Nah, that's the greatest promo in the history.
That might be the greatest promo in the history of YouTube.
Shout out to the Uzi Vert fans.
Uzi Vert be trolling, I be trolling, the fans trolling.
It's a great time.
A very small portion of people online because we all can't agree on anything have specifically one media personality in hip-hop has called it something like corny or what is it.
Wait, who's the media personality?
I'm talking about Joe Budden.
Performative.
No, Joe Budden actually defended him, I believe.
No, Joe said he made the Honda thing.
Who said that it was corny or performative?
At called it performative.
So there have been people making fun of the rollout.
Wait a minute.
It doesn't even make sense.
Concrete Boys fans, they're probably like, who is he talking about?
Like, who is this person?
Well, now they're about to know.
Now, I was trolling, though.
He's definitely saying he talks too much.
I grew up in an era where your lyricists were from the streets.
Now it's a bunch of straight-A students who dropped out of college your sophomore year to be rappers.
You can tell they don't have any life experiences.
They're just good with words.
Well, J. Cole graduated.
It's supposed to be like T-H-E-I-R there.
But, um... Get up!
Uh, Rap Life Review.
I'm Ebro.
That's Eddie and Nick.
And that's Lo and Nadeska.
Hi, Nadeska.
How are you doing?
Great.
How are you, sir?
I'm great.
Lo?
I'm good.
Eddie?
What up?
Nick?
Doing great.
Nice.
He never cares how we're doing.
Something's off already.
No, come on.
Now, who puts the YouTube comments as the first thing we should get to on the show?
Whose idea is this?
It helps engagement.
OK.
Tell me more.
That's it.
We're trying to check the algorithm.
Okay.
So let's get to it.
We read the first thing last week.
It was the first thing that people was like, yo, you didn't get to the YouTube comments.
So, okay.
So let's go.
Uh, let's see here.
Uh, Mufasa TV 2361.
Ha ha ha ha.
Great episode.
As usual, you should add links to the songs you mentioned or a playlist for the episode.
That would be great.
Nick, what do you think?
I would love for Mufasa to know that there is a Rap Life playlist on Apple Music.
I was literally about to say that.
I'm like, don't we have?
That he could listen to.
However.
Is it linked?
In a radio show?
In a radio show?
In a radio show.
And there is.
But wait.
But nick, you do, at the end of the episode, sometimes mention things in what we miss of songs that are not.
That's true.
I guess he's referring to that thing.
He might be referring to some of that.
He's referring to that, not you taking a shot at one of your fans, nick.
That's terrible.
No, it wasn't a shot, it was just.
Maybe he didn't know that it was connected, maybe he didn't.
No, that's true.
Uh, what about live streaming?
They wish we would.
This is uh lil kente Wish we would live stream so they could read the chat in real light.
I mean, in real time.
Maybe we should get on your IG live more often.
That could be our version of live streaming.
On my IG live?
Yeah, you know how we stream during the show.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've done it before.
I could be on TikTok and on IG.
We should try that one day.
You want to do that one day?
Yeah, let's try that one day.
Kaz, what you feeling?
Live stream?
He says thumbs up.
It gets nasty in there.
Especially right now, bro.
The Uzi Vert fans, bro, they ain't let it go.
Happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary.
Yo, we didn't cover that last week, did we?
10 years, right?
You said?
No, we did a little bit.
We touched on it a little bit.
No, we didn't touch on it.
The comments just lit us up.
That's all.
We had no context whatsoever.
Would you like to address this?
It was all your IG.
I thought I talked about that's the gift that keeps on giving.
I thought we referred to it a little bit.
Nah, that's the greatest promo in the history.
That might be the greatest promo in the history of YouTube.
Shout out to the Uzi Vert fans.
Uzi Vert be trolling.
I'll be trolling.
The fans trolling.
It's a great time.
But wait, it just resurfaces on every anniversary?
I guess they got a calendar reminder.
This is 10 years, right?
Something pops up in their calendar.
They get it popping.
It's 10 years, right?
Add context, though.
10 years for what, though?
For the interview.
And I think they're celebrating that he's still around and I lost a job and he got more money and he's still here and all the things.
But I ask you, while his hit songs are going around right now, are you guys highly anticipating the Uzi Vert album?
Personally, no.
I really like that new song.
That song's fire.
New song is tough, man.
If I get an album like that, I'm locked in for sure.
Okay.
I'm excited for a new Uzi album.
So wait, you want all the whole thing on that type of time?
If there's an overlapping theme and it's similar to that sound, yeah, I'm in.
You rocking with it, Nick?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'm super excited.
I think, for the most part, Uzi Vert doesn't miss on projects.
Eternal Take 3?
I mean, okay, he won out of how many?
Five or six?
But he missed on that, right?
Yeah, but I said hardly.
Okay, all right.
I said hardly.
Two was rocking, though.
Two was rocking.
For sure.
What about one?
One was cool.
No, two was the one that came out that you didn't like.
Two was my fault.
Wait, so it wasn't three yet?
No, we're not at three yet.
One was incredible.
All right, so two is the one we didn't like.
What about this last album he put out, Nick?
Yeah, I wasn't the biggest fan of... That's the one, Eternal Attack 2.
That's the one we're talking about, Eternal Attack 2.
My fault.
I started off with the screw-ups that threw off everybody.
Eternal Attack 2.
Nadeska, you didn't chime in on Uzi.
Handle with care.
No, because I feel like Nick, I was curious what Nick had to say about this.
Why?
It's more his demo?
Yeah, I mean, I like Uzi and a few records, but I feel like Nick is like the expert.
Okay.
Nick, and you would say for an Uzi Vert fan like yourself, he definitely has been delivering the way you want him to.
Yeah, for sure.
I'm just looking at his tapes now.
Even the pink tape, which was a mixtape for all intents and purposes, was great, with a lot of good songs on there.
So in general, when it comes to a body of work, he does pretty well.
And he's rock star status, proving me wrong.
Yeah.
I think I Just Wanna Rock, that's a big rock star song.
Stadium status.
Wait, Lowe, you have a problem with this?
He's not rock star status?
He's not rock star status.
He's a rap superstar, but he's not rock star status.
Is he a rock superstar?
It's kind of the new thing, man.
No, it's not.
Are there rock stars in hip hop?
Rock stars aren't even rock stars no more.
When we say rock stars, we're usually talking about rappers.
I always put it through the Lil Wayne filter, right?
Because Lil Wayne was trying to be a rock star.
That was what he was doing, you know, with the Martian and all.
A lot of what Uzi does kind of goes through that filter while it dovetails into other places.
But the Martian, the outer space, to this, to that, to that, to that.
And part of the even going back 10 years, part of the reason that interaction even happened, because the audience may or may not know, but I'm obviously cool with his team, Drama and Lake.
Shout out to them.
And they were like, yo, he loves to get to these bars.
And I was like, look, I've seen him spit and I know he can really, really get to rapping.
So let's throw on a classic hip hop beat.
And then obviously he didn't want to get on a classic hip hop beat and that turned into the whole thing.
Because for me, if you rapping, you rapping.
So you get on, you can rap.
If you can rap, you can rap.
If you have trouble jumping on certain type of beats now, I'm like, all right, I found you.
I found you, you weak link.
You know what I mean?
I found you.
I found out your weakness here.
But I mean, in the 10 years that I've passed since that interview, you still hold that metric?
Absolutely.
Like you need to be able to, okay.
I feel like if you can rap, you can rap.
But I don't think Uzi Vert has set out to be what a quintessential rapper is.
I don't think that's what he's been trying to do and i think that's part of where his fan base um, and people who love what he does, really love him, because he's kind of tried to do other things and be something, a different type of entertainment, a different type of artist in the hip-hop thing um, but it you know like when uh, who called him a rap superstar?
You call him a rap superstar.
I don't even know if that's what he's setting out to be either.
What do you think he's setting out to be?
I don't know.
I mean, at that time, 10 years ago, he said he wanted to be a rock star.
He was like, I'm going to be a rock star.
He's a rock star.
I was like, we're going to decide if you're a rock star or not.
Well, I don't think he is, so I guess we still got 10 more years left to see.
Because rock stars are like geese and idols.
They're rock stars.
We don't look at them as rock stars.
Rock stars are a certain echelon of like Travis Scott is a rock star.
And you're like larger. than life personas.
And so I'm glad you said that, Eddie, because I was going to compare him to a Travis Scott.
Is Uzi on Travis Scott's level?
No.
Not on his level, but I think there's certain.
So Rockstar has tears if we have a pyramid.
Right, if there's like a certain pyramid, I don't think that negates the fact that so is J Cole on Drake's level.
No, but J. Cole's still a rap superstar, right?
Like, he doesn't have to be on Drake's level to be a rap superstar.
Well, I had moved away from rap superstar.
I had moved in, that's why I was just using the rock star aesthetic.
But in the same way we're using the term rock star, I'm using that context for rap superstar.
So in saying that, Travis Scott is a rock superstar that's on the upper echelon of a pyramid.
Uzi's probably right under it.
That doesn't negate the fact that he's still a rock superstar.
It doesn't take it away from him.
He's just not on the same level with Travis Scott.
I agree.
Well said.
Well said.
There it goes.
So the Uzi Vert fans, they out here in the comments, heavy, celebrating.
Celebrating.
And I'm happy for them.
Listen, I think in this game, what you want to do is you want to see artists prove you wrong.
You want to see them actually get out here.
And Uzi Vert, who's been trolling on the internet for a long time, putting diamonds in his forehead and having a good time and having fun and all the things.
I think equally, I've loved trolling back with him and his fans.
It's been a good time.
So it's a gift that keeps on giving.
It's a great promo.
Love it.
Let's see here.
Fans react to Baby Keem's casino.
Someone here said we downplay ASAP Rocky for selling 123000, but we gassed baby Keem for selling 71000.
That's Rockafella.
I guess, like, can someone pull that clip up that we actually downplayed?
Nah, nah, because we did.
Yes, we downplayed it.
Y'all downplayed it.
We downplayed 123 from Rocky?
To a degree, yeah.
Because we were talking about, is Rocky the king of New York?
And it was kind of like, oh, no, no, no.
And it was a bit of a downplay.
And this person's not wrong.
Like, if we're going to talk about how great the king... I think it's two things, right?
This person is kind of wrong.
Because we praised the Keem album.
We didn't praise the Keem album and then downplay Rocky.
Well, we praised the Rocky album, too.
Yeah.
In completely different ways.
Yeah, so...
They're kind of making a valid point, but they're also kind of wrong.
Yeah, because we never mentioned Baby Keem's sales.
Yeah.
Wasn't that what we were praising?
So they're wrong.
And we definitely weren't having a convo about Baby Keem being the king of anything.
So they're mixing up two completely different conversations.
Wrong.
Basically.
I think I missed the Rocky conversation.
But you do think that we downplayed A$AP Rocky?
I don't think so.
Did you guys talk about Rocky's sales specifically?
No, I think we brought him up, but we were just talking about A$AP Rocky being the king of New York.
We were talking about A Boogie.
We were talking about Rocky, we were talking about a bunch of artists.
But does it make sense?
Because he hasn't even been dropping enough to want to be in the running for the king of new york conversation.
But 123k was that first week.
That's yeah, that's amazing, that's dope, that's not something to downplay.
I don't know, i doubt they would downplay, i don't think.
But i i think in the context of the conversation i did bring up the fact that he sold 123 000 copies in the part of that conversation.
So they're, they're taking that part.
It was like all right, how does he sell so many copies?
And then it turned into some this weird comparison to keem, which we weren't making.
So i can understand what happened.
We never made this comparison.
But this person what you're saying Eddie took two different combos and bundled them together.
Is what you're saying.
Yes.
Casino great album rollout.
Good substance.
Has surface level music, love songs, deep stuff and production.
Also, he isn't on a gimmicky press run.
That's Mosh One, Not Hot, blah, blah, blah.
I don't know what your little handle is there, buddy.
But I appreciate the positive comment.
I agree.
Wait, wait, wait.
Was that a shot at Cole?
No, why?
Because who else is on a press run right now?
Is it gimmicky?
He ain't doing any gimmicky.
He's just doing what Cole has always done.
Listen, I think it's a great press run.
A very small portion of people online because we all can't agree on anything have specifically one media personality in hip-hop has called it something like corny or what is it.
Wait, who's the media personality?
I'm talking about Joe Budden.
No, Joe Biden actually defended him, I believe.
I think ACT called it performative.
No, Joe said he made the Honda thing.
Who said that it was corny or performative?
ACT called it performative.
So there have been people making fun of the rollout.
But academics hates Cole.
It doesn't even make sense bringing up his opinion there.
Wait a minute.
Oh, no, don't get Ebro started on ACT.
Eddie, come on, bro.
Should've taken this episode off, too.
Come on, this nigga, man.
No, I just got a question, man.
No.
She said he doesn't like Cole, right?
It's documented.
Okay.
So I wanted to know how we ended up giving that validity in this convo when we know bro don't like it.
Well, he brought it up, so that's fine.
Oh, that's all.
No, I'm talking about the comment.
Was the comment a shot at Cole?
Because there's only one other person doing a hip hop press run right now.
Oh, you're talking about the comment from the commenter.
Yeah, from this person.
Yeah, that's how we got there.
No, I don't think it's a shot.
And I don't look at it as a press run.
I'm just going out there touching my fans.
But you know what?
It could be.
It could be a press run?
No, it could be a shot at Cole.
It could be a shot.
This bigging up team could be a shot at Cole.
Yeah.
Based on all the info I just heard.
Okay, fair enough, but then he would be taking a shot at most of Cole's press runs because he's been doing the fan thing forever.
Yeah, the fan thing.
Let me come to Forest Hills Drive and let me play you the album.
He's been on this kind of time, so it's really nothing new.
If you feel like it's gimmicky now, then I guess you feel like it's been gimmicky.
Did Kim even do a press run?
I mean, I think that was Joe Budden's case.
It's like, we're performers.
They're supposed to perform.
You're supposed to promote your art.
This is the game, y'all.
If you can do it in an organic way.
That's true to your artistry and who you've been.
More power to you.
But for people that are non-fans and be like, oh, that's a gimmick.
Hey, bro, if it works, it works.
I don't care if it's a gimmick or not.
And yet again, the point is, it's true to who Cole is.
The Honda Civic has been a part of his career from the start to the finish.
Yeah, I think Cole's trying to tie it to a story.
I think some people, like you said, they just don't like Cole, man.
And so guess what?
If you don't like Cole, when Cole comes around, you ain't going to like it.
Yep.
Whoa.
That's a great way to explain it.
Yo, I don't know how I got there by myself, but that's crazy.
By myself.
That was a great way to break down.
That was hella complex.
It's crazy, right?
Like, if you don't like it, when it happens.
You're not going to like it.
You ain't going to like it.
No, it's crazy.
No, it's wow.
It's nuts, man.
Speaking of Keem, though, you had a whole news package that you built for us for Casino.
A light news package.
Yeah, sorry, I wasn't here last week.
I didn't really get to share any thoughts on the Keem album.
So spending a few more days with it, I just thought I would share my perspective.
It's a little bit weird tossing to myself.
Well, here's Ledeska's news package, because guess what?
When it comes to hip hop news, we, on this program, we have a journalist.
Rest of y'all not sure, we got one.
One.
Why are you holding up two?
You have delivered zero journalism to this program.
And until you do, you can't put that out.
My desk is packed.
Some artists can go decades without showing us who they really are, but Baby Keem was ready to do that on album number two.
If you enjoyed Melodic Blue.
I think it's pretty easy to love tracks like Good Flirts and Birds and the Bees, but the real power on Casino is Keem, sharing so many of his darkest moments.
I'm talking about the shit that a lot of us would prefer to keep buried forever, and somehow he does it in a nice tight 37 minutes.
By the final track.
I was actually amazed at where he landed emotionally.
But let's start at the beginning.
From the opening track, No Security, it becomes obvious that instability and insecurity were actually the foundation of his childhood, to the point where he makes multiple references to being raised by wolves on the title track.
And it seems like a lot of this really bubbled up to the surface when he lost his grandma last year.
There's also something really unnerving about Las Vegas, this manufactured land of escape being the backdrop, while Keem is basically telling us a story of a kid fighting for his life.
And as the story unfolds, with his mom and his family getting caught up in the Vegas vices, specifically serious gambling addictions, he makes an important observation that stuck with me how people will gamble with their lives, but they're scared to bet on themselves.
Keem clearly made that big bet on himself.
But as we hear on the album, Survivor's guilt and grief, that doesn't go away.
It doesn't fade when the first million hits.
Sometimes you're just throwing on a brave face and you keep carrying all that weight.
He actually gives us one of his best songs to date on I Am Not a Lyricist.
It's a pretty powerful centerpiece for the album where we learn that Keem spent time in foster care as a kid.
Try to wrap your mind around that for a minute, going from feeling that abandoned to his current situation hitting stages on sold-out tours across the globe.
Now, back to the album closer, No Blame.
None of us can rewrite the past.
We can't undo the damage that was done, especially as kids when we needed all the care in the world.
But getting to a point where you can name the hurt without holding onto the blame.
That feels as close as you can get to healing and moving forward.
And this is where Keem leaves us as he talks to his mom.
Casino does feel like a pretty fitting title for this project, because after everything Keem has been through, we can now see his journey through the lens that life takes very different turns if you're gambling but you have nothing else to lose, versus gambling because you have everything to gain.
So if you've been following Keem's journey so far, I'm curious how you're looking at him now after playing back Casino.
So I know the guys already talked about the album on last week's episode, but if you're like me and you spent a little bit more time with it after that, I'm curious your thoughts on it now.
There you go.
Nadeska, thank you so much for keeping journalism and hip hop.
Yo, anytime, anytime.
You mean for talking too much?
Yeah, yeah.
Wait, do y'all want to get into that?
Let's get to that.
Yeah, let's do it.
Let's do it.
OK, so who sent the lyrics to the chat?
I sent the song, but that's where it sent the actual lyrics.
And which song was it?
Shit.
Come on, man.
Why you putting up with this?
Oh, sorry.
All right.
I'll go to the chat.
Sorry.
I thought it was something you was rocking to.
First of all, who's it from?
First of all, I am rocking.
That Concrete Boyz album.
There you go.
Listen, that Concrete Boyz album.
So Yachty did say something specifically.
Copy OK Cool is the name of the song.
And at the 120 mark, I was in the gym and I was like, wait a minute.
Let me rewind that and pull up the lyrics.
And I was like, oh, he's talking about Nadeska.
So how many songs we got?
We got 21 Savage took a Nadeska line.
Who else got a Nadeska line?
Nadeska is one of them ones when it come to MCs. you know, advancing their quotes using her name.
You're one of them ones.
It's odd though, right?
Because it's not a name that's like necessarily that easy to rhyme with.
But maybe a syllable is like work good and ends with a vowel so they can like rock with it.
You got any publishing off of anything?
Twin pull up, hit the distressor, catch him and stretch it.
Damn, that shit extra.
Shorty right there, some little pressure.
Talk a little much, whole move like Nadeska.
I like that.
Bro walk down in a Vespa, I never call him.
And then whatever.
Nadeska, Vespa.
Vespa, Nadeska, I mean.
Listen, I was moving this weekend.
There was a lot going on.
And pressure, pressure, Nadeska, Vespa.
Ooh, no.
That bar breakdown is stupid.
Bro, there was so much time in the group chat trying to understand what that mean.
Like, was he taking a shot?
Like, there's no way Yachty thinks I talk too much, right?
It's not possible.
My theory was just that maybe there's not a lot of women in his life that talk enough.
But see, I'm looking at it.
No, I don't.
But he says nothing about talking here.
He says move.
So that might be like cause he says shorty, right there, some low pressure, like she putting pressure on him.
Like she looked good, whatever, et cetera.
Talks a little much. hoe moves like Nadeska.
He didn't say you talk too much.
He says she moves like you.
So maybe, maybe she's very confused.
Are you trying to bail this nigga out?
No, no, no.
I'm saying maybe he's talking about how you keep it calm and cool and chill.
But he's not saying that she keeps it calm and cool.
He's not saying that.
He says she talks too much.
He didn't say you talk too much.
Are you sure?
I mean, it is your job to talk.
So maybe he just using you as a reference.
Like, look, I know somebody that gets paid to talk a lot.
She talk too much like Nadeska.
Nadeska.
That's what he's saying.
Listen.
The only people who might be more confused about us confused than us are Concrete Boyz fans.
They're probably like, who is he talking about?
Like, who is this person?
Well, now they're about to know.
Now, I was trolling, though.
He's definitely saying he talked too much.
That's nuts, though, right?
That's great.
That means I'm trending in the right direction.
That means they're fans of you.
For the last 10 years, the narrative has been, let her finish her sentence.
Stop cutting her off.
So if somebody out there feels like I'm talking too much, I think I'm doing great.
Thank you, audience.
Well, and let's be clear.
He says, talks a little much.
He didn't say talk too much.
He just said a little.
The amount of time you're spending dissecting a Yachty bar is crazy.
Look, I'm just reading the words here.
I'm just reading it.
I can't tell if he's serious.
Talk a little much.
I can't tell if he's trying to bail a mountain.
I can't tell if he's trying to like find some wiggle room to say if she talk too much, if she don't talk too much.
Clearly, the nigga's saying she talk too much.
Listen, man, we're doing lyrical breakdowns into what?
Of a Yachty song.
Of a Yachty song.
Oh, wait.
Now y'all shitting on a lot of Yachty's lyrics.
Your man Eddie was in the gym rocking to him.
Listen, okay, I'm gonna take this as an opportunity.
Lyrical breakdown and Yachty should never go in the same fucking sentence.
Damn, bro, it's getting crazy.
Speaking of Yachty While we're on that topic.
Yachty was talking about rappers delighting old school hip hop versus new school.
Did you guys see this clip?
What do you have to say, Lo?
I get it.
I understand it.
It's not his aesthetic.
It's not something that he probably would look at and be like, yo, this is historic.
This is what it is.
And he likened it to his comparison of like, you know, sometimes I be saying whack shit and clearly niggas in the 80s or 70s, whatever this shit came out, they be saying whack shit.
But I just think it's like it's a discernment to the history of rap.
And I think the criticism of it and I think the dismissiveness of it is where it rubs me the wrong way.
Mm.
Well, a shout to bootleg Kev also.
I received it like he was listening to Rapper's Delight.
He doesn't understand the context of it.
At all.
But here's the important piece.
Yachty, it's important that you know people don't listen to you specifically for bars.
They listen to you for a vibe and an aesthetic and musicality.
Maybe the hooks melodies, whatever it is.
Presentation.
Presentation.
It was similar to Rapper's Delight.
Right.
Rapper's Delight was already a popular disco song and a club song that some rappers got on to make another club song.
It was just for the club and call and response and like having fun.
It wasn't lyrical.
And so, yes, sometimes comparing Yachty or younger rappers to straight lyrics.
That's not what they're trying to do.
That's not their intention.
They're just having fun, creating a vibe and having a party.
And I think that's valid what Yachty's saying.
Like you know, sometimes the critique of him not being, you know lyrical or, you know, not being able to do, or people not liking what he brings to the table,
He's basically saying like, look, but that wasn't lyrical either.
Yeah.
You probably confuse people a little bit sometimes because just now it sounded like.
That all makes sense and it's fine.
But then we were talking about Uzi.
You said sometimes you still hold some of these rappers to that bar.
Yeah, because he can really rap.
Yeah.
No, because Uzi can really rap.
But I know that's not what he's trying to do in that interview.
I know that's when I met him.
I knew he could do that.
He was basically that's why the interview went the way it went.
He's like, I'm not trying to do that in the game.
That's not why I'm here.
So I'm waiting for something that's never going to happen.
It's like low waiting for a classic Drake album.
It's never going to happen.
Oh, my God.
Damn, man.
Trying my hardest.
Damn, you slept like 12 hours last night.
What's up, bro?
I lost my train of thought.
I was literally about to chime in on that.
No, go ahead.
No, you didn't.
You don't even have to respond to that.
But sometimes we're waiting for artists to do things that that's not what their intent is.
Right.
Yeah, I'm also not waiting for him to become a rock star.
You're waiting for him to become a great lyricist.
No, in the context of the Uzi Vert convo that day, I threw on Mass Appeal, Gangstar, a beat for people who are really trying to MC.
He was like, yeah, nah, I'm not doing that.
And I was like, wait, what?
You can't rap over Mass Appeal?
The whole thing started over.
Because clearly, that's not what he was trying to be at the time.
And he was like, I'm going to be a rock star.
And I was like, well, we're going to decide if you're a rock star or not.
We'll see, basically.
Right.
But that's, I think, the same point, what Yachty's making, which is, people critique Yachty for not being lyrical or not about his lyrics.
He's basically saying, but Sugarhill Gang wasn't that either.
That shit was them lyrics was whack.
And I'm saying he's not wrong because of what he's trying to do.
But people are still going to come along and be like your lyrics are whack if they're expecting an artist to be something that that artist isn't trying to be.
Like, Uzi's not trying to appease me.
He's trying to build what he's trying to build.
Yeah, but then when you go up on Justin Incredible and shit the bed with a freestyle and then have the gall to talk about other people that can't rap or aren't lyrically capable, it's like where do you come off?
Well, no, but I think that's an important piece of the convo.
So maybe, Uzi, you shouldn't be freestyling.
Neither should Yachty.
Exactly.
Oh, yeah, freestyling, my fault.
Yes, freestyling.
You know what I'm saying?
But at the same time, they could argue, but I'm doing it the way I want to do it.
You know what I'm saying?
So basically, Yachty needs to get to a point where he doesn't feel like he has to even address this anymore.
These guys are trolls, though.
They're all trolls.
Uzi, Yachty.
It's all a part of us continuing to have this convo.
You know what I'm saying?
Because I think that's important.
Us just talking too much.
All right, man.
Cool.
So we're good with what he said.
No, they say you talk too much.
I just ask questions.
Yeah, clearly it's me.
Watch this episode and I'm the one talking too much.
No, that's what Uzi, I mean, Yachty said.
What about Cy High?
What did Cy High say?
He keeps confusing.
He keeps going back with Yachty about you talking too much.
He's like, they're interchangeable.
They're interchangeable.
Yachty, Uzi.
All right, so let me swerve right quick.
So on this show, some would say that we can be haters on the new generation.
So I want to say this weekend right, this weekend specifically, of new music we got I don't know if, like 2025, was a wake up call between I know it didn't come out in 2025, but the Kendrick album, the Clips and the Wale and the old heads kind of running the narrative in hip hop in 2025 2026, this weekend, between the Chase B album, the Concrete Boyz album and this Yeet and ESD Kid song, hey man.
The young boys came through.
And I know Chase B and them guys ain't super-duper young like that.
But that younger generation that were like, hey man, where are the people filling in the gaps between the Kendricks and all those guys?
And two – those two projects and that Yeet and ESD kid song.
If 2026 y'all gonna keep going like this rap is y'all's again.
Cause y'all need to take it over.
Like, because the old heads.
So we got a few things we want to get to here.
So first and foremost, I want to throw to the Concrete Boys taking over Apple Music One.
So let's have a look at that real quick.
Someone like me, I live in a studio, so I'm recording every single day.
I'm recording more than I'm doing anything else.
So then, what happens when you live a life like that?
You stack up so many records and, truth be told, a lot of them get forgotten about.
A lot of them go, you know, on the radar, a lot of them never see the light of day.
A lot of good ones, a lot of great ones.
How do you feel about them songs?
That's like, like you know you'll make a song and it'll be the hardest thing to you right now, but you just wait too long to drop and you feel like the time passed for the song.
Not like it's not good no more, but the time passed for the song.
Do you ever feel like that?
Like you outgrew a song that you made?
All the time.
Like it's not as though, you just outgrew it.
It just grew past the time period.
That's why you need to have people around you.
You know what I'm saying?
You can't just live in a bubble.
You got to have people coming in and out of your ecosystem that you trust with good judgment because it's fresh on their ears.
So big up to Yachty and everybody pulling up.
Who else pulled up?
VZ pulled up.
Who else pulled up, Nick?
Do you know?
No, V's didn't pull up to the takeover that we had.
It was just Yachty, Rio, and the rest of the Concrete Boys.
Okay, and the rest of the Concrete Boys.
So shout to them.
It's Us Volume 2.
You giving that a thumbs up there, Eddie.
We need to go look and listen.
For sure, for sure.
So here's what I will say about Yachty.
I'm just going to keep it all the way stacked right.
I don't necessarily love the way yachty raps what i will give him credit for, the way he arranges songs and produces and all that.
What was that fake, tame impala album he had, with like all the weird start here?
That was phenomenal, like it was a great album.
I don't really like the way yachty comes across on songs, but when he arranges and puts the songs together, the boy knows what he's doing.
He's great.
So for me, since it's a lot less yachty and a lot more concrete boys on there, This shit goes.
Well, and I give Yachty this.
I've actually tried to listen to Yachty throughout the years and pay attention to what he's saying, how he's saying it and it's creative.
And to what Eddie's saying, I think most of the pushback on Yachty is the fact of how he comes across on a record sonically, how he sounds, maybe.
But when he wants to, he can say some clever shit.
True.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, for sure.
And when he wants to.
Chase B, that project, Be Very Afraid, Volume 1, fire.
There's heat on there.
There's a joint with Big Sean and Travis Scott.
Yep, there's heat on there for sure.
Now, Yeet and SD Kid you brought up.
Oh, and before we move on to Yeet and SD Kid, let's play the clip.
We got Chase B and him taking over the studios of Apple Music out there in Culver, L.A.
So let's talk about the music making process, man.
That's what I like to figure out, even just as a producer and as a DJ and all of that.
Tyna Day, first of all, shout out to our brother Tay Keith, man, always.
You know what I'm saying?
Love Tay Keith, that's family.
That's family.
That's day one.
Come on now, since day one, for real.
So, when it came to making Tyna Day, and just even with this new album, what's your approach right now?
Just even picking beats and picking producers and how do you like to work?
I mean really just going back to like everything that I was doing when I first came in, what made me get all the attention.
You know what I'm saying.
And the scope of attention before I actually got the attention, you know what I'm saying?
Just that whole, just how I do my ad-libs, the beats, the selections I pick, but at the end of the day, still staying true to me but, like I said, elevating me.
You know what I'm saying.
Just a whole new sound, big sound.
The studio's real busy.
Yeah, stay busy out there.
So shout out to the team out there in L.A.
And shout out to Chase B and the whole Cactus Jack squad.
Always showing love.
Now, Yeedon SD Kid.
Eddie, you're hype.
That shit go crazy, bro.
Okay.
That's like, that might be my favorite rap song so far this year.
Just like standalone song and that National League project, the production on that.
And I actually like, so to me, in my opinion, Yeet and SD Kid are very similar artists.
Just one being from Portland, one being over there from the UK, right?
But they walk in a very similar space like this dark.
What's going on?
Non-black had to throw that jab out there.
Rappers in like this certain aesthetic right.
I like SD Kid more.
I like SD Kid more than I like Yeet personally.
I'm with you on that.
Yeah, but when you put them together, man bro, it's like uh, it's like if you put sylvester stallone and like arnold schwarzenegger in the 80s in the same movie, you're like yeah, y'all been kind of dancing around this for a minute, put them together, it's a perfect mix.
Like this, this song goes crazy for me.
Yeah, i mean yo ye came up and played the album actually and uh, he was talking about how, up until this moment, he's always been just going in the booth and he'll just do a song off the top of his head right, And this is the first time.
And he's gotten very far doing that, right?
I mean, people get far doing a lot of things.
What I wanted to say was that he mentioned that this time around he actually spent more time like working on this song.
And it sounds like it.
And it sounds like it.
That's where I was hoping we got to.
It sounds like you tried, man.
I was waiting for it to land, so I could be like, and it sounds like you tried, man.
The album sounds good.
I'll just, I'll cut it off right there.
Clearly, I shouldn't add any more.
He put in some more effort on it.
Yes!
And I'm here, let's, come on, man.
It was so funny because Ibra was, like, locked in intently on her.
He's like get there, get there, just so i can say it, get there, he landed it.
Now i listen um, i like it, it sounds good, and i like sdk and i liked a couple of records i've heard and they rapping, they rapping.
You know um, for me, the whole wearing the masks And sounding like I don't know y'all well enough to take y'all serious about how y'all sounding like kind of like future, kind of like you in a trap, kind of like you rapping, kind of like ah, it's good, but I'm not sold yet.
I'm not all the way in yet for me.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
For me.
And I'm a liking it to a time where somebody that I really, really like because of their rap skill.
They had great rap skill and they were being embraced by the culture.
But we was all going, why is this white kid wearing a durag?
Why is this happening?
We know where this is going.
Why is this happening?
It went on to evolve and we love his rap skill because he was giving us exemplary level rap skill.
So while we did question mark, like, why you got a durag on, bro?
Like that's kind of cosplaying a little bit, but you spitting crazy and we believe your story.
So we gonna see how this plays out.
I remember these, these were real convos.
Fast forward to now, I don't know enough about these stories. to know why y'all cosplaying Pooh Shiesty Mask and all that.
And I know it's just a style and all of this, but that's just how I feel about it.
But the music, I do like this record though.
E, you lived in Portland.
What are your thoughts on Portland?
I love Portland.
Portland's a great town.
Does it get grimy?
Absolutely.
OK.
But I don't know where Yeet's from.
I don't know his whole story.
I don't know.
Share.
Has he shared that?
I don't know.
And when I went to look, as I've been following the Yeats story over time, I think part of this has always been mystique.
For sure.
It's always been a question mark.
There's not really, I haven't really, and even with SD Kid, I'm not quite sure.
So when I see some of these, some of this aesthetic, it makes me go, hmm.
Yep.
So listen, I don't know how, I'm sure there's still gonna be some mystique, right?
I doubt he's trying to roll back on all of that, but he did say that he felt like it took him to get to this moment, to feel comfortable, to now, to share more about himself and his story.
So we might get some of those answers this year.
Hopefully, I don't know if you'll be satisfied with those answers.
Well, no, it's not about satisfaction.
I'm just trying to understand the details of life.
You might understand a little bit better this year.
Because, let's be honest, the whole shysty mask or whatever, if we're keeping it a bean yes anybody, everywhere.
They wear them all over everywhere.
Kids wear them when they play football.
They wear them whatever.
When they showed up in rap, it was specifically about, like, I'm doing a heist.
I'm heisting, whatever.
And that doesn't mean you necessarily got to be from the street and necessarily have to be doing robberies.
It's just, like I said, cosplaying.
It's just a look.
But it makes me ask, what's the story here?
Where are you from?
And why are you perpetuating this aesthetic?
Why are you choosing this particular aesthetic?
Is it just to get money?
Is it really a part of, you know, whatever your marketing scheme is?
Is it, you know, whatever it is.
That's just what I ask.
Fair enough.
That's it.
Just questions.
But I'm glad everybody likes the record.
Rappers don't like when you ask so many questions, bro.
They don't.
And they say I've talked too much.
Talking way too much all the time.
Just accept it, Ebro.
You're old.
You don't know what's going on.
And they had Drake's house performing.
And it was a great time.
Cool.
Yep.
Gotcha.
Basically.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
Sounds good.
Sounds good.
That's it?
That's it.
So So Camo, Big Country.
Nick, you on this album, right?
We had a chance to talk to him on the Plug Radio.
Some of the things we talked about are his future comparisons and also getting a cosign from Justin Bieber.
Crazy.
Shout out to The Plug.
That's Nick and Eddie.
And look up The Plug playlist, available on Apple Music.
Yikes.
Why is Saha going at J. Cole?
Does anybody know the reason?
Is it the false prophets from 10 years ago?
What did I, was he dissing Syha on that?
I thought it was Kanye.
I thought it was Wilder than Kanye.
Yeah.
I guess Syha is.
Okay, so I can read this tweet while you think about what that is.
Please.
He said, I grew up in an era where your lyricists were from the streets.
Now it's a bunch of straight A students who dropped out of college a sophomore year to be rappers.
You can tell they don't have any life experiences.
They're just good with words.
Well, J. Cole graduated from St.
Charles.
Supposed to be like T-H-E-I-R there, but.
Get up!
Come on.
Bro, listen.
And he's a lyricist, too.
He's spelling shit wrong.
Just because he can rap doesn't mean he can spell or his usage is great.
Listen, side high, no dope on Sundays.
I still love that right there.
I love that.
I was hoping to get more music from you.
This is just a little bit confusing to me.
Where to start with this?
So on the fall off, Nicole makes so many references to not being a street dude.
One of them is just like laughable.
He says, like I'm a sidewalk dude or something like let the people have the streets.
Like we already know what it is like.
You're not seeing anything that's like surprising or shocking, and why do you want everyone to be from the streets is not a positive thing.
To go to college and get straight a's and better your life and buy your mom's crib.
Like i don't really understand why he's picking this fight here for the rollout.
It doesn't really make any sense.
To be fair, those are two different things, though.
Because someone hit him up and was like, yo, was that a shot of J. Cole?
Then he said, I wasn't talking about J. Cole when I tweeted that.
But since he reminded me?
But then he released the diss and all that.
But so that's the part I wanted to get to Eddie, because he says you're scared of our good brother in that Grand National.
Why?
Should've knew you and that little Honda was gonna have to collide.
But tell St.
John that them raps just ain't jaw dropping.
You forgot I still owe you for false profits.
That's what I was referring to.
But Sy High is saying he owes J Cole on behalf of Kanye maybe.
I mean, i can't think of any other reason why this would abruptly just come out of nowhere and i'm thinking is like, does he not like the album?
Does he not like j cole's fall off based off his explanation?
Is there something wrong with you know cole, not living a street life and not, and being a lyricist and having great bars, but not living that side of the life?
Is that where this comes from?
We can only assume.
Okay, until we hear more, but there's also just could all just be promo.
Can I tell St
John that them rap bars are kind of jaw-dropping though?
J. Cole had jaw-dropping rap bars.
What is Sy High talking about?
He had great rap on that album.
I don't know what Sy High is talking about.
We're not talking about Uzi or Yachty, which Ebro can't figure out which one's which.
We're talking about J. Cole.
He had jaw-dropping raps.
Does Sy High?
Is he just speaking for the contingent of people that are mad that he didn't rap against Kendrick?
Yeah, I know, but I think where we're at now, though most people just not care now.
Clearly, there's no we.
Whether it's we, who's we?
Because there's people who are definitely still bringing it up.
Yeah, I mean, I guess for us.
We can talk for us.
Yeah, we're over that.
But there's definitely people who are still out here holding J Cole accountable to not, you know, showing up the way they wanted him to show up in that rap battle.
But J. Cole's, okay, fair.
That is true.
That is honestly true.
But it's the same conversation we were having earlier with the J. Cole promo.
I'm fine as long as it seems true to yourself.
And J Cole bowing out and being like yo, I'd rather just ride my bike around.
That seems kind of true to J Cole.
That's what we said at the time, isn't it?
Yeah, we all said that.
Yeah, so, like, if...
I don't think J. Cole fans care because I watched all those trunk sales.
And them grown-ass men is crying when they meet J Cole, taking days off from work driving from San Diego to meet him in LA guessing.
Like, those people do not care.
Being your favorites and crying is crazy, grown man.
But it's cool.
I understand fandom.
I get it.
I get it.
They did it for Michael Jackson.
They cried for him.
You know, come on.
Oh, listen.
They did it for Michael Jackson.
It's crazy.
Yeah, but I just think people that don't like J Cole are deciding to hold on to that narrative because the vast majority of us are like yeah J Cole, I get why he doesn't want to do that.
He's not really... And I get he does all these, I'm the king.
He has those bars, so...
It's an oxymoron, but who gives a fuck?
But Eddie also too.
Why do people keep talking about this remixing this Kendrick Drake thing from back then as like a regular battle?
What do you mean?
What? where it was just like a regular battle.
Oh, like a regular rap battle?
Like, it wasn't regular.
Like, Cole bowed out of something that was about to get... Very personal.
Very personal and very crazy and wasn't just like, oh, we about to bar it up and it's going...
Yo, that shit did not go like that.
Why are we acting like that shit went like it was like... We're not acting like that, bro.
We saw what happened in real time.
I'm saying everyone is acting like he bowed out of something that was a regular degular.
We just gonna bar it up.
It wasn't like shake hands after.
The number one rapper in the world got called a pedophile at the Super Bowl like it was not normal.
It wasn't just like, you know, Punchlines and no, man, it went far.
It went really, really far.
I don't know if y'all recall, people got shot.
No.
Yes.
I don't know if those are related.
I don't know if those were related.
At Drake's house.
I'm not saying it was related.
I'm saying it happened in the same timeline.
So if you're in and around battling that, you would have been thrown.
Your name would have been in all of that shit bro.
It wasn't regular.
I get it.
I get it.
So we don't appreciate this rollout.
I do.
I'm fine with J. Cole.
No, no, no, not Cole's rollout.
I'm talking about Sy.
Oh, I moved on from Sy.
Sy's is in promo mode, man.
Come on, Sy.
Okay, it's a weird promo.
Again, this tweet about...
He's rapping very good, though.
I will say that.
But it's like he worked with Kanye for such a long time.
Kanye is also not from the streets.
And I think Cole also says like Kanye was one of the first people who helped him figure out his lane.
Because Kanye also wasn't from the streets.
He was just rapping about relatable shit.
And that was really inspiring.
And that's Cy High's man.
So none of this makes sense.
So is he talking to Kanye?
Just drop more dope on Sundays and don't do this.
Damn.
That's crazy.
That's a valid point.
Yeah, that's a valid point.
You should talk more.
Yeah, his man's ain't come from the street.
You should talk more.
His man dropped out of college.
I don't want to talk too much, Eddie.
I don't want to talk too much.
His man had good bars.
His man was a lyricist.
His man didn't live that life.
Yo, Saha, man, you're going to have to respond to this, man.
You got 24 hours.
Hold on.
No, because that nigga rap too well.
You got to respond to that nigga.
Why not?
Respond to that nigga.
Go ahead.
Go off, Saha.
Go off.
I want to hear it.
Yo, speaking of other rap beef, how you guys like the T.I.
50 thing from last week?
T.I. bombarded again with like two more records.
Then the kids jumped on it.
Damani killed them with Miss Jackson.
That shit was fucking fire.
I think T.I. should lay off the records for now.
It's like, we're good.
We get it.
We understand.
The first one was tough.
The last two weren't that.
I wasn't really too keen on them, but getting the babies to get at this nigga.
That's some family business.
Well, according to T.I., they're not babies.
I mean, first of all, they're his children.
His children.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're definitely not babies anymore.
Them dudes is grown.
They're grown men.
But I caught up with T.I.
Oh, sorry.
But you were going to say Nadeska? that we were introduced to the kids kind of as babies, right?
And then I think I was reminded of the clip because I used to watch the show, but I would have forgotten this anyway that when Damani initially wanted to rap, TI told him his raps were trash.
And so, like, prior to this, when it was, who was it, Fab and them that 50 was beefing with?
I said that I wasn't interested.
I don't want to hear a 50 response.
It just doesn't make sense.
It's because all those felt like surface level.
You know what I mean?
Just like your run of the mill disses.
No disrespect to them.
But this Miss Jackson got like some real emotional spiritual.
He got in that man's life and tried to assess his personality and all of that.
This is a little bit different.
So now I'm curious to see what happens.
Yeah, it was giving me the grams.
It was giving ether.
It was giving all of those like layered, you know, getting into the psyche of the individual thing which Damani, I don't know.
Listen, if y'all not following that kid, man, or he's not a kid, he's a grown man.
But if y'all not following Damani, his rapping ability and song making ability is very very, very dope.
And he's very, very, very thoughtful.
I haven't been following it, but now I know I need to.
I'll tell you this.
As a Cole fan, you'll love everything he's doing.
Okay.
You'll love everything Damani's doing.
This is the kind of promo we like right here.
You'll love everything because it's definitely intellectual.
It's musical.
It's all the things.
I want Buddy Redd to get involved and give me like a beef solo guitar riff or something.
His oldest son.
Buddy Redd.
His oldest son.
Buddy Redd.
Let's get a whole family involved.
Um, what's the girls?
What was the girl's name?
The little that got sued for the Bratz dolls.
Let's get them involved too.
What's the name of them girls?
The OMG girls. the OMG Girls remix.
All right, enough.
I think that was Tiny's group, right?
I think so, right?
Yeah, it was.
Yeah, but one of the girls, wasn't that one of the girls their kids or something?
Yeah, it was one of the daughters and then they got a big lawsuit or something over that.
Yeah, it ended up not getting, yeah, it got messed up.
But yeah, man, I want, yeah, Buddy Red and OMG Girls, throw them on too.
Shout out to the whole Marathon family, Black Sam, Lauren London.
They had a great weekend.
Eddie, you were paying attention to this out in L.A.?
?
Yeah, it's a big weekend in L.A., man.
Multiple things happened over there in South Central, over there on the corner.
Crenshaw and Slauson, they officially named it, I believe, Nipsey Hussle Square.
Is that the official name?
So that's beautiful to see.
As you see, even if you drive down King and Crenshaw, they still, from to this day, right on the side of the mall.
I think it's the Baldwin Hills Mall now, but it's the Crenshaw Mall and they still have the big-ass Nipsey Hussle poster.
That's been there.
And it just goes to show the influence he still has on his community.
And beyond that the whole weekend was kind of around the whole legacy of Nipsey Hussle, because even in J Cole's promo He goes to the Marathon Burger.
What's that?
Is that one on Melrose?
Yeah, Melrose.
He's making burger.
And you can see Black Sam still keeping that legacy alive.
And so many times when these artists pass, they're struggling to figure out, you know, how can they keep these people's names relevant?
And they've had no issue.
Then they open another Marathon Burger in Long Beach.
And even Stevie Wonder, our greatest living musician, Fight Me, pulls up and he's involved.
And I love that the city of LA has rallied around It's Child, which is Nipsey Hussle, someone that identifies the other side of the 10, that identifies South Central, that so well identifies Crenshaw.
I put that on the map with the shirts, man, and it's beautiful.
It's an LA resident that's been here for 11 years, someone who's not from LA, but this is my community at this point in time.
I love everything that they're continuing to do to let their brother's name live on.
It's great that Steve, you got to see them, how they made the burgers.
That was great.
That's great.
Oh, because Stevie can see.
That's what they say.
Yeah, I know.
Yup.
Well, and so I'm reading here.
You have, the family was honored and you had the intersection of Nipsey Hussle Square, which you talked about.
And then you have the Marathon Burger opening.
So Stevie actually went to the new one, which that one also is a partnership, it says here, with Snoop Dogg and his son, which is amazing.
That's the one in Long Beach, yeah.
And the one in Long Beach.
And I think Black Sam announced that they're bringing Marathon Burger to Times Square.
Oh, wow.
That's beautiful.
And just for context for people.
I think everyone knows how LA works at this point, but just in case you don't know.
I don't know.
That specific area, you talking about Crenshaw and Selassie, that's like Leimert Park, too.
Like, that is like the black hub of L.A.
Like, that is significant to name that Nipsey Hussle Square.
Like, Leimert Park, boom, it's beautiful, bro.
That's fire.
That's dope.
I always appreciate the context.
I'm not trying to be funny.
I still am trying to wrap my head around L.A. sometimes.
Yeah, that's L.A. culture.
Like, some of that stuff doesn't really resonate with us because we're out here.
So to hear it breaking down like that is perfect.
Salute to Megan Thee Stallion.
Got a new record out here with Juvenile.
Also making her situation on Broadway.
Premier in Moulin Rouge.
Love it.
But you love the Juvenile record.
Juvenile and Megan, that record is perfect for them.
Juvenile got that 2004, 2003 bounce.
That's why I love the T.I. record.
Let them know about it.
This record is perfect for the both of them.
This is the remix, actually.
This is not the actual single.
This is the remix.
Yes, the remix.
And then also a lot of awards, man, this weekend.
SAG-AFTRA Awards shout out to Coogler and Michael B Jordan and the whole Center's crew over there for cleaning up in the awards.
And also at the NAACP Image Awards, a lot of music winners at the NAACP Image Awards.
They gave Outstanding Female Artist to Cardi B, Outstanding Male Artist to Kendrick.
Monaleo got Best New Artist.
Tyler got International Song.
Very dope.
And obviously the center soundtrack, you know, got awards as well.
And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The nominees for 2026.
Have you guys seen this?
I have.
Mariah.
Mariah.
Lauren.
New Edition.
Sade.
Luther.
Wu-Tang.
Yes.
What a lineup.
Love it.
So hip hop is still in there, I guess.
What's homeboy's name?
I forgot.
Gene Simmons.
Gene Simmons.
There you go.
I knew that would get Eddie.
Thank you, Eddie.
Y'all, I knew that would get Eddie.
I remember Eddie being tight.
That's what I said.
That's why I asked it.
I'm like, I knew you were going to let it up.
Punk-ass Gene Simmons.
Yo, and as we wrap, I want to send a rest in peace out to Power from the Wu-Tang Clan, who passed away over the past week, or we got news of it over the past week.
And you probably saw a lot of Wu-Tang members posting about Power's passing.
You know he was the guy that you had to deal with.
You know, And obviously, just knowing the Wu-Tang Clan and working with them for so many years, you could book Ray.
You could book Ghost.
They all had their own different managers.
But if you wanted to use that logo, you had to talk to Power.
That was its own licensing fee.
You know what I mean?
They, you know, he was Wu Ware, you know, all of that kind of stuff.
I'm told he was part of, and just kind of like you know, part of the backbone, you know of that crew.
So shout to power, rest in peace.
There was a lot of love and admiration coming out for him.
So big up to the whole Wu-Tang Clan.
And that's the Rap Life Review.
I'm Ebro, that's Nick and Eddie, Lo, Nadeska.
Y'all want to do what we missed?
Let's do it.
Nick, what you got?
I want to start with another toss to the plug.
We had a chance to talk to 4-2-Doug last week or something like that.
And he dropped his out in part three.
And one of the things about the 4-2-Doug interview that we learned is that J Cole might've been inspired by one of his studio sessions with 4-2-Doug.
We had to tell him.
He was like, wait, what?
Let's play that clip.
Other people you work with that not only did you have like a certain bond with a musically that you started picking up things from.
J. Cole was a real hands-on motherfucker I seen.
He wanted me to do like, damn, what was it?
He just got another one that just came out, too.
Yeah, off the new album.
Set It Off.
Set It Off.
It's like the first song or second song or something.
Yeah, that might have been it.
You might have had me do that.
I don't even remember, though.
But that might have been it, bro.
Oh, shit.
I swear to God, he just set it up.
I got to go listen to that motherfucker.
Yeah.
Because he was like.
He was telling me.
Like I said, I'm like homie, I don't know what you want me to do.
I'm like, you feel like Boosie was on that.
Like, you know, he was like, I felt him though.
I ended up trying to get it right.
You know, it's funny.
You kind of got a Boosie tone now that you say that.
Like, I can see why he would think that.
You know, no, I fuck with Boosie the long way.
Straight up.
But damn, that's crazy.
I gotta go listen to that.
Yeah, listen to that shit, man.
Hey, that is crazy.
He kept it up here.
Nigga, wasting my time.
I forgot about that.
That was crazy.
I think we didn't get a chance to talk about the Gorillaz album that came out.
They're not traditionally obviously, a hip-hop group, but we know that they collaborate with hip-hop artists.
Black Thought on there, Proof.
Black Thought has three verses on there.
Proof got a posthumous verse.
Torino's rapping in Spanish on that album.
Trugoy the Dove's on there, I believe.
Is he?
Yeah, I think Dave's on there as well.
Yeah, yasin bey is on the album.
Uh, just a great album.
Have a heavily thematic album, kind of just dealing with the afterlife and the spiritual realm.
You know there's not artists better than yasin bey and black thought yeah, they said they had like 25 years of tracks of people that had since passed yeah, and that they wanted to put some of them out there to commemorate their lives.
Yeah, like dennis hoppers yeah yeah, yeah.
So yeah, i saw uh, i saw apostle news from uh daylight on tour with them as well.
There you go.
Yeah.
Right.
Like they were on their earliest album, I believe, Demon Days.
They make an appearance.
So that was kind of cool to see that incredible album, by the way.
Jay-Z dropping the Nigga What Nigga Who Originator 99 on streaming.
Something happening.
I'm screwing up.
What you know, Lo?
Come on, man.
What you know, Roc Nation Lo?
Let me tell you this.
First off, not Roc Nation Lo.
Don't call me that.
Damn.
No, I'm not.
I mean, I thought them was your people.
That sounds crazy.
Nah, they all my people.
But you know what?
Honestly, the more we discuss Jay-Z 30, him dropping these singles, him releasing these singles like Nostalgia, Unconfirmed Concert at Barclays, I'm really starting to understand.
I don't want a final album.
I don't want another album.
Hot take.
I like where we're going with Jay-Z 30.
I like remembering Why I Love Reasonable Doubt.
I like remembering all these singles that they're putting on Jay-Z 30.com.
I don't think there's much more for him to say about the current rap affairs, about his life, about his children.
I think everything has been put on the table.
I think everything has been said eloquently.
And I don't think we need- Eloquently?
Yeah.
Eloquently, you know.
Eloquently.
But I don't think there's nothing much more for him to say.
How long since the last album?
You think like nothing?
4-4-4 was 2018.
You think nothing of substance could have happened in his life since then?
I just like where the legacy is.
I like where it left off.
I like where it is.
I like how I still have questions about the albums.
What if he wants to tell us about booking Bad Bunny for the halftime show?
Like all the cultural waves he's made.
I'm cool.
I'm cool.
I'm cool.
You can do that in an interview up here with us.
Just remaster 444, please.
444 is 2017.
Maybe that'll happen on Jay-Z 30.
You said remaster it?
Yeah, it's a little.
Yeah, I just don't like the way it was mixed.
I don't like it.
That always bugs me.
Just for that, I'm cool.
I don't need another Jay-Z album.
So I just want to say you know, this whole like two weeks at the Barclay that's blocked out, that people have speculated has something to do with Jay.
We don't have that info.
All of us have just created this.
The whole I walked in today and Nick or no, Eddie, you said, yo, what's up with the Jay-Z album?
Yeah.
Where is that from?
It's just people speculating.
There's a tweet that's out there, but obviously it's false.
It says, Jay-Z album, April 3rd, featuring Travis Scott, Beyonce, and more.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
So we got a bunch of made up ish.
What we do know is that there is some celebration of reasonable doubt.
Yes.
That's all we really know, which is factual.
We don't know when it's happening.
Yes.
We know that we got dead presidents on streaming, and we got... Nigga what, nigga who.
Dirt off your shoulder.
They released all that.
All of it.
And so that's what we got.
That's what we got.
So to your point, you might get your wish.
There might not be new Jay-Z material.
I'm cool on it.
If it doesn't happen.
But do you want the Barclay show?
Yeah, I would love that.
Thing?
I would love a Reasonable Doubt 30th anniversary concert.
Where he just does the whole album.
Yeah, I would love that.
That I would love.
That I hope for.
If we get that, I'll be satisfied.
Okay.
Eddie, Nick, you agree?
Yeah.
No, I don't agree.
Give me a new Jay-Z album.
Why don't you talk about the Barclays shows?
You were so quiet over there.
I thought you were looking at that.
Why don't you talk about the Barclays shows?
Yeah, give me another Jay-Z album.
You don't have my back there.
Should we speculate about what he might do in, what's next year, 2027?
Yeah.
Is there a bigger show that Jay-Z could do in the top of 2027?
Nadeska, do you agree with Lo?
You don't want another Jay-Z album?
No, I don't agree.
I would listen.
I'm going to listen.
Don't get it twisted.
I don't want it.
Yeah, I don't feel strongly that I don't want it.
I feel like he could have a lot to say.
He left us with one of his best albums.
That's my exact point right there.
That's Lowe's point.
You want him to retire after the Super Bowl.
He's not somebody that I don't feel could outdo That still, you know what I mean?
It's like the way I don't want a 50 cent disc because it just doesn't, it doesn't make sense.
I don't think it's going to be good.
It's not going to get better.
But like, I feel like Jay could still do that if he wanted to.
No, no, he could still do it.
It's probably not going to be a double disc, but you know.
A few tight songs.
That was cute.
It's probably not going to be a double disc.
That was cute.
A few tight songs.
That was cute.
I was just trying to have your back, though.
No, I know.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Damn.
That was cool.
So you think Hulk's not capable of a double disc, is what he's saying?
Only your guy, Cole.
I don't want to talk too much.
I mean, it didn't work out too well on Blueprint, too, so.
Ooh.
Oh.
That's not what I said, by the way.
Stop playing, bro.
Stop playing.
That's not what I said.
Something else we missed.
Jello dropped a backyard ball last week.
Do you guys have thoughts on Jello's new single, Backyard Ball?
All right, that's been the Rap Life Review for Nick and Eddie.
Wait, wait, wait.
We had a conversation about it last week.
We have clearly ran out of shit to talk about.
Can I get one more?
See y'all next week.
Before we get out of here, Fat Mac dropped McKenzie 20 and I just want to highlight one of the standout bars that I heard on that album.
Here we go.
Standout bars.
Yo, next time you got to do that before Jello.
We don't know where this is going.
Remember the last time you did that shit?
Remember the last time you did that shit, Nick?
He trolling, man.
Fat Mac said he was the first nigga getting high in his city.
He's a pilgrim.
I'm gonna throw this iPad at the fucking screen.
I'm throwing the iPad.
Yo, cut this off.
First nigga getting high in the city, he's a pilgrim?
Nick be playing too much.
Yo, I'm so serious.
Turn this shit off.
So when you walked away from listening to that, you was like nah, that's what I need from hip hop, right there.
That's the second time he's done this.
That's the second time he's done this.
You walked away, you was like, nah, bro, I got to tell the bros about this one.
I got to get on rap like that.
I got to reveal that.
You really walked away and was like, yo, this is going to hit on the show.
I don't know if it was going to hit.
I just wanted to talk about a line that I stood out.
Spin the chair one more time.
Spin the chair one more time, bro.
And so yo, earlier in the show we was talking about the Uzi Vert project and how he was like yo, Eternal and Take Two.
That was the one.
When you do that, though, it invalidates what you were saying before, bro.
Like, how you... Oh, when he does this?
Yeah, like, how you do that?
No, I'm not saying that it's the greatest rap line I ever heard.
It's just a line that stood out to me that I thought yeah, that I think fans are interested to hear.
But you extrapolated that for us because you think it's going to inspire us to go listen for ourselves.
It's definitely not.
Yeah, i'm not gonna listen.
If that's what i'm gonna get, all right.
Well no, i'm not saying i'm gonna go listen.
I'm gonna listen, but i want to check what's the name of the album.
What is it?
Mackenzie 20 from fat mac.
I want everybody else to go into the fat mac album and outdo what nick just said.
Find another line better than that one.
I'm just like nick, you could have laid up.
But look, i appreciate it.
But nick doesn't care.
He's so unbothered by your opinions.
I love that.
I feel like he about to give us another album that sticks out to him.
That's all I got.
Stand out line.
All right, peace.
That's all I got.
