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Chapter 1: What surprise album drop is Rory and Mal discussing?
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What's going on, man? I'm good. How you feeling? I feel good. I feel like we should get right to it. Let's get right to it, man. I'm in a mood today.
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Chapter 2: What was Mal's take on Andre 3000 being overrated?
I feel some type of way today. I feel like you owe the culture some pushups. Why? I feel like you owe us 10 pushups. For what? Because on Friday, nothing dropped but another variant of COVID. Mad albums dropped. No, I know, but one of the most anticipated albums of all time did not drop. Mad albums dropped. Mad songs, singles. I'm so happy to see that the wave is free. Just saying.
We'll get into the French and Max V tape. I like it a lot.
I don't know.
Chapter 3: How did Rory predict Mero becoming the new Hot 97 host?
I don't know. No, you didn't know. I don't know. No, that's what everyone is saying. We all did not know. I know. Come on, man. Don't do that. Don't do that. Christmas, we gave you a mulligan, sample clearances or whatever. Yeah. But you are certain that something that we have been anticipating, which could only really be three people when you get down to it. If we're talking rap.
If you said across all genres, you'd throw Beyonce in there, whatever. But we were thinking, and I guessed you were talking about J. Cole.
Chapter 4: What are the listeners' reactions to J. Cole's album announcement?
I don't think Iceman is done yet. I don't think Kendrick is dropping in the first quarter. So that would only leave one, which we assumed to be, based off the clues that you gave us, was Jermaine Cole. So I feel, even though I would not speak for the culture, just in the room, I'm the only one with a mic that wasn't wrong in this situation. I feel like, yo, it's 10 pushups.
10 pushups for the culture, just for getting us all excited. Had a great weekend, right? Rob Markman made a good point. I don't know if he was talking about you or not, but I feel like as podcasters, maybe we should get fined for misinformation. Why? Like we should put like, you know, the swear jar. We should do a swear jar across the board for all podcasters.
Listen, I owe a lot of money if that's the case.
Yeah, but if I said a name, that's different. But I did think I did.
Chapter 5: What insights does Baby D share about her recovery?
I did have very good intel that an album was dropping that we will anticipate.
I don't know what happened. I feel like this is almost like woman semantics because we knew based off the clues you were given, there was really only one person that it could have been. Okay. Who else do you think it could have been?
Well, I know who I was talking about, but I wouldn't say. Did they drop? No.
Okay.
Why? I don't know. I don't know. Things happen. I don't know why it didn't drop, but I had very good conversations that it was supposed to drop. But, you know.
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Chapter 6: How do Rory and Mal feel about the current music scene?
Okay. Things happen. So it is what it is. I was wrong that one time. I'm sorry, y'all. I apologize. But I didn't give that information without great resources.
That's all. Which I understand. I've been in that situation. Sometimes you get good information from great sources and things change and you already went out there and said some shit.
It's okay. I'm not like others in the culture where they don't, you know what I'm saying, apologize for their mishaps. I'm a man. I apologize, y'all.
Chapter 7: What are the predictions for J. Cole's upcoming album?
My work's still good. My stamp is still good, though. You know what I'm saying? Players fuck up, too. Yeah, the work just got intercepted at the border. That's all. Trump is being hard out here at the border, man.
That announcement was your 92 bricks. Now you're crawling back.
It's okay. It's all right.
It's all right. We still here. Do we think that that... All right, I'm done playing the guessing game. I, me personally, thought you were talking about J. Cole.
Chapter 8: What discussions arise about the future of radio and music discovery?
You did not say it was Cole. I felt like you were talking about Cole. Whatever album it is, do you think maybe this Friday, do we think it's just off, it was either last Friday or we don't even know? Is it just getting pushed a week?
I don't know about a week, but it definitely was, again, off the information that I had, it definitely was slated to drop Friday.
Okay, with the fall off being rumored, not just with you, you were the first person, not the only one, that talked about what an album was dropping Friday or around that time. With Iceman, we think, is almost done. I don't know. Fall off rumored to be almost done. Do Cole and Drake drop within the same month?
No. No. Same day? No.
So do you think they're both playing the guessing game of who's going to drop and that's maybe why things are being pushed back?
Nah, I don't know. I mean, you know, Drake is the algorithm. He does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. Both of them do whatever the fuck they want to do. Yeah, but I mean, I think Drake has more of a chokehold on the algorithm than any other artist right now. I think more people aren't anticipating anything that Drake does or says.
Good and bad. People that want to see his downfall and people that want to see his... You are correct. Yes. He controls that. But I think Cole... People want to hear from him. Cole is still very much in that algorithm based off everything that's been going on. Yeah, people want to hear from him.
He's not talked about constantly because he's not so forward-facing as Drake has been, especially in the last two years. So I still think Cole kind of moves... They both move whenever the fuck they want unless Taylor Swift is dropping. I think the only other way that would dictate their release schedule would be the two of them with each other of when fall off is coming and when Iceman is coming.
Though I don't think like it matters. I feel like both could drop the same day and it would be fun. For who? Both of them. I think you'd get very similar sales.
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