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She has to leave her own exhibit just to meet up with him.

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It's romantic on the surface, but there’s an imbalance.

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On today's episode of Hip Hop Movie Club,

So

we're gonna dive into the twenty

twenty-two animated film Entergalactic,

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starring Kid Cudi Timothee Chalamet,

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and several others, as it takes us through

~ the journey

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of Cudi's character Jabari as he moves

into a new apartment,

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settles into New York City, how his life

his love life evolves.

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So

right off the top here, I enjoyed this

quite a bit.

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The animation was really good.

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Kinda gave me that Spider-Man into the

Spider-Verse vibes,

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like the same style of animation.

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Great story, very relatable. I like that

they broke it up into different chapters.

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It kind of kept me even more focused and

entertained about what's coming up next.

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Really good romantic comedy.

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I love how he weaves in Mr. Rager as a

character.

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Mr. Rager is one of Cudi's biggest hits

from a a prior album and

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how that becomes his tag and the object of

his creativity throughout the film.

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So yeah, really, really enjoyed this film.

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I'm glad that we we were able to watch it.

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Yeah, this this one right here,

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like I've told you guys before we started

recording,

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this one has been sitting in my to watch

list ever since it hit hit Netflix,

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and I just haven't gotten around to it.

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But what really got me was like,

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as you s as you said, JB, the first thing

I noticed when I saw the trailer

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for it was that the animation reminded me

from ~ Spider-Man to the Spider-Verse.

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That was the first thing that stood out

for me,

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and I immediately let the trailer play for

a little while and I added it right

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to my list, like, yeah, I'm gonna watch

this.

Yeah.

But I never got around to it.

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~ so shout out to Ice Berg for

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putting this back on my radar so we can watch it.

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I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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I'm a rom com fan. I like I love rom coms.

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The cheesier the better. But this one

Ha ha ha.

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wasn't really cheesy. This one was highly

relatable.

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Like I related to this one a lot.

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a new guy moving into a new neighborhood,

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trying to navigate, got a nice,

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job with a bright future ahead of him that

that could potentially lead

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to something really, really big.

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And trying to figure out how to balance

that with feelings that he's starting

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to develop for somebody unexpectedly and

how to,

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figure out, do I tell her? Do I know do I

hold back?

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Is it too soon? She lives next

door to me,

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like she's my neighbor. That's gonna be

really weird.

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And just like, that whole scenario,

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just how it played out was very,

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very relatable, and I really enjoyed this

one.

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it had a lot of hip hip hop in it.

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The music, the soundtrack was great.

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I didn't even try to look at the titles

of the songs,

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I was just vibing. Like it was just it was

Yeah,

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, Cudi I mean Cudi did the whole

album.

it was just a good vibe.

Yeah. And I love

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his style is different and I am you know,

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like you guys, I'm more of a hip hop

traditionalist,

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but Cudi kind of broke that barrier with

me in terms of the more

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emo type music and

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I really enjoy lot of his the The Man on

the Moon album is

Mm-hmm.

just terrific. There's so many good songs

on there.

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The Mr. Rager song, the Man on Moon song,

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so many others, Day and Night.

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I have that on continuous play.

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I like that he weaved in again Mr.

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Rager as an element.

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I used to have a list of my favorite

album covers every year

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and in 2009 when Man on the

Moon: End of Day came out,

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it was one of my favorites. it just had a

really cool similar colors

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to what's happening in EnterGalactic It's

a lot of purples and oranges.

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I always loved it since then.

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And so it was cool to watch this film,

which is a companion piece to

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the album of the same name that released

on the same day and

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I really appreciated this it's a it's a

risk to do something this bold.

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Even for someone as established as Cudi.

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And it's such a rich and colorful film.

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Some may consider his music

not so colorful or bright.

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If you talk about emo rap,

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if you wanna call it that.

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But to do this, to

This

do a feature length

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on top of an album. Even good kid M.A.A.D. city

was a short film.

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Cudi went big and it paid off.

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I really appreciated that. Like it's it's

this is hard to do.

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I'm so glad you guys enjoyed it also.

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And it's funny, like you said,

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the story of him being smitten by the new

girl in the apartment,

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but then running into the ex and the

complications of the ex,

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the ex being a little bit needy and a

little bit off kilter.

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Very interesting and the dynamic with at

work,

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with his coworker. And I like that there's

some messaging behind it too.

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Like digital versus analog dating.

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Like you see that Stush

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throughout all advertised everywhere.

Stush yeah.

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Yeah, Stush, And his coworker was all

about it,

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like swipe left, swipe right, swipe right.

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And he's just like he's all about he seems

like a bit of an old soul,

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you know, riding his bike everywhere and

just being authentic.

Right. A BMX bike. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. He's

Yeah.

authentic. He's just wearing his hoodie

everywhere and jeans and doing

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his own thing. And it's more the meet cute

type

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I'm not into this app.

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I'm just trying to go go out there,

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do my own thing and have things happen

organically.

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And that that his love interest

Yeah.

meadow, you know, becomes a great match

for him.

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It's an interesting statement on

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digital versus real life. ~

Yeah. Right.

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to meet your match on an online dating platform.

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I feel like this kind of message would have hit harder

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in the beginning of the internet, at least as we know it. So it was kind of an odd

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a reaction to all the digital aspects of our lives.

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So I thought that's an interesting

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way to say this. ~ in a bright and obviously digital production,

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the themes are ~ meeting people

in real life,

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having experiences in real life,

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riding your bike through the city.

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that might be the most way to connect to

people almost.

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You could ride the bus and be amongst people or be on the subway amongst people

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There’s something

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dangerous, literally dangerous,

about riding your bike in the middle of the city.

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And it's more like connected to life.

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Then you can easily like tune out people

on the subway.

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It's an interesting idea to to put forth.

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the whole idea of the BMX was

was something that I was very

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popped right out to me because I I I

still have a BMX in my basement,

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~ stunt pegs and all. And like I used

Ha ha.

to ride all over the daggone City on my

bike and,

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It was a rite of passage.

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Like everybody on my block had a bike.

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And if you didn't have a

Mm-hmm.

bike, we would find parts and build you a

bike.

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So we all had bikes.

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It's like wow, a throwback to my childhood.

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it was so authentic. Everything,

it was so New York,

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like everything was very authentic.

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Like

The neighborhood is I'm like, wow,

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I I know exact I can figure out where they

are like watching it.

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I'm like, I know where that is.

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It was very stylish and it was very like it was very relatable.

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Not to keep using that word,

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but

Yeah.

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I like the subtle word play that

they use too like he had that shirt that

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said “Closure” throughout. And I'm like,

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well that's fitting. I'm just thinking

that that and then obviously

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that text just like stays on the

screen when he finally gets closure with

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his ex Carmen. And even the ex there when

the FedEx

Yeah.

machine and the word ex like is when he

first meets bumps into her

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at the restaurant towards the beginning.

Yeah. I wanna know how much money was

transacted for that.

The FedEx, you know,

I was like it's so obvious.

Ha ha ha.

like the product placement.

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Yeah, right, exactly. That's a good one.

Yeah, like it's I know it's part of the film

Yeah like

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You couldn't go through New York without seeing one FedEx truck,

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one on every block.

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But

Right.

Yeah.

it was still kinda funny to see in the

film.

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McDonald's as well.

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Yeah.

yeah.

And he said America's second favorite

burger because the the greasy spoon

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was the secret spot with the delicious

burger.

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I liked that part. That was charming.

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I liked the the chapter five's called It

Was Yellow and it was like because Meadow’s

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thumbs up emoji. Was it her skin color?

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No, it was yellow. I was ~ okay.

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She's not really into this. She was ticked

off because the ex Carmen had sent

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a sexy type photo over and she saw

Yeah.

it on the nightstand. And obviously that

bothered her to no end,

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but it was funny because

Yeah, there there has to be

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some kind of conflict in a rom com and

here it is.

Exactly. Yeah.

You know, as as

Yeah. Yep.

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kind of a trope it is, it was kinda

handled in a way that one is relatable,

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people see each other's

phones and they see s of course they

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see something they shouldn't see.

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Right. The unsolicited sexy photo.

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It fits perfectly. Like, ~ okay.

huh. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

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Yeah. That's some rough timing.

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Yeah. I

Yeah.

mean, but there was that

Yeah.

sexual interactions, you know,

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with him and Meadow were like so

physically intertwined and that animal

attraction,

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like they really longed for each other and

obviously connected physically.

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I like that

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they're both into art, for their

profession.

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And it was awesome that she used his photo

in her,

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Her show, her art show, like his photo.

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And then you're wondering, like,

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is she gonna still use it? She's still

upset?

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Is he gonna show up? So it's a little bit

of drama there.

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Yeah.

Towards the end. I thought it was well

done.

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Yes, like they were both as the you know,

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they hit that little bit of a conflict and

they were trying to figure out,

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how to deal with one

another and still have to deal with their

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their professional lives at

the same time.

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He's trying to get his proposal ready to

present to the comic company

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and she's trying to prepare the art show,

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and also trying to work with with her

friend,

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~ Reed, to get some of her photos

purchased.

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So she's like trying to trying to focus on

that at the same time.

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It's like, wow

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It's funny you were saying this

was on your radar,

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Boogie. This wasn't even really on my

radar at all.

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~ until, you know, Ice Berg kinda said,

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You guys should really watch this,

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you guys should really watch this.

I watched the trailer a couple of times

and I'm like,

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Yeah, it was rated highly as well.

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It was a good choice.

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Absolutely is great choice, yeah.

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The animation is just really fun.

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I watched a couple videos behind the

scenes stuff,

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~ another YouTube channel that breaks down

some of this more techie stuff,

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but Cudi really put his ass into it.

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Yeah. ~

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Yeah. We'll I'll link to the videos,

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Star power too.

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Ty Dollar $ign,

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Timothee Chalamet, Vanessa Hudgens,

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Keith David, Jaden Smith, Macaulay Culkin,

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Teyana Taylor. Even has his sister has a

brief role in it.

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His actual sister plays his sister

in in it. Myesha Mescudi I'm like, wow, look at

that.

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Luis Guzman

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Jessica Williams plays Meadow.

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Carmen, Laura Harrier’s character,

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actually looks like her.

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They really put a lot

of work into the the characters.

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The late great Virgil Abloh was the

costume designer for this and

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you see a lot of tributes to him

throughout the film.

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He passed away before this came out,

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Real heads, not me. Real heads know Virgil

Abloh.

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Watch out for that. Look for those Easter eggs ~ throughout the film.

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he was a legend that

I was not aware of

him really. ~ I'm not that cool.

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So I only

Yeah no.

heard about him after, after he passed.

Ha ha ha.

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I dug into his career.

Mm-hmm. Icon.

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I mean, he did all the Kanye West fashion

stuff as well as many others.

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And Cudi was close with them.

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Yeah, I was on the fringe of knowing

him who he was 'cause just because

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a lot of this stuff that he was putting

out was a little out of my price range.

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I was aware of him.

Yeah.

Me too. Me as well.

I just c I was just like

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just like I'm not paying that for that.

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It looks cool, but

Like that's cool, but I'm not I don't

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have the dividends for that.

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Cudi made sure this film

was released on what would have been

Virgil

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Abloh's birthday as a tribute.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Yeah.

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When I hear the word

Entergalactic and I always think

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of Intergalactic, the Beastie Boys song.

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So that's always like kind of stuck in my

head.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah.

But then I dove into

like why is he using this term?

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And there's a lot of celestial themes with

Cudi,

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as you see with Man in the Moon,

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

and a lot of his videos. He does other

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There's a lot of space themes.

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When I was looking up Entergalactic,

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it's kinda like when you're feeling that

powerful feeling of love kind

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of lifts you into a new universe.

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It's literally cosmic, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah,

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there's a song on his on the Man in the

Moon album called “Enter Galactic”

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Two words. And ~

Right.

you could trace it back to that.

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The space theme there.

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Yeah.

Exactly. Right.

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Yeah, and he's known to to ~

I have one gripe at this film.

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And this is a spoiler alert, but in the

great climax at the end of the film,

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Meadow runs from her great new gallery

show debut

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to reconcile with Jabari. the stakes is

high for her.

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Like this is a big deal, this exhibit,

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this gallery. And Jabari doesn't really

have to sacrifice anything for this.

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Like he yes, he takes a leap and he makes this grand gesture,

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Maybe if she was The One and

he didn't pursue her really,

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then you you lose out on that.

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She could have gotten away.

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See you next lifetime, like Erykah

Badu would say. But

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It's a romantic on the surface,

but there’s an imbalance. She has to

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leave her own exhibit just to meet up with

him,

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even though it looks romantic.

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It’s kind of common that these things happen and we just kinda go with it.

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The imbalance, the dynamic between

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men and women.

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You know, it's a touch patriarchal and we

just sort of not think about

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it anymore 'cause it just happens

everywhere.

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And so I was like, mm it kinda ended on a

It's funny you say that.

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even though they're together and like that

was kind of the point.

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Yeah, my son Ice Berg, he was watching

it with me as well.

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He said the very same thing. He's like,

I can't believe she

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would like leave her own show.

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Like she's built up to this and like she's

really just leaving her

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art show like that? Didn't didn't add up for him either.

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I know Kid Cudi is like the main character of

this film with all the main character

energy.

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And so this has to come on his terms.

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But we see it so much. It's like we see it

so much we don't see it anymore.

And so I was like,

mm. And what's up with the Temple

University keychain?

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Like I was like, whoa, what's what's that?

I saw that.

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Like cool, like go owls. But I was like,

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it's the kind of random.

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It didn't come up afterwards. And I looked

into it.

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I couldn't find anything really,

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but anyone listening or watching,

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tell us what's up with this. May maybe,

I mean maybe somebody involved with the

film went to Temple or has ties,

you know. You know, the internet

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The bots say that it's

probably just a way to make

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her look authentic. a New York

photographer,

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maybe roots in Philly went to temple

probably

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And just how to make them look real and

I'm fine.

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But it was very stark, like I know that T

anywhere.

Stark like I know that tea anywhere.

That white T on the red. The cherry and

the white tea on the red. Uh-huh.

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the white. I know it very well.

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But it's like, ~ What's up with that?

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Yeah.

Ha

ha ha.

Yeah, I I pick up on that too.

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I'm like 'cause I'm like a Philly guy.

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I'm like, Temple, is this Philly?

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I'm like, no, it's New York City.

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But yeah, there's

Yeah.

gotta be some some story behind it.

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somebody's like, We can't let New York get

all the energy,

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let's throw that in there.

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one of my favorite songs is in this movie.

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~ Minnie Ripperton Inside My Love.

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Yeah.

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I was like

I was very excited to hear that song.

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Yes, I love that song. Yeah, so as soon as

I heard it come on,

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I was like, my god, Meadow’s playing

my song?

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I was hoping to hear

Yeah.

the piano break too, but or the electric

piano break,

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but they didn't go that far. But that it

wouldn't too much fan service for me.

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I couldn't couldn't handle it.

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For the listeners, Inside My Love

by Minnie Ripperton is ~ it's

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got a nice sample that's been ~ used by a

tribe called Quest and also Tupac

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~ in their in their rhymes, So yeah,

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that if you you know haven't heard that

song,

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listen to it. And you'll you'll definitely

hear the part that's sampled

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if you listen to it.

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Yeah, you go to “Lyrics to Go” - my favorite

A Tribe Called Quest song

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of my favorite rap group

Yes.

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and that electric piano break features

very prominently.

Yes.

So I was very

Yeah.

excited. I was like, I know that album She

put on the record,

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put it on the record player.

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Alright, you guys want to go around and

and rate the film here like we usually do?

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So Boogie for Entergalactic,

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would you bring that funky flick back or

leave it in the vault?

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Without a doubt, bring that funky flick back.

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Right on, Dyno Wright, for

Entergalactic,

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bring that funky flick back or leave it in

the vault?

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I am bringing funky flick back.

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It's unanimous. I will definitely bring

this funky flick back as well.

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Yeah, this this this is gonna be like my

new background like when

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when I'm not doing anything, I just want something in the background,

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this is gonna be my go to right here.

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Just gonna put it on and just do whatever

I gotta do and just let it vibe

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in the background. Yeah.

I love the the animation, the art style,

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the art marker look, so well done.

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Yeah.

shout out to D Neg ~ on the on the animation design.

I mean, I just love that hip hop

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is spreading its tentacles to everywhere

like over the years,

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you know. We already talked about, we saw the film by Chance the Rapper and,

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Childish Gambino like these are

like EGOT folks,

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these guys are just so magnificent

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and talented in so many forms of art.

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So it it's amazing. I I really have a

great,

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even more of a greater appreciation for

Kid Cudi and for

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For this project.

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Thank you for tuning in to Hip Hop Movie

Club,

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the show for serious hip-hop fans who want

to deepen their cultural knowledge.

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I'm Dyno Wright, filmmaker, designer,

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longtime hip hop fan, and I finally got

around to reading my copy

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of People's Instinctive Travels and the

Paths of Rhythm 33 1/3

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book. I'm glad I read that.

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Nice.

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I'm JB, eighties and nineties,

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nostalgia junkie, longtime hip hop fan.

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And if you remember, the first concert I

took my son to was Kid Cudi in Philly,

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which was literally a few weeks before

Entergalactic was released.

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It was around September 9th of 2022.

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For me personally,

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I've become a really big fan of Kid Cudi

My son Iceberg introduced me

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to him years ago. So I just thought that's

a really cool bonding thing that that

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the two of us have is that he told me all

about Kid Cudi.

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I introduced him to hip hop and all the

old school,

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and he introduced me to some of these

younger artists,

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like Kid Cudi and Tyler the Creator.

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And ~ I really admire his his work over

the years.

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Yep.

Dope, dope. And I'm Boogie, a DJ,

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longtime hip hop fan, and as the time of

this recording,

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yesterday was August 11th,

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the 53rd birthday of hip hop.

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Yes, give it up. DJ Kool Herc,

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aka Clive Campbell threw a legendary

back to school jam at: 1520

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Ave in the Bronx, New York, back in

: 1973

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and the rest, as they say, was history.

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Mm-hmm.

And remember, don't hate, gesticulate.

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Move

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it, move it.

Ha ha ha ha.

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Nice.