teh Hip Hop episode

In this episode Becky and Matthew delve deep into the late 80s and the early 2000s hip hop.  Will it be a hip hop battle to end all battles?

What the Lyric?

Rap/Hip-Hop

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Becky: Welcome to What the Lyric?, the podcast that confirms. Yeah, that actually made it to radio.

Welcome to What the Lyric? Today we are talking about hip-hop, the rap. I don't know what else I'd call it.

Matthew: The rap.

Becky: The rap.

Matthew: I mean you are talking to the two white people in the room talking about hip-hop. That is what this episode is.

Becky: I know. Oh, this is going to go down horribly. Although I do love my 80s, rap and I love the old Run DMC stuff before Aerosmith. Who else is in there? I am trying to think. A tribe called Quest. Although I cannot remember if they were 80s or not. It all runs together now for me. Then, of course, Public Enemy. I don't think that was 80s. Maybe they were 80s. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, there is a lot in there. 3rd Bass. That is right; I pull out 3rd Base, which you will never know. But the one guy in 3rd Base, a white guy is now like a baseball historian at Cooperstown, if I remember correctly.

Matthew: That is a turn career.

Becky: Yeah, Pete Nice. Was it Pete Nice? Oh I don't think it was Pete Nice. I cannot remember who it was now.

Matthew: Was it was not Pete Townsend?

Becky: No, now I am going to have to look it up. Who were the members of 3rd Base? Yeah, so that is where I am coming from.

Matthew: Interesting. Mine, you know. Like, that is all I really need to say. We actually had a very interesting discussion at the end of the last episode talking about where does R&B begin versus hip-hop specifically.

Becky: Yes.

Matthew: I approach hip-hop from the more R&B side. So I am thinking Beyoncé, Lemonade.

Becky: All right, okay.

Matthew: To an extent, Drake, although he is not my favourite.

Becky: Oh God!

Matthew: And then smaller artists, particularly from the HBO show Insecure, has some very good hip-hop…

Becky: See I don’t know that.

Matthew: References. TT the artists. What is the name of the song? Is featured in it. She is great. Now I will have to introduce you to it. Then, of course, where would we be? But two people, two white people talking about hip hop. Also, listen to the entirety of Hamilton and needed to get said. There it is. It has been said we can now glaze past it.

Becky: I only know the Alexander Hamilton [Making sound 00:2:56]. I don't know anything else.

Matthew: That is all you need to know. That is what the musical is.

Becky: Yeah, I. Oh, man. I think I was right with Pete Nice. What did I say? Oh, my God.

Matthew: You did say Pete Nice.

Becky: Yeah. There is MC Serch and Pete Nice, but I feel like. Yeah. Pete Nice. Baseball historian, I had it right the first time.

Matthew: Well, with a band name like 3rd Base, you kind of have to.

Becky: They had a song called The Cactus.

Matthew: Why?

Becky: I can't even remember. I just remember The Cactus. I am sure I still have that CD somewhere. But yeah, The Cactus.

Matthew: I love.

Becky: I cannot even remember. It is all gone. It is so bad; they did have a big hit. What was their big hit?

Matthew: Was, it baseball related?

Becky: No, surprisingly. You would think with a name like 3rd Base. Pop goes the weasel.

Matthew: Oh.

Becky: From 1991. I remember that. That sounds like a hit. I did not have that one. I had the Cactus album and that was eighty-nine derelicts of dialect, which had the pop, goes the weasel.

Yep, that was ninety-one. That was when I graduated high school.

Matthew: I won't say where I was at the time.

Becky: And a hoodie [Laughing], moving on. All right. I am going to let you go first this time.

Matthew: All right.