Wrapping Up 2023: A Year in Review

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a man, not people, miss you man, you've been gone for a while, man. People was asking me about you. Man had to do the last episode with fucking Mikey. She in them, hey man.

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Speaker 1: 1:24

You might say some shit might violate your probation late when I sold up back to jail, you go, that's true, back to jail you go.

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Hey no no commembers.

Speaker 1: 1:34

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Speaker 2: 1:46

You been saying you finally got enough evidence from your Vlad TV interviews? You have the rights to remain. Silence, buddy he was like what? But I thought it was a Statue of limitations, like nah got you nah, nah.

Speaker 1: 1:58

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Speaker 1: 2:10

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Speaker 2: 2:18

Yo, this is the final episode of the year. This is our year in review. 2023 Was a long year, a lot of ups and downs. Shout out to the culture crew man, thank you, keeping us, keeping us going. There was some highs and was some lows. I'm gonna give you the numbers, man. That's every year, shit, every high as low yo, this year we only did 26 episodes, man, that's. That was about two episodes a month, which is down from last year. It's every pay period, yeah, but there was, there was a time where we was dropping episodes weekly, sometimes multiple times a week, you know I'm saying. But a lot has happened. Like you know I'm saying, we launched the YouTube so I've been real occupied with that, working on the website. You know I'm saying we have personal lives. Oh, your PO officer is keeping you away.

Speaker 1: 3:05

Hey, hey, it's the.

Speaker 2: 3:11

So we average 2.17 episodes per month. Yay, check this out. This is a stat that was alarm, not alarming, but was interesting to me because, as far as like our demographics, you know, you would think that like friends and family would be your top demographic, right, your top listeners. The number one city I'm gonna give you the top five cities that we were listening in. The number one most popular city that our show is in Los Angeles, california, which is wild to me because I don't really even know anybody in California. I know I have a, I have an ex-co-worker Shout out to my man Jillson. I know he listens, he lives out in LA, but that's the only person I know. You know what I mean. Out there. We got Mikey she. He lives in Portland, oregon. I mean, that's close, but that's not Los Angeles. It's pretty. That's the number one city that we were downloaded in.

Speaker 1: 4:00

I guess we better not talk about no gang show on here number two was Phoenix, Arizona and 2023 nigga, I know nobody in Phoenix, I don't know nobody man.

Speaker 2: 4:12

Number three was Chicago Illinois. What's what? All these gang towns, tommy, tommy, egan, and none was out there. The whole power crew listening to the culture.

Speaker 1: 4:20

We got Bloods and Crips from LA, gd's and Black Stones from Chicago. What other gang cities doing there? We're gonna change this podcast.

Speaker 2: 4:29

I don't know nobody man in Chicago. My sister lived out there for six months back in the day and I went out there one time. That's you know. That's as far as I was. Chicago flew there. No, I drove out there. It's a 12-hour drive. Anyways, shit. Number four On the cities that listen to us the most was Dallas, texas. You know anybody in Texas?

Speaker 1: 4:51

No, Shout out to Dallas. Yeah, I don't know how these numbers move, like I don't know. No niggas, dallas, la. I mean, that's a good thing, though, like my niece goes to school in Chicago, but she started going this year.

Speaker 2: 5:05

Mm-hmm, and I don't think there's no Gen Z like. Gen Z, to be fair, is not our demographic.

Speaker 1: 5:11

Right, I don't think we would have a demographic. To be honest with you like.

Speaker 2: 5:15

We're talking about racism. We're talking about old-school hip-hop, we're talking about shit like that he's doing your roles in trying to listen to none of this shit we're not talking about, you know. I mean Drake and Whoever the fuck these little rappers they listening to.

Speaker 1: 5:27

Which is funny cuz they're all little something.

Speaker 2: 5:29

Yeah, and then, number five. Check it out. Number five on the list New York, new York City. So nice, they named it twice. I mean we're in the East Coast, we're in Jersey. So you figure, jersey, new York, florida, those were the three at least states that I would expect to be on the top, sure, but it'd be weird for somewhere else. But it's Cali, arizona, illinois, texas, new York. Check out this stat. We were listened to in 59 countries, Including Australia, germany, the UK and the Russian Federation, which I guess is what they're calling Russia now. Is that what the fuck they're calling Russia, the Russian Federation?

Speaker 1: 6:10

Look, I don't know. I don't know if you're talking about this Russian shit. I don't. Look, we don't. We don't do that. I look, we appreciate the listen, but Y'all got some other shit going on over there. Thank you for the listen. Yes, don't wanna and be involved in the fuck shit y'all got going on. Nah, but keep listening, though. You know what it's a war going on. You need some peace and quiet.

Speaker 2: 6:32

They over there shooting at each other and they got the culture on their headphones. The wild part they should each other like you want.

Speaker 1: 6:37

You want to go to war. You want to go to war? Nah, I shoot you. You shoot me on kind of three, one, two pat. We are the war. What we're gonna do in a free time? Oh, we're gonna listen to the culture. Absolutely, plug the fucking good for you, fellas man. Stop shooting each other. No more war. Make love, not War. Yeah, how about a piece? Yeah, make love, not war.

Speaker 2: 7:00

Yo. So, like I said, 26 episodes, a total of one thousand three hundred and two minutes. Hmm and I fully intend on Multiplying that for 2024.

Speaker 1: 7:11

That's the plan. We'll see what life says.

Speaker 2: 7:14

All right, but yo, you know, I like lists, right.

Speaker 1: 7:17

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 7:19

We do this every year year and review. I'm doing my top five verses of the year. I'm low-key, really think this shit gets you hard. I love lists, I know you do. I love top five everything. Top fighters, top fight. I asked my shit.

Speaker 1: 7:32

That's my bag right there. I think you get up in the morning and be like brushing teeth, like what's a top five, two-paste crest, aim, cool gate, you know. You just run it through your head like everything's the list, everything.

Speaker 2: 7:43

So we doing the top five verses. I got my top five. You wanted all parts of it.

Speaker 1: 7:48

No, I hate rap this year.

Speaker 2: 7:51

Really. Yeah, you think 2023 was a terrible year for rap, for new rap.

Speaker 1: 7:56

Yes, your, your top tier artists really didn't come out anything. Cole had a great guest verse on dirt shit Drinks. Album albums plural, let's pluralize it. Those were shit so bad. He started beefing with everybody about basic equality. Was albums? Because it's just been dropping. They haven't been the same. He's still singing the same emotional sing song you whining shit.

Speaker 2: 8:20

He was in his Eminem bag like oh, you want to talk shit about my album? Start getting a Joe button, which is the thing to do now.

Speaker 1: 8:26

But in the thing with him is like you're spending more time you're being the awareness of people about you are you getting mad at people about your album than them talking about your album, like, oh so you have your top five list, that you're listed. You're going to break down for us? In regards to verses, I'm going to assume there's not a drink when they're no, sorry, I wasn't. I wasn't expecting it to, but I'm just saying it's kind of a low-key down year in regards to it, because it's it's the homogenization, it's all the same. They're all in the same flow and the people you would think would be stepping up by now aren't dirt's, not babies, not the babies not. You got some other like youngsters in it, but they're just kind of beginning. It's not clicking the way you were wanted to do so, so I've been listening to a lot of older shit. Yeah, as a matter of fact, we're going to digress in this topic slightly Now. I don't know what you're looking like in February monetary for yourself, or in March I don't think might be April but do you plan on going to Vegas to go into the Wu-Tang residency?

Speaker 2: 9:35

I'm supposed to be going to Vegas, I think April should check when you check when the residency is.

Speaker 1: 9:40

Well hotel is it at? Not the palm, but I think it's. I got to look it up, but they are having a residency in Vegas Once in February, I think that's around Super Bowl.

Speaker 2: 9:54

I wonder how much they want for tickets they haven't put it up yet. If you come with me, I'll go, but the people are supposed to be going to Vegas with. None of them is gonna be interested in going to a Wu Tang concert not not one single one of them.

Speaker 1: 10:05

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:08

Wife, sister, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, whatever. Eric don't seem like the Wu Tang type. He ain't sitting there through a Wu Tang album, bro. I'll go to a concert.

Speaker 1: 10:20

He likes it through a Taylor Swift album. Oh shit, I don't give a fuck. You can tell him I said it, I don't care, I'm gangster, but that's the problem. That's why I didn't make a list about it, cuz I'm like Nothing that y'all did move me. The weird, okay, the most exciting thing that happened in hip-hop, in regards to hip-hop, is the fact that one of the greatest hip-hop artists ever decided not to make a hip-hop album. That shit got more pressing any other Then I know, and what that fluke should. Yeah, exactly, you know exact what I was talking about, what I mean.

Speaker 2: 10:50

Yeah, mike he spoke about it. He did you know that he actually had a guest, a verse on somebody's album.

Speaker 1: 10:56

Yeah on Yep um the killer Mike up, and that that first goes boy.

Speaker 2: 11:03

Yeah, I considered it for my top five, but it just didn't make it.

Speaker 1: 11:07

It goes, but that's just kind of that's what he's trying to say, like if you're really want me to do this, I can he's just bored with it.

Speaker 2: 11:14

I want to try different shit, different flows, different flow patterns, you know, I mean he's just bored with the shit, bro, like I'm just some co-natural to him, that he's just bored with it.

Speaker 1: 11:23

I feel like like he's just choosing not to do it, like he wants to do an album, what he's going to be inspired to do, so he's not inspired to do a rap album. Except I like playing my flute when doing now about that, and Everybody in hip hop is talking about a flute album, because y'all can't make an album good enough to complete with a flute album and the shit was like the highest streamed shit wasn't it that shit is relaxing in the motherfucker boy.

Speaker 2: 11:44

It was the highest streamed shit. Oh yeah, I think you ever listen to it. I listened to a couple things I couldn't really do. It was it for me. You know what it is.

Speaker 1: 11:51

It's like, if you like the flu.

Speaker 2: 11:53

If it was the saxophone I would have a saxophones, my shit. I fuck with some Kenny G shit. Speaking of Kenny G, let me, before I get off topic, did you see the Kenny G and Warren G collaboration? That shit was hard. No, but I look that shit up when you get a chance on YouTube or something. It was on stage. I don't know what show this was Warren G and Kenny G, they did the regulators and what, and Kenny G's doing the beat on his saxophone. You know I'm saying Then that shit was hard. I was like, oh shit, they should do a whole album together. The G funk.

Speaker 1: 12:29

He should just do one G's whole album in saxophone. Yo, that shit was dope he did regularly. Should do all this with this DJ, do that in saxophone, like there you go. But you want something different. And he provided something different. And it wasn't even hip-hop, it was technically hip-hop, because he's a rapper, but Andre's his own, his own thing, right. But the fact that the most exciting thing that happened to hip-hop was an album that wasn't about hip-hop says you like the state of it this year it was kind of with you, I agree with you.

Speaker 2: 12:58

Yeah, hip-hop was shit this year, but there's, there's something for everybody if you really want to look for it. You know, I'm saying are the people that we grew up listening to are still making Songs? Oh yeah, we can listen to a buster. You can listen to a nozz. He drops some shit, you can look. You know, I mean, they all got some. You, there's something for everybody if you really look for it. But let me get into this list. Man, no problem, I got you my number five Top verse of the year and this one could easily be higher on the list. Goes to one of the goats, even though you argue that he's not in your top Mr Marshall matters. Eminem On the song the realest Featuring easy mill or e2 mill, easy mill that new up-and-coming dude right, mm-hmm. What is he? Canadian or some shit? Uk? He was some shit, I think, from UK. So Eminem has the third verse on the shit and he goes. Guess I've really no right to complain. Much hip-hop has been good to me, huh. But when they say that I'm only top five because I'm white, why would I be stunned, my skin color still working against me? Cuz, second, I should be the none, being white, and why they put me at five Is why they can't put me at one. That's hard. Then he goes. They're coming with more venom. So the haters I'm aiming it towards the man all the envious rappers I torture if I'm on a joint with them and that is the only resort is I'm not played in the clubs. Motherfucking, put a cork in it. Only reason they still play your shit in the clubs is cuz you still performing them. Oh, I'm a guest in this house, but I turn this bitch to a mansion. That's an expansion. Made it gargantuan. England, germany, france and Japan in this Bitch, even Dubai, because my music they do buy. You died trying the scientists to sigh Chiatrists could not unscrew my head up the blue-eyed devil. I never quit, do I? Nah, cuz you know you'll get washed like a bar of soap. You pussy, you wouldn't give a cigar to smoke and I know it eats at your heart like an Artichoke, because you know that's how likely you are the choke. Yo, his shit. Like if you got Eminem lately the last few years, you gotta listen to his shit multiple times. A double and triple. Untanjas are crazy, bro. I, I, I, I, I, I.

Speaker 1: 15:13

Appreciate that, the unrequisite love you have for this white boy. I do, I really do. Why is Eminem complaining about his like his position on Mount Rushmore when he's pretty much richer than maybe one?

Speaker 2: 15:27

guy up there Because he doesn't do this for the money. He's always said from the beginning that he got into the game looking for the respect of his peers. And when he constantly keeps hearing that, oh, he's a, he's sold this because he's white, oh, you know, black people don't listen to him. Oh, he's a guest in hip-hop, and all these things that they say about it, all the Lord Jamar type of shit, right.

Speaker 1: 15:46

Like this he eats at him.

Speaker 2: 15:47

You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. He feels like he has to constantly answer to the critics type shit.

Speaker 1: 15:52

But he doesn't. But that's the shit I don't understand. He doesn't have to at all. I agree, like I could see if he didn't have the credentials and you could say whatever you want to say about him. And all honestly, like you know, he had this, he had Dre, he had it doesn't matter if you can't rap like that, you can't rap like that, he can rap like that. I'm never gonna hold the fucking candela for March Madden because I don't need to speak for him. I don't dislike him. I don't need to speak for me cuz it speaks for itself. That's, that's the point of all. Try to get across you. I don't dislike Eminem. I enjoy him as a rapper. He can really really rap.

Speaker 2: 16:29

He's just not in your top five, right and that is no.

Speaker 1: 16:32

That's no shit. It's a lot of rappers that I am Passionate about. It's not like I love Rick Juan. He's never gonna be in my top five. I love most death. He's never gonna be in my top five. I Like game never gonna be there. But it just happens that people gonna say like no, he's white, like I've kind of got past that white shit. I just know that when he won't, it's the three thousand thing. When he wants to get busy, he can get busy, like we talked about for the, the joint he had on killer Mike's album. When Andre 3000 really wants to fucking get busy, he's gonna get busy. You're gonna be like whoo, wow, but for him it's all like well, he's white, I'm like Let me finish this verse, cuz this is a song where he also dis is Melly Mel. So he goes, which might be the dumbest thing in all here, but go ahead, man.

Speaker 2: 17:22

He goes. Your heart is broke. As I rip you apart, I go bananas. Proceed to spit every bar. I wrote I was spitting before my mother's water broke. It's not even close, you bitch. I'm far I'm by far the goat, mmm Genziers, acting like rap experts, zip up your gaps and close your mouths, bitch. You ain't been on this planet long enough to tell me how rap supposed to sound. Y'all need to stick to what you do best shooting schools up. Yeah, go load up rounds and your parents, gas and go to class and let off with the strap and go to town. Shout out to the furious five and Grandmaster Flash. But boy, there's someone who really is furious. Stay out his past. His wrath, avoid, and I'll be the last to toy with a juice head Whose brain is like half destroyed. Goddamn, like a meteor hit it. Well, there went, there went Melly Mel. We lost his ass to Roy's. That is a bar. God was like I got him, but I'm gonna start him at the bottom of the barrel. Brought him in the world with a ma, with a ma that was on Valium and his father was a coward. Taught him as a child, when no fucking body was around, how to get himself up and out of poverty and now not even a growl in his stomach. Got to be a hound, so they put your body in the ground. Probably gonna sound like a cliche, but when haters try to beat you down, say fuck him. Okay, let him know, marshall. So that was number five on my list. That's a stupidest beef in history.

Speaker 1: 18:37

Like that's like beef with your grandfather, like I Like, like. Okay, you know how, like. As people get older, we tend to let their casual racism slide, like my grandmother's 82 years old, my grandmother, still to this day, calls white people crackers. It's not that she's no, that's low key reverse racism, right. It's not that she means it is more in a sense because she grew up in itself and kind of how things went down for it, just how she is now, before it's until it. Like you can't say that they're not thought about, like you know what You're at a particular age in life, I can't really tell you. Not to say it, you're going to, no matter what I tell you, because kind of age has given you that kind of thing, melly is like it's like you don't need like let Melly say whatever Melly's gonna say. Like you don't need to respond. Everything I just gave praise and imminent about like that's the one thing that still bogs me about. I'm like forgot what is much? Financial success, artistic success, all our alms, means upon means, the alms he sold, all the tours and everything else that he tends to have a Sensitive skin for no good reason and I don't know why. Like like Dre, dre has made some shit, beats Some, some shit was not working, even a doctor drip, but it doesn't just dismiss his legacy. Like he never has to talk down to anybody because I am who I am when M is like he can't get that thing Listen, cuz he listens to all the comments, he reads all the shit and turn the fuck away. Could you, could you know why Melly Mel still has to go out on tour to make money to feed his burgeoning steroid habit? I have never seen an old man that big and that wrong right. He looks like a bodybuilder and what he's like in his 60s.

Speaker 2: 20:16

I told you I saw him at the hip hop 50 show. You come up on stage, he's, he's massive for a guy that age crazy.

Speaker 1: 20:22

No, he's still alive, broke, look, I don't know what kind of program you on, but that shit is working for him. But my whole thing is like he's still got to do this to kind of make a living, the songs of folk and that's being a pioneer hip hop, great. But you don't, marshall, you don't have to do this like you don't have to respond back. That's the whole thing. If you want to be on Mount Rushmore, the thing about that is that you're amongst the gods. God's don't speak to the peasants. They don't speak to the people. They praise it. Praise goes up, it doesn't go down. You don't got to talk down to Melly Mel, just let it go. Like that's the way you feel man, no problem. Like they're gonna say something put my records up against his. If you want to do a battle, we can go ahead and do that. He can do. Put. Don't think Eminem gonna lose to him is like a bench press contest, that's it. He can outbarm, he can out wrap and he can do everything he wants to do in hip hop. He just can't out lift this old, strong motherfucker outside of that. But I know he had to see how to dig that one in there. I appreciated it, though.

Speaker 2: 21:14

Number four on my list. I mentioned this gentleman earlier, j Cole Mm-hmm, but it wasn't the song you mentioned. Okay, it wasn't all my life, nope, it was the secret recipe on the little yachty shit. And I was like, wait a minute, why the fuck is J Cole making music with little Yachty? It just didn't make sense to me. It makes perfect, but it but it ain't mad, because he still killed the shit. And is this safe to say that Kendrick and J Cole are this era's Nas and Jay-Z? No, like the two guys that people go to for lyrics, you know, I mean and storytelling they go through them for that.

Speaker 1: 21:46

But even with Nas and J, they were kind of two different things. Yeah, nas, you always it was like if you weren't a backpack rapper, he was like your kind of mainstream rapper, right where J was, you know, you know money, cash, hoes, I guess you can say Kind of had a thing and still would put in the lyricism and still put in like the vivid imagery of like Lifetelling and storytelling which came later, like like past blueprint and so on, so forth. But with them they're like they're two sides of the same coin, like they're the. They're. They're kind of designed in a way where you don't want to pick one or the other. You actually want to have both, like most people, either a Nas guy or your J guy. But but I don't. I know people that like I like Kendrick and I like code, but I don't see public. I like Kendrick, fuck Cole. I love Cole for Kendrick. It's like they're both in the same pocket that do similar things. But they're the way they kind of go about rapping is completely different. So when they do it, Even the subject matter is the same, the way that their flow works, the way that because Kendrick always has that quick. That tap, tap, tap, tap shit and Cole is just always seemed like he's just talking. It never seemed like he's rapping, like he just like this is very, very, very smooth and melodic. So I can't say like they're the Nas and J of this generation. I I can say that, yes, because of the two most popular, when a sense of style and a sense of Rapability, two sides of the same coin, it is greater what they do, everyone else finishing third, but yeah, get down the secret recipe.

Speaker 2: 23:20

Mm-hmm. J Cole has the second verse and he goes Cole and Yachty, coming for the respect, come and pay your debt. Just like a travel pillow, we act your neck for the way you slept this nuance. But I see hella influence in the way you dress, the way you sound, the way you try to move. You try to stay abreast on all the Latest flows and latest tones from Generation X. Your chasing relevance is evidenced by the way you step. As for me, I cook so masterfully. Ain't got to pay a chef. I'm older now but still come cut and edge. I'm like a bayonet from out the bill. We all should certify. You got to wear your vest. Too many Homicides, a lot of slide and they good at making decks. Thanks to God I made it out the city. Most will say I'm blessed. My greatest flex is that I made a milli feel like I'm Blangladesh. I hate the press refusing interviews whenever they request n words, fake, progressive and woke. I started saying less. I had to stop it. Peeped how they profit off of racial stress. Some activists got so rich they probably wish we stayed oppressed. Studio steppers moving extra on songs, faking rep only breaking bad in the lab. Thought I was making meth n words, making threats, and I and I laugh, that's cuz you ain't a threat. Don't ask how I feel about no rappers. Shit they okay. I put, I guess, incoming call, press the button, the one they say. Except he faced time to ask for a feature and saw the face of death. I'm on your song, your streams going up, not quite the Drake effect, but don't complain, bitch, take what you get and cut the label. Check my stable, set a Dine on your favorite. One verse will take his breath. I probably put more n words on pause. And cam and Mason beth, I, my agent, got a whole lot of calls. It's like he paid the ref. These bitches out here looking like Steph on the late contest, wide open Shooting. They shot. Don't even waste your breath. I've been stop fucking you thoughts and got no patience left. Save that shit for one of them. N-words that rock the fake protects my paper stress, just like a Laker, before he break a sweat, signed the greatest yet. Oh, let him know, cole, I fuck with Cole man, oh you do.

Speaker 1: 25:13

You do what you mean. I'm not saying that shit to be funny, I just know that you do. Cold is great at what he does. I don't know why people argue with this shit. Like he, he's look best right now, it's okay, it's the reason, okay. So I would say, if you're making that comparison, career-wise Cole is J M no, no, uh, kendrick is not. It's the whole like fear of what I mean is that like, like I appreciate the younger generation putting him on their albums. The only problem is that when you put J Cole on your album he's going to kill you, like J used to. Like you want, like everybody, like I wanted J verse and when you got it, it outshone your shit. He did that on this, he did that on dirt shit. Oh no, it's just, it's one of those things. Only in that position it's reversed. When it comes to career, kendrick's J and Cole is nice. Because I believe that the way that Cole is, he's a lifer, like he's going to do what Nas did now with the King's disease and the magic and like the later on shit in life, because I think he just Generally loves this. Like his business interests are all around dreamville, he doesn't have much of an expensive thing outside of that where you know, basically Kendrick's leaving the label, he's trying to start his own things, trying to get into these like artistic creative projects. He's expanding. He's more interested in the artistic business side of it. Cole seems to be more interested in like the purity of it, the rap part, the Like I said cuz he don't have to do this, but he does Because he's always like trying to look out and reach out for the younger generation. He wants them to succeed, he wants them to supersede him actually. But the fact that he can still do this at this level is not much more than you can say about it.

Speaker 2: 27:03

All right, Hmm, next up on my list. And this guy is always always doing his thing right and I never used to fuck with his dude before because I can't stand his voice and I've talked about it. But when you listen to his fucking lyrics, he's. You know I'm talking about. I.

Speaker 1: 27:27

Know it's such a weird thing to say about something else like I don't.

Speaker 2: 27:29

I can't stand this voice like okay, I'm talking about Lil Wayne Mm-hmm. You know, nas dropped his magic album, so his last project with a hip boy and he got Wayne on it on the song called never die, one of my favorite songs on the album Okay, and this is my favorite verse on the whole album. So it's Lil Wayne. He has the second verse never die. He goes icon, stepping on python, spitting that cayenne Eat you like a lion, peeking at the skyline, reaching for the stars like I'm reaching for the pylon. I seen you on the sideline. We need to walk a fine line. We need to read the guidelines instead of reading the timelines where everybody Like line, nobody flow like mine. I'm sending these and words gotta be coaching and words like prime tongue. I never bite mine. Got dough like taekwondo, taekwon, that that that line right there got me for some reason. Got dough like taekwon To spend all this money I'm gonna have to spend a lifetime. You broke. Can't even buy time. Show Should throw inwards a lifeline. You know, money on my mind. I'll be on your wife, mine. I hit her with the pipe bomb, then pass her down the pipeline. But actually we quite fine diamonds on me, sparkling and splashing like some white wine. They love me in the nighttime, they hate me when the light shines. Shots I got a hundred, and problems I got nine. Nine Bugatti Viron take off with no flight time. Bad bitch on the passenger side, she don't even like flying Booty, soft as nylon, you and we're small as micron. I got a black Nina that get nasty as a white blonde. Low credit, high crime, open mind, tight rhymes. When they hit my lines these rappers got a catch up. Like Heinz, that's a bar Weezy and my slime Nas ain't nobody like ours. Like by guns got out like icons. Be icons, hi mom. Hmm, I thought that was hard.

Speaker 1: 29:07

Ain't no thought, ain't no thought. It's Wayne. It's hard, bro, I know, but everyone else talking about rush more shit. I'm like y'all might have to leave a space for Wayne. You might not like it, but might have to like what's it? What's this? What's this? 20 years plus it's already been 20 years. Think so, might be more than that. Give me one moment, let's take a Google search. Uh-huh, what date is this? The block aside came out in 1999?. That was his first joint. Yeah, the block aside. The block is that 1999 so now?

Speaker 2: 29:43

but that was in his debut, wasn't his debut of the wobbly?

Speaker 1: 29:46

wobbly shit. It wasn't that, but I mean as a single. His first was the block is hot. So that's 1999, that's going on 25. I was like a soft, more high school be that. So that's October 23rd 1999. So, next year it'll be officially 25 years God damn.

Speaker 2: 30:02

So it was a spin like this in the 90s.

Speaker 1: 30:04

I understand that, I understand that, but again, even doing it again Next year would be 25 years, 25 years away, not 10 years, not 825.

Speaker 2: 30:17

All right, check it out. The next one I can't even recite the lyrics Because I don't know, maybe there's just too funky, fresh and the. I can't even find the lyrics. They're not on title, they're not. I can't Google them, mm-hmm, I can't find the lyrics to this fucking verse. Okay, so y'all gonna have to go look it up. It's Benny the butcher On the OT, the rail and a rap music joint, a rap music drop the album this year. Right, by the way, is a rap music one of the dopest producers, bro, cuz he never misses on beats. His beats are hard. He's one of them. You know, I'm saying this certain, this, certain guys like fab that get on a rap music beats and just do magic with them. She's, anyway. The name of the song is the crown and Benny has an ill-ass verse on that. You're gonna have to look that up. I'll go listen to that shit. But that takes me into my number one verse. And this guy has been and I'm biased, I don't give a fuck, I'm biased this guy has been number one on my list. Every year that he drops a fire verse he's usually number one. So for the last couple years he's been number one on my list, right.

Speaker 1: 31:19

Hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Do you remember the name of the song?

Speaker 2: 31:24

The crown. It's on the OT the rail and a rap music, shit. But it's just him. No, it's Benny the butcher, ot the rail, and it's the beat is by a rap music. Hmm, can't find it.

Speaker 1: 31:41

Okay, I know to find it.

Speaker 2: 31:43

I know I will. My number one. You ready for this? Sure, this guy's been killing the fucking features game lately, the last few years. Every time he comes on a feature he murders the shit. This is the one guy that I've told you that it gets better with age. Right, that are all the old heads he's still spitting. He's spitting better now than he was in the 90s and in the 2000s to me, in my opinion. Okay, you don't really know who I'm talking about go ahead man, the MET HOD man. So Lloyd Banks dropped an album this year. Right, it was okay.

Speaker 1: 32:17

I don't think you like who like yeah, it wasn't the best, you got a whole Generation of who are they like? Who's Lord Banks? They have no idea zero.

Speaker 2: 32:26

But he has an album he dropped this year and he has a song called 101 razors, because they just slicing you up right. 101 razors featuring met the man. Met the man has the last verse on it and he goes Legend before retirement. You Just a bust of before the rhyme. You pre-Madonna's like a virgin Madonna, but borderline bunch of boring lines, no one falling for. So fall in line the punchline. I'm like a freestyle slimes. They offer mine, get it off of mine. Some of us get it, but offer crime. The office off the table. Public defender gone off of time. When they thought it was, when they thought it was subbing, I thought sublime. Now I see since 2020, I clearly thought I was blind. Yo, the streets is watching them. They want them with biggie and pockin them, resort to poppin them. But how is that solving the problem? I got a lot of them. I also got dreams. I follow them. I'm not concerned with rappers who can't spit, so swallow them. There's ain't for little saints, so pardon. Then. You see them Polly, you see them pearly gates. That's where them Saints go marching in. So y'all. So shall we start again? Met that in banks. This market in cuz ain't no bargain in with the demographic we target, in that this is just, bar after bar, the flow is still uncanny. I think he still has a top, maybe five, maybe top three flow of all time. You know I mean the word patterns, like is just. It's just, to me is uncanny. It could easily be lower on the list. You know what I'm saying. Like I have Eminem up here, I can have the Wayne versus number one, I can have the J Cole versus number one. All these verses could be number one. But when you actually listen to it and you put it to like the flow, you know I mean the word scheme and everything. Yes, I give this verse an edge. So this is my top verse of the year for me.

Speaker 1: 34:03

You do understand what listen to it and tell me, if you agree to disagree, one these years, you gonna have something without Nars or Eminem or metham in on the right. What is your not this year? One these years now it's gonna happen. It ain't been happening lately, it ain't even happening, but they've been spending though. Am I wrong? No, but that's the problem with this generation, the fact that you can't name nobody new right. Like there's no one there, like we had this pressure before, we were putting, um, oh, korea was on there, mm-hmm, but I, he's gonna get back to doing it, but he just had a baby. Congratulations him.

Speaker 2: 34:43

Him in the tennis.

Speaker 1: 34:43

Check him, and I'm Osaka, so yeah, so congratulations to that, but he'll get back to it, but that's the whole thing like it. There's no one in this generation that impresses Me, and I'm not saying because we're the old heads.

Speaker 2: 34:56

We're the old heads. Now, if you talk to a Gen Z or they're gonna give you, they're gonna run you down a whole bunch of dudes that they fuck with. The Little, this little, that is person, that person, and it's gonna be nobody that we fuck with. And I'm starting to understand, I'm just starting to accept it. You know, I mean, I don't have to like it. I'm starting to accept that we're just gonna like different shit.

Speaker 1: 35:13

It's not even accepting it. Like I understand that y'all the generation likes Cloutin hooks right yeah like the vibe.

Speaker 2: 35:20

Yeah, don't care about lyrics. They don't care about the story telling, they don't care about word play and punch lines and similes and metaphors. They're not looking for that.

Speaker 1: 35:28

I'm looking for that, though right, they're cheap out like I'm. I'm chasing like content, context and substance. Mm-hmm, y'all are chasing vibes and feelings. I get it and there's there's no shame in that and I'm not complaining about it. But you got understand that if I ask you about this, if I play five of these songs in a row and I can't distinguish one person from the other, if I put a problem, if I put on J Cole, nas and 3000 big Rayquan, fabulous Jada, now, exactly who all are more, I can tell by their voice and by their cadence Exactly who this is not a single one is gonna sound the same but over here, here, all y'all, but there, by the bad time I'm a little bit. They did it. It's a dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad. That's it. What this? This watch of the wooden soldiers, shit, some bullshit. Y'all keep it. Y'all got the same flow. You all get the same cadence. The beautiful hip hop and his growth, it's that you can get something different from everybody, from different parts. The fact that the top ones are all sounding the same. I can't differentiate y'all. I can't tell. I would love to, I can't. I really, really, really want to do a difference, but I can't. So when you do shit like this and you kind of keep these things alive, mentioning these people that still matter in a course of hip-hop, the things that they do, the way that they rhyme, that you can tell that if you took your list and put all five of those together, none of them sound the same. You can find a clear distinction between each of them, like. This is his way. This is there with this. Is that, lily? You can tell it by you, like trying to read it, like when you read it, when you read Eminem, you're reading it in his cadence. Right, you were reading it in the words You're reading like. Could you hear his cadence in your head? The same thing with everybody else. I can read this word for word by just reading across the screen, said Jack in the hat who had a cat in the back of the lack with the Mac. But you can't do that because you've heard it for so long. You know how they sound. So when you read it you can't help but to do it in the head. All these new ones, same kid and same flow, no difference.

Speaker 2: 37:33

But that's why I gravitate to her like a corda. When I sell people, I like corda. They like what the fuck he's whack? No, not to me. He's not because he's, you know, he's in his 20s, but he reminds me of the people that I fuck with, you know. I mean, he reminds me of the people I grew up with. He's an old soul.

Speaker 1: 37:47

He's still about lyrics, his story telling, you know I mean I think you're like people who are passionate about rapping, right, that that understand the art form of it, like it's not easy to do this shit, but we're going to do it and I'm gonna show how good I can be at it, or anything else. That's the tricky part when all y'all sound the same, I can't tell who's good, like okay, that sounded good, but then the next one, that sounded good, but next got that sounded good. But how do I like how to know which you three stand out? How do I know who's who? And I can't? And it's not a dismissal of hip-hop, is it's kind of a misunderstanding between two generations, because there's nothing in that gaps and Feels the bridge between one to the other cool. It's kind of that guy, yeah, but, but he wraps more like a 90s rapper than a 2020 rapper, right, but I can't think of a 2020 rapper. That really is kind of rapping like a 90s rapper, like there's no kind of that thing over the middle. I mean, the only bridge between those generations that's why he's one of the ghosts is really Wayne, because the the progression through hip-hop you can basically trace from his career forward, like that makes songs with everybody.

Speaker 2: 38:55

He'll make a song. He can make a song with a nozz, and then he can make a song with one of the new guys from today. You know I mean that he's the bridge.

Speaker 1: 39:01

Yeah, that's the one. But then the whole thing is like the guys from the old school, the older generation, respect him. But the thing with the guys, the new guys, they can't rap like that.

Speaker 2: 39:10

Going back to Wayne, not only is he the bridge between the old and the new, he's also the bridge between, like, the southern and the east coast and the wet. You know, I'm saying cuz. Like he's real southern, real south, and you can hear it in his voice, you can hear it in his accent. But he makes songs with everybody, you know. I mean he could jump on a song with the best from the east, the best from the west, the best from the south, and Still stand his ground and shit and that's what went and that's the whole thing.

Speaker 1: 39:31

Because with the new generation, like he'll jump on it, but y'all can't rap like that. That's the whole problem. If you could you would, but y'all just can't rap like that. He can still again. Like I said, we just kind of made that note. Next year will be 25 years of him rapping, not eight, not 15. 25 years. That that is someone in a masters program. 25 years of rap and still going, still going. They can still give it up like this.

Speaker 2: 39:56

Yeah but let's wrap this up, let's, let's, let's talk about, let's dissect the top moments of the year. Once again shout out to the coach, a crew man. We do have a reaction video up in the patreon, so if you haven't checked that out, cuz sometimes they don't begin the notifications or the alerts- You're trying to get up on the tube to back like a bitch. Yeah, you do a reaction video. You know that shit has to go through all types of Of approvals before we could get up on YouTube. But in the meantime, I know, but on the patreon.

Speaker 1: 40:22

But I don't understand, because it should be crazy, because you've seen other people pop up. You be seen like you go on YouTube like something will happen yesterday and they're got a reaction up like hold up bro, like wait, wait, wait. I don't know how to do it. We know when a broke boy line, we got a, what we got a? We got a like cut a check to some shit like that, like we gotta figure it out. We got like sign up for YouTube premium or something. Do we get like a little bump? I don't know shit.

Speaker 2: 40:45

But yeah, we did a reaction to the video ad by as yet group called acts yet and was a song.

Speaker 1: 40:51

Night.

Speaker 2: 40:51

Mm-hmm, hilarious. Go check that out on the patreon page. Oh, top moments of 2023. Um, let's start with some light heart issue. Let's start with sports. Oh, the top things that happened, in my opinion, in sports this year was Tom Brady finally retiring once and for all For like the second or third time. I think that was a seminar moment in sports, because you thought we thought he was gonna play forever, right, shit, time did so. He finally retired, Okay. And and then, of course, lebron James becomes the all-time leading scorer in NBA history.

Speaker 1: 41:25

And, and he won an N season tournament champion. That's one more than Jordan Fucked.

Speaker 2: 41:28

And they put a banner up, fuck that banner, that's so this was just missing a banner.

Speaker 1: 41:34

Come on man. Yeah, I got a better for competition, like two eight seeds, two eight seeds.

Speaker 2: 41:40

It's a one-off game. It wasn't even like a series. It wasn't like a best of five, best of nothing. It was one game. Anybody could win one game and the bro none of the lately. This is the most I've ever seen LeBron play defense. By the way, he played his heart out to win this little in season tournament. Jordan put that shit on his resume like yeah, jordan, on, got this one.

Speaker 1: 41:59

To one time NBA in season tournament champion. If that shit going his Hall of Fame plaque, man, I quit basketball.

Speaker 2: 42:05

It is, it's gonna say four-time champion, mm-hmm, it's gonna. It's gonna say in season tournament winner is gonna say NBA scoring leader. Mm-hmm and then, however many all-star game appearances or many Olympic gold medals he got too many, he's in the top five of all time. I just can never put him as my goat.

Speaker 1: 42:26

He might be top three all time.

Speaker 2: 42:28

He's probably top three you know I'm saying I just can't put him at the top. I'm just sorry. There's just too many factors that go into with the error that he played in. You know. I'm saying you know, going six for six in the finals, yeah, that's not all of it, but that counts for something.

Speaker 1: 42:42

So Jordan has that over the MVP awards, the all the accolades, that's a whole another podcast, right.

Speaker 2: 42:49

But anyway. So those are the sports. Anything you want to add that it might have happened in sports. They have the top she's those are the two top shits that happen this year in sports.

Speaker 1: 42:58

That that dad is giving two Asian fellas a billion dollars.

Speaker 2: 43:02

Yo, they spent a billion dollars and two motherfuckers be 700 million and six and was it, was it 320. They gave show he Othani 70 million a year and 68 million of that shit is deferred. That is crazy. That shouldn't even be allowed. That sounds like fucking tax evasion. That sounds like money laundering and again other board 326. No, it's a 326 that sounds like all types of laws being broken right there.

Speaker 1: 43:25

I had a competitive tax laws working to not pay him 30 million dollars a year. They're gonna pay him basic two million dollars for the next 10 years in 680. The whole thing about 680 like it's not even like with interest. It is gonna sit 680 to stop them crazy, bro.

Speaker 2: 43:38

And the loophole is that when he retires and he starts collecting the 68 million a year, it doesn't get taxed on where he plays Right, where he played like it does right now, as when you're a player, you get taxed in every state that you play, all right. When he's retired, this money that's deferred is only being taxed where he lives. So he could go to Florida or one of these other states that has no state income tax, that's it and collect even more. This is money, that's it. Tax less on it. That's crazy. How is that not like tax evasion of money laundering or some crazy shit?

Speaker 1: 44:08

And then they gave the other homeboy one million dollars more than to give Gerakul. They like they did it on purpose, like Gerakul had the highest contract in baseball history for picture. Like more for all money, wise. And they gave one me Dodges. All right, let's move on. Man, he mad. Hey man, my team was trying to sign him in, like I know I'm gonna hang in the home. He's like all right, your team offered him more money than my team. At least y'all got Soto. Shut the fuck up.

Speaker 2: 44:31

We offered him 300, your guy, you guys offered him 325 and he went and took that back to the Dodgers and they matched it. Yeah, yeah, but y'all got so though.

Speaker 1: 44:38

So it's like yeah, it's what y'all needed more than anything. You need a left-handed consistent on base guy, and now you got him. Congratulations, we sign shit world conflicts.

Speaker 2: 44:48

This year we mentioned Russia listen to the culture. So big, all, but at the same time they invaded Ukraine.

Speaker 1: 44:56

You shooting them bearless. Ain't talking about that shit. Fuck, I'm glad.

Speaker 2: 44:59

I'm just letting. I'm showing you fact we were listening to. It, doesn't fucking Russia.

Speaker 1: 45:03

I'm happy for our Russian viewers, but they got some fuck shit going on right now.

Speaker 2: 45:07

I can't do. And you know I have a co-worker who's from the Ukraine and I'm always, you know, checking on her, checking on her family, cuz she got family, that's the her parents. They're low Yo, the Ukrainians are the most proud people I've ever seen, yo. Hmm, like I'll ask her about her parents and she'll tell me that they refuse to come here, like they want to stay over there. You know I'm saying they want sit and they want to stand with a country, they want to fight with a country, they want to do what they can and you know I mean to the end, type shit. I'm like goddamn well, my thing is that that's, you know, honorable, admirable type shit.

Speaker 1: 45:39

It's, it's, it's all they know, man, to stay home. They're not giving up the home right, they rather die. They like respected Israel and Palestine. Back any bullshit again.

Speaker 2: 45:51

And that's the other thing. Yeah, the Palestine and Israel conflict, and I've been on purpose, I've been Purposely staying away from this topic. We haven't mentioned it at all. Right, and I have my reasons. I might in the future Maybe early to January if this keeps going on I might have an episode about it. I might bring on a guest and talk about it. But you know, I have my reservations. One of the reasons why I have been hesitant to talk about it Because I don't know enough about it, right, and I'm ignorant to it. So I don't really want to talk about it. I don't want to side with anybody. You know what I mean, cuz I don't really know enough about it.

Speaker 1: 46:25

No, that's not actually. It's actually pretty intelligent of you you know I'm saying so.

Speaker 2: 46:29

It's like and you already know how I feel about like religion. I'm not saying this conflict is solely has to do with religion, but I know that religion has a large part to do with it. Right? You know, holy land and this is our land. No, this is your know. The Bible says this. This says that Jesus. You know it's a lot of it has to do with religion, so I've stayed away from that topic.

Speaker 1: 46:47

Yeah, am I a whole. Thing. Yeah, I get you.

Speaker 2: 46:51

We're gonna tackle it eventually.

Speaker 1: 46:53

I mean I'm gonna prerefuse it right now. The reason why I'm talking about it? Cuz they my problem, and I know that might seem kind of like petty and whatever else like that, but like, look, as an African-American person living in America who's been under the, the rule of oppression and everything else for decades, I'm not saying I am the Arbor of all black people, with a lot of black people feel this way. Certain conflicts and everything else are that that this is not my war, this is not my issue. What y'all got to sort out, what y'all got to sort out, it doesn't affect my daily thing, it doesn't affect necessarily my life and I don't have any. My issue really comes down to a simple fact is that I'm not pro Israel and I'm not pro Palestine. I Am pro Life. And what I mean and I don't mean that in like an abortion sense I mean the sense that there are a lot of people in the middle Men who have been the family's children getting caught up in a conflict has nothing to do with them, that their lives have been lost because of two war infections, and there are people being kidnapped as people, being murdered, raped as A sign of war. And I don't just I don't agree with that. Whatever your conflict is, your arm need to go up against. They are many to get the civilians in the innocent side of there. Could he got nothing to do with this? That's my only beef with it outside of that. That's your problem. I gotta deal with it.

Speaker 2: 48:11

I Also. This is alarming. This is very alarming. This year mark the most mass shootings in the US and our country's history. They've been roughly around 700 as of this record. It's been around 700. That's fucking shootings.

Speaker 1: 48:29

Look man, I told you, I told you, we number one at this year.

Speaker 2: 48:32

That's multiple shootings a day dog.

Speaker 1: 48:35

We're only getting better at it.

Speaker 2: 48:36

That's, that's. That's almost twice as many shootings as as days in the fucking year bro.

Speaker 1: 48:42

I told look, I told you about that, we're good at this, we're really good at this, we're number one. We love this shit. Every time we had that conversation about guns, we're really really good at this. And guess what? Next year we're gonna beat that limit because we can't help it. We don't want to do shit about it. If we really want to do shit about it, we could, but we just don't. So I'm like that that. So what's the number this year?

Speaker 2: 49:01

I was about, I think. Last I checked there was a little less than 700.

Speaker 1: 49:05

Oh we'll beat the next year, Hell yeah.

Speaker 2: 49:08

and in an electric cycle, fuck yeah and then, of course, we had Donald Trump, indicted On over 30 charges this year. Still ain't gonna jail. He ain't going to jail, he might be get reelected.

Speaker 1: 49:23

I thought we fucking know, trying to get my Canadian passport set up right now. Let me go in, get the fucker point out of here, canadian passport. I'm out of fuck this. I'm out, you out, I think.

Speaker 2: 49:33

So just a quick drive. It's like a six, seven hour drive.

Speaker 1: 49:35

Yeah, this is like yellow. Let me get a job lined up there and get the fucking point out of here y'all. Next trip they're gonna put his ass back in office.

Speaker 2: 49:42

I know Canadian, I know Canadians ain't never seen a fucking match shoot, never heard of a Mass shooting.

Speaker 1: 49:46

I'm good with that. He ain't never gonna want to leave. You gonna reelect them. He's gonna try to stay in there forever. They're gonna turn some bullshit like look now be a dictator day one. Set it, go up there and piss on, piss on the Constitution like we're right dictator. For the one day you can read first Depth and day two like that.

Speaker 2: 50:05

A dick to a thing for this just so good, I'm gonna extend this for another week or two.

Speaker 1: 50:09

Let's try this Like an aspirin. Let's give it a week. Okay, let's stretch it out a little more.

Speaker 2: 50:16

All right, it's been working out about a month.

Speaker 1: 50:19

You also got that Constitution. You got lighter. Let me borrow that.

Speaker 2: 50:24

You know what that law that says? I can only run two terms. We're gonna abolish that.

Speaker 1: 50:33

Old so.

Speaker 2: 50:34

I'm running 20 consecutive terms.

Speaker 1: 50:36

It's old paper, old laws. None of it matters, don't worry. All schools gonna be Magga, magga one, magga two, magga three. Run them all up, we're gonna change the world. I know we laugh, but that shit seems so realistic. That's the fuck that part. Oh shit, that shit don't seem my side around possibility.

Speaker 2: 50:55

We're alienating our Trump supporting listeners right.

Speaker 1: 50:58

Look, look, that's y'all man. You want to come up here and talk about him. Go right on the head, I ain't got no problem with it. You can have an honest and fair discussion about the Possible president of the United States. I don't care, but come with me with information and facts. Don't call me. I feel I don't feel shit. I need to come with something that shows me that why this would be a good choice.

Speaker 2: 51:18

I want to bring a. I want to bring a minority Trump supporter on the show come the fuck on. I'm not, I'm not terrified interesting, your interesting conversation.

Speaker 1: 51:28

I'm not terrified, I'm just smart. And are you not going to dummy now and give me something that's functional and reasonable, that I can actually Use is like okay, that's a good point. You know what? He never got us in a war. Good, great, thank you. A lot of presidents did they be proud of that. Shit wasn't in the war, he was. Conflicts pop up all the time. We put ourselves in a shit like that, but whenever, whenever this person was to come on, they can come right on man, it's perfectly fine.

Speaker 2: 51:58

But yo, that's our year and review. Man, happy holidays, happy Kwanzaa, happy Hanukkah, merry Christmas, if you celebrate that. I Went to there's a gentleman I know who's Muslim, I ain't gonna say his name and I asked him like yo, you ready for the holidays? He was like yo, my name is Muhammad, I don't celebrate that shit. I was like I will shit, calm down, man. My bad he was I don't got to spend money on shit. I ain't buying nobody a goddamn thing. I was like shit, more power to you, man. But if you do celebrate it, happy holidays. If you don't enjoy the, you know the year and your family, the festivities, whatever y'all do before we go.

Speaker 1: 52:31

I got. I got five quick ones. I thought Made an impact for me. Mm-hmm person, fuck all our politics shit. Mm-hmm. Number five was me on a Super Bowl. That shit was fire the pregnant one yeah. I like that one. That was a nice little touch, mm-hmm, but it's it. But happening January, so I can count it. After that I will say this usher mania. I've never seen so many people want to go out to Vegas seat. I've never seen so many people want to go out to Vegas. I never seen so many people want to go to Vegas. Just see him like I didn't understand how important, how good he was until that. Shit, like people is like planning trips right. I thought she was pretty goddamn impressive. Number three is twofold actually is juveniles tiny desk performance, and then scar faces tiny desk performance, which came on a few days ago. Them, shit's great. The scar face one. If you haven't seen it, go to YouTube. Type an NPR tiny desk scar face and watch his performance. Yeah, faces, faces. Just still at dude. Number two the Smith's. I'm tired of them.

Speaker 2: 53:34

We need even mention. I ain't even mentioned them. I'm tired of mentioning them exactly I know.

Speaker 1: 53:38

So I just want to get out the way I look one last time the Smith's I guess that's a memorable moment them breaking up after 30 years. Them breaking up her with the book, her with the two, pock shit. It's it. There was a lot they were doing, way too much this year. Way they got. Okay, please don't drag that bullshit into next year. We got it. The family's crazy, y'all a mess. Cool, please receive to the background. And the number one most important thing to happen this year, with that fact that we celebrated 50 years of hip-hop. We cannot go on any further without mentioning that, because that is key To us putting this together, to us talking about if I was talking about verses and lyrics and everything else like that because this is the 50th anniversary, you went to the celebration. They have a celebrations everywhere. People had a grand, great time and I don't want people to forget how much it mattered. I don't want to give up the essence of it, of everything that hip-hop has encompassed, influence, change and Motivated, motivated and cultivated within this audience, within this culture, within the society. We cannot let that go without saying. Thank you, hip-hop.

Speaker 2: 54:46

Yes, sir, 50 years of hip-hop culture. We're gonna be bigger and better in 2024. Thank you for tuning in. God, see pace I.