End of Summer Music special

Smilez is back!! Helping Dub breakdown all the latest releases that cap off the summer music and looking at what's to come in the fall as well!! Tune in & Turn Up

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Embrace to Turn Up Podcast. Cultural commentary
from two guys who want all the smoke, all the
smoke and now your hosts, Hey Dub and John John.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Ladies and gentlemen. I know you guys missed us. We
are back. This is the Embrace to Turn Up Podcast.
I'm your boy, a Dub, the pod God, the pod
trible chief. If you will today, I am Summer Dub.
It is the end of summer more summer music. So
I had to call on one guy and one guy
only to wrap up the summer music before we get

(00:42):
to the fall. Of course, I'm talking about the homie
Smiley Mcsmilerstein hip Hop Adam Schefter, the guy who's going
to be on the top of the complex list of
hip hop personalities sooner than later. Elliott, watch your back,
he coming for your spot. Smiles in the building. What's up? Spouse?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Was good? My guy, dumb? How you doing? How you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Because yeah, thinking of these complex that's even though I
know I could be putting in more work, I do
be getting salty, like who the fuck are these niggas?
Like it was a couple of niggas on that list.
I was like, who the fuck are you. I don't
even know who you are, Like you don't compare to me,
Like I don't even know who you are.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I don't even know who you are, Like who are you?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Your Spot's not safe, guys, spots is not right and safe.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
And even though I like Elliott, you know, hey, the
nigga be salty like I saw he posted the other
day like I'm nigga. Yeah, he was like, I'm the
one that squashed the jay Z and Drake beef. I'm
like this. This is why he's mad at Drake because
he's like, nigga, I interviewed you, I squashed the beef
with you whole, and this is how you treat me.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
He said. I started this gags to ship. You mean
to tell me that's the thanks I get.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Meanwhile, Wayne is like, I'm gonna do features with all
the niggas that that Drake has issued.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, I feel you, Elliott as as a fellow old
angry nigga. I feel you. I feel you. I mean,
but who else needs reasons to hate on Drake? Right?
I mean, come on, come on, all right, guys. I promise,
I promise no like us talk. I promise, I promise
even though. My mother finds a new not like Us

(02:22):
meme or funny video seemingly every day. At this point,
I think she may have heard the song more than
me at this point, which is a challenge. I'll just
put it out there like that. We got we got
a lot of summer music populos. Yes, I don't even
know where to start. Let's start with what I didn't

(02:43):
listen to yet, The Big Lotto album. I have not
gotten to that yet. Smiles. Give me give me your one.
I know you've listened to it multiple times. Give me
your one to twenty listening review of the Big Lotto Album.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I will say, yes, I've given it like one and
a half, listened through so far and listening to the
Drake drops actually made me want to go made me
want to go back to when I started that that
that that second fool through listen that I was I
was on, Yeah, really good.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I'm not gonna lie. It's really good.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Compared to her like her previous albums, you can you
can see that she's actually learning how to make songs,
actually make a whole record. It's not a like, yes,
we all know that she can spitch, she can get
you some bars when she's actually like making songs on
this through and also like I like the like the
her like you know, gangster like songs, Like she had

(03:42):
a song called blick something and it's basically talking like
she want a nigga that who ain't afraid to blick
something over her.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, that might not mean that might not be me then, Okay, Well.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
And it's just like, uh, you know, she got the
song for the ladies and the sexual songs, she got
like the good t You uh featuring Sierra, she got
the ear Candy. Ear Candy might be uh definitely the
one for the laziers that I like, like the prize
possession with the dude Tso. I've never heard a project

(04:18):
from this dude Tasu, but I've seen him on a
couple of features. Uh he's on the feature. But the
last song to me is shout Out to Me. The
song shout Out to Me, That's that's the one. Basically
she just like, hey, she.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Was shouting you out. I was like, damn, you might
be number one on what's going on?

Speaker 4 (04:36):
I wish, I wish, I wish, you know, because I
saw the season she was on when she was on
the Jermaine DePree show when she was like twelve.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I saw that show, you know, because straight.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Away from I put all y'all on game, I put
all y'all game back when she was calling herself MO.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, but yeah, I like I like that joint.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
It's the last song on the project, which basically she's
just saying like I'm the ship and it's a lot
of I guess not so subtle distance to Ice Spice
and Nicki Minaj throughout the track, Like one of my
favorite lines was basically saying like I can't I don't
know the exact line, but it's basically like I got
bitches who are younger than me and bitches twice twice

(05:18):
my age hating on me.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like what am I to do?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Damn? Does he might know what the beef between her
and Ice Spice is about?

Speaker 4 (05:29):
It It's it's really uh I Spice said like a
little line, so of course, you know, a lot of
was like okay, like I don't really need to entertain this,
but I will entertain that you threw a shot at me.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
So telling them what about the beef between Lotto and Nikki?
Is that just Nikki being old? And yeah watching her spot. Yes,
I miss I missed like I miss real beefs. Yeah,
I miss real beefs, like like my homie m versus
the entire world all the death of some shadier.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yes, so so so many name on that album.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Huh. I don't even know where to start with this
one so concept album. Guys, if you haven't listened to it,
you can't. You can't hit shuffle. Can't hit shuffle on
this thing. You have to play it an order, or
or you can play it in reverse order, in which
it sounds like shim Sady is killing Marshall Mathers crazy.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
I might, I might have to.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, is it a whole new perspective, But this album.
And I've been as critical of him as any eminem fan.
I mean, the haters they could wait to tearror part
of some of his other stuff. But I didn't think
Revival was a good album. Music to be Murdered By

(06:52):
was cool. I thought he fell into this trap of
just trying to do the ron the words to rhyme
words things so often that like the features on his
albums were like out shining him, like, for example, on
Music to be Murdered By CHLORI sceptic the song with

(07:14):
two Chains and Fresher. Never, never in my life would
I believe that two Chains would have a better verse
on the song with even a Ever. But again, that
songs on my workout list. I'm not just throw like
Chloroceptic and and then he had the song with young
and may She killed him on that the song Yah

(07:39):
Yah with Royster five nine and Black Thought. To this day,
I say that Black Thought versus Top five verse ever
in all of hibib it's crazy. So there probably wouldn't
nothing he could do there. You sometimes somebody get in
the pocket, They get in the pocket. But fast forward
to this album I'm Not Gonna I was a little kiss.

(08:01):
Wudini felt a lot like without Me and like and
the realsome shady chasing that he's done in the past.
But I was like, I was like, it's not bad,
it just it feels like he's chasing that sound again.
So to hear the way this album started with Renaissance
and just calling out all the hip hop nerds saying like, yeah,

(08:24):
you guys would have found something wrong with thirty six Chambers,
it's nuts, and like.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
He just had he mentioned the j Cole joint that
he had just yeah, I was like, okay.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
This is a more recent like line.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, you can tell this is like very like very topical.
But then he just he just proceeds to just go
old m and like I'm sure for the Gen Z
kids listening to this and the Gen Alpha kids listening
to this, they were like, oh my god, he's so mean.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah he calls them out too.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah he does. It feels like he just he decided
just to go to war with them, and like, and
you know what's really funny about this album Smiles is
like the way he's so like non politically correct and
just being an asshole that like on the political spectrum,
the right wing would kind of like, you know, take

(09:23):
hold of this a year, all this political correctness when
Eminem is very very leftist and very liberal. He's just
not with the you know, kumbaya everybody hold handshit. He's like,
sometimes some of you motherfuckers need to be uncomfortable. Hey, sorry,
I'm not a nice person. Just it is what it is.

(09:46):
Like I'm trying to think of what song it was
when he like he really went into like the fat shaming.
Oh yeah, that that might have been road rage because
everybody hates road rage or it might have been Guilty
Conscience too, one of those songs, one of.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
The songs I actually had to like turn off because
I listened to it again today while in my apartment
and I was when Anti Christ came on. I was like,
I feel really uncomfortable blasting this in my apartment right now.
So I was like, I'm just gonna skip this right now,
go to the next song. I was like, I don't

(10:23):
want people to be like, what the fuck is this
nigga listening to in this apartment To.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Have a song called Lucifer and then follow it up
with Antichrist, that's a decision. That is a decision. Both
both good songs, both really good songs. The standout to
me on this album is still Toby with Big Sean
and Baby Tron. I only knew who Baby Tron was
before the song, but impressed, impressed. I will say that

(10:53):
I walk around saying that ship all the time. Toby
McGrath got bit by a spider b see, let's spin
a goat. I was like, this ship's great, this is great.
This album. I'm gonna give it four buffs, four buffs,
four buffs. That is best project. I mean, that's obviously
the Marshall Mathers LP and he will never surpass that
ever again. But it's not encore and it's better than Revival.

(11:18):
It's even better than Music to Be Murdered By, which
again I thought was a solid album. So what would
you grade this album? Smiles on the embraced Turn Up
Buff rating system.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
I'm gonna tell you a solid four because one, even
though it wasn't something that I was looking for or
even wanted as like a full cohesive project, it's it's pretty.
It's pretty, it's pretty good, and it's pretty high like
up there like in his catalog like this, like the
fact that he was like, Hey, I'm gonna wrap this

(11:50):
whole slim shady like thing. I'm gonna I'm gonna go
back into that mindset and those like those bars that
y'all want it, but I'm giving it kind of an
updated twenty twenty flavor.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
But I'm still gonna be me and my old and
I'm feeling.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Into rust as well. By the end of the album,
swim Shady is that yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
And like the skits in between it and everything, it's
like with them, like are you going to get each other?
Like no, Like I did you know and all that.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, having guilty conscious too on there.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Like I was like, Okay, the skits with Rosenberg hilarious
as always. Yep, the features were great. J I d
killed it. What's that kid's name? Easy Mill? Like that again?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Like whoever White Gold is that was the one singing
on the tracks.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I was like okay, I like yes, yeah, I was like, okay,
where'd you find this one? Yep, Like it feels like
it feels like m grab like some people you know,
and then some people who are just like buried on
innerscopes like expansive Roster and this is like, hey, you
want to you want to come get paid right because

(13:08):
this how I'm gonna do some numbers. Well, it'll consistently
do numbers for forever, because you know, we live in
this micro wave time now where your first two weeks
say't great. Uh, you better not expect to see money
from that album ever again that's.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Ah, but it's like, hey, if you're an unknown artist,
you better promote the songs you were on because it's
gonna get more things of what probably anything that you
have right now?

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah for sure, for sure, But moving on, moving on,
moving on, smiles. Do you remember last time, we did
an episode where we talked about the TikTok aification of music,
how albums were so short and it really took away
from the listening experience. Yep, I'm gonna eat my words here.

(13:59):
I love this. I love this bening the Butcher album. Yeah,
and I love the fact and it's only twenty four minutes,
so I mean, I can just listen to the whole
thing on my draft to work. It's great. It's great.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I listened to it because I listened to the Freeway
album the Stimmers package too, and then I followed it
right up with the Summertime Butch this morning on my walk,
and I was like, oh wow, this is really good.
And another I would I really like the skits?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, No, the skits were great. What was the one
on peace Tree where he got the guy who usually
be talking about Jay's and stuff? Yep, a one, A
one the sun Dressing Sandals one where Yep, chicks be
talking about these new niggas and shout out to tare

(14:49):
you know how we feel about these new niggas? Man,
They're just fucking weirdo? Sorry, no, you know, you know,
I'm sorry. I learned this from Bermoni Jones. Those too dismissive.
It's fucking weird, just fucking weird. But yeah, I was
re listening to it. I don't know my favorite song
on this list. It might it might be a kitchen table.

(15:13):
I thought that was a genius. I thought that was
a genius, just like concept because everybody talks about their
pi rex pot, you know the scale and everything. He's like,
but what about that kitchen table. You gotta put the
newspaper under that, seen one hundred grams, one thousand Spade
games and five thanksgivings. I was like, damn, that's I.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Would say that as a since. Like I said, I
just looked to the first time today. Besides the I
guess the quote unquote single, which was Summer twenty four,
Kitchen Table was the other stand up track to me,
just off of one listen.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Summer twenty four was great and it's a it's good
to hear that lover, Yes like hip hop legend royalty
for him to go great ed lover and just say, yo,
just talk shit on my track, dude, that was beautiful.
That intro is crazy to one versus butch what you
got bard Man And.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
He said that's that's all y'all deserve. That's all y'all
gonna listen to.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Anyways, it's all y'all deserved because y'all be gassing up
the mother and niggas. I gotta get this four buffs
as well. It would get more, but there's no there's
no Grizelda like track on it. I need it, I
need it, west Side, I need it. Conway. Don't get

(16:34):
me wrong. The track Warehouse three with the black soprano family,
good track bars, a lot of drug dealer bars. When
that man said I'll turn your album poo hoos now
you play for the Angels, I was like, that's up there.
But it's just something about when west Side and Conway

(16:54):
and Bennie get together on the same track, especially if
Harry Fraud or Alchemist did the beat. This is crazy
joh Wooflick is still one of our all time favorite songs.
Like it's just it's crazy. It smiles. What are you
grading this one again?

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Give it again?

Speaker 4 (17:12):
I gotta grew with you a solid for it because
because it's just it's just like a little little extra
like on top of the fact that you know he
gave us an album already at the top of the year.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
So it's just like, hey, this is just let y'all know,
like I'm still in the lab. I'm throing some stuff.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
It's just like I wouldn't say like throw away because
it's still quality used to do.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
They used to give us mixtapes, right Like this tells
me that Butcher's in like you know, full length album mode.
But he has some stuff, you know, just you know,
on the drive and he was like, you know what,
put it out. This is what rappers used to do.
We used to consistently get music all the time.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
All I did was maybe, like I said, damn, I
want to go back to the album because I gotta
go back and listen to listen to the album. And
some months that's all it made me. Was like, that's
a god Benny dropped this the top of this year
because me and you did that episode.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
But we did we did. That's an album right there, boy.
But yeah, like no, this is what rappers used to do.
They just used to Hey, mixtape boom, DJ clue, that's
a store, DJ the fuck drownk like all of that

(18:28):
ship like you knew you knew ship was coming because
oh they putting out a mixtape. Oh, there must be
an album more like album. It must be getting ready.
Like before we knew what the term rolot was, we
knew when a mixtape dropped from a certain artist and
it was like official. You were like, oh, the album

(18:49):
must be coming.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Like if this is what we got from a mixtape,
I can't wait to hear what this album. And he
told us that he was gonna drop two albums.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
This year, so he did. He did so, like to
the Pit's the second album.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
But well, I was like, I forgot this is just
like a little EP because I didn't see death Jam
on it. So I was like, oh yeah, death Jas
was like, oh, this is like this don't count towards
your contract, Like yeah, this is through your your independent
black soprano family thing. But yeah, like as long as
you give us the a one quality stuff that we're
looking for, Yeah yeah, So I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Be surprised if we actually get a real album by
the end of the year from them.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Another Butcher album. Ah, that'd be great.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Like hey, I teach y'all, gave y'all a little appetizer
with Summertime Butch. But you might be like winter Time
butchm about to kill you niggas because it's.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Cold out here.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Hey, the Buffalo kids, they made great drug dealing music.
I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
I ain't never sold a drug in my life. But
if you're walking around listening to Tana talk for if
you're feeling like the plug is late, the Feds on
my tail, I got stressed out. Ah But anyway, anyway,
all right, well as we move on. We got some
We got a fancy football rules little voting ray that

(20:11):
happened in our group chat here smiles. Let me just
ask you this. Are you with me two qbs forever? Right? Yes?
That's what makes us league special? Goddamn it.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
I was like, when I've done other things without without
I'm like, what are y'all doing?

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Y'all doing? Why are you guys taking quarterbacks so late?
What are you doing? And you know what's cool about
that is is you can fuck up a whole draft
if you draft yours early, and they'd be so confused.
Oh man, it's great. I love it. I love it
and like and doing two qbs it puts us more
in like ownership of actual NFL teams moon like the

(20:50):
quarterbacks a most important position, right, running backs com a diamond.
Doesn't niggas be wondering, like, no, why you taking your
QB in the third round? Yeah, tell you what talked
to me in the playoffs. Niggas have fun on that
waiver wire all day, every fucking day. I'm good over here.
Running backs coming, they go right, like I.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Need a one. Niggas like, oh, Tom Brady out there,
I'm gonna get Tom Brady. Oh Aaron Rodgers last year?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
What you get for drafting Aaron Rodgers? He had a
good season in three years. I need the motherfucker that's
out there slinging that pill because guess what the past
first league now it's the past second league. Now running
backs are cool. But this is what happens. This is
why in every other league we're so much better than

(21:43):
everybody because we saw the change. We saw it happen.
But you know, it's whatever and what else before you?
These rules get going and nowhere it goes. We'll get
back to the music, I promise. But Sam in their
fantasy football season, yes I know.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
I was like me and my girl went up to
a bar last week.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
It was a Hall of Fame game last week, or
for last whatever and we just randomly went to a
bar and they had they had to I was like, oh, yes,
football was to start.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
She was like like what is this. I'm like, oh,
you don't know what the Hall of Fame game. I
like gave it a whole up.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
I'm like, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
I was like, yeah, so every.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Year that there's a they have this Hall of Fame
where like the players go like getting ducted. She was like, players,
like who like current? I'm like, no, it's like these
are guys that like were I've been retired for some
years and gave it a whole breakdown. I was like,
but they choose two teams usually ain't some SIMI decent
to bad teams. I was like, I'm about to watch
the game because this is football. I was like, because

(22:39):
I usually don't watch any preseason. I was like, but
I'll watch the Hall of Fame game because I was like,
this means football.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Isn't it weird when you find people that don't know
anything about something that's like being a huge part of
your entire life.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, because I was I was like, what you don't
know about this? She was I was like yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
I was like, I was like, because you know she
hears me like watch Shannon Sharp and all that. I
was like, yeah, like Shannon Shark, he's part of it.
I was like this and she was like, oh, okay,
that's crazy. Like yeah, I was like yes, I was
like I've even did the parade when I was in
high school in band.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
She was like what.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
I was like, Yeah, I was like in high schools,
like our high school got to do the parade one year.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, you of course you did. Mind because you're everywhere.
Of course that checks out. I'm trying to think of
what else? What else? Oh? Individual defensive players. It is
like the topic of all topics. Some people think we're
losers for having IDPs. Some people think we have too
much time on our hands, which I agree we do

(23:38):
have too much time on our hands or not enough. Now, yeah,
doing IDPs in college was great because we had all
time in the world doing it. Now, yeah, I'm telling
people like, yeah, this is a seventeen round draft. Yeah,
I'm gonna need to block this whole day off. Don't
bother me.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah, because I remember even last year I was I
think I was doing so with I'm like, no, we
need to get somewhere where I get like some good
WiFi and like and I don't know, we were like
out to eat or going shopping or something. I was like, no,
I need to like, like whatever we're doing, I need
to like, no, don't don't talk to me. I need
to focus right now because I need to make sure

(24:19):
I have all my niggas, like it's some good niggas.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
I need to see who's leading in tackles on the
Jacksonville Jaguars, because I have a feeling when I pick
in the seventeenth round, he'll still be there. Yeah. No,
it gets nuts. It gets nuts. And you're like, all right,
who's got you? Go? All right, who's the who's the
best corner in the league? All right, let me take

(24:44):
the guy opposite of him, because that's what they're gonna
throw at all the time. And that was the first
thing you learned, like as we added people to this league,
and you would see him take like the star the
star corner. Like whenever somebody drafted Richard Sherman, you were like, oh,
you must not like Palling or Darrell Reeves back then,
back in the day, like oh you you just you

(25:05):
don't understand, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
How this works, yeah, but I it took.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
It took me at least one season, one or two
seasons where I was like, Oh, you gotta really start
for the nigga that actually.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, you don't draft to shut down corner. NOPEU he's
the reason to coach shutdown. They don't throw his away
like you don't. You don't draft the leading the leading
middle linebacker who's always blitzing. You draft the guy on
the other side of them, because that's the guys that
are gonna run to telling me we're just just fucking

(25:37):
football experts.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
And it's like, I need the guy that's gonna get
the ten to twelve tackles a game that they don't
never say his name, but he get them tackles.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
He get them tackles because the other guy's a space filler.
He's the other guy's the one they're accounting for. So
whether or not is the guy who's just gonna get
the tackles, Like, I don't give a fuck if they're
running back out three hundred yards. Every single play he
was running, my guy tackled him because they were running
away from the other guy.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I'm cool.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I just got a twenty point linebacker. Yep. How's your
first round running back doing, buddy? Oh?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Was that right? They got behind so they had to
start throwing the ball. Damn that sucks. Who's throwing the ball? Oh?
My quarterback is okay? Drafted quarterback early one day. Your
niggas will learnt one day one day. Anyways, all right, well,
as we're waiting for this vote to happen, let's just

(26:36):
hop back right into the music. I'm not gonna lie
to you smiles. I ain't listening none of that hundred
gigs and nothing.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
I didn't check up. I don't check out the songs.
I was like, oh, it's only three songs. I could
do that.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I am listening to none of that. Yeah, answered the
question of why is Badka around until he answers that
question for me. I don't want to hear shit from them.
That's all I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. So said,
there's only three.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Songs, right, yep, and again, hey, I probably wouldn't listened
to it if you had to put it on the Actually,
I was just like, all right, I'm check this out.
This hundred gigs, it's on title. I'll check it out.
Because other than that, I was like, I wasn't checking
it out. I was listening to everybody else talk about it,
and I'm like, Okay, it sound like some dope, like
behind the scenes so that stuff I really like usually like.

(27:29):
But I'm like, h I don't feel like they're having
to do all that work or having to go to
the website, download, watch the videos all that, so I.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Don't care about nothing that behind the scenes shit. I
know he I know he got a great pan, and
I know he's wroad ship for other people. Care, you know,
had had I known it was only like actually three songs,
I about to actually listen, but when I saw a
hundred gigs, I'm like, y'all, I don't know if I've
listened to one hundred gigs of Drake since it's beef
started like at all.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, that's yeah, that was the That was the misconception.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
It's one hundred gigs of just data like it's videos,
is behind the scenes clips and three songs. But on
the streaming services they only put the three songs. You
have to actually go to the website for the actual stuff.
But the uh, but so the three songs are hold
on me go to pull it up again. Because thanks

(28:23):
to you, I listened to it and I liked it,
So I was like, oh.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Well, Like I was confused at first because you said
you listened to it, but then like, as you're listening
to it, you want to go back and listen to
the Lotto And I was like, well, damn, was it
that bad or was it or were they like in
the same vein of music was talking cash Ship the
way she was talking cash.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Ship, like uh no, it's just because. So, yeah's three songs.
The first song is It's Up with Young Thug and
twenty one Savage. Twenty one Savage. He in the song
like with a long ass third verse, you know, he
doing this thing, he talking.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
His ship and I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, twenty
one do something for me twenty one.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
And then he got the Blue Green Red that's him
getting in his h his London vibes. That was a
pretty gope, dope track, you know, the London reggae bible
he'd be getting on. And then the last track, his
house Keeping Nose with featuring Lotto and.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
You know lottos on it. Okay, that's why you want
to know?

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Okay, Yeah, and she and she ends the song talking
to her ship like hey, yeah, big Mama, big.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Mama, I'm there now, Okay, I'm there. I got you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
So so as I get done, I was like, I
was like, okay, let me run this lot of bag.
I was like, Cause, so.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
We got the one hundred gigs and we also got
the announcement that he's like, not gonna steal a whole
party next door him, He's actually gonna collab with him
as my news as my news record smiles. When is
this album coming out? Did they say?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
They just said? They said fall that's all we got
so far.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
So it's a cuff and season record, that is what
it sounds like. So when when when you cuddled up
with wifey, you know, you you turn on the party
in the and the drake and then you know she
look at you like smiles. You know she calls you Josh,
I'm sorry, Josh, baka gotta wear a case. Why is
he around? I don't know that. I really don't know.

(30:33):
I really don't know. And you know you're gonna be
playing it at the wedding. I see, I see the
vibe there. I see I see the vibe. All right,
So so you're telling me that the hunt the hundred
gigs or the three songs is worth worth a listen? Yeah, okay,
I got another question for you. Why why didn't Shawn's

(30:55):
album come out? What do you what are you guys
doing over there at the record label? I assume you
work at all record labels at all times.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
I was so upset because again I watched the Charlotte
Maine interview because I was like, I'm excited for this,
this album to drop, like se Sean's back, you know,
great interview.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Props to Charlie Mane. He got into like.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Big Sean's like mental health. He they focused a lot
on mental health. It was like it don't matter, like
a lot of stuff. They go off and ask one question.
He'd go into something he was like, okay, but I
want to bring it back to like your mental health
and how have you been doing. Sean answered some questions
that he answered the what's up with him and Kendrick stuff.

(31:41):
He talked about Janney, which I hated that, you know,
the blogs and all this stuff took all that stuff
about oh snaps. He talks about why they're not married.
Who the fuck cares why they not married? I mean,
I would have asked these people, why aren't you and
your boyfriend or why aren't you and your girlfriend married?

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Why you came about why you came about Big.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Sean and Janey? Like who the fuck cares? But besides that,
you know, great interview. But at the end, at the end,
the very end of the interview, shout Maine, just like,
you know, to wrap it up, you know, promote your album.
Don't your album drop like real soon. He was like, well,
it was supposed to drop August ninth, but uh, we

(32:25):
pushed it back at least like a week or two.
You know, we're still working on some things. He was like,
but we're gonna try to get out to you by
the end of August.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
And I was like, fuh so he's working on things
and it wasn't sample clearance issues.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
He didn't.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
He didn't, he didn't say, but I figured it's probably
like sample clearance issues or maybe like maybe it was
like a guest verse that maybe he just trying to
lock in real quick or something, you know.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Smiles. I missed the days of when the album was
turned in, all the samples are already cleared, and when
it came out, it came out. I really missed that, yep.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
But now thanks to streaming, they could literally be doing
that stuff up to the last minute. But you know,
they only gonna let certain artists do that, Like you
gotta be like a Drake or a Beyonce or jay
Z too Be or like Kanye to be working on
the album up until like midnight.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
While you're like still waiting on the first.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Jay Z's recording the first right now, we're still gonna
get it to y'all tonight, y'all gonna have it by
the morning.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Did the jay Z vocals come in.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yep, Which again kind of going back to the Drake
one hundred gigs, there's a little clip of him talking
about the feature that jay Z had on Certified Level
Boy and they had like they gave like a little
backstory for that and which shout out to young Girl.
He provided even more contexts to it on Instagram about it,

(33:56):
but basically they was the same thing. They had to
turn the album into mixing. But Drake was like, yo,
he's on the on the run tour right now, would
be and he's literally on stage right now.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
He said, he's going to do it as soon as
you get off the stage.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
So it's about two o'clock now, so I figured we
probably won't get it till out seven o'clock because you know,
after he get off stage, you got to find somewhere
to go set up to record, and then you know,
of course you want to wind down, so you know,
he might have a drink or something real quick, but.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
We should have it by seven o'clock.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
And grew like for Friday, he was like, yeah, after
the show, He's like, I had to find somewhere to record,
like he like, we literally set up in the stadium,
he said, but the stadium didn't have no Wi Fi.
He like, so I was using the Wi Fi off
of my phone in order for me to even send
the song to drinking them. And he was like, and

(34:52):
I made it to my DJ gig because I had
the DJ gig right after that.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, but I just missed the day just as turned in. Yeah,
it's like like somebody's sitting on it.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, like hey three, Hey, it's been turning for three weeks,
been turning for a month. So what we got there
is that that's what I feel like they should they
should do, Like, hey, no, let's go back to those
days now. If you want to work on anything after
that that can be the deluxe. Like like, hey, it
was like one or two tracks that you know, I
really want it done and I couldn't get it done,

(35:24):
but you know that's gonna be on the deluxe.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Is why I missed the mixtape era, yep, because when
Jez was working on the album, we got an album
of fourteen or fifteen songs, but in addition to that,
we got a drama mixtape that had twenty songs on it.
You know, eight of those were just freestyles to other
people's shit that he just recorded when he was in

(35:48):
the studio, and then some of those songs were just
songs that just didn't make the cut, like one of
my favorite JZ songs, I do this shit not on
the album, not on the album, what's on that mixtape?

Speaker 4 (36:04):
So on that mixtape they might include like just a
snippet of a song that's gonna be on the album.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
He's like, what is this? He hold on? Why is
this paying out what.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Exactly?

Speaker 3 (36:15):
And then you hear on the album like, oh ship,
is that is that heat I heard on the mixtape?

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yep. East Coast Rappers were like real famous for that.
They were like they would give clue and who Kid
and them snippets and you're like, ooh who it was
like album. It was like album trailers. Damn, it was
like trailers for the album. You were like, oh, oh,
what this is, or like you know, like or DJ
Big Mike mixtapes too, and then the DJ would come in.

(36:42):
I can't give up. I can't give y'all all of
that yet, album coming soon. You're like, ship, I need it,
I need it, I need it. I missed the mixtape error.
Speaking of the mixtape era drama phone and rollouts, the
guy who had the greatest roll out of all time.
Of course, I'm talking about one Kanye of the West.

(37:04):
The role out I'm talking about is not this, not
this one, but of course the good Friday rollout. Ye,
Kanye put out a new album surprise. Okay, Kanye loves
that ship because it's just because putting out an album
a surprise album is just as erratic as he is now.
So I think he just he loves it. He might

(37:24):
put out album tomorrow. We don't even know it. Vultures
too smiles.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
First thoughts go, okay, So before I get into my thoughts,
I gotta let y'all know about my beef with Kanye West.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Oh god, so.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
Last year or a year before, uh whatever? They before
they announced the Vultures stuff. I had bought tickets to
go see tie Down a sign with the opening at
Leon Thomas.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Layne.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Thomas is an opening up and coming artists who was
also signed to Tight Dollars Sign. So I was like, oh,
I've never seen ty Dollars sign in concert. I like
this Leon Thomas guy. I want to go see him,
so ready hype. Because it was like maybe a week
or two before the tour was supposed to start. All

(38:16):
of a sudden, I see on Twitter folks like hey,
I got refunded for my Tire Dollar Sign tickets.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
What's going on. I'm like, oh, maybe it's just like
one or two dates.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
And then I go to my email and ticket matter
in an email and me like, hey, you have a
refund coming from the Tire Dollars High. I'm like, why
the fuck am I getting refunded for my tickets to
go see Tight Dollars High.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
I need answers.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
So you called Elliott.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
I wish I could have because I'm like, what the fuck? So, oh,
maybe like a week or two later, I get answers.
Him and Kanye West are working on an album called Volters.
They gonna drop three or four parties or whatever. And
I'm like, I'm still angry, but okay, this is cool.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
Okay, we get tied getting in with what Kanye about,
and you know, like you and E R and everybody,
y'all all said, now, you know, Kanye ain't gonna stick
to none.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Of these dates, right never. So, first off, Voltures didn't
come out on the first date. It got pushed back
like three full times. They had like fucking like what
ten listening parties all across the fucking globe.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Of listening parties a league, yep.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
And then number two was supposed to come out a
couple of well, of course that got pushed back. Like
It's literally been what six months to like a year
since the first Voltures dropped. Yeah, and I'm like, okay,
but in between times tied outside, you could have been
touring and given my tour.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Get off there and perform motherfucker right dance. I've seen
two of my bitches in the club. I couldn't even
sing about it, right.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
But but yeah, to get back to Voltures too, I
really don't say like it's cool. Like I went back
to listen to the first one just to kind of
compare what I liked. It's not really as good as
the first one to me, but it does has some
some standout tracks. So like some of my standout tracks
was Promotion. I like Promotion, Field Field Trip, Kodak Black Yeah,

(40:32):
Filter that, I love that, Kodact Black Verse. I was like,
I've never heard a full call Black album, but it
seemed like these guest features I've heard from him with
the last like two three years or whatever, like kind
of going back to the last k album, I'm like,
this nigga kind of kills it when he when he
gets them, when he get that guest feature here like opportunity,
because he don't get that many, but when he do,

(40:53):
I'm like.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
K he kind of kills it.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Don't don't fool yourself and listen to a whole called
that Black album.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
Trust Yeah, Lifestyle, Wayne doing Wayne things that That's what
I put that out on my nose. Lwayne doing Wayne
things on that lifestyle track and just again just shows
that he don't care about who Drake is beefing with.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
He don't care if it's Kanye.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
The Weekend who else did I say, he just did
something with that Drake is beefing with somebody else.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
I'm like, yeah, Wayne, don't don't care, Like, hey, just
hat me.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Tell y'all they cool with getting money with this Canadian nigga.
They don't actually like him, right telling you.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
I like, I like the song River the Joint Bomb
with his kids. I was just like, hey, look listen
his kids.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
I'm like, I hated that song.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
If if I was like, I didn't take it seriously.
I was like, put them.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Badass kids in school. You don't all listen, listen, listen, listen.
I get it, I get it. I get it. You
got all this wealth and you got this, you know
the position, and you you know your kids idolize and
they want to do. Send them motherfuckers to school. Please,
please don't have them get in here making trash, hass

(42:11):
raps and you hyping them up because they eat kids
like not every picture needs to go in refrigerator.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Hey, Chicago was like, Hey I'm Chicago, I'll go outside play.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Hey not every picture needs to go in refrigerator. You
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
It was it was cool just because I didn't take
a serious it ain't nothing. I will actually go back
to one to like intentionally listen to it was let off.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Maybe maybe I'm old and better.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
I don't know, but I will say as far as
the rest of the project, from like the song five
thirty to the end, that's my favorite part of the album.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
I was like that.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
I feel like that was like the most cohesive, the
best quality of the album, right there was those those
last like whatever like four five tracks.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
So is it better than Vultures one?

Speaker 4 (43:02):
I don't think so, But I will say at least
those songs that I mentioned, at least that the last
little half or a little chunk of songs with like
if I was to make a Vultures playlist, they would definitely.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Do on the Vultures playlist.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
How many buffs are giving it?

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Because really, which again I've learned from listening to Kanye,
Kanye is one of those arts who are like him
eminem jay Z. They can only be compared to themselves.
They can't be compared to us out there.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Maybe three and a half, Okay, I'll give it a
solid three mm hm. Again comparing Kanye to Kanye, I mean,
because Kanye has some some five buffers, multiple.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, that's all. I can't give it. I can't I
can't give it.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Four four too high. Yeah, to is way too low.
We've heard, we've heard bad Kanye. This isn't bad Kanye.
This isn't great Kanye. It's just mid Do you think
we get another Vultures project we spoke to get I
think like three or four real, but wing we probably
getting another one before the end of the year, even

(44:08):
though we were supposed.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
To get all like three four parts in twenty twenty three.
Now we in the second the second half of twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Who we only got two?

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know we could I
don't know, like maybe the end of the year. Well,
do you think maybe maybe a third one?

Speaker 3 (44:27):
I mean first he has to pay Atlantic for.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Oh yeah, Atlantic about to shut all this ship down.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
Yeah, because because I did write those down in my notes,
I want to kind of go into a little bit
because John Monopoly, who is Kanye's lawyer, you know, send
him like a message basically saying like, hey, Julie Greenwald
is out as the CEO from Atlantic. Atlantic is now
being run by Lucian Gray's son. I felt what his

(45:01):
first name is, but he's the son of Lucian Grange.
If y'all know who Lucien Grain is, he's like the
big wig, the boss mob dude that pretty much runs Universal.
They basically said, hey, you know, you got to pay
us the forty percent that you owe us for all
the work that Ti Dallsign has put in for these
first two projects. So they're basically saying like, hey, we

(45:24):
don't get our money. We pulling all that shit from
streaming like fuck that, which also did more research into
it that first it was announced, Yeah, August first at
the Grange Junior. He's now the CEO Atlantic Music Group,
which I thought was cool that I wanted to mention.

(45:45):
Once you hear these names, he's the CEO of his
own record label called ten K Records. I just want
to I just want to see your face. I know
the folks ain't going to see your face, but when
I see the names of the artists that he's dropped
from his record label ten K, Takashi six ' nine,
Trippy Red x ex Tintash, He's dead and I spice

(46:08):
those are all artists that he's he's released via his
own record label, ten K Records. That's what I was saying,
and that's the guy that's now in charge of Atlantic
Music Group. He's taken over the job from Julie green Wald.
She just announced that she's stepping down a couple of
days ago. Craig Kalman, who like, if y'all listen to

(46:31):
Joe Budden podcast a lot, Creig Common is the cole
CEO of Atlantic Records, and he's head of A and R.
He's supposedly gonna still be head of A and R
for Atlantic Records. But basically they said that I think
that like thir of the music industry is now going

(46:52):
to be run by the Grant, the Grange guys, the
father and son about the other they say about the
through of the music injury is gonna be run by them.
So basically, if they need anything done, it's gonna be
wamp wamp a pops, Hey, yeah, son, we need this
tone all right?

Speaker 5 (47:10):
Dad?

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Hey hey son, I need this done all right?

Speaker 4 (47:12):
Pops, I got it, which also kind of goes into
Drake had an issue which is why the hundred Gigs
went on streaming, was because Universal Music Group, who you
know he's signed to, they issued copyrights lawsuit against him
if he didn't put the songs on streaming because they're like,

(47:33):
you can't just give these songs away for free, which
is how we end up getting one hundred gigs on
the streaming sites.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Why can't you just give things away for free? Right?

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Yeah, alrighty though, Patties pay the artists, so who cares exactly?
But yeah, it's weird.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
It's fucking weird, weird, weird, weird. But yeah, Like I
feel like there's gonna be like some monopoly type rules
that are gonna kind of come in and say, hey,
two people can't run the entire music industry. I don't
think that's a good thing for anybody, But what do

(48:11):
I know? I don't know. All right, smiles, Before we
get out of here, do you have any fall music
things that are coming out that you definitely want the
people to take a look at and take a listen to.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Right now, y'all just continue to tune into music in
Pulse and check out my playlist I'll be posting on
my Lincoln bidio.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Check those out. Every month.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
I dropped nine to twelve songs just joints that I've
heard throughout the month album wise that y'all should definitely
check out. If you really into that that real hip hop,
definitely check out that Freeway. The Stilus package too, Definitely
listen to that. If you like a little ratch, definitely
check out that that Lotto, that Sugar Honey Ice tea

(49:01):
a little ratch. As far as albums, I'm looking forward to,
of course the Big Sean. Look like we might get
a Wale album because of walle announced today that he's
going on tour starting in September. Uh so those like
we might get a Walleye album either September or swing September,
and like November, we might get a Wallee album. That's

(49:22):
what That's what it looks like. Because yes, I'm a
Wale fan, but I ain't just trying to go see
him just to perform the same oldtnels I've seen him.
Because I've seen I've seen Walley perform about four times.
I think, m hm, so I need some some new
joints mixed in with that.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
So ye and then oh, our favorite guy killing Mike.
He just came out with a new like. He called
it the Epilogue to Michael.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
It is called Michael and the Mighty Midnight Revival presents
Songs for Sinners and Saints.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Great project.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
It definitely it's got that the gospel like feel or whatever,
like the verses like he incorporates like a little like
the gospel field. But it's like it's just really is
just a continuation of Michael Like Summer for Junkies is
like an eight minute long song, which is kind of
like the continuation of the slummer from the first project.

(50:27):
Lord prepared me the guest features he had on there,
Exit nine with Offset and our guy Blast. Offset had
a pretty dope guest feature on there, and then still
talking that ship with Key Gliding project Pat. I was like,
I was, yeah, I could, because again I'm not one
of those ones that like to go pick out a song,

(50:50):
but because it was the last song on the project,
I definitely went to listen to that first before I
heard the Cool album because I was like, oh, I
got to hear what Pat.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Did on this joint. I love it. I love it
all right. As we get that that's it, as we
get ready for this fancy football rules vote, and it
sounds like my neighbors upstairs are having a rustle Mania match.
We're gonna go ahead and get up out of here.
My smalls hit the people with your socials and let's.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Us out all right.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
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(51:37):
my friend, are family. That's all I want, because I'm
actually trying to, you know, delete people who I ain't
talked to in like a million years. Off of it,
I slowly leak that ship. You can go to the
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(51:58):
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description you got the link if you want to, you know,
help your boy out for my wedding registry by a
brother some some things off the wedding registry because you know,
I ain't got no job, so I can't afford a
lot of these.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
I feel you, I feel I got that invite. I
got that invite. Over then over the text, I appreciate
that you got me that plus one right.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah, like if you if you want to plus one,
I got you.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
I got you. Like I might be out of the street,
so I might need that.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
So and also, you know, just shout out to Dub.
You know, my mom's stuff for uh, so she could
ordain my wedding. I actually came in the mail today,
So shout shout out to Dub for helping me walk
through the process of how to get that done for
mom Dukes.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
So I can't wait, you know, but yeah, you know,
just continue.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
To listen to Embrace the turn Up, Continue to listen
to music in pause, continue to listen to let Me
Book the Territory, Continue to listen to an artle ruckers.
Listen to all that ship that we were dropping because
you niggas don't know how to pie. Y'all be dropping
after after three episodes and ship we we do this.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Hey, this ship ain't easy? What What am I man?

Speaker 3 (53:12):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Jack Nicholason, Jack Nicholson said, what was that in The Departed?
Does that reality TV? This ain't easy? You don't just
you don't just show up cut on these mics. No,
it's saint, it's ain't easy. This is what we do.
But ladies and gentlemen, if y'all looking for me, A
d U B one two through zero on everything except
for Twitter. I still haven't made a person on Twitter yet.

(53:33):
I don't know if I ever will. And yeah, every
couple of weeks or so, new episodes of this I'm
trying to get back to weekly, but life have been
lifing weekly. Two hey, and new episodes of Let Me
Book the Territory every single Friday. Got an episode recapping

(53:53):
our summer Slam trip coming pretty soon on The A
Man Show. And yeah, yeah, Other than that, guys, don't
forget drafted QBS early new rappers suck mm hm, and
we're out of here.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
He's yep