Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your peak raw of music news and

cultural awareness. I'm your host Ben Ratliff.

First thanks for a realist.

Really.

Drop this and let that whole world feel it.

Mad I'm feel it. Let them fill it.

And I'm still in the murder business.

I can hold you down like I'm giving lessons in physics.

Right, right.

You should want a bad thing like this.

Huh? Drop it low and pick it up just like this.

Yeah. Cup of ace, cup of of ace cup of goose cup of Chris I

He'll something worth a half a ticket on my wrist

my wrist taking all the liquor straight never chase that never stop like we bringing

88 back with us are the three other popular music critics of the New York Times,

Nate Chinen, John Caramonica, and John Pirellis.

Hello, gentlemen.

On this episode we're going to talk about themes in pop in the year

2014. All of them. In alphabetical order. But we're going to start out of alphabetical order. But we're going to start out of alphabetical order with the letter I for Iggy.

I thought you were going to talk about Kendrick Lamar.

So disappointed.

We just heard Fancy by Iggy Azalea.

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