WEBVTT - #432 - Rapsody 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:01.080 Yo yo, what's up? 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:02.880 This is Rap City and check me out on the 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.200 Bootleg cav podcast. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.160 Boutlet Cap show Man special guests in here one of 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.240 the greatest MC's on the planet, Rhapsody. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:14.840 What's up, brother man? 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:15.440 I see you. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:16.799 I'm happy to be back. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:18.800 May seventeen, were finally getting your album? 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:20.200 Yeah, four and a half years. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.720 It's it's been it's been four and a half years. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.160 Yeah, twenty nineteen was my last album. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.680 And then The L's Wisdom was what twenty seventeen. Yep, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.880 that was a Grammy album. Yeah, who were you nominated 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.640 against that year? Because I remember thinking specifically like jay 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:34.640 Z four four. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:39.520 Four, Kendrick dam Tyler to creator flower. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:40.520 Boy, that was a good year. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:42.479 There's one more I'm forgetting. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.760 That was a good year. Yeah, we ended up winning. Damn. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.680 Yeah, Kendrick took that. I am never mad. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:52.840 You're in a very particular best dance. With everything going 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.040 on in the world of hip. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.279 Hop, it's exciting right now. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.920 It is, and I you know, obviously there's been some 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.600 I'm like extra unnecessary noise. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.360 And I was just having that conversation. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.920 It's a lot of noise right now and inserting into 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.840 a moment that's. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.600 Like special and making it corny now, Like. 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.560 Right, I feel like it's gotten really corny this past week. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.160 Let the main event be the main event, please. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.880 I agree. But it's interesting because I always like, even 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.160 like rewinding a few weeks, you've worked with Cole and 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.440 you obviously have worked with Kendrick a bunch. You're you know, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.320 like I remember talking to Punch about this at the 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.319 iHeart Awards. I saw him backstage and I was like, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:40.080 this was before my delete later came out, okay, and 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.360 I was like Dreamville Fest was coming that weekend, and 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.759 I was like, this feels really weird because like we're 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.160 everyone's friends with each other, like TD and Dreamville are 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.320 like this, like all the fans are kind of like innerwoven, 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.919 like you know, Schoolboy Q and Scissors on dream bill Fest, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:01.240 like Kendrick and Cole are friends. But it felt great. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.000 I'm just curious, like, how did you feel when you 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.080 first heard everything? Being like somebody who's worked with both people, 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.040 and like, you know, a lot of people discovered you 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.120 from working with Kendrick. You're obviously on the Bemper Butterfly, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.360 Like what was what was your thoughts? 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.200 I was excited. I mean, I thought, this is hip hop. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.239 It was built on competition. Yes, so let's compete. It's 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.920 just words. It's just words, you know, if it comes 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.399 anything out of that. But I think this is really 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.120 in the spirit of hip hop, and it's like, okay, I. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.360 Respects I equated to basketball. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:29.520 Right. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.480 I was having a conversation with my nephew right, he 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.600 was texting me about it. I said, look, man, when 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.760 you play your homie one on one on the court, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:38.840 are you are you trying to look out for him 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.800 because you're a homie. No, you're trying to beat that ass. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.880 And afterwards, y'all wap it up and be like good game. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.600 You either run it back or take your l and 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.920 go home. So that's just how I looked at it. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.600 I was like, oh, hip hop is exciting, it's a sport. Yeah, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.320 we need it for the culture. So you know, I 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.679 just looked at it as like made the best man win. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.799 What were your thoughts when you saw Cole retract his 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.000 his you know, statements and apology. I just wonder because 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.360 I actually kind of like, there's no way he actually thought, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.880 like to Pinper, Butterfly wasn't amazing, Like I was like, 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.480 he don't even believe what he says, like this is 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.760 one of the greatest of hours of all time. But 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.440 when he apologized, I was like, you know what, like 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.320 I understood where he was coming from because he's been 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.560 moving a certain way for so long, you know, But 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:18.480 what were your thoughts. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.760 I try not to speak on these things the whole 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.440 month thoughts myself. I mean, but a he's a man. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.160 He made his decision. He made his decision. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.960 But I'm if I'm just speaking from me, if I'm 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.640 in that position, I love this the spirit of what 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.200 this is and the sport of it, and if it's me, 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:43.560 I'm going homie and not like let's go like, you know, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:49.160 he approached it how he approached it. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.640 Did you It wasn't funny to you to like hear 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.720 people like all of a sudden like you're on to 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.560 Pinper Butterfly, which is like, in my opinion, it's. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:56.560 One of the greatest albums ever. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.200 I actually think it's Kendrick's best album. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.480 Absolutely, it's one of my favorite of all time. Even 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:02.880 taking me off of it, I. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.080 Feel and it aged in a way that not a 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.520 lot of albums of age, like a lot of people 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.840 like during like the BLM protests and stuff like, started 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.960 to revisit that and we're like, damn. Kendrick was like 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:13.840 kind of talking about a lot of the shit that's 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.919 happening right now, you know, But it was just funny 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.679 to see like the album trending. And then Punch tweeted 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.040 I thought the Tipper Butterfly was actually a pretty good album. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.960 Yeah, that's I thought about that when when Cole made 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.599 his apology, and when he did it, I was like, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.440 I would never approach it when at his discography, but 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.520 at the art of Wars, it's just wars war, so 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:36.839 you know. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.919 But it's it's funny to see the landscape of sheep 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.599 to me, right, and it's like, okay, because we're in 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.920 this battle and he says it's not good that everybody 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.520 like we don't think. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:49.960 It's that good. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.960 Get the fuck out of here. Like granted there's some 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.160 people that they generally don't like it. That's okay, that's 0:04:55.200 --> 0:05:00.480 fine everything not everybody, but like, it's one of the 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.000 greatest albums of all times. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.479 I think if you're gonna say anything like to me, 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.359 Kendrick's got a flawless discography, it'd be like dis an 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:08.520 Outcasts discography. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.000 Yeah, absolutely got one of the uns. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.080 That's something you gotta to leave him alone on that. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:13.799 Yeah. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.839 To me, it's like, that's why I'm really interested, because 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.120 I'm like, Drake, I'm not sure what else you got 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.360 besides m being short and maybe he had an unfavorable 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.839 deal TV back in the day. Because outside of that, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.120 I mean, you know, it's gotten corny. Though the AI 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.440 shit was super corny. I thought that shit was lame 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.240 as fuck, and then Kanye doing this interview and I'm 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.240 just like, like you said, we're here for the main event, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.680 like all the side characters. I want to like, I'm 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.600 waiting for this bomb to drop that Kendrick's cooking, and 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.640 I'm tired of people acting like we didn't have to 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.440 wait twenty nine days for Drake to reply. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.560 Yeah, I mean this is the social media. Everybody thinks 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.440 that you have to move at their page. Like if 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.760 we told about the spirited hip hop I was. I 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.159 was thinking of back when NAS and j were in 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:02.640 battle and Jay put out Takeover or September eleventh, on 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.320 two thousand and one. Na's responding on December fourth, his birthday, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.520 like three months later. Three months later, so you know, 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.560 and I we know Kendrick. He's intentional about everything, so 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.839 you know, I love that he's always continuing to do 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.320 him and moving at the pace he has, Like let 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.320 the noise die down if anything, please. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.040 Yeah, we waited twenty nine days for Drake to reply. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.720 Just again, twenty nine days. But with that being said, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:32.040 it is the most excited. Yeah, I'm just excited because 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.560 I'm like, yo, one day, like I just want I'm 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.720 gonna wake up, and Kendrick's because I know he's about 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:37.600 to come crazy. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.719 It's exciting. I'm just it's exciting. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.359 And then Quavo and Chris Brown are going at you 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.120 that she's getting a little ugly, but it's just a lot. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.800 I feel like it's like people are seeing how good 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.240 it is for business to beef kind of, and they're 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.600 all trying to get their little Like. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.960 Kat Williams said it all, didn't he He. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.919 Set it off. He kicked the year off with the 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.640 craziest interview ever, and people just been moving like that. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.840 Yeah, I'm like, yeah, it's getting weird out here. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:06.040 It's pretty crazy. Talk to me about why it's taken 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:07.800 you four and a half years to drop a new 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:08.520 body of work. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.280 Yeah, I had a lot to say, and it took 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.640 me about four years to get it all out. I 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.480 was told, you don't stop recording until you don't have 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.160 anything else to say. So I allow myself the grace 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.040 and the time to grow in that period, to heal, 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.480 in that period, to learn, and you know, to really 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.160 figure out all of what I wanted to say and 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.840 then what I wanted to share with the world. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.720 Yeah, that was it, I think too, Like sometimes people 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.240 will put out music just because they feel like they 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.320 have to or just for the sake of putting out music, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.240 but there's not intention behind it. No, And usually that's 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.360 when we get like this microwavable music that people don't 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.040 live with, that doesn't age. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.880 It's there for the moment, and which is okay if 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:51.800 that's what you want to do. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.400 I'm just not that type of artist, right, you know. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.440 I want to put out things that will stand and 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.640 test the time, that'll be a blueprint for people to 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.880 look back to, that will be a soundtrack for this 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:04.160 life and the next. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:04.560 You know. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.800 So what was your like, where did you draw the 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.440 most inspiration for this body of work? 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:13.400 Musically? 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:19.320 Lauryn Hill's Unplugged The honesty, the wrongness of the best 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:20.240 unplugs ever. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.080 That you ain't never lied bro a day of your life. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:30.800 So that was a big inspiration, probably the biggest, honestly. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.720 That's that's where I really poured from the most. During 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.360 the pandemic, I would drive to New York six seven 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.480 times and just play that album over and over again. 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.880 Other than that, it was just like things I would read. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.880 Untamed by Glennon Dole was a book that I read, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.840 James Allen twenty one books. It just it just really 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:53.600 allowed me to give myself permission to be human, right, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:55.800 and that's what fed everything else. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.440 Do you feel like because I always when when you're 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.280 brought up, you're always brought up as like one of 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.520 the elite MC's period, like, regardless of gender. But since 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.360 twenty seventeen, since twenty twenty, you know, there has been 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.160 like a huge you know, I feel like we used 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.719 to have these female MC conversations and it's now just 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.600 turned into like ladies are kind of running hip hop now. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.079 In my opinion, they're I mean, all the big hit 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.800 records are yeah, women, They're only the only women who 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.520 are making like I feel like the women are actually 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.559 putting effort into quote unquote records. Yep, you know, and 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.520 I feel like now like it's it's been I mean, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.920 the last time I remember it being like this female 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.800 dominated or at least so many options out there was 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.720 like when it was Eve the Brad, Little King, Foxy Brown, like, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.920 but it's I feel like it's even bigger than that now. No. Yeah, absolutely, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:45.360 Like do you feel like we're kind of like in 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.480 the middle of like a special moment when it terms 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.080 to just females running hip hop? 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.199 I do. I do running it in this way. I 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:54.320 don't think we've I. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.280 Don't think it's ever happened. No, because even back then 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.280 there was jay Z, there was no there was death Row, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:09:58.920 there was all. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.640 That at the same time, and and two it was 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.480 uh yeah, this is just. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.439 Different and everyone's got their own thing, Like it's it 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.280 feels good and you know, for the most part, everyone's 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:10.760 working together for. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.280 The most part, Yeah, which is exciting, and I think 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:19.679 it helps the moment, right, and it's needed. The woman's voice, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.560 her perspective is needed. I love to see in the 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:27.120 mainstream a lot more harmony. But it's it's exciting, you know, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:27.680 for sure. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.160 You obviously got Erica and I heard the record on 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.160 the way over here. Amazing. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.280 Yeah, come on, she's she's out here. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:39.800 She got her own weeds train now to. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:44.920 Yep cookies that and she's got her own perfume that 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.079 I think she does. I didn't know about the. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.240 I want to say it's a candle or about she's 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:50.760 got something that. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.480 I gotta. I got a box at the house. It 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.120 smells amazing, It smells amazing good. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:03.240 I was like, damn, was that something that you said 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:04.600 to her? Did you guys actually get in? 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:07.520 How did I get that? 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.480 She gave it to me as a gift for performing 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.640 at her birthday bash fire? 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.520 Yeah, I have two boxes. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.120 No, no, no, I'm about the record. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:23.880 I thought we were still the record. Yeah. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.440 I was in Dallas, Texas working with s one and 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.200 I did uh. I did two verses. The second verse 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.040 was different than what we have now. But at the 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.000 end I left the hook open because I knew I 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:35.760 wanted a singer. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.880 And he was like, yo, who you here? Rap? I said, 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.800 I only hear bad I'm in Dallas. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.160 So he reached out because I didn't have a contact 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.480 at the time, and she said yes, and you know, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.000 we continue to work on it. For about eight more months, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.199 but it was a beautiful time. We never got in 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:52.559 the studio together, but you know. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:53.000 We text. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.720 She facetimed me and seeing melodies for the hook, she 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.400 shared lyrics with me, and it was just a beautiful 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.079 process of eating a record and building a friendship. Like 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.319 one of the most gifted artists we've ever seen. Creative 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.320 style icon but her heart is beautiful, like amazing. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.760 Who all do you have doing production on the album? 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.360 We have s one who also serves as an executive 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:22.320 producer Black Odyssey. They also serve as an executive producer 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.000 Major seven out of Atlanta. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.520 By the way, people who don't know, there's a guy, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:31.400 there's a guy in Black Odyssey, not black, Yes, Alejandro Rico. Yeah, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.320 I interviewed that, and I was like, what's it like 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:37.280 being a not black guy in Black Well, because technically 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:41.480 Black Odyssey lead, you know the crew, you. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.600 Know, we accept him in our delegation. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.720 Yeah, but they were amazing to work with. Eric g 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:54.920 of the Soul Council soundtrack of the Soul Council hit boy. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.400 Let me make sure I'm not forgetting anybody. No ninth 0:12:58.480 --> 0:12:59.880 beats not on this one. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:06.000 Okay, Yeah, we did about two songs. One I had 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.600 uh with Mary but I wanted to work on it more. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:16.320 And six Mary Mary J Yeah, yeah, yeah, you left 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.239 the Marry J. Blain's record off the album. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.080 We both wanted to work on it more crazy, you 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.319 know we put that out. We wanted to feel right 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.880 of course. Yeah, I love Mary. Oh. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.400 I feel like anyone who works with hit boy these 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.480 days ends up doing the whole album with him, would you. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.400 I mean, look, we talked about it. I would say 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:33.160 that'd be crazy. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.640 Yeah, when Astroids drop, we talked about it. I told 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.480 him I would love to. He said the same, So 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.360 we'll see how it goes, you know time, but I 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:41.880 would love to. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.800 I just got to thank him for getting NAS in place. Yeah, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.400 I think we've gotten six albums three three Magics, three 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.800 Kings Diseases, And then I also think if it weren't 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.920 for those six albums, we wouldn't be getting this premiere 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.960 NAS album that we're getting on, which is what produced 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.600 we've wanted for fucking twenty fucking years years. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.000 Everything has this time. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.199 I know when I heard that the song just dropped 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:09.760 last Friday, and then at the end they're like, yeah, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:10.680 and the albums I. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:15.080 Was like, oh my god, Yo, everybody was excited. Is 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.000 hip hop is exciting this year? 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:17.360 It is. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.600 It's just it feels the energy feels good. It does 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.360 like a different good for sure. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:22.560 You know. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.560 I feel like it's like the most. I feel like 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.440 last year was kind of like a down year energy 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.240 wise for rap. This year, I feel like it's like 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.400 because there was like a people questioning, Like I saw 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.960 a Carl post something about like the same people who 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.880 were saying that hip hop was dying last year need 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.480 to give make sure that people know it's alive and 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.040 well and running the charts this year. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:41.960 Let's talk about it. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.440 Honey, going nowhere, I'm curious. You're such a hip hop head. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.600 What are your like if you were to go to 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.240 an island then you can only take like three or 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.640 four albums with you. What are the albums you're taking 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:54.640 that are hip hop? 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:59.920 Strictly Reasonable Doubt by Jay Z to Butterfly by Kendrick 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 more strictly hip hop? 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:11.280 The Score by the fujis yes, ooh. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.800 And it Illmatic Happy thirty years thirty years Age is 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.640 like fine one absolutely. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.680 Yeah, that's a great four. I think Reasonable that was 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.840 Jayz's best album. I'll stand by that forever. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.720 I go back and forth between it's the top three, Blueprint, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.320 Black and Reasonable, depending on the. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:27.840 Day I'll give you. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:28.520 Those are my three. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.360 Those are the three, and I interchange them. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.920 Like to me, it's like reasonable Doubt is like so 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:37.640 fucking crazy, like friend or foe, like yeah. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.400 In my life. No, that's the feeling. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.920 Feeling it, Oh yeah, feeling it, fucking. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.320 Cap with Biggie the Evils. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.920 Yes, the Evils is crazy with the Snoop samples. Reasonable 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:48.760 doubts the one for me. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.040 But twenty two tools, Oh my god, it's. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.120 He the Blueprint or Black albums. Then you know what 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.160 I saw. I hated Old the hov though. To me, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.360 the Black or the Blue Blueprint has one song that 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.200 I can I skip. It's O Lajo Vito. I can't, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.520 I can't. I just can't do it. It's the Brave 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.840 Heart Party of that album. Do you remember Brave Heart 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.120 Party on Stematic? Oh so Stillmatic was a perfect album, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.320 but there was a song called Brave Heart Party with 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.760 Mary J. Blige, and it's one of the worst rap 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:21.000 songs ever created. It's so bad that when they reissued 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.320 the album they took it off. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.800 I feel like you always give me a moment where 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:26.240 I'm like. 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.440 No, NAS knows, it's terrible. Listen, if you were to 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.560 go to the store right now and buy like a 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.400 stealmatic that's been pressed in the last fifteen years, Brave 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:40.200 Heart Party is not on. Do you remember when jay 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:41.840 Z did the Blueprint two point one? 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.600 Yeah, and because the Blueprint too had some shit on it, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.480 but it also had some shit on it so much 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.480 so that they were like, let's do the blue point 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.200 two point one and just put all the good shit 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:53.240 on one album. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.160 That's what NAS had to do with Brave Heart Party. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:56.120 He knows it's a bad song. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:57.840 I love you so much. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.880 Whenever I interviewed Nows, I specifically want to bring that up, Like, hey, 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:08.199 so who I mean interviewed him when I was like 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.000 fucking nineteen and I brought him a box of ship 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:11.639 to autograph. 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:13.240 Was that one of them? 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:13.600 Yeah? 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.560 Fire, that's fire? 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.639 Okay, Yeah, I brought him like I was like I 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.600 saw that and I was like, oh, bottom stuff. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.480 And I was like, hey, dude, like if you could 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.119 interview all the sign all this ship, it'd be great. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.240 If you don't want to, I get it, but this 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:28.800 is like the biggest moment of my life. 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:29.560 That's love. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.960 You signed it all. I asked him what happened? Do 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.479 you know what my main question was because I only 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.479 got the interview like ten minutes, but it was like Yo, 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.040 Win's Lost Tapes two coming. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.840 Out and Lost Tapes was a. 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.439 Joint, probably my third favorite NAS album. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.480 Up there, It's up there. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.440 Then Lost Tapes two came and it was I should 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:55.640 have stood, stayed, lost shouts and nots. Anyway, who else 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.480 is on this album? 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:58.160 Okay? 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.680 We talked about Eric Abad have Little Wayne, Oh yeah, 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:12.480