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Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and Gentlemen. What year is this for us? I

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Speaker 2: still feel like we're in our second year. Nah, this

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Speaker 2: is coming up on you six we're starting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: My My indication of how time is flown by is

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Speaker 2: how much uh pay Bill's darterists have grown.

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Speaker 1: Right, You're just gonna have like twenty straight up, Like,

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Speaker 1: let's not let's not talk about that. That sounds terrible.

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Speaker 1: I can kind of keep up with them now, singing

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Speaker 1: in twee.

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Speaker 2: Okay, they're singing, hoping and singing, Okay, following.

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Speaker 4: In the steps of their father Fayla Kutstein.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, this is this is another Wait are we

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Speaker 2: drinking this episode?

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Speaker 1: Well, someone, let's drink to all the other episodes. Damn. See,

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Speaker 1: I got what I would I wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: And some Yeah, I go pull some Crown apples if

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Speaker 2: I want to get it. But I got to drive

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Speaker 2: back to the farm I'm in. I'm in the apartment

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 5: So I got an edible mir or something join us

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Speaker 5: something to get to you.

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Speaker 2: I'm not to the place where I can drive and

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Speaker 2: do that yet, so and I wouldn't recommend that ship.

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Speaker 6: No, no, no, wait, too way to move to the farm.

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Speaker 6: You could drive and do anything in the suburbs. I'm

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Speaker 6: going on that now it's too curvy out there, man,

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Speaker 6: I can't do that. So yeah, this is another year

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Speaker 6: has has gone by. Apparently we're going to year number six. Damn,

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Speaker 6: we're like a We're like an institution. Now, We're not

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Speaker 6: just like an up and starting podcast institution.

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Speaker 5: We're two in iHeart years. That's what those QLs classics

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Speaker 5: are four folks, So catch up with us.

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Speaker 1: Get it. Six years of cure lesson about to be

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Speaker 1: three years of COVID.

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Speaker 2: That that said, thank you very much for that, For

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Speaker 2: that segue fonte. That that said, I probably have caught

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Speaker 2: up on every book, every podcast known to man, and

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Speaker 2: one of the podcasts that I familiarize myself with, even

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Speaker 2: though I first introduced myself to it as a YouTube

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Speaker 2: series but is definitely my favorites is Hip Hop Confessions

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Speaker 2: with our Guest Today.

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Speaker 1: So I thought it'd be kind of.

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Speaker 2: A cool idea if we did kind of a cross

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Speaker 2: episode where you know, I guess is the first time

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Speaker 2: where two podcasts are coming together as one per se.

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Speaker 2: So that said, I will say, uh, this this gentleman is,

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Speaker 2: in my opinion, one of the most skillful, dependable professional

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Speaker 2: mcs and DJs that I've known. And most importantly, he's

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Speaker 2: a music head, you know, so I know any conversation

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Speaker 2: with this gentleman is going to be highly interesting. Ladies

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Speaker 2: and gentlemen, please welcome. Okay, now here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I believe that I was told to drop the mad

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Speaker 2: fifteen years ago. Lately I hear that. So you're going

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Speaker 2: back to square one. This is you're going back to

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Speaker 2: Biggie Smalls. You're going back to Diamond D. Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 2: welcome to Questlove Supreme Mad Skills.

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, what.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 2: I know you're going to add your two cents and

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Speaker 2: it's going to be the same. We might as well

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Speaker 2: just bring it all together. Yeah, man, let's think. Are

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Speaker 2: we back at square one again?

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Speaker 1: Y'all?

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Speaker 2: Like, what's what's going on? Is this March sixteenth, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty again?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I look like yeah? Is yo? Man?

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Speaker 2: Like, just in the last thirty hours, the count is

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Speaker 2: now up to seventeen I know, seventeen people that got

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Speaker 2: like hit. These aren't like people I know to go.

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Speaker 2: These are like the ones that were, you know, cool

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Speaker 2: for the last two years, Like they come out they

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Speaker 2: triple masks, like they made me seem like the devil.

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Speaker 2: Like these people are getting caught out there, which is

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Speaker 2: kind of wearing me a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: All the people I know that have have caught it,

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Speaker 2: like the last couple, like last week or so, and

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Speaker 2: they were all vaccinated, all vaccinated, and I think one.

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Speaker 1: Of them was boosted. I know as well. So this

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Speaker 1: is crazy, bro. I'm in the house.

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Speaker 2: I'm boosted. I got mine. I got mine two weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm boosted. And I got my flu shot.

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Speaker 2: I never got a flu shot before, so.

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Speaker 3: I did a shot either.

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Speaker 2: I could triple down because I ain't messing around ship,

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Speaker 2: I'll take another shot.

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Speaker 5: I took a pneumonia shot by accident. Took the vaccine.

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Speaker 5: My adopted was like, you know, that's sixty year olds.

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Speaker 5: I was like, that'll work, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: Wait, pneumonia vaccine.

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Speaker 5: A doctor mistakenly gave it to me because she was like,

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Speaker 5: you're not old enough for it. But that's fine. I

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Speaker 1: Damn Okay, everything like out here triple mask, triple being up.

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Speaker 2: So you there, you got a pneumonia shot.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you needed that.

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Speaker 2: I did get pneumonia. Okay, Grace had pneumonia and I

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Speaker 2: got pneumonia from Grace, like oh wow, like two months ago.

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Speaker 1: But ship, I was just down for like three days.

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Speaker 1: But you know I.

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Speaker 2: Tested like seven times and they all were negative.

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Speaker 5: After sixty pnemonia could be like COVID you can still sick.

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Speaker 2: Wait was about to say, yeah, like this this this

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Speaker 2: battle also between this winter is going to be weird, man,

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Speaker 2: because like again, I'm seventy five degree person and she's

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Speaker 5: Oh we would a woman of a certain age. Now

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Speaker 5: we get high after forty yeah, dog at the end

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Speaker 2: Days crazy she wants it like freezing levels like I

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Speaker 2: don't know, you know, we have to Like she's at

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Speaker 2: the forum right now. I'm here, and you know I

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Speaker 2: Heaven right now. It's Africa in here, and I got

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Speaker 2: two two sweaters on. Anyway, skills, man, how goes it?

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Speaker 2: Where are you right now?

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Speaker 7: I'm in Virginia right now. Yeah, it goes you know,

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Speaker 7: same shit, different air freshener, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 7: trying to get it together.

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Speaker 2: This is weird because I know that this is a

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Speaker 2: typical episode, but I do got a billion questions for

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Speaker 2: skills about his life as a MC.

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Speaker 5: Bring it right?

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Speaker 2: All right, Well we can make this decision right here.

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Speaker 2: Do we just do a skills episode or do we

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Speaker 2: do our what what was twenty.

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Speaker 1: Twelve makes up? I think mix it up? Mix it up?

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Speaker 2: First of all, I want to know, have you, like

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Speaker 3: No, I knew he was gonna ask me that, And no.

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Speaker 2: I are you just doing it just to keep the

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 7: No, no, Like for me, you know, it's not really

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Speaker 7: it was never really a joke, that is, you know,

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Speaker 7: on my podcast Hip Hop Confessions, like that was my

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Speaker 7: first confession. I've never listened to an Outcast album in

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Speaker 7: its entirety. And from that time, people have given me

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Speaker 7: box sets, you know, gift rapped nicely, and you know,

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Speaker 7: people have tried to make it.

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Speaker 1: Anyone from Organized Noise heard of this.

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Speaker 7: Uh No, KP KP has and k Ple was like,

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Speaker 7: that's kind of crazy to me, Like and I was like,

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Speaker 7: he was like, it's crazy, guys, because we was in

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Speaker 7: Virginia the Carolina's like tough on promo, and I was like, bro,

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Speaker 7: like I was a heavily East Coast and flo Launce rapper.

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Speaker 7: So if it wasn't Jay Rule and Gang Star and

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Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying and big, and it wasn't,

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Speaker 7: it wasn't. It wasn't falling you know, on my radar.

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Speaker 7: So and now I'm looking at it like what I've

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Speaker 7: missed the boat Like, I'm not gonna it's not gonna

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Speaker 7: feel how it felt that y'all in ninety four.

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Speaker 3: So it's like, what what the fuck is the boy?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 1: You know what, there's still some great music on.

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Speaker 7: I was gonna say, no, no, no, if they have a video,

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Speaker 7: if they had a video for and it was a single.

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Speaker 3: I heard, if you know, if it was just kind.

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Speaker 2: Of knowing t I for me or knowing Nelly for me,

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Speaker 2: like I don't know the filler, but I know.

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Speaker 3: Like you the song on fucking Country Grammar Nigga.

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Speaker 2: Right, So you could go to outcast content and pretty

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Speaker 2: much do what they're gonna do because all the singles.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but you know all of the other ones that

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Speaker 7: people swear by, like skills, you ain't like.

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Speaker 2: So when I say to you, you don't know you.

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Speaker 1: Friday, I don't know is that true?

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Speaker 3: What is that true?

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Speaker 1: See?

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Speaker 2: But that's the thing though, because you're telling you're not.

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Speaker 1: A deep cuts guy. But you know who troops mama.

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Speaker 2: You know what, I can actually match you in that

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Speaker 2: sort of I could sort of match you in that.

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Speaker 2: If I were on your show, my hip hop confession

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Speaker 2: would have been, I've never seen a Kanye West video.

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Speaker 3: Wow. Wow, I mean you on my show right now?

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Speaker 2: So okay, I've never seen a Kanye West video. But

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Speaker 2: you know something, though, I discovered something this week that

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Speaker 2: has totally this This might break me down and make

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Speaker 2: me publicly admit that I am an First of all,

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Speaker 2: I'm not a I'm not omitting that I'm not a

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Speaker 2: Kanye West fan. I am obviously a Kanye West fan.

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Speaker 2: I DJ's music, I have his records. There's been there's

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Speaker 2: been some weird water under the bridge that we're just

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Speaker 2: no no, no, no, no. We In the last weird enough.

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Speaker 2: It's from the project that me and Skills work on,

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Speaker 2: the jay Z thing like weird enough, Me and Kanye

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Speaker 2: finally had like our first conversations due to the many

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Speaker 2: times that he stood me up for that project. I

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Speaker 2: won't go into that, but I just found out that

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Speaker 2: he goes produced one of my all time favorite joints.

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Speaker 1: And now.

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Speaker 2: It's which one. It's a deep cut joint. Man, I

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Speaker 2: don't know what it is.

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Speaker 5: Ready, come on, let's go.

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Speaker 2: It's a deep cut joint that even though I know

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Speaker 2: the Mad Rapper album was was sort of aimed at

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Speaker 2: underground rappers, you know, kind of the middle, you know,

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Speaker 2: the the The Mad Rapper was born out of kind

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Speaker 2: of biggie busting shots to rappers, making fun of like

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Speaker 2: poor dusty rappers like us whatever, even though I think

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Speaker 2: Kicking the Door was mainly made for nas. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I definitely know that he one of his last words

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Speaker 2: was about like fucking up the roots when he's seen us.

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Speaker 2: But there's a song on the Mad Rapper record that

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Speaker 2: I might like. This is in my top ten joints,

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Speaker 2: a joint called I'm Ghetto with Rakwan, and I just

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Speaker 2: found out that Kanye was produced at jaint like back

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Speaker 2: when he was an apprentice to.

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Speaker 1: Who's the mad Rapper?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, ANGELETTI. Now for me, my you know, you know,

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Speaker 7: I have his name blocked on like all social media,

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Speaker 7: people will be like, damn skills, like you go so

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Speaker 3: I'm not calling him the genius.

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Speaker 7: I never am say that. So for me, I'm a

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Speaker 3: And I don't know what year that was.

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Speaker 7: I don't know what year it was, but I remember

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Speaker 7: And he's like, He's like, yeah, thank you know. She's like,

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Speaker 6: And I was like, I'm in the car, real, I'm

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Speaker 3: Like, and I fuck with Kanye sense.

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Speaker 1: There's water under that bridge.

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Speaker 2: Let the record show that the first person to take

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Speaker 5: Yeah, me hands them fashion icon.

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Speaker 2: And this my quest love Christmas sweater from you know,

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Speaker 7: Bro from being on tour with y'all. I didn't know

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Speaker 7: It's certain things I didn't know we could be, like Yo,

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Speaker 2: He literally he literally took like when when they were

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Gun music something Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: That session, like k took Kanye and Quality to Barney's

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Speaker 5: Like but that's why this is a level of penniness

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Speaker 5: gotten over this by now skills. So they share stage

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Speaker 1: The real story And.

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Speaker 2: I know how you writ this story before, right, what's

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Speaker 2: the Pixtar the Pixar movie The Incredibles. You remember how

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Speaker 2: that shit. Is that kind of I think once Illadelf

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Speaker 7: I'm pointing to freestyle for you, why you changing your clothes? Yeah,

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Speaker 7: that is a rappers worst nightment.

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Speaker 1: But I mean we know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the thing is is that we know that's him.

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Speaker 2: We've seen him get on tables before, perform his entire

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Speaker 1: So yes, he's but.

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Speaker 2: That's enabling though, Yeah, but that's bullshit. Like look but

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Speaker 2: back in two thousand now, back in nineteen ninety nine,

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Speaker 2: two thousand before that, like it was just who's this dude?

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Speaker 1: Get him out of And you know.

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Speaker 7: I think I've never I've never, I've never I liked

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Speaker 7: he used that ship as a crutch and it's just

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Speaker 7: I can't co sign with the genius.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's a genius.

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Speaker 7: And I'm like, I'd be like, yeah, nah, he ain't

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Speaker 5: Yah officially gave him too much time to.

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Speaker 7: Right, So let's just keep it moving because I'd rather

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Speaker 7: talk about Reek than that nigga, so about that ship so.

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Speaker 2: That I've never seen the video, but you know what,

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Speaker 2: you ain't missing ship. I do want to see flashing

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Speaker 3: It was it was cool.

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Speaker 4: Nah, yeah, the flash and that's like my favorite. Damn

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Speaker 4: the video was whatever though yeah the video is run away.

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Speaker 4: I've not seen flashing light. I'm just you know, it's

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Speaker 4: not even like I just never seen a Kanye West.

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Speaker 4: But it's not like I was trying to purposely avoid

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Speaker 4: it because I don't watch MTV and BT, like, I

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Speaker 1: So I've just never seen a video.

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Speaker 3: But BBI right.

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Speaker 5: To circle this back to it. Will Kanye's name be

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Speaker 5: mentioned in the twenty twenty one rap up?

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Speaker 1: Because there is no twenty twenty one wrap up?

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Speaker 5: Yes there is.

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Speaker 3: You didn't hear no no me.

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Speaker 4: You mean like our show the wrap up or the

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Speaker 4: song the the skills wrap up?

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Speaker 3: What you're talking about, like, come on, skills, stop pleasing

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Speaker 3: what you're.

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Speaker 1: Talking about, skills, what you're doing.

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Speaker 5: So just for the record, let me just say something

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Speaker 5: for the record, for the last ten dare I say,

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Speaker 5: I don't know, fifteen years however long you've been doing this. However,

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Speaker 5: long I've been on the radio. I call Skills and

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Speaker 5: I say, Skills, is there a wrap up? Why are

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Speaker 5: you not doing that shit? It's always a wrap up?

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Speaker 5: I asked him this last time. I said, Skills, you're

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Speaker 5: not gonna do it this time? Huh, Well, like I

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Speaker 5: don't know, so skills.

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Speaker 7: First of all, here, uh, I have never I've never

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Speaker 7: was twenty ten. So I never publicly said public I

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Speaker 7: ain't doing it, so for me, but you got the plug.

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Speaker 7: So for me, this, uh, this one will probably this

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Speaker 1: That sounds good.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, yeah, at least say goodbye. Don't don't

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Speaker 2: go out for cigarettes and just leave us.

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Speaker 3: No no, no no.

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Speaker 7: But as soon as you hear it, as soon as

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Speaker 7: it comes on, you will under you will already know.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is it.

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Speaker 1: So the shortest one. It might be just a six

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Speaker 3: Listen, didn't the year ago by fast?

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Speaker 5: It?

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Speaker 1: Really did?

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Speaker 5: It?

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Speaker 1: Really did?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 7: I ain't take you tay. The music reflects the time,

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Speaker 7: So niggas gonna hit the end of that song.

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Speaker 1: By God, damn it over there already. Listen.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying, y'all say it went by fast, but

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Speaker 1: Are you going to burn a bridge or something?

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Speaker 7: No, no, no, I'm not gonna burn no bridges. I'm

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Speaker 7: just gonna I'm a blow wild gracefully on a on

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Speaker 4: So you said you said it started like on January sixth.

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Speaker 4: You think this one started saying.

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Speaker 5: It Sometimes this year it feels like it was short,

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Speaker 5: but it's.

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Speaker 1: Been released on January sixth.

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Speaker 3: My point was she talking about the insurrection.

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Speaker 5: This year started with a whole insurrection that felt like

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Speaker 5: that was whatever ago. This year started out with President Trump.

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Speaker 5: This year it feels like Biden's been president for like

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Speaker 5: three years already. I'm just saying, sometimes it feels short,

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Speaker 5: but sometimes it feels fucking long.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel you. I feel you.

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Speaker 7: See, I've been I've been, uh you know, I've been

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Speaker 7: toying around with the with some some different uh pockets,

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Speaker 7: and I'm gonna give it a value effort.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna sit down Kobe this year, knock it down.

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Speaker 3: That was last year.

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Speaker 2: Oh ship Kobe, do you know the year that took

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Speaker 2: you the longest to come up with a wrap up?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: What year? Was like a particular nightmare for you to

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Speaker 7: Should last year? Because there was nothing entertaining about last year.

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Speaker 1: Throwing in the trash. That was the throwing in the

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Speaker 1: trash here right.

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Speaker 7: Yes, So for me to try to make that entertaining,

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Speaker 7: there was sitting down looking at a blank piece of

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Speaker 7: paper saying, how can I make somebody chuckle? How can

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Speaker 7: I make them get a quick laugh? How can I

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Speaker 7: get a punchline?

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Speaker 5: There?

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Speaker 3: Want none of that shit last year? Last year? I

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Speaker 3: want nothing funny about last year.

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Speaker 1: How do you source for information? Like?

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Speaker 2: Do you by the year? Do you just keep a

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Speaker 2: memo of things worth noting? So then once you get

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Speaker 2: to November you start sourcing?

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Speaker 1: Right? This is important, This is important. This you know.

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Speaker 7: I don't even think about the song till Black Friday

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Speaker 7: because otherwise I don't think about the song until Black Friday.

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Speaker 7: That's my ritual. On Black Friday, I go, Okay, what

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Speaker 7: beat you gonna rap over? Are you're gonna get a

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Speaker 7: beat made? You're gonna rap over something else that was

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Speaker 7: hot this year?

443
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 3: What you're gonna do. And then maybe like that Monday.

444
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,959
Speaker 7: After December first, December second, third, I might start writing

445
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 7: down what I can remember from memory, like oh, okay, insurrection.

446
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,679
Speaker 7: I don't have to fucking I don't need to know

447
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 7: when that happened. I remember that. I might have to

448
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 7: go back and remember, oh, when did so and so

449
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 7: and so and so break up?

450
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 3: What month was that like? But other than that, I.

451
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 7: Write down, write, I write down everything that I can

452
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,120
Speaker 7: remember from memory, and then I write down. Then I

453
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,120
Speaker 7: you know, I go to the Internet and write down

454
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 7: everything else, and then I put it all in order.

455
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,479
Speaker 7: This happened in January, Okay, this happened in February. Okay,

456
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 7: Tom Brady and the Bucks one this time. And then

457
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,360
Speaker 7: I sit there and look at it, and I might

458
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 7: try to write something.

459
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:48,639
Speaker 3: I might not.

460
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 7: But the funny thing about it is what I tell

461
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 7: people is music don't.

462
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 3: Give a fuck about pressure.

463
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,120
Speaker 7: That's why I have to start it when I started,

464
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 7: because I can't just go on the day after Christmas,

465
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 7: all Right, I'm gonna do this shit, and it's gonna

466
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 7: be done by thirsty shit. Music would be like not bitch,

467
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 7: you know what I mean? So some days I could

468
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 7: sit down there and look at a blank piece of

469
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 7: paper on December seventh and I don't write nothing, and

470
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 7: maybe on December twelfth, I sit down and I.

471
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 3: Might write It's a flood at eighty bars and they all.

472
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 2: Catch you about twenty twenty some days to craft it.

473
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 7: To get it together, yes, to write it. You know,

474
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 7: it doesn't take long. But it's just like pacing it.

475
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 7: Like it's almost like a DJ said, like valleys and peaks,

476
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 7: like I'm gonna start here, I'm gonna take them up

477
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 7: and bring them back down.

478
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 3: It's like that.

479
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 5: How you make sure that you don't have not too

480
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 5: much information? Because I'm thinking, if you go on monthly,

481
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 5: do you stop yourself at a certain point being like

482
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 5: all right, let's like two paragraphs and shit.

483
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 7: That's mean I might get to like summer and be like, okay,

484
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 7: how long is this song?

485
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

486
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 7: If I'm like, man, we have three minutes at July,

487
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 7: like okay, nigga, you really need wrap this ship up right.

488
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: Wait, wasn't wasn't uh uh games three hundred bars? Wasn't

489
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 2: that twenty? Was that like seventeen or twenty minutes?

490
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 7: We might want to ask a rap nerd, I don't.

491
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 7: I don't listen to niggas wrapped that long.

492
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 2: See, yeah, I ain't got it in me now on

493
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 2: that light year where you get selected, that is.

494
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 5: Fonte the rap rap niggas don't be rapping yet.

495
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: That's not me, that's yeah. No, No, I ain't got

496
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: time for that.

497
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 3: Man, I don't. I really don't, in a real way.

498
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 7: Like I'm listen, we forty plus man, you know what

499
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 7: else I could do at that time?

500
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: Man? Listen, man, that's an episode of the TV anything.

501
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 2: See this is to two brothers living below the Mason

502
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 2: Dixon line talk right now exactly.

503
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 7: This is this is called read this as Fonte coined

504
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 7: the phrase, this is called rap. After forty you Virginia,

505
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 7: do you know Kwanza?

506
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 5: I just because find so?

507
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 4: Okay, before we got I can say so. Before we

508
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 4: got on, we was talking. I was telling her like,

509
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 4: I don't, we don't. I don't know anyone who celebrates quasa.

510
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 4: She was saying, that's a Southern thing. So do you

511
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 4: skills being from Virginia, do you know anyone who celebrates quasas?

512
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: No, who is celebrating quanta?

513
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 5: So everybody, indeed, affluent.

514
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: African roots, it might be.

515
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 5: Mean and Bill's daughter and Bill's daughter.

516
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: Wait, y'all celebrating? Wait what? Yeah, no, no, you missed the

517
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: which was my daughter came home singing Quansa carols, Carols

518
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: songs or something, Quanta songs, Quanta jams, whatever. The she

519
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: came home and it was hilarious and here we are.

520
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 3: Qua.

521
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: So that's that happen And so there you go.

522
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 5: No, but you said, you know it's more Bill, because

523
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 5: she sang the song. I was like, what is the song?

524
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 5: Because I did not. I was not even aware that

525
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,959
Speaker 5: there were Kwansa songs and er and you celebrated and

526
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 5: you didn't even know some Quanta celebrations. Yes I have, Yes,

527
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 5: I have.

528
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 1: You wait, talk about it like you're in it way

529
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: deeper than that.

530
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 4: You talk about it like you got the Quanta.

531
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 7: Bops tasting, you got quantsam prime.

532
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 5: I don't think that a young You know what I'm saying,

533
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 5: It started sixty. I'm just saying, maybe progressing with the music.

534
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 5: I'm not aware, but it doesn't mean it's not happening.

535
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:46,959
Speaker 5: I don't know.

536
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 7: You can't say don't feel like yeah, I feel like

537
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 7: I should be mill in tune with it and you

538
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 7: should be.

539
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 5: And we make jokes on the show sing this show

540
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 5: and it' shoptin't funny because black people and that they

541
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 5: don't want the holidays, and when we make our only

542
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 5: made jokes because all know how to do is at

543
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 5: our ship.

544
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be I'm gonna be real you once once

545
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 2: the farm, once the farm gets settled. I think Grace

546
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 2: might be forced me to celebrate Quanta.

547
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 5: The principle you don't even know why you're giving gifts.

548
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 5: You don't know what Santa has to do with Jesus.

549
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 5: You just follow a tradition like a fucking robot. Stop.

550
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: But I've been stopped. I've been killed Santa Claus.

551
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 2: I killed him early, like so that I'm not working

552
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 2: and giving the credit to a white man out of here.

553
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: So now that's over.

554
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 4: In terms of the given gifts, I mean, yeah, like

555
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 4: I give gifts like I give gifts cause niggas be

556
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 4: needing ship.

557
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 5: But niggas be needing ship more days than just.

558
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: That one day out of the year, and I give

559
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: more days of the year.

560
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 4: I'm not really I'm not really a holidays. I'm sorry, celebrator.

561
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, I just I try to

562
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 4: do good year round.

563
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 7: When I grew up, Christmas was Salvation Army knocking in

564
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 7: my door with a pair.

565
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 3: Of pants and some jocks. So I didn't have the

566
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 3: same Christmas. A lot of niggas say.

567
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 7: From North Carolina, nigga, he was knocking on the door,

568
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 7: like here go your g I Joe, nigga Bye, that.

569
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 3: Was my Christmas.

570
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: Uh so Honakah was earlier this year? Correct? Yep, Steve,

571
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 1: how was it? How was whatnka honkah? We canceled it.

572
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 8: It was supposed to be on Sunday this past Sunday,

573
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 8: and my.

574
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 3: My sister got COVID uh week ago.

575
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: So she's doing good, she's fine.

576
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 8: But but yeah, we had to cancel all that. So, uh,

577
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 8: we're gonna be like drive We're gonna do like present

578
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 8: drive bys. We're gonna drive by and just like throw

579
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 8: the presidents out the window.

580
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 2: Like this is the first year you didn't get the

581
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: Oh no, the.

582
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: Check, the check is gonna it's on.

583
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 3: Baby.

584
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: You gotta understand long Steve twenty five years man, Yeah,

585
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 2: no is the happiest day of his life. Boy he

586
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: gets quote the check. I never even I don't even

587
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 2: know how much the check is worth. But Steven satisfied

588
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 2: with hashtag the check.

589
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: Yeah check, like in a way.

590
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 2: That that Clarence what's his name says the ship and

591
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: uh tells.

592
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 3: From cl Wiams the third Ye yes, oh.

593
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: The ship one of the list, one of them, Stevens

594
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 2: the check.

595
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 7: One of the funniest cinematic moments is when they slapped

596
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 7: him with the gun and he just started and.

597
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: Said, hey, look, bro, you scored.

598
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: You t off on the nigga He do that Andy, Yo, bro,

599
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 2: you got it.

600
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: I'm good. Whatever problem we had it ended right there.

601
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 4: I want that boat.

602
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 3: Was man, enough of the talk, old man, where's the ship?

603
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 3: He said?

604
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: Feoderal home?

605
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 5: This to hell.

606
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 6: We went script a little bit, but hey, this.

607
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: Is how this.

608
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 5: But wait, skills, you mentioned something I just wanted to

609
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 5: touch on it real quick. It sounded as sentimental. You

610
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 5: mentioned about your Christmases and this is you know, a

611
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 5: fifty to fifty. We want to know more about skills

612
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 5: and you know about the about growing up in Fayetteville

613
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 5: and what your life was like and you know, sorry.

614
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 7: I was born in I was born in Detroit, Michigan,

615
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 7: but I don't remember being there. I think I left

616
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 7: when I was around two. Most of the yeah, yeah,

617
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 7: I did not know that now sign hospital. Some my

618
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 7: first earliest of my childhood memories are probably being in Faytville,

619
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 7: riding bikes all that type, ship, playing ball. I grew up.

620
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 7: My mom was my mom, my sister, and uh yeah,

621
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 7: I was running through Faveville, you know, just being a

622
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 7: kid and tell us.

623
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 5: Where sakwan comes from. I was always curious.

624
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 3: That's that's later. Okay, that's later.

625
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 7: But uh, one thing, No, I got an older I

626
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 7: have an older I got an older sister and younger brother,

627
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 7: and then my dad had some kids, so those are

628
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 7: I got four siblings on that side.

629
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 3: But uh, I knew.

630
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 7: Early on that this was wasn't a place to stay at.

631
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 7: And there's no disrespect to Fanville, but it was my

632
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 7: mom used to tell me, you know, uh, you know,

633
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 7: we used to see the commercials for the Army be

634
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 7: all you can be and ship, and then like right

635
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 7: after that commercial, it would be a you know, a

636
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 7: commercial for say some cars or TV or furniture set,

637
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 7: and they would be like, you know, calling all so

638
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 7: and so et one and up and up like so

639
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 7: it was like they were almost advertising if you're in

640
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 7: the military, you can come and get this stuff, you know,

641
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 7: and we'll only.

642
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 3: Charge you this. So I was already like, damn, like.

643
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 4: I got right here totally. I'm thinking you right by

644
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 4: Brag for right by.

645
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 7: Fore Brag I lived, Yeah, O god, I lived in

646
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 7: the trailer park right next to for Brag. So I

647
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 7: had J Cole's mindset before J Cole was even worm, like,

648
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 7: I gotta get the funk out of here.

649
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 3: Wow.

650
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 4: And I never and just hearing you say that, man,

651
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 4: it's so crazy because I never thought that people or

652
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 4: you know, companies will advertise differently, you know, in the

653
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 4: military town. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, I

654
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,239
Speaker 4: never I never thought about that wall.

655
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

656
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, you.

657
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 7: Come get a car, come get some furniture, come get

658
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 7: you know, a television color TV. But but if you

659
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 7: are in the military, always we know you're gonna get

660
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,719
Speaker 7: a check. So if you are this status and up,

661
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 7: then you could come down here right now. We're basically

662
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 7: give you this ship. You can put a dollar down,

663
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 7: you can get this ship. Right So, right after Soul Train,

664
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 7: you know, that was the commercials he saw. So I

665
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 7: remember thinking to myself like, I got to get the

666
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 7: fuck out of here at an early age. I might

667
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 7: have been thirteen twelve, Like, I got it. I can't

668
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 7: stay here. I didn't know where I was gonna go,

669
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 7: but yeah, I had to get the hell up out

670
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,479
Speaker 7: of there, and uh I did at about fifteen, and

671
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 7: I came to Virginia. When I came to Virginia, my

672
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 7: mom changed religious. She met a Muslim man and she

673
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 7: adapted to Islam. And she told us that, you know,

674
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 7: me and my little brother, if we wanted to change

675
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 7: our names, we could. So when I went to the

676
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 7: new town, which was Richmond, Virginia, and I started school,

677
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 7: I told everybody my name was Chaquan and it's been

678
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 7: Chequan ever since.

679
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 2: Wow, when you were in Faytteville, what did you start

680
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 2: high school in Faville?

681
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: Who?

682
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 3: I damn ty? I went to every fucking school in Fae.

683
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:55,719
Speaker 3: I went first.

684
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 7: I went to set Me first. I went to Westwood,

685
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 7: I mean Westwood. I went to Taford I lived.

686
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: Wait.

687
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 2: What kind of student were you that you went to

688
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 2: My mom?

689
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 7: My mom was all over the town. That you gotta understand.

690
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 7: My mom was was on heroin. So I was all

691
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 7: over the place. So I had a mom that was

692
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 7: on drugs. Drugs were super rampant at that time, and

693
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 7: no father. It's just me and my mom and my

694
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 7: little brother and we all over like we might have

695
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 7: moved every three four months. And I never lived in

696
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 7: the house. It was always a trailer, like I didn't

697
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 7: even know. I didn't even know houses existed till I

698
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 7: was like ten. I thought everybody lived in the trailer.

699
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 7: And if you had a double wive, shit, I mean,

700
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 7: like you was bothered if you had a double wife.

701
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 7: You know what I mean.

702
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: You don't hear you had a Marshall Madison going on?

703
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, without without Dre, even though I did work with

704
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 7: Dre but late.

705
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 4: But your pops? Did y'all have any connection at all?

706
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 7: My pop died when I was My pop died when

707
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 7: I was about I want to say, eight or nine

708
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 7: years old, and I never.

709
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 3: Really knew him.

710
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 7: And then in the fast four years later when he

711
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 7: passed away at eight, and then my mom passed away

712
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 7: when I was around in like ninety eight, and so

713
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 7: that my mom and my dad ended up dying from

714
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 7: the same drug thirty years apart. Wow, And I didn't

715
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 7: make the connection that my father was the person who

716
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 7: turned my mother on heroin until American Gangster came up.

717
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: Yeah that's crazy.

718
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, all my adolescent years, first time

719
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 7: hearing it was just this guy named Don Reed.

720
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 3: He used to be on the radio.

721
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 7: First time here in hip hop was on a radio

722
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 7: station in North Carolina. I think I might have heard

723
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 7: hard Times first.

724
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: Wait, where year were you born?

725
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 3: Was one? In seventy one?

726
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 2: Hard Times by Run And that's the first rap.

727
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 3: Song you heard on the radio.

728
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 1: So you never had a rappers.

729
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 3: The light I heard rappers the light in people's houses was.

730
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 2: Not in seventy nine when it was get Hell, so

731
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 2: it didn't hit. So there wasn't a I mean, I'm

732
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 2: from the Northeast, so in Philadelphia, New York, there's like

733
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 2: a you know, a Frankie Crocker sort of figure that

734
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 2: plays stuff in real time.

735
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: But there wasn't that person.

736
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 7: And it was a guy named Don Reid. He was

737
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,280
Speaker 7: probably playing that stuff. But the first time I remember

738
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 7: laying in the bed cutting on the radio and I

739
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 7: heard that, And once I heard that, motherfucking.

740
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 3: That was it. I was done.

741
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 7: And that's that's probably why the Run DMC shit was

742
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 7: so stellar. To me because when I ended up meeting

743
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 7: them in Fayville in front of Off the Murk, like

744
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 7: it was I tookture and that was That's happened means

745
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 7: everything to you.

746
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 3: It was my introduction.

747
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: You just totally now I get it because even like

748
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 2: knowing the story, your Run DMC story, like I was

749
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: kind of wondering, like, wait, why does run dem C

750
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: mean that much to you?

751
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 4: I think it's something too and skills, you know, correct

752
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 4: me if if I'm wrong on this. There was something

753
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 4: just as guys in the South, like Run DMC just

754
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 4: represented something different like it wasn't. I don't know. Maybe

755
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 4: it's because they had the hats like you know, our

756
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 4: granddaddys were wear or whatever, but yeah, you know what

757
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 4: I mean. But it was just something different about you didn't.

758
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, we loved ll I mean, we

759
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 4: love all that stuff, but it was something about Run

760
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 4: DMC like they were just superheroes, you know what I mean.

761
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: Like that ship was so yes, it was.

762
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 3: They could fly, bro, they could fly, They could do

763
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 3: no wrong.

764
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 7: And anybody that came up after them or anybody you

765
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 7: saw after them, even if they dropped before Curtis blows

766
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 7: and you know, like you said, flash and all of them,

767
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,919
Speaker 7: they just didn't have the same appeal that them three

768
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 7: niggas had because when you looked at them, if you

769
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 7: didn't see yourself and one of them, you could automatically go, man,

770
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 7: he looked like my cousin. He looked like he looked

771
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 7: like Cam, and we could go out and be a

772
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 7: little run DMC. You automatically thought of two friends when

773
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 7: you saw the right straight right.

774
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 4: My first rap group, it was three of us. It

775
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 4: was one that wreasses.

776
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 7: Yes, listen, I was I was run. That was that

777
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 7: was run the sideburns. I was him skinny lanky like.

778
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 7: So yeah, that's that was when I fell in love

779
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 7: with it.

780
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: Wait, I highly recommend our listeners. You just released the story.

781
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 2: I think last was last year? When or was it

782
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 2: this year that you released the story about your run

783
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 2: DMC story, which, oh.

784
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 7: It was that was that was that came out of

785
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 7: on on the other podcast earlier this year.

786
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I highly recommend our listeners to. I don't

787
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,919
Speaker 2: want to spoiler alert it now it's too epic to tell,

788
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: but yeah, just if you like skilled, it's on it's

789
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 2: on my I G two. So Okay, yes, I highly

790
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 2: recommend that because I was there and even I didn't

791
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 2: know that was happening. That's strange, man, I didn't know

792
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: that story. Yo, dog, I didn't even know about the

793
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 2: slick Rick. Were you there for the slick Rick situation?

794
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 7: Oh yeah when Yeah, it was, slick Rick said some

795
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 7: I'm crazy to get to me.

796
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize.

797
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 2: Well, because the thing is is that when I'm doing shows,

798
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: I don't I never have the vocalist. I have the

799
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 2: music in my my in ears, so you know I

800
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 2: have I have reaked down very low, like just so

801
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 2: I know where he is in the verse and whatnot.

802
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 2: And apparently, you know, we were sound checking and I

803
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 2: didn't even realize that, like slick Rick was kind of

804
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 2: talking slick to me in a way that was very offensive. Wow,

805
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 2: and what does that mean?

806
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 3: I'll you, I was there, Come on.

807
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 2: My version was that I just saw Tarik like the

808
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 2: music's loud, not to see Toik like something like, wow,

809
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 2: Toik's really happy to see slick Rick. I didn't realize

810
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 2: that Tarik was getting serious. And then I took my

811
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 2: head off. I was like, come on, what's going on?

812
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 2: And I found out twenty minutes after the fact that

813
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 2: it already happened, and shit, so I just started was

814
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 2: having a regular sound check.

815
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 7: So they're doing their sound checking and I think they

816
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 7: was doing, uh, what's this. I can't remember the song

817
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 7: per se, but it's the one that starts with out.

818
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 3: Enough were Mona Lisa?

819
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 7: Right? So they starting Mona Lisa over and Rick is,

820
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 7: you know, coming in with his verse and it was

821
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 7: one of those days.

822
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 3: Not much.

823
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 7: Stopped it, Yo, starting over, speed it up. He's like, like,

824
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 7: speed it up. So everybody like, okay, what tu you know?

825
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 7: Start over?

826
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 3: Did it again?

827
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 7: He like, yo, speed it up? So everybody's like, then

828
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:17,959
Speaker 7: how fast you want this ship?

829
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 3: Bro?

830
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 7: Like they playing it? He stops again reek reeks still

831
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 7: doing that. Not much to do, yeah, living with him slick.

832
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 7: Rick goes, yo, come on, speed that ship up, bitch,

833
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 7: and Tarik goes, who the fuck are you talking to?

834
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 5: That's what.

835
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 3: He said, Yo, who who the are you talking to?

836
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 7: Doug like Rick like, yo, man, I'm just saying mine,

837
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 7: speed it up, man, like yo, and Rick like Ric like, yo,

838
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 7: if you if you want it faster and say faster.

839
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 7: But what you ain't about to do is called nobody

840
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 7: up here. I'll they motherfucking name, bro, like fuck wrong

841
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 7: with you? So then like they having words and I'm

842
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 7: just like, oh God.

843
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: Like to me, it's looking like to.

844
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 2: You remember I put up I put up an Instagram

845
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 2: where you take Teddy Pendergrass volume off and looks like

846
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 2: he's doing stand up comedy.

847
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 4: Yeah right right.

848
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 2: Sound So in my mind, I'm like, man, Twek's action

849
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 2: super extra getting happy seeing slick Rick because it looked

850
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 2: like like my version of it was like, yo, man,

851
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 2: I'm doing more the least what you meant I always

852
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 2: wanted to do, like, you know, like it was exaggerating.

853
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 6: Audio was, Yo, what the fuck?

854
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 3: Bro?

855
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,919
Speaker 7: Like, who the fuck you think you're talking to dog?

856
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 7: Like we all grown men up here. I don't know

857
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 7: what you think this is. Like that's how it wasn't

858
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 7: real life. And they, you know, they squashed it real quick,

859
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 7: and you know, Rick was like, Yo, I'm sorry, man,

860
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 7: just just having a rough day, man, And I know

861
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 7: you just throwing.

862
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 5: A huge point none of us your fucking funck with

863
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 5: Kanye after fucking Greek stands.

864
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,720
Speaker 1: Up you know what, don't play that ship.

865
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,720
Speaker 3: I'm not like that happened.

866
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 2: It was like a plane where like someone I don't know,

867
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 2: maybe I was storing in first class. I don't know

868
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 2: what it was, but whatever the case was, like I

869
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 2: have my headphones on and again Treek's like and I'm like, wait,

870
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 2: what's going on in Trek was like defending like something

871
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 2: happened with me with dude. I was sitting next to you,

872
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 2: and Rek just was ready to you know about that

873
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 2: action exactly, yeah.

874
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 7: About that actually, so that's what happened, and uh, you know,

875
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 7: but I was there. I was saying, this almost happened

876
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 7: again for me and we're so crazy. Is when it

877
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 7: happened for me.

878
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 6: Reek was like, yeah, now you got to go to

879
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 6: the back, and I'm like, god, god, nigga, like Tina took.

880
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 3: Me to the back, like Tina had security stay with me.

881
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: I was like, damn nigga, Like was that serious?

882
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I'm here?

883
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 2: Oh wow, man, how did I not? I don't know,

884
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 2: maybe my version of roads colored glasses just some other

885
00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 2: ship like that.

886
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 3: Ship you got on the Ones.

887
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: I did not know none of that.

888
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 2: Was happening, because the thing was I was just laughing

889
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 2: at them like they was bickering like an old couple

890
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 2: all night No, I meant run DMC were bickering like

891
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 2: an old couple all night.

892
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They they couldn't stand each other

893
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 3: at that point.

894
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 2: And I'm like, damn just for like, y'all can't get

895
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 2: it together. And you know, I've spoke to them separately,

896
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 2: like I've offered to get them a life coach, because literally,

897
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 2: I think run DMC is probably the only act that

898
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 2: could do that Rolling Stones action right now if they

899
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 2: would just drop their ego and and and this is

900
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 2: now the time for them to really cebmit their legacy

901
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 2: and important.

902
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 1: They just cannot.

903
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 4: Well, I think they started having problems back on the

904
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 4: Crown Royal album.

905
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 2: I remember hearing it way back then. I mean that

906
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 2: was you know, god, that was almost twenty years ago.

907
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: So well that's because he had no voice. But these

908
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: voice is back now. Yeah.

909
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:12,479
Speaker 7: Sometimes I'm not even you could fix it, and you know, good,

910
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 7: you better.

911
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 5: Be a good radio hosting transitions.

912
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 2: But you know, they they were both willing to meet

913
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 2: at the middle.

914
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this ship happen.

915
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 2: God damn it, Like I don't seventy years.

916
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 3: Old, Yeah, leave alone.

917
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:31,399
Speaker 6: You can't fix six A mender of Bridges goddamn all this.

918
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 5: Year was a good year. Quest love turn fifty.

919
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: Talking about that was terrible. I don't you know.

920
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 2: His age is a mystery. We'll say that for the

921
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 2: we'll say that for the sides.

922
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 5: I will take that because I might be one.

923
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: Year older than I might be two years older than ship.

924
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: I just discovered.

925
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 2: I just went to my dad's like old papers, realized

926
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 2: that he didn't even know his true birthday. Like I

927
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 2: found his old birth certificate and him and his sister

928
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 2: been celebrating each other's birthdays all their lives. Like shit,

929
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 2: wow was June third and she was June second, but

930
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 2: we all their lives.

931
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 3: Damn, my birthday is June second.

932
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: Wow, you're a Gemini, yes.

933
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 3: But both but both of me are very nice people.

934
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 2: You are the nicest Gemini. I know everyone, not so much.

935
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 3: You know you. You listen. Listen one thing.

936
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 7: If it was one thing that that Reek and our

937
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 7: mere knew about me, that when I hit them up

938
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 7: and say yo, I'm pulling up, they was like all right, cool.

939
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:50,280
Speaker 7: I always came dolo. I never had no extra niggas

940
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 7: with me. It was only one past. It was no

941
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 7: drama because I took my access to being able to

942
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 7: rock with the roots, very serious facts. So I was like,

943
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 7: I was like, I'm never gonna let nobody fuck I'm

944
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 7: on the bus if I needed to go to the

945
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 7: next city.

946
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 3: I got a ride.

947
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 7: Like I never wanted to fuck up that relationship. So

948
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 7: I've always anytime it didn't matter what they could be,

949
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 7: like yo exkills, way, yeah, I'm back them outside yo

950
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 7: yo mini yo yo go, somebody go grab skills. Yeah,

951
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 7: And it was just like, damn, that's his skills. It's

952
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 7: just you, Sean. Everybody knew that. It was always just me.

953
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 7: We always appreciate me, We appreciate that, always just me.

954
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 2: Okay, So twenty twenty one, what part two? What's what's

955
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 2: what's our what's our rating for twenty twenty one?

956
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 5: Better than twenty Where was it better?

957
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 3: So it's better than last year for sure?

958
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 5: Yeah?

959
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I give it like a C plus Yeah,

960
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 6: I mean maybe I give it a B definite.

961
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: Ain't getting a my collegiate average C plus.

962
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 2: Well, you've been doing a lot unpaid bill and we

963
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 2: don't even get into like what what was the highlight

964
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 2: of your year?

965
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: A question watching Summer of Soul? No, uh, I don't know.

966
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 3: I don't know.

967
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: It was just such a fucking weird year. I've worked

968
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: a lot. I made two movies which are cool and

969
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 1: that's exciting, and uh, I don't know, it's it was.

970
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard. It's in my opinion, it's hard

971
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: to gauge anything right now. Right It's like you have

972
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: highs and lows, but everything's sort of like evens out

973
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: in the middle way you weren't there. Did your song

974
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 1: make it at all? I didn't.

975
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 2: I didn't see the rest of the nominations. Uh, your score,

976
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 2: your song?

977
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: Like are you I'm not nominated. We're not going to

978
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: share in the Oscar Fund, my friend, we will share

979
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: at the Grammy Fund.

980
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 2: I voted for you though. It's weird. Well, the thing

981
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 2: is is that I I'm only allowed to voice my

982
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 2: opinion in the music categories, so I couldn't touch the dot.

983
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 2: I couldn't even vote in my own category to get

984
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 2: nominated because I'm not in the dock branch. They're very

985
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 2: different than music. Like with music, they let you choose

986
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 2: where you want to place your votes, whereas in the

987
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,320
Speaker 2: academy you have to stay in you is. They're definitely

988
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 2: about staying in your lane. So I got to vote

989
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 2: on score and song. But until someone brings me into

990
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 2: the doc, I think they want to see, like if

991
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 2: I do two or three of these things, then they'll

992
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 2: be like, all right, then we'll let you in the

993
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: dock branch.

994
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: But that's why I was a little bit not shocked.

995
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 2: But I would think strategically, like I wouldn't try to

996
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 2: vote for the person that is most likely to win.

997
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 2: If you're being strategic, you know the other dock branch people,

998
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 2: some of them are in the branch. I wouldn't vote

999
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 2: for my movie because then that would lessen their chances

1000
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 2: of what you know what I mean, sure, sure, you know.

1001
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: How about twenty twenty one is the year you became

1002
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: a director, like a film director. For those who do

1003
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 1: not know, very Summer of Soul. Summer Soul was shortlisted

1004
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: for an Oscar. That's not like a like a a

1005
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: minor award. That's like a major award, and it's very exciting.

1006
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: You need some flowers and some ship right now. I

1007
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 1: get a lot of award flowers, but you need to

1008
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: shut the fuck up in your Christmas sweater and just

1009
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: take it. In a moment, I was.

1010
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 2: Great, man, You guys wore me down. I'm not deflecting.

1011
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 2: I'm not deflecting any praise or any of those things.

1012
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:35,919
Speaker 2: I gladly accept.

1013
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: It if we have accomplished anything in the five years

1014
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 1: coming on six. On quest of supreme is that Amir

1015
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: doesn't get superbly awkward when we say congratulations. It's fucking fantastic.

1016
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. No, man, you made a beautiful film. Man,

1017
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: I know you made a beautiful film.

1018
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 5: I'll take it thanks that white people love that ship.

1019
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 5: And so that's how I know it.

1020
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: White people love, which is.

1021
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 5: Our opinions don't matter. We started the hush for white

1022
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 5: people to be like what they talking about? You know

1023
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. But and yes, my mother saw it

1024
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 5: five times, so yes, you won. However, I'm just saying

1025
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 5: that every white person wants to make it known to

1026
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 5: me and booking this show that their white client love

1027
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:17,439
Speaker 5: Summer Soul.

1028
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 3: You.

1029
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 7: You definitely, Amir, You definitely came out of the gate

1030
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 7: with something special.

1031
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 3: Man, and as your friend, I was.

1032
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 7: Super proud of you watching it because standing back, I

1033
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 7: was like, damn, you know, I was like, well, you know, damn,

1034
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 7: my nigga made a movie. I was like, at least

1035
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 7: he ain't coming to America too shots.

1036
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 4: Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. Look, I

1037
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 4: was not coming to America too, like I didn't. It

1038
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 4: had to happen exactly is before you watched it?

1039
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: Right, I knew all I knew. It was just a

1040
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:53,479
Speaker 1: nostalgia play.

1041
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 4: I just wanted fan service and it was just like

1042
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 4: watching a family reunion and I got to see all

1043
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,280
Speaker 4: my people and.

1044
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 3: That was it.

1045
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: National lampood people. Go ahead.

1046
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 7: I just got one question for everybody. Did you watch

1047
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 7: it more than once?

1048
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, but.

1049
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 5: Let's be twice. That's the sad part.

1050
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: So I was gonna say, so, let's be fair.

1051
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 2: So in twenty twenty one, in the era of just

1052
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 2: never ending content, is there anything that we're watching more

1053
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 2: than once?

1054
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 3: I watched Someone Sold more than once.

1055
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, I watched Video Music Box documentary more than once.

1056
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 3: Like it's it's.

1057
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 7: Some good content out there, and I'm like, I'm gonna

1058
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 7: pull this up even if I just got it off

1059
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 7: for background noise and I don't.

1060
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 3: I'm paying attention to it, but I'm kind of not.

1061
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 7: I will never in my life look at coming to

1062
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 7: America too again.

1063
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 5: Ever, I watched I WT you three times.

1064
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,959
Speaker 4: You saw Dolomite, and I did like Dolomite. Dolamite was great.

1065
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 5: I like, And I rewind true Story a few times.

1066
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 4: So the best thing that is the best true story

1067
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 4: is the best thing Kevin Hard has ever done.

1068
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 5: It is acting.

1069
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 7: It is okay. And he shot it in Philly. I mean,

1070
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 7: you should see it. He shot it in Philly and I.

1071
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: Won't watch it.

1072
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,439
Speaker 5: And he shot it in Philly. And for the first

1073
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 5: time a whole TV show licensed the whole catalog to.

1074
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,959
Speaker 4: Gambling gambling huff all over this.

1075
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 5: Year the fiftieth anniversary of Gamble uf until in Nashville.

1076
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:27,919
Speaker 5: So it's really dope.

1077
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, you you should watch it. You would have. You

1078
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 3: would enjoy it. I mean.

1079
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: The Power of the Dog. Did you watch The Power

1080
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: of the Dog? You know what was that?

1081
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 2: The one with Benedict coming back? Yeah, it's called broke

1082
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 2: I didn't like. I went to sleep on it.

1083
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: I was. I tried. It's like broke Back Hill. It's

1084
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: anyway broke Back Hill. No, you know what broke back

1085
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: I started when when you're an Academy member, not only

1086
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: do they send us, are you going to start sat

1087
00:53:58,960 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: like that?

1088
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 3: That's two like five minutes.

1089
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: Just showing you how it is.

1090
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 5: No.

1091
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 2: But the thing is also they keep they keep tabs

1092
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,280
Speaker 2: on how active you are as an Academy member.

1093
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 1: Uh huh, Like because.

1094
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 2: I wasn't, you know. I mean I see movies on

1095
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 2: my own, which is what I did before, Like I

1096
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,879
Speaker 2: never like looked at they used to send DVDs or whatever.

1097
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 2: But now they have like their own streaming service. So

1098
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 2: there's like one hundred and sixty four films you're supposed

1099
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:28,919
Speaker 2: to go through. I don't know if I'm gonna watch

1100
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 2: all one hundred and sixty four. I watched Denzel in Macbeth.

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Speaker 1: Macbeth. Yeah, I got to check.

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Speaker 2: It only because, like you know, I mean I've read

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00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 2: it so much in school and whatnot, Like I'm curious

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Speaker 2: to Macbeth.

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00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: Zel do I saw did he play? Did he play himself?

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00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: In training day? In Macbeth? There was in my head

1107
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 1: like ha ha.

1108
00:54:56,239 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 2: Like I thought, that's what I'm tired of people.

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00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 5: There are too many actors who play themselves that I'm

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00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 5: noticed in these days, and I'm like, everybody playing because.

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00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 3: Himself.

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00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about it. They're talking Elizabethan. It shot

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Speaker 2: beautifully I don't know if it's it's gonna be very

1114
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,319
Speaker 2: interesting to see, Like I know the tracks is going

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00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 2: to be like Denzel Is Macbeth.

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Speaker 1: But as an Academy member. As an Academy member, how

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00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 1: do you what is your favorite film of the year.

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00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: I just saw a Pig, which.

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00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 2: Basically Nicholas Cage was like once like a James Beard

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Speaker 2: micheline chef that went off the grid and his his

1121
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 2: beloved pet pig gets kidnapped. His his his pig is

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00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 2: like the best truffle pig there is. You know, you

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00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 2: need pigs to search for truffles and then you sell

1124
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 2: those truffles for gazillions of dollars and you know, so

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00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 2: it's basically a story of a kidnapped truffle pig that

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00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 2: Nicholas Cage spends the entire movie looking for. But it's

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00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 2: it's it's intensive ship. It's definitely going to be like

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Speaker 2: one of the one of the sounds.

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00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 7: Like one of the joints sounds like pigs. Do it

1130
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,919
Speaker 7: sounds like a pig came to America?

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00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:38,720
Speaker 2: No, I'm just what do you call it? Also, Drive

1132
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 2: My Car. I believe Drive My Car is probably the

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00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 2: film that's going to be uh, this year's Oscar winner?

1134
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: What is this about?

1135
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 3: West Side? Dollars?

1136
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: Like he's a tick tick move forty dollars?

1137
00:56:57,640 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 5: Bill?

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00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,280
Speaker 3: Laugh at that west Side story made forty eight dollars?

1139
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 3: Stop it did?

1140
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: Why is that a joke?

1141
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 3: No, it's not.

1142
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 5: That's you know the rest of the Bill's joke. I'm saying, wait,

1143
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 5: because he made though he made those other two movies,

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00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 5: so he.

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00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: Can't be Musicals don't make movies. Let's get it to it.

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00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 5: Well, I mean.

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00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: Music, musicals don't make money, is what I was trying

1148
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,479
Speaker 1: to take this much? Are you guys more gun shy? Now?

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00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 2: Well, since you kind of did Hamilton already, is there

1150
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 2: a need to do Hamilton the movie? Or do you

1151
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 2: guys consider what you guys did on.

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00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 1: Right?

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00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 2: But that's the performance? But will there be a movie

1154
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 2: sized version of Hamilton?

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00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: Of course you'd be a dumb ass not to make it.

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00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: Does anybody gonna see it? I don't know, but they'll

1157
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:49,919
Speaker 1: make it?

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00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 2: So wait, is it true that west Side? Even though

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00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 2: it's getting crazy acclaim?

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00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 5: What the claim gives people don't see?

1161
00:57:58,440 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, people that.

1162
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: Three hundred million dollars this past weekend, and and West

1163
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: Side Story made about ten.

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00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, so here's the thing.

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00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 7: Here's the thing, because this I saw La Yeah, I

1166
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 7: saw Layah's frustration when I'm mere says this, and this is.

1167
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: A always frustration.

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Speaker 7: This is an issue that I've always had with a

1169
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 7: Mirror from the day I met him.

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Speaker 3: Like, it's like it's.

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00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 7: The it's the acclaim a mirror with Like we would

1172
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 7: be talking and you know, I'm miror with you know,

1173
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 7: because he obsesses over right, We'll be looking at We'll

1174
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 7: be looking at the source and have a fucking on

1175
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:38,959
Speaker 7: the back of the bus and have a four hour

1176
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 7: conversation about how somebody saw fit to only get these

1177
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 7: niggas three mics like and I'll be like, I mean,

1178
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Speaker 7: why do you care so much? Just a UGK album?

1179
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 7: Why the fuck you care? And He'll be like, nah, bro,

1180
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 7: you don't understand skills. It deserves more than that, and

1181
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 7: I'm like so so later on in life, you know,

1182
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 7: when the Roots would drop albums, I only paid attention

1183
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 7: to those reviews. I didn't look at nobody else's They

1184
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 7: could rate a jay Z album. I wouldn't give a

1185
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 7: fuck when they put a roots album in a in

1186
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 7: a in a publication. I would automatically go look at

1187
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 7: the reviews, like Snap they only gave, They only gave Phynology,

1188
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 7: you know, is no Snap. So it was always a

1189
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 7: thing with me and our mirror about he cares so

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00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 7: much and I just didn't, I guess because I never

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00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 7: put out those I ain't never put out that many albums.

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00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: So there's too much.

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00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 5: It's a whole nother thing, and I'm like, there's.

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00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,919
Speaker 2: Too much for me to take in. And my thing

1195
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 2: is that I at least want to see what the

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00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 2: aggregate is as far as the general opinion of critics

1197
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 2: that I like what they think about something before I say, Okay,

1198
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take two hours too, what about?

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Speaker 3: What do you what about?

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00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 5: When the people say that they like it or they

1201
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 5: don't like, what about? Regular people gather and it's a

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00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 5: whole bunch of them and they like it and they say.

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01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 1: It's good regular people. While I'm an industry person, he's

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Speaker 1: an Academy member.

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Speaker 5: There are different kind of combinations that you can do

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Speaker 5: with that.

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Speaker 7: All I remember being in the studio with it, like God,

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Speaker 7: bless God, blessed Rich. I would be in the studio

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Speaker 7: with Rich and Dice. You know what I mean, Like

1210
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 7: these motherfuckers they on the road like it's just me,

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Speaker 7: Dice and Rich just working on hooks and shit, and

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01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 7: then like it like Dice might say some shit. I

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01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 7: might say some shit and Dice will go lay it down,

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Speaker 7: and then fucking Rich will come in and Rich will

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01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 7: be like, yeah, Nah, the fucking Ye're not a publication,

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Speaker 7: They're not gonna like this shit. I'm like Rich, like,

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Speaker 7: are we writing for pumplications?

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Speaker 1: Rich?

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Speaker 2: He's thinking to Rich, freak out. The barbershops lockdown. Back then,

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Speaker 2: I used to care what I didn't care what Pitchfork thought,

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01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 2: but I did care the fact that there's a point

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Speaker 2: in two thousand and four where your average local publication,

1223
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 2: like you're whatever, the San Francisco or the Oklahoma or

1224
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 2: the Saint Louis version of the Village Voice, I would

1225
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 2: notice that, like, Wow, they're just going to see what

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Speaker 2: Pitchwork says and then plagiarize the same.

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Speaker 1: Thing for their own review.

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Speaker 2: Like there's a point where after the arts, where after

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Speaker 2: two thousand, where I believe critics stopped like listening to

1230
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 2: a record informing their own opinion, and they decided that

1231
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 2: like a great example is I got to bring it

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01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 2: back to old boy beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy, where no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: we could take that away, we could look at hell

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Speaker 2: haf no fury clips. Now, that particular review in Pitchfork

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Speaker 2: always bothered me because of the way that it was

1236
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 2: like such a I mean, they were salivating. It was like,

1237
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 2: to me the highest form of like white fetishism of

1238
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 2: like cocaine street black life, to the point where I

1239
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 2: found it offensive. But everyone, every little blog and critics

1240
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 2: sort of made that their north star because it was

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01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 2: like it was basically like the writers at ESNL just

1242
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,439
Speaker 2: like salivating over like what real street life is like,

1243
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 2: like snowing the bluff, but a more successful version of like, hey,

1244
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 2: let's visit the hood and see what it's like and

1245
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 2: woa So reading like, did I agree that that album

1246
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 2: was incredible?

1247
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: Yes?

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01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 2: Did I have a problem with the writers at Pitchfork

1249
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 2: salivating over it in some sort of black fetish way. Absolutely.

1250
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: So it's not like I ride with it, but I'm

1251
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 1: just very.

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01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 5: Much a will to validate what writers at Pitchfork say

1253
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 5: when you didn't appreciate them salivating over that shit and

1254
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 5: being like the white people that they are the thing.

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01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 2: Is is that at the time Critical Claim is all

1256
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 2: the roots had to justify their existence on a label

1257
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 2: that they weren't making money. We weren't DMX selling four million.

1258
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 1: You got you?

1259
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, Critical Critical Love, that was all that was your

1260
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 4: lifeline that I.

1261
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 7: Needed to hear that I needed. I needed to hear that.

1262
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 7: I mean, that's what I.

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01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 3: Needed to hear.

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01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: That's why Critical Claims album.

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01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,080
Speaker 5: Why I continue it because at a certain point it

1266
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 5: sounds like you care about about three or four white

1267
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 5: people say, because the critics who really matter are usually

1268
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 5: non non black people anyway, So when you say you

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01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 5: don't care about what regular people say because you're an

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Speaker 5: industry person, it.

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01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: Sounds okay, well you gotta speak loud.

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01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 5: Like I said, it sounds a little out of touch

1273
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 5: to some That's what I was saying. That's all I'm saying.

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01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate the four.

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01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 2: Platforms, Like I think now I think, I think I

1276
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 2: get what you're saying, Like I think what it is

1277
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 2: what I'm hearing you say mere is like when he

1278
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 2: says he's an industry person, I don't think it's necessarily

1279
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 2: like you're.

1280
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 4: Looking at it like I need these people to validate me.

1281
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 4: It's just more so I need to know who with

1282
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 4: me so I can leverage them for other opportunities.

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01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: You know, you know what I mean.

1284
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 4: It's not about whether.

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01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:00,920
Speaker 5: You you know what I'm saying.

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01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 7: It's like we're not selling We ain't selling Hello copies.

1287
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 7: But if fucking Rolling Stone give us a good review,

1288
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 7: I should have made sense to these motherfucking suits.

1289
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 5: I get it, Thank you, And that's a lesson for

1290
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 5: all of us. Everybody didn't understand.

1291
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 7: Me, but me and Ameya used to go back and

1292
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 7: forth over the show. I used to it used to

1293
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 7: grind my motherfucking gears. But now I understand.

1294
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:21,439
Speaker 3: I'm glad.

1295
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 7: I'm glad after all these years, I finally got we

1296
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 7: haven't understanding.

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01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 5: Hold up all right, y'all. So that was part one

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Speaker 5: of this week's episode. Stay tuned because next week, next Wednesday,

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01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 5: Part two, and you don't want to miss it.

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