PODCAST TRANSCRIPT

Yo what’s up guys? It’s the weekly spin. Back at it with episode number two of this podcast today we will be talking about let God sort them out by clips. Um, always remember, if you like this podcast, please follow me and share it with your friends. It helps a bunch. All right, let’s get into it. Um. Clips is a Virginia duo made up of Pusha T and malice clips. Um, they’re known for their lyricism and their detailed stories about their street life and drug trade. They gained major recognition in the early two thousand under The Neptunes, the Neptunes label owned by well-known producer Pharrell Williams, and their debut album, Lord willin and follow up Hell Hath No Fury, are often considered classics for their realism and innovative production. After their initial few albums, malice took a break from music, while Pusha T pursued a solo career, dropping great albums as Daytona, which was nominated for a Grammy in twenty eighteen. It’s Almost Dry, another great album. This album was personally a very huge milestone for hip hop, as Clipse had come back from a sixteen year hiatus, which is like huge. They were very globally recognized in their early career, and when they announced this album, everyone was super hyped for it. Um, after Clipse dropped this album, they had a huge like influence boost in old school hip hop. Other other old rap legends such as like big L, Mobb Deep, Slick Rick, Raekwon and others have seemingly dropped albums after Clipse have dropped album. I’m assuming influenced by them dropping an album after a sixteen year hiatus. Now my thoughts on this album. Before listening, I was super excited to listen to this album. I listened to some of Clipse earlier stuff before, and I was a big fan of Pusha T before listening to this, so I was really excited to see what their new album would sound like. Um, Pharrell Williams also did produce this whole album, and Pharrell is also a very well known, well-known producer. He’s considered one of the best, and he’s been in the game for a very long time. Um, all right. First track on the on this album, uh, this track is titled The Birds Don’t Sing, and this track was, like, beautiful. This track was like a crazy starter to an album, maybe the best starting track to an album I’ve ever heard. It has a John Legend feature, which also I’m a huge fan of John Legend, Pusha T and malice. This is a song about their parents, about their past parents. Pusha T starts with a very, very gritty verse about their mom and all the things she’s done for them, with a John Legend chorus, which is very, which was very beautiful and very touching. And then malice ends the song with another verse, this time about their dad and another great verse. His verse was, in my opinion, better than malice or sorry. Malice verse was better than Pusha T’s. It just had more touching lyrics. But both of the verses was great. This was an incredible starting song. Um, uh. The most popular track on the album was Chains and Whips, and this is not even most likely this is for sure, because of the Kendrick Lamar feature on this album. And Kendrick Lamar is like probably the biggest in the game right now, and having him on a song just instantly skyrockets. Popularity. This song was also great. Uh, it was the second track on the album, so it was following up The Birds Don’t Sing, which was incredible, and it was another incredible song. It was much more violent, not not violent, but it was much more like gritty. It had a very like, dark sound. Pusha T had a had a chorus that I’ll play right here. As you can see, that chorus is like very rough. And Pusha T and malice both came come in with dark and edgy verses and they sound really well. And then the Kendrick Lamar feature, just like the top end on the cake Kendrick Lamar feature was great. He fit the vibe very well. He was, in my opinion, the standout verse on the track. He helped elevate the track and I think it deserves to be the most popular track. Um, the two singles that were released before the album and were teased were So Be It and Ace Trumpets, and I think the one I’m going to highlight today is So Be It, So Be it is arguably in a lot of people’s eyes, the best song on the album. So Be It is a great song. It has a very interesting sample on it. Uh, Pharrell took the sample. Um, the sample is taken from. Sorry if I botch this name Okulu. Um. Or sorry. The song is Mazaku. It’s Saudi Arabian musician Talal Maddah, and it’s a haunting, Middle Eastern inspired melodic beat. And you can hear it throughout the entire track, and it’s like a maybe one of the best beats of the entire year. I love the beat. It fit very well into the track. I’ll play the beat for you here. And so Be It was again one of my favorites, I think definitely top three track. Um, and yeah, uh, best feature on the album I think was not was, which he was on the second to last track, which was called Let God Sort Them Out slash um, Pusha T, it’s a two sided song. First part of the song is the title track, which is Let God Sort Them Out. Pusha T and malice to deliver great verses again, like usual. Nothing crazy from them. Just the usual flows. And then there’s a really cool beat switch where it like it loops this audio track over and over again and then like, jumps into a whole different, like beat, and there’s jumps on it straight away and he delivers a great verse and it’s just surprising to see how, uh, great not a rapper knows is like, what is it? He dropped his debut album in nineteen ninety five. He’s been doing this for thirty years and he’s still like one of the best in the game. It’s amazing to see, um, my, in my opinion, the worst song in the album, although I don’t think there are any bad songs in the album. You just got to choose one bad song. Um, in my opinion, the worst song was All Things Considered. In my opinion, the song was it, it was all right. There was a The Dream feature and a Pharrell feature on it. The dream switch was all right. It’s just the mouse’s flows were very repetitive, and the feature by Pharrell was very average. I thought the sound was kind of robotic and overall just not an amazing track. I’d still give it like a seven out of ten, but definitely not a standout track. And then my personal favorite song to sort of close out the podcast. Um, my personal favorite song is definitely The Birds Don’t Sing, the opening track. I’ve already talked about it a little bit, but I think even though my parents are perfectly fine and healthy, this song was very touching. No matter and no matter what condition your parents are. The John Legend feature was beautiful. I’ve been a John Legend fan for a little while. I’ve listened to some of his songs. He’s a great singer, and I thought this song was just a beautiful intro to an album that was amazing. It kept its quality throughout the project, which you rarely see nowadays. Um, some closing thoughts I think I’d give this album compared to God does like ugly, which I’m pretty sure I gave a nine out of ten. I think this is this is a different sound than God does. Like ugly, God like ugly. When I had a very wide range of sounds, I think this stuck to pretty similar sound throughout most of the tracks, but I think I’d probably bump this above. God does like ugly in all the ones that I’ve reviewed so far, so I would give this album a nine point five out of ten. It’s a amazing album, sixteen year comeback after a great early career. And I think if you’re listening to this right now, you should definitely check out this album. It will definitely change you. Um, yeah. And that’s my thoughts. 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