Favorite Male Rappers, Signature Songs.

This week on Once Upon a Time in Music, we’re talking our favorite male rappers and the songs that made us fans—from Nas getting his flowers to classic cuts like Life After Death. Plus, we mix it up with some wild Kiss, Marry, Kill and take it back to hip-hop history with iconic albums and memories.

Transcript

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What's up? What's up? What's up?

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What's up, guys? This is Once Upon a Time in Music. I'm L. I'm Cheryl Poison. And I am Mikhail.

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The R guy.

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Hi guys, we back for another another week. Um, I want to thank everybody that listened to last week's episode and the last week's episode and the last last last last week's episode before that. Right?

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Yeah.

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Yes, indeed. Everybody listen all over. Um all states. All countries. Yeah, I'm still still shocked about that. I got a seawall.

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African brothers and sisters over there listening to us.

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How we get in a um algorithm. Because uh I think it's what, 22 countries, and there's a lot of countries listening. I guess they got some kind of translator. Maybe maybe I sound different. Or maybe they know hip hop. A lot of them know English too. They know music, right? They speak English. Shout out to them.

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Shout out.

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I I want to get an email for one of them. Send us an email and we'll send you$2. Oh my God.

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So what they gonna buy with$2?

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I don't know.

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It's just you can't even get a coffee with$2.

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It depends on the exchange rate. You might change somebody's life. See?

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Now if I could change somebody's life with$2, I got six. You got six? Okay. Yeah, I'm spreading some love. Big money grip. Okay. I'm gonna spread some love. Um, well, we got another episode. This week's episode is our favorite male rappers.

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Yes, I guess you could put it like that.

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Yeah, favorite male rappers. We'll go with that. And uh possibly a song that made us think, hey, I really like this person, or you know.

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You know who my favorite favorite is? Favorite of all time. Who? Favorite in life.

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Who?

unknown 3:12

I don't know.

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Nas Jones. What up, Nas? Shout out to Nas.

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Is it gay?

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He's probably listening.

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I hope he does listen. Holla at me.

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I told you to hit my inbox.

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Maybe we get on Mass Appeal.

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Yeah, we could be the first podcast for Mass Appeal.

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Mass Appeal app needs a podcast.

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Mm-hmm. You have to speak it, speak it into existence.

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Speak it into existence. Yes, we are gonna be the first.

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The first on my husband's label.

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Oh pull strings. Yeah, make the call. Make the call. Um we also got our favorite Kiss Mary Kill. And uh I might as well talk about what came out this week. March 25th, 1997. The notorious B.I.G. Uh Life After Death. Um you know it had songs like Hypnotize. Oh Kick in the Door. One of my favorites. Uh the R. Kelly. I don't want to say the words. Wow.

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I'm fucking you tonight. I'm fucking you tonight?

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Okay. Well, she said it for us. Um Mo Money, Mo Problems. This was like one of the Yeah, this was like one of the first hip hop double CDs.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah. If not the first.

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I think it might have been the first.

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Yeah, and they kind of set they kind of set the trend for it. Yeah. Now I I'll say C D because I know back in the day double albums were out. But first hip hop CD, I think this was it. Yep. So Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death.

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What are y'all talking to? That's my favorite song.

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I'll make reference to that later too.

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Check it out. So I'm gonna ask y'all guys Do you think this album was better than the first album? I do. I do too. Ready to Die? Yeah. Machine gun funk?

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Ready to Die was a classic, but this this had so many songs on it.

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Like I think, yeah, because it had so many and a lot of diversity too.

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You're nobody till somebody kills you. Which is like the truest statement ever.

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Yeah, you're right.

unknown 6:13

You're right.

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Yeah, this was a good one. I remember playing a cassette on a school bus. We was it was I think it was senior trip going to great adventure. I think this was it. Alright, y'all ready for Kiss Mary Kill?

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Yeah. I hope y'all got me some good people.

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Oh, I always got you some good people. That would you say. You want to hear 'em? No, I'll let you go first.

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I go first?

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Yeah, I'll let you know let's let Kyle go first.

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Okay.

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Start up a new trend.

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Alright, well, you know, I'm always doing the theme. So this one is gonna be the cast of Best Man, the best man.

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Oh man, I don't remember that one too much. Let me pull it up over here. Who's it for? Uh give it give it to Cheryl first, and then uh Yeah.

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Okay. I'll probably know the guy. Cheryl is gonna be Tay Diggs.

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Okay.

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Um Tamid Howard. And they got a curveball. Um Howard Perrine, which is uh Julian the simple hand, yeah. Okay, the guy from um because I'm sure you probably did that when we're gonna do it again.

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Yeah, the guy from Oz. Let's see. That's a tough one.

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You have to do it. Tay Dix.

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We gotta say something, right?

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Okay, we're gonna we're gonna kill the the last guy. Okay. What do you say his name was Julian?

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Howard Perrinew. Perrinew? Yeah, Julian was his name on there.

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He's gotta go. I'll kiss Tay Diggs and marry the light-skinned one. Oh, really? Terrence Howard? Mm-hmm. Terrence Howard. Oh, okay.

unknown 8:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:13

So I okay. I I you know, you always talking about chocolate. I just assume.

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That was gonna be Morris Chestnut, right?

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That's why I didn't give her that one. Yeah, that's why. So I gave her Tay Diggs Tay Diggs instead, yeah.

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Okay.

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So Terrence Howard, okay. So that means I got a shot.

unknown 8:28

Yeah.

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Oh I don't discriminate.

unknown 8:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 8:36

Okay. Okay. Is it my turn?

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All right, so let me give you yours, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we got um Sonali, Neil Long, and Shelby.

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Uh unless right now kill Shelby.

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You gonna kill Greg? Well, she is crazy.

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Yeah, Shelby? Yeah, let's kill her. And Mary Neil Long. Okay. And kiss annihilate them. Got it. Uh I always think about the past. What? Let's annihilate them. She's she's been known in the industry. Really? Yeah.

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I I've never heard of that. I've heard that.

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I haven't. French Montana. Uh she's older, right?

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Tupac.

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I would think so.

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She's like 50.

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She's that old. French about 50, probably. That's what I'll do though. That's what I'll I'll I will. Nah, I'll repick. I I'll I'll let it go.

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She's 54.

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54. You don't look it there.

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Yeah, she don't look that old.

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Alright. Is it my turn? Yeah. Alright, I'm gonna do I'm gonna give Cheryl hers first. Jay-Z. ASAP Rocky. And Drake. What? What's wrong with you making a crazy face? What's wrong with those? He's not crazy. You said he's crazy. I said Jay-Z.

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ASAP Rocky. That's a tough one.

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Yeah. I'm gonna have to get that sound for you. I'm gonna have to get that.

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A financial point of view. I need to go ahead and marry Jay-Z.

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Yeah, okay. That's out of the way. That's definite.

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Yeah.

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ASAP Rocky. You're gonna kiss him.

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Yeah, I'm gonna kiss ASAP. And I guess Drake got to go. It's not because he lights him. I was gonna say that. He's just kind of corny. He's not corny. Just a little tad bit. Oh my gosh.

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Why everybody?

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Just a sprinkle of corny.

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I think Jim Jones is cornier than him right now.

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Jim Jones is. I'm not gonna talk about nobody anymore.

unknown 11:17

What?

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They got too much um stuff going on in the world. I don't want Jim Jones saying nothing about me. Nah, I need them to say it. I want them to say it all about me.

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And and shout out the podcast.

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Yeah. That's what he's gonna say. L of the uh Once Upon a Time Music Podcast.

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Called him coin.

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Your little podcast. That's why I want them to say that. I got you ready to get into it.

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So you're not gonna give me mine.

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Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. Gabrielle Union, Tiana Taylor, and Zoe Kravis.

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Hmm.

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Those are all good ones.

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Yeah.

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Tiana Taylor. That's the You want to see a picture? Does anyone uh with Byron? Byron. Her and uh what's the first one? Uh Gabrielle Union. Gabrielle Union, okay.

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And Zoe Zoe Kravitz. Zoe Kravitz.

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Okay. So probably marry Tiana Taylor, um, kiss Zoe and kill Gabriel.

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Kill Gabrielle Union?

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Yeah.

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Why? I I want to know why on that one. You don't like Gabrielle. No?

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Because of who she married to, I guess. Who's she married to? Nothing against him.

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Who she married to? Oh. What's his name? A basketball player. Yeah. Um, the thing, you know, Dwight Dwight Howard. No, not Dwight Howard. Dwayne. What's his name? Wade. Dwayne Wade.

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Yeah, Dwayne Wade.

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That's it.

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He may be requesting her to do some things that, you know.

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That you don't want to.

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Okay. He's like that. I'm learning all sorts of new stuff on his uh little podcast.

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All right. I got three for Kyle, too. Oh, okay. Yeah. Go ahead and give it to her. We got the three members of Total. Oh. Keisha, Kema, and Pam.

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Pull them up. That's hard right there.

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Pam is like the lighter skinned one.

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Yeah. Pam is the harder one.

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Kema is. Is she? No. Yeah, you're right. Keisha is the lighter skinned one. Pam is the harder one. Yeah. And Kema is the skinny one.

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Okay. So the hard one, I'm gonna have to take her out. But that'll be Pam. Yeah. Yeah, do the dance. And um. I guess Mary the skin, the slim one, and um kiss the the red bone.

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Okay. Sorry, I don't remember y'all names like that. Keisha, Kema, and Pam.

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Shout out the total. I know people who know them.

unknown 14:07

Yeah.

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Cool, cool, cool. All right, y'all ready? Y'all ready to get in?

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Let's do this.

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Are you ready to get into it? Alright. I'm gonna start it off. So if you're just tuning in or if you fast forward to this part, we are uh talking about our favorite rappers. They fast forward our favorite male rappers.

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I don't know. I don't know what they do.

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I need to email us and tell us what you do at Once Upon a Time Music Podcast Podcast All One Word at Lord.

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And let us know.

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Yeah, let us know. Let us know. And shout out to everybody that do listen. All right, let's go. Um start it off with this one is Kyle's.

unknown 14:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:05

Yeah, so this is J. Ruder Damager Come Clean, 1993. When that sound when that sound comes on, you already know.

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You know when that sound comes on.

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What year was this?

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1993. That's a I remember when this came out. The sound. You don't even hear this. You never heard the sound before. And then the video with the dropping water.

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Chinese water torture.

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Yeah. Shout out to J. Ruperton.

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Shout out to Preco.

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Come clean. That was a good one. That was a real good one.

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It's kind of like a hard beat to rhyme over, too.

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It is?

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To me, I think. Maybe because I don't really like slow beats too much.

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Try it. You want to try it? Yeah, play the instrumental. I'll play it.

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I don't know what for. You don't want me to play the instrumental? I'm good.

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Come on, I'm trying to like start liking. No. I'm trying to start liking female rappers, and you might be able to, you know, make me get into them. I doubt it. Dang, I try. You said you could rap still. So I don't know if I believe that anymore. Alright, so 1996. Ghost Face Killer. The album was Iron Man. And the name of the song was 260. So 260 was the name of the building, you know, that they used to hustle out of. So this was a famous song.

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Let me get mine.

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And the sample, the sample from uh the educational of Sonny Carson, if you know that.

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Yeah, miraculous.

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And it's featuring Ray Corn. And the name of the song is 260.

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Yo, kick down the door in the spot to the side.

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Al Green sample. Al Green, yeah.

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Yeah, that was sick.

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I love ghost fans.

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That one is that beat. That one made it really stand out. So what is just just the just the loot.

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I don't know what it is about that. I don't know if it's the the hearing Al Green in the background or what, but that that beat. Probably cause his you know what? His flow too.

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Yeah, definitely. It's almost like that. When he rode that.

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Doom doom doom doom doom doom.

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Yeah.

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Yep, so that's mine. Uh 1996 Iron Man Ghostface Killer. Uh 260. Alright, let's see what we got next. Cheryl, this one yours. Is you ready?

SPEAKER_05 18:02

I guess. Let's hear it.

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Look, my um my board would be buffering. Alright, here we go.

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Technical difficulties.

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Yeah.

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This is what's on your mind, 1992. Rock him.

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They used to play the sample on everything. What's the name of the song?

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You're serious. I'm curious.

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I try to do a song that people might not um.

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That's a good one. That's a real good one. That was a good one, Cheryl.

unknown 18:58

Okay.

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Thank you.

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Since since we um started off with a good one, Cheryl, give me this one.

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I love the song.

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Me too. I wish I had thought about this song.

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This is cuffing season, fabulous, 2015. 15? I wonder if it's good. That's what I got.

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This beat. And the first the first line he said about picking up.

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You was in the lamarina all summer. You was up intoxicate all summer. Now it's getting chilly, that's the ball coming. Now nigga get a call from a what's up. How you been top of summer hot at in? I'm like some bitch stringin' meat.

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I wish I picked that one. You know what I listen to when I get in the truck today.

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Listen to Fabulous?

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Yeah, that's from the soul tape. Soul tape. So tape three. Yeah. I'm definitely listening to that. Well, since you stole my fabulous. I got my fabulous here. And uh it's from another mixtape. Um choosy. Um Summertime Shootout 3, cold summer, coldest summer ever. 2019.

unknown 20:41

Choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it.

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With Jeremiah and DeVito. They play this at all parties, like this is the vibe he kinda choose it, but I don't want to choose.

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I swear I don't choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it. She wants me to come stay over. She caught a fly with no layover. Drinking all night with no hangover.

unknown 21:09

Drinking all night with no hangover.

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She never asked me to pay for it. She never texts me, just wait for it. Turn you into my PYT.

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If not, then tell her friend because I So everybody asked me who's my favorite rapper.

unknown 21:22

Choose it, choose it, choose it.

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And number one is Drake. No, number one is fabulous, and number two is Drake. Because Drake, cause uh fabulous, any song you put him on, he's gonna kill it. Yeah. True. And he's gonna talk about what the song is about. It's not gonna be a verse, it'd be like, that ain't got nothing to do with, you know.

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And he's too good on RB joints.

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He kills RB joints. Oh, yeah. He kills him. He's like, he's really the go-to for RB, I think, for hip hop right now. Yeah, it's not uh Wale. Him and Wale is like you put them on RB, I think they're gonna kill it. Yep, so that was it, choosing. We going back on this one, huh?

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I think got a long intro. Is that Kwame?

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Yeah, it's Kwame.

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Kwame. Only you 1990. Sorry, 1989.

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Oh, what kind of song is that? Here we go. Alright, here we go.

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You know, we've been together for some time and I've been.

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Cheryl's gonna have to sing the hook for us.

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Uh-huh. That's hot.

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Kwame was killing it back then.

SPEAKER_04 22:51

What? He was.

SPEAKER_05 22:52

This was another video that we pulling out.

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Speaking of like being ahead of their time, like and he was young too. I didn't like this video though.

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Them on the stage.

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It seemed appropriate.

SPEAKER_10 23:05

You know why I was looking for more? Back then there was special ed and stuff.

SPEAKER_04 23:10

Yeah, oh yeah.

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Doing all the craft, doing the stuff like that. Yeah, and then this came out.

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Come on.

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And I think he produced that. He he was doing a lot, like at 15, 16. Yeah. Making his own music and everything.

SPEAKER_10 23:31

If you get a chance, go listen to his interview on the Dream Chap. Because he goes down the list from when he was in school. Like I think he was in junior high or something like that. Yeah. Fancy car and bodyguards to go to school and you know the show. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I didn't know he was that young.

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The boy genius. What did he call himself? That's the name The Boy Genius. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 23:55

Alright, that was a good one. That was a good one. Alright, let's see. Uh should we just enjoy the same? Cheryl, this one yours.

SPEAKER_05 24:10

Woo This is Conway. Jesus Crisis. Twenty twenty.

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I was waiting for that.

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Look, machine. You gotta salute me. I'm a rare form. I'm back in my devil's reject bag. You gotta rebuke me. You gotta excuse me. I'm the new Jim Jones cobble and Louie. Don't fuck around, get shot in your poop.

unknown 24:39

I'll be rockin' his jewelry. Lot of supermodels try to seduce.

SPEAKER_10 24:42

He's my favorite up this. I kinda like them. I think I'm gonna win a product cross body. I think when I hear their songs, I wish I liked them more. Like what I want from them. I want them to be like a you know, a ghost face and you know different kind of vibe. I yeah, I know, but I look for more. Like listening to the albums, I might get maybe two or three songs off of it. There's another artist a lot of people don't know about he got the same kind of vibe it's called his name is Great God. Oh, and that's almost like the same, you know, kind of flow kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_05 25:32

I like Conway. Conway cool with me. Yeah, I like Conway. That's cool. Alright.

SPEAKER_15 25:42

As you call them, they call you when they need something.

SPEAKER_04 25:45

This is MF Doom for the front now.

unknown 25:47

I found a way to do it.

SPEAKER_04 25:48

Deep Pride Friends 2004. You know, I never listened to an MF Doom album either. I just listened to Crazy Songs Line, though. He is endless. He probably got 300 songs out there.

SPEAKER_10 26:01

I never listened to an album. A full album at all. I'm still listening to the old MF Doom.

SPEAKER_04 26:10

Now I do let me take that. I I did listen to this album. I forgot what it's called. About food.

SPEAKER_10 26:16

Uh deep fried food.

SPEAKER_04 26:18

I know it's about food. The whole theme, every song is about food. Oh, for real? Yeah. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_10 26:24

Oh, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_05 26:26

He kind of sounds like the game.

SPEAKER_10 26:29

The game? Oh, yeah, kinda.

SPEAKER_04 26:34

But for those who don't remember, know who MF Doom is, because he was like a mysterious no-faced rapper for a long time. The people that know who he was.

SPEAKER_05 26:42

Yeah, he always wore the mask on. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:44

So he's what is it? I know he was he was from the group.

SPEAKER_09 26:48

I try to act broke. Jealousy the man.

SPEAKER_10 26:52

He's um like crack smoke.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

He's from the song Gas Face. Yeah. Is it EMD? Not EMD, I'm sorry. Um I forgot name. Oh my gosh. Sorry, guys. KMD. KMD. I had never got that initial. KMD Kitty. KMD's Zeb love X. A gas face.

SPEAKER_10 27:13

That's MF Doom. Yeah. That's MF Doom. Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:17

I never saw his face.

SPEAKER_10 27:18

You remember the video? They was the um the Peach Fuz video? No, that was another one. But the gas face video, they was the um the gas station clerks.

SPEAKER_09 27:30

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_10 27:30

Yeah. Don't tap me. You're at me. So fill her up.

SPEAKER_05 27:34

You learn something new every day.

SPEAKER_04 27:35

Yeah, he's super lyricist. And it's like his metaphors are like so many layers.

SPEAKER_10 27:40

People don't even know that's like the same person.

SPEAKER_04 27:42

Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. That was a good one. Yeah, R.I.P. to doom.

SPEAKER_10 27:48

Yeah, that was a good one. Well. One of my favorite rappers. Slick Rick. Me too. This is probably the first song I ever learned all of the lyrics.

SPEAKER_04 28:06

I think everybody knows all the lyrics of this.

SPEAKER_10 28:08

1988, Slick Rick. This is another one. I was upset with the video. Oh yeah, it was kind of the video was trash. It was. You waited. You was like, oh, the video, oh, they're gonna have the robbery. Then he had the 1930s looking cops. Yeah. Yeah, it was trash. I think a lot of that happened because of his career, all the troubles he was getting into. Because he had a couple behind bars. That's that video was trash. Only good video I think he had was the one with our ass. Oh, hey young teenage love. Yeah, that was a good one.

SPEAKER_05 28:50

That was a simple video though. It was super simple.

SPEAKER_10 28:54

I like um the part where he was reaching in the bag. Vance right was reaching in the bag, the Gucci bag. Yep, yep. So that was the next song.

SPEAKER_04 29:08

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_10 29:09

1988. The Great Adventures of Slick Rick. Slick Rick. The song is children's story. Children's story. Alright, here go next one.

SPEAKER_04 29:25

This one, of course, is Big Daddy Kane's smooth operator. 1989.

SPEAKER_10 29:33

He couldn't lose back then. Big Daddy Kane could not feel it. He's on my list too.

SPEAKER_04 29:44

He was all style.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

He's so smooth.

SPEAKER_04 29:55

Shooting lyrics like a hawk. I met him a couple times, but like not like he would recognize me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 30:02

I met him once. And I met Scoop. Scoop used to come to the building next to mine's. He was dating a girl there, but I never talked to him.

SPEAKER_04 30:13

Shout out to Kane.

SPEAKER_10 30:14

Yeah, shout out to him. He comes, he used to come around here a lot.

SPEAKER_04 30:18

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_10 30:19

He used to come around here a lot. He haven't been here in a minute. The party scene is different around this area now. Well, since you picked Big Daddy Kane. Oh yeah. 1988. R A W Long Live Kane. And the name of the song is Raw. This is my favorite one. Molly was killing it on the beats back then, too. Oh my gosh. He could've missed. Could've missed.

SPEAKER_04 30:51

And they sound they were dirty too. Yeah, all of them. And the recording was like sound quality was bad, but it's like they it was it, I don't know, just raw, I guess.

SPEAKER_10 31:04

It didn't even matter because we were listening to it on like Mano. Yeah. We listened to a cassette and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05 31:09

Wasn't he in his room in the projects?

SPEAKER_10 31:14

What's called house? Um uh what's the name? What's the name again? The producer? Marley. Yeah, Marley. Yeah, I think that's what he said. Yep, so that's my favorite from him.

SPEAKER_05 31:25

Marley Maul.

SPEAKER_10 31:27

Big Daddy Kane. Long live the cane is the album, and the name of the song is Raw. So we're gonna speed it up to uh modern Away from the 80s, away from the 80s for a second.

SPEAKER_05 31:43

This is Jeezy. Leave you alone 2011.

SPEAKER_10 31:46

This one's yours, right, Sherry?

SPEAKER_04 31:50

Is that featuring Neo?

SPEAKER_10 31:52

Neo.

SPEAKER_04 31:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_10 31:54

And uh name of that album is TM103, right?

SPEAKER_00 31:59

But you feel so good.

unknown 32:00

She said she said, What if I could, but I gotta leave you alone.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

She said she said, I know you back.

SPEAKER_10 32:18

That's a good one, but I want you back.

SPEAKER_04 32:21

Born in South Carolina, but raised in Atlanta.

SPEAKER_10 32:25

Atlanta, Georgia, right?

SPEAKER_04 32:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 32:27

Augusta? Where was he born in South Carolina? Columbia.

SPEAKER_04 32:30

Columbia. Columbia? Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 32:35

Yeah. That was a good one. I think we I think we on now, we we're not all the way away from the 80s.

SPEAKER_04 32:47

Oh, definitely uh one of my favorites right here. This is DMX. Stop being greedy. 1998. 98. This this song right here would made me like really you know, acknowledge him. Like him to be able to switch up the style like that in one song. Personally, I know a lot of people may disagree, but like I like him better on Grease more so than Swiz. I think I think his beats, I mean they they fit him better.

SPEAKER_10 33:27

It's a dame what's a dang Grease Well beat. I don't know. I now I'm gonna listen.

SPEAKER_04 33:33

Now I'm I think those it seemed like the the Swiss beats are the ones that just came later. Like, okay, well, you got you got all this hot stuff. Now we're gonna make some party records. Yeah, yeah. So we're gonna give these to you. You might be right about that. Yeah, I think these are more tailored for him.

SPEAKER_10 33:49

I've been listening. I I took a listen to uh you know some Swiss beat stuff. Yeah, they didn't age well, yeah. Like listen to them now, it's like yeah, some of them, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:01

Yeah. But he, you know, he had that sound for a while that everybody was checking for.

SPEAKER_10 34:05

Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good one. That's what, as dark as hell is hot? Yep. Yeah. Alright, let's see. Cheryl.

SPEAKER_05 34:19

Tia. 2013.

SPEAKER_10 34:23

Do you really want? I never even heard this on my mom. You never heard this? No.

SPEAKER_04 34:28

My first time. He got like an outcast feel too.

SPEAKER_05 34:33

Oh, yeah, yeah. A boyfriend put me onto this. I was riding with him, and he put the mixtape on.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

Yeah. Yeah, the 18 year old boy.

SPEAKER_10 34:44

Okay. Oh, he was trying to serenade you.

SPEAKER_05 34:56

I like how T. I can switch up too. He could go and do something for the ladies too.

SPEAKER_10 35:02

You just need to get off social media. A lot of artists need to get off social media. Because it that mystery, that mystique, yeah, is ruined.

SPEAKER_05 35:15

You don't think so? Everything is on social media now. I know. Everything.

SPEAKER_10 35:21

Some people need to get off. Post memes. Don't post your life no more.

SPEAKER_04 35:29

I mean, that's because that's what worked for like Prince. Like nobody never knew anything about Prince made that mystique about him, you know. Made him great.

SPEAKER_10 35:38

Yeah, all them, old them artists back in the day.

SPEAKER_05 35:40

You know why? Because there was no social media then. If there was social media, he probably would have been on it. Or maybe not Prince.

SPEAKER_10 35:46

I don't think Prince. No, no, no. Maybe not Prince.

SPEAKER_04 35:48

Never know.

SPEAKER_10 35:49

Michael Jackson either.

SPEAKER_04 35:50

Maybe um, what's my man's name? Alex O'Neill. Alexander O'Neill. I was gonna say Morris Day. One day hi.

SPEAKER_05 36:00

Oh, you know Morris would have been on on the internet. Yes. I'm pretty.

SPEAKER_10 36:04

You think so? I like Morris. That's my man right there. Alright, this one's buys. If you're reading this, it's too late. It's Drake's album. Way, way, 2015. Turn it on. And the name of it is if you're reading this, it's too late. Look, I got enemies, got a lot of people. The name of the song is energy. That's crazy. We just were talking about being online. He's just talking about that. Yep, so energy. Drake.

SPEAKER_05 36:59

Drake really was killing it at one time though. Like you couldn't turn on the radio and why you say was. I'm just saying was. Like he kind of quiet now.

SPEAKER_10 37:10

He got quiet after that little fiasco. Whatever that is. Yeah. He should have won, I thought. That's what happened when you make a hit song and you put the lyrics in the hit song. He'll be back though. I feel sad. Taking a little hiatus.

SPEAKER_04 37:34

Yep. Alright. Stop singing. Yeah, man. Why?

SPEAKER_05 37:41

I like it when he flipped up.

SPEAKER_04 37:44

I mean, he do it on one song, it's cool. Like he did it on uh like Rick Ross song, but when he just doing a whole song singing.

SPEAKER_10 37:52

Why, man? Listen to the words. Don't listen to the singing. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 37:57

I don't wanna sing.

SPEAKER_14 38:04

Nigga, we ain't have nothing. Every ghetto I know the same.

SPEAKER_05 38:08

That's what you mean.

SPEAKER_14 38:09

You trying to make a little Rich Man coming round time.

SPEAKER_05 38:12

I'm the man, 2016.

SPEAKER_10 38:15

50 Cent still rap.

SPEAKER_05 38:17

You heard this new thing he um pulling off the light. Yep. That little sneaky.

SPEAKER_10 38:26

50 Cent and G Unit killed the mixtape game.

SPEAKER_04 38:29

Oh, yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_10 38:31

And this is probably a song from the mixtape era, but he ended up putting it redoing it. This part right here.

SPEAKER_05 38:52

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_04 38:54

What year was it?

SPEAKER_05 38:56

That was 2016.

SPEAKER_04 38:58

I think Nip had a might have sampled that or something. That's it.

SPEAKER_10 39:03

Nipie, eerie sound in the background. Yeah, you might be right. I this was one of my favorite songs on back in the day. I used to listen to this all the time.

SPEAKER_04 39:20

And this one is uh Rockin' Mahogany 1990. If you don't know about this one, sorry if you're in a rush, don't let me hold your own.

SPEAKER_03 39:32

The violins are gonna come in right now. That's a violin better. I had to let her know. But yo, I didn't seen what I was saying. Almost broke Korean. But you were accent was self-explanatory. Even her body language told a story. Her name was Mahogany, twins named Ebony. I said my name is Ra, and this is Eric B. Since the music was loud, I said let's take a walk. So we'll see.

SPEAKER_10 40:08

He was like, Yeah, I like the song. Yeah, I think that was from uh Let the Rhythm Hit Him, the album.

SPEAKER_04 40:15

That song really put me on to Al Green, too, because I wasn't really I didn't know a lot of Al Green songs. Like that was one of my favorite songs after the fact, yeah. Which was also sampled in what, Cheryl?

SPEAKER_05 40:27

I don't know. What was it?

SPEAKER_04 40:28

MC Light?

SPEAKER_10 40:29

Yep. Paper Than Paper Than?

SPEAKER_04 40:32

Yep, yeah. And what we already you what you played earlier with Biggie.

SPEAKER_10 40:37

Oh yeah, yeah. Kicking the door.

SPEAKER_04 40:38

No. No, not kicking the door.

SPEAKER_10 40:40

Um Story to Tell.

SPEAKER_04 40:41

Story to Tell. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 40:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:44

Classic.

SPEAKER_10 40:45

It all came back in one song right there. Alright. People get on me about this artist here. But uh, I think it's good. I think he's good. Especially back then. Now that's the only thing. That's the only thing. For that one line right there. Everybody make fun of that line. It's from the album Purple Haze. And the name is Get Em Girls. 2004.

SPEAKER_13 41:21

I put two on producers. I'm the real bull story. The loser hooses. I rock mostly dosy. I roll mostly doley. I leave you holy, holy. You'll say holy moly. Here come the core and the kid 'em. Play code Cameron. I tell you true stories.

SPEAKER_04 41:41

And what was that group? It was like Him, Mace, Big L Children of the Corn. Children of the Corn. Yep. That was another guy, too, right?

SPEAKER_10 41:49

Uh Bloodshed. I didn't really I didn't listen to them then. I didn't get on to Cameron until I seen him on Rap City with Mace. And then they came out with a single. It was over from there. It was over from there. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 42:08

So what you're gonna do when you get out of here.

SPEAKER_04 42:10

Next one. Oh definitely a classic. Scarface. I seen a man die in 1994.

SPEAKER_11 42:19

It ain't nothing but a diary. Album was it? Diary? The diary. The diary.

SPEAKER_04 42:27

And just the the feel of this one.

SPEAKER_11 42:30

He reached his father with his name. Glad to like the production we saw. The world is different since he's seen it last. All he had was his mother's legs. Now we're gonna be able to get it's a good voice over the five. The fit. So we've got one strike to cut. That's a good one. And he's jumped plus he's gonna be.

SPEAKER_10 42:53

Name of the song is I Seen a Man Die.

SPEAKER_11 42:55

And he's finally making eight words.

SPEAKER_10 42:57

And his supposed to get Scarface. That's a good one. Cheryl.

SPEAKER_05 43:04

Is this my baby daddy coming up next?

SPEAKER_10 43:07

I'm gonna give you one more to do for the day. And we're gonna end it with your My Baby Daddy. I love the song.

SPEAKER_00 43:14

You've never been the same as anyone else. Don't think the same as everyone else. Young's good.

SPEAKER_10 43:22

I like the one with Richard Pryor in the beginning of it. Slick Rick, I think, right?

SPEAKER_00 43:31

I had everything.

SPEAKER_01 43:34

Everything I could change anything. If I changed anything, I mean anything. I would change everything.

SPEAKER_00 43:54

Dog boy, don't you cry? There's too much life left in the nose.

SPEAKER_10 43:58

So you wanna give us some uh info? It's not. I'm just listening.

SPEAKER_05 44:03

Um, 2018 off the album Nasir. It's called Everything. Okay.

unknown 44:09

Let them lie. You just know your world.

SPEAKER_04 44:12

She's over there vibing. Eyes are closed the whole time.

SPEAKER_10 44:17

That one is featuring. What is that? The dream. The dream and Kanye. Okay. Picked the odd one on that one. You think it's the odd one? Yeah, that's odd. There's no beat or nothing on there, right?

SPEAKER_05 44:33

I just, I don't know. I just like that.

SPEAKER_10 44:34

That's a vibe song. That's it. Yeah, that's emotional, like. Yeah. I like my adrenaline rushing. You do? And when I say adrenaline rush, 1996, 1997, Twister put this song out called Adrenaline Rush. And this what made me like Twister. And that's also featuring Psychodrama. Buck from Psychodrama. Cameron also redid this song on a Purple Haze album. And he had um Twister on it also.

SPEAKER_16 45:27

What can I say to make you see how the fucker feels to make me wanna jump over the edge? I'm charge up as comforts getting shot up on the legs. Don't paint instead of cane. I took a butt onto the head. So tell me what it's like.

SPEAKER_10 45:37

Yep, yep, so that was my last one, also.

SPEAKER_05 45:39

I like Twister ever since I heard him on Doa Die.

SPEAKER_10 45:42

Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. Oh, you know what? That's when I started liking Twister.

SPEAKER_05 45:48

That's when I first saw him.

SPEAKER_10 45:49

Yeah, do you wanna ride?

SPEAKER_05 45:50

Do you wanna ride? Do you wanna ride? In the backseat of a caddy.

SPEAKER_10 45:55

Shout out to Doa Die. They um they just re-put out uh I think Doa Die. Uh um what what song was that? It was uh Ride With Me, I think the name of the song. They just redid the video. Yep, yep. So I think we done.

SPEAKER_04 46:13

We is done. You ain't no honorable mention.

SPEAKER_10 46:16

Nah, no honorable mention.

SPEAKER_04 46:17

I did, he just didn't want to download it. Give me one. You got one? Doom was the honorable mention. You got another one? Nas.

SPEAKER_10 46:28

Uh-huh. We didn't talk a shit. Cheryl, you got an owner? I don't have one. Oh. I usually put one, but I So y'all talking about honorable mention.

SPEAKER_04 46:35

Because I had Nas on my list, but I took them off. You switched it up. Because I knew she was gonna.

SPEAKER_05 46:39

You know that. You know he was gonna make my list. You don't make my list for that. So what's what's your song from Nas that you liked?

SPEAKER_04 46:44

It was um what was it? Nas is like or um because I didn't go off the first album. I initially I was gonna do like represent, or I think I did Nas' Like.

SPEAKER_10 46:59

Okay. Well, people, uh, don't forget, give us an email at Once Upon a Time and Music Podcast at Yahoo. Yahoo.com. Um catch us every Thursday. If you're on the way to work in the morning, it'll be up. Catching on the code. Coming from work. Yep, coming from work, all streaming podcasts. At work. Yep. Sneak and listen to it if you want to.

SPEAKER_05 47:26

Um don't get these people fired.

SPEAKER_10 47:29

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SPEAKER_05 47:44

And tell us if you enjoy the show.

SPEAKER_10 47:47

Yeah. Definitely. I want to hear some I want to hear from somebody in another country.

SPEAKER_05 47:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 47:52

We are in the US, so I want to hear somebody outside the U.S. Yeah, claim your two dollars. Yeah. There you go.

SPEAKER_05 47:59

No, he said six. He said he got six dollars for that.

SPEAKER_04 48:02

He was gonna do two three different people. Three different people.

SPEAKER_10 48:06

I'm trying to change lives. I'm trying to make a millionaire over there.

SPEAKER_05 48:14

All right, guys, I'm L. I'm Cheryl Poison.

SPEAKER_04 48:17

And I'm Kyle B. Argyle.

SPEAKER_10 48:23

This was fun of time and music. We out. We out.