15 Albums, and they bump!

[00:00:00] Go out to la. [00:00:02] Comin from the city where no pity is. Shell. Shell. Somebody need to do a song for la. Straight up. [00:00:13] Hello, my name is Elaine and I'll be your tour guide through South Central Los Angeles. Look, count my nose. Smoke up. I'm from California. Where you from? So what? I'm from California. California. California. California. This is Los Angeles. Well, where we going? West. Work. [00:00:33] But I. I came upon an entry and it said the same thing. It said, name 15 albums that stick with you. [00:00:44] And it said, tag 15 friends and you have to do this in 15 minutes. [00:00:49] Now, tagging 15 friends. It wasn't a problem naming 15 albums. That stuck with me in 15 minutes. [00:00:58] That, my friends, was the problem because. But on the. But 12 cal, I got you. Now, I can admit trying to figure out 15 albums in 15 minutes. When you get put on the spot, it can shake you up a little bit. Now, after I finish listening to 12 cows episode, right? [00:01:20] By the way, y' all tap in the Rap Soul podcast. [00:01:25] It's simply the dopest podcast that you just haven't heard yet. He talks about music and then more music, and guess what? [00:01:34] More music. [00:01:35] And he break down albums, verses, all kind of shit over there, you know what I mean? Shout out to 12 cow. That is my. [00:01:45] That's my older brother right here in the podcast game, okay? We running shit and we. And we neighbors as far as the Zodiac. So shout out to them Capricorns and in the Sagittarius. We got to stick together. Out here is dangerous. But I want to get back to it. I too has, have. Has had or have a Facebook for a very long time. [00:02:10] Same thing with Twitter. [00:02:12] But my, you know, my Twitter, my Twitter page got taken away. Everything has been getting snatched away. My IG got hacked two weeks ago. [00:02:22] My Twitter got taken away during the pandemic. [00:02:25] Man, I guess, hey, you really become a vet when you start getting shit snatched away, you know what I'm saying? [00:02:32] When the online fads come knocking at the door and put you behind bars. But I want to get back to this dope topic that 12 Cal had stumbled upon where, hey, can you figure out 15 albums in 15 minutes? [00:02:49] I'll put it to you like this. [00:02:51] It wasn't that difficult for me, right, Because I have more than 15 albums that I can come up with, which means I wouldn't have a problem with naming 15. Now, it was which ones that I wanted to stick with the most. Because you know you're going to leave something out if you listen to music. Like how I listen to music how Brit Listen to music. 12 cow j book Listen to music. [00:03:16] Then you have a plethora of albums, but I'm just gonna pick the ones that just stood out at the moment. I beat the clock on this one, 12. I'm not gonna lie. You know, now, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't do what you said to do, which was go tag 15 people, tell them to do the same thing in 15 minutes. But I did stumble across some 15 albums that I loved throughout my lifetime. [00:03:43] So here we go now at number one. I wish I had some. Some dope background music or the music, the instrumentals, but I didn't have time for that. But we gonna start off with West Side Connection. 12 Cal. Yeah, we're gonna start off with west side Connection, and The album is 1996. We're going with Bow Down. [00:04:03] Yeah, that's that. Hold a special place in my heart with tracks like, you know, out the Gate. We got Bow down, we got Gangsters, Gangsters make the World Go Around. [00:04:14] Phenomenal. [00:04:16] Phenomenal. [00:04:24] Oh, man. That was it right there. And of course, one of the, you know, the bonus track, who Banging when they had all kind of random ass LA niggas on the track. Oh, my God. [00:04:37] That is all from you. Do y' all even remember? All from the Eye, huh? [00:04:44] Come on, man. [00:04:46] That was. That. That was. I. I wore that track out. [00:04:50] The comrades, I wore that track out. [00:04:54] Okay, now we could talk about Dubsy having one of the best verses on. All right, we gonna talk about Bow Down. I was in middle school around there. [00:05:02] 12 Cal. I rode the Greyhound bus from LA to Bakersfield. Listened to that whole album straight back to back to back to back to back. [00:05:11] Yep, yep. [00:05:13] By myself. By myself. So I was born in 82. I'm 42 as of today. [00:05:21] However old I was in 96, I was on the bus by myself listening to this album. Okay, next up. Oh, my God. [00:05:30] Way to keep it west coast. Baylor, we got the dog pan with dog food. [00:05:36] 1995. 95. 90. Just peep out the years, though. We started off in 96. We went back to 95, bro. Hey, that New York, New York track, it's so many tempo psych. No, like no bench ass nigga. [00:05:55] But, you know, man, they had some reality that, yo, that track right there displayed a lot of lyricism, especially by Corrupt. [00:06:10] And I came about, you know, about this track by my older brother. I got to give my older brother Dejuan all. [00:06:16] My older brother Dejuan has at least 75% of the. The. The purpose and the reason why. I listened to all types of music because he was the one who was listening to Redman and Snoop Dogg, you know what I'm saying? The Chronic album and, you know, Muddy Waters, it was just. [00:06:38] Was. It was a balance. He wasn't much of a Wu Tang fan or. Or not even a Wu Tang fan at all, but he still was listening to the music. Back then, it was some West Coast, east coast shit. Not to the degree it was during the Parking Big era, but it was a division because it was regional music, you know what I'm saying? But it was still. It was no hate, though. That's the thing. It wasn't hate coming from any. I mean, you had the east coast bias, and the west coast bias was heavy. [00:07:16] But I know on my side of town, the reason why I came to like and love some of these artists that's on this list that I wanted to talk about is because of my older brother and my cousin Jared, who has yet to be on the podcast, but he gonna be on here talk sports and shit like that. But they. The ones had me listening to both sides of the coast, you know what I'm saying? At one point, I would think that my cousin Jared would listen to more east coast than west coast, you know what I'm saying? And he. And he was very critical of west coast artists, including Pacific. Very critical, you know what I'm saying? Respect and love was always there, but he was very critical of the west coast. You know, not so much of the east coast, but, you know, I'm pretty sure he loves where he's from, but that. I'm just showing you the appreciation that we had for the other side as well. So after Dog Food, I was in middle school. Then we keeping the West Coast. Ice Cube, War and Peace. This is one of the. This was the first Ice Cube album that I bought with my own money. [00:08:19] War and Peace. I'm in high school at this point, so, you know, we get. Got the little summer jobs and like that. [00:08:27] That War and Peace album came with pushing rhymes. Like, why? Hey, pushing rhymes. The curse of money. When you get it. Oh, you got it. Who you got it? [00:08:40] What else was on there? Limos, demos and bimbos. And then my favorite track on there is Once Upon a Time in a Project, Part Two. Because, you know, y' all heard Part one, but Part two, I love part two. You wanna talk? And, you know, was it this year? It was either this year or last year when they was saying, who is the best storyteller, you know what I'm saying? So they had. And they had a few cats up there. Big is up there. They had. I. They had. They had Cube up there. [00:09:08] And you know, it was other cats up there. But that's who, that's who the Versus was between Big and Cube. And of course, a lot of the New Yorkers was saying Big, and everybody on the west coast was saying Cube, obviously, but both was great storytellers. But go ahead. If you haven't heard Once Upon a Time in a Projects Part two, please go do so. [00:09:33] Because when you listen to it, if you've seen a movie Friday Next Friday, Friday After Next, or any other or janky promoters or something like that, somewhere in that wheelhouse house is the, the story that he tells you. You could almost picture that as a Ice Cube Cube vision movie, you know what I'm saying? So. [00:09:54] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. War and Peace. War and Peace. And that was a. That was a double disc, by the way. Double. This next one we got ryan Leslie, transition 2020. [00:10:11] No, I about to say 2009, technically. That's right, 2009. [00:10:17] Out the gate. Track number four, is it real? Is it Real love? [00:10:25] Hey, that boy could say. And remember, Ryan Leslie started out as a rapper. And remember he started some servers. I got a text message from Ryan Leslie. Now, I don't know if that was automated at the time or if that was really him and in the beta stages, but it was something that he was doing where he gave out his number and you could text it and shit like that. [00:10:47] But the reason why that album, Transition Album, is near and dear to my heart, because track number nine is our wedding song. That's Guardian Angel. [00:10:59] It's a beautiful song. [00:11:01] It's a beautiful song. He also got a song on there called Gibberish. I think it's called Gibberish and it's a song. I think it's a song dedicated to his child, if I'm not mistaken. But go check out Gibberish. That is a dope song. That is a dope creative song. Go listen to that album. That album got some hairs on it for sure. I'm not going to lie to all these albums that I'm talking about. I love a plethora of tracks, A plethora of tracks. And maybe there might be an album on here there that I only like two, but we're going to find out. We're going to keep it rolling. We don't keep it rolling. We're going to keep it rolling. We're going to keep it rolling. After Ryan Leslie, we got. Yes. [00:11:43] Dark Man X or Dog Man X, whichever y' all prefer. Dmx, huh? [00:11:49] Yonkers Finest. [00:11:51] And then there was X. [00:11:54] Huh? [00:11:56] And that was What? That was 98, too. It was either 98 or 99. [00:12:00] And that. That album is special to me because that's the album that I went and got in December. [00:12:08] I rode my bike to. [00:12:12] I stayed off of 80th and San Pedro between Maine. Between Maine and San Pedro. [00:12:19] And the record shop was closer to Manchester and Broadway. [00:12:25] That's a nice bike ride, you know what I'm saying? Basically, from 80th and San Pedro to Manchester, that's almost. [00:12:33] That's almost six. Six or seven blocks, something like that. [00:12:39] And I rode my bike in the rain to go get that. [00:12:45] This nigga had a track with Cisco, what these Bitches Want from a Nigga. That was a classic song on there, Party up the Corrupt Diss. We all know about that one. [00:12:55] But my favorite track, number 10, which I had scratched up my CD off of my God, track number 10, what's my name? That video. [00:13:08] That video was so vicious. 12 Cal when I. Because it was just different, you know what I'm saying? [00:13:15] Yeah, what's my name? [00:13:17] And then there was X. That was a good year. That was. Hey, dmx. Dmx. The only. That dropped two classic albums in the same year. [00:13:27] Niggas don't do. You can't really do that. [00:13:30] You can't really do that. You could drive back to back, but this nigga literally dropped back to back in the same year. [00:13:37] It's cold living. [00:13:39] Next one after that, we got mj. My guy, my goat, you know what I'm saying? [00:13:47] How could I even. You know, where was I at with the album that came out in 79? Caught off the wall, where I wouldn't even thought of. [00:13:57] I wasn't born until 82. But the thing is, the reason why I like Mike so much is I grew up watching him on TV doing those pivotal. Yeah, I watched him doing the cocaine eras in the 80s, you know what I'm saying? So all that. You got to think that album is, is. Is. Is only three years older than me. So they pushing it. This has so many. This. This was in his bag. [00:14:23] He was in this bag on that. What are you talking out the gate. You rock with you, huh? [00:14:30] And my favorite track on there, I got a favorite track on all these albums, by the way. My favorite track on there, number five. [00:14:36] The name of the album, off the wall. This. Oh, My God, is that that nice blendy vibe of that disco shit? [00:14:46] Some of the purest cocaine had to be snuffed to some shit like this. This. Somebody had to be in a room with the. With. With the. [00:14:56] With the. What's that? Damn. The. The lamp. [00:14:59] You know what I'm saying? The volcano lamp shit, right? The neon that going, you know what I'm saying? With, like, some retro video game that's on the tv. It probably was a. [00:15:13] What was before the Nintendo. Y' all know what I'm talking about. The Atari got. We probably got, you know, the fucking Atari. You know, the games that was on Atari. [00:15:25] But you just laying on your bed, you got some of the finest. Columbia. You gotta have that 12 Cal to listen to this album. Because they got a track on here. Let me tell you. I know I got an old soul because I had a crush on this girl in high school, right? [00:15:43] And I think she turned me down. I think that was my. I think that was my first rejection. And I was the friends on that one. On that one, right? [00:15:56] And. Cause I knew her boyfriend, super cool guy. [00:16:01] I'm not gonna say nothing, but I remember who she was dating in high school. And I was like, dang, man. Once he graduated, though, I thought I had action. Wrong. [00:16:15] Wrong. I did not have action. No, no, no, no. [00:16:19] But, man, when I got shut down, I wrote that note, dog, and that song. She's out of My Life. You know how many times I listened to track number seven? You understand how many times I listened to you're out of My Life? [00:16:33] How fucking dramatic. You know how dramatic I was. [00:16:39] Y' all stupid, man. [00:16:42] You hear me turning the papers. I got some cold albums right here. 12 count the next one. [00:16:47] Well, this album dropped in 2005, 2005. We got. Run it, huh? With UL Santana. We got. Yo, excuse me, miss. [00:17:00] Huh? We got a. No way. [00:17:06] Damn, baby, you a winner. My favorite track, another number seven. [00:17:11] Another track, number seven. [00:17:14] Winner, One of the most underrated Chris Brown songs of all time. [00:17:18] And I'm just talking about, like, hits. Cause Winner wasn't a. It wasn't. It wasn't pushed as a single, you know, not to. Not to my knowledge. I don't remember hearing on the radio that much. [00:17:29] Right? [00:17:30] I wouldn't listen to the radio much anyway. We had. Well, we were still listening to the radio around our time, but not a lot. We were still on the CD. CDs. Mixed CDs at that. So we wouldn't really. Really listening to the radio like that. But Winner. That's my right there, dog. He had. That's a classic album. That's to me, that's his best album. Chris Brown's best album is his debut album. [00:17:53] That album is Fire, you understand? And I'm what, three or four years removed out of high school at that point, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, we talking about the college years still. The college. Well, maybe the end of the college years, but you going into the young adult life, the clubs, the lounges, the day parties and shit like that, right? So that was when Chris Brown first dropped, around that time. [00:18:28] All right, we got to go back to High School 12 Cal. [00:18:32] Oh, man, this is a cheat hole. Because I'mma go with no limit. I'm going go with no limit. In the year of 1998. 99. 98 was cracking. But here's the thing. I can't just pick one album because over here, and especially at Fremont, I can't really speak for other schools. Although I'm probably can go get some from Crenshaw, from Lock, from Manuel, you know what I'm saying? From Dorsey. Actually, I can go to my wife on some Dorsey shit. But N. Y' all don't understand the love that we had at that time for no Limit. [00:19:11] Are you crazy, brother? Huh? The Gambino family, nigga Fiend. Fiend was one of my favorites. Fiend. I didn't really care too much for Cain and Abel. But see, murder, Mystical Mia X. That mama drama. [00:19:27] Huh? [00:19:28] And then, and then, and then Master P with. And then P dropped the. The mp. The last don. [00:19:34] Are you kidding me, nigga? Those. [00:19:39] Those no limit CDs was dropping every week, bro. [00:19:45] Them niggas was there. They wouldn't. I've never seen a production of music like that in my life. [00:19:52] These niggas was dropping multiple projects. Everybody bought. Everybody went to go get the Mercedes cd. And I don't remember not near song. We only remember her because of the album cover. [00:20:06] I don't know what that noise is if y' all hear that, but everybody remembers that album cover. Cheeks. Small Cheeks. But back then, it was still, you know, provocative. [00:20:23] It was. I don't even remember a single damn song off that cd. [00:20:28] I do remember Mia X. And they had a compilation album, Leave Leave no Limit of the date in history. Hip hop. Let's go to the next one. Joe. [00:20:39] This was. This was 2003. 2003. Special year. My oldest son was born in 2003. And I was listening to that album. And then by Joe, he has songs like my favorite Song on there is Priceless, track number five. Priceless. [00:20:59] Yeah, Priceless. Like a Red. [00:21:02] Yeah, perfect. Like a dream come true, girl. Whack. What? [00:21:09] What? I'll be in my R B bag more and more. That was. I was probably the biggest commercial song off that album, I think. [00:21:18] I think that was more and more. I think so. [00:21:22] This had an R. Kelly's. He had a Kelly song on there. Because after. I think after More and More, or after Priceless, it was a. Or before that, it was track called Jeep. [00:21:32] Yeah, y' all remember that? [00:21:41] You could tell who wrote that. And then. [00:21:43] It Ain't like that. Oh, that was a cold track, though. That was a cold track. Go listen to that album. Go listen to that album. Came out in 2003, like I said. And then by Joe. Shout out to Joe, man, Next one, I would say we're going back to high school. But this was right after I graduated. I think I graduated in June. June of. Was it June? [00:22:08] Yeah, I think we graduated in June of 2001. [00:22:13] May was prom. And then a month later, it was graduation. And we didn't. We was out of school by July. Definitely by July. [00:22:24] And the reason why I remember this, because I remember waking up that morning, waking up that morning, and my brother and his homeboy just standing up and staring at the tv, smoking. [00:22:36] There's not a day that I don't wake up, like, right in that era, especially my 11th and 12th grade year, where I didn't wake up. [00:22:46] This was, you know, out of school. I'm out of school. I graduated already. [00:22:52] You know what I'm saying? [00:22:53] So it was during a weekday, for sure. [00:23:01] But, you know, I'm out of school. So every day is like. [00:23:05] Every day, like the weekend. Because I, you know, I have. [00:23:09] College is just. [00:23:11] That's just waiting for me right now. I'm chilling. And I remember my boy Bass spent the night or whatever. Cause we were. I think we was hooping. And then, you know, he stayed in Hawthorne and, you know, he didn't have a ride home. So he stayed the night. He stayed tonight. And we woke up the next morning, my nigga, and saw two airplanes crash into, you know, the buildings in New York. [00:23:40] But that was the same year Jay Z dropped the blueprint. I mean, out the gate with Ruler's back, boom, boom, boom. [00:23:52] That shit right there. [00:23:54] And then on top of that, you had to take over right after that. But cool track. I mean, dope track. But for what it was, for. It was just too late for that. [00:24:08] But it still is considered a banger on that. On that cd, along with the classic track Renegade, who. A lot of people say M cleaned his ass up on there. [00:24:22] You can't lose with neither verse. But I'm gonna tell you my favorite track, a hidden gem that's on that. You really gotta. You really gotta appreciate the shit that he was saying on this lyrical exercise, track 14 dog. [00:24:39] That right there, that's. [00:24:42] That's. That's gotta be. [00:24:46] Gotta be top. Somewhere between. [00:24:50] I say top. Seven motivational tracks, lyrical exercise. [00:24:56] Come on, man. [00:24:58] Blueprint. His Blueprint series is solid. [00:25:01] Blueprint two. Was. Was. Was. Was Cold. Was cold. Blueprint three. Blue. Blueprint three. All right, all right. And. And also, the Black album has a special. [00:25:13] But it didn't make the list. But I wouldn't, you know, the Black album really meant something, too, because it's what happened around it. I can remember that next one. We got K dot now 12 Cal. I should have brought me something to drink. [00:25:31] Go ahead and just guess what album you think I'm gonna say. Cause I guarantee you, I know you gonna get this one wrong. [00:25:38] Cause you gonna either pick to Pimp, right? [00:25:46] Which is one of my favorites. [00:25:48] You got a good kid. [00:25:50] One of my favorites. [00:25:52] You know what I'm saying? Those would be to me when it comes to popularity. And I'm talking about amongst the heads, Pause to pimp and good kid. They got good kid up there with Stillmatic, so do what you will with that one. [00:26:19] But no, man, it's actually Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. And I'm gonna tell you why. [00:26:28] We hadn't heard from K. Dodot in a minute. We had been through the. The previous two years. We had just been through the pandemic. So you got to think of. You got to look at it like this. The pandemic. First of all, prior to that, we lost Nip. We lost Nip. The pandemic. We lost Kobe. [00:26:49] You see what I'm saying? [00:26:51] 2001, we just now getting back to, all right, we can ditch the mask type of thing with confidence. [00:27:00] And then in 2002, this one, we get the big steppers. So now we get to say, like, all right, now we get to hear what y' all talking about. [00:27:08] What you talking about? We ain't heard from him in a minute. And the nigga told you. [00:27:12] He told you that I've been. I've been ducking all these. You know what I'm saying? When him and Baby Keemi was like, I've been ducking all this shit, bro. I've been ducking all this. I've been paying attention to y' all niggas, but the reason why I love this album overall. 12 California. This album came out in 2022, but the reason why I like it a lot is because I understood what the album was meant for, you know what I'm saying? And I think he gave us an insight on what he's been going through rather than making music for his. His followers. [00:27:47] He just so happened to make a lot of tracks that I ended up liking, you know what I'm saying? Starting with the N95. [00:27:54] I love that track. [00:27:56] Die Hard. Me and Bailey made a tick tock video to that track. I love that Rich Spirit seems to be one of the most popular, popular tracks on there. Count Me out is one of my favorites. Auntie Diaries is definitely one of my favorites. [00:28:10] A man now and then. And then he. I see a lot of people, you know, clowning for that, but I actually think it's a well put together track. I like it a lot, especially the production, you know what I'm saying? Also got the Hard Part six. I mean, not the Hard Part six, the Hard Part five on there, but he got a lot of songs on there. He got some backlash for. [00:28:35] He got some backlash for having Kodak Black on the album, you know what I mean? [00:28:40] And you probably didn't go find his reasoning, but by now y' all should know how calculated this man is. So we'll just wait and see if we ever get the insight on a lot of shit that we question that he did. But I actually like this album. Is it my favorite album? But no, no, it's not. I mean, well, it's one of my favorites. But is it the best? No, it's not the best album. You know what I'm saying? It's not the best album. Honestly. I have it in a four way tie right now between. [00:29:15] I don't think it's gonna be good kid to me. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's a three way for second, I would say. And that is to Pimp, gnx and Damn, you know what I mean? So they in a dogfight right now because I love them for so many different reasons and neither one of them sound the same, but they do have somewhat of a similar track on a lot of projects. But I'll wait till I actually record that episode with 12 cows. So there you go. 12. We got one. We got one on the way now we coming up on the end, you know what I'm saying? I'm not going to get too dramatic. But when I get to the end, I'mma make something of it. But the next one we got Nelly. [00:30:00] I know. That's a surprise, huh? I know, I know. Problem is, this album was in a pivotal time in my life relationship. Wise up and down, in and out school. [00:30:18] Because this album came out in. In 2002. This is a year after I graduated high school, you know what I'm saying? We got the classic hiding here, hiding her, technically hiding her pimp juice. Woo dang. A pimp juice. Still when I get off this, I'm playing Pimp Juice, Air Force Ones, you know what I'm saying? [00:30:41] I told a couple of people that that song hunts me because I had a friend, a classmate that passed away in high school and he wore Air Force Ones like crazy at school. So that song came out around the time he passed away and they played that at his funeral, you know what I'm saying? It was like the intro, it was just the. [00:31:08] It was just the instrumental, but it played while people was walking in. That's how much he wore Air Force One, you know, so Shout out. Rest in peace, Carl, man. [00:31:23] Yeah, but Air Force One's my favorite track. [00:31:28] It came down. It's a two way is. [00:31:31] It's a tie. I was about to say it's a two way. It's a tie between Dilemma featuring Kelly Rowland and then Rock the Mic Pause, you know, featuring Stay propping Murphy Lee, a rock the mic remix pause. And then you got Dilemma with the video though. [00:31:51] That was. [00:31:54] And the thing is she got mad because Nelly never text her back. But you hit him up on a spreadsheet, brother. [00:32:03] No, Kelly, he didn't get the message. [00:32:07] He didn't get it because you didn't send it. [00:32:10] Huh? You created Shout out, man. Hey, I'm glad we got the Internet for certain reasons because for niggas to actually pay attention to that, it just went over them two way pagers, brother. They got us though. They really, really, really got us. And you know, I'm not even a two way. [00:32:31] A two way type of. Nah, I was more of the. I mean, I did have one, but I don't even know if I. I didn't even have any service when I had one. That's how fake I was. And I had a pager that didn't work for a long time. When I first got a pager, my brother pager, because he had got a new one. So he gave me. It was a blue one. [00:32:51] Like the blue see through one. Like a dark blue See through One. And that wasn't on. It was no service. I used to lie. [00:32:59] I used to lie. Then eventually I did get it cut on for a little bit or whatever. That's what the Used to have codes. And on the pages that was lit. [00:33:08] Where was I going with this? [00:33:10] I have no idea. [00:33:14] Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, and I was. I wasn't too much of a two way. Did the pager, but I was Sidekick 3. [00:33:21] Sidekick 1, 2, and 3. [00:33:25] Yeah, that was my error right there. 12 Cal. We was in the game. AOL messenger. [00:33:31] The next one, dawg. [00:33:35] Hey, I'm around those 2000s, those early 2000s, because Eminem, Marshall Mathers LP. Now, let me tell you when Eminem first started getting popular, and I'm talking about that when he first came out. Because when he first came out versus when he first got popular, that's two different. That's two different years. [00:34:00] But when he. When he came out with. Well, hi, my name is. It was Slim Shady. [00:34:08] There was another artist by the name of Slim Shady or something like Slim or something. [00:34:14] And. [00:34:16] But I think it was a Texas rapper, if I'm not mistaken. [00:34:21] I'm trying to remember. And. Cause I had him mixed up. So when I first heard him, I'm like, this nigga don't sound like he from Texas. [00:34:30] Nah, not at all. This nigga don't sound like he from Texas. And he just had a weird, awkward voice. And then I saw the video, and I was like, this nigga is white. [00:34:42] He is white. [00:34:44] And this nigga is rapping like that. [00:34:47] And then you gotta go listen to his. Go listen to the Slim Shady lp, whatever that was called, his first album, but the Marshall Mathers lp, My Nigga. [00:35:01] Marshall Mathers lp. That nigga, the Way I Am. [00:35:06] That's my favorite song on there. [00:35:09] The Way I Am and that. Wait, wait, wait. How'd it go? How I go? How I go? It go. [00:35:14] No, I can't even do it because I'm a butcher. I used to. I used to know the whole song word for word. Now I'm a stumble because I'm gonna forget some words. But that opening verse is one of the coldest opening verses of all time. Yes, indeedy. Yes, indeedy. Yes, it is. Y' all remember the King Canip us skits, nigga? Oh, Remember Me. [00:35:37] It's some powerful lyricism going on on that. Remember Me with sticky fingers in RBX. [00:35:43] What many hell. Track number 12. [00:35:49] And you remember D12, right? [00:35:53] What was that? Devil's Night. [00:35:55] I gotta go listen to that. I gotta go Listen to that album. Cause D12 had a movement. They had some traction for a cool minute, bro. [00:36:04] Them niggas did. No lie. Them niggas really did have some homie for a little bit. But yeah. Steve Berman. [00:36:11] Steve berman. That's my error. 12 cow say Steve Berman. They know who Steve Berman is. And. And King Kid can niff dog the next one. [00:36:25] Undiscovered 2006, James Morrison. Now, look, I first heard of James Morrison. [00:36:34] That album came out Undiscovered, came out in 2006. But I didn't get knowledge, any type of knowledge of James morrison Until. Until 2008. And I think this was after my mom passed away. [00:36:48] Now, the way I found him is how I find a lot of my music. [00:36:54] It's not technically not digging in the crates, but it's almost like stumbling across great music. Cause again, I was watching TV and there was a TV show and I forgot what TV show it was. It could have been anything. It could have been fucking. It's one of them daytime TVs, not it. Not, not, not a. Not one of them talk shows. But it was like one of those shows like, fuck, I can't even think of a show right now that came out around that time. But it was just one of those shows that people just like one of those doctor hospital shows. Not the stories, but this was like a real show. [00:37:39] And it was playing his song on the. I mean, on the commercial. It was. It was a. [00:37:48] I don't know, it was a pilot pitch or something like that, or just a special episode, but it was planned. [00:37:55] One of his songs, which is my favorite song on that album, which is called you Give Me Something now. You want to talk about blue eyes, soul12 Cal. James Morrison. This album is so great that I think it deserves some type of spotlight. On the rap soul podcast, James Morrison, undiscovered in 2006. [00:38:20] Track number two, you give me something. Track number five. [00:38:24] One last chance. One Last Chance. That's another one of those inspirational tracks I was telling you about with Jay Z. [00:38:31] Yes. James Morrison. One Last Chance. Please go. If I want to say just go listen to it in general, but go listen to one of the. Go listen to that song. When you having just one of those days. You having a rough day. One of those cloudy rainy days in your mind, dark clouds, you know what I'm saying? You feel like you ain't shit, you know, life kicking your ass, bills, whatever the case, family drama, you go through that. Go pop an edible, go get you something to drink, lay down, dim the lights. Go play this track. Okay. [00:39:03] Go play this track. Track number five on undiscovered album by James Morrison called One Last Chance and tell me you don't feel that pause. [00:39:16] He got a track on here called this Boy. It's a dope, dope, dope song. [00:39:20] And then number 11 is. [00:39:24] It could get you emotional if you a little bitch. And I've been a little bitch sometimes. It's very emotional. Track. Track number 11. But I also was listening to this album after my mom passed away, so a lot of these songs had some emotional strings, and it was attached to the passing of my mother. Right now, last but not least, 15, the 15th track that I just so remembered. So I'm gonna do a little cheat code. [00:39:59] I thought about putting the Alchemist album first. [00:40:03] Infantry came out in 2004. [00:40:06] Yeah, that was a. [00:40:09] That was a great album right there. Mobb Deep was all over that. The Locks was all over that. [00:40:14] Yeah, that was a great album. Me and my cousin Jared talk about that album all the time. All the time. Alchemist. And you know what? Alchemist got so many goddamn. [00:40:30] He's got so many goddamn projects, you know what I'm saying? Like, I think my favorite tracks on that one, though. Remember Stop the Show by Stat Quo and Mop Essence by the Locks. That's one of my favorite tracks right there. [00:40:48] Our boy. What is it? Our guy. What is it? Our pal Al or something like that? Our guy Al or something like that. I forgot it. I gotta go play that goddamn album. Y' all should go play that album, too. It got some great tracks on there. [00:41:02] But no, that didn't make the list. That didn't make the list. Although it was a great album. Then I thought I had a moment in time. I was definitely in a relationship at this point. [00:41:11] Young, though, in 97. [00:41:13] Butterfly, Mariah Carey. [00:41:19] I only like two tracks on there, Breakdown and With Bone and Honey, which was probably her biggest song on that album. [00:41:32] But she also got a solid track, Butterfly on that track. I think it's the second track on there. Butterfly. Everything else I didn't really care for. All the other tracks I didn't care for, but I played this shit out of that album with just those three songs. And I remember the COVID of it. It's the dope, dope, dope. But I didn't pick that one either. [00:41:56] I didn't pick that one either. Man, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I gotta string y' all along. I gotta string y' all along, man. [00:42:03] No, I'm gonna. I'M gonna tell you. [00:42:08] 1472. Life in 1472, dog. 1998. Going back to 1998. That's Jermaine Dupree. What? Money Ain't a Thing featuring Jay Z. [00:42:21] Are you kidding me? [00:42:24] That was a classic. [00:42:26] Classic, you know what I mean? That whole album. [00:42:31] Who else did he have on that album? He had eight Ball on that album. He had the Young Bloods on that album. The had Keep Sweat on the album. Huh? [00:42:42] Number nine. You get. You get dealt with. [00:42:46] Featuring Mason. Lil Kim. Go listen to that. [00:42:50] Go listen to that track. But guess what? That's not it either. [00:42:56] No, man. The 15th. The last track. [00:43:00] 12. Cal. I'm gonna stop playing around with the audience, man. [00:43:05] I'm stopped playing around with the audience, man. It was Kanye. [00:43:09] It's the graduation. [00:43:11] Graduation album. Came out in 2007. [00:43:14] Yeah, man. [00:43:15] Yeah. I'm gonna tell you why. [00:43:17] Remember, that was the biggest selling competition we had seen at that point, like, ever. [00:43:27] It was him versus 50. [00:43:30] And I just remember them going back and forth like the. The rollout was. Now that we know it was a rollout at the moment, I thought it was real. I thought 50 didn't like Kanye at all. I thought these niggas, like, really hated each other. Well, at least 50. You know what I'm saying? [00:43:46] Cause of his reputation. But it's like, dog. And the whole time, it's a part of the rollout. [00:43:52] And this nigga almost sold. I think this nigga ends up selling, like, what? Anywhere between. [00:43:58] I want to say it was something like crazy, but I don't want to lie. And I should have looked up the numbers. And I'm not a person that cares about the album sales. [00:44:07] Look, my favorite artist is Michael Jackson. And with the accolades that he got, nigga, that's cool. It was more about the music. It was more about the artist than anything. [00:44:22] Him selling what he did when we started doing versus Mike versus Prince. [00:44:33] It's strictly music and everything surrounding it. [00:44:38] But accept that selling shit. Cause I don't care about the album sales. You know what I'm saying? It's a cool to having a debate. It's something. [00:44:47] It's a dope weapon to have if you need to use it in an argument. But at the end of the day, when it comes to the heads, when it comes to the niggas that really enjoy the art of music in general, then it's just about. That's what it's about. It's not about the album sales and shit like that, because we know that mj Was just the media darling, and Prince was, you know, no pun, but rage against the machine. Like he was. He was against all that shit, you know what I'm saying? So we could have just appreciated the art of it with Mike. It was more so of the lifestyle of just being a wealthy entertainer. [00:45:37] Charisma and dancing. [00:45:42] When you look at. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's just. That's just basically what it was. [00:45:49] But this album did sell a shitload of. I should have looked it up. I want to say. Did that nigga almost sell, like, over, like 800,000? I'm just going to look it up. I have to. I have to. [00:46:05] Graduation. [00:46:07] Graduation. [00:46:12] Album sale. [00:46:16] Album sale. [00:46:19] We gonna find out right now. [00:46:24] Well, as of today is 18.7 million units. But how many? [00:46:33] That's not what I'm looking for. [00:46:36] Oh, yeah. So it. [00:46:38] Damn. 957,000 copies. [00:46:42] Shit, I thought it was eight. [00:46:46] I thought it was between six and eight. God damn, man. That rollout, nigga. That rollout happened. That's what propelled that nigga to where he's at now. But he know he had the stronger track, was probably. That's a good workout track. Stronger. That's the track that 50 said sound like robots and shit like that. [00:47:07] What else do you have on that album that was dope? [00:47:11] What else he have on that? He had flashing lights on there. He had the Good Life featuring T. Pain. [00:47:16] You can't tell me nothing. [00:47:18] And I wonder if you know what. Yeah, he has some shit on there. And the art cut. The art was dope as well. Was dope as hell. I remember telling the young lady that I was with at the time, I said, and I didn't do it, but I had bought the album. And I said I was gonna buy another one. [00:47:39] And she was like, why? I was like, because I want to buy another one and I don't want to unwrap it. You know what I'm saying? I was ahead of the game on end, and I just didn't do it. Fuck. [00:47:49] But I was like, because this is going to be worth a lot in some years. You know what I'm saying? I was saying that back in 2007, 2008, I'm like, I should have bought two copies and never opened up the other one. [00:48:03] I remember saying that, dog. Why didn't I listen to myself? [00:48:09] And I'm not even sure how much it would sell, but it would mean something. The nigga makes classic music, man. And to me, Graduation was definitely a classic album. But, yeah, 12 cal. Thank you, brother. Thank you. I wouldn't necessarily call this a remix. I would just say this is just a different version. You know what I'm saying? This is the RN Baylorism version. No, I can't say that. I did have some R and B albums on here. I had a nice little balance. I had a nice little about. Because I had a pop song on there. [00:48:38] They say the James Morrison album is under pop, but it doesn't. [00:48:44] It doesn't. Really doesn't give me that pop feel to it. You know what I'm saying? It's like an alternative. [00:48:52] I just like alternative R B or some. So I don't know. [00:48:56] But, yeah, these are. These are my 15. And guess what? I got a. I got a 15 through 30. [00:49:02] I'm not gonna do it on this episode, but just let you know that I got 15s lying around, bro. I got 15 lying around. So y' all go listen to 12 conversions first. Y' all know the rules. Anytime I do a remix or something of that nature, I gotta get a credit to them. You know what I'm saying? And there it is. [00:49:26] But at the same time, out of respect, go listen to that man's version, then come holla at mine. [00:49:33] All right? [00:49:34] I could hear a Brit coming in the near future. And J Bizzle, we waiting on your retizzle. Okay, Jay, we gonna have to put something together. Hey, my shit still got hacked. Y' all gotta go follow the new IG page. I forgot what it is. I'll let y' all know in the next episode.