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good kid, m.A.A.d. city vs. To Pimp A Butterfly | LAST SONG STANDING [E7]

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.910K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

The LSS Boyz continue their journey to crown the Best Album of the 21st Century (so far) by pitting two historic albums by the same artist against each other: Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.a.a.d. city vs. To Pimp A Butterfly. Every episode this season, Cole and Charles each nominate one album they feel should be in contention for the 21st century's best. Each album is discussed individually before the two albums battle head to head, where Cole and Charles argue until they can agree on the better album. The winning album from each episode advances to the season finale Royal Rumble, where the LSS boys will face off one last time until they can finally agree on the Best Album of the 21st Century.  New episodes every Tuesday. Hosts: Cole Cuchna & Charles Holmes Producer: Justin Sayles Audio/Video Editing: Kevin Pooler Video Engineer: CT Theme Music: Birocratic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to Last Song Standing. I'm Cole Kushna.

0:08.0

And I'm Charles Holmes. And in this four season of Last Song Standing, Cole and I are debating

0:12.6

our way through some of the best albums of the last 25 years in order to crown the greatest

0:19.2

album of the 21st century, aka the last album standing.

0:25.0

Last episode, Sizzes Control went against Frank Ocean's Blonde.

0:28.9

Ultimately, Frank Ocean's Blonde came out on top.

0:31.5

But on today's episode, we've got two more classic albums going head to head.

0:36.1

But first, Cole, let's go over

0:38.6

all of the albums that we've picked so far. We have Connie's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,

0:44.6

Beyonce's Lemonade, Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP, Dapunk's Discovery, Doom and Mad Lives, Mad

0:49.9

Villany, Frank Ocean's Blonde. Now, with all of that out of the way, this is the episode that

0:57.9

people have been waiting for. So before we reveal the albums, let's just really, really quick,

1:03.6

set up the premise, set up the rules, set up the structure. All right. So remember every episode,

1:08.6

Charles and I each nominate one album we think should be in

1:11.3

contention for the 21st century's best. Each album gets its own half of the episode, we'll make a case

1:16.5

for why it's one of the best albums of the past 25 years. Then at the end of the episode, the two

1:21.3

albums go head to head, and Charles and I will debate until we can agree on one winner.

1:26.4

The winning album from each episode advances to the season finale Royal Rumble.

1:30.9

That's where Cole and I will face off one last time, eliminating albums one by one until

1:35.6

we can crown the greatest album of the 21st century, aka the last album standing.

1:41.4

And now, Cole, without further ado, can you please tell the people what two albums

1:45.5

are duking it out today i am picking we kind of broke our rules we alluded to it last episode we should

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