"Grindin’"— The Clipse

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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This week, Rob explores the biblical complexities of brotherhood throughout popular song, and uses those musical examples to highlight this eternal dichotomy: Some days when you aren’t Abel, there is always Cain. This sentiment rings glaringly true as he dissects the career of Virginia brothers The Clipse and their massive 2002 hit ‘Grindin’’, arguably the Neptunes finest production moment. Later, Rob is joined by Ringer alum Shea Serrano to explain why Malice and Pusha T’s elegant street poetry transcends the simple ‘coke rap’ designation critics have hastily assigned to their legacy. Host: Rob HarvillaGuest: Shea SerranoProducers: Chris Sutton, Olivia Crerie, and Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you had to pick just one album to define the 21st century so far, what would it be? I'm Cole Kishna from Dysect. And I'm Charles Holmes from The Midnight Boys. And on Tuesday, July 29th, Cole and I are launching season four of Last Song Standing. But this year, we're mixing things up. Instead of searching for an artist's greatest song, we're asking an even bigger question. What is the greatest album of the 21st century so far?
0:22.6	Listen to last song standing on the Dysect podcast feed or the Dysect YouTube channel starting Tuesday, July 29th.
0:33.6	A reading from the book of Psalms, English standard version. Psalm 29. Not all of it, but most of it.
0:41.6	The voice of the Lord is over the waters. The God of glory thunders. The Lord over many waters.
0:49.4	The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars.
0:57.1	The Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf. And Sirion, that's a
1:04.2	mountain, like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness.
1:13.2	The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
1:16.1	The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bear.
1:22.0	And in his temple all cry glory.
1:25.9	Is it wrong of me?
1:27.3	Is it sacrilegious of me? If sometimes I still think of his voice as the voice of
1:33.9	God. Keth slewable and Seth knew now why. Fif 50 children of Israel
1:44.3	I'm supposed to multiply.
1:48.8	Randy Newman,
1:50.5	God's song.
1:51.8	God's song, parentheses,
1:53.6	that's why I love mankind,
1:55.7	close parentheses.
1:56.6	It's the pronunciation of supposed to there,
2:00.0	the way Randy Newman sings supposed to as
2:03.1	supposed to multiply.
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