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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Yeat's debut album 'Lyfestylë ', how his production has become a playground, whether his lyrics matter in anyway and if Yeat's music is something you need to 'get' to like.


Timecodes 
1:58 What’s a Yeat?  
4:34 Is he building a world again / trailer?
8:39 How many songs saved from this artist?
10:13 Demar has 92 Yeat songs saved 
11:30 You are watching a master at work
11:37 If you are a producer and Yeat calls it’s the best day of your life/push all the buttons 13:07  problem with the production on this album / squeaky sound
15:23 You can’t say you don’t like it/you don’t get it
16:35 Love is blind comparison
17:20 muddy vocals
19:54 if I didn’t read the lyrics I couldn’t tell you what he is saying
25:12 1/18th hip-hop/production to rage to/ different production that hip-hop fans are used to
26:11 White passing artist with hip-hop tropes in his language / what he is wearing
27:10 Not trying to divorce himself from hip-hop / pushing it away but still being a part if it
28:56 The bell is back / lifestyle he pulls out every trick
32:14 Song sound more like music
33:25 No party Adriel has been to where yeat will get played and people will
34:40 Tech n9ne fanbase comparison
36:00 Can yeat make a #1 song?
36:56 Lyrically rough
38:16 Eminem test
41:21 American Idol test
47:00 Is this good rapping?
54:33 Makes a lot of A- B+ songs           
56:30 AI cover?
59:03 The Scores


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Adriel's rating: 4 / 10
The Love List: GEEK TIME, LYING 5 FUN, SO WHAT, GOD TALKIN SHHH, THEY TELL ME, NEW HIGH
Yeat - Lyfestylë / 2024 / hip hop, electronic, rage, trap

This week Démar and Adriel discuss GloRilla's debut album 'Glorious ', how she's transitioned from being a singles artist, her masterful ear for production and the album's stunning features.

Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 7 / 10

The Love List: HOLLON, TGIF, STEP, I LUV HER, PROCEDURE

TIMECODES:

2:02 - Background on Glorilla
2:24 - FNF 
3:29 - Live review of the FNF / saw the vision 
5:57 - Fivio Foreign feature 
8:30 - Understanding of how things work in the internet age in terms of Glo 
11:36 - Trap banger women picking better beats 
15:10 - Step/shooting synths 
17:21 - What you know about me / can’t sing 
17:38 - Wipe me down 
19:50 - Sampling a record they play today in the club 
20:10 - T-pain, not gotten old 
21:45 - Feels like we’re back in 06 
22:30 - Autotune in the T-pains era compared to this era 
23:55 - Sounds like a comment section 
26:34 - Almost incriminating herself 
29:09 - Fine tuning of the production made the song better 
31:17 - If it happed in male rap it would be egregious 
32:30 - Women in the dating world talking about their prospective 
33:22 - Whoever this record is about I hope it put fear in him 
35:08 - Doesn’t have the same ring to it if a man said it 
37:37 - How it is for her career / this whole album is Memphis 
39:18 - Features come to her world 
41:30 - The cover 
44:05  - Vinyl cost 
45:05 - Adriel discriminates 
45:58 - The score



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GloRilla - Glorious/ 2024 / hip hop, crunk, trap

J. Cole just dropped his latest single 'Port Antonio' and it sounds like he doesn't understand the damage he's done. When he stepped outside the beef he sealed his fate but somehow he's still rapping about being the best. The duo breakdown Cole's misguided raps.

TIMECODES:
1:05 Instagram only drops
2:25 Dat Piff / Going back in time
4:08 Coming from The Fall Off
4:44 Like when things are addressed in the music
5:10 Don’t think Drake and Cole will be cool
9:04 He made the adult decision  
9:55 Drake and Kendrick will never be cool
13:00 The best rapping was coming from J. Cole 
15:22 Like a Wilt Chamberlain-type character
17:18 Drake & Kendrick battling for GOAT status
21:15 His life is going to be better since he backed out of the beef 


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The allegations are flying in. Diddy is facing more allegations in civil court, and the number of allegations is staggering. The patented duo breaks things down.


TIMECODES
4:50 120 allegations coming forward
7:03 Going after the accomplices 
11:03 Put doubt in celebrities 
11:52 Trump comparison
12:18 Power dynamics
13:48 Every time their phone rings, their heart drops
14:59 Diddy’s name is so corrosive
17:29 What is going to be the burden of proof  
17:36 50 cent + Ma$e on the right side of history
18:32 Who will get the pass and who won’t 

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This week, Démar and Adriel discuss Leon Bridges's fourth album 'Leon', why Bridges can't really make a bad song and whether he's actually a blues artist instead of R&B.

TIMECODES:
2:08 Largely successful at the start of his career
2:30 Coming home
4:09 Typed in Leon into Spotify / Who is the best Leon
6:52 In this group, that doesn’t make bad songs
7:24 Not as R&B when it comes to some songs
11:34 Blues artists
12:24 Rod Wave
14:06 Needs Shaboozy
15:36 Zach Bryan feature
16:17 If they had a feature on them, they could have popped
18:40 A little country tilt
19:40 When a man cries
21:05 Breaking the fourth wall
25:51 If you can’t relate, then you’ve never been in love
27:40 He’s talking about everyone else in relation to him / speaking outside himself
29:44 Similar to Kid Cudi / fans want to hear your pain  
32:00 The album named after you
35:13 No skips
36:50 The Scores



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Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10 Adriel's rating: 7 / 10 

The Love List: When a Man Cries, Laredo, Panther City, Simplify, Peaceful Place

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Tommy Richman's debut album Coyote, why leaving off his break out singles 'Million Dollar Baby' and 'The Devil is a Liar' is a mistake and his unique combinations of influences in Michael Jackson, Tyler the Creator and Justin Timberlake.

Démar’s rating: 6 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8 / 10

The Love List: WHITNEY, TEMPTATIONS, LETTERMAN, ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, VANITY

TIMECODES:

1:59 - Million Dollar Baby
4:41 - Great Expectations
6:34 - What is it a mistake leaving the singles off your album
7:38 - When “Crew” came out
8:05 Plant allegations
9:30 - Unofficial Brent Faiyaz's Canadian manager
10:25 - Just because you have not heard of an artist doesn’t mean they don’t exist
11:24 - A blend of 3 legends
13:23 - If someone was a pop star but they weren’t a nerdy theatre kid
14:25 - Would temptations have gone viral?
19:22 - I don’t know what his real singing voice sounds like
21:24 - Don Toliver comparison
21:41 - hearing it live without the effects on the mic
22:46 - Vanity
26:36 - Joji comparison
27:58 - Démar wants more features  
31:09 - Ice Spice route
35:13 - The vibe of his lyrics are not as important
36:45 - Passively, it slaps more
37:37 - It’s giving ‘I’m an artiste’
45:40 - No skips
46:50 - Demar is concerned
48:55 - The score 


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Tommy Richman - Coyote / 2024 / pop, R&B, Virginia funk

The feds have Diddy up of sex trafficking a racketeering charges and it ain't looking good. Diddy has already been denied bail twice and is officially awaiting trial. Also we reach back and talk about the Kendrick Lamar - Drake - Jay Z - Lil Wayne Super Bowl debacle and wonder if Kanye West can ever do the Super Bowl.

TIMECODES:

00:55-  Diddy arrested
4:15 - 1000 bottles of baby oil
8:10 - What reason do you have to have that much baby oil?
8:30 - A lot of people aligned with Diddy
9:37 - Seems what he was doing was known
12:25 - Giving his masters back
13:13 - 100 mill lawsuit
14:10 - What the public thinks of who should be next
15:43 - The group of men who openly date teenagers
16:33 - The Superbowl
18:03 - Lil Wayne is not a Superbowl-level artist
19:03 - The beef: will Kendrick be able to perform Not Like Us
20:48 - Think Drakes gone down another level
22:44 - Normally, a hit song with that subject matter would be a big deal 30:32 Kanye getting the Superbowl in the future 


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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Fousheé's second album 'Pointy Heights', her melding reggae with other genres and her trying to escape the shadow of her influences

Démar’s rating: 6.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5.5 / 10

The Love List: 100 bux, birds, bees, feel like home, closer, war

TIMECODES:

1:29 Test case – black female artist not making R&B
2:36 Female Teezo Touchdown?
3:45 One of those names Demar sees everywhere
5:30 Reason for the name of the album
5:50 Birds, bees
10:25 Not for the traditional hip-hop/r&b listener
10:19 Interpolation of pass the dutch
11:55 Easter egg for the black listener
12:30 closer / giving late career kid cudi
22:17 Loversland   
24:00 Reach a point where everything you like doesn’t have to influence you
28:36 2 more albums before people start to notice
29:17 versus are catchier then the chorus – birds bees
30:17 Feels like home
31:15 Identify crisis to her artistry
32:28 The cover
34:00 Vinyl cop
35:31 The score 



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Fousheé - Pointy Heights / 2024 / alternative, indie rock, reggae, dream pop

This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Fat Dog's debut album 'Woof.' its über dramatic production and Fat Dog's repetitive lyrics actually give you something to grab onto while the production swirls.

Démar’s rating: 9 / 10

The Love List: Vigilante, Wither, Clowns, All the Same, Running, I am the King



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Fat Dog- Woof. / 2024 / New rave, rock, punk, dance

This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Doechii's third mixtape ' Alligator Bites Never Heal', her clear as day Fugees influences and how an album can feel like a drag even though it's amazing.

Démar’s rating: 8 / 10

The Love List: BULLFROG, BOILED PEANUTS, DENIAL IS A RIVER, SKIPP, HIDE N SEEK, DEATH ROLL, NISSAN ALTIMA, HUH!, FIREFLIES, ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL



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Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal / 2024 / rap, hip hop, alternative rap, alternative