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00:00uh before we get into uh actually it's crazy on the billboard uh hot 100 chart top 40 there's no
00:07uh rap songs in it for the first time and since 1990 and we need to get into that so let's start
00:16with melissa wait since when do the lang do the lang he's so cute yeah um hey wow that's almost
00:27close to the uh decade that i'm dressed up as yeah pinky tuscadero yes uh i just wanted to address
00:33this before we finish the video uh the recording of this video is the day before halloween and we're
00:38doing our company costume contest today so i'm dressed in my halloween costume which is my 80s
00:44uh costume you know what's funny i didn't even realize that she was wearing not even joking
00:52ramiro thought i was just here okay so okay so in my defense take the glasses off
00:59okay and melissa rarely stands up like she only in case of emergency like if she has to go to the
01:07bathroom if pebbles orders breakfast and melissa goes to get like she never stands up so all i'm
01:13seeing is the head shot and she colors her hair weird colors she wears her hair her hair in different
01:21ways consistently so i was just like all right whatever she's doing like a pink theme today
01:27and and then later yeah if you see the entire thing i have leg warmers on i have a fanny pack
01:33yeah i got my earrings i got um lace uh tights and she got mad at me and i'm like but why would i think
01:40that you're like dressed like anything i mean i understand listen it wasn't my idea to have the
01:45company halloween costume contest on the third on the 30th so i get it then she's like you better
01:52vote for me i'm like no i need to see the other costumes no please vote listen because you know
01:56it's going to be somebody in sales or on one of the other radio stations that that everyone's going
02:01to vote for we we always get the shaft down no hold on i think the company's been pretty fair when it
02:07comes to i remember some of the past ones um i don't think they'll do favorites i just feel like
02:13they vote for their own yeah but and there's so many of them and there's only a few of us that's
02:18all but if somebody like has like a really cool like topical theme and you could tell they put work
02:25into it that's something that they don't normally dress as that somebody would confuse them in
02:28i think that this is my vote you know what you think that you're you don't ask me to ever vote
02:33for you for anything ever again you're dressed like melissa with the volume turned up a little bit
02:37i mean anyways let's i would vote for you guys no matter what i'm just saying that's loyalty for
02:46you so if i came in wearing if you came in what you wore last year with just that mask with all
02:52the holes in it i would have voted for you but and that had zero effort what do you mean zero effort
02:56like if you look at me with that mask on you're like he's doing something i think if somebody most
02:59people if you if you dress like this next thursday i don't know if many people would pull you
03:04aside and say you see my outfit and you think that i am walking around like this on a regular basis
03:11with a fanny pack and freaking leg warmers you do want to bring back the 80s so it wouldn't surprise
03:18me yeah whenever we talk about a movie you're like oh my god that reminds me officer and a gentleman
03:231983 that's a great movie uh you're stuck in that decade anyway i am so let's discuss the rate what we
03:29yeah i'll vote for you thank you pebbles yeah now there's a friend no hip-hop songs melissa no run
03:35dmc no curtis blow what's going on no hip-hop songs on the one on the hot 100 top 40 what were the big
03:43hip-hop okay so kendrick lamar is not going to be on isn't that's why that's why it ended because it
03:48it um fell off on that week so oh okay yeah so it's like it's the weekly charts yeah cardi b i mean
03:58she just released her album five minutes ago yeah no nothing nothing what's going on you know
04:03what it is right now and i know leroy you have a theory but pop is really big right now with the
04:09taylor swift album release sabrina carpenter is still huge tate mcrae i mean there's a lot of really
04:15big pop singers right now k-pop and k-pop yes those demon hunter songs are on the the charts right now so
04:23and then they'll of course the country pop which is also on the charts right now so it's the last
04:30time before we get into leroy's theory the last time february 2nd 1990 there was no songs in the top
04:3940 the next week the song that was number 41 jumped to number 29 name that one hit wonder 1990
04:481990 one one hit wonder one hit wonder he's dead and but to this marquee i already knew i already know
04:55very good friend just a friend yeah well that he's dead gave it away kind of i mean there are a lot of
05:02yeah a lot of unfortunate well one hit wonder yeah there's marquee just a friend it was number 41
05:09jumped to number 29 and that started a streak that lasted up until this week that is that's sad yeah
05:16that's very sad it's sad but predictable in my opinion i think you gotta blame well let me back
05:24up to be clear there are people right now who are putting out great hip-hop music just understand that
05:30but mainstream media mainstream hip-hop corporate america is to blame for everything started it started
05:42back then in the mid 90s what happened was let's be honest y'all remember before hip-hop became big
05:48there were people saying it wasn't going to do anything and it wasn't going to last nobody cared
05:53and it was authentic it was raw it was creative and then once corporate america saw that there was some
05:59money in it here they come and it took about 30 years to drain hip-hop of everything that it had its
06:09life source you got people who are marketing and promotion uh promotional majors making decisions
06:16there's no passion there's no love there's none of that and so what ended up happening is and we've all
06:23said this about hip-hop lately everybody sounds the same everyone's talking about the same stuff
06:29the music the the beats don't even sound different it's not authentic anymore and that was the attraction
06:35in the beginning this stuff was raw and from the streets and you could talk about women but then
06:41you could talk about politics and you could talk about crime but then you can talk about solutions
06:46everything right now is drugs twerking i'm gonna take your girl i'm gonna do this to your man and i
06:54believe people are just they're like yo it's there's there's nothing to offer there's there's nothing to
07:01offer and then we live in a time where it is kind of serious i'm not saying other times weren't serious
07:06but we're in a time where it's it seems a little it seems different and people want something
07:11different they want to either be happy dance or they want to be informed and hip-hop gives you
07:17nothing it's just the same old stuff that is corporate america because corporate america came in
07:24and took out everything that was authentic about it and said we're going strictly for we're going to get the
07:30put it like this i remember uh when i was when i did live in atlanta and i worked i worked in the
07:37industry i worked for a subsidiary to universal people were creating phenomenal music and the
07:45labels would say that's great but i need something that sounds like snap because that's what's hot right
07:51now they didn't care about the the culture they didn't care about the passion they didn't care about
07:56the people behind the the movement and behind the music it was what can we do to make money right
08:02now and if that meant watering it down then so be it and it just kept going and going and going and
08:08now it's just diluted to nothing and are and do you feel that artists follow just followed the money and
08:14that's part of it because i'm trying to understand the distinction because it's not corporate america that's
08:21determining what's on billboard it's what people are listening to so if billboard is based on just
08:27so we can throw this out it's based on like sales radio play streams yeah airplay stuff like that so
08:33if it's if there's a lack of what we think is good then it's i wouldn't blame corporate i would blame
08:39the artist and the lack of creativity this is why i said in the beginning there are artists putting out
08:44great music corporate america big business america doesn't get behind those artists there are artists who
08:50are talking them though yes we do no we don't we do and that's why things pushed out more back in
08:55the day yes a hundred percent now i think people are and i i do agree with you to a point because i do
09:02think that yeah as far as like things we see on tv and like advertisements and stuff like that a hundred
09:08percent but like i think that most people are finding their music now on their own where back in the day
09:16it was more force-fed from corporate america you feel like it's not like that but if you do it real
09:20quick if you just look up like who owns spotify who who the the music industry has its hands and
09:28things that we don't even realize and they push who they want to push honestly it's kind of what the
09:35whole kendrick lamar drake thing i know that was a one-on-one thing and against each other but underneath
09:41all that it was a conversation about the industry and what's going on right now people were saying
09:46drake is the he's the face of commercial hip-hop who they would get behind and push and he could do
09:53whatever he want and kendrick was considered on the opposite side who they kind of want to snuff out
09:58you really don't want music like that and that's where the the line was drawn i'm telling y'all i promise
10:05you i promise you they came in and drained the they drained hip-hop of all this authenticity
10:13and it's gone now and that was the draw i'm not arguing what you're saying but i do have kind of
10:18two points to make one um you can also make the argument from what you're saying that hip-hop wouldn't
10:23be as big as it was if it wasn't for corporate america jumping and grabbing it too you know what i'm
10:27there was a balance i would say late 90s mid to late 90s i would argue the balance was pretty good
10:37you saw money starting to come in but you were still getting good quality work and then early
10:43i would say early 2000s maybe a little bit after after 50 cent once snap music to me that's when it
10:51you were like wait a minute what's going on what's snap music uh like lean with it rock just everything
10:57the quality just it dropped okay and people have a problem with let's say gatekeepers and stuff like
11:07that to me i look at gatekeepers as like the same way i look at uh maybe like a coach or a manager
11:12or a program director or something like that no one said hey that i get that that's cool but
11:22it took over hip-hop and then all the regions the northeast sounded different than the south the
11:28south sounded different than the west then all of a sudden everyone started sounding the same
11:33and the originality was gone and record labels have the power to say do something different let's be
11:41creative no no no no no oh he's hitting so we want something that sounds just like that they want
11:45the instant hit okay my second point is there used to be a term called jump the shark that um
11:52basically it means like the point where something kind of like started getting shitty like it was
11:58really good it built up built up built up and then it kind of like fell off the cliff and that's and
12:02that was the turning point of making it crappy so one thing with hip-hop which is weird which i mean
12:07you have it with other genres of music like punk rock and stuff like that where it's this thing where
12:14you embrace it and you almost love the fact that not everybody's into it and you kind of like argue
12:20with people to get into it but then when a lot of people start getting into it it takes away from
12:24your from your love of it which is weird i never understood that so as much as kendrick performing at
12:33the super bowl halftime show was a milestone for hip-hop could that have been the jump the shark moment
12:40where it's like hip-hop is now a hip-hop artist that you never thought you would see yeah at a super
12:46bowl halftime show and you could always be like man they would never put kendrick on he's too cool
12:51whatever are you almost well they put him on too mainstream well that could have been the jump the
12:55shark a lot of people do think that when an artist becomes too mainstream then they're not cool
13:02anymore yeah that's what i was just saying yeah yeah yeah no no i know that that's like that could
13:06have been that moment could have been like the part where it's like hip-hop is peaked so now it's kind
13:11of like falling off a little bit don't you think now i i i'll say i think there's an opportunity there
13:19for things to turn around for hip-hop yes because i think the state of the world the state of the country
13:26the state of communities i think that there's a lot there's a lot of frustration and that i think
13:36like when when you think about the roots of hip-hop and how it started it was like out of like the passion
13:43of youth and wanting to say something and get it it was like there was the fun part of it but there was
13:51also like wanting to have a voice and i think that they could use that people could use that now
13:59to try and you know kind of have a resurgence and bring like the heart back to hip-hop there again i
14:07i know there are artists out right now who are trying to do that and do that but they just they
14:12don't get the support and i know that you can find music on your own but i'm trying to pop out it's
14:18not i'm trying to tell you for instance part of the thing that drake and kendrick were going back
14:23and forth about or more so drake was about bots and things like that promoting and pushing music
14:29that is a problem who do you think is behind that that's stuff like if i'm a record label and i invest
14:36in ramiro the artist and i'm like you know what i want to make sure ramiro my artist is the biggest
14:42thing out there you better believe i'm going to use bots and stuff and i'm going to snuff out
14:46all these other little artists who are trying to do independent artists okay yeah you can be found
14:52but it's like the algorithm yep there's people on instagram doing phenomenal things but your
14:59algorithm is not going to allow you to see it mine might not allow me to see it and who's controlling
15:05it that's the question i believe i do think that there is some legitimacy to what you're saying i do
15:11think that there are there's obvious things that are being pushed and whatever i just don't think
15:16it's as much today as it used to be in the past i really because there's so many other ways now that
15:22people are getting their music and like think about streaming never used to even be a thing and i just feel
15:28like i don't know i i feel like blaming it's just easy to blame the big corporate people when yes
15:36like it is and you know what i do agree to some extent i just feel like it's a cop-out i do see i
15:46don't think it's a cop-out because i think that there are people that are and let's just like let's
15:51not even just talk about music let's just think about like just content in general there's a lot of
15:56people who put out really good quality content yes and it's like unless you're buying ads or boosting
16:04or whatever and even when you do that it doesn't like guarantee like certain things just get out
16:11into the atmosphere and into the social media world where they just become bigger and i do think at the
16:20end of the day a lot of it is the corporations you ever wonder how an artist can be really really big
16:27on let's say social media and have a whole bunch of followers and then you find out once they go on
16:32tour they have to cancel it because no one's buying tickets it's like well if they're how did
16:39they become so huge on this oh somebody's playing behind the scenes and pushing the numbers to support
16:46that artist they want but in real life folks aren't really with it and then they can't even sell out a
16:52not even an arena they can't even sell out a house of blues and you're like how did that happen and
16:58it's happening over and over again and i think it's the same like big artists that just continue
17:04to keep being pushed out it's like oh drake's got something new out even if it's trash it's still like
17:11gets out there and you know you can't say the same for a lot of i i do think and i think that it's always
17:19been like this that there are always really great artists who just never get any type of push and i
17:28mean we're to blame too and i would i would say this five years ago i would believe what you were
17:34saying more so like yo you can find it felt like there was a really true opportunity what i'm saying
17:41is it feels like though within the last five years corporations the music business in general
17:48they took their time to figure out how do we really control this and now that they've got control over
17:55it it's like oh hip-hop's not in the top what is it top 40 for the first time in yeah 30 something
18:01years or whatever like how did that but you can't who's doing anything hot can anyone name anyone today
18:07my point is i feel like there's really no quality music right now so that we know right but to me
18:15it's hard to blame the corporations when i personally i feel that the quality right this second of hip-hop is
18:23not like at least from what i've heard which i'll be honest with you i listen to more pop music now
18:29but it's just not where it should be or why isn't it where it should be like why
18:37was it better before there were a lot of you the artists were one thing but the record labels played
18:43their role um we played our role the listeners played their roles but so what happened why isn't
18:50it as hard as it used to be i don't i feel like there's not as much personally i feel like i could
18:56sit here like 10 years ago i could sit back and name 10 to 15 artists off the top of my head that
19:04were big and bit and doing things and and and doing different things and it was just it was fun
19:09and it was just a great time now if you sit here and ask me to name 10 15 hip-hop artists off the top
19:15of my head i couldn't do it i go back i'm talking about that are making music right now that are like
19:21charting and being are very successful it goes back to what you were saying when you said it was
19:25diluted but i look at it in a positive way because this just means that it's gonna start growing
19:31again hopefully all it takes maybe this is the all it takes is one person to go out there and say i'm
19:36gonna do something different and then stick with it but what happens usually with that is that'll
19:42start hitting and someone else will go yeah i'm gonna do something like that it's like movies it's
19:47that's just a trend in every form of entertainment i hope you're right ddg recently said he makes more
19:52money streaming than he does than he did in music and when i heard that to me and i could be wrong
19:59because i obviously i don't know him i said oh so he never really loved making music of making money
20:05it was about making money so what i'm hoping is is that the ones who are getting any attention but
20:12aren't really in it for the right reasons they move on to something else maybe it's streaming and then it
20:18opens up the door for people who are passionate about music regardless of making money or not
20:23that they get into it they probably have to start from the bottom again they're gonna probably have to
20:28start building up but my thing has always been but who gave those artists who didn't love the music
20:35the opportunity why did they give it oh they look a certain way they can sell it they can push it they
20:41can connect them to all different types of stuff and the music wasn't even secondary it was way down
20:47the list on of importance to a musical a music artist no one cared yeah that's where i have a problem
20:54there's not many you know who was somebody who was like they said he was a prince yeah they used to
21:01say prince was all pain in that ass because he was you know i want to make my own music i don't want
21:07anyone to fuck with it i want the ownership rights do you know that one of the biggest reasons um that
21:14he uh oh you weren't in here when i played you him there's a big youtube video of him at a hall of fame
21:20ceremony playing he did a guitar solo that they say is the greatest guitar solo of all time yeah
21:25and it's because this is like from like 2004 but it's because rolling stone did a list of the 100
21:30best guitar players prince wasn't on that list and he was like how am i not on this list and it's
21:36because at the time everyone was like oh prince is like a pop artist so they had this tribute to
21:40the beatles i'll find you the video it is the solo is amazing so they have distributed the beatles
21:46they have all these guys like i think tom petty like all these dudes they had a couple of the
21:49beatles sons playing a song prince comes out in the middle of a song does a solo to the point where
21:55the dude who was singing looked at him and was like keep fucking going prince fucking kills it
22:00after that they put out a list and and they were like one of the top guitarists once again he did it
22:05because he was like mad but he almost didn't do it even though he was mad because he goes i want
22:10ownership of this when it's all said and done so anyway like my point is i think a lot of
22:15artists right now are just like yeah i'll sign as opposed to kind of just because of the check
22:21you know i'm saying as opposed to saying like no no no hold on maybe i'll wait a little bit do it on
22:25my own so i can have a little more autonomy with what i want to do at the end of the day it's people
22:29people negotiating with people you know i just feel like there's a there's a prince artist out there
22:35right now who's playing a solo on his instagram and has a thousand followers and someone in the
22:42music industry has seen it and said and skipped over it but then they found someone who's playing
22:47a ukulele and terribly but because they have a million subscribers or a million followers yeah
22:53they offer that person a record deal and we've seen it leangel was it leangel ball one of the ball
22:59brothers he came up with one song that went viral and he got a he got a record deal because he was
23:07the basketball playing son of the loud mouth who got his leg chopped off but think about the longevity
23:12of those people the truth will always come out if they're fake and they're not talented but it's not
23:17gonna work what i'm saying is hip-hop is full of those people and and and yeah and the people that
23:23make the decision to put those people on need to be held accountable for how it's falling off
23:29it's just the music doesn't matter to them anymore and that's sad i think they do get held
23:34accountable we just don't see it i think that people are losing jobs and i think that people
23:38when they go out on a limb and say hey let's let's give this guy some shawings he's got a million
23:42followers but he's got no talent i feel like but you know why they don't pivot because they don't they
23:47don't they don't love it to begin with they don't know what to do they are they these are money
23:53marketing and promotion people in positions of power to tell artists what they should do they have
24:00no they shouldn't be in those positions and so even though things are falling apart you think all
24:07right well they're going to sit at a table and they're going to pivot and make the right decision
24:09they don't know what to do they i mean and that's in like a lot of jobs in a lot of areas of corporate
24:16america where you know the people who are working under the they know more than those people and they're
24:25just you know do this do that and it's like crap yeah well at the end again it's people being people
24:32and some people go to work and they're just like i want to get my boss the biggest bang for the buck
24:38quickest yeah you know just to be like just to get that raise that promotion that commission versus
24:45someone else who's going to be like oh i really have a passion for this i'm going to go and freaking
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