Like Us, and that song swept the Grammys following.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Their rap battle, the Poetic Justice right there.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So, Kendrick Lamar already won big last year, but he
opened his mouth again with the GNX album and other
collaborations under his belt. So that would give people some
some some context stuff. I appreciate add of information that follows.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, yeah, out of gloss right over that, So I
appreciate that. All Right, here we go, while he's while
we've been talking about the victory lap of Kendrick lamarvo
over a year. Now, it seems like this era will
finally be for real this time come to a close.
Seems like this era will finally for real this time
come to a close. Sorry about that. That's because his
final offerings in the post Drake Battle era, his GNX
(14:24):
album and his newest siss of Playboy Carti and Clips
collaborations are now leading his twenty twenty six Grammys campaign.
Kirkho caught the Compton Lyricists reported submissions for Grammy Award
nominations consideration this year on Twitter, and they are extensive.
After all. If he wins four awards this year, raising
his total to twenty six, he would surpass Jay Z
(14:44):
as the most awarded hip hop artist in Recording America sorry,
Recording Academy history. As long as Hove doesn't win any
this year. Specifically, the big contender here is GNX itself,
who's Lefty Gunplay collaboration tv OFF was submitted for Best
Song and Best Rap Performance, Luthor with Sizzus SEEKHS Record
of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Melodic Rap Performance,
(15:08):
and Best Music Video nominations. As for the LP as
a whole, its submissions are in the Album of the Year,
Best Rap Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non classical categories.
Then there are Kendrick Lamar's other collaborations in this eligibility period.
These include Thirty for Thirty with his Grand National Tour
colleague for Best Pop Duo Slash Group Performance, with Chains
(15:29):
and Whips with Clips for Best Rap Performance, Good Credit
with Playboy Cardi for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance,
and Backdoor with Cardi for Best Melodic Rap Performance. His
possible nomination in a total of eleven categories makes his
chances to become hip hop's most grammyst Titan s Titan
(15:50):
quite solid. Sorry, does ka Dot deserve this? Will lead
that debate up to the fans. It's not like they
have ever stopped having the Drake conversation or criticizing either
our separately. We will see what happens on February first
of next year. Okay, So that feels super exciting. It's
like watching history be made and I love so so
(16:12):
and for folks that don't know, because I recognize that
we talk more about politics on this show, then we
talk about what is really our roots. Q and I's
roots are in hip hop. Decidedly we are DJ still well,
I am still Q is still a DJ. I will
make sure, the Q is still tied anyway. You know,
(16:35):
there's there's there's more facets to life than just one.
So that's why we're not just hip hop artists and
we're not just activist we you know, these both of
these things matter. But Kendrick gives us an opportunity to
kind of play in the middle ground, so to speak,
because Kendrick has emerged. He always has been, but he's
(16:56):
really emerged as a more prominent protector of the culture
of black culture and pronounced it in such a way
to where people know to respect it, can still commercialize it,
and so forth, but people recognize that there are people
that will stand up to grifters and on and on
and on. And I think that obviously last year's battle,
(17:19):
he showed that people can get played out because he
played Drake out pretty badly. I don't want to step
on your toast here, Cute if you got the last word.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
This is just really important to say before we close it,
before we move on. Nas, one of the Goats, said
recently that Kendrick is the north Star of hip hop.
That is an insane level of praise from someone like
Nas and important to state in real time. We never
like to acknowledge history. We can never say what's happening
(17:50):
now is the best ever. We always call back to
something that happened before. I am willing to say on
a live microphone that we might be witnessing the greatest
run in the history of the genre with that kid
from Compton, California talk to.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
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Speaker 2 (18:46):
I am q Ward on all social media as well.
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And we'd like for you to join us next time
as we share our news with our voice from our
perspective right here on the QR code. And until then peace,
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. This is the
QR code where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes.
The man you are about to hear from was once
upon a time one of the fastest human beings in
the world. He's the Q in the QR code. He
goes by the name of Q word, so we're.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Not going to hyperbole on this show. The R in
the QR code goes by the name ramses Jot and
he puts twenty on ten sometimes, especially when he's talking
to you all about me. I was an All American
sprinter in high school. So one of the fastest people
in the world. If that means like the top thousand
(00:41):
fastest people on earth, than sure one of the fastest.
Makes it seem like I'm like top three or four
or five, and I wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well listen, I'm a big fan either way, but we
needed to stick around. We're gonna be talking about Kendrick's
extended victory lab. I'm really excited to talk about that,
But right now it is time for q Ward to
talk to us about how the president rewards loyalty over merit.
In his clap back, Q.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
When loyalty replaces expertise. All of us have to pay
the price. Perhaps I wanted to talk about how, if
we're looking at the failures of our nation, our shortcomings,
the gaps, the places where we're falling most short right now,
(01:31):
how many of those failures begin in the top chairs
of the people who are running the whole thing. So
what happens when the people running America's most powerful agencies
are chosen not for what they know, but for who
they praise. Because right now we're watching a government stacked
(01:54):
with loyalty hires instead of leaders. Some people would say
they didn't earn it, and you can feel it everywhere,
from disaster zones to defense briefings to the Department of Justice.
The cost of incompetence is no longer theoretical. It's showing
(02:15):
up daily in our real lives, real failures, and real
actual danger. This administration appointments read less like resumes and
more like resolutions of devotion, Cabinet seats being filled by
people whose only qualification is a pleasure allegiance to one man.
(02:42):
Take Pete Hexseth, handpicked to run the Pentagon, the former
Department of Defense now named cruelly the Department of War
with zero experience managing anything close to a military bureaucracy.
(03:04):
He's a television pundit, suddenly and out of nowhere, responsible
for the largest workforce on the planet. At FEMA, career
experts are warning Congress that their new leadership lacks the
skills to coordinate disaster response, saying flat out that another
(03:26):
Katrina lever failure is now more likely than ever. This
is not abstract. It's why hurricane victims can't get timely aid.
It's why policy decisions change by the hour. It's why
generals are ignored while cable TV commentators write national security doctrine.
(03:52):
When the people in charge don't understand the systems they
control everything downstream collapses, training, funding, oversight, and in most cases, morale,
even though in today's climate it's hard to tell because
again some members who are under the control and leadership
(04:16):
of these people are also loyalist. Government has become a
stage play where the script is loyalty and the ending
will very very easy to predict. Chaos experts would call
this a competence gap. In complex systems, one bad decision
(04:38):
from the top multiplies one hundredfold. A defense secretary without
management experience, risk military readiness. A FEMA head without logistics
training means slower rescues, longer suffering, and even in some
cases death. A justice department led by loyalists instead of
lawyers erodes the rule of law. It se when the
(05:01):
people who swear to defend the constitution don't even understand it,
every citizen, no matter your loyalty, is less safe. This
is what happens when a movement trades governance for their
own perceived grievances. When drain the swamp flips to fill
(05:24):
it with your friends, when power becomes a prize instead
of a responsibility, and while the congratulate themselves for shaking
things up, the rest of us are left rebuilding what
their ignorance destroys. Start with our schools, our hospitals, flood zones,
and ultimately the trust of the citizens. In the real world,
(05:49):
expertise saves lives. Loyalty, however, for a man with a
very fragile one, saves people's egos. So our clap back.
We don't need more cheerleaders placed in charge. We need competent, skilled,
(06:14):
qualified adults. We don't need soldiers of ideology. We need stewards.
Those with integrity, because every time they hand a powerful
desk to someone unqualified, it's not just a bad appointment,
it's an act of deliberate negligence against the very people
(06:37):
and the very constitution they swore to serve. In this case,
loyalty might and seemingly always does win you a job,
but in order for this country to be safe, we're
going to need more in the way of competence, and
right now, our country and its people deserve a leader
(07:00):
who can do more than just salute himself in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's kind of a scary time, of course, but it's
so mind blowing that they made such a big deal
out of DEI special carbouts quote unquote that they were
trying to re chronicle it have special carbouts for black
people and positions just for black people, and how unfair
(07:32):
that was. And black people weren't qualified for these things,
and d I stood for didn't earn it. And the
literally the president, the source of all this, hires his
friends people with no experience, with no qualifications, no education,
toward the toward the ends of you know, the positions
they now hold. And the same people that push back
(07:55):
against DEI are super silent right now, like, yeah, this
is normal. It's really sad and hypocritical. All right, let's
have some dialogue. Let's talk about something that I don't know.
It makes me a little happy, Kendrick's extended victory lap. Okay,
so first thing, I will tell you what happened. Q
(08:16):
said to me. He sent me this video. He's like,
Rahm's just check this video out. And it's like Kendrick
Lamar at a concert. And I'm like, oh, okay, you know,
we send stuff like this back and forth all the time.
And I looked at this video and I have to
describe it to you because of course you're listening to me.
But this video was amazing. It was amazing. It was
(08:41):
just Kendrick on a stage. I mean, a stage is
like an understatement. It was a I don't know what
that was it was. I mean it was a stage, sure,
but like the crowd meant that it was more than
a stage. It was like it was a sea of
people and he just commanded that crowd and they just
(09:02):
jumped up and down and responded to his music. It
was beautiful to see and I'm like, oh my god,
when was this? And it was like from yesterday or something,
and I'm like, yo, he's still doing his thing, and
Q was like, yeah, man, he is all the way up.
He's just not in the country right now. He's like
doing the world tour thing and he's killing it, man,
(09:24):
And I'm like, yo, what a trip. So I wanted
to see, of course, like if this was the same
thing going on elsewhere. It turns out that it absolutely is.
Cue I actually confirmed that. He said that. You know,
there's some other videos of him in other parts of
the world south of my places. You would not expect
a crowd like that period. You wouldn't expect a crowd
(09:46):
like that to exist. And they're all at a Kendrick
Lamar show with just Kendrick go on state. It blew
my mind. The video that comes to mind was from
where Q Argentina was the largest one.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But if you search Kendrick Lamar Live Family Ties, you'll
see this sea of shorts. So what all these creators
are trying to capture is the moment he, as you said,
commands these massive seas of people on command jump. Sure
(10:21):
the song playing is Family Ties. It sounds like victory music.
It sounds triumphant.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That so became.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And a drum and yeah, him and Baby King song
family ties, and then you see tens of thousands of
people on command, almost in unison, like they rehearsed it. Jump,
but it doesn't look like people jumping. It looks like
waves of sound, waters or whatever. And it's happening all
(10:50):
over the world. It turns out the most tame crowds
he performed to were right here at home. Once he
got on an airplane and start crossing bodies of water,
it turned into something different. And this cultural moment, and
this is not hyperbole. We've never seen it before by
anyone in almost any genre of music, like music festivals
(11:14):
where there's several acts command these kind of crowds. Yeah, yeah,
maybe single person on stage with just the sound of
his voice. And I'm like, I've never seen it before. Yeah,
so watch this, watch this.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I remember the thing when I first saw it, because
I mean, I don't know. I haven't been to Argentina yet.
Maybe one day i'll go. But I've heard some interesting
things about Argentina. They have like a lot of connections
to like Nazi Germany, and I don't know if they've
turned over a new leaf. But that's just the most
recent knowledge that I know about a place like that, right,
(11:50):
So when I saw that Kendrick was there, I'm like,
oh my god, all these people came out to see
Kendrick Lamar, right, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And a place with those that you would typically see
at soccer matches, right, it was crazy. In those parts
of the world, tens of thousands of people go to
watch football, yeah, the original football, not the NFL football,
and those type of crowds come to see teams that
they've been loyal to for generations. This is a single
(12:22):
man from Compton, California shout out all parts of the
world with crowds that I've never seen before. And it's
not just that they're there, it's how they're responding to
the music.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yes, if you get a chance, just google.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Kendrick Lamar family ties and pick a country type Germany type,
Brazil type, Spain type, Chili type, Argentina type, Mexico, and
you will see something that you've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
That's so special. All right. So if that were everything,
that would be plenty, but it's not. So I'm going
to share an article this from hnahh dot com Hot
New Hip Hop For those in the know. This is
the words from H and H. All right, Kendrick Lamar
already won big last year, but he opened his mouth
(13:11):
again with the GNX album and another and other collaborations
under his belt. Can I appause you for a second? Yeah,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
There's a reason opened his mouth is in quotations.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Okay, I'm not I'm not there yet.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Helped me out in their battle last year, Drake an
effort to taunt Kendrick, and the battle record said.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Kendrick just opened his mouth. I remember.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now, someone go get him a Grammy right now. After
he said that, Kendrick Lamar released a song called not
Like Us, and that song swept the Grammys following.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Their rap battle, the Poetic Justice right there.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So, Kendrick Lamar already won big last year, but he
opened his mouth again with the GNX album and other
collaborations under his belt. So that would give people some
some some context stuff. I appreciate add of information that follows.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, yeah, out of gloss right over that, So I
appreciate that. All Right, here we go, while he's while
we've been talking about the victory lap of Kendrick lamarvo
over a year. Now, it seems like this era will
finally be for real this time come to a close.
Seems like this era will finally for real this time
come to a close. Sorry about that. That's because his
final offerings in the post Drake Battle era, his GNX
(14:24):
album and his newest siss of Playboy Carti and Clips
collaborations are now leading his twenty twenty six Grammys campaign.
Kirkho caught the Compton Lyricists reported submissions for Grammy Award
nominations consideration this year on Twitter, and they are extensive.
After all. If he wins four awards this year, raising
his total to twenty six, he would surpass Jay Z
(14:44):
as the most awarded hip hop artist in Recording America sorry,
Recording Academy history. As long as Hove doesn't win any
this year. Specifically, the big contender here is GNX itself,
who's Lefty Gunplay collaboration tv OFF was submitted for Best
Song and Best Rap Performance, Luthor with Sizzus SEEKHS Record
of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Melodic Rap Performance,
(15:08):
and Best Music Video nominations. As for the LP as
a whole, its submissions are in the Album of the Year,
Best Rap Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non classical categories.
Then there are Kendrick Lamar's other collaborations in this eligibility period.
These include Thirty for Thirty with his Grand National Tour
colleague for Best Pop Duo Slash Group Performance, with Chains
(15:29):
and Whips with Clips for Best Rap Performance, Good Credit
with Playboy Cardi for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance,
and Backdoor with Cardi for Best Melodic Rap Performance. His
possible nomination in a total of eleven categories makes his
chances to become hip hop's most grammyst Titan s Titan
(15:50):
quite solid. Sorry, does ka Dot deserve this? Will lead
that debate up to the fans. It's not like they
have ever stopped having the Drake conversation or criticizing either
our separately. We will see what happens on February first
of next year. Okay, So that feels super exciting. It's
like watching history be made and I love so so
(16:12):
and for folks that don't know, because I recognize that
we talk more about politics on this show, then we
talk about what is really our roots. Q and I's
roots are in hip hop. Decidedly we are DJ still well,
I am still Q is still a DJ. I will
make sure, the Q is still tied anyway. You know,
(16:35):
there's there's there's more facets to life than just one.
So that's why we're not just hip hop artists and
we're not just activist we you know, these both of
these things matter. But Kendrick gives us an opportunity to
kind of play in the middle ground, so to speak,
because Kendrick has emerged. He always has been, but he's
(16:56):
really emerged as a more prominent protector of the culture
of black culture and pronounced it in such a way
to where people know to respect it, can still commercialize it,
and so forth, but people recognize that there are people
that will stand up to grifters and on and on
and on. And I think that obviously last year's battle,
(17:19):
he showed that people can get played out because he
played Drake out pretty badly. I don't want to step
on your toast here, Cute if you got the last word.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
This is just really important to say before we close it,
before we move on. Nas, one of the Goats, said
recently that Kendrick is the north Star of hip hop.
That is an insane level of praise from someone like
Nas and important to state in real time. We never
like to acknowledge history. We can never say what's happening
(17:50):
now is the best ever. We always call back to
something that happened before. I am willing to say on
a live microphone that we might be witnessing the greatest
run in the history of the genre with that kid
from Compton, California talk to.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Me, and that's going to do it for us Here
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Speaker 2 (18:46):
I am q Ward on all social media as well.
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