Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "JAY-Z & NAS FIRST COLLABORATION FINALLY RELEASED ON SHAQ'S YOU CAN'T STOP THE REIGN"

Episode Date: July 21, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticNotorious Mass Effect Segment: Shaq's "You Can't Stop the Reign" Re-Released!Shaquille O'Neal's iconic rap album "You Can't Stop the Reign" is back! Originally released in 1996, the album is now available on streaming platforms featuring remastered tracks and a previously unreleased collaboration with rap legends Jay-Z and Nas.Here's a deep dive into the re-release:Classic Tracks & New Collaborations: Fans can relive hits like the title track featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and discover the highly anticipated "No Love Lost" featuring the first-ever collaboration between Jay-Z and Nas.Chart-Topping Success: The original album boasted success on the Billboard charts and the Official Dance Singles Chart, solidifying Shaq's place in the music scene.Evolution of a Musician: This re-release showcases Shaq's growth as a musician, moving beyond his early influences and developing a unique sound.A Nostalgic Journey: The re-release rollout included strategic drops of singles like "Strait Playin" and "Legal Money," building anticipation for the full album release.Shaq Reflects: Shaq himself is opening up about his musical journey and experiences working with hip-hop icons in a recent podcast episode.This re-release is more than just an album revival. It's a celebration of:The golden age of hip-hop.The legacy of rap icons like Biggie and Nas.Shaq's unique contribution to the intersection of sports and music.Don't miss out! Stream "You Can't Stop the Reign" on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and other major platforms.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio because this, ladies and gentlemen, is simply outrageous. Now, what might that be, you may ask? Shaquille O'Neal posted this to his IG story. And I just want y'all to take a gander. Okay, so after you've looked at it, right? Complex music, of course, they ask the most obvious question. Why in the world was Shaq post this? Now, for the people listening to the audio-only version,

just know that Shaq put up a Photoshop picture of him and a girl in a pool, but Photoshop Drake's head onto the girl in the pool. Why? The world may never know. Shack posted this seemingly poking fun at Drake for no reason, right? Because there's no title, no caption. And guess what? In his story, you can see at the top, BBL Drizzi is the chosen soundtrack for this specific IG story post. So, of course, Shaq is trying to be funny.

Why in the world is Shack poking fun at Drake for no reason? on June 23rd, 24 at 11 something a.m. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's simply because at this point, bashing Drake is the best way to market your music. As June 28th, 2024, Shaquille O'Neill put out an album titled, You Can't Stop the Rain.

Now, before you may say something or ask to yourself, I didn't know Shaq May, music well you probably add the loop because this album was originally released on November 19th 1996 and most music connoisseurs would say it's Shaq is Shaq's most significant rap project so what's the best way to get into the the media what's the best way to get into the hip-hop media uh... ecosphere bash Drake randomly so this is where the creation of this picture makes sense shack posts this you got academics you're talking about it Joe Budden talking about it breakfast club talking

about it so now you're in the hip-hop media cycle and guess what it's not random because now a re-release of one of your most significant rap projects is back on we're not back but it's now available on streaming platforms as of June 28th, 2024. You really have to pay attention to the marketing landscape because a lot of smoke and mirrors are played simply for the overall result to be more exposure to whatever they're selling.

So Shaq posted this because he wanted more music fans to know that he put out a new album, which, to be fair, I was not familiar with your game, my brother. Because I wish I had the drop. I don't know if I could find that drop. That's one of my favorite drops. And I don't have it.

Not familiar with your game. Let me see if I could find this drop. Because this is specifically how. Oh, wait. Oh, my. That's why I didn't do this on purpose. Shaq's the one that said that. I'm tripping.

I don't know why I just, I don't know why I didn't put two or two together. But Shaq's the one who said this? I swear I didn't like, I don't know. I guess I'm slow because I forgot the Shaq said this. Anyway, this is one of my favorite clips. Let's play right quick. I don't know if I could play this on my, on the video because it's TNT, you know, they'd be tripping.

But anyways, let's just play it to the side. Hopefully it's not too loud. My camera, Devin Booker, I'm sorry. I owe you an apology. I got on TV and said, you will not go 20 for 25 again. You mess around and went 14 for 18, 3 of the 4. So, sir, I apologize, love the way you're playing. And again, now we have a series.

30. Was that the familiar with the game? I don't think that was a clip. Hold up. Maybe it's this one. Shack, I owe you, and apologize, I wasn't really familiar with your game and, you know, how you travel. Oh, man, you're a casual. You know, played, you know, a 16.

Oh, he called him a casual. Is that Christian Wood? Oh, yeah, it is Christian Wood. That's funny. But anyways, let's play it again. Christian, a shock. I owe you and apologize, I wasn't really familiar with your game and, you know, how you're a casual. You were casual.

It's crazy to Shaq. Anyways, all right, so that's one of my favorite just sayings in general because it applies to so many different things. And for this in particular, it applies to my knowledge about the ability of Shaq's of Shaq rapping. Shaq's rapping ability, I very much underestimate it because let me tell you something, he sounds like a whole different person on this album. And it's not even that. Let's get into the main reason I'm even covering this because if Shaq just put out an album simply by himself, I'm not going to lie to you. I probably wouldn't care. But his, you know, I'm very biased because simply of my podcast title. So his relationship with Notorious BiG is one of the main reasons I wanted to cover this album as who knew that Shaq and Notorious BiG had the type of relationship that they had? Like when I did more research and just figured out the overall landscape of not only Shaq, but just his relationship with notorious B-I-G,

I thought that was very impactful because it's just one of those things to where, because of hip-hop and basketball having so much in common as far as correlation to like inspiring one another, it is just very interesting to hear how Shaq has so many recording sessions with the likes of a Nause, with the likes of a JZ, and of course with the likes of a notorious BIG. So through those recording sessions, the track No Love Lost came out, and that had not only JZ on it,

but Nause on it, all the way back, in the 90s. So just think about that and how Jay-Z and Nas relationship was back then. And of course, they said it wasn't released due to clearance issues and sample issues, things of that nature. But we know the real reason why that wasn't released. Jay-Z probably didn't want any type of promotion on Nas' name through him. So, of course, that's probably why it got blocked.

but I think the biggest thing with that is having the only because I think it's the only gnaz I'm tripping no it's not because I think DJ Cali has one yeah DJ Cali has a Jayzee and naz track which is sorry not sorry and then Jay Z has a collaboration with Nas all the way back on American Gangster and that came out 2007 so I'm tripping so I'm tripping so So it's not the first Nause and Jay-Z. I don't know why I said that in the article. Definitely. You know, when you actually study hip-hop, you could be like, hey, aren't you like a journalist?

Out here spreading lies. That's crazy. So anyway, that was like, that's definitely not their first collab. So, yeah, Jay-Z and Nas, they have Sorry Not Sorry. Success, which is two. And then I think that's it. Yeah, so they do, they already have two tracks out. And then Black Republican.

So that's three. I think that's it. Let me see. yeah i think that's it so yeah they have three tracks and this makes four as far as as naus and j z on the same particular track so anyways

um getting back into the shack album is still a monumental accomplishment uh nonetheless because getting those two premier word smiths on the same track is just uh achievement a lifetime achievement in itself so

the track no love loss eventually uh came out and this collaboration had Jay-Z and Nas recording together, so it wasn't like no oaths. Well, you know, back in the day, they didn't have internet. I mean, I'm not going to say they didn't have internet, but, you know, I mean, the technology capabilities wasn't what it is today, right?

So they were sitting in the same studio recording this track. Like, just imagine how just legendary that is. Shaq, Jay-Z, Nas, all in the room, making music together. kind of insane. So another thing that was insane is that notorious BIG was supposed to be on that song as well, talking about the no love loss. But due to sample clearance challenges,

it prevented Biggie's verse from also being included on the JZ and Nas track. So I think the moment Shaq was trying to create, I'm pretty sure the major labels probably stepped in. it was like, hey, we can use that in our own album. Let's not give that moment to Shaq. That's what I would think could have possibly happened. Because if you don't know, this re-release with this 1996 re-release album that they just put out in 2024,

is under Jerry Legends Productions, which is a music label associated with Shaquille O'Neal. And it's part of Authentic Studios, which is a full-service production company that develops film television audio commercial content based on the authentic brand groups portfolio of brands and then jersey legends productions has been involved with various projects including the stand-up comedy shows like all-star comedy jam and a lot of other music releases releases and things of that nature so i'm not going to say he's independent of course but it's not your um atlantic's warners your UMGs like it's not your normal um subsidiary that you're used to hearing in the music landscape so with that being said a lot of things that he tried to pull off may have been trying to

get may have may have had the higher ups trying to block it even if his authentic relationships with these people would have went in have minded being out so basically the higher ups with hayton on shack and his authentic connections to a notorious to a jZ and to a gnaz so um another thing is that shack and alan iverson were recently appointed as executives at rebuck aiming to revive the iconic sneakers like 50 cents g unit line and j z's carter line and i'm just talking about as far as uh when the the music and shack's worlds has like collided as far as uh intertwined because of course j z did a lot of stuff with title and things of that nature in the past but shack also did a lot of things um when it came to you know bringing hip hop to another level

when it comes to exposure um because it's not really any i'm not going to say any hold on me if you look at net worth i don't really think it is what it used to be because i think nowadays people people just pay to have it lowered shack's network and why would they pay to have a lower simply because of tax reason yeah it says 400 million i'm not believing that in the slightest so shack is it's part of a lot of deals like shack has a lot of money so um which 400 million is a lot of money but i'm talking about like like i looked at lebron's net worth and it was like one billion and i would think that shack throughout his career would have anyways and i i would think that gap would

and be as large but i don't know i guess not i guess i'm underestimating lebron so um with that being said it was something else i wanted to talk about with uh oh yeah okay so shack and notorious b ig's relationship so to go further into that uh they had a pretty good relation pretty great relationship and as they were both from uh new york and share love from uh music and basketball and of course when 1996 when he released his third studio album, which a lot of rap fans,

a rap enthusiast say it's Shaq's most significant rap project. It featured a track Can't Stop the Rain, which is self-titled after the album, which is probably why the album was titled that in the first place,

because guess who it featured? The Notorious BiG, giving a very memorable verse on this song. So Shaq and Notorious BiG going back and forth on the same track and it wasn't like Shaq isn't like rapping like in a way of oh

as an athlete trying to rap he's a real rapper breath control the different use of rhyme schemes vocal inflection what else it really had that

authentic rapper tone as far as when you rap because sometimes you can tell the difference of somebody who understands the different rapping flows and somebody who's just trying to freestyle maybe for the first time,

you can definitely tell a difference. So Shaq is definitely a student of the game. That's what I would say listening to the album. And it took me about surprise because you think of Shaq, you think of like T&T and him hating on Rudy Gobert, right? But in all actuality, he's in so many different fields,

so many different lanes, that why do I still have this picture up this I've had this picture up this whole review that's crazy let me just put up I had a drink picture up the whole time that just threw me all I'm like why is that still up um yeah so Shaq it's just a studio at a game basically

and his rapping capability shows that so um yeah man that's basically it uh Shaq pulled off the unthinkable and put this album out on DSPs because Lord knows the management of J-Z, Nas, notorious, you know, rest of pieces of notorious,

B-I-G, probably had a say in certain sample clearances as far as, you know, vocals. Because if there's, if they wasn't on streaming platforms, it wasn't because Shaq was like, you know what, I don't want it on streaming platforms. He probably had to jump through a lot of hoops to have it on streaming platforms.

So now, as Shaq said himself, the album is out on, on all DSPs unreleased JZ plus Nause tracks included so what else that's basically it so yeah man at the end of day man shack just showcases why he's just one of the more pivotal iconic figureheads in all black communities and very very inspirational as far as how to take your talent and go into different ventures to be respected as a bit businessman i will compare him to likes of a 50 cent who went from rapping to making whole tv shows and movies on uh what's the platform car stars i would talk about j z him going on to uh rapping about

drug dealing to uh being the head of entertainment for the NFL what else it's just so many different lanes ludicrous him going into music and then transitioning to fast and fuel serious movies basically acting. It's just so many different icons and hip hop and basketball respective. I mean, LeBron, if you want to talk about the Space Jam 2 movie, I mean, I guess. You know, there's so many examples of, you know,

using your talent for other things and not being pigeonholed into one box. I think some people have a hard time grasping the idea that you're more than what you're currently doing. you get into the monotonous routine and lose your creative soul

and that I think is scary so anyways I'm glad that Shaq never lost that obviously he's still a big kid out here running around and apparently Shaq is like that so you know if you want to say crazy stuff

about the picture of the Shaq you make it slap that's all I got to say you know what I mean? Shack's a big dude so I'm not saying you'll go to sleep I'm not even saying you'll wake up with a very strenuous migraine. I'm just saying that Shaq has been in multiple reports of being like that. So when somebody is super huge like that and also has the mindset of just dominating you, no ditty. Well, no, let me chill. Yeah.

So it's just one of those things to where Shaq gets away with what he gets away with. And nobody's going to say nothing. so yeah i don't know why i wanted to end off like that but hey um jack's album you can't stop the rain out now on all dsps give it a listen because shack is definitely rapping it's definitely uh it surpassed my expectations let me just put it like that so anyways click my link tree in my bio let me know one of my social medias for shack returning to the music scene and basically like a remembrance and a nod to the quote unquote golden eight age of hip hop will you be given his 1996 re-released album a listen