June 26, 2026
Brandy Top 5: Brokenhearted, Sittin' Up in My Room, Long Distance & More


What are the greatest Brandy songs ever recorded? Mike Joseph and Garrett Gonzales rank their Top 5 favorites and defend every pick.
Before the list, they play Rock With It/Stop With It on two of Brandy's most iconic tracks — "The Boy Is Mine" and "Baby" — forcing some tough choices. Then it's straight into the countdown, featuring "Brokenhearted," "Top of the World," "Sittin' Up in My Room," "Long Distance," and more.
If you love Brandy, R&B, or just two people who take their music opinions very seriously — this one's for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are back with our brandy top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with these cool check in episodes, we should have done this with the new kids.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think of it until after.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But we should have knew new kids should have got their own top five episodes and said, trying to combine everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was just still a work in progress, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, totally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I kind of kicked myself forward after that new kids episode, but I wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about Randy, we just talked about her memoir phases in the previous episode.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we talked about her discography as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now we're going to talk about her songs, her favorite songs and furs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And also,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, we have to play rock with it or stop with it with her catalog and I think the first one is the boy's mind, do you still rock with that song?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I am actually not sure when the last time was that I listened to the boy's mind if it's entirety because
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[SPEAKER_00]: this is some like when you work in a record store for a long period of time stuff and I was working in a record store when you know Brandy's first four albums came out and the boys mine and never say never was so like pervasive like we're playing it to store all the time it was on the radio all the time we actually did an insert with Brandy when never say never came out and like shut the whole box down um
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[SPEAKER_00]: like Brandy was just everywhere and that is one of those songs where like I don't dislike it, but I never want to hear it again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I will rock with it, but I do have a feeling of like this song again when it plays, but I hadn't heard it in such a long time because I'm not really listening to radio anymore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when I did hear it when I was going back to this
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, like, you know, I like hearing the back and forth and the little kind of the dialogue between the two and, you know, it is a play on the girl is mine with Michael Jackson and there's a little fun thing and, you know, they did their thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a giant hit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're still kind of benefiting from that song today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So good for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that about that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay, two songs from her debut album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Baby and I want to be down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think about those two?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rock with the other stop with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, baby is a little young for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I would probably stop with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's probably like the, I feel like it's probably the most juvenile sounding song on the record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a version of that song that's in my top five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it is not the original version.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, even the original version, I still played it at the time of time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I rock with it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like the sound of that song a lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it when it came out and I was like, oh, this is like a unique R&B song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, what about the ballad?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Which I think was also like on a Drew Bear
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[SPEAKER_01]: what movie let me I'll look it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, oh, that's that's a great song that almost made my top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I will rock with that it is on, maybe it's a, is it on Brandy's movie?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was on like a Drew Barrymore movie, but there's a Drew Barrymore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: had had a time frame in which she was just doing a bunch of romcoms.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's possible that what I'm thinking of is like maybe this was played in the trailer of one of those movies, but it sounds like it's actually from the double platinum movie that she did with Diana Ross.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The aforementioned Rodney Jerkins, what about us?
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's not brandy in that song, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She is B.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's B.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's B. Rocka, her A.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her hip hop, all her Sasha fears?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's really like a mid song for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, if I heard it come on, I would probably skip it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to say stop with it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: should I go, which is like almost entirely clocks by Cold by Coldplay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's like some claps in it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's funny because on that album, she said they sample Coldplay twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, really?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's another song, another song, an album and I can't remember the name where she legitimately says, like, I'm going to sit down and listen to some Coldplay and then she kind of sings a part of the song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, should I let you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a rock with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We were listening to Brandy yesterday in the car and that song came on and my wife's like wait That's a that's a different song and I was like yeah, and then I couldn't remember the name I couldn't remember clocks the name of the song and so I was like yeah I'll it'll come to me and this is what this is part of what 50 years is like things that like I should know like within a half a second like sometimes it takes five minutes just yeah
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[SPEAKER_01]: and then I dropped her off and then went to the grocery store and I heard an entirely different song at the grocery store and I was like clocks by clothes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why the brain works that way
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, what I was going to say is, like, it's, I mean, screwed that in sample co-play, but also when that album came out, that co-play song was only like three years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, 2002 or something, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So very, it's a little strange.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think that's that's enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't we just go right into our going to the top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to go first?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll go first.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny because we were just talking about this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number five is sitting up in my room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: From the waiting to exhale soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like it's it's young and kind of fresh sounding and it doesn't even, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love baby face, yeah, but when a baby face song comes on a radio within like 10 seconds, you know it's a baby face song, sitting in my ring does not sound like a baby face song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You, you might be surprised.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had this at number two, oh, really.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the reason is because I had like a bunch of, like, I have my number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I have a bunch of songs that are like, I kind of like them all similarly, but the thing that makes this stand out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's that soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think because it's on that soundtrack, it just made it feel a little bit more special.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, Brandy had actually graduated into graduate ecosystem of like, you know, she's made because Whitney put her on the soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you know, the whole thing is that Whitney handpicked every artist who was on that soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it kind of feels like an annoying thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like a blessing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And in the book, in
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[SPEAKER_01]: having pressure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, I cannot do, you know, I have to bring my A game to stand up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I was selected for this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I can't put out a song that's not a hit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought they did a great job with that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a remix that I've sung with,
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[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, I saw L.O.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on Instagram.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just had his New York hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then the next hat?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I was like, yeah, I saw that too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, five for me is top of the world with none other than Mason Betha.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I made Donald Johnson E. And you know what I realized?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure I've realized this before, but it just came back to me when I heard him on the song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mace could have just been a guest rapper on a bunch of songs for his entire career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because you like hearing his voice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'm cool with whatever 16 bar 16 and he's out and I feel good with it, but then when you have to listen to and hold a whole song or a whole album of him rapping, that's when it becomes tired.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's literally one song I could think of that's mace all the way through that I like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the one mace song that everybody likes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, oh, feels so good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The next single.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but amazed to me is like totally a guest rapper.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You should have just stuck to that good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, he's he's an amazing guest rapper.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He would have been like the best guest rapper all year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that that's number five for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they have really good chemistry and you know what's interesting about that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That song, even though it's called top of the world, it's really about Brandy saying, you guys think I'm on top of the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just like this young kid who's just living out her dreams like, right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So isn't those interesting listening back?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because like, oh, that's what that song's about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What about number four for you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so my number four is from Afro-desiac.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's called who is she to you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it was the second single from that album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's, it's one of the songs that doesn't immediately sound like a Timbal Antsong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I just like, like, I like the beat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like the way Brandy's voice is miced on that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, one thing that I think is super cool about Brandy's voice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've always started been cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She has like a little raspy kind of edge to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and she uses that on this song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's just like one of my favorite
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with a song called Long Distance from human as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you've ever been in a, like a long distance relationship or maybe a relationship where
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you don't get to see this human as as much as you want.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It like, I think she really gets to the root of it in that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I actually think it's a nice sounding song too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think her voice is really good on that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just, I always come back to that song when I come back to her catalog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good record.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, number three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number three is the I want to be down remix.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: MC, like, yo, yo, and oh, yeah, now I remember that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, this is just like a monumental thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the top three female MCs in the game, all getting together on one record was the first time something like that had happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know boys demand try to rip it off, like right after because they did this vibe and remix like Craig Mackill must arrive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, method man and like two or three other dudes, it didn't come off the same, but yeah, I mean, everybody's version that song is top notch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was just kind of great to see like, you know, three women who are all now like legends in the game come together for one song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was that's a good choice and sometimes when I'm doing these top five's like I'm looking through albums and I'm looking through playlists And then sometimes there's stuff that's not on any of the playlists because right on like different compilations of stuff or they're on Singles and like I'm like, oh, I forgot about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good pole.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean legit the reason that I bought that festive brandy album was because it had the I want to be down remix on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I real back and listen to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number three is again from human.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is right here departed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I feel like listening back to that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's a little bit of power in that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like if she was a little bit more popular at the time as an artist,
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a little bit of an anthem aspect to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like she's like talking about like some real stuff about how you're feeling about certain things and about your heart and this person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like there's like, like, she's like crunching it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like she's like really feeling that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, man, this is a nice anthem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it just kind of, I mean, I think it's probably
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thought of when it comes to her catalog, but it didn't hit the way that I thought it would have hit would have hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was a hit, you know, and that was kind of, that was the song that they used to launch human, and I'm overseeing the video a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, I think everybody was looking for something comparable to the boy's mind, or I won't be down, and it wasn't that big of hit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty middle of the road.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not super hip hop.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not super important to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little older, I guess you would say for her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it's, I still think it's really nice song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, what about number two?
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[SPEAKER_00]: my number two was almost doesn't count.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that was that was on my list too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was on the periphery of my list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's one of those like low key songs that when you think about Brandy, that song doesn't immediately come to mind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's like it's funny in the book.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She says that when they were like strategizing around the album, they just had this book of this book of cliches, yes, that they would pass around, which now that I remember the, you know, the titles of the songs on the album that completely makes sense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, almost doesn't count his, you know, obviously a very common cliché, but
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[SPEAKER_00]: just like the writing of that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, this is like Brandy and like her deeper, more like Husky registering.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I just like the way that sounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That song sounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of the cliches, another song that I think is really memorable of hers on the same album is Never Say Never.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's which is the title of the album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And those songs kind of sound a little similar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned my number two already was
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number one is actually full moon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I like that song as much as I do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, but it's very like mid-tempo, a very moody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's not, it doesn't snack you in a face like hit record, hit record, but it definitely, like, it's a vibe as the kids said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know 15 years before it survived became like a thing but it's really good at kind of like setting a mood and she's talking about you know she's walking into a club and she sees this guy and they lock eyes and like they're feeling something like it's very good at like setting a you know setting the stage okay I kind of feel bad about my number one considering the person you number one the boy is mine no oh you know what is broken hearted my number one is broken hearted
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a great song and I remember you may have even turned this album on to me, there was an extended version of Motown Philly I believe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that had like alternate songs like on it that you know where there's like a difference like a different brush you know what I think I think there was like a deluxe version or maybe it was at a greatest hits boistern and it's great because that's what it was yeah so i remember um brandy has a version of broken hearted on her album and the
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it was out there in single.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I started to think about wanting that song, I was like, oh, I got to buy this voice to men greatest hits to get that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And why not have a voice to men greatest hits?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like a voice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that was the big reason for me to buy that album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just think that song is magic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like when you read, listen to it through your 20, 26 years and think about their ages, it's kind of like, okay, maybe maybe you know, I could see somebody getting turned off by that song, but if I pull that part out of it and I think about what is my favorite.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Brandy song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is the song that I always go back to when I want to hear her?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of it is because of him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, I think he's amazing in that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they sound great to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they sound amazing together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, there's so much so that you're like, you know, maybe if they weren't seven years age difference or whatever, if they could have been an adult couple and done album together, like that was pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's my favorite Brandy record is broken hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just looked it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the voice to men album, both albums, there's a voice of the greatest hits and a greatest hits album on Apple Music, both of them have broken hearted on it, but on the voice to men album, it's great out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the only way you can play broken hearted is, you know, just reading the best of Randy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Take your, get your streams, Brandy, get your stream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so I could tell folks what is up coming because we are going to do what is I'm coming Garrett we are going to do a cool check in on the boys to men catalog and we'll do very similar to what we did with the Brandy will have a top five for them as well, but the next actual 50 for 50 is going to be a tribe called Quest so that'll be a set that'll be a lot of fun to do yeah I'm in you know I'm I'm in my my tribe listening stage and this is like
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I've mentioned this before, but how I generally listen to all these albums is I just when I work out I throw them on and so sometimes like when I'm working out and I'm listening to, you know, here and now by Luther I'm like, okay, this is not really elevating art, that's not a, it's not a workout song, man, but the tribe, you know, listening to them that that's going to elevate my heart rate a little bit so that's that's what's on the docket for me so that'll be fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Alrighty, so that's it from here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be back next week for more 50 for 50 and if you've missed anything, check out 50 for 50 dot net.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see the archive features.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mike's reviews of all the albums that we are covering on on 50 for 50 and also our playlists that Mike is putting together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you can check all of that stuff out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For Mike, I am WG, we will see you when we see you, peace out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are back with our brandy top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with these cool check in episodes, we should have done this with the new kids.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think of it until after.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But we should have knew new kids should have got their own top five episodes and said, trying to combine everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was just still a work in progress, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, totally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I kind of kicked myself forward after that new kids episode, but I wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about Randy, we just talked about her memoir phases in the previous episode.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we talked about her discography as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now we're going to talk about her songs, her favorite songs and furs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And also,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, we have to play rock with it or stop with it with her catalog and I think the first one is the boy's mind, do you still rock with that song?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I am actually not sure when the last time was that I listened to the boy's mind if it's entirety because
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[SPEAKER_00]: this is some like when you work in a record store for a long period of time stuff and I was working in a record store when you know Brandy's first four albums came out and the boys mine and never say never was so like pervasive like we're playing it to store all the time it was on the radio all the time we actually did an insert with Brandy when never say never came out and like shut the whole box down um
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[SPEAKER_00]: like Brandy was just everywhere and that is one of those songs where like I don't dislike it, but I never want to hear it again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I will rock with it, but I do have a feeling of like this song again when it plays, but I hadn't heard it in such a long time because I'm not really listening to radio anymore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when I did hear it when I was going back to this
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, like, you know, I like hearing the back and forth and the little kind of the dialogue between the two and, you know, it is a play on the girl is mine with Michael Jackson and there's a little fun thing and, you know, they did their thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a giant hit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're still kind of benefiting from that song today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So good for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that about that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay, two songs from her debut album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Baby and I want to be down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think about those two?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rock with the other stop with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, baby is a little young for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I would probably stop with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's probably like the, I feel like it's probably the most juvenile sounding song on the record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a version of that song that's in my top five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it is not the original version.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, even the original version, I still played it at the time of time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I rock with it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like the sound of that song a lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it when it came out and I was like, oh, this is like a unique R&B song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, what about the ballad?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Which I think was also like on a Drew Bear
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[SPEAKER_01]: what movie let me I'll look it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, oh, that's that's a great song that almost made my top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I will rock with that it is on, maybe it's a, is it on Brandy's movie?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was on like a Drew Barrymore movie, but there's a Drew Barrymore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: had had a time frame in which she was just doing a bunch of romcoms.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's possible that what I'm thinking of is like maybe this was played in the trailer of one of those movies, but it sounds like it's actually from the double platinum movie that she did with Diana Ross.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The aforementioned Rodney Jerkins, what about us?
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's not brandy in that song, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She is B.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's B.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's B. Rocka, her A.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her hip hop, all her Sasha fears?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's really like a mid song for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, if I heard it come on, I would probably skip it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to say stop with it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: should I go, which is like almost entirely clocks by Cold by Coldplay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's like some claps in it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's funny because on that album, she said they sample Coldplay twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, really?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's another song, another song, an album and I can't remember the name where she legitimately says, like, I'm going to sit down and listen to some Coldplay and then she kind of sings a part of the song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, should I let you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a rock with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We were listening to Brandy yesterday in the car and that song came on and my wife's like wait That's a that's a different song and I was like yeah, and then I couldn't remember the name I couldn't remember clocks the name of the song and so I was like yeah I'll it'll come to me and this is what this is part of what 50 years is like things that like I should know like within a half a second like sometimes it takes five minutes just yeah
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[SPEAKER_01]: and then I dropped her off and then went to the grocery store and I heard an entirely different song at the grocery store and I was like clocks by clothes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why the brain works that way
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, what I was going to say is, like, it's, I mean, screwed that in sample co-play, but also when that album came out, that co-play song was only like three years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, 2002 or something, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So very, it's a little strange.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think that's that's enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't we just go right into our going to the top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to go first?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll go first.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny because we were just talking about this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number five is sitting up in my room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: From the waiting to exhale soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like it's it's young and kind of fresh sounding and it doesn't even, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love baby face, yeah, but when a baby face song comes on a radio within like 10 seconds, you know it's a baby face song, sitting in my ring does not sound like a baby face song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You, you might be surprised.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had this at number two, oh, really.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the reason is because I had like a bunch of, like, I have my number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I have a bunch of songs that are like, I kind of like them all similarly, but the thing that makes this stand out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's that soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think because it's on that soundtrack, it just made it feel a little bit more special.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, Brandy had actually graduated into graduate ecosystem of like, you know, she's made because Whitney put her on the soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you know, the whole thing is that Whitney handpicked every artist who was on that soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it kind of feels like an annoying thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like a blessing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And in the book, in
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[SPEAKER_01]: having pressure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, I cannot do, you know, I have to bring my A game to stand up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I was selected for this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I can't put out a song that's not a hit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought they did a great job with that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a remix that I've sung with,
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[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, I saw L.O.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on Instagram.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just had his New York hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then the next hat?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I was like, yeah, I saw that too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, five for me is top of the world with none other than Mason Betha.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I made Donald Johnson E. And you know what I realized?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure I've realized this before, but it just came back to me when I heard him on the song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mace could have just been a guest rapper on a bunch of songs for his entire career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because you like hearing his voice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'm cool with whatever 16 bar 16 and he's out and I feel good with it, but then when you have to listen to and hold a whole song or a whole album of him rapping, that's when it becomes tired.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's literally one song I could think of that's mace all the way through that I like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the one mace song that everybody likes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, oh, feels so good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The next single.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but amazed to me is like totally a guest rapper.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You should have just stuck to that good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, he's he's an amazing guest rapper.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He would have been like the best guest rapper all year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that that's number five for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they have really good chemistry and you know what's interesting about that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That song, even though it's called top of the world, it's really about Brandy saying, you guys think I'm on top of the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just like this young kid who's just living out her dreams like, right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So isn't those interesting listening back?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because like, oh, that's what that song's about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What about number four for you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so my number four is from Afro-desiac.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's called who is she to you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it was the second single from that album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's, it's one of the songs that doesn't immediately sound like a Timbal Antsong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I just like, like, I like the beat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like the way Brandy's voice is miced on that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, one thing that I think is super cool about Brandy's voice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've always started been cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She has like a little raspy kind of edge to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and she uses that on this song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's just like one of my favorite
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with a song called Long Distance from human as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you've ever been in a, like a long distance relationship or maybe a relationship where
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you don't get to see this human as as much as you want.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It like, I think she really gets to the root of it in that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I actually think it's a nice sounding song too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think her voice is really good on that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just, I always come back to that song when I come back to her catalog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good record.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, number three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number three is the I want to be down remix.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: MC, like, yo, yo, and oh, yeah, now I remember that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, this is just like a monumental thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the top three female MCs in the game, all getting together on one record was the first time something like that had happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know boys demand try to rip it off, like right after because they did this vibe and remix like Craig Mackill must arrive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, method man and like two or three other dudes, it didn't come off the same, but yeah, I mean, everybody's version that song is top notch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was just kind of great to see like, you know, three women who are all now like legends in the game come together for one song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was that's a good choice and sometimes when I'm doing these top five's like I'm looking through albums and I'm looking through playlists And then sometimes there's stuff that's not on any of the playlists because right on like different compilations of stuff or they're on Singles and like I'm like, oh, I forgot about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good pole.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean legit the reason that I bought that festive brandy album was because it had the I want to be down remix on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I real back and listen to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number three is again from human.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is right here departed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I feel like listening back to that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's a little bit of power in that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like if she was a little bit more popular at the time as an artist,
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a little bit of an anthem aspect to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like she's like talking about like some real stuff about how you're feeling about certain things and about your heart and this person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like there's like, like, she's like crunching it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like she's like really feeling that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, man, this is a nice anthem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it just kind of, I mean, I think it's probably
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thought of when it comes to her catalog, but it didn't hit the way that I thought it would have hit would have hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was a hit, you know, and that was kind of, that was the song that they used to launch human, and I'm overseeing the video a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, I think everybody was looking for something comparable to the boy's mind, or I won't be down, and it wasn't that big of hit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty middle of the road.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not super hip hop.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not super important to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little older, I guess you would say for her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it's, I still think it's really nice song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, what about number two?
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[SPEAKER_00]: my number two was almost doesn't count.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that was that was on my list too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was on the periphery of my list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's one of those like low key songs that when you think about Brandy, that song doesn't immediately come to mind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's like it's funny in the book.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She says that when they were like strategizing around the album, they just had this book of this book of cliches, yes, that they would pass around, which now that I remember the, you know, the titles of the songs on the album that completely makes sense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, almost doesn't count his, you know, obviously a very common cliché, but
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[SPEAKER_00]: just like the writing of that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, this is like Brandy and like her deeper, more like Husky registering.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I just like the way that sounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That song sounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of the cliches, another song that I think is really memorable of hers on the same album is Never Say Never.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's which is the title of the album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And those songs kind of sound a little similar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned my number two already was
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number one is actually full moon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I like that song as much as I do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, but it's very like mid-tempo, a very moody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's not, it doesn't snack you in a face like hit record, hit record, but it definitely, like, it's a vibe as the kids said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know 15 years before it survived became like a thing but it's really good at kind of like setting a mood and she's talking about you know she's walking into a club and she sees this guy and they lock eyes and like they're feeling something like it's very good at like setting a you know setting the stage okay I kind of feel bad about my number one considering the person you number one the boy is mine no oh you know what is broken hearted my number one is broken hearted
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a great song and I remember you may have even turned this album on to me, there was an extended version of Motown Philly I believe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that had like alternate songs like on it that you know where there's like a difference like a different brush you know what I think I think there was like a deluxe version or maybe it was at a greatest hits boistern and it's great because that's what it was yeah so i remember um brandy has a version of broken hearted on her album and the
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it was out there in single.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I started to think about wanting that song, I was like, oh, I got to buy this voice to men greatest hits to get that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And why not have a voice to men greatest hits?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like a voice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that was the big reason for me to buy that album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just think that song is magic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like when you read, listen to it through your 20, 26 years and think about their ages, it's kind of like, okay, maybe maybe you know, I could see somebody getting turned off by that song, but if I pull that part out of it and I think about what is my favorite.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Brandy song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is the song that I always go back to when I want to hear her?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of it is because of him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, I think he's amazing in that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they sound great to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they sound amazing together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, there's so much so that you're like, you know, maybe if they weren't seven years age difference or whatever, if they could have been an adult couple and done album together, like that was pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's my favorite Brandy record is broken hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just looked it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the voice to men album, both albums, there's a voice of the greatest hits and a greatest hits album on Apple Music, both of them have broken hearted on it, but on the voice to men album, it's great out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the only way you can play broken hearted is, you know, just reading the best of Randy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Take your, get your streams, Brandy, get your stream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so I could tell folks what is up coming because we are going to do what is I'm coming Garrett we are going to do a cool check in on the boys to men catalog and we'll do very similar to what we did with the Brandy will have a top five for them as well, but the next actual 50 for 50 is going to be a tribe called Quest so that'll be a set that'll be a lot of fun to do yeah I'm in you know I'm I'm in my my tribe listening stage and this is like
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I've mentioned this before, but how I generally listen to all these albums is I just when I work out I throw them on and so sometimes like when I'm working out and I'm listening to, you know, here and now by Luther I'm like, okay, this is not really elevating art, that's not a, it's not a workout song, man, but the tribe, you know, listening to them that that's going to elevate my heart rate a little bit so that's that's what's on the docket for me so that'll be fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Alrighty, so that's it from here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you can check all of that stuff out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For Mike, I am WG, we will see you when we see you, peace out.