WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: 2021 Rap Up with Mad Skillz Pt. 1

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<v Speaker 1>Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>Ladies and Gentlemen. What year is this for us? I

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

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<v Speaker 2>is coming up on you six we're starting.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>My My indication of how time is flown by is

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<v Speaker 2>how much uh pay Bill's darterists have grown.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, You're just gonna have like twenty straight up, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>let's not let's not talk about that. That sounds terrible.

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<v Speaker 1>I can kind of keep up with them now, singing

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<v Speaker 1>in twee.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, they're singing, hoping and singing, Okay, following.

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<v Speaker 4>In the steps of their father Fayla Kutstein.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, man, this is this is another Wait are we

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<v Speaker 2>drinking this episode?

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

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<v Speaker 1>I got what I would I wouldn't.

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<v Speaker 2>And some Yeah, I go pull some Crown apples if

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<v Speaker 2>I want to get it. But I got to drive

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<v Speaker 2>back to the farm I'm in. I'm in the apartment

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<v Speaker 2>right now.

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<v Speaker 5>So I got an edible mir or something join us

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<v Speaker 5>something to get to you.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not to the place where I can drive and

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<v Speaker 2>do that yet, so and I wouldn't recommend that ship.

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<v Speaker 6>No, no, no, wait, too way to move to the farm.

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<v Speaker 6>You could drive and do anything in the suburbs. I'm

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<v Speaker 6>going on that now it's too curvy out there, man,

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

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

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<v Speaker 6>we're like a We're like an institution. Now, We're not

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<v Speaker 6>just like an up and starting podcast institution.

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

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<v Speaker 5>are four folks, So catch up with us.

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<v Speaker 1>Get it. Six years of cure lesson about to be

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<v Speaker 1>three years of COVID.

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<v Speaker 2>That that said, thank you very much for that, For

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<v Speaker 2>that segue fonte. That that said, I probably have caught

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<v Speaker 2>up on every book, every podcast known to man, and

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<v Speaker 2>one of the podcasts that I familiarize myself with, even

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<v Speaker 2>though I first introduced myself to it as a YouTube

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<v Speaker 2>series but is definitely my favorites is Hip Hop Confessions

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<v Speaker 2>with our Guest Today.

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<v Speaker 1>So I thought it'd be kind of.

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<v Speaker 2>A cool idea if we did kind of a cross

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<v Speaker 2>episode where you know, I guess is the first time

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<v Speaker 2>where two podcasts are coming together as one per se.

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<v Speaker 2>So that said, I will say, uh, this this gentleman is,

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<v Speaker 2>in my opinion, one of the most skillful, dependable professional

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

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<v Speaker 2>a music head, you know, so I know any conversation

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<v Speaker 2>with this gentleman is going to be highly interesting. Ladies

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<v Speaker 2>and gentlemen, please welcome. Okay, now here's the deal.

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I believe that I was told to drop the mad

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen years ago. Lately I hear that. So you're going

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<v Speaker 2>back to square one. This is you're going back to

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

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<v Speaker 2>welcome to Questlove Supreme Mad Skills.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, sir, what.

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<v Speaker 3>How are you?

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<v Speaker 2>I know you're going to add your two cents and

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<v Speaker 2>it's going to be the same. We might as well

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

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<v Speaker 2>we back at square one again?

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all?

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<v Speaker 2>Like, what's what's going on? Is this March sixteenth, twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty again?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>I look like yeah? Is yo? Man?

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<v Speaker 2>Like, just in the last thirty hours, the count is

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<v Speaker 2>now up to seventeen I know, seventeen people that got

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<v Speaker 2>like hit. These aren't like people I know to go.

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<v Speaker 2>These are like the ones that were, you know, cool

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<v Speaker 2>for the last two years, Like they come out they

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<v Speaker 2>triple masks, like they made me seem like the devil.

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<v Speaker 2>Like these people are getting caught out there, which is

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<v Speaker 2>kind of wearing me a little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>All the people I know that have have caught it,

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<v Speaker 2>I know probably like five people that have called it,

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<v Speaker 2>like the last couple, like last week or so, and

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<v Speaker 2>they were all vaccinated, all vaccinated, and I think one.

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<v Speaker 1>Of them was boosted. I know as well. So this

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<v Speaker 1>is crazy, bro. I'm in the house.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm boosted. I got mine. I got mine two weeks ago.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I'm boosted. And I got my flu shot.

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<v Speaker 2>I never got a flu shot before, so.

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<v Speaker 3>I did a shot either.

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<v Speaker 2>I could triple down because I ain't messing around ship,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll take another shot.

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<v Speaker 5>I took a pneumonia shot by accident. Took the vaccine.

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

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<v Speaker 5>I was like, that'll work, that's fine.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait, pneumonia vaccine.

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<v Speaker 5>A doctor mistakenly gave it to me because she was like,

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

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<v Speaker 5>know what I want to be getting.

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<v Speaker 1>Damn Okay, everything like out here triple mask, triple being up.

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<v Speaker 2>So you there, you got a pneumonia shot.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, you needed that.

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<v Speaker 2>I did get pneumonia. Okay, Grace had pneumonia and I

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<v Speaker 2>got pneumonia from Grace, like oh wow, like two months ago.

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<v Speaker 1>But ship, I was just down for like three days.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know I.

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<v Speaker 2>Tested like seven times and they all were negative.

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<v Speaker 5>After sixty pnemonia could be like COVID you can still sick.

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<v Speaker 2>Wait was about to say, yeah, like this this this

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<v Speaker 2>battle also between this winter is going to be weird, man,

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

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<v Speaker 2>like a sixty seven degree person.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh we would a woman of a certain age. Now

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<v Speaker 5>we get high after forty yeah, dog at the end

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<v Speaker 5>of the.

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<v Speaker 2>Days crazy she wants it like freezing levels like I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, you know, we have to Like she's at

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<v Speaker 2>the forum right now. I'm here, and you know I

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<v Speaker 2>got this joint on like eighty one, Like I'm in

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

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<v Speaker 2>two two sweaters on. Anyway, skills, man, how goes it?

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<v Speaker 2>Where are you right now?

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

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<v Speaker 7>same shit, different air freshener, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 7>trying to get it together.

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<v Speaker 2>This is weird because I know that this is a

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<v Speaker 2>typical episode, but I do got a billion questions for

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<v Speaker 2>skills about his life as a MC.

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<v Speaker 5>Bring it right?

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Well we can make this decision right here.

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<v Speaker 2>Do we just do a skills episode or do we

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<v Speaker 2>do our what what was twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>Twelve makes up? I think mix it up? Mix it up?

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<v Speaker 2>First of all, I want to know, have you, like

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<v Speaker 2>listened to an Outcast record in its entirety yet?

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<v Speaker 3>No, I knew he was gonna ask me that, And no.

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<v Speaker 2>I are you just doing it just to keep the

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<v Speaker 2>joke running?

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<v Speaker 3>No?

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<v Speaker 7>No, no, Like for me, you know, it's not really

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<v Speaker 7>it was never really a joke, that is, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>on my podcast Hip Hop Confessions, like that was my

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<v Speaker 7>first confession. I've never listened to an Outcast album in

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<v Speaker 7>its entirety. And from that time, people have given me

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<v Speaker 7>box sets, you know, gift rapped nicely, and you know,

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<v Speaker 7>people have tried to make it.

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<v Speaker 1>Anyone from Organized Noise heard of this.

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<v Speaker 7>Uh No, KP KP has and k Ple was like,

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

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<v Speaker 7>he was like, it's crazy, guys, because we was in

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<v Speaker 7>Virginia tough like when we was first Yeah, I mean

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<v Speaker 7>trying to get that ship off. We was in the

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

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<v Speaker 7>like I was a heavily East Coast and flo Launce rapper.

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<v Speaker 7>So if it wasn't Jay Rule and Gang Star and

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<v Speaker 7>you know what I'm saying and big, and it wasn't,

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<v Speaker 7>it wasn't. It wasn't falling you know, on my radar.

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<v Speaker 7>So and now I'm looking at it like what I've

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<v Speaker 7>missed the boat Like, I'm not gonna it's not gonna

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<v Speaker 7>feel how it felt that y'all in ninety four.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's like, what what the fuck is the boy?

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<v Speaker 5>You know?

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<v Speaker 1>You know what, there's still some great music on.

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<v Speaker 7>I was gonna say, no, no, no, if they have a video,

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<v Speaker 7>if they had a video for and it was a single.

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<v Speaker 3>I heard, if you know, if it was just kind.

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<v Speaker 2>Of knowing t I for me or knowing Nelly for me,

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<v Speaker 2>like I don't know the filler, but I know.

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<v Speaker 3>Like you the song on fucking Country Grammar Nigga.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, So you could go to outcast content and pretty

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<v Speaker 2>much do what they're gonna do because all the singles.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, but you know all of the other ones that

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<v Speaker 7>people swear by, like skills, you ain't like.

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<v Speaker 2>So when I say to you, you don't know you.

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<v Speaker 1>Friday, I don't know is that true?

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<v Speaker 3>What is that true?

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<v Speaker 1>See?

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

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<v Speaker 1>A deep cuts guy. But you know who troops mama.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what, I can actually match you in that

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<v Speaker 2>sort of I could sort of match you in that.

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<v Speaker 2>If I were on your show, my hip hop confession

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

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<v Speaker 3>Wow. Wow, I mean you on my show right now?

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

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<v Speaker 2>you know something, though, I discovered something this week that

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<v Speaker 2>has totally this This might break me down and make

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<v Speaker 2>me publicly admit that I am an First of all,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not a I'm not omitting that I'm not a

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<v Speaker 2>Kanye West fan. I am obviously a Kanye West fan.

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<v Speaker 2>I DJ's music, I have his records. There's been there's

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<v Speaker 2>been some weird water under the bridge that we're just

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<v Speaker 2>no no, no, no, no. We In the last weird enough.

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<v Speaker 2>It's from the project that me and Skills work on,

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<v Speaker 2>the jay Z thing like weird enough, Me and Kanye

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<v Speaker 2>finally had like our first conversations due to the many

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<v Speaker 2>times that he stood me up for that project. I

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<v Speaker 2>won't go into that, but I just found out that

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<v Speaker 2>he goes produced one of my all time favorite joints.

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<v Speaker 1>And now.

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<v Speaker 2>It's which one. It's a deep cut joint. Man, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what it is.

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<v Speaker 5>Ready, come on, let's go.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a deep cut joint that even though I know

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<v Speaker 2>the Mad Rapper album was was sort of aimed at

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<v Speaker 2>underground rappers, you know, kind of the middle, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the the The Mad Rapper was born out of kind

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<v Speaker 2>of biggie busting shots to rappers, making fun of like

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<v Speaker 2>poor dusty rappers like us whatever, even though I think

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<v Speaker 2>Kicking the Door was mainly made for nas. But you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I definitely know that he one of his last words

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

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<v Speaker 2>But there's a song on the Mad Rapper record that

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<v Speaker 2>I might like. This is in my top ten joints,

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<v Speaker 2>a joint called I'm Ghetto with Rakwan, and I just

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<v Speaker 2>found out that Kanye was produced at jaint like back

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<v Speaker 2>when he was an apprentice to.

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<v Speaker 1>Who's the mad Rapper?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, ANGELETTI. Now for me, my you know, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>if you know my history, a lot of people will

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<v Speaker 7>tell you, you know, they might see something on him.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't.

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<v Speaker 7>I have his name blocked on like all social media,

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<v Speaker 7>so I don't see his name at all. So sometimes

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<v Speaker 7>people will be like, damn skills, like you go so

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<v Speaker 7>hard on dude, bro like god, damn bro like damn

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<v Speaker 7>he and I catch like ah this, that and the third.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm like, man, that niggain't no fucking genius, Like he's

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<v Speaker 7>a he's a better Pete Rock at best nigga.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not calling him the genius.

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<v Speaker 7>I never am say that. So for me, I'm a

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<v Speaker 7>here's my hip hop. Here's here's a hip hop confession

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<v Speaker 7>for you. I'm mirror. I'm I'm we're gonna backtrack all

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<v Speaker 7>the way to my disdain for that that nigga, so

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<v Speaker 7>and and and here's here's here's the thing, and this

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<v Speaker 7>is this is probably gonna hit you in a in

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<v Speaker 7>a weird way. I don't fuck with dude because of

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<v Speaker 7>what he said about Reeq on Wendy Williams show.

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<v Speaker 3>And I don't know what year that was.

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<v Speaker 7>I don't know what year it was, but I remember

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<v Speaker 7>listening to the radio in New York City and this

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<v Speaker 7>was at the Rockefeller bubble up of Kanye West, and

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<v Speaker 7>he was on Wendy and she was like, Yo, you

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<v Speaker 7>you're such a good dress rapper, Like you dressed very well.

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<v Speaker 7>And he's like, He's like, yeah, thank you know. She's like,

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<v Speaker 7>but you know what, you know who my all time

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<v Speaker 7>favorite well dressed rapper is? And he said, oh, and

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<v Speaker 7>she was like that guy Black Thought from the roots.

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<v Speaker 7>Every time I see him, he is dressed to the

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<v Speaker 7>nines and that nigga. Kanye said, Man, that nigga get

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<v Speaker 7>all his shit at the good Will store.

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<v Speaker 1>Yo.

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<v Speaker 6>And I was like, I'm in the car, real, I'm

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<v Speaker 6>in the car like nigga, fuck you.

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<v Speaker 5>You know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 3>Like, and I fuck with Kanye sense.

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<v Speaker 1>There's water under that bridge.

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<v Speaker 2>Let the record show that the first person to take

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<v Speaker 2>Kanye to Barney's was to Rek Trotter. Me and t

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<v Speaker 2>Ric are the polar opposites of each other. Tik, even

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<v Speaker 2>in COVID, I guarantee you Tarik's outfit is worth like

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<v Speaker 2>twenty thousand dollars.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, me hands them fashion icon.

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<v Speaker 2>And this my quest love Christmas sweater from you know,

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<v Speaker 2>from work.

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

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<v Speaker 7>like black label like I did.

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<v Speaker 3>I did.

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

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<v Speaker 7>just roll with me. Like was the first thing that

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<v Speaker 7>got seen with like prod of sneakers. He was the

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<v Speaker 7>first nigga to walk on stage with a fur on

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<v Speaker 7>like so when so when so when Yay said that ship,

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<v Speaker 7>I was like, that's my man, like so so.

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<v Speaker 2>He literally he literally took like when when they were

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<v Speaker 2>working on the Gun whatever, the song on Qualley's record

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<v Speaker 2>that he produced with pharaohmontch and.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the Gun music something Yeah yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>That session, like k took Kanye and Quality to Barney's

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<v Speaker 2>for the very first time.

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<v Speaker 5>Like but that's why this is a level of penniness

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<v Speaker 5>that has not been seen before, because even Reek has

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<v Speaker 5>gotten over this by now skills. So they share stage

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<v Speaker 5>together and everything.

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<v Speaker 1>The real story And.

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<v Speaker 2>I know how you writ this story before, right, what's

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<v Speaker 2>the Pixtar the Pixar movie The Incredibles. You remember how

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<v Speaker 2>like the sidekick always wanted to hang with the whatever? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>way before the days of like way before the Blueprint

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<v Speaker 2>and all that stuff, Like you know, he used to

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<v Speaker 2>come around like I don't remember him. I kind of

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<v Speaker 2>remember him, but you know, like apparently like he was

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<v Speaker 2>he was, you know, back when we was coming. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just saying that, Yeah, there was there was a moment

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<v Speaker 2>that happened where the downfall of that that freestyle video

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<v Speaker 2>that has went super viral of like Tarik Rowman on

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<v Speaker 2>the Street is that, you know, it tells every other

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<v Speaker 2>MC like he's the guy to beat or he's the

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<v Speaker 2>guy that you know, you want to get in the

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<v Speaker 2>cipher with Tarik's day of like just ciphering and all

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<v Speaker 2>that shit. Is that kind of I think once Illadelf

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<v Speaker 2>Half Life came out, he was like, nah, man, I

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<v Speaker 2>gotta I want to write some shit, not just freestyle

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<v Speaker 2>some shit. And it was just one day where he

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<v Speaker 2>just caught beat Reek on a bad day where he

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<v Speaker 2>like Reek was like changing his clothes in the men's

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<v Speaker 2>room and old boy just shot a shot like all right,

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta do this, and he went in the men's

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<v Speaker 2>room like while Threek's changing it just started putting a

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<v Speaker 2>lyrical clinic on and.

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

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<v Speaker 7>that is a rappers worst nightment.

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<v Speaker 1>But I mean we know.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, the thing is is that we know that's him.

0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.360
<v Speaker 2>We've seen him get on tables before, perform his entire

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<v Speaker 2>album and all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>So yes, he's but.

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<v Speaker 2>That's enabling though, Yeah, but that's bullshit. Like look but

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<v Speaker 2>back in two thousand now, back in nineteen ninety nine,

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

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<v Speaker 1>Get him out of And you know.

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<v Speaker 7>I think I've never I've never, I've never I liked

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<v Speaker 7>his first three albums when he started wilding out. I

0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.800
<v Speaker 7>never brought into the you know, he don't have all

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<v Speaker 7>his marbles. Something's wrong with him. I always feel like

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<v Speaker 7>he used that ship as a crutch and it's just

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<v Speaker 7>I can't co sign with the genius.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, he's a genius.

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<v Speaker 7>And I'm like, I'd be like, yeah, nah, he ain't

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<v Speaker 7>like he's a child of YouTube. You know what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 7>he's he's not a genius, Like.

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<v Speaker 5>Yah officially gave him too much time to.

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

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<v Speaker 7>talk about Reek than that nigga, so about that ship so.

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<v Speaker 2>That I've never seen the video, but you know what,

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<v Speaker 2>you ain't missing ship. I do want to see flashing

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<v Speaker 2>lights though.

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<v Speaker 3>It was it was cool.

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

0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.160
<v Speaker 4>the video was whatever though yeah the video is run away.

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

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<v Speaker 4>not even like I just never seen a Kanye West.

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<v Speaker 4>But it's not like I was trying to purposely avoid

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<v Speaker 4>it because I don't watch MTV and BT, like, I

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<v Speaker 4>didn't watch one or six in park.

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<v Speaker 1>So I've just never seen a video.

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<v Speaker 3>But BBI right.

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<v Speaker 5>To circle this back to it. Will Kanye's name be

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<v Speaker 5>mentioned in the twenty twenty one rap up?

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<v Speaker 1>Because there is no twenty twenty one wrap up?

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<v Speaker 5>Yes there is.

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<v Speaker 3>You didn't hear no no me.

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<v Speaker 4>You mean like our show the wrap up or the

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<v Speaker 4>song the the skills wrap up?

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<v Speaker 3>What you're talking about, like, come on, skills, stop pleasing

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<v Speaker 3>what you're.

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<v Speaker 1>Talking about, skills, what you're doing.

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<v Speaker 5>So just for the record, let me just say something

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<v Speaker 5>for the record, for the last ten dare I say,

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

0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.320
<v Speaker 5>long I've been on the radio. I call Skills and

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<v Speaker 5>I say, Skills, is there a wrap up? Why are

0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.439
<v Speaker 5>you not doing that shit? It's always a wrap up?

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<v Speaker 5>I asked him this last time. I said, Skills, you're

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<v Speaker 5>not gonna do it this time? Huh, Well, like I

0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.600
<v Speaker 5>don't know, so skills.

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<v Speaker 7>First of all, here, uh, I have never I've never

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<v Speaker 7>pub looked. I only publicly came out once in the

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<v Speaker 7>song and said I ain't doing another one, and that

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<v Speaker 7>was twenty ten. So I never publicly said public I

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

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<v Speaker 7>So for me, this, uh, this one will probably this

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<v Speaker 7>is the twentieth one, so it'll probably be the last one.

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<v Speaker 1>That sounds good.

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

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<v Speaker 2>go out for cigarettes and just leave us.

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<v Speaker 3>No no, no no.

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<v Speaker 7>But as soon as you hear it, as soon as

0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.679
<v Speaker 7>it comes on, you will under you will already know.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, this is it.

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<v Speaker 1>So the shortest one. It might be just a six

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<v Speaker 1>second wrap up.

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<v Speaker 3>Listen, didn't the year ago by fast?

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<v Speaker 5>It?

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<v Speaker 1>Really did?

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<v Speaker 5>It?

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<v Speaker 1>Really did?

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<v Speaker 3>Hey?

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

0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:49.520
<v Speaker 7>So niggas gonna hit the end of that song.

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<v Speaker 1>By God, damn it over there already. Listen.

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

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<v Speaker 5>this is the year that started on January.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you going to burn a bridge or something?

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<v Speaker 7>No, no, no, I'm not gonna burn no bridges. I'm

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<v Speaker 7>just gonna I'm a blow wild gracefully on a on

0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:04.440
<v Speaker 7>a on an even number.

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<v Speaker 4>So you said you said it started like on January sixth.

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<v Speaker 4>You think this one started saying.

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<v Speaker 5>It Sometimes this year it feels like it was short,

0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:11.919
<v Speaker 5>but it's.

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<v Speaker 1>Been released on January sixth.

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<v Speaker 3>My point was she talking about the insurrection.

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<v Speaker 5>This year started with a whole insurrection that felt like

0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.159
<v Speaker 5>that was whatever ago. This year started out with President Trump.

0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.640
<v Speaker 5>This year it feels like Biden's been president for like

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

0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:29.960
<v Speaker 5>but sometimes it feels fucking long.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I feel you. I feel you.

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<v Speaker 7>See, I've been I've been, uh you know, I've been

0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:40.120
<v Speaker 7>toying around with the with some some different uh pockets,

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<v Speaker 7>and I'm gonna give it a value effort.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna sit down Kobe this year, knock it down.

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<v Speaker 3>That was last year.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh ship Kobe, do you know the year that took

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<v Speaker 2>you the longest to come up with a wrap up?

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<v Speaker 3>Like?

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<v Speaker 1>What year? Was like a particular nightmare for you to

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<v Speaker 1>craft it together?

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<v Speaker 7>Should last year? Because there was nothing entertaining about last year.

0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:11.119
<v Speaker 1>Throwing in the trash. That was the throwing in the

0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:12.080
<v Speaker 1>trash here right.

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<v Speaker 7>Yes, So for me to try to make that entertaining,

0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.119
<v Speaker 7>there was sitting down looking at a blank piece of

0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.280
<v Speaker 7>paper saying, how can I make somebody chuckle? How can

0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:21.840
<v Speaker 7>I make them get a quick laugh? How can I

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<v Speaker 7>get a punchline?

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<v Speaker 5>There?

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<v Speaker 3>Want none of that shit last year? Last year? I

0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:28.200
<v Speaker 3>want nothing funny about last year.

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<v Speaker 1>How do you source for information? Like?

0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.320
<v Speaker 2>Do you by the year? Do you just keep a

0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:37.400
<v Speaker 2>memo of things worth noting? So then once you get

0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:39.040
<v Speaker 2>to November you start sourcing?

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<v Speaker 1>Right? This is important, This is important. This you know.

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<v Speaker 7>I don't even think about the song till Black Friday

0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.680
<v Speaker 7>because otherwise I don't think about the song until Black Friday.

0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.600
<v Speaker 7>That's my ritual. On Black Friday, I go, Okay, what

0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.720
<v Speaker 7>beat you gonna rap over? Are you're gonna get a

0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:58.040
<v Speaker 7>beat made? You're gonna rap over something else that was

0:21:58.040 --> 0:21:58.600
<v Speaker 7>hot this year?

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<v Speaker 3>What you're gonna do. And then maybe like that Monday.

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<v Speaker 7>After December first, December second, third, I might start writing

0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:11.240
<v Speaker 7>down what I can remember from memory, like oh, okay, insurrection.

0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.679
<v Speaker 7>I don't have to fucking I don't need to know

0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.280
<v Speaker 7>when that happened. I remember that. I might have to

0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:19.639
<v Speaker 7>go back and remember, oh, when did so and so

0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:20.880
<v Speaker 7>and so and so break up?

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<v Speaker 3>What month was that like? But other than that, I.

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<v Speaker 7>Write down, write, I write down everything that I can

0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:30.120
<v Speaker 7>remember from memory, and then I write down. Then I

0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.120
<v Speaker 7>you know, I go to the Internet and write down

0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.000
<v Speaker 7>everything else, and then I put it all in order.

0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.479
<v Speaker 7>This happened in January, Okay, this happened in February. Okay,

0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.480
<v Speaker 7>Tom Brady and the Bucks one this time. And then

0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:47.360
<v Speaker 7>I sit there and look at it, and I might

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<v Speaker 7>try to write something.

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<v Speaker 3>I might not.

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<v Speaker 7>But the funny thing about it is what I tell

0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:53.800
<v Speaker 7>people is music don't.

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<v Speaker 3>Give a fuck about pressure.

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<v Speaker 7>That's why I have to start it when I started,

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<v Speaker 7>because I can't just go on the day after Christmas,

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<v Speaker 7>all Right, I'm gonna do this shit, and it's gonna

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<v Speaker 7>be done by thirsty shit. Music would be like not bitch,

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<v Speaker 7>you know what I mean? So some days I could

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<v Speaker 7>sit down there and look at a blank piece of

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<v Speaker 7>paper on December seventh and I don't write nothing, and

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<v Speaker 7>maybe on December twelfth, I sit down and I.

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<v Speaker 3>Might write It's a flood at eighty bars and they all.

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<v Speaker 2>Catch you about twenty twenty some days to craft it.

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<v Speaker 7>To get it together, yes, to write it. You know,

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<v Speaker 7>it doesn't take long. But it's just like pacing it.

0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.520
<v Speaker 7>Like it's almost like a DJ said, like valleys and peaks,

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<v Speaker 7>like I'm gonna start here, I'm gonna take them up

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<v Speaker 7>and bring them back down.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like that.

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<v Speaker 5>How you make sure that you don't have not too

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<v Speaker 5>much information? Because I'm thinking, if you go on monthly,

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<v Speaker 5>do you stop yourself at a certain point being like

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<v Speaker 5>all right, let's like two paragraphs and shit.

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<v Speaker 7>That's mean I might get to like summer and be like, okay,

0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:54.880
<v Speaker 7>how long is this song?

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<v Speaker 3>You know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 7>If I'm like, man, we have three minutes at July,

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<v Speaker 7>like okay, nigga, you really need wrap this ship up right.

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<v Speaker 2>Wait, wasn't wasn't uh uh games three hundred bars? Wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>that twenty? Was that like seventeen or twenty minutes?

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<v Speaker 7>We might want to ask a rap nerd, I don't.

0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:17.680
<v Speaker 7>I don't listen to niggas wrapped that long.

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<v Speaker 2>See, yeah, I ain't got it in me now on

0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:22.560
<v Speaker 2>that light year where you get selected, that is.

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<v Speaker 5>Fonte the rap rap niggas don't be rapping yet.

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<v Speaker 1>That's not me, that's yeah. No, No, I ain't got

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<v Speaker 1>time for that.

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<v Speaker 3>Man, I don't. I really don't, in a real way.

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<v Speaker 7>Like I'm listen, we forty plus man, you know what

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<v Speaker 7>else I could do at that time?

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<v Speaker 1>Man? Listen, man, that's an episode of the TV anything.

0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:45.359
<v Speaker 2>See this is to two brothers living below the Mason

0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:47.639
<v Speaker 2>Dixon line talk right now exactly.

0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:52.280
<v Speaker 7>This is this is called read this as Fonte coined

0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:56.920
<v Speaker 7>the phrase, this is called rap. After forty you Virginia,

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<v Speaker 7>do you know Kwanza?

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<v Speaker 5>I just because find so?

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, before we got I can say so. Before we

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<v Speaker 4>got on, we was talking. I was telling her like,

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<v Speaker 4>I don't, we don't. I don't know anyone who celebrates quasa.

0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:14.320
<v Speaker 4>She was saying, that's a Southern thing. So do you

0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:18.800
<v Speaker 4>skills being from Virginia, do you know anyone who celebrates quasas?

0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:22.800
<v Speaker 1>No, who is celebrating quanta?

0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:27.880
<v Speaker 5>So everybody, indeed, affluent.

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<v Speaker 1>African roots, it might be.

0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:32.720
<v Speaker 5>Mean and Bill's daughter and Bill's daughter.

0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:38.159
<v Speaker 1>Wait, y'all celebrating? Wait what? Yeah, no, no, you missed the

0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:46.080
<v Speaker 1>which was my daughter came home singing Quansa carols, Carols

0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:50.280
<v Speaker 1>songs or something, Quanta songs, Quanta jams, whatever. The she

0:25:50.320 --> 0:25:54.000
<v Speaker 1>came home and it was hilarious and here we are.

0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:55.560
<v Speaker 3>Qua.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's that happen And so there you go.

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<v Speaker 5>No, but you said, you know it's more Bill, because

0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:12.000
<v Speaker 5>she sang the song. I was like, what is the song?

0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:13.760
<v Speaker 5>Because I did not. I was not even aware that

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<v Speaker 5>there were Kwansa songs and er and you celebrated and

0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:21.520
<v Speaker 5>you didn't even know some Quanta celebrations. Yes I have, Yes,

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<v Speaker 5>I have.

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<v Speaker 1>You wait, talk about it like you're in it way

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<v Speaker 1>deeper than that.

0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:31.639
<v Speaker 4>You talk about it like you got the Quanta.

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<v Speaker 7>Bops tasting, you got quantsam prime.

0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:39.440
<v Speaker 5>I don't think that a young You know what I'm saying,

0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:43.960
<v Speaker 5>It started sixty. I'm just saying, maybe progressing with the music.

0:26:44.040 --> 0:26:46.400
<v Speaker 5>I'm not aware, but it doesn't mean it's not happening.

0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:46.959
<v Speaker 5>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 7>You can't say don't feel like yeah, I feel like

0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:51.600
<v Speaker 7>I should be mill in tune with it and you

0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:52.080
<v Speaker 7>should be.

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<v Speaker 5>And we make jokes on the show sing this show

0:26:55.640 --> 0:26:58.000
<v Speaker 5>and it' shoptin't funny because black people and that they

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<v Speaker 5>don't want the holidays, and when we make our only

0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:02.480
<v Speaker 5>made jokes because all know how to do is at

0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:02.879
<v Speaker 5>our ship.

0:27:03.680 --> 0:27:06.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna be I'm gonna be real you once once

0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:09.520
<v Speaker 2>the farm, once the farm gets settled. I think Grace

0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:15.199
<v Speaker 2>might be forced me to celebrate Quanta.

0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:16.680
<v Speaker 5>The principle you don't even know why you're giving gifts.

0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:19.359
<v Speaker 5>You don't know what Santa has to do with Jesus.

0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:22.600
<v Speaker 5>You just follow a tradition like a fucking robot. Stop.

0:27:23.440 --> 0:27:25.960
<v Speaker 1>But I've been stopped. I've been killed Santa Claus.

0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:28.399
<v Speaker 2>I killed him early, like so that I'm not working

0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:30.840
<v Speaker 2>and giving the credit to a white man out of here.

0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:31.840
<v Speaker 1>So now that's over.

0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:34.800
<v Speaker 4>In terms of the given gifts, I mean, yeah, like

0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:37.440
<v Speaker 4>I give gifts like I give gifts cause niggas be

0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:37.880
<v Speaker 4>needing ship.

0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:40.840
<v Speaker 5>But niggas be needing ship more days than just.

0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:42.840
<v Speaker 1>That one day out of the year, and I give

0:27:43.000 --> 0:27:44.000
<v Speaker 1>more days of the year.

0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:48.800
<v Speaker 4>I'm not really I'm not really a holidays. I'm sorry, celebrator.

0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:50.720
<v Speaker 4>You know what I mean, I just I try to

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<v Speaker 4>do good year round.

0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:55.560
<v Speaker 7>When I grew up, Christmas was Salvation Army knocking in

0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:56.640
<v Speaker 7>my door with a pair.

0:27:56.440 --> 0:27:59.920
<v Speaker 3>Of pants and some jocks. So I didn't have the

0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:02.760
<v Speaker 3>same Christmas. A lot of niggas say.

0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:05.120
<v Speaker 7>From North Carolina, nigga, he was knocking on the door,

0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:08.480
<v Speaker 7>like here go your g I Joe, nigga Bye, that.

0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:09.720
<v Speaker 3>Was my Christmas.

0:28:09.920 --> 0:28:14.840
<v Speaker 1>Uh so Honakah was earlier this year? Correct? Yep, Steve,

0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:21.439
<v Speaker 1>how was it? How was whatnka honkah? We canceled it.

0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:24.120
<v Speaker 8>It was supposed to be on Sunday this past Sunday,

0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:25.280
<v Speaker 8>and my.

0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:27.440
<v Speaker 3>My sister got COVID uh week ago.

0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:29.440
<v Speaker 1>So she's doing good, she's fine.

0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:33.680
<v Speaker 8>But but yeah, we had to cancel all that. So, uh,

0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:36.399
<v Speaker 8>we're gonna be like drive We're gonna do like present

0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:38.520
<v Speaker 8>drive bys. We're gonna drive by and just like throw

0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:39.680
<v Speaker 8>the presidents out the window.

0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:42.040
<v Speaker 2>Like this is the first year you didn't get the

0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:43.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, the.

0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:45.640
<v Speaker 1>Check, the check is gonna it's on.

0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:48.200
<v Speaker 3>Baby.

0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:53.440
<v Speaker 2>You gotta understand long Steve twenty five years man, Yeah,

0:28:53.600 --> 0:28:56.760
<v Speaker 2>no is the happiest day of his life. Boy he

0:28:57.240 --> 0:28:59.920
<v Speaker 2>gets quote the check. I never even I don't even

0:28:59.960 --> 0:29:02.480
<v Speaker 2>know how much the check is worth. But Steven satisfied

0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:04.960
<v Speaker 2>with hashtag the check.

0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:08.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah check, like in a way.

0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:11.440
<v Speaker 2>That that Clarence what's his name says the ship and

0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:12.840
<v Speaker 2>uh tells.

0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:17.640
<v Speaker 3>From cl Wiams the third Ye yes, oh.

0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:21.920
<v Speaker 2>The ship one of the list, one of them, Stevens

0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:22.960
<v Speaker 2>the check.

0:29:23.600 --> 0:29:26.760
<v Speaker 7>One of the funniest cinematic moments is when they slapped

0:29:26.800 --> 0:29:28.160
<v Speaker 7>him with the gun and he just started and.

0:29:28.520 --> 0:29:32.920
<v Speaker 1>Said, hey, look, bro, you scored.

0:29:32.960 --> 0:29:35.000
<v Speaker 2>You t off on the nigga He do that Andy, Yo, bro,

0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:35.560
<v Speaker 2>you got it.

0:29:36.240 --> 0:29:39.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm good. Whatever problem we had it ended right there.

0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:40.400
<v Speaker 4>I want that boat.

0:29:41.720 --> 0:29:45.000
<v Speaker 3>Was man, enough of the talk, old man, where's the ship?

0:29:45.320 --> 0:29:45.720
<v Speaker 3>He said?

0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:51.760
<v Speaker 1>Feoderal home?

0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:56.840
<v Speaker 5>This to hell.

0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:03.200
<v Speaker 6>We went script a little bit, but hey, this.

0:30:03.120 --> 0:30:03.480
<v Speaker 1>Is how this.

0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:07.920
<v Speaker 5>But wait, skills, you mentioned something I just wanted to

0:30:07.920 --> 0:30:10.720
<v Speaker 5>touch on it real quick. It sounded as sentimental. You

0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:12.880
<v Speaker 5>mentioned about your Christmases and this is you know, a

0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:14.640
<v Speaker 5>fifty to fifty. We want to know more about skills

0:30:14.680 --> 0:30:19.600
<v Speaker 5>and you know about the about growing up in Fayetteville

0:30:19.640 --> 0:30:23.200
<v Speaker 5>and what your life was like and you know, sorry.

0:30:23.000 --> 0:30:25.280
<v Speaker 7>I was born in I was born in Detroit, Michigan,

0:30:25.320 --> 0:30:27.280
<v Speaker 7>but I don't remember being there. I think I left

0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:31.200
<v Speaker 7>when I was around two. Most of the yeah, yeah,

0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:36.280
<v Speaker 7>I did not know that now sign hospital. Some my

0:30:36.480 --> 0:30:41.240
<v Speaker 7>first earliest of my childhood memories are probably being in Faytville,

0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:49.000
<v Speaker 7>riding bikes all that type, ship, playing ball. I grew up.

0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:54.000
<v Speaker 7>My mom was my mom, my sister, and uh yeah,

0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:57.280
<v Speaker 7>I was running through Faveville, you know, just being a

0:30:57.360 --> 0:30:58.920
<v Speaker 7>kid and tell us.

0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:01.160
<v Speaker 5>Where sakwan comes from. I was always curious.

0:31:01.240 --> 0:31:04.040
<v Speaker 3>That's that's later. Okay, that's later.

0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:08.360
<v Speaker 7>But uh, one thing, No, I got an older I

0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:12.080
<v Speaker 7>have an older I got an older sister and younger brother,

0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:16.120
<v Speaker 7>and then my dad had some kids, so those are

0:31:16.160 --> 0:31:19.640
<v Speaker 7>I got four siblings on that side.

0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:22.040
<v Speaker 3>But uh, I knew.

0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:25.760
<v Speaker 7>Early on that this was wasn't a place to stay at.

0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:29.680
<v Speaker 7>And there's no disrespect to Fanville, but it was my

0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:31.840
<v Speaker 7>mom used to tell me, you know, uh, you know,

0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:34.000
<v Speaker 7>we used to see the commercials for the Army be

0:31:34.080 --> 0:31:37.160
<v Speaker 7>all you can be and ship, and then like right

0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:39.240
<v Speaker 7>after that commercial, it would be a you know, a

0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:42.600
<v Speaker 7>commercial for say some cars or TV or furniture set,

0:31:42.640 --> 0:31:44.320
<v Speaker 7>and they would be like, you know, calling all so

0:31:44.400 --> 0:31:47.800
<v Speaker 7>and so et one and up and up like so

0:31:47.880 --> 0:31:50.520
<v Speaker 7>it was like they were almost advertising if you're in

0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:54.480
<v Speaker 7>the military, you can come and get this stuff, you know,

0:31:54.800 --> 0:31:55.560
<v Speaker 7>and we'll only.

0:31:55.440 --> 0:31:59.360
<v Speaker 3>Charge you this. So I was already like, damn, like.

0:31:59.280 --> 0:32:03.280
<v Speaker 4>I got right here totally. I'm thinking you right by

0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:04.960
<v Speaker 4>Brag for right by.

0:32:04.880 --> 0:32:09.560
<v Speaker 7>Fore Brag I lived, Yeah, O god, I lived in

0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:13.160
<v Speaker 7>the trailer park right next to for Brag. So I

0:32:13.200 --> 0:32:16.520
<v Speaker 7>had J Cole's mindset before J Cole was even worm, like,

0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:17.760
<v Speaker 7>I gotta get the funk out of here.

0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:19.440
<v Speaker 3>Wow.

0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:21.800
<v Speaker 4>And I never and just hearing you say that, man,

0:32:21.840 --> 0:32:25.600
<v Speaker 4>it's so crazy because I never thought that people or

0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:28.280
<v Speaker 4>you know, companies will advertise differently, you know, in the

0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:30.720
<v Speaker 4>military town. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, I

0:32:30.800 --> 0:32:32.239
<v Speaker 4>never I never thought about that wall.

0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:32.880
<v Speaker 1>That's crazy.

0:32:33.200 --> 0:32:34.680
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, right, you.

0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:39.080
<v Speaker 7>Come get a car, come get some furniture, come get

0:32:39.480 --> 0:32:42.720
<v Speaker 7>you know, a television color TV. But but if you

0:32:42.800 --> 0:32:44.880
<v Speaker 7>are in the military, always we know you're gonna get

0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:47.719
<v Speaker 7>a check. So if you are this status and up,

0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:50.760
<v Speaker 7>then you could come down here right now. We're basically

0:32:50.800 --> 0:32:52.520
<v Speaker 7>give you this ship. You can put a dollar down,

0:32:53.120 --> 0:32:58.240
<v Speaker 7>you can get this ship. Right So, right after Soul Train,

0:32:58.680 --> 0:33:01.840
<v Speaker 7>you know, that was the commercials he saw. So I

0:33:02.000 --> 0:33:04.240
<v Speaker 7>remember thinking to myself like, I got to get the

0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:06.080
<v Speaker 7>fuck out of here at an early age. I might

0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:09.520
<v Speaker 7>have been thirteen twelve, Like, I got it. I can't

0:33:09.520 --> 0:33:11.120
<v Speaker 7>stay here. I didn't know where I was gonna go,

0:33:11.720 --> 0:33:14.720
<v Speaker 7>but yeah, I had to get the hell up out

0:33:14.760 --> 0:33:18.479
<v Speaker 7>of there, and uh I did at about fifteen, and

0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:22.280
<v Speaker 7>I came to Virginia. When I came to Virginia, my

0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:25.520
<v Speaker 7>mom changed religious. She met a Muslim man and she

0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:29.240
<v Speaker 7>adapted to Islam. And she told us that, you know,

0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:32.560
<v Speaker 7>me and my little brother, if we wanted to change

0:33:32.560 --> 0:33:35.280
<v Speaker 7>our names, we could. So when I went to the

0:33:35.360 --> 0:33:39.120
<v Speaker 7>new town, which was Richmond, Virginia, and I started school,

0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:43.320
<v Speaker 7>I told everybody my name was Chaquan and it's been

0:33:43.360 --> 0:33:44.320
<v Speaker 7>Chequan ever since.

0:33:45.040 --> 0:33:48.480
<v Speaker 2>Wow, when you were in Faytteville, what did you start

0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:49.440
<v Speaker 2>high school in Faville?

0:33:49.480 --> 0:33:49.960
<v Speaker 1>Who?

0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:54.400
<v Speaker 3>I damn ty? I went to every fucking school in Fae.

0:33:54.560 --> 0:33:55.719
<v Speaker 3>I went first.

0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:58.000
<v Speaker 7>I went to set Me first. I went to Westwood,

0:33:58.200 --> 0:34:02.600
<v Speaker 7>I mean Westwood. I went to Taford I lived.

0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:03.560
<v Speaker 1>Wait.

0:34:03.600 --> 0:34:06.200
<v Speaker 2>What kind of student were you that you went to

0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:08.160
<v Speaker 2>My mom?

0:34:08.440 --> 0:34:12.040
<v Speaker 7>My mom was all over the town. That you gotta understand.

0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:16.240
<v Speaker 7>My mom was was on heroin. So I was all

0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:18.879
<v Speaker 7>over the place. So I had a mom that was

0:34:19.440 --> 0:34:23.840
<v Speaker 7>on drugs. Drugs were super rampant at that time, and

0:34:24.000 --> 0:34:25.960
<v Speaker 7>no father. It's just me and my mom and my

0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:29.560
<v Speaker 7>little brother and we all over like we might have

0:34:29.640 --> 0:34:32.520
<v Speaker 7>moved every three four months. And I never lived in

0:34:32.560 --> 0:34:35.680
<v Speaker 7>the house. It was always a trailer, like I didn't

0:34:35.719 --> 0:34:38.680
<v Speaker 7>even know. I didn't even know houses existed till I

0:34:38.719 --> 0:34:41.480
<v Speaker 7>was like ten. I thought everybody lived in the trailer.

0:34:42.000 --> 0:34:43.960
<v Speaker 7>And if you had a double wive, shit, I mean,

0:34:44.000 --> 0:34:45.920
<v Speaker 7>like you was bothered if you had a double wife.

0:34:46.880 --> 0:34:47.399
<v Speaker 7>You know what I mean.

0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:51.040
<v Speaker 2>You don't hear you had a Marshall Madison going on?

0:34:51.800 --> 0:34:58.520
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, without without Dre, even though I did work with

0:34:58.600 --> 0:35:00.080
<v Speaker 7>Dre but late.

0:35:00.200 --> 0:35:03.520
<v Speaker 4>But your pops? Did y'all have any connection at all?

0:35:03.719 --> 0:35:06.560
<v Speaker 7>My pop died when I was My pop died when

0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:09.399
<v Speaker 7>I was about I want to say, eight or nine

0:35:09.440 --> 0:35:11.880
<v Speaker 7>years old, and I never.

0:35:11.760 --> 0:35:13.360
<v Speaker 3>Really knew him.

0:35:13.760 --> 0:35:16.640
<v Speaker 7>And then in the fast four years later when he

0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:20.160
<v Speaker 7>passed away at eight, and then my mom passed away

0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:23.000
<v Speaker 7>when I was around in like ninety eight, and so

0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:25.520
<v Speaker 7>that my mom and my dad ended up dying from

0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:30.360
<v Speaker 7>the same drug thirty years apart. Wow, And I didn't

0:35:30.360 --> 0:35:33.839
<v Speaker 7>make the connection that my father was the person who

0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:38.560
<v Speaker 7>turned my mother on heroin until American Gangster came up.

0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:42.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah that's crazy.

0:35:42.880 --> 0:35:46.120
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, so you know, all my adolescent years, first time

0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:48.160
<v Speaker 7>hearing it was just this guy named Don Reed.

0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:49.200
<v Speaker 3>He used to be on the radio.

0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:52.920
<v Speaker 7>First time here in hip hop was on a radio

0:35:53.000 --> 0:35:55.839
<v Speaker 7>station in North Carolina. I think I might have heard

0:35:55.920 --> 0:35:57.920
<v Speaker 7>hard Times first.

0:35:58.200 --> 0:35:59.279
<v Speaker 1>Wait, where year were you born?

0:36:00.080 --> 0:36:00.839
<v Speaker 3>Was one? In seventy one?

0:36:02.560 --> 0:36:06.760
<v Speaker 2>Hard Times by Run And that's the first rap.

0:36:06.600 --> 0:36:08.440
<v Speaker 3>Song you heard on the radio.

0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:10.280
<v Speaker 1>So you never had a rappers.

0:36:10.280 --> 0:36:14.600
<v Speaker 3>The light I heard rappers the light in people's houses was.

0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:17.520
<v Speaker 2>Not in seventy nine when it was get Hell, so

0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:21.520
<v Speaker 2>it didn't hit. So there wasn't a I mean, I'm

0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:24.160
<v Speaker 2>from the Northeast, so in Philadelphia, New York, there's like

0:36:24.239 --> 0:36:27.359
<v Speaker 2>a you know, a Frankie Crocker sort of figure that

0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:29.279
<v Speaker 2>plays stuff in real time.

0:36:29.360 --> 0:36:30.560
<v Speaker 1>But there wasn't that person.

0:36:30.719 --> 0:36:33.920
<v Speaker 7>And it was a guy named Don Reid. He was

0:36:33.960 --> 0:36:36.280
<v Speaker 7>probably playing that stuff. But the first time I remember

0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:39.279
<v Speaker 7>laying in the bed cutting on the radio and I

0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:45.520
<v Speaker 7>heard that, And once I heard that, motherfucking.

0:36:47.239 --> 0:36:48.920
<v Speaker 3>That was it. I was done.

0:36:49.800 --> 0:36:52.879
<v Speaker 7>And that's that's probably why the Run DMC shit was

0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.680
<v Speaker 7>so stellar. To me because when I ended up meeting

0:36:55.719 --> 0:36:59.600
<v Speaker 7>them in Fayville in front of Off the Murk, like

0:36:59.640 --> 0:37:05.319
<v Speaker 7>it was I tookture and that was That's happened means

0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:06.080
<v Speaker 7>everything to you.

0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:08.200
<v Speaker 3>It was my introduction.

0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:16.520
<v Speaker 2>You just totally now I get it because even like

0:37:17.120 --> 0:37:21.440
<v Speaker 2>knowing the story, your Run DMC story, like I was

0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:24.160
<v Speaker 2>kind of wondering, like, wait, why does run dem C

0:37:24.360 --> 0:37:25.680
<v Speaker 2>mean that much to you?

0:37:26.640 --> 0:37:29.440
<v Speaker 4>I think it's something too and skills, you know, correct

0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:31.920
<v Speaker 4>me if if I'm wrong on this. There was something

0:37:32.040 --> 0:37:35.520
<v Speaker 4>just as guys in the South, like Run DMC just

0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:38.719
<v Speaker 4>represented something different like it wasn't. I don't know. Maybe

0:37:38.719 --> 0:37:40.239
<v Speaker 4>it's because they had the hats like you know, our

0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:42.719
<v Speaker 4>granddaddys were wear or whatever, but yeah, you know what

0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:45.120
<v Speaker 4>I mean. But it was just something different about you didn't.

0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:47.000
<v Speaker 4>I mean, you know, we loved ll I mean, we

0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:48.839
<v Speaker 4>love all that stuff, but it was something about Run

0:37:48.920 --> 0:37:52.359
<v Speaker 4>DMC like they were just superheroes, you know what I mean.

0:37:52.440 --> 0:37:54.759
<v Speaker 1>Like that ship was so yes, it was.

0:37:55.000 --> 0:37:57.440
<v Speaker 3>They could fly, bro, they could fly, They could do

0:37:57.520 --> 0:37:58.080
<v Speaker 3>no wrong.

0:37:58.560 --> 0:38:01.600
<v Speaker 7>And anybody that came up after them or anybody you

0:38:01.680 --> 0:38:04.600
<v Speaker 7>saw after them, even if they dropped before Curtis blows

0:38:04.680 --> 0:38:08.399
<v Speaker 7>and you know, like you said, flash and all of them,

0:38:08.600 --> 0:38:11.919
<v Speaker 7>they just didn't have the same appeal that them three

0:38:12.000 --> 0:38:14.600
<v Speaker 7>niggas had because when you looked at them, if you

0:38:14.640 --> 0:38:18.439
<v Speaker 7>didn't see yourself and one of them, you could automatically go, man,

0:38:18.480 --> 0:38:20.680
<v Speaker 7>he looked like my cousin. He looked like he looked

0:38:20.680 --> 0:38:22.759
<v Speaker 7>like Cam, and we could go out and be a

0:38:22.800 --> 0:38:25.960
<v Speaker 7>little run DMC. You automatically thought of two friends when

0:38:26.000 --> 0:38:27.799
<v Speaker 7>you saw the right straight right.

0:38:28.040 --> 0:38:30.279
<v Speaker 4>My first rap group, it was three of us. It

0:38:30.360 --> 0:38:32.400
<v Speaker 4>was one that wreasses.

0:38:32.680 --> 0:38:38.719
<v Speaker 7>Yes, listen, I was I was run. That was that

0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:45.440
<v Speaker 7>was run the sideburns. I was him skinny lanky like.

0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:48.359
<v Speaker 7>So yeah, that's that was when I fell in love

0:38:48.480 --> 0:38:48.799
<v Speaker 7>with it.

0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:53.560
<v Speaker 2>Wait, I highly recommend our listeners. You just released the story.

0:38:53.560 --> 0:38:56.719
<v Speaker 2>I think last was last year? When or was it

0:38:56.760 --> 0:39:00.799
<v Speaker 2>this year that you released the story about your run

0:39:00.880 --> 0:39:02.800
<v Speaker 2>DMC story, which, oh.

0:39:02.680 --> 0:39:04.840
<v Speaker 7>It was that was that was that came out of

0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:07.759
<v Speaker 7>on on the other podcast earlier this year.

0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:12.640
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, I highly recommend our listeners to. I don't

0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:14.919
<v Speaker 2>want to spoiler alert it now it's too epic to tell,

0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:20.920
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, just if you like skilled, it's on it's

0:39:21.000 --> 0:39:24.440
<v Speaker 2>on my I G two. So Okay, yes, I highly

0:39:24.480 --> 0:39:28.040
<v Speaker 2>recommend that because I was there and even I didn't

0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:33.680
<v Speaker 2>know that was happening. That's strange, man, I didn't know

0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:35.600
<v Speaker 2>that story. Yo, dog, I didn't even know about the

0:39:35.640 --> 0:39:37.640
<v Speaker 2>slick Rick. Were you there for the slick Rick situation?

0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:39.560
<v Speaker 7>Oh yeah when Yeah, it was, slick Rick said some

0:39:39.560 --> 0:39:42.200
<v Speaker 7>I'm crazy to get to me.

0:39:44.160 --> 0:39:45.160
<v Speaker 1>I didn't even realize.

0:39:45.320 --> 0:39:47.960
<v Speaker 2>Well, because the thing is is that when I'm doing shows,

0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:51.960
<v Speaker 2>I don't I never have the vocalist. I have the

0:39:52.080 --> 0:39:56.480
<v Speaker 2>music in my my in ears, so you know I

0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:58.440
<v Speaker 2>have I have reaked down very low, like just so

0:39:58.480 --> 0:40:00.759
<v Speaker 2>I know where he is in the verse and whatnot.

0:40:00.960 --> 0:40:05.120
<v Speaker 2>And apparently, you know, we were sound checking and I

0:40:05.120 --> 0:40:08.920
<v Speaker 2>didn't even realize that, like slick Rick was kind of

0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:13.080
<v Speaker 2>talking slick to me in a way that was very offensive. Wow,

0:40:13.239 --> 0:40:16.359
<v Speaker 2>and what does that mean?

0:40:17.760 --> 0:40:19.319
<v Speaker 3>I'll you, I was there, Come on.

0:40:20.920 --> 0:40:24.319
<v Speaker 2>My version was that I just saw Tarik like the

0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:27.759
<v Speaker 2>music's loud, not to see Toik like something like, wow,

0:40:27.840 --> 0:40:30.480
<v Speaker 2>Toik's really happy to see slick Rick. I didn't realize

0:40:30.520 --> 0:40:34.080
<v Speaker 2>that Tarik was getting serious. And then I took my

0:40:34.120 --> 0:40:35.640
<v Speaker 2>head off. I was like, come on, what's going on?

0:40:36.239 --> 0:40:40.359
<v Speaker 2>And I found out twenty minutes after the fact that

0:40:40.400 --> 0:40:42.440
<v Speaker 2>it already happened, and shit, so I just started was

0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:43.640
<v Speaker 2>having a regular sound check.

0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:48.440
<v Speaker 7>So they're doing their sound checking and I think they

0:40:48.560 --> 0:40:51.040
<v Speaker 7>was doing, uh, what's this. I can't remember the song

0:40:51.160 --> 0:40:53.040
<v Speaker 7>per se, but it's the one that starts with out.

0:40:53.080 --> 0:40:56.080
<v Speaker 3>Enough were Mona Lisa?

0:40:56.200 --> 0:40:59.719
<v Speaker 7>Right? So they starting Mona Lisa over and Rick is,

0:40:59.760 --> 0:41:01.200
<v Speaker 7>you know, coming in with his verse and it was

0:41:01.200 --> 0:41:02.040
<v Speaker 7>one of those days.

0:41:02.040 --> 0:41:02.560
<v Speaker 3>Not much.

0:41:04.320 --> 0:41:08.040
<v Speaker 7>Stopped it, Yo, starting over, speed it up. He's like, like,

0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:10.960
<v Speaker 7>speed it up. So everybody like, okay, what tu you know?

0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:12.200
<v Speaker 7>Start over?

0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:13.120
<v Speaker 3>Did it again?

0:41:13.239 --> 0:41:16.799
<v Speaker 7>He like, yo, speed it up? So everybody's like, then

0:41:16.800 --> 0:41:17.959
<v Speaker 7>how fast you want this ship?

0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:18.200
<v Speaker 3>Bro?

0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:21.799
<v Speaker 7>Like they playing it? He stops again reek reeks still

0:41:21.800 --> 0:41:25.240
<v Speaker 7>doing that. Not much to do, yeah, living with him slick.

0:41:25.360 --> 0:41:29.400
<v Speaker 7>Rick goes, yo, come on, speed that ship up, bitch,

0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:34.719
<v Speaker 7>and Tarik goes, who the fuck are you talking to?

0:41:36.680 --> 0:41:37.000
<v Speaker 5>That's what.

0:41:38.880 --> 0:41:41.600
<v Speaker 3>He said, Yo, who who the are you talking to?

0:41:41.680 --> 0:41:44.799
<v Speaker 7>Doug like Rick like, yo, man, I'm just saying mine,

0:41:44.840 --> 0:41:48.560
<v Speaker 7>speed it up, man, like yo, and Rick like Ric like, yo,

0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:50.760
<v Speaker 7>if you if you want it faster and say faster.

0:41:50.800 --> 0:41:53.480
<v Speaker 7>But what you ain't about to do is called nobody

0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:56.399
<v Speaker 7>up here. I'll they motherfucking name, bro, like fuck wrong

0:41:56.480 --> 0:42:00.319
<v Speaker 7>with you? So then like they having words and I'm

0:42:00.400 --> 0:42:02.360
<v Speaker 7>just like, oh God.

0:42:02.320 --> 0:42:05.200
<v Speaker 1>Like to me, it's looking like to.

0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:09.200
<v Speaker 2>You remember I put up I put up an Instagram

0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:12.360
<v Speaker 2>where you take Teddy Pendergrass volume off and looks like

0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:13.440
<v Speaker 2>he's doing stand up comedy.

0:42:13.640 --> 0:42:15.520
<v Speaker 4>Yeah right right.

0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:19.680
<v Speaker 2>Sound So in my mind, I'm like, man, Twek's action

0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:23.080
<v Speaker 2>super extra getting happy seeing slick Rick because it looked

0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:26.839
<v Speaker 2>like like my version of it was like, yo, man,

0:42:26.840 --> 0:42:29.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm doing more the least what you meant I always

0:42:29.480 --> 0:42:32.080
<v Speaker 2>wanted to do, like, you know, like it was exaggerating.

0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:36.600
<v Speaker 6>Audio was, Yo, what the fuck?

0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:36.839
<v Speaker 3>Bro?

0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:38.919
<v Speaker 7>Like, who the fuck you think you're talking to dog?

0:42:39.000 --> 0:42:41.279
<v Speaker 7>Like we all grown men up here. I don't know

0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:44.480
<v Speaker 7>what you think this is. Like that's how it wasn't

0:42:44.560 --> 0:42:47.680
<v Speaker 7>real life. And they, you know, they squashed it real quick,

0:42:47.719 --> 0:42:50.279
<v Speaker 7>and you know, Rick was like, Yo, I'm sorry, man,

0:42:50.440 --> 0:42:52.680
<v Speaker 7>just just having a rough day, man, And I know

0:42:52.840 --> 0:42:53.799
<v Speaker 7>you just throwing.

0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:55.880
<v Speaker 5>A huge point none of us your fucking funck with

0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:58.080
<v Speaker 5>Kanye after fucking Greek stands.

0:42:57.840 --> 0:42:59.720
<v Speaker 1>Up you know what, don't play that ship.

0:43:00.080 --> 0:43:01.720
<v Speaker 3>I'm not like that happened.

0:43:01.760 --> 0:43:05.120
<v Speaker 2>It was like a plane where like someone I don't know,

0:43:05.120 --> 0:43:06.680
<v Speaker 2>maybe I was storing in first class. I don't know

0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:10.040
<v Speaker 2>what it was, but whatever the case was, like I

0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:14.000
<v Speaker 2>have my headphones on and again Treek's like and I'm like, wait,

0:43:14.000 --> 0:43:16.520
<v Speaker 2>what's going on in Trek was like defending like something

0:43:16.560 --> 0:43:19.960
<v Speaker 2>happened with me with dude. I was sitting next to you,

0:43:20.040 --> 0:43:24.160
<v Speaker 2>and Rek just was ready to you know about that

0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:26.920
<v Speaker 2>action exactly, yeah.

0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:30.279
<v Speaker 7>About that actually, so that's what happened, and uh, you know,

0:43:30.520 --> 0:43:34.880
<v Speaker 7>but I was there. I was saying, this almost happened

0:43:34.880 --> 0:43:37.279
<v Speaker 7>again for me and we're so crazy. Is when it

0:43:37.280 --> 0:43:37.840
<v Speaker 7>happened for me.

0:43:37.960 --> 0:43:39.400
<v Speaker 6>Reek was like, yeah, now you got to go to

0:43:39.400 --> 0:43:42.520
<v Speaker 6>the back, and I'm like, god, god, nigga, like Tina took.

0:43:42.360 --> 0:43:45.360
<v Speaker 3>Me to the back, like Tina had security stay with me.

0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:48.400
<v Speaker 1>I was like, damn nigga, Like was that serious?

0:43:48.880 --> 0:43:50.120
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yes, I'm here?

0:43:50.560 --> 0:43:55.480
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, man, how did I not? I don't know,

0:43:55.520 --> 0:43:58.080
<v Speaker 2>maybe my version of roads colored glasses just some other

0:43:58.120 --> 0:43:58.920
<v Speaker 2>ship like that.

0:43:58.920 --> 0:44:00.760
<v Speaker 3>Ship you got on the Ones.

0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:04.040
<v Speaker 1>I did not know none of that.

0:44:04.320 --> 0:44:06.440
<v Speaker 2>Was happening, because the thing was I was just laughing

0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:10.720
<v Speaker 2>at them like they was bickering like an old couple

0:44:10.800 --> 0:44:17.120
<v Speaker 2>all night No, I meant run DMC were bickering like

0:44:17.120 --> 0:44:18.120
<v Speaker 2>an old couple all night.

0:44:18.200 --> 0:44:20.200
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They they couldn't stand each other

0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:20.800
<v Speaker 3>at that point.

0:44:20.960 --> 0:44:24.359
<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, damn just for like, y'all can't get

0:44:24.360 --> 0:44:26.600
<v Speaker 2>it together. And you know, I've spoke to them separately,

0:44:26.800 --> 0:44:31.080
<v Speaker 2>like I've offered to get them a life coach, because literally,

0:44:31.080 --> 0:44:35.359
<v Speaker 2>I think run DMC is probably the only act that

0:44:35.920 --> 0:44:40.920
<v Speaker 2>could do that Rolling Stones action right now if they

0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:47.200
<v Speaker 2>would just drop their ego and and and this is

0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:52.000
<v Speaker 2>now the time for them to really cebmit their legacy

0:44:52.560 --> 0:44:53.200
<v Speaker 2>and important.

0:44:53.239 --> 0:44:54.839
<v Speaker 1>They just cannot.

0:44:55.520 --> 0:44:57.360
<v Speaker 4>Well, I think they started having problems back on the

0:44:57.360 --> 0:44:58.200
<v Speaker 4>Crown Royal album.

0:44:58.239 --> 0:45:00.160
<v Speaker 2>I remember hearing it way back then. I mean that

0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:02.560
<v Speaker 2>was you know, god, that was almost twenty years ago.

0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:04.839
<v Speaker 1>So well that's because he had no voice. But these

0:45:04.920 --> 0:45:06.719
<v Speaker 1>voice is back now. Yeah.

0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:12.479
<v Speaker 7>Sometimes I'm not even you could fix it, and you know, good,

0:45:12.719 --> 0:45:13.320
<v Speaker 7>you better.

0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:14.839
<v Speaker 5>Be a good radio hosting transitions.

0:45:14.880 --> 0:45:18.680
<v Speaker 2>But you know, they they were both willing to meet

0:45:18.760 --> 0:45:19.320
<v Speaker 2>at the middle.

0:45:19.480 --> 0:45:20.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna make this ship happen.

0:45:20.719 --> 0:45:23.480
<v Speaker 2>God damn it, Like I don't seventy years.

0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:25.400
<v Speaker 3>Old, Yeah, leave alone.

0:45:25.520 --> 0:45:31.399
<v Speaker 6>You can't fix six A mender of Bridges goddamn all this.

0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:35.680
<v Speaker 5>Year was a good year. Quest love turn fifty.

0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:42.160
<v Speaker 1>Talking about that was terrible. I don't you know.

0:45:43.280 --> 0:45:46.799
<v Speaker 2>His age is a mystery. We'll say that for the

0:45:48.920 --> 0:45:50.760
<v Speaker 2>we'll say that for the sides.

0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:53.200
<v Speaker 5>I will take that because I might be one.

0:45:53.040 --> 0:45:56.239
<v Speaker 1>Year older than I might be two years older than ship.

0:45:57.320 --> 0:45:58.239
<v Speaker 1>I just discovered.

0:45:58.280 --> 0:46:01.480
<v Speaker 2>I just went to my dad's like old papers, realized

0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:04.279
<v Speaker 2>that he didn't even know his true birthday. Like I

0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:08.080
<v Speaker 2>found his old birth certificate and him and his sister

0:46:09.280 --> 0:46:12.360
<v Speaker 2>been celebrating each other's birthdays all their lives. Like shit,

0:46:12.800 --> 0:46:16.360
<v Speaker 2>wow was June third and she was June second, but

0:46:16.400 --> 0:46:17.440
<v Speaker 2>we all their lives.

0:46:17.520 --> 0:46:20.360
<v Speaker 3>Damn, my birthday is June second.

0:46:20.800 --> 0:46:23.160
<v Speaker 1>Wow, you're a Gemini, yes.

0:46:23.600 --> 0:46:26.160
<v Speaker 3>But both but both of me are very nice people.

0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:32.319
<v Speaker 2>You are the nicest Gemini. I know everyone, not so much.

0:46:32.400 --> 0:46:35.600
<v Speaker 3>You know you. You listen. Listen one thing.

0:46:35.880 --> 0:46:38.399
<v Speaker 7>If it was one thing that that Reek and our

0:46:38.480 --> 0:46:41.600
<v Speaker 7>mere knew about me, that when I hit them up

0:46:42.320 --> 0:46:45.120
<v Speaker 7>and say yo, I'm pulling up, they was like all right, cool.

0:46:45.840 --> 0:46:50.280
<v Speaker 7>I always came dolo. I never had no extra niggas

0:46:50.280 --> 0:46:54.080
<v Speaker 7>with me. It was only one past. It was no

0:46:54.280 --> 0:46:58.880
<v Speaker 7>drama because I took my access to being able to

0:46:58.960 --> 0:47:03.160
<v Speaker 7>rock with the roots, very serious facts. So I was like,

0:47:03.320 --> 0:47:06.359
<v Speaker 7>I was like, I'm never gonna let nobody fuck I'm

0:47:06.400 --> 0:47:08.799
<v Speaker 7>on the bus if I needed to go to the

0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:09.839
<v Speaker 7>next city.

0:47:09.640 --> 0:47:10.560
<v Speaker 3>I got a ride.

0:47:10.640 --> 0:47:15.560
<v Speaker 7>Like I never wanted to fuck up that relationship. So

0:47:15.680 --> 0:47:18.440
<v Speaker 7>I've always anytime it didn't matter what they could be,

0:47:18.520 --> 0:47:21.040
<v Speaker 7>like yo exkills, way, yeah, I'm back them outside yo

0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:23.640
<v Speaker 7>yo mini yo yo go, somebody go grab skills. Yeah,

0:47:24.360 --> 0:47:26.000
<v Speaker 7>And it was just like, damn, that's his skills. It's

0:47:26.000 --> 0:47:29.360
<v Speaker 7>just you, Sean. Everybody knew that. It was always just me.

0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:33.000
<v Speaker 7>We always appreciate me, We appreciate that, always just me.

0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:43.040
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So twenty twenty one, what part two? What's what's

0:47:43.120 --> 0:47:45.560
<v Speaker 2>what's our what's our rating for twenty twenty one?

0:47:46.040 --> 0:47:47.839
<v Speaker 5>Better than twenty Where was it better?

0:47:48.600 --> 0:47:50.640
<v Speaker 3>So it's better than last year for sure?

0:47:51.080 --> 0:47:51.480
<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

0:47:51.920 --> 0:47:55.279
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, but I give it like a C plus Yeah,

0:47:55.360 --> 0:47:59.000
<v Speaker 6>I mean maybe I give it a B definite.

0:47:59.000 --> 0:48:03.319
<v Speaker 1>Ain't getting a my collegiate average C plus.

0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:10.040
<v Speaker 2>Well, you've been doing a lot unpaid bill and we

0:48:10.080 --> 0:48:13.320
<v Speaker 2>don't even get into like what what was the highlight

0:48:13.400 --> 0:48:14.000
<v Speaker 2>of your year?

0:48:14.719 --> 0:48:21.239
<v Speaker 1>A question watching Summer of Soul? No, uh, I don't know.

0:48:21.360 --> 0:48:21.799
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:23.759
<v Speaker 1>It was just such a fucking weird year. I've worked

0:48:23.800 --> 0:48:25.960
<v Speaker 1>a lot. I made two movies which are cool and

0:48:26.000 --> 0:48:30.840
<v Speaker 1>that's exciting, and uh, I don't know, it's it was.

0:48:30.920 --> 0:48:33.160
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's hard. It's in my opinion, it's hard

0:48:33.160 --> 0:48:35.200
<v Speaker 1>to gauge anything right now. Right It's like you have

0:48:35.280 --> 0:48:39.200
<v Speaker 1>highs and lows, but everything's sort of like evens out

0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:43.799
<v Speaker 1>in the middle way you weren't there. Did your song

0:48:43.920 --> 0:48:44.879
<v Speaker 1>make it at all? I didn't.

0:48:44.880 --> 0:48:48.160
<v Speaker 2>I didn't see the rest of the nominations. Uh, your score,

0:48:48.320 --> 0:48:48.680
<v Speaker 2>your song?

0:48:48.760 --> 0:48:51.880
<v Speaker 1>Like are you I'm not nominated. We're not going to

0:48:51.960 --> 0:48:54.000
<v Speaker 1>share in the Oscar Fund, my friend, we will share

0:48:54.080 --> 0:48:54.920
<v Speaker 1>at the Grammy Fund.

0:48:55.120 --> 0:48:58.560
<v Speaker 2>I voted for you though. It's weird. Well, the thing

0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:01.880
<v Speaker 2>is is that I I'm only allowed to voice my

0:49:01.920 --> 0:49:07.279
<v Speaker 2>opinion in the music categories, so I couldn't touch the dot.

0:49:07.520 --> 0:49:11.440
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't even vote in my own category to get

0:49:11.480 --> 0:49:14.680
<v Speaker 2>nominated because I'm not in the dock branch. They're very

0:49:14.680 --> 0:49:17.880
<v Speaker 2>different than music. Like with music, they let you choose

0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:22.040
<v Speaker 2>where you want to place your votes, whereas in the

0:49:22.200 --> 0:49:25.320
<v Speaker 2>academy you have to stay in you is. They're definitely

0:49:25.360 --> 0:49:27.719
<v Speaker 2>about staying in your lane. So I got to vote

0:49:27.800 --> 0:49:32.960
<v Speaker 2>on score and song. But until someone brings me into

0:49:33.000 --> 0:49:34.400
<v Speaker 2>the doc, I think they want to see, like if

0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:36.560
<v Speaker 2>I do two or three of these things, then they'll

0:49:36.600 --> 0:49:38.560
<v Speaker 2>be like, all right, then we'll let you in the

0:49:38.600 --> 0:49:39.200
<v Speaker 2>dock branch.

0:49:39.320 --> 0:49:42.040
<v Speaker 1>But that's why I was a little bit not shocked.

0:49:42.160 --> 0:49:46.160
<v Speaker 2>But I would think strategically, like I wouldn't try to

0:49:46.239 --> 0:49:48.680
<v Speaker 2>vote for the person that is most likely to win.

0:49:49.760 --> 0:49:52.280
<v Speaker 2>If you're being strategic, you know the other dock branch people,

0:49:52.400 --> 0:49:55.359
<v Speaker 2>some of them are in the branch. I wouldn't vote

0:49:55.360 --> 0:49:58.800
<v Speaker 2>for my movie because then that would lessen their chances

0:49:58.800 --> 0:50:01.719
<v Speaker 2>of what you know what I mean, sure, sure, you know.

0:50:01.880 --> 0:50:03.680
<v Speaker 1>How about twenty twenty one is the year you became

0:50:03.719 --> 0:50:06.120
<v Speaker 1>a director, like a film director. For those who do

0:50:06.200 --> 0:50:10.320
<v Speaker 1>not know, very Summer of Soul. Summer Soul was shortlisted

0:50:10.320 --> 0:50:14.040
<v Speaker 1>for an Oscar. That's not like a like a a

0:50:14.280 --> 0:50:17.720
<v Speaker 1>minor award. That's like a major award, and it's very exciting.

0:50:19.760 --> 0:50:21.920
<v Speaker 1>You need some flowers and some ship right now. I

0:50:21.960 --> 0:50:23.880
<v Speaker 1>get a lot of award flowers, but you need to

0:50:23.880 --> 0:50:26.080
<v Speaker 1>shut the fuck up in your Christmas sweater and just

0:50:26.080 --> 0:50:27.440
<v Speaker 1>take it. In a moment, I was.

0:50:27.440 --> 0:50:30.759
<v Speaker 2>Great, man, You guys wore me down. I'm not deflecting.

0:50:31.600 --> 0:50:34.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm not deflecting any praise or any of those things.

0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:35.919
<v Speaker 2>I gladly accept.

0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:38.400
<v Speaker 1>It if we have accomplished anything in the five years

0:50:38.520 --> 0:50:41.320
<v Speaker 1>coming on six. On quest of supreme is that Amir

0:50:41.360 --> 0:50:45.239
<v Speaker 1>doesn't get superbly awkward when we say congratulations. It's fucking fantastic.

0:50:45.920 --> 0:50:49.080
<v Speaker 1>That's true, that's true. No, man, you made a beautiful film. Man,

0:50:49.120 --> 0:50:50.520
<v Speaker 1>I know you made a beautiful film.

0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:54.919
<v Speaker 5>I'll take it thanks that white people love that ship.

0:50:55.280 --> 0:50:56.520
<v Speaker 5>And so that's how I know it.

0:50:56.600 --> 0:51:00.000
<v Speaker 1>White people love, which is.

0:51:02.000 --> 0:51:04.120
<v Speaker 5>Our opinions don't matter. We started the hush for white

0:51:04.120 --> 0:51:05.480
<v Speaker 5>people to be like what they talking about? You know

0:51:05.520 --> 0:51:08.000
<v Speaker 5>what I'm saying. But and yes, my mother saw it

0:51:08.040 --> 0:51:11.160
<v Speaker 5>five times, so yes, you won. However, I'm just saying

0:51:11.200 --> 0:51:13.000
<v Speaker 5>that every white person wants to make it known to

0:51:13.040 --> 0:51:16.640
<v Speaker 5>me and booking this show that their white client love

0:51:16.760 --> 0:51:17.439
<v Speaker 5>Summer Soul.

0:51:18.480 --> 0:51:18.840
<v Speaker 3>You.

0:51:18.840 --> 0:51:21.719
<v Speaker 7>You definitely, Amir, You definitely came out of the gate

0:51:21.800 --> 0:51:23.040
<v Speaker 7>with something special.

0:51:23.080 --> 0:51:25.359
<v Speaker 3>Man, and as your friend, I was.

0:51:25.320 --> 0:51:28.319
<v Speaker 7>Super proud of you watching it because standing back, I

0:51:28.400 --> 0:51:31.560
<v Speaker 7>was like, damn, you know, I was like, well, you know, damn,

0:51:31.560 --> 0:51:33.920
<v Speaker 7>my nigga made a movie. I was like, at least

0:51:33.960 --> 0:51:39.520
<v Speaker 7>he ain't coming to America too shots.

0:51:40.400 --> 0:51:43.560
<v Speaker 4>Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. Look, I

0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:46.400
<v Speaker 4>was not coming to America too, like I didn't. It

0:51:46.520 --> 0:51:49.680
<v Speaker 4>had to happen exactly is before you watched it?

0:51:50.280 --> 0:51:52.560
<v Speaker 1>Right, I knew all I knew. It was just a

0:51:52.600 --> 0:51:53.479
<v Speaker 1>nostalgia play.

0:51:53.680 --> 0:51:56.480
<v Speaker 4>I just wanted fan service and it was just like

0:51:56.560 --> 0:51:59.000
<v Speaker 4>watching a family reunion and I got to see all

0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:00.280
<v Speaker 4>my people and.

0:52:00.080 --> 0:52:00.440
<v Speaker 3>That was it.

0:52:00.840 --> 0:52:03.640
<v Speaker 1>National lampood people. Go ahead.

0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:08.200
<v Speaker 7>I just got one question for everybody. Did you watch

0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:09.120
<v Speaker 7>it more than once?

0:52:09.600 --> 0:52:12.400
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely not, but.

0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:17.520
<v Speaker 5>Let's be twice. That's the sad part.

0:52:17.920 --> 0:52:19.200
<v Speaker 1>So I was gonna say, so, let's be fair.

0:52:19.239 --> 0:52:21.400
<v Speaker 2>So in twenty twenty one, in the era of just

0:52:22.320 --> 0:52:25.759
<v Speaker 2>never ending content, is there anything that we're watching more

0:52:25.760 --> 0:52:26.160
<v Speaker 2>than once?

0:52:26.680 --> 0:52:28.239
<v Speaker 3>I watched Someone Sold more than once.

0:52:28.360 --> 0:52:32.680
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I watched Video Music Box documentary more than once.

0:52:34.320 --> 0:52:36.120
<v Speaker 3>Like it's it's.

0:52:35.960 --> 0:52:37.719
<v Speaker 7>Some good content out there, and I'm like, I'm gonna

0:52:37.760 --> 0:52:39.440
<v Speaker 7>pull this up even if I just got it off

0:52:39.440 --> 0:52:40.919
<v Speaker 7>for background noise and I don't.

0:52:41.040 --> 0:52:42.960
<v Speaker 3>I'm paying attention to it, but I'm kind of not.

0:52:43.440 --> 0:52:46.960
<v Speaker 7>I will never in my life look at coming to

0:52:47.120 --> 0:52:48.280
<v Speaker 7>America too again.

0:52:48.640 --> 0:52:52.239
<v Speaker 5>Ever, I watched I WT you three times.

0:52:52.280 --> 0:52:54.959
<v Speaker 4>You saw Dolomite, and I did like Dolomite. Dolamite was great.

0:52:55.200 --> 0:52:58.160
<v Speaker 5>I like, And I rewind true Story a few times.

0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:03.200
<v Speaker 4>So the best thing that is the best true story

0:53:03.239 --> 0:53:04.600
<v Speaker 4>is the best thing Kevin Hard has ever done.

0:53:05.160 --> 0:53:06.280
<v Speaker 5>It is acting.

0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:12.160
<v Speaker 7>It is okay. And he shot it in Philly. I mean,

0:53:12.200 --> 0:53:14.239
<v Speaker 7>you should see it. He shot it in Philly and I.

0:53:14.200 --> 0:53:14.920
<v Speaker 1>Won't watch it.

0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:17.439
<v Speaker 5>And he shot it in Philly. And for the first

0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:20.200
<v Speaker 5>time a whole TV show licensed the whole catalog to.

0:53:20.200 --> 0:53:23.959
<v Speaker 4>Gambling gambling huff all over this.

0:53:23.920 --> 0:53:26.680
<v Speaker 5>Year the fiftieth anniversary of Gamble uf until in Nashville.

0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:27.919
<v Speaker 5>So it's really dope.

0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:29.840
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you you should watch it. You would have. You

0:53:29.840 --> 0:53:30.960
<v Speaker 3>would enjoy it. I mean.

0:53:33.440 --> 0:53:35.160
<v Speaker 1>The Power of the Dog. Did you watch The Power

0:53:35.200 --> 0:53:36.319
<v Speaker 1>of the Dog? You know what was that?

0:53:36.440 --> 0:53:39.719
<v Speaker 2>The one with Benedict coming back? Yeah, it's called broke

0:53:39.840 --> 0:53:41.920
<v Speaker 2>I didn't like. I went to sleep on it.

0:53:42.040 --> 0:53:46.080
<v Speaker 1>I was. I tried. It's like broke Back Hill. It's

0:53:46.160 --> 0:53:50.759
<v Speaker 1>anyway broke Back Hill. No, you know what broke back

0:53:50.920 --> 0:53:54.680
<v Speaker 1>I started when when you're an Academy member, not only

0:53:54.719 --> 0:53:58.680
<v Speaker 1>do they send us, are you going to start sat

0:53:58.960 --> 0:53:59.239
<v Speaker 1>like that?

0:53:59.239 --> 0:54:01.239
<v Speaker 3>That's two like five minutes.

0:54:01.400 --> 0:54:02.880
<v Speaker 1>Just showing you how it is.

0:54:03.160 --> 0:54:03.279
<v Speaker 5>No.

0:54:03.360 --> 0:54:07.360
<v Speaker 2>But the thing is also they keep they keep tabs

0:54:07.400 --> 0:54:10.280
<v Speaker 2>on how active you are as an Academy member.

0:54:11.280 --> 0:54:13.240
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh, Like because.

0:54:13.239 --> 0:54:15.840
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't, you know. I mean I see movies on

0:54:15.880 --> 0:54:17.920
<v Speaker 2>my own, which is what I did before, Like I

0:54:18.040 --> 0:54:20.879
<v Speaker 2>never like looked at they used to send DVDs or whatever.

0:54:21.000 --> 0:54:23.480
<v Speaker 2>But now they have like their own streaming service. So

0:54:23.480 --> 0:54:26.840
<v Speaker 2>there's like one hundred and sixty four films you're supposed

0:54:26.840 --> 0:54:28.919
<v Speaker 2>to go through. I don't know if I'm gonna watch

0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:35.160
<v Speaker 2>all one hundred and sixty four. I watched Denzel in Macbeth.

0:54:35.719 --> 0:54:37.680
<v Speaker 1>Macbeth. Yeah, I got to check.

0:54:37.560 --> 0:54:40.560
<v Speaker 2>It only because, like you know, I mean I've read

0:54:40.560 --> 0:54:43.520
<v Speaker 2>it so much in school and whatnot, Like I'm curious

0:54:43.560 --> 0:54:45.120
<v Speaker 2>to Macbeth.

0:54:47.040 --> 0:54:51.440
<v Speaker 1>Zel do I saw did he play? Did he play himself?

0:54:51.440 --> 0:54:55.239
<v Speaker 1>In training day? In Macbeth? There was in my head

0:54:55.320 --> 0:54:55.879
<v Speaker 1>like ha ha.

0:54:56.239 --> 0:55:00.640
<v Speaker 2>Like I thought, that's what I'm tired of people.

0:55:01.480 --> 0:55:03.440
<v Speaker 5>There are too many actors who play themselves that I'm

0:55:03.440 --> 0:55:07.000
<v Speaker 5>noticed in these days, and I'm like, everybody playing because.

0:55:08.680 --> 0:55:09.200
<v Speaker 3>Himself.

0:55:10.120 --> 0:55:14.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, let's talk about it. They're talking Elizabethan. It shot

0:55:14.239 --> 0:55:18.560
<v Speaker 2>beautifully I don't know if it's it's gonna be very

0:55:18.560 --> 0:55:21.319
<v Speaker 2>interesting to see, Like I know the tracks is going

0:55:21.360 --> 0:55:22.880
<v Speaker 2>to be like Denzel Is Macbeth.

0:55:23.120 --> 0:55:28.560
<v Speaker 1>But as an Academy member. As an Academy member, how

0:55:28.600 --> 0:55:30.359
<v Speaker 1>do you what is your favorite film of the year.

0:55:30.880 --> 0:55:34.359
<v Speaker 1>I just saw a Pig, which.

0:55:39.600 --> 0:55:43.840
<v Speaker 2>Basically Nicholas Cage was like once like a James Beard

0:55:44.480 --> 0:55:50.359
<v Speaker 2>micheline chef that went off the grid and his his

0:55:50.560 --> 0:55:56.239
<v Speaker 2>beloved pet pig gets kidnapped. His his his pig is

0:55:56.280 --> 0:55:59.920
<v Speaker 2>like the best truffle pig there is. You know, you

0:56:00.160 --> 0:56:03.640
<v Speaker 2>need pigs to search for truffles and then you sell

0:56:03.640 --> 0:56:07.640
<v Speaker 2>those truffles for gazillions of dollars and you know, so

0:56:07.680 --> 0:56:12.480
<v Speaker 2>it's basically a story of a kidnapped truffle pig that

0:56:14.040 --> 0:56:19.040
<v Speaker 2>Nicholas Cage spends the entire movie looking for. But it's

0:56:19.600 --> 0:56:22.000
<v Speaker 2>it's it's intensive ship. It's definitely going to be like

0:56:22.080 --> 0:56:24.480
<v Speaker 2>one of the one of the sounds.

0:56:24.200 --> 0:56:30.239
<v Speaker 7>Like one of the joints sounds like pigs. Do it

0:56:30.400 --> 0:56:33.919
<v Speaker 7>sounds like a pig came to America?

0:56:34.239 --> 0:56:38.720
<v Speaker 2>No, I'm just what do you call it? Also, Drive

0:56:38.760 --> 0:56:42.640
<v Speaker 2>My Car. I believe Drive My Car is probably the

0:56:42.640 --> 0:56:45.880
<v Speaker 2>film that's going to be uh, this year's Oscar winner?

0:56:46.160 --> 0:56:47.160
<v Speaker 1>What is this about?

0:56:47.360 --> 0:56:51.840
<v Speaker 3>West Side? Dollars?

0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:57.600
<v Speaker 1>Like he's a tick tick move forty dollars?

0:56:57.640 --> 0:56:57.960
<v Speaker 5>Bill?

0:56:59.320 --> 0:57:02.280
<v Speaker 3>Laugh at that west Side story made forty eight dollars?

0:57:02.640 --> 0:57:03.480
<v Speaker 3>Stop it did?

0:57:03.719 --> 0:57:04.480
<v Speaker 1>Why is that a joke?

0:57:05.160 --> 0:57:05.960
<v Speaker 3>No, it's not.

0:57:06.440 --> 0:57:09.799
<v Speaker 5>That's you know the rest of the Bill's joke. I'm saying, wait,

0:57:11.320 --> 0:57:13.280
<v Speaker 5>because he made though he made those other two movies,

0:57:13.320 --> 0:57:14.000
<v Speaker 5>so he.

0:57:13.840 --> 0:57:16.720
<v Speaker 1>Can't be Musicals don't make movies. Let's get it to it.

0:57:17.000 --> 0:57:17.640
<v Speaker 5>Well, I mean.

0:57:19.080 --> 0:57:21.480
<v Speaker 1>Music, musicals don't make money, is what I was trying

0:57:21.480 --> 0:57:24.479
<v Speaker 1>to take this much? Are you guys more gun shy? Now?

0:57:25.240 --> 0:57:28.880
<v Speaker 2>Well, since you kind of did Hamilton already, is there

0:57:28.920 --> 0:57:33.120
<v Speaker 2>a need to do Hamilton the movie? Or do you

0:57:33.160 --> 0:57:34.880
<v Speaker 2>guys consider what you guys did on.

0:57:37.520 --> 0:57:37.680
<v Speaker 1>Right?

0:57:37.760 --> 0:57:41.160
<v Speaker 2>But that's the performance? But will there be a movie

0:57:41.200 --> 0:57:42.680
<v Speaker 2>sized version of Hamilton?

0:57:44.600 --> 0:57:46.760
<v Speaker 1>Of course you'd be a dumb ass not to make it.

0:57:47.240 --> 0:57:49.520
<v Speaker 1>Does anybody gonna see it? I don't know, but they'll

0:57:49.520 --> 0:57:49.919
<v Speaker 1>make it?

0:57:49.960 --> 0:57:53.000
<v Speaker 2>So wait, is it true that west Side? Even though

0:57:53.080 --> 0:57:54.600
<v Speaker 2>it's getting crazy acclaim?

0:57:55.120 --> 0:57:58.400
<v Speaker 5>What the claim gives people don't see?

0:57:58.440 --> 0:57:59.880
<v Speaker 3>Here's the thing, people that.

0:58:01.960 --> 0:58:05.320
<v Speaker 1>Three hundred million dollars this past weekend, and and West

0:58:05.320 --> 0:58:06.600
<v Speaker 1>Side Story made about ten.

0:58:07.960 --> 0:58:09.280
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so here's the thing.

0:58:10.160 --> 0:58:12.240
<v Speaker 7>Here's the thing, because this I saw La Yeah, I

0:58:12.280 --> 0:58:15.080
<v Speaker 7>saw Layah's frustration when I'm mere says this, and this is.

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<v Speaker 1>A always frustration.

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<v Speaker 7>This is an issue that I've always had with a

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<v Speaker 7>Mirror from the day I met him.

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<v Speaker 3>Like, it's like it's.

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<v Speaker 7>The it's the acclaim a mirror with Like we would

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<v Speaker 7>be talking and you know, I'm miror with you know,

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<v Speaker 7>because he obsesses over right, We'll be looking at We'll

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<v Speaker 7>be looking at the source and have a fucking on

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<v Speaker 7>the back of the bus and have a four hour

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<v Speaker 7>conversation about how somebody saw fit to only get these

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<v Speaker 7>niggas three mics like and I'll be like, I mean,

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<v Speaker 7>why do you care so much? Just a UGK album?

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<v Speaker 7>Why the fuck you care? And He'll be like, nah, bro,

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<v Speaker 7>you don't understand skills. It deserves more than that, and

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<v Speaker 7>I'm like so so later on in life, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>when the Roots would drop albums, I only paid attention

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<v Speaker 7>to those reviews. I didn't look at nobody else's They

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<v Speaker 7>could rate a jay Z album. I wouldn't give a

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<v Speaker 7>fuck when they put a roots album in a in

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<v Speaker 7>a in a publication. I would automatically go look at

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<v Speaker 7>the reviews, like Snap they only gave, They only gave Phynology,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, is no Snap. So it was always a

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<v Speaker 7>thing with me and our mirror about he cares so

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<v Speaker 7>much and I just didn't, I guess because I never

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<v Speaker 7>put out those I ain't never put out that many albums.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's too much.

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<v Speaker 5>It's a whole nother thing, and I'm like, there's.

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<v Speaker 2>Too much for me to take in. And my thing

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<v Speaker 2>is that I at least want to see what the

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<v Speaker 2>aggregate is as far as the general opinion of critics

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<v Speaker 2>that I like what they think about something before I say, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna take two hours too, what about?

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<v Speaker 3>What do you what about?

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<v Speaker 5>When the people say that they like it or they

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<v Speaker 5>don't like, what about? Regular people gather and it's a

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<v Speaker 5>whole bunch of them and they like it and they say.

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<v Speaker 1>It's good regular people. While I'm an industry person, he's

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<v Speaker 1>an Academy member.

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<v Speaker 5>There are different kind of combinations that you can do

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<v Speaker 5>with that.

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<v Speaker 7>All I remember being in the studio with it, like God,

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<v Speaker 7>bless God, blessed Rich. I would be in the studio

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<v Speaker 7>with Rich and Dice. You know what I mean, Like

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<v Speaker 7>these motherfuckers they on the road like it's just me,

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<v Speaker 7>Dice and Rich just working on hooks and shit, and

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<v Speaker 7>then like it like Dice might say some shit. I

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<v Speaker 7>might say some shit and Dice will go lay it down,

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<v Speaker 7>and then fucking Rich will come in and Rich will

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<v Speaker 7>be like, yeah, Nah, the fucking Ye're not a publication,

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<v Speaker 7>They're not gonna like this shit. I'm like Rich, like,

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<v Speaker 7>are we writing for pumplications?

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<v Speaker 1>Rich?

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<v Speaker 2>He's thinking to Rich, freak out. The barbershops lockdown. Back then,

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<v Speaker 2>I used to care what I didn't care what Pitchfork thought,

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<v Speaker 2>but I did care the fact that there's a point

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<v Speaker 2>in two thousand and four where your average local publication,

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<v Speaker 2>like you're whatever, the San Francisco or the Oklahoma or

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<v Speaker 2>the Saint Louis version of the Village Voice, I would

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<v Speaker 2>notice that, like, Wow, they're just going to see what

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<v Speaker 2>Pitchwork says and then plagiarize the same.

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<v Speaker 1>Thing for their own review.

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<v Speaker 2>Like there's a point where after the arts, where after

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<v Speaker 2>two thousand, where I believe critics stopped like listening to

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<v Speaker 2>a record informing their own opinion, and they decided that

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<v Speaker 2>like a great example is I got to bring it

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<v Speaker 2>back to old boy beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy, where no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>we could take that away, we could look at hell

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<v Speaker 2>haf no fury clips. Now, that particular review in Pitchfork

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<v Speaker 2>always bothered me because of the way that it was

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<v Speaker 2>like such a I mean, they were salivating. It was like,

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<v Speaker 2>to me the highest form of like white fetishism of

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<v Speaker 2>like cocaine street black life, to the point where I

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<v Speaker 2>found it offensive. But everyone, every little blog and critics

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<v Speaker 2>sort of made that their north star because it was

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<v Speaker 2>like it was basically like the writers at ESNL just

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<v Speaker 2>like salivating over like what real street life is like,

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<v Speaker 2>like snowing the bluff, but a more successful version of like, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>let's visit the hood and see what it's like and

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<v Speaker 2>woa So reading like, did I agree that that album

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<v Speaker 2>was incredible?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes?

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<v Speaker 2>Did I have a problem with the writers at Pitchfork

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<v Speaker 2>salivating over it in some sort of black fetish way. Absolutely.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's not like I ride with it, but I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just very.

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<v Speaker 5>Much a will to validate what writers at Pitchfork say

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<v Speaker 5>when you didn't appreciate them salivating over that shit and

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<v Speaker 5>being like the white people that they are the thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Is is that at the time Critical Claim is all

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<v Speaker 2>the roots had to justify their existence on a label

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<v Speaker 2>that they weren't making money. We weren't DMX selling four million.

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<v Speaker 1>You got you?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Critical Critical Love, that was all that was your

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<v Speaker 4>lifeline that I.

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<v Speaker 7>Needed to hear that I needed. I needed to hear that.

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<v Speaker 7>I mean, that's what I.

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<v Speaker 3>Needed to hear.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why Critical Claims album.

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<v Speaker 5>Why I continue it because at a certain point it

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<v Speaker 5>sounds like you care about about three or four white

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<v Speaker 5>people say, because the critics who really matter are usually

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<v Speaker 5>non non black people anyway, So when you say you

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<v Speaker 5>don't care about what regular people say because you're an

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<v Speaker 5>industry person, it.

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds okay, well you gotta speak loud.

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<v Speaker 5>Like I said, it sounds a little out of touch

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<v Speaker 5>to some That's what I was saying. That's all I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I appreciate the four.

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<v Speaker 2>Platforms, Like I think now I think, I think I

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<v Speaker 2>get what you're saying, Like I think what it is

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm hearing you say mere is like when he

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<v Speaker 2>says he's an industry person, I don't think it's necessarily

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<v Speaker 2>like you're.

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<v Speaker 4>Looking at it like I need these people to validate me.

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<v Speaker 4>It's just more so I need to know who with

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<v Speaker 4>me so I can leverage them for other opportunities.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 4>It's not about whether.

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<v Speaker 5>You you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 7>It's like we're not selling We ain't selling Hello copies.

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<v Speaker 7>But if fucking Rolling Stone give us a good review,

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<v Speaker 7>I should have made sense to these motherfucking suits.

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<v Speaker 5>I get it, Thank you, And that's a lesson for

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<v Speaker 5>all of us. Everybody didn't understand.

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<v Speaker 7>Me, but me and Ameya used to go back and

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<v Speaker 7>forth over the show. I used to it used to

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<v Speaker 7>grind my motherfucking gears. But now I understand.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm glad.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm glad after all these years, I finally got we

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<v Speaker 7>haven't understanding.

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<v Speaker 5>Hold up all right, y'all. So that was part one

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<v Speaker 5>of this week's episode. Stay tuned because next week, next Wednesday,

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<v Speaker 5>Part two, and you don't want to miss it.

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