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Speaker 1: top five best storytelling records, a favorite topic of mine.
Speaker 1: This is a hard one. Honestly, I thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna be easy, but I'm like Dre, there's so many.
Speaker 1: There's so many, there's a lot, there's so many. Let's
Speaker 1: get into it, all right, guys. It's the what hip
Speaker 1: hop questions letters and listen today we're talking top five
Speaker 1: best storytelling rap songs. But I want to know Mouse
Speaker 1: and d Blocks like to you, guys, what makes a
Speaker 1: good storytelling record? Oh? I mean one telling a story? Yeah,
Speaker 1: got to tell a story, um, captain obvious. Yeah you
Speaker 1: know it's right there. Sometimes sometimes you gotta take it
Speaker 1: right there. Uh would make suget that's good. Um doing
Speaker 1: more than enough, but not doing too much right where
Speaker 1: Like I think when people get just to do a
Speaker 1: good storytelling, you don't have to have like the greatest
Speaker 1: lyrical dexterity. You just have to be able to keep
Speaker 1: somebody's attention for three minutes, right, So I think sometimes
Speaker 1: the lyrical miracle rappers do a little bit too much. WHOA.
Speaker 1: I'm not hate like that type of rap. I like it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying some time they can do too much
Speaker 1: and you lose people because you have to keep people attention.
Speaker 1: I think, to be honest, I would love to hear
Speaker 1: storytelling record from like Geez. I think Jeez does it good.
Speaker 1: I think Jeez does it like an amazing job of
Speaker 1: keeping you captivated and engaged throughout songs. I would love
Speaker 1: to hear him just tell one story, which he kind
Speaker 1: of did on this last mixtape with Drama talking about
Speaker 1: I think it was like something Michael Jackson cry. I
Speaker 1: think that's the name of the song he's talking about. No,
Speaker 1: it was says not name song. I forgot named the song.
Speaker 1: But he's talking about like his homeboy Pat, all his
Speaker 1: friends passing. Um. Sure it wasn't like one linear storyline
Speaker 1: about one person, but it's still it stayed on topic.
Speaker 1: M So I would have loved to hear more stuff
Speaker 1: like that from him. But I just think being able
Speaker 1: to keep someone's attention almost like writing a movie, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to keeping me on the edge of my
Speaker 1: seat for the next word. Yeah, I agree, nothing black.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, just like any story beginning,
Speaker 1: middle and end, you know, I think that middle part
Speaker 1: sometimes gets lost as far as like creating those stakes.
Speaker 1: I think that's why I Biggie does such a good
Speaker 1: job on a lot of his storytelling reps is that
Speaker 1: he has that middle part that kind of gets you,
Speaker 1: gets that has the stakes in it, you know, especially
Speaker 1: you know, I got a story to tell, you know,
Speaker 1: that middle part where the man walks in, man walks
Speaker 1: in and he has to figure out what to do.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, I think for me, I really like
Speaker 1: like records that evoke emotion, So like you're telling the
Speaker 1: story maybe something I've been through, or like something somebody
Speaker 1: I know run away low, I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know why jumped. Not bad. You've been practicing
Speaker 1: something that's familiar. Who's inspired that? No, you said something that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: something that's familiar, something that I'm like, damn, I feel this.
Speaker 1: So that's what that's what gets me going. I want
Speaker 1: to come to storytelling records. So let's start off. Let's
Speaker 1: do it starting with me you first, Yeah, come on,
Speaker 1: I know, right, it's so hard to pick five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, can we do honorable mentions first?
Speaker 1: Are you guys doing a specific order? I have mine
Speaker 1: in order. My one is just the one and then
Speaker 1: the rest of they're just your number. One is your
Speaker 1: number one? Yeah, two, three, four, five? Yeah? Mine, Yeah,
Speaker 1: mine is in order. Let's get some honorable mentions out.
Speaker 1: So my honorable mention is Keisha song. Wait, can we
Speaker 1: do honorable mentions at the end, because I don't know
Speaker 1: who's gonna make my five? See, get your shit together.
Speaker 1: You can name one that's not gonna make your five, Okay,
Speaker 1: Yeah I can't. Actually I'm gonna say Keisha song by
Speaker 1: um Kendrick Lamar. That is like, it's not on my five,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a it's a huge, huge favorite of mine,
Speaker 1: like since SEC Like I think you had two records
Speaker 1: on section eighty that were like super heavy and storytelling. Um,
Speaker 1: I want to say it was that song and tim
Speaker 1: Soul Tammy Song obviously was a little bit more playful,
Speaker 1: you know, like with the whole you know, the girl
Speaker 1: end up turning, you know queer at the end. But
Speaker 1: Kesha song just you know, telling that story of the
Speaker 1: young prostitute. Kenrick actually has a shittle. His old first
Speaker 1: album is one big story, like I love it. Even
Speaker 1: his early mixtape. It's too many, but that's a that's
Speaker 1: a good one. Yeah, what about you, d Black honorable mentions.
Speaker 1: I put something that's a little fun just a friend
Speaker 1: by Biz Markey. Yeah, just a great story. Stop Tomato,
Speaker 1: Tomato for that the what we're talking about the greatest.
Speaker 1: We're talking about things that one has the test of time.
Speaker 1: The new generation flip a commercial that had bismarket. Did
Speaker 1: that song stand at toch time? I did? Or did
Speaker 1: Mario's remix stand at touch time? No? Not Mario's remix?
Speaker 1: Well no, no, Mario's remix absolutely. Whoa wait wait to
Speaker 1: show you ware to show your age? D block? No
Speaker 1: Marry what are you ready for me? All? You gotta
Speaker 1: do that bridge you called me anytime or any time
Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't fight
Speaker 1: the feeling. Don't fight the feeling. So o girl, and
Speaker 1: they're not doing that. They're not doing that for we
Speaker 1: should change the name this podcast to wash young in
Speaker 1: and somewhere in the middle, and somewhere in the middle,
Speaker 1: what about you now, listens, we're just putting anything up there. Now. Wait,
Speaker 1: that's your only one. I got missfat Booty by most
Speaker 1: stuff too as your honorable mention. But there's another honorable
Speaker 1: mention that I think we need to talk about. What
Speaker 1: you better not say it. Stan Stan is a good
Speaker 1: storytelling song. Arren got all the tomatoes today, Arren got
Speaker 1: all yours, all yours today. It's a good story though.
Speaker 1: It's a good story, a good story end. I mean,
Speaker 1: if a black man wrote that, he'd be locked up,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I think writes for him a movie.
Speaker 1: They're similar? What the fuck? No? I When Clark Kent
Speaker 1: was on here, he talked about Kendrick and Eminem similarities.
Speaker 1: Oh ky sense that he's talking about stuff that's unspoken
Speaker 1: right in white, white families. So as it is, I know,
Speaker 1: I didn't think overall, I think the worst part about
Speaker 1: stan Is is when Eminem comes into the song at
Speaker 1: the end. I think the guy from the point of
Speaker 1: view of the fan, when he comes in at the end,
Speaker 1: it feels kind of like milk toast to me. It
Speaker 1: feels like, I mean, like, that song doesn't live without that,
Speaker 1: the song doesn't connect her. But I feel, yeah, that
Speaker 1: song doesn't. That's sharper, you know. It's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying it was you. That song doesn't become
Speaker 1: the hit it does without that, like because no one
Speaker 1: was no one's playing, no one's playing that song, hum like,
Speaker 1: and we should be together, just like shit that he
Speaker 1: was throwing out there. Stan became a part of the
Speaker 1: vernacular after that. Yeah, you know, I think it's a
Speaker 1: very it's a you know, it's a great song. It's
Speaker 1: not my top five, though it sounds like it's close
Speaker 1: to the top. I say that I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Lupey Fiasco. Paris Tokyo. It's one of my favorite You
Speaker 1: don't like Paris Tokyo. I thought you're gonna say Kick
Speaker 1: Push Kick pushes one too, But I like Paris Tokyo
Speaker 1: because I just feel like I want them what anyway,
Speaker 1: I love Paris Tokyo is one of my favorite records
Speaker 1: just in general, because it's a guy who's saying I'm working,
Speaker 1: but you're still with me, like in spirit. And then
Speaker 1: eventually she does actually get to go with him to
Speaker 1: like Paris into Tokyo and travel the world and as
Speaker 1: he makes money on music, and I just fuck with
Speaker 1: it because I am a girl who's working and making
Speaker 1: money on music. So I feel it. So anyway, Wow,
Speaker 1: I don't like you any other any other outside Do
Speaker 1: you want to get to that layer? Neither? Um. I
Speaker 1: guess I'll go with ice Cube. Today was a good day. Okay,
Speaker 1: wow wow, Okay, that's I'm not mad. I also would
Speaker 1: like to uh say, I forgot to mention what we
Speaker 1: mean you talked about well fair slowdown that I think
Speaker 1: about it is brand new, being like yeah, like that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one of them. Don't let it go to your head.
Speaker 1: That's the other one, because I feel like it's half storytelling,
Speaker 1: half not ish. But I listened to that record a
Speaker 1: lot when I just be looking at the culture and
Speaker 1: things that it's happening, or just I want y'all knowledge.
Speaker 1: And the thirtieth when I interact with certain people, I'd
Speaker 1: just be like, put she's been here before, this brand
Speaker 1: Nubian to get my mind right, because these niggas is crazy.
Speaker 1: We're out here listening to touch an somebody. Some internet
Speaker 1: nerd realized the actual day. Ice C was talking about,
Speaker 1: like put it all together. What day of the day
Speaker 1: it is, February twenty to nineteen ninety three. The Lakers,
Speaker 1: because last night it's actually pretty easy, or you have
Speaker 1: to do it at all, it's not hard at all.
Speaker 1: Last night the Lakers beat the SuperSonics. Well you have
Speaker 1: to do is look up the night the Lakers beat
Speaker 1: the SuperSonics. Shake them up, Shake them up, shake them up.
Speaker 1: Shake is a little inauthentic. A triple double cube, No,
Speaker 1: it's not. Sometimes that letting me know you're gonna be
Speaker 1: playing basketball with the homies, because sometimes it just be
Speaker 1: your day and it feels like you fucked around and
Speaker 1: got a triple double. And it might not have been
Speaker 1: a strong double. Ten ten tens, might have been ten
Speaker 1: ten ten turnovers, might have had ten turnovers tennessis and
Speaker 1: you might have got blocked ten times, but you fucked
Speaker 1: around it you got a triple double. We didn't say.
Speaker 1: He didn't say what kind of triple double was true.
Speaker 1: I would start what I number five or I number one,
Speaker 1: number five because my number one is so important to me,
Speaker 1: and I would be pisseding. Y'all say it. Hold on,
Speaker 1: let me get to these tomatoes. Oh he's ready because
Speaker 1: I put some young niggas on here because I knew
Speaker 1: y'all wasn't I love the show. This is, this is
Speaker 1: what why Washed the Young One? And somewhere in the
Speaker 1: middle of featuring the Wash the Young One And as
Speaker 1: long as everyone knows who's uh cool, who I am
Speaker 1: definitely young somewhere. No, no, you have the fuck it
Speaker 1: somewhere laws All right, let's do it. I'll kick it
Speaker 1: off my number five The Artist storytelling by Alka Suh.
Speaker 1: I love that I love me personally, I love cohesiveness,
Speaker 1: and I love I mean outcast is my I've said
Speaker 1: this in a multiple ocasion. I outcasting my favorite group. Um,
Speaker 1: but as a kid growing up in New York, I
Speaker 1: didn't hear those stories. I didn't hear it that way.
Speaker 1: Um you hit You know that hundred three thousand verse
Speaker 1: probably one of my one of my favorite hundred three
Speaker 1: thousand verses, just talking about the young girl, like there
Speaker 1: were just so much stuff nuanced that I was hearing
Speaker 1: that you didn't expect to hear from a person from
Speaker 1: the South. And you know that might have been just
Speaker 1: my young ignorance at the time. Um, I also love
Speaker 1: that the Artist Storytelling isn't the only artist storytelling. It's
Speaker 1: four of them. Yeah, and each one. I don't know
Speaker 1: about two, but each one two is not my favorite.
Speaker 1: But like three and four, No, I think that's three.
Speaker 1: Three has slick Rick and four is him and the drama. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. The Artist Storytelling, which is on
Speaker 1: my list, is the story of two women, Susie Screw
Speaker 1: Susie's and Sasha Thumper. Sasha it calls her a thumper
Speaker 1: because she's one is a very promiscuous woman. The other
Speaker 1: is a drug. I think it's I think it's a
Speaker 1: great song. Like I said, you don't hear those stories,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you weren't hearing those stories.
Speaker 1: And then, like I said, there's just something about that
Speaker 1: Southern draw that Andrew three thousand was in the middle
Speaker 1: of like crafting at the time, that just literally pulls
Speaker 1: you in. Oh you know what, he's on part one.
Speaker 1: He's on the first one. I think he's in a sample.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, but slick Rick is on the third one,
Speaker 1: on the second. Yeah. No, that's a that's a great one.
Speaker 1: That's definitely on my list too. But this is on
Speaker 1: your list and taking it off my list so I
Speaker 1: can just give you somebody else favorite line in that
Speaker 1: song that had a part of I think that I
Speaker 1: think that intro my favorite, just the way he played
Speaker 1: with the way he sung it, the cadence. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have a favorite. To me, it's not
Speaker 1: one of those. Well, it's like, I goes back to
Speaker 1: what I was saying earlier about lyrical dexter. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was so much that the line. There were
Speaker 1: favorite lines, it was the through line that got me,
Speaker 1: Like as if I was watching a movie two different
Speaker 1: women and then hearing you know, hearing big boys look,
Speaker 1: hearing Andre's look, and then I really loved the way
Speaker 1: Andre brought in his verse side the girl name, like
Speaker 1: it just was like okay. It was like it was
Speaker 1: like sitting in a bathtub and just letting the water
Speaker 1: fill up, if that makes sense, right, Like You're just okay,
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable. I'm here wherever you want to, wherever you
Speaker 1: want to take me. I'm going at this point, production
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. You want to be when you grow up,
Speaker 1: she said, Dad, she said, she said alive. She said,
Speaker 1: I want to be alive. I really like the beginning
Speaker 1: where it's the small thing that love that when I'm
Speaker 1: ready for nihilist production, Yo, I love that. That whole
Speaker 1: organized noise beautiful. What makes their production so great? I
Speaker 1: think to me, it's just like you could hear the
Speaker 1: soul and the beats absolutely once they start rapping on it,
Speaker 1: It's just like magic that China. It was all there
Speaker 1: and in the end where it like yeah yeah, actually
Speaker 1: now some of the excuse people on me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what this should have been on the album where you
Speaker 1: can like skip it, not on the song where I
Speaker 1: got here the whole thing. WHOA, You're so disrespectful. And
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about this with outcasts like on
Speaker 1: The Miseducation, I always got to hear a skite. I'm
Speaker 1: so tired of hearing that. El oh V, what's happening here?
Speaker 1: Love Love Heaveny, y'all been in love every TJ I
Speaker 1: can understand when I was coming. You love them. I
Speaker 1: love you guys. My thing would skid you if you
Speaker 1: put it on the album. You gotta live with it.
Speaker 1: So when you got to skip that works, you need it,
Speaker 1: you got to skip that doesn't work. Keep no if
Speaker 1: the album is not do you remember? I? Oh god,
Speaker 1: don't its own track? I guess because it's a part
Speaker 1: of the song. Yeah, But now when I'm trying to
Speaker 1: put it on a playlist, you got a whole skit
Speaker 1: leading into the song that I know. You got to
Speaker 1: go into app Let me tell you, go into Apple
Speaker 1: like we used to do back in the day. And
Speaker 1: you you you remember you when you used to be
Speaker 1: able to go yeah on iTunes? You used to be
Speaker 1: able to scrub, but you could used to be able
Speaker 1: to change the time. So do that. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can still do it on iTunes, but
Speaker 1: back in the day you could. You remember what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, Like used to be like if the songs
Speaker 1: like five minutes, you could go and then stop the
Speaker 1: song at like three. Well that's great. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can still do that. I can't with these
Speaker 1: skits like you I then you can do it if
Speaker 1: it's downloaded to your computer computer, not if it's like
Speaker 1: on Apple Music. Got it. But speaking of skits with
Speaker 1: daylog back in our in all our mind high rise
Speaker 1: and skit is what the whole game show that's happening? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say, And even from listening to the Daylight
Speaker 1: Daylight album, like it's making me a fan of scratching.
Speaker 1: Like I've always like want us to know just so
Speaker 1: hip hop Piers or DJ Piers can't come and be like,
Speaker 1: oh you're not ready to blaah blah. But now it's
Speaker 1: like I actually like it sonically in the music. I
Speaker 1: know when I hear it like on air, i'd be like,
Speaker 1: do less and just play the record. But there's a
Speaker 1: time and the place, and I think it was done well.
Speaker 1: The hope, the hope, remember you asking me the favorite
Speaker 1: but the hook, the hook was like that, y'all get
Speaker 1: the hump or you're back now, it's like that and
Speaker 1: like that, And it took me a lot of Let
Speaker 1: me also say this because I know sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: our peers can even be on these platforms and do
Speaker 1: sometimes accidentally or even on purpose, sound like you know historian,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I'm a historian a different way where like
Speaker 1: it didn't hit me. I didn't know what the fuck
Speaker 1: they were talking about for the longest. It didn't hit
Speaker 1: me until because like I told you before, like my
Speaker 1: introduction to outcasts was music videos. Um that would like
Speaker 1: like on rap City and then um be in my house.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember that, but I know
Speaker 1: you do. So like being my house would be like
Speaker 1: where I guess you know, being older than you realize,
Speaker 1: like all the labels would have all these printed up
Speaker 1: CDs and whatever didn't sell obviously they would have in
Speaker 1: a in a warehouse, and then you can like subscribe
Speaker 1: to the CDs place, so you you get like what
Speaker 1: was it that deep Black Hound? Sorry, you get like
Speaker 1: ten CDs for like ninety nine cent, and then the
Speaker 1: next time you'd order, like I guess, you'd pay full price,
Speaker 1: and then you're like another sixteen for like six cents.
Speaker 1: So like Columbia Records, there was like Columbia. How there's
Speaker 1: Columbia that was being mine? There was somebody else, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so um that's how I got at Aliens. And so
Speaker 1: I had an eight Aliens as a CD. As a kid,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I'm just like like in the music, I
Speaker 1: didn't know what the hell was going on. And like Outcast,
Speaker 1: just every time they were on my TV, they fucking
Speaker 1: grabbed my attention, like whether it was like me and
Speaker 1: you your mom and your cousin too veron like cad
Speaker 1: like doll, like just say everything about them always encapsulated.
Speaker 1: I think I have another. Yeah, So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: talking that shit, sit my duck, Like, yeah, we're talking
Speaker 1: about two guys who don't They don't really get their credit.
Speaker 1: They don't get the credit they deserve. Big Boys were
Speaker 1: plays like he's phenomenal. But I think that just happens.
Speaker 1: And I've been you know, I've been a victim of
Speaker 1: it as well, Like I've just jumped off the boat
Speaker 1: and been like, oh, I should think I'm in the graded,
Speaker 1: which I do believe. I do believe. I Undres thy
Speaker 1: thousand is top three grades lyricists of all time. But man,
Speaker 1: big boy does not get his credit for one just
Speaker 1: being as nice as he is too, standing next to
Speaker 1: hundreds thy thousand and being just as nice as he is.
Speaker 1: So that's a good one. So you currently listen to
Speaker 1: the what hip Hop Questions legends unless will be right
Speaker 1: back after this break. What you got? So for my
Speaker 1: number five, I'm just get this out the way. Here
Speaker 1: we go. It's Jake Cold Lights please? Are you? And
Speaker 1: you know what Jacod want another one that I would
Speaker 1: just put comma Jake Cold Lights please, Comma sideline story
Speaker 1: and I have to put you on my Sideline Story.
Speaker 1: You're these are yours? These are your pick. I'm saying
Speaker 1: he has songs that you are just skipping over. Which
Speaker 1: one do you think should be? It Dreams, My Dreams? No,
Speaker 1: that's the one where he killed a boy. Yes, yeah
Speaker 1: that's not then you got Dreams and then knows the
Speaker 1: other one Enchanted? Oh I love Enchanted, But yeah it's
Speaker 1: not my pick. I just said that. So I'm going
Speaker 1: with Jake Cold Lights Please, because that's the first Jay
Speaker 1: Cored record I've ever heard, and you know that's my
Speaker 1: favorite rapper. So it's just like, yeah, yeah, you see it.
Speaker 1: Not so love Cold Lights Please. And then I also
Speaker 1: really like Sideline Story because, um it's him just talking
Speaker 1: about like being in the rap game and being unappreciated
Speaker 1: and just waiting for like his moment to get up
Speaker 1: off the sideline. And I resonate with that because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm in the entertainment industry and it's a lot of
Speaker 1: um shit I'm dealing with. So the record just parallels
Speaker 1: to my life. So yeah, I liked Sideline Story, but
Speaker 1: not mad at it. Not mad at it. I mean
Speaker 1: I think what happens in Lights Please, that really appeals
Speaker 1: to you as far as with the storytelling of it all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I really That's why I said slash sideline
Speaker 1: story because sideline story really resonates more with me than
Speaker 1: lights Please, Lights Please. Is just him saying, like he
Speaker 1: got this girl. She bad as hell. He's trying to
Speaker 1: like tell her about he's trying to talk to her
Speaker 1: about real life shit that's going on, but she just
Speaker 1: wants to fuck. And you know what, he always he
Speaker 1: always falls victim to want the fuck because like pussy
Speaker 1: his power and he's hypnotized by the pussy but horny
Speaker 1: and you know, he's trying to be more of an intellectual.
Speaker 1: But she just wants to fuck, and that's just what
Speaker 1: that's about. So sideline story is more I think fitting.
Speaker 1: But shout out to Cole who's got next mouse? I
Speaker 1: just like making an awkward, enjoy making an awkward sometimes
Speaker 1: like you didn't say you agree with me? All right,
Speaker 1: So once again mine is in order. Okay number four,
Speaker 1: ghost face Killer, All that I got is you now
Speaker 1: my favorite I want to I have this, uh because
Speaker 1: it's like my favorite line or not my favorite line,
Speaker 1: my favorite set up. So he'said, family ain't family, No, more.
Speaker 1: We used to play ball eggs after school. He grits
Speaker 1: because we was poor, grabbed applies for the channel, fixed
Speaker 1: the hang on the TV. Rocking each other's pints to
Speaker 1: school wasn't easy. We survived when it snotty knows with
Speaker 1: no coach. We kept it real, but the older brothers
Speaker 1: still had jokes. Sadly, Daddy left me at the age
Speaker 1: of six. I didn't know nothing, but Mommy neatly packed
Speaker 1: his ship so like that was like my Like I
Speaker 1: used to like wrap that like it was mine. Like
Speaker 1: he just painted a story that I knew so well,
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, just you know, to
Speaker 1: take it there, growing up black man in a community,
Speaker 1: like in a black community, you see this, you see this,
Speaker 1: like there was times where we was damn bad, not
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, not as bad as them,
Speaker 1: but like it resonated and I think off rip, it
Speaker 1: resonated like that was one of the first songs I
Speaker 1: remember listening to it as a kid with the tears
Speaker 1: welling up Like to this day, I listened to that
Speaker 1: song the tears are gonna well up like because it's
Speaker 1: so real, and I feel like even if it was
Speaker 1: the song that I couldn't personally resonate. Like if I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen that with my cousins, I wouldn't have seen
Speaker 1: that with myself. It's one of those songs where he
Speaker 1: painted such a vivid picture. I felt like I was there.
Speaker 1: I know, I know people like that, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, the people, the people up the street from
Speaker 1: where we grew up. That was the first people I
Speaker 1: haven't met on Section eight. That was the first people.
Speaker 1: They was at the end of all block. They were
Speaker 1: the first people I ever met on Section eight. And
Speaker 1: we knew you know what I'm saying, Like we knew,
Speaker 1: they knew they were on sex that se they knew
Speaker 1: the foodston they going to Jimmy's, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: up there on straight Path to get the sandwich with
Speaker 1: the with the stamps. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: I've seen that with my you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So like to see that and they hear that at
Speaker 1: the time, you know, I'm a young Yeah, it resonated,
Speaker 1: and that that last day that hit me, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It kind of hit reverse for me
Speaker 1: because when I was six is when my mom met
Speaker 1: and married the man that raised me. But up until then.
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I knew it. It It felt like
Speaker 1: not to have no dad. So like where he says,
Speaker 1: you know his dad left when he was six, I
Speaker 1: kind of got a dad when I was six. But
Speaker 1: it resonated with me. So that right there or that
Speaker 1: got you, Like I said, I listened to that once
Speaker 1: a month and it's still the tids Gonne well up
Speaker 1: every time and everything was just perfect. I think we understood,
Speaker 1: at least for me growing up. I understood, like ghost
Speaker 1: Face is bigger than just a rapper. That was his
Speaker 1: first big step, and like it was bigger than just
Speaker 1: some bragg of doshes fly gangster rap. It was like
Speaker 1: he used his voice as an instrument, like for the
Speaker 1: first time for me, like his voice cut is just
Speaker 1: as important as the strings on the sample and the
Speaker 1: keys on the sample. Matt of course, Mary j on
Speaker 1: that on that hook is amazing. The video video is amazing.
Speaker 1: The video and also for me, the familiar part that
Speaker 1: Nila mentioned, like the roaches out of the cereal box fine,
Speaker 1: that was familiar for me growing up in the projects.
Speaker 1: We did have roaches everywhere in the projects growing up.
Speaker 1: When you turn on the lights in the morning, that
Speaker 1: ship was really really realwhere um, listening to you describe
Speaker 1: the emotions evoked from the record evoked to other records
Speaker 1: in my brain. But I'm like, all right, I don't
Speaker 1: have time to name them off so much, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Clock with No Hands by Black Thought.
Speaker 1: And I really like this record because he's just talking
Speaker 1: about like dealing with like family and friends and how
Speaker 1: frustrating it can be. Um, and it's just it's just
Speaker 1: a real ass record, Like you know, you could cut
Speaker 1: other people off in your life, like, you know, if
Speaker 1: there's like co workers, you don't really like you only
Speaker 1: got one family, you know, you just gotta deal with
Speaker 1: it kind of thing. So this record Clock with No
Speaker 1: Hands is fucking damn their perfect song. Um, just if
Speaker 1: you're going through that and you're in that thought process,
Speaker 1: especially like I feel like when it first drop, WHOA,
Speaker 1: I don't even know actually when when I first found
Speaker 1: out about it. Come on. When I first found out
Speaker 1: about the record, I was still in Maryland, but it
Speaker 1: really resonated me when I got to New York and
Speaker 1: I was by myself, and I guess I had time
Speaker 1: to reflect on family. Um. So yeah, and just Black
Speaker 1: Thought is just an amazing artists, amazing lyricist, probably one
Speaker 1: of the best rappers period. Definitely underrated, so judging by
Speaker 1: Mouse's face side, I guess so agree. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, next the artist pressure by Kendrick. I put
Speaker 1: shout out to Kendrick getting love on the fucking lest
Speaker 1: Yeah the yeah, yeah. I mean I think the whole
Speaker 1: thing about you know, for the homies line that he
Speaker 1: keeps on saying like, I'm sober but formies, I'm at
Speaker 1: the homies. I'm at the home means when he says
Speaker 1: I I'm usually not violent, but I'm with the home
Speaker 1: means that ship is just it's real for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Let's drop k Died off because that his
Speaker 1: mom has been because I know he's trying to fuck
Speaker 1: on Sharin the night. You're man. In fact, drop me
Speaker 1: off too, I'm trying to fucking some on the night.
Speaker 1: Man's such a dumb mass back Dad, Well, the whole
Speaker 1: hook like one day it's going to burn you out.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just you gotta figure out. I think
Speaker 1: that's everybody growing up. You have to figure out what
Speaker 1: you do with your friends and how you know you
Speaker 1: need to create that separation. At some point they just yo,
Speaker 1: can we took off? Man? I know it's just so,
Speaker 1: but can we talk about like, yo, Kendrick was, Kendrick
Speaker 1: was not? He wasn't human on Good Kid, Mad City,
Speaker 1: but specifically on all the peer pressure. When he's talking
Speaker 1: about um, it's the way he merges his cadence with
Speaker 1: the beat, with the with the beat, the actual beat,
Speaker 1: but also taking beats, which you're leaving that pocket of
Speaker 1: air in between words. So like when he says we
Speaker 1: hit the block, we say hit the block. He hit
Speaker 1: the crib looking for any other the Nintendo hit the block,
Speaker 1: and he's like, whoo, ready to right, made a left
Speaker 1: and made the right, made a left one Lucky night
Speaker 1: with the homies. Not human, He's not human? Right? If
Speaker 1: you listen to that song listeners at home, I want
Speaker 1: you to stop this show right now, press fors and
Speaker 1: I want you to go listen. Can we play Can
Speaker 1: we put that part in it? Can we just put
Speaker 1: that part left? The right part? Can we put that
Speaker 1: either that part or the part where he's talking about
Speaker 1: the actual breaking, because the part where he put the
Speaker 1: actual break in is where I realized we're not dealing
Speaker 1: with a human because the way, like I can't even
Speaker 1: as a person who's not a rapper, let alone a
Speaker 1: rapper of his caliber, I can't even re enact it
Speaker 1: the way he did it. But it's like the way
Speaker 1: he's like just the way it's like a snake moving
Speaker 1: through a room, the way he put those words together
Speaker 1: that he was just like, you know, in search of
Speaker 1: in search of anything like, because he could have said
Speaker 1: looking for in search of any in the thing the
Speaker 1: thing it was, that's crazy. Shout out to you, d Block,
Speaker 1: because I definitely forgot about that record. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I I had Kendrick for my honorable mentions. But yes,
Speaker 1: RDP of Pressure. He doesn't have a lot of story.
Speaker 1: Duckworth is also Duckworth is. But it's like that I
Speaker 1: think I think people one that being at the end
Speaker 1: of the album he's a he's a nutcase. He's not human,
Speaker 1: but just that story being a true story and the
Speaker 1: way he told the story, he's not human, like Kendrick's
Speaker 1: not human in the way that he performs these records.
Speaker 1: Hell of a solid four. That was four? That was
Speaker 1: just four, all right, number three. I'm sitting in the
Speaker 1: crib dreaming somebody got to die a big thing? Why
Speaker 1: does a big one too? What is a different one?
Speaker 1: He want to put you to sleep, You want to
Speaker 1: put your sleep, You want to put you out of sleep.
Speaker 1: He got some nighttype stories. But what he said. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting in the crib dreaming bout lead jets and coops,
Speaker 1: the way Salt shoots and how to sell records like snoop.
Speaker 1: I'm interrupted by a doorbell three fifty two? Who the
Speaker 1: hell is this? Gets up quick, cocks my ship, stop
Speaker 1: the dog from balk and proceed like you're so invested
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, Like if you, if you're
Speaker 1: like outside of all I got is you. These other
Speaker 1: songs are catching me from the then, from the beginning,
Speaker 1: big Segetist, and I feel like I'm gonna sound like
Speaker 1: I'm selling being an extra. But this is really high,
Speaker 1: like ingest music. Every time I hear the record, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm sitting down and the TV credit just
Speaker 1: opened up and you see the big pin. It's like
Speaker 1: a like a like an allegory film, like like uh
Speaker 1: um Wu Tang is doing has done over the last season.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm watching the allegory like I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm watching what he's talking about. I want to
Speaker 1: see this movie. He's chilling, dreaming lid jets and coops,
Speaker 1: the way he brings, and he also mentions like when
Speaker 1: he drops like snoop, like he eats, something's going on
Speaker 1: at that time. It's just he just says like very
Speaker 1: non non choine like, like actually like he said, and
Speaker 1: I get the walk and you see this big hooking
Speaker 1: figure walking around with the GAT. You're like, yeah, big, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was going on. I gotta die. Let the gun shot.
Speaker 1: Somebody got to die. Nobody has to know that akill.
Speaker 1: He's crazy. My big record, which is number three, is
Speaker 1: every Day Struggle. And I was like it was hard
Speaker 1: to pick him one of him because he can do
Speaker 1: we can do a top five best big storytelling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just on him because you got so many. But you know,
Speaker 1: I've always liked when big rap fast like Notorious Ducks.
Speaker 1: I like it. Second person, He's like, I mean I
Speaker 1: got the master pan texts over the projects. They called
Speaker 1: them two texts. He took the two texts. And when
Speaker 1: he's sparked busy like the ass who next, Yeah big
Speaker 1: his nuts he was he nuts. Yeah. His storyteller is
Speaker 1: just phenomenal and I just love it like I'm with
Speaker 1: in the crack of the ass. When a quick Cash
Speaker 1: said they got mass literally he said when he got
Speaker 1: his bitch, he said, I hold the dam She'd be
Speaker 1: holding three for the whole family. True, g that's me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to live no more. The time he
Speaker 1: had death knocking at my front door. Living every day
Speaker 1: another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle, right right, Steve,
Speaker 1: do you understand how lucky you wants to lift through that?
Speaker 1: Oh my car, body tell you lucky body, my number
Speaker 1: three is? Who the fuck is this page? That's your
Speaker 1: number three in the morning. Your number two, let me
Speaker 1: tell you this, Your number two and your number one
Speaker 1: better be phenomenal pictures. Why it's my nigga pop from
Speaker 1: the barber shop. So he was in the gambling spot,
Speaker 1: heard the entricate plot A nigga's water stick, your light
Speaker 1: fly papers caper, Slow down, love, yo piece dropped the caper.
Speaker 1: Remember them niggas up the hill? You that you grew up?
Speaker 1: It got dice with. Yeah, that's my nigga project. I
Speaker 1: didn't say that, love who disrespect? I didn't say then
Speaker 1: he couldn't retearch the niggas that you do from back
Speaker 1: when when you was clocking mind the figs, Daddy, here
Speaker 1: you blowing up like nitro and the water will take
Speaker 1: through your way pipe. Slow me now more than you
Speaker 1: tell me what you want to do? Game? Why didn't
Speaker 1: my paper? Damn? I think what's going on in that song?
Speaker 1: Like even the fact that the whole part of like
Speaker 1: I didn't say them, like that storytelling is so specific,
Speaker 1: like no, I'm not talking about those guys else you're ready,
Speaker 1: You're ready indible, because like he wasn't human. And also
Speaker 1: like the paranoia that you feel in his songwriter, like
Speaker 1: he was really fucking nervous about like what you think
Speaker 1: all the guns is? What do you think? I was
Speaker 1: just about to say that all that what you think
Speaker 1: all the guns is for? See sees by the he
Speaker 1: said in the feet of gunpowder. So they didn't trying
Speaker 1: to talk about this. I mean there's psychosis that was
Speaker 1: going through his head and a lot of his lyrics
Speaker 1: it's just like think he got too many, honestly he
Speaker 1: got because how could you want to live like that?
Speaker 1: You make all this money to get out of the
Speaker 1: hood and then you just like it's so sad. How
Speaker 1: it ended. But it's just as like when you think
Speaker 1: about once he got out, he had this whole other
Speaker 1: thing of that, and they said he was really paranoid,
Speaker 1: like little Seas and then said like in those lads,
Speaker 1: you know, and in that latter part of at least
Speaker 1: when they was recording that album, he was really pattern
Speaker 1: especially after the accident. And we've seen even more recent
Speaker 1: stuff with you know, Pop Smoke and all these guys
Speaker 1: who've been damn well, I don't want to stick me
Speaker 1: from my paper. Damn well, I didn't want to stick
Speaker 1: me from my paper. And I and I put that
Speaker 1: ahead of another Biggie song, which I think Mouse may
Speaker 1: talk about later because of the entertaining part about the
Speaker 1: guy with the with the the auto tune did on
Speaker 1: the voices as if he's calling from the cell. I
Speaker 1: just think I love a song. I think Mouse is
Speaker 1: gonna talk about maybe later, But it's just I think
Speaker 1: the entertainment value of Warning is the entertainment values with
Speaker 1: all of these records. Big does something no matter if
Speaker 1: it's all ready to die, no matter if it's on
Speaker 1: his feature Like Big, you can tell and you can
Speaker 1: appreciate it as like you know, with with hindsight how
Speaker 1: talented he was and how intelligent he was. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: even you're the worst rapper is you know, kind of
Speaker 1: a kind of a bit more intelligent than the average
Speaker 1: person because you have to be entertaining. I think there's
Speaker 1: a level of intelligence that has to go into entertaining people. Right,
Speaker 1: disagree with this thing, but okay, Big was so entertaining
Speaker 1: he because he attacked it like TV, like you think
Speaker 1: of you know, he painted a picture. You're now listening
Speaker 1: to the what hip I've questioned legend to listen. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back after the break, all right? Number two
Speaker 1: my number two. This is it's my favorite. But if
Speaker 1: I have to be honest, it's number two. I just
Speaker 1: think and I think I've crafted my list based on
Speaker 1: like a hard criteria. Right. So, although this is my
Speaker 1: number two, is my favorite storytelling rapper of all time,
Speaker 1: I understand putting it number two, even number three on
Speaker 1: some people's list. I don't understand it not being on
Speaker 1: people's list. Meet the Parents by jay Z Meet the
Speaker 1: Parents on jay on the Blueprint. Two is the It's
Speaker 1: like a master class in storytelling. Not only is it
Speaker 1: a master class and storytelling. Um, you can tell he
Speaker 1: was influenced by one of the greatest storytellers ever, Big Biggie.
Speaker 1: And you know, Blueprint two starts off. Blueprint two starts
Speaker 1: off with the conversation with Big and Hole and Faith
Speaker 1: on the hook and you know, so just to see
Speaker 1: as the album progresses, we get Meet the Parents where
Speaker 1: jay Z is literally rapping about a father killing his son,
Speaker 1: and he talks about you know, he says, he say,
Speaker 1: he said, um seems like the young it seems like
Speaker 1: the end of every young black life. It's this line.
Speaker 1: Then him already because then we saw some of us.
Speaker 1: He fought like us, talk like it smacked him. Get
Speaker 1: the wall even you know what I mean. And he's like,
Speaker 1: even how he ends a six shot into your kin
Speaker 1: out of a gun. Niggas be a father, you're killing
Speaker 1: his son. Meet the Parents and he talks about Isis
Speaker 1: and and Mike, and you know, Mike was just this.
Speaker 1: He wasn't really the one to love her, right there
Speaker 1: was Nigga and Nation want to take it at the
Speaker 1: city life. But what he said, he said about isis
Speaker 1: like this she isis loved this city. She liked the
Speaker 1: Gucci sneak because the red greener. Right, she was so
Speaker 1: turned on when he first saw the fight Chad. He
Speaker 1: had to go home and she had a shower twice.
Speaker 1: Like he paints this picture, you feel like you were
Speaker 1: in bed style and you know Mike and you know
Speaker 1: isis you know their son. You could see him, You
Speaker 1: can see him like you can almost like paint this
Speaker 1: young man's face. Like just didn't think about it. Is
Speaker 1: that he didn't know it was his son. Right, he
Speaker 1: had no I no idea that this was his son,
Speaker 1: that he that he but he had not because that's
Speaker 1: how far removed he just owned. Like there was so
Speaker 1: much it's like it's like a score saves your spike
Speaker 1: tragedy at a Pisconto. Yeah, right, so you talk about
Speaker 1: the father killing on son. Yeah, those Greek tragedies, yeah,
Speaker 1: Electra complex, the mother has sex with her on all
Speaker 1: that those classic Greek storyline and you look at it
Speaker 1: and you're like everybody, I don't know how long it
Speaker 1: took jay Z to craft this song. If somebody told
Speaker 1: me took him a year to craft a song, I
Speaker 1: would be like you damn right, Because if you think
Speaker 1: about a movie right like deep, like you're you're a producer, director, like,
Speaker 1: even to get to what we do every day is
Speaker 1: not just you know me and I look great, but
Speaker 1: there still some part where you're like, all right, hey,
Speaker 1: what are we talking about. We'll go here, we'll go here.
Speaker 1: So on these like longer shoots when you're doing your
Speaker 1: documentaries and things of that nature, it's like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: know how I want to start, and now I want
Speaker 1: to finish, and we have to fill all this in.
Speaker 1: And then when I fill this stuff in, you know,
Speaker 1: this interview is really a splice of like because I
Speaker 1: really want to touch on like five or six more
Speaker 1: things from this interview. He had to do that. Jay
Speaker 1: Z had to do that almost as if he was
Speaker 1: writing a script. There was character breakdowns that you know,
Speaker 1: you had to like what he said. He said, like
Speaker 1: you talk about the dad Mike, and he's like, um,
Speaker 1: this mom. He says, mom's baby. He said, if that
Speaker 1: baby was mine would be more dog. So it's mama's baby.
Speaker 1: Pop is maybe like you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: and now that's become something in the in the ethos, right,
Speaker 1: everybody said, now you know you watch more with the
Speaker 1: MoMA's baby. Pop is maybe you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And you just look at that and it's like, how
Speaker 1: the fuck did you come up with this? What was
Speaker 1: going in yet? But it's not that hard to think.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't. It could have been I'm young,
Speaker 1: I'm thirty three. I never I didn't hear it before
Speaker 1: Jake MoMA's baby Pop is. Maybe I don't. It might
Speaker 1: have been like an old school saying. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was on on wax, but I think the
Speaker 1: peeling of the onion that you're talking about. He starts off.
Speaker 1: He's just saying, this is your typical stuff, rainy night night. Yep,
Speaker 1: you know that's kind of and then he just there's
Speaker 1: more layers to this. Yeah, I think that's what's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the in every layer felt. I'm gonna sound like such.
Speaker 1: I probably sound sound every time we're talking about hip hop.
Speaker 1: I could smell the rain the first time I'm listening
Speaker 1: to it. I can smell the rain, I can feel
Speaker 1: the the that that moment where jay Z says, um
Speaker 1: the moment he says, he tells the young and get
Speaker 1: off the block, but the young and ain't budd stood him,
Speaker 1: he said, but in him he saw something like a
Speaker 1: burden ain't scene from the old he says, like a
Speaker 1: sign from the Almighty Lord. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like I'm I feel like I'm and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: at my own you know, i mean issues with my
Speaker 1: biological father. So I'm really connect. I'm really feeling like
Speaker 1: God stood there. I stood, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm stood in front of this thing and like you know,
Speaker 1: point with me, like you know, and and what jay
Speaker 1: Z said. Jay said, he said, he's like a like
Speaker 1: a like a self like he's seen him, but like
Speaker 1: he's like he's looking at himself, but more mature. I've
Speaker 1: been there. I've stood in this man's face and had
Speaker 1: issues with him and looked at him like damn, hena
Speaker 1: look like me. You know what i mean. I've been there.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know what i mean, Like you're
Speaker 1: standing there. I'm sorry, no I was boom, but I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting there like I've been in the situation where
Speaker 1: his tension between us and I'm like looking at him
Speaker 1: and it's like in my mind, I want to do
Speaker 1: this to him, Like I want to do something to
Speaker 1: this man, but there's something that's stopping me because there's
Speaker 1: an innate connection between us, and I don't think this
Speaker 1: man is I don't think it's reverbing to him. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's seeing it the same way in my mind.
Speaker 1: And that happened with me. So to hear jay Z
Speaker 1: talk about with Mike and his son, he's like, he's like,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, He's like, what do you
Speaker 1: pulled out? Pulled out a brand new thirty eight? But
Speaker 1: you know you say what you know what they say
Speaker 1: about he who has the Tates a wall, he who
Speaker 1: has the Tates his laws didn't even blink for his
Speaker 1: mind win a czy met compared yo that what kind
Speaker 1: of line is that? To say? He calls to me
Speaker 1: the parents and the last the last line of the parents,
Speaker 1: the parents, the parent. And that's my favorite. That's my number.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite of all time. But number two. It's
Speaker 1: a number two for a reason. Parents. Okay, my number two,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with. I feel like it's way less
Speaker 1: as sentimental as what Mouse just said, Like that was
Speaker 1: some real shit. Just now. I'm like, damn, all right,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's that's great. But I think mine'es is like
Speaker 1: a fun one. Everybody likes Troy what do they reminisced
Speaker 1: over you? My god, I'm not. That record is just
Speaker 1: the beat is great, the story is great. Want of
Speaker 1: heavy these dancers? Yeah, it really, Yes, I thought that
Speaker 1: was about Um. I thought, whoa, No, Troy, it's about
Speaker 1: one of heavy, these backup dancers. Troy is one of
Speaker 1: the boys. Yeah, oh really yeah. I never put two
Speaker 1: in two together. Didn't know that. Yeah, someone said I
Speaker 1: think on Twitter recently, like, you know, there's been no
Speaker 1: better eulogy song than Troy. That's song when they reminisced. So,
Speaker 1: my god, wowns people rock on those horns. Man. He
Speaker 1: used to find first of all, Meca Brother one of
Speaker 1: my favorite albums, one of my favorite albums of one
Speaker 1: of my favorite albums of course, any genre of all time,
Speaker 1: like pe Rod. Yeah, but you talk about as good
Speaker 1: as Mecca and his soul brother, is Troy being the
Speaker 1: song that stands out? She said so much. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta listen to it again. I thought that was him
Speaker 1: talking about his life, and I thought so too, But
Speaker 1: it just certain things wasn't making sense with like interviews
Speaker 1: and stuff. So I didn't put two in together until
Speaker 1: d Black just said it. And then when I think
Speaker 1: about it reminisce over you. Troy if you look it up.
Speaker 1: Troy is one of the boys. You know, it's heavy
Speaker 1: being the boys. One of the one of the boys
Speaker 1: names Troy and he did die. Yeah yeah, get this
Speaker 1: the days the way back, even just downs. So he
Speaker 1: just that's his good friend. I'm because he talked about
Speaker 1: mom being the youngest, always had it. Yo, my god,
Speaker 1: just that yo're talking about house check it positive over
Speaker 1: negative for a woman. Master. It's like, tell you what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. I don't know. That's impressive. That's actually
Speaker 1: really impressive. I didn't know that, all right, Number one
Speaker 1: or number two. Number two is here's a little story
Speaker 1: I got to know about. It's not gonna be pre
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be poor of here. It's gonna I
Speaker 1: gotta flip this table. It was poor through this table,
Speaker 1: through that Once upon a time not long ago, people
Speaker 1: up and johnas then live life, slow justice truck. If
Speaker 1: people wasn't behaving like that at up there was a
Speaker 1: little boy who was being led by another little boy,
Speaker 1: and this is what he said, me and Uk, we're
Speaker 1: gonna make the cash robbing old folks and making a dad.
Speaker 1: They did the money can't win. But what okay stopping
Speaker 1: like you had a diz. You're robbing another and another
Speaker 1: and it's try robber cover yo. That shit Yo. But
Speaker 1: if you talk about story, like if you just think
Speaker 1: about it, I know I'll be dragging shit. But if
Speaker 1: you think about it like yes, like that, I know
Speaker 1: I'll be dragging shot. I know, I know I love
Speaker 1: I love hip hop, said to me, whatever, I know,
Speaker 1: I know I'd be dragging shit. I love hip hop
Speaker 1: and I make no qualms about it. Yes, yes, it's
Speaker 1: not just your fucking patty as everyone's gonna sing poop
Speaker 1: putt song. Think about what he's saying in the record.
Speaker 1: He's saying some fly shit. He's telling a fly story. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like no, he said no need for static, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not any game slap little did he know the little
Speaker 1: boy was strapped? You can't put out? Then why did
Speaker 1: you hit me straight for the cops? Kid me? Like
Speaker 1: like he even told about even run Dave to no
Speaker 1: soap mean bullets, hurry up running. Each time that you
Speaker 1: gotta say a record reminds me of another record. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you give an honorable mention, y'all gonna laugh. But this
Speaker 1: is the story. All about how my life got turned down.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fun but I think that goes
Speaker 1: back and I'm not sitting. I think that goes back
Speaker 1: to what I'm saying, like a few seconds ago. I
Speaker 1: think that's a fun song answer to tell the story.
Speaker 1: It's a fun song, and you listen, this is a pioneer.
Speaker 1: I thought that was all smith I know, but I
Speaker 1: thought it was a No, that's not a real record,
Speaker 1: that's just tv int. So it wasn't original, it wasn't right. Well,
Speaker 1: we talk about on list about you know, we can't
Speaker 1: give the pioneers, I mean pioneers a pioneers you don't
Speaker 1: like when we had the groups. Yeah, yeah, just because
Speaker 1: your person storytelling song. So it gets a lot of
Speaker 1: points for me. But it's also like, just when you
Speaker 1: listen to it again, some of the slick ricks cadence
Speaker 1: that you when he says this ain't funny, so don't
Speaker 1: you dare laugh. It's like there's something about the upbeatness
Speaker 1: of the song still, but the kid is shot by
Speaker 1: the cops at the end, right just when you realize
Speaker 1: that the dark I feel like children's story probably if
Speaker 1: we're just talking about like most famous it's probably number one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking about most famous. No, I think I think
Speaker 1: it will go. I think it's number two to what
Speaker 1: you just wrap. I think fresh friends about letting number one,
Speaker 1: I think I honestly, yeah, I think those are most popular. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say, but also honorable mention the message, Oh
Speaker 1: yeah it sugar Hill, the rappers Delay. Those are story records. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have been in somebody. But you know, as we
Speaker 1: talk about this, I'm like them, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of songs tell stories. But then there's storytelling records. Because
Speaker 1: when you were talking about Damn, I think they're Number
Speaker 1: three was number three. My number three was I can't
Speaker 1: remember number three. I think I gotta die. Your number
Speaker 1: three reminded me of how I felt about one of
Speaker 1: her queen Latifa Unity. I'm like, that's not really a
Speaker 1: storytelling record, but she is telling the story. She walks
Speaker 1: down the street a dude, disrespect and she's like, who
Speaker 1: you calling a bitch? Nigger? Respect munity in anyway, That's
Speaker 1: how I felt. But I'm like, it's not really a
Speaker 1: storyteller record. Doesn't she telling the storytelling? It's hard, it
Speaker 1: sucks you, right, and it's like like I said, like allegory,
Speaker 1: like you're stuck and you're just like when the song end,
Speaker 1: you feel like you're watching credits instead of this next
Speaker 1: song is going. Yeah, that's the way I kind of
Speaker 1: see it. Number one, let's get it for you. Damn
Speaker 1: doors for you, even all my mother fucking holes for
Speaker 1: you with can you with the Koda? It's the mettech.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I got a story to tell Biggie.
Speaker 1: I got a story to tell about Biggie for so
Speaker 1: many reasons. Once again, it's layers upon layers upon layers,
Speaker 1: you know, it being about motherfucking Anthony Anthony Mason, you know,
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks, fucking bully that was my guy
Speaker 1: on the next two. I loved him. Oh, all my
Speaker 1: people loved them. All my old heads loved them. That
Speaker 1: Nick team of the early nine. This was amazing. Oakley
Speaker 1: Mason starts you, Yeah, it was so crazy, but like
Speaker 1: just big, just what you what you'll over doing m
Speaker 1: leg But it's so dope because that's that's that's but that.
Speaker 1: But also that's five that's five percent of that's five
Speaker 1: percent of now on like the five on leg leg
Speaker 1: that's the five that's the together. Yeah, yeah, but um
Speaker 1: leg like that's a great number one is that the
Speaker 1: man listen from just You're engaged from Dave, Like just
Speaker 1: from the minute you hit that b check it out
Speaker 1: what I was talking about. Oh my niggasu niggas Cris,
Speaker 1: I like the after the song, yeah, like after what
Speaker 1: he got the head got the bread. I'm gone. Now
Speaker 1: that's a great number one. Like you just said, like
Speaker 1: you were, I don't the first time. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I keep saying this shit like the first time here
Speaker 1: every time I heard, for the exception of um for
Speaker 1: the except the three out of the forty record, three
Speaker 1: to forty, three to five of these records, I'm on
Speaker 1: the edge of my seat every word because you know,
Speaker 1: obviously you got all that. Guys, he just recant in
Speaker 1: his life, uh saying inn with um Dard storytelling. You know,
Speaker 1: I was a little you know, I was a little green.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what he was talking about. I just
Speaker 1: enjoyed what they were. So I wasn't on the you know,
Speaker 1: there's no, it didn't connect. Now that connected. There wasn't. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a ride. I wasn't like, oh it's next,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? But with these other three
Speaker 1: on the edge of my seat. What is going to
Speaker 1: happen will be? Will Big make it out next time?
Speaker 1: On Dragon GOOZI like, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm hearing. Like so like when he's like,
Speaker 1: you know what she said? What she said? He said,
Speaker 1: tell him be cool? Said no, no, he said he
Speaker 1: When Big told the girls that you better tell your
Speaker 1: man be cool, she don't know. I'm cool? Is a
Speaker 1: fig got his hand. I don't want to blast the man,
Speaker 1: but I can though I'm trying to, even though the
Speaker 1: situation is you look a kind of elo. It came
Speaker 1: to me like a song I wrote, Come boy, it
Speaker 1: can't tell me yo. First of all, inception, it came
Speaker 1: to me like a song I wrote, Wait Nigga. This
Speaker 1: is a song you wrote, Wait to get Nigga, Wait
Speaker 1: to get Nigga. You don't even write. You don't even write.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, no, great record. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: good one. Mine is better, though, what but what before
Speaker 1: we get to your your one? Because I want you
Speaker 1: to finish? Can I just tell you what my number
Speaker 1: one is? I want to I think you finish this rabbit. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: but my number one is Black Steel in the Hour
Speaker 1: of Chaos of Pop Academy, and I think you know,
Speaker 1: I got a letter from the government. Like that song
Speaker 1: to me is a is a great story that you
Speaker 1: can when you talk about the visualization, you can see
Speaker 1: all that happening as he's talking about with the prison
Speaker 1: raid and just like just them getting to the helicopter
Speaker 1: on top of the prison and getting out and just
Speaker 1: shooting his way out. I think that's the dope. I
Speaker 1: think that's a fair one. They don't resonate with me,
Speaker 1: but that what I just I know it's a great one.
Speaker 1: My dad. It's like, yeah, like we can always acknowledge
Speaker 1: how great some ships even if they don't resonate. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, but mine, Wow, you grab it. I just
Speaker 1: want to tell you why you put a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on yourself. You said it's better than I gotta.
Speaker 1: I think it's better. But they're in different lanes because
Speaker 1: like you said, like I got a storytell is entertainment
Speaker 1: where this is? This is really you say waterfalls. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna flip because Left Eyes verse was so crazy. I
Speaker 1: was about to launch both of these tomatoes. No, my
Speaker 1: number one is common I used to love her. You
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? A story to tell comm and
Speaker 1: I used to love her. Absolutely. That's one of the
Speaker 1: best hip hop records period, like and it's great because
Speaker 1: it talks about like hip hop in his purest form,
Speaker 1: and then it transformation, I mean yeah, as it evolves
Speaker 1: to like mass media selling itself, where as to now
Speaker 1: you're trying to tell me that certain records are great
Speaker 1: when it's around like comment since my May five meal.
Speaker 1: I used to love her, It's great, and I would
Speaker 1: never forget. I thought the record was like cute as
Speaker 1: I'm listening to it because I thought it was about
Speaker 1: a girl. I'm like, we've been wrapping this whole episode
Speaker 1: opening a song up. Bro. I met this girl when
Speaker 1: I was ten years old, and what I love most
Speaker 1: she had so much so she was old school when
Speaker 1: I was just a shorty. Never knew throughout my life
Speaker 1: she would be there for me on a regular not
Speaker 1: a church girl. She was secular, not about the money.
Speaker 1: The stuff is Mike, check it up. But I respected her.
Speaker 1: She hit me in the heart. A few New York
Speaker 1: niggas had did it and the dark, but she was
Speaker 1: there for me, and I was there for her, put
Speaker 1: out a chair for her, like, I just really liked
Speaker 1: the way he dressed hip hop up as a woman.
Speaker 1: And then at the end, no, not that, my friends, nigga,
Speaker 1: why because why is that sip crazy? I know a
Speaker 1: few New York nigga didn't dark I pulled up the
Speaker 1: chair for anyway, So I don't like that was a dig.
Speaker 1: I ain't like that. Yeah, that was a little dig.
Speaker 1: That was a little dig. That was not He was
Speaker 1: just saying, like he know what I mean, New York
Speaker 1: niggas like she was a whole. Well then she broke
Speaker 1: to the West coast, so that was cool because around
Speaker 1: the same time, I wouldn't a way to school, and
Speaker 1: I'm a man of expanded, so why should I stand
Speaker 1: in a way? She probably get her money in the like,
Speaker 1: and she did so she got big for his file.
Speaker 1: She said that the pro black was going out of staff,
Speaker 1: like I just like how he broke down the eras
Speaker 1: of hip hop, like fell in love with it. He
Speaker 1: fell in love with it when he was in the
Speaker 1: New York scene, but he wanted a piece of it
Speaker 1: for himself. He sees her going out west and he
Speaker 1: starts expanding, which by the way commons commons evolution from
Speaker 1: his first album to the second album's two different commons,
Speaker 1: which is why I don't trust, which is but I
Speaker 1: think he's explaining that also in the record, So just
Speaker 1: can't trust. So I'm talking about Yaw's hip hop. I
Speaker 1: was just like, oh, sh like that emoji where the
Speaker 1: brain is like lifted, and you're like, quick question, put
Speaker 1: that emoji in my face? But do you think when
Speaker 1: she goes into the West Coast side of things that
Speaker 1: he actually has a lot bit of just like you
Speaker 1: know when he says, now, black music is black music
Speaker 1: and it's all good. So when he says that line
Speaker 1: and he kind of like still looking at her differently,
Speaker 1: you think, I mean, hip hop is the her right,
Speaker 1: So is he looking at it differently based the way
Speaker 1: he said he wasn't salty she was with the boys
Speaker 1: in the hood. But do you believe it? Sure it
Speaker 1: was because they then got into a beef right after that. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they got into a beef for other reasons,
Speaker 1: not because of that record. Because like even Erica, if
Speaker 1: I do love my life, which one do you like better? Though?
Speaker 1: Love my life or that I like, I used to
Speaker 1: love her better? But I love the Erica. I do
Speaker 1: record too. But I'm to Darren's question of do I
Speaker 1: think he was salty? No, because he says, um, the
Speaker 1: boys made her better to grow. I had to let
Speaker 1: her to be the cheddar and I understood that looking
Speaker 1: for cheese. That don't make her a hood rat. In fact,
Speaker 1: she's a queen to me, her like beams on me.
Speaker 1: I love it when she sings to me like, oh no,
Speaker 1: you like really mean I think when it comes to
Speaker 1: like my po v of hip hop and what it
Speaker 1: means to me, I love I used to love her.
Speaker 1: It's like all the songs I named are songs that
Speaker 1: really resonate. The first time you guys heard that song,
Speaker 1: did you know what the metaphor was right away? Because
Speaker 1: somebody introduced it to me. I knew they told you somebody.
Speaker 1: My cousin was like like that was when I was
Speaker 1: getting into my lyrical bag, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like having like creating my standard of rap, and my
Speaker 1: cousin like, yo, listen to this, like he rapping about
Speaker 1: hip hop, like it's not a woman's hip hop. So
Speaker 1: I already went into it knowing, which kind of helped
Speaker 1: because I was able to come nine A thousand percent sure.
Speaker 1: If I listened to it the first time, I would
Speaker 1: have been like, oh, he's talking my hip hop. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what girl he talking about? The girl a whore? Stop?
Speaker 1: You would have thought she was a whore girl from
Speaker 1: New York to Callio. No. I was watching. I saw
Speaker 1: it on the countdown like at MTV channel. I'm just
Speaker 1: watching it. I'm like, this is a vibe. This is
Speaker 1: a vibe. This is the vibe. Who I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm like watching like MTV. Oh shit, hip hop. I'm like, Dad,
Speaker 1: you know this song about common car Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: time out, common sense? Don't know telling out? When did
Speaker 1: you discover this song? Because you said you picked up
Speaker 1: a cell phone? Well, no, a phone like the house phone. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's probably like thousand and four. Okay, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's okay. To parents, I descovered the song. Yes, they
Speaker 1: couldn't afford a babysitter. You know something there you not
Speaker 1: allowed to be in a career whatever. But I call
Speaker 1: my parents, I'm like, Dad, I just found this song.
Speaker 1: Like now, I played that song your entire life, Like
Speaker 1: you don't know that song. I'm like a work you
Speaker 1: never remember you remember calling your parents at work to
Speaker 1: ask some dumb no. My brother used to be getting
Speaker 1: on my nerves. Shout out to Jokay, I speak to
Speaker 1: speak to him to andres. Joe keep standing at the door.
Speaker 1: I keep telling him to get out, but he's just
Speaker 1: standing at the door, like oh man. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a good way to end it with. As far as
Speaker 1: that storytelling raps, a great storytelling rap, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I got a storytells more like he said, more like Spence,
Speaker 1: You're not. It's not suspenseful one I used to love her.
Speaker 1: It's just a story suspend anybody takes. I don't argue
Speaker 1: with it being a fucking master craft of a song,
Speaker 1: of a storytelling song. Just say that I got a
Speaker 1: storytell Come on, no, no, no, it's real people, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, let's make this a poll. Let's make it
Speaker 1: a pole. Let's make it. Let's do it, all right, guys,
Speaker 1: me and MOUs want to know who do you? Who
Speaker 1: do you think has a better storytelling record? Is it
Speaker 1: comment I used to love her? Or biggie, I got
Speaker 1: a story to tell? Drop comments in the section below.
Speaker 1: Kick the pole. All of that, we make sure d
Speaker 1: block aching make sure we got a nice clip to post.
Speaker 1: I'm posted to the page. Make sure I wanted to
Speaker 1: that because this is ridiculous. That will be so let's
Speaker 1: let's collab that one. Okay, so more people can yell
Speaker 1: at your pupil. Your people are probably gonna agree with me.
Speaker 1: No not, don't. Don't bring the hashibook community. Who I
Speaker 1: don't know? Did he shiva? Did he just make up
Speaker 1: a word? All right? Un any last words? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta story to tell you. Gonna got a story to
Speaker 1: tell you got anything going on that you want shout
Speaker 1: out real quick? Same thing I always got going on. Man,
Speaker 1: it's the way if I question unless eating every Monday?
Speaker 1: Got next door eating every Monday? Um and track kayoke
Speaker 1: we're on the road. Make sure you get your tickets
Speaker 1: track kaokee dot com. You got something coming up. You
Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of stuff coming up? What's going on?
Speaker 1: I've got a whole bunch of stuff going up too.
Speaker 1: Like you forgot about Brocoli Fest by the way, Oh
Speaker 1: my god? Yes, how am I gonna talk about your jobs?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Well, that's why we're such good brother and sisters,
Speaker 1: because we hold each other. I'm excited to see your schedule.
Speaker 1: You just don't know our own schedule. Racketys is gonna
Speaker 1: be dope though, yes, rockets insane. I cannot wait. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be dope. All right, Hi got a visitor? Who who?
Speaker 1: There's somebody popping out hope by heaven? All right? Anyway, UM,
Speaker 1: I'm so annoying, So all right, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: shout out by Amazon show every Wednesday night on Twitch
Speaker 1: makes you guys tune in Square Rotation up there arguing
Speaker 1: with niggas y'all. Yeah, so what I do in Mouse?
Speaker 1: Honestly after arguing with him, I'm ready to argue with anybody.
Speaker 1: Mouse has got me prepped and ready for war. So
Speaker 1: shout out to Mouse for that makes you guys tune
Speaker 1: into Rotation on every Wednesday, and then um makes you
Speaker 1: guys tune into AMP every Tuesday and Thursday twelve pm.
Speaker 1: Tune in and listen. But we just weren't so playing
Speaker 1: new music on theree, like what you got going on?
Speaker 1: You got stuff going on? I got the what Hip
Speaker 1: Hop Questions listening to list every Monday and the documentary documentary. Um,
Speaker 1: more on that later, come and we'll be back. My
Speaker 1: favorite thing about hip hop, know when people know, like
Speaker 1: when they do interviews, when NIA, that would be my
Speaker 1: favorite thing, Like that's how I know niggas lit. That's
Speaker 1: that would be my like mark I for how I
Speaker 1: let you all like the other stuff you can't talk about,
Speaker 1: Like I hate when the artists come up dare. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's dropping this day. Let's dropping this day now, ask
Speaker 1: him when just coming. We're working on dates right now.
Speaker 1: You know, you know third quarter, you know, look out
Speaker 1: for that third quarter that used to be my favorite.
Speaker 1: Second quarter, your second when we come in we come
Speaker 1: in early second quarter, I'd be like, yeah, this is lit, Okay, understandable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got some things I'm working on too that I
Speaker 1: can't really talk about yet. No for sacond quarters, third quarter,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm wait to Q three to drop some
Speaker 1: more bombs clue bombs. All right, Next Monday to another
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