December 25, 2023 • 55 mins
Wondering how a year can zip by with its fair share of ups and downs? Look no further, as we wrap up the whirlwind of 2023, sharing chuckles and stats that reveal our most avid listeners hail from cities far and wide, some which we've yet to set foot in. The dedication of our "Culture Crew" kept us anchored in a year where our episode count might've dipped, but not the depth of conversations—from the fierce debates in hip-hop circles to the subjective nature of musical taste, we cover it all with our usual blend of insight and humor.
Let's get into the meat of the music discourse, shall we? Hip-hop heads, brace yourselves for a hearty discussion on the genre's landscape as Jeff rattles off his top 5 rap verses of 2023 with Eminem's vexed verse on "The Realest" and the Kendrick vs. Cole debate offering a ringside view to the ongoing battle for lyrical supremacy. Meanwhile, our admiration for the artistry of Lil Wayne and the likes of Benny the Butcher and Method Man underscores the rich tapestry of rap that continues to captivate and influence. Whether you're a purist or a newcomer to the scene, this episode promises a blend of nostalgia and fresh takes.
But it's not all beats and bars. We pivot to heart-pumping moments in sports and sobering reflections on current events as we break down our most memorable moments of the year. The finality of Tom Brady's retirement and LeBron James' historical feats contrast with the gravity of discussing political satire amidst Trump's indictment, and the harrowing rise in mass shootings. Our conversation traverses these subjects with the same candidness and wit you've come to associate with our show, while always respecting the weight of these topics. Tune in for a year-end episode that balances the lighthearted with the profound, always aiming to leave you informed and, yes, entertained. #2023 #hiphop #theculture #hiphopculture #politics #trump #lebron #bestrapverses
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Positive nuts, bro, what up?
And positive nuts, don't, don't.
Don't come out.
Been a while, it's almost some.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
a man, not people, miss you man, you've been gone
for a while, man.
People was asking me about you.
Man had to do the last episodewith fucking Mikey.
She in them, hey man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Probation man Look you got.
You got it.
Got a check in with youprobation officer on time.
That P O Was like I don't wantto hear you in no podcast.
He's like I don't want to hearyou talk about you sick, take
your ass no off like I.
Man, look you got.
Avoid that ankle braceletsomehow some way, man.
It's how life go.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Damn.
I know probation forbid youfrom doing podcast to though.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You might say some shit might violate your
probation late when I sold upback to jail, you go, that's
true, back to jail you go.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hey no no commembers.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
my homeboy early ship member, keefe D, the one at the
Tupac shit, hmm, remember he'sbeen saying that Tupac shit for
years now.
Now it caught up.
30 years later they're likewhoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, like
that was the tame it.
Now, bro, you're gonna jail.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You been saying you finally got enough evidence from
your Vlad TV interviews?
You have the rights to remain.
Silence, buddy he was like what?
But I thought it was a Statueof limitations, like nah got you
nah, nah.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
We talk to a known fed inform and they, vlad, like
you, got a whole mic in front ofyou.
Oh, we doing an interview.
No, we, not you.
You were getting recorded mygene.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Come on, speak out like ten years of fucking
testimony.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
They play, but on Vlad.
But on Vlad you said like, yeah, man, let's just cut this deal.
Man, I'm going to jail, sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yo, this is the final episode of the year.
This is our year in review.
2023 Was a long year, a lot ofups and downs.
Shout out to the culture crewman, thank you, keeping us,
keeping us going.
There was some highs and wassome lows.
I'm gonna give you the numbers,man.
That's every year, shit, everyhigh as low yo, this year we
(01:50):
only did 26 episodes, man,that's.
That was about two episodes amonth, which is down from last
year.
It's every pay period, yeah,but there was, there was a time
where we was dropping episodesweekly, sometimes multiple times
a week, you know I'm saying.
But a lot has happened.
Like you know I'm saying, welaunched the YouTube so I've
been real occupied with that,working on the website.
You know I'm saying we havepersonal lives.
(02:11):
Oh, your PO officer is keepingyou away.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Hey, hey, it's the.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So we average 2.17 episodes per month.
Yay, check this out.
This is a stat that was alarm,not alarming, but was
interesting to me because, asfar as like our demographics,
you know, you would think thatlike friends and family would be
your top demographic, right,your top listeners.
The number one city I'm gonnagive you the top five cities
(02:41):
that we were listening in.
The number one most popularcity that our show is in Los
Angeles, california, which iswild to me because I don't
really even know anybody inCalifornia.
I know I have a, I have anex-co-worker Shout out to my man
Jillson.
I know he listens, he lives outin LA, but that's the only
person I know.
You know what I mean.
Out there.
We got Mikey she.
(03:03):
He lives in Portland, oregon.
I mean, that's close, butthat's not Los Angeles.
It's pretty.
That's the number one city thatwe were downloaded in.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I guess we better not talk about no gang show on here
number two was Phoenix, Arizonaand 2023 nigga, I know nobody
in Phoenix, I don't know nobodyman.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Number three was Chicago Illinois.
What's what?
All these gang towns, tommy,tommy, egan, and none was out
there.
The whole power crew listeningto the culture.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We got Bloods and Crips from LA, gd's and Black
Stones from Chicago.
What other gang cities doingthere?
We're gonna change this podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't know nobody man in Chicago.
My sister lived out there forsix months back in the day and I
went out there one time.
That's you know.
That's as far as I was.
Chicago flew there.
No, I drove out there.
It's a 12-hour drive.
Anyways, shit.
Number four On the cities thatlisten to us the most was Dallas
, texas.
You know anybody in Texas?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
No, Shout out to Dallas.
Yeah, I don't know how thesenumbers move, like I don't know.
No niggas, dallas, la.
I mean, that's a good thing,though, like my niece goes to
school in Chicago, but shestarted going this year.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Mm-hmm, and I don't think there's no Gen Z like.
Gen Z, to be fair, is not ourdemographic.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right, I don't think we would have a demographic.
To be honest with you like.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We're talking about racism.
We're talking about old-schoolhip-hop, we're talking about
shit like that he's doing yourroles in trying to listen to
none of this shit we're nottalking about, you know.
I mean Drake and Whoever thefuck these little rappers they
listening to.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Which is funny cuz they're all little something.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, and then, number five.
Check it out.
Number five on the list NewYork, new York City.
So nice, they named it twice.
I mean we're in the East Coast,we're in Jersey.
So you figure, jersey, new York, florida, those were the three
at least states that I wouldexpect to be on the top, sure,
but it'd be weird for somewhereelse.
(04:58):
But it's Cali, arizona,illinois, texas, new York.
Check out this stat.
We were listened to in 59countries, Including Australia,
germany, the UK and the RussianFederation, which I guess is
what they're calling Russia now.
Is that what the fuck they'recalling Russia, the Russian
Federation?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Look, I don't know.
I don't know if you're talkingabout this Russian shit.
I don't.
Look, we don't.
We don't do that.
I look, we appreciate thelisten, but Y'all got some other
shit going on over there.
Thank you for the listen.
Yes, don't wanna and beinvolved in the fuck shit y'all
got going on.
Nah, but keep listening, though.
You know what it's a war goingon.
(05:39):
You need some peace and quiet.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
They over there shooting at each other and they
got the culture on theirheadphones.
The wild part they should eachother like you want.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You want to go to war .
You want to go to war?
Nah, I shoot you.
You shoot me on kind of three,one, two pat.
We are the war.
What we're gonna do in a freetime?
Oh, we're gonna listen to theculture.
Absolutely, plug the fuckinggood for you, fellas man.
Stop shooting each other.
No more war.
Make love, not War.
Yeah, how about a piece?
Yeah, make love, not war.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yo.
So, like I said, 26 episodes, atotal of one thousand three
hundred and two minutes.
Hmm and I fully intend onMultiplying that for 2024.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's the plan.
We'll see what life says.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
All right, but yo, you know, I like lists, right.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
We do this every year year and review.
I'm doing my top five verses ofthe year.
I'm low-key, really think thisshit gets you hard.
I love lists, I know you do.
I love top five everything.
Top fighters, top fight.
I asked my shit.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's my bag right there.
I think you get up in themorning and be like brushing
teeth, like what's a top five,two-paste crest, aim, cool gate,
you know.
You just run it through yourhead like everything's the list,
everything.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So we doing the top five verses.
I got my top five.
You wanted all parts of it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
No, I hate rap this year.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Really.
Yeah, you think 2023 was aterrible year for rap, for new
rap.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yes, your, your top tier artists really didn't come
out anything.
Cole had a great guest verse ondirt shit Drinks.
Album albums plural, let'spluralize it.
Those were shit so bad.
He started beefing witheverybody about basic equality.
Was albums?
Because it's just been dropping.
They haven't been the same.
He's still singing the sameemotional sing song you whining
(07:28):
shit.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He was in his Eminem bag like oh, you want to talk
shit about my album?
Start getting a Joe button,which is the thing to do now.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But in the thing with him is like you're spending
more time you're being theawareness of people about you
are you getting mad at peopleabout your album than them
talking about your album, like,oh so you have your top five
list, that you're listed.
You're going to break down forus?
In regards to verses, I'm goingto assume there's not a drink
(07:57):
when they're no, sorry, I wasn't.
I wasn't expecting it to, butI'm just saying it's kind of a
low-key down year in regards toit, because it's it's the
homogenization, it's all thesame.
They're all in the same flowand the people you would think
would be stepping up by nowaren't dirt's, not babies, not
the babies not.
(08:17):
You got some other likeyoungsters in it, but they're
just kind of beginning.
It's not clicking the way youwere wanted to do so, so I've
been listening to a lot of oldershit.
Yeah, as a matter of fact,we're going to digress in this
topic slightly Now.
I don't know what you'relooking like in February
monetary for yourself, or inMarch I don't think might be
(08:38):
April but do you plan on goingto Vegas to go into the Wu-Tang
residency?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm supposed to be going to Vegas, I think April
should check when you check whenthe residency is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well hotel is it at?
Not the palm, but I think it's.
I got to look it up, but theyare having a residency in Vegas
Once in February, I think that'saround Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I wonder how much they want for tickets they
haven't put it up yet.
If you come with me, I'll go,but the people are supposed to
be going to Vegas with.
None of them is gonna beinterested in going to a Wu Tang
concert not not one single oneof them.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Wife, sister, sister-in-law, brother-in-law,
whatever.
Eric don't seem like the WuTang type.
He ain't sitting there througha Wu Tang album, bro.
I'll go to a concert.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He likes it through a Taylor Swift album.
Oh shit, I don't give a fuck.
You can tell him I said it, Idon't care, I'm gangster, but
that's the problem.
That's why I didn't make a listabout it, cuz I'm like Nothing
that y'all did move me.
The weird, okay, the mostexciting thing that happened in
hip-hop, in regards to hip-hop,is the fact that one of the
greatest hip-hop artists everdecided not to make a hip-hop
(09:50):
album.
That shit got more pressing anyother Then I know, and what
that fluke should.
Yeah, exactly, you know exactwhat I was talking about, what I
mean.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, mike he spoke about it.
He did you know that heactually had a guest, a verse on
somebody's album.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah on Yep um the killer Mike up, and that that
first goes boy.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, I considered it for my top five, but it just
didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It goes, but that's just kind of that's what he's
trying to say, like if you'rereally want me to do this, I can
he's just bored with it.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I want to try different shit, different flows,
different flow patterns, youknow, I mean he's just bored
with the shit, bro, like I'mjust some co-natural to him,
that he's just bored with it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I feel like like he's just choosing not to do it,
like he wants to do an album,what he's going to be inspired
to do, so he's not inspired todo a rap album.
Except I like playing my flutewhen doing now about that, and
Everybody in hip hop is talkingabout a flute album, because
y'all can't make an album goodenough to complete with a flute
album and the shit was like thehighest streamed shit wasn't it
that shit is relaxing in themotherfucker boy.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It was the highest streamed shit.
Oh yeah, I think you everlisten to it.
I listened to a couple things Icouldn't really do.
It was it for me.
You know what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's like, if you like the flu.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
If it was the saxophone I would have a
saxophones, my shit.
I fuck with some Kenny G shit.
Speaking of Kenny G, let me,before I get off topic, did you
see the Kenny G and Warren Gcollaboration?
That shit was hard.
No, but I look that shit upwhen you get a chance on YouTube
or something.
It was on stage.
I don't know what show this wasWarren G and Kenny G, they did
(11:23):
the regulators and what, andKenny G's doing the beat on his
saxophone.
You know I'm saying Then thatshit was hard.
I was like, oh shit, theyshould do a whole album together
.
The G funk.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
He should just do one G's whole album in saxophone.
Yo, that shit was dope he didregularly.
Should do all this with this DJ, do that in saxophone, like
there you go.
But you want somethingdifferent.
And he provided somethingdifferent.
And it wasn't even hip-hop, itwas technically hip-hop, because
he's a rapper, but Andre's hisown, his own thing, right.
(11:59):
But the fact that the mostexciting thing that happened to
hip-hop was an album that wasn'tabout hip-hop says you like the
state of it this year it waskind of with you, I agree with
you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, hip-hop was shit this year, but there's,
there's something for everybodyif you really want to look for
it.
You know, I'm saying are thepeople that we grew up listening
to are still making Songs?
Oh yeah, we can listen to abuster.
You can listen to a nozz.
He drops some shit, you canlook.
You know, I mean, they all gotsome.
You, there's something foreverybody if you really look for
it.
But let me get into this list.
(12:27):
Man, no problem, I got you mynumber five Top verse of the
year and this one could easilybe higher on the list.
Goes to one of the goats, eventhough you argue that he's not
in your top Mr Marshall matters.
Eminem On the song the realestFeaturing easy mill or e2 mill,
(12:52):
easy mill that new up-and-comingdude right, mm-hmm.
What is he?
Canadian or some shit?
Uk?
He was some shit, I think, fromUK.
So Eminem has the third verseon the shit and he goes.
Guess I've really no right tocomplain.
Much hip-hop has been good tome, huh.
But when they say that I'm onlytop five because I'm white, why
would I be stunned, my skincolor still working against me?
Cuz, second, I should be thenone, being white, and why they
(13:13):
put me at five Is why they can'tput me at one.
That's hard.
Then he goes.
They're coming with more venom.
So the haters I'm aiming ittowards the man all the envious
rappers I torture if I'm on ajoint with them and that is the
only resort is I'm not played inthe clubs.
Motherfucking, put a cork in it.
Only reason they still playyour shit in the clubs is cuz
you still performing them.
Oh, I'm a guest in this house,but I turn this bitch to a
(13:35):
mansion.
That's an expansion.
Made it gargantuan.
England, germany, france andJapan in this Bitch, even Dubai,
because my music they do buy.
You died trying the scientiststo sigh Chiatrists could not
unscrew my head up the blue-eyeddevil.
I never quit, do I?
Nah, cuz you know you'll getwashed like a bar of soap.
You pussy, you wouldn't give acigar to smoke and I know it
(13:57):
eats at your heart like anArtichoke, because you know
that's how likely you are thechoke.
Yo, his shit.
Like if you got Eminem latelythe last few years, you gotta
listen to his shit multipletimes.
A double and triple.
Untanjas are crazy, bro.
I, I, I, I, I, I.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Appreciate that, the unrequisite love you have for
this white boy.
I do, I really do.
Why is Eminem complaining abouthis like his position on Mount
Rushmore when he's pretty muchricher than maybe one?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
guy up there Because he doesn't do this for the money
.
He's always said from thebeginning that he got into the
game looking for the respect ofhis peers.
And when he constantly keepshearing that, oh, he's a, he's
sold this because he's white, oh, you know, black people don't
listen to him.
Oh, he's a guest in hip-hop,and all these things that they
say about it, all the Lord Jamartype of shit, right.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Like this he eats at him.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know what I mean?
Mm-hmm.
He feels like he has toconstantly answer to the critics
type shit.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But he doesn't.
But that's the shit I don'tunderstand.
He doesn't have to at all.
I agree, like I could see if hedidn't have the credentials and
you could say whatever you wantto say about him.
And all honestly, like you know, he had this, he had Dre, he
had it doesn't matter if youcan't rap like that, you can't
rap like that, he can rap likethat.
I'm never gonna hold thefucking candela for March Madden
(15:24):
because I don't need to speakfor him.
I don't dislike him.
I don't need to speak for mecuz it speaks for itself.
That's, that's the point of all.
Try to get across you.
I don't dislike Eminem.
I enjoy him as a rapper.
He can really really rap.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He's just not in your top five, right and that is no.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
That's no shit.
It's a lot of rappers that I amPassionate about.
It's not like I love Rick Juan.
He's never gonna be in my topfive.
I love most death.
He's never gonna be in my topfive.
I Like game never gonna bethere.
But it just happens that peoplegonna say like no, he's white,
like I've kind of got past thatwhite shit.
(16:02):
I just know that when he won't,it's the three thousand thing.
When he wants to get busy, hecan get busy, like we talked
about for the, the joint he hadon killer Mike's album.
When Andre 3000 really wants tofucking get busy, he's gonna
get busy.
You're gonna be like whoo, wow,but for him it's all like well,
he's white, I'm like Let mefinish this verse, cuz this is a
(16:24):
song where he also dis is MellyMel.
So he goes, which might be thedumbest thing in all here, but
go ahead, man.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
He goes.
Your heart is broke.
As I rip you apart, I gobananas.
Proceed to spit every bar.
I wrote I was spitting beforemy mother's water broke.
It's not even close, you bitch.
I'm far I'm by far the goat,mmm Genziers, acting like rap
experts, zip up your gaps andclose your mouths, bitch.
You ain't been on this planetlong enough to tell me how rap
supposed to sound.
Y'all need to stick to what youdo best shooting schools up.
(16:52):
Yeah, go load up rounds andyour parents, gas and go to
class and let off with the strapand go to town.
Shout out to the furious fiveand Grandmaster Flash.
But boy, there's someone whoreally is furious.
Stay out his past.
His wrath, avoid, and I'll bethe last to toy with a juice
head Whose brain is like halfdestroyed.
Goddamn, like a meteor hit it.
Well, there went, there wentMelly Mel.
(17:14):
We lost his ass to Roy's.
That is a bar.
God was like I got him, but I'mgonna start him at the bottom
of the barrel.
Brought him in the world with ama, with a ma that was on
Valium and his father was acoward.
Taught him as a child, when nofucking body was around, how to
get himself up and out ofpoverty and now not even a growl
in his stomach.
Got to be a hound, so they putyour body in the ground.
Probably gonna sound like acliche, but when haters try to
(17:36):
beat you down, say fuck him.
Okay, let him know, marshall.
So that was number five on mylist.
That's a stupidest beef inhistory.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Like that's like beef with your grandfather, like I
Like, like.
Okay, you know how, like.
As people get older, we tend tolet their casual racism slide,
like my grandmother's 82 yearsold, my grandmother, still to
this day, calls white peoplecrackers.
(18:06):
It's not that she's no, that'slow key reverse racism, right.
It's not that she means it ismore in a sense because she grew
up in itself and kind of howthings went down for it, just
how she is now, before it'suntil it.
Like you can't say that they'renot thought about, like you
know what You're at a particularage in life, I can't really
tell you.
Not to say it, you're going to,no matter what I tell you,
because kind of age has givenyou that kind of thing, melly is
(18:29):
like it's like you don't needlike let Melly say whatever
Melly's gonna say.
Like you don't need to respond.
Everything I just gave praiseand imminent about like that's
the one thing that still bogs meabout.
I'm like forgot what is much?
Financial success, artisticsuccess, all our alms, means
upon means, the alms he sold,all the tours and everything
else that he tends to have aSensitive skin for no good
(18:52):
reason and I don't know why.
Like like Dre, dre has madesome shit, beats Some, some shit
was not working, even a doctordrip, but it doesn't just
dismiss his legacy.
Like he never has to talk downto anybody because I am who I am
when M is like he can't getthat thing Listen, cuz he
listens to all the comments, hereads all the shit and turn the
fuck away.
(19:12):
Could you, could you know whyMelly Mel still has to go out on
tour to make money to feed hisburgeoning steroid habit?
I have never seen an old manthat big and that wrong right.
He looks like a bodybuilder andwhat he's like in his 60s.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I told you I saw him at the hip hop 50 show.
You come up on stage, he's,he's massive for a guy that age
crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
No, he's still alive, broke, look, I don't know what
kind of program you on, but thatshit is working for him.
But my whole thing is like he'sstill got to do this to kind of
make a living, the songs offolk and that's being a pioneer
hip hop, great.
But you don't, marshall, youdon't have to do this like you
don't have to respond back.
That's the whole thing.
If you want to be on MountRushmore, the thing about that
is that you're amongst the gods.
(19:52):
God's don't speak to thepeasants.
They don't speak to the people.
They praise it.
Praise goes up, it doesn't godown.
You don't got to talk down toMelly Mel, just let it go.
Like that's the way you feelman, no problem.
Like they're gonna saysomething put my records up
against his.
If you want to do a battle, wecan go ahead and do that.
He can do.
Put.
Don't think Eminem gonna loseto him is like a bench press
contest, that's it.
He can outbarm, he can out wrapand he can do everything he
(20:15):
wants to do in hip hop.
He just can't out lift this old, strong motherfucker outside of
that.
But I know he had to see how todig that one in there.
I appreciated it, though.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Number four on my list.
I mentioned this gentlemanearlier, j Cole Mm-hmm, but it
wasn't the song you mentioned.
Okay, it wasn't all my life,nope, it was the secret recipe
on the little yachty shit.
And I was like, wait a minute,why the fuck is J Cole making
music with little Yachty?
It just didn't make sense to me.
It makes perfect, but it but itain't mad, because he still
killed the shit.
And is this safe to say thatKendrick and J Cole are this
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era's Nas and Jay-Z?
No, like the two guys thatpeople go to for lyrics, you
know, I mean and storytellingthey go through them for that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But even with Nas and J, they were kind of two
different things.
Yeah, nas, you always it waslike if you weren't a backpack
rapper, he was like your kind ofmainstream rapper, right where
J was, you know, you know money,cash, hoes, I guess you can say
Kind of had a thing and stillwould put in the lyricism and
still put in like the vividimagery of like Lifetelling and
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storytelling which came later,like like past blueprint and so
on, so forth.
But with them they're likethey're two sides of the same
coin, like they're the.
They're.
They're kind of designed in away where you don't want to pick
one or the other.
You actually want to have both,like most people, either a Nas
guy or your J guy.
But but I don't.
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I know people that like I likeKendrick and I like code, but I
don't see public.
I like Kendrick, fuck Cole.
I love Cole for Kendrick.
It's like they're both in thesame pocket that do similar
things.
But they're the way they kindof go about rapping is
completely different.
So when they do it, Even thesubject matter is the same, the
way that their flow works, theway that because Kendrick always
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has that quick.
That tap, tap, tap, tap shitand Cole is just always seemed
like he's just talking.
It never seemed like he'srapping, like he just like this
is very, very, very smooth andmelodic.
So I can't say like they're theNas and J of this generation.
I I can say that, yes, becauseof the two most popular, when a
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sense of style and a sense ofRapability, two sides of the
same coin, it is greater whatthey do, everyone else finishing
third, but yeah, get down thesecret recipe.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Mm-hmm.
J Cole has the second verse andhe goes Cole and Yachty, coming
for the respect, come and payyour debt.
Just like a travel pillow, weact your neck for the way you
slept this nuance.
But I see hella influence inthe way you dress, the way you
sound, the way you try to move.
You try to stay abreast on allthe Latest flows and latest
tones from Generation X.
Your chasing relevance isevidenced by the way you step.
As for me, I cook somasterfully.
(22:51):
Ain't got to pay a chef.
I'm older now but still comecut and edge.
I'm like a bayonet from out thebill.
We all should certify.
You got to wear your vest.
Too many Homicides, a lot ofslide and they good at making
decks.
Thanks to God I made it out thecity.
Most will say I'm blessed.
My greatest flex is that I madea milli feel like I'm
Blangladesh.
I hate the press refusinginterviews whenever they request
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n words, fake, progressive andwoke.
I started saying less.
I had to stop it.
Peeped how they profit off ofracial stress.
Some activists got so rich theyprobably wish we stayed
oppressed.
Studio steppers moving extra onsongs, faking rep only breaking
bad in the lab.
Thought I was making meth nwords, making threats, and I and
I laugh, that's cuz you ain't athreat.
Don't ask how I feel about norappers.
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Shit they okay.
I put, I guess, incoming call,press the button, the one they
say.
Except he faced time to ask fora feature and saw the face of
death.
I'm on your song, your streamsgoing up, not quite the Drake
effect, but don't complain,bitch, take what you get and cut
the label.
Check my stable, set a Dine onyour favorite.
One verse will take his breath.
I probably put more n words onpause.
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And cam and Mason beth, I, myagent, got a whole lot of calls.
It's like he paid the ref.
These bitches out here lookinglike Steph on the late contest,
wide open Shooting.
They shot.
Don't even waste your breath.
I've been stop fucking youthoughts and got no patience
left.
Save that shit for one of them.
N-words that rock the fakeprotects my paper stress, just
like a Laker, before he break asweat, signed the greatest yet.
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Oh, let him know, cole, I fuckwith Cole man, oh you do.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You do what you mean.
I'm not saying that shit to befunny, I just know that you do.
Cold is great at what he does.
I don't know why people arguewith this shit.
Like he, he's look best rightnow, it's okay, it's the reason,
okay.
So I would say, if you're makingthat comparison, career-wise
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Cole is J M no, no, uh, kendrickis not.
It's the whole like fear ofwhat I mean is that like, like I
appreciate the youngergeneration putting him on their
albums.
The only problem is that whenyou put J Cole on your album
he's going to kill you, like Jused to.
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Like you want, like everybody,like I wanted J verse and when
you got it, it outshone yourshit.
He did that on this, he didthat on dirt shit.
Oh no, it's just, it's one ofthose things.
Only in that position it'sreversed.
When it comes to career,kendrick's J and Cole is nice.
Because I believe that the waythat Cole is, he's a lifer, like
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he's going to do what Nas didnow with the King's disease and
the magic and like the later onshit in life, because I think he
just Generally loves this.
Like his business interests areall around dreamville, he
doesn't have much of anexpensive thing outside of that
where you know, basicallyKendrick's leaving the label,
he's trying to start his ownthings, trying to get into these
like artistic creative projects.
He's expanding.
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He's more interested in theartistic business side of it.
Cole seems to be moreinterested in like the purity of
it, the rap part, the Like Isaid cuz he don't have to do
this, but he does Because he'salways like trying to look out
and reach out for the youngergeneration.
He wants them to succeed, hewants them to supersede him
actually.
But the fact that he can stilldo this at this level is not
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much more than you can say aboutit.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
All right, Hmm, next up on my list.
And this guy is always alwaysdoing his thing right and I
never used to fuck with his dudebefore because I can't stand
his voice and I've talked aboutit.
But when you listen to hisfucking lyrics, he's.
You know I'm talking about.
I.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Know it's such a weird thing to say about
something else like I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I can't stand this voice like okay, I'm talking
about Lil Wayne Mm-hmm.
You know, nas dropped his magicalbum, so his last project with
a hip boy and he got Wayne onit on the song called never die,
one of my favorite songs on thealbum Okay, and this is my
favorite verse on the wholealbum.
So it's Lil Wayne.
He has the second verse neverdie.
(27:00):
He goes icon, stepping onpython, spitting that cayenne
Eat you like a lion, peeking atthe skyline, reaching for the
stars like I'm reaching for thepylon.
I seen you on the sideline.
We need to walk a fine line.
We need to read the guidelinesinstead of reading the timelines
where everybody Like line,nobody flow like mine.
I'm sending these and wordsgotta be coaching and words like
prime tongue.
(27:21):
I never bite mine.
Got dough like taekwondo,taekwon, that that that line
right there got me for somereason.
Got dough like taekwon To spendall this money I'm gonna have
to spend a lifetime.
You broke.
Can't even buy time.
Show Should throw inwards alifeline.
You know, money on my mind.
I'll be on your wife, mine.
I hit her with the pipe bomb,then pass her down the pipeline.
But actually we quite finediamonds on me, sparkling and
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splashing like some white wine.
They love me in the nighttime,they hate me when the light
shines.
Shots I got a hundred, andproblems I got nine.
Nine Bugatti Viron take offwith no flight time.
Bad bitch on the passenger side, she don't even like flying
Booty, soft as nylon, you andwe're small as micron.
I got a black Nina that getnasty as a white blonde.
Low credit, high crime, openmind, tight rhymes.
When they hit my lines theserappers got a catch up.
(28:04):
Like Heinz, that's a bar Weezyand my slime Nas ain't nobody
like ours.
Like by guns got out like icons.
Be icons, hi mom.
Hmm, I thought that was hard.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Ain't no thought, ain't no thought.
It's Wayne.
It's hard, bro, I know, buteveryone else talking about rush
more shit.
I'm like y'all might have toleave a space for Wayne.
You might not like it, butmight have to like what's it?
What's this?
What's this?
20 years plus it's already been20 years.
Think so, might be more thanthat.
(28:37):
Give me one moment, let's takea Google search.
Uh-huh, what date is this?
The block aside came out in1999?
.
That was his first joint.
Yeah, the block aside.
The block is that 1999 so now?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
but that was in his debut, wasn't his debut of the
wobbly?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
wobbly shit.
It wasn't that, but I mean as asingle.
His first was the block is hot.
So that's 1999, that's going on25.
I was like a soft, more highschool be that.
So that's October 23rd 1999.
So, next year it'll beofficially 25 years God damn.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So it was a spin like this in the 90s.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I understand that, I understand that, but again, even
doing it again Next year wouldbe 25 years, 25 years away, not
10 years, not 825.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
All right, check it out.
The next one I can't evenrecite the lyrics Because I
don't know, maybe there's justtoo funky, fresh and the.
I can't even find the lyrics.
They're not on title, they'renot.
I can't Google them, mm-hmm, Ican't find the lyrics to this
fucking verse.
Okay, so y'all gonna have to golook it up.
It's Benny the butcher On theOT, the rail and a rap music
(29:47):
joint, a rap music drop thealbum this year.
Right, by the way, is a rapmusic one of the dopest
producers, bro, cuz he nevermisses on beats.
His beats are hard.
He's one of them.
You know, I'm saying thiscertain, this, certain guys like
fab that get on a rap musicbeats and just do magic with
them.
She's, anyway.
The name of the song is thecrown and Benny has an ill-ass
(30:09):
verse on that.
You're gonna have to look thatup.
I'll go listen to that shit.
But that takes me into mynumber one verse.
And this guy has been and I'mbiased, I don't give a fuck, I'm
biased this guy has been numberone on my list.
Every year that he drops a fireverse he's usually number one.
So for the last couple yearshe's been number one on my list,
right.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Do you remember the name of thesong?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
The crown.
It's on the OT the rail and arap music, shit.
But it's just him.
No, it's Benny the butcher, otthe rail, and it's the beat is
by a rap music.
Hmm, can't find it.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, I know to find it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I know I will.
My number one.
You ready for this?
Sure, this guy's been killingthe fucking features game lately
, the last few years.
Every time he comes on afeature he murders the shit.
This is the one guy that I'vetold you that it gets better
with age.
Right, that are all the oldheads he's still spitting.
(31:12):
He's spitting better now thanhe was in the 90s and in the
2000s to me, in my opinion.
Okay, you don't really know whoI'm talking about go ahead man,
the MET HOD man.
So Lloyd Banks dropped an albumthis year.
Right, it was okay.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I don't think you like who like yeah, it wasn't
the best, you got a wholeGeneration of who are they like?
Who's Lord Banks?
They have no idea zero.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
But he has an album he dropped this year and he has
a song called 101 razors,because they just slicing you up
right.
101 razors featuring met theman.
Met the man has the last verseon it and he goes Legend before
retirement.
You Just a bust of before therhyme.
You pre-Madonna's like a virginMadonna, but borderline bunch
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of boring lines, no one fallingfor.
So fall in line the punchline.
I'm like a freestyle slimes.
They offer mine, get it off ofmine.
Some of us get it, but offercrime.
The office off the table.
Public defender gone off oftime.
When they thought it was, whenthey thought it was subbing, I
thought sublime.
Now I see since 2020, I clearlythought I was blind.
Yo, the streets is watchingthem.
They want them with biggie andpockin them, resort to poppin
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them.
But how is that solving theproblem?
I got a lot of them.
I also got dreams.
I follow them.
I'm not concerned with rapperswho can't spit, so swallow them.
There's ain't for little saints, so pardon.
Then.
You see them Polly, you seethem pearly gates.
That's where them Saints gomarching in.
So y'all.
So shall we start again?
Met that in banks.
This market in cuz ain't nobargain in with the demographic
we target, in that this is just,bar after bar, the flow is
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still uncanny.
I think he still has a top,maybe five, maybe top three flow
of all time.
You know I mean the wordpatterns, like is just.
It's just, to me is uncanny.
It could easily be lower on thelist.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I have Eminem up here, Ican have the Wayne versus number
one, I can have the J Coleversus number one.
All these verses could benumber one.
(33:01):
But when you actually listen toit and you put it to like the
flow, you know I mean the wordscheme and everything.
Yes, I give this verse an edge.
So this is my top verse of theyear for me.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You do understand what listen to it and tell me,
if you agree to disagree, onethese years, you gonna have
something without Nars or Eminemor metham in on the right.
What is your not this year?
One these years now it's gonnahappen.
It ain't been happening lately,it ain't even happening, but
they've been spending though.
Am I wrong?
No, but that's the problem withthis generation, the fact that
(33:34):
you can't name nobody new right.
Like there's no one there, likewe had this pressure before, we
were putting, um, oh, korea wason there, mm-hmm, but I, he's
gonna get back to doing it, buthe just had a baby.
Congratulations him.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Him in the tennis.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Check him, and I'm Osaka, so yeah, so
congratulations to that, buthe'll get back to it, but that's
the whole thing like it.
There's no one in thisgeneration that impresses Me,
and I'm not saying because we'rethe old heads.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
We're the old heads.
Now, if you talk to a Gen Z orthey're gonna give you, they're
gonna run you down a whole bunchof dudes that they fuck with.
The Little, this little, thatis person, that person, and it's
gonna be nobody that we fuckwith.
And I'm starting to understand,I'm just starting to accept it.
You know, I mean, I don't haveto like it.
I'm starting to accept thatwe're just gonna like different
shit.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
It's not even accepting it.
Like I understand that y'allthe generation likes Cloutin
hooks right yeah like the vibe.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, don't care about lyrics.
They don't care about the storytelling, they don't care about
word play and punch lines andsimiles and metaphors.
They're not looking for that.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I'm looking for that, though right, they're cheap out
like I'm.
I'm chasing like content,context and substance.
Mm-hmm, y'all are chasing vibesand feelings.
I get it and there's there's noshame in that and I'm not
complaining about it.
But you got understand that ifI ask you about this, if I play
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five of these songs in a row andI can't distinguish one person
from the other, if I put aproblem, if I put on J Cole, nas
and 3000 big Rayquan, fabulousJada, now, exactly who all are
more, I can tell by their voiceand by their cadence Exactly who
this is not a single one isgonna sound the same but over
(35:20):
here, here, all y'all, but there, by the bad time I'm a little
bit.
They did it.
It's a dad, dad, dad, dad, dad,dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad,
dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad,dad.
That's it.
What this?
This watch of the woodensoldiers, shit, some bullshit.
Y'all keep it.
Y'all got the same flow.
You all get the same cadence.
The beautiful hip hop and hisgrowth, it's that you can get
something different fromeverybody, from different parts.
The fact that the top ones areall sounding the same.
(35:42):
I can't differentiate y'all.
I can't tell.
I would love to, I can't.
I really, really, really wantto do a difference, but I can't.
So when you do shit like thisand you kind of keep these
things alive, mentioning thesepeople that still matter in a
course of hip-hop, the thingsthat they do, the way that they
rhyme, that you can tell that ifyou took your list and put all
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five of those together, none ofthem sound the same.
You can find a cleardistinction between each of them
, like.
This is his way.
This is there with this.
Is that, lily?
You can tell it by you, liketrying to read it, like when you
read it, when you read Eminem,you're reading it in his cadence
.
Right, you were reading it inthe words You're reading like.
Could you hear his cadence inyour head?
The same thing with everybodyelse.
(36:24):
I can read this word for wordby just reading across the
screen, said Jack in the hat whohad a cat in the back of the
lack with the Mac.
But you can't do that becauseyou've heard it for so long.
You know how they sound.
So when you read it you can'thelp but to do it in the head.
All these new ones, same kidand same flow, no difference.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
But that's why I gravitate to her like a corda.
When I sell people, I likecorda.
They like what the fuck he'swhack?
No, not to me.
He's not because he's, you know, he's in his 20s, but he
reminds me of the people that Ifuck with, you know.
I mean, he reminds me of thepeople I grew up with.
He's an old soul.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
He's still about lyrics, his story telling, you
know I mean I think you're likepeople who are passionate about
rapping, right, that thatunderstand the art form of it,
like it's not easy to do thisshit, but we're going to do it
and I'm gonna show how good Ican be at it, or anything else.
That's the tricky part when ally'all sound the same, I can't
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tell who's good, like okay, thatsounded good, but then the next
one, that sounded good, butnext got that sounded good.
But how do I like how to knowwhich you three stand out?
How do I know who's who?
And I can't?
And it's not a dismissal ofhip-hop, is it's kind of a
misunderstanding between twogenerations, because there's
nothing in that gaps and Feelsthe bridge between one to the
(37:39):
other cool.
It's kind of that guy, yeah,but, but he wraps more like a
90s rapper than a 2020 rapper,right, but I can't think of a
2020 rapper.
That really is kind of rappinglike a 90s rapper, like there's
no kind of that thing over themiddle.
I mean, the only bridge betweenthose generations that's why
he's one of the ghosts is reallyWayne, because the the
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progression through hip-hop youcan basically trace from his
career forward, like that makessongs with everybody.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
He'll make a song.
He can make a song with a nozz,and then he can make a song
with one of the new guys fromtoday.
You know I mean that he's thebridge.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, that's the one.
But then the whole thing islike the guys from the old
school, the older generation,respect him.
But the thing with the guys,the new guys, they can't rap
like that.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Going back to Wayne, not only is he the bridge
between the old and the new,he's also the bridge between,
like, the southern and the eastcoast and the wet.
You know, I'm saying cuz.
Like he's real southern, realsouth, and you can hear it in
his voice, you can hear it inhis accent.
But he makes songs witheverybody, you know.
I mean he could jump on a songwith the best from the east, the
best from the west, the bestfrom the south, and Still stand
his ground and shit and that'swhat went and that's the whole
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thing.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Because with the new generation, like he'll jump on
it, but y'all can't rap likethat.
That's the whole problem.
If you could you would, buty'all just can't rap like that.
He can still again.
Like I said, we just kind ofmade that note.
Next year will be 25 years ofhim rapping, not eight, not 15.
25 years.
That that is someone in amasters program.
25 years of rap and still going, still going.
(39:02):
They can still give it up likethis.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yeah but let's wrap this up, let's, let's, let's
talk about, let's dissect thetop moments of the year.
Once again shout out to thecoach, a crew man.
We do have a reaction video upin the patreon, so if you
haven't checked that out, cuzsometimes they don't begin the
notifications or the alerts-You're trying to get up on the
tube to back like a bitch.
Yeah, you do a reaction video.
You know that shit has to gothrough all types of Of
(39:27):
approvals before we could get upon YouTube.
But in the meantime, I know,but on the patreon.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
But I don't understand, because it should be
crazy, because you've seenother people pop up.
You be seen like you go onYouTube like something will
happen yesterday and they're gota reaction up like hold up bro,
like wait, wait, wait.
I don't know how to do it.
We know when a broke boy line,we got a, what we got a?
We got a like cut a check tosome shit like that, like we
gotta figure it out.
We got like sign up for YouTubepremium or something.
(39:51):
Do we get like a little bump?
I don't know shit.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
But yeah, we did a reaction to the video ad by as
yet group called acts yet andwas a song.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Night.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Mm-hmm, hilarious.
Go check that out on thepatreon page.
Oh, top moments of 2023.
Um, let's start with some lightheart issue.
Let's start with sports.
Oh, the top things thathappened, in my opinion, in
sports this year was Tom Bradyfinally retiring once and for
all For like the second or thirdtime.
I think that was a seminarmoment in sports, because you
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thought we thought he was gonnaplay forever, right, shit, time
did so.
He finally retired, Okay.
And and then, of course, lebronJames becomes the all-time
leading scorer in NBA history.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
And, and he won an N season tournament champion.
That's one more than JordanFucked.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
And they put a banner up, fuck that banner, that's so
this was just missing a banner.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Come on man.
Yeah, I got a better forcompetition, like two eight
seeds, two eight seeds.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's a one-off game.
It wasn't even like a series.
It wasn't like a best of five,best of nothing.
It was one game.
Anybody could win one game andthe bro none of the lately.
This is the most I've ever seenLeBron play defense.
By the way, he played his heartout to win this little in
season tournament.
Jordan put that shit on hisresume like yeah, jordan, on,
got this one.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
To one time NBA in season tournament champion.
If that shit going his Hall ofFame plaque, man, I quit
basketball.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
It is, it's gonna say four-time champion, mm-hmm,
it's gonna.
It's gonna say in seasontournament winner is gonna say
NBA scoring leader.
Mm-hmm and then, however manyall-star game appearances or
many Olympic gold medals he gottoo many, he's in the top five
of all time.
I just can never put him as mygoat.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
He might be top three all time.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
He's probably top three you know I'm saying I just
can't put him at the top.
I'm just sorry.
There's just too many factorsthat go into with the error that
he played in.
You know.
I'm saying you know, going sixfor six in the finals, yeah,
that's not all of it, but thatcounts for something.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
So Jordan has that over the MVP awards, the all the
accolades, that's a wholeanother podcast, right.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
But anyway.
So those are the sports.
Anything you want to add thatit might have happened in sports
.
They have the top she's thoseare the two top shits that
happen this year in sports.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
That that dad is giving two Asian fellas a
billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yo, they spent a billion dollars and two
motherfuckers be 700 million andsix and was it, was it 320.
They gave show he Othani 70million a year and 68 million of
that shit is deferred.
That is crazy.
That shouldn't even be allowed.
That sounds like fucking taxevasion.
That sounds like moneylaundering and again other board
326.
No, it's a 326 that sounds likeall types of laws being broken
(42:33):
right there.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
I had a competitive tax laws working to not pay him
30 million dollars a year.
They're gonna pay him basic twomillion dollars for the next 10
years in 680.
The whole thing about 680 likeit's not even like with interest
.
It is gonna sit 680 to stopthem crazy, bro.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
And the loophole is that when he retires and he
starts collecting the 68 milliona year, it doesn't get taxed on
where he plays Right, where heplayed like it does right now,
as when you're a player, you gettaxed in every state that you
play, all right.
When he's retired, this moneythat's deferred is only being
taxed where he lives.
So he could go to Florida orone of these other states that
(43:07):
has no state income tax, that'sit and collect even more.
This is money, that's it.
Tax less on it.
That's crazy.
How is that not like taxevasion of money laundering or
some crazy shit?
Speaker 1 (43:17):
And then they gave the other homeboy one million
dollars more than to giveGerakul.
They like they did it onpurpose, like Gerakul had the
highest contract in baseballhistory for picture.
Like more for all money, wise.
And they gave one me Dodges.
All right, let's move on.
Man, he mad.
Hey man, my team was trying tosign him in, like I know I'm
gonna hang in the home.
He's like all right, your teamoffered him more money than my
(43:37):
team.
At least y'all got Soto.
Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
We offered him 300, your guy, you guys offered him
325 and he went and took thatback to the Dodgers and they
matched it.
Yeah, yeah, but y'all got sothough.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
So it's like yeah, it's what y'all needed more than
anything.
You need a left-handedconsistent on base guy, and now
you got him.
Congratulations, we sign shitworld conflicts.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
This year we mentioned Russia listen to the
culture.
So big, all, but at the sametime they invaded Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
You shooting them bearless.
Ain't talking about that shit.
Fuck, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
I'm just letting.
I'm showing you fact we werelistening to.
It, doesn't fucking Russia.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
I'm happy for our Russian viewers, but they got
some fuck shit going on rightnow.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
I can't do.
And you know I have a co-workerwho's from the Ukraine and I'm
always, you know, checking onher, checking on her family, cuz
she got family, that's the herparents.
They're low Yo, the Ukrainiansare the most proud people I've
ever seen, yo.
Hmm, like I'll ask her abouther parents and she'll tell me
that they refuse to come here,like they want to stay over
(44:36):
there.
You know I'm saying they wantsit and they want to stand with
a country, they want to fightwith a country, they want to do
what they can and you know Imean to the end, type shit.
I'm like goddamn well, my thingis that that's, you know,
honorable, admirable type shit.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
It's, it's, it's all they know, man, to stay home.
They're not giving up the homeright, they rather die.
They like respected Israel andPalestine.
Back any bullshit again.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
And that's the other thing.
Yeah, the Palestine and Israelconflict, and I've been on
purpose, I've been Purposelystaying away from this topic.
We haven't mentioned it at all.
Right, and I have my reasons.
I might in the future Maybeearly to January if this keeps
going on I might have an episodeabout it.
I might bring on a guest andtalk about it.
(45:20):
But you know, I have myreservations.
One of the reasons why I havebeen hesitant to talk about it
Because I don't know enoughabout it, right, and I'm
ignorant to it.
So I don't really want to talkabout it.
I don't want to side withanybody.
You know what I mean, cuz Idon't really know enough about
it.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
No, that's not actually.
It's actually prettyintelligent of you you know I'm
saying so.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
It's like and you already know how I feel about
like religion.
I'm not saying this conflict issolely has to do with religion,
but I know that religion has alarge part to do with it.
Right?
You know, holy land and this isour land.
No, this is your know.
The Bible says this.
This says that Jesus.
You know it's a lot of it hasto do with religion, so I've
stayed away from that topic.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Yeah, am I a whole.
Thing.
Yeah, I get you.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
We're gonna tackle it eventually.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
I mean I'm gonna prerefuse it right now.
The reason why I'm talkingabout it?
Cuz they my problem, and I knowthat might seem kind of like
petty and whatever else likethat, but like, look, as an
African-American person livingin America who's been under the,
the rule of oppression andeverything else for decades, I'm
not saying I am the Arbor ofall black people, with a lot of
black people feel this way.
Certain conflicts andeverything else are that that
(46:24):
this is not my war, this is notmy issue.
What y'all got to sort out,what y'all got to sort out, it
doesn't affect my daily thing,it doesn't affect necessarily my
life and I don't have any.
My issue really comes down to asimple fact is that I'm not pro
Israel and I'm not proPalestine.
I Am pro Life.
(46:47):
And what I mean and I don't meanthat in like an abortion sense
I mean the sense that there area lot of people in the middle
Men who have been the family'schildren getting caught up in a
conflict has nothing to do withthem, that their lives have been
lost because of two warinfections, and there are people
being kidnapped as people,being murdered, raped as A sign
of war.
And I don't just I don't agreewith that.
(47:09):
Whatever your conflict is, yourarm need to go up against.
They are many to get thecivilians in the innocent side
of there.
Could he got nothing to do withthis?
That's my only beef with itoutside of that.
That's your problem.
I gotta deal with it.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
I Also.
This is alarming.
This is very alarming.
This year mark the most massshootings in the US and our
country's history.
They've been roughly around 700as of this record.
It's been around 700.
That's fucking shootings.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Look man, I told you, I told you, we number one at
this year.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
That's multiple shootings a day dog.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
We're only getting better at it.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
That's, that's.
That's almost twice as manyshootings as as days in the
fucking year bro.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
I told look, I told you about that, we're good at
this, we're really good at this,we're number one.
We love this shit.
Every time we had thatconversation about guns, we're
really really good at this.
And guess what?
Next year we're gonna beat thatlimit because we can't help it.
We don't want to do shit aboutit.
If we really want to do shitabout it, we could, but we just
don't.
So I'm like that that.
So what's the number this year?
Speaker 2 (48:10):
I was about, I think.
Last I checked there was alittle less than 700.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Oh we'll beat the next year, Hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
and in an electric cycle, fuck yeah and then, of
course, we had Donald Trump,indicted On over 30 charges this
year.
Still ain't gonna jail.
He ain't going to jail, hemight be get reelected.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
I thought we fucking know, trying to get my Canadian
passport set up right now.
Let me go in, get the fuckerpoint out of here, canadian
passport.
I'm out of fuck this.
I'm out, you out, I think.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
So just a quick drive .
It's like a six, seven hourdrive.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Yeah, this is like yellow.
Let me get a job lined up thereand get the fucking point out
of here y'all.
Next trip they're gonna put hisass back in office.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
I know Canadian, I know Canadians ain't never seen
a fucking match shoot, neverheard of a Mass shooting.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I'm good with that.
He ain't never gonna want toleave.
You gonna reelect them.
He's gonna try to stay in thereforever.
They're gonna turn somebullshit like look now be a
dictator day one.
Set it, go up there and piss on, piss on the Constitution like
we're right dictator.
For the one day you can readfirst Depth and day two like
that.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
A dick to a thing for this just so good, I'm gonna
extend this for another week ortwo.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Let's try this Like an aspirin.
Let's give it a week.
Okay, let's stretch it out alittle more.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
All right, it's been working out about a month.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
You also got that Constitution.
You got lighter.
Let me borrow that.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
You know what that law that says?
I can only run two terms.
We're gonna abolish that.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Old so.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
I'm running 20 consecutive terms.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
It's old paper, old laws.
None of it matters, don't worry.
All schools gonna be Magga,magga one, magga two, magga
three.
Run them all up, we're gonnachange the world.
I know we laugh, but that shitseems so realistic.
That's the fuck that part.
Oh shit, that shit don't seemmy side around possibility.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
We're alienating our Trump supporting listeners right
.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Look, look, that's y'all man.
You want to come up here andtalk about him.
Go right on the head, I ain'tgot no problem with it.
You can have an honest and fairdiscussion about the Possible
president of the United States.
I don't care, but come with mewith information and facts.
Don't call me.
I feel I don't feel shit.
I need to come with somethingthat shows me that why this
would be a good choice.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
I want to bring a.
I want to bring a minorityTrump supporter on the show come
the fuck on.
I'm not, I'm not terrifiedinteresting, your interesting
conversation.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
I'm not terrified, I'm just smart.
And are you not going to dummynow and give me something that's
functional and reasonable, thatI can actually Use is like okay
, that's a good point.
You know what?
He never got us in a war.
Good, great, thank you.
A lot of presidents did they beproud of that.
Shit wasn't in the war, he was.
(50:58):
Conflicts pop up all the time.
We put ourselves in a shit likethat, but whenever, whenever
this person was to come on, theycan come right on man, it's
perfectly fine.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
But yo, that's our year and review.
Man, happy holidays, happyKwanzaa, happy Hanukkah, merry
Christmas, if you celebrate that.
I Went to there's a gentleman Iknow who's Muslim, I ain't
gonna say his name and I askedhim like yo, you ready for the
holidays?
He was like yo, my name isMuhammad, I don't celebrate that
shit.
I was like I will shit, calmdown, man.
My bad he was I don't got tospend money on shit.
I ain't buying nobody a goddamnthing.
(51:29):
I was like shit, more power toyou, man.
But if you do celebrate it,happy holidays.
If you don't enjoy the, youknow the year and your family,
the festivities, whatever y'alldo before we go.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
I got.
I got five quick ones.
I thought Made an impact for me.
Mm-hmm person, fuck all ourpolitics shit.
Mm-hmm.
Number five was me on a SuperBowl.
That shit was fire the pregnantone yeah.
I like that one.
That was a nice little touch,mm-hmm, but it's it.
But happening January, so I cancount it.
After that I will say thisusher mania.
(52:01):
I've never seen so many peoplewant to go out to Vegas seat.
I've never seen so many peoplewant to go out to Vegas.
I never seen so many peoplewant to go to Vegas.
Just see him like I didn'tunderstand how important, how
good he was until that.
Shit, like people is likeplanning trips right.
I thought she was prettygoddamn impressive.
Number three is twofoldactually is juveniles tiny desk
(52:22):
performance, and then scar facestiny desk performance, which
came on a few days ago.
Them, shit's great.
The scar face one.
If you haven't seen it, go toYouTube.
Type an NPR tiny desk scar faceand watch his performance.
Yeah, faces, faces.
Just still at dude.
Number two the Smith's.
I'm tired of them.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
We need even mention.
I ain't even mentioned them.
I'm tired of mentioning themexactly I know.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
So I just want to get out the way I look one last
time the Smith's I guess that'sa memorable moment them breaking
up after 30 years.
Them breaking up her with thebook, her with the two, pock
shit.
It's it.
There was a lot they were doing, way too much this year.
Way they got.
Okay, please don't drag thatbullshit into next year.
We got it.
(53:07):
The family's crazy, y'all amess.
Cool, please receive to thebackground.
And the number one mostimportant thing to happen this
year, with that fact that wecelebrated 50 years of hip-hop.
We cannot go on any furtherwithout mentioning that, because
that is key To us putting thistogether, to us talking about if
I was talking about verses andlyrics and everything else like
(53:28):
that because this is the 50thanniversary, you went to the
celebration.
They have a celebrationseverywhere.
People had a grand, great timeand I don't want people to
forget how much it mattered.
I don't want to give up theessence of it, of everything
that hip-hop has encompassed,influence, change and Motivated,
motivated and cultivated withinthis audience, within this
(53:50):
culture, within the society.
We cannot let that go withoutsaying.
Thank you, hip-hop.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yes, sir, 50 years of hip-hop culture.
We're gonna be bigger andbetter in 2024.
Thank you for tuning in.
God, see pace I.
Positive nuts, bro, what up?
And positive nuts, don't, don't.
Don't come out.
Been a while, it's almost some.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
a man, not people, miss you man, you've been gone
for a while, man.
People was asking me about you.
Man had to do the last episodewith fucking Mikey.
She in them, hey man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Probation man Look you got.
You got it.
Got a check in with youprobation officer on time.
That P O Was like I don't wantto hear you in no podcast.
He's like I don't want to hearyou talk about you sick, take
your ass no off like I.
Man, look you got.
Avoid that ankle braceletsomehow some way, man.
It's how life go.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Damn.
I know probation forbid youfrom doing podcast to though.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You might say some shit might violate your
probation late when I sold upback to jail, you go, that's
true, back to jail you go.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hey no no commembers.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
my homeboy early ship member, keefe D, the one at the
Tupac shit, hmm, remember he'sbeen saying that Tupac shit for
years now.
Now it caught up.
30 years later they're likewhoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, like
that was the tame it.
Now, bro, you're gonna jail.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You been saying you finally got enough evidence from
your Vlad TV interviews?
You have the rights to remain.
Silence, buddy he was like what?
But I thought it was a Statueof limitations, like nah got you
nah, nah.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
We talk to a known fed inform and they, vlad, like
you, got a whole mic in front ofyou.
Oh, we doing an interview.
No, we, not you.
You were getting recorded mygene.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Come on, speak out like ten years of fucking
testimony.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
They play, but on Vlad.
But on Vlad you said like, yeah, man, let's just cut this deal.
Man, I'm going to jail, sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yo, this is the final episode of the year.
This is our year in review.
2023 Was a long year, a lot ofups and downs.
Shout out to the culture crewman, thank you, keeping us,
keeping us going.
There was some highs and wassome lows.
I'm gonna give you the numbers,man.
That's every year, shit, everyhigh as low yo, this year we
(01:50):
only did 26 episodes, man,that's.
That was about two episodes amonth, which is down from last
year.
It's every pay period, yeah,but there was, there was a time
where we was dropping episodesweekly, sometimes multiple times
a week, you know I'm saying.
But a lot has happened.
Like you know I'm saying, welaunched the YouTube so I've
been real occupied with that,working on the website.
You know I'm saying we havepersonal lives.
(02:11):
Oh, your PO officer is keepingyou away.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Hey, hey, it's the.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So we average 2.17 episodes per month.
Yay, check this out.
This is a stat that was alarm,not alarming, but was
interesting to me because, asfar as like our demographics,
you know, you would think thatlike friends and family would be
your top demographic, right,your top listeners.
The number one city I'm gonnagive you the top five cities
(02:41):
that we were listening in.
The number one most popularcity that our show is in Los
Angeles, california, which iswild to me because I don't
really even know anybody inCalifornia.
I know I have a, I have anex-co-worker Shout out to my man
Jillson.
I know he listens, he lives outin LA, but that's the only
person I know.
You know what I mean.
Out there.
We got Mikey she.
(03:03):
He lives in Portland, oregon.
I mean, that's close, butthat's not Los Angeles.
It's pretty.
That's the number one city thatwe were downloaded in.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I guess we better not talk about no gang show on here
number two was Phoenix, Arizonaand 2023 nigga, I know nobody
in Phoenix, I don't know nobodyman.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Number three was Chicago Illinois.
What's what?
All these gang towns, tommy,tommy, egan, and none was out
there.
The whole power crew listeningto the culture.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We got Bloods and Crips from LA, gd's and Black
Stones from Chicago.
What other gang cities doingthere?
We're gonna change this podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't know nobody man in Chicago.
My sister lived out there forsix months back in the day and I
went out there one time.
That's you know.
That's as far as I was.
Chicago flew there.
No, I drove out there.
It's a 12-hour drive.
Anyways, shit.
Number four On the cities thatlisten to us the most was Dallas
, texas.
You know anybody in Texas?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
No, Shout out to Dallas.
Yeah, I don't know how thesenumbers move, like I don't know.
No niggas, dallas, la.
I mean, that's a good thing,though, like my niece goes to
school in Chicago, but shestarted going this year.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Mm-hmm, and I don't think there's no Gen Z like.
Gen Z, to be fair, is not ourdemographic.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right, I don't think we would have a demographic.
To be honest with you like.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We're talking about racism.
We're talking about old-schoolhip-hop, we're talking about
shit like that he's doing yourroles in trying to listen to
none of this shit we're nottalking about, you know.
I mean Drake and Whoever thefuck these little rappers they
listening to.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Which is funny cuz they're all little something.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, and then, number five.
Check it out.
Number five on the list NewYork, new York City.
So nice, they named it twice.
I mean we're in the East Coast,we're in Jersey.
So you figure, jersey, new York, florida, those were the three
at least states that I wouldexpect to be on the top, sure,
but it'd be weird for somewhereelse.
(04:58):
But it's Cali, arizona,illinois, texas, new York.
Check out this stat.
We were listened to in 59countries, Including Australia,
germany, the UK and the RussianFederation, which I guess is
what they're calling Russia now.
Is that what the fuck they'recalling Russia, the Russian
Federation?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Look, I don't know.
I don't know if you're talkingabout this Russian shit.
I don't.
Look, we don't.
We don't do that.
I look, we appreciate thelisten, but Y'all got some other
shit going on over there.
Thank you for the listen.
Yes, don't wanna and beinvolved in the fuck shit y'all
got going on.
Nah, but keep listening, though.
You know what it's a war goingon.
(05:39):
You need some peace and quiet.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
They over there shooting at each other and they
got the culture on theirheadphones.
The wild part they should eachother like you want.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You want to go to war .
You want to go to war?
Nah, I shoot you.
You shoot me on kind of three,one, two pat.
We are the war.
What we're gonna do in a freetime?
Oh, we're gonna listen to theculture.
Absolutely, plug the fuckinggood for you, fellas man.
Stop shooting each other.
No more war.
Make love, not War.
Yeah, how about a piece?
Yeah, make love, not war.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yo.
So, like I said, 26 episodes, atotal of one thousand three
hundred and two minutes.
Hmm and I fully intend onMultiplying that for 2024.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's the plan.
We'll see what life says.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
All right, but yo, you know, I like lists, right.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
We do this every year year and review.
I'm doing my top five verses ofthe year.
I'm low-key, really think thisshit gets you hard.
I love lists, I know you do.
I love top five everything.
Top fighters, top fight.
I asked my shit.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's my bag right there.
I think you get up in themorning and be like brushing
teeth, like what's a top five,two-paste crest, aim, cool gate,
you know.
You just run it through yourhead like everything's the list,
everything.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So we doing the top five verses.
I got my top five.
You wanted all parts of it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
No, I hate rap this year.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Really.
Yeah, you think 2023 was aterrible year for rap, for new
rap.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yes, your, your top tier artists really didn't come
out anything.
Cole had a great guest verse ondirt shit Drinks.
Album albums plural, let'spluralize it.
Those were shit so bad.
He started beefing witheverybody about basic equality.
Was albums?
Because it's just been dropping.
They haven't been the same.
He's still singing the sameemotional sing song you whining
(07:28):
shit.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He was in his Eminem bag like oh, you want to talk
shit about my album?
Start getting a Joe button,which is the thing to do now.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But in the thing with him is like you're spending
more time you're being theawareness of people about you
are you getting mad at peopleabout your album than them
talking about your album, like,oh so you have your top five
list, that you're listed.
You're going to break down forus?
In regards to verses, I'm goingto assume there's not a drink
(07:57):
when they're no, sorry, I wasn't.
I wasn't expecting it to, butI'm just saying it's kind of a
low-key down year in regards toit, because it's it's the
homogenization, it's all thesame.
They're all in the same flowand the people you would think
would be stepping up by nowaren't dirt's, not babies, not
the babies not.
(08:17):
You got some other likeyoungsters in it, but they're
just kind of beginning.
It's not clicking the way youwere wanted to do so, so I've
been listening to a lot of oldershit.
Yeah, as a matter of fact,we're going to digress in this
topic slightly Now.
I don't know what you'relooking like in February
monetary for yourself, or inMarch I don't think might be
(08:38):
April but do you plan on goingto Vegas to go into the Wu-Tang
residency?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm supposed to be going to Vegas, I think April
should check when you check whenthe residency is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well hotel is it at?
Not the palm, but I think it's.
I got to look it up, but theyare having a residency in Vegas
Once in February, I think that'saround Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I wonder how much they want for tickets they
haven't put it up yet.
If you come with me, I'll go,but the people are supposed to
be going to Vegas with.
None of them is gonna beinterested in going to a Wu Tang
concert not not one single oneof them.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Wife, sister, sister-in-law, brother-in-law,
whatever.
Eric don't seem like the WuTang type.
He ain't sitting there througha Wu Tang album, bro.
I'll go to a concert.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He likes it through a Taylor Swift album.
Oh shit, I don't give a fuck.
You can tell him I said it, Idon't care, I'm gangster, but
that's the problem.
That's why I didn't make a listabout it, cuz I'm like Nothing
that y'all did move me.
The weird, okay, the mostexciting thing that happened in
hip-hop, in regards to hip-hop,is the fact that one of the
greatest hip-hop artists everdecided not to make a hip-hop
(09:50):
album.
That shit got more pressing anyother Then I know, and what
that fluke should.
Yeah, exactly, you know exactwhat I was talking about, what I
mean.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, mike he spoke about it.
He did you know that heactually had a guest, a verse on
somebody's album.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah on Yep um the killer Mike up, and that that
first goes boy.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, I considered it for my top five, but it just
didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It goes, but that's just kind of that's what he's
trying to say, like if you'rereally want me to do this, I can
he's just bored with it.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I want to try different shit, different flows,
different flow patterns, youknow, I mean he's just bored
with the shit, bro, like I'mjust some co-natural to him,
that he's just bored with it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I feel like like he's just choosing not to do it,
like he wants to do an album,what he's going to be inspired
to do, so he's not inspired todo a rap album.
Except I like playing my flutewhen doing now about that, and
Everybody in hip hop is talkingabout a flute album, because
y'all can't make an album goodenough to complete with a flute
album and the shit was like thehighest streamed shit wasn't it
that shit is relaxing in themotherfucker boy.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It was the highest streamed shit.
Oh yeah, I think you everlisten to it.
I listened to a couple things Icouldn't really do.
It was it for me.
You know what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's like, if you like the flu.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
If it was the saxophone I would have a
saxophones, my shit.
I fuck with some Kenny G shit.
Speaking of Kenny G, let me,before I get off topic, did you
see the Kenny G and Warren Gcollaboration?
That shit was hard.
No, but I look that shit upwhen you get a chance on YouTube
or something.
It was on stage.
I don't know what show this wasWarren G and Kenny G, they did
(11:23):
the regulators and what, andKenny G's doing the beat on his
saxophone.
You know I'm saying Then thatshit was hard.
I was like, oh shit, theyshould do a whole album together
.
The G funk.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
He should just do one G's whole album in saxophone.
Yo, that shit was dope he didregularly.
Should do all this with this DJ, do that in saxophone, like
there you go.
But you want somethingdifferent.
And he provided somethingdifferent.
And it wasn't even hip-hop, itwas technically hip-hop, because
he's a rapper, but Andre's hisown, his own thing, right.
(11:59):
But the fact that the mostexciting thing that happened to
hip-hop was an album that wasn'tabout hip-hop says you like the
state of it this year it waskind of with you, I agree with
you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, hip-hop was shit this year, but there's,
there's something for everybodyif you really want to look for
it.
You know, I'm saying are thepeople that we grew up listening
to are still making Songs?
Oh yeah, we can listen to abuster.
You can listen to a nozz.
He drops some shit, you canlook.
You know, I mean, they all gotsome.
You, there's something foreverybody if you really look for
it.
But let me get into this list.
(12:27):
Man, no problem, I got you mynumber five Top verse of the
year and this one could easilybe higher on the list.
Goes to one of the goats, eventhough you argue that he's not
in your top Mr Marshall matters.
Eminem On the song the realestFeaturing easy mill or e2 mill,
(12:52):
easy mill that new up-and-comingdude right, mm-hmm.
What is he?
Canadian or some shit?
Uk?
He was some shit, I think, fromUK.
So Eminem has the third verseon the shit and he goes.
Guess I've really no right tocomplain.
Much hip-hop has been good tome, huh.
But when they say that I'm onlytop five because I'm white, why
would I be stunned, my skincolor still working against me?
Cuz, second, I should be thenone, being white, and why they
(13:13):
put me at five Is why they can'tput me at one.
That's hard.
Then he goes.
They're coming with more venom.
So the haters I'm aiming ittowards the man all the envious
rappers I torture if I'm on ajoint with them and that is the
only resort is I'm not played inthe clubs.
Motherfucking, put a cork in it.
Only reason they still playyour shit in the clubs is cuz
you still performing them.
Oh, I'm a guest in this house,but I turn this bitch to a
(13:35):
mansion.
That's an expansion.
Made it gargantuan.
England, germany, france andJapan in this Bitch, even Dubai,
because my music they do buy.
You died trying the scientiststo sigh Chiatrists could not
unscrew my head up the blue-eyeddevil.
I never quit, do I?
Nah, cuz you know you'll getwashed like a bar of soap.
You pussy, you wouldn't give acigar to smoke and I know it
(13:57):
eats at your heart like anArtichoke, because you know
that's how likely you are thechoke.
Yo, his shit.
Like if you got Eminem latelythe last few years, you gotta
listen to his shit multipletimes.
A double and triple.
Untanjas are crazy, bro.
I, I, I, I, I, I.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Appreciate that, the unrequisite love you have for
this white boy.
I do, I really do.
Why is Eminem complaining abouthis like his position on Mount
Rushmore when he's pretty muchricher than maybe one?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
guy up there Because he doesn't do this for the money
.
He's always said from thebeginning that he got into the
game looking for the respect ofhis peers.
And when he constantly keepshearing that, oh, he's a, he's
sold this because he's white, oh, you know, black people don't
listen to him.
Oh, he's a guest in hip-hop,and all these things that they
say about it, all the Lord Jamartype of shit, right.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Like this he eats at him.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know what I mean?
Mm-hmm.
He feels like he has toconstantly answer to the critics
type shit.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But he doesn't.
But that's the shit I don'tunderstand.
He doesn't have to at all.
I agree, like I could see if hedidn't have the credentials and
you could say whatever you wantto say about him.
And all honestly, like you know, he had this, he had Dre, he
had it doesn't matter if youcan't rap like that, you can't
rap like that, he can rap likethat.
I'm never gonna hold thefucking candela for March Madden
(15:24):
because I don't need to speakfor him.
I don't dislike him.
I don't need to speak for mecuz it speaks for itself.
That's, that's the point of all.
Try to get across you.
I don't dislike Eminem.
I enjoy him as a rapper.
He can really really rap.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He's just not in your top five, right and that is no.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
That's no shit.
It's a lot of rappers that I amPassionate about.
It's not like I love Rick Juan.
He's never gonna be in my topfive.
I love most death.
He's never gonna be in my topfive.
I Like game never gonna bethere.
But it just happens that peoplegonna say like no, he's white,
like I've kind of got past thatwhite shit.
(16:02):
I just know that when he won't,it's the three thousand thing.
When he wants to get busy, hecan get busy, like we talked
about for the, the joint he hadon killer Mike's album.
When Andre 3000 really wants tofucking get busy, he's gonna
get busy.
You're gonna be like whoo, wow,but for him it's all like well,
he's white, I'm like Let mefinish this verse, cuz this is a
(16:24):
song where he also dis is MellyMel.
So he goes, which might be thedumbest thing in all here, but
go ahead, man.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
He goes.
Your heart is broke.
As I rip you apart, I gobananas.
Proceed to spit every bar.
I wrote I was spitting beforemy mother's water broke.
It's not even close, you bitch.
I'm far I'm by far the goat,mmm Genziers, acting like rap
experts, zip up your gaps andclose your mouths, bitch.
You ain't been on this planetlong enough to tell me how rap
supposed to sound.
Y'all need to stick to what youdo best shooting schools up.
(16:52):
Yeah, go load up rounds andyour parents, gas and go to
class and let off with the strapand go to town.
Shout out to the furious fiveand Grandmaster Flash.
But boy, there's someone whoreally is furious.
Stay out his past.
His wrath, avoid, and I'll bethe last to toy with a juice
head Whose brain is like halfdestroyed.
Goddamn, like a meteor hit it.
Well, there went, there wentMelly Mel.
(17:14):
We lost his ass to Roy's.
That is a bar.
God was like I got him, but I'mgonna start him at the bottom
of the barrel.
Brought him in the world with ama, with a ma that was on
Valium and his father was acoward.
Taught him as a child, when nofucking body was around, how to
get himself up and out ofpoverty and now not even a growl
in his stomach.
Got to be a hound, so they putyour body in the ground.
Probably gonna sound like acliche, but when haters try to
(17:36):
beat you down, say fuck him.
Okay, let him know, marshall.
So that was number five on mylist.
That's a stupidest beef inhistory.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Like that's like beef with your grandfather, like I
Like, like.
Okay, you know how, like.
As people get older, we tend tolet their casual racism slide,
like my grandmother's 82 yearsold, my grandmother, still to
this day, calls white peoplecrackers.
(18:06):
It's not that she's no, that'slow key reverse racism, right.
It's not that she means it ismore in a sense because she grew
up in itself and kind of howthings went down for it, just
how she is now, before it'suntil it.
Like you can't say that they'renot thought about, like you
know what You're at a particularage in life, I can't really
tell you.
Not to say it, you're going to,no matter what I tell you,
because kind of age has givenyou that kind of thing, melly is
(18:29):
like it's like you don't needlike let Melly say whatever
Melly's gonna say.
Like you don't need to respond.
Everything I just gave praiseand imminent about like that's
the one thing that still bogs meabout.
I'm like forgot what is much?
Financial success, artisticsuccess, all our alms, means
upon means, the alms he sold,all the tours and everything
else that he tends to have aSensitive skin for no good
(18:52):
reason and I don't know why.
Like like Dre, dre has madesome shit, beats Some, some shit
was not working, even a doctordrip, but it doesn't just
dismiss his legacy.
Like he never has to talk downto anybody because I am who I am
when M is like he can't getthat thing Listen, cuz he
listens to all the comments, hereads all the shit and turn the
fuck away.
(19:12):
Could you, could you know whyMelly Mel still has to go out on
tour to make money to feed hisburgeoning steroid habit?
I have never seen an old manthat big and that wrong right.
He looks like a bodybuilder andwhat he's like in his 60s.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I told you I saw him at the hip hop 50 show.
You come up on stage, he's,he's massive for a guy that age
crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
No, he's still alive, broke, look, I don't know what
kind of program you on, but thatshit is working for him.
But my whole thing is like he'sstill got to do this to kind of
make a living, the songs offolk and that's being a pioneer
hip hop, great.
But you don't, marshall, youdon't have to do this like you
don't have to respond back.
That's the whole thing.
If you want to be on MountRushmore, the thing about that
is that you're amongst the gods.
(19:52):
God's don't speak to thepeasants.
They don't speak to the people.
They praise it.
Praise goes up, it doesn't godown.
You don't got to talk down toMelly Mel, just let it go.
Like that's the way you feelman, no problem.
Like they're gonna saysomething put my records up
against his.
If you want to do a battle, wecan go ahead and do that.
He can do.
Put.
Don't think Eminem gonna loseto him is like a bench press
contest, that's it.
He can outbarm, he can out wrapand he can do everything he
(20:15):
wants to do in hip hop.
He just can't out lift this old, strong motherfucker outside of
that.
But I know he had to see how todig that one in there.
I appreciated it, though.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Number four on my list.
I mentioned this gentlemanearlier, j Cole Mm-hmm, but it
wasn't the song you mentioned.
Okay, it wasn't all my life,nope, it was the secret recipe
on the little yachty shit.
And I was like, wait a minute,why the fuck is J Cole making
music with little Yachty?
It just didn't make sense to me.
It makes perfect, but it but itain't mad, because he still
killed the shit.
And is this safe to say thatKendrick and J Cole are this
(20:46):
era's Nas and Jay-Z?
No, like the two guys thatpeople go to for lyrics, you
know, I mean and storytellingthey go through them for that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But even with Nas and J, they were kind of two
different things.
Yeah, nas, you always it waslike if you weren't a backpack
rapper, he was like your kind ofmainstream rapper, right where
J was, you know, you know money,cash, hoes, I guess you can say
Kind of had a thing and stillwould put in the lyricism and
still put in like the vividimagery of like Lifetelling and
(21:16):
storytelling which came later,like like past blueprint and so
on, so forth.
But with them they're likethey're two sides of the same
coin, like they're the.
They're.
They're kind of designed in away where you don't want to pick
one or the other.
You actually want to have both,like most people, either a Nas
guy or your J guy.
But but I don't.
(21:36):
I know people that like I likeKendrick and I like code, but I
don't see public.
I like Kendrick, fuck Cole.
I love Cole for Kendrick.
It's like they're both in thesame pocket that do similar
things.
But they're the way they kindof go about rapping is
completely different.
So when they do it, Even thesubject matter is the same, the
way that their flow works, theway that because Kendrick always
(21:59):
has that quick.
That tap, tap, tap, tap shitand Cole is just always seemed
like he's just talking.
It never seemed like he'srapping, like he just like this
is very, very, very smooth andmelodic.
So I can't say like they're theNas and J of this generation.
I I can say that, yes, becauseof the two most popular, when a
(22:19):
sense of style and a sense ofRapability, two sides of the
same coin, it is greater whatthey do, everyone else finishing
third, but yeah, get down thesecret recipe.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Mm-hmm.
J Cole has the second verse andhe goes Cole and Yachty, coming
for the respect, come and payyour debt.
Just like a travel pillow, weact your neck for the way you
slept this nuance.
But I see hella influence inthe way you dress, the way you
sound, the way you try to move.
You try to stay abreast on allthe Latest flows and latest
tones from Generation X.
Your chasing relevance isevidenced by the way you step.
As for me, I cook somasterfully.
(22:51):
Ain't got to pay a chef.
I'm older now but still comecut and edge.
I'm like a bayonet from out thebill.
We all should certify.
You got to wear your vest.
Too many Homicides, a lot ofslide and they good at making
decks.
Thanks to God I made it out thecity.
Most will say I'm blessed.
My greatest flex is that I madea milli feel like I'm
Blangladesh.
I hate the press refusinginterviews whenever they request
(23:13):
n words, fake, progressive andwoke.
I started saying less.
I had to stop it.
Peeped how they profit off ofracial stress.
Some activists got so rich theyprobably wish we stayed
oppressed.
Studio steppers moving extra onsongs, faking rep only breaking
bad in the lab.
Thought I was making meth nwords, making threats, and I and
I laugh, that's cuz you ain't athreat.
Don't ask how I feel about norappers.
(23:33):
Shit they okay.
I put, I guess, incoming call,press the button, the one they
say.
Except he faced time to ask fora feature and saw the face of
death.
I'm on your song, your streamsgoing up, not quite the Drake
effect, but don't complain,bitch, take what you get and cut
the label.
Check my stable, set a Dine onyour favorite.
One verse will take his breath.
I probably put more n words onpause.
(23:54):
And cam and Mason beth, I, myagent, got a whole lot of calls.
It's like he paid the ref.
These bitches out here lookinglike Steph on the late contest,
wide open Shooting.
They shot.
Don't even waste your breath.
I've been stop fucking youthoughts and got no patience
left.
Save that shit for one of them.
N-words that rock the fakeprotects my paper stress, just
like a Laker, before he break asweat, signed the greatest yet.
(24:15):
Oh, let him know, cole, I fuckwith Cole man, oh you do.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You do what you mean.
I'm not saying that shit to befunny, I just know that you do.
Cold is great at what he does.
I don't know why people arguewith this shit.
Like he, he's look best rightnow, it's okay, it's the reason,
okay.
So I would say, if you're makingthat comparison, career-wise
(24:42):
Cole is J M no, no, uh, kendrickis not.
It's the whole like fear ofwhat I mean is that like, like I
appreciate the youngergeneration putting him on their
albums.
The only problem is that whenyou put J Cole on your album
he's going to kill you, like Jused to.
(25:03):
Like you want, like everybody,like I wanted J verse and when
you got it, it outshone yourshit.
He did that on this, he didthat on dirt shit.
Oh no, it's just, it's one ofthose things.
Only in that position it'sreversed.
When it comes to career,kendrick's J and Cole is nice.
Because I believe that the waythat Cole is, he's a lifer, like
(25:27):
he's going to do what Nas didnow with the King's disease and
the magic and like the later onshit in life, because I think he
just Generally loves this.
Like his business interests areall around dreamville, he
doesn't have much of anexpensive thing outside of that
where you know, basicallyKendrick's leaving the label,
he's trying to start his ownthings, trying to get into these
like artistic creative projects.
He's expanding.
(25:49):
He's more interested in theartistic business side of it.
Cole seems to be moreinterested in like the purity of
it, the rap part, the Like Isaid cuz he don't have to do
this, but he does Because he'salways like trying to look out
and reach out for the youngergeneration.
He wants them to succeed, hewants them to supersede him
actually.
But the fact that he can stilldo this at this level is not
(26:10):
much more than you can say aboutit.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
All right, Hmm, next up on my list.
And this guy is always alwaysdoing his thing right and I
never used to fuck with his dudebefore because I can't stand
his voice and I've talked aboutit.
But when you listen to hisfucking lyrics, he's.
You know I'm talking about.
I.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Know it's such a weird thing to say about
something else like I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I can't stand this voice like okay, I'm talking
about Lil Wayne Mm-hmm.
You know, nas dropped his magicalbum, so his last project with
a hip boy and he got Wayne onit on the song called never die,
one of my favorite songs on thealbum Okay, and this is my
favorite verse on the wholealbum.
So it's Lil Wayne.
He has the second verse neverdie.
(27:00):
He goes icon, stepping onpython, spitting that cayenne
Eat you like a lion, peeking atthe skyline, reaching for the
stars like I'm reaching for thepylon.
I seen you on the sideline.
We need to walk a fine line.
We need to read the guidelinesinstead of reading the timelines
where everybody Like line,nobody flow like mine.
I'm sending these and wordsgotta be coaching and words like
prime tongue.
(27:21):
I never bite mine.
Got dough like taekwondo,taekwon, that that that line
right there got me for somereason.
Got dough like taekwon To spendall this money I'm gonna have
to spend a lifetime.
You broke.
Can't even buy time.
Show Should throw inwards alifeline.
You know, money on my mind.
I'll be on your wife, mine.
I hit her with the pipe bomb,then pass her down the pipeline.
But actually we quite finediamonds on me, sparkling and
(27:42):
splashing like some white wine.
They love me in the nighttime,they hate me when the light
shines.
Shots I got a hundred, andproblems I got nine.
Nine Bugatti Viron take offwith no flight time.
Bad bitch on the passenger side, she don't even like flying
Booty, soft as nylon, you andwe're small as micron.
I got a black Nina that getnasty as a white blonde.
Low credit, high crime, openmind, tight rhymes.
When they hit my lines theserappers got a catch up.
(28:04):
Like Heinz, that's a bar Weezyand my slime Nas ain't nobody
like ours.
Like by guns got out like icons.
Be icons, hi mom.
Hmm, I thought that was hard.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Ain't no thought, ain't no thought.
It's Wayne.
It's hard, bro, I know, buteveryone else talking about rush
more shit.
I'm like y'all might have toleave a space for Wayne.
You might not like it, butmight have to like what's it?
What's this?
What's this?
20 years plus it's already been20 years.
Think so, might be more thanthat.
(28:37):
Give me one moment, let's takea Google search.
Uh-huh, what date is this?
The block aside came out in1999?
.
That was his first joint.
Yeah, the block aside.
The block is that 1999 so now?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
but that was in his debut, wasn't his debut of the
wobbly?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
wobbly shit.
It wasn't that, but I mean as asingle.
His first was the block is hot.
So that's 1999, that's going on25.
I was like a soft, more highschool be that.
So that's October 23rd 1999.
So, next year it'll beofficially 25 years God damn.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So it was a spin like this in the 90s.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I understand that, I understand that, but again, even
doing it again Next year wouldbe 25 years, 25 years away, not
10 years, not 825.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
All right, check it out.
The next one I can't evenrecite the lyrics Because I
don't know, maybe there's justtoo funky, fresh and the.
I can't even find the lyrics.
They're not on title, they'renot.
I can't Google them, mm-hmm, Ican't find the lyrics to this
fucking verse.
Okay, so y'all gonna have to golook it up.
It's Benny the butcher On theOT, the rail and a rap music
(29:47):
joint, a rap music drop thealbum this year.
Right, by the way, is a rapmusic one of the dopest
producers, bro, cuz he nevermisses on beats.
His beats are hard.
He's one of them.
You know, I'm saying thiscertain, this, certain guys like
fab that get on a rap musicbeats and just do magic with
them.
She's, anyway.
The name of the song is thecrown and Benny has an ill-ass
(30:09):
verse on that.
You're gonna have to look thatup.
I'll go listen to that shit.
But that takes me into mynumber one verse.
And this guy has been and I'mbiased, I don't give a fuck, I'm
biased this guy has been numberone on my list.
Every year that he drops a fireverse he's usually number one.
So for the last couple yearshe's been number one on my list,
right.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Do you remember the name of thesong?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
The crown.
It's on the OT the rail and arap music, shit.
But it's just him.
No, it's Benny the butcher, otthe rail, and it's the beat is
by a rap music.
Hmm, can't find it.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, I know to find it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I know I will.
My number one.
You ready for this?
Sure, this guy's been killingthe fucking features game lately
, the last few years.
Every time he comes on afeature he murders the shit.
This is the one guy that I'vetold you that it gets better
with age.
Right, that are all the oldheads he's still spitting.
(31:12):
He's spitting better now thanhe was in the 90s and in the
2000s to me, in my opinion.
Okay, you don't really know whoI'm talking about go ahead man,
the MET HOD man.
So Lloyd Banks dropped an albumthis year.
Right, it was okay.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I don't think you like who like yeah, it wasn't
the best, you got a wholeGeneration of who are they like?
Who's Lord Banks?
They have no idea zero.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
But he has an album he dropped this year and he has
a song called 101 razors,because they just slicing you up
right.
101 razors featuring met theman.
Met the man has the last verseon it and he goes Legend before
retirement.
You Just a bust of before therhyme.
You pre-Madonna's like a virginMadonna, but borderline bunch
(31:55):
of boring lines, no one fallingfor.
So fall in line the punchline.
I'm like a freestyle slimes.
They offer mine, get it off ofmine.
Some of us get it, but offercrime.
The office off the table.
Public defender gone off oftime.
When they thought it was, whenthey thought it was subbing, I
thought sublime.
Now I see since 2020, I clearlythought I was blind.
Yo, the streets is watchingthem.
They want them with biggie andpockin them, resort to poppin
(32:17):
them.
But how is that solving theproblem?
I got a lot of them.
I also got dreams.
I follow them.
I'm not concerned with rapperswho can't spit, so swallow them.
There's ain't for little saints, so pardon.
Then.
You see them Polly, you seethem pearly gates.
That's where them Saints gomarching in.
So y'all.
So shall we start again?
Met that in banks.
This market in cuz ain't nobargain in with the demographic
we target, in that this is just,bar after bar, the flow is
(32:41):
still uncanny.
I think he still has a top,maybe five, maybe top three flow
of all time.
You know I mean the wordpatterns, like is just.
It's just, to me is uncanny.
It could easily be lower on thelist.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I have Eminem up here, Ican have the Wayne versus number
one, I can have the J Coleversus number one.
All these verses could benumber one.
(33:01):
But when you actually listen toit and you put it to like the
flow, you know I mean the wordscheme and everything.
Yes, I give this verse an edge.
So this is my top verse of theyear for me.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You do understand what listen to it and tell me,
if you agree to disagree, onethese years, you gonna have
something without Nars or Eminemor metham in on the right.
What is your not this year?
One these years now it's gonnahappen.
It ain't been happening lately,it ain't even happening, but
they've been spending though.
Am I wrong?
No, but that's the problem withthis generation, the fact that
(33:34):
you can't name nobody new right.
Like there's no one there, likewe had this pressure before, we
were putting, um, oh, korea wason there, mm-hmm, but I, he's
gonna get back to doing it, buthe just had a baby.
Congratulations him.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Him in the tennis.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Check him, and I'm Osaka, so yeah, so
congratulations to that, buthe'll get back to it, but that's
the whole thing like it.
There's no one in thisgeneration that impresses Me,
and I'm not saying because we'rethe old heads.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
We're the old heads.
Now, if you talk to a Gen Z orthey're gonna give you, they're
gonna run you down a whole bunchof dudes that they fuck with.
The Little, this little, thatis person, that person, and it's
gonna be nobody that we fuckwith.
And I'm starting to understand,I'm just starting to accept it.
You know, I mean, I don't haveto like it.
I'm starting to accept thatwe're just gonna like different
shit.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
It's not even accepting it.
Like I understand that y'allthe generation likes Cloutin
hooks right yeah like the vibe.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, don't care about lyrics.
They don't care about the storytelling, they don't care about
word play and punch lines andsimiles and metaphors.
They're not looking for that.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I'm looking for that, though right, they're cheap out
like I'm.
I'm chasing like content,context and substance.
Mm-hmm, y'all are chasing vibesand feelings.
I get it and there's there's noshame in that and I'm not
complaining about it.
But you got understand that ifI ask you about this, if I play
(34:57):
five of these songs in a row andI can't distinguish one person
from the other, if I put aproblem, if I put on J Cole, nas
and 3000 big Rayquan, fabulousJada, now, exactly who all are
more, I can tell by their voiceand by their cadence Exactly who
this is not a single one isgonna sound the same but over
(35:20):
here, here, all y'all, but there, by the bad time I'm a little
bit.
They did it.
It's a dad, dad, dad, dad, dad,dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad,
dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad,dad.
That's it.
What this?
This watch of the woodensoldiers, shit, some bullshit.
Y'all keep it.
Y'all got the same flow.
You all get the same cadence.
The beautiful hip hop and hisgrowth, it's that you can get
something different fromeverybody, from different parts.
The fact that the top ones areall sounding the same.
(35:42):
I can't differentiate y'all.
I can't tell.
I would love to, I can't.
I really, really, really wantto do a difference, but I can't.
So when you do shit like thisand you kind of keep these
things alive, mentioning thesepeople that still matter in a
course of hip-hop, the thingsthat they do, the way that they
rhyme, that you can tell that ifyou took your list and put all
(36:03):
five of those together, none ofthem sound the same.
You can find a cleardistinction between each of them
, like.
This is his way.
This is there with this.
Is that, lily?
You can tell it by you, liketrying to read it, like when you
read it, when you read Eminem,you're reading it in his cadence
.
Right, you were reading it inthe words You're reading like.
Could you hear his cadence inyour head?
The same thing with everybodyelse.
(36:24):
I can read this word for wordby just reading across the
screen, said Jack in the hat whohad a cat in the back of the
lack with the Mac.
But you can't do that becauseyou've heard it for so long.
You know how they sound.
So when you read it you can'thelp but to do it in the head.
All these new ones, same kidand same flow, no difference.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
But that's why I gravitate to her like a corda.
When I sell people, I likecorda.
They like what the fuck he'swhack?
No, not to me.
He's not because he's, you know, he's in his 20s, but he
reminds me of the people that Ifuck with, you know.
I mean, he reminds me of thepeople I grew up with.
He's an old soul.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
He's still about lyrics, his story telling, you
know I mean I think you're likepeople who are passionate about
rapping, right, that thatunderstand the art form of it,
like it's not easy to do thisshit, but we're going to do it
and I'm gonna show how good Ican be at it, or anything else.
That's the tricky part when ally'all sound the same, I can't
(37:17):
tell who's good, like okay, thatsounded good, but then the next
one, that sounded good, butnext got that sounded good.
But how do I like how to knowwhich you three stand out?
How do I know who's who?
And I can't?
And it's not a dismissal ofhip-hop, is it's kind of a
misunderstanding between twogenerations, because there's
nothing in that gaps and Feelsthe bridge between one to the
(37:39):
other cool.
It's kind of that guy, yeah,but, but he wraps more like a
90s rapper than a 2020 rapper,right, but I can't think of a
2020 rapper.
That really is kind of rappinglike a 90s rapper, like there's
no kind of that thing over themiddle.
I mean, the only bridge betweenthose generations that's why
he's one of the ghosts is reallyWayne, because the the
(37:59):
progression through hip-hop youcan basically trace from his
career forward, like that makessongs with everybody.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
He'll make a song.
He can make a song with a nozz,and then he can make a song
with one of the new guys fromtoday.
You know I mean that he's thebridge.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, that's the one.
But then the whole thing islike the guys from the old
school, the older generation,respect him.
But the thing with the guys,the new guys, they can't rap
like that.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Going back to Wayne, not only is he the bridge
between the old and the new,he's also the bridge between,
like, the southern and the eastcoast and the wet.
You know, I'm saying cuz.
Like he's real southern, realsouth, and you can hear it in
his voice, you can hear it inhis accent.
But he makes songs witheverybody, you know.
I mean he could jump on a songwith the best from the east, the
best from the west, the bestfrom the south, and Still stand
his ground and shit and that'swhat went and that's the whole
(38:40):
thing.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Because with the new generation, like he'll jump on
it, but y'all can't rap likethat.
That's the whole problem.
If you could you would, buty'all just can't rap like that.
He can still again.
Like I said, we just kind ofmade that note.
Next year will be 25 years ofhim rapping, not eight, not 15.
25 years.
That that is someone in amasters program.
25 years of rap and still going, still going.
(39:02):
They can still give it up likethis.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yeah but let's wrap this up, let's, let's, let's
talk about, let's dissect thetop moments of the year.
Once again shout out to thecoach, a crew man.
We do have a reaction video upin the patreon, so if you
haven't checked that out, cuzsometimes they don't begin the
notifications or the alerts-You're trying to get up on the
tube to back like a bitch.
Yeah, you do a reaction video.
You know that shit has to gothrough all types of Of
(39:27):
approvals before we could get upon YouTube.
But in the meantime, I know,but on the patreon.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
But I don't understand, because it should be
crazy, because you've seenother people pop up.
You be seen like you go onYouTube like something will
happen yesterday and they're gota reaction up like hold up bro,
like wait, wait, wait.
I don't know how to do it.
We know when a broke boy line,we got a, what we got a?
We got a like cut a check tosome shit like that, like we
gotta figure it out.
We got like sign up for YouTubepremium or something.
(39:51):
Do we get like a little bump?
I don't know shit.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
But yeah, we did a reaction to the video ad by as
yet group called acts yet andwas a song.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Night.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Mm-hmm, hilarious.
Go check that out on thepatreon page.
Oh, top moments of 2023.
Um, let's start with some lightheart issue.
Let's start with sports.
Oh, the top things thathappened, in my opinion, in
sports this year was Tom Bradyfinally retiring once and for
all For like the second or thirdtime.
I think that was a seminarmoment in sports, because you
(40:20):
thought we thought he was gonnaplay forever, right, shit, time
did so.
He finally retired, Okay.
And and then, of course, lebronJames becomes the all-time
leading scorer in NBA history.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
And, and he won an N season tournament champion.
That's one more than JordanFucked.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
And they put a banner up, fuck that banner, that's so
this was just missing a banner.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Come on man.
Yeah, I got a better forcompetition, like two eight
seeds, two eight seeds.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's a one-off game.
It wasn't even like a series.
It wasn't like a best of five,best of nothing.
It was one game.
Anybody could win one game andthe bro none of the lately.
This is the most I've ever seenLeBron play defense.
By the way, he played his heartout to win this little in
season tournament.
Jordan put that shit on hisresume like yeah, jordan, on,
got this one.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
To one time NBA in season tournament champion.
If that shit going his Hall ofFame plaque, man, I quit
basketball.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
It is, it's gonna say four-time champion, mm-hmm,
it's gonna.
It's gonna say in seasontournament winner is gonna say
NBA scoring leader.
Mm-hmm and then, however manyall-star game appearances or
many Olympic gold medals he gottoo many, he's in the top five
of all time.
I just can never put him as mygoat.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
He might be top three all time.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
He's probably top three you know I'm saying I just
can't put him at the top.
I'm just sorry.
There's just too many factorsthat go into with the error that
he played in.
You know.
I'm saying you know, going sixfor six in the finals, yeah,
that's not all of it, but thatcounts for something.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
So Jordan has that over the MVP awards, the all the
accolades, that's a wholeanother podcast, right.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
But anyway.
So those are the sports.
Anything you want to add thatit might have happened in sports
.
They have the top she's thoseare the two top shits that
happen this year in sports.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
That that dad is giving two Asian fellas a
billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yo, they spent a billion dollars and two
motherfuckers be 700 million andsix and was it, was it 320.
They gave show he Othani 70million a year and 68 million of
that shit is deferred.
That is crazy.
That shouldn't even be allowed.
That sounds like fucking taxevasion.
That sounds like moneylaundering and again other board
326.
No, it's a 326 that sounds likeall types of laws being broken
(42:33):
right there.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
I had a competitive tax laws working to not pay him
30 million dollars a year.
They're gonna pay him basic twomillion dollars for the next 10
years in 680.
The whole thing about 680 likeit's not even like with interest
.
It is gonna sit 680 to stopthem crazy, bro.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
And the loophole is that when he retires and he
starts collecting the 68 milliona year, it doesn't get taxed on
where he plays Right, where heplayed like it does right now,
as when you're a player, you gettaxed in every state that you
play, all right.
When he's retired, this moneythat's deferred is only being
taxed where he lives.
So he could go to Florida orone of these other states that
(43:07):
has no state income tax, that'sit and collect even more.
This is money, that's it.
Tax less on it.
That's crazy.
How is that not like taxevasion of money laundering or
some crazy shit?
Speaker 1 (43:17):
And then they gave the other homeboy one million
dollars more than to giveGerakul.
They like they did it onpurpose, like Gerakul had the
highest contract in baseballhistory for picture.
Like more for all money, wise.
And they gave one me Dodges.
All right, let's move on.
Man, he mad.
Hey man, my team was trying tosign him in, like I know I'm
gonna hang in the home.
He's like all right, your teamoffered him more money than my
(43:37):
team.
At least y'all got Soto.
Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
We offered him 300, your guy, you guys offered him
325 and he went and took thatback to the Dodgers and they
matched it.
Yeah, yeah, but y'all got sothough.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
So it's like yeah, it's what y'all needed more than
anything.
You need a left-handedconsistent on base guy, and now
you got him.
Congratulations, we sign shitworld conflicts.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
This year we mentioned Russia listen to the
culture.
So big, all, but at the sametime they invaded Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
You shooting them bearless.
Ain't talking about that shit.
Fuck, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
I'm just letting.
I'm showing you fact we werelistening to.
It, doesn't fucking Russia.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
I'm happy for our Russian viewers, but they got
some fuck shit going on rightnow.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
I can't do.
And you know I have a co-workerwho's from the Ukraine and I'm
always, you know, checking onher, checking on her family, cuz
she got family, that's the herparents.
They're low Yo, the Ukrainiansare the most proud people I've
ever seen, yo.
Hmm, like I'll ask her abouther parents and she'll tell me
that they refuse to come here,like they want to stay over
(44:36):
there.
You know I'm saying they wantsit and they want to stand with
a country, they want to fightwith a country, they want to do
what they can and you know Imean to the end, type shit.
I'm like goddamn well, my thingis that that's, you know,
honorable, admirable type shit.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
It's, it's, it's all they know, man, to stay home.
They're not giving up the homeright, they rather die.
They like respected Israel andPalestine.
Back any bullshit again.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
And that's the other thing.
Yeah, the Palestine and Israelconflict, and I've been on
purpose, I've been Purposelystaying away from this topic.
We haven't mentioned it at all.
Right, and I have my reasons.
I might in the future Maybeearly to January if this keeps
going on I might have an episodeabout it.
I might bring on a guest andtalk about it.
(45:20):
But you know, I have myreservations.
One of the reasons why I havebeen hesitant to talk about it
Because I don't know enoughabout it, right, and I'm
ignorant to it.
So I don't really want to talkabout it.
I don't want to side withanybody.
You know what I mean, cuz Idon't really know enough about
it.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
No, that's not actually.
It's actually prettyintelligent of you you know I'm
saying so.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
It's like and you already know how I feel about
like religion.
I'm not saying this conflict issolely has to do with religion,
but I know that religion has alarge part to do with it.
Right?
You know, holy land and this isour land.
No, this is your know.
The Bible says this.
This says that Jesus.
You know it's a lot of it hasto do with religion, so I've
stayed away from that topic.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Yeah, am I a whole.
Thing.
Yeah, I get you.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
We're gonna tackle it eventually.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
I mean I'm gonna prerefuse it right now.
The reason why I'm talkingabout it?
Cuz they my problem, and I knowthat might seem kind of like
petty and whatever else likethat, but like, look, as an
African-American person livingin America who's been under the,
the rule of oppression andeverything else for decades, I'm
not saying I am the Arbor ofall black people, with a lot of
black people feel this way.
Certain conflicts andeverything else are that that
(46:24):
this is not my war, this is notmy issue.
What y'all got to sort out,what y'all got to sort out, it
doesn't affect my daily thing,it doesn't affect necessarily my
life and I don't have any.
My issue really comes down to asimple fact is that I'm not pro
Israel and I'm not proPalestine.
I Am pro Life.
(46:47):
And what I mean and I don't meanthat in like an abortion sense
I mean the sense that there area lot of people in the middle
Men who have been the family'schildren getting caught up in a
conflict has nothing to do withthem, that their lives have been
lost because of two warinfections, and there are people
being kidnapped as people,being murdered, raped as A sign
of war.
And I don't just I don't agreewith that.
(47:09):
Whatever your conflict is, yourarm need to go up against.
They are many to get thecivilians in the innocent side
of there.
Could he got nothing to do withthis?
That's my only beef with itoutside of that.
That's your problem.
I gotta deal with it.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
I Also.
This is alarming.
This is very alarming.
This year mark the most massshootings in the US and our
country's history.
They've been roughly around 700as of this record.
It's been around 700.
That's fucking shootings.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Look man, I told you, I told you, we number one at
this year.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
That's multiple shootings a day dog.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
We're only getting better at it.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
That's, that's.
That's almost twice as manyshootings as as days in the
fucking year bro.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
I told look, I told you about that, we're good at
this, we're really good at this,we're number one.
We love this shit.
Every time we had thatconversation about guns, we're
really really good at this.
And guess what?
Next year we're gonna beat thatlimit because we can't help it.
We don't want to do shit aboutit.
If we really want to do shitabout it, we could, but we just
don't.
So I'm like that that.
So what's the number this year?
Speaker 2 (48:10):
I was about, I think.
Last I checked there was alittle less than 700.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Oh we'll beat the next year, Hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
and in an electric cycle, fuck yeah and then, of
course, we had Donald Trump,indicted On over 30 charges this
year.
Still ain't gonna jail.
He ain't going to jail, hemight be get reelected.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
I thought we fucking know, trying to get my Canadian
passport set up right now.
Let me go in, get the fuckerpoint out of here, canadian
passport.
I'm out of fuck this.
I'm out, you out, I think.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
So just a quick drive .
It's like a six, seven hourdrive.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Yeah, this is like yellow.
Let me get a job lined up thereand get the fucking point out
of here y'all.
Next trip they're gonna put hisass back in office.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
I know Canadian, I know Canadians ain't never seen
a fucking match shoot, neverheard of a Mass shooting.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I'm good with that.
He ain't never gonna want toleave.
You gonna reelect them.
He's gonna try to stay in thereforever.
They're gonna turn somebullshit like look now be a
dictator day one.
Set it, go up there and piss on, piss on the Constitution like
we're right dictator.
For the one day you can readfirst Depth and day two like
that.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
A dick to a thing for this just so good, I'm gonna
extend this for another week ortwo.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Let's try this Like an aspirin.
Let's give it a week.
Okay, let's stretch it out alittle more.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
All right, it's been working out about a month.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
You also got that Constitution.
You got lighter.
Let me borrow that.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
You know what that law that says?
I can only run two terms.
We're gonna abolish that.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Old so.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
I'm running 20 consecutive terms.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
It's old paper, old laws.
None of it matters, don't worry.
All schools gonna be Magga,magga one, magga two, magga
three.
Run them all up, we're gonnachange the world.
I know we laugh, but that shitseems so realistic.
That's the fuck that part.
Oh shit, that shit don't seemmy side around possibility.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
We're alienating our Trump supporting listeners right
.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Look, look, that's y'all man.
You want to come up here andtalk about him.
Go right on the head, I ain'tgot no problem with it.
You can have an honest and fairdiscussion about the Possible
president of the United States.
I don't care, but come with mewith information and facts.
Don't call me.
I feel I don't feel shit.
I need to come with somethingthat shows me that why this
would be a good choice.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
I want to bring a.
I want to bring a minorityTrump supporter on the show come
the fuck on.
I'm not, I'm not terrifiedinteresting, your interesting
conversation.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
I'm not terrified, I'm just smart.
And are you not going to dummynow and give me something that's
functional and reasonable, thatI can actually Use is like okay
, that's a good point.
You know what?
He never got us in a war.
Good, great, thank you.
A lot of presidents did they beproud of that.
Shit wasn't in the war, he was.
(50:58):
Conflicts pop up all the time.
We put ourselves in a shit likethat, but whenever, whenever
this person was to come on, theycan come right on man, it's
perfectly fine.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
But yo, that's our year and review.
Man, happy holidays, happyKwanzaa, happy Hanukkah, merry
Christmas, if you celebrate that.
I Went to there's a gentleman Iknow who's Muslim, I ain't
gonna say his name and I askedhim like yo, you ready for the
holidays?
He was like yo, my name isMuhammad, I don't celebrate that
shit.
I was like I will shit, calmdown, man.
My bad he was I don't got tospend money on shit.
I ain't buying nobody a goddamnthing.
(51:29):
I was like shit, more power toyou, man.
But if you do celebrate it,happy holidays.
If you don't enjoy the, youknow the year and your family,
the festivities, whatever y'alldo before we go.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
I got.
I got five quick ones.
I thought Made an impact for me.
Mm-hmm person, fuck all ourpolitics shit.
Mm-hmm.
Number five was me on a SuperBowl.
That shit was fire the pregnantone yeah.
I like that one.
That was a nice little touch,mm-hmm, but it's it.
But happening January, so I cancount it.
After that I will say thisusher mania.
(52:01):
I've never seen so many peoplewant to go out to Vegas seat.
I've never seen so many peoplewant to go out to Vegas.
I never seen so many peoplewant to go to Vegas.
Just see him like I didn'tunderstand how important, how
good he was until that.
Shit, like people is likeplanning trips right.
I thought she was prettygoddamn impressive.
Number three is twofoldactually is juveniles tiny desk
(52:22):
performance, and then scar facestiny desk performance, which
came on a few days ago.
Them, shit's great.
The scar face one.
If you haven't seen it, go toYouTube.
Type an NPR tiny desk scar faceand watch his performance.
Yeah, faces, faces.
Just still at dude.
Number two the Smith's.
I'm tired of them.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
We need even mention.
I ain't even mentioned them.
I'm tired of mentioning themexactly I know.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
So I just want to get out the way I look one last
time the Smith's I guess that'sa memorable moment them breaking
up after 30 years.
Them breaking up her with thebook, her with the two, pock
shit.
It's it.
There was a lot they were doing, way too much this year.
Way they got.
Okay, please don't drag thatbullshit into next year.
We got it.
(53:07):
The family's crazy, y'all amess.
Cool, please receive to thebackground.
And the number one mostimportant thing to happen this
year, with that fact that wecelebrated 50 years of hip-hop.
We cannot go on any furtherwithout mentioning that, because
that is key To us putting thistogether, to us talking about if
I was talking about verses andlyrics and everything else like
(53:28):
that because this is the 50thanniversary, you went to the
celebration.
They have a celebrationseverywhere.
People had a grand, great timeand I don't want people to
forget how much it mattered.
I don't want to give up theessence of it, of everything
that hip-hop has encompassed,influence, change and Motivated,
motivated and cultivated withinthis audience, within this
(53:50):
culture, within the society.
We cannot let that go withoutsaying.
Thank you, hip-hop.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yes, sir, 50 years of hip-hop culture.
We're gonna be bigger andbetter in 2024.
Thank you for tuning in.
God, see pace I.
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.