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machine tuesday our latest installment of our series on the year 1996 in hip hop uh we've gone through a lot

right we went through the year of tupac talked about what was going on down south we got to do a lot of different east coast stuff talked about the singles of the year of Tupac. We talked about what was going on down south. We got into a lot of different East Coast stuff. Talked about the singles of the year. And now we wrap it up. Talk about the West Coast. Shout out to my man, Jason England, who's helped us out with half of ease. And my man now, DJ Wally Sparks. What was that now? Wrapping this thing up, bringing it home. What's going on, on though i can't complain big brother uh i'm

chilling man you know happy to be here you know putting off uh chattanooga with uh all time man

four two three six i tell you and i have talked about this before the cities that have

minor league baseball teams have a real cheat code over their peers who don't because y'all got a hat. Yep. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We can represent everywhere we go. Yeah. Your little town ain't got no minor league baseball team, man. You just gotta wear some shirt that makes some reference to the violence in your town. Right. Exactly. Kill a city, fool. Yeah, man.

I remember when I was touring probably like 10 or 12 years ago, man.

I was in Vancouver, Canada, and I was walking some retail space or whatever, just, you know, doing what tourists do.

And I looked up in there and I saw a lookout hat, man. I had never felt such a large sense of pride in my life, bro. I was like, that. Like, we all over the world, baby. It's so funny. Y'all, y'all all over iOS. Y'all, what you call it, emojis. The big eye emoji.

You know?

The year 1996 in West Coast rap to me is interesting.

And I'm curious to know on a few levels what you think about this.

But I think it's somewhat important, especially for like younger people who were not around at a time the time to kind of build to this right so

on this series we'd already talked a lot about Tupac and we'll talk a little bit more about him

obviously in this and the year was his but I feel like a big part of that with Tupac was we had

associated like even if we associated Tupac with Oakland, it did kind of feel in some

ways, like Tupac kind of belonged to everybody because that 90, that, that, uh, me against the

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