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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on a bonus episode of hip Hop Now Podcast.
It is the best recommendations I have for you for
October twenty twenty five, the best, not all of them.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to hip Hop Now, pop Fatness.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
If you from the future, you know what to do.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Show as out of my back life, so disrespect the
leg back.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hip hop is say this day. Let's get right into
the business. What up, y'all?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I am Your's Vegas and this is hip Hop Now Podcast,
a podcast specifically designed to keep you caught up on
all things hip hop, music and culture that happened throughout
the week. This is a special bonus episode and a
regular series that I want to do definitely be consistent
(00:58):
with in the year twenty twenty six. Something I had planned,
couldn't do it because of you know, life and other things.
But I want to be consistent with it because it's
a way for you, the hip hop fan, the music
fans stay locked in so first and foremost big shout
out to those listening in audio form, whether it be
(01:21):
Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast listening,
and those right here on YouTube hip Hop Now pod
who subscribe to the channel who like the videos. Keep
doing what you're doing. Also, I read the comments, whether
they're good, bad, flattering, whatever, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I enjoy the engagement.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
You took time out of your life to comment, so
I don't care what it is to be honest. Unless
you're just being disrespectful to people in the comments, then
you got to go. But we don't have that over here,
which is great. So the goal is to get to
twenty five thousand subscribers by the end of twenty twenty five.
We still got some weeks to go. We're right around
(02:07):
twenty one k, so good. So if you like this
kind of content, this conversation about hip hop recommendations for albums,
because you're like, yo, a bunch of albums keep releasing.
I don't know what's good. I don't know what's what.
I don't know who dropped. This is the episode for you.
So let's get right into the business. October twenty twenty
(02:31):
five was similar to.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
July.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I think it was July, No August, my bad August
of twenty twenty five because a lot of albums dropped,
a lot of albums dropped.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
A lot of albums dropped on.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Halloween alone, that doesn't make them all good. So if
you would like to know what I thought about the
other months, I made one full video that just goes
over each month and the albums that I was able
to listen to that I thought were the standouts of
the month. So here are the standouts for October twenty
(03:11):
twenty five. First up, a complete obvious as far as
one of the best albums released in October, Mob Deep's
infinite and like more than we could have asked for
as Mob Deep fans that liked it right, those that
liked it everything from Prodigies versus feeling like he was
(03:34):
there to record this entire album with Havoc and Alchemists,
to the nods of notification not notification but well, I
guess for some that you know Prodigy is no longer
with us, but it felt less like a reminder that
he wasn't here and more like it was a nice
(03:59):
touch kind of thing, like see you on the other side.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It just it just felt like, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's okay, you know he's no longer here, sad and
all that good stuff. But at the end of the day,
this is why we listen to mob Deep throughout the years.
This is why we love the Prodigy, and this album
Infinite doesn't dwell on that either. It's straight up Mob Deep,
you know, the way you know them, the way you
(04:27):
love them, like Big Noise is on the album.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
All that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So now's of course great album, hardcore hip hop at
its finest, and a great sind off because I assume
this is the last Mob Deep album where ever get
a perfect send off for one of hip hop's legendary groups.
(04:51):
Also a dope record that was released Hip Boyant Alchemists
Goldfish Now, Hip Hooy and Alchemy had been teasing these
types of collaborations for the last few years. Right when
they did that one joint. Damn, I can't remember the
name of the song now slipping into Darkness right where
(05:15):
they're both they both had beats is a beat switch up,
but hit Man's rapping a hit man, hit Boy's rapping
over Alchemists beat, and Alchemist is rapping over Hip Boy beat.
And I was like, this is dope because the first
of all the beats they had were dope in that song.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And then.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They're not like super bar Kings or nothing like that, Like,
so you're not going to be like yo, what Alchemists
said was right, like, you know, you may have a
few moments like that, but that's not why you come
to listen to these guys. And I feel like with
the album Goldfish and that EP they released, I believe
(05:54):
like last year or so, which was really dope but
short because it was a real EP, right like for
I feel like this album carries on the tradition of
their collaboration and again as MC's disserviceable, I think of
their types of raps being the same reasons why mainly
(06:15):
Alchemists in this case, same reasons why you know people
like a Boldie James or or even a Rock Marcy. Right,
it's the flow. I'm not trying to say he better
than Rock Marcy. I'm just saying it's the flow. Alchemist's
flow reminds me a lot of Rock Marciana's flow.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And and hit Boy.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You know, he says things that you know you could
either relate to or you don't, but all of it
together just sounds cool, interesting to an extent, and I thought,
you know, it's I was listening to it. I felt like,
if I'm listening to an album more than I have to,
(06:56):
it must be good, right. I'm not forcing myself to
listen to this album. I was like, Yo, this album's cool.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I like it. It's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So they had it another album, Ruben Vincent and Ninth
Wander Welcome Home. This album's great. From the first time
hearing the Albi Shore flip on what I think was
their lead single, I think it's called Go Get It,
(07:26):
to hearing another track and another track, and then finally
the album drops and I'm like I had to shout
out to I had to text kids the album and say, y'all,
you need to check this out because this is the
type of album, types of albums we miss, all the
types of albums we praise other bigger artists like Kendrick
(07:50):
Ford and stuff like that, because albums became at one point,
albums became about a bunch of hit singles, or at
least trying to make a bunch of hit singles. And
there's some albums that are great for that, you know,
and that's the purpose, and it doesn't have to be
any other way if it works. But then there are
those albums that feel like experiences or journeys or introduction
(08:15):
to an artist in this case for me, that tells
you what you need to know. About them and really
not being able to predict what you're going to hear
from ninth from Ruben Vincent, and by the end it
just felt like, Yo, this is a well put together
album with some dope beats, dope beats, thoughtful rhymes. Again,
(08:42):
everything's not a bar fest. Everybody's not trying to be
the greatest spider ever. Some people are artists, right, They
write with their pen. They could probably do the freestyle
and give you all those bars too, but they're a
bigger artist than just that. And there's no issues with
(09:03):
being a bar king versus somebody who can create a
great album. But this Welcome Home album, I had no
expectations and I didn't even know what it was about,
to be honest. And even though I'm not even from
these parts, you know, like from North Carolina and all that,
I assume Ruben Vincent is from North Carolina. I think, yeah,
I believe he says so that it was relatable, the
(09:28):
welcome home part, whether you coming home from college, the military, prison,
being away just because you went away. There's something about
that welcome home vibe that I feel like they captured
in this album. With the skits, which are small, but
(09:52):
they work within the confines of the songs and the
album concept. But great album, honest to me, one of
the best of the year. We almost over, so you know,
if I said that is a good chance it'll still
be there by the end of this year. So we'll
see also released Chik Looch Gorilla Ween eight or seven.
(10:20):
Let's look real quick, because.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I did.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
First of all, I didn't know there was that many.
Obviously it's up on the screen because you know, it's
that's how the future works. You you find out later
and then you just place it in Gorilla Weens seven.
I said eight, But I'm in the future. But I
can tell you this right now. I might have heard
(10:44):
only one of these joints previously. Not that I don't
like Sheik Louch as a rapper. I think he's criminally
slept on in the Locks. But Locks fans know, we know,
they all can spit. I don't know if you've heard
all the Gorilla Weens from I really hate the name.
(11:05):
I ain't gonna lie uh from Sheikh Looch. Please put
your critique of this album versus or this project versus
the other entries in the series, because I don't really
have a point of reference to say it's the best,
but I can tell you this much, it's one of
the best of October because.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
She rap.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Obviously a lot of the reasons why you like Griselda
and all that that that was the lots before them.
Before Griselda, it was the Lox. So Griselda is responsible
for bringing boom Back back to the forefronts. But they
are not the fatherest of it. Obviously it needed all
(11:51):
the locks in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
They're more They're more related to the locks than you
would think regards to the you know, the three man
crew type situation. But she gluch on this album. You know, the.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Rhms are there.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's hardcore raps and I love his beat selection. I mean,
I think for some rappers that could be a difference maker.
Some guy like like, for example, Lloyd Banks. He released
another entry into his Halloween Havocs series and I ain't
gonna lie, I really don't like it. I like his
(12:29):
album that he released earlier this year more than that.
And it's not because he fell off or he can't rap.
I just feel like when Lloyd Banks has really dope beats,
not just just boom Back beats that you could get into,
but I mean it has to be like some really
dope production that's more vibrant than.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
He comes across.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I think that's when he's at his best, and I
feel like chic looch he kind of has that energy.
He's not monotone, so when he has great production, it's
even better, you know what I'm saying. And not to
compare the two, but you know, one's in my Best
of October and one isn't. And they both got Halloween themes.
(13:18):
So there you have it, Halloween, you have it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Three. I think that's my favorite. I'm gona line two more.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Mick Jenkins and Email and Murder of Crows. This was
an album that I didn't listen to when it dropped.
Shout out to Dad End and Hip Hop. I think
they did their best of the month.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I guess. I think I forget what video was, but
they mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I had listened to Mick Jenkins projects in the past,
didn't really get a chance to get to this one.
But because of what was how it was talked about,
I was like, yo, I should probably least put an
air to it. And it's a really good album. It's
a really good album. Mick Jenkins is not gonna cheat
you if you need more than the usual rapper rhetoric.
(14:12):
Right when it comes to me as a fan, trust me,
I'm not choosing side. You look at my catalog of music.
There's gonna be songs you like, and then there's gonna
be songs this person may like and you made dislike
and that person made dislike because I'm not listening and
liking everything obviously, not if I could say I didn't
(14:35):
really care for the Slick Rick project, I love slick Rack,
but I love variety and hip hop, and I love
artists that can be more than just the typical rapper.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
They rap with substance. They talk about things that happen
to all of us every day in our lives, that
we experience that most rappers never to about. I just
did a review on that Tupac book, talked a little
bit about Brenda's Got a Baby. And one of the
reasons why Tupac captivated me as a fan with that
(15:13):
video and that song was because that's not like a
new story, especially for back then. It just wasn't a
new type of story. But the fact that a rapper
hadn't at least on a mainstream level, because I don't
know about somebody from around your way who had a
similar song before Tupac. We don't know him, fan, we
(15:36):
don't know him. Okay, congrats to him, but we don't
know him. But on a mainstream level, Tupac did that,
and it was one of those things where I was like, Wow,
I didn't even think rappers could rap about this type
of stuff. It just never dawned on me, and Tupac
did it masterfully. So I feel the same way when
(15:58):
it comes to Mick Jenkins and the album, not that
everything is that deep, but if you if you're familiar
with his music, it's going to be more than Braggadocia's raps.
Yo check out my bars or crime Stories, which are
more so par for the course for most rappers today.
(16:21):
And for a while, like let's not pretend it's Nick
and the last one originally wasn't going to be on
this list, but I listen, I listen again, that I
listen again, And even though I feel like Hills Have
Eyes Too is the best in the series, Hills Have
(16:46):
Eyes three is not that bad, I'd say for twenty
twenty five. When it comes to Westside Gun, who has released.
I believe I think he's released four or five projects,
maybe closer to four. He'lls Have Eyes two and three
(17:12):
and twelve are the best, and twelve I have in
my best of the year. He'lls Have Eyes two. It's
almost like I'm feeling some kind of way like I
need to put it in the in my top ten
or top fifteen or whatever. But he'lls Have Eyes three,
I think continues the momentum of the second entry. It's
(17:37):
not as good, but at least that momentum is there,
And why say is not as good as just because
it's it reminds me it's closer to Hells Have Eyes one,
which was extremely short. This project is a little bit
longer than that. It features like Benning, a bunch of
(17:58):
I was wanna say, banc Benny the Butcher's on there,
and you know it stole God is there?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's both the James there. I don't I don't know,
I don't think so. But in general, Rome Streets is there.
That's what I was thinking of. It's a dope project.
The only the only thing is and obviously I recommended
if you liked Westside Gun and if you liked the
projects he's released this year. This is another one you
would enjoy. But the only reason why like some of
(18:33):
these albums will not make my best of the year
is because there's a lot of albums to compete, and
it was a lot released in October that's not on
my recommendations from some of my favorite artists. Does it
mean I'm not listening, No, it just means that I
(18:55):
didn't feel like amongst the ones that I really liked,
those PRIs meant the standard for me. What were some
of the best albums of October twenty twenty five for
you leave them down in the comments. I definitely check comments,
especially especially if you know of an album, even just
(19:18):
through the year, an album that you're like, Yo, I
think you need to check this one out because I
think it's one of the best of the year. Chances
are maybe I didn't even hear it, you know what
I'm saying, And especially if I see a reoccurring theme
of a specific album that it seems like everybody heard
and likes, I'll go check it out because I'm not
(19:42):
one of those guys who who needs to be prepped.
If something is dope and enough people are saying it's dope.
I'm going to go see why. So there you have it.
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Coming up on a bonus episode of hip Hop Now Podcast.
It is the best recommendations I have for you for
October twenty twenty five, the best, not all of them.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to hip Hop Now, pop Fatness.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
If you from the future, you know what to do.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Show as out of my back life, so disrespect the
leg back.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hip hop is say this day. Let's get right into
the business. What up, y'all?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I am Your's Vegas and this is hip Hop Now Podcast,
a podcast specifically designed to keep you caught up on
all things hip hop, music and culture that happened throughout
the week. This is a special bonus episode and a
regular series that I want to do definitely be consistent
(00:58):
with in the year twenty twenty six. Something I had planned,
couldn't do it because of you know, life and other things.
But I want to be consistent with it because it's
a way for you, the hip hop fan, the music
fans stay locked in so first and foremost big shout
out to those listening in audio form, whether it be
(01:21):
Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast listening,
and those right here on YouTube hip Hop Now pod
who subscribe to the channel who like the videos. Keep
doing what you're doing. Also, I read the comments, whether
they're good, bad, flattering, whatever, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I enjoy the engagement.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
You took time out of your life to comment, so
I don't care what it is to be honest. Unless
you're just being disrespectful to people in the comments, then
you got to go. But we don't have that over here,
which is great. So the goal is to get to
twenty five thousand subscribers by the end of twenty twenty five.
We still got some weeks to go. We're right around
(02:07):
twenty one k, so good. So if you like this
kind of content, this conversation about hip hop recommendations for albums,
because you're like, yo, a bunch of albums keep releasing.
I don't know what's good. I don't know what's what.
I don't know who dropped. This is the episode for you.
So let's get right into the business. October twenty twenty
(02:31):
five was similar to.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
July.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I think it was July, No August, my bad August
of twenty twenty five because a lot of albums dropped,
a lot of albums dropped.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
A lot of albums dropped on.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Halloween alone, that doesn't make them all good. So if
you would like to know what I thought about the
other months, I made one full video that just goes
over each month and the albums that I was able
to listen to that I thought were the standouts of
the month. So here are the standouts for October twenty
(03:11):
twenty five. First up, a complete obvious as far as
one of the best albums released in October, Mob Deep's
infinite and like more than we could have asked for
as Mob Deep fans that liked it right, those that
liked it everything from Prodigies versus feeling like he was
(03:34):
there to record this entire album with Havoc and Alchemists,
to the nods of notification not notification but well, I
guess for some that you know Prodigy is no longer
with us, but it felt less like a reminder that
he wasn't here and more like it was a nice
(03:59):
touch kind of thing, like see you on the other side.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It just it just felt like, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's okay, you know he's no longer here, sad and
all that good stuff. But at the end of the day,
this is why we listen to mob Deep throughout the years.
This is why we love the Prodigy, and this album
Infinite doesn't dwell on that either. It's straight up Mob Deep,
you know, the way you know them, the way you
(04:27):
love them, like Big Noise is on the album.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
All that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So now's of course great album, hardcore hip hop at
its finest, and a great sind off because I assume
this is the last Mob Deep album where ever get
a perfect send off for one of hip hop's legendary groups.
(04:51):
Also a dope record that was released Hip Boyant Alchemists
Goldfish Now, Hip Hooy and Alchemy had been teasing these
types of collaborations for the last few years. Right when
they did that one joint. Damn, I can't remember the
name of the song now slipping into Darkness right where
(05:15):
they're both they both had beats is a beat switch up,
but hit Man's rapping a hit man, hit Boy's rapping
over Alchemists beat, and Alchemist is rapping over Hip Boy beat.
And I was like, this is dope because the first
of all the beats they had were dope in that song.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And then.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They're not like super bar Kings or nothing like that, Like,
so you're not going to be like yo, what Alchemists
said was right, like, you know, you may have a
few moments like that, but that's not why you come
to listen to these guys. And I feel like with
the album Goldfish and that EP they released, I believe
(05:54):
like last year or so, which was really dope but
short because it was a real EP, right like for
I feel like this album carries on the tradition of
their collaboration and again as MC's disserviceable, I think of
their types of raps being the same reasons why mainly
(06:15):
Alchemists in this case, same reasons why you know people
like a Boldie James or or even a Rock Marcy. Right,
it's the flow. I'm not trying to say he better
than Rock Marcy. I'm just saying it's the flow. Alchemist's
flow reminds me a lot of Rock Marciana's flow.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And and hit Boy.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You know, he says things that you know you could
either relate to or you don't, but all of it
together just sounds cool, interesting to an extent, and I thought,
you know, it's I was listening to it. I felt like,
if I'm listening to an album more than I have to,
(06:56):
it must be good, right. I'm not forcing myself to
listen to this album. I was like, Yo, this album's cool.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I like it. It's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So they had it another album, Ruben Vincent and Ninth
Wander Welcome Home. This album's great. From the first time
hearing the Albi Shore flip on what I think was
their lead single, I think it's called Go Get It,
(07:26):
to hearing another track and another track, and then finally
the album drops and I'm like I had to shout
out to I had to text kids the album and say, y'all,
you need to check this out because this is the
type of album, types of albums we miss, all the
types of albums we praise other bigger artists like Kendrick
(07:50):
Ford and stuff like that, because albums became at one point,
albums became about a bunch of hit singles, or at
least trying to make a bunch of hit singles. And
there's some albums that are great for that, you know,
and that's the purpose, and it doesn't have to be
any other way if it works. But then there are
those albums that feel like experiences or journeys or introduction
(08:15):
to an artist in this case for me, that tells
you what you need to know. About them and really
not being able to predict what you're going to hear
from ninth from Ruben Vincent, and by the end it
just felt like, Yo, this is a well put together
album with some dope beats, dope beats, thoughtful rhymes. Again,
(08:42):
everything's not a bar fest. Everybody's not trying to be
the greatest spider ever. Some people are artists, right, They
write with their pen. They could probably do the freestyle
and give you all those bars too, but they're a
bigger artist than just that. And there's no issues with
(09:03):
being a bar king versus somebody who can create a
great album. But this Welcome Home album, I had no
expectations and I didn't even know what it was about,
to be honest. And even though I'm not even from
these parts, you know, like from North Carolina and all that,
I assume Ruben Vincent is from North Carolina. I think, yeah,
I believe he says so that it was relatable, the
(09:28):
welcome home part, whether you coming home from college, the military, prison,
being away just because you went away. There's something about
that welcome home vibe that I feel like they captured
in this album. With the skits, which are small, but
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they work within the confines of the songs and the
album concept. But great album, honest to me, one of
the best of the year. We almost over, so you know,
if I said that is a good chance it'll still
be there by the end of this year. So we'll
see also released Chik Looch Gorilla Ween eight or seven.
(10:20):
Let's look real quick, because.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I did.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
First of all, I didn't know there was that many.
Obviously it's up on the screen because you know, it's
that's how the future works. You you find out later
and then you just place it in Gorilla Weens seven.
I said eight, But I'm in the future. But I
can tell you this right now. I might have heard
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only one of these joints previously. Not that I don't
like Sheik Louch as a rapper. I think he's criminally
slept on in the Locks. But Locks fans know, we know,
they all can spit. I don't know if you've heard
all the Gorilla Weens from I really hate the name.
(11:05):
I ain't gonna lie uh from Sheikh Looch. Please put
your critique of this album versus or this project versus
the other entries in the series, because I don't really
have a point of reference to say it's the best,
but I can tell you this much, it's one of
the best of October because.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
She rap.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Obviously a lot of the reasons why you like Griselda
and all that that that was the lots before them.
Before Griselda, it was the Lox. So Griselda is responsible
for bringing boom Back back to the forefronts. But they
are not the fatherest of it. Obviously it needed all
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the locks in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
They're more They're more related to the locks than you
would think regards to the you know, the three man
crew type situation. But she gluch on this album. You know, the.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Rhms are there.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's hardcore raps and I love his beat selection. I mean,
I think for some rappers that could be a difference maker.
Some guy like like, for example, Lloyd Banks. He released
another entry into his Halloween Havocs series and I ain't
gonna lie, I really don't like it. I like his
(12:29):
album that he released earlier this year more than that.
And it's not because he fell off or he can't rap.
I just feel like when Lloyd Banks has really dope beats,
not just just boom Back beats that you could get into,
but I mean it has to be like some really
dope production that's more vibrant than.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
He comes across.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I think that's when he's at his best, and I
feel like chic looch he kind of has that energy.
He's not monotone, so when he has great production, it's
even better, you know what I'm saying. And not to
compare the two, but you know, one's in my Best
of October and one isn't. And they both got Halloween themes.
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So there you have it, Halloween, you have it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Three. I think that's my favorite. I'm gona line two more.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Mick Jenkins and Email and Murder of Crows. This was
an album that I didn't listen to when it dropped.
Shout out to Dad End and Hip Hop. I think
they did their best of the month.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I guess. I think I forget what video was, but
they mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I had listened to Mick Jenkins projects in the past,
didn't really get a chance to get to this one.
But because of what was how it was talked about,
I was like, yo, I should probably least put an
air to it. And it's a really good album. It's
a really good album. Mick Jenkins is not gonna cheat
you if you need more than the usual rapper rhetoric.
(14:12):
Right when it comes to me as a fan, trust me,
I'm not choosing side. You look at my catalog of music.
There's gonna be songs you like, and then there's gonna
be songs this person may like and you made dislike
and that person made dislike because I'm not listening and
liking everything obviously, not if I could say I didn't
(14:35):
really care for the Slick Rick project, I love slick Rack,
but I love variety and hip hop, and I love
artists that can be more than just the typical rapper.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
They rap with substance. They talk about things that happen
to all of us every day in our lives, that
we experience that most rappers never to about. I just
did a review on that Tupac book, talked a little
bit about Brenda's Got a Baby. And one of the
reasons why Tupac captivated me as a fan with that
(15:13):
video and that song was because that's not like a
new story, especially for back then. It just wasn't a
new type of story. But the fact that a rapper
hadn't at least on a mainstream level, because I don't
know about somebody from around your way who had a
similar song before Tupac. We don't know him, fan, we
(15:36):
don't know him. Okay, congrats to him, but we don't
know him. But on a mainstream level, Tupac did that,
and it was one of those things where I was like, Wow,
I didn't even think rappers could rap about this type
of stuff. It just never dawned on me, and Tupac
did it masterfully. So I feel the same way when
(15:58):
it comes to Mick Jenkins and the album, not that
everything is that deep, but if you if you're familiar
with his music, it's going to be more than Braggadocia's raps.
Yo check out my bars or crime Stories, which are
more so par for the course for most rappers today.
(16:21):
And for a while, like let's not pretend it's Nick
and the last one originally wasn't going to be on
this list, but I listen, I listen again, that I
listen again, And even though I feel like Hills Have
Eyes Too is the best in the series, Hills Have
(16:46):
Eyes three is not that bad, I'd say for twenty
twenty five. When it comes to Westside Gun, who has released.
I believe I think he's released four or five projects,
maybe closer to four. He'lls Have Eyes two and three
(17:12):
and twelve are the best, and twelve I have in
my best of the year. He'lls Have Eyes two. It's
almost like I'm feeling some kind of way like I
need to put it in the in my top ten
or top fifteen or whatever. But he'lls Have Eyes three,
I think continues the momentum of the second entry. It's
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not as good, but at least that momentum is there,
And why say is not as good as just because
it's it reminds me it's closer to Hells Have Eyes one,
which was extremely short. This project is a little bit
longer than that. It features like Benning, a bunch of
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I was wanna say, banc Benny the Butcher's on there,
and you know it stole God is there?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's both the James there. I don't I don't know,
I don't think so. But in general, Rome Streets is there.
That's what I was thinking of. It's a dope project.
The only the only thing is and obviously I recommended
if you liked Westside Gun and if you liked the
projects he's released this year. This is another one you
would enjoy. But the only reason why like some of
(18:33):
these albums will not make my best of the year
is because there's a lot of albums to compete, and
it was a lot released in October that's not on
my recommendations from some of my favorite artists. Does it
mean I'm not listening, No, it just means that I
(18:55):
didn't feel like amongst the ones that I really liked,
those PRIs meant the standard for me. What were some
of the best albums of October twenty twenty five for
you leave them down in the comments. I definitely check comments,
especially especially if you know of an album, even just
(19:18):
through the year, an album that you're like, Yo, I
think you need to check this one out because I
think it's one of the best of the year. Chances
are maybe I didn't even hear it, you know what
I'm saying, And especially if I see a reoccurring theme
of a specific album that it seems like everybody heard
and likes, I'll go check it out because I'm not
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one of those guys who who needs to be prepped.
If something is dope and enough people are saying it's dope.
I'm going to go see why. So there you have it.
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