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The Common Thread Podcast - Ep.13
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After a long hiatus, The Common Thread Podcast is back talking music, culture, art, and everything in between.
This episode:
• Best music from Jan–April
• Drake’s Iceman rollout
• Isaiah Rashad season
• Is Kid Cudi washed?
• Is Offset still cool?
• Gucci Mane, Pooh Shiesty & growth in hip-hop
• Michael biopic talk + more
New Music:
🎵 Kehlani — Kehlani
🎵 REASON — Moving Towards Love_PINK
🎵 Trek Manifest ft. The Exchnge — Rage Room
Welcome back to the thread.
Transcript
00:00:05
Speaker
Hey, oh yeah. Hey, hey. The boys is back.
00:00:14
Speaker
The boys is back. Yes, sir.
00:00:18
Speaker
Yes, sir. Yeah. Oh, that feels good, man.
00:00:28
Speaker
That was...
00:00:33
Speaker
Welcome back, man. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Yes. Happy to be back. What up? Great to be back, man.
00:00:46
Speaker
andrew Welcome, welcome to the Common Thread Podcast, man, where today, man, we just talking about a whole lot of music today, man. That's really where it come down to. But it has been a minute, you know, since our last episode.
00:00:59
Speaker
um What's the the last thing we did was the Clips episode for real. That was really the last thing that we did, which was amazing. You know, thank you for the support on that. Great album. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was good work. Good work.
00:01:10
Speaker
But yeah, now we back on the episode grind and a man, I'm just so happy to be back with my brothers, man. For real, man. I'm your boy, Sadiah Kaida out here in Orlando. You know what I mean? We got the coziest in Chicago. You know what saying? Be smooth over there with the Chelsea jersey. Khalil Mack in the back. Hey. Yeah. Forever. Yeah. Forever. You should have brought it to us out there. The exchange.
00:01:34
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. sir. What's up? What's up? It's so good to be back, really. So ah this technically is our first episode of the year. We four months in.
00:01:49
Speaker
So I think for like a good recap, we all kind of just decided to just um just talk about what our favorite you know tracks, projects, because kind of where we are, kind of in the music scene over the past, you know the the first first third of the year, you know what I mean? It's kind of the timing that we're in. so um Yeah, just to kind of just let everyone know where we're at and what we've been kind of listening to, just kind of catch people up, you know? So ah I'm interested in ah what Dylan's kind of been bumping real. So let let' let's go with Dylan first, man. What's Dylan got on the list? Yeah, up? Yeah, man, because he's been kind of cooking along. don't know if y'all tapped in. well i want to see what Dylan's got going on, man.
00:02:30
Speaker
Man, what's up, y'all? What up? We back. We back. We back. Yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. yeah yes yes yes Yes, y'all.
00:02:43
Speaker
You know, keep the kind of intro short, but we're we're back to it. Back to it. You're going to be expecting a lot more of the, you know, the cool ass shit that we did with that, that, ah that clips episode and shit like that. That's got that's on the the docket. and And, you know, we got a lot more coming. But to kind of touch on where I've been. musically over the first, what we said, we call it the first quarter, right? That's the that's the math. Yeah, the first third, you know what I mean? we find months in.
00:03:10
Speaker
Right, right. third First third. Right, right, right. So, I mean, first and foremost, J. Cole dropped, right? Okay, let's talk about that. Cole dropped in February. wow we got We gotta give this man his flowers. hey That was, what, how many, it like 30 Or what, like close to 20, least 20 plus.
00:03:28
Speaker
boy like close to twenty at least twenty plus Yes. I mean, come on, man. All intentional tracks. um You know, I'm a huge J Cole fan. Yeah. 24, 24. Okay. So I shot him a little high, but yeah. um Huge J Cole fan. Always have been that, that bounce road blues is my shit. oh Yeah, bro. I love that.
00:03:54
Speaker
that ah That Only You. I don't really like Burner Boy like that. And that was like, oh, this is, like I like the like the vibe of this. So, um you know, that's just the name of you. I'm a huge. Crazy on this. bro. His verse on that is insane, bro.
00:04:13
Speaker
Brother, brother. The beat, bro, as soon as it turns on, you just know. You're just like, all right, all right, man, hold on. Let's get ready. Right. Oh.
00:04:24
Speaker
Yeah, that's my shit. So I'm big fan of that big fan of that this first first, you know, that really started off the year. Then I'm not gonna lie, man. This Don Tolliver.
00:04:37
Speaker
I've been i can't get away from it. I can't get away from it. I'm not gonna lie. I think it's a great name of it. uh high octane um or just octane i'm sorry octane not high octane but um i feel like that's from a fucking video game but um the album is great album's great man i i was gonna say like a few songs but i'm not gonna lie the whole second half of that album just track like i think it's like track six through the rest of it is crazy ATM, the the song with Tizo on there. That's all crazy. He's got a song with Tizo for real?
00:05:16
Speaker
That all signs is crazy. okay That canine is my shit. What's up? What's up? Yes. Yes. Man, I think I got to tap into that because I'm a i'm a Don Toliver hater. I'm not gonna lie. So this is like something that, yeah, I'm not the biggest Don Toliver.
00:05:35
Speaker
But I mean, this might have to, I'm hearing a lot of great things about this album. I really am. I have have, so. Okay, okay. I'm not super into him either. You persuaded me.
00:05:46
Speaker
I think he's at a point now, like i feel like, I feel like him and Travis Scott do a lot of the same things, but I feel like he does Travis Scott better than Travis Scott does at this time and at this point in their career. So yeah, like things have switched for sure. Don, that album. I'm with yeah you. He's typically not. Despite all that.
00:06:07
Speaker
Just that shit. He got some shit on it. I hear you. Especially for like the summer turn up. hear you. It's vibes. All right. i'm go um I'm locking in. Because like, yeah despite all that other stuff, I'm like, this is just good music. That's what I, that's all I've been hearing.
00:06:20
Speaker
I'm not gonna lie to you, Sada. My friend Melo, shout out Melo, recommended it to me. And he, he ah I listened to the first few tracks and I was like, I don't know about this. And I texted him that.
00:06:34
Speaker
i was like, I'm not sure about this. But then it got to that, like, I'm telling you. That second half. You just wait. if You just wait. That shit. The cohesion. And then it almost makes the rest of the first part of it, I feel like, make more sense. Like, I just love that project. Great project. um And then, bro, there's Terrence Martin.
00:06:55
Speaker
I'm sorry. i i will listen to that probably the rest of my life. So many good joints on there, bro. Like, I just – the horns is all are all crazy, and it's all, like, dancing kind of like, um you know, i feel like I could play this in the background pregame before I go out or at a club. You know what i mean? Like, it makes you want to go – do some shit. Like, I love it. I love that kind of lane switch for him because I love Terrence Martin as a a producer and engineer. And so, yeah. And what's the name the project?
00:07:31
Speaker
Perspective. Perspective. Which you already know, I love that word. So that shit was dope. Yeah, yeah. It was dope. Yeah, yeah. I'll tell you as part, yeah. I just seen him at the jazz festival here in Orlando.
00:07:43
Speaker
He's the only reason why I went. He absolutely killed it. Smooth brother, you know what I mean? Smooth LA brother, he did his thing. Yeah. Nice. And then, yeah, yeah. I got one more. It's that Mike in that Earl sweatshirt joint.
00:07:59
Speaker
I like it. I like it. I like it. I've sent a few tries now, and they've just like fallen flat in the group chat, I feel like. Yeah, shout-out shirt sur game. Yeah.
00:08:11
Speaker
That Chicago, that Charlie Tuna, crazy. I kind of prefer the Earl side of it than the Mike side because that's how they did it. They split it up, you know, one-on-one. Both of them kind of had their own section of it, but um which I thought was unique in a different way to kind of present.
00:08:28
Speaker
um you know, the music. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So those, those are, those are mine, man. That's, that's kind of what's got me rocking through the first, first quarter. That's a good list. That is a list. Diverse.
00:08:43
Speaker
thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. All right. What's up BJ? You want me to go or you got it? ah yeah I go. I got it. I got it. Mr. Producer, man. Um,
00:08:57
Speaker
He's got the Chelsea on today, so I'm going to chill out today. He's got the best club on the world on his chest right now, so I'm going to chill out. I'm going to start off with El Amin. You know what I'm saying? That sound for someone. I thought that was really dope. It's a couple of joints that were R&B, Smooth Jack. smooth Smooth Joint Moment Special. ah I really like both of those songs a lot. ah Like I said, this is really cool.
00:09:27
Speaker
Uh, that distracted Thundercat just came out. I spent, it's a couple of joints on there. That's been a heavy rotation. It's an early song that he got with Mac Miller called, uh, she knows too much. And it's a very, like, it embodies to me, like, just like the spirit of Mac. Like I hear, I hear that song and it makes me smile, bro. It's got crazy horns. It's really funky. It's just a real feel good song. Uh,
00:09:55
Speaker
which is kind of like the theme of this album. Yeah, fire. Kind of like the theme of this album. I mean, distractions can have a negative connotation to it, but he's kind of like trying to flip it in the sense of like, we just need to be entertained in the midst of all this chaos in the world. So yeah, that Thundercat distractions has definitely been a heavy rotation. It's another joint on there that I like. called this thing we call love with Chanel trace who I love, bro. He's super smooth, like ultra deep voice. Like as soon as you hear him come on the song, like, you know, what type of like, let's little house, little EDM type of joint, but I like that. That's fire.
00:10:36
Speaker
ah What else? I'm gonna go with, I got two more projects. And then I'm cool. He's going off now. He's going off now. No, he's in the bag. Yeah, yeah. Listen, listen. And if you're listening, you need to write these down. Y'all need to write these down. Right now.
00:10:55
Speaker
He's off. Go ahead, King. Spiral Staircase. Spiral Staircase. Larry June Currency. Alchemist. Crazy yeah project. wow project yes Crazy, crazy project. Super duper smooth. That drive alone. That stars in the roof.
00:11:13
Speaker
Oh my God. Everything allocated. Like, bro, it's short... Like five, six songs, crazy little, crazy little you dig. And then my final, my final one, you I'm saying? In the same spirit, real short, little five piece, that Icewear Visa, Ladies Free Till Midnight.
00:11:34
Speaker
fire Fire. He doing like... is he just okay Detroit niggas remixing R&B. Crazy, bro. This is my show okay face it shit. This is it. this my my That's my quarter one. That's my Q1 recap. that's that's Honorable mention, Aiden Impala. Yeah.
00:12:00
Speaker
Yes. Yes. That's a great list. That's a great list, BJ. know you were just dropping gems there too. you feel I don't even go after that, baby. You know what I'm saying? Like we can just yeah go ahead get to produce a air and now. Oh man. All i so up be yeah i was just I'm just trying to get the information to the people. That was what I was feeling for BJ. So I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
00:12:29
Speaker
That was good. right, okay, so. ah For me, ah I did some traveling for my birthday. I went to Puerto Rico. And obviously with Bad Bunny and everything, with the Super Bowl and all that, that was in i was ah earlier this year.
00:12:46
Speaker
um i kind of, and my barber's Puerto Rican, shout out my boy Jay, you know what I'm saying? He put me on. He kind of just, yeah, Jay's the man. You so i need to go see you. um' I'm looking horrendous. So I'll see you soon.
00:13:00
Speaker
I'll see you very soon. um ah there There's a Puerto Rican rapper, his name is Davey, um and he had a album called Underwater. And, you know, it's just it was just the time, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm in Orlando, everybody here Puerto Rican, at the you know what I mean? i'm i'm I got something Puerto Rican going on, you know what I mean? Like, just being here. So, you know what I mean? Like, it just kind of, you know somebody or you affiliated some type of way.
00:13:26
Speaker
So I definitely caught the bug of, like, the... Just the whole Puerto Rican culture wave, that kind of ah just the Latin culture wave that just kind of ah that just kind of went through the music industry, really. You know what I mean? I've kind of already been on it, like I said, with the barber or whatever, but Davey Underwater, you know he's just a smooth, he kind of reminds me of BJ, for real. He's just a Puerto Rican BJ, just the coolest. He's just cool as hell. he don't really He don't really need to try. he's just He's just smooth with it, always trying. He's got the baddest girls in the video.
00:13:57
Speaker
like he's just you know he's He's cool as hell. I love it. I was listening to in Puerto Rico and like, you know mean? So I like the regional, I like, you know what mean? Like when you go somewhere and then you listen to while you're there, like it hits a little different, you know what I mean? So that was, so that's just for me. My favorite joint off that is Tom Powell. We got a hand brace, we got a hand brace, we got a hand brace. Did you hear him while you was out there? Did you, when you popped out, did you hear him while you was out there? Was he, was he, was he playing nothing but Puerto Rican music?
00:14:26
Speaker
I'm saying, but puerto rico was Puerto Rico playing Davey? I don't know. I don't know.
00:14:37
Speaker
i think I think, I mean, Bad Bunny's obviously running Puerto Rico right now, but like, there's so much more to like, I guess for me, I don't really know how to answer that. Like, cause I like, you know, I'm in the touristy areas, you know, when I did go into the city, it was on a Sunday it was older folks there, you know what mean? They were leaving church and all that. So like, I was playing like the classic, you know what I mean? Like super old school joints that like, I don't, you know, I didn't even know her name, you like Ray Benetto, things like that. Like, so like, I don't, you know, i i don't really know. um
00:15:09
Speaker
is dave I feel like Fat Buck is running it for sure. Okay, I'll say this, Davey was, he performed, he's on the Bad Bunny album that won the Grammy, like that one that just won everything. And when he was doing the residency, when he was doing the tour in Puerto Rico, right? Like Davey with Bad Bunny, he like brought a whole bunch of ah just artists, like Puerto Rican, Latino artists to just perform.
00:15:33
Speaker
um like Vico C, Davey was one of them, J Balvin, who was the guy who was at the Super Bowl? Ricky Martin, right? Like ah ah every you know all like a whole bunch of people from different you know spectrums of the culture and Davey was one of them. So I don't know if like a Bad Bunny affiliation at the residency is like,
00:15:55
Speaker
Makes you poppin', but you know, he was there and he performed it and he killed it. Sounds like a co-sign to me. i feel it. Yeah, you know, that was, that stuff he's just my favorite. I've been kind of dabbling into a lot more, you know what I'm saying? But he you he's my favorite. Davey's my favorite because he's like, yo, he just chill, like, you know, cause it he's just chill. He's chill and like like, I just like the smoothness with him. I like the smoothness with him. So I'll leave it there.
00:16:20
Speaker
ah Another one that i um that I was really rocking with this year was, you know, um we love rat beef, you know what I'm saying? And ah Domani, that Miss Jackson, fire, yo.
00:16:32
Speaker
I mean, that's just my bag, you know? When the t the TI 50 Cent beef and then his son, it had the hottest joint in the whole beef. Like for me, i don't know, man, like,
00:16:43
Speaker
It was just, I don't do, it was just- When the dog- I love this rap shit, man. And that shit was just beautiful to me, bro. I love this rap shit. Like I know it's beef and he's talking some violent shit or whatever, but like, dude, just like the art of rap, man. If you love the art of rap, like you just, and you felt that wave. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, my mom sent me that. Like, is she real deal? She know what's going on. Like, it's real deal. Like she don't mess around with no, like,
00:17:07
Speaker
That's how I found out about it. I know, she sent it to me and I was like, oh shit. Like it's is's really just one of those, man. like And yeah, like that was just, yeah I never stopped playing it. You know what I mean? He like had the video for it and all that.
00:17:19
Speaker
um Yeah, it's just a song and ain't the album. But like for me, like that moment was like, it was really just dope and refreshing. You know what I mean? is this you know, have something like that, you know, it was like family style. Like the son came out and did it. Like that was just really interesting for me, you know, in that moment. So shout out to Domani for that. And he's been doing this for a long time. That was another thing. Like he's been around. He's been around. He's the one that plays the guitar. I can tell you, I only know two sons. I know. No, he's not the one that plays the guitar.
00:17:52
Speaker
and That's the one that looks a lot that's like T.I. That's a third one. Yeah. Yeah. that is the moment Yeah. That Domani was amazing. Just to add, I'm sorry. I don't mean to commandeer. That was amazing. I do have a story real quick to to add here. yeah I had a buddy of mine. I posted, I reposted that immediately when I heard it. Cause it was amazing. I was like,
00:18:14
Speaker
Just, i'd I'd known who Domani was, but I never really heard any of his tracks and been too, you know, moved. But this one was like, damn. yeah So I reposted it. And if you remember, the the screenshot was of like a house burning.
00:18:30
Speaker
Do you guys remember the context of that house? Whose house was that? I have no idea. It was something, I don't know. Like his house, his childhood home was supposedly like burnt up or something like that?
00:18:42
Speaker
Yeah, like the word firebug, it's got a lot to do with it. I don't really, you know i mean? I didn't dig deep enough on that, which I probably should have. But a buddy of mine reached out that used to work with. That's off of Get Rich and Not Trying. I just pulled that out of my ass. that's all that So that could be completely fabricated. We don't know why the house is built. don't know why it's a firebug. But we love the art of rap. We love the way he spat on that shit. Yeah, no, it was just funny. He reached out to me and asked me if I was okay. He thought that was my house that was on fire. ah I'm good. like fifty ss not, you should probably listen to it. play That's funny. Yeah, no, five yeah fire joint though, super fire joint.
00:19:25
Speaker
Definitely put Domani like on my radar, you know what I mean? He's a fire, yeah yeah, for sure. And then for me, the like I mean, I did one more, I got this album, ah I mean, bro, I was raised on this woman. Like this woman, like, you know what saying? Like, help me just kind of just get certain perspectives, get my soul, my smoothness, man. And that's Miss Jill Scott, like the legend, the legend to whom this may concern. And I, you know, she had her promo run. She did her thing. She did a conversation with Tyler. I just don't feel like the praise is really getting its due personally. Maybe I'm just passionate.
00:20:01
Speaker
I'm say, well, I love this album. It's on some like, it's it's very modern, but she still, for me, she still kept who Jill Scott was and her, you know, her sound, you know what I mean? And she got her earthy shit off. Like, I felt like she got to do what she wanted to do on this album. You know, what with with legends like Jill Scott, man, like, shouldn' you're not going to talk about like all the stuff behind the scenes, the music industry, this, that, and the third, whatever's going on.
00:20:26
Speaker
Like, you know, with rappers, like joe Joey Badass will get on Instagram Live and talk his shit, right? You know what i mean? Like, they don't care. Jill Scott, she got the question. She's not going do that. You know what I mean? So, like, for this, I could just feel like she just had full creative control and got to just do whatever he wants. She got to praise the young cats, you know, Abso, Jay. He's older. But, like, you know, people who she appreciates now in the game.
00:20:48
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? Yeah. with Tiara Wack as well. You know what I mean? Like, I just love it. I really, really love it. I felt like it was even made for people who were raised to Joe Scott. You know what I'm saying? And some of my favorite joints on there is...
00:21:03
Speaker
To Be Honest with the JID feature on there, Me 4, Pressure, the single, amazing. um The song with Terrawak, Northside, when she's rapping and Terrawak, she killed it. Terrawak absolutely killed that shit.
00:21:19
Speaker
Oh my goodness. she I'm like, I love playing that joint. I love playing that joint. um A Universe, Lifted Me Up. The song with Absol was terrible. That broke my heart, but you know, we'll let it to us.
00:21:33
Speaker
We'll let it slide. You know what I mean? Anytime I see that episode first, I got to run to it. Right, right, right. Yeah, man. Like, I really just, I really can't say enough about this album, man. Like, Off the Back was great. Like, this is this for me was just, I love that she got to do her own thing. cras just crazy you see like She had full creative control and got to just perform it the she can perform it. And now she's, like, going on tour. She's making you lock up the phone so you can fully experience the shit. Like, I love it. I absolutely love it. She's moving the way a legend should move.
00:22:03
Speaker
And shout out to this album. Go play that shit, man. Go play that shit on a beautiful sunny day because this is fire. I agree with you. and i wanted to add to that real quick. i I ended up listening to it. I remember you and I talking about it. I ended up listening to it through its entirety. And while it's not something I would say has a ton of maybe replay value for me personally, it's something that like felt very free, had a lot of breath and like...
00:22:31
Speaker
I don't know. I just imagine that her concert is going, she's, she's pouring back into her own cup, but at the same time, it's done in a way that you can relate to. And it makes you feel like, you know, you're pulling, it's loving music. Like, I don't know. She, yeah.
00:22:48
Speaker
Yeah. I imagine the concert would be very, you would walk away from it and be like, damn, that was an experience. Like, yeah So i I look forward to maybe seeing if she comes to Columbus and checking that out.
00:23:02
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, hey, we did it. That's our little recap right there, huh? The first quarter. The first third. First third of it. A lot has been happening.
00:23:15
Speaker
A lot has been happening. So I guess we're going to just kind of get these main, the the the the heavy hitters out the way, man. So We can obviously, let's start with the Drake. Let's start with Drake, right? Drake, Iceman.
00:23:28
Speaker
What is that? May 15th, I believe is coming out May 15th. um You know, it's the first project, solo project since what happened last summer, right? He he he did the, yeah what is it? He did the song. He did the album with Party Next Door, the Nokia, Nokia single, things like that.
00:23:50
Speaker
It's ah it's ah interesting, the the lawsuit, right? the lawsuit. It's an interesting time for Mr. Aubrey Graham. And for... ah for For me personally, I'm excited. The the promotions have gotten me excited.
00:24:04
Speaker
I'm not a Drake fan at all, by the way. I'm black hippie till the end of time. abpsos right the ice What in particular have gotten and like connect you I think a lot of it. like I'm not a stream watcher. I don't really watch streams unless it's soccer soccer talkers. you know i' People who talk soccer for real.
00:24:26
Speaker
um But I love that he has his own stream and like he, cause he had a lot of issues like with the narrative. So I love that he got to just do his own stream and shit and create his own narrative. I don't like Aiden Ross. So whatever relation he has with that, I'm not a fan of, but whatever.
00:24:40
Speaker
um I love the big ice block, obviously, that he did. I love everyone saw that. Kind of got people going crazy. It showed people that, you know, people still rock with him. He got an army behind him.
00:24:51
Speaker
And it's just a kind of a reminder. I love, um we all NBA fans here. You know what I'm saying? the At the Toronto Raptors game, he had the iced out seats. Those were cool.
00:25:02
Speaker
That was cool. That was cool. Like, you what I'm saying? That shit cool. Drake is cool. yeah I mean, it's Drake. You know what i mean? Like, It was dope. It was really, really dope. ah The only thing for me, BJ, that I'm really not rocking with is the obviously like the title Iceman and the state of the country and everything that's going on.
00:25:19
Speaker
I also understand like... you know, like he was making an album and like, you know, like I believe in coincidences too. And like, I also understand like when you, he he probably been making this album for a year, year and a half. Like, you know i mean? Like he probably was making this album, touching up on it when ah he was going through the beef with all that stuff. All the ice stuff wasn't really happening yet around that time. like So like to pivot and switch everything now, when you're already doing all these things, you got all these things that take planning, like that ice block didn't just come out of nowhere. This date didn't just come out of nowhere. He, this is all planned out, right? Like, and this it takes time, you know, like how long it took for us just to get the podcast back up and running. Like these things take time. So like, I can understand like, him he's not he's not us. not us.
00:26:03
Speaker
i I understand that, but I but i i can give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm like, yo, it's a creative process. And he was on that journey before Trump started bugging out with all this other shit. You know what I'm saying?
00:26:17
Speaker
Like it's, it's a off, it looks terrible. And you know, I guess we'll see what happens. I guess I just need to see what Iceman even needs for real. But other than that, I'm excited. I'm mad excited. I'm mad excited for it And i don't really like Drake. I'm excited to see what he has to say, man. Like,
00:26:33
Speaker
You know, he I feel like he has to rap. He got out-wrapped. He got out-wrapped, bro. All that, Nokia and that stuff, it's not gonna get you through it. You know I'm saying? So I wanna see it.
00:26:46
Speaker
I wanna see it. I'm i'm interested. The album went platinum. What's up with you, BJ? Why are you, what's... I mean, um nothing's up with me for real. I'm just... ah Yeah, I don't think Drake is cool. I don't think Drake has ever really been... I think Drake is corny, he makes good music, so people like the music. but ah And to me, like a lot of this is pretty corny. But if i do I can appreciate him trying. like I do think like there's a version of this where... like And I think, honestly...
00:27:21
Speaker
it To me, it would have been cooler if he could have like actually like just went ghost and then popped up with like the ice in the middle of of ah of other city and with the city. I feel like if he wasn't so visible, because he has been very visible, and this rollout has been like almost two years, because it's been like a long... To your point, it has been a long time. And I do think he has tried...
00:27:47
Speaker
a lot of different things in trying to engage his fan base. And I do think to your point, like you got niggas outside licking the ice block and shit. Like they like, if you like Drake, it was, it was, it was nasty. wouldn't do it.
00:28:07
Speaker
You feel me? If you like Drake, you feel me? Like this might, this is, this is the type. Like I, if you like Drake, this, this seems like this is getting the people that like Drake activated. And I do think there's an, I do think that that's cool. Like I do think this, I do think it's cool. yeah you I feel like it's needed for him. Like he needs that. For sure.
00:28:23
Speaker
For sure. Like, I don't think. was like, damn, people still really rocking with Drake. Like they really putting, they going to the Kendrick and putting it. I'm like, okay. Like I'm not going with you. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm pushing back with you on that because I don't think people ever really stopped rocking with Drake. Like he still like we, the Nokia, that shit was not good and it still went platinum. Like he still had a top. It was terrible. But you feel me? But like the people really like Nokia, like people that don't like Drake, a like people that say they don't like Drake. yeah Like Drake never stopped playing. You feel what I'm saying? So like, know mean? and Like he he, so yeah, to your point, like, is he gonna rap? I'm excited to, for me personally, I don't give a fuck about none of this shit. Like, I just want to hear the music. Like, I don't, I didn't give a fuck about the streaming shit. I thought that was kind of, it was i didn't it was boring and like he didn't do anything really, but whatever.
00:29:12
Speaker
I just want to hear the music. I'm ready to hear the music. And then I'm also like, I'm going into it with an open mind because I think that Drake is a pop star. And I think he's starting to lean more into being a pop star. So like if he has some like rapping joints on there, I'll listen to those. If he doesn't, I won't. If he has some catchy stuff that I like, that'll be on the radio and people will play at parties. I'll like that. if Or I might not.
00:29:38
Speaker
I don't really care no more for real, but I am excited to finally hear the music. So that is my little two cents. I thought. Real quick, real quick, Dylan. I'm so sorry. Real quick, Dylan. BJ, where's Drake's stock today for you?
00:29:51
Speaker
ah and ah I mean, I think Drake is, I think he is a ah known entity. I think he is, Drake is Drake. Like you, you know exactly what you're going to get from Drake. And I think, i think where people I think where people get mad at him is because they put they put fair like they project something onto him that he's like...
00:30:11
Speaker
He's never really been like, he's never, all he's ah he's never just been a rapper. know saying? He's always been a hit maker. He's always, so that's why I expect him to make, you I expect bro to make hits. And then to the ice shit, like, i think like the nigga's a Canadian, bro. Like he's not even American, bro. Like, I don't think he is even thinking about this ice. Like, that I don't even think he's- That's a great point. Like, bro, like niggas from Canada like ice, bro. Like they like the cold. Like it's a part of that. That's a great point. that's they That's a great point. I don't think I think if any great point, if anything, like I think the tone. He don't take it seriously at all. I think it just speaks more to like, like that's like, yeah, bro. Like I'm I'm I'm completely removed from this. Like this. i When have I ever been about politics? Like.
00:31:05
Speaker
That's a great point. That's a great point. Those are both great. Yeah, those are all great points. What about you, dude? Well, first and foremost, any Canadians that we have listening to the podcast, I want y'all to let us know how y'all feel about ice.
00:31:20
Speaker
You know, the actual ice. seems to think y'all love it. That shit was hilarious. They was licking it. Yeah, no, no. They probably do, but I'm just saying, yeah. But anyway, yeah, I mean,
00:31:35
Speaker
um Right. I know, dude. That's how they are with Drake. But that's how they are with the biggest in the world. And that's what we got to like, think about with this. It's an interesting thing with Drake. It's like, you look at the Billboard Hot 100.
00:31:51
Speaker
Look, at if you look in the past, like, year and some change, it's like dead. In terms of hip hop, there's no, there's none that have scratched the surface of being a number one charting song and and stuff like that. And so I think,
00:32:08
Speaker
Drake is going to bring maybe more life back to that and hopefully, you know, kind of put things back on the chart is the perspective that a lot of his fans would bring is that he does provide a lot of life to the hip hop industry.
00:32:23
Speaker
um I think things kind of, I know it's kind of taking a little sidestep, but I think, kind of I feel like things kind of got thrown off with the whole, you know, starting beef stuff.
00:32:34
Speaker
Like there's so many, it just feels like that's a new wave. That's like going on. Every artist is starting beef now, like as as a thing. And I don't, I don't know how I feel about it. And so, um, I don't know. I just, yeah that like that you saw that made you think of that, like have that thought, like,
00:32:53
Speaker
What's it be for you like, yeah, not really rocking with this? I don't know, man. There's a ton. But i just I just wonder how he's going to impact the industry of hip hop in dropping and see if it helps to provide more life and see if we can get some on the, you know, some more charting songs and whatnot like that. So I don't know, man. I'm not super excited for the album, to be honest with you. So I was trying to bring it down. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. do want to hear it. I do want to Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:21
Speaker
Time out. Yeah. i'm out outside I do want to hear. Yeah. Drake is consistently on your top played artists every year on your little Spotify, Apple music recap joints.
00:33:36
Speaker
Every year, Drake is in your top played and you're telling me you're not excited for this album. It's crazy. Somehow he does end up in my top plate every year. Every year. it's always It's always his old shit, bro. like I am a creature of habit.
00:33:53
Speaker
I'll go back to take care and fucking, um you know, um um I'm a blanking. The woman with the head in the sky. fucking Nothing was the same?
00:34:06
Speaker
Yeah, nothing was the same. I'll go back to those on repeat. So i don't know. I'm not, i don't know. We'll see. and I'm on, I'm just on ah um I'm in a different area.
00:34:17
Speaker
I think that's what I've been listening to lately. and i think and So can I, get yeah what were you saying? BJ? No, no. its Yeah. and we And we can, I'm sorry. And then you can have, if you, I don't mean to take up too much space, but I just think just to piggyback on that.
00:34:32
Speaker
I just think this like he's a different Drake now. Like, i think yeah I think back to that time and like, one of the things that I used to really like, like not just about Drake, but just like the whole OVO thing was just like, they were so strategic. Like everything felt so coordinated and planned and like everything always felt like super intentional. And like,
00:34:57
Speaker
Again, not to like just poo-poo this rollout that's been like, again, like how long is a rollout? But ah ah but like, it it to me, this shit just feels very disjointed. Like it does it lacks cohesion. Like it doesn't feel like yeah like to your like... The fact that no one actually knows what this Iceman shit even means or like how it relates to him or like... it's it as just...
00:35:25
Speaker
I just don't. Yeah. I'm just, I think to your point, like the old Drake is just, he's not the same. Like he's not, he's a different, we're in a completely different era. So like, yeah, like our, there was a time where Drake didn't have to do anything. Like if he dropped an album at midnight, the world stopped and people listened. And I think if he were to do that, I definitely think there's a segment of people that are going to listen regardless, but yeah,
00:35:51
Speaker
I don't think it's the same. I don't think it's nearly the same. Like that, I definitely think that, I definitely think that- Honestly, you're right because I normally, when things, like I'm, cause i'm a natural hipster, when the wave dies down, that's when I hop on and I'm like probably gonna listen to this at midnight and I've never done that with any Drake album ever. So things are not the same. I'm very interested to see what he has to say. Maybe it's the hipster.
00:36:17
Speaker
Yeah, so, hey, we'll see how it goes. May 15th, right? May fifteen um I guess we could talk about an artist that we all care about and can't wait for this album to drop. And that it is and that is that is upon us, gentlemen.
00:36:33
Speaker
It is upon us. Isaiah, mother, Isaiah Rashad. Come on, man. Isaiah Rashad. What's the name of this joint? Oh, I got it up right here. Hold on, hold on, hold on. It's been awful. Isaiah Rashad, it's been awful.
00:36:47
Speaker
Oh, my goodness. Hold on, hold on, hold on, gentlemen.
00:36:57
Speaker
wait they TDE conglomerate, GOAT, a staple in Top Dog Entertainment at this point. it's expected Numbers are expected from this man.
00:37:10
Speaker
Absolutely. And they're going to happen. Because he really is just like that. He really is just like that. I don't think I've ever had more confidence in a music drop. Maybe I'm just in the moment.
00:37:22
Speaker
But he just... Yo, Zay just does it, bro. Zay just does it. He just knows how to do it. he I mean, I'm ready for it. He dropped the same shit video. The video was amazing. I absolutely loved it.
00:37:36
Speaker
love it I loved the messaging behind it. like It was fire. I mean... Definitely go take the time to watch that. May 1st drops Friday. Yeah, that's Friday. oh yeah yeah Yeah, Friday. i might I might buy that, really. I'm not going to lie. i really just but I've really just been waiting for a long time for Zay. A lot of things have happened with him since his last drop. The house is burning.
00:37:59
Speaker
A lot of things have happened. And, you know, I'm just so happy that, you know, he's still here with us because he's got a lot of mental health issues. I'm happy he's still here with us. He's had. You know, he could have overcome it.
00:38:12
Speaker
He's overcome all that shit and we have music and I'm so thankful and blessed. Damn it. You know what saying? That's, you know what mean? That's where I'm at. That's where I'm at with it. And yeah, I can't wait for the tour.
00:38:26
Speaker
um Shit, maybe I'll fly back home, dude. We can go to the um show together because he always comes to Columbus. It seems like he ah he said he always comes back to Ohio. Bogarts. Bogarts. Yeah, bro. So we'll figure it out. But no I can't wait.
00:38:41
Speaker
I cannot wait. Yeah, I'm so excited for it, man. So excited for it. I've been hearing grumblings of J-Rock, too. J-Rock. Yeah, he's next for That's what I've been hearing. And it's been a long time. Man, I need some J-Rock.
00:39:00
Speaker
That may be an Ab Soul project. You know, something. J-Rock Alchemist project would be fucking crazy. Or J-Rock Hit Boy project. That'd be, I would love that. That would be great. We're getting creative. We're nerding out, gentlemen. We're nerding out. a little bit let's let yeah We'll pitch it up to Che. We'll pitch it up to Che. Yeah, yeah, are yeah, yeah. We got the connections. You know what I'm saying? certified. Hey, i I need my piece.
00:39:28
Speaker
need my 10%. You welcome, brother. How you feeling BJ? You excited for this Rashad? You like the single? I didn't really like the single, truthfully, but I'm super excited. I love Isaiah Rashad since Sylvia Demo, you know what I'm saying?
00:39:42
Speaker
ah Yeah, bro. Like this is, a we love Isaiah, bro. You know what I mean? Like grew up on this man. Like it's it's definitely super excited to hear what he says. um yeah man i'm i'm in a completely different place in my life from the last time he dropped an album i'm sure he is yeah yeah i'm just i'm really excited to hear what he has to say uh but yeah like i i did like the video i just didn't particularly care for the song that much um but yeah super excited for the album can't wait uh shout out to tde is he still so is tvd is he is he still on tde like it's
00:40:22
Speaker
Yeah. Looks like it to me. Yeah. No, he's still branding all of his drops and stuff like that with TDE. So, and I think, yeah, yeah. go feel like it if It just feels like a TDE drop too. Like the rollout.
00:40:36
Speaker
i mean, he's a staple. So like, I feel like it's hard to, I think it's it's hard to separate. Like we don't, I don't know him. i don't know him affiliated with anything else. So like,
00:40:47
Speaker
Yeah. And like you said, he is staple. Like, I feel like TDE now is in a state where like, you know, they got a lot of like, I don't know, there's, I don't want to say there's tears because I have like a lot of love and respect for everybody over there, you know, because I just love, I just love hip hop. Right. And like, they, they do everything beautifully. You know what I'm saying? And respectfully, really.
00:41:07
Speaker
And um I think like, there's just like, you know, they have a lot of They have a lot of newer artists that I'm not familiar with. And that was not the case when we were growing up.
00:41:20
Speaker
Like, they've grown. They've grown. know they've They've expanded, right? And they just like Rayvon, right? BJ, you loved ray von Rayvon. I really like that album. think he dropped the joint this year.
00:41:31
Speaker
think he dropped another joint this year or something. by Like, they're like... He might have. Something like Zachary. Like, in my mind, like, like some of these other other... Like, what's his name? AZ? AZ? AZ Cheek? Whatever. AZ? Yeah, like, they they got a lot of...
00:41:47
Speaker
A.V. Chike is fired. Yeah, man. And they just signed another new cat. Yeah, he is fired. He's fired. He's so fired, bro. He's fired, bro. Like, there's a lot of, like, they they kind of, i mean I don't know. There's, like, two different, I feel like they're two different rooms. I don't want to say.
00:42:05
Speaker
They're legacy acts in the context of them. like ah Like, the Isaiah. Say more. like I don't know what they mean. Legacy, like how you were kind of how you described Jill Scott's album, they're not um there she's Isaiah and them, they're not Jill Scott, but I'm saying in the context of TDE, just the original people, like they've been there the longest. like they've They've been there... ah what, almost 10 years, if not 10 years plus, like, then him, J-Rock, SZA, like, Absol, like, those are the original, those, when you, when you, was so when you think of TDE, you think of those people. Exactly. So, like, like I said, especially with, now that they've grown into, like, these newer, these newer stars are developed, the Doshi kind of being, like, at the forefront of that. Doshi. Yeah, bro. Doshi. Like, she, Doshi was somebody, that's what I'm saying. She was someone that was under,
00:42:59
Speaker
and made that like She's graduated. At first, she was, you feel me? She was on a rookie. She's graduated. Now she's on a that superman. everywhere.
00:43:11
Speaker
She's everywhere. I just seen her with Madonna doing Devil's Wear a Pride 2 or some shit like yesterday, bro. She just made song with Lady Gaga. just always like who was That's it was. I'm sorry. That's who it was.
00:43:26
Speaker
TD's always been They're a good great label. the Good at like putting the artists really cool positions, especially went on the movies. I was just on the entertainment side, like just putting them, parlaying their talents into other avenues. Like they, yeah, they're a good label. they they It seems like they're a good label.
00:43:42
Speaker
For sure. Yeah. yeah Shout out Isaiah. Hey, shout out Isaiah, TD. Yeah, we can't wait. May 1st. Yeah, May 1st. May 1st. All right, let's see what else we got. Oh man, I mean, I don't,
00:43:56
Speaker
I mean, Gucci Mane and Poo Shiesty, that was just awful. Everything about that was awful, gentlemen. I mean, i don't really even wanna. Yeah, I don't. mean I mean, puted in to like and everything we just said about TDE guys, this is 1017 is the antithesis. Like, yes yes that's like literally what a word other side of the spectrum. You know what I'm saying?
00:44:26
Speaker
i mean, I don't, and I really don't wanna give too much energy on this. I guess we we could talk on it real quick. ah Push Icy got out of jail, made a song called First Day Out, which Push Icy signed to Gucci, man. He got arrested for, I don't even know what he got arrested. He got arrested for robbing a nigga in front of the police station in Miami in a green Lamborghini.
00:44:50
Speaker
That's why he got arrested. Not a Lamborghini. not a lamborghiti It was a McLaren. he had the a mccaren Yeah, it was a McLaren. there were like It was one of one. like If they just needed to search the car and they could find where he was. It was one of one. Who's siesties McLaren? Okay. bright green McLaren. There's not many of them. right one agree So Push Ice Cesar rapper signed the Gucci man. He was in a slime green McLaren and he robbed a Negro in front of the Miami police department. I think he shot him in the ass too. Shot him in the ass. Shot him in the ass.
00:45:27
Speaker
Shot him in the ass cheek. gets arrested. he This was years ago. He came out Muslim and with locks, okay, or braids or whatever, and muscles.
00:45:39
Speaker
Yeah, he came out with muscles. He's Muslim and he has braids slash locks. I don't even really know. He got barrel twists or something. Right. and he does And he does the first day out song, which is what Gucci Mane did when he went to jail, came out, whatever. Right. It went crazy. when It's a thing. That's the theme. Like you you make a, that's kind of become a thing. Like every Tee Grizzly, like it's a thing. We should just stop going to jail.
00:46:05
Speaker
we should just stop going to jail anyways we should just stop going to jail so he gets out does first day out it goes crazy and then honestly it was kind of chill for a couple months i've seen him streaming video games greet gta which i thought was great i'm like for uh someone like him who's trying to like just maybe the music ain't it like just get staying off the street someone like that you know just being off the street right like Whatever, he was doing all this other stuff. And then i just get, we all see it. He robs Gucci Mane in this a record business deal, whatever.
00:46:41
Speaker
Right. I think his dad was with him. Like, so i like, it's sad. It really is just sad. um You know, gets robbed. You know, get me out the contract. dotdada da da And he's arrested. And now he's waiting on trial.
00:46:54
Speaker
Right. Gucci Mane then does a song Crash Dummy. He does a song called Crash Dummy, just dissing him. Right. Just dissing him and dissing on the third. And that is also very, very sad.
00:47:06
Speaker
um I hate all of this. I hate the energy that, I mean, 1017 already has like a just nasty track record with the people that they signed post Waka Flocka Flame, right? You know, a lot of people have passed away, arrested, you know, all type of just stupid street shit, stupid street shit that has really just doesn't need to be around.
00:47:25
Speaker
And yeah, that's that's what happened. And, you know, that's where we are. So I hate it. Yeah. Fellas.
00:47:39
Speaker
ah Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like if there was anything that one of the big things right now about the case is that it was supposedly, you know, originally this happened in like January of this year.
00:47:52
Speaker
This happened a while ago, but it's just starting to come to the limelight. Um, There was thoughts that it was on video. Turns out it wasn't on video. So it's a lot of he said, she said right now. Gucci Mane pretty much came out and said, you're still signing me, bitch.
00:48:13
Speaker
Make me music. And, you know, it's just that energy, man. I don't like that. yeah Like, why are we? Yeah, I mean, you know, man, you made it out the hood. Like, we don't need to be on this. right Well, yeah. And yeah, yeah. Because I...
00:48:29
Speaker
I think an interesting context to include in this is that people were like upset. Like people were mad at Gucci. Like people was like, people were like, people was mad at Gucci for, cause the reason this was, cause the reason this case became public because it was, it's become a federal charge. Like so it's the Fed case. So like people was mad people. And by people, i mean like the internet rappers, is is people in Atlanta, like they were,
00:48:57
Speaker
making like they were mad at Gucci. Like they said Gucci was like, was a, they put him in a position. You feel me? They put him in a position where he felt like he needed to respond, which is, I think it's an interesting thing that like this, I don't know. I don't know if that's Instagram or it's just like internet, but like the fact that everybody feels the need to like clear themselves, like clear their names. Yeah. It's an interesting thing, especially for someone A is not as old as Gucci, because Gucci is like, wait, you got to be pushing almost 50. And then- He might be past 50. You feel what I'm saying? But someone whose persona has been, and not just persona, Gucci really, he lived his reps. know what I'm saying? We know Gucci didn't kill people, killed a person. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, ain't trying to do too much, but yeah, bro, like people were mad that he kind of has flipped on like the street ethics or whatever, like not telling. So I, one of the things found interesting about this whole thing was just like,
00:50:08
Speaker
Are people allowed to grow? like Is there a world where like people aren't like if the people are accepting? like If the song was better, would people still be mad at Gucci for dry snitching on Push Isty?
00:50:20
Speaker
Or like is it people are just like, you this not only did you dry snitch, but the song like sucks. So like we like Push Isty more, which is like kind of crazy to me.
00:50:34
Speaker
Okay, when you, can i can I ask, when you ask, are people allowed to grow? Can we use like, can we change the people as an example? Can we use Gunna?
00:50:49
Speaker
I mean, but I think- Gunna has went to jail. He came out. He didn't say shit. He just got to work. I was finna say, think- He just got to work. And people was hating. People went up to him in the BT Awards. Yo, you a snitch ass nigga. You snitch, da, da, da, da.
00:51:04
Speaker
And he just, he's the he ain't tweeting nothing. He just got the work and he's doing 5K runs. Got a baddie with him, selling records. Grand deals the whole nine. He won. I feel like Gunna grew.
00:51:19
Speaker
But he also had with great music. That growth was also a company. Great music Trump saw. Great music Trump saw. And I also feel like... That's great music Trump song. But in your point, I think... Unfortunately.
00:51:34
Speaker
i think had I think there's a world... i think I think people would have forgotten or like letting... I think he should have just not said shit. I think that's... i Personally, I think he shouldn't have i think that's a part what and I think that's a part of why Gunna has like succeeded in the way that he has. is Outside of the music, we don't see Gunna do shit. Like Gunna just...
00:51:56
Speaker
makes good music, does his fashion shit. And then if we see him doing like in a fucking Under Armour commercial, he's an Under Armour commercial. yeah Outside of that, we don't know what the fuck kind of got going on. And I think like, yeah I think- I love that. I think strength and silence personally.
00:52:11
Speaker
I think i I wish a lot of rappers would, I wish just celebrities in general. Right. They be fucking the game on BJ. We love y'all, bro.
00:52:27
Speaker
Stop fucking up and putting it on camera, please. Help us out, bro.
00:52:34
Speaker
But then i ste talk like we're like, not to bring it back to Drake, but like for somebody like Drake, like he can't do that. Like he got the shit with steak and he got all these brand deals. They're like, he gotta be, he gotta be in front of the camera and shit. And like, I guess to a certain extent, maybe they oh other people, they may not have steak or whatever specific corporation, but they got people, they got, they gotta, they gotta make this money. And the only way for them to make this money is for them to,
00:53:03
Speaker
be an ass, make an ass of theyself. And it's not my company, but shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So shout out to Gunna. What you think, Dale? For being quiet and having a privilege to be quiet.
00:53:15
Speaker
We appreciate you, nigga. Do your thing. Hey, hey, there you go. All right, hey, we can, right. We appreciate you. Yeah, shout out Gunna, for sure. For sure. All right, let's see, let's see. I think, I think, fellas, anything else on the topic with us or should we get into this new music?
00:53:32
Speaker
There's new music coming out. What we thinking, fellas? What we thinking? The Michael Jackson movie did come out. I didn't watch it yet. Have y'all seen it? We a lot of mixed reviews. No, I haven't. I haven't. I was not going to see it. It was terrible to me. everything now Tell me why I heard Freddie Gibbs. did. Freddie Gibbs was in there. Sir Frederick Gibbs, legend of the pod, bro. Sir Frederick Gibbs. I definitely heard rumors.
00:54:01
Speaker
Freddie Gibbs is not in there. that they sent show so you So you saw the movie? I saw it. You saw the joint? I saw it over the weekend. Okay, so you, okay. Help us out. Give me a little. I would definitely give me weight save your money. and Save your fucking money. Damn, dude. To me, without giving, if y'all, do um I mean, yeah, don't want to spoil it. but no Yeah, yeah, diamond, diamond. Spoil that shit.
00:54:26
Speaker
Yeah, it was. All right. Spoiler alert for Michael Jackson. mean, it's Michael Jackson. We know the story. yeah up understand you do We all know Mike. We all know Mike. That being said, agreed. That being said, because, again, it's a biopic. We know people they only do biopics of people that we fucking know. So, like, yeah, we know the story. But the selling point of this movie was that it was going to be done by his family.
00:54:50
Speaker
who is supposed to have, but because they're his family, have intimate knowledge of the person and the process of how he became one of the world's greatest and brightest stars. We you get none of that. We get none of that. there is is zero There is zero substance in this movie. There is nothing but performance. And again, I don't think I kudos to the you kudos to the young man. know mean? Because they say he went full method. You know what I'm saying? He they went like two years of just trying to be Michael Jackson or whatever. No, he didn't.
00:55:25
Speaker
That's what they saying. That's what they saying. That day-to-day Lewis swag. That's what they saying. know saying? And I don't think he was... b wasn't He looks like him, but that's family.
00:55:36
Speaker
You feel what I'm saying? And then, bro, it's Matt. Michael Jackson impersonators, bro. Like, I didn't see Michael Jackson. I didn't see Michael Jackson at a party From five to seven, G. Like, no bullshit. Moonwalking next to the niggas. So, like... One of my homeboys. One of my homeboys is on Michael Jackson in person. You feel what I'm saying, bro? So, it's for me, it was like, yo, why would we lean so heavily into the performance aspect when we have YouTube? So, like, people can go see. You don't have to, like, go watch.
00:56:09
Speaker
Because I will say, like, just being in the movie theater, it was cool, like, to a certain extent seeing a person that embodies someone a michael jackson ish person on screen because i went to like the the ultra screen you feel me so i saw the movie as it was intended to be seen like on the biggest screen with the biggest lights and shit and it it is like a spectacle it's a big movie but it's also just like a bad movie it's not good like it's They got CGI animals, bro. It's a CGI bubbles, bro. Nah, nah, nah. Listen, CGI bubbles got more scenes than Quincy Jones. You feel what I'm saying? like
00:56:51
Speaker
The movie is like, bro, the CGI monkey got more scenes. We see the CGI monkey more times than we see Quincy Jones making either of the albums.
00:57:03
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Making either of the albums. why like i left the movie with zero like with zero insight. with I left with nothing new. I learned absolutely nothing from watching this movie. and like that was that What did you do? Off the wall and thrilling?
00:57:19
Speaker
The two biggest... What did you do? Off the wall and thrilling? The two biggest... Yeah, I was about movie only in the movie only take the movie only follows him through... It's so it's ah it's a it's a bit of like the childhood stuff. And then primarily it's...
00:57:36
Speaker
off the wall to thriller and then it ends on bad they don't really get they um or they get it kind of ends on bad like the last like 30 minutes is bad but it's like bro the whole has some the whole movie is about his it's supposed to be like a coming of age type situation and it's just like It's just, it's it's not good. i'd Save your money. save Save all of your money. go watch go watch one Go watch the Jackson American dream, American story. i might be I might be butchering the name, but the one, the Jackson movie that came out in the 90s with Jason Weaver being Lil' Michael.
00:58:14
Speaker
Yeah, I ain't seen that one in years, That's the movie you got to go watch. If you want to go watch a Michael Jackson movie. seen it on as a kid. Go watch that one. This ain't it. I see why Janet ain't said shit. Because if you ain't got nothing nice to say, ain't gonna say shit.
00:58:31
Speaker
But I'm going to say it for you. That shit is bad. Cash grab. but fuck in it And then my last little bit. He said, cash grab. He said, cash grab.
00:58:44
Speaker
My last little bit, bro. Because it's really bloomy. They got, I don't even know the, I forget the lawyer name, you but they got they got the lawyer. They made it so like, bro.
00:58:55
Speaker
now I'll put it like this. everybody that Everybody that helped make this movie, you can tell helped make this movie because their characters are... they go The movie goes out of their way to let you know their characters care the most about Michael Jackson.
00:59:12
Speaker
like it's It's not even... It's a bias joint. It's biased. Everybody in the movie that was supposed to look good looks great. And on top of that, they're the only people that talk because...
00:59:26
Speaker
Yeah. People just, yeah. It was a bad movie. Terrible movie. Terrible script. if there's If there was a director's cut, I might be interested in watching that.
00:59:37
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But yeah, this was bad. This was not good. Sunglass. My bad BJ, clear in the air for to me. TJ said, yo, BJ is hilarious, bro. I'm about Dylan put that topic in there, bro. You funny.
00:59:53
Speaker
Oh, i man. i was sick. I was sick. I was sick. Oh, two thumbs down. Hey, that's Brian Jones. Beast Moves movie review right there. All right. Okay. Save you. I will not be seeing that. Okay. Yeah, the old one is definitely the one. It's been a long time, BJ. I second that for sure.
01:00:13
Speaker
All right, fellas. I mean, hey, I think we just do the new music, man. Why not? New music. Why not? no i mean think the I mean, this ain't my bag. This ain't my bag, but I mean, I know Dylan, you got to go. Dylan, take it away, bro.
01:00:27
Speaker
Talk about that Kehlani, bro. ye What you mean? That's their badness. You don't hear me? haven't listened. Is there a new Kehlani?
01:00:39
Speaker
Okay, Kehlani dropped a new album called Kehlani, where she has the greatest R&B singers ever Oh my God. All on the album. It's crazy. Yeah, it's a banger. I'm not an R&B head like that.
01:00:53
Speaker
Dylan Folded. I guess we'll get on that next week, but everybody tapping it like Kehlani, because I heard it's phenomenal and it looks phenomenal. I'm not going to lie. And honestly, bro, like I'm not surprised, bro, because Kehlani's run last year, pre-Gammy, like the before the Grammys and all that, before Folded and ah that song with, what's it? K1, K1, that British...
01:01:14
Speaker
you know what mean? The whole kissing each other on the, like that went crazy. Like she was been going crazy. Like Kevani has been going absolutely crazy. Another person who we kind of grew up with, similar to our conversation we said with about Isaiah Rashad, you know, she's been around for a minute. She's been around for a minute, man. And I, you know, Oakland girl, you know, i got roots over there. So I'm just proud that, you know, she has, uh,
01:01:36
Speaker
I don't know, like she is, i mean, would you say a legacy act? that this Like she's real deal. I think like when it comes to R&B, like she's really- I wouldn't call her a legacy, but I would say she's a fully like fully flushed, established artist though. She's in her prime. She's in her prime. For sure.
01:01:53
Speaker
Absolutely. Like commercially, absolutely. I got to figure out what legacy act means. I got to look that up. cause I don't know what that means quite yet. I feel like legacy, again, because I said in the context of TDE, because he's not that old. Legacy is typically reserved for older older performers. Like Nas would be a legacy act.
01:02:14
Speaker
Jay-Z, clips are legacy. Oh, yeah. So Kalani's in her prime. She's in her prime. yeah this is I'm just looking at the album, what I'm hearing about this album, and I think Usher's on this joint. It's different. Yeah, Brandi. Yeah, she's in her prime. Turn the radio on, bro. It's three, four stations with Folded on constantly. Folded is... She is absolutely folding on this album.
01:02:41
Speaker
I would, I would. Yes. I would. Yes, it is. Just for the sake of like, just for the. Oh, this is platinum. You feel me? This is just for the sake of that. Oh yeah, it's number four. Oh yeah. Just for the sake of that. If nothing else, like yeah, you've got throw that on there. Because again, this is, this is her prime. Yeah, no, this. Got to capitalize on it. Yeah, no, this, this album seems like, this seems like the real deal for the R&B heads out there.
01:03:02
Speaker
um For me, oh, go ahead. Did anyone, what was you about to say BJ? You good? i i I tapped in a little bit. It's it's solid, bro. It's a really, really good album, bro. um Especially for like, don't know, I feel like when I used to think of K-Lani, the first thing that would come to mind was like her cheating on Kyrie and then like the the ah the song with Chance. What's that? The Way or You Way or something. But that's like 2015. That's like forever ago. And I feel like I know she's been- That long time ago. I know she like is a writer.
01:03:43
Speaker
so like a songwriter. So I know that she has like, and as you can definitely tell, like by the features on this album, like she's got strong connections throughout the industry um from like fucking established people from Usher to Missy Elliott to like in Big Sean and Leon Thomas. Like she definitely got crazy range in terms of people that she can tap onto. And the songs are fire. I really liked the joint with Leon Thomas and they call me back with T-Pain and Little John fire too. Damn, Leon Thomas on there too, bro. Dude, she's killing the game. she is She's killing the game. I would say right now, I would say right now,
01:04:28
Speaker
I think her she' doing a prime I would say her and Leon Thomas is kind of like the faces of R&B as of right now. Yeah. yeah She's in her prime. She's Goku fighting Frieza on whatever planet that was that was blowing up.
01:04:43
Speaker
I'm not ready to call her Goku yet, but is she definitely main character, though. um' i'm not I'm not giving it a Goku tag. Okay. okay her okay yeah Okay. I like that.
01:04:54
Speaker
I like that. All right, some new music as well for me, Reason, he dropped a new album, Moving Towards Love, Underscore Pink. I don't know. I hated the the name and the way it looked. I had shuffled on that bad boy and he earned my respect.
01:05:12
Speaker
And ah yeah, I definitely think people should give this a spin. Reason, former TDE signing, he is ah confidently moving away from that label, which I'm proud of. He's kind of just,
01:05:25
Speaker
making good music, good music chumps all, bro. And this project for me, I was like, whoa, like he had a lot of good features on there, you know, was solidified. It didn't seem rushed. Like I like it. He seemed like had to do what he was doing on here.
01:05:38
Speaker
So, yeah. If y'all got the, no, I didn't hear any singing on there. I didn't hear any singing on there at all. I heard really good raps, smooth beats, a lot of, ah obviously a lot of ah like love songs and romantic perspectives, things like that.
01:05:53
Speaker
um very like like lo-fi, jazzy, soulful beats, dude. like I was very impressed. I was very, very impressed. I'm looking at it, it's a contemporary R&B. Yeah.
01:06:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. he Yeah, you know, he he he does do some singing in his previous song. i didn't hear any on the songs that I was hearing. um Tired of ah tired of ah Blanking These Hoes, I'll Be There.
01:06:25
Speaker
I'll be there was Idea Pink. Yeah, like those two were like, they're really good. Like, just give it a spin. You know, I like Reason. i always liked Reason and I'm happy he's, a you know, I just respect people who are just like putting their head down and just getting to work. You know what I'm saying?
01:06:40
Speaker
Like, that's what he's doing. So... And then the last one, man, the last last thing for the new music that we got on here. mean, shit, boy, you know, you know. Talk about it. Check manifest. Talk about it. Featured the one and only. Talk about it. Featured the one and only. Talk about it. The exchange, boy. Praise room.
01:07:00
Speaker
I mean, shit. Go ahead, King. Talk about it. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead. First and foremost, it's on all DSPs. Anywhere you listen to music, go look it up.
01:07:11
Speaker
Right there. Yeah, it's official. We do this officially. Yep, Rage Room. Trek Manifest. T-R-E-K Manifest. um featuring the exchange no a um but yeah that's uh i love that song man it's uh it's really kind of a sentimental track to me man it was um you know ah some people that are listening know my homies know kind of my story and coming up through the scene and and gaining my confidence to kind of get to a place where eventually other artists that i respect and admire a lot will reach out to me
01:07:46
Speaker
for a feature which was really dope this was the first track that that had happened on um from artists that i really admire and respect in the city trek um he's been somebody that's kind of like taking me under his wing since i've been here and ah in some ways you know answers questions for me and stuff and um has just been a good resource on And some important dates coming up, you know, he's got the release coming up soon, um you know, and then I'm going to be performing with him on this track on the 21st of May um when he has his little album release party, which is going to be really cool. It'll be live band and stuff. So one of my first real performances and
01:08:27
Speaker
I'm just really excited for it, man. The track is fire. um I love it. It's, you know, talks about, you know, I think it touches on a lot of the feelings that I think we as people are feeling right now, you know, where you just got to sometimes get in that rage room and let it out and, you know, fucking feel how you feel. And sometimes that screaming, whatever it is, you know, it's all right to feel how you feel and not be okay. Just knowing um in the words of track, you know, just knowing that,
01:08:57
Speaker
a new days on the horizon and that's going to be okay at some point. So, um, yeah, yeah, I really love it. Check that shit out. Check that shit out, boy. Hell yeah. We gonna have to- We gonna have to put the link, we have to put the link to the track and damn near put the link to the ah to the to the listening party the to the to the listening party when we drop the YouTube. So people can jump in.
01:09:21
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. We gotta stream that, run that, put the now be j support the gang. Wow, that's a good idea. Yes sir. Okay. Yeah, I'm tight now. But you know, let him do what he need to do, BJ. You know, let him- Hey, what you mean? You know, let BJ's little man to rock. love it. I love it. Yeah, yeah. made the song. Now it's on us to push it out there. What you mean? He did what he need to do. What you talking about? You're right, my bad. Now we do what we gotta do. I miss the game.
01:09:50
Speaker
I just miss you, bro. I miss you, bro. miss you, bro. We back. It was good. We back, boy. Damn. Who else gonna tell you that? All right, man. i Yeah, that's a fact. That's a fact. I love y'all, man. We killed that shit. Good episode. Anything else that y'all wanted to get off your chest? You know what saying?
01:10:07
Speaker
Exchange news. you know what I'm saying? Smooth Chicago news. We good? That's it, man. Run that, run that, man. Run that exchange up, man. up, man. Hey.
01:10:20
Speaker
Thank you for your patience. Thanks for tuning back in, you know what I'm saying? The Common Thread Podcast. We exchange, you know what I'm saying? For you. Go stream that shit.
01:10:32
Speaker
Rage Room. Go stream that shit. You what mean? Shout out, Trek. We just appreciate it, man. Shout out, Trek Manifest, man. That'd be easy out there. love.
01:10:43
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Love, love, love.