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Hip Hop 50
Step into the heart of Hip Hop history withour latest episode. Picture this: 50 years of hip-hop and we're celebrating it at the heart of the Bronx - Yankee Stadium. We kick off this episode pouring our thoughts on today's trending topics, from Alabama's buzz to Wayne Brady's recent revelation about his pansexuality. But that's not all. We also engage in some serious talk about the Lizzo body shaming controversy, and Tory Lane's decade-long sentence.
Did you catch the hip-hop event at Yankee Stadium? It was a night to remember, with legends like Common, KRS-One, Ghostface, and Method Man lighting up the stage. The cultural cocktail of attendees was a sight to behold and a true testament to Hip-Hop’s global impact. And let's not forget those unexpected moments of brilliance - Doug E. Fresh's beatboxing skills, Kid-Capri's scratch session, and Nas' outstanding performance. We were left in awe and surprise, given Nas wasn't even billed for the event!
As we wrap up, we take a moment to relive and review the unforgettable evening. We saw performances that ranged from TI's flawless execution of verses to Fat Joe's infectious energy, Run-DMC headlining and even the surprise appearance of the enigmatic Ms. Lauryn Hill. But beyond the music and the performances, it's the spirit of unity and celebration that truly captured our hearts. We also speculate about who might grace the stage at next year's event and discuss why hip-hop artists can never really outgrow their roots. So, grab your headphones and join us as we celebrate, critique, and anticipate the future of hip-hop.
Other Topics Discussed:
- Tajiri Jose's big booty
- The Hip Hop 50 Live show was the most diverse show ever
- Derek Jeter makes an appearance
- Cardi B lawsuit
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Yo, happy birthday to hip hop. We celebrating hip hop's 50th anniversary. This is the coach, as your boy, jeff, my man, ant, was good, we all right man 50 years in the bag, damn. Then we're also celebrating our anniversary.
Speaker 2:three years On this date, we opened it the day to hip hop. Isn't that beautiful.
Speaker 1:We opened it like a week after hip hop, so hip hop's birthday is the 11th, we opened up the 16th, I believe.
Speaker 2:We're good man. We was just in the womb for a little bit too long. We came out of 16, we was born on hip hop date. Don't worry about it. We fine, we are just fine. And I heard well, we're gonna get to that. We're gonna talk about everything hip hop promised you. We gonna get that. We're gonna get this all squared away. But what's going on? This week's news, when the fuck shit.
Speaker 1:Well, you talking about the Alabama shit.
Speaker 2:Get the Alabama, get the Alabama.
Speaker 1:We got the Alabama shit. We got Wayne Brady announcing that he's pansexual. What else you wanna talk about?
Speaker 2:I was like I thought it was gonna feel bad for little, but I don't blame, I like some shit, the body shaming, but yeah it's kind of weird, your whole body positivity. Then you're like, hey, shame me, you're dancing, but I don't think it's her, it's really more like her dance manager or whatever. But if she's co-signing the bullshit, I guess it's her fault too. You're subject to the crime. Even if you wasn't a part of it, you're just gonna shoot the motherfucker. Don't mean you wasn't there, you was able to. Nigga got shot so full on YouTube, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when I heard that news I was like yo, this big old chick is body shaming people. This shit didn't even make sense to me.
Speaker 2:I mean she gotta fight back about it. I mean she gotta do a Cardi doing Like Cardi's, like she went to that judge, she like could you got the-.
Speaker 1:Cardi's out here throwing microphones at people's heads bro.
Speaker 2:She throwing microphones at people. And then her, what? Tasha, whatever the fucking name is she won a definition lawsuit against her for $4 million and she went to the judge. She's like, nah, I'm not backing down from the shit, I want every fucking dollar she got. And Tasha's like I'm struggling with all of this, I can't pay it off. And she like so you owe me money. Like what's the problem? You lost. Like if I were lost, I'd have paid you, but you lost. So you need to find $4 million or make you a sex tape or sell drugs or do something, but you're gonna give me my money.
Speaker 2:Don't try to do this file for bank Shit. That shit not gonna fly, babe. Hmm, yeah, but that little shit's weird, though. Like how do you preach body positivity? But all of a sudden you're like you know y'all doing some weird shit. I don't get that. I'm trying to wrap my head around it, but I don't. And the thing because of that shit. That's why they canceled the main America thing in Philadelphia, probably. Yeah, she's supposed to be the headline. And they're like nah, we can't do it. Like, hey, man, like it got all these other acts and all the shit lined up and you're gonna cancel the whole tour.
Speaker 1:But like I mean seriously, what is the deal with my issues? Yeah, we gotta wait for people to forget. They don't forget, man.
Speaker 2:Oh, I mean, look, look like I said Alabama is a high, like it's a high purposeful topic, I guess you could say. But I guess kind of the main story if you're gonna talk about music, like Tory got 10 years, Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Mm mm, mm. You made an example of him. You wanna shoot people in the foot.
Speaker 2:I just don't like people caping for people Like every time somebody get arrested, like free your homeboy, like they try to rationalize crimes. Like this is what, like a jury said, and like I said, when it comes to jury trials, you have to have the most convincing story. And he didn't seem contrite, he didn't try to fight it, he didn't seem like he felt any kind of way about it, maybe because he felt he wasn't guilty. But if they seen this woman understand crime because it's been shot in the foot, you can try to drag it whatever you could about a pass, but that don't make no difference. That should happen and that's what they said and that's what they convicted them of.
Speaker 2:Now, like, oh man, free toy man, they sitting in the bro back. I'm like, come on, y'all, come on. This little nigga not your hero man, this little small fellow is not your people, you know. Like his music, that's it. And like people gotta stop that shit. Like that, speak more about somebody character. Like, just because you like his music, you think that you think the system of all people trying to rear, roll Tory Lane's, of all people to make an example out of him, like, come on, now I'm gonna ask you a question Can you name five Tory Lane songs at the top of your head? I?
Speaker 1:can't name one, how about three? I cannot name one, two, not one.
Speaker 2:Okay, you're making my point, Thank you. Unless you're a fan of his, like that, then of course. But if you're not really rocking like that, it's not gonna make a whole bunch of differences. Tory Lane's like he's a guy who did music, he had the thing popping during the pandemic and so on and so forth. But I mean, is he making that kind of lasting cultural impact where you're like, oh man, you started to see him go away.
Speaker 2:Man, and I'm not for anybody trying to. You know, stand by this unjust system. But if they say you committed a crime, you committed a crime. Man, that's all there is to it. I'm sorry to hear and I'm sad to hear it, but that's what happened. Like, what do you want him to say? What do you want him to do? They convicted him, he committed a crime. He gone to jail. They said for three to 10 years. I don't think he gonna serve all 10. I know he'll be probably out, maybe four or possibly, like that. And even that thing comes up. They were like you know what? He gonna drop the most fire album and get back. We just love picking on people's pain, like every time Mary goes through some shit. They be like she gonna drop a great album Like can't? She just hurt and she's reflecting in the music. It doesn't mean it's gonna be great, it's her outlet. So I don't know what he's gonna do when he gets out. But shit, it's gonna be a while to know that much.
Speaker 1:But fuck all that man. I wanna talk about this hip hop 50 live show.
Speaker 2:Cause the culture was there.
Speaker 1:We was live.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Before we get to that, let me give a shout out to these culture crew members man.
Speaker 2:Sure, absolutely please, please.
Speaker 1:Some of them haven't updated their credit cards, but I'm gonna still mention them anyway. All right.
Speaker 2:Stop saying that. No, please stop. It's not like we scamming Nah nah. We ain't get y'all paid this week, so you gotta stick it in the shit out of God what I'm just saying.
Speaker 1:You technically not a culture crew member if your card declines, but I'm gonna give you a shout out. Let's see. Let me just do random. Let's start with our newest culture crew member, raz AKA Razir J. Then we got Anonymous AKA Shell. Remain Unnamed or nameless. We got the nameless member Shoutouts to Mikey sheet, resident guest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, baby, growing fast, fuck boy word Shut up shoutouts to D block hell wig.
Speaker 1:Shout out to King Kaiser the third.
Speaker 2:They gonna be in the joint this year with joint the football fantasy, mm-hmm, yeah, hopefully good, can he always talking cash it. I love them too, they funny shoutouts to Taj Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Shoutouts to Melly Mel.
Speaker 2:Mel's yes and last but not least EJ deal, aka DJ screws.
Speaker 1:Welcome to show, brother. All right. So let me tell you what happened, man. So I was at the hip-hop live at Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, new York City, usa be extend the building?
Speaker 1:Yes, August 11th and it was the actual birth of hip-hop. That was their birthday, 50th birthday, mm-hmm. It was a stacked card right, like the. The names that was billed to be on the ship was already a stacked card right. Yes, to me, what made it even greater was all the surprises, like I'm not one who goes to a lot of shows, a lot of concerts, but it's gonna be tough to beat this Like I don't know what show I'm gonna go to next. That's gonna be able to top this.
Speaker 2:I Think it was designed that way. I think it's. You know, it's it's top able. I can't lie, it's top able. It's hard to say that shit out loud, but it's all right bro, it's gonna be hard bro.
Speaker 1:So like for what you pay for. You pay for, you know, and obviously you're gonna pay a pretty penny, as Yankee Stadium is New York, but I paid, you know, just for what. I thought what I was gonna see, I thought it was worth it. But then you know, when you go some you go when you go to a show and you get like one surprise, you're like, oh shit, this was worth that. You get two surprises. You're like damn, I'm getting more than my money's worth. But when you get like a bunch of surprises, like I saw, then you're like shit, and I'm gonna start it from the top, you know. So we get to the Bronx and you got a park, far as hell. You got to pay these $50 right to get to the good, to pay you to park your car somewhere. First thing, dudes get to the money like man, and people know that. You know, as we're walking to the shit we got, we see tired to hear you bro, so to hear he's walking with like a home girl to hear Jose.
Speaker 1:Okay. So here he goes, a and I'm. I don't mean to Objectify women when I say this. She had the most Fattest ass I have ever seen. And I don't mean fad like an obese, I mean the most bubbly is the biggest booty I have ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 2:Hey man, hey, that's some good payment there.
Speaker 1:And I was with my wife, so I can say this because she was looking at it too we was like goddamn.
Speaker 2:Look, it's like, it's like going to museum you can't notice, not notice to like the beautiful art and the wall, like, oh, that's okay, like sometimes, like ooh, yeah, it was one of those moments, good see, but you didn't creep out, you didn't take a picture of me, so proud.
Speaker 1:No, no, no no.
Speaker 2:It could have went out, but she didn't do that.
Speaker 1:We wasn't gonna be. Yeah, no, we're gonna fan now. But I was like yo look at her. She passed right by us and she was trying to get inside the stadium without actually getting in the line where the rest of us was trying To get it right. So she's like trying to you know me and go to like where the celebrities go through and the VIP. I don't know how that shit worked out for her. I wasn't trying to pay attention to, we just kept going.
Speaker 2:I Really wanted she rolled up without a ticket. Like I'm to hear you, jose, they'd be. Like I'm to hear you Jose. I don't have for these dudes.
Speaker 1:One of them got to give me in we got run DMC up here.
Speaker 2:We got a whole bunch of people here, unless one of them coming out with you. Look man, I need to see your phone to that ticket because you got to pay like airballs drop on ticket, massive buy ticket real quick coming side, but no, so we go to Billy's. Bar and grill and lounge, whatever was that supposed to be like name? Like the Billy Martin.
Speaker 1:I think so, because it's right across the street from the stadium. Okay, you know, and it's. It's a sports bar, whatever.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:The block 947 was doing the pre-show party there. I.
Speaker 2:Got to get them credit, though Could, for a throwback hip-hop station. They're doing really good. Yeah, I like them.
Speaker 1:But it's the art demographic. It's like people 30 and up. You know I'm saying yes, exactly yes and that's what you know. This, this is that this celebration was for us, the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The whole lineup was mostly old heads. I don't think I saw anybody under 30. I mean, I did see a couple of kids that were there with their parents. They probably couldn't get a babysitter or something. You know. I saw some young cats but, you know, for the most part it was everybody older than 30.
Speaker 2:It wasn't. It wasn't a crowd, it was. It was a celebration. Hip-hop for 50 years, so a lot of y'all just being born, so it wasn't gonna fit for y'all. Better get it.
Speaker 1:Anyway. So the block party pre-show was from two to six, so we was there like at four, five. We got that chilling with cipher sounds and them. I could go on my social media and see the pictures and you know gates opened a Yankee Stadium at four. The show supposed to start at six. You know black people though you know minorities in general, black and brown people ain't nobody showing up at six, right, even though the show supposed to start at six ain't nobody showing up at seven. Hell, half of the people wasn't showing up at a either. And I felt bad because you know the opening acts were like the real old, with Mellie Mel, you know I'm saying MC Shan and all of them, the you know the furious five, and Roxanne Chantet. It was all performing early on and I feel bad. I'm like yo, these people is out here killing it and it's like I'm not gonna say it was an empty stadium Because it wasn't, but people are still trying to come in, people. You know it wasn't like as packed as it would have as it got later.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:It's like half empty and they up there destroying it and I'm like, damn we. You know they're not really Performing in front of the people that they should be performing I. So whatever common comes out, he kills it. He even spits a freestyle off the top he does. I used to love her mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I'm like you know what be dope if he does fucking, if he does the disc that he did for fucking cube, and then cube comes out To and that would have been anyway. No, it didn't happen, but he does. I used to love her. He spits a freestyle off the top and then at the end he says you know, he, we're here in New York, this is where real hip hop is from. And I look at my wife and I tell and I say you see, this is how he be starting beef with the West Coast.
Speaker 1:You know, this is why West Coast motherfuckers take offense when common says some shit like that anyway. But he says this is where real hip hop is from. Okay, cool.
Speaker 2:Wait, it's funny like, yeah, come on man, even hip hop is built on beef. You know good and damn well, like common and Q was gonna piece it up there like boy, fuck you, I still don't like your ass.
Speaker 1:You knew that you knew it, one of the first surprises and I mean and I can't even say it was really a surprise Was KRS one, because he wasn't built to be there, right? But in the back of my mind and I was telling myself, I was like yo, you can't have a hip hop anniversary show in the Bronx, new York, and not have Chris there. No, it's impossible. So he comes out I forgot who brought him out and he did a couple. He did, like you know, sounded a police or whatever. He did a couple songs bridges over, and he did the bridges over. And it all of Everybody in the audience was like no, chris, don't do it. Don't do it because Shann had performed. Yeah, shann had performed earlier. He's there, it's peaceful, everybody's, you know peace and love. And he does the bridges over. And I'm thinking he was gonna change the words. Nah, he ain't changed the words.
Speaker 2:All day like nine. This beef is hip hop is gonna last forever.
Speaker 1:Shann and Molly mall. Like the acting, like they gave ya.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh damn, chris, and I'm watching the live show. Oh yeah, that's why they did yeah, it's live, it's a live show B.
Speaker 1:So he did. They only did a couple songs that slid out mm-hmm, the first biggest pop, because you know they had. When it comes to the Wu Tang, you never know who's gonna show up, right, because there's so many of them. You know the big names, you Rayquan, math. These guys usually never show up. They doing movies, they doing whatever, so they usually they'll they be touring other places, they don't be having time, so you never know who's gonna be there now from the Wu Tang. So it was ghostface. He was doing his church as the ghost and all his. You know, I'm saying, or his Iron man shit.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I think who it was a cap a dime. I think cap a Dono was with him.
Speaker 2:It's cappa. Cap came on late.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then they play, you know, wu Tang clang ain't nothing fuck with. But then they play Patek, your neck right. They did the ODB verses and shit. And then when it goes, it's the method man for short, mr Maff, move it on your left. And then Maff comes on stage and he got like a Yankee. How he had like a thing, had a. Yeah, he was wearing white, but I think how, like the Yankee pinstripe, shit on yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, pinstripe, join on in a white, be the methods. Acting like a whole cuz on the live stream. He's like he was talking to body flashing the six pack, your whole back your hope.
Speaker 1:That's the first big pop of the night. I mean I lost my shit. You know Maff is my favorite. I lost my shit but then. But you know, the women went crazy when Maff got on stage, like here's the thing with Mac.
Speaker 2:Like if your girl like slept with Matthew, like I get it, like I'm not even mad, I like I like I gotta eat that one. Yeah, you take it in the chair. I'm probably gonna ask you about, like was a nigga good? Like come on, like did he sign the W or some shit? Like I want to know this is what happened if you had sex with a wall people.
Speaker 1:Did he make you sign an NDA? You know me.
Speaker 2:You're right, right. Like you can't tell, nobody could tell me, cuz we got like Privilege, could be married. But like, if they didn't fuck you, like it's okay. Like, like, as a matter of fact, I'm gonna daft you up like you bag Maff, good for you, girl, you got a one up on me. Yeah, I'm proud of you. Like, I can't stop that one boy.
Speaker 1:You know that on my he comes out, the women go absolutely fucking bat shit. They want him to get naked on the stage and shit. I'm like calm the fuck down. Yeah, he's ripping, so he does his shit and he's why he's throwing water at the fan. You know how method, you know ready method known for that shit. Mm-hmm. I would have liked to see red man come out too, especially since we were in.
Speaker 2:You know he's from Jersey, but anyway they got so many 50 because they got so many like hip-hop, 50 count like conscious going on. Yeah, one of them, part of this one. Oh, it's gonna bring me to complain ahead, though, but go ahead.
Speaker 1:So they do a whole bunch of Wu Tang songs and he bounces. The next biggest pop that was received was when kid Cudi brought out Derek fucking Jeter the captain. They'll copy time. Derek Jeter came out on that stage and motherfuckers lost a shit and they started Derek Jeter chance, because, again, you're not expecting you know, as Yankee stated, but you're not expecting Jeter, who lives in Florida now you know I'm saying to show up to a fucking hip-hop concert. So he comes up and he gets on the mic, and they're not even letting him talk because everybody's screaming. He's just trying to say, you know, happy birthday to hip-hop. You know 50 years, hopefully we'll be back in another 50 years, and that's it. You know he keeps it short. He's never really gonna talk a lot.
Speaker 2:You know some amazing thing about him. Like this is judges team, but like Derek, still owns this town.
Speaker 1:He owns his motherfucker bro. Because why? Because he got the championships. You ain't shit here until you get to the championships. You know I'm saying they showed the stream.
Speaker 2:They was losing the fucking mind. I'm like lost eight minds bro.
Speaker 1:Like this motherfucker don't rap, like it's a rap thing, like. He said a couple of words. He dapped up kid Cudi and walked out and kid Cudi put some pictures up on the screen of him and Jeter from back in the day and they both looked at young as hell. Jeter was still playing and kid Cudi DJ, and he took a picture with Jeter. They put that shit up on the screen. Oh my god, I'll say this, though the shit starts at 6, right? Like I said, a lot of people ain't gonna show up to 8, 9, 10 people Still coming in. I was there early, right, because I don't want to miss nothing right pay my money.
Speaker 1:I'm not trying to miss nothing. The shit all this shit. The shit officially started at 6. The shit did not finish till 2 in the morning. Do the math that's an entire work day.
Speaker 2:That's eight hours bro sit out in the park. Look, that's a work, that's a shift.
Speaker 1:I was at yank. I was inside Yankee Stadium for over eight hours bro.
Speaker 1:You was employed by hip hop tired as a motherfucker and If you saw the live stream you could probably tell. And again, the live stream doesn't do the shit justice, right, because I was there and it's louder in real life than it. Then it would seem to be in the live stream. It was deceiving. It looked quieter but it got to a point where by like around midnight, like the crowd was starting to get dead. We were tired, people were like falling asleep, people were leaving. I saw some people leave before they even got to the fucking Cream of the crop shit. Wayne comes out. He does his rock star shit, right.
Speaker 2:You don't like Wayne, like that, but I love when you perform and Wayne correct.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not a big Wayne fan, but I give it to him, he did his thing up there. He sang, he did all his hits, he did lollipop and he did all his shit. You know, I'm saying, and he brought out Corey guns, corey guns ripped it.
Speaker 2:But actually it was funny, he's like. He's like they think this is Peter Gunn's son, peter guns perform to.
Speaker 1:They brought him out and he did his. You know his Uptown baby. This motherfuckers been eating off the same song for over 20 years with Lord Tariq. No one. Who the fuck knows? Peter don't even know. Probably that's Peter's song at this point.
Speaker 2:Like Lord Tariq is on the episode of cheaters and some shit, peter's like no, we can't do this, no more.
Speaker 1:The only thing I was. I was I'll say this before I continue I was a little disappointed because, like I said, it's the old head crowd, right.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:And there's another thing. I Know hip-hop is a black genre as a black culture. This was the most diverse shit I have ever seen.
Speaker 2:Tons of whites.
Speaker 1:I saw tons of whites. I saw blacks. I saw Latinos. Cuz cuz. Fat Joe came out with the Puerto Rican flag and fucking Puerto Rican. It was when, crazy in them.
Speaker 2:You can hear, even in live stream, even at the sound, what you hear like this it's not wet by left and right.
Speaker 1:That was racist. Oh, I saw Asians though. I seen Asian motherfuckers dancing to this shit, bro, and you know they big Wu Tang fans. You know Wu Tang is heavily influenced on the Asian culture. You know I'm saying and the kung fu flicks and all of that, but I was like, I was telling my wife, I'm like yo, I'm walking up and down this bitch. I see Asians, white, spanish, blacks every goddamn body is the most diverse shit I've ever seen in one building.
Speaker 2:Because you got to the core. Hip-hop, what it's been around so long. It's touched the world that people, no matter what race, gender, color, creed, whatever, if you are hip-hop, you are going to be influenced by it, whether in clothes, art, style, music, design, anything like. We've broken barriers that people never thought we do like. This is something that started on Sedgwick Avenue. Now it's it's. It's starring in Yankee stadium With the world watching, streaming all over the place, with people, like I said, from from all kind of background, just showing up to show love to this.
Speaker 1:That's the impact, that's the whole point of that concert and, like I said at the beginning, you going like damn, it's not gonna be that many people here. I was like now you gotta wait till later. There's gonna be easily 40 to 50 thousand people here because you could, you gotta remember there's a lot of seats on the actual field. Yes, so there was thousands of people just on the field With the stages and they got to a point like around 10 11. I'm looking around and I'm like yo, aside from a Yankee playoff game, this is the most packed I've ever seen Yankee stadium. Obviously, when the Yankees are in the playoffs, the shig is loud and this shit is crazy packed, right, but last night was fucking packed and again, I don't know if you can tell that from watching the live stream.
Speaker 2:Yeah it was a full house Because the live stream is still up on mass appeal on youtube. So what happens is like if you watch the fuck the six, seven o'clock hour, they'll come behind Lupe, they'll come behind common and show the crowd it's not that many by time you get around to like Wayne and you don't see nothing but camera phone. It's just lit the fuck up. It's everywhere. All everybody was out there. Uncle Snoop was out there doing his snoop shit. I was mad, though, because it could. He was standing putting up his little sign and her colors. Come on, I'm like he's gonna bring an icy, but like he didn't do it, I was disappointed.
Speaker 1:He has strippers up on a snoop. Had strippers on the stage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yo, he was just rapping and all of a sudden the stream. You see two poles and trippers like hold up.
Speaker 1:We actually, we actually ran into them outside when we was walking back to our car. The strippers is out there With a big-ass thing, a luggage, walking down the shit, what they still with the outfits on, and I'm like these fucking bitches, bro, part of my language, these, these strippers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but hurry up, you're about to get robbed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like they don't even got limo service or nothing like how much they getting paid to go up on stage and be strippers for snoop set and after the show they got a drag day luggage and they walking out in the regular streets trying to get to the parking lot.
Speaker 2:Like snoop couldn't get him car service and shit, like I'm on stage for you, I can't like. Anyway, a little something.
Speaker 1:I, like Lupe, says one of my favorite ones he did all his hits, you know, he did superstar, he did kick push and he did, you know, hip-hop save my life. But again the place was impacted at that time, so I felt like it was a wasted performance. Him calm and I felt like it was wasted.
Speaker 2:And those are two of my favorite shits now all of these fellas get paid a little bit, right, I'm assuming. So Okay, I feel, because this is this is actually my problem with the women of hip-hop set. I feel that if you perform 40 percent of your record, you should give 40 percent of your pay, because little came to like eight bars stopped, six bars stopped.
Speaker 1:She did a bunch of songs right, but she went through the whole. She would do like a right one verse. She did like her shit with mob deep. She would do like her verse and she did prodigies verse.
Speaker 2:Right, and she wouldn't even do it, like she would tear couple and let the crowd the crowd. Yeah, but. But once you saw a mess up there, you saw Ghost doing all his shit. He didn't skip a line. Wayne didn't skip a line. No, a deck didn't skip a line. I'm like this is what I'm paying for. I want y'all to rap. I don't want y'all to say some shit and hold the mic off. Everybody do it, like everybody. There was a lot of that. There was a lot of that going on.
Speaker 2:I hated that like like when kim going to start doing that goofy ass dancing shit like. All right, I get it, it's fun, that's part of her trademark. At this point it is, but I don't want to see you fucking say it was like a wax coach. I came here, you rap the worst part.
Speaker 1:The worst part is when they do that and the crowd doesn't know the lyric or they're too tired to even bother. Right, which happened, which happened later on in the night, like by by one o'clock in the morning. Everybody's like tied and they trying to let the crowd like finish the verse for me, like nah, I'm. Uh fuck, we came to see you do the verse. Don't let me. I'm not trying to do the verse like dog.
Speaker 2:We paid you to rap. If you, if you want me to go up there and rap that, give me a contract, I'll do it for you. I know all your shit dies. I got you but but but now I didn't do that. Now I actually wrapped his way through his shit. So it's good.
Speaker 1:So then we get. So Wayne does his rockstar shit and he's like um, you know, let's, let's give a shout out to the. He basically was giving a shout out to the cops. Like, you know, let's, let's give a round of applause to the cops. You know they're protecting us. They were like boom, like no, fuck the police. Yeah, they were like.
Speaker 2:Like I wear my hand for this shit. Wayne, calm down, I ain't doing that for you.
Speaker 1:And when snoop comes on, he does his, uh, his, his deep cover shit. Mm-hmm and it's basically saying it's a 1-n-8 7 in the motherfucking cop.
Speaker 2:I was looking around?
Speaker 1:yeah, I was looking around. I'm like damn, I mean the black cops and shit was bumping.
Speaker 2:The white cops was like mmm, they had their hand on a gun and shit, these little two tents, like y'all got to relax, like a look Y'all, y'all they had a servant protect tonight the brothers. We gonna work this out, but because you was, it one lot of no one, not a while shit had happened right.
Speaker 1:That's the none I was gonna get to, that this was the most peaceful shit I've ever seen. Bro, I Ain't seen out one fight, I ain't seen out one argument, and granted, I don't you know, I wasn't walking around the entire stadium so I don't know but I walked around a good majority and I, you know, and I saw a lot of people when it was peace. Like I said, it was whites, blacks dancing together, asians it was, you know, latinos. I ain't seen no confrontations. Everybody smoking weed. It was so much weed.
Speaker 2:I knew once illegalized that shit like you might just sign up for that contact high cuz. This is happy everybody around you.
Speaker 1:You see them lighting up. They were smoke. Put it out later. They bring it out again. Finishing roaches Snoop there was on stage and he smoked at least three fucking joints up there.
Speaker 2:Wayne came out there with a whole blunt this hand, like a cigarette, like like a Johnny Carson.
Speaker 1:It started like yo, but Snoop was flicking the shit. Snoop would take a couple hits and then just flick it. I'm like who's he throwing this shit? I was just throwing it on the floor.
Speaker 2:Because he has entirely too much weed with Khalifa came out he was smoking.
Speaker 1:They brought a hoodie with the buggy. What is a boogie with the hoodie? Yeah, and he's like oh, you know he's. I didn't even realize he was like from down the block. They was like. You know, I grew up down the street from here right there there's a like.
Speaker 2:I saw some shit in the stream like people started crying.
Speaker 1:They gave him an award. They gave them the game, the proclamation of the city of some shit by the mayor or whatever the fuck.
Speaker 2:Oh, I fuck out of here. Like I was hearing the thing and I was reading comments. Like people started crying with Cleveland started doing that. Paul Walker, shit, yeah, they love that. That. That been a long time like it's a weird set to play at this concert, but I get it. But the whole thing when he did that and show all the people past like big XX pop and all of them like I, like I get it. Now it makes a whole lot sense like, yeah, so I remember what once done you hear all the clapping in the background.
Speaker 1:Once people start cheering, I'm like yeah, yeah, that was needed now, when was one of the headliners so by the time he went up, like we was already tired, right. Then ice cube comes on and I'm like fuck people like falling asleep and ice cube killed it. He did all his hits. He's trying to get the crowd up. He's like I want me to do another song. Yeah, yeah, I want me to do a couple more. Yeah, like we was tired, bro. It was already like midnight right, it's not as fault.
Speaker 2:It's literally like I'm like y'all been out here for six hours. Hell, you be at a job. Those last two hours be hard drag it.
Speaker 1:Now you're like ah, that's some rap shit. You know you love it. He was out there with dub C.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Basically being his hype man and shit he did a bunch of. He did like maybe like five song. You know today was a good day.
Speaker 2:We be clever Yep, some NWA shit too.
Speaker 1:Fuck the police. Crazy motherfucker name ice cube he did that. Wow At the Wayne set was like yeah exactly Love the police and cube followed it up with that again. I was looking around, let me see I want to rise breaking out this motherfucker I checked. You gotta check the element. I was checking the temperature and he did what's the one? You know how we do it. We do it. Yeah, he had the lyrics. He had the lyrics up on the screen. That's not a lot, let's follow along.
Speaker 2:It's like y'all are tired. Read along with snoop Right, we're gonna along with ice cube and his word at the word. It was word at the word.
Speaker 1:It was. Yeah, it was a verbatim. I was like I appreciate this, because some of them words I don't be knowing what he'd be saying. I was like great.
Speaker 2:Like just read, read along with cube. No, that's it. I like this. You know this is smart. It's an older crowd. They tie, don't feel like rapping. They can so long to long man.
Speaker 1:So he finishes. And the problem I had I was like yo, why they keep doing these intermissions. So somebody will come on do a set and they do an intermission or they'll have a DJ just scratching playing. Whatever people go Get beer, people go to the bathroom. But I felt like the intermissions were man long, sometimes five, ten, fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm like yo, we're getting wrestlers here, like I'm like alright, who's hasn't showed up yet that we're waiting for.
Speaker 2:So, anyway.
Speaker 1:So cubes and snoop and snoop bring slick Rick out and they both do ladi-dadi. Snoop does the first half of his version and slick Rick finishes it off with the second half of his version.
Speaker 2:Hold on, hold on timeout. Was that a gigantic diamond tag On his what you mean? That slick hat on the patch like was yeah, like no, no, no. On his neck was like it looked like a Luggage tag, but it's like this fucking big.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was big as fuck.
Speaker 2:Jesus.
Speaker 1:Okay, but even his patch looked a glamorous.
Speaker 2:Had a iced out patch, but that's slick.
Speaker 1:That's Rick so they do ladi-dadi and the whole time. Dougie is the one doing the beat.
Speaker 1:Dougie fresh is doing the beat box, right, they human beat box himself at the end, when they finish the song, this motherfucker goes into the book. I don't know if I've ever seen, and this shit was the longest fucking beat box and shit I have ever seen, bro. He went on and on and on for like five, ten minutes. Bro, I'm like yo, does this dude breathe? And he did that. He held one note and he held one note without breaking For the longest time. We was like, oh, and that the crowd. That's when the crowd started getting hyped up again because we was falling asleep. But when he started doing that beatbox and shit, the crowd got hyped up again.
Speaker 2:We was like, go, go, go go Dougie, and he's counting it off and keeps going, keep going, keep going, keep counting off like damn.
Speaker 1:One point snooper was like Damn you gonna end this shit, bro. I need to go home, like no.
Speaker 2:He kept rolling. I was like god, leave man, but that's Dougie for you.
Speaker 1:He did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was hard. That was great. I love that part. That was honestly when I watched it, watch the shit I was like my favorite part, like that's hip hop and like his purest form. He like he be murdered, that like, and the only person to know that kind of breath control, probably busted. But you know how to do it like that right, like fuck, no.
Speaker 1:So that was a highlight of the night. Kick-cuddy killed it on the. He was scratching. They had. They gave him his own set. Kick-cuddy was up there scratching like a motherfucker. I was cuz. At one point I was like yo, they should really have like Jazzy Jeff on here or DJ Premier do a scratching session. Yeah, nah, but kick-Cuddy did his thing.
Speaker 2:Which is impressive, because you don't think about him like that. But you know he loves. I ain't think right, I ain't think he had it in him like that.
Speaker 1:No, I think about dudes that could really scratch again. I think about Jazzy Jeff, I think about Premier. I think about some of these cats. I really don't think about kick-Cuddy, but kick-Cuddy just a premiere D nice.
Speaker 2:Clark Kent, tony touch, they were there. What can't. Was it Clark Kent? Was it playing shit? Yeah, clark was killing her. I like to sit.
Speaker 1:So then the fire, then it was down to the nitty gritty, after snooping ice cubanum, then it was down to the final two, and really it was down to the final one Cuz this person I mean, I kind of knew he was gonna be there cuz they kept mentioning him, but he wasn't billed to be there, right, and it was Nas. And before they presented him they said yo, I think it was kick-Cuddy. Before I bring this dude out, you know I gotta give him his proxies. You know he put this together.
Speaker 2:This was his idea and I was like, really Like I didn't know that as a matter of fact, if you click on the mass appeal stream later, right, what's gonna happen that you, you're always gonna see the same sprite commercial with Nas over and over and over. It's the same one. It's him rock, him and a couple other people, but it's him every time you do like it goes commercial break. It's the same sprite commercial with Nas in it every single time. Y'all got cheated cuz y'all didn't know. But in the last one said coming up next Nas, yeah, when I saw, I'm like, oh, if you there, I know, I know you like we ain't know, but we were, we heard rumbling, you hear people like on their phones.
Speaker 1:You know I'm saying they probably read it somewhere on the phones or they went online and like, oh shit, now supposed to be here, like word.
Speaker 2:And that's good cuz the prior lot goes about the bouncer, like you know what it's one in the morning.
Speaker 1:It's one in the morning. At this point we're tired as fuck. Right and again, long ass intermission. Then his name comes up on the screen with some thunder through Nas. We like, oh shit, he's coming. Yeah, ready for Nas. We like, yeah. Then he finally comes out with New York State of mind. You know he comes out. He has like a little ASMR fly for teas or some shit on real New York. It's a real New York.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the camera flies like like Vesto under the arms, out I'm like Timberlens and shit. A lot of things had on Timb like those.
Speaker 1:shit is really not that comfortable, though it was yeah, it's too hot to be up there, so he does a lot of shit from Illmatic New York State of mind Represent, represent. He had the crowd again. We're starting to get into it. We was all screaming represent, represent. With that he did the message. He did you could hate me now.
Speaker 2:See me full of Gus yep. Mm-hmm Okay then rewind, rewind, rewind, rewind. I'm sorry like I don't like hate me. Now I really don't, but just the way did he start something funny? Like you hate me, I'm a hate you too simple that die motherfucker, die motherfucker, die. Like did he this? Even you? This shit is hilarious. He turned into two pock for that part real quick for that one part and the fact that nigga did Uchiwale. I was like you can leave it off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, hold up. Because first of all was like yo, It'll be dope if puffy comes out. But he, of course he did. He's too big for that. But yeah, he does Uchiwale. And then he does the shit with genuine, which are the two. These two songs are by far my two least favorite now songs of all time. And he does them back to back, does Uchiwale and then he's like oh, where my ladies at.
Speaker 1:I'm like, really, this is the song you're gonna play for the ladies Like it sounds like you're talking down to these bitches, pardon.
Speaker 2:He was about to you, but was my lady that, like what you about to play black girl off?
Speaker 1:like what the fuck is you do? Did not play back girl. Oh, he played Shawty name. What's your price? You could back it up you owe me, hold my eyes you owe me. Why would he play that as literally one of his worst songs?
Speaker 2:ever, and that's the thing about it. Like whenever they always talking about Nas, they always bring up the bullshit. They always bring up those two songs.
Speaker 1:Those are the two worst songs. Those are the only two songs when when Jay-Z dissed him on the fucking takeover. Those are the two songs he mentions. Absolutely when he doing it, when they when they doing the, the rap beef and take over super ugly. And he names Uchiwale. He says your bodyguards versus better than yours or Uchiwale. And then he mentioned the other girl. Is it black girl loss or shorty owes you for ice and some ice, and that's the bad part about it.
Speaker 2:It's like you have all. You have decades worth of hits. Like you could have left those off.
Speaker 1:I could have left those off. So whatever he played them and women love you too. I was looking around. I'm like damn women are really bumping to the shit they were singing along. It was only women singing along to those two songs.
Speaker 2:I was like, wow, like here's my father, let me try to run to the bathroom quick. This ain't me. And like city brought our cool G rap like that's like a little rap, yeah and you know my man looking old but he still killed it.
Speaker 1:He killed that shit because he's inspired.
Speaker 2:he inspired Nas, he inspired fucking Big pun but that's what Sue was like two sizes too big.
Speaker 1:I'm speaking of big pain. Let me rewind a little bit, because fat Joe came out before that, yes, and he brought out Remy. Remy came out like three different times because she had her own set. Remember, you mentioned the women set, no women set which Eve didn't show up, she was. She was named on the bill to be there, so I ain't see her. There was little Kim Remy, the home, and in. Trina. Trina did her thing and Remy came out again to with Fajot to sing that shit.
Speaker 2:Time out time out time all the way up. She sang that with him time up before we even go to Joe. Let me, I even got my hat on right now. Let me go ahead and tip my hat to ti for killing that fucking second.
Speaker 1:I forgot about ti. He killed it and it was just him. No no, he did all his shit.
Speaker 2:And he was like the lone representative from the south. He's like nope, I got. He didn't bring out no special guests, he didn't do nothing, it was his him all. It hits his bars, like I said. I know that. I said that I appreciate that Dougie thing. The. The highlight for me was that ti shit cuz I'm like everyone else, like you need to get started. So like ti like now I'm coming to hit my little shirt, my hat and I'm a rip. All of this shit he named. He did every hit and like my sample for about said little Kim, like not doing a song, he did word for word, like swagger like us. That's a hard verse to fucking remember.
Speaker 1:That's my favorite. Yeah, we was killing. Everybody was singing that shit in the audience. When he did that, fat Joe comes out and he does, you know, he does his big punch shit. Are we doing his little big punch, you to put pun up on the screen? And he does the, the deep, the twins. And when it gets to the part, you know, they let the audience do it dead in the middle. A little Italy did. The whole audience did that part. Then she bring.
Speaker 2:Bar like I want that jacket, but if I wear this you're robbed.
Speaker 1:Why don't? But why did? Why did Joe have to take off his jacket? So he has a jacket on with nothing underneath, and he's lost a lot of weight over the years, but he's still not in the greatest of shape. Nobody wants to see his big old belly hanging up. You know, I'm saying over his Like I'm good, put this, put a shirt on Joe.
Speaker 2:He's more like felt Joe than the fat Joe, like if you seen an old fat Joe that was fat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Rick Ross does the same thing. Like these guys are not in shape and they just walk around with no shirt on like they doing something.
Speaker 2:You lucky heavy did have passed away man. He was still been carrying a sheet.
Speaker 1:Alright, I digress, I digress.
Speaker 2:Okay, never love you, baby, uh-huh so.
Speaker 1:And then he does the boy equal more and then everybody's doing that shit because Joe has always been big on, you know, making it known like yo put a rickens in blacks, you know, we're there together, type shit. He's always trying, you know, I'm saying he's always trying to push that narrative.
Speaker 2:I'm always gonna give him credit for always making sure that you know he, he know that he's an integral part of hip hop. But he always makes sure like, like my heritage will always be with me, no matter what. Like, yeah, I am fat Joe, but I'm done. I'm Joe Cartagena, like I'm from this part, but I am like I'm Puerto Rican in the motherfucking. Y'all always gonna know that, like, say, first thing came out, came I waving them flags, like you know what time it is like yep in the Puerto Ricans lost.
Speaker 1:They shit up in that bitch. I was like I'm like damn, we need a Dominican to come out with a flag.
Speaker 2:But who y'all got?
Speaker 1:something on the side note the guys that are half Dominican, like they don't rep it, like fabulous Joel Santana, there's a bunch of them. They don't rep it because they didn't really grow up.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm saying right on that side of the family or with that culture they grew up with, like their black, you know. It wasn't. It's an a blob, it's not a household. They didn't grow up in a Dominican household really reppin like that exactly. It's a bunch of them Like fat, fat name, like like like J Jackson stuff. Yeah, like, yeah, fuck.
Speaker 1:So anyway, so Nas does this thing, and then he does and this is the part that pissed me off. I get it again. It was a hope. It was an old crowd, right, it was a lot of 50 plus year olds. So when they bring out an eight boogie foot with the hoodie, they're not really gonna know any of the verses, right when they bring out with Khalifa, a lot of these dudes had no idea right. When so Nas does that, he starts off that nobody song. From King disease to a Mm-hmm a.
Speaker 1:Place to be nobody. And I know the song. I'm a Nas fan. I know the ship course word-for-word. When it comes to Lauren Hill's part. All my, all, my all, my all my time I've been focused on my freedom. Now she comes out and one people don't know the fucking verse. Have the people that ain't even know the song right? Right to Lauren, it comes out miss Lauren. That was another surprise for me, because I'm not expecting her at all.
Speaker 1:I don't think nobody was so she comes out and she's looking like something out of a Tim Burton movie.
Speaker 2:Okay, here's the thing. The fact that she came over there with those fucking Venus and Serena young girl beads in here. I'm like, sis, you ain't got to do this. Man, I get it. Everybody has an individuality. I understand fully.
Speaker 1:But come on now she had a different color. She got the different color beads. She had this big, she had the Yankee fitted on and then she had this big pink. I don't even want to call it a dress. I don't know what would you call it.
Speaker 2:It's called a tulis. It's kind of like a ballerina dress, but longer.
Speaker 1:So I got people behind me and I'm losing my shit. I'm like oh shit, is miss Hill, motherfuckers behind me? It's like yo who that? I'm like, it's Lauren.
Speaker 2:Hill.
Speaker 1:What you? What you mean, bro, it's Lauren fucking Hill, and I'm sitting I'm spitting her verse like I know the verse is one of my favorite shits from that album and I'm looking around and nobody is like spitting the verse. Either that, or they don't know it, or they don't know that that's her. I'm looking around I'm like damn, I was really disappointed. And people I'm like yo, that's Lauren Hill, motherfuckers. Like oh, I wasn't recognizing him. Like yeah, cuz she looks goofy but still is. So she spits that. But then there was like a once there was a lot of audio issues when she started coming out like the DJ Kat fucking up the mic, I don't know. It was like it was like sound issues, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they couldn't transition from from her, from her verse to I ruled the world. Like they had to stop it, then start the shit.
Speaker 1:She's like y'all see a whole lot of stopping and she started going into her. Yes, and I was gonna say that, like yo, I love Lauren, she's still the queen, she's still to go to this shit. To me, like she still, she's still that. You know, I'm saying that attraction. That being said, she doesn't have the voice that she once had and she has a backup singer to hit the notes that she can't hit Correct, which to me, you know, like she still has that mystique in that aura, but still it takes a way from it.
Speaker 2:But that's the whole song, is hearing her voice over that and then you know when it comes on, it's the backup thing, it's doing it. It's so weird.
Speaker 1:But so she does. If I ruled the world and I think at one point now I forgot his lyrics, or I don't know if he lost his voice the son cuz, then Lauren, you know, started finishing it for him.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, I'm gonna. I'm not gonna shoot him any kind of blame for that, because you gotta remember I've been doing this for a while and and I became the headliner, so now it's like an hour. Yeah, it was a smooth hour. Like it's a lot of shit, fucking shit to remember and I mean you could be bright but damn, you gonna slip some shit and then she let, and then she let, he let her cook a little bit.
Speaker 1:She did a couple of Fuji song, she did a ready a nine. She did Fuji lie, lie, got to respect Jersey and I was like, yeah, respect those motherfucker and then she, I know, hold up that, hold up. None of Bronx relax and then she did, killing me softly or whatever.
Speaker 2:I like I'm gonna give shout out to Havoc too for doing the whole. Have it came out by himself? Yes, he did. I like yeah, and I can tell even on the fucking live from you know, you know shit, I heard it was going crazy for that once that beat dropped. We heard it.
Speaker 1:Once Lauren left, nas did another couple songs. I forgot what he finished it off with, and then he, and then, and then he bounced. He was like I want to do this every year. We're gonna be here again next year. I'm like whoa, really I don't know if it's gonna. It's not gonna be the same thing.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm saying no, you're not, it's okay.
Speaker 1:And then we get one of those other 20 minute intermissions and it's already 1 30 in the morning and I'm like fuck, are we waiting for run DMC? Like why would they leave these motherfuckers for last? So about about about a time Nas finished, everybody was leaving. It was like half the people, but it was just getting up and later, like eyes, would we're done? Right, yes, run DMC comes out and they do all they. They do my adidas, they do you know, walk this way. They did, and they had Aerosmith on the screen, like the music video.
Speaker 2:Fuck this way, king of Rock.
Speaker 1:King of Rock. They did whose house runs how and they was giving out everybody that was like on the front row they get. They handed our adidas.
Speaker 2:Needless.
Speaker 1:There was people on the live stream that hold them, the whole bright white Sheldon, and I'm like yeah and we didn't see that from our vantage point, we didn't see the fact that they handed them out, because he asked who, how many? Let me see everybody that has adidas and everybody hands, you know, put some shit up in the air and my wife is like, how come they all have the exact same shoot. I'm like, um, hmm, maybe they handed them shit. I was sure enough they did hand them up.
Speaker 1:They did there was some. There was some people in the audience yelling that run. They was like yo, I ain't get one, I ain't get one. He's like oh, you ain't get one, sweetheart, yo, let's get this shorty right here. Pair of Ditas.
Speaker 2:Like what if you're gardening? What? Even your size, seven little for shit like I got. You know, you saw my shit.
Speaker 1:So yo, everybody that was like Over 40 or even over 50. That's that was they shit, that's what they was there for. And they say, these motherfuckers got out they feed and then stayed on they feed and turned the fuck up and there they did, peter Piper. What is it, peter Piper?
Speaker 2:Peter Piper, pick pepper and run.
Speaker 1:They did all that shit. So, like I said they was, it was on from like 120 to like two in the morning.
Speaker 2:And there's my fear because fit, because hip hop has aged 50 years and the thing is that you can get an older crowd to stay up latest fuck, way past a general bedtime At two in the morning to see, like their idols, like like, no matter what you say about run DMC, like they are the rock stars of hip hop, like if they go anywhere in the world because of the age of people, they're gonna sell out places because it's run fucking DMC. Now what I worry about in the future? Hopefully that someone can take up the mantle. It'll probably be Nas, because I think he loves hip hop Enough that he could be a legacy act like he'll do this for the next 10, 15 years. I know he got other side business, but he just loves this shit. He's not.
Speaker 2:And then, no, not today, see, because Jay-Z the transmission to be a businessman. But you're not seeing Jay doing tours and things like that. And no fault of his own, no problem with that at all. But with a guy like Nas, he just he's born and bred into this, he's from Queen Bridge, he, this is his thing. So when you have people like that to see run DMC up latest hell to watch them Rock these hits that was like integral to their lives. Remember hip hop, certainly 50, so that the audience and the crowd that was there was in a what Late 40s, early 50s. So they've been there from the very beginning, of course.
Speaker 1:Man, that shit is, that shit's amazing and my suggestion if they they're gonna do any more of these shows like this, well, they're gonna have so many headliners and so many stars. It have to have some type of structure, man. You can't let everybody just go out there and do as many songs as they want. I thought they were gonna have. You know, when I looked at the list originally, I'm like there's a lot of people. They're gonna probably let people come on, do a little bit of each other. You know, do maybe a minute or two each and that's tops, and then move on.
Speaker 2:We can rewind back to ever so we talked about. We said they're gonna do two, three songs each and that's it. Nice, back, whole ass sets.
Speaker 1:Yo, these motherfuckers was doing three, four, five, six songs each. I'm like goddamn this shit as long as hell, and I'll say this is you know, this is the best concert of all time, but goddamn, it was so long it has to be. I don't know how long those Woodstock shows went for back in the days, days right, but it was different nights though.
Speaker 2:They wasn't staying till two in the morning every night, I don't think but the thing was like when it was in Woodstock it was all the open what's up in York. So basically they stayed. The next day got up yeah, okay, okay, all right. So we're gonna say it's a great show. So let's say Nas runs it back next year. Who would you want to see on it?
Speaker 1:The people that I didn't see this time, like Jay-Z Shit okay, dr Dre.
Speaker 1:Shit okay and this person who it wasn't even mentioned. They didn't even play a single song of this man and to me that was a crime, it was a travesty, it was a tragedy that this particular person was not even mentioned at all or Recognize it. The DJs didn't play none of his songs, not one. And that would be Eminem Marshall matters. You're gonna, regardless of how you feel about him. He's been an intricate part of hip-hop for the last 20 plus years.
Speaker 2:So you want to get a show With Jay-Z, drake and Eminem? Bring them out.
Speaker 1:I'm saying you got to bring them out like, come on man.
Speaker 2:That's my ass, I'm like. Well when the last time, dre, before I'm out, like the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:Oh when, when Wayne was performing, I was looked at my wife. I'm like you know it'd be crazy. Right now Drake comes out, people will lose, they shit like at least the women would. But nah, he's probably too big for that shit too.
Speaker 2:No, and that's the problem I don't like. That's. That's the shit I don't like about hip-hop you can't outgrow something that you are. If you are hip-hop, you can't outgrow it. So the whole thing, when people say like you know, you know they too big for this shit, like how the fuck you too big for hip-hop. We made you without, without this, you don't become you.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I'll even throw Drake out there. I mean, I'm not a Drake fan, but even him, he would have to show up. If they're gonna keep doing shit like this, you can't be having the same old heads. I want to.
Speaker 2:You know that ain't doing nothing like you need to like the three main headliners.
Speaker 1:I would say Kendrick you gotta have Kendrick J Cole.
Speaker 2:Kendrick Cole, because you're a hell Wayne, I would say what's, what's it? Can I really honestly like you're not getting outcasts back together? But you need someone else to reference this out. Maybe GZ, maybe we're all snow. I want to the nest. I think that's one of the things that did piss me off about. The women said like I really having them out there is fine, but I really wanted Queen Latifah like I Perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to have clean up.
Speaker 2:I, I Re at that point, at that, and again these are people that she's from Jersey.
Speaker 1:You know I'm saying yeah. Like you figure they're from the area. Eve is from Philly. Why wasn't she there?
Speaker 2:She was promoted to be there, she was yeah, but like I said, she live in England like she looks got a whole ass husband and shit.
Speaker 1:He rich like, if you're from Jersey, if you're from New York, I expect you to be there.
Speaker 2:But like not but that, but having the Queens of hip-hop thing and not having like Queen Latifah, like oh, this is it, like I what? Like I get it because you got a kind of half we have, but like not having her there at the 50th. I'm saying she's doing some other shit somewhere else and it got a bunch of If I 50 things going on but not having her again. He stayed him like nah, son, you got to do that. But yeah, I think Kendrick would be up there, jeezy would be up there, maybe Gucci main not a big fan but I know he matters to a particular Like subsection of hip-hop. But the whole thing is that.
Speaker 1:I would like to see fabulous. I would like to see the whole locks. Oh, cameron, speaking of the locks, a dip set. Cameron was there killing and he killed his set too camp.
Speaker 2:But can't pull it out like I didn't get can wasn't on the bill I was gonna build it all right, it was another right the decision and some are gonna cut my time to play sucker than not All agree. Cams great like. Cut my time, fuck out of here. Like DJs needs fun the shit. I'm like. I didn't expect to see cam there. I would love to see like a dip set reunion there, maybe next year, something else like that. But I mean for what it was. You can't complain about this shit.
Speaker 1:No, no, it's gonna be hard for any. Any other show that I go to the top, this one for me.
Speaker 2:There's one thing I'm gonna complain about. Melly Mel got calm the fuck down. That's unnecessary. Like whether Eminem shit, like I Appreciate that he's an older man in excellent shape.
Speaker 1:He was in tremendous shape. My wife was like who damn? That's Melly Mel, old-school rapper. He was like yo, he's an exceptional shape. He was up there with no shirt on showing his abs. He's ripped like a motherfucker. I'm like, yeah, this motherfucker's in his 60s bro.
Speaker 2:I think on that TGT program he's on he's on more than that.
Speaker 1:He's on HGH, testosterone therapy, all that shit.
Speaker 2:HD TV, hbo, whatever. He had all that shit. I'm like I ain't never seen no 60-year-old man. Look this rip. And the whole thing is like this will be a celebration hip hop. You'll be a hating on Eminem, like like bro, like this ain't the time, like I get it. You want to start some shit. When M's like, oh, melly, mel, this me like okay, cool, he's probably went back in his ham sandwich and shit like that, no one cared. It was weird. It's nice, when you come out, to come out and perform.
Speaker 1:But shout out. I want to give a special shout out to my man, talib Kuali. He was actually sitting near us. I got to chop it up with him a little bit. I got took a picture with him. You can see that up on my social media as well. Cool dude. I thought him in most depth should have been up there too. Black star should have been up there. They got enough songs. You know. I'm saying if you have common up there, I feel like most and Talib are in the same category with a common.
Speaker 1:Yes you know I'm saying that semi underground, semi conscious rap like they're. You know they're from New York.
Speaker 2:You gotta put, you gotta have the right set. I think they, I think they should have been up there, but I think having comment as, like, a representative of that era, that was fine, like, and even if you want to do another one, like you have, we would love to have somebody like Kanye up there, but he kind of lost his mind, so it's like it's not gonna be a good look. So, for what it was and for what they created, I have no complaints. That was a great show.
Speaker 1:It was a great show and then, of course, you got that walk, that long walk back to your car. So by the time I got home is like three in the morning, but I've worked at a hip-hop man, it was worth it. 50th anniversary the coach was there, it was dope.
Speaker 2:Nobody handed out folding chairs. No, hey, man, you know what I know we talked about before, but you write me you might. We got to do a video on that shit. That's hilarious. Yeah, we gotta do that shit. Yeah, could they was hand our whole ass. Ass whooping left and right. You saw scuba good in jr Come out of left field. I loved it. That was great. I'm not gonna hate on that shit, but yeah, we're gonna do something about that. But, but that's for another time.
Speaker 2:We just want to celebrate and thank hip-hop for 50 years yes, sir of existence. It. We don't this, this shit don't happen here without that. We needed that. We like it, like, see it's. It's a soundtrack to our lives everyone else had, like Motown or rock. This is ours and it's still actually pretty young. 50 years and not a long time. It's still much more to do. I'm trying to be positive about the future. I really don't like these young people, but I'm trying to be as understanding and supportive as possible. But we see how the the ones from the past put this all together and just made a show out of all of this and people just loved it. It's a hard act to follow. Maybe they do it next year? Maybe not, but for now that's a great show.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, and check out for some more reaction videos. We're gonna get into those and go to the website of the culture that one. Check out our youtube page. We're gonna start putting more and more shit up on there, but that was our show this week. Check out next time. Peace.
