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Speaker 2: From a hip hip hop question, we talked about like
Speaker 2: you being categorized as a conscious wrapper, but you also
Speaker 2: obviously looking at your battle where ice you. I'm wondering
Speaker 2: what's your perspective on seeing what now would be considered
Speaker 2: a conscious rapper? And Kendrick Lamar have a battle with
Speaker 2: the most popular rapper and win, and now he's actually
Speaker 2: ascended to like the number one position. It's an interesting
Speaker 2: dynamic right where his music is in the vein of positivity, revolutionary,
Speaker 2: but he's still dangerous. It should be dangerous, right, So
Speaker 2: like do you got do you have like some like
Speaker 2: pride in seeing that.
Speaker 1: Put the flag down.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Drake.
Speaker 2: No disrespect to Drake, but I'm just saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well listen, let me okay, let me answer those
Speaker 4: things directly. So, first of all, Kendrick is a masterful artist,
Speaker 4: like one of the greats. Before the Battle, he was
Speaker 4: like he won a Polard surprise for raps. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. That's how great of a writer he is.
Speaker 4: And each one of his albums have been different, unique,
Speaker 4: dope like you know, and that's what it is to do.
Speaker 4: One of the greatest in any generation. Drake is one
Speaker 4: of the most talented songwriter artists to do them to
Speaker 4: do music, man, like, one of the most successful. To
Speaker 4: be able to make songs like at that level and
Speaker 4: be making hits over and over. That says something because
Speaker 4: even pop artists that they had some big hits, they
Speaker 4: don't last decades. So Drake is a super talented dude.
Speaker 4: The Battle, I got to say, I was like, man, Initially,
Speaker 4: I was like, wow, this is real. These dudes are
Speaker 4: going at it because Drake was delivering. And then Kendrick came,
Speaker 4: and then Kendrick kept giving them flows and then he
Speaker 4: just like did what he had to do and just man,
Speaker 4: he came out the victor. He was a victor like this,
Speaker 4: point blank. He won. And it's is it like if
Speaker 4: you're asking it's a victory for me, I think it's
Speaker 4: just a victory for hip hop that that battle went
Speaker 4: down the way it did and had people paying attention
Speaker 4: to lyrics and hip hop, like different generations was paying
Speaker 4: attention to that. Like I had some of my youngins
Speaker 4: hitting me up like, Yo, you hit a new one.
Speaker 4: And then people my age hit me up like, yo,
Speaker 4: you hit what? You know?
Speaker 1: You hear what?
Speaker 4: Drake just dropping? You know what Kendrick said. I think
Speaker 4: it does. I love that Kendrick is within a battle
Speaker 4: is able to give you like lessons and spiritual like damn,
Speaker 4: not just but the truth. Truth. It's like this dude
Speaker 4: dropping like knowledge and still battling. It's like ridiculous. But
Speaker 4: that being said, it's funny you said, like some of
Speaker 4: he's a revolute lutionary still dangerous because when we think
Speaker 4: about it, our revolutionaries were dangerous, like like Fred Hampton Chicago,
Speaker 4: he was dangerous, like but dangerous for the right thing.
Speaker 4: Shoot Malcolm Max dangerous aside, I should call it dangerous
Speaker 4: and A wait that they are dangerous for their people.
Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, Kendrick is dangerous
Speaker 4: for his people. So I got nothing, but you gotta
Speaker 4: protect them love or protect our people.
Speaker 1: How much did it make people go back and revisit
Speaker 1: old battles, because right once they say that battle, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's the greatest battle of all time, and we're living
Speaker 1: in that moment and people are like, well, nah, there
Speaker 1: was this either thing that happened. It was like, nah,
Speaker 1: there was like I see the bitch of you. So
Speaker 1: now it goes back, people get to revisit it. How
Speaker 1: much of it was brought back like a little bit
Speaker 1: nostalgia for you, Like, yeah, we were in that moment.
Speaker 1: We've grown past it, but like I remember that fire
Speaker 1: that I had.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was more like people was bringing
Speaker 4: up the battle I had with Cube and the battle
Speaker 4: I had with Drake. Yeah, that's the fact they brought
Speaker 4: that they would bring that up. But I was like, listen,
Speaker 4: first of all, we both those battles got squashed this now,
Speaker 4: so I appreciate that y'all loved it. We had the battle.
Speaker 4: I was worn at that time, but you know, I'm
Speaker 4: just watching the battle now, so don't drag me in.
Speaker 4: And somebody was like yo, I was like, no, don't
Speaker 4: drag me in. I'm good man, let me let me
Speaker 4: watch this and just enjoy it because they both going
Speaker 4: in and I think it was I would have to say, man,
Speaker 4: it probably was the greatest battle we've seen. But and
Speaker 4: even if you feel something else was back in the time,
Speaker 4: it's still one of the greatest, Like you know, it's
Speaker 4: it's like it's because that back and forth. We you
Speaker 4: didn't have that much back and forth, like right direct
Speaker 4: and have all the artwork to go with it. And
Speaker 4: it was levels today battles videos.
Speaker 3: Shot they were doing ten minutes later he dropped the
Speaker 3: joints stepping on each other's tracks. That was definitely And
Speaker 3: now we got the Super Bowl. Will it dissipate?
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