Hey y'all, DJ Louis here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode in which myself and Tom Brian break down Kendrick Lamar's latest studio album, GnX, which surprise dropped last week. But we also diverge into conversations about Drake's career, Taylor Swift's career, et cetera, et cetera. So it's a bit of a sprawling conversation that centers around Kendrick Lamar's new album.

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Okay.

So I am here once again with Tom Bryan, senior editor at Sterile Gum and author of the number ones.

And dear friend of the pod,

Tom, welcome back.

Bing, bop, boom, bop, boom, boom, bam.

Tom, I got to start us off here with a process question.

I feel like I have to have asked you this before.

But how the hell do you write so incisively so fast? Like, how do you do that? I, like, I know that you probably get bored of answering this question because, like, it's kind of like something that you're known for in the internet community. But like, it never fails to us down. Like, I'm sitting here with this, like, albums like this, like this Kendrick album, like, dense, you know, albums that take time to process. And I'm like, damn, I only have two to three days to figure out

how to talk about it. And then you're like writing 10,000 words in two hours. This is what I love. It's, it's, it's, it's what I'm fucking made for, dude. I'm like, I'm like a horse at the starting block.

Just like throw a big album at me.

Do you like,

like how many times are you listening to it before you do that?

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