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Jaguar Wright reviews Cardi B's Am I The Drama
In this episode of the Jaguar Wright Uncensored podcast, Jaguar Wright shares her candid thoughts on Cardi B's latest project, 'Am I The Drama.' She reflects on the evolution of female ...
Jaguar Wright reviews Cardi B's Am I The Drama
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Well, this is the Jaguar Wright Uncensored podcast.
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We're back again.
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And, you know, I'm offended.
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When I was young, I was, you know, really, really, really focusing hard on being a great
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lyricist and being a great MC.
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I learned the word.
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I studied the word.
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I used to keep a pocket dictionary and the SARS in my backpack everywhere I went.
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I had so much pride in my vernacular.
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And I thought that, you know, I make it to wax, I make it to record.
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These words are going to live forever.
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I cared.
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You know, once upon a time, female MCs really cared about what came out of their face.
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And part of the reason why I started singing because I could do both was because I knew
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that there was more longevity in it.
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I knew that I had a better shot at having a long-term career.
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And I saw how disposable female MCs were becoming in the game.
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They weren't really being respected.
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And then the sexual revolution hit.
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Now, it was different back in the 90s when the greatest invention in pop culture for
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hip-hop spawned from Biggie Small's imagination.
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Little Kim.
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I mean, he took porn star and rap star and put it all together.
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And I mean, when I think about Little Kim's first album, Hardcore, like, I'm not
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going to lie.
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I was a big fan.
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I thought it was groundbreaking.
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I thought it was edgy.
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I thought, you know, I don't know where this is going.
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But there's never going to be anybody like her.
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Whoa, was I wrong?
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Was I wrong?
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I had no idea.
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She was the prototype for what we got now.
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The problem is back in those days, the female MCs, and listen to me, female MCs have had
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ghost writers for as long as they have been ghost writers in hip-hop.
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But they spit, you know, the lyrics that they were spitting, the vernacular of, you know,
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the way they were coming off, it wasn't trying to put a bunch of words together that rhyme
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and sound like you're tough.
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And I don't know.
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It's just salute because Wolfgang Amadeus is in the building.
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And I needed somebody else to come in because honestly, I really don't know how to feel
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about this new Cardi B project.
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Am I the drama?
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I think considering the rollout, it's fair to say that was rhetorical.
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Because I think I think she knows that she's a drama.
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What about you?
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Yeah, she did the shit.
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She didn't have to ask.
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It should have just been, I am the drama.
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That's all the project pretty much has shown that she is drama.
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The rollout started with the damn court case.
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And then now we've got the drama with the baby daddy and the husband and the offset.
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It's too much drama.
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It's not about music.
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It's all about drama.
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Let's not forget.
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She ran after one of the city girls, JT and her boyfriend, the oozy boy.
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I'm not saying his whole name because I don't call the devil.
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But talking about them and then Stefan Diggs, he has these gay allegations from his gay
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stylists who used to live with him.
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There's a lot.
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It's too much.
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And then she's trying to set records as a twerking pregnant woman.
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I don't know.
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That was crazy.
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It's just nothing.
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The drama is surrounding this album is not about the music.
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Initially she dropped 23 songs and now she has an extended version.
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There are seven extras with now.
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30 songs.
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30 songs.
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So she's got 30 songs on one project.
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It's not even a, you know, back in the day they used to have a double CDs.
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So I guess that's what this is supposed to be.
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But the songs that she added, if I'm correct, these aren't new records.
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These are old records.
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She just went in.
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She's got what money and was the other one, bond goals, the one with me.
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Yeah, it's not like old.
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You know, it's, yes.
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So she already had the WAP song on there.
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And then the other song.
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Up on there.
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So now she has nine old songs.
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21 new songs.
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And the old songs are the ones that have the notoriety.
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Yeah, I'm starting this room.
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FYI, you know, so we're just going to play this game while we.
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Talk about the.
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The drama.
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So yeah, are you going to go over the lyrics of?
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I was going to do that, but it's looking like.
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Yeah, because these lyrics are just.
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Oh, well, we got that means we got it.
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Well, let's continue.
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Let's get this one out the way.
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Then we can.
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We can we can go over the lyrics.
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Because yeah, you can't, I know you can't.
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You got to concentrate to really.
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I never paid attention to the lyrics.
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That's that's when you said you're going to do the lyrics.
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I was like, oh, I never paid attention to.
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I just know.
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But let's talk about that.
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I don't think a lot of people are paying attention to lyrics these days.
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No, you're not.
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Not at all.
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And that's where.
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I started, you know, in all of this in this conversation today.
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Once upon a time, the lyrical and grammatical value of a female MC was everything.
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MC like.
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Queen, even more.
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Me love.
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I mean, Roxanne.
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Shion.
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Oh, yeah.
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Shout out to my.
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We had hard hit is like.
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Bahama, the lady of rage.
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I mean, we could go on and on and on.
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Let's not forget yo, yo.
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You can't play with my yo, yo.
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There was a value.
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You.
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There used to be a pride that came along with female MC.
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Women.
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And, you know, hip hop is a male dominated sport for the most part.
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Let's just be clear about this.
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Yeah, because when you said people have been writing lyrics.
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When men have been writing lyrics for women for a while, you're not lying.
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Because even I didn't, I didn't realize to later remember us of destruction.
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LL was supposed to been on that song, but he didn't show up or he didn't go, but he wrote.
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MC lightsverse.
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I didn't know that until much later.
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Yeah.
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And let's not forget about salt and pepper.
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I know a lot of people don't talk about whether or not they had ghost writers, but from whatever allegedly they have.
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So it's um.
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But even still there was a, there was a pride.
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There was a pride that came along with female MCs.
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And I was just opening up by sharing what it was like for me when I was younger, you know, my pocket dictionary, my pocket, the SARS, you know, my vernacular being tight.
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My vocabulary being on board.
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How important all of that really was.
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That seems to have just gone out of the window these days.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I, you know, people get brought up into listening to a record and they really don't pay attention to the words.
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I don't think they pay to work at all.
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And the truth is, if you read the lyrics of somebody songs, it'll hurt your head.
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Number one, trying to figure out the grammatical breakdown of how they come up with all of this crap.
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It's interesting to say the least.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like, you know, the intro to let's talk about the song outside, which I pulled this out because of the controversy behind that record to begin with because outside is allegedly someone else's record.
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Oh, wait, is it? I didn't know that.
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Oh, you don't remember when they first started previewing this song.
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There was another girl who had uploaded it on YouTube already.
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Oh, I heard.
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Okay.
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She had her own version.
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She had her own version.
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You remember wack 100 was sitting there talking about, oh, well, you didn't get the song registers.
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You can't accuse her from stealing.
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She bought the song from someone else.
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So basically a gold writer took the song, changed up the lyrics and gave it to Cardi B.
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So this isn't even, this isn't even hers.
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Wow.
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Anyway, the concept of the song isn't even hers.
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And anyway, she got caught up with stealing.
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And this is when people were trying to create the hype talking about, oh, yeah, no, it sounds good.
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It sounds great.
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It sounds good.
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It sounds great.
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It sounded so good and it sounded so great that it fell flat in like less than a week.
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It got less play and less value in the algorithms.
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I can't even begin.
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Yeah.
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So here we go.
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I'm almost afraid to read this.
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I'm almost afraid to read this.
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I think.
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Okay.
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And see, this is why I like to pay attention.
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You know what?
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Let me pull these lyrics up.
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Give me a second.
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Yeah.
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I mean.
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All right.
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So let's just get into the lyrics of outside the controversy or outside.
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So the intro starts off.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Uh-huh.
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Outside niggas.
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Love it.
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Outside bitch.
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But be mad when they get some outside.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Uh-huh.
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Cardi.
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The pre-courses.
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When I tell you these niggas ain't shit, please believe me.
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Let's go.
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They gon' fuck on anything.
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These niggas way too easy.
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Facts.
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Good for nothing.
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Low down dirty dogs.
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I'm convinced.
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Yeah.
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Next time you see your mama.
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Tell her how she raised a bitch.
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The chorus is, I'm going out on the pop out side.
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Cause it's hot.
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I'm going out.
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You was playing games side.
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Now you want time out.
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I'm going out.
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Where to find niggas?
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Side.
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I'm trying to find niggas.
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Out.
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I've been cuffed up too long.
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Side.
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Let me remind niggas.
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Yeah.
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Now.
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I'm the.
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Here's the first verse.
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Well, let's go wrong for wrong.
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What?
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Let's go lick for lick.
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Let's go.
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If I can handle that, uh-huh.
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Let me see you handle this.
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Okay.
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Do you?
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How you do me?
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Bet you won't speak-
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I'm sorry.
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Bet we won't speak again.
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Favorite player from your favorite team?
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He and my damn.
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Uh.
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I'm so small and tiny.
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He's so big and tall.
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Might let him dunk this pussy like he dunked the ball.
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I'm a big freak.
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Come and get a sneak peek.
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Back it up like beat beat.
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To that thing go leak leak.
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Uh.
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Chloe called you king.
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That's cute.
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Don't get me wrong.
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Don't get me wrong.
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I like him too.
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So baby.
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Let me meet LeBron.
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Let me meet LeBron.
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I love Savannah.
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Let me see what she'd be on.
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What?
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It's plenty niggas.
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Baby.
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I could keep it going.
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Look.
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Uh.
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Royal rumble.
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This a jungle.
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Lion and some cheetahs.
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Because clearly you don't give a fuck.
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So I don't give one either.
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I don't.
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I like niggas.
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Black and country.
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I'm sorry.
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I like my niggas.
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Black and country.
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That's just what it is.
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I can tell that he's excited.
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Uh.
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Because he go from small to big.
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Girl.
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When I tell you these niggas ain't shit.
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Please believe me.
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Believe me.
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They gon' fuck or anything.
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These niggas way too easy.
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At all.
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Low down dirty.
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Good for nothing dogs.
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I'm convinced.
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Uh huh.
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Can't wait to see your mama tell her how she raised the bitch.
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And then we go back to the chorus.
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I'm going out on the pop-out side.
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Because it's hot out.
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I'm going out.
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You was playing games.
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Side.
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Now you won't time out.
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I'm going out.
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Where to find niggas?
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Side.
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I'm trying to find niggas.
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Out.
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I've been cuffed up too long.
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Side.
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Let me remind niggas.
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Okay.
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Huh.
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And that was the first verse.
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Hmm.
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Hmm.
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Now, as a writer, I do know that even if you take a rat verse and you just break it down for spoken word.
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That's not even interesting spoken word.
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No.
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Like,
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it just sounds like some ghetto broad talking ghetto talk.
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Um, about low value and low quality experiences in life.
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Or am I being too uppity?
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No, it's real.
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Yeah, it's not classy at all.
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Yeah, but forget classy.
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It's not intelligent at all.
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Well, yeah, that part.
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It's not even clever.
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It's a jungle.
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Some lions and some cheetahs.
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That was supposed to be clever.
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That was supposed to be a bar.
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Let's look at that.
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It's a jungle out here, right?
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Because she's leaving this terrible relationship.
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Everyone knows she's talking about offset.
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Everyone knows she's talking about cheating on offset.
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Everyone, you can hear the different references of all of the, you know, ball players that she wants to sleep with.
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I'm still not understanding why a Savannah and LeBron caught a stray.
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Like in this song, you, you want to meet LeBron?
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Because you want to see what Savannah being on.
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Like why?
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They're married.
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She's married.
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I don't get it.
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But it's a jungle.
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You know, I guess the world, you know, out here in the dating world is, you know, what a, what a cheating world.
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I don't know.
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Some lion and some cheetahs.
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And that's supposed to be a bar.
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The saddest thing about it is, is that was probably the closest, the most clever thing I heard in that track.
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And the thing is, is everybody knows that all she really dates is black guys.
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So this is just, this is how she feels about black men.
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See that even God is upset with these lyrics.
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So while people are sitting here and they're credicting the album and they're sitting here talking about whether the album is great or the album isn't great.
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I'm not really listening to anyone talk about her lyrical value.
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They're talking about the beat.
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It's talking about hard the beat is.
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Who she's talking about.
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You know, it's um.
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And that's why I wasn't going to, you know, buy that it sit down and take my time to listen to the whole thing because apparently whatever the album is about, it's all over social media.
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And it's about the gossip.
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It's about the salaciousness.
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It's about all of that other stuff, you know, and.
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You know, what's hip hop anymore?
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What's right anymore?
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Like if this is all you have to do is just take a bunch of weird, you know, statements about a bunch of nothing because honestly it's all about a bunch of nothing.
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I'm outside.
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I'm outside.
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I've been cuffed up too long.
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I'm going to, you know, sleep with a bunch of guys and.
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And yeah, and this like there's a thing.
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I think a line in the second verse where she's talking about the tequila is 90 proof and use her vaginal fluids as a chaser and just like.
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It's, it's, you know, I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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Like I'm just trying to.
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Like when I go back and I think about little Kim's.
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You know what I mean?
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Love and who you want to be.
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They've been long in the.
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You know, like she was.
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It was.
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No time.
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When I think about, you know, it's, it's, if you go back and you look at provocative, even if you listen to you go back to some of the Foxy brown lyrics, which I mean, come on.
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I think everybody knows.
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Who was ghost right in for her?
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You know what I mean?
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The lyrical value was, it was a lot more clever.
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It was a lot slicker.
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And it's now it's just female rappers.
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It's all come down to say the most salacious, say the most provocative, say the nastiest, raunchiest.
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Like when I think about sexy red records and the stuff that she says on that, I hate even calling this stuff music because what it feels to me is propaganda would be.
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You know, and nobody's really listening to it.
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And you know, as a hip hop enthusiast and an MC itself, like, and coming from the male perspective, I'm curious to know what you think.
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Like because you said yourself, you've listened to the song and you heard the hook or whatever the case may be, but you never really paid attention to them to the lyrics before.
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And now we're sitting here reading it.
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So like, well, yeah, because I don't, Cardi doesn't really care about music when you really, you know, listen to.
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She started out with that bowdag yellow and that was nothing but a copy of a of a black right.
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Cold egg black. Yeah, I will just cold egg blacks flow, which you know, I give him his props because that was pretty dope for him to come with just something.
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I've never heard nobody spit nothing like that like what cold egg black did and she just emulated and copied what she did, but he did.
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So it wasn't like she was bringing anything any originality to the game.
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So yeah, she's like, she's like the weird out yank of it for slides.
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Damn, in a strange way.
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Well, yeah, yeah.
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You know, rather than be did eat it, you know, I mean, like.
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It's a shout out to weird out yank of it because there was a cleverness to what he did for pop culture and it was, it was comedy.
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And I don't know, it's just.
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So now.
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You had 23 songs on the album and now there's 30 songs on the album and nine of them.
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Everyone has already heard way too much.
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And this new stuff and you know, I just.
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I don't think people care about hip hop anymore.
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Now, especially when you look at the comments because I'm looking at the lyrics on genius and yeah, they they people are oh my god.
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She wasn't effing around.
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This is so fire my car speakers real song of the summer. Sorry Sabrina.
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I mean, RIP offset.
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This is going to be the song of the summer.
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So you know, these are people that were because what she dropped is early this year.
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Yeah, it was a top summer.
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It was a top summer.
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Yeah, they realize that that song came out then. Yeah, it came out July or June. Yeah, it is.
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It's it's it's whatever. It ain't even.
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Yeah, this is just a down. This does not upgrade the culture.
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So I'm looking forward to and I'm and again, I like Nikki, but I'm not a fan because I already explained it like that.
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But she is at least a lyricist. She's at least creative. I give her that I'm actually looking forward to hearing what Nikki's going to spit and what she's going to put out because.
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And shout out the gene. Well, Jean Gray shot the gene gray, but shot at the rap city because I just I she played well rap city has a joint.
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And I'm just upset with the game because they don't give these type of artists and I'm not even just saying female.
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I'm just saying these type of artists in general. They don't give them that type of shine rap rap city is is dope.
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Yeah, I would much I will much rather people pay attention to actual spitters actual creatives people who are also signed to rock nation.
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Well, that's unfortunate. So I mean she's going to be.
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Yeah, I mean, but think about it. It's rock nation that's been pumping up Cardi B.
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Even though she signed to Atlantic, but she performs with live nation and everyone knows that live nation rock nation. It's all the same.
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So even though she signed to Atlantic, she's getting all of this support lightweight and subliminally.
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While rap is actually signed to the label.
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And it's and getting no love at all.
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You know, she's not getting any brand endorsement deal. She's not getting any of that. Look at glow glow.
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It's so ridiculous.
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You know, it's.
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It's just really interesting what's happened because now it's like.
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The only reason they sign these really talented artists.
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Is so that they can control them and keep them from breaking out so that these in my opinion lesser.
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rappers because I can't call them emcees. They're not in seeing.
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I can't call them artists because they're not creating anything. All they're doing is playing a role.
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So it's, you know, it's become the the game of the great pretender and.
spk_0
You know, this is probably the closest that I'll get to even an immersing myself in the.
spk_0
This new catalog this am I the drama or whatever the case may be.
spk_0
Yeah, like that I'm not intrigued.
spk_0
And I just wonder if anybody's really paying attention.
spk_0
You know, and anyone who is paying attention.
spk_0
Like do yourself a favor.
spk_0
Don't listen to the track. Don't listen to the beat.
spk_0
Just look at the lyrics and ask yourself what you're really immersing yourself into.
spk_0
You know, talking about oh my goodness. She, oh, she wasn't playing. This is fire.
spk_0
What's so fire about these lyrics?
spk_0
Crash.
spk_0
These lyrics are awful.
spk_0
They're awful.
spk_0
And they don't even stand up to the provocative female artists from the 90s in the early 2000s.
spk_0
And I listen to me. I'm just like wow.
spk_0
So yeah, I just wanted to.
spk_0
I that's enough for me.
spk_0
I'm good.
spk_0
I'm not going to be a bad guy.
spk_0
spk_0
But anyone who is digging on this project, you know, salute to your mental health.
spk_0
I hope you, you know, you're taking very good care of it because a lot of this stuff to me.
spk_0
It just seems like.
spk_0
It seems like trash and you gotta be we got to we got to get more.
spk_0
Like discerning at what we're in taking and what we're digesting.
spk_0
But these kids, I think they're screwed because if they think that this is what I heart,
spk_0
they need to go back and listen to some real hip hop from back in the day.
spk_0
They need to go back. They need to take a listen.
spk_0
You know, like we've been saying hip hop is the culture and rap is the business.
spk_0
So it's like yeah.
spk_0
And that's really all I got to say about it.
spk_0
I just wanted to read those lyrics and I wanted to know what you thought.
spk_0
You know, this is a Jaguar right?
spk_0
Unsensed pie cast.
spk_0
Clearly this is going to be explicit given what we was just reading.
spk_0
Yeah, good luck.
spk_0
Yeah, I'm good.
spk_0
If that's if that's my sample, you know, if that's what they got on the toothpick to see if I want to buy the whole sandwich, I'll pass.
spk_0
Do you have any final words?
spk_0
Not at all.
spk_0
You know, in that note, we're unsensit and we're out.
spk_0
Please, I'm Jaguar right.
spk_0
You know, special guest Wolfgang Amadez just having a real conversation about whatever that that was there outside.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
Bye.
spk_0
Good.