Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)
[00:00]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine.
[00:05]This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast.
[00:11]We are far from experts, and we promise to do almost no research.
[00:14]All opinions are our own unless you disagree.
[00:16]Please sit back and enjoy Beck Did It Better.
[00:19]This is the 19th album on the list. It's Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly.
[00:23]Hey guys, I went down into Russ's mom's basement again.
[00:27]And this time there's a radio there, and I turned it on.
[00:29]I tried to make it about the mom, and I forgot it was records.
[00:31]I don't like when Rob mentions the word turning on in my mom's basement at all.
[00:35]In fact, we need to stay away from this.
[00:37]That might be the theme of this opener.
[00:40]Listen, I just want to tell my kids out there, if I'm dead and you're listening to this at my funeral,
[00:44]I'm not the proudest of this one.
[00:45]Okay, here we go. Here we go.
[00:47]Hey everybody, this is K-Rob K-R-O-B.
[00:50]I love K-Rob.
[00:52]We've got a song coming up now that's about me and K-Rob K-R-O-B.
[00:55]It's about turning off the multiplayer and just playing with your own joystick.
[00:59]This is a song about Jack and the Toys.
[01:02]Oh yeah!
[01:04]It's the official Jack and the Toys.
[01:05]I'm still up, but it's late night.
[01:12]Gonna give myself some delight.
[01:14]Kids and wife are asleep, so I'm gonna have to do it quietly.
[01:17]In the basement way, out of sight.
[01:20]Going to my favorite website.
[01:22]I don't want to get caught.
[01:23]One headphone in and one is off.
[01:26]Oh man, I just heard a door close.
[01:28]Or was that just in these poor noobs?
[01:33]I'm just showing that I love me.
[01:36]I gotta do it so I can sleep.
[01:41]Nature Zambian. That's a hang-up.
[01:45]Nature Zambian.
[01:46]But don't touch.
[01:50]When you want to hear about...
[01:52]The greatest albums of all time.
[01:55]I didn't know Rob had bars.
[01:56]But you're just too lazy to look it up online.
[01:59]Yeah, I'm pretty much like 100%
[02:01]If you want to hear about...
[02:02]Production quality, too.
[02:03]I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack.
[02:10]Beck did it better.
[02:12]Alright, welcome all you Beckerheads out there.
[02:15]This is Beck did it better.
[02:18]That's what makes you guys laugh?
[02:19]That's my big joke today?
[02:20]We've got Russell in Minnesota.
[02:22]Russell, how are you doing today?
[02:23]I'm doing great, thankfully, for our dozens of listeners.
[02:27]This podcast is free!
[02:30]I've got Aaron out in California.
[02:33]Aaron, how are you doing?
[02:34]I think, is this podcast also 9 inches?
[02:36]I'm doing great, thank you.
[02:38]Maybe combined.
[02:39]Okay, so I'm rubbing off the board.
[02:43]I'm rubbing off the board that says
[02:44]we've done no dirty jokes.
[02:46]Matt, put that ruler away.
[02:48]We're back to zero.
[02:49]And then I said,
[02:50]and then I said,
[02:52]I'm rubbing off the board,
[02:52]and that made Aaron laugh, too.
[02:53]So, thanks a lot.
[02:54]Matt, in Minneapolis.
[02:56]How are you doing, Matt?
[02:57]Doing great, Rob.
[02:58]Thanks for having me.
[02:59]Alright, let's get right into it today.
[03:01]I don't have time to mess around.
[03:03]So, we guys, we have a Beck's to the Beck's line, okay?
[03:07]So, people are starting to send...
[03:08]Now, we have gotten two pictures of feet.
[03:10]I want to say, listen, we love it, okay?
[03:13]Aaron loves it, and he thinks it's great.
[03:15]I didn't think it was going to be that many male feet,
[03:18]although I don't know what exactly I expected.
[03:22]But it is a lot of male feet,
[03:23]and I got to say,
[03:24]y'all got fucked up feet out there.
[03:25]Alright, so,
[03:26]let's listen to this text that we got.
[03:28]What?
[03:28]Listen to a text?
[03:29]Yes, that's right.
[03:30]I have hired a new AI to read, okay?
[03:33]You sure it's not just these Amazonian women
[03:36]that have been showing up on my first dates,
[03:38]on my Bumble dates?
[03:39]I paid one of those women $5 on Fiverr to read this.
[03:43]Here we go.
[03:44]Hoping this is the Beck line.
[03:45]If so, a couple things.
[03:47]This is Steve from Minnesota.
[03:49]Maybe not that.
[03:50]Steve, but Steve.
[03:51]Nonetheless.
[03:52]One.
[03:53]Any soccer talk is too much soccer talk.
[03:56]My daughter plays soccer, and it's just the worst.
[03:59]Okay, so we got to pause it right there.
[04:02]Steve, his daughter plays soccer.
[04:05]He does not enjoy it.
[04:07]He said it's the worst.
[04:08]Not that, Steve.
[04:10]Okay, I didn't mention that.
[04:12]Two.
[04:12]Buying records, or anything for that matter,
[04:14]at best, buy is a great idea.
[04:16]Please help spread that to all your thousands of listeners.
[04:21]They've got no supply.
[04:22]I'll tell you this.
[04:23]I've looked.
[04:24]They've got no supply at Best Buy.
[04:26]So did he just try to pimp a Best Buy record store, or what?
[04:30]I want to be very clear.
[04:32]Beck did it better is not for sale.
[04:33]Okay?
[04:34]We will not bow down to these cheap in-text advertisements.
[04:38]Okay?
[04:39]If we would have gotten any other voicemails or any other text,
[04:41]I would be playing that.
[04:42]But you cannot play voicemails,
[04:45]or you cannot play text of pictures of feet,
[04:46]so we got nothing else that I can use on the podcast.
[04:48]But, yeah, so Best Buy,
[04:51]if you do want to give us a couple thousand dollars
[04:52]for all the downloads you're going to get,
[04:53]let me know.
[04:54]Please help spread that to all your thousands of listeners.
[04:57]Okay.
[04:57]Three.
[04:58]You should do a bid on
[05:00]if Ross can guess if a person is a wild player
[05:02]or a member of one of the bands you've done albums for on the pod.
[05:05]He absolutely hates the wild,
[05:08]and I love reminding him it's a sports team.
[05:10]Okay, so now I got to tell you this.
[05:12]I did try to do this,
[05:15]and so I looked up some wild players that had over 100 games,
[05:18]and I can tell you right now,
[05:21]this game is one of the worst ideas that any of our...
[05:23]Now, I have said before,
[05:24]our listeners are a bunch of dumb fucks.
[05:25]It continues.
[05:26]Because this is one of the worst ideas,
[05:28]because every single wild player I looked up was named, like,
[05:30]you know, Linderman...
[05:32]Linderman Syngard.
[05:34]And I was like, well, who's going to not know that's a wild player?
[05:38]Like, every single wild player is named after some Norwegian country.
[05:40]I don't even know who the wild are.
[05:42]What are we even talking about?
[05:43]Is this, like, a junior league soccer team,
[05:45]or what's going on?
[05:46]And then I was like, well, who are we going to do,
[05:48]like, members of the band?
[05:49]Like, am I going to quiz them on Stevie Wonder,
[05:51]his bass player,
[05:51]and then we're all going to laugh that he didn't know who that was?
[05:53]Like, it doesn't make any sense,
[05:54]because I can't say, like, Ringo,
[05:56]but I could say, like, Ringo Nygaard,
[05:58]and then you'd be like...
[05:59]I think Michael Henderson played bass for him,
[06:00]but not on Songs in the Key of Life.
[06:02]Oh, Jesus Christ.
[06:03]Okay, here we go.
[06:04]Fourth one.
[06:04]He absolutely hates the wild,
[06:06]and I love reminding him it's a sports team.
[06:08]Yeah, you already said that.
[06:09]Come on.
[06:09]Four.
[06:10]Love the pod.
[06:11]It's literally the thing I look forward to every week.
[06:14]Always puts a smile on my face.
[06:17]Oh!
[06:18]Lastly, here is a foot picture.
[06:20]Distribute.
[06:21]Just as necessary.
[06:21]Okay.
[06:23]So, I do want to say that I did not see that fourth one right away,
[06:28]so when he said it brings a smile on my face,
[06:29]I'm sorry that I called you a dumb fuck on the air.
[06:31]All right.
[06:32]That's our bad.
[06:33]All right.
[06:34]Rolling going, everybody.
[06:35]Steve, not that Steve, though.
[06:36]We are getting into rolling going.
[06:38]Let's do rolling going.
[06:39]Oh, my God.
[06:40]My kid just walked in and saw me doing this.
[06:42]It's humiliating.
[06:43]He did bring up his daughter's soccer being the worst.
[06:46]You guys have kids.
[06:47]Are your kids in sports?
[06:48]Is it fun to go to your kids' games?
[06:50]Matt, is it the worst?
[06:52]No, it's fun to watch your kids.
[06:56]It's the setup of it sometimes that drives you bonkers.
[07:00]Brandon, who was on a couple podcasts ago,
[07:03]he's got a son the same age as my son,
[07:06]and so your kids are growing up,
[07:08]and all you're trying to do is get them to share.
[07:10]Hey, help that kid out.
[07:13]Share.
[07:13]No, no, no, no, no.
[07:15]Don't hit that kid.
[07:16]Don't hit that kid.
[07:16]Share, you know?
[07:17]So, then we get on the soccer team,
[07:19]and all of a sudden,
[07:20]they throw,
[07:20]yellow team over here,
[07:22]green team over there,
[07:23]and all of a sudden,
[07:24]it's get the ball.
[07:24]No, take it away from him.
[07:26]What's going on?
[07:26]You know,
[07:26]and the kids are looking at you like,
[07:28]what are you talking about?
[07:29]You've been telling me to share the whole time.
[07:31]So, I don't know.
[07:32]I mean,
[07:33]it's good to have them out doing stuff,
[07:35]and if they like it,
[07:36]great.
[07:36]So, I don't know.
[07:37]Eric, Eric,
[07:38]to all those parents out there,
[07:41]say hi to your new daddy.
[07:43]That was a parenting tip from Matt.
[07:46]Oh, yeah.
[07:47]Not really a tip, I guess.
[07:49]No, it's a tip.
[07:50]I can't take it back now.
[07:51]Aaron, I was kind of curious.
[07:52]So, your son is going to grow up
[07:54]in a household with two musicians.
[07:56]Sure.
[07:57]As his parents.
[07:58]Is he going to be into sports,
[07:59]or are you guys going to be helicopter parents
[08:00]when it comes to like,
[08:01]he needs to play the trombone,
[08:03]or he needs to play the clarinet,
[08:04]or whatever the broken clarinet is.
[08:06]Like, what route is he going to take here?
[08:08]So, he's three and a half.
[08:09]He does enjoy sports in a very freeform way.
[08:13]So, our, he.
[08:14]Oh, my God.
[08:15]Is that the most Californian sentence
[08:16]you've ever heard in your life?
[08:17]He enjoys sports in a freeform way.
[08:20]Okay, this is the same state
[08:22]that brought us the hacky sack.
[08:24]Okay.
[08:24]So, like, I can't get him
[08:26]to like play in the backyard.
[08:27]He only likes to play in the driveway,
[08:29]which has resulted in multiple injuries
[08:31]over the summer.
[08:31]But yeah, his thing is like,
[08:33]oh, I like it when dad spins the football
[08:35]on the ground like Icky Woods style,
[08:36]and I run around.
[08:37]And then like, we do that for a little bit,
[08:39]and then he gets out the baseball tee
[08:41]and takes three hacks.
[08:42]And actually, he's got a pretty good swing now.
[08:43]And then he's done with that
[08:44]because then he wants the baseball tee
[08:46]to be a lightsaber.
[08:46]And then he'll pick up the Frisbee
[08:48]and throw that two or three times.
[08:49]He's like pretty good
[08:50]at it.
[08:51]But I don't think he's going to,
[08:53]you know, I don't think he's going to
[08:54]play a whole lot of team sports.
[08:56]Maybe he will.
[08:56]It's totally up to him.
[08:57]Definitely not going to be
[08:58]helicopter parents about learning music.
[09:00]We do have a piano,
[09:01]which I have a great story
[09:02]about to share another time.
[09:03]And I hope he will learn the piano,
[09:05]but I'm not going to,
[09:06]we're not going to push it.
[09:07]I would never play that piano.
[09:08]I'd have to walk through
[09:09]all those crumbs to get there.
[09:10]I would never sign up for that.
[09:11]I'll tell you what,
[09:13]I think Matt's,
[09:13]I think Aaron's child
[09:14]might have a good future
[09:15]in like interpretive dance
[09:16]by the sound of it.
[09:17]He is a very,
[09:18]he's a very interesting dancer.
[09:20]Yeah.
[09:21]Rob, don't your daughter swim?
[09:22]So do you go to the pool?
[09:24]Do you always smell like chlorine?
[09:25]Are you the dad
[09:25]who always smells like chlorine?
[09:26]Or what's your,
[09:27]what's your sports parenting style?
[09:29]No, going to the pool in New York
[09:30]is really cool
[09:30]because it combines everything
[09:31]you love about New York City
[09:33]in that it's super crowded.
[09:34]Everything is out of the city.
[09:36]So you got to take a train
[09:37]to fucking Nowhereville.
[09:38]And then three,
[09:39]it's super hot.
[09:40]And then your kid swims
[09:41]and literally it's over in 30 seconds.
[09:42]And you've been there all day
[09:43]and you watch your kid swim
[09:44]for 30 seconds.
[09:45]She gets like third
[09:45]and you have to be like,
[09:46]oh, good job.
[09:47]I'm so proud of you.
[09:47]Not really.
[09:48]That's the same time you got.
[09:49]And I know
[09:49]because I'm keeping track
[09:50]of it on a spreadsheet.
[09:51]So 30 seconds,
[09:52]that sounds about the same time
[09:53]you'd spend on K-Rob
[09:54]doing whatever business
[09:55]you need to take care of
[09:56]before you go to sleep, right?
[09:57]This, you know,
[09:59]I'll tell you,
[09:59]this song did take multiple tracks.
[10:00]So it took me more
[10:01]like 10 minutes this time.
[10:02]And I'm ignoring
[10:04]what you're trying
[10:05]to bait me into.
[10:06]All right.
[10:08]So what were we talking about?
[10:10]Did we roll and go on?
[10:12]I think we're about to roll and go on.
[10:13]Who's that I call on
[10:14]where they said something about sports?
[10:16]What is going?
[10:18]Did I call?
[10:19]We haven't actually started
[10:20]rolling going yet.
[10:20]Oh, my God.
[10:21]I haven't started rolling going.
[10:22]I was like, I'm totally lost.
[10:23]I was like, why did
[10:24]how do we start?
[10:24]We got into this
[10:25]as a result of our text from Steve.
[10:26]But the other Steve.
[10:27]That's right.
[10:28]It's a Bex.
[10:30]I already forgot
[10:31]about our dumb shit listeners.
[10:32]It's time to see
[10:37]what everybody's up to.
[10:38]It's time for rolling going.
[10:42]Oh, yeah.
[10:45]Yeah.
[10:46]Enough content from the listeners.
[10:47]It's time to listen
[10:47]to that content
[10:48]that I made up.
[10:48]I made that everybody loves.
[10:49]All right.
[10:50]Rolling going.
[10:51]Aaron, how's it rolling going with you?
[10:53]It's been a week of ups and downs for me,
[10:56]I'd say.
[10:56]So I would say you buy a pogo stick in bed,
[11:01]bought a pogo stick.
[11:02]I've been a good week.
[11:04]I feel good.
[11:04]I always feel good talking to you guys about music.
[11:07]I'm happy to be here on Tuesday of this week.
[11:11]I cooked a nine pound brisket.
[11:13]First time in my life.
[11:14]I've cooked a whole brisket
[11:15]and we made some deliveries to friends
[11:17]who celebrate.
[11:18]I celebrate Hanukkah
[11:19]and also like brisket.
[11:20]So I felt good about that.
[11:21]Nice.
[11:21]How did you cook the brisket?
[11:22]I'm interested.
[11:23]Yeah.
[11:24]Yeah.
[11:24]So, well,
[11:25]I don't have a pan big enough for this.
[11:27]So I braised it in beer
[11:29]and some spices and such.
[11:32]Michael W. Twitty,
[11:34]who has come up on this podcast before,
[11:35]has a really good recipe
[11:39]for a West African inspired brisket.
[11:43]So I kind of riffed on that a little bit.
[11:44]Some ginger, some spices.
[11:45]But I didn't have,
[11:47]I don't have a pan big enough
[11:48]for a nine pound brisket.
[11:49]So I did have to buy
[11:50]a disposable roasting pan this time.
[11:52]I have to know, Aaron,
[11:53]when you guys deliver this brisket,
[11:55]there's no chance you and your wife
[11:57]don't do some sort of caroling
[11:58]outside the house, right?
[11:59]Oh, that would have been a good idea.
[12:01]We did.
[12:02]It's COVID, man.
[12:03]You just drop it off at the door
[12:04]and then you run back to your car.
[12:05]We didn't, we didn't do any caroling.
[12:06]We should have.
[12:07]And then the rats stream out of Aaron's house.
[12:09]Somebody drops it on his front step
[12:11]and the rats stream out and grab it.
[12:13]He tries to come out
[12:14]and pull it from him there.
[12:15]Getting a tug of war with Aaron
[12:17]on this piece of food.
[12:18]It pulls in a nice strand.
[12:18]Because it's so tender.
[12:19]Yeah.
[12:19]So I was proud of my brisket.
[12:21]I felt good about my brisket.
[12:22]And then yesterday,
[12:23]I'm fairly certain I broke my toe
[12:25]in my garage doing yoga.
[12:28]So I don't know what happened.
[12:30]I was like.
[12:30]Now, what positions were you going from
[12:32]where you would break your toe?
[12:33]Like, I don't understand.
[12:34]How are you moving that fast
[12:35]and you break your toe?
[12:35]I wasn't even started yet.
[12:37]I was like walking to set up
[12:38]and I stubbed it
[12:39]and I think it's probably broken.
[12:41]You don't do the yoga in the tent.
[12:42]You move outside of the tent
[12:44]for the yoga, right?
[12:45]Yeah.
[12:45]Are you trying to f*** yourself?
[12:46]Oh, no.
[12:48]No, that's got to be.
[12:49]Is that what you call yoga?
[12:50]That's got to go.
[12:51]What happened?
[12:53]What is happening?
[12:54]That's got to go.
[12:55]What?
[12:56]I'm asking if you were trying
[12:57]to f*** yourself.
[12:58]No, I was not.
[12:59]Then you hit your toe on the ground
[13:01]and that's what stubbed your toe.
[13:02]I just think it was a very like
[13:04]almost 41-year-old move
[13:06]of just like,
[13:06]oh, I'm walking on the yoga mat
[13:08]and now my toe hurts super bad
[13:09]and like today it's bright red
[13:11]and black and blue.
[13:12]So what are you picturing?
[13:13]So he didn't say no.
[13:14]I want to point out
[13:15]he did not say no.
[13:16]And he didn't say no
[13:18]and he was nodding yes
[13:19]during that whole time.
[13:20]He was like big nods
[13:21]like all the way up and down.
[13:22]Okay, we get it, Aaron.
[13:23]Now he's winking at us.
[13:24]I don't like that.
[13:25]Okay, rolling, going.
[13:27]Matt, how's it going with you?
[13:28]Good, good.
[13:29]You know, being home,
[13:31]being in the deep, dark, cold
[13:33]of Minnesota,
[13:34]it's turned into Netflix season for me.
[13:37]So there's been a lot of good stuff
[13:39]on Netflix.
[13:39]There's a lot of,
[13:40]you know, like remember
[13:42]when you were younger
[13:43]and it would be Saturday afternoon
[13:44]and you could watch like a blood sport
[13:47]on Channel 9
[13:48]and it was just like great.
[13:49]Kumite, Kumite, Kumite.
[13:50]Just horrible.
[13:51]Kumite, Kumite.
[13:52]You are next.
[13:53]Yeah.
[13:53]But there'd be Rambo,
[13:55]all those movies
[13:55]that were just horribly made
[13:57]but they were so good
[13:59]and you just had to watch them.
[14:00]Netflix has about 38 of them now
[14:03]and they got a couple French ones
[14:04]and a couple Israeli ones
[14:05]and so I've just been hammering
[14:07]the cheesy, horrible,
[14:10]shoot-em-up movies
[14:12]and they're great.
[14:12]But the best thing I've seen so far
[14:15]is on season two,
[14:17]a show called
[14:18]Song Explorer.
[14:19]It started out as a podcast.
[14:22]The guy named,
[14:23]and I'm going to butcher this
[14:24]and I'm going to apologize.
[14:25]What's that?
[14:26]Explorer or Exploder?
[14:28]Exploder.
[14:29]Well, it is Exploder, isn't it?
[14:31]Yeah, Rob with the wind.
[14:33]Boom, baby.
[14:34]Rob, so smart.
[14:35]That's some smart shit.
[14:36]Matt might be confusing
[14:38]his Netflix account
[14:39]with his YouPorn account
[14:40]or whatever it is.
[14:41]You know, I've watched
[14:45]all two seasons of this.
[14:45]I like how he says
[14:46]or whatever it is.
[14:48]YouPorn.com slash Mills
[14:50]or whatever it is.
[14:51]I don't know.
[14:51]You know, whatever.
[14:52]I don't know Matt's preferences.
[14:54]Yeah.
[14:55]I've watched two seasons of this
[14:57]and I've never gotten past
[14:58]the X-P-L-O-W
[15:00]on the title
[15:01]and it's Exploder.
[15:02]The guy's name is
[15:04]Rishkesh Hereway.
[15:06]I never get past
[15:07]the opening credits either.
[15:09]Yeah.
[15:09]I mean, if they're there
[15:11]to buy a house,
[15:12]why is the wife
[15:13]looking at the bathroom
[15:14]so the real estate agent
[15:15]and the husband
[15:15]stay on the bedroom?
[15:16]It makes no sense.
[15:16]You know what I mean?
[15:17]I don't know.
[15:18]I am not doing this thing
[15:21]by the way
[15:22]where I talk about
[15:22]different kinds of pornography
[15:23]and I get so awkward
[15:25]every time.
[15:25]I do not like it.
[15:26]All right.
[15:27]So Matt, you were saying?
[15:28]Just think by episode 500
[15:31]what Rob's going to be talking about
[15:32]when it comes to his preferences.
[15:34]Oh boy.
[15:35]Go ahead, Matt.
[15:38]We're so sorry.
[15:38]Matt gets mad.
[15:40]Matt's not like Aaron.
[15:40]He's mad that we talked over him.
[15:41]Go ahead, Matt.
[15:42]We want to hear about your show.
[15:43]I just want to get through this.
[15:45]I just want to be done
[15:46]with my role in going.
[15:47]He's talking about
[15:48]sitting listening to you guys
[15:49]talk about Kendrick Lamar.
[15:51]All right.
[15:52]We know that's a lie
[15:53]but go ahead.
[15:53]All right.
[15:54]So season two's got
[15:56]The Killers,
[15:57]When You Were Young
[15:58]and Nine Inch Nails,
[15:59]Hurt
[16:00]and a couple other songs
[16:01]I don't know
[16:01]but the guy's name
[16:05]I really apologize
[16:06]for not getting it right
[16:07]because he's phenomenal
[16:08]what he does.
[16:09]Harish Keshe,
[16:10]hear away.
[16:11]Harish Keshe started out
[16:12]having a podcast
[16:13]and he does this huge deep dive
[16:16]into these songs.
[16:16]He gets like
[16:17]the original recording
[16:18]and he gets them
[16:19]broke down
[16:20]you know
[16:21]to every single layer
[16:22]and he brings in
[16:23]every member of the band
[16:24]and they talk about
[16:25]what they were thinking
[16:26]what you know
[16:26]what does this mean
[16:27]how'd they come up
[16:28]with this stuff
[16:28]and it's just phenomenal.
[16:29]It's like 20 minutes
[16:30]of breaking it down
[16:31]and then you hear the song
[16:32]out of it
[16:33]and it's just great.
[16:34]So you know
[16:35]I just got an email
[16:36]from somebody named
[16:37]Harish Keshe more so
[16:38]and he says
[16:39]hey just heard your
[16:40]RESPC for Feet
[16:42]and I want to talk to you
[16:43]for a show on Netflix.
[16:44]See you guys later.
[16:45]I'm out of here.
[16:46]He's doing season four
[16:48]as well.
[16:48]It's all K-Rob.
[16:50]We knew we were going
[16:51]to lose Rob eventually.
[16:51]He's going to the big leagues.
[16:54]We're just riding his wave.
[16:55]We're just riding his coattails.
[16:56]So Matt why do you enjoy
[16:56]this show so much?
[16:57]I think you know
[16:59]you hear a song
[17:01]and it means something to you.
[17:03]Sometimes it's very superficial.
[17:07]Sometimes it's like
[17:08]oh that's a cool song.
[17:09]Sometimes it's really deep
[17:10]and the more you hear it
[17:11]the more you kind of
[17:12]dig into it.
[17:13]I wasn't a big
[17:14]Nine Inch Nails guy.
[17:16]I think we talked about it.
[17:17]I was probably 12 or 13
[17:18]when it came out
[17:19]and I was more scared of it
[17:21]than anything
[17:22]but you've got
[17:23]all of a sudden
[17:26]Trent Reznor
[17:27]is breaking down Hurt
[17:28]which is the last song
[17:30]in his album.
[17:30]We're going to get to it.
[17:31]It's a phenomenal album.
[17:32]I think it's about 50
[17:33]on the list now
[17:34]and it's just
[17:36]you hear
[17:37]where he came from
[17:39]basically making music
[17:40]on his bed
[17:41]when he was a teenager
[17:42]hanging out with nobody
[17:43]and all of a sudden
[17:44]he's this huge celebrity
[17:46]and it's just cool
[17:48]to kind of see the arc
[17:49]of how these people
[17:50]come up with music
[17:51]and you know
[17:52]half of them are
[17:53]hey we didn't know
[17:54]this was going to be anything
[17:55]and all of a sudden
[17:56]this is huge success
[17:57]and so how they handle it
[17:58]and what it means to them
[17:59]now 20 years later
[18:00]and so it's just
[18:02]it's just a cool thing.
[18:03]If you know the songs
[18:04]it's great.
[18:05]I just have to say this
[18:06]if there's
[18:07]if there's
[18:07]and eventually
[18:08]we're going to be
[18:08]on a Netflix show
[18:09]where they break down
[18:10]the world's most popular podcasts
[18:11]and we have to go on there
[18:13]and talk about a certain episode
[18:14]and this is the episode
[18:14]we have to talk about.
[18:15]It's a sad fucking world.
[18:16]I'm going to throw you guys
[18:17]under the bus
[18:18]so fucking fast
[18:19]it's going to make your head spin.
[18:20]What do you mean?
[18:21]Oh, oh.
[18:21]You just
[18:22]listen I'm going to see that
[18:24]as a vehicle for my own glory
[18:25]and I'm going to be like
[18:25]yeah these shitheads
[18:26]I had to tell them
[18:27]like we wrote down
[18:27]all the jokes for them
[18:28]like you know.
[18:29]Rob is the ghost writer
[18:31]for all of our ghosts.
[18:32]You mentioned like
[18:33]connecting with the song.
[18:34]I'm kind of curious
[18:34]like we've made it
[18:35]quite a few albums in
[18:36]we're probably 25 albums in
[18:38]with the
[18:38]with the reset of the list
[18:40]and everything like that.
[18:41]Is there a certain song
[18:42]that you guys heard
[18:43]that really connected with you
[18:44]or just kind of
[18:45]connected with you
[18:46]in a way that you didn't think
[18:47]it was going to
[18:48]happen that you're going to
[18:49]always remember as part of
[18:50]this first few months
[18:51]of this podcast?
[18:51]I keep going back to
[18:54]Wouldn't It Be Nice
[18:55]by the Beach Boys
[18:56]on Pet Sound.
[18:57]I don't know why
[18:58]you know
[18:59]but listening to that album
[19:01]three or four times
[19:02]during that week
[19:02]that we did it
[19:03]that song
[19:05]has stuck with me
[19:06]I think more than
[19:07]more than others
[19:08]there's been a couple
[19:09]other ones
[19:09]but that's the one
[19:10]that comes
[19:11]to mind right away.
[19:12]I'll tell you for me
[19:13]it's anytime I hear
[19:14]Kanye West from now on
[19:15]I'm going to think of this podcast
[19:16]because I did not listen to
[19:18]any beforehand
[19:18]and now I just
[19:19]you know
[19:20]from the album
[19:21]to his Christmas one
[19:23]which I thought was just
[19:23]one of the greatest songs
[19:24]I've ever heard in my life
[19:25]I just
[19:25]he's right in my wheelhouse
[19:27]I realize.
[19:28]Aaron how about you?
[19:29]Yeah I think for me
[19:31]the first one that comes to mind
[19:33]is Aretha's cover
[19:34]of A Change Is Gonna Come
[19:35]because
[19:35]I sort of knew that album
[19:37]and I know that song
[19:38]really well.
[19:38]I was so curious
[19:38]of what Aaron was going to say
[19:39]I was like
[19:40]I wonder how deep
[19:40]this dive is going to be.
[19:41]It's not that
[19:42]that's not that deep
[19:43]but it's the last
[19:44]that's the last track
[19:45]on that album
[19:46]and I'll be honest
[19:47]I didn't
[19:48]I didn't always get there
[19:49]when I had heard that album
[19:49]and listening to her say
[19:51]I had an old friend
[19:52]You just watched the intros
[19:53]who once said this thing
[19:53]yeah I just watched the intros
[19:55]so yeah I was not
[19:57]as familiar with her version
[19:58]as I was with Sam's
[19:59]Otis or Baby Huey
[20:01]so that's the one
[20:02]that sticks out to me.
[20:03]See for me
[20:04]I always scrub forward
[20:05]to the end
[20:05]so I hear stuff like that.
[20:07]Alright.
[20:08]You made a very
[20:09]inappropriate hand gesture
[20:10]when you did a scrub there Rob.
[20:12]Russell what's the song?
[20:13]That was way inappropriate
[20:14]you gotta
[20:14]you gotta put that camera up
[20:15]no more hand gestures
[20:16]from Rob
[20:17]when he's using the phrase
[20:18]scrub.
[20:18]Aaron shut up for a second
[20:19]Russell what's the song
[20:20]that you care about?
[20:22]I've got two
[20:24]I think one is definitely
[20:25]the opening track
[20:26]on the Kanye album
[20:27]we just listened to
[20:28]that just
[20:29]I listened to it
[20:30]so many times
[20:31]I loved it
[20:31]but the other one
[20:32]is on a track
[20:33]we recorded
[20:34]and we never got to talk about
[20:35]it was the white album
[20:36]I think Blackbird
[20:37]by the Beatles
[20:38]you guys
[20:39]you know that song
[20:40]obviously
[20:41]but that song
[20:41]is just so simple
[20:42]and beautiful
[20:43]so going through the quest
[20:44]that's been one of my favorites
[20:45]it's just
[20:45]very simplistic
[20:47]but very beautiful
[20:48]and touching
[20:48]Russ rolling going
[20:50]how's it going with you?
[20:51]It's going great Rob
[20:53]we're kind of in that moment
[20:54]of you know
[20:55]we're just getting past
[20:56]the holidays
[20:56]but we're still
[20:57]having you know
[20:58]Christmas cards coming in
[20:59]or holiday cards
[21:00]coming in from your friends
[21:01]maybe you're getting
[21:02]something in the mail
[21:03]from someone
[21:03]and I got an amazing gift
[21:05]from a friend this week
[21:06]and I figured I needed
[21:07]to share it with you guys
[21:08]so
[21:10]he's taking his belt off
[21:11]I
[21:12]sorry
[21:14]did I need to give you guys
[21:15]warning on that
[21:16]or not?
[21:17]Yeah
[21:18]this friend
[21:18]okay I'll put it back
[21:19]hold on I'll put it back on
[21:21]so I did
[21:23]I did get a really cool gift
[21:24]from one of my coworkers
[21:25]she sent me a Star Wars
[21:26]Chia Pet
[21:27]and I was like
[21:28]oh this is very cool
[21:29]it's like a Yoda Chia Pet
[21:30]and at least I can claim
[21:32]if I can keep this
[21:33]Chia Pet alive
[21:34]like I've grown up
[21:35]to plants
[21:36]so if I get to plants
[21:38]then I can get to animals
[21:39]then I can maybe have
[21:40]a human relationship
[21:40]at some point
[21:41]but
[21:42]my favorite gifts
[21:44]that I got
[21:44]were from a good friend of mine
[21:45]named Aaron
[21:46]out in the Oakland area
[21:48]and he sent me two records
[21:49]to add to my collection
[21:50]he sent me a very nice note
[21:52]and in my
[21:53]what he added to my collection
[21:54]was first
[21:55]probably my favorite
[21:57]musician ever
[21:58]we got Johnny Cash
[21:59]live at San Quentin
[22:01]which Aaron sent to me
[22:02]from his personal collection
[22:04]which is like extra special
[22:05]very very good
[22:06]so thank you Aaron
[22:07]so wait a minute
[22:08]Aaron has talked about
[22:08]how he doesn't have a lot of space
[22:09]because he lives in a little
[22:10]dollhouse
[22:11]but
[22:11]is he just
[22:12]regifting stuff that he has?
[22:14]one of the two things
[22:16]he sent me
[22:16]was from his collection
[22:17]but
[22:18]like I've got some old sheets
[22:20]I've got old sheets
[22:21]that we don't use anymore
[22:22]can I send you those too?
[22:23]like I
[22:23]is that a gift?
[22:24]it's not like
[22:26]you sent me a scratched up
[22:27]cocktail album
[22:28]or whatever that
[22:28]what a Kokomo is
[22:30]he sent me Johnny Cash
[22:31]live at San Quentin
[22:33]so
[22:33]that is pretty awesome
[22:34]so thank you Aaron
[22:35]yeah man
[22:36]but he also sent me
[22:37]maybe you guys have heard
[22:38]of this one
[22:38]Sonny Rollins
[22:40]it's called
[22:40]Sexaphone Colossus
[22:42]have you guys heard of
[22:45]Sexaphone Colossus?
[22:46]I have not
[22:47]I didn't just hear
[22:48]about it Russell
[22:48]when you wanted songs
[22:49]to play for a woman
[22:50]in the car
[22:51]for jazz
[22:53]you wanted recommendations
[22:54]so you came to the three
[22:55]smartest
[22:56]and sexiest guys
[22:57]you know
[22:58]us
[22:58]and you said
[22:59]please
[23:00]I'm going to be on a date
[23:01]I need some jazz
[23:02]to look to play in the car
[23:03]I recommended
[23:04]Sexaphone Colossus for you
[23:05]because it doesn't
[23:06]isn't that the one
[23:06]that opens with
[23:07]St. Thomas
[23:08]is that the one?
[23:08]yeah Rob
[23:10]you're such a jazz head
[23:11]you've tried to hide it
[23:12]you totally are
[23:12]oh I jazz so hard
[23:14]so I'm gonna
[23:16]I'm gonna
[23:17]zero man
[23:18]it's
[23:18]I'm gonna take this
[23:19]I'm gonna take this album Aaron
[23:21]and I might not play
[23:22]the music in my car
[23:23]but I'm at least
[23:24]gonna set it over
[23:25]the Herbie Mann albums
[23:26]that are still in my backseat
[23:27]so next time
[23:28]a lady gets in my car
[23:30]she might not hear jazz
[23:31]she might hear something else
[23:32]like we're gonna be listening
[23:33]to the Beck Did It Better pod
[23:34]but at least
[23:35]Sexaphone Colossus
[23:37]will be in the backseat
[23:38]I think you're gonna have to
[23:39]pull an Aaron
[23:39]and put the record player
[23:40]in the front seat
[23:41]and then put your date
[23:42]in the backseat
[23:42]and be like
[23:44]you know if this goes well enough
[23:45]someday you might move up
[23:46]to the front seat
[23:47]Matt did you get
[23:48]any gifts for the holidays
[23:49]or not?
[23:49]well I too
[23:51]received a couple
[23:52]um
[23:53]records
[23:54]from out in Oakland
[23:55]somewhere
[23:56]I think
[23:57]I think from our good buddy Aaron
[23:58]and I finally got
[24:00]my first
[24:01]copy
[24:01]of Push Push
[24:03]Push Push
[24:04]and so
[24:05]I
[24:05]I've been playing it
[24:06]a couple times
[24:07]I've got the album
[24:09]I can't reach it here
[24:10]but it's
[24:11]prominently displayed
[24:12]I gotta put it away
[24:13]when my kids come around
[24:14]I don't want them
[24:15]looking at that
[24:16]but you know
[24:16]I don't want them
[24:18]but no
[24:18]so Rosie
[24:19]I appreciate it
[24:21]it's awesome
[24:22]great gift
[24:22]I love you guys
[24:23]and I sent Rob a gift too
[24:24]but he's saving it for Christmas
[24:26]so we'll do that on the next episode
[24:27]you guys are sick
[24:28]opening gifts early
[24:29]that's a sickness
[24:29]okay
[24:31]I'm gonna open it
[24:32]while at the same time
[24:33]yelling at my kids
[24:33]just like every Christmas
[24:34]but I'm gonna get
[24:35]I'll have to get serious
[24:36]for a moment
[24:37]and Rob can edit this out
[24:38]but this has been a highlight
[24:39]of my 2020
[24:39]I look forward to this
[24:40]every time we chat
[24:41]so I just wanted to show
[24:42]my appreciation
[24:43]cheers to that
[24:45]this podcast has been
[24:46]one of the worst decisions
[24:47]I've made in my entire life
[24:47]all right
[24:51]no I'm just kidding
[24:53]actually I
[24:53]you know
[24:54]of course I love you guys
[24:55]I think this has been
[24:56]so fun to be able
[24:57]to talk with you
[24:57]and that brings me
[24:58]to my rolling going
[24:59]thanks for asking
[25:00]an introduction
[25:01]of a brand new segment
[25:03]and I want to remind you
[25:04]that I did say
[25:04]I love you guys
[25:06]you know what time it is
[25:09]it's time to make fun
[25:12]of Aaron
[25:13]oh yeah
[25:15]don't worry
[25:16]he likes it
[25:17]I don't own a microwave
[25:22]all right
[25:23]so let's get into
[25:24]the section
[25:25]where we make fun of Aaron
[25:26]this is where I
[25:27]I find stuff that
[25:28]it was Aaron
[25:29]somehow now
[25:29]Aaron has a habit
[25:30]of talking under us
[25:31]okay we definitely
[25:32]don't talk over Aaron
[25:33]but he does try to talk
[25:34]under us
[25:34]all the edits I said
[25:36]to Rob are about
[25:37]hey Aaron's talking under us
[25:38]can you just mute him
[25:39]out of this
[25:39]yeah we need to
[25:40]and he just will talk
[25:41]and talk
[25:42]and we're you know
[25:42]Russell and I have
[25:43]a very normal conversation
[25:44]definitely not trying
[25:45]to talk over him
[25:45]and Matt stares at us
[25:47]so here's the
[25:47]thing is that
[25:48]I have picked up
[25:49]something from last week
[25:50]that Aaron said
[25:51]that I want to make
[25:51]fun of him for
[25:52]so this is again
[25:53]the famous segment
[25:54]make fun of Aaron
[25:55]all right
[25:56]here is what I have to say
[25:58]now
[25:58]I just want to tell everybody
[26:00]I'm ostensibly the host
[26:01]of this podcast
[26:02]okay so I'm trying
[26:03]to get the podcast
[26:04]we're trying to do
[26:04]funny things
[26:05]we are trying to talk
[26:06]about fun things
[26:07]we are you know
[26:07]sometimes it's tough
[26:08]with some of the material
[26:09]we're working with
[26:10]or whatever
[26:10]but we are trying
[26:11]to have a good time
[26:12]so we on the
[26:13]this is for the
[26:14]Christmas episode
[26:15]where we were talking
[26:17]about the song
[26:17]Christmas Rappin
[26:18]now just to give you
[26:19]an idea
[26:19]I made the very
[26:20]classic joke of
[26:21]oh Christmas
[26:21]Rappin paper
[26:22]okay we told the story
[26:24]about when Russ
[26:25]almost got in a fight
[26:25]at Carlton
[26:26]because he said
[26:27]he went there
[26:27]for some reason
[26:28]nobody understands why
[26:29]this is what Aaron's
[26:31]response when we were
[26:32]talking about Curtis Blow
[26:33]that's what I was
[26:34]going to say Aaron
[26:35]you stepped right
[26:35]on what I was going
[26:36]to say
[26:36]I'm also pretty certain
[26:38]Curtis Blow just had
[26:38]a heart transplant
[26:39]okay so
[26:40]what are we supposed
[26:43]to do with that
[26:44]what are we supposed
[26:45]to do with that
[26:45]information
[26:46]I think we
[26:47]were going to take
[26:48]all of our podcast
[26:49]all the money we've
[26:50]made from the podcast
[26:51]and put it towards
[26:51]like a GoFundMe
[26:52]to get it back up
[26:53]back on shape
[26:54]and we've sent him
[26:55]zero dollars so far
[26:56]so good luck Curtis
[26:57]with that new heart
[26:58]I mean I know
[26:59]we're talking about
[27:00]the chia pet
[27:00]but transplants
[27:01]now I've heard
[27:02]about everything
[27:03]it's like okay
[27:05]let's talk about
[27:06]fun things
[27:06]well Curtis Blow
[27:07]did just have a heart
[27:08]transplant
[27:08]it reminds me of
[27:09]the fragility of
[27:10]human life in general
[27:11]okay well now
[27:14]on to Jingle Bell Rock
[27:15]Jingle Bell Rock
[27:17]and I had to like
[27:19]edit
[27:19]and I really did
[27:20]I had to cut out
[27:21]both myself
[27:22]and Russell
[27:23]because we were both
[27:23]talking over him
[27:24]at that point
[27:24]so I had to silence it
[27:25]make the mp3
[27:27]put it in
[27:27]redo it
[27:28]it's a mess
[27:29]so that was
[27:30]making fun of Aaron
[27:31]did Aaron talking
[27:32]under us
[27:33]make the original
[27:34]podcast or not
[27:36]no absolutely not
[27:36]I cut him off
[27:37]I get annoyed
[27:38]when Aaron talks
[27:39]under us like that
[27:40]all the time
[27:40]yeah he's got to
[27:40]cut it out
[27:41]when he hears us
[27:42]talking he's a
[27:42]zip it
[27:43]all right
[27:44]I also want to say
[27:46]I have to say
[27:47]I have an apology
[27:47]okay
[27:48]and I don't do this
[27:49]very often
[27:50]because I do
[27:50]it is my standard
[27:51]being
[27:53]it is my
[27:53]who I am
[27:54]it is my
[27:54]job
[27:55]doesn't rob
[27:55]something off
[27:56]off schedule
[27:57]it worries me
[27:57]it's going to
[27:58]involve me
[27:58]so I just
[27:59]I just pray
[27:59]and I drink
[28:00]and I try to get
[28:01]through it
[28:01]I need to apologize
[28:02]for something
[28:03]because I went
[28:03]on and on
[28:04]as I was editing
[28:05]the Christmas episode
[28:06]I noticed that
[28:07]I kept referring to
[28:08]Mariah's Carrie
[28:09]all I want for Christmas
[28:10]is you
[28:11]as the horniest
[28:13]Christmas song
[28:15]that there was
[28:16]now at no point
[28:17]in that song
[28:17]does she say
[28:18]anything horny
[28:19]okay
[28:20]it is actually
[28:20]literally a very sweet
[28:21]song of I want
[28:22]a Christmas
[28:22]I don't need
[28:23]anything else
[28:24]I just want you
[28:24]reflection on the album
[28:25]and I literally
[28:26]I just kept saying
[28:27]over and over
[28:27]if you listen to the episode
[28:28]I'm like it's so horny
[28:29]and you guys are like
[28:30]so then afterwards
[28:33]so a little look
[28:34]behind the scenes here
[28:35]is after we get done
[28:36]talking on the podcast
[28:37]we then talk to each other
[28:38]for about two hours
[28:39]because our family
[28:42]first thing you went
[28:42]right hey oh guys
[28:43]we got to see this
[28:44]yeah so literally
[28:45]I pull up the
[28:46]video
[28:46]I was like
[28:47]this video was so hot
[28:48]when I was in middle school
[28:49]like I just thought
[28:50]this is
[28:50]she was so attractive
[28:51]it was the hottest video
[28:52]so we watched
[28:53]the original Mariah Carey
[28:55]all I want for you
[28:55]is Christmas
[28:56]it has to be
[28:58]one of the least
[28:58]sexual videos
[28:59]ever created
[29:00]in the history of MTV
[29:01]she's like wearing
[29:04]a snowmobile suit
[29:05]that video with
[29:06]Dire Straits
[29:07]where they're the
[29:08]animated guys
[29:09]are is more sexy
[29:10]than this Mariah Carey
[29:11]video where they're
[29:12]in the
[29:12]money for nothing
[29:13]yeah where she is
[29:14]in the
[29:14]she is literally
[29:15]the whole time
[29:16]in a
[29:17]not form-fitting
[29:18]it's like a form
[29:19]like obscuring
[29:22]snowmobile suit
[29:24]it's red
[29:25]somebody is driving
[29:25]an old ass
[29:26]like 1970s
[29:27]snowmobile around
[29:28]and that's it
[29:29]there is no sexy
[29:30]part of the video
[29:31]there's nothing
[29:32]exciting happening
[29:32]but the whole time
[29:33]I was like so sexy
[29:35]the guys are like
[29:35]oh okay
[29:36]that sounds good
[29:36]no idea
[29:37]I don't know
[29:38]what I was going
[29:38]through at that time
[29:39]in middle school
[29:40]where I was watching
[29:40]that video
[29:41]who can imagine
[29:42]what I was doing
[29:42]in middle school
[29:43]when I was watching
[29:44]that video
[29:44]okay nobody can
[29:45]imagine it
[29:46]imagine not
[29:47]going to imagine
[29:47]what you were doing
[29:48]watching that video
[29:48]I don't know
[29:50]how would you have
[29:51]I don't know
[29:52]you guys that have
[29:52]sons good luck
[29:53]because they might
[29:54]end up like me
[29:54]all right
[29:55]so that is it
[29:57]for my rolling
[29:57]going
[29:58]let's get into
[29:59]the album
[30:00]we are talking
[30:01]about
[30:02]Kendrick Lamar
[30:03]to Pimp a Butterfly
[30:04]this came out
[30:05]in 2015
[30:06]it's kind of
[30:07]one of the big
[30:08]albums of
[30:09]conscientious hip-hop
[30:10]that we're going
[30:10]to talk about
[30:11]this album
[30:12]when it came out
[30:12]debuted at number
[30:13]one on the charts
[30:14]this was a
[30:15]juggernaut
[30:16]at the
[30:17]Grammys
[30:17]it had a
[30:18]total of
[30:18]seven nominations
[30:19]it ended up
[30:20]winning for
[30:21]album of the
[30:22]year and
[30:22]best rap album
[30:23]in 2015
[30:24]and Kendrick
[30:26]Lamar at the
[30:26]same time
[30:27]not related to
[30:28]this album
[30:28]had four other
[30:29]nominations from
[30:30]different collaborations
[30:31]that aren't on
[30:32]this album
[30:32]so at that
[30:33]Grammy ceremony
[30:34]he was up for
[30:35]11 Grammys
[30:36]which is wild
[30:36]now the way
[30:38]this album came
[30:38]out is that
[30:39]he was planning
[30:40]for his third
[30:40]album
[30:41]he then
[30:42]when he
[30:42]took a trip
[30:43]to South Africa
[30:44]and he said
[30:45]that it made
[30:46]such a connection
[30:46]with him
[30:47]that he literally
[30:47]scrapped
[30:48]he threw away
[30:49]two albums
[30:49]worth of music
[30:50]and his quote is
[30:51]I felt like I
[30:52]belonged in Africa
[30:52]I saw all the
[30:53]things I wasn't
[30:54]taught
[30:54]probably one of
[30:55]the hardest
[30:55]things to do
[30:55]is put together
[30:56]a concept of
[30:57]how beautiful
[30:58]a place can be
[30:58]and tell a
[30:59]person this
[30:59]while they're
[31:00]still in the
[31:00]ghettos of
[31:01]Compton
[31:01]I wanted to
[31:02]put that
[31:02]experience into
[31:03]music
[31:03]so you're kind of
[31:04]getting an idea
[31:04]of what this
[31:05]album is like
[31:05]overall
[31:06]and some of
[31:07]the themes
[31:07]of the album
[31:08]and I was
[31:08]blown away
[31:09]by this
[31:09]is that
[31:10]I think to
[31:10]me
[31:10]if somebody
[31:11]said can
[31:11]you point
[31:12]out
[31:12]modern day
[31:14]poetry
[31:14]like when we
[31:15]look back
[31:15]in 20 years
[31:16]and we talk
[31:16]about poetry
[31:17]in the 2010s
[31:18]this is exactly
[31:19]what I'd show
[31:20]them
[31:20]when I was
[31:20]listening to
[31:20]this in my
[31:21]headphones
[31:21]I was like
[31:22]this is the
[31:22]first album
[31:23]I was like
[31:23]I gotta
[31:23]look at
[31:24]these lyrics
[31:24]I gotta
[31:24]see what
[31:25]he's actually
[31:25]saying
[31:25]because I
[31:26]know
[31:26]that I'm
[31:27]missing
[31:27]something
[31:28]and I'm
[31:28]just blown
[31:29]away by this
[31:29]whole album
[31:30]alright so
[31:31]let's get into
[31:32]the album
[31:32]the first song
[31:33]is Wesley's
[31:34]Theory
[31:34]and you might
[31:35]say to
[31:35]yourself
[31:35]hey is
[31:35]this album
[31:36]is this
[31:37]song about
[31:37]Wesley Snipes
[31:38]oh yeah
[31:39]it kind of
[31:39]is right
[31:40]oh it
[31:41]totally is
[31:42]so Aaron
[31:50]as you know
[31:51]is a major
[31:52]he's what
[31:53]we call
[31:53]a P-head
[31:54]in that he
[31:55]loves
[31:55]Parliament
[31:56]he loves
[31:56]P-funk
[31:56]he loves
[31:57]that whole
[31:57]thing
[31:57]and when
[31:58]he said
[31:58]that he
[31:59]loves
[31:59]this album
[31:59]and when
[32:00]I heard
[32:01]what this
[32:01]album
[32:02]sounded like
[32:02]it sounds
[32:03]exactly
[32:04]like a
[32:04]Parliament
[32:04]album
[32:05]I was like
[32:05]oh this
[32:06]is why
[32:06]Aaron
[32:06]loves it
[32:07]so much
[32:07]I mean
[32:07]this
[32:07]first
[32:08]couple
[32:08]tracks
[32:08]is so
[32:09]heavy
[32:09]and
[32:09]so
[32:09]heavy
[32:10]on that
[32:10]funk
[32:10]it's just
[32:11]crazy
[32:11]the intro
[32:12]with George
[32:13]Clinton
[32:13]is pretty
[32:14]badass
[32:14]isn't it
[32:15]yeah I
[32:16]love hearing
[32:17]George
[32:17]Clinton's
[32:17]voice
[32:18]I love
[32:18]I love
[32:19]the funk
[32:19]vibe
[32:20]I like
[32:20]that
[32:21]from track
[32:22]one he
[32:23]throws in
[32:23]that whistle
[32:23]sound
[32:24]which is
[32:24]just like
[32:25]absolute
[32:25]signifier
[32:26]that this
[32:26]is West
[32:27]Coast
[32:27]gang
[32:27]you know
[32:28]LA
[32:28]rap
[32:29]I love
[32:29]it
[32:30]you don't
[32:34]hear that
[32:35]it's a very
[32:35]common noise
[32:36]on a lot
[32:36]of G-funk
[32:37]albums
[32:37]you don't
[32:37]hear it
[32:38]very much
[32:38]so my
[32:38]understanding
[32:39]is legit
[32:39]like
[32:39]this whole
[32:40]album
[32:40]is kind
[32:40]of
[32:41]and correct
[32:41]me if
[32:42]I'm wrong
[32:42]but part
[32:42]of it
[32:42]is like
[32:43]black
[32:44]people
[32:44]to some
[32:44]point
[32:45]have
[32:45]been
[32:47]successful
[32:47]and then
[32:48]he kind
[32:48]of looks
[32:48]at it
[32:49]as like
[32:49]hey
[32:49]people
[32:49]are
[32:50]successful
[32:50]but they
[32:50]haven't
[32:51]been
[32:51]like
[32:51]they
[32:52]don't
[32:52]have
[32:52]the
[32:52]education
[32:53]to know
[32:53]how to
[32:53]pay their
[32:54]taxes
[32:54]or deal
[32:55]with things
[32:55]the way
[32:56]that
[32:56]institutions
[32:58]have always
[32:58]dealt with
[32:59]before
[32:59]and so
[33:00]then we
[33:00]punish
[33:01]these
[33:01]people
[33:01]and so
[33:02]he calls
[33:03]it like
[33:03]Wesley
[33:03]Snipes
[33:03]as an
[33:04]example
[33:04]where I
[33:04]think he
[33:05]went to
[33:14]so much
[33:14]money
[33:14]but at
[33:15]the same
[33:15]time
[33:16]society
[33:16]doesn't
[33:17]educate
[33:17]young
[33:18]black
[33:19]men
[33:19]on how
[33:19]to take
[33:19]care of
[33:20]their
[33:20]money
[33:20]or how
[33:20]to pay
[33:20]their
[33:21]taxes
[33:21]and so
[33:21]he got
[33:22]in trouble
[33:22]for it
[33:22]which is
[33:23]totally
[33:23]true
[33:23]I mean
[33:23]I pay
[33:24]somebody
[33:24]to do
[33:24]my
[33:24]taxes
[33:25]because
[33:25]to me
[33:26]I don't
[33:26]want to
[33:27]deal
[33:27]with
[33:27]that
[33:27]shit
[33:27]and who
[33:28]teaches
[33:29]people
[33:29]that
[33:29]if you
[33:29]don't
[33:29]grow
[33:30]up
[33:30]in a
[33:30]family
[33:30]that
[33:30]does
[33:31]that
[33:31]it's
[33:31]crazy
[33:31]I started
[33:32]looking
[33:32]in
[33:33]and I
[33:33]was like
[33:34]is there
[33:35]artists
[33:35]that have
[33:35]gone
[33:36]through
[33:36]that
[33:36]and it
[33:36]turns
[33:37]out
[33:37]there
[33:37]is
[33:37]a
[33:37]ton
[33:38]of
[33:38]artists
[33:38]that
[33:38]have
[33:38]gone
[33:39]through
[33:39]this
[33:39]like
[33:39]Mary J.
[33:41]Blige
[33:41]owed
[33:42]$4
[33:42]million
[33:42]Flava
[33:43]Flav
[33:44]Matt's
[33:44]favorite
[33:44]$3.1
[33:45]million
[33:45]no wonder
[33:46]Matt
[33:46]doesn't
[33:46]like
[33:47]him
[33:47]he
[33:47]doesn't
[33:47]pay
[33:47]his
[33:47]taxes
[33:48]but
[33:49]there's
[33:49]some
[33:49]really
[33:49]interesting
[33:50]ones
[33:50]mystical
[33:51]owed
[33:51]$3.2
[33:52]million
[33:52]and did
[33:53]time
[33:54]for it
[33:54]Fat Joe
[33:55]owed
[33:56]$3
[33:56]million
[33:56]did
[33:57]time
[33:57]in
[33:57]federal
[33:57]prison
[33:58]for
[33:58]it
[33:58]Chuck
[33:59]Barry
[34:00]did
[34:00]four
[34:00]months
[34:01]for
[34:01]owing
[34:01]$100
[34:02]grand
[34:02]in
[34:02]back
[34:03]taxes
[34:03]and
[34:04]when
[34:05]you
[34:05]talk
[34:05]about
[34:05]this
[34:05]being
[34:06]a
[34:06]real
[34:06]thing
[34:07]Willie
[34:08]Nelson
[34:09]owed
[34:09]$32
[34:10]million
[34:11]I
[34:12]don't
[34:13]believe
[34:13]he
[34:13]did
[34:13]any
[34:13]time
[34:14]for
[34:14]it
[34:14]there
[34:16]you
[34:16]go
[34:16]bingo
[34:16]bingo
[34:17]bingo
[34:17]it's
[34:18]obviously
[34:19]it's
[34:19]just
[34:20]taxes
[34:20]are
[34:21]from
[34:22]as
[34:23]far
[34:24]back
[34:24]as
[34:24]Al
[34:24]Capone
[34:25]maybe
[34:25]further
[34:25]taxes
[34:26]are
[34:26]an
[34:26]easy
[34:27]way
[34:27]to
[34:27]get
[34:27]the
[34:28]federal
[34:28]government
[34:28]involved
[34:28]in
[34:28]people
[34:29]they
[34:29]want
[34:29]to
[34:29]go
[34:29]after
[34:30]anyway
[34:30]and
[34:30]there
[34:30]is
[34:31]a
[34:31]long
[34:31]history
[34:31]as
[34:32]well
[34:32]of
[34:32]surveillance
[34:34]of
[34:34]African
[34:34]Americans
[34:34]and
[34:36]surveillance
[34:36]of
[34:37]black
[34:37]rappers
[34:38]there's
[34:38]a
[34:38]whole
[34:39]host
[34:39]of
[34:39]information
[34:41]about
[34:41]people
[34:41]who
[34:42]are
[34:42]being
[34:42]surveilled
[34:42]illegally
[34:43]and
[34:44]taxes
[34:44]are
[34:44]an
[34:45]easy
[34:45]way
[34:45]to
[34:45]get
[34:46]an
[34:46]in
[34:46]road
[34:46]there
[34:46]go
[34:47]ahead
[34:47]Rob
[34:47]well
[34:48]guys
[34:49]I
[34:49]mean
[34:49]if
[34:49]setting
[34:49]up
[34:50]cameras
[34:50]in
[34:50]a
[34:50]bathroom
[34:50]is
[34:51]illegal
[34:51]surveillance
[34:52]like
[34:52]who
[34:52]hasn't
[34:52]done
[34:53]it
[34:53]I
[34:58]haven't
[34:58]Aaron
[34:59]have
[34:59]you
[34:59]not
[34:59]guilty
[35:00]Russell
[35:01]no
[35:02]just
[35:02]you
[35:03]Rob
[35:03]no
[35:03]I
[35:04]was
[35:04]just
[35:04]going
[35:04]to
[35:04]say
[35:05]there
[35:05]was
[35:05]that
[35:05]ESPN
[35:06]30 for
[35:06]30
[35:06]episode
[35:08]broke
[35:08]you know
[35:09]and so
[35:09]it goes
[35:10]from
[35:10]it's
[35:11]a
[35:11]socioeconomic
[35:11]thing
[35:12]goes
[35:12]from
[35:13]entertainers
[35:14]to
[35:14]athletes
[35:15]it
[35:15]goes
[35:15]across
[35:16]the
[35:17]whole
[35:17]gamut
[35:17]and
[35:17]it's
[35:18]more
[35:18]than
[35:18]just
[35:19]the
[35:19]entertainers
[35:20]there's
[35:22]a
[35:22]new
[35:22]Ma Rainey
[35:23]thing
[35:23]there's
[35:23]a
[35:23]there's
[35:23]a
[35:23]movie
[35:23]that just
[35:24]came out
[35:24]on
[35:24]Netflix
[35:25]and I
[35:25]watched
[35:25]it
[35:26]today
[35:26]I
[35:26]plan
[35:27]to
[35:27]watch
[35:27]it
[35:27]today
[35:27]because
[35:28]I
[35:28]wanted
[35:28]to
[35:28]see
[35:29]it
[35:29]and
[35:29]what's
[35:29]the
[35:29]name
[35:29]of
[35:30]it
[35:30]Ma
[35:31]Rainey
[35:31]Black
[35:32]Bottom
[35:32]Black
[35:33]Bottom
[35:33]Gal
[35:34]Rosie
[35:35]am I
[35:36]saying
[35:36]it right
[35:36]I think
[35:36]it's just
[35:37]Ma Rainey's
[35:37]Black
[35:37]Bottom
[35:37]it's
[35:39]called
[35:39]Ma
[35:40]Rainey
[35:40]Exploder
[35:41]he
[35:41]missed
[35:42]the
[35:42]Exploder
[35:42]part
[35:42]he
[35:43]died
[35:46]while
[35:47]I was
[35:47]in
[35:47]post
[35:47]production
[35:47]and
[35:48]you
[35:48]know
[35:49]it
[35:49]talks
[35:49]about
[35:49]the
[35:50]same
[35:50]things
[35:51]there
[35:51]as
[35:51]back
[35:51]in
[35:51]the
[35:51]20s
[35:52]and
[35:52]you
[35:53]know
[35:53]the
[35:53]entertainers
[35:54]getting
[35:54]used
[35:55]by
[35:55]white
[35:56]suits
[35:58]more or
[35:59]less
[35:59]and
[35:59]how
[36:00]it
[36:02]just
[36:02]affects
[36:02]everything
[36:03]and
[36:03]we're
[36:03]still
[36:03]talking
[36:04]about
[36:04]it
[36:04]here
[36:04]and
[36:04]so
[36:05]I
[36:05]don't
[36:05]know
[36:05]it's
[36:06]it's
[36:06]a
[36:07]deep
[36:07]long
[36:08]standing
[36:09]problem
[36:11]that
[36:11]will
[36:12]continue
[36:12]to be
[36:13]a
[36:13]problem
[36:13]until
[36:13]something
[36:14]changes
[36:14]you
[36:15]know
[36:15]isn't
[36:15]it
[36:15]weird
[36:15]that
[36:15]this
[36:16]is
[36:16]so
[36:16]similar
[36:16]to
[36:16]one
[36:16]of
[36:16]the
[36:17]best
[36:17]opening
[36:17]tracks
[36:18]on
[36:18]any
[36:18]album
[36:18]ever
[36:19]tax
[36:20]man
[36:20]I
[36:20]mean
[36:20]it's
[36:21]just
[36:21]like
[36:21]it's
[36:21]so
[36:22]crazy
[36:22]that
[36:22]it
[36:23]just
[36:23]lines
[36:23]up
[36:23]like
[36:23]that
[36:24]this
[36:24]track
[36:26]was
[36:26]it
[36:27]kind
[36:27]of
[36:27]jumped
[36:28]all
[36:28]over
[36:28]with
[36:29]different
[36:29]kind
[36:30]of
[36:30]musical
[36:30]aspects
[36:31]but I
[36:31]really
[36:31]loved
[36:31]it
[36:31]as an
[36:32]opening
[36:32]track
[36:32]he's
[36:35]talking
[36:35]about
[36:35]buying
[36:35]guns
[36:36]from
[36:36]the
[36:36]CIA
[36:36]you
[36:36]know
[36:38]what
[36:39]this
[36:39]album
[36:39]is
[36:39]going
[36:39]to
[36:39]be
[36:39]about
[36:40]I
[36:41]will
[36:41]say
[36:41]though
[36:41]I
[36:42]was
[36:42]like
[36:42]oh
[36:42]is
[36:42]this
[36:42]like
[36:43]a
[36:43]P-Funk
[36:44]record
[36:44]like
[36:45]it's
[36:45]very
[36:45]strange
[36:46]and it
[36:46]gets away
[36:47]from that
[36:47]at the
[36:47]end
[36:47]I
[36:47]mean
[36:47]part
[36:48]of
[36:48]what
[36:48]he's
[36:48]talking
[36:49]about
[36:49]on
[36:49]this
[36:49]album
[36:49]is
[36:49]that
[36:50]he's
[36:50]really
[36:50]going
[36:50]through
[36:50]the
[36:51]history
[36:51]of
[36:51]black
[36:51]music
[36:52]right
[36:52]so
[36:53]he's
[36:53]going
[36:53]all
[36:53]the
[36:54]way
[36:54]through
[36:54]funk
[36:54]he's
[36:55]doing
[36:55]jazz
[36:55]he's
[36:56]doing
[36:56]you know
[36:57]bebop
[36:57]he's
[36:57]doing
[36:58]all
[36:58]these
[36:58]different
[36:58]kinds
[36:58]that
[36:58]you're
[36:59]going
[36:59]to
[36:59]hear
[36:59]which
[36:59]is
[36:59]part
[36:59]of
[36:59]why this is so entertaining and here's a little bebop for you so this is the interlude this is
[37:13]the second track technically right yeah yes he's just rapping his ass off i don't know how he does
[37:19]this but it's super fast too isn't he yeah and i don't think like i don't want to put down rap as
[37:24]an art form because obviously i i elevated incredibly but this is beyond that when you
[37:30]rap it elevates rap oh yeah oh yeah no when i did it i was like i was like this is very hard for me
[37:35]so it must be very uh it must be a very high form of art i fear if i feel like he may have
[37:40]interpolated the bad boys or whatever that word is called interpolated is that the right word
[37:45]but but that was like i mean that's like a a combining rap and like a scat like it was just
[37:51]incredible and i what i really love about this song is i love
[37:54]the
[37:54]this woman in the beginning saying this
[37:57]can you imagine being with a woman and she called russ what if you were on a date and she goes
[38:10]god you're baller ass you're boss ass you'd be like hell yeah that's what i'm talking about
[38:15]like that's what i i know i i think she was essentially calling him off brand ass that's
[38:19]what i typically get usually the worst thing about this is that i normally get this in text it's not a
[38:24]call and in my text i also use a female voice for text reading like we did earlier with steve's text
[38:30]so i have like a robot text texting me these breakup messages like on a weekly basis and it's
[38:35]like you're off brand ass i need a better ass a boss it's really terrible it's very hard to get
[38:41]through you are like a bunch of bk knights i am looking for some nikes wow bk knights yes i haven't
[38:49]been referred to as that yet but if that happens i will i will let you know immediately if some
[38:54]why not all right so next up we have king kunta i love this this is a highlight for me
[39:03]i think this is the best song on the album the beat on this song just is so awesome
[39:09]i mean p-funk all over the place on this one
[39:14]now this has this bass player thundercat on it and it's helped to be produced by red food
[39:24]oh mfg right is that the band he's in the group he's in is it is it like the yellow
[39:31]thundercat or what thundercat aren't there like five of them they all put together to form the
[39:35]ultimate thundercat thundercat oh no you're thinking of uh megatron no i think it's thundercats
[39:42]i think there are five different cats no no our listeners go google now i think there are five
[39:46]different cats that form a huge cat no no no no i'm right i'm right on this one no thundercats
[39:54]is the one where they had the hot cat the old cat the guy cat and then like and then i think
[39:59]they form a bigger cat no i think that's a dream you had thundercat himself has like a whole he's
[40:05]his his solo album uh i think it's called punch drunk love uh is great but he's a he's into he's
[40:11]definitely into like a lot of weird cartoons he sings about anime he's a very interesting guy and
[40:15]it's fun to hear his voice all over this this album this is the track that for me like this
[40:19]is what i wanted to hear i remember hearing this album the first time when it came out i felt like
[40:24]i just want to hear kendrick you know rap because that's what he does better than anyone
[40:28]but what you realize the more you listen to the album is that he's done that he's done
[40:32]pure rapping if you listen to good kid mad city or even his mixtapes he's done the rapping thing
[40:37]where he can rap better than anybody and he's he's judicious with how he hands out his bars
[40:43]on this one but yeah i agree russell like he's just going for this one what band am i thinking
[40:48]of guys that has red food they did party rock i don't know what you're talking about you've
[40:54]dumped me is that the lm lmfao god i was calling him omfg god i mean i'm so fucking old so lmfao
[41:02]is the group that did party rock right and red foo is in that group and one of my favorite facts of
[41:08]all time is that red foo is in that hip-hop group and the other person is his uncle can you imagine
[41:14]starting a hip-hop group with your uncle just pick an uncle any uncle you want imagine you're
[41:19]like hey we should start a hip-hop group it would be a wild that would be a russ would you do a hip-hop
[41:24]group with your uncle just pick an uncle any uncle you want imagine you're like hey we should start a
[41:24]with your nephew yeah now that i would be down with russell that's cool it's gonna be it's gonna
[41:28]be called barney did it better whatever my nephews are into these days we're just gonna like we're
[41:32]gonna do we're gonna do i love you you love me over and over it's gonna be awesome god this song
[41:38]and the opening to it i mean listen to this i got a bone up here right from the drop right i don't
[41:43]want you monkey mouth sitting in my throne again because this album is interesting right because
[41:48]it kind of goes from him being talking about social issues to him talking about being famous
[41:54]and wrapping those in and then talking about going back to the streets i mean it's just
[41:57]the tone shifts wildly between these songs i love it i think this also is just a requirement if you
[42:03]were the top rapper in the game which he was at this time you have to have a track that
[42:07]destroys every other rapper in the game you just have to come out and do it once and so this was
[42:12]him saying like yeah i can still do this and then i'm gonna do everything else i want for the rest
[42:16]of the album i don't think making fun of people is very nice i think people should stop doing that
[42:20]i agree all right the
[42:24]that was a joke about me all right now i have to explain my joke wipe that off the board matt rub
[42:29]that out too all right institutionalized with snoop you mentioned this is with snoop
[42:39]i decided to um honor snoop tonight i think believe this is the first album where snoop
[42:46]was co-starring on one of our albums and you know snoop is kind of known for showing up on
[42:50]these albums right oh yeah so in honor of snoop i am proud of you and i'm proud of you and i'm
[42:54]drinking something called 19 crimes cali red and it has snoop on the label 19 crimes tells the true
[43:03]story of rule breakers who beat the odds overcome adversity and went on to become rock heroes in
[43:09]their society folk heroes i should say and snoop became a leader in contemporary pop culture snoop
[43:15]embodies the timeless values of the 19 crimes rogues who came before him so i'm honoring snoop
[43:21]tonight by drinking this bottle of 19 crimes cali red
[43:24]i love it snoop is a folk hero i'm looking at what the other 19 crimes are on the uh website
[43:32]this is weird because one of the crimes is underage drinking and it's just like the son
[43:36]of the guy who made the wine and then the other crime is uh is george w bush for war crime so i
[43:41]that's kind of surprised by that trust me that's better than the other joke i was gonna make guys
[43:48]i don't want to laugh but i can't help it i suppose i suppose it works when we're talking
[43:53]about being
[43:54]institutionalized and institutions right i love how local and global this album is he's so specific
[44:00]to compton and he's doing so many things that are compton you know i mean snoop's not compton he's
[44:05]long beach but you know west coast rap and he i think he's quoting snoop when he says i put that
[44:09]i'm on mama and my baby too maybe baby boo too and then snoop shows up on this track it's so cool
[44:13]and then the whole thing is about a larger experience and i love that kind of like
[44:18]micro and macro in the same do you think he was pissed when snoop called him out as being five
[44:22]foot something so i had to look up because i was like oh my god i'm not gonna do that
[44:24]because i'm not a huge kendrick lamar fan i've never really listened to his music before but
[44:28]when snoop called him out as being five foot something i was like well what does that mean
[44:31]and then i went and looked it up he's only like five foot six he's pretty sure and i was gonna
[44:34]do a list on the shortest rappers ever but i decided not to go that route but like you think
[44:38]he's like hey what the hell man i know i'm sure you don't need to call me out or does he approve
[44:42]what snoop does on his album could you imagine if a rapper was too short and a pimp like that'd be
[44:47]oh rob that's so good that's the one thing i left out of my room going is that tomorrow night i'm
[44:53]super looking forward to it i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like
[44:54]to the e40 versus too short on versus the battle of the bay that was supposed to be part of my
[44:59]i don't know i understand the words you said i don't understand the order that came out of your
[45:04]mouth almost none of them we call that a left field take is that a football game going on
[45:08]what are you talking about it's i believe that's called a left field take rob
[45:12]yeah you know what i'm leaving this pause
[45:16]the pause is staying in this there's the second greatest media event of 2020
[45:24]after this podcast has been the versus series where they bring in two artists to do battles
[45:29]against one another they've had erica scott versus jill badu they had uh whoa geez erica
[45:34]badu versus jill scott sorry you're gonna edit that out i don't like what aaron talks under
[45:38]our soundbite they had young gz versus gucci main i mean and tomorrow night is e40 versus too short
[45:44]i'm sorry we got to get back so aaron i'm sorry if i wanted to catch this so-called greatest media
[45:48]event that nobody but you has heard of where would you go check this out instagram live or apple music
[45:54]okay i thought you're going to give me some like vivo site such a big uh event that it's yeah
[45:58]on channel four or channel five so it's on my google drive i'm going to share it with you like
[46:03]he's got you got to go to like you know rap.fre and you're like wait a minute is that how is that
[46:08]fre how's that a website all right so let's uh when you it's crazy when you log on there's two
[46:13]viewers it's you and aaron watching this yeah welcome welcome to my party thank you guys for
[46:17]joining so this song second biggest media event this song also had a hook now the problem is i
[46:22]listen to these at school right so i've been listening to these for a long time and i've
[46:24]started singing the hooks to this song now the first hook i i loved was the first part where he
[46:28]says every blank is a star and i was like singing that in my head over and over i was like don't
[46:33]sing that out loud you're gonna get in trouble and then the second one was this
[46:36]yes this is in my head all the time
[46:41]i i thought i thought this was the worst part of the album i didn't get it and i'm sure there's a
[46:48]lot of parts of this album that i'm just not gonna get and aren't gonna resonate with me but like
[46:52]i don't i don't get it i think
[46:54]this is the weakest part of the album but russell that's because you have always been a cleaner
[46:58]person than i like russell you are much better about taking showers than i am like i i remember
[47:03]vividly wait like you are much more cleanly than i and i think about this you think like no you
[47:10]gotta get up you gotta clean you gotta clean yourself you gotta take a shower you gotta move
[47:13]on with your day because if you're not taking care of yourself you can't make any other changes
[47:17]and russell you're not familiar with that because you're always do we need an aaron
[47:20]rightfield take of the week aaron aaron aaron spends too much time on foot care
[47:24]he doesn't spend enough time on showering that's the thing it is wild though isn't isn't just isn't
[47:28]just toilet paper like in general the idea wild like and i heard somebody say this the other day
[47:33]like if i stepped in like dog shit right and it got all in between my toes and like the whole thing
[47:38]right and then somebody handed me just a piece of paper and was like here wipe this out with your
[47:43]this paper i wouldn't be like oh that's good enough like that's wild we can recover from this
[47:48]right you gotta have some liquid in there yeah yeah i mean you're totally right maybe some
[47:53]disinfection
[47:54]oh all right so let's talk about uh these walls this this won a grammy for best rap
[48:00]and slash song performance and uh aaron don't laugh with how this starts just listen to how this
[48:06]starts so is this a double entendre for vaginal walls yeah do you know the sugar walls
[48:17]kind of sounds like a prince song doesn't it yeah
[48:20]yeah rob you were talking earlier about
[48:24]how he was trying to do something with prince i think it was on this song right
[48:27]i have no idea right up prince's alley for sure i think they were gonna do uh kendrick lamar and
[48:32]prince were gonna do something together and they got in the studio and then they just ended up
[48:35]talking the whole time and never did it but i think this was the song where prince was gonna
[48:39]work with him that sounds like how we start and end this podcast except the thing that comes out
[48:43]in the middle is not as good as these walls we don't make kendrick lamar records in between yeah
[48:49]turns out neither one of us are kendrick lamar or prince all right
[48:54]right so there is a line in here about effing a famous rapper right
[48:58]aaron why did you want this clip in here defend yourself oh yeah i just
[49:05]i just thought that kind of brought the whole song home that that he at the whole time he's
[49:18]been talking to a person who doesn't know that his lady's sipping out on him i feel like that's
[49:22]like that kind of punched him in the face i feel like that's like that kind of punched him in the
[49:24]that's it i wasn't trying to make a joke or anything i i wish when i got broken up versus
[49:28]via robot text that they would say hey i've i decided to hook up with a famous rapper instead
[49:34]it would be much easier on my my ego than the previous robot voice breakup text yeah i broke
[49:41]up with you for a butterfinger candy wrapper there's something there i feel like there's a
[49:46]joke there somewhere okay i'm gonna flesh it out on here you're right okay so what candy
[49:52]rapper is the funniest
[49:54]i mean it's kind of way off all right uh now we've got you lowercase
[50:01]this song is about his depression which he has famously struggled from
[50:08]and it's also an allusion to the tupac poem love is just complicated tupac comes up over
[50:14]and over kendrick talks about tupac as being a major influence on him
[50:16]i mean this is poetry in my mind right here matt what do you think of the album so far
[50:24]my favorite part of the show
[50:26]the matt's not talking enough so let's ask him a question and see what he says i love it yeah
[50:33]hey you know it's it's kind of stressful to me oh yeah um you know all it's it's it's not my
[50:42]cup of tea from a rap standpoint he's clearly uh i mean he's an artist he's ahead of his time he's
[50:48]he's great at what he does it's just it it just doesn't speak to me i guess so
[50:54]that was not one of my favorite songs this this is the song where there's like the old raspy voice
[50:58]rapping am i right on that oh yeah it's this part here that aaron cut out and i'm not gonna listen
[51:02]to it it goes like this do you like this part aaron i'm i mean i'm i i gotta agree with matt
[51:09]it is stressful i i don't i don't know if i would say i would like it i like it but i think it's
[51:13]important to include as a the the second part of this of the story arc of this song understood
[51:20]that's that's it's rough to listen to somebody what they think the voice in their head is
[51:24]telling them when i just ignore the voice in my head at all times or i actually listen to the
[51:27]voice in my head at all times that's what the real problem is we we seem to hear that voice
[51:31]about every friday rob so you keep you keep suppressing it it's going well for you yeah i
[51:36]think if you guys could see the things i'm thinking that i don't say out loud you'd turn
[51:40]white parts of this album are definitely not intended to be pleasant to listen to and and
[51:45]i've read that uh from several sources of people writing about this album and that that song in
[51:49]particular that's hard that song did it because i skipped it over and over and over next we have
[51:53]all right this is the song one song of the year best music video best rap performance best rap
[51:58]song er actually was nominated for those that won best rap performance and best song
[52:03]this song became a big rallying cry for the black lives matter movement
[52:13]what do you think of the rapping here aaron this seems like super impressive
[52:18]yeah i i liked i liked this uh this little clip because
[52:23]because i think this is again him flexing his muscles where uh if you listen to some of his
[52:28]like uh his mixtape section 80 and a couple of other things where he can do this anytime he wants
[52:35]if you you know it's like um i'm struggling to come up with a a synonym in other worlds but
[52:42]well it's like if he wants to come out and right rip the best rap verse of all time of the year
[52:48]he can do it and he chose on this album to explore a lot of other musical avenues so
[52:53]he's always able to do dense rhyme schemes and uh internal rhymes and write poetry like rob said but
[53:02]he doesn't always choose to do that so i i was interested to hear that but this is something we
[53:06]see we've seen it over and over we saw with brian wilson we saw it to an extent with bob dylan but
[53:11]they're like yeah guess what i can churn out those same songs that you love and i can do that over and
[53:15]over and over and i could make a commercial success anytime i want i don't want to i want
[53:19]to make something more complicated and that's where we get kind of these real seminal albums
[53:23]like this right and aaron don't give me a thumbs up when i say seminal i that's not his thumb but
[53:30]wow all right when i when i heard that one though when i heard that i heard it was like a really
[53:38]fast rap so it started making me think what are the greatest fast rap songs of all time oh this
[53:44]is red oh man okay now i do see aaron's thumb for sure i was you know i was hoping we would
[53:49]talk about this because it's another you know i feel like i'm gonna let aaron
[53:53]down though here well that's not let him down let's count him down yeah that thumb that's been
[53:59]sticking up in aaron's zoom call is gonna go down real quickly but i don't pick his songs he likes
[54:04]no i'm excited he's got a shirt on the set jeffrey tubin did nothing wrong i don't
[54:08]i thought it was funny okay so one thing i tried to do is there's a lot of rappers out
[54:19]there that are really really fast but i've tried to pick most of my songs on my list
[54:23]are songs that i think are good songs not just the fastest rapper so the first song of the best
[54:29]fast rap song ever is outcast bombs over bang damn big boy here check this out
[54:35]yes that's fast
[54:43]i gotta say this guy this one jumped on the list quite a ways right snakeonia is
[54:53]it's on that album yeah they've got a couple of it then all of a sudden they got four or five
[54:58]albums let me check god that bang but you can hear every word you can hear every word it's
[55:03]and don't you think like if you're gonna be a fast rapper and you want really people to really
[55:07]enjoy you got to be able to understand what they're saying it can't just be syllables right
[55:10]yes right i am gonna say when somebody was recording a karaoke version of a rap earlier
[55:15]today it was very difficult to both speak clearly and quickly both things i'm not very good at
[55:22]number two on my list and this one became famous if you guys ever saw harry potter the kid who played
[55:27]harry potter did this a cover of this on the jimmy fallon the tonight show this is blackalicious
[55:33]alphabet aerobics you guys know this one i don't know this no i'm gonna seek it out though wow you
[55:44]stumped you stumped aaron russell you win a prize russell you got me on this one
[55:48]it's kind of got a jazz bass line like a lot of this album
[55:52]i do know blackalicious but not this song so the track is essentially him going through every
[55:57]letter in the alphabet and he's just putting it together all these words but if you go look it up
[56:02]look up alphabet aerobics and the first thing that's going to pop up is what's the guy's name
[56:06]who played daniel radcliffe daniel radcliffe does this song on the tonight show and it is so fun to
[56:12]watch i would highly recommend keep quiet it's quantum coral isn't got a quart of water we gotta
[56:16]really raw raps rising up rapidly riding the rushing radio activity super scientific sound
[56:22]sir thought
[56:22]god being famous if you're fucking famous enough i mean can you imagine going on tonight show and
[56:29]being like oh you want to talk about acting no actually i want to rap the song and he gets to
[56:34]rap it with the roots that's pretty cool and they're like well okay well okay you're so famous
[56:39]you can do that what song is it a song everybody knows nope it's blackalicious alphabet something
[56:43]and they're like oh okay well that's like that's how you test how famous you are if i tried to do
[56:48]that they'd be like wait who are you in the post game show we'll check it out you guys will really
[56:52]love it number three on the list played in their sleep i love that you called the post game show
[56:57]number three on the list is eminem rap game let's see if you guys know this one
[57:02]so this song is there a sample in here from blue
[57:14]i'm blue that's on
[57:18]i hear it
[57:23]he better give them some money but this song actually broke the record i hear a lot of
[57:31]this is most words in a hit single 1560 words in a six minute song
[57:36]most words in any hit single song ever did you guys hear all the samples in there
[57:41]let me listen
[57:41]yeah
[57:46]yeah
[57:48]just get them all in rob i don't know what you're talking about is there a honky i thought i heard
[57:53]i thought i heard him sample the jitterbug at some point
[57:55]oh no this has gone fucking haywire
[58:01]oh no oh no oh wow we really lost oh my god oh no this is literally the same as us talking over
[58:10]aaron during the podcast this is what it sounds like i don't like what aaron talks under our
[58:13]samples before i edit it that's exactly what it sounds like with all of us talking and aaron's
[58:17]like boring
[58:18]stuff and russ and i are saying real fun cool stuff so number two on the list is
[58:22]bust a rhyme break your neck check this one out this is fast i'm sorry aaron i think that was mean
[58:27]that's getting edited out by the way
[58:29]buster rhymes is uh underrated underrated
[58:38]is he the king of fast rapping between like 93 and 98 99 man he had some bangers we haven't used
[58:47]bangers in a while no didn't bust a rhyme come to our college at one point didn't he perform at
[58:52]our college he definitely did and at one point he held out the microphone for the crowd to sing
[58:56]and uh and uh 300 caucasian lutherans from minnesota had no idea what to say at any point
[59:02]this this concert was the only concert where i've ever gone crowd surfing i may have been
[59:07]with rob actually or i was with some friends we were in the very back and i remember
[59:12]someone picked up a smaller friend of mine and they made it like three people forward
[59:16]and they got me in the back and i was like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so
[59:17]sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i got dropped right on their face like within
[59:19]like two seconds so then in classic college male fashion you were like
[59:23]that i better try that it's gonna go different for me all the friends were looking at me like
[59:28]russ you got to go next i'm like look i weigh like 50 pounds more than that guy and they dropped him
[59:32]i'm not doing it they're like just try it and i crowd surfed and i got all the way to the front
[59:36]i made to the sage and then security grabbed me and they threw me out because i was crowd surfing
[59:40]i do not remember that i wish did you like having everybody touch you i think that'd be fun but i
[59:47]meant extrovert i think that would be a good time it's what i think about whenever i listen to k
[59:52]robin before i go to bed okay i'm gonna say that as a search term for later crowd number one on
[59:59]the list and this person is often credited as being the fastest rapper ever so this one you
[60:04]might not know this song but it has to be on the list it's twista mr tongue twista check this song
[60:10]out yes you know what aaron i don't know this song actually but i know i know this no
[60:17]twistas i mean i know him from his recognized i know him best from his collab with kanye 1992
[60:24]he made the guinness book of world records 11.2 syllables per second on this song
[60:30]he's from chicago i think what if it turns out it's just a micro machine guy in a wig
[60:37]he was like wait i can make some money with the micro machine guy from the list i thought i would
[60:42]get yelled at for that one for taking too much air i don't i wouldn't who do you think who else out
[60:46]there did we not touch
[60:47]on for fastest rappers that are awesome i don't think you missed anyone i think it's a it's a
[60:52]particular skill that not everyone has and not even everyone even tries to i think every once
[60:58]in a while people try it and they do like a verse or two and they they get it down pat but it's not
[61:04]like an art form like twist that really made a he really made his mark by kind of coming out
[61:09]quickly yeah i don't think i russell i think you nailed it i don't think you missed anybody i mean
[61:13]i think i think people should talk about tech nine as a fast rapper but i know there are two different
[61:17]i did look at tech nine tech nine didn't make the cut yeah so i don't think you missed anybody i think
[61:22]black thaw can do it if he wants but you're not going to find him the other one that i had a hard
[61:25]time with was bone thugs has a lot of fast rap songs so the songs that you guys all know are not
[61:31]their fast songs so like crossroads and all those aren't the fast ones he's got they've got some fast
[61:35]verses on crossroads though i think not fast enough for this list rob not fast enough not as fast as
[61:40]tongue twister all right next up we've got did you guys like when tongue twister was talking about
[61:46]like put your red hand on red put your left foot on green like that was my favorite part of that rap
[61:51]russ unveils that that's in the back seat during his dates it's just a twister board he's like all
[61:57]right interlude this is that this is where he's starting kind of an arc for the rest of the album
[62:02]where he's talking about lucifer and kind of a more religious land talking about lucifer in a
[62:06]later one he talks about god coming out the whole time he was talking about saying lucy i thought he
[62:11]was saying lucy like loose cigarette you know how you can buy one cigarette at a time all right
[62:16]so i was like why is he so mad at lucy's i didn't understand that lucy was lucifer that's that's news
[62:23]to me but that makes a lot of sense now i like again he talks about riding dirty i think like
[62:32]he's just like dropping a little like people who love it's a it's a survey of it's a survey of
[62:39]music it really is right this is fun too when he changes his voice a little bit i like this
[62:43]but i i was in uh we were amelia and i were in the same room and i was in the same room and i was
[62:46]in a bodega up on 115th street i think we're farther north than we normally are and the guy
[62:51]ahead of us we went into this bodega and it was like you know we got our gatorades and like our
[62:56]you know swiss miss or not swiss miss what's the we got a little cupcake we had some chips you know
[63:00]we got like then we got another bag of chips or whatever you know whatever you do in a bodega
[63:04]but the guy ahead of us bought he bought a loose cigarette and so he's like yeah give me a cigarette
[63:10]so he gives the guy two bucks he gets a cigarette and the guy lights it for him behind the counter
[63:14]and amelia looked at me like her
[63:16]world had just gotten flipped upside down to watch somebody buy a single cigarette and then
[63:20]get it lit by the guy behind the counter and i was like you know welcome either that's i was like
[63:24]yeah i was like this is this is how it is in new york like it was a cigarette it wasn't a cigar
[63:28]no it was it was a straight up one single cigarette that he was buying and i was like
[63:32]oh if my kid wasn't here i'd be buying that second cigarette so fast oh my god make your head spin
[63:37]one ahead of time never get caught by the wife
[63:40]uh yeah that's smart i gotta run it back really quick was there a weero on that interlude
[63:46]russell's favorite instrument
[63:48]there's definitely some weero action going there it is we got some weero
[63:53]i actually look this up on i look this up on geniuslyrics.com to see if there was a weero
[63:59]and they don't call out a weero so i wrote this down as a tash tish tash tish clock sounding is
[64:05]what i wrote in my notes it's a clock sound i think you need to get on genius russell as a
[64:09]contributor anytime there's a weero get on there weero god 69 and you're putting all the words on
[64:14]there that's your call
[64:16]all right next up mama i feel like i think matt might have already taken that on his peloton
[64:20]name right i can't i can't have overlap with matt's peloton yeah
[64:26]69 69 sex laser 69 69 all right mama this is the one where i was like oh this is poetry
[64:37]cartwheels linen fabric on fashion winning in every decision country gets matched to that
[64:46]isn't it lovely how menaces turn attraction pivoting rappers finishing fraction while
[64:51]writing blue magic thank god for rap i would say it got me a pack but what's better than that
[64:56]the fact it brought me back home i mean think about that listen to that thank god for rap i
[65:01]would say it got me a plaque but what's better in the back the fact that brought me home so he's
[65:05]talking about how he's reconnecting with his roots through the music that he's making i mean it's just
[65:09]like there's just this is one where you have to go to genius.com and figure out what the heck he's
[65:14]talking about because it's unbelievable
[65:16]yeah this is a headphone album i mean but it also works great for playing in the house but
[65:21]you really have to get studied if you want to know what he's talking about uh this song uh hood
[65:26]politics then takes that idea of him talking about how he got out of where he the area where he grew
[65:31]up and now he's talking about the guilt of being rich and famous and going back to that with hood
[65:37]politics 14 years later going hard like when you still want to so he's thinking about hey this is
[65:42]what my youth was like on a dead army
[65:46]he's using his high-pitched biggie voice here
[65:49]is this the album do you think that switch styles most of any album we've done yet
[65:56]yeah i mean that's why i mean that's why when matt said it was stressful to listen to it
[66:01]definitely is it there's never a long groove that you can kind of relax and just enjoy like
[66:08]it's demanding your attention all the time the next song we've got how much a dollar cost this
[66:15]is about it's a story we're going to talk about in a minute but it's a story we're going to talk
[66:16]about in a minute but it's a story we're going to talk about in a minute but it's a story we're going
[66:16]to talk about in a minute but it's a story we're going to talk about in a minute where he sees a
[66:17]homeless guy in south africa who asked him for a dollar uh unhoused excuse me i asked him for a
[66:22]dollar and it turns out that the person is god and he denies it and he's got a great line here
[66:26]he says well how much is that diamonds worth this song reminded me a lot of the arrested development
[66:30]song mr wendell which is when i was growing up like my first idea of like oh yeah what it's like
[66:35]to be around uh kind of an unhoused population and of course it's something that my kids are
[66:39]seeing firsthand here in new york unfortunately but it really is i i thought this was a great
[66:43]african only spoke zulu my american
[66:46]i do have a record store story about this song bring it on who wants to hear it i want to hear
[66:58]it there was a record store in oakland uh that has has closed unfortunately called park boulevard
[67:04]record and tape records and tapes and it was owned by uh andrew nozitsky who i'm sure is listening
[67:09]uh he goes by the second cousin of michael weirdo
[67:12]he goes by he goes by the son of dirt
[67:16]on twitter and he's one of one of the uh rap internet's uh greatest writers characters
[67:22]aficionados uh he writes for fader and other places anyway he owned the record store and uh
[67:27]he was a cool guy and you would you go to the store and it was always like dudes shooting the
[67:31]shit about you know the warriors or whatever and there was always cool records on um and i went to
[67:37]the dollar bin and grabbed a single of the bridges over by boogie down productions which we were
[67:43]talking uh on our um
[67:46]text chain this week about great diss tracks uh bridges over is a great diss track and it was it
[67:52]was he had in the dollar bin and i took it up to the front and i said you know hey man i'm you know
[67:57]checking out and you know buying the records and he goes through checking you know scanning each
[68:01]one of them and then this one that comes up the the boogie down productions when he was like oh
[68:05]you know what honestly i don't know i haven't listened this one i'm not sure what kind of
[68:09]quality it's in like it might not you know so if it's terrible go ahead and bring it back
[68:13]and i was like well it's only a dollar so you know it's
[68:16]fine i'll just like you gotta be a real asshole to bring that back for a dollar right and he said
[68:21]yeah right i mean how much does a dollar cost right and i didn't realize at that moment that
[68:25]he was quoting kendrick and now yeah i'm like oh man what a what a nerd i was not even i wasn't
[68:32]even hip to what he was trying to say to me complexion
[68:35]complexion don't mean a thing
[68:40]complexion don't mean a thing
[68:46]it's about beautiful women of any color
[68:49]uh the rhapsody verse on this is really good she really lays it down too
[68:54]and i read that she basically was like he didn't give me like a lot of instructions he was just like
[68:59]here's the general idea i think one interesting thing about this song is it's it's about
[69:06]complexion but i think really it's about like not feeling good about yourself or something i think
[69:09]a lot of people can relate to that for different reasons right whether they're terrible podcast
[69:14]hosts or whatever they don't feel good about themselves i think a lot of people can relate to
[69:16]themselves like there's so many reasons that i love it when you make fun of aaron it's my
[69:20]favorite part of the show you can relate to this even if it's not specifically about that topic
[69:24]but i think i think there's it's a broader reach than maybe you might initially think yeah i agree
[69:30]my self-esteem is so high it's a wild that might surprise you guys but my self-esteem this is not
[69:34]a bit like i honestly have this high of a self-esteem it's gotten me through every s if i
[69:39]had this high of self-esteem in middle school i definitely would have gotten somebody pregnant
[69:43]there's no doubt in my mind that that's what happened
[69:46]i swear to god my life in middle school i was such a mess i thought i was just nobody
[69:50]i know if i was as confident as i am now it was swung the other way and caused way more trouble
[69:54]than me just not sitting at the right lunch this should be an mtv show after teen mom or whatever
[69:58]like if i were this confident in high school i would have definitely got someone pregnant it
[70:02]would just be like people like rob doing podcasts and people like accomplishing these middle age
[70:08]like stupid things that nobody cares about but if i knew if i were this awesome then
[70:12]and then a big reveal is like a picture of me in middle school and they're like really
[70:16]really this is this is what was gonna get that done i was gonna say the big reveal should be a
[70:21]picture of you doing a podcast with four middle-aged guys in your daughter's bedroom in the middle of
[70:26]new york he ain't getting no one pregnant anymore i don't care i don't care what how many boudoir
[70:32]shoots he does i felt my confidence drop there for a second i've never felt that before all right
[70:36]the black or the berry everybody like confidence
[70:38]once i finish this witness this will convey just what i mean been feeling this way since i was 16
[70:45]came to my city
[70:46]so on wikipedia they said that this is a boom bap beat can you explain that to me aaron do you know
[70:50]what they're talking about they're talking about the drums and the bass
[70:54]i know what a beat is i'm asking about that's like an east coast kind of yeah i mean boom bap
[71:00]rap is kind of an east coast thing uh i think i mean yes tupac is a west coast rapper but he's
[71:06]you know starred while he was a multi-coastal guy i think uh the specter is tupac there's only two
[71:14]yeah i mean well tupac
[71:16]you know he like was born in baltimore and then he learned to rap in oakland and then went back
[71:19]to new jersey with outsiders and then came back to the west coast i think i think wikipedia research
[71:25]you didn't wikipedia coast before this for this podcast rob you're pretty good at wikipedia
[71:31]everything else nope this is all yeah i think you know tupac is a specter over the whole album and i
[71:36]think the black or the berry is obviously that's not a phrase that's unique to tupac but if you
[71:42]you know you think about the opening to um
[71:46]well now i'm forgetting which which tupac song this starts with the back of the black of the
[71:49]juice yeah yeah i think it is so i think he's like making an homage to that era of rap so rosie the
[71:57]song it's it's keep your head up it's keep your head up that's the one yeah i drew a blank thank
[72:01]you for fixing that all right guys it's just like uh when i try to sleep standing up you ain't gotta
[72:07]lie like the feds on me you ain't gotta lie no
[72:10]you ain't gotta lie you ain't gotta lie you ain't gotta lie to kick your mic
[72:16]i do yeah i think in general the beats get more straightforward here late in the album
[72:20]yeah this is another reference to tupac uh with the song lie to kick it
[72:24]and in fact he released this whole album the day after the 20th anniversary of me against the world
[72:31]the tupac album so he's i mean it's tupac one of my favorite things about this song and maybe it's
[72:37]something that some of us can learn on this podcast is he talks about like the loudest one
[72:41]in the room is the weakest one in the room those who don't tell you what they know are the ones who
[72:45]know everything and they're the ones who know everything and they're the ones who know everything
[72:46]and so when aaron talks under us maybe aaron you should think about yeah that when you're talking
[72:51]under rob and i and under matt that it's not about who's speaking the loudest so i just figured
[72:56]i'm looking to sign i hold up sometimes it just says shut up by the way this again made me think
[73:04]about me when i was younger because he's saying uh you don't have to lie to kick it turns out
[73:08]that's not true i had to lie constantly to kick it all the time i am still lying to kick it very
[73:16]lying to kick it was my whole life it's like oh oh do you want to see this movie oh yeah i'd love
[73:22]to see this movie oh what's it called the notebook oh my god i cannot wait i love romantic comedies
[73:26]lying to kick it i this is the first single off the album it's the only top 40 hit off the album
[73:33]it's obviously uh it's got a sample of who's that lady by the isley brothers and he actually went
[73:37]all the way to st louis to uh not on a coast aaron just let you know to ask permission to use this in
[73:46]best rap performance and best rap song and he said that the rest of the album was feeling negative so
[73:52]he wrote this to promote positivity so this is kind of one of the commercial hits from this album
[74:00]right yeah it's the only one kind of right i thought all right was yeah you're right matt
[74:07]but this one best raps on best rap performance right rob yes
[74:15]and best karaoke version on youtube i can tell you right now it's one of the few songs that has a
[74:19]karaoke version i like it's a favorite anecdote about this song i maybe i'll give away who my
[74:27]employer is here but my employer used some verses from this uh song in an ad and uh they're some of
[74:38]the more uplifting verses uh use use the song in an ad about mental health but the song and i i hope
[74:44]that the person who
[74:45]put this song in the ad knew this song also includes the line i put a bullet in the back of
[74:51]the back of the police and i really enjoyed that a corporate ad campaign used uh lines from a song
[74:59]so i put a bullet in the back of the back of the police like someone i love big corporations they
[75:03]never make any mistakes i think it's great got approved by somebody and that's i've always
[75:07]enjoyed that person's like listen i just got fired from pepsi for this kindle jenner ad but
[75:11]i'm here at your company i'm ready to make another ad let's go we're gonna do a successful thing this
[75:15]is gonna be a success
[75:15]that's a mortal man that survives making that decision
[75:20]i will say this part i was thinking about trying to do the karaoke song for i could not figure out
[75:28]the rhythms that he was doing i was like this is too hard i read this was only one of five songs
[75:35]to ever reach the top 100 or the hot 100 that only had one one letter in the name of the song
[75:40]how many other songs there are four others that only had one letter to reach the hot 100
[75:45]all right guys we guys think of any you'll never get it one is x by chris brown one is three by
[75:52]britney spears one is o by o'marian and the last one is 1993 we've got seven by prince in the new
[76:00]i heard that song the other day that song is horny as hell again
[76:06]that yeah that one you're right although that is that same time as that mariah carey song guys i
[76:10]think i was just going through my horny phase all right prince was also wearing a snowmobile suit
[76:15]actually i would like to see that that would kind of be horny all right last one mortal man
[76:24]now originally
[76:25]this album was to be called to pimp a butterfly for
[76:33]because when you spell that out it spells out tupac like tu like the spanish
[76:38]and i think the biggest part of this song that
[76:45]that i don't have a sample of is at the end where he has takes a recording from like a swedish tv
[76:50]station of tupac talking and he sticks himself in there to have a conversation with him which
[76:55]i was so disappointed i thought this song was called mega man after the nintendo game and then
[77:00]he didn't get into any no codes or anything in nintendo i was so so bummed they made two way
[77:06]to how many mega man went all the way up to like what six or seven they made way too many mega
[77:10]mans yeah there was way too many mortal man songs in this album not enough mega man on mega man i
[77:15]always went and fought woodman first because i thought it was funny
[77:18]woodman all right let's get that is it for to pimp a butterfly i gotta say guys once again i have to i
[77:28]have to say this whole setup of this podcast has gotten me to listen to albums i would never ever
[77:33]listen to and this one i i really enjoyed i don't get to make a real rating at the end so i have to
[77:37]say what i think right now all right let's get into everyone's favorite section you could no
[77:43]this is
[77:45]my this is my sisyphean ordeal i'm pushing this rock up the slope every week coming up with a joke
[77:52]sisyphus russ look him up don't type in sisyphus this time in your search
[78:01]wait should i have not invited to that girl on the first date to push that rock up the hill
[78:09]rob you're supposed to laugh into the microphone
[78:15]i think that is very funny longest first date ever meanwhile russ is at the bottom of the chair
[78:19]and umbrella with sunglasses on and some lemonade hey push that rock up there
[78:22]all right so let's get into everybody's section favorite section the rating system is this album
[78:32]uh which is number or the one thing i should know is number 18 on this list
[78:37]is this album falling apart okay in 2020 nobody's listening right now everybody's
[78:45]cut out nobody is listening rolling is this album rolling well tone that means it's perfect just
[78:51]where it is at number 19 and i'm going to say that clean so i can edit it in earlier 19 uh is this
[78:58]album did it get rolling boned it means it's too low on the list it should be up higher which in
[79:04]this case is a lower number so it should not be 19 it should be 18 or lower in this case in the
[79:09]list higher but we it is you know chronological this is later so think earlier on the list
[79:12]now or is it a rolling groan you did not in
[79:15]joy listening to this it should be much lower than 19 but not a lower number it's a higher
[79:19]number or if you're going chronologically a later album all right but not actually chronologically
[79:24]by when the order was made because this is one of the later albums on the list so think about that
[79:28]leo russell what do you think i've never been a i don't listen to a ton of current music so this was
[79:34]my kind of first experience with kendrick lamar and it took me a few listens to really kind of
[79:39]get a vibe with it and really start to appreciate it and i had to read a little bit about it too
[79:44]to understand a lot of the music
[79:45]meaning behind what he was singing about i think it's an amazing album i love wesley's theory i
[79:51]love the song king kinkuta i love some of the the commercial hits for me it's not one of my favorite
[79:57]20 albums ever so i'm going to say rolling boned the other thing i would say is it's hard to really
[80:03]listen to this album and then go back to listen like a beatles album from like 60 years ago because
[80:08]there is so much more going on in an album like this when you go back and listen to the beatles
[80:13]and it's just this very basic
[80:15]beat this very basic guitar and drums and it's really really becoming hard for me to compare
[80:20]these newer albums to the older ones because they are so different in terms of technology and in
[80:26]terms of um just the evolution of what music is right now so it's rolling bone for me i don't
[80:31]think it's one of my 20 favorites but if you were to put this back 50 years ago it just it blows
[80:36]those old albums out of the water from my perspective hey wait a minute it's me paul
[80:40]mccartney you say you like thundercat more than me oh no oh i switched up voices they're like
[80:45]a little bit not gonna do big bopper at the end do not have time rosie what do you think of this
[80:50]album is it rolling well toned rolling boned or rolling grown and don't think about the time the
[80:54]guy at the record store tested you and then realized you'd know nothing about music your
[80:58]wife would have caught that reference by the way i know she would have she would have caught it for
[81:01]sure yeah i i'm i um once again i'm going to defer to both russell and matt who've been uh more eloquent
[81:08]about this than i but um it's hard to think about where this ranks how do you rank something like
[81:14]this it's a to me it's a
[81:15]monumental work of art but i agree with matt it's not easy to listen to um although art doesn't have
[81:21]to be easy and i think that um in terms of an album of the last 10 years it captures so many
[81:30]moments and so much of what was going on in music uh up until that point so um for me i will say
[81:37]rolling well toned um but i certainly understand the the difficulties of trying to enjoy this album
[81:42]uh i'm gonna say rolling grown
[81:45]um i with rosie it's hard where do you peg this so you kind of put this as uh call it
[81:52]conscientious rap rap albums in the last 10 years well it's probably up there it's way up there
[81:58]you know i if you're putting it up against tupac putting up against wu-tang putting up against
[82:03]outcast and my you know outcast is my jam but um you know i i don't know i i would i wouldn't
[82:10]listen to it over any of those other albums um it is hard to listen to
[82:15]so i i would put wu-tang ahead of it i would put uh aquarium by outcast ahead of it probably put
[82:24]maybe biggie ahead of them you know he's it's certainly a great album in the last 10 years
[82:31]it's very monumental where it is but in the grand scheme of things i'm going to say it's
[82:36]rolling groaned meaning it's it's number is too low so it should have a higher number
[82:42]you don't need to explain this part i think i might
[82:45]have said rolling boned earlier i'm rolling grown it was too high i got confused also it's it's it's
[82:50]too high it's rolling grown yep okay guys funny prank acting like you don't understand my system
[82:56]even though i clearly explained this and speaking of things that are funny let's get to my rating
[83:01]what's your rating we have i like i have to hype myself up this is a rolling presidential nomination
[83:08]because obama said this was his favorite from album of 2015 okay how brave to pick an album
[83:14]that won two grammys
[83:15]and he liked it so much that he forgot to close guantanamo bay because of that so that's a
[83:20]a lot of people don't realize that he said he promised he would and then he didn't do what a
[83:25]big mistake all right so much that he forgot to say that cops shouldn't murder people okay
[83:29]my bad i'm the person in power that could do something about it but instead i'm just gonna
[83:34]say i like the album okay gonna edit that part out wow next speaking of things that cause
[83:40]controversy next up we've got kid a by radio no no wow yes we
[83:45]do you won't let us release that earlier episode russell so we have to listen to it again that is
[83:50]your punishment no way that this is how the best no business being anywhere near the song
[83:55]speaking of sys a pissing ordeals this is russ listening to kid a getting into a pissing match
[84:01]and that's it for beck did it better when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time
[84:08]but you're just too lazy to look it up online
[84:15]if you want to hear from guys who chat and then they get off track
[84:19]i've got the perfect podcast for you jack it was russ it's gonna be funny back did it better
[84:27]while we were doing this podcast i got a text from a woman i've been on a date with
[84:32]and i had to play it in a robot voice but it said hey russ it was nice knowing you i am no longer
[84:38]interested in this i can't be with someone who confuses voltron with the thundercats
[84:43]kiss these big td's
[84:45]goodbye
[84:46]that was so depressing i don't ever want to be broken up by the computer voice again that
[84:55]was terrible i don't know she said kiss these big titties goodbye i think there's an opening
[84:58]holy shit guys
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