From Jay-Z to Prodigy, It’s Time to Talk About Hip-Hop’s Elders
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The New York Times
3.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Kill Jayce. They'll never love you. You'll never be enough. Let's just keep it real Jay-Z. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the New York Times Podcast, all 100 yachts of music using criticism. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host, John Caramonica. |
| 0:14.0 | You had no father, you had the armor, but you got a daughter, gotta get softer. |
| 0:19.6 | Die, Jay-Z. This ain't back in the days. You don't need an alibi, J. Z. Cry J. |
| 0:26.2 | J.C. We know the pain is real, but you can't heal what you never reveal. |
| 0:30.8 | What's up, J.C. You know you all the truth feel all of youth that fell in love with |
| 0:35.6 | J.C. You got people you love, you soul drugs to. You got a new life that's your drug |
| 0:42.0 | youth. You walking around like you invincible. You dropped |
| 0:46.1 | out of school, you lost your principles. I know people backstab you. I felt that too. |
| 0:51.2 | But this for game by body attitude ain't natural. |
| 0:54.0 | But you ain't the same, this ain't cumbayay. |
| 0:57.0 | Kill Jay-Z, better to analyze Jay-Z. |
| 1:00.0 | I am Millie Rocking Live at Sunset Gower Studios. |
| 1:04.0 | This is sort of a dream popcast for me. |
| 1:06.5 | I hope it will be a dream popcast for you. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm joined by three of my dearest friends |
| 1:11.0 | for a conversation about really whatever the hell we want to talk about today |
| 1:14.2 | starting with Jay-Z. To my right it's Sean Fantasy, editor-in-chief of the |
| 1:17.9 | Ringer and host of the Big Picture Podcast. Hello, welcome. What's up? |
| 1:22.7 | Staring me down at his top 500 podgaster, Chris Ryan. |
| 1:27.0 | What's up, man? |
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