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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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While I am happy that we get new music, and we get a lot of good new music, right? I do think that it's bad that we get this much new music.
Why? It was three albums as far as bigger artists.
Yeah, but I feel like we just got... The Clips album a couple weeks ago.
Chapter 2: Is there too much music being released today?
And Alfredo 2. We just got Alfredo 2 a few weeks ago. And now we have JID album. We have Gunna's album. We have Bryson Tiller's album. To name a few. I'm sure some other projects drop. But when do we have the time to really listen to all of this? Because we spend so much time. I was having a conversation with my boy the other day. And
We've lost, in the conversation we were talking about how we've lost the connection to music. There's times now where I could love somebody's album and I don't even remember the lyrics to the raps. Before, if I loved it, probably this album is crazy. I could recite every song because I felt like there was a different connection to it versus now we do everything on our phone.
If I'm listening to music on my phone and then I get a text message or I get a call or somebody sends me a clip and I got to watch this clip. It's like you're being pulled away. away from what I'm really, like I'm listening to music on my phone. So now if I got all these other things happening, there's like this connect, like I hear the music, I hear it.
Like I'm listening to the album, but there's no, like the connection or the, like there's something, there's like a wall in between Us and really connecting to the music, it feels like.
But I don't think it's a music thing per se. I just think it's an entertainment thing. Music is just folded into that because, I mean, even the way we binge shows, like imagine if a season of The Sopranos was available one day. not spread out amongst 14 weeks, where you watched an episode, you talked about it with your friends for the whole week, you made predictions, you did all that.
You can just binge things immediately. And on top of that, you have every bit of content in your phone on social media, whether it be TikTok, IG.
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Chapter 3: What are the highlights of JID's album 'God Does Like Ugly'?
Music is going to fall to the wayside in that regard. And it's so... It's so much easier to make music now. It's easier to make it. It's easier to put it out. So in that regard, you have, and we'll get to the Bryson thing, but you can put a double album out now. But the contradiction there is I feel like no one has the attention span for it.
So it's easier to put it out, but you're putting it out to consumers that don't have the time or attention span to listen to that amount. So yeah, everyone's fucked in that regard. Like imagine working on a Netflix series for three years and somebody binges it in one rainy Saturday and then says, yo... You know, where's season two? Yeah. I just put my life into this shit. Yeah.
It's access to everything. And even when I'm watching something I'm engaged with, I look at my phone and start scrolling through. I'll see that. Right. And... I get distracted. And music is the same way. It's very low on the totem pole if you're not a real lover of music.
Even the songs are too much. I love the technology now because, again, literally I could pull up any song. I could be thinking about a record and type it in and pull it up and listen to it. You can start saying the lyrics to Siri. I love that aspect of it, but there is a difference in the way I connect to music now than I used to. When I had to literally buy physical music or CD or album,
there was like a different, even if I didn't like it. Cause you could only carry so much with you.
Like I used to carry the big CD booklet, but even then I like, I would keep one CD. But this is what I'm saying.
I think it's too much now. Like we just, I'm still listening to Alfredo too. And now I got Jake Jed's album. Now I got, you know, Bryson's out. It's like, bro, I'm still, I haven't really even, you know, really digested all the bars in Alfredo 2 yet. And I already, now JID is on my phone. Okay.
All right. I hear you. And again, I'm not trying to be devil's advocate here. Ironically, on September 11th. When Blueprint and Fab's first album came out, people used to drop on the same day, Graduation Curtis. That would happen often where people would drop on the same day.
Right. But tell me what came out three weeks before those albums. Oh, I see. Yeah. I don't know. You get what I'm saying? That's the difference. It's like, okay, we get Alfredo two weeks ago or a week ago. And then now this week, J.I.D. Next week, Chance the Rapper. It's like... It's like if I'm on a phone call having a good conversation with somebody and somebody calls in, I'm like, hold on.
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Chapter 4: How did the Breezy Bowl concert impact the hosts?
So it is kind of on you as the consumer to get out of that way. Because yes, I'm more attached to some of the music I grew up on but I also had a different mind state and was in a different environment at that time and how I even consume things.
So as a music lover, as a consumer, sometimes I have to like discipline myself and be like, yo, don't look at your phone, sit and just live with this music. Cause I know that's where your heart really is with this shit and like how you feel better and everything.
I guess for me it's just different though, because I used to, I used to literally, when the album would come out, you know, artists I like drops a project, I burned that project to the ground. Cause I need to, I need to hear it. I need to live with it. I need to move around with it just to see if I like it, love it, hate it.
Now it's like, I'm in the mix of still trying to figure out if I love this project or not. And then now this week I got another artist that I like, he's dropping his album. I got to listen to this now. It's just it's like it seems like you can't I can't listen to everything fairly. But we also got older. Like you also have to add that factor. Well, then that's another thing.
Life happens.
I got things to do now. I can't just be listening to music. So all of these things happen. But the cadence of the way we receive music, though, I think is just like it's it just feels very like. it's almost like a conveyor belt. And, you know, I'm seeing a product come down. Oh, I like this.
And by the time I'm looking at this, three more is going underneath the, and I'm like, oh shit, like, let me listen to it. It just feels like you're always playing catch up when it comes to your favorite music.
But, I mean, I'll even say, like, I have not listened to the Gunna album yet. But I'm very... And not because you don't like Gunna. No. You just haven't had the opportunity to hear it. With that said, outside of... I mean, we have Chance on the podcast this coming week. And I had to listen to that album, plus J.I.D. and Bryson Tiller, three artists that I really like. Gunna, I like Gunna.
Don't get me wrong. But I've admitted, like... I'm not going to move my life around for a Gunna album. It would strictly be for the podcast.
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Chapter 5: What insights did Chance The Rapper share during his visit?
It's a catch-22. Like, I really see both sides of how great that is because I love the ability to do that. Especially when I got an iPod, I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Yeah. And it definitely changed... but my music discovery and my music taste. But it did definitely take away from the moments you have with music. Like the JID and Offset record, which is fire. Body to the floor shit.
Like if that was in radio time, that would probably be a joint that would live with me forever. But now... I don't know. I mean, I like it. Yeah. Too much access. Yeah. I'm not waiting for that record to come on because I can just play it. Yeah. Well, J.I.D. dropped his God Does Like Ugly. I'll take my sunflowers. I texted Damaris. She owes me some sunflowers as well.
Yes, you did at the top of the year. I believe you said J.I.D. will drop the best rap album. I said J.I.D. and Clipse will be... candidates for rap album of the year. And I think I'm there.
Chapter 6: How has the music consumption landscape changed over the years?
It's only been two days. Plus obviously we had to listen to the chant shit. I had a more of the whole weekend and studio sessions, but off the, the few listens I had of the jit shit. I mean, I feel like personally he's setting himself up to be the next generation person, but I don't know if that even exists anymore, that there's going to be like a new big three. But Ginny, I don't see it.
Yeah, I don't know if that's even going to be a thing. Not to Jid's credit or discredit, but this is easily up there with the clips. Alfredo, too. Was I the only one that listened to this shit and thought it was fucking incredible?
No, so it was Sunday. I was on the phone with Nick, Nick Grant, and he asked me, he said, yo, you heard J.I.D. album yet? And I said, oh, shit. Like, I'm still listening to Alfredo 2 and clips. Like, I forgot J.I.D. dropped Friday. So I said, I'm going to listen to it today. So I'm like, what you think? Nick's like, yo, there's some joints on there. He got some shit on there.
There's definitely some joints that I think you're going to like. So I said, all right, let me check it out. So all day Sunday, I'm moving around, so I'm playing the album. And again, when I'm listening to music, it's literally the music I hear first. I don't even know what you're saying. I'm just trying to hear the sound that you went after, what you did with the music.
So then now I'm getting to the lyrics and the flows, and I'm like... damn, like this feels like an album that would have came out in the 90s. Yep. Like it has that energy. It has that attention to, you know, details when it comes to bars and how you write and construct songs. And, you know, J.I.D.
is one of those rappers that understands his voice as an instrument, the way he uses inflections in his voice and his tone, his cadence, his, you know, his flows on a lot of the records. He does like interesting little things with his voice that he does with the music. And I thought that this album was incredible. Like I listened to it, some joints.
I think the G's record to me is one of the better records I've heard from JID and his discography like ever. That's one of my favorite JID songs I think ever. I'm terrible with titles, but I specifically looked at that because when I heard it, I remember when I was listening to it the first time and I'm listening to the music and I'm listening and I'm like, damn, what is that?
So I went and looked. I had to see what the name of that particular song was. And I played that like three times and I'm listening to what he's saying and... The way he ended the album on For Keeps, I think is the name of that one? Yeah, For Keeps, yep. For Keeps. You know, he really got in his, you know, loop to soul sample. Let me just get my shit off.
You could obviously hear, you know, the Andre 3000 influence, the Outkast influence. You could hear... It's not even just that.
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Chapter 7: What does the future hold for artists in the streaming era?
Yeah. And yeah, I think that speaks to Dreamville and why the music sounds so good. Cause I, if they were over JID's shoulder trying to make something happen, I don't think we'd get a good project. I also don't think you get like a Shea Butter baby. I think the system that EBE and Cole have with their artists is the best way. Now- Ari doesn't seem to be too happy with it though.
Well, she loves Jingo. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but again, I really don't know the politics of that. But before they let her, even ASL, they let her do her thing. So, I mean, I'm not sure contractually what that looks like, but JID spoke very highly of what it was like working with them in the major label system. And they did right by him. I don't know Ari's take on that, but...
uh yeah i think everyone kind of just gets left alone you could do some people maybe don't want to be left alone yeah maybe some people want people can't be left alone some people maybe want more support than what they're doing like earth gang i think is incredible because they're left alone now you could say if they weren't maybe they would be bigger because they're like two of the most talented fucking people i've heard in the last 15 years but they're left alone yeah
So if you want to be left alone and make your music and make your money, great system. If you want the major shoot and like, all right, we're going to go buy you a hit somewhere, then maybe it's not the place for you. And I don't know if that's the case with art. I really don't.
Well, either way, shout out to J.I.D., Jitty Jig, God Does Like Ugly, available now. Stream that, download that, play that, support that. Phenomenal raps, great music. West Side Gun popping the album off within the first two seconds. I was like, wait, did I click the right album?
yeah man no i really really like this project i'm looking forward to to living with it a little longer even though fucking next week drake might decide to drop and then now i can't listen or kendrick might put something like it's like what the fuck man i'm just i'm just digesting god does like ugly and here come you niggas with more raps but no this is a great project um definitely enjoyed it and uh shout out to jid for for phenomenal phenomenal album
I have my hangover glasses on today. These lights, I did not expect to hurt my eyes the way that they do. I would have done a better fit too. I just like these. I did not expect these to make my eyes water. I thought she was about to play the drums or something. Those are like drummer shades. These are my breezy bowl hangover shades. Breezy bowl hangover.
You got a breezy bowl hangover. Go home. Why are you trying to hang out with Chris? Yeah. He just did a five-hour set and you're trying to hang out and kick it after? Oh, you're disgusting. I started pressing with how much I could drink. Oh, my God. You're disgusting. You're disgusting. But anyway, we're back. Sponsored by Boost Mobile. And do remember that we do still have merch on sale. Yes.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts feel about the current state of live performances?
I knew it was going to rain. I didn't know it was going to storm like that, though. I had just got home as soon as it started to rain. And I was like, you know what, let me just chill for a minute. And I head back out, go to MetLife, you know, to catch the show. And then you called me because... The tickets were under my name and you needed a ticket. So we got that squared away.
And I asked, I said, yo, is it still raining?
They gave me a band.
Well, you had a band.
They gave me a band to get on the field, but not into the stadium. I couldn't get on the grounds.
So we handled that situation. We got over that obstacle, that hurdle. And I said, yo, is it still raining over there? Because I was, you know, everybody or most people in my timeline were at the show and... They showed at one point everybody was inside by the concession waiting for the rain to stop. So I'm like, all right, I don't want to walk into that. Like, that would just seem like madness.
You said, nah, it's clear. Everything's good. I said, all right, cool. Hung up with Rory, called the car service, got in the car, headed to MetLife. Rory texts me when I'm about 35 minutes away. He says, heads up, it's a shit show. He's trying to be a good friend. And I told my driver, my good friend, yo, turn this shit around. Yeah. Going home.
Yeah, no, I'm not going through a shit show to see Chris Brown singing in the rain. First of all, I felt kind of gay. Yeah. That I had, like, went home, showered, put on cologne. Putting on cologne for breezes. Well, it wasn't for breezes. It's just part of the routine. That's part of the routine. After you shower, you get dressed, throw a little cologne on. And then I looked in the mirror.
I said, I'm going to see a talented man sing in the rain. Like, what am I doing with my life, right? But no problem saying it. Fan of Chris Brown. Think he's one of the greatest we've ever seen. So anytime you got an opportunity to see Chris shut down a fucking stadium, you go see it. On the way there, Rory says, shit show. I say, nah, I'm not going. It was too much. It's thunder and lightning.
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