The TNT Podcast
The TNT Podcast
The Best of The Question of the Day Vol.1
Join us for a special "best of" episode of the "Question of the Day" segment, where we debate whether it's the beat or the lyrics that truly hook us to a song. We reminisce about early 2000s tunes from Usher and Lil Bow Wow, explore the balance between artistic influence and commercial success with southern charmers like T.I., and discuss modern artists like SZA and Megan Thee Stallion redefining classics. This episode delves into how music shapes our memories, emotions, and cultural identities across generations & MUCH MUCH MORE!!
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what makes you like a song? Is it the? Would it be the lyrics, would it be the melody, would it be the beat?
Speaker 2:well, what is it? What is it about a song that'd be funny, man the instrumental for me, it would be the instrumental and then the lyrics will follow right behind that closely.
Speaker 1:I feel that I feel that, um, uh, okay, so is there like an example of a song that you that like? You heard the beat and you were like, oh yeah, I love this song. Like uh, uh, blow by beyonce that one I had, yeah, yeah, yeah, he definitely, yeah, he definitely loves that one. You heard the beat and you were like, oh yeah, I love this song. Like Blow by.
Speaker 2:Beyonce, that one I had, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:He definitely loves that one Because I play it and I'm like, okay it's got a cool little bop to it and Passion Fruit. Passion Fruit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I knew Passion Fruit was coming.
Speaker 1:So that was one of the ones. You heard the beat and you was like, oh yeah, oh, it turned on like See what I'm saying. So let me ask you this for Passion Fruit and your playlist Are you playing the whole thing or are you skipping pads, bro Talking? Oh, no, the whole thing. Yes, I messed with that. I messed with that first beginning too. Some people don't like that you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:We got to bring him up to the top. I'm making sure I that part heavy.
Speaker 1:Set up a talk. We got to bring him up to the top. I'm making sure I don't know. Hey, ee, et. What's going on, bro? Shout out EE Checking in. Shout out EE, ee. What about you tonight? What we got, nah it's crazy.
Speaker 2:You asked this question because it's like in like 2013, 2014, wow, the exact, like the exact. We had an argument for me, like, and he was like bro, nobody cares about the lyrics like they care about the music.
Speaker 1:I do remember you are, and I was like you know me, I care about the message.
Speaker 2:So but yeah, he was like the music come first, like well, he had a whole little chart like it, music flow delivery and then lyrics-less.
Speaker 1:Does he mean flow, slash delivery or?
Speaker 2:like cadence. You know what I'm saying. All of that, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say yeah, I don't know, but yeah okay, I mean that makes sense.
Speaker 2:But that's where I realized one song from Nudel Arts in this. But that's where I realized that I think that's where I realized one sign for noodle arts in this but um that's where I realized that Sydney, oh, is it Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Sydney, sydney, if this is you say, say yes, cause I think this is Sydney Say yes, yes, well, um, what was I going to say?
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, I just. That's where I realized, though, that, like, that's where people differ in opinions, because some people care more, just, about the actual music than the lyrics.
Speaker 1:Very much so.
Speaker 2:And because that, like varies from person to person, I feel like that affects, like you know, people's opinion.
Speaker 1:See, we found it. Okay, that's her.
Speaker 2:Okay, I was thinking I was yeah, see, we found it.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's her, okay I was. I was thinking, I was like wait, I think that's, I think that's sydney because yeah, she uh followed me on the other one. But, um, it's funny that you say the beat and then you say the message because, like, I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little bit of both, like I'm both too.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, but it's like you know. I guess I would say for me I'm a little more lenient on the music, oh on the music. Yeah, because I I listen for the message.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying so wait, are you saying, is it's the lyrics or it's the?
Speaker 2:yeah, I say I I'm a little more lenient as far as the music.
Speaker 1:I'm able to listen more for the lyrics to the mouth got you, got you, got you, got you but I appreciate you know okay, that makes sense. Um good combination, good combination.
Speaker 2:I feel that because, like, for instance, I'll say somebody, for instance, like nappy roots, you know what I'm saying yeah like their music may not necessarily be all like the musicality of it. I don't know. It's all opinion. You know what? I'm saying but I mean, yeah, I always I was able to listen to the message where it's like I remember, ja, like he went. It's cause the beats like wasn't you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he just he couldn't even listen to the message I feel you, and that's what he would say about people, not.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying I feel that.
Speaker 1:I feel that, um, yeah, I'm a little bit of both. It just depends. It really just depends on what the situation is. If I'm, if I'm in that mood to like I don't know if I'm in that mood to, you know, like, just turn up or whatever, I probably won't necessarily care for the message that much. I just need something that knock, I need the beat, I just need something that's gonna get me ready, get me, get me right. And you know, sometimes, like when I get off of work, I may not want that no more, because that's what I've been playing for four hours, right. So I may want something that's, you know, a little bit more chill, and most of the time, stuff that's more a little laid back has a message with it, right. So, yeah, it really.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Like I said, it just depends. It depends on what the situation is. Off the top of my head, a song that I love with the what a dope message. I'm trying to think. Well, it doesn't necessarily have like a clear message. You about to say something. How about part five of Kendrick? Oh, of course.
Speaker 1:See, there you go, there you go, go um yeah, that was a good one um dude speaking of bro, I'm still I ain't gonna lie bro, I'm still upset that uh scale of didn't get that part at uh smyrna bro still still upset of that um, it's a song.
Speaker 1:it's a song I think we had talked about, called cold summer by, uh, j Cole. It's by J Cole. Oh, you heard it? No, I didn't know it was J Cole though. Yeah, it sounded about right, because that sounded like a J Cole song. But I'm trying to think what happened. It doesn't necessarily have a deep message or anything like that. It's just him talking about where he's at at that moment.
Speaker 2:And I just think that's dope.
Speaker 1:I think this is him a little bit after his first album, but a lot closer to Born Sinner, because I think that was the mixtape Truly Yours Too, and he was just talking about where he was at at the moment, whereas he's talking about the label, talking about we need to put out a second album, and he's not sure if they really want to put it out. Or like we met like mama, mama, we made it, I made it with this first album, but like, hold on a second, don't, don't, don't, don't, try to break the bank now, because if it, if this flops, we both back to the post office. Like, like, shit, like that. Like he's talking about some different shit. So I just think that has a dope message. And you know, beat-wise it's not that hard. You give me something with Zaytoven or Tay Keith or 808 Mafia, lex Luger, he's cool, dre, I'm biased, but yeah, like, yeah, you know different strokes, different folks and just a whole bunch of different beats and shit. But yeah, y'all, let us know how y'all feel about that Question of the day.
Speaker 2:That's what's interesting about, I think, just hip-hop in general, though you know what I'm saying. Because, like I, feel like nowadays, like people say trap, music and all that, it's hip-hop. You know what I'm saying, that's what. That's what. That's what rap is now, you know I'm saying like music, yeah like that's it, you know I'm saying so for people to be like oh, this isn't, you know I'm saying it kind of remind me of, like the older folk before us. You know, I'm saying like I mean every generation does that that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:But that's why, like when people say that it's just like, oh, these folks only listen to trap music like no, that's, that's what hip-hop is now. It's evolved, it's grown into that it's gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, just like right before that it was gangster rap, exactly. I mean it's whatever different stroke, different folks, whatever good I got. My spill of the day is with what are some songs that you listened to as a kid? And when I say kid, I mean we can say anywhere between I don't know. I'll say 16 and under. What's some songs that spark? That spark? I'll just start it off For me personally, honestly and truthfully anything that came out in 2002 could do no wrong, no wrong, no wrong.
Speaker 1:Anything from 2002, like I Need a Girl. Part 1 and 2, you Don't have to Call, as a matter of fact, you should just give. Usher Like just Usher in 2002. The Confession album.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, that was 8701.
Speaker 1:That was 04. It was album like oh no, that was 8701, that was 04, that was uh. 8701 was 2001, 2002. Confession was 04. But that is legendary as well. I feel like that's one of the. I feel like if you're black, that's a good r&b album. You should know, yeah, facts. But um, I will say say this as a kid, the lines were kind of blurred with what was cool and what was corny, but we just loved all of it.
Speaker 2:It was good music. Yeah, it was just hip hop.
Speaker 1:I know me personally, my first favorite rapper was Nelly. That was my first favorite rapper.
Speaker 1:That was the furthest back. I can remember Country Grammar, st Louis Bro, that St Louis song. I used to love that song. I was in seventh grade when that dropped. I remember it like my homeboy Prop he's the biggest Nelly fan. Wow yeah, he had a run, a strong run. He did Strong run, bro. I remember I used to come to school, bro. I'm not even gonna lie, bro, I I knew the double headband. I knew the double headband. I didn't do the, the, the, the band name. I brought my jersey on backwards.
Speaker 2:I had the jersey on backwards, I felt like the two headband thing was. That was a bit much.
Speaker 1:That was a bit much, you know. You know I would feel like even at that time that's a bit much.
Speaker 2:Yes, I had my jersey on backwards, had a you had to have some ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, oh, and how can I forget, bro, I was the like when I tell you, because I was like only two, this is 2000. I'll go back 2000, it's like seven. I think it was like seven or eight. Bro, you couldn't tell me shit about bow. Wow, he was the cool bro. To me he was the coolest nigga ever I wanted to get cornrows.
Speaker 2:I wanted the jersey. My mom was going for braids, though she was like fuck that, you ain't getting that.
Speaker 1:But, bro, when I tell you Lil Bow Wow, bro, like he was cool to me, he had a run, he definitely had a run.
Speaker 1:Yeah so what's some childhood songs or songs that always pops up? I'm gonna be real with you, bro, Like being that, being like being like 14, 15, I know what was on my mind back then. I can hear it right now. I don't care what y'all say about this man. I don't care what y'all say about R Kelly. Go ahead, bro, Tell us what you're talking about. I took so many nigga bitches from that song. It takes me back. I was out there Wilding bro. I was Bro. It was a. It was a moment.
Speaker 2:It was definitely a moment, it was a.
Speaker 1:You know Like If you and your girl Walk in and she dance On that song.
Speaker 2:That's not Trigger on them.
Speaker 1:It's not. It's not, and you know it's funny about that video. It's funny. I was talking to you about the video and it's, I'm gonna lie. That video makes me sad for one reason. Do you remember the video? I remember him was I remember remember bt had behind the scenes of video something he had to spin around or something and he had the the.
Speaker 2:He didn't have a leah's name on the jersey. That was a big controversy. Okay, had like all of the okay, so it was none of that literally the only reason that song makes that video makes me sad. Lil Kim she is so bad in that video? She is, she is so and she was dancing on them on the it's on the second verse mm, mm, mm mm.
Speaker 1:Gonna spend in the back. She had the green joint. Here we looking kinda pretty with the blonde oh my gosh, she was so fine. What happened? What happened what?
Speaker 2:happened. I should let a fuck nigga tell her you ugly and she wouldn't change that shit.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, bruh, yes, bruh, ladies, bruh, don't let these men get you insecure.
Speaker 2:For real, you are beautiful. Y'all are beautiful For real. That natural.
Speaker 1:Shit is winning. Ladies Like that shit is like, like Drake said hair tied, chill, with no makeup on. That's when you the prettiest.
Speaker 2:That's when you the prettiest. I hope you don't take it wrong. Please, please, don't take this wrong, please, bro.
Speaker 1:I love when I'm in Walmart and I see a chick in some forested sweatpants white tee. That shit is fine as hell it is like man cause, like.
Speaker 2:At the end of the day, bro, that's what you gonna wake up to you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Like, when you go to sleep, she giving you a preview of this is what you gonna see.
Speaker 2:I just wake, I dress up, but this is you gonna get like you can step out every once in a while with the makeup and all that. It's cool you did, but it's, like you know, for the natural, like be rocking with you, like that locked in.
Speaker 1:Let's reel it back in Tanaka. What's some childhood joint stuff?
Speaker 2:I really learned about the joint hip hop just with, like in the club, like my homie. We used to be in the bus line and he was just like go, go, go, go, go, shawty, and we'd just be vibing. So, anyway, I got into it off of that and then like, even before that, um, it had to have been like like you said, kells, for real, you know what I'm saying. Cause, um, what was it? I think it was the R album. That's when I really got into like R&B.
Speaker 1:I think that was Feeling On your Booty too. I think I think no. I think Nah, I think, phil and Phil, it's Chocolate Factory. Definitely not. I remember Chocolate Factory. Chocolate Factory is my shit. That's Ignition, that's Ignition, it is yeah and Ignition. That was the other record. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Part 1 and 2 Part 1 and 2, but yeah, and then of course, bring him out, ti, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:See, I wish I'm not gonna lie, I wish I'm not going to lie. I wish I would have moved out here two years earlier just to see how Atlanta was when TI dropped Urban Legend Right. Because I got out here when he dropped King, Right, and that was put it like this if you missed the TI and Flip feud, that era right there yeah. I was definitely still in California. Oh man bro, I was definitely still in California. Say something bad about TI.
Speaker 1:This California, oh man bro, I was definitely saying something bad about Tilt. This was still. I want to say this was this had to be?
Speaker 2:like 0-3 or 4. This was maybe. Urban Legend oh yeah no, it was Urban Legend. This was yeah, bring him out, bring him out.
Speaker 1:So prior to that he was still, you know, dope boy was Tilt. This was bruh, I remember when I found out, when him and Flip was beefing they said TI pulled up in Cloverland Bruh. Well, here.
Speaker 2:I ain't gonna lie. That was how damn easy I was.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2:I heard that nigga got his ass beat. I heard TI got his ass beat. I can't confirm, I was young.
Speaker 1:But I heard a scuffle ensued. I can't confirm I was young, right, you know but I heard A scuffle Ensued, so it ensued, but that's when.
Speaker 2:You don't want to Right Right, it's when it ensued, uh huh.
Speaker 1:Possibly may have been A scuffle, right? Yeah, no, I feel you, but it's, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's a little that was. That was the tip when he had the grill right.
Speaker 1:That was weird. No, he did it. He did it just to tell, just to. He was poking fun at Flip like, okay, you got a grill, oh was he. Yeah, oh, is that what that was? Yeah, oh, I been got a grill to show you. My grill bigger than yours, baby, I been a DV. Hey, wow, young Tilt. That's crazy Young.
Speaker 2:Tilt?
Speaker 1:I had no idea For y'all who don't know about Young Tilt, go back and look up Lil Flip versus TIB.
Speaker 1:See, okay, and I learned about that through because when I first moved down here, uncle had the beef 3 DVD. Yeah, yeah, that's how I found out about that. But yeah, so yeah, that young tip man, that's why I be looking at these guys. I be like bruh, like why these niggas be fucking with you. Really, he didn't make it. I mean and I don't want to reel it back out too much, but I mean that's that's how I feel about the baby too. Goddamn, leave the baby alone. Leave him alone. Please leave that man alone. Leave that man alone. He gonna put you on a t-shirt, he gonna put you in dirt Quick side question what's your favorite tip, al?
Speaker 2:Don't do this to me. It's Mr GA. You know what I'm saying. It's.
Speaker 1:Mr GA, if you listening, bro, you peep this out. Bro, I got a tie.
Speaker 2:Okay, good, I'll take that, I'll go with I'm serious, okay, really Hold on.
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell you why. No, no, no, I'm going on stuff late because y'all in Atlanta Right. So only thing I remember being a freshman in high school, bro, and I kept hearing all like the upper class and all of that. Everybody was like dope boys in the trap. I was like what the fuck is this? Like everybody, even girls, was like. I was like bro, I felt so left out bro, here you go, I was like all right, man, I'm going to get in this.
Speaker 1:You know, get home I'm probably like about 14, bro, and like my brother CP had a box Chevy and he was like what you got, bro? I said it's that, tilly. He was like put it in and like I can't even lie. That shit kind of changed my life, bro, wow, that's real. Because I mean at that point, like there weren't a lot of Atlanta artists who was on besides OutKast and Good Momma, Right, it was different for us, Right, Because you know, LeJon had the crunk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he had the crunk.
Speaker 1:You know, outkast was your laid back. You knew what Kass would go get you. But I mean, you got somebody talking for the guy, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:So. Yeah, it was a moment for me.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna go with that and maybe possibly uh oh, my bad.
Speaker 2:Before you move on, what's your top three songs off? I'm serious, that's a better question, cause I Still have to game myself. Yup, classics, classics, we gon' steal Classics, that's, i'ma tell you.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, bro, I still play this to this day. I was dealing with this chick and, like I did one of those you know, like when a chick mad at a dude, she play Mary J. So I was like telling this bitch like, okay, cool, put this tilt on. I can't be your man, that's it, but hey, classic tilt bro, that is classic and uh, I'm serious. Let me see if I can remember uh, uh, what's this shit.
Speaker 1:We was like, hey, I'm rejuvenated, I'm appreciating that baby, stand up something, something. I don't think I remember that one. It's like one of his early ones. I want to say that one right there, okay, okay, fucks with you, I got to get you, you got to throw. I'm serious in there, and possibly people may not say this, but it was a moment for me that was different too. I fucked with that. Ti versus TIP, my guy.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's very interesting, because I mean I was so infatuated how he just.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm gonna give you one side of this too.
Speaker 2:Right, one side of TI, and I was like, ain't y'all the same?
Speaker 1:Right, as you know, as he got this plan.
Speaker 2:I was like okay, you get, okay, this is this.
Speaker 1:It's the dope game and this is when you make it out it's like okay, I like how he did it, so I'm going to go with those two. Top three off of TI versus TI, people who she got. I can't even bro, it's something that I'm so on. It's funny, it's hip-hopping, little shit that I was telling you about the Saturday Night Trap fever.
Speaker 1:They put me on the dope man. I didn't even know about that song. Oh yeah, yeah, it's about TI. Yeah, dope that cool. Oh man, that's on. That's TI vs TIP, ain't it?
Speaker 2:TI vs TIP yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they put me on to that with AJ Classic, classic. Yeah, I just feel like, bro, people ain't giving that man his roses, bro, I mean. I get it like you know, up north, Jay-Z's always going to be their rap guy. I get it.
Speaker 2:I get it being from that, he's one of my top I get it.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie, no offense is just known for being just haters. I don't know and that's just how I, and I hate that it looks like that, but I mean these are the same people that booed OutKast Facts. But at the same time I think they hate the fact that they gotta respect when that man was in the Sorcerer's 94, 95, wu-tang Biggie, the East Coast Dre said Boy in the South Got something to say.
Speaker 2:Yeah Damn, y'all don't wanna listen, but now look at we running this shit Right. So I think that's what it is Like. You gotta think about it.
Speaker 1:New York artists, you know. Take a French Montana A fad. What music they really putting out Right now? Right now? No, no, I don't know. Okay, they can come down here. Who's the hottest producer south? Get your metro. Yeah, zay, zay, sony digital might will, what might will now, all of a sudden, french montana fam you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:y'all gotta come get the sauce from us, all right? No, that's not like we respect what they did. Right, we do, but that whole um, that new york sound, you know like I feel the the new generation in new york.
Speaker 2:So it's that new york drill now like that pop smoke type, right, and they got that from another country exactly. So it's that New York drill now like that pop smoke type, you know what, and they got that from another country, exactly so it's like. It's like where y'all at New York, you know, don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:I got a lot of New York niggas. I listen to same here. I'm a huge Dipset camera fan. Yes, ain't about to already. He's still reeling off the dips at LOX. I am too. I tween. Both of you growing up shout out to my little cousin Jacob he'll tell you. Bro, jacob had the United States flag bandana. I had the. This is when niggas wearing pink. I had a pink bandana. Hey, ma, what's up? I had the little diamond earrings.
Speaker 1:I had a big-ass shit One shit to tell me I had a light camera. It was over with Mission accomplished.
Speaker 2:It went as far as I was contemplating about getting a dip set tattoo on my hand.
Speaker 1:It was that real. It was real. When they had the locks for his DMX bottle, everybody was like man. We know who said it, going with it. You know, I'm going with my boys Right Even though.
Speaker 2:Jadakiss, I'm going to be real Jadakiss. He had the stage presence, he did he had the stage presence. But you know what?
Speaker 1:It's me y'all talking like bro, like spit this shit, right right you know, but that's crazy that you said I'm going to reel it out real quick and then we're going to reel it back in and go to the next segment. But it's crazy that you say that, because I think on a previous episode we were talking about how Southern artists really don't care about that. So that's actually interesting that you bring up that, like you do about them actually rapping on the beat, not rapping on the song, especially if it's a song like, especially when they was performing like hey Mom, like songs that I fuck with, like bro, I want to hear y'all rap that shit.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. Like I don't want to hear you know the vocals. Now, me personally, I feel like the vocals are mostly like if you're doing like a live show.
Speaker 2:That way get the show jumping like that.
Speaker 1:but I feel like man Jadison we could have listened to the Apple music and been in the car playing that If you was doing a concert, yeah, that's cool, but this was what he said. That's the Mecca of New York, right, right, right, you gotta do it, right? So, tanaka, this is a conversation we had off-air. Oh, here it goes. So, yeah, this is a conversation we had like off air. Oh, here it goes. So, yeah, this is a conversation we had off air, right so, lady, mama Leigh.
Speaker 2:The song Christina Aguilera, lil' Kim Missy Elliott.
Speaker 1:Well, I think she made the beat. I don't think she was actually on the song. So, for the people that don't know, there was an older song that came out in the 70s, I believe, and in the 2000s I think it's like 2001. Pink, christina Aguilera, maya and Lil Kim remade the song called Lady Mama Lake. So my question of the day if you were to make a recent Lady Mama Lake right now, who would you have replace the singers from back then? My only rule is they couldn't have been relevant when the song came out, so you could pick anybody after 2001. I guess yeah, because I think the song came out in 2001, if I'm correct. And who would you? Who would you have replace each singer and one rapper? Who would you? I don't know a song like that. Oh, you don't know a song like that at all.
Speaker 2:No, All I know is ETETI. Good Lord Tanaka.
Speaker 1:So wait, you've never heard the song at all.
Speaker 2:I mean I probably have, but it's more so like you know how a song come on a commercial, and you just like hear it, but you don't really know it. Don't really know it. Okay, that's circumstance.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, this makes this even more interesting. So this is what we're going to do Without you really even knowing the song, a song that's like the E-G-E-G-I-O-S-O sister, oh sister, who are three singers and one rapper that you would put on this song without you even hearing the song.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:At this point it doesn't even matter because you've never really heard the song and it's just kind of just like.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess it's an all ladies song, right?
Speaker 1:so I'm trying, though, and you don't have to replace because, like you said, you've never heard the song before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know the different parts. Does Doja Cat sing?
Speaker 1:does Doja Cat sing? As far as I know, yes, but she's not like. I don't think she's singing to the like, to the nth degree, like paint, christina Aguilera or Maya, but like I think she could hold a note maybe um, I don't know, okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you said that was 2001, right, yeah, and these were like the biggest names, probably around that time, like I would think so.
Speaker 1:I mean let's, let's think about it. 2001, would you say. Maya was huge, because when they get the party started, come out that's the pink, pink joint. I want to say probably the same year, if not, if not, if not probably like a year prior and maya had um best of me and like, uh, hold on, let me see maya no, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2:Do I know Maya's songs like that?
Speaker 1:I don't think I do Every time I think of Maya, I always think of that music video she had where she's stalking that dude. It's really weird. I don't even remember the name of the song, I just remember she was stalking a guy. I be getting her confused with Christina Mignon. Which is really odd, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 2:That's odd because I feel like she had a hit like around the same time, but christina million.
Speaker 1:Christina million didn't get a hit till like 2003. I feel like maya's been relevant since like the late 90s nah, she, she has.
Speaker 2:I was late on the Maya's trying to go. I don't know why I would associate Maya with Dippin' Low. I'm trying to think of 2020 people, because I feel like you could make a 2010 version of this. 2020 people, because I feel like you could make like a 2010 version of this and I feel like if it was a 2010 version, I would probably put like oh no, you're actually no.
Speaker 1:Party started, didn't even come out. Yet it came out the same year. Did it? No, or did it? I don't know?
Speaker 2:Did it come out the same?
Speaker 1:year? Yeah, it come out the same year. Yeah, it came out the same year. But party started, didn't even come out yet.
Speaker 2:That's crazy to put in a perspective I feel like it was a 2010s version. I will put on keisha cole on there.
Speaker 1:Okay, so no, I'm going to put it in perspective for you, right? So I'm going to give you a description on what the song is about. Wait. So I mean, do you know what the song is about? She, she, I, I, that, that. What does that mean? Tanaka, the fuck does that mean Exactly?
Speaker 2:Exactly Once again.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to read this. Lady, mama Lay is a song written by doesn't matter, originally from the disco group doesn't matter, the song is famous for repeating a repeated refrain of Vous la vous chez à moi? It's French for as a part of a chorus, a sexually subjective line that translate into do you want to sleep with me? So, with that perspective, who were? Three singers, one rapper?
Speaker 1:that you will put on this song they too young, they don't know nothing about that. I bet you they don't even know what song that's from. I'll give you all the money in my pocket if you know what song that's from. Only on the live, not for this recording. Don't try to DM me a week later Talking about oh, turn up, I know that, no, but go ahead, right, right week later talking about oh, turn up.
Speaker 2:I know that, no, but go ahead, right. Right, do you want to sleep with me? Okay, so, like the 2010s version, I would say. I guess I would say Trina Keisha Cole, um Monica.
Speaker 1:Trina Keisha Cole Monica.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you just need one more singer? Yeah, just need one more singer. That's a tough one. I'll go Carrie Hilson, really that's interesting, interesting.
Speaker 1:see, the thing about that is it sounds like a sexual song and I just I don't know keisha cole, like keisha, I don't know any like overly sexually songs by keisha cole, do you? I mean, because you're an album cut dude, so you might, you might know about something I don't know.
Speaker 2:I needed one that's like a little more safe not necessarily, you know they're not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what do you mean? Safe, like like people would know who?
Speaker 2:she is type, sure, like she could sing, but she's not necessarily like she. She could be maybe sensual, not necessarily sexual. Got you okay, I've never even heard, because I feel like it's like a pop song.
Speaker 1:I'll let you hear it and then maybe next week we'll give you like you'll hear it and you'll be like, ah, I got a different answer, but yeah, somewhat that's my 2010s.
Speaker 2:Excuse me 2010s, but if we were to, say like 2020 um I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna lie. My shit might be all over the place, but yeah go ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is where it gets tough with 2020 and what's funny that you say that, um, shout out to dj tonic. We were actually having this conversation too because, like you know, tonic knows every fucking song on the man. So like we were having this conversation and we were talking about replacing each singer with another singer and when he was like well, bro, there's not a lot of singers that are like like, that are like singing, like because these girls on this song are saying it, like they saying it for real, like like all these girls now like they hold notes, but like they not like saying it like real, for real, singing type shit. So so that that'd be the only like issue um dang, yeah, that's true nah, but nah.
Speaker 1:Well, it's more true, cause when I let you hear it, you're gonna be like I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess if it wasn't Keish Cole, then maybe Jasmine Sullivan, you think yeah? Or Jasmine Sullivan, you think yeah? Or Jasmine Sullivan instead of Carrie Hilson, I don't know.
Speaker 1:One of them. I've never heard Carrie Hilson really belly sing Like they. That type of shit For the 2020s.
Speaker 2:that's going to get difficult. Yeah, because there ain't nobody doing no shit like that. Yeah, I don't get difficult. Yeah, because ain't nobody doing no shit like that. Yeah, I don't know who really, you know. So I guess Sizzle Is she. No, I'm saying like I guess she would have to be in the I mean she'd be in talks, for sure. I mean she'd be in talks. I'm trying to think, though, what's the most up-tempo SZA record?
Speaker 1:Just Us, DJ Khaled.
Speaker 2:Oh, All the Stars.
Speaker 1:All the Stars, her and Kendrick. Are we talking features?
Speaker 2:I was trying to think of the song. I feel like those are upbeat. You know how like the song can be upbeat, but you're just kind of floating on the shit, right? You know what I'm saying? That shit.
Speaker 1:Shout out to TJ checking in.
Speaker 2:Shout out to TJ.
Speaker 1:I've just seen him today. Tj, why you run over that little girl? Today I've seen that shit and that was messed up because I couldn't say nothing because the mic wasn't working today. But I'm sure, tj, man, I'm telling y'all y'all need to get out that fast lane. I'm telling y'all. Nobody want to listen to me though. It's all good. It's all good, y'all going to learn. Eventually Y'all going to get ran over by TJ Again, and I hope it happened Again. Y'all better stop playing. Anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 2:I ain't gonna count. I didn't know that, oh Juju.
Speaker 1:Juju Boy, where have you been? Nah, we need to talk. I don't know where you've been at, but you come from under that rock.
Speaker 2:But anyway, lady Mama Lay, my bad, we getting on, it's all good, nah, juju, I ain't seen Juju in a minute, bro, that's what I'm saying. You know what it is? He's cooked, he must be cooked, he's gotta be, bro.
Speaker 1:He didn't even come to Nice and Slow, did he? I don't think so. I don't think he came to Nice and Slow. They got him on the slave ship. They keep an eye on him.
Speaker 2:Make sure he don't jump off the boat, but I guess the 2020 version would have to be SZA. I guess, meg Thee Stallion, since you said it's kind of a sexual song, I ain't going to lie.
Speaker 1:See, and you know what's crazy With the 2010s it's kind of hard. It's kind of hard picking the rapper, but it's crazy with the 2010s, it's kind of like hard. Like it's kind of hard picking the rapper but it's easy picking the singers, but nigga, when it comes to the 2020s, it's hard picking the singers, but boy, you could literally just pick any rapper from the 2020s and be good, like you could have said gloria, and that would have been the right answer, like but is this like a why you see him?
Speaker 2:so you're saying, I'll show.
Speaker 1:No, no hold on if you want to. That's all I mean. There's no right or wrong answer. So for people that aren't that, aren't that just got in we're doing, lady marmalade, who would you? In 2001, they remade a song from the 70s. Lady mama lay is pink, uh, maya and christina aguilera and a little kim. Who would you have replaced them in, like a recent version? If you don't know the song, look it up. Lady mama lay, pink, maya, christina aguilera. If you don't know the song, but, um, I'm gonna show, because there's a video to go with it too. So, like, see, like when you said jasmine sullivan, like I'm not gonna tell you that you're wrong, but like yo, I can't see jasmine sullivan in that video.
Speaker 2:But that's me though so like they dancing in the video, so I'll show you the video and you look, bro, you might have a different perspective.
Speaker 1:Shout out yoga on the check-in shout. Shout out to Yoga. That's crazy. We was just talking about Cascade.
Speaker 2:What do you want to call it?
Speaker 1:Yoga. I know you know the song. Lady, mama Lay, who would you have replaced? Who would you have replaced the old singers from 2001 and put in as new singers? Go ahead, tanaka. My bad, I'll just keep putting one over here. So wait, are you going Megan or Sexy? Because you said Nah, I'm going Megan, megan. Okay, I could definitely see Megan in that video. I mean, I could see Sexy Red too, but she'd go real ratchet with it.
Speaker 2:We can say Rihanna, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Does Rihanna still make? I mean yeah, no, I mean because Rihanna wasn't out in 2001, so you can say it if you want. I mean she ain't made music since like 2014,. So wouldn't that be like 2010?
Speaker 2:Hey, this is a tough question, man, it is.
Speaker 1:I mean but you're doing two though you didn't have to do two. Like you're doing two though you didn't have to do two, you're doing different eras and shit.
Speaker 2:You didn't have to do all that Did Summer Walker sing on the up cymbal.
Speaker 1:I mean, she got that song X for a Reason with JT. Have you ever heard that song before? It's like 115 BPM, that song, pretty mid. We're not talking about how good the song is, bro, we're talking about you guys with up-tempo. That's an up-tempo song.
Speaker 2:This is the Summer Walker Rihanna.
Speaker 1:That's your lineup.
Speaker 2:I guess so Okay.
Speaker 1:That's your lineup, I guess. So, okay, all right. So here's the thing. And, like I said, shout out DJ tonic we were just talking about. We were talking about this like and this is like crucial Like with all those singers that were on there. They were like legit singing, like they were like like ah, I'll settle in and like singing like. They were like like false settlement and like there's not a lot of singers that do that nowadays. But but then you also got to take into account you gotta, you gotta get some. You gotta get some singers that like have sex appeal. That's not hard. There's a lot of singers that have sex appeal and all that shit.
Speaker 1:So this is what I would do, for I'm not going to lie, I would definitely have to agree with you. I would have Megan Thee Stallion flip with Lil' Kim for sure. For Maya I would probably have, because Maya is probably not necessary, because if you had to pick a weakest link out of the singers, I would definitely say Maya, because Maya she's cool, but like Christina and like I ain't gonna lie she letting them white girls show out on her, I ain't gonna lie, from what I remember I don't know, I gotta listen to the song again, but not saying that Maya didn't do her thing. But you know, for Maya, I probably will flip her with Summer Walker Because I feel like Summer Walker could hold her weight when it comes to. You know what Maya was doing.
Speaker 2:See what's also tricky about this in the same breath is that, like Pink and Christina Agilera are like more like pop than arms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I don't know if you've heard any of their music. They can really sing for real.
Speaker 2:No, that's what I'm saying. So like it's almost like it's. It's kind of like bruno.
Speaker 1:Hold that thought so Tanaka shot by Tanaka. Would you like to answer this question?
Speaker 2:for.
Speaker 1:TJ.
Speaker 2:Oh, I just had to take a break.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're talking shot by Tanaka right now.
Speaker 2:So yeah, he would like to be named as such. It's going to be back. Yeah's gonna. It's gonna be back. Yeah, my page gonna be back. I just had to take a break. Yeah, I appreciate it, um, but yeah, I didn't know his name was tj, this whole yeah, no, his name is tj too like his name was. I just say king ocean sometimes yeah no, I did too.
Speaker 1:But then he finally told me his name and I was like wait, you're TJ too. Like goddamn, Like both of y'all can't be TJ Anyway, and they both be Aguanet.
Speaker 2:And they both be.
Speaker 1:Aguanet and they both know each other Like it's like goddamn but anyway. But yes, they are definitely pop, but like Tonic brought to my attention that Pink can like really sing For real, for real. And I didn't know that, cause I don't, I'm not gonna lie, my Pink knowledge is like really minimal, but I knew Christina Aguilera could sing For sure, cause I've heard her on a couple you know.
Speaker 2:Nah, I based, I based the Pink joint Literally off of Get the Party Started. Yeah, she could. I just remember that intro Get the party started.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've ever heard that. I don't think I've ever heard the intro, then I think I've always just heard.
Speaker 2:I'm coming up and you better.
Speaker 1:That's the only part I know. I don't know. Yeah, it's crazy that you say that, though. So, um, my first thought I was gonna replace Pink with Ariana Grande, but I thought about it.
Speaker 2:Nah, go ahead what you about to say oh, that's for my lack lack of pop knowledge. I don't know Ariana Grande like that.
Speaker 1:No. But then I thought about it and I was like who would I rather see in a Lady Marmalade video? But I don't know how I feel about seeing Ariana Grande, I mean because she just always looks like a minor and it's just I don't know. That bugs me. I know she's grown, I know she's grown for sure, but she just always looks like she's like 16.
Speaker 2:I ain't gonna care If you put a list of photos. I don't know if I can point around.
Speaker 1:Yes, we know, you gotta listen to black people. We know Tanaka, we all know. Thanks, tanaka, I'm. I never shit that. Ariana Grande. Anyway, if I were to, I would say my second. No, you know what? I put Ariana as my second. My first, now that I think about it, would be Khloe. You know who Khloe is?
Speaker 2:Damn, I forgot about Khloe.
Speaker 1:Khloe could sing for real. Khloe could definitely. She's been singing for years. Her and her sister have been singing for years and she got the sex appeal.
Speaker 2:Like I said when I show you that video.
Speaker 1:When I show you the Lady Mama Lay video, you're going to be like ah okay, I get it.
Speaker 2:Have you listened to them for real? No, okay.
Speaker 1:But I remember them singing because the first time I heard them sing was when they were young. I, because the first time I heard them sing was when they were young. I've heard some of their covers. Like I said, out of all the strongest ones, I'd say Christina Aguilera was the strongest, where her I probably would go. Who did I pick for? Who the fuck did I pick for who the fuck did I pick for who the fuck did I pick for Christina? Oh, that's who I picked for. I picked Coco Jones, but, like you said, now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever heard Coco Jones rap on Sing on like an uptempo, like beat. But I feel like she could, though, because she got this. I feel like she got this sex appeal too, but it's just me. I got to hear her on a I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good lineup, yeah, so. I ain't thinking about, I ain't thinking about, I literally don't know, that Icy U song so by.
Speaker 1:Coco.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't think I'm not going to lie, I don't really know a lot about Coco, but I mean, hell in, I See you she.
Speaker 2:So why didn't you choose Money Long, money Long?
Speaker 1:I forgot about her, but you know the difference between her and Coco. I walked past Money Long and I know who she is, so I couldn't tell you if she has the sex appeal to go with it. Coco Jones got the sex appeal. Well, to me she did, coco.
Speaker 2:Jones, interviewed in Slack, you said what? No, I forgot Money. Long's an old name.
Speaker 1:You said she's an old name, I forgot her old name. You said what? No, I forgot Money. Long is an old name. You said she's an old name, I forgot her old name.
Speaker 2:Oh, her old oh she had like a yeah. She used to go by something else. It was like 2 Chainz type of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I'm trying to think of an old singer. I can't think of an old singer right now, but, um, yeah, lady Mamele. So that was that was. That was an interesting question. Let us know who you pick for your Lady Mamele. Revisit, recover. I feel like this is going to be. I feel like this is going to be an interesting one. So, tanaka, let me ask you this, this I guess we'll just say, we'll just say, in the music game, as an artist, would you rather be influential or just make a whole hell of a lot of money? And why?
Speaker 2:you said in the music game would I be? Would you rather be influential or have a whole bunch of money?
Speaker 1:or just make a whole hell of a lot of money doing it. Because there are some people, there are some legends. I always put the quotes on legends because no one really has a real definition of what a legend is in the music game, really has a real definition of what a legend is in the music game. There are some people that like that like have a lot of people and interviews saying like, oh yeah, like I used to listen to him when I was younger and I get a lot of influence, but all in all they're really not that, not necessarily big of an artist, but they're like just kind of, just kind of like a. I don't want to say kid cuddy isn't big, but like he's not like mega star big, like that's not who you think of when you think of like mega star big, um, but like there are a lot of artists that are like, yeah, kid cuddy, yeah, definitely like that's like but like, let's, let's flip that drake.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've ever heard anybody say Drake is a big influence on them.
Speaker 2:Oh, I have, oh, you have yeah.
Speaker 1:Are you saying an ample amount of people, or are you saying that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like, yeah, yeah, okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I wouldn't say a lot. Have said that. Yeah, I feel like I have heard people reference drake as an influence, though just in terms of.
Speaker 1:I mean, of course there's going to be at least one or two or three people.
Speaker 2:That's gonna oh yeah, drake, yeah, hell yeah. I used to listen to him, but I don't hear drake you're talking about, like, artistic influence, right, yeah, just like in terms of, yeah, um, yeah, I could see that, I could see that. I see what you're saying. Um, I really would like a blend of both, because I feel like it's so.
Speaker 1:You know, willie Hutch I've heard of that name before because I choose you yeah, the you know the Sanborn International Players anthem okay, yeah, I don't think I knew who that was, who that was he was a soul singer from the 70s, but he wasn't really known like that for real.
Speaker 2:It wasn't until after he got older you know what I'm saying or even passed away, that he really got a recognition for his music, you know. So he's like an example. I feel like you know who's like influential but didn't necessarily get his flowers like for real, like when he was alive, you know.
Speaker 1:Or either, if he did, it was like when he was like 50, 60, like real old oh, if that's the case, I would say somebody like juicy jay, that's what I would say, but like, like, if we're going that route, because at the time juicy I mean juicyicy J didn't get his flowers until maybe, like Bands that Make a Dance.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I don't know. Okay, so with that blend of both, where would you rather like? Where would you rather lean towards?
Speaker 2:Because, like with the influential thing, I know a lot of. I know a lot of artists that like were influential, like like Schooley, for instance, is somebody that like was influential for real in the Atlanta scene but probably doesn't get recognized for it as much as like was influential for real in the atlanta scene but probably doesn't get recognized for it as much as like he should, and he's not necessarily the biggest. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like star, that you know, possibly for real, but um, I also refer to like, like what was some dang it. There's a handful of atlanta artists that, like are influential, which is crazy that you didn't get no it's crazy that you say that did she just responded, oh she said I feel like two changes talked about enough.
Speaker 1:When we talk about atlanta, very much so. But the thing about and it's funny because I always ask the for my folks that don't skate there's a style of skating called ATL ride or ATL step or stab or whatever they call it, and I've asked them I'm like, why is it always Gucci and Jeezy? Why is it never like Pee Wee, longway or 2 Chainz? Yeah, there's like a little sprinkle of Wrench Homie, but it's basically the same two people, right, why don't they ever play?
Speaker 1:Because, fuck, I feel like BFF would be a great song to add, but they'll just kind of look at me crazy. But I mean, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I guess it's kind of uh, I don't know, personal preference, I guess, but I fucking love 2 Chainz so um see you know, what's crazy about 2 Chainz is like his run was so crazy like this is a very interesting run it was just crazy because, like during that time period, um, I don't know if you felt this way turn up, but I felt like every like feature that he had, he was like dang, like what's he gonna say?
Speaker 2:you know what I mean? Like it was that type of like anticipation of like oh, how is he gonna? Because he was just saying some of the like funniest things that 2 Chainz could get away with. He said something like Dance on the White Girl called it John Travolta in my started time. What song is that? Country, ass Ninja.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Nelly. Nelly and TI. That wasn't a big record.
Speaker 1:It was just the feature. Shout out Big Meech.
Speaker 2:Checking in the Meech is in the spot, but yeah, I think I would be, because I understand. I know all these artists that be talking about like, oh, like I don't get the recognition I deserve, like I paved the way for you know what I'm saying. And and you know people will be like oh, they call them bitter. And then like they'll be like, oh, they're bitter because they're broke.
Speaker 2:That's like the comments you know, right, and that's where it gets tricky because, like, they have all the influence, but maybe the business side wasn't always, yeah, wasn't always taking care of that properly.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna lie, bro, and you y'all could call it selfish just give me the money, why I'm like, and honestly, I honestly like feel, I honestly feel like, yeah, bro, just give me the money, like I remember, uh okay, my bad just to interject yeah, go ahead I think for me, of course, I want to make the money as long as I'm staying true, like artistically, to like what I want to do.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm saying like oh no, I mean you.
Speaker 1:I mean you could do that without getting the info. I mean being influenced. I mean being influential to anybody. Yeah, yeah, like yeah, I'm not saying you, yeah, I'm not saying you got to be fake, I'm not saying you get the money, you fake. I'm just saying, like, you probably just don't get the. You know the recognition that you get from other artists, Like okay, so I don't know. I feel like with me personally and I hate to toot my own horn, but fuck, I brought the Atlanta style to Sparkles Gwinnett.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Do I honestly care if anybody gives me the recognition for it? Not really. Absolutely oh my bad, you stupid Hell. I held down Bell Out Monday through three different owners and it could have got swept away like everything else. Do I really care about the recognition? Not really.
Speaker 2:I think in the moment we don't care about the recognition. It's like, well, I don't know. I feel like it's more of those things like we just let the people talk.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, when it's like we let them do people talk, you know what I'm saying, where it's like we let them do the recognize, like you know what I'm saying, it's like I don't need to put it out there for y'all, y'all know what I did, right, you know what I'm saying. So it's like I'll let y'all speak on it and determine it. You know, and I think it's more so like if we would ever address it. It's more so just to like clarify and you know, correct, any misunderstandings?
Speaker 1:Yeah, misunderstandings. Or any assumptions yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So you know. Yeah, I'm not going to lie, I'd rather just give me the money. I always think back to DJ Quick's song I don't wanna party with you, when he says at the end I think he said, I think he said Easy said it, I don't give a fuck about fame, I'd rather deal with the money. Y'all can have the name.
Speaker 2:That's how I feel about it.
Speaker 1:I feel that Honestly, I feel that and it's not like it's not like I'm like Money hungry, where I'm like Just doing like I'm investing in shit. I got my hands in a lot of different shit. I'm trying to get my hands in a lot of different shit, yeah. So, like I said, I'd rather just give me the money. Y'all can put my fuck, y'all can put the recognition shit on my obituary. I don't really care about that.
Speaker 2:Honestly, the influencer joint put the recognition shit on my obituary. I don't, I don't really care about that. Honestly, the influential joint, I feel like, because the influence could be various things, right, it could be through the music, it could be just as a person, you know, I'm saying just yeah, okay so I okay, so I'm, I am.
Speaker 1:I mean, obviously we would definitely want to blend of both, yeah, however, if I were to choose, I, I would choose the money, but I mean, the influential shit could really keep you up float.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fakes.
Speaker 1:Like did you think TI would still be making music like around the time About the Money came out? Do you think Jeezy would still have a hit after All there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:I mean, has Jeezy would still have a hit after all there? Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, has Jeezy had a hit after all there? Has TI had a hit after? About the Money? I feel like it was kind of like, you know, yeah, I mean it kept him afloat, yeah, kept him afloat for a little longer and I mean I'm not mad at it at all. Yeah, him a float. Yeah, kept him a float for a little longer and I mean I'm not mad at it at all. Yeah, it's like, but it was because of the influence you had on these younger artists and they were like they want to, you know, give you the recognition and they're still artists to this day that are still giving gz his recognition.
Speaker 1:I think he got a new, I think well that's. I don't think it's new, but I think he had a song about uh estg, I believe.
Speaker 2:So you know I mean, I'm always the advocate for the ogs and the youngins. Linking up you know facts, so you do that's a beautiful thing, facts.
Speaker 1:I, I feel the same way, I feel the same way, but uh uh. So, tanaka, I have a question for you. What are some songs that?
Speaker 2:get you excited. I don't know why that came off like Phillip asking that, but my bad. Shout out to DJ Swinney. You know what I mean. No comment. Shout out to DJ 20. You heard me no comment. Ti Bankhead, ti Top Back Remix Jeezy, jeezy. Well, I don't JEE, jee, I ain't, jee, I ain't going to lie For a second.
Speaker 1:I did think you, I thought you stuttered and I was like what?
Speaker 2:the fuck Trying to think of the R&B joints, oh Trouble. What's Up, what's Down, you already know.
Speaker 1:I'm going to stop you right. There was actually funny and I don't know I'm. I'm always, I've always been a giver all my life. So, being a dj, I feel like it's kind of like sec. I felt like it was kind of like, I guess, a given yeah. So off the top of my head, I really don't have any songs that, like legit, get me. Get me excited, I ain't gonna lie. Wonder why. By Lucci is my shit. Anyway, a lot of the songs that get me excited are the ones that get people that I know excited. Now you give me trap fever flashbacks.
Speaker 2:There you go, right.
Speaker 1:But yeah, bro, a lot of the songs that get me excited are songs that I know get the people that I know that I fuck with excited. Like he said, what's up, what's up Anytime I play that song.
Speaker 2:Feel like Guwop all the run.
Speaker 1:Poppy's Home. Every time I play that I always think of Phillip. Oh my bad DJ 20. Shout out to DJ 20. Music Sounds Better With you. Breezy Big League DJ Tonic.
Speaker 2:What are we saying? Hoochie Pop for Drip bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Could he start? I know you guys can't see me, but that was me pretending to be Drips speeding up on the skate floor. What else Give me my gots the ladies at the club or the parties and shit. I don't know, bro, I really don't. I'm trying to think oh, I will say this what's Happening by Trap Squad? If you want to get me lit, that fucking song is one of them. Oh apollo by smooth ale, bro, I, that's still like.
Speaker 2:My favorite new york drill song is the last time you played uh saturday I haven't played that during the minute I ain't kept bro of all the. For some reason, I always have a hard time finding that song in my serato. I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Just for I don't know is that the one I gave you?
Speaker 2:no, no, oh, you're talking about just, oh, okay, I just never remember. You know what it is. I don't remember the title of that song apollo, I know, and for some reason I just think, oh, baby, that's this right not, um, maybe that's when this. Oh, new Apollo's. Okay, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:Anyway. So to revert, to reverse back to Tanaka, you know, uh, never enough. Time is another one. Anytime I hear that song. Um, fucking uh, trapped in the sun, cause every time I think of that song I Trapped in the Sun, because every time I think of that song I think of when we had first met and you kept playing that fucking song. Like I said, I never know if it was because you just liked that song or you just kept repeating the mixtape or the album, whatever that was trying to think. Oh, sexy Love AC. Oh, pussy Nig, pussy nigga ac as well. Uh, oh, my bad pussy nigga by not calling you pussy nigga ac. Um, um, anytime I play bankroll fresh when uh, eddie's around with dead fresh eddie child dead, fresh eddie rotation rotation movement.
Speaker 1:Honestly, a lot of old Atlanta shit when I played around Eddie, cause like he always get hyped when I play old Atlanta shit. Now I will say this the opposite, the opposite will like get me, will get me excited as well. Anytime I play like Chief Keef with my homeboy uh, cedric, he fucking hates chief keith. Anytime I play that, he like gets upset and why he just don't like well, he's an older guy, he's like he's like well, he's not old, he's like probably like mid 30s, like mid, maybe mid 30s. Because I feel like when I was like, I feel like when I was like 19, 18, 9, no, when I was like 19 or 20, he was like 24, 25, 26 so what's crazy is that, like unbreakable, used to always play chief keith and I couldn't tell if he was like trolling me or if he like, actually, like, actually effed with it.
Speaker 1:You know, I had some homeboys that actually really fucked with chief keith and I did not see there's one song. There's literally one song. Well, two, if we're counting, I don't like, but I really don't count. I don't like because I feel like I really liked it because of, uh by the way I might play that. I might play it tonight.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I might, just there's something about the simplicity of that song, but it's just like the kiss method man man, I'm telling you bro, that Kiss Method is real. But you know what? Who was it? I think I want to say it was 50 Cent talking about it. He was actually analyzing that record as to why it was so big, so big, oh, okay, he was like A. When you think about it, everybody has something they don't like.
Speaker 2:So A is very relatable has something they don't like, so the a is like very relatable. On top of that, the video. The way they shot the video is very relatable to just anybody because he shot it in like his grandmother's like. It looks like just all right, it's like grandma's room or like like a room the living room. You know what I'm saying like so it's like any kid could have did that. And then it's just. You know, all the homies like turning up and I was.
Speaker 1:I feel like that was like the first, but I could be wrong, I don't know. I feel like that was one of the first music videos like that, yeah, to blow up right, like niggas was making videos like that before then, but like, I feel like that was like the first big video of like maybe just making shit on the iphone, or or maybe he did have some big shit, I don't know. But yeah, um, I will say this. Another thing, another uh stuff that gets me excited shout out, uh, shout out.
Speaker 1:Jay, she's one of the dancers at go rush. We kind of uh, we kind of vibed off of uh, like she's a huge chris brown friend, and when I mean a huge chris brown friend, I'm talking about like the mixtapes too. So like I had played uh, I had played a big booty judy from off of in my zone, I think in my zone one, and she got fucking lit, like like to the point that like I was like no, because I think she had told me she's like oh, yeah, I look that I listened to all of that in my zone. Boys in detention in my zone two fan of a fan, all that, that's, that is my and I was like oh okay, so that means you should know this song. And then I played it. It's like drunk, it's like a drum part in the beginning and then dj drama starts talking. She got fucking lit like I didn't even have to tell her like what song it was and she, judy, got a booty from here to there and it was.
Speaker 1:It was cool. It was cool. So, um, because that was an interesting time in my life too and there's not a lot of people that know well I mean, there's a lot of people that know about it, but I can't talk to you about boys in detention because you didn't listen. I'm almost sure you didn't listen to boys in detention, but there are some people out there that have that was there for boys in detention and in my zone and fan of a van that have heard more than deuces or you know shit like that. So I know I uh I get excited anytime I play like those songs, because a lot of those songs were in my zone and boys in detention I had on from my hip hop early days from like what is it?
Speaker 2:Spend it All, private Dancer yeah, just shit like that anyway.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's some shit I always get. Oh, and then of course, always anytime I hear fucking, you know, miles, tnt podcast, hall of Famer, I just well, I don't really get excited, I just fucking. Uh, you know, miles, tnt podcast, hall of famer, I, I just well, I don't really get excited, I just more. Just, you know, because I just know it pisses off alvin, so it, but it's a weird pissed off, it's like I don't think I knew that, so that's funny oh no, but here's the thing.
Speaker 1:It's not that it pisses him, because everything pisses off alvin, let's be honest. But it's not. It's one of those pissed off where he tries to be pissed off but he can't because it's like so funny, right, like he'll like he'll be like bro and then like he'll hear, like you know, mouse say something and he'll just like start busting out laughing because like there's nothing he can do about it so, yeah, I'm sorry, alvin was just roasting me, bro, because of this leg, so you know oh yeah, here come the soulful sunday, just to roast me, just to roast you of course you know anything to bring excitement back to his life, because you know he's uh, so he's a locked man, right Lockdown man Anyway.
Speaker 1:So Any other songs you think of that bring excitement for you For any amounts of reasons. Young.
Speaker 2:Ma, you said your mama Young Ma. Oh, I thought you said I was like what?
Speaker 1:Which one I forgot? You forgot the name of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, we played it so many times and you don't even forgot the name of it. Yeah, bro, we played it so many times and you don't even know the name of it, I did.
Speaker 1:If I'm assuming, ladies and gentlemen, if I'm assuming the song he's talking about, I'm assuming he's talking about Cold Turkey. Yes, hopefully I'm right, I don't know Cold Turkey.
Speaker 2:it is, bro bro.
Speaker 1:I ain't played that in a minute. I play that shit all the time. I fucking love that song. Go get low Samoa. Like I said, it's simple, it's just Go get low Samoa, bitch. But yeah, that's another one I'm trying to think. Is there anything else I can think of? It gets me excited. Uh, I feel like there's something I'm missing I'm trying to.
Speaker 1:I know there's some rmb joints okay, yeah, they're not, they're not coming to me right now as far as uh well, I'll say I guess I'll say you remind me by Usher, because I was a huge Usher fan. I just remember that video so vividly. I remember as a youngin I just used to try to find the video version of the audio because I always liked that little breakdown part where he starts dancing in the middle of the street. I've always loved that part I would probably say that when the party at Jagged Edge, because it just reminds me of the summer. It just reminds me of the summer and it's just such a yeah. So Dream Girl by R Kelly, because it's just, it just reminds me of my mom when she bumped that album and that was Because that was my favorite song on that album and that was well that, because that was like my favorite song on that album. Um, I'm trying to think any other songs that get me excited.
Speaker 2:Uh, I guess Home Alone by R Kelly just cause that. Uh, that holds like a lot of nostalgia for me. Um, R&B. I don't know. I feel like it's over Sunday when you be playing, I'm getting hype, but I can't remember the records that you be playing, that you be like getting hype.
Speaker 1:I really gotta find that side high song I played cause you were singing word for word and, what's funny, I didn't even know the song. Was it Rise? I really got to find that side high song I played Because you were singing Word for Word and, what's funny, I didn't even know the song. Was it Rise? No, it wasn't Rise, it wasn't.
Speaker 2:Rise. Rise is the Maybach joint that I'll never forget because I played it randomly.
Speaker 1:You still be playing that some Sunday or no, I mean less, but I play it sometimes. But no, I'll never forget Rise. I might have to play that sometimes, but, um Nah, I'll never forget Rise, I might have to play that now. What Rise? I ain't heard this, that's great. Yeah, that's the only songs I can think of off the top of my head. I feel like there is more. Okay, I'll drink water in a minute, hold on. Yeah, I don't know I can't think of none.
Speaker 1:that's all I got yeah, I think we're good on it, man yeah, we'll probably drop this on the story to see what songs get everybody excited and all that shit. I don't know figure that out, yeah, but uh, so yeah what we got next the best of bars.
Speaker 2:Shout out to molly, she being hype when thug come on shout out to Molly yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, molly, yeah, and he's thug like and that's and just well, I guess fuck, but it's not really reeling it out because we're fucking still talking about it anyway. So, um, trap Fever, when I was playing all that thug like. All that thug I was playing was the shit that used to have the parties going like. But it's crazy that some people, a lot of people, don't know about it because they probably just weren't there at the time, but like was it pull up on the kid, pull up on the kid and slime shit. Those two songs used to have the parties lit like, like. At that at that point, remember, I said how kk like, oh well, gang signs, it's a good sign what's of response did the Blankwoods Used to get?
Speaker 1:It was a. It was a. It was a party starter, but it was cool.
Speaker 2:Since.
Speaker 1:Since hip hop expands so much by the way, shout out to hip-hop, it turned 50 years old this year, big time Since hip-hop has expanded to different little sub-genres like hip-hop or gangster rap or drill music or you know, I don't know, just a whole bunch of other genres of sub genres of rap. Do you think? Do you think trap soul should be like, considered a like a real deal genre? Cause when I think of trap soul, I think of like like the singers that are singing, but like have like hard, like I mean, they have like melodies. They have a lot of melodies in their, you know, in their music like like a, a Boogie or like a hell. Even Bryson Tiller, I mean, he had the whole mixtape called Trap Soul, but Rod Wave, hell, he probably put Lil Baby in there too. Just like folks like that. Do you feel like Trap Soul could be a could be a real, real genre? Yeah, I feel like it could be a real genre.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like it could, especially with now, because I feel like a lot of older folk be feeling like it's a lot of trap music. But I feel like, as I said on earlier episodes, I feel like that's what hip-hop is now, for them to call it trap music, like, yeah, it is trap, but like that's that's kind of what hip-hop is turned into. You know, like that's like the, the natural kind of sound bed for a lot of the music you know I mean hip-hop, hip-hop still do exist, but I feel like hip-hop is always changing and evolving. You know, like you don't, you don't got rappers. You know rapping how they used to in the 90s. You know it's always the sound of it is always changing. So, um, I think that that's.
Speaker 2:You know I could respect that trap solo for sure, because a lot of folk that just be trap rapping for real. But then you know just folks that it'd be blurring the line between, like, sing, singing and rapping. And I know me and turner have always had this uh, you know conversation just with different artists because they be, you know, real melodic with the flow and delivery, to the point where you don't even know if, like, is that the new generation R and B? Or is that just like? You know how the rappers are rapping nowadays?
Speaker 1:Right, like, uh, I know one person that I kind of just like squint my eyes at is Post Malone. Like, I know one person that I kind of just like squint my eyes at is Post Malone. Like, I know that wouldn't necessarily be Trap Soul. I mean, some of his stuff could be Trap Soul, but like it's just, some of his stuff is kind of gray area and it's like, is that really hip-hop? But I mean, I don't know, hip-hop was always founded on the grounds of there are no rules, and I brought that up before. So you know, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But I definitely think Trap Soul could be like another sub-genre of hip-hop, to like kind of separate, like you know, the melodic folks from like the hip-hop folks. Because I mean there, I mean it's not a lot, but there are still some hip-hop folks like there, um, off the top of my head I can't really think of. I mean okay, so I mean you got estg. He, I've never heard him melodically. I don't think I've ever heard him melodically rap. Um, I don't think I've ever heard him melodically rap. Iceware, iceware, vesso, is that his name?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know so much about bro, but yeah, I don't either, but a lot of them.
Speaker 1:Well, nah, because I've heard a couple of Detroit folks Melodically rap, I'm trying to think, like King Von, lionel, king Von, yeah, like A lot of those folks don't like they just strictly rap and I feel like it's kind of I don't know, it's kind of weird when you put them in the same category as a ride wave cause, like I don't know, it's just, I don't know. I feel like there should be some separation, there should be some separation in that. But I don't know, maybe that feel like there should be some separation, there should be some separation in that, but I don't know, maybe that's just me being an old head, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could see that. I just I'd be wondering what the? I feel like that's a question we got to ask the younger folk. You know, see what they Opinion is on it? Because I don't know. You know, see what they, what they uh opinion is on it, because I don't know. It's always interesting to hear what they got to say about it for real, you know, hmm.
Speaker 1:For sure Makes sense.
Speaker 2:Cause I don't know for them. You know, like when they you know how it is when you were young and like when you just listen to music, like that's all you know how it is when you're young and like when you just listen to music, like that's all you know. So it's like like that's why I went with Wild Wave. Like some of them are just like, oh yeah, that's hip hop, because like that's what they they may have like started listening to hip hop with all that melodic, you know, rapping and stuff.
Speaker 1:So definitely difficult to say and I was going to say that we did too, but never mind, we didn't have as many as as a, as a as a kid, like there's probably like, like, maybe like here and there type thing, like, but yeah, but I don't know, for for me I feel like I don't know. Maybe, maybe, maybe I can't put myself in the shoes of like a normal music listener, but I know, for me, I went back and did my homework on certain artists like, or even just hip-hop period, like there are some folks I know about that I probably would never listen to, but I I know about them, right. So I don't know, I don't know, it's's different, but yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, y'all let us know who are some artists. If Trap Soul was a real genre, who are some artists that y'all would put in that Trap Soul genre? Actually Tanaka, before we move on to what is it? Guest of Bars. Guest of Bars. I don't know, but who are some artists that you would put in Trap Soul? I don't know, but who are some artists that you would put?
Speaker 2:in a trap soul.
Speaker 1:Susie Euphoria. Shout out Drip. Shout out Drip.
Speaker 2:Polo G.
Speaker 1:Polo G is another. You know what's crazy. Polo G's kind of like a little dirt to me, like I prefer him to rap. I don't know that's maybe that's me being all here, but yeah, I definitely recommend him. I'd rather him rap than him do the singing shit. But I mean, teach um who else welcome to the south side.
Speaker 2:Kodak uh.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess, I don't know, he's kinda he's kinda.
Speaker 2:I don't know YW Melvin for sure that's kind of I don't know YW Melton, For sure that's a good one.
Speaker 1:I forgot about him. I forgot about him. That's a good one. I don't know Kodak's kind of eh, love CJ.
Speaker 2:Does he still make music? Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1:I remember he made that Beat the Odd shit. That was the last thing I heard from him okay so if we're going out, what about cowboy?
Speaker 2:yeah, cow. Well, I mean, I haven't heard no new music from cowboy. Um, I feel like that envy me is like the only record I've ever heard from bro. I ain't okay. Yeah, definitely. Um, I ain't gonna care. Yeah, definitely, rob Wave, I guess. Of course, I feel like he'd be like the Murray who.
Speaker 1:Murray. I don't think I know who that is. Quicksand, I forgot about this. It's another one that's. He's kind of like a cowboy to me. I've never heard that is Quicksand. I forgot about this. He's kind of like a cowboy to me. I've never heard anything else after Quicksand. Let me ask you this, but this is kind of where it's like dwelling into R&B what about Mariah the Scientist?
Speaker 2:I feel like she R&B. You think so, but I don't. I can't say that with full confidence, cause I haven't heard like a lot of her music like that what about Summer Ella? That's interesting. That's an interesting one. Yeah, I've only heard one song, so I can't comment on that one. I don't know what her music sounds like for real. Got you.
Speaker 1:Just curious, yeah, but y'all let us know who some folks y'all put in the trap. So genre, had that be a real genre. Y'all let us know who some uh folks y'all put in the trap. So uh, genre, had that be a real uh genre. Y'all let us know, so We'll see you next time. Thank you.