R&B/Hip Hop World Cup Bracket

We turn the World Cup into an R&B and hip hop song bracket, then argue our way through classics, newer hits, and the hooks that live in your head forever. By the end, the only thing that matters is which record lasts in your soul long after the hype fades.
• building a “music World Cup” bracket with international roots and familiar songs
• using the “which one do you sing more” test to break ties
• debating Mary J. Blige versus Mariah Carey as a play-in matchup
• weighing nostalgia and cultural impact with Shaggy against newer favorites like Tems
• arguing over Bruno Mars versus Baby Bash and what makes a hook stick
• comparing Tyla “Water” with Amerie “One Thing” using the wedding-floor test
• choosing between vibe and lyrics with Cardi B versus Wyclef Jean
• shouting out missed bracket picks like Carlos Santana and Craig David
• settling the finals and crowning Tamia “Officially Missing You” as champion
• closing thought that love costs money, not just vibes

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Transcript

Welcome Back With The Crew

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Man, what do what it is? You already know the vibes. It's your boy, Mr. Bell, aka Say Your Name up on his pod. Might not be with you tomorrow. Welcome to another episode of Hold Up in another thing presented by Mixed Vaz Media. Y'all already know the vibes, you know what I'm saying? Um, first off, thank y'all for listening. Thank y'all for taking time out y'all today to listen to my podcast and you know all the podcasts up under the mixed vase umbrella. But uh, I am back with the fellas. Uh first, uh what up, Joe? What's through with you, man? How you doing today? Same old, same old, same old, same.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Yes, sir. Slow motion over here.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

True. And then uh Mr. Break Glass himself.

SPEAKER_03 0:46

What's up with going on with you, man? Shit. Chilling, man. I'm gonna do this pie from the bed today.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

Hey, I ain't gonna lie. I used to do pies from the bed with under a previous uh situation. I used to do the pies in the bed. So yeah, yeah, no. But hey, thank y'all, appreciate both of y'all for being on.

Turning The World Cup Into Music

SPEAKER_00 1:12

So look, the world cup just ended recently, and I was thinking, how can I incorporate the world cup into a pie? And then we do the bracket challenges, and I said, all right, I'm gonna get my first thought was I'm gonna get some RB from every from as many countries as I can, and it's gonna be it's gonna be great. I started struggling with the RB, so I added a little hip hop into it. I was trying, I was trying to make it as even though you know they from other countries, maybe born or parents is born in other countries, I will still want it to be, you know, songs that most of us know of most Americans. We we real we recognize. I ain't want somebody to have to go research this song from his artist in Japan. I might do that at a later date with eight songs, but that's at a later date. So I'm gonna give y'all the rundown of the team of the songs first, and then we're gonna get into the bracket challenge.

Drafting The International Song Bracket

SPEAKER_00 2:16

Uh one versus 16. Shaggy, it wasn't me. Shaggy being from Jamaica versus Tim's, I'm not with you me. Uh Nigeria. Uh 3C LMA boot up, UK, versus 14C Rihanna Umbrella. Of course, Rihanna's from Barbados. Uh 4C, Tyler Water, she's from South Africa, versus the 13th C A Marie, one thing. Her mother is Korean. So that, you know. Uh Cardi B, I like it. Parents is from Dominican Republic. And then 12C, Yclef John, gone to November. Uh Y Clef is from Haiti. Well, born in Haiti. 6C MI MIA Paper Plains, uh, from Sri Lanker. Is that that right? Yeah, I don't know. Versus the 11th C Nicki Minaj, uh, Moment for Life. She's from Trinidad and was born in Trinidad and Tobago. 7C Jennifer Lopez, Love Don't Cost a Thing. Her parents is from Puerto Rico. Versus the 10 C Tamia officially missing you, Canada. Joe, I didn't go with no Drake song just because of you. Um 8C Baby Badge featuring Frankie J, Sugar Sugar, Mexico, versus 9C, Bruno Mars. That's what I like. He was born in Hawaii, but his mother is from the Philippines. And then the 15 Cristina Christina Milian, dip it low. Her parents is from Cuba versus this play-in seed, which is where we're gonna start off with Mary J Blash Be Without You, or Mariah Curry, always be my baby.

Play In Debate Mary J Or Mariah

SPEAKER_03 4:01

Joe representing the U.S., both of them.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Yeah, both of them is gonna represent the U.S., but this is the play-in seed. It's gonna be Mariah versus uh Mary J Blash. Uh Joe, who you going with?

SPEAKER_01 4:16

I'm going with Mary J.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

Okay. Why are you going with it?

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Yes. I just man, over the years, I've always loved her voice. There's something about her voice, you know what I'm saying? I know like Mariah can get all these different actors, and yeah, she has an amazing voice too. But there's just something to the tone, you know what I'm saying, the style of Mary J.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Alright, uh, Will. What was the Mariah song again? Uh Always Be My Baby.

SPEAKER_03 4:54

Alright, so I'm going with Mariah. Now, uh I know it's crazy because I asked you what was her song again. Uh I just couldn't remember. But I I took a pause to to do the comparison in my head. Um, so that may be something I do multiple times throughout the episode, just you know, to warn you guys. My mic hasn't so I'm mute. I'm still here, I'm just thinking. Uh but uh I'm going Mariah because so Mary was winning. Like, because when I was first preparing the two songs, I was like, all right, which one am I singing first in my head? That's how I do it. Like as I'm singing the two songs, which one does the words come over the other one? And Mary was winning. I was like, man, dude, how can you? Man, that's a classic. Like, I like when it gets loud and she starts screaming, yeah, yeah. I'm like, oh man, Mary's my auntie. And then I'm and then you said Mariah, and you told me what song it was, and I was like, shit, nah. And that right there is just like iconic. That one little, like, she didn't say no words, just did it like a melody. And that beat the the the Mary screaming. So I'm right.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

So uh man look I'm everything you just said was in my head. It's that something about it's something about that, but at the same time, it's that morale the end the end of the song for uh Be Without You.

SPEAKER_03 6:36

Yeah, the yelling, yeah. Yeah, that's why, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Yeah, I don't know. Damn that's hard. See, when when we had when I had this plan, I didn't think I was gonna actually have to pick this song because you know House's Big Sus was here, or Red was here. So then I wouldn't have to pick because I really do not know what song I would pick. Oh man. Oh no, it's anything. You gotta deep and say you gotta like you gotta sing them out.

SPEAKER_03 7:09

Oh no, I gotta sing them out live on the pod.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Oh, I think I'm gonna go marry.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Hold up, man. We didn't get to hear you sing Mariah Carey, bro. You guys all you need. Yeah, that's all you needed.

SPEAKER_03 7:30

No way. That was a whole bar of dupes and dogs, bro. And she like, and it was like, damn, I guess the most memorable eye of the song. I'm gonna make another song, one of the most memorable eye. That's just a shooter dupe die.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

Yeah, I said she just went in the studio. Look, look, she was just warming up, and they said, you know what, keep that. Keep that in that world, keep that.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Yeah, sample part of that song in the future. It's like that's all you're gonna hear is a beat start, and it's just gonna have that doo-doo doo all up in it.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

You're like, yeah, oh man, I'm gonna go marry though. I'm gonna go marry. Because I see myself singing the Mary Song more to Will's point. That's the way you gotta break some of these down is like, okay, which song you gonna sing more? And I think I'm gonna sing the Mary Song more. More of the lyrics. Let me put it like that. So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go marry. Even though that wasn't an easy pick. Let me write that down before I forget Mary J. Alright,

Shaggy Vs Tims And Nostalgia

SPEAKER_00 8:38

cool. Let's start at the top. Shaggy It Wasn't Me versus 16 C versus the 16th Cim's. Not what you need. I'm gonna go first. I'm telling you, it's the Tim song for me. I know Shaggy It Wasn't Me is a classic song, but the Tim song, not what you need. I listen to it every day. Every day. I think today was the first day in a long time that I did not listen to it, and I might listen to it as soon as this pod is over. So, Will, who you got? Shaggy or Tim's?

SPEAKER_03 9:15

Man, so the Tim song is, you know, I I I'm saying it. I'm I'm saying it in my head, and when it comes on the radio, it gets played. Uh that's the one with uh future and trade, right? I just want to mess with it.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

It's uh okay, that's not that one. Okay, that's the one I'm saying then. Yeah, that's the one I'm saying. That's the okay, that's the one where she said all white fee. Okay. Uh so yeah, I'm gonna go with Shaggy then. I can't I can't act like I gonna put it against that. Someone know. I'm gonna go with Shaggy. It wasn't me. Uh I remember being in like elementary school when that shit came out. Not the kids running around saying it wasn't me. Yeah, it was it was worse than who let the dogs out.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

You know, they almost they almost made the cut. I ain't even gonna hold you. They did on my body.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

Yeah, who let the dogs out? Honorable mention should have been on that joint. Uh, but no, I'm going shaggy. Uh just because you know, shaggy was that song was huge. Like it wasn't just about just our fucking culture. It was the world was captured by that song.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

All right, we're going shaggy. Uh Joe, what you going?

SPEAKER_01 10:37

I can totally understand why you love that song so much because when I was listening to it, I'm like, this is some plastic RB style. Like, he's getting really emotional, you know. Like, you can just feel him coming through that song. And I know how much you love RB, so I totally make sense why you picked that one. Um, I'm 43 years old, dog. I gotta go with Shaggy. Yeah, that was all we listened to, you know.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Yeah, no, but uh shout out to Tim's. She she uh she be killing the game. She likes uh what Joe said, she got some joint, she got the future in Drake joint. But I I knew Shaggy was gonna win, but that Tims, but she killed that for me.

unknown 11:19

All right.

SPEAKER_03 11:20

I know what Song you're talking about, yeah. And she did deserve her flowers and does deserve flowers for that one. But that Shaggy was just it was huge, bro. Like, but if you go back and listen to that Shaggy song, you realize like if any any female believe that it wasn't me, that was a fucking foo.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

Yeah, no, uh, that's um all right, man.

Baby Bash Vs Bruno Mars

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Uh the AC versus the Nasty, AC Baby Badge represent Mexico featuring Frankie J. Uh Sugar Sugar versus Bruno Mars, the Nasty, that's what I like.

SPEAKER_07 12:01

Joe, who you going?

SPEAKER_06 12:16

I love Baby Dash, don't get me wrong.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

That's another one of those songs for my day. Put that bird on Mars. You just over here talking. It's fixed in my head even more than sugar sugar. Which is strange to me because I've listened to sugar sugar so many different times back in the day. But that burn on Mars, that's you know, like that's I can hear the drums in it behind it. You know what I'm saying? Like I can get the full effect just with that.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Yeah, nope, you're right. Yeah. All right, uh Will, what you thinking?

SPEAKER_03 12:59

Yeah, it's quick for me. I'm going Frankie J, Baby Bash, uh, sugar sugar. And the reasoning behind it is did the same thing, but I did it as Joe was wrapping up his uh assessment of the songs. And the the the Frankie J line and the uh sugar sugar, it just it just had me. It was just one line, and I just I didn't know I sung more the Bruno song in my head. But the Frankie J. It was like that one, he dropped one line, it was all I needed was that I'm gonna go with Frankie J. That one line. Everybody knows what line I'm talking about. I don't even have to repeat it. You don't I can blindly ask when what line am I possibly talking about? And I'm pretty sure he'll have the right line. I'm pretty damn sure.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

Now you put me on the spot now. I'm trying to think, wait a minute, is there a what line is it?

SPEAKER_03 14:04

So he goes. She got me lifted, gifted, feeling some so he got me lifted, twisted, feeling so gifted.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

That line right there. He says she got me lifted, twisted, feeling so gifted. Sugar, how you get so high? Some shit like that. I mean he repeats the backwards, and it's like, oh shit, you know, and that right there got me. So yeah, I'm gonna go Frankie, Frankie J and uh Baby Bash. And plus, it's the only time the names I'm gonna say this many times on the podcast. I'm going Frankie J, Baby Bash, every category for the rest of the rest of the bracket. Mexico stand up.

SPEAKER_00 14:46

All right, shout out to Mexico. Uh, that's the last time you're gonna heard them because I already picked Brunos. That's what I like. Soon as Joe said it, I went ahead and did the draw the lines because I knew I was going with that's what I like. I had already knew, so and I had a feeling we it respectfully, I knew we was gonna pick next bitch. I don't know why I knew that, but I'd have done enough of these podcasts with Will. And some of these, some of Will, I can kind of guess where he's going. Nah, I knew I was going, that's what I like.

SPEAKER_03 15:18

Uh uh Bruno Mars be making joints to me, so I I am a Bruno Mars fanatic. I like the obvious head we did, but uh, and I like that song, but I just you know Frankie J. Baby Bash, one more time, just so everybody hear that

Tyla Vs Amerie Wedding Test

SPEAKER_03 15:36

shit.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

Well, Mozam, let them get their channel with Mozam, because that's uh I four C versus 13 C Tyler with water versus A. Marie. This one thing. Well, the song's called one thing. Look, I'm about to start singing the song this one thing. Um so the name of the song is one thing. Let me stop before uh if I can tell you who I'm going with. I'm going with A. Marie. One thing. I like water. Don't get it. I think the thing with water is the hook. Because I listened to the song again recently, and I was like, huh. I never knew none of the other words besides the hook. Make me sweat, make me water. Yeah. After that, yeah, I'm going with Amy Marie. What say you, Joe?

SPEAKER_01 16:29

So I hadn't heard that song by uh pilot watered until honestly about an hour ago. I'm going with that one, man. That beach has just got me. Look, I'm over here pretending like I can dance on this, you know, one and a half feet. Uh it's not it.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Hey, I want to see Joe dance the water. I ain't gonna lie to you. I want to see Joe dance the water.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

I just don't think you do, but you know.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

I I know, I know I do. I think, no, no, no, no, no. Trust me, I know I want to see you dance the water. Next time I see you, we definitely play in water. Uh Will okay. What you think?

SPEAKER_03 17:13

Oh man, this one's this one's tough. This one's tough, honestly. I was thinking over here. Um that A Marie, I you know, I fucks with that. That's part of my coming up. Uh that water though, it's I like the vibe of it, right? But uh, but I'm gonna I'm gonna go with what I know. This one thing. Because you know, at a wedding, they play that. Even the kids dance, they only know what it is. That water, shit, name them about to sit their ass down. So they don't know that they don't know that. So I'm going with uh with uh Amory and the water. I mean, both of them.

Cardi Vs Wyclef And Song Choices

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Yeah, this one thing, shit.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

All right, uh oh Cardi B, I like it. I like it like that. Uh she had J. Belvin and uh Bad Bunny on this as well. So that song is multi-cultural. Going up against White Club, John, gone to November. I ain't okay. Uh I'm gonna hate just real quick. I wanted to use 911 featuring Mary J Blash, but I didn't want Murray to be on the list twice, so I went with Gone to November. Because I feel like this is a different question if it's 911. For me personally, I I'm going with Cardi B. Will, what you think?

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Oh, 911. Even Cardi B can say that.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Right, but but because we're using Gone in November, yeah, God in November.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

I'm cool with it. I I remember saying that I've been watching the video that shit. Nigga sitting on the stoop crying and shit. It might have been like all white class videos, but particularly God in November.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

I was gonna say, I think you did describe quite a few right there.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

Yeah, that was his thing. Uh but yeah, if you would have you would have used that uh uh uh 911, sure, that would have been one seed.

SPEAKER_00 19:29

Yeah, if yeah, if I used 911, I would have picked Wyclef John, but I'm going with Cardi. Uh will you going with Cardi too?

SPEAKER_02 19:37

Nah, bro. You going gone to November? Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:40

Okay, don't be gone in November. Matter of fact, we could be gone in September too.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

All right, cool. So, Joe, you didn't decide and vote here. What you going with?

SPEAKER_03 19:52

February, March, April, man. Sorry enough, but I can't say I'll be gone to November.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Oh my god, ain't he understand half the motherfucking work? I'm gone with Cardi B on them. I was just having way too much time with that. Oh I didn't think I would, but hey, you make a solid point though.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Half of the song, I don't know what they said because I don't know what they said, but I like the five. That's all that matters. I like the five.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

That's uh that's what it is.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

All right,

Missed Picks Santana And Craig David

SPEAKER_00 20:35

cool.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

Uh, number two says you should have Carlos Santana in here, man. My name Carlos Santana.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

Damn, I didn't think about Carlos. Why you say that now?

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Maria Marie. We're straight to the top, baby. That's what I was gonna say. Maria Maria, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Oh I didn't even think I didn't even think about that. Damn now, man. I ain't even gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

And then between that one and 911, what would that be? Yeah, that was a nice battle right there.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Oh no, I'm still going with um, I know I'm store where I'm still going.

SPEAKER_04 21:09

Yeah, I gotta go 911 because him and Mary with the duet.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Man, no, bruh. I'm still going uh I'm going Maria Maria. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

I'm going the guitar, the the guitar solos were excellent.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Kill the guitar solo.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

If you didn't like guitars before that, then first of all, you're weird, but you better like it after that.

SPEAKER_06 21:40

That man killed it.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Yeah, dog. I think I'm uh uh yeah, I will go with Maria Maria, because that's uh especially because then uh when Nicole and them flipped that joint later on, yeah, uh Rihanna and Bryce Attila.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

Yeah. You could you could do another lot of more internationals you can hit up, you know. You got uh uh what's a girl from England, uh American boy, Estelle.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

Estelle, yeah, but see, I used the Alamaica United Kingdom. I was gonna use Craig David, but I was like boot up some more, you know what I'm saying? So I went with uh I went with Craig David.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

Damn.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Yeah, hey bruh, Craig David, bruh. Seven days uh damn, what was the other song? Now I can't think of the other song. Uh hold on, it's gonna bother me. I'm sorry. I I know we supposed to be doing a bracket, but I gotta I gotta look the song up.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

My bad, y'all fill me in, is it?

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Fill me in, thank you. Yeah, whoo! Hey, David got some joints, dog.

SPEAKER_03 22:49

Joe came through like the fauna screen.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Hey, did he fill me in, player?

SPEAKER_03 22:55

Pill me in. I'm talking about war. What?

SPEAKER_00 23:01

All right, uh, let's go

Mary J Vs Christina Milian

SPEAKER_00 23:03

on. Your two C Mur J Blash, be without you, versus uh Christina Million, Dip It Low. Why you say it's weak?

SPEAKER_03 23:17

I said sweet.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

Oh, sweet. Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Uh no, no, no, sweet. I mean, y'all dipping it low, y'all jump down.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

I remember, I remember do you might not remember the video for dip it low? I remember her rolling around in, I guess it was tar, some black stuff. I don't know if it was tar. I don't know what it was. It might have been paint. I don't know what it was, but she's rolling around in the paint.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Let me get this clear. Are we are we saying which one made us more horny as teenage boy?

SPEAKER_00 23:49

Without question, I know what song I was the best song, or you know, or what was more impactful for me? Because those was two different, you feel me? Those are two different questions because that dipping low video with Christina Million. Was it was like was this before Tim Dribb and all of that? It was probably during that time. It was one of them videos where she ain't even do all the other crazy stuff on B, like it would be on B E T Uncut, but it felt like she was doing something else that should have been on B E T Uncut. Yeah, nah, dipping low was video, but uh we're gonna go be judging off the songs. So be without you or dipping low. Let me take a minute to think. Joe, what you going with?

SPEAKER_01 24:41

Y'all got me over here watching the dip and low video, man.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Now you just tell you, it's a good video. I mean that's all I'm saying. It's a good video. That's all I'm saying. Just being I'm just being honest.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

I'm 29 seconds into it, and so far, I'm degree with you.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

Yep. Uh again, we not we can't, but we can't uh we're not here for that though. We can't bel we can't base it off the video.

SPEAKER_03 25:08

Nope. Let me ask let me ask you a question. She said, uh here's the thing. I don't know if she spoke yet. Right. Like I just thought I'm trying, you know, I do the singing thing in my head. And I come over the first little part of the song, you know, the little chorus and singing the chorus in my head. And then I'll compare it to Mary, and the only part of the Mary song I have to compare it to is the fact, like Quentin said, this the the screaming part at the end of this, right?

SPEAKER_00 25:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

And as I was singing the screaming part in my head, I thought to myself, didn't she scream and then like re-scream it again? I think, yeah. So so she had like two to three bars, anywhere from two to four bars is just like a yellow.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Like, you know, you ain't lying.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

Not many people can do that. Let's just say that. Mary don't get her flowers, and I'm just gonna leave that there as Joe Maxist's. She really goes.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

She really go. Uh Mary J. I'm still gonna go with Mary J.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

That voice. Mary, she is don't get her flowers, you're right. Don't get her.

SPEAKER_03 26:27

Yeah, after watching the video, I'm going with Christina. Uh like the video, yeah. Uh uh, I I'll go over Mary.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

All right, Mary's moving on.

Tamia Vs J Lo Song Quality

SPEAKER_00 26:42

All right, we're going to the seven versus the 10 C. The 7C, Jennifer Lopez, Love Don't Cost a Thame, versus the 10 C, Tamia officially missing you. Uh Jennifer Lopez will represent Puerto Rico, Tamia representing Canada. Ooh. All right, well, what you going with? Because I said ooh, because I was like, I don't know really what song would I pick? What's that?

SPEAKER_03 27:10

I'm going with especially missing you just off of song quality.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

Yeah, you're right. That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_03 27:18

Like the quality of the song. Like, I mean, Philopaz, you know, the song wasn't a horrible song, but I mean, it wasn't like epic. And and not even that it wasn't epic. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great. Like it was really good. And it was probably just good enough because of who she was. Like, if somebody else would have came out that shit, we would have been like, man, what the fuck is this? Just to be honest. Yeah, nah, you're right. Like we messed with Jennifer. Like she was our girl. You feel me? So, like, all right, who wants to use succeed? A lot of that shit to go back and listen to it. She was like, What the hell do we listen to? Like, like, I mean, no disrespect to Jennifer, but I ain't the only one who I was saying, you know. I think you wanna get mad at me, come and see me. I like to see you in person anyway.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

I was gonna say, I think a lot Jennifer Lopez was a talented, she's talented. She can act, she can sing, she could dance. But like you said, I think a lot with Jennifer Lopez had to do with her appearance because of the way the way that she looked. It then she chose the right records, let's be honest. Like the Ginny from the Block joint, the song she got with Ja Rue.

SPEAKER_03 28:35

Like that was her best song ever. Jenny from the block was her best song ever.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Ginny from the block?

SPEAKER_03 28:40

You think you say that was her best song ever? Jennifer Lopez could sing and dance. I mean, Jennifer Lopez can act and dance. In the movie, uh Jennifer Lopez was at her peak in in the movie. Uh um, y'all know the movie. I my brain's just messing up. Uh Ghost No, um the Mexican superstar. Oh, uh Selena. Serena, Serena, Selena, yeah, Selena. Yeah, sorry. I was just my brain kept my brain kept telling me like multiple S names. It was like Sarah.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

No, you're right. That was a perfect role for her.

SPEAKER_03 29:28

Right. She like was like peaked a peak, like, you know, and we like had to respect her for that. And we had to say, okay, she made some some hits, like, you know, like they made, like, they charted, they did numbers, right? All that's good and dandy, but it was just because of like who we wanted like her to be. Like people followed her, and then like, I mean, the music really wasn't that great. Go back and listen to the guys. I'm just saying. Go back and listen to that should be like, what the hell? Like Genie from the Black Party was the best shit she had.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

Yeah, no, you you're right. Uh Joe. Jennifer Lopez or Tamia officially missing you.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

It's gonna be Tamia for me, too. That song sounds, I mean, like, I feel emotion coming through that. Yeah. Jennifer Lopez is great, and you know, does her thing. But I don't feel the authenticity or I don't feel the same emotion or anything from her music that I get out of that song.

SPEAKER_03 30:37

It does make you like like a damn near draw to it, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 30:40

Yeah, it is like a draw.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

Her voice is angelic. And plus, plus Girl Hill's like, hey, hey, that's my girl.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

You know the story. We we talked about Barry not getting her flowers. To me, I don't get her flowers neither, because Tamia got some songs.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Man, I heard a Tamia song the other day, and I was like, is this new? Because damn Tamia, you still making hits?

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Yeah, to mea don't flowers. She deserves her flowers too. All right, let's move on.

Umbrella Vs Booed Up Earworms

SPEAKER_00 31:08

The 3C versus the 14c. LMA Buddha representing the UK versus Rihanna, umbrella representing Barbados. It's L Ma for me. I'm just not even gonna waste y'all time. Uh Will, what you think?

SPEAKER_03 31:22

Recently bias, but I mean you got a good point. I'm I'm I'm going back and forth in my head. I'm I'm going uh Badu Buddha, and then on the other hand, I'm going A. And that AA is like that was huge. Like, right, so I'm going AA over Badu Booboo Buddha, or whatever she said.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

The feeling, the fucking the vibe that you get off of that LMA Buddha. It's like I wrote down a notes on it. I was like, you know, it has an 808 vibe. Very it kind of just makes you feel like you know you're late night cruising around or something. Just the energy off that song. But dude, I just cannot get umbrella out of my head ever. I'll be sitting around out of nowhere, just Ella, Ella, Ella. Where'd it come from, man?

SPEAKER_02 32:24

What is that? Nigga, I never said umbrella like that in his life. Oh no day.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

Oh no day. Have you ever said umbrella like that?

SPEAKER_03 32:36

Umbrella, umbrella, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Like Ella, hey, hey, so like what's happening. It's funny for some reason.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Yeah, Rihanna's umbrella. Ella gets Ella may boo up out of her. All right, uh, six seed versus eleven seed.

Paper Planes Vs Nicki Minaj

SPEAKER_00 32:59

MIA Paper Plains going against the 11th seed, Nicki Minaj Moment for Life featuring Drake. I did slide Drake in there somehow. Will MIA Paper Plains or Moment for Life, Nicki Minaj featuring Drake?

SPEAKER_03 33:17

MIA Paper Plains, I don't fuck with Nicki.

SPEAKER_06 33:20

Okay, cool. Joe, it's it's paper plays for me.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

So can I just a classic? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

I'm gonna be honest. I had already drew it because I knew once Will said his, I knew what Joe was going with. I already drew the line. I I already know, I already knew what Joe was going with. So I hope the sad factor was all right. So what was Will gonna do?

SPEAKER_03 33:46

Because I knew I was going with moments for life, uh which is a great song. I'm gonna give that fact. I'm gonna give it, I'm gonna give my hand claps to Drake on that song. I don't even remember Nikki's part, so I'm going straight to Drake. Uh, and I'm you know, wish I could advance it on his merit, but I'm gonna have to go perfect months.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

All right,

Second Round Upsets Begin

SPEAKER_00 34:09

cool. All right, we're going into the next round. We start at the top. Shaggy, it wasn't me versus Bruno Mars. That's what I like. Will what you doing?

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Uh sorry. So I went with I I went with against Shaggy, uh not Saggy, uh uh Bruno in the first round. I did not pick. That's what I like. I went with uh challenger, and as you can see, I lost. Uh so on this one, I'm going against his ass again. Shaggy, it wasn't me.

SPEAKER_06 34:58

All right, uh, Joe.

SPEAKER_03 35:04

Oh my god she caught Shaggy in the shower, on the counter, on the camera. I said it everywhere. He said the same thing over and over and over. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. No, he told me how to treat the police. It was a double lesson.

SPEAKER_01 35:29

He was out here educating folks, man. Educating the folks, yeah. I I'll be over with Shaggy, but off topic, man. I don't know if you knew this, but he has a group with Steam now.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

What?

SPEAKER_00 35:43

Yeah, Sting.

SPEAKER_03 35:45

Shaggy SNS.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

I was gonna say the SNS man. I think that's already used, but yeah, hold on. Now I have to figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

Yeah, I'm gonna check that out. Oh man, Shaggy.

SPEAKER_01 36:01

Just Sting and Shaggy. That's all it is. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 36:03

Sting and Shaggy. That's okay. That's all it needed to be.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Yeah, I was gonna say that's all they needed. All right, uh, A Marie One Thing versus Cardi B. I like it. I like it like that. Joe, what you going?

SPEAKER_01 36:17

I'm going with Cardi.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

Oh yeah, that's that beat. Shit.

SPEAKER_00 36:23

Will what you going?

SPEAKER_03 36:26

Yeah, I'm going with uh Bodega Baddie, is that what she calls her?

SPEAKER_00 36:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

I've been rocking rocking with her for a long time. I ain't picking that first round, but I've been rocking with her.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

I ain't Cardi be moving on. I ain't gonna lie, I think I probably would have picked one thing.

SPEAKER_03 36:44

And you know, I'm about to say something bad about Cardi because I want her to come see me. I ain't really gonna say nothing bad because I ain't got nothing bad to say, but come see me.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

He tried to come up with something bad to say.

SPEAKER_03 37:01

You hear me? I'm married like a motherfucker though, but I mean, come on. You get what, right?

SPEAKER_00 37:12

I mean, come on. What I mean, come on. Oh, very j blast be without you versus to me officially missing you. Will, what you doing?

SPEAKER_03 37:32

I'm gonna be officially missing them. I wanted her as far. Shit.

SPEAKER_06 37:40

Like, damn. I'm gonna have to think on this one.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

I ain't gonna lie, this we this is a hard matchup.

SPEAKER_03 37:57

Shit a lot of you's in this, I know everybody.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

Yeah, it is. They letting you know who they sing it to.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

I'm going with uh I'm going with Mary, man. I just keep hearing that yelling every time I put it up against the next song. I just hear that yell. So I'm gonna go with Mary again.

SPEAKER_00 38:19

All right. Uh Joe, what you going with? Officially missing you by to meal or Mary J Blige be without you forget me.

SPEAKER_07 38:35

I'm done with me.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

I'm about that, man.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

Okay. Damn. This is really a hard matchup. Uh I'm gonna go officially missing you. Yeah, yeah, I'm on I'ma go officially missing you. All right, cool. Next, Rihanna Umbrella versus MIA Paper Plains. I'm going umbrella. Uh, what's that you, Joe?

SPEAKER_01 39:33

Yeah, I still gotta go with umbrella.

SPEAKER_00 39:36

All right.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

I can hear ching ching in my head from one song, but I just hear Ella Ella yelling over it.

SPEAKER_03 39:45

I felt about to marry. And y'all niggas disappoint. You was gonna go marry. I done hard, like that one was so hard on me. That one turns it to the grave.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

All right, cool.

Finals And The Champion Pick

SPEAKER_00 40:06

Uh next to go to the finals, Shaggy. It wasn't me versus Cardi B. I like it. I mean, I'm going shaggy. What about you, Will?

SPEAKER_03 40:31

I'm going with uh Hennessy sister.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

Okay, ooh, I wasn't expecting that. I wasn't expecting that. All right, uh Joe.

SPEAKER_03 40:45

And both of them come see me at the same time. Matter of fact, Cardi stay your ass home and just see your sister.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

I was under Tennessee and why you go. I'm just over here thinking about that whole family tree.

SPEAKER_03 41:05

Yeah, yeah, they can bring a family.

SPEAKER_01 41:12

Yeah, right. Uh was I gotta go with Cardi B.

SPEAKER_03 41:24

Cardi B to the fight.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

Yeah, Nikki Matt, and I'm like, all right, Cardi B is moot. I wasn't expecting this, Cardi Moot. Okay, Cardi B, I like it. Uh let me write that down. Cardi B, I like it. All right, bet. Uh Tamia officially missing you versus Rihanna Umbrella. Ooh. I uh wait a minute, hold on. Yeah, that's right. Damn. All right, Joe. Umbrella or uh Tamia officially missing you.

SPEAKER_06 42:15

Umbrella. Umbrella, okay.

SPEAKER_00 42:25

I'm going officially missing you, Will. What about you?

SPEAKER_03 42:31

God damn it, our neighbors to the north. Officially missing me.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

All right, so you got Tamia officially missing you versus Cardi B, I like it.

SPEAKER_03 42:52

Oh, it's a beautiful battle.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

It is. It was a it was a battle I was not expecting.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

I mean Rihanna and would have slap. Yeah. Nobody would have been mad.

SPEAKER_00 43:07

Yeah, I was gonna say it's a great battle that way, either way.

SPEAKER_03 43:10

Uh Rihanna can still come to the battle. See your face. Who we going? Don't bring all them down kids out.

SPEAKER_00 43:22

Joe I like it versus Tamia officially missing you.

SPEAKER_06 43:32

Officially missing you Okay.

SPEAKER_00 43:37

Um what you gonna do?

SPEAKER_03 43:42

Damn. It comes down to me.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

It comes. What you think?

SPEAKER_03 43:48

I can end it. I can continue. I just wanna explain the obvious to the people why I continue to make my So I'm going with the light skin. Yeah, I got you. I got like, hold on.

SPEAKER_06 44:27

I was like, wait, what?

SPEAKER_00 44:32

Like, wait a minute, what uh that didn't pick. That didn't pick.

SPEAKER_03 44:38

So so so so. I'm going with um I'm going with the Tumiya because it has lasted in my soul longer. So there's plenty of songs that have come and gone, and that song comes on and I still let it play through. And I will skip that shit that Cardi got every once in a while, because I just ain't in the mood. So yeah. I'm always in the mood for Tamia. Not always in the move for that particular Cardi V.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

So all right, so

Bracket Recap And Countries Shouted Out

SPEAKER_00 45:17

the winner. Well, I'm gonna go through the whole bracket again, then we get to the end. The bracket for the RB and hip hop World Cup was your one C, Shaggy. It wasn't me. Going up against Tim's, not what you need. Then your A C Baby Bass versus Sugar, Baby Badge, featuring Frankie J, Sugar Sugar. Going up against the Nancy, Bruno Mars, that's what I like. Four C Tyler Water versus A. Marie's one thing. Cardi B, I like it, versus Y Clef John, gone to November was your five versus 12. Your two seed was a play-in between Mary J. Blash and Mariah Carey. Uh Mariah Carey was always be my baby. Mary J. Blash was be without you. Mary J. Blash did win. And she went up against the 15 seed Christina Milian, dip it low. Seventh seed was uh Jennifer Lopez, which was the song for Jennifer Lopez.

SPEAKER_03 46:22

Yes, wow. That's why I'm glad I picked yes.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

Look, now because I I wrote all the other song names down, but I forget what's that my love don't cost a thing. Thank you. Love, thank you. The sad to see Jennifer Lopez, Love Don't Cost a Thing versus Tamia officially missed the 10 C officially missing you by Tamia. Uh three, LMA booed up versus Rihanna Umbrella. And three to 14. The six seed was MIA Paper Plains versus 11 C Nicki Minaj featuring Drake Moment for Life. We had so many countries represented. We had the uh the Bahamas, we have the Dominican Republic, we had Trinidad and Tobago, we had Canada and Mexico, we even had the Philippines and Korea, we had all these great countries in Cuba, in the UK, and Barbados, all these great countries represented. The final came down to Cardi B. I like it, versus Tomia officially missing you. And Tomia officially missing missing you is the champion of the mixed vibes World Cup of hip hop and RB. Uh Joe, I appreciate you doing the pod. Of course, anytime, sir. We have Mr. Break Glass. Mixed Vibes would not work without you. Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_03 47:38

Man, I'm always happy

Closing Thoughts Love Costs Money

SPEAKER_03 47:39

to be here. And I just want to say something real quick before we end this. I want to say that Jennifer Uphead is a goddamn line. Love costs something. Yes, can't just be doing Netflix and chill every day and go on to fucking weak ass motherfucking picnics or parking shit. Bitch gonna get bored. You gotta go somewhere and do something. Love costs money.

SPEAKER_00 47:59

Hey, no that note. Hey man, we thank y'all for listening to another episode of Hold Up and another thing presented by Mixed Mass Media. Y'all already know the passage, but Mr. Bell, aka say your name up on this pie. Might not we chew the ma. We're gonna get at y'all. We're gonna get at y'all on the next one. Y'all be blessed, y'all be easy, and we're gonna see y'all later.