Eric B and Rakim: Paid in Full

Ready for a journey down memory lane? Join us as we go back to 1986 to revisit the groundbreaking hip-hop album "Paid in Full" by Eric B and Rakim. Filled with innovative sampling, scratching, and witty lyrics, this album redefined the genre. And you know what else? It did all this without a single curse word. Can you believe it? We know, it's hard to wrap your head around.

We then take a look at the song "My Melody." Now, this is no ordinary song. It's a poetic masterpiece that marries music, scratching, sampling and spoken word. We had a good laugh talking about it, sharing Thanksgiving stories, giving a shoutout to the jobless, and analyzing the rhymes and rhythm of the song. And let's not forget the serious note of political awareness that comes through in the lyrics. That's what makes it stand out even more.

But we don't stop there. We dig deeper into the world of rap music and its influence on popular culture. You'll hear us gab about the art of rapping, the thrill of industry rivalries, and the craft of calling out others in lyrics. We even create our very own scratching sound using toast! Yes, you read that right. Toast. So, don't miss out! Dive right in and join us in appreciating the wonders of rap music, its influence on popular culture, and the magic of the iconic album "Paid in Full".

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:03

Check one, two Check, check Mike.

Speaker 2 0:06

So check please, mike Mike.

Speaker 1 0:09

Mike, check, check, check one, two. I'm not gonna have to check. All right, all right, bam. It's curly G cradle rock style MCP and my co-host Tim playing a little Eric B and Rock M. Today it's gonna be our album 1986, paid and full. We're excited. We're gonna listen to some intense and very innovative hip hop rhyming. Consider one of the best albums of all time. One of the best hip hop albums you know in terms of what a big influence it was and all the stuff that we've come to know and love for decades now came as a result of a lot of the experimentation on this album. So we're gonna listen through the album and the way we do all of our episodes, we will exclude the singles or the hits and do a ranking at the end of our three favorite non hits. So we'll do it the way we always do it. So you know, for our listeners, our followers, our subscribers, thank you so much for your continued support, for continued listening. We'd love to hear from you and we hope you enjoy the podcast for our new listeners.

Speaker 1 1:36

Thank you and welcome for listening and you can download us wherever you get your podcasts. So what more can I say? These guys, just to give you like a little bit of background for the uninformed or the new to the group, eric B is Eric Barrier, from Long Island. Both of these guys you met, I think, in 86, that's what they partnered up, and it was Rock M who is William Griffin. So the two are widely regarded, as you know, some of the most influential and skilled rappers of all time. I, you know I'm just kind of reading from Wikipedia just William Griffin in general, born January 1968. He's known for internal rhymes, multi-syllabic rhymes, among the first to demonstrate crafted lyrics. One of the interesting things about this album is there's no swearing, no cuss words. So there and I think that's intentional they wanted to demonstrate their proficiency in crafting quality rhymes, quality lyrics and pushing a genre that was clearly gaining steam at this point in time. I think it was around 1986 when.

Speaker 1 3:08

Run DMC was really hitting the top of the charts and collaborating with Aerosmith. So this is, I think, what's important here is the period and the time period of when this album came out and how it not just borrowed from rap at the time or they fused that with other genres. Coltrane, the horns, come out in this album a lot. There's a lot of scratching. So I mean there's a ton of it. It's almost like Prague rock but it's like Prague-y from a hip hop standpoint. There's so much going on but good stuff.

Speaker 1 3:51

They're experimenting with scratching simultaneously with Coltrane and the sounds that come out of that and the drums behind it sampling different things from the past, different artists and the things that they innovated. They sampled but cleverly weaved it in with other elements. So I mean I think that's the groundbreaking part of it. When you listen to the songs on this album you'll notice little things like pump up the volume will be just randomly put in. But that's an original kind of a thing, just that phrase pump up the volume. It shows up in other songs and other periods to follow the melody and I want to say I just want to think it's paid in full, but there's.

Speaker 3 4:56

I think it's that song.

Speaker 1 4:56

If it's something else, we'll get to it later on, but the song let's talk about sex by Salt and Peppa. You hear that You'll hear a bunch of other things too when we listen through some of the songs that are deeper into the set. So we've got a lot to unpack. And my bud next door across the street, neighbor Tim, is. He's going to join us here in a second and get his thoughts on the album and what he thinks.

Speaker 7 5:30

Tim, how are you doing bud?

Speaker 4 5:31

I'm doing some head props on that intro you really think, so I do, I'll give you the mad fat super fly, stupid dope, dumbass, retarded bomb shit props. Oh, come on, they got some super fly.

Speaker 1 5:44

That seemed a little backhanded, but that's good. Thank you for that. Thank you, ryan Reynolds. You dip shit. Let's go Rexon. Here I am swearing and there's no swearing on this album, so keep that in mind when you're listening. Tell me your thoughts, man.

Speaker 7 6:03

Well, I love the scratching. I love the sort of simplistic rhymes that were just sort of in there. Is it like the most in depth lyrically? No, but is it street smarts? Maybe, I don't know. Maybe I already need to sit, the first couple plays out. But I mean, what is the.

Speaker 1 6:34

Right off the gate man. I love it.

Speaker 7 6:38

Clearly out of my depth here.

Speaker 1 6:40

You gotta sit. The next couple plays out.

Speaker 7 6:42

No, it's all about the smiles and cries.

Speaker 3 6:45

You already figured the street.

Speaker 2 6:48

It's all about smiles and cries. Oh, is that living in the streets?

Speaker 7 6:53

Yeah the white guy. Yeah, couple white boys talking a little bit of everything. Couple white boys, you're talking a fucking white boy. Exactly. We're gonna try our best, yeah exactly Now we're gonna go through this. Yeah, what were you saying? You said it best with your point about how they're controlled. They're not. They're esteemed.

Speaker 1 7:25

I always say it better before the podcast.

Speaker 7 7:27

I know.

Speaker 1 7:29

I was just thinking about how, without using no, they were measured. The tone, like when you listen to this, one of the criticisms that the critics had about them was the fact that they were monotone when they were going through the. When they say they're rhymes, and it's true, it is monotone I'm not exactly sure if it's necessarily a bad thing, because when you listen to the substance of it, like the song, I Ain't no Joke speaking Giving the rhymes in that monotone, but also that it's like there's an emotion. There's no emotion, it's emotionless. Emotion is weak. You gotta control your smiles and cries.

Speaker 3 8:17

Exactly, that's all you have, exactly.

Speaker 7 8:22

Well, yeah, it is measured. I mean he originally did the raps and then wrote them down on a page and then, when they did the recording, they did it in one take, with him reading what he wrote after they recorded it. And then he wrote it back down and then he retuned it, refined it and then did it. So, maybe because he's reading it off the page, but I mean you have to have reference and this was a low budget thing and that was the way to do it. No editing, no editing.

Speaker 7 9:02

We can get behind that Right so.

Speaker 1 9:04

I got it. So, whether or not it was intentional, the monotone because it was. Just he was sort of reading from a script and it's their debut album and maybe they weren't smooth, it came off pretty well and, like it's tough, it's street, it's there from Long Island. No nonsense, we're all business.

Speaker 7 9:23

Right, I mean paid in full.

Speaker 1 9:25

It's sort of the ways of the world kind of a thing.

Speaker 7 9:28

Right.

Speaker 1 9:29

Living on the street.

Speaker 7 9:30

We're also music addicts. They say they're music addicts, but here are the greatest sound hits. We're also music addicts and although hip hop may not be our forte, it is very important to the cultural realm of everything. And there was a lot of asking and you got it, okay. So I mean and it is traditionally the voice of the oppressed. You know, they have historically no-transcript, don't have much of a platform, and here it is. Here's their platform. And it was raw, it was unfiltered, it was debut album.

Speaker 1 10:09

So yeah, from their point of view, this is really exciting.

Speaker 7 10:12

This is their say no fluff.

Speaker 1 10:14

Diddy rap Like this is OG original stuff and it starts off kind of smoky.

Speaker 8 10:23

The horns, that's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 10:45

Yeah, like putting a James Brown thing on top of a rap was an innovative thing, and Raquem played saxophone as well. Yeah, so that's kind of inspired an ear for the horns Scratching horns. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 7 11:05

Yeah, that's cool Trainee, if you ask me comparisons to phelonious monk.

Speaker 1 11:13

Yeah, shout out to phelonious monk for sure.

Speaker 7 11:21

See incredible right there rhymes. Wrap your head around that Exactly.

Speaker 1 11:28

Gosh. Yeah, this is a hit.

Speaker 7 11:31

And it gives a good five piece drum kit, not even like a three piece drum pit, just doing it.

Speaker 8 11:37

I got a question. It's serious as cancer. Oh, you keep the average dancer hype as a heart attack. Nobody's smiling Because you're expressing the line of them styling. This is what we all sit down to write. You can't make it, so you're taking home, break it and bite.

Speaker 7 11:51

So he did write it. It's funny.

Speaker 8 11:54

Get this down packed in this time. To switch, take one pause and ask some more than yours. Then you're figured. You're ready for the neighborhood choice. The emcee. Don't even try to be when you come up to speak. Don't even lie to me. You like to exaggerate, dreaming, imagine a change. The rhyme around that can aggravate me. So when you see me come up, freeze, you'll be one of those seven MCs. They think that I'm a new jack, but only if they knew that. They who think new Jack.

Speaker 1 12:18

You know that was the name of that movie, new Jack City, yeah, all kinds of pop culture influence. Things were influenced by the sound, all right, but yeah, held a lot of scratching. Yeah. But back in that day man, this is like an instrument and they didn't have sound bites of this. They actually did the scratch Right, which is crazy. It's a headache. The timing down, it really was a skill, yeah.

Speaker 7 13:04

Therapy in Rockhampton. President, you heard it, but we got that coming. Got that coming sooner.

Speaker 1 13:17

There there's the is press.

Speaker 8 13:19

Rucket beta.

Lyrics and Random Conversations

Speaker 1 13:35

He's like reading from a thing right now.

Speaker 7 13:37

Part of this sort of looking at the lyrics right now, just kind of Kind of yeah, and feeling it.

Speaker 1 13:45

You have to feel it and listening because it's kind of almost like a poetry slam kind of a thing with music behind it.

Speaker 7 13:57

Shout out to the jobless out there. That's right.

Speaker 1 13:59

Oh yeah, Shout out to the jobless. The in between jobs. Yeah, the big demographic for our show.

Speaker 3 14:05

You smoke in my shit.

Speaker 1 14:14

All right, this is. Eric B is on the top.

Speaker 2 14:22

Check, please. Yeah, we keep this a lot.

Speaker 1 14:39

That knife was our. Thing.

Speaker 7 14:43

We're going to be doing a lot of our own sound bites over this, because that one's no Linux yeah. Over there. I is but yeah.

Speaker 2 15:00

Now feel, feel.

Speaker 1 15:09

This is like one of three different instruments. I think on this, something like that.

Speaker 2 15:16

I thought I saw a pretty cow.

Speaker 1 15:18

All right, it's getting weird.

Speaker 7 15:21

Let's see, we don't have to do this whole song here.

Speaker 1 15:25

That was all Tim. Yeah, I was all that feeling naughty.

Speaker 7 15:33

How was your Thanksgiving? Oh, it was good, you know, yeah, the turkey, it was left a little bit to To be desired.

Speaker 1 15:43

Well, you know it would be a good turkey. Isn't the night.

Speaker 7 15:53

Little SNL, chris Rock.

Speaker 1 15:56

Oh, yeah, good times Always good.

Speaker 7 16:01

Oh, that's, see, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 16:16

All right, we're doing a little bit. Ok, wait a minute. Oh, that's the two white boys.

Speaker 2 16:24

Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 16:29

Go ahead, cowboy. You got mad squabbles boy.

Speaker 1 16:34

What are mad squabbles I?

Speaker 7 16:36

want to see me, but I would love to know what squabbles are.

Speaker 1 16:43

I didn't know what he meant by that. That's Chris Tucker, Right? Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 16:58

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 7 17:07

Oh, shut up and take a hit.

Speaker 1 17:13

All right, shout out to Long Island.

Speaker 2 17:17

And we go this year A little 20, 20, 20.

Speaker 7 17:22

Nice Little Friday references.

Speaker 1 17:38

Exactly to check plays, over to check social. There we go.

Speaker 7 17:54

All right, perfect timing. Eric B is on the cut All right, we got a. We got a. Nine hit under our belts, definitely On my.

Speaker 1 18:06

So this is yet my melody. This one gets this one's a little out there, isn't it? It kind of gets out there.

Speaker 7 18:11

It goes out there, certainly not short of scratching.

Speaker 2 18:17

This is jazzy.

Speaker 7 18:18

I mean, this is like check out my melody and the intros are weird. I love it.

Speaker 1 18:25

OK, yeah, they do love the echoing. And.

Speaker 8 18:27

I'm saying I drop, like a scientist, my melodies in the cold. Very next episode has a mic open to start and ready to explode. I keep the mic and Fahrenheit freedom season making cola. The listener system is kicking like solar.

Speaker 7 18:42

I never kicked the solar, have you? Yeah, that's pretty flexible to that.

Speaker 8 18:48

Do that. Nobody beats the. Check out my melody.

Speaker 1 18:53

That's what they have, though the rhyming at the end of the measure, check, please. And then another rhyme is right in the middle of the next measure, but somehow I have a check please. Yeah.

Speaker 7 19:05

Sorry, yeah, that's OK.

Speaker 8 19:08

Yes, lots of checks. One last one.

Speaker 1 19:12

It is fun to do when you're here. If we're annoying you, I'm sorry, but this is like really fun on this, I see. We're getting that wasn't even a check, please. Rap is sexy, what's?

Speaker 8 19:25

up Petitions no.

Speaker 7 19:38

As with the heat made by the sun. Correct, oh, bob.

Speaker 1 19:43

Oh right, my name and graffiti on the wall. It's what you owe me. Plot to money. I'm taking full baby.

Speaker 7 19:54

Yeah, I'm not my chair, not my problem.

Speaker 8 19:59

That's what I always say.

Speaker 1 20:03

Shout out to Amon Ross Saint Brown.

Speaker 7 20:08

Chats, all the waiters and waitresses out there. That's when the from that movie waiting.

Speaker 8 20:12

Check my check.

Speaker 7 20:23

Got Robert Frost in the house Check.

Speaker 8 20:49

Fuck Robbie at the check, please.

Speaker 1 20:50

No interruptions, can't interrupt when you drop in science.

Speaker 8 20:59

OK, I am like a match out of strike again. I'm politically kept and adequately stepped in order to proceed with the moment. Except right now I'm a little. I can't see.

Speaker 1 21:10

You can't do it, you can't do it.

Speaker 7 21:12

You can't Check please, sexy Check, check please.

Speaker 1 21:30

We're bobbing and leaving here.

Speaker 7 21:35

I'm a lot of clay twirling my head.

Speaker 1 21:38

Yeah, this is out of our league. This is like I am the man.

Speaker 8 21:46

Call me a microphoneist.

Speaker 1 21:47

Spoken.

Speaker 8 21:47

Spoken Time. I'm like the mic start smoking.

Speaker 7 21:50

That's why I stress the rap. I'm fast.

Speaker 8 21:53

I'm just saying no, there's protest. See, he's Bona Be this thick, bona, be this. If they don't get from the front or they can go get his media glass. I'm wet A hard time.

Speaker 7 22:04

Chris is still trying. He's still trying to grab it.

Speaker 1 22:06

Yeah yeah, no, I.

Speaker 7 22:08

You're the.

Speaker 1 22:08

I don't know why, I'm still trying.

Speaker 7 22:09

You're the eighth MC. You didn't get to make the cut. There's only seven.

Speaker 1 22:12

Yeah, I'm on the team, oh Joe, but.

Speaker 8 22:14

You know what they? You're more reference? Oh way, ok, I think that's a thing on the south.

Speaker 1 22:28

I think I'd be a good rapper. Yeah, if I Pied myself.

Speaker 8 22:31

Yeah, I mean yeah, you know, you're the Egyptian rapper. Yeah, the Egyptian magician.

Speaker 7 22:34

You'd overflow, the banks would overflow only once a year. Right, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 8 22:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man yeah. Yeah, check, please Check.

Speaker 1 22:55

Check, check, check, check, check me. Check, check, check, check me.

Speaker 8 23:12

Jack. Check, check check, check, check, check, check j Can I check her paper? Then Check out j Check point Check.

Speaker 1 23:25

I Imagine Marley Marl sounds like that.

Speaker 7 23:37

Still stand stiff.

Speaker 8 23:45

Like easily and check Melody.

Speaker 7 23:59

Faster than you can say yo MTV raps.

Speaker 1 24:10

We're skipping ahead.

Speaker 7 24:15

Let's have a palette cleanser here. Okay, All right, that was much. Yo MTV raps.

Speaker 1 24:31

Just talking about sex, baby, just talking about you and me.

Speaker 7 24:38

This is super poppy, this is a hit right. Yeah, ain't no joke. What was it?

Speaker 1 24:46

well song pepper was a lot bigger, but they basically ripped this Up the volume. So there's that.

Speaker 7 24:55

Ain't no joke. I know you got soul and air and fee for president are the hits.

Speaker 8 25:09

You got it.

Speaker 1 25:22

And I think in the paper, like I was, it was ink Between the lines escape when I finish the ride.

Speaker 7 25:55

If you're in a pinch for for record scratching, you can just toast some bread, really, really, really toasty, and then just take the knife and go. This is close. You know, in a pinch you could make this album with some toast.

Speaker 1 26:14

Yeah, like what if you didn't have the turn to? That's a really crystal movie, right, william, something or other.

Speaker 7 26:36

For getting a.

Speaker 8 26:43

Very hinky William Hickey shout out to that guy.

Speaker 1 26:47

MC is my theme, like hype when I hear the drum roll and you know soul.

Speaker 2 27:08

Garden.

Speaker 1 27:19

Get older.

Speaker 7 27:25

What? Two weeks older, after they did this start finish.

Speaker 1 27:30

Yeah, no, it's long. In two weeks, what knows, is that all? I think it said around two days or something.

Speaker 7 27:37

Yeah, you've been like the recording process. They did it in two days spans. There's a line in here that's like my girls waiting for me. She's pissed that this record took so long. I get that when I come home after the podcast she's like where?

Speaker 1 27:54

have you been?

Speaker 7 27:57

Then ever Chris is doing the podcast. When he's doing over that loser's house everybody was asking for hip-hop and they were asking and that's why I?

Speaker 1 28:14

said See, it was there. I was a good try. Yeah, you got.

Speaker 7 28:28

I can't do two more than two verses.

Speaker 1 28:32

The rest is up to you. Rock came, you know. Save peace, do the toast, yeah, that's okay. So if you ever All right, yeah, you need a turntable, you want to do some scratching, you don't have a turntable, that's all that is. It's toast scratching. Dying right now. Ok, so this is move the crowd.

Speaker 7 29:25

Toast to the champagne drinkers.

Speaker 1 29:28

Yeah, shout out to the Moe drinkers, shout out to the players of whatever instrument that was that we just heard.

Speaker 7 29:36

I like this one. It's got the guitar and around so I can close it. It's got the keyboard, organ keyboard, trumpets or horns or whatever.

Speaker 8 29:45

When I heard the beat I just had to make the horns are kind of.

Speaker 7 29:48

Got it. That's the one that's the blue with the wax. And I said oh dude, a plane landing or something A plane. They take sound. Here's something together.

Speaker 8 30:00

It's simple, ain't it, but quite clever. Some of you were trying to write rhymes for you, but we got this every day. To take my yeah, basically saying Talking to us.

Speaker 1 30:16

Is that you can't.

Speaker 7 30:17

Well, you're not going to. They're kind of calling out other rappers instead of instead of instead of rapping about Something. But rappers always do that Like I rap better than you. They're like that was a part of it and they're like, no, I'm going to wait until my album. What I'm going to tell you? That I rap better than you. That was the whole thing.

Speaker 1 30:36

Full, exactly.

Speaker 7 30:40

Go streaking. I think, I'm painful, painful, I will.

Speaker 1 30:48

We have the movie old school at the beginning, when they have the paternity party and they're like they, they are a snoop dog. And he's back there and Frank the tank has done you try to eat funnels and takes off all his clothes and was like hey, buddy, buddy, we're going to streaking.

Speaker 7 31:08

He bought solar.

Speaker 8 31:09

It gets stronger every time, a whole lot of solar back then. Tony gets started the line for the phone is departed.

Speaker 7 31:18

If only we could you know power cars with wraps. That would be with microphone wraps.

Speaker 8 31:27

It's like I'm getting low on my gas.

Speaker 7 31:32

I'm my fuel my battery. We'll just bust out some wraps and you'll tell your wraps, your car, and it'll like it and go an extra couple of miles. All right, I'll sit that one out.

Speaker 1 31:47

Yeah, you need to sit the next couple plays. I really tried to follow that Now maybe it was being part of it.

Speaker 5 31:52

Maybe sit, the next couple plays out. There you go, you know what I mean.

Speaker 8 31:56

You knew what I mean champ, you can make the crowd.

Speaker 7 32:01

I can hit the dance floor though.

Speaker 1 32:04

Hey man, it's free country.

Speaker 2 32:08

Get moving crap.

Speaker 7 32:13

Should we get the toast back for this one?

Speaker 4 32:15

Yeah.

Speaker 7 32:31

Scratch some knives. No, he's got a knife in the crowd.

Speaker 1 32:39

Yeah.

Speaker 7 32:44

The security is like oh guy in the crowd, we got to get out. Except the balancer is not like a doocrepital man.

Speaker 1 32:56

Shout out to forget Paris yeah.

Speaker 7 32:58

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 33:00

Okay, here we go.

Speaker 8 33:01

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:03

This is the remake that Snoop did in the back of the old school. Shout out to Carol Lewis. Yeah, Rush 2112. Right. Oh, Frank, a little bit there.

Speaker 7 33:42

We're going with a Sunday of shine.

Speaker 8 33:46

Thinking of a master plan cause ain't nothing but sweating inside my hand. So I dig it to my pocket, on my money spent, so I could deep up still coming up with length. So I start my mission, leave my little pick.

Speaker 7 33:59

They got a pickle out of there I need money.

Speaker 8 34:01

I used to be a stick up kid, so I think of all the devious things I did. I used to roll up. This is a whole up. Ain't nothing funny. Stop smiling. You still don't nothing move but the money. But now I learned to earn cause I'm righteous.

Speaker 1 34:13

I feel still no swear words. I haven't heard the S word once, Haven't heard CS. Yeah for it.

Speaker 7 34:24

I mean they don't need it. Yeah, no, they didn't depend on paper, sero and tape.

Speaker 1 34:29

Yeah that's impressive Fish. Without no money is still they've mentioned fish and this song.

Speaker 8 34:36

So I dig into the books of the rising out may to not take into those books, kids.

Speaker 7 34:42

All right, do your homework. Or actually you're doing your homework and write raps. There we go.

Speaker 1 34:54

Yeah, there's like. What are you doing?

Speaker 2 34:56

podcast over there.

Speaker 7 34:59

I'm sick of it, we're gonna be back. Yo check this out. We were, we were doing all these sound clips and shit. Yeah, it was getting crazy. There's this old man in forgetting Paris, and hilarious yeah.

Speaker 1 35:13

You know, we tried to play a pickle on it.

A Conversation About a Music Album

Speaker 7 35:16

And we had to like, we had to get the white boy clip. Two fucking white boys. House toast, toast, scraping toast is a little scratcher playing with my money.

Speaker 2 35:48

Check please.

Speaker 7 35:51

You're gonna pay in cash. You paid that in full. You got it. Yeah, check please. Yeah, this is the old decrepit man that you guys in like a penguin suit. That's right, you got this little tuxedo A little bit of the weeds here, but I'll get you your check right away. You got it.

Speaker 1 36:16

Hey, check out my scratching.

Speaker 4 36:20

So I give you the mad fat super fly stupid dope, dumb ass, retarded bomb, shit props.

Speaker 1 36:28

That was a little strong, ryan Reynolds. He can sit the next one out, he. He needs to sit the next three or four series out, all right.

Speaker 3 36:38

One crystal moment. You never had it.

Speaker 1 36:44

OK, that was going somewhere You're fired. All right, pump it up, homeboy. What's in the background?

Speaker 7 37:08

Waves. You recorded this in the ocean.

Speaker 1 37:13

I know they're getting like all pet soundsy and shit I know right.

Speaker 7 37:19

So he started with like nothing, and then they just keep kicking.

Speaker 8 37:22

Listen to the beat.

Speaker 1 37:28

I leave the in the style. It's hard to breathe.

Speaker 8 37:31

Time is up and somebody drop, and then bring them to the front, because my bronze is oxygen. What?

Speaker 1 37:38

Send you to a favorite dance and I'll let the run continue, so on simultaneously Stop Got it.

Speaker 7 37:50

It's my top universal because I'm over the pop quiz or is out there, that's right the look around to see how packed the party start to get.

Speaker 8 38:00

And then the bubblegum pop quiz, doubleator pop quiz. So they attack open spot on the floor. Squeeze in the six pack, it'll be more room. And then see Play the bag on the all the eight to the K.

Speaker 1 38:14

We got a trip I didn't have anything ready. Who did the album cover? It's just basically like dead presidents Dollar dollar bills.

Speaker 8 38:34

Dollar bills paid in full.

Speaker 1 38:36

There's a lot of gold Gold's here, like these, like black and white jumpsuits.

Speaker 7 38:41

I don't know if it's like the medallions are quite large, I will say Especially Eric B's.

Speaker 1 38:48

Rockham has the, just the road change showing His seems to be more prominent than Eric B's.

Speaker 8 38:55

Well, you know.

Speaker 1 38:57

They've got like 24 karat gold rings on every finger.

Speaker 7 39:02

Well, a new finger, new ring. Am I right?

Speaker 1 39:04

Yeah.

Speaker 8 39:08

Come on now.

Speaker 7 39:10

Deeper and deeper.

Speaker 1 39:15

I'm looking at Eric B's gold chain. It's like I make like half of his medallion in a year.

Speaker 7 39:25

I'm like man, I make one wrong of his chain, yeah. Tight, so I have to speak to. He is a magnet. Attracted to a lot of chemistry and like physics going on Moewec See.

Speaker 1 39:41

There's another Moewec reference Moewec Moewec or Moewec Moewec. They say it in both ways. I don't know if you notice that.

Speaker 7 39:49

Well, that's to cover their basis, because nobody knows what's right.

Speaker 1 39:52

That's true. Yeah, they don't want to alienate any the tea people. Yeah, shout out to the tea drinkers. The tea drinkers, the Moewec drinkers, the Moewe drinkers.

Speaker 7 40:03

Shout out to the Delta Nile residents. Hopefully the raps and rhymes are overflowing in your hometown, yeah. Pump it.

Speaker 1 40:15

A lot of pumping up in this album. Oh, that message is always clear.

Speaker 7 40:19

We're going to have a palette cleanser of more pumping up after this song. So Okay, pump it, pump it, pump it.

Speaker 1 40:29

Pump it up. Yeah, that's a more like cheerful pump it up. You know, that's kind of like it's.

Speaker 7 40:37

It's like a cheerleading kind of a Competition kind of yeah, the rhythm, the rhyme, the pen, the paper, the Chinese arithmetic.

Speaker 1 40:48

Yeah, this is another instrumental.

Speaker 7 40:50

Oh, hell yeah the county.

Speaker 1 40:58

I.

Speaker 7 41:10

Chinese arithmetic, that's right.

Speaker 1 41:12

Well, you got Chris Tucker. There's not even a Jackie Chan.

Speaker 7 41:20

I hate rush hour worse. Yes, you're driving and then boom, there's traffic, right no, but the movie was good. Yeah, this is stressful.

Speaker 1 41:30

I hear you Got some waterfalls, you got some scratching.

Speaker 7 41:43

Yeah, two white boys talking over it.

Speaker 3 41:45

Yeah, exactly what could be better boy, you got mass quabbles boy. Go ahead, cowboy. You go ahead, cowboy. You got mass quabbles boy. I.

Speaker 1 42:17

Have nothing to add is maybe I can do. I'll go do guard. Feel the naughty.

Speaker 2 42:34

The naughty.

Speaker 1 42:36

All right, we're gonna hear about, like a mother Two-minute filler here I'm doing yeah yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 7 42:45

Yeah, it's, it is very cool. Did you like that one? I mean, I like it, you can.

Speaker 1 42:54

There we go back.

Speaker 7 42:57

Well.

Speaker 2 43:01

I. I. Need a throaty check.

Speaker 7 43:16

To say it's some weird Chinese. It's not, it's not adding up in my stomach, right.

Speaker 1 43:22

Maybe we need a polite check please check please, oh.

Speaker 4 43:33

I give you the mad. Fat super flies. Stupid dope, dumb ass retarded bombshit prop.

Speaker 1 43:48

I didn't know.

Speaker 7 43:49

Ryan Reynolds is on this song. Damn it All, right. Next. Getting more palette cleansers for that one. Um, we need like a rain effect here. I could just a soothing. All that shit, it's fucking bullshit.

Speaker 1 44:11

It's maybe like us not talking for like, yeah, let's say seconds. Okay, I don't get started over. Right, that's three Mississippi, okay it's good for us. Yeah, I think so Okay.

Speaker 7 44:29

All right, oh, you skip, you skipped.

Speaker 1 44:33

Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 8 44:35

Show our appreciation for your support.

Speaker 9 44:38

They make a make a clap to this. Thank you, djs.

Speaker 1 44:45

Yeah, this is like the first one. I think this is the first one, yeah they can pop to this. They can make a pop to this.

Speaker 7 44:54

There's Peyton fools twice on this they make a make a pop to this song.

Speaker 1 45:02

Maybe it's like a deluxe.

Speaker 7 45:04

It's probably deluxe version.

Speaker 4 45:08

This is air peace president.

Speaker 8 45:15

Me. I can't hold it back. I'm looking for the line taking off coat. Clear my throat. The rhyme will be killed. My last. No, my mind, I'm gonna be fine. All kind of ideas. Self esteem makes it seem like the door took years to build, but still stay around after the next.

Speaker 7 45:31

Oh, it ends at extended beat. Okay.

Speaker 8 45:32

I'll just bless one and you know, that I'm the solo wizard. So, eric B, make a clap to this.

Speaker 9 45:38

Make a, make a, make a, make a clap to this.

Speaker 1 45:41

They can make a make a clap to this.

Speaker 9 45:43

Make a, make a, make a clap, make a clap, make a clap to this, make a clap to this.

Speaker 8 45:53

Make a make, a make, a clap to this. I don't bug out of chill. Don't be acting ill, no tricks.

Speaker 1 46:01

Maybe six is time to build their easy and cut. No mistakes allowed cuz to me emcee this is too much.

Speaker 7 46:25

I'll have step in here. All right, let's get those applications in, all right, yeah, you can use me as a reference, all right, he's in the cut on two songs here. Don't tell me you've been smoking it too. That's a bad thing. That's a bad thing to say on job interview.

Speaker 1 46:52

All right, yeah, I'm a smoking sounds too, yeah, get back to the toast scratching. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 47:31

Yeah, yeah, oh, and then, oh, and then.

Speaker 8 47:43

Oh.

Speaker 7 47:45

Don't tell him that. Oh, angel, I'll be a protection. Are you To like maybe a gold medallion? Can buy her a gold medallion, yeah, yeah, I thought I was a donut. So yeah, it's kind of sex.

Speaker 1 48:06

I thought they were trying to be all clean on this.

Speaker 7 48:08

I mean, I don't know if they're trying to be dirty.

Speaker 1 48:11

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 48:13

Glace, don't have a meeting. Donut is just a hard word to, like you know, sound. Be cool and say donut, yeah, donut, what? We have a roadcaster toast scratching Flex.

Speaker 1 48:51

Yeah, this is like really old school. You hear that. Look in the back. I swear to God they're using the toast scratching.

Speaker 7 49:07

There's rare South American birds.

Speaker 1 49:10

Yeah.

Speaker 7 49:11

In this guy's basement when they're doing this album.

Speaker 1 49:13

That sounds. This is like beach boys yeah.

Speaker 8 49:18

Every bee is on the cut. My name is Rock Kim.

Speaker 7 49:24

Oh, feel the naughty. Feel the naughty. This is really original stuff.

Speaker 1 49:31

It is. Nobody does the same.

Speaker 7 49:37

No, nobody does this. Yeah, that was our sign, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 49:43

Okay, cut it. We got the last. Okay Is this last one.

Speaker 1 49:50

This is the extended bee.

Speaker 7 49:51

From their release.

Speaker 1 49:53

Yeah, that last one was a hit, so we're not going to.

Speaker 7 49:55

that's not going to be in the analysis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 50:00

Yeah yeah, it featured 150, even though あと go. Seinfeld meets Axl Foley Beverly.

Speaker 7 50:27

Hills Cop. Oh, this has moved the crowd.

Speaker 1 50:30

Probably the same beat.

Speaker 7 50:34

Yeah, this is what I tried to play for the intro but, I, don't really have much rhythm.

Speaker 1 50:47

I just don't. I have no class, I have no creativity.

Speaker 7 50:53

I am drawing a blank.

Speaker 1 50:55

Yeah, I do, waiter, I'm like brick Waiter.

Speaker 7 51:01

I didn't order the souffle. I didn't order the souffle. Hey, get this off my bill.

Speaker 4 51:11

Oh, I gave you the mad. Can we get a chip? Oh what?

Speaker 7 51:17

I didn't order this. Maybe sit, the next couple plays out. I didn't order this Vervet Cluclay. Is this Vervet Cluclay on my bill Cluclat?

Speaker 5 51:38

Maybe sit the next couple plays, maybe sit the next couple plays out. You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 51:50

To have her next seven y'all on. It's not on my bill server.

Speaker 1 51:57

I think we had the Moe. Or the Moe.

Speaker 7 52:02

The Moe and a cup of tea calf please.

Speaker 5 52:07

Miss, could I have a check? Please Check, I have to go now.

Speaker 1 52:13

I gotta get out of here. Talk to me with yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Are we being rock and?

Speaker 7 52:19

is it actual horns? Is it David Sands born on the horns, or is it just them playing keyboards with the sound effect as horns? Talk amongst yourselves.

Speaker 1 52:30

Was it Coltrane or was it them Discuss?

Speaker 7 52:35

Who is the lonious you?

Speaker 1 52:39

know what the hell's that? That the lonious something or other.

Speaker 7 52:42

He's up there.

Speaker 1 52:43

Well, shout out to him. I know he played some role in the band and more inspirational.

Speaker 7 52:50

It's the Godfather type that's right.

Speaker 2 52:56

Miss.

Speaker 1 52:58

I have a check, please Check. Alright, I'm winding this down.

Speaker 7 53:02

It's basically this instrumental version of the other one Mad props.

Speaker 1 53:08

Exactly.

Speaker 7 53:09

Super fly.

Speaker 1 53:11

I'm a better person for knowing this album much better after listening to this this week. And I say I mean I'm ready to get right into the top three if you are Alright.

Speaker 7 53:23

Number three Chinese arithmetic.

Speaker 3 53:26

Definitely.

Speaker 7 53:27

I just didn't need lyrics. That being said, I obviously need to choose two and one that have lyrics, because it's a hip hop rap album, but so yeah. But I'd really liked instrumental from Chinese arithmetic. Go figure, fair enough, the jamban guys go goes with an instrumental. Wow, alright, what's your three?

Speaker 1 53:54

You know I'm going to go with as the Ryan goes on, okay, because I mean, let's face it, we've got the four big ones You've got. Well, I mean it's painful, is that a hit? I don't think so. Okay, yeah, I'm going to stick with as the rhyme goes on. Yeah, it's a Okay. That one is like a super. There's a ton of like lyrics on that one, isn't it?

Speaker 7 54:22

Yeah. There's one that's like seven minutes long. I think that's my melody is seven minutes long.

Speaker 1 54:30

Oh, yeah, that's right. Yep, my melody yeah, that's the one. Well, I mean, as the rhyme goes on was good too it. You know, the, the, the rhymes were, were clean, clever. I appreciate the effort.

Speaker 7 54:42

Glazed donut, so forth.

Speaker 1 54:44

Yeah, the glazed donut. Yeah, that that whole thing. What's your number two?

Speaker 7 54:50

Oh, man, Uh. My number two is yeah, my melody it's, you know, Marley Marl. It's sort of like an elongated masterpiece that they whittled down into those seven minutes.

Speaker 1 55:15

Yeah, so the story behind it is that it was 30 minutes long and it was so long and it had just so many lyrics that they had to cut it down and it was seven minutes. And when you just look at the, the lyrical it's just, there's just tons of words. I think there's at least a thousand.

Speaker 7 55:31

Jam Band Guy going with the long song would a surprise, Exactly.

Speaker 1 55:35

It's it's prog rap, Like you said and that's the reason why it's my number two as well. Nice, it's a great song, it's got, I mean, it's impressive with its longevity and, you know, even if it's painful to listen to and almost exhausting, it's impressive nonetheless. It's kind of like hemispheres from Rashim. It's their hemispheres, nice.

Speaker 7 55:59

I'll leave it at that. All right, I'm going to move the crowd. So the extended beat that we were just listening to with you know the raps. Yo MTV raps on, move the crowd.

Speaker 4 56:10

Yeah.

Speaker 7 56:11

Cause you know they move the crowd, they rap better than us and other rappers, and they're here and they're ready to, just you know, blow the world away. And they did so. Boom, that's a great song I like that.

Speaker 1 56:25

Do, do, do, do, do, do do, do, do, do do do, do, da, da, da da da, da, da. David Sanborn uh, horns, he's got the high. Yeah, I should have known. You know the whole time the hot horns.

Speaker 3 56:36

Yeah, you're a fan.

Rock M's Impact on Rap

Speaker 1 56:38

So I'm going the pain full. They had the piccolo right. Yeah. Yeah, looking for master plans and that kind of thing, yeah, so I'm going paid in full as my number one. It probably could be a hit on some people's boards, but it's just, it didn't. It didn't get the commercial success as the other four. It's not, it's not, it has name checked. So yeah, Cake them up. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 57:00

So Cake them up in full, and uh yeah, and it's smooth, it's got flow in.

Speaker 1 57:06

I guess Rock M it's. It's emblematic of his, his flow. You know if there's a cadence and then there's a your tone, but he had a flow in. That was he sort of like the forefather? The people think that he invented the flow and this is a an example of a song where he does that.

Speaker 7 57:22

So Not like cookie cutter wraps, where all the lines end at the you know stands up whatever.

Speaker 1 57:27

Well, at the time, yeah, that was they were broke that mold Exactly, and a lot of other rappers followed suit thereafter. So this has been. You know, it's been a good man Super cakey. Yeah, Exactly, it's been a nice change up. We, this is a yeah, this is a very original stuff. You know it's in groundbreaking and and it's, it's a, it's a good one, so yeah.

Speaker 7 57:57

Any any last thoughts? Yo Yo.

Speaker 1 58:01

Yo. All right, all right, yo, brother, take care Yo Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo Yo Yo.