May 7, 2026
Best Ne-Yo Hits: From Sexy Love to Deep Cuts | Top 5
Ne-Yo dominated the 2000s R&B scene, but which tracks truly define his legacy as a songwriter and performer? In this episode of Top 5, hosts Garrett Gonzales and Mike Joseph take on the difficult task of narrowing down Ne-Yo’s massive catalog to a definitive top five. Many fans struggle to distinguish between his commercial pop-crossover hits and the soulful R&B foundations that made him a superstar, often leading to heated debates about his best era.
We solve this by breaking down the production and vocal performances of essentials like "Because Of You," "Sexy Love," and the melodic masterclass "One In A Million." Mike and Garrett also highlight the brilliance of "Fade Into The Background," arguing why certain deep cuts deserve more recognition than the chart-toppers. The benefit for listeners is a nostalgic yet analytical look at the "Gentleman" era that reshaped modern music. Whether you're a Day 1 fan or a newcomer to the 50 For 50 project, this episode provides the ultimate roadmap to Ne-Yo’s hits.
Episode Highlights:
- The transition from songwriter to solo superstar.
- Deep dive into the In My Own Words and Year of the Gentleman eras.
- The "Top 5" list revealed and debated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is our top five for Neo, and one of the things we forgot to do is give our no skips rating for year the gentleman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to go, I was going to go nine, but I know this is a very personal rating for me just because of how often I listen to this album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and that's what it should be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It should be your rating, whatever you, you know, whatever you feel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I would go eight and a half to nine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So before we get to the official top five, I was going to ask you about a song that is a very famous Neo song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I wonder if you rocked with it or if you stopped with it and that is let's go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that's one of the pitbull songs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go is with Neo and Calvin Harris.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so same difference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are some Neo pitbull songs, though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are several.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He quote, when I saw him live, the last song he's saying was time of your life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a good song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a good song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a, it's fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm not the world's biggest pitbull fan,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like there's house music and then there's like EDM music.
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[SPEAKER_00]: EDM is kind of like the crazy wild like beat drop, kind of like weird stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not really on board with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fine song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely not my favorite, but you know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna add it to my library and listen to it a few more times to see if I can get into it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because of that song, in part because of that song, it became way more part of our vernacular as far as
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, you see it in sports, you see it in, you know, reality TV, if someone wins at something, they scream out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Was that the starting point?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it was the starting point, but I do think that in part it helped kind of bring it into the mainstream in a way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I haven't heard it in a long time, but when I listen to it, I was like, okay, you know, it's a place and time thing for me, but I kind of
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, another one, she knows Juicy Jay and Neo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't mind that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like the song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't tell you anything else Juicy Jay has done, but on other people's, like he's on that song, Dark Horse with Katy Perry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't even know that one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't, is he in three, six Mafia?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said, I could go with Juicy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's okay that we don't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hold on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's repeat you this bitch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he is a founding member of three, six mafia who's, you know, I mean, they've got a couple of good songs, but he
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where kind of just got like really big as like a collaborator on pop record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, like he's done records with Miley Cyrus, dark horse by Katy Perry, which was a huge hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I mean, she knows with Neo, which again, like it's an okay song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I could do without juicy Jay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: OK, so let's knock out this top five for Neo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't you kick it off with your number five?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, so I went through a couple of different changes with my list, but because you're of the gentleman is kind of a top of mind right now, part of the list is my number five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really like that, so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it's just like it, you know, one of the great things about Neo is that as a songwriter, like he tells actual stories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And not only does he tell stories, but he knows how to write a hook, he knows how to like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: had this story based around something like a phrase or something that's going to capture you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just really, really good at that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, this is Neo just saying like, hey, here is the list of everything I love about you and these are parts of the list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with a song from actual Libra scale as my number five and that is one and a million, which is the second single off of that album, that's a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really, really, really like that song and it is one of the songs that I think
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[SPEAKER_01]: ages pretty well, it kind of, it's got, you know what beat it reminds me of, what was that song with rock him and, uh, that's true hurts, yes, yeah, that's, it's the same beat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's just reminds me exactly of that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that's probably part of the reason why I like it because I like that song too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a good song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's move forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number four is from the RED album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's called Lazy Love, which I don't think was an actual single.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it might have been like a teaser when they initially thought about dropping the album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, it's a song about, it's a song about relaxed chill sex.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and the opposite idea of
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[SPEAKER_01]: being all suited and booted with you, the gentleman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's just hanging out wearing a sweatpants recording that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, you know, lazy love is a song for when like you and your partner or your partners are just like chilling, you don't have anything to do all day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You just like laying in bed, relax it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, yep, no, I like that song too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, number four for me is Sexy Love from his first album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Such a good song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that sort of sound of his music from that first album is very time and place, but that is like the Neo sound, like the way that those songs are produced and the way that he sings over them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's a very specific thing to Neo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you could pull that out of like just hearing the way the song is produced and how he starts, like you go, I Neo, before he even barely sings
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a very unique style.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number three is so sick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, just a very simple message, simple song, but sung, you know, sung believably, sung passionately, sung very well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's on my to do a karaoke list, haven't done it yet, but you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: They, you know, they tried to remix it and, you know, brought Hello, Kooji.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was on LL's album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's on LL's album that is correct.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is correct.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you look at the deluxe version of in my own words, there's an acoustic version.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of words.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it's so sick was and, you know, again, when that song was popular, it was all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you could not avoid it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of karaoke, there was a game, it was either for the PS3 or PS4, where you actually were able to sing in the mic and they had the words for you and so sick was one of those songs on that list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, had to be PS3 then if I'm thinking about it because of the timeframe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, the karaoke version of a video game, it was definitely on there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the sound of the police out there, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, we're not going to Brooklyn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, my number three.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about this in our 50 for 50.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And part of the allure for me is it's one of the best recent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's maybe the best recent New Kids song to me is single.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I really love that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that they're on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that they I love that Neo helped make them sound current yes in that moment and because a lot of stuff on that the block album, they are trying to be current and it doesn't work nearly as well as single this and they sound kind of like the old man at the club yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's funny about that album though and we're not we're not doing a 50 for 50 on that album That's the first time I ever heard of Lady Gaga It's more some I ever heard of Lady Gaga.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, they you know, they brought her on and there's a New edition song, but I think it's just Ralph and Ralph.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's Ralph and Johnny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but that's a fun song too Full yeah, I mean it's great to see them together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean I I feel like in the next year or two
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would I would go for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would I would go to I skipped this last new this last new addition tour because when they were in the bay it was like during the middle of the week, but I've been to two other new addition tours.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have been I've also been to to new kids of rock tours one from the.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was either the, I think it may have been the step by step or the hang and tough tour.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when they came back, right around this timeframe that we're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, okay, this isn't really for me because it was like 90% middle-aged women.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and so in order to play that up,
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[SPEAKER_01]: change into their different outfits in front of the locker room camp in front of the crowd.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, see these these these dudes in their BVDs, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: John Jonathan night does not like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just making an assumption that Jonathan's like, I don't want to show my ass into all these people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These dudes have to be in such good shape, though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's incredible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you look at Danny Woodman, like, you know, I don't think Danny misses a day at the gym.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he hasn't 40 years now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He may not be missing a missing a day and taking that HGH either, but hey, this is what he needs to do to first career, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, this is part of the game for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, look, you know, a god bless to do kids on the bad new edition, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, there has been some, there have been some surgical procedures.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the very least, Donnie's hairline is false.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the Johnny, Johnny was balled in 25 years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just imagine if they do tour together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and they try and get that camera.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Bobby's like, say what now?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, Bobby ain't doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bobby ain't doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bobby's like, I'm going to the back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what's hilarious about that is in the late 80s, you couldn't keep Bobby Brown shirt on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now, that dude might be hanging out in the onesy these days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's not showing any skin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bobby Brown in 2026 looks like he ate Bobby Brown from 1989.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Still my God, but still my God, I'm so happy that he's alive and he's healthy and still able to like tour and he sounds great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw, you know, so I knew a dish in about a month ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He, you know, at least I think he's singing better than ever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, shout out to I'm, we kid because we love.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just happy that this man threw out all of the in every day he's going to break that he said to go through everything that he's going through is still here still doing it and he's got to support his brothers and his fans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, number two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number two for me is, you know, we talked about not really liking because of you, the album, my favorite song on that album though is the last song on album which is called Go on Girl and you know, it's kind of like, all right, if you don't love me that school, I'll be right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like it would have been in my top eight if we would have extended this to a top eight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really really like that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number two for me is fade into the background from here, the gentleman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the idea of going to your person's wedding and you are not the groom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have to watch this person marry somebody else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the writing, like, he, as he's writing this song and I'm hearing this song, I'm visualizing what he is seeing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is so well written and so descriptive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, like, like, you're feeling for this dude, but at the same time, he's trying to keep that stiff upper lip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I just have to, I'm seeing this and this is giving me some
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're number two is my number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there we go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that song hits so hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like I have been maybe not exactly that person, but I've been adjacent to that person or in a personal space myself, that was adjacent to that position.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like seeing somebody that you still have tremendous feelings for like getting married
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, there's a lot of mental gymnastics you have to do to sit through that situation and go to the wedding and show up and put a smile on your face and be like, oh, great, congratulations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, like, everything you said, it's so descriptive, descriptive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just puts you like right in that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what that song?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I wonder if Neo, like, maybe he's experienced it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if he was watching a different world,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh, oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When Whitley is about to get married to other dudes in the Wayne's top serve, maybe please, please.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please, oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whoo, you know, different worlds coming back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is coming back with pretty much the same cast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's new kids at Hillman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um, but I guess, uh, Chris summer and and the Jasmine guy and Cteen and, uh, couple of the other folks are going to be in this in Jada, uh, are all going to be in this new show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Scrubs set a high standard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be going for a long time and come back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to hit that hit that post.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... i actually did go to my ex-wife's wedding so i got to say it obviously we both had moved on so that was part of it but to see like someone you previously loved like that then get married to one else like that i think also that's why that like i could i could visualize what he was seeing you know so it's pretty i mean it's just it's just so so well done it's perfect what what is your number one
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was my number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes, sorry, okay, sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So my number one is because of you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I did a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is, it sets the tone for that second album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So high that I was like, oh my God.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this thing, if this is the first single, this album is gonna be amazing and it wasn't, but it does have go on girl,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, the specific, the way that Nio's song sound, the way that he writes his songs, very specific to him, and I mean, he even does his own ooze in the beginning of that song, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yes, I, that song, more than any song in his catalog to me, has withstood the test of time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's still a play on, um,
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[SPEAKER_01]: on like serious FM.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm going, if I'm scrolling through like the 2000s channel, that song more than any other song is the Neo song that I see on that channel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, Neo clearly studied the best.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And kind of took all of those influences.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So much Michael, like I really wish that Michael had stayed alive for a little while longer,
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[SPEAKER_01]: he should still do something, you know, who knows if you're working with Michael's people these days, but, you know, there's like, you can definitely tell, I don't know if he needs to do, I would love to hear him cover a Michael song, like maybe,
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[SPEAKER_01]: a song that's, you know, not one of the more famous ones, but maybe a song that we all know and love, but wasn't necessarily like an crazy insane famous single.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to hear him do something like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And having put his own spin on it at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's your mission, Neo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cover.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't help you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He could, uh, I guess butterflies is a little more recent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't even I could hear his voice on that song, too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's a song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, I literally just remembered the song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this must have been maybe 10 years ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm ready to put out an album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was like, Kim doing like a Quincy Jones type album with a bunch of different artists and Neo is on one song and I think it's called everything I need and that song literally sounds like it walked up off the wall album and landed on the smomer and it's very good out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got to find it too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, that is it from here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got through all of our Neo stuff, 2008.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was really fun for me to go back in time with Neo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm going to go back and listen to this album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, can somebody put this record out on vinyl?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I went to actually a record store yesterday with the soul intention.
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[SPEAKER_01]: of hoping that someone had some old neo-vinyls and they were going to just send them nothing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the only neo album that is available on vinyl is this first one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that sucks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, put them out man vinyl for the first time vinyl was the best selling music media for school format yeah for for for for 20 25 I think so it's also so expensive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, I mean, I dropped $25 on year the gentleman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm going to see new albums that have come out of older music for like 40 bucks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, we're not doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all right, all right, that is it from here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So for Mike, I'm double G 50 for 50 dot net check us out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can see all of Mike's reviews of all of the albums that we talk about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have our our playlists up as well and anything if you missed any episode, you can just go to 50 for just go back and you can find everything there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes indeed see you when we see you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are y'all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Peace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is our top five for Neo, and one of the things we forgot to do is give our no skips rating for year the gentleman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to go, I was going to go nine, but I know this is a very personal rating for me just because of how often I listen to this album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and that's what it should be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It should be your rating, whatever you, you know, whatever you feel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I would go eight and a half to nine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So before we get to the official top five, I was going to ask you about a song that is a very famous Neo song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I wonder if you rocked with it or if you stopped with it and that is let's go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that's one of the pitbull songs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go is with Neo and Calvin Harris.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so same difference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are some Neo pitbull songs, though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are several.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He quote, when I saw him live, the last song he's saying was time of your life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a good song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a good song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a, it's fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm not the world's biggest pitbull fan,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like there's house music and then there's like EDM music.
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[SPEAKER_00]: EDM is kind of like the crazy wild like beat drop, kind of like weird stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not really on board with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fine song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely not my favorite, but you know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna add it to my library and listen to it a few more times to see if I can get into it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because of that song, in part because of that song, it became way more part of our vernacular as far as
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, you see it in sports, you see it in, you know, reality TV, if someone wins at something, they scream out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Was that the starting point?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it was the starting point, but I do think that in part it helped kind of bring it into the mainstream in a way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I haven't heard it in a long time, but when I listen to it, I was like, okay, you know, it's a place and time thing for me, but I kind of
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, another one, she knows Juicy Jay and Neo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't mind that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like the song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't tell you anything else Juicy Jay has done, but on other people's, like he's on that song, Dark Horse with Katy Perry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't even know that one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't, is he in three, six Mafia?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said, I could go with Juicy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's okay that we don't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hold on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's repeat you this bitch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he is a founding member of three, six mafia who's, you know, I mean, they've got a couple of good songs, but he
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where kind of just got like really big as like a collaborator on pop record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, like he's done records with Miley Cyrus, dark horse by Katy Perry, which was a huge hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I mean, she knows with Neo, which again, like it's an okay song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I could do without juicy Jay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: OK, so let's knock out this top five for Neo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't you kick it off with your number five?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, so I went through a couple of different changes with my list, but because you're of the gentleman is kind of a top of mind right now, part of the list is my number five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really like that, so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it's just like it, you know, one of the great things about Neo is that as a songwriter, like he tells actual stories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And not only does he tell stories, but he knows how to write a hook, he knows how to like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: had this story based around something like a phrase or something that's going to capture you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just really, really good at that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, this is Neo just saying like, hey, here is the list of everything I love about you and these are parts of the list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with a song from actual Libra scale as my number five and that is one and a million, which is the second single off of that album, that's a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really, really, really like that song and it is one of the songs that I think
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[SPEAKER_01]: ages pretty well, it kind of, it's got, you know what beat it reminds me of, what was that song with rock him and, uh, that's true hurts, yes, yeah, that's, it's the same beat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's just reminds me exactly of that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that's probably part of the reason why I like it because I like that song too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a good song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's move forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number four is from the RED album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's called Lazy Love, which I don't think was an actual single.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it might have been like a teaser when they initially thought about dropping the album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, it's a song about, it's a song about relaxed chill sex.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and the opposite idea of
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[SPEAKER_01]: being all suited and booted with you, the gentleman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's just hanging out wearing a sweatpants recording that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, you know, lazy love is a song for when like you and your partner or your partners are just like chilling, you don't have anything to do all day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You just like laying in bed, relax it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, yep, no, I like that song too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, number four for me is Sexy Love from his first album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Such a good song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that sort of sound of his music from that first album is very time and place, but that is like the Neo sound, like the way that those songs are produced and the way that he sings over them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's a very specific thing to Neo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you could pull that out of like just hearing the way the song is produced and how he starts, like you go, I Neo, before he even barely sings
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a very unique style.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number three is so sick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, just a very simple message, simple song, but sung, you know, sung believably, sung passionately, sung very well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's on my to do a karaoke list, haven't done it yet, but you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: They, you know, they tried to remix it and, you know, brought Hello, Kooji.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was on LL's album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's on LL's album that is correct.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is correct.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you look at the deluxe version of in my own words, there's an acoustic version.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of words.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it's so sick was and, you know, again, when that song was popular, it was all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you could not avoid it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of karaoke, there was a game, it was either for the PS3 or PS4, where you actually were able to sing in the mic and they had the words for you and so sick was one of those songs on that list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, had to be PS3 then if I'm thinking about it because of the timeframe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, the karaoke version of a video game, it was definitely on there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the sound of the police out there, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, we're not going to Brooklyn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, my number three.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about this in our 50 for 50.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And part of the allure for me is it's one of the best recent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's maybe the best recent New Kids song to me is single.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I really love that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that they're on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that they I love that Neo helped make them sound current yes in that moment and because a lot of stuff on that the block album, they are trying to be current and it doesn't work nearly as well as single this and they sound kind of like the old man at the club yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's funny about that album though and we're not we're not doing a 50 for 50 on that album That's the first time I ever heard of Lady Gaga It's more some I ever heard of Lady Gaga.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, they you know, they brought her on and there's a New edition song, but I think it's just Ralph and Ralph.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's Ralph and Johnny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but that's a fun song too Full yeah, I mean it's great to see them together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean I I feel like in the next year or two
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would I would go for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would I would go to I skipped this last new this last new addition tour because when they were in the bay it was like during the middle of the week, but I've been to two other new addition tours.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have been I've also been to to new kids of rock tours one from the.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was either the, I think it may have been the step by step or the hang and tough tour.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when they came back, right around this timeframe that we're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, okay, this isn't really for me because it was like 90% middle-aged women.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and so in order to play that up,
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[SPEAKER_01]: change into their different outfits in front of the locker room camp in front of the crowd.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, see these these these dudes in their BVDs, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: John Jonathan night does not like that.
10:30.846 --> 10:36.136
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just making an assumption that Jonathan's like, I don't want to show my ass into all these people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These dudes have to be in such good shape, though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's incredible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you look at Danny Woodman, like, you know, I don't think Danny misses a day at the gym.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he hasn't 40 years now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He may not be missing a missing a day and taking that HGH either, but hey, this is what he needs to do to first career, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, this is part of the game for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, look, you know, a god bless to do kids on the bad new edition, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, there has been some, there have been some surgical procedures.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the very least, Donnie's hairline is false.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the Johnny, Johnny was balled in 25 years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just imagine if they do tour together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and they try and get that camera.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Bobby's like, say what now?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, Bobby ain't doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bobby ain't doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bobby's like, I'm going to the back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what's hilarious about that is in the late 80s, you couldn't keep Bobby Brown shirt on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now, that dude might be hanging out in the onesy these days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's not showing any skin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bobby Brown in 2026 looks like he ate Bobby Brown from 1989.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Still my God, but still my God, I'm so happy that he's alive and he's healthy and still able to like tour and he sounds great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw, you know, so I knew a dish in about a month ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He, you know, at least I think he's singing better than ever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, shout out to I'm, we kid because we love.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just happy that this man threw out all of the in every day he's going to break that he said to go through everything that he's going through is still here still doing it and he's got to support his brothers and his fans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, number two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number two for me is, you know, we talked about not really liking because of you, the album, my favorite song on that album though is the last song on album which is called Go on Girl and you know, it's kind of like, all right, if you don't love me that school, I'll be right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like it would have been in my top eight if we would have extended this to a top eight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really really like that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number two for me is fade into the background from here, the gentleman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the idea of going to your person's wedding and you are not the groom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have to watch this person marry somebody else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the writing, like, he, as he's writing this song and I'm hearing this song, I'm visualizing what he is seeing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is so well written and so descriptive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, like, like, you're feeling for this dude, but at the same time, he's trying to keep that stiff upper lip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I just have to, I'm seeing this and this is giving me some
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're number two is my number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there we go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that song hits so hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like I have been maybe not exactly that person, but I've been adjacent to that person or in a personal space myself, that was adjacent to that position.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like seeing somebody that you still have tremendous feelings for like getting married
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, there's a lot of mental gymnastics you have to do to sit through that situation and go to the wedding and show up and put a smile on your face and be like, oh, great, congratulations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, like, everything you said, it's so descriptive, descriptive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just puts you like right in that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what that song?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I wonder if Neo, like, maybe he's experienced it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if he was watching a different world,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh, oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When Whitley is about to get married to other dudes in the Wayne's top serve, maybe please, please.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please, oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whoo, you know, different worlds coming back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is coming back with pretty much the same cast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's new kids at Hillman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um, but I guess, uh, Chris summer and and the Jasmine guy and Cteen and, uh, couple of the other folks are going to be in this in Jada, uh, are all going to be in this new show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Scrubs set a high standard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be going for a long time and come back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to hit that hit that post.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... i actually did go to my ex-wife's wedding so i got to say it obviously we both had moved on so that was part of it but to see like someone you previously loved like that then get married to one else like that i think also that's why that like i could i could visualize what he was seeing you know so it's pretty i mean it's just it's just so so well done it's perfect what what is your number one
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was my number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes, sorry, okay, sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So my number one is because of you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I did a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is, it sets the tone for that second album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So high that I was like, oh my God.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this thing, if this is the first single, this album is gonna be amazing and it wasn't, but it does have go on girl,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, the specific, the way that Nio's song sound, the way that he writes his songs, very specific to him, and I mean, he even does his own ooze in the beginning of that song, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yes, I, that song, more than any song in his catalog to me, has withstood the test of time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's still a play on, um,
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[SPEAKER_01]: on like serious FM.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm going, if I'm scrolling through like the 2000s channel, that song more than any other song is the Neo song that I see on that channel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, Neo clearly studied the best.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And kind of took all of those influences.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So much Michael, like I really wish that Michael had stayed alive for a little while longer,
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[SPEAKER_01]: he should still do something, you know, who knows if you're working with Michael's people these days, but, you know, there's like, you can definitely tell, I don't know if he needs to do, I would love to hear him cover a Michael song, like maybe,
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[SPEAKER_01]: a song that's, you know, not one of the more famous ones, but maybe a song that we all know and love, but wasn't necessarily like an crazy insane famous single.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to hear him do something like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And having put his own spin on it at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's your mission, Neo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cover.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't help you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He could, uh, I guess butterflies is a little more recent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't even I could hear his voice on that song, too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's a song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, I literally just remembered the song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this must have been maybe 10 years ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm ready to put out an album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was like, Kim doing like a Quincy Jones type album with a bunch of different artists and Neo is on one song and I think it's called everything I need and that song literally sounds like it walked up off the wall album and landed on the smomer and it's very good out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got to find it too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, that is it from here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got through all of our Neo stuff, 2008.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was really fun for me to go back in time with Neo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm going to go back and listen to this album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, can somebody put this record out on vinyl?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I went to actually a record store yesterday with the soul intention.
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[SPEAKER_01]: of hoping that someone had some old neo-vinyls and they were going to just send them nothing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the only neo album that is available on vinyl is this first one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that sucks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, put them out man vinyl for the first time vinyl was the best selling music media for school format yeah for for for for 20 25 I think so it's also so expensive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, I mean, I dropped $25 on year the gentleman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm going to see new albums that have come out of older music for like 40 bucks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, we're not doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all right, all right, that is it from here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So for Mike, I'm double G 50 for 50 dot net check us out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can see all of Mike's reviews of all of the albums that we talk about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have our our playlists up as well and anything if you missed any episode, you can just go to 50 for just go back and you can find everything there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes indeed see you when we see you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are y'all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Peace.
