Rap Beef - 1

This is a conversation between two people on a podcast called "The Unemployment Line." They discuss their thoughts on being tough and not wanting to be seen talking to cops. They also talk about how nobody is relieved when they see police lights behind them, and how people who commit crimes should take accountability for their negative interactions with the police. They then talk about rap beef and discuss artists like J. Cole, Drake, Future, Lil Wayne, and Beyonce, and whether they could listen to their music for a three-hour car ride. They mention that J. Cole is not on that list, but Kendrick Lamar is. The conversation ends with a short discussion about Kendrick Lamar's album "Damn" and its storytelling aspect. You are now tuned into the most ignorant podcast in America. This is the Unemployment Line. I am the DOK. And I'm sitting here with my man, Larry P. What you got to say, my man? You know, there's some people that have like a persona that's so tough or like a demeanor, a tough demeanor image. So tough that they can't even be seen talking to cops. And I thought about it. I never, ever want to be that tough in my life. You know, like talking to cops? Yeah, like rappers and stuff. I can't get caught talking to the cops. I've heard so many rappers say that. I never want to be that tough because it's like somebody break into my house. Like I'm calling the cops. I only get 11 X's. I don't mess with 12. Yeah, like I need to talk to the cops. Like if somebody did rob me and I'm running down the street and I see a policeman like I'm. Hey, Mr. Policeman, can you help me? You know what I was thinking about randomly when I was in a car the other day? I'm driving and I was thinking to myself, is anybody ever see the blue lights behind them about to pull them over and think to themselves? Oh, thank goodness the police are here. Like nobody. Like they always talk about like, yeah, black people are afraid of the police. I think everybody is afraid of the police if they're being pulled over. Nobody. Nobody is like about to get a traffic ticket or something like that and thinking to themselves. Oh, goodness. I'm glad the police are here. Hey, officer, how's it going? Like no one thinks that way. You're always you always when the lights on, you think you're in trouble. Yeah. You always like like the cops to be there if you're not the one breaking the crime. Yeah. But like as soon as like you break the crime and the cops show up, you're like, damn, I'm sure. I'm sure police get frustrated when they see the blue lights pulled on them. It's like, oh, man, I was going 80. Yeah. Like, here we go. Like a lot of times when people say they don't like the cops. They be breaking the law. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's not not to be not to be the Blue Lives Matter podcast. But we also have to realize that we have to take some accountability in those situations. Right. If you are committing crimes, your chances of having negative interactions with the police are significantly higher. Correct. Because you are committing crimes. And granted, we do have those situations where cops have this, you know, went off on innocent people. Not saying that that does not happen. That happens. Not not saying that the extent of their authority is exerted to a level that is beyond what it should be like. You probably should not. I won't say you probably you should not like be assaulted or killed for like a traffic stop or some type of petty crime. Correct. Anything like anything other than you trying to kill other people, you probably shouldn't lose your life. If you sling a cocaine out of the back of your trunk, they come in, man. They come in every time, every time they come in. And if they not come in, guess what? They they figuring it out or they not come in. You live in a rough neighborhood and they seem to not care about crime. Oh, wait, they just waiting for you to be waiting for you for your drugs to enter the better side of town. Oh, you change your zip code. Hold on now. Hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't do that over here. You start moving them drugs over here. I had a dream. I was a detective. And we was looking in this woman's house. I literally had this dream like last night was looking in this woman's house trying to find the drugs. And, you know, there was a picture of a bed and we move remove that picture. And there was another picture behind there. It was like, well, this is obvious. That's what the drugs are. And, you know, they open it up and they took out a briefcase and some other things. And she was able to slide the briefcase and open a briefcase without them knowing. And it was like three kilos of cocaine in there. And she looked at me and said, I can give you two. And I can keep one. If you act like this never happened. So I took the two. And then we basically they found some money, but they didn't find the drugs. And I say all that to say if I was ever being a cop, I'll be a dirty. I want everybody to know that I say this very often. Like if you ever see me in a police academy, just know I'm not doing it to save lives. We're really happy to be the police officer. Why are you so happy all the time? Like I'm pulling up a drug does. And I tell her right now, hey, look, if it's a bag of money, a bag of money and a bag of drugs in the trunk, I bet you'll give me the money. I can keep going or we could just start a whole report out here. And they, you know, they'll probably give me the money. Why do you look so happy when you have to work? But Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, Mecklenburg County has 15 million dollars of seized drug money. And they say, we don't know what to do with it. Couldn't be me. It couldn't be me. I would have been like, well, that's America. He had 12 million dollars. I can't believe we spent 12 million dollars. 12 million dollars. I thought it was 15. I was 12. It was 12. It was definitely 12. You were reversing your twos and fives. I got your numbers all messed up. You got to pay closer attention. Definitely 12. Yeah, I'm doing nothing but bad. Ever since they found that 12 million dollars, you've been taking a lot more days off and vacations. New year, new me. Got to take care of yourself. Got to take care of my mental. Protect the chickens. Mental health days. Mental health days, baby. Yeah. Speaking of mental health days, what are we talking about this week? We're talking about rap beef. We got Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole. We got Kendrick Lamar. Oh, sorry. Drake. J. Cole is the NyQuil of rap. Like, yeah, we talked about hives on a previous show. J. Cole hives. What do they call themselves? Coley's. I don't know what they call themselves. I don't know what the J. Cole hive calls themselves. But let me tell you, they ride for their king. They love them some J. Cole. And they love that sleepy rap. And I'm not saying J. Cole isn't a good artist. J. Cole got some slaps. He do. He do. But you expect me to just listen to J. Cole all day? Nah, son. Not without my blankie. I like J. Cole, though. I like J. Cole. I like him in the mix. Like, if I'm playing, like, you know, I'm riding in the car. We might be driving like an hour, hour and a half. Like a J. Cole song here and there. That's cool. But there are, like, people who just legit, like, I can't wait for the album. I'm going to listen to the whole album. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Can't beat me. Can I sit here for the whole Cole album? Mm-mm. Not the whole Cole album? No, not on the road. Ah, on the road. I drift off the road. I mean, what? What rapper album can you listen to the whole way through on the road? Recent? Well, he's not my favorite, but if we're talking about most recent artists, Drake. I've been trying to tell people all the time, as much hate that Drake gets, like, if you ever put on Drake radio or if you ever randomize, if you go just, like, to Drake's catalog and just randomize it and just say, I want you to play nothing but Drake songs for this next three-hour ride. Hits on hits on hits. I promise you, you'll be riding for three hours. Like, who fits into that category? Like, and we can go, I know, we're not even going to talk R&B. I know, Mariah Carey. But if we're talking, I mean, if you know Mariah Carey on the top, you can say, screw Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey is number zero. Zero, no higher. But if you're talking about, you got to do a three-hour trip and you can only listen to songs that have one artist in it. Like, it can be features, it can be other collaborations, but, like, who are artists that are in that category, that three-hour trip category that, like, I'm not listening to nothing but songs with this artist on it. And, like, think primarily the most recent artists. Future. Future's on that list. I know for sure Drake is on that list. J. Cole is not on that list. Lil Wayne. Wayne's definitely on that list. Ross. Ross is on that list. I can listen to Ross. I mean, if you do, if you want to dive into R&B, too, you could do, like, of course you could do Michael Jackson. Usher. Usher. You can do, let me not upset the highs. Beyonce is on the list. We know Beyonce is on the list. That's for me. You can't do three hours of Beyonce? I'm not listening to Beyonce for three hours. I promise you that. I can do three hours of Beyonce. I do three hours of Rihanna. I do three hours of Rihanna more than before I do three hours of Beyonce. I can do three hours of Rihanna. I would prefer to do three hours of Beyonce. No, I ain't doing that. What I just said sounded crazy and that's not the way I meant it, but, yeah. You'll do three hours of Beyonce before you do three hours of Rihanna? Yeah, I meant it that way, too, though. Oh. So, rap beef. So, when we take a look at... We know J. Cole ain't on that list. J. Cole's definitely not on that list. Is Kendrick on that list? Yeah. You can do three hours of Kendrick? I'm going to tell you why. Some of his music gets a little weird, so it's like... I'm going to tell you why. Because the latest album that he came out with... I mean, his third album, Damn. That album frontward and backwards are two different albums. That's why he got Pulitzer for that. So, yeah. If you ever listen to the album, like you listen to it from track one to the end, then you get one story. I think the story is of a guy, basically. You listen to it, it's like a guy going through his life and whatnot, and then pretty much the transition of going down the wrong path and then finding the right way to go and then living. But if you listen to it in reverse, it's a guy that was going down the right path and ended up down the wrong path. So, yeah. See, the thing about Kendrick is... The Kendrick hive is real, too. I think they're less annoying than the J. Cole fan base because I don't live in California. I hear way more about J. Cole because, you know how many... People talk about going to Dreamville Festival every year. They go every year. They're all on J. Cole, and I just be like, I'm not going to no concert if he's the headliner. I don't care who else is coming. Do you really think the Kendrick hive is a lot bigger in California? I think so. Because you got to think, us not being in California, it has to be people that we're... Because they say what? They say E-40 like the godfather of California? They love E-40 music in Oakland. I would not listen to an E-40 song ever. I don't think E-40 will get me an hour down the road, but that's my thing about it. So, do you really think Kendrick getting praised like that? Kendrick nationwide is getting the praise. You think he's getting the praise in Cali? I do because there's an argument to be made that Kendrick Lamar might have the best 3, 4 album run of any rapper ever. People make that argument. I mean, if you put out one album every three years, then I hope so. That's what Cole was trying to say. I hope so. That's what Cole was trying to say. I mean, you barely here. I'm here all the time. I'm in here shooting in the gym all the time. Kendrick Lamar is the rock. J. Cole is Roman Reigns. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. You got to get your metaphors together. Kendrick Lamar is the rock. J. Cole is John Cena. Oh. It's like I'm here every week, and you just show up whenever you want to. Whenever you want to. That's what that is. And then somehow Drake catches strays in the midst of this, but I think people need to understand. Drake's already won. I want y'all to understand that. And Drake has lost Rap Beast, but in terms of who's the bigger artist of the three of them, I'm not talking about Best. Who's the biggest artist of the three of them? It's clearly Drake. Drake might get you 10 hours down the road. Drake will get you down that road. If they do like a versus battle. If they do a versus battle, J. Cole and Kendrick can team up together and go against Drake, and they still probably will lose that battle. And the argument is Kendrick makes very good albums. If you're a Kendrick fan, if you're not a Kendrick fan, listen to a Kendrick album, they ain't going to do it for you. He's really my cup of tea. The reason why a lot of people love Good Kid, Mad City so much is because Good Kid, Mad City had the most promotable singles of Kendrick's albums. Every other album was just good albums, but Good Kid, Mad City had the most singles that you could put out, like Swimming Pools, B Don't Kill My Vibe. He just had a bunch of hits on that one album that he couldn't put out the singles, which most artists do. But Kendrick's last three albums, I'm just going to put out a couple of singles for y'all. That's also the album that probably works the best in the mix. The way that a lot of people listen, at least the way I consume music. I consume music right now, I don't consume it as complete albums. Kendrick Lamar's music is designed, like you said about them, it's designed for you to listen to the whole thing. It's not designed for you to be like, all right, track four, track seven, track eight, I'm going to add them to the playlist. No, no. It's like you even listening to, it's like a tribe call quest. You got to listen to the whole thing. A pimp named Slickback, Two Pimper Butterfly. That's what you listen to. You not listen to tracks. You listen to Two Pimper Butterfly. Yeah. And then J.Cole saying Two Pimper Butterfly was a snooze fest. J.Cole must've forgot that he put out For Your Eyes Only, or For Your Ears Only. So let me tell you something, that got to be the worst J.Cole album. That might be the most disrespectful thing that J.Cole has ever said, is to call somebody else's music a snooze fest. I was like, J.Cole, you nah, nah, nah. Now, now, I know you ain't talking. Now I said that at the beginning of the ether. I know you ain't talking. You, that, that, that's how I felt when I, when I heard that. But, but speaking of that, when we come back, um, you know, I want us to take this opportunity to, to, uh, break down our thoughts on our favorite rap beats in history. It's down the plumbing line.