1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Wats up and welcome back to another episode of No 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: Sinners Podcast with your host. Now, fuck that with your 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: load glasses malone Great of an extented amount or intensity 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: considerably above the normal or average. One more time, nigga 5 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: great of an extent of an extent amount or intensity 6 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: considerably above the normal or average Great the etymology means 7 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: big and massive. Saw an interview on drink excuse me 8 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: on drink Chans for Tony Ye Yo and one of 9 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: the questions was asked to someone about their favorite rapper 10 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: and the whole answer back ice Cube, and Yo says 11 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: to him, shout out to Tony Yo Yo, what a 12 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 1: big dog. Tony Aal says Cube not fucking with Big. 13 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: And I heard that, and I thought to myself, Cauz like, 14 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: I'm not mad at no New York nigga not really thinking, 15 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 1: Cube with a whole career is not better than Big 16 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: with two records because Cube had excuse me, because Big 17 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: had two phenomenal motherfucking records, ready to die life after 18 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: death for phenomenal joints. But after that, he says something 19 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,279 Speaker 1: to the equivalent of Cube ain't a better storyteller than Big. 20 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: That's where I got a motherfucking problem. That's where I 21 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: got a motherfucking problem. Dog, Like, what are we really 22 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: fucking talking about? Cube is not a better storyteller than Big. 23 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: So I asked a couple of my partners that's on 24 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: the island, shout out to all my partners in New York. 25 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. 26 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: I call them niggas the Islanders because it's like they 27 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: kind of have this restricted view of hip hop as 28 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: the creators, which I respect. 29 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: I'm not tripping. 30 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: That's how we feel about gang banging. You feel me, 31 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: so I could relate. But then I do expect that 32 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: times for them niggas to really see shit for what 33 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: it is. And I realized in their mind that they 34 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: had the same feeling about Big. And that's not to 35 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: say much notorist. Big is a fucking terrific storyteller, like 36 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: fantastic storyteller, like this nigga is incredible, but Ice Cube 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: Couzin is on another level. And I'm talking to Charlotte 38 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: Mane and Charlet Magne is telling me BIG's catalog is 39 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: all stories, and I'm like, you obviously haven't heard ice 40 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 1: cues catalog because you just wouldn't have said that you 41 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I took it upon myself 42 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: to compile a list, do some homework over a couple 43 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: of days, compiling lists and start figuring out, damn. 44 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: What are the ten greatest stories in hip hop? 45 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: That would be a real way to get into this, 46 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: like to really take it well because as a certain 47 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: place in brand, you know what I mean, when you 48 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: like an artist dog, that's a preference. And you could 49 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: say best, best is a preference, Better is a preference. 50 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: Great its measurable. Great is measurable because it's not like 51 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: better or best. Great means there's analytics to back this 52 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: shit up. So I took the time and I start 53 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: going through joints and I was like, okay, let me 54 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: look through these joints. So as I remember going back 55 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: through records jamming, I was jamming for hours, jamming for hours, 56 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: and I came up with a few things. Before I 57 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: get into the ten greatest stories in hip hop history, 58 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about some that deserved just a quick conversation. 59 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: All the storytelling by Outcast. That's a fantastic story. 60 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: I used to love her by Common even though it's 61 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: a way of him shitting on gangster rap and West 62 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: Coast Hip hop. It's a fantastic story. Shout out to 63 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: Common six in the Morning by Ice Q. While I 64 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: might not have it as the greatest, it's probably the 65 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: most impactful. It's shape gangster rap the way we know 66 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: it today. As far as West Coast Hip hop goes 67 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: with storytelling. One of the songs in here is actually 68 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: a direct descendant of ice T six in the Morning 69 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: Shout out to the O G. 70 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 2: Love's Gonna Get You by BDP. 71 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: That deserves an honorable mention because that's a fantastic story. 72 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: Kick Push by Lupe Fiasco barely missed it. That's a 73 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: fantastic story. Louis my man and this is what he does. 74 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: He's a fantastic storyteller as well. Paul Revere by the 75 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: Beastie Boys. I don't think it gets credited as the 76 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: story it is, but it's a dope ass story. Jen 77 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: and Juice and Murder Was the Case is tied. Now 78 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: this is the thing. While Murder Was the Case is 79 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: a story that's really popular and spawned the whole album. 80 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: I understand because they didn't necessarily decide to push. 81 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 2: It across the world. 82 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: It was something that took a life of its own right, 83 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: and Jen and Juice it should be top five, except 84 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: most people don't know Jen and Juice is actually a story. Yes, 85 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: Jen and Juice is a story. You hear the hook 86 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 1: and you jamming, and you're saying the words, but you 87 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: don't know you're you're listening to a story of a 88 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: day with Snoop Dogg going into the night. 89 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: Right. 90 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: Shout out to Tonight because I genuinely believe DJ Quick 91 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: Tonight's inspired Jen and Juice. Now let's get to the shit. 92 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: Add number ten on the Top ten Hip Hop's Greatest story, Boys. 93 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 2: In the Hood. 94 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: By Nwa, written by Ice Cube, delivered by Eaze. I 95 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: don't got to tell you how great of a story 96 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: the song Boys in the Hood is. You know the 97 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:26,679 Speaker 1: fucking song, You know the fucking story right, What it did, 98 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: how it impacted hip hop. It launched the career of Nwa. 99 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: That's NWA's first hit. That's the reason why people started 100 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: giving Nwa a chance. It's one of the only two 101 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 1: records that ever charged for Nwa as far as the 102 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: big charts even go batting straight out of counter it 103 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: launched Eazy E into stardom. Easy was somebody who didn't 104 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: rap before that. He took on that song and it 105 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: changed him into a star, and NWA had a star 106 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: to you know wrap. They group around before Cube came 107 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 1: into his own. When Cube was just a writer in 108 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 1: a dope MC you know what I mean, easy E 109 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: was their star. Because of Ice Cube's pen and Boys 110 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: in the Hood. Obviously, everybody started to figure out how 111 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: dope of a rider Ice Cube was. 112 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 2: Because of Boys in the Hood, the. 113 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: Word got around that Ice Cube was a fantastic motherfucking writer. 114 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: It lost Doctor Dra into a gangster rap producer. Once 115 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: that happened, Doctor Dre didn't look back until Doctor. 116 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: Dre Presents Aftermath. 117 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: Doctor Dre was committed to that hardcore style because of 118 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: the success of Boys in the Hood. It's arguably the 119 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: biggest NWA song. Fuck the Police may be the most impactful, 120 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: but I don't think everybody knows the lyrics to Fuck 121 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: the Police. I think they know the movement that is 122 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: Fucked the Police. They may have heard the hook and 123 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: the beat, but they don't know the words. Straight out 124 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: of Camp obviously is a really special joint. But man, 125 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how many motherfucking kids under the 126 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: age of twenty know Boys in the Hood. Mind you, 127 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: Boys in the Hood is a direct descendant of six 128 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: in the Morning, So that's Ice Tea's influence on ice Q. 129 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: The ironic part about the whole conversation is the song 130 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: wasn't written for NWA or Easy. It was written for 131 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: a New York crew called HBO Homeboys, only they did 132 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: not like the song. They turned down a song that 133 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: ended up being generational, defining them. Niggas is not popping 134 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: because of that shit. You cannot turn down the winners. 135 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 1: I'm sure they didn't know, but I bet you they 136 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: know now. Number nine slick Rick's Children's Story. Slick ricks 137 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: Children's Story. Y'all all know this motherfucking song. Everybody remember 138 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: this song when they was a fucking kid. It's self produced. 139 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: Slick ricked himself produced. That's something we don't glowed enough 140 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: about when you know hip hop artists produced their own 141 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: shit and the records that are successful. It spawned one 142 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: of the greatest R and B hits to come out 143 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: of LA a number one song, This Is How We 144 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: Do It by Montel Jordan because it was such a 145 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: dope break and such a dope melody that slick Rick 146 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: made it turned Montel Jordan's song into an even bigger song. 147 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: It's the motherfucking story that keeps song giving. Something else 148 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: I don't think people realize about the children's story is 149 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: if you listen to the lyrics, the little boy was 150 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: surrounded and that ended his glory. And that's the way 151 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: Rick had to end that story. He was only seventeens 152 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: in a mad man's dream. The shot that cops shot 153 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: the still hear him scream they shot the nigga after 154 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: he dropped the gun. So in theory is one of 155 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: the first motherfucking records that we can identify as somebody saying, hey, 156 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: the police ain't right. This comes out before in wa 157 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: There's another song on my list that actually brings up 158 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: police brutality and excessive force too, But you know it 159 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: don't get enough credit. But we'll talk about it when 160 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: we get to there. What the fuck kind of story 161 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: is that? To tell your nephews and nieces remember about 162 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: this slick Rick story, because this is something a story's 163 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: telling his nephews and nieces before a bad time, and 164 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,839 Speaker 1: they sound like they was four Rick. We gotta talk 165 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: about that. That's a fucking crazy story to tell. Somebody 166 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: four or five, and the kids shipped off the shit too. 167 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: They thought this motherfucker was crazy. They was calling him, 168 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: where Rick, Uncle Riggy is weird? 169 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: Rick? 170 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: You can't be telling the motherfucking kids kind of stories 171 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: at that age, man, Like, I get it. We as 172 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: black people in America. You know we're gonna have to 173 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 1: deal with some shit. But that's a crazy, bad time story, Nigga. 174 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: Most people is telling people about you know, singing people 175 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 1: marry go rounds and lovbiards and shit. And you telling 176 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: motherfucking story about kids and motherfucker's getting killed and shit 177 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: by the police getting shot. 178 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 2: We gotta talk about that, big Dog. 179 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: Number eight is one of the most underrated stories in 180 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: disrespect the stories in the history of hip hop. Number 181 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: eight is Through the Wire by Kanye West. Through the 182 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: Wire by Kanye West self. 183 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 2: Motherfucking produced. 184 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,599 Speaker 1: I don't got to tell you about the production of 185 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: Kanye West because we had already heard it before that. 186 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: But we were introduced to Kanye West, the motherfucking rapper, 187 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: This motherfucker rapping the story of his personal tragedy as 188 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: it happened, a wreck at three am in LA while 189 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: working on music, falling asleep on the wheel getting into 190 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: a car accident that fucks him up. I think he 191 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: had to be you know, let like they had to 192 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 1: get him out the car through the jaws of life 193 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: at three in the morning. The motherfucking ended up at Cedars. 194 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: Side nine word was when Couz was in the hospital, 195 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 1: he started writing lyrics to this song, like like when 196 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: he came out of his coma, and I think either 197 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 1: his face had the surgery like the. 198 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 2: Inside scope was. 199 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: Cuz was starting to figure out the song, like he 200 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,719 Speaker 1: already knew he was gonna flip through the Fire by 201 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: Shaka Khan to make this song, so they said when 202 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: they came to the studio. When it came to the hospital, 203 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: Cuz had like some ideas already for lyrics. He recorded 204 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: the song only two weeks after. That's why if you 205 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: listened to Through the Wire, Cuz barely can open his mouth. 206 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: As I said, before he samples Shaka khns Through the Fire. 207 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: Shaka Khan wouldn't even clear the motherfucking song until she 208 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: saw that video. That video was one of the most 209 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: brilliant and creative things I've ever saw in hip hop. 210 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: If we're keeping it, that's that video was crazy make 211 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: sure you check that shit out. That shit was unfrecking believable, 212 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: and Shaka Khan wouldn't clear it until she saw the video. 213 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 2: She ended up regretting it. 214 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: This shit talking about how he did the vocals, but 215 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: he did Shakakana favorite because that shit is paying. And 216 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: whoever wrote that song for Shaka Khan they getting paid 217 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: because I know for sure of them niggas they make 218 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: no money. I'm willing to bet that was no publishing 219 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: to get on that song. I've never heard a story 220 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: in hip hop that turns such tragedy in a triumph. 221 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 1: It's funny because that's one of the lyrics to the song, 222 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: but I never heard that. Like a lot of hip 223 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: hop stories that sad end on a sad note, this 224 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: is one of the few that took a real underdog story, 225 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: a sad story and he. 226 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 2: Won at the end. 227 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: And in real life, the whole time Ya was trying 228 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: to convince Rockefeller that he was going to be a 229 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: successful rapper, this was the song that proved it. I 230 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: don't even think Rockefeller believed in it right when they recorded, 231 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: but they put it out and then everything worked out. 232 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: So shout out to Yan for that but yeah at 233 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: number eight through the wife Kanye West. 234 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 2: Respect that as a story. It is number seven. 235 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: My favorite artist in the history of artists, Scarface. I 236 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: Seen a Man Die, Scarface, I Seen a Man Die. 237 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know the song I never 238 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: seen a man cry till I Seen a Man Die. 239 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: That's actually the title of the song because I've seen 240 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: a Man die. 241 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: It's one of. 242 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: Scarface's only two top forty records. This is the song 243 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: that launches Scarface into solo. 244 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: Start n O Joe on the beat. 245 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: Mike Dean, Mike Dean changes his abject Mike Dean changes 246 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: his trajectory. You know a lot about Mike Dean now 247 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: because he works with Kanye, and Scarface is another person 248 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: that produced on a song that really doesn't get enough 249 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: credit as a producer. So shut out to Face for 250 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: that production, right if you heard Share so Many Tears. 251 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: I don't have to explain to you how touching the 252 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: song is. 253 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 2: Just go listen to it. Dog. 254 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: It's sad like that's a sad story where the dude 255 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: dies in the end and regrets his circumstances. That's mostly 256 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: how sad stories end in hip hop. It inspires shed 257 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: So Many Tears by Tupac. If you go look at 258 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: the Outlaws, the Outlaws have interviews where they say Pac 259 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: was listening to Shed so Many Tears, and after that 260 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: he went to the studio to write Excuse Me. He 261 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: was listening to I've Seen a Man Die, and he 262 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: went to the studio to write Share so Many Tears, 263 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: which ended up being one of PAC's greatest songs in 264 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. 265 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 2: That launched him. 266 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: Like all of my older homies, all the gang members 267 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: before that, they might have played Pac a little bit 268 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: when I get around you, I mean maybe a little 269 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: bit of Dear Mama maybe, but Dear Mama's after, you know. 270 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 2: Not so much. 271 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: Keep your head up. Like niggas respected it as a kid. 272 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: I washed it because that shit was fire. But she 273 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: had so many tears. Is when my big homies and 274 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: a lot of g niggas I know started really playing 275 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: Tupac religiously. 276 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 2: And it's probably the saddest story in hip hop. 277 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: How a nigga get out of prison during seven years 278 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: and getting to some shit, end up back in prison 279 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: and commit suicide. And it's crazy because I think, I mean, 280 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: Scarface is like one of the niggas like Edgar Allan 281 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,239 Speaker 1: poecuz of hip hop, like that nigga shit is so heartfelt. 282 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: And as I was talking to Charlemagne about Scarface, he said, Mans, 283 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: other people have never touched you like Scarface, and that's 284 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: what makes Scarface brilliant, like his richness, his texture as 285 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: a storyteller. He's for sure my favorite guy of all 286 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: the guys in the world right but again, it's like 287 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: he has the work to back it up. I've seen 288 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: a man die as One of the most popular stories 289 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: in hip hop history at number six is the message 290 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. It's the birth of 291 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: conscious rap. This is the first conscious rap song. It's 292 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: another sad story where somebody ends up dying at the 293 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 1: end and them niggas end up going to jail. And 294 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: the crazy part is the owner of the label, Sylvia Robinson, 295 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: is the only person who believed in the song. 296 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 2: Mind You. 297 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: Nobody else from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is 298 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: on the song, but Melly Mail and the producer Duke Booty. 299 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 2: That's the only people on the song. 300 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: Melli Mail didn't even like the song because at that 301 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: point hip hop was all about partying. Like I always 302 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: tell y'all. The hop is a party. The hop was 303 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: the way they used to The hop is like my 304 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: father and them used to call a dance. H we 305 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: going to a hop. Hip is a is a cool thing. 306 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: So hip hop is where it came from. So hip 307 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: hop was about you know, partying and being both for 308 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: about making yourself. 309 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 2: Why are you so fresh? Why you so ooh? 310 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: Until the message came out, the message birth dealing with 311 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: the struggle completely different. You know what I'm saying not 312 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,199 Speaker 1: to mention most people don't know, but it was written 313 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: as a theme to the nineteen eighty New York City 314 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: Transit straight like this was hip hop breaking barriers. Then 315 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,959 Speaker 1: the message is a fantastic It's probably the second greatest 316 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: story to ever come out of hip hop. So even 317 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: though people didn't believe that this was going to be 318 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: the wave of hip hop, Melly Mal and Duke Booty 319 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: took a chance ended up birthing a genre. That's why 320 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: what Melly Mail has, what he has to say about 321 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: eminem or any other rapper, I just listen. Even if 322 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: I don't agree, I'll just disagree. You know, Mail, I 323 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: don't know, but I put respect on the shit. Melly 324 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,400 Speaker 1: mall talking about because he birthed the genre of conscious rap. 325 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: There is no NAS without Melly Mail. There is no 326 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 1: motherfucking Tupac without melly Mail. There is no conscious rap 327 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: without fucking Melly Mail. Ice Que may check yourself from 328 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: the Message, which is another fantastic story that we don't 329 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: really give credence to. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down? By 330 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: Puff and motherfucking Mace is a flip of the Message 331 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: that was a smash hit record. Coyner Rayge just flipped 332 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 1: it last year and made players and that Motherfucker was 333 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: a number one smash, a huge record. It's just levels 334 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: not to mention. This is most likely one of the 335 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: most important, if not the most important, reason that the 336 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: Grand Master Flash and Furious Five were the first hip 337 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: hop act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of 338 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: Fame in two thousand and seven. 339 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 2: And it's most likely because of the song the Message. 340 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: So it's weird that they didn't want to fuck with 341 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,719 Speaker 1: the song, but this song is probably the primary reason. 342 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: No disrespect to the rest of their work. The rest 343 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: of they work get off too, but this particular song 344 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: is a gang changing song and it birth I don't 345 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: like You don't get Kendrick Lamar without the fucking message. 346 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 2: So shout out to mail. Shout out to Duke. 347 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: At number five. We right back with my boys, Scarface 348 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: mind playing tricks on me by the Ghetto Boys. The 349 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: reason I give Scarface so much created is Scarface wrote 350 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: three of the four verses. It was a Scarface solo song. 351 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 1: Jay Prince thought it was a good idea and he 352 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 1: thought it could break the Ghetto Boys. Jay Prince was right. 353 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: Shout out to Jay Prince that motherfucker don't be missing. 354 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: It's the first song in hip hop to address mental health. 355 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: Right now, all these motherfuckers is crazy on mental health. 356 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: You hear all these motherfuckers talking about anxiety and all 357 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: this shit, and. 358 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 2: This is the first song. 359 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: See it comes across as guilty conscious for being this way, 360 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: but really it's a take on anxiety back in nineteen 361 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: ninety fucking one. Most people don't know Scarface wrote this 362 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: song because he's been through a lot of traumatic shit. 363 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 1: There was a time Scarface tried to kill himself and 364 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: got put into a like an asylum. At least that's 365 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: what I heard. Like, Scarface is a deep person, and 366 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: when you border that type of deepness. I'm sure it's 367 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: dangerous and it probably could be dangerous to your health 368 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: and to your livelihood. So Scarface is brilliant at a cost, 369 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: Like he don't go to these places for free. This 370 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: shit cost him sometime before, I would imagine, because there's 371 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: no way you could be that fucking deep because and 372 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: not been to those places where you thought about, you. 373 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 2: Know, ending life. 374 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: Mind playing tricks on Me is just a simple old 375 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: expression from Southerners, you know what I mean, when something's 376 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: going on and they're like, I'm tripping. Most people don't 377 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: know it was self produced. Scarface produced mind playing tricks 378 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: on Me. It's another thing again, Scarface is such an 379 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: underrated talent in music, and that's saying a lot of 380 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: Scarf gets a lot of props, but he deserves a 381 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: lot more props. Shout out to n O Joe, shout 382 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 1: out to Mike Dean. But they will tell you that 383 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 1: Scarface was just as vested in the production. That's why 384 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: right now, when that motherfucker jump on stage to do 385 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 1: a show, that motherfucker jump up there with a guitar 386 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: and be playing that motherfucker. This song established the South 387 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:25,479 Speaker 1: in the gangster rap realm this single song to the 388 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 1: rest of the country. I'm sure the South had more 389 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: songs before this, but this was the first time to 390 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 1: the rest of the country, the South planet their flag like, 391 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: oh we hear this is the real the South got 392 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: something to say moment shout out to our cast, shout 393 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: out to Dre but ghetto boys. Mind Playing Tricks was 394 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: the first time that the South put they motherfucking flag 395 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 1: in the sand in the West, the Midwest, and the 396 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: East collectively and said the South got something to say, and. 397 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 2: Everybody decided to fucking listen. 398 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: Kid Cuddy personally says it inspired day and Night. So 399 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: just like Scarfaces, I've seen a man die, inspire Tupacs 400 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: shed so many tears, mind Playing Tricks on me inspire 401 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: Kid cut He's day and Night. And I really don't 402 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: fuck with Cutty's music, but that's that might make me 403 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: have to listen to it a lot more times because 404 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: I've heard it enough times and I. 405 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 2: Do see the correlations. 406 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: But if that's true, man, shout out to Cutty, because 407 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: that's ill as fuck. 408 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 2: You flip the shit out that that's player. I fuck 409 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 2: with that. 410 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: At number four and a lot of motherfuckers it's gonna 411 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: hate this. It's stand by Eminem. I mean, everybody fucking 412 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: knows stand. The term stand is so popular the term 413 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: may have escaped the popularity of the song because a 414 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,399 Speaker 1: stand is how you talk with somebody who's just stalking you. 415 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: That's in addition to the culture niggas is calling each 416 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 1: other stands, that nigga's a stand because you are a 417 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: stalker or you are a groupie to something somebody else 418 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: is doing. The motherfucker had a clean version to the 419 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: lyrics and it still got over censored. Certain words got 420 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: oversensured because that's how scared and fearful they were of what. 421 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 2: Eminem's and fluid could be with his lyrics. 422 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: It's most likely Eminem's greatest song. Eminem got number one songs. 423 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure Stan didn't chart number one, but there's probably 424 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: no greater hip hop contribution than Stan. Shout out to 425 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: all the rest of the dope records. But Stan is 426 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: that shit, and it's self fucking produced. Nobody talks about 427 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: his self produced. He did that with forty five King. 428 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: Shout out to forty five King because he's another motherfucking 429 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 1: want to do your homework on forty five King forty five, 430 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: King is Crazy. Eminem mixed the song hisself. That motherfucker 431 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 1: mixed the song himself with Dre back then he's still 432 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: mix the song itself. That's pretty dope. Doctor Dre and 433 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: Philip Atwell directed the video. And when I tell you 434 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 1: they got that video right, man, I can't stress it enough. 435 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: Doctor Dre is another god to me who directs music 436 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: videos that don't get enough credit. 437 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 2: Doctor Dre actually also. 438 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: Directed None but the G Thing, two iconic videos standing 439 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: None but the g Thing, but again Eminem at number four, 440 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: you Feel Me with stan as one of the top 441 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: ten greatest stories in hip hop history. Number three, we 442 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: right back to the East Coast and this is the 443 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: greatest story ever told from a New York MC. Just 444 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: a Friend by biz Mark rest in Peace. That's right, 445 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: Just a Friend by biz Mark, rest in Peace. That 446 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: was one of the earliest times we learned about skeezers 447 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: at a high level through hip hop. 448 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 2: Just a Friend by biz Mark. 449 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: For some reason, New York don't respect what biz Mark 450 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: due as an MC. Even though his style burst old 451 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: dirty bastard. His style is influential with buston rhymes. But 452 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 1: you know again, the biasness of what you think a 453 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: punchline is versus the ability to deliver a message and 454 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,479 Speaker 1: get it across. Biz Mark at number three with Just 455 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: a Friend is the third greatest story ever in hip 456 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: hop history. It's self produced with Karma. Shout out to 457 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 1: Karas Carmen o' get no credit. Biz Mark DJ helped 458 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: on it as well. I think the video was produced 459 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: by Bennie Madena, who later on goes to do Fresh 460 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: Prince of bel Air. I'm sure y'all heard of that 461 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 1: show before once or twice. This is one of the 462 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: earliest times someone in hip hop sang their own hook. 463 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 1: And when everybody I heard everybody was in the studio 464 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: there was like, Man, you're gonna let be a single 465 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 1: hook on this motherfucker. 466 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 2: He like, man, this shit feel good. 467 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: Like biz is not credited with his creativity, Like I 468 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: heard somebody call him a one hit wonder, and I 469 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: get it because if they're talking about Billboard charts, maybe 470 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: that's a conversation. But within the culture, Bier's got a 471 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: few joints, vapors being another one. But again, we live 472 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: in the word world, so we live in a weird world. 473 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: The fucked upest part about the ideas. Biz never made 474 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: a dime off the record. 475 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 2: Now. 476 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's the sample, I'm not sure 477 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: if the label's holding the asset. But Biz and the 478 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: producers never made a single cent off the record sales, 479 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: royalties or publishing. They had to go tour for that money, 480 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: all Rob Peter biz Man. Nobody beats the biz Dog, 481 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: like y'all niggas is tripping. Respect the Big, Respect the Nods, 482 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: respect the Killer, ghost Face Killer, respect the Ray. 483 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 2: But let's be for real, man. 484 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: It's the fucking biz Dog, just a friend nigga like 485 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: stop front like this shit ain't the one like you. 486 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 2: I don't give a fuck. 487 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: How many metaphors and similar as you put in your 488 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: fucking wraps. When the message gets across, that's what this 489 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: shit is about. At number two, today was a good 490 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: day by ice q This is why I laugh when 491 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: people tell me Big is a better storyteller than ICEQE. 492 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 1: You can prefer big stories, you can. 493 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 2: Say they're better. I'm not even mad at that. 494 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 1: If you like them better, fine, But when we're talking 495 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 1: about sheer greatness, today was a good day. It's possibly 496 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: the greatest story in hip hop ever. Like, people of 497 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 1: all ages know today was a good day. People know 498 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: what happened to him when you got him on the court. 499 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 2: When you got him on the court, it was trouble. 500 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 2: You know what he did Right now? Motherfuckers is still debating. 501 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 2: What's he playing a game of twenty one? I seen 502 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 2: this shit the other day on Twitter. 503 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: Mother was like, well, he got a triple double playing 504 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: twenty What he just say that in the song. 505 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 2: Diddy, I don't know shit. Old on they did Ice Cubes. 506 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: I think, Get me on the court and I'm trouble 507 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: last week, fuck around and got a triple double. He 508 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: was a good day and everything. Get hold of there though, 509 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: and everything is all right. I got a beat. 510 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 2: From Kim and she can fuck all night haul. 511 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: The homies and I'm asking y'all which point which part 512 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: are y'all playing basketball? Get me on the court and 513 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 1: I'm trouble last week? Fuck around and got a triple double. 514 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: Freaking niggas every way like MJ. And he's talking about 515 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: Magic Johnson nigga, now Michael Jordan, the original MJ Nigga 516 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: produced by DJ Pool. So again, when I tell you, 517 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: ice Cube is possibly, in arguably the greatest storyteller in 518 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: hip hop. They did go right Friday, which is another 519 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: ice Cube story. Then he wrote number ten on the 520 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: list right, which is boys in the Hood. I'm not 521 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: even talking about the fact we had to mention. He 522 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: wrote check yourself, which is another story. This is how 523 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: popular ice Que stories are. This story was unique for 524 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: ICEQ because this is when he's finally winning. Like a 525 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: lot of ice Q's music was angry and problematic because 526 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: he was going through it seeing stuff in this community. 527 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: He didn't like falling out with friends, getting at the points, 528 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: but this one was when he finally was winning, which 529 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: is the same story behind Friday. 530 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 2: The Hood wasn't always bad. 531 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: He wanted to show people that niggas still get it 532 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: on and have a good time. There are bloggers who 533 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: to this day research to try to figure out the 534 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 1: day that today was a good day. They're trying to 535 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: figure out the good day that this shit happened on, 536 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: and they have done work. They have came up with 537 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: two days, January twentieth, nineteen ninety two, or November thirty 538 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty eight. 539 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 2: This is how fucking awesome. 540 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: The story of today was a good day prim exactly 541 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: like Big has a fantastic story. 542 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 2: What I got his story to tell? 543 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: Right And people spent a lot of time trying to 544 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: figure out which one of the Knicks players wives did 545 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: he sleep with or girls that he slept with, and 546 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: end up. 547 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 2: Finding out its Anthony Mason. Rest in peace to Anthony. 548 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: Mason's this is not this is what's been happening with 549 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: Cube the whole time. Right now, they're still telling stories 550 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: saying how did he get a triple double in the 551 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: Game of twenty one? Right now this is a question, 552 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: So it's not just one question, it's multiple questions about 553 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: this song. Fast forward to twenty fourteen. They struck a 554 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: deal with Goodyear Blimp for a motherfucking a. 555 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 2: Charity called a Place call Home that looks out for. 556 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: Urban kids coming up in the streets, trying to get 557 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: them a place together to chill and hang and get 558 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: their shit on. And they did a deal with the 559 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: good Year Blim and it read ice cubes of pimp 560 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: Like that type of iconic shit don't happen from hip 561 00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: hop's stories. 562 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 2: That's how iconic today was a good day. 563 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck if you think the game 564 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: is about punchlines as symblies and all that. The game 565 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: is about motherfuckers getting the message. You could be as 566 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: weirdy as you won't if motherfuckers don't get the message. 567 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: And when it comes down to getting the message, today 568 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: was a good day. It's probably the message that everybody understood. 569 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: And it's still number two. That's the fuck that part. 570 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: Even with all this discussion, it's still number two. The 571 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: greatest story in the history of hip hop is Regulating. 572 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: Regulate by Warren G and Nate Dog. Regulate by Warren 573 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: G and Nate Dog. Everybody knows the story of regulating. 574 00:32:55,600 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: Everybody we could talk about, Oh well, I feel like 575 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 1: Warren G. 576 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 2: You know the way he shut the fuck up. 577 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: They introduced Nate DOGG as a singing component that changed 578 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: the face of hip hop from that point on with 579 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: how we. 580 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 2: Did records, with the singing, back and forth with the vocals. 581 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: It's levels, it's self produced by Warren G. Self produced 582 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: by Warren G. It launched the career of Warren G 583 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: and Nate Dog. When Death Row. When Warren G couldn't 584 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: get on with Death Row, he made a fucking song 585 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: that was so big that he created his own lane. 586 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: It turned Nate Dog from some niggas singing on hooks 587 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: song Droctor Dre and Snoop album into Nate dog that 588 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: we know. 589 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 2: That's the reason we know Nate Dogg is because of. 590 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: Regula at the highest level, not glasses glasses nose, motherfucking 591 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: Nate Dog from all the death Row shit and all 592 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: the motherfucking Doggies damn shit. But the rest of you 593 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 1: motherfuckers know Nate Dogg because of Regulator. And I don't 594 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 1: got to tell you it's confortble well, this is the 595 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: single song that launched his career. That single song saved 596 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: death Jam. Death Jam up to that point had never 597 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: had a song that charted as high as Regulate. 598 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 2: Now. 599 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about commercial fuck all that, 600 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: but listen to the point of this. All of those 601 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: records from death Jam that go back from eighty to 602 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety fucking four had never been as high on 603 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,720 Speaker 1: the chart as Regulate. So some niggas from the West 604 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,800 Speaker 1: came in and saved the pride and joy of East 605 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,720 Speaker 1: Coast hip hop death Jam one fucking song. 606 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 2: One fucking song. 607 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: Death Row don't get enough credit because it did come 608 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: out on Above the Rim soundtrack as well. 609 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,800 Speaker 2: And it did well. It did fucking well. 610 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: Right, But this song had to be so hot that 611 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,879 Speaker 1: mind you, it pushed Afro Puff the number two, which 612 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: is another classic hip hop song, but it had to 613 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: come second to regulate, not to mention cuz it's the 614 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:13,720 Speaker 1: first single on the above the Rim soundtrack. S WV 615 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,279 Speaker 1: is on that soundtrack. WV was an established success. Their 616 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,359 Speaker 1: song is not the first single. H Town is an 617 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: established success. This song is not the first single. Dog 618 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 1: Pound is out right. They're still figuring it out right, 619 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: but this is the year before the next album come out. 620 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,280 Speaker 2: But Warren g is in front of them with this song. 621 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 2: Second to None. 622 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,360 Speaker 1: Had a hit already, but their song wasn't the first single. 623 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: Pac with Thug Life had a single on here. That 624 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: song wasn't motherfucking the first single. 625 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 2: I'll be sure. 626 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: Who is an established success. It's on this motherfucking project. 627 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,720 Speaker 1: But that song wasn't the first single. 628 00:35:58,520 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 2: You know what. 629 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,919 Speaker 1: The first motherfucker is single was from the motherfucking from 630 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: the motherfucking the bud. 631 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 2: The Rim soundtrack. You know what I mean? Two seconds 632 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 2: to think about it. 633 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 1: The first single is regulating, So I don't give a 634 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: fuck when you have these conversations and you start talking 635 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,359 Speaker 1: about your preference. Man, it's hard to have these conversations 636 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 1: if everybody gonna talk about they prefer their preference. DUBC 637 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: The Shadiest One is possibly the greatest storytelling album of 638 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: all time. 639 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,720 Speaker 2: It's my favorite. It's one of the best ones. 640 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna argue with it against certain things 641 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: that have performed. 642 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:33,720 Speaker 2: At the highest level. 643 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 1: I can tell you what I prefer Tonight by DJ Quick. 644 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite stories, just like Compton by 645 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,399 Speaker 1: DJ Quick. It's one of my favorite stories. But I'm 646 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: not gonna compare it to Beiz Marquis just a friend. 647 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. Not when we're talking about 648 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,360 Speaker 1: something we can have a conversation about. I don't gotta 649 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: like something because you don't have to like something to 650 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: understand his greatness. 651 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:05,960 Speaker 2: This is silly. 652 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,879 Speaker 1: Everybody in their motherfucking mother knows today was a good day. 653 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 2: Is it not lyrical enough for you? Like? What kind 654 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,359 Speaker 2: of dumb assh are you talking about? Like this shit 655 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 2: be stupid. 656 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 1: There's greatness and then there's not greatness. It's as simple 657 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 1: as that greatness is. When it's quantifiable. We could talk 658 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,640 Speaker 1: about preference all day. I prefer this. I prefer this. 659 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 1: That don't mean something is greater. 660 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:33,000 Speaker 2: In and out. 661 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: Listen, five guys makes a better burden than McDonald's. But 662 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,080 Speaker 1: five guys ain't greater than McDonald's. 663 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,440 Speaker 2: It's just not true. 664 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,320 Speaker 1: Y'all gotta start having these conversations from places that exist 665 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 1: just out of yourself. Hip hop is a representation of us. 666 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: I was talking to one of my little partners, my 667 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: little putner Real feel Me from out of DC, and 668 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 1: he was like, well, you know, there's no way nobody 669 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: gonna give prosecute over motherfucking Biggie. And I'm like, you 670 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 1: don't have to take props away from Biggie to give 671 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: him the cue. You can honestly just tell the truth. 672 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:12,240 Speaker 1: That don't change the fact that motherfucking Big was the guy. 673 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,319 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna honor the conversation of. 674 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 2: Who's a better artist. That's just ridiculous. 675 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: Big didn't even have enough albums, you know what I 676 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 1: mean for us to see his full potential. We can 677 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: just enjoy what he's done. It's like arguing if bo 678 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,759 Speaker 1: Jackson is the greatest running back, he don't have the 679 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,480 Speaker 1: career enough to motherfucking quantably. You know, we can't quantify 680 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: he don't have enough motherfucking seasons. 681 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,439 Speaker 2: You can't compare. 682 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,920 Speaker 1: This motherfucker to Emmy Smith. Emmis Smith carried a fucking franchise. 683 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 1: Some of these conversations. And it ain't just about sales, 684 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,760 Speaker 1: It ain't just about chart positioning, but those things matter 685 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,760 Speaker 1: because that's how people find a song. That's how people 686 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,560 Speaker 1: find the song. If you have a fantastic story that 687 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 1: only three people have heard versus somebody who has a 688 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 1: fantastic story that thirty million people have heard, it don't 689 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,560 Speaker 1: matter how much you preferred the story of that three 690 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,600 Speaker 1: people heard. Greatness is being there's somebody at the park 691 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,400 Speaker 1: probably better than Michael Jordan, there's somebody probably at the 692 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: park better than Lebron James. 693 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,919 Speaker 2: That don't change Lebron James. It's the greatest small ford 694 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:15,960 Speaker 2: in the history of basketball. 695 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 1: I don't get how you don't get these conversations when 696 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,640 Speaker 1: we're talking about great things like you don't have to 697 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:22,240 Speaker 1: be skewed. 698 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,600 Speaker 2: It don't have to be biased. 699 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 1: And it's weird when I hear people say that my 700 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,880 Speaker 1: generation or people my age can be biased. Everybody above 701 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,399 Speaker 1: thirty five grew up. If you in LA. You grew 702 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,040 Speaker 1: up off of East Coast hip hop. When you first 703 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,239 Speaker 1: heard hip hop, most likely it came from somebody from 704 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,799 Speaker 1: the East Coast. Most likely it probably was LF fucking 705 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 1: cool JA. If you was born in eighty two, most 706 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,880 Speaker 1: of the hip hop you first heard was gonna be 707 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,839 Speaker 1: LLL fucking cool Jay, maybe run DMC. You heard jay 708 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,560 Speaker 1: Z as much as you heard everybody else. You heard 709 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: Big as much as you heard everybody else. Because in 710 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,439 Speaker 1: Los Angeles they play everything. During the East Coast West 711 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,880 Speaker 1: Coast supposed war, they played Biggie Biggie Steel had the 712 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,880 Speaker 1: number one record at all the radio stations in LA. 713 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,239 Speaker 1: Because it was never a real ward. This is not 714 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: the island, bro, this same New York. This ain't over there. 715 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,440 Speaker 1: They play all the shit here. We well vested in 716 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 1: the fucking culture. We hear everything. We got out cast 717 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:19,120 Speaker 1: early first album, we got Big, first album, we got 718 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: ll all the albums. One of the earliest radio stations 719 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: in ll Cooch that got played on was KD. So 720 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,080 Speaker 1: we grow up with an understanding of hip hop that 721 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,680 Speaker 1: most people stuck on the island, as I say, half 722 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,880 Speaker 1: island fever. They don't have you guys only know what's 723 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,920 Speaker 1: going on on the island. You don't know what's happening 724 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:39,720 Speaker 1: off the island. 725 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 2: You just don't know. You just don't know. And I'm 726 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:43,920 Speaker 2: not mad at. 727 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 1: You, but you motherfuckers can't talk hip hop with the 728 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,879 Speaker 1: motherfuckers that grew up off the island. 729 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,440 Speaker 2: Because we heard it all. We heard the shit that 730 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,440 Speaker 2: was little in New York. Y'all don't know shit about 731 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,320 Speaker 2: the shadiest one shit. 732 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,319 Speaker 1: So it's weird when you start comparing motherfuckers with the 733 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:07,200 Speaker 1: greatest stories in the history of the genre to motherfuckers 734 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,920 Speaker 1: you just like, respect the big but it's just levels. 735 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:14,080 Speaker 1: Respect the nas cuz, but it's levels respect the ghost 736 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:14,680 Speaker 1: face cuz. 737 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 2: But it's levels. 738 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 1: When you're talking about a motherfucker that got some of 739 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,680 Speaker 1: the most popular stories in the history of the fucking world. 740 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:28,359 Speaker 1: It's one thing motherfucking to like, you know. It's one 741 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,239 Speaker 1: thing to like a rapper. It's another thing to know 742 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 1: doctor Seuss. It's another thing. Ice Cube is the motherfucker 743 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:38,200 Speaker 1: Shakespeare is shit. This is how much motherfuckers know his stories. 744 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:45,239 Speaker 1: They gotta get y'all shipped together. Man, good looking out 745 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,120 Speaker 1: for tuning into the No Seller's podcast. Please do us 746 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,480 Speaker 1: a favorite, subscribe, rate, comment, and share. This episode was 747 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 1: recorded right here on the West coast of the USA 748 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,879 Speaker 1: and produced by my homeboys A King for the Black 749 00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 1: Effect Podcast Network and now hard Radio. 750 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:06,319 Speaker 2: Yeah.