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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In this episode, we’re going through the biggest updates in hip-hop from the past week and beyond. We gave our thoughts on Taylor Swift’s first-week sales, the 2026 Grammy Submissions, hints for Savage Mode 3 & more.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we're rolling. Let's go. |
| 0:01.3 | We are rolling. What an eventful last couple days, yeah? |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah? |
| 0:05.8 | A lot of shit going on. |
| 0:07.9 | So what is going on? The Dikimanage and Cardi B. Beef. You guys saw that? Yeah, we spoke about that. That's... So over it. I mean, I have nothing to say about that. I don't know if you guys have anything to... No, honestly, as soon as I saw the kids involved, I was like, fuck this, man. |
| 0:20.4 | I have to check out of this. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, I think it was more... |
| 0:22.4 | They're dissing each other's kids, you know? |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, they got a bit weird. I think what was more interesting was the Charlie X-E-X, Taylor Swift viz, just because it's pop music, like no one expects to see the pop grillies going at it. I think she called her like a cocaine addict or some shit. Like that's the most that I saw. That's where I'm like, listen, where I want to start the conversation is Taylor Swift selling fucking, what is it close to four million copies first week? Is that the projection that we're seeing? Three mil, I think it was the last time that I checked. No, it's, it's going to be nearly four million. Yeah. She's going to like break the record, the all-time record so what is the all-time |
| 0:54.2 | current record holder right now well i mean the way that we base it off is for the u.s and it's adele |
| 0:59.5 | who did it with 25 yeah three million i think in like what was that 2011 or so high first week sales |
| 1:04.8 | okay so the the nearly four million that taylor swift's going to do is going to be solely in the |
| 1:09.8 | u.s yeah yeah that's not even counting everywhere else in the world. Yeah, that's only the U.S. That's just based on, yeah, like the billboard tracking of the U.S. So, yeah, Adele's 25 sold 3.4 million first week in 2015, and Taylor Swift's like for sure going to beat that. I think the difference is though that we have to understand is like, |
| 1:29.2 | Adele had three million people buying one fucking copy of her album. |
| 1:34.1 | And Taylor Swift probably has like 150,000 people buying like 20 different versions of the same album. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, but at the same time though, at least 2015, like you were, that's still streaming error. |
| 1:43.9 | It's streaming era. But like when you look at the numbers and how many, like, physicals that Dell sold, and again, there was no bundles, there was no fucking version with, I don't know, bro. Taylor's version. Yeah, alternate covers. But what did Taylor do for, for this roll out, right? Because, like, let's kind of peel it back. She sold physicals, pre-order physicals, |
| 2:02.7 | right? |
| 2:03.0 | She sold over a million physicals. Yeah, yeah, well, with a lot of those being, again, these different versions, there was one version. There was one. Track by track version. Each song is preceded by a voice note introducing the track. Like that's what makes that album different. It took her like 15 minutes to do it like in the studio and they're like They're actually monsters. That's cool. That's a cool idea. Yeah, when you think about how these guys move records is actually fucking crazy. Honestly, I'm kind of sick of it, bro. It's okay. I get it. Like your core fan base is going to eat it to fuck up. They're going to devour it. But, like... |
| 2:34.2 | You wouldn't do that as you were Taylor Swift. |
| 2:36.0 | Like, to me, it's like, the fact that they were so eager to, like, change the bundle rules for Billboard when it came to, like, selling shirts attached to these copies. And now Taylor Swift can make 45 different versions of her album. There's always going to be like a loophole that these artists try to find. |
| 2:50.7 | So like maybe that'll get banned at a certain point where it's like you can't just have |
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