Speaker 1: Watch up and welcome back to another episode of No
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Speaker 1: loaw glasses malone. Great of an extent amount or intensity
Speaker 1: considerably above the normal or average. One more time, nigga
Speaker 1: great of an extent of an extent amount or intensity
Speaker 1: considerably above the normal or average Great. The etymology means
Speaker 1: big and massive. I saw an interview on drink excuse
Speaker 1: me on drink Chants for Tony Ye Yo, and one
Speaker 1: of the questions was asked to someone about their favorite
Speaker 1: rapper and the whost answer back Ice Cube, and Yo
Speaker 1: says to him, shout out to Tony Yo Yo, what
Speaker 1: a big dog. Tonyale says Cube not fucking with Big.
Speaker 1: And I heard that, and I thought to myself, Becuz like,
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at no New York nigga not really thinking,
Speaker 1: Cube with a whole career is not better than Big
Speaker 1: with two records because Cube had excuse me, because Big
Speaker 1: had two phenomenal motherfucking records, ready to die life after
Speaker 1: death for phenomenal joints. But after that, he says something
Speaker 1: to the equivalent of Cube ain't a better storyteller than Big.
Speaker 1: That's where I got a motherfucking problem. That's where I
Speaker 1: got a motherfucking problem. Dog, Like, what are we really
Speaker 1: fucking talking about? Cube is not a better storyteller than Big.
Speaker 1: So I asked a couple of my partners that's on
Speaker 1: the island, shout out to all my partners in New York.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I call them niggas the
Speaker 1: Islanders because it's like they kind of have this restrictive
Speaker 1: view of hip hop as the creators, which I respect.
Speaker 1: I'm not tripping. That's how we feel about Gang Bang
Speaker 1: and you feel me, so I could relate. But then
Speaker 1: I do expect that times for them niggas to really
Speaker 1: see shit for what it is. And I realized in
Speaker 1: their mind that they had the same feeling about Big.
Speaker 1: And that's not to say much Notorious Big is a
Speaker 1: fucking terrific storyteller, like fantastic storyteller, like this nigga is incredible,
Speaker 1: but Ice Cube Couzin is on another level. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking to Charlotte Magne, and Charlotta Magne is telling me
Speaker 1: BIG's catalog is all stories, and I'm like, you obviously
Speaker 1: haven't heard ice Cues catalog because you just wouldn't have
Speaker 1: said that, you know what I'm saying. So I took
Speaker 1: it upon myself to compile a list, do some homework
Speaker 1: over a couple of days compiling this and start figuring out, damn,
Speaker 1: what are the ten greatest stories in hip hop? That
Speaker 1: would be a real way to get into this, like
Speaker 1: to really take it well because as a certain place
Speaker 1: in brand, you know what I mean, when you like
Speaker 1: an artist dog, that's a preference. And you could say best,
Speaker 1: Best is a preference, Better is a preference. Great it
Speaker 1: is measurable. Great is measurable because it's not like better
Speaker 1: or best. Great means there's analytics to back this shit up.
Speaker 1: So I took the time and I start going through
Speaker 1: joints and I was like, okay, let me look through
Speaker 1: these joints. So as I remember going back through records jamming,
Speaker 1: I was jamming for hours, jamming for hours, and I
Speaker 1: came up with a few things. Before I get into
Speaker 1: the ten greatest stories in hip hop history, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk about something that deserved just a quick conversation. All
Speaker 1: the storytelling by Outcast. That's a fantastic story. I used
Speaker 1: to love her by common even though it's a way
Speaker 1: of him shitting on gangster rap and West Coast hip hop.
Speaker 1: It's a fantastic story. Shout out to Common six in
Speaker 1: the Morning by Ice Q. While I might not have
Speaker 1: it as the greatest, it's probably the most impactful. It's
Speaker 1: shape gangster rap the way we know it today. As
Speaker 1: far as West Coast hip hop goes with storytelling. One
Speaker 1: of the songs in here is actually a direct descendant
Speaker 1: of ice T six in the Morning Shout out to
Speaker 1: the O G. Love's Gonna Get You by BDP. That
Speaker 1: deserves an honorable mention because that's a fantastic story. Kick
Speaker 1: Push by Lupe Fiasco barely missed it. That's a fantastic story.
Speaker 1: Louis my man, and this is what he does. He's
Speaker 1: a fantastic storyteller as well. Paul Revere by the Beastie Boys.
Speaker 1: I don't think it gets credited as the story it is,
Speaker 1: but it's a dope ass story. Jen and Juice and
Speaker 1: Murder Was the Case is tied now. This is the
Speaker 1: thing why Murder Was the Case is a story that's
Speaker 1: really popular and spawned the whole album. I understand because
Speaker 1: they didn't necessarily decide to push it across the world.
Speaker 1: It was something that took a life of its own right,
Speaker 1: and Jen and Juice it should be top five, except
Speaker 1: most people don't know Jen and Juice is actually a story. Yes,
Speaker 1: Jen and Juice is a story. You hear the hook
Speaker 1: and you jamming and you're saying the words, but you
Speaker 1: don't know you're listening to a story of a day
Speaker 1: with Snoop Dogg going into the night. Right, shout out
Speaker 1: to Tonight because I genuinely believe DJ Quick Tonight's inspired
Speaker 1: Jen and Juice. Now let's get to the shit. Add
Speaker 1: number ten on the Top ten Hip Hop's Greatest story,
Speaker 1: Boys in the Hood by Nwa, written by Ice Cube,
Speaker 1: delivered by Eaze. I don't got to tell you how
Speaker 1: great of a story the song Boys in the Hood is.
Speaker 1: You know the fucking song, You know the fucking story right,
Speaker 1: what it did, how it impacted hip hop. It launched
Speaker 1: the career of Nwa. That's NWA's first hit. That's the
Speaker 1: reason why people started giving Nwa a chance. It's one
Speaker 1: of the only two records that ever charged for Nwa
Speaker 1: as far as the big charts even go batting straight
Speaker 1: out of counter it launched Eazy E into stardom. Easy
Speaker 1: was somebody who didn't rap before that. He took on
Speaker 1: that song and it changed him into a star, and
Speaker 1: NWA had a star to you know wrap. They group
Speaker 1: around before Cube came into his own. When Cube was
Speaker 1: just a writer in a dope MC you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, easy E was their star. Because of Ice
Speaker 1: Cube's pen and Boys in the Hood. Obviously, everybody started
Speaker 1: to figure out how dope of a rider Ice Cube was.
Speaker 1: Because of Boys in the Hood, the word got around
Speaker 1: that Ice Cube was a fantastic motherfucking writer. It lost
Speaker 1: Doctor Dra into a gainst the rap producer. Once that happened,
Speaker 1: Doctor Dre didn't look back until Doctor dre Presents Aftermath.
Speaker 1: Doctor Dre was committed to that hardcore style because of
Speaker 1: the success of Boys in the Hood. It's arguably the
Speaker 1: biggest NWA song. Fuck the Police may be the most impactful,
Speaker 1: but I don't think everybody knows the lyrics to fuck
Speaker 1: the Police. I think they know the movement that is
Speaker 1: Fucked the Police. They may have heard the hook and
Speaker 1: the beat, but they don't know the words. Straight out
Speaker 1: of count obviously is a really special joint. But man,
Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how many motherfucking kids under the
Speaker 1: age of twenty. Know Boys in the Hood. Mind you,
Speaker 1: Boys in the Hood is a direct descendant of six
Speaker 1: in the Morning. So that's Ice Tea's influence on ice Q.
Speaker 1: The ironic part about the whole conversation is the song
Speaker 1: wasn't written for NWA or Easy. It was written for
Speaker 1: a New York crew called HBO Homeboys, only they did
Speaker 1: not like the song. They turned down a song that
Speaker 1: ended up being generational, defining them. Niggas is not popping
Speaker 1: because of that shit. You cannot turn down the winners.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they didn't know, but I bet you they
Speaker 1: know now. Number nine Slick Ricks Children's Story. Slick Ricks
Speaker 1: Children's Story. Y'all all know this motherfucking song. Everybody remember
Speaker 1: this song when they was a fucking kid. It's self produced,
Speaker 1: Slick Rick himself produced. That's something we don't glowed enough
Speaker 1: about when you know hip hop artists produced their own
Speaker 1: shit and the records that are successful. It spawned one
Speaker 1: of the greatest R and B hits to come out
Speaker 1: of LA a number one song, This Is How We
Speaker 1: Do It by Montel Jordan, because it was such a
Speaker 1: dope break and such a dope melody that slick Rick
Speaker 1: made it turned montel Jordan's song into an even bigger song.
Speaker 1: It's the motherfucking story that keeps song giving. Something else
Speaker 1: I don't think people realize about the children's story is
Speaker 1: if you listen to the lyrics, the little boy was
Speaker 1: surrounded and that ended his glory. And that's the way
Speaker 1: Rick had to end that story. He was only seventeens
Speaker 1: in a mad man's dream. The shot that cops shot
Speaker 1: the kids still hear him scream they shot the nigga
Speaker 1: after he dropped the gun. So in theory is one
Speaker 1: of the first motherfucking records that we can identify as
Speaker 1: somebody saying, hey, the police sain't right. This comes out
Speaker 1: before in wa There's another song on my list that
Speaker 1: actually brings up police brutality and excessive force too, But
Speaker 1: you know, it don't get enough credit. But we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it when we get to there. What the fuck
Speaker 1: kind of story is that? To tell your nephews and
Speaker 1: nieces remember about this slick Rick story, because this is
Speaker 1: something a story's telling his nephews and nieces before a
Speaker 1: bad time, and they sound like they was four Rick.
Speaker 1: We gotta talk about that. That's a fucking crazy story
Speaker 1: to tell somebody four or five. And the kids shipped
Speaker 1: off the shit too. They thought this motherfucker was crazy.
Speaker 1: They was calling him where Rick, Uncle Riggy's weird? Rick.
Speaker 1: You can't be telling the motherfucking kids kind of stories
Speaker 1: at that age, man, Like, I get it. We as
Speaker 1: black people in America. You know we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: deal with some shit. But that's a crazy, badtime story, Nigga.
Speaker 1: Most people is telling people about you know, singing people
Speaker 1: marry go rounds and lullabards and shit. And you telling
Speaker 1: motherfucking story about kids and motherfucker's getting killed and sit
Speaker 1: by the police getting shot. We gotta talk about that,
Speaker 1: big Dog. Number eight is one of the most underrated
Speaker 1: stories in disrespect the stories in the history of hip hop.
Speaker 1: Number eight is Through the Wire by Kanye West. Through
Speaker 1: the Wire by Kanye West self, motherfucking produced. I don't
Speaker 1: got to tell you about the production of Kanye West
Speaker 1: because we had already heard it before that. But we
Speaker 1: were introduced to Kanye West, the motherfucking rapper, This motherfucker
Speaker 1: rapping the story of his personal tragedy as it happened.
Speaker 1: A wreck at three am in LA while working on music,
Speaker 1: falling asleep on the wheel, getting into a car accident
Speaker 1: that fucks him up. I think he had to be
Speaker 1: you know, let like they had to get him out
Speaker 1: the car through the jaws of life at three in
Speaker 1: the morning. The motherfucking ended up at Cedars side nine
Speaker 1: word was when cous was in the hospital, he started
Speaker 1: writing lyrics to this song, like like when he came
Speaker 1: out of his coma, and I think either his face
Speaker 1: had the surgery like the inside scope was. Cuz was
Speaker 1: starting to figure out the song like he already knew
Speaker 1: he was gonna flip through the Fire by Sha Ka
Speaker 1: Khan to make this song, was so they said when
Speaker 1: they came to the studio. When they came to the hospital,
Speaker 1: Cuz had like some ideas already for lyrics. He recorded
Speaker 1: the song only two weeks after. That's why if you
Speaker 1: listened to Through the Wire, Cuz barely can open his mouth.
Speaker 1: As I said before he samples Shaka khns through the Fire.
Speaker 1: Shaka Khan wouldn't even clear the motherfucking song until she
Speaker 1: saw that video. That video was one of the most
Speaker 1: brilliant and creative things I've ever saw in hip hop.
Speaker 1: If we're keeping it real. That's that video was crazy.
Speaker 1: Make sure you check that shit out. That shit was
Speaker 1: unfrecking believable, and Shaka Khan wouldn't clear it until she
Speaker 1: saw the video. She ended up regretting it. This shit
Speaker 1: talking about how he did the vocals, but he did
Speaker 1: Shakakana favorite because that shit is paying. And whoever wrote
Speaker 1: that song for Shaka Khan they getting paid because I
Speaker 1: know for sure them niggas they't make no money. I'm
Speaker 1: willing to bet that was no publishing to get on
Speaker 1: that song. I've never heard a story in hip hop
Speaker 1: that turns such tragedy into triumph. It's funny because that's
Speaker 1: one of the lyrics to the song, but I never
Speaker 1: heard that. Like a lot of hip hop stories that
Speaker 1: sad end on a sad note, this is one of
Speaker 1: the few that took a real underdog story, a sad story,
Speaker 1: and he won at the end. And in real life,
Speaker 1: the whole time, Yay was trying to convince Rockefeller that
Speaker 1: he was going to be a successful rapper. This was
Speaker 1: a song that proved it. I don't even think Rockefeller
Speaker 1: believed in it right, never recorded, but they put it
Speaker 1: out and then everything worked out so shout out to
Speaker 1: Yan for that. But yeah, at number eight through the Wire,
Speaker 1: Kanye West respect that as a story. It is number seven.
Speaker 1: My favorite artist in the history of artists, Scarface. I
Speaker 1: Seen a Man Die, Scarface, I Seen a man die.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know the song I never
Speaker 1: seen a man cry till I Seen a Man Die.
Speaker 1: That's actually the title of the song because I've seen
Speaker 1: a Man die. It's one of Scarface's only two Top
Speaker 1: forty records. This is the song that liunes Scarface into
Speaker 1: solo Start n O Joe on the beat, Mike Dean.
Speaker 1: Mike Dean changes his abject Mike Dean changes his trajectory.
Speaker 1: You know a lot about Mike Dean now because he
Speaker 1: works with Kanye and Scarface is another person that produced
Speaker 1: on a song that really doesn't get enough credit as
Speaker 1: a producer. So shout out to Face for that production.
Speaker 1: Right if you heard share so many tears. I don't
Speaker 1: have to explain to you how touching the song is.
Speaker 1: Just go listen to it. Dog. It's sad like that's
Speaker 1: a sad story where the dude dies in the end
Speaker 1: and regrets his circumstances. That's mostly how sad stories end
Speaker 1: in hip hop. It inspires shed so Many Tears by Tupac.
Speaker 1: If you go look at the Outlaws, the Outlaws have
Speaker 1: interviews where they say Pac was listening to Shed so
Speaker 1: Many Tears, and after that he went to the studio
Speaker 1: to write Excuse Me. He was listening to I've Seen
Speaker 1: a Man Die, and he went to the studio to
Speaker 1: write shed so Many Tears, which ended up being one
Speaker 1: of PAC's greatest songs in Los Angeles. That launched him.
Speaker 1: Like all of my older homies, all the gang members
Speaker 1: before that, they might have played Pac a little bit
Speaker 1: what I get around you. I mean, maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit of Dear Mama maybe, but Dear Mama is after,
Speaker 1: you know, not so much keep your head up. Like
Speaker 1: niggas respected it as a kid, I washed it because
Speaker 1: that shit was fire. But she had so many tears.
Speaker 1: Is when my big homies and a lot of g
Speaker 1: niggas I know started really playing Tupac religiously. And it's
Speaker 1: probably the saddest story in hip hop. How a nigga
Speaker 1: get out of prison doing seven years and getting to
Speaker 1: some shit, end up back in prison and commit suicide.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy because I think, I mean, scarface is
Speaker 1: like one of the niggas like Edgar Allan Poelcaz of
Speaker 1: hip hop, like that nigga. Shit is so heartfelt. And
Speaker 1: as I was talking to Charlemagne about Scarface, he said, man,
Speaker 1: it's other people have never touched you like Scarface, and
Speaker 1: that's what makes Scarface brilliant, like his richness, his texture
Speaker 1: as a storyteller. He's for sure my favorite guy of
Speaker 1: all the guys in the world right but again, it's
Speaker 1: like he has the work to back it up. I've
Speaker 1: seen a man die as One of the most popular
Speaker 1: stories in hip hop history at number six is the
Speaker 1: message that Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. It's the
Speaker 1: birth of conscious rap. This is the first conscious rap song.
Speaker 1: It's another sad story where somebody ends up dying at
Speaker 1: the end and them niggas end up going to jail.
Speaker 1: And the crazy part is the owner of the label,
Speaker 1: Sylvia Robinson, is the only person who believed in the song.
Speaker 1: Mind You. Nobody else from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious
Speaker 1: Five is on the song, but Melly Mail and the
Speaker 1: producer Duke Booty. That's the only people on the song.
Speaker 1: Melly Mail didn't even like the song because at that point,
Speaker 1: hip hop was all about partying. Like I always tell y'all,
Speaker 1: the hop is a party. The hop was the way
Speaker 1: they used to The hop is like my father and
Speaker 1: them used to call a dance. Are we going to
Speaker 1: a hop? Hip is a is a cool thing. So
Speaker 1: hip hop is where it came from. So hip hop
Speaker 1: was about, you know, partying and being both for about
Speaker 1: making yourself. Why are you so fresh? Why you so who?
Speaker 1: Until the message came out, the message birth dealing with
Speaker 1: the struggle completely different. You know what I'm saying, not
Speaker 1: to mention most people don't know, but it was written
Speaker 1: as a theme to the nineteen eighty New York City
Speaker 1: transit strike. Like this was hip hop breaking barriers. Then
Speaker 1: the message is a fantastic It's probably the second greatest
Speaker 1: story to ever come out of hip hop. So even
Speaker 1: though people didn't believe that this was going to be
Speaker 1: the wave of hip hop, Melly Mail and Duke Booty
Speaker 1: took a chance ended up birthing a genre. That's why
Speaker 1: what Melly Mail has, what he has to say about
Speaker 1: Eminem or any other rapper, I just listen. Even if
Speaker 1: I don't agree, I'll just disagree. You know me, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I put respect on the shit Melly
Speaker 1: Mal talking about because he birthed the genre of conscious rap.
Speaker 1: There is no NAS without Melly Mail. There is no
Speaker 1: motherfucking Tupac without Melly Mail. There is no conscious rap
Speaker 1: without fucking Melly Mail. Ice Que may check yourself from
Speaker 1: the Message, which is another fantastic story that we don't
Speaker 1: really give credence to. Can't Nobody hold Me down? By
Speaker 1: Puff and motherfucking Mace is a flip of the message.
Speaker 1: That was a smash hit record. Coyler Raye just flipped
Speaker 1: it last year and made players and that Motherfucker was
Speaker 1: a number one smash, a huge record. It's just levels
Speaker 1: not to mention. This is most likely one of the
Speaker 1: most important, if not the most important, reason that the
Speaker 1: Grand Master Flash and Furious five were the first hip
Speaker 1: hop act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame in two thousand and seven, and it's most likely
Speaker 1: because of the song the Message. So it's weird that
Speaker 1: they didn't want to fuck with the song, but this
Speaker 1: song is probably the primary reason. No disrespect to the
Speaker 1: rest of their work. The rest of they work get
Speaker 1: off too, but this particular song is a game changing song,
Speaker 1: and it birth. I don't like you don't get Kendrick
Speaker 1: Lamar without the fucking message. So shout out to Mail,
Speaker 1: Shout out to Duke at number five. We right back
Speaker 1: with my boys, Scarface mind playing tricks on me by
Speaker 1: the Ghetto Boys. The reason I give Scarface so much
Speaker 1: created is Scarface wrote three of the four verses. It
Speaker 1: was a Scarface solo song. Jay Prince thought it was
Speaker 1: a good idea and he thought it could break the
Speaker 1: Ghetto Boys. Jay Prince was right. Shout out to Jay
Speaker 1: Prince that motherfucker don't be missing. It's the first song
Speaker 1: in hip hop to address mental health. Right now, all
Speaker 1: these motherfuckers is crazy on mental health. You hear all
Speaker 1: these motherfuckers talking about anxiety and all this shit, and
Speaker 1: this is the first song. See it comes across as
Speaker 1: guilty conscious for being this way, but really it's a
Speaker 1: take on anxiety back in nineteen ninety fucking one. Most
Speaker 1: people don't know Scarface wrote this song because he's been
Speaker 1: through a lot of traumatic shit. There was a time
Speaker 1: Scarface tried to kill himself and got put into a
Speaker 1: like an asylum. At least that's what I heard. Like,
Speaker 1: Scarface is a deep person. And when you border that
Speaker 1: type of deepness, I'm sure it's dangerous and it probably
Speaker 1: could be dangerous to your health into your livelihood. So
Speaker 1: Scarface is brilliant at a cost, Like he don't go
Speaker 1: to these places for free. This shit cost him sometime before,
Speaker 1: I would imagine, because there's no way you could be
Speaker 1: that fucking deep because and not been to those places
Speaker 1: where you thought about, you know, ending life. Mind playing
Speaker 1: tricks on me is just a simple old expression from Southerners,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, when something is going on
Speaker 1: and they're like, I'm tripping. Most people don't know it
Speaker 1: was self produced. Scarface produced mind playing tricks on me.
Speaker 1: It's another thing again, Scarface is such an underrated talent
Speaker 1: in music, and that's saying a lot of Scarf gets
Speaker 1: a lot of props, but he deserves a lot more props.
Speaker 1: Shout out to n O Joe, shout out to Mike Dean.
Speaker 1: But they will tell you that Scarface was just ins
Speaker 1: vested in the production. That's why right now, when that
Speaker 1: motherfucker jump on stage to do a show, that motherfucker
Speaker 1: jump up there with a guitar and be playing that motherfucker.
Speaker 1: This song established the South in the gangster rap realm
Speaker 1: this single song to the rest of the country. I'm
Speaker 1: sure the South had more songs before this, but this
Speaker 1: was the first time to the rest of the country,
Speaker 1: the South planet their flag like, oh we here, this
Speaker 1: is the real the South got something to say. Moment
Speaker 1: shout out to our cast, shout out to Dre but
Speaker 1: ghetto boys. Mind Playing Tricks was the first time that
Speaker 1: the South put they motherfucking flag in the sand in
Speaker 1: the West, the mid West, and the East collectively and
Speaker 1: said the South got something to say, and everybody decided
Speaker 1: to fucking listen. Kid Cuddy personally says it inspired day
Speaker 1: and Night. So just like Scarfaces, I've seen a man die,
Speaker 1: inspire Tupacs shed so many tears, Mind Playing Tricks on
Speaker 1: me inspire Kid cut He's day and Night. And I
Speaker 1: really don't fuck with Cutty's music, but that's that might
Speaker 1: make me have to listen to it a lot more
Speaker 1: times because I've heard it enough times and I do
Speaker 1: see the correlations. But if that's true, man, shout out
Speaker 1: to Cutty, because that's ill as fuck. You flip the
Speaker 1: shit out there, because that's player. I fuck with that.
Speaker 1: At number four and a lot of motherfuckers. It's gonna
Speaker 1: hate this. It's stand by Eminem. I mean, everybody fucking
Speaker 1: knows stand. The term stand is so popular, the term
Speaker 1: may have escaped the popularity of the song because a
Speaker 1: stand is how you talk with somebody who just stalking you.
Speaker 1: That's in addition to the culture niggas is calling each
Speaker 1: other stands. That niggas a stand because you are a
Speaker 1: stalker or you are a groupie to something somebody else
Speaker 1: is doing. The motherfucker had a clean version to the lyrics,
Speaker 1: and its still got over censored. Certain words got oversensured
Speaker 1: because that's how scared and fearful they were of what
Speaker 1: Eminem's and fluence could be with his lyrics, It's most
Speaker 1: likely Eminem's greatest song. Eminem got number one songs. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Stan didn't chart number one, but there's probably no
Speaker 1: greater hip hop contribution than Stan. Shout out to all
Speaker 1: the rest of the dope records. But Stan is that shit,
Speaker 1: and it's self fucking produced. Nobody talks about his self produced.
Speaker 1: He did that with forty five King. Shout out to
Speaker 1: forty five King because he's another motherfucking want to do
Speaker 1: your homework on forty five King forty five King is Crazy.
Speaker 1: Eminem mixed the song hisself. That motherfucker mixed the song
Speaker 1: himself with Dre back then they'll mix the song itself.
Speaker 1: That's pretty dope. Doctor Dre and Philip Atwell directed the video.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, they got that video right,
Speaker 1: and I can't stress it enough. Doctor Dre is another
Speaker 1: god to me who directs music videos that don't get
Speaker 1: enough credit. Doctor Dre actually also directed None but the
Speaker 1: g Thing, two iconic videos standing None but the g Thing,
Speaker 1: but again Eminem at number four, you Feel Me with
Speaker 1: Stan as one of the top ten greatest stories in
Speaker 1: hip hop history. Number three, we right back to the
Speaker 1: East Coast and this is the greatest story ever told
Speaker 1: from a New York MC. Just a Friend by biz
Speaker 1: Mark rest in Peace. That's right, Just a Friend by
Speaker 1: biz Mark, rest in Peace. That was one of the
Speaker 1: earliest times we learned about skeezers at a high level
Speaker 1: through hip hop. Just a Friend by biz Mark. For
Speaker 1: some reason, New York don't respect what biz Mark due
Speaker 1: as an MC. Even though his style burst old dirty bastard.
Speaker 1: His style is influential with buston rhymes. But you know
Speaker 1: again the biasness of what you think a punchline is
Speaker 1: versus the ability to deliver a message and get it across.
Speaker 1: Biz Mark at number three with Just a Friend is
Speaker 1: the third greatest story ever in hip hop history. It's
Speaker 1: self produced with Karma shout out to Kara Carmen O't
Speaker 1: get no credit. Biz Mark DJ helped on it as well.
Speaker 1: I think the video was produced by Bennie Madeena, who
Speaker 1: later on goes to do Fresh Prince of Bell l Aiirer.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'all heard of that show before once or twice.
Speaker 1: This is one of the earliest times someone in hip
Speaker 1: hop sang their own hook. And when everybody I heard
Speaker 1: everybody was in the studio there was like, Man, you're
Speaker 1: gonna let Bed sing the hook on this motherfucker. He's like, Man,
Speaker 1: this shit feel good. Like biz is not credited with
Speaker 1: his creativity, Like I heard somebody call him a one
Speaker 1: hit wonder, and I get it, because if they're talking
Speaker 1: about Billboard charts, maybe that's a conversation. But within the culture,
Speaker 1: Bi's got a few joints, vapors being another one. But again,
Speaker 1: we live in the reird world, so we live in
Speaker 1: a weird world. The fucked upest part about the ideas.
Speaker 1: Biz never made a dime off the record. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if it's the sample. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: the label's holding the asset. But Biz and the producers
Speaker 1: never made a single cent off the record sales, royalties
Speaker 1: or publishing. They had to go tour for that money,
Speaker 1: all Rob Peter biz Man. Nobody beats the biz Dog.
Speaker 1: Like y'all niggas is tripping. Respect the Big, Respect the Nods,
Speaker 1: respect the Killer, ghost Face Killer, respect the Ray. But
Speaker 1: let's be for real, man, it's the fucking biz Dog,
Speaker 1: just a friend nigga like stop front like this shit
Speaker 1: ain't the one like you. I don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: how many metaphors and similars you put in your fucking wraps.
Speaker 1: When the message gets across, that's what this shit is about.
Speaker 1: At number two, today was a good day by ice Q.
Speaker 1: This is why I laugh when people tell me Big
Speaker 1: is a better storyteller than ice Q. You can prefer
Speaker 1: big stories, you could say they're better. I'm not even
Speaker 1: mad at that. If you like them better, fine, But
Speaker 1: when we're talking about sheer greatness, today was a good day,
Speaker 1: it's possibly the greatest story in hip hop ever. Like
Speaker 1: people of all ages know, today was a good day.
Speaker 1: People know what happened to him when you got him
Speaker 1: on the court, When you got him on the court,
Speaker 1: it was trouble. You know what he did right now?
Speaker 1: Motherfuckers is still debating was he playing a game of
Speaker 1: twenty one? I've seen this shit the other day on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Mother was like, well, he's got a triple double playing
Speaker 1: twenty What he just say that in the song Diddy,
Speaker 1: I don't know shit. Old on they did ice cubes.
Speaker 1: I think you get me on the court and I'm
Speaker 1: trouble last week, fuck around and got a triple double.
Speaker 1: He was a good day and everything get hold of there,
Speaker 1: go and everything is all right. I got a beat
Speaker 1: from Kim and she can fuck all night called the
Speaker 1: homies and I'm asking y'all which point which part are
Speaker 1: y'all playing basketball? Get me on the court and I'm
Speaker 1: trouble last week? Fuck around and got a triple double.
Speaker 1: Freaking niggas every way like MJ. And he's talking about
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson nigga, now Michael Jordan, the original MJ Nigga
Speaker 1: produced by DJ Pool. So again, when I tell you
Speaker 1: ice Cube is possibly, in arguably the greatest storyteller in
Speaker 1: hip hop. They did go right Friday, which is another
Speaker 1: ice Cube story. Then he wrote number ten on the
Speaker 1: list right, which is boys in the Hood. I'm not
Speaker 1: even talking about the fact we had to mention. He
Speaker 1: wrote check Yourself, which is another story. This is how
Speaker 1: popularized que stories are. This story was unique for ice
Speaker 1: Q because this is when he's finally winning. Like a
Speaker 1: lot of ice Q's music was angry and problematic because
Speaker 1: he was going through it seeing stuff in this community.
Speaker 1: He didn't like, falling out with friends, getting at the points,
Speaker 1: but this one was when he finally was winning, which
Speaker 1: is the same story behind Friday. The Hood wasn't always bad.
Speaker 1: He wanted to show people that niggas still get it
Speaker 1: on and have a good time. There are bloggers who
Speaker 1: to this day research to try to figure out the
Speaker 1: day that today was a good day. They're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out the good day that this shit happen on,
Speaker 1: and they have done work. They have came up with
Speaker 1: two days January twenty of nineteen ninety two or November
Speaker 1: thirty of nineteen eighty eight. This is how fucking awesome
Speaker 1: The story of today was a good day, exact like
Speaker 1: Big has a fantastic story, what I got a story
Speaker 1: to tell? Right, And people spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: trying to figure out which one of the Knicks players
Speaker 1: wives did he sleep with or girls that he slept with,
Speaker 1: and end up finding out his Anthony Mason rest in
Speaker 1: peace to Anthony Mason's this is not this is what's
Speaker 1: been happening with Cube the whole time. Right now, they're
Speaker 1: still telling stories saying how did he get a triple
Speaker 1: double in the Game of twenty one? Right now, this
Speaker 1: is a question. So it's not just one question, it's
Speaker 1: multiple questions about this son. Fast forward to twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: They struck a deal with Goodyear Blimp for a motherfucking
Speaker 1: a charity called a Place call Home that looks out
Speaker 1: for urban kids coming up in the streets, trying to
Speaker 1: get them a place together to chill and hang and
Speaker 1: get their shit on. And they did a deal with
Speaker 1: the good Year Blimm and it read ice cubes of
Speaker 1: pimp Like that type of iconic shit don't happen from
Speaker 1: hip hop's stories. That's how iconic. Today was a good day.
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck if you think the game
Speaker 1: is about punchlines as symblies and all that. The game
Speaker 1: is about motherfuckers getting the message. You could be as
Speaker 1: weirdy as you won't if motherfuckers don't get the message.
Speaker 1: And when it comes down to getting the message, today
Speaker 1: was a good day. It's probably the message that everybody understood.
Speaker 1: And it's still number two. That's the fuck the part.
Speaker 1: Even with all this discussion, it's still number two. The
Speaker 1: greatest story in the history of hip hop is Regulating.
Speaker 1: Regulate by Warren G and Nate dog Regulate by Warren
Speaker 1: G and Nate dog Everybody knows the story of regulating.
Speaker 1: Everybody we could talk about, Oh well, feel like Warren G.
Speaker 1: You know the way he shut the fuck up. They
Speaker 1: introduced Nate Dogg as a singing component that changed the
Speaker 1: face of hip hop from that point on with how
Speaker 1: we did records, with the singing back and forth with
Speaker 1: the vocals. It's levels, It's self produced by Warren G.
Speaker 1: Self produced by Warren G. It launched the career of
Speaker 1: Warren G and Nate DOGG. When Death Row, When Warren
Speaker 1: G couldn't get on with Death Row, he made a
Speaker 1: fucking song that was so big that he created his
Speaker 1: own lane. It turned Nate dog from some niggas singing
Speaker 1: on hooks song Doctor Drea Snoop album into Nate Dogg.
Speaker 1: That we know. That's the reason we know Nate Dogg
Speaker 1: is because of Regula at the highest level, not glasses
Speaker 1: glasses nose, motherfucking Nate dog from all the death Row
Speaker 1: shit and all the motherfucking Doggies damn shit. But the
Speaker 1: rest of you motherfuckers know Nate Dogg because of Regula.
Speaker 1: And I don't got to tell you it's comfortable. Well,
Speaker 1: this is the single song that launched his career. That
Speaker 1: single song saved death Jam. Death Jam up to that
Speaker 1: point had never had a song that charted as high
Speaker 1: as Regulate. Now. I don't want to talk about commercial
Speaker 1: fuck all that, but listen to the point of this.
Speaker 1: All of those records from death Jam that go back
Speaker 1: from eighty to nineteen ninety fucking four had never been
Speaker 1: as high on the chart as Regulate. So some niggas
Speaker 1: from the West came in and saved the pride and
Speaker 1: joy of East Coast hip hop death Jam. One fucking song.
Speaker 1: One fucking song, death Row don't get enough credit because
Speaker 1: it did come out on above the Rim soundtrack as well,
Speaker 1: and it did well. It did fucking well, right, But
Speaker 1: this song had to be so hot that mind you,
Speaker 1: It pushed Afro Puffs the number two, which is another
Speaker 1: classic hip hop song, but it had to come second
Speaker 1: to regulate. Not to mention, because it's the first single
Speaker 1: on the above the Rim soundtrack. S WV is on
Speaker 1: that soundtrack. WV was an established success. Their song is
Speaker 1: not the first single. H Town is an established success.
Speaker 1: This song is not the first single. Dog Pound is
Speaker 1: out right. They're still figuring it out right, but this
Speaker 1: is the year before the next album come out. But
Speaker 1: Warren g is in front of them with this song.
Speaker 1: Second to None had a hit already, but their song
Speaker 1: wasn't the first single. Pac with Thug Life had a
Speaker 1: single on here. That song wasn't motherfucking the first single.
Speaker 1: I'll be sure. Who is an established success. It's on
Speaker 1: this motherfucking project, But that song wasn't the first single.
Speaker 1: You know what. The first motherfucker is single was from
Speaker 1: the motherfucking from the motherfucking the Bud the Rim soundtrack.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Two seconds to think about it.
Speaker 1: Their first single is regulating, So I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1: When you have these conversations and you start talking about
Speaker 1: your preference. Man, it's hard to have these conversations if
Speaker 1: everybody gonna talk about they prefer their preference. Dub C
Speaker 1: The Shadiest One is possibly the greatest storytelling album of
Speaker 1: all time. It's my favorite. It's one of the best ones.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna argue with it against certain things
Speaker 1: that have performed at the highest level. I could tell
Speaker 1: you what I prefer Tonight by DJ Quick. It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite stories, just like Compton by DJ Quick.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite stories. But I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: compare it to beis Marquis just a friend. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Not when we're talking about something, we
Speaker 1: can have a conversation about. I don't gotta like something
Speaker 1: because you don't have to like something to understand his greatness.
Speaker 1: This is silly. Everybody in their motherfucking mother knows today
Speaker 1: was a good day. Is it not lyrical enough for you? Like?
Speaker 1: What kind of dumb ass are you talking about? Like
Speaker 1: this shit be stupid. There's greatness and then there's not greatness.
Speaker 1: It's as simple as that greatness is when it's quantifiable
Speaker 1: We could talk about preference all day. I prefer this.
Speaker 1: I prefer this. That don't mean something is greater in
Speaker 1: and out. Listen, five guys makes a better burden than McDonald's.
Speaker 1: But five guys ain't greater than McDonald's. It's just not true.
Speaker 1: Y'all gotta start having these conversations from places that exist
Speaker 1: just out of yourself. Hip hop is a representation of us.
Speaker 1: I was talking to one of my little partners, my
Speaker 1: little putner Real feel Me from out of DC, and
Speaker 1: he was like, well, you know, there's no way nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna give prostcute over motherfucking Biggie. And I'm like, you
Speaker 1: don't have to take props away from Biggie to give
Speaker 1: him the cue. You can honestly just tell the truth.
Speaker 1: That don't change the fact that motherfucking Big was the guy.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna honor the conversation of who's a better artist.
Speaker 1: That's just ridiculous. Big didn't even have enough albums, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean for us to see his full potential.
Speaker 1: We can just enjoy what he's done. It's like arguing
Speaker 1: if bo Jackson is the greatest running back, he don't
Speaker 1: have the career enough to motherfucking quantably. You know, we
Speaker 1: can't quantify he don't have enough motherfucking seasons. You can't
Speaker 1: compare this. Motherfucker Emm Smith. Emmis Smith carried a fucking franchise,
Speaker 1: some of these conversations. And it ain't just about sales,
Speaker 1: It ain't just about chart positioning, but those things matter
Speaker 1: because that's how people find a song. That's how people
Speaker 1: find the song. If you have a fantastic story that
Speaker 1: only three people have heard versus somebody who has a
Speaker 1: fantastic story that thirty million people have heard, it don't
Speaker 1: matter how much you preferred the story of that three
Speaker 1: people heard. Greatness is being there's somebody at the park
Speaker 1: probably better than Michael Jordan. There's somebody probably at the
Speaker 1: park better than Lebron James. That don't change Lebron James.
Speaker 1: It's the greatest small ford in the history of basketball.
Speaker 1: I don't get how you don't get these conversations when
Speaker 1: we're talking about great things like it don't have to
Speaker 1: be skewed, it don't have to be biased. And it's
Speaker 1: weird when I hear people say that my generation or
Speaker 1: people my age can be biased. Everybody above thirty five
Speaker 1: grew up. If you in LA, you grew up off
Speaker 1: of East Coast hip hop. When you first heard hip hop,
Speaker 1: most likely it came from somebody from the East Coast.
Speaker 1: Most likely it probably was LLL fucking Cool J. If
Speaker 1: you was born in eighty two, most of the hip
Speaker 1: hop you first heard was gonna be LLL fucking Cool Jay,
Speaker 1: maybe run DMC. You heard jay Z as much as
Speaker 1: you heard everybody else. You heard Big as much as
Speaker 1: you hurt everybody else. Because in Los Angeles they play everything.
Speaker 1: During the East Coast West Coast supposed war, they played
Speaker 1: Biggie Biggie Steel had the number one record at all
Speaker 1: the radio stations in LA. Because it was never a
Speaker 1: real ward. This is not the island, bro, this Saint
Speaker 1: New York. This ain't over there. They play all the
Speaker 1: shit here. We well vested in the fucking culture. We
Speaker 1: hear everything. We got outcast early first album, we got Big,
Speaker 1: first album, we got ll all the albums. One of
Speaker 1: the earliest radio stations in llll cooch that got played
Speaker 1: on was KD. So we grow up with an understanding
Speaker 1: of hip hop that most people stuck on the island.
Speaker 1: As I say, half Island fever. They don't have. You
Speaker 1: guys only know what's going on on the island. You
Speaker 1: don't know what's happening off the island. You just don't know.
Speaker 1: You just don't know. And I'm not mad at you,
Speaker 1: but you motherfuckers can't talk hip hop with the motherfuckers
Speaker 1: that grew up off the island because we heard it all.
Speaker 1: We heard the shit that was little in New York.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't know shit about the shadiest one shit. So
Speaker 1: it's weird when you start comparing motherfuckers with the greatest
Speaker 1: stories in the history of the genre to motherfuckers you
Speaker 1: just like, respect the big but it's just levels. Respect
Speaker 1: the nas cuz, but it's levels. Respect the ghost face cuz.
Speaker 1: But it's levels. When you're talking about a motherfucker that
Speaker 1: got some of the most popular stories in the history
Speaker 1: of the fucking world. It's one thing motherfucking to like,
Speaker 1: you know, It's one thing to like a rapper. It's
Speaker 1: another thing to know doctor Seuss. It's another thing. Ice
Speaker 1: Cube is the motherfucker. Shakespeare is shit. This is how
Speaker 1: much motherfuckers know his stories. They gotta get y'all shit together, man,
Speaker 1: Good looking out for tuning into the No Seller's Podcast.
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