Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - THE NOTORIOUS MASS EFFECT EPISODE 121 // "RISE OF THE AI GHOSTWRITERS"

Episode Date: May 3, 2023

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What's going on on our internet, analytic here, aka Dreams, and I'd like to welcome you to mine, which I call the notorious mass effect podcast. I am your hip-hop and gaming news source with a little bit of R&B mixed in. For episode 20, not 20, for episode 121, we're going to be getting into the intricacies, I mean, just the complex,

very hard to understand. topic that is AI and by very hard to understand I mean very hard to understand because at this point you know how they say sky is the limit where at this point AI has implemented so many different scenarios where one could take it that we don't even know what's going to happen next the evolution of AI has gotten to a scary point where literal artists are coming out and saying this is flagrant as far as copyright material. And what am I saying right now? You probably are not put in two and two together.

But let me just say that this is titled The Rise of the AI Ghostwriters. And no, I'm not talking about Alan Irison. I'm talking about AI technology. I don't know what that was. Chatbot. What was it? G what was it G P. GPT. 4. I don't know why I was blinking on the name.

But anyways, so yeah, this is titled The Rise of AI Ghost Writers for a Reason. All of these ghost writers are coming out of the woodworks to give us some of our greatest material from artists that are currently not putting out music. So how's that happening? Well, in this episode, I'm going to break it all down. But before that, make sure to click my link to share in my bio to access my social medias. Hold up. Last time I did this. Not the episode before, but the episode before that one, I did this. So basically, I want to update last time y'all killed me because I didn't give an update.

And I think 119, yeah, this is 121. Yeah, so 119, I forgot to give an update. So basically, um, a pretty significant update. We're reaching 400,000 total downloads in just two months of red circle. So hold on, let me, let me play my little drop. You know, I got my applause button on deck. for y'all this this is for y'all this is not even for me because of course there's only one of me so you know this accomplishment i do not take it for granted at all so let me play a little there we go so basically i just want to say thank you to everybody who's supporting and helping affect the masses because at the end of the day 400 000 i don't take for granted at all so i really appreciate everybody who's came together

by either sharing the platform, playing it yourself. What else? Giving me feedback. Just everything that goes into making this show has led us to this point where in just two months under Red Circle, we've surpassed,

well, or reaching, and will probably surpassed by tomorrow, 400,000 total downloads. Okay, I think that's enough applause. All right, let's get back to the hold up. Give me one second. Let me bring this back up. All right. So yeah, that's basically it for the update. As far as like weekly downloads, we definitely are surpassing 38,000 or we did surpass 38,000. Of course, it fluctuates. Right now, it currently is around 38,000. Since it's so new, like I was

saying, two months in under Red Circle, this is my biggest audience ever. So, you know, I'm definitely figuring out ways to keep you all engaged in just to watch time in general, which I think, well, statistically looking at the numbers, it seems like y'all are enjoying what I'm putting out. So just expect more of that. And also, I just made another channel titled Analytic Dreams video. And so with that, there's going to be all the video elements of the content I create will be posted to that channel. If you go to Spotify right now, and I say Spotify specifically, because that's the only place I can put up video for podcasting platforms. So if you go to Spotify, type in Analytic Dreams video, you'll be able to watch all of the video content I make. So the content I make, the video element will be additional when you look up Analytic Dreams video.

So the same thing that's happening here is just the video element. And the reason I made the two separate channels is because currently I'm under Red Circle with this channel. So I can't really post video on Spotify through Red Circle. I can through Anchor, which is why I made my second channel through Anchor. But for my first channel, it only allows audio. I mean, of course I can upload, like make another channel on Anchor and upload video. And that's specifically what I did. So, for Analytic Dreams video.

Looked it up separately. It's going to be all the content I make here. Just an addition of the video element. Okay. Well, all that promo out of the way, let's get into the show, 121, which is titled, The Rise of the AI Ghostwriters. But before that, make sure to click my link through my bio to access my social medias and follow to keep all my latest activities. If you want to support the show financially, click my cash app link located towards the bottom of my link tree, as it helps to show. overall, make sure to share this podcast, rating the show five stars as this helps the show reach more people so we can grow together and affect the masses. Also, for my people over at YouTube, make sure to click that bell icon. And when you click the bell icon, don't do, don't click to specialize. Click all so you'll get all my notifications because YouTube for some reason makes

you click twice on the bill icon. So anyways, make sure to do that. And now let's get into the first topic. The rise of the AI ghost riders have or has gotten out of hand because not only has has Drake been accused of using ghost writers by the notorious meekmill. But currently in 23, Ghostwriters are coming out of the woodworks to write the favorite Drake tracks. Now, it only strengthens Meeke Mandela's argument, but now that people have officially called Meek Mill washup, nobody cares that all of these ghost riders are coming out and using AI technology out of all of the artists in the world to mimic the goat, aka Drake. Now, doesn't surprise me that he's getting all of these people mimicking him with the use of AI technology. No, but what's also surprising is if everybody claims that the best rapper is Tupac and Jay-Z and all these other old heads, then how come people aren't usually, how come people aren't using these AI or this AI to put out more music from them? I know what you're saying. Oh, Tupac's Passed Well, notorious BIG's passed away.

well, you probably don't know how this technology works because all you need is a sample of somebody voice, which is definitely out there when you're talking about Tupac and Notorious BIG, and then you can make your own track that literally sounds like them. So what I'm thinking is everybody is subconsciously showing us that they think Drake is the best artist in the hip-hop game. Because if you're going to use all of these lyrics and different vocal tones, and then when you go to the AI generator, out of all the artists in the world,

you keep using Drake, then what does that really say about how they view the hip-hop landscape? Now, of course, if you've been listening to the podcast, you know that I've been a huge advocate for Drake. You know, I would say, I would call myself a stand, but I do critique Drake when it's called for.

But currently, it's just an obvious display of affection as all these ghost writers are coming out. and trying to seem like the second coming of Quentin Miller as all of these AI tracks that are AI generated from ghost writers who I'm assuming are real people just typing in a computer using Drake's voice to cover their songs it's very interesting because first when it came out of course it was covering Kanye West Mr. West and everybody knows what his impact on the hip-hop field is but then it was an interesting change it went from conier west to drake and not even just it wasn't even comparable like it was a huge swing in drake direction of all the ghost riders

coming together to write and try to come up with the best ghostwritten Drake track one i think is because of the numbers and two i think because of conier west's absence i feel like a lot of people really see the buzz that you get off of making the Drake track and they're just making a plethora of AI Drake songs for the masses. Now, that still goes back to my point of Drake just being the leaps and bounds above a lot of these artists in the hip-hop field. As if somebody else generated those same numbers, guess what? More AI covers will be attributed to them. So because that is not the case and Drake is just a runaway goat in the hip-hop space, UMG, which is Universal Music Group, to people who signed Drake, like Drake's boss, Lucian Grange,

came out and definitely criticized this whole wave of ghost writers coming out and making music trying to sound like Drake saying, quote, this is content, no, no, so quote, content oversupply. And then he went on to say, quote, not many people realize that AI has already been a major contributor to this content oversupply. Most of this AI content on DSPs comes from the prior generation of AI, a technology that is not trained on copyrighted IP, and that produces very poor quality output where virtually no consumer appeal. Spoken like a true man who's losing money off all this AI evolution. So anyways, you know when the boss of Drake, comes out and speaks on something, we found gold.

Like, ladies and gentlemen, we got them. Like, we've hit the, what they call the, we've hit the jackpot, basically, to put it in lamest terms. We've hit the jackpot. Even Lucian Grange is coming out speaking on this, and that's how you know it's getting serious, because I think if people keep continuing all the ghost riders in the world, I mean, UMG can't sue everybody. But best believe, they're going to find one of y'all to make an example out of.

just hopefully it's not you. So anyways, click on my link tree in my bio. Let me know on one of my social medias. What do you think about this whole evolution and AI and everybody using AI technology to make unreleased Drake tracks, quote on quote? And what do you think the future is of using this AI technology? The battle of the Ghost Rider's and UMG

is a fascinating one to watch because none of your favorite artists are putting out music right now. I mean none of them. I'm not trying to hear about Jack Harlow. I'm not trying to hear about Don Tolliver, NF, Ray Strimmered. I'm not trying to hear about any of those because compared to AI releases this year, it pairs in comparison or it pales in comparison. I think that's the way you say it. Because in general, when you're able to put out music from an artist that everybody streams on a religious basis, then I think you've reached a point where the actual owner of Universal Music Group has to come out and speak on this type of activity because people are making money

from an artist that they signed. They want to make money off of the artist they signed. Now, you're making money off of him and you ain't signed or you ain't have Drake signed, no type of paperwork. So best believe UMG is going to come after somebody and just hopefully it's not you. So this specific track I'm talking about is Drake's Winners Code by, I can't even say the name. It's like LVCCI. And no, I'm not the feds.

All I know is I looked it up. It's still on YouTube. UMG hasn't taken it down. So I don't know if they just pick and choosing their battles. I don't know what's happening. So anyways, it's still up. And they're going after TikTok user Ghost Rider 9-9-7. Now I really sound like DJ Vlad.

No, hold on. Let me chill. My fault. My fault. I didn't try to put them on blast. Basically, UMG has chosen a specific ghost writer to go after, right? Because everybody making money off of Drake's likeness is not going to fly with Universal Music Group who's paying Drake literally $40 to $50 million to make music for them, and you're getting it for free.

Like, nah, you're not going to get his license or his likeness for free. They're definitely suing you. So anyways, all of these tracks are very interesting. This whole lawsuit is very interesting. I think because of how dry 2023 is when it comes to hip hop, I honestly may just say that AI has taken over and may be the best thing to come out this year. Because no album has made me feel like it's taken over. Ray Shremert for me was one of my favorite albums and really nobody listened to it. And that's not like a factor for me as far as enjoyability.

But as far as ranking, I have to keep that in consideration that it didn't have that impact. that I thought it was going to have. Of course, NF had tremendous impact selling like over 100,000 first week. And in comparison, Ray Schremmer sold like 16K first week. It was pretty bad. It hurt my heart. It's almost like, I can't compare it to LeBron. But it's like if KD came out and shot like two for 30, it's like, we're not used to you missing like this.

Like Ray Shremmer coming out and not having their impact is definitely interesting because they're the same duo who made everybody stand in one place, like they was frozen in real life with Black Beatles. So that's pretty interesting to see Jack Harlow came out when everybody found out was a rap-only album. I think the streams didn't really reflect the quality. I think that Jack Harlow album is one of the better albums of 2023. But as far as the streams and the sales,

of course it's not going to be high because it's an all-rap album. I don't know if y'all know how the charts work, but if you listen to any track in the top 10 of the charts, it has a chorus, a verse, and a chorus, a verse, and maybe another chorus and the end of the song. So Jack was just straight rapping throughout his entire album, which was phenomenal for me as a rap fan. But as far as replay value, it just wasn't that high. So I think currently AI ghostwriters are taking over 2023 and they are putting out the best music this year. and I think Universal Music Group who signed all your favorite no not favorite all the most popular

rappers a very distinct description right there all the famous all the most popular rappers they have signed Drake Kanye West I think Justin Bieber Taylor Swift I think Lucian Grange literally bought Taylor Swift's

whole catalog look up Lucian Grange buying Taylor Swift's whole catalog and you will understand that Lucian Grange, when you think about Drake having a lot of money buying private jets going on yachts and just living his life and future Hendricks and all these people, think about the people who signed them,

aka Lucian Grange. Think about his bank account. You know, I'm not pocket watching, but I think we really have to put into perspective because a lot of these rappers be flexing when the person that they're assigned to is really the ones who could be flexing. So anyways, one thing in business,

learned is that for every dollar you make they've made nine or ten and just carry that with you throughout life so anyways um that's basically it i really wanted to get into the AI i think i kind of got into it um universal music group is definitely coming after some of y'all they're going to make an example out of somebody and definitely i definitely don't want this to happen as a content creator myself um i mean obviously they can't come after me because i'm not the one playing music and trying to get the lightness of drake but They have came after me before, but that was like years past in my first channel. But now, you know, I'm pretty good. But for y'all who's still profiting off of Drake's likeness, let's just say, they're definitely going to come after you.

So anyways, hopefully you win. I'm always in the favor of the creator. And hopefully we just get to the point where we can combat these lawsuits from Universal Music Group. But only time will tell. So click my link to you in my bio. Let me know in one of my social medias. What do you think about? riders versus UMG and also what do you think the future is with AI technology

ladies and gentlemen I think we found the first miss with this Drake AI wave because AI backseat I don't know who wrote that track not trying to be disrespectful but it's gonna come to a point where all of y'all who's privy to this technology does not need to be privy to this technology because y'all don't know how to make a Drake hit and Drake makes everything sound good so for you not to make a Drake hit is it's not going to lie to you it's pretty down bad so anyways uh this track called backseat was one of those tracks where i've listened to it and i realized that it's just not up to up to part like it's not even around the bar it's a very below average track and even when with Drake covering it so drake in the

weekend, one of their biggest tracks, not ever, but of course, one of their biggest unreleased tracks. And it was released by AI Ghost Rider called Heart on My Sleeve, was just straight. I would say at this point, it was just straight classic, because the person who came up with this, wrote the track, had Drake covering it, had the weekend covering it, everybody's playing the track on TikTok. Universal Music Group is extremely irate. I can't even put it into words what they're about to do to whoever they could sue with this type of technology because they are not having it with people making money off of the artists

that they signed likeness. So anyways, what else? What was I getting to? But yeah, the track Drake AI backseat is very atrocious and that's why I say some people who are privy to the technology that helps make these AI tracks

should definitely not be as. it comes with a price and that price is learning how to actually make a good track. And for some people, they have it and for others, they don't. So for this one, they definitely do not have it. And that's okay because, you know, who wants to be sued by Universal Music Group over a track that's just completely garbage? So anyways, UMG came out with a quote. Let me see if I can find that quote. Let me one second.

Let's see if I can find that quote. Universal Music Group came out with the quote talking about the unsanctioned AI generated tracks. Like what? Like who uses words like that? And they said, quote, UMG's success has been in part due to embracing new technology and putting it to work for our artists. As we have been doing with our own innovation around AI for some time already. With that being said, the training of generative AI using our artist's music, in parentheses, which represents both the breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law,

end of parentheses, as well as the availability of infringing content created with Generative AI on DSPs begs the question as to which side of the history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem went to be on the side of the artist, fans, a human creative expression or on the side of deep fakes,

fraud, denying artists their due compensation. These instances these instances, hold on, I can't say it, these instances, in stances, hold up,

I'm trying to do my flu, made well impression. Not just plain. All right. I'm about to run it back. These instances demonstrate why platforms have a fundamental legal and ethical responsibility to prevent the use of the services and ways that harm artists. We are encouraged by the engagement of our platform partners on these issues as they

recognize they need to be part of the solution. Now let me just give you the translation for that. UMG is suing whoever and they are trying to come forever, every dime, nickel, and penny that they can scavenge. Because they're not playing with y'all. Everybody who's making these tracks and just having Drake covering there and putting out for consumption and making money off of it, Yeah, no, y'all going to jail.

Not going to lie to you. Yeah, after that quote, they're not playing with y'all, and they come before they bread. They fed a chini, they're grop. So anyways, click my link, share my bio. Let me know in one of my social medias. What do you think about your universal music group

just going so hard over these AI ghost writers? And do you think that they are in the right? Smoking on that gas, blunt big as coil-lory. I can't say that word. Expetives set it up Then put it on the flow I didn't done it all

Feel like shoddy low Laughing to the bank But this is not a joke In parentheses Not a joke Say she got a problem Imaginary smoke Expetives set it's up

Then put it on the flow Now ladies and gentlemen Beethoven Shakespeare I mean even Mr. Kanye West himself Kid and write Some lyrical bars like that

Lyrical venom Lyrical exercise And all those start with Well most of those words start with an L You know what else start with L is a rapper who performed it A.k.a Lotto Now we're getting into

Corey Leray versus Lotto because for some reason everybody thought it was beef because Lotto put in her rap which I feel like she was explicitly going at Niki Minaj but obviously not as people other people took offender

with some of the lyrics she had and one of them was smoking on that gas blunt big as Coil-Rae and Corle-Rae took offense because I hit dog holler and she said please do not she said quote

Lotto by here you go talking about my body please do not come on here and talk about nobody body and she put that all capital letters she put body

in all capital letters now it's one thing with women beef as they know what buttons to push because they're a woman right they know what women are insecure about and one of the things that's usually an insecurity for women is the body you know talk about the body

in positive or a negative light they're probably going to get offended with both so coil Ray got offended. She thought that Lotto was going at her. And then after Lotto, of course, hit her behind the scenes, you know, basically told her, explained, wasn't, you know,

she was basically probably telling her that all that smoke was for O'Nica Tanya Mirage, aka Nikki. And that wasn't for her. She was just putting her in the line. And then obviously, because the song was public, she went on stage at, well, when she was booked at Coachella

and performed the track, let me see if I could find this. She went on staged and performed the track. And then she also said the line again, smoking on that gas, blunt, big as coil of ray. Experatives like to run their mouths, but I'm the type to run the phase. So they thought, you know, she performed that line at Coachella in the midst of the song. But then she stopped and then she said, let me find it. I don't know why I can't find it.

Let me see. Yeah, I can't find it. That's crazy. I thought I had it. Oh, yeah, okay. she sat on stage sorry i had to find it for a second and then she added quote and this wasn't in the song she just added this in the live performance she said quote by the by the way i love your body baby talking about koi uh koi laray so of course it was like confusion from koi because of

course in a dish track which your name mentioned you're going to think it's automatic smoke but lato did the mature thing which was contacting koi directly and apologize or not even apologizing probably just explaining and then went on a public platform and had the same type of sentiments. So there's no more beef between Coeurler Ray and Lotto, which I know is probably upsetting news to a lot of y'all. But I think at the end of the day, with women artists, they definitely do need to stick together because if they're going to rise up in the ranks, I think if they started a whole click, just like how the male rappers have their clicks, how they have an album coming out with the same group of artists is always Travis, future Drake, maybe 21 Savage,

you know, it's always that click of artists collaborating on each other's albums. If the women rappers were to do that more often instead of just beefing with each other, which I'm not accusing them of doing that. I'm just saying the two biggest women rappers in the game are beefing against each other. And I guess you can say the same with Drake and Kendrick, but for the most part, Drake gets along with all the other rappers in the game. And for Nikki, um, We unfortunately can't say the same.

So let's just say that's going to take a lot for them when it comes to making a huge impact in hip-hop and beefing with one another will inherently stunt that growth. So anyways, I'm glad Corey and Lotto are not beefing anymore, but boy, was it spooky at first because I didn't know if Lotto was going for everybody or at a specific person, which was Niki Minaj. Now, for Niki Minaj, best believe she's going to return. fire and lotto is going to fill it directly so click my link chain my bio let me know on one of my social medias what do you think about coy loray and lotto beefing and do you think that if women artists stick together more they would start selling more than male rappers jack harlowe came back thinking what hasn't drake done because at first you had come home the kids miss you

and you couldn't tell me that that man didn't look up every discography of the goat, aka Arby Graham and just try to mimic everything network. So once he tried to be himself rapping about past experiences, personal experiences that only Jack can go through,

he finally gave us an amazing body of work. Now I would hit the applause button but we assume that Jack Harlow was going to bounce back from come home to kids miss you obviously a lot of people was wanting Jack Harlow to fall off and you could probably understand why they would want that as we've had a lot of rappers in his uh ethnic background come through and just be completely corny trash and straight up atrocious shout out to logic i know he's half black but come on now shout out to macklemore

Shout out to G. Easy. I think that's it. So Jack Harlow wasn't trying to be in addition to that list as Jackman is an album full of straight bars. Now, I once heard FunkFlex say one of the best things about a rapper. He said, you don't know nothing about that. That's straight bars. Now, of course, the way I just said it isn't the way

he said it. So let me get an actual rendition of him saying that that's straight bars because that's how I feel about this entire album. One of the most classic iconic lines ever spoken

by a hip-hop media head. As Jack Carlo really came through in this album and it's just straight bars from start to finish. I mean he said forget a chorus. He said, forget a chorus. He said, forget a hook. He said, I'm just going to rap, and y'all going to listen to it. Because technically, somebody listened to it.

As his first week projections are around 50,000, which is definitely not high for Jack Hollow at all. As come home, the kids miss you, debuted at number three with 113 first week sales. So 50,000 compared to 113,000, but I am going to come and cape for Jack Hollow. Pause. I think the reason for the low sales is because this man had an album full of rap songs. And that's one reason I think Drake never made an album full of rap songs. Because when you do that, you're lower, I can't even say it.

You're lowering, hopefully I said that right. I don't know why I can't say that word. The replay value. So you're raising the quality, but you're lowering. Yeah, I'm definitely messing that word up. the replay value as the replay value adds to your streams and the quality is just what people say about the project your replay value would mean nothing if your quality is bad as we've seen would come home to kids miss you those was 113,000 first week sales of everybody saying it was

straight up garbage this one is 50,000 first week sales of everybody saying this is some of jack harlowe's best work. Now you let me know which type of public praise or public reaction Jack Harlow wanted. So anyways, with this album, I think in general, my overall consumption

of it was very quick. I've listened to this album a bunch of times. You know, this is one of those type of albums you can play as you work out. It's certain songs in here like gang gang that you probably shouldn't just play in the whip, you know, when you're going to the club or the party or out with your friends it's not one of them type of tracks you know some some

people may start looking at you kind of weird wondering why you playing those type of tracks you know so a lot of these tracks are just for consumption by yourself it's not really for you to put it out to the to the masses at a party um but other tracks like they don't love it ambitious um it can't be it's just straight up fire. I'm talking about the subject matter. I'm talking about the double triple entendres, the way he has his vocal inflection. His cadence is very smooth in a way that when you're listening to it

is not something that you just think is straight up corny. You actually want to continue to listen to it because best believe me, he does have corny bars in there. Like, oh, my beard's kind of scruffy, but I like it, though. Like, nobody can't like, bro, like, who cares? but the way he delivers it is in a fashion where more people would give it a chance than not. So I feel like the only reason that Jack Harlow has came through with this album is because everybody was considering him quote unquote washed up.

And his feature on, was it, it wasn't drama. Was it Calais album with, was it Roddy Rich? I forget who it was. He had a feature after his album that a lot of people disliked. and everybody was just calling him washed up from there. Like everything he touched, they just said was washed up. Which is why when Chris Brown came out with Breezy and he had a track with Jack Harlow that had an actual serviceable verse,

everybody was like, man, even Chris Brown can turn around Jack Harlow to make good music. So it was to that point where everybody thought Jack Harlow was washed up and with this new album, Jackman, I feel like he really bounced back as this is his own, this is only his third studio. album. So you can't really critique it that harshly because a lot of people have subscribed to this mantra

of sophomore slump. So they were saying Jack Harlow had a sophomore slump, but his bounce back with Jackman let us know that it was a slump and that he was actually going to bounce back. Because, you know, some artists that could just be them. They could just have one lucky debut album and then never

make anything close to that quality ever again. You know, shout out to Bryson Tiller. But anyways, in general, I want to get into the actual album because it's very interesting how it's only how long is this album is like

25 minutes long I believe and for it to be only 25 minutes long I felt like he really jam packed it with quality bars I mean I'm not going to go track by track I am going to give my three favorite tracks from the album so number one

would be common ground because I feel like that just kicked off the entire I like albums where the first track lets you know the entire tone of the album. Like, I don't like tracks where it just sounds like a track listing, if that makes sense. Like, it's just, oh, it's like a DJ just mixing tracks. Like, I like albums from one artist being a cohesive body of work that slows the tempo down when needed, but if they slow it down for a little bit, speeds it back up in the next two tracks. Like, I like cohesion in albums.

And subject matter is also another one of those where Common Ground really kicked off where he was trying to say. Like he was literally saying, this is not my opinion. It's just what I see. So it's like one of those things where he's coming from his perspective, literally. Number two is it can't be because I love when white rappers acknowledge and just confirm that they have white privilege in the world. And him just saying, uh, it must like, hold on, let me see. Let me try to pull up these looks. He said, it must be my skin. I can't think of any other reason I win. Obviously, he was being a little sarcastic, but there's a little bit of truth in every comedic line. So with Jack Carlo, obviously we know the lighter skin rappers in hip hop

have the most success as Drake, Eminem, you could bring up Jay Z, P. Diddy, and Dr. Dre. But when we're talking about the top of the top, streaming wise, Drake and Eminem and Eminem are at the top of a predominantly black sport. And why is that? Anyways, and obviously I can keep going on and on. I mean, we have what? L.L. Cool J. We had Nelly.

Oh, don't even get me started with Nelly. Nellie was like Drake before Drake came. Like, he was light Drake. He was like Diet Drake. And then Drake came. Like, I think there's a reason for that. But, you know, I'm not just going to blame it all on colorism. But it is interesting how we have all these predominantly black

rappers and the lighter skin was at the top of the streaming charts. Anyways, let me keep going before somebody get mad. So anyways, those are my two favorite tracks. And then my third favorite track is they don't love it. Because I love when rappers come out and they claim the throne. They don't just say, oh, I'm here and I'm glad to be here. Jack Harlow could easily say that with this being his third studio album. he came out and said

no I deserve to be here and not only I deserve to be here he gave us a bar saying who is this at it's probably the hardest bar on the whole album he said the hardest white boy since the one who rapped about vomit and sweaters and hold the comments because I promise you I'm honestly better than whoever came to your head right then

and no he didn't stop there he kept going ladies and gentlemen This man said, they ain't cut from the same thread like him. They don't study doing work to get ahead like him. They don't toss around and turn into bed like him. And then he went into the chorus saying, because they don't love it. If that's not a classic, I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. So those are my three favorite tracks from the album.

In general, the whole album is just a lyrical exercise. That's why it's only 25 to 30 minutes long. It's not a long listen at all. You could probably breeze through it in like a session of working out. But at the end of the day, Jack Harlow has bounced back with Jackman. And I'm not going to say I'm surprised, but for him coming with this high quality lyrics, also with a little bit of replay value, I have to say it's probably my favorite album of the year. Because everything he was facing, putting this out was a huge risk because everybody could just say he gave us a rap album full of trash, corny bars. but everybody seems to enjoy it

and me personally I love it when artists come out and try to claim the throne because we have too many mumble rappers out here rhyming cat hat and bat and doing outlandish stunts to get attention

I like when artists claim the throne but they do it with lyrical quality instead of just mumbling and changing the size of their shirt so anyways click my link to me in my bio and let me know in one of my social medias what do you think about Jackson

Jackman, what do you think about Jack Harlow and the Jackman album? And also, if you've given it a listen, what is your favorite track? Now, after being released from prison, Nintendo Hacker still has to pay a monthly income for hacking. Now, it begs the question, what is or what should be the punishment for? for gamers who go above and beyond to hack a game and in turn generate revenue for themselves, where apparently Nintendo says they have the remedy for all of this blasphemy, as Gary Bowser, who was a 50, let me see, Gary Bowser, who was a hacker of Nintendo products or Nintendo Switch selling

schemes for Nintendo Switch? Oh, okay. Yeah, he was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a Nintendo Switch hack selling scheme. And after serving

his three years, so he just finished his three years, Gary Bowser would have to pay a portion of his future income to Nintendo as part of a 10 million dollar settlement with the company now whenever I think of somebody having to pay a percentage of his income for basically life I automatically just assume he doesn't have that

much money in the first place as best believe Nintendo will probably take that in a large sum rather than taking a percentage but if they don't have enough to their name to pay off the accused damages that they created then of course you got to come up with some type of legality or some type of contract or system where he can at least not have as much as he could when he first started hacking. I don't know if that makes sense. Basically, when somebody doesn't have the money to pay up front, usually you come with some type of layaway plan, which I'm certain probably has a little interest tacked on. Which begs the question, what is the proper way to handle a hacker of a video game i think the best way to handle hackers and

video games is to one suspend them like ip ban them because one thing about banning somebody they could just make another account so ip ban them for first like that's the first strike second strike it depends on how egregious the hack is if it's just a simple oh you get to see through walls or oh, you may be at a have AIMBot, like, you know, you may be able to hit him with a fine. But to go to jail time, I think it has to be an explicit breach of a system, not just the game. I think it has to be a breach of the system, which they did say he was a part of a Nintendo Switch hack selling scheme. So I think it has to be a breach of a system. hacking it in a way

that lets people get other things for free, which in turn will significantly decrease the revenue for Nintendo. So I don't think a regular game hack you should serve jail time for it.

I think you should just get fined and then that's it. Because if you keep doing it repeatedly, then you can just keep paying a fine. Like, you know, it's just pretty simple. But for jail time, I think it has to be explicit, loss and funds from that company. Like, you have to be able to pinpoint this person doing this, is affecting this, this, this, which is losing this X amount of dollars.

And then that person can go to jail if it exceeds a certain dollar amount. So, yeah, that's my take on what we should do with gamers who hack. But I really don't think that whole hacking thing is as serious as people make it out to be. But obviously, I'm a console player. And I say obviously, because the way I'm talking about this is pretty, you know, slap on a wrist type of approach. And people who play on PC probably have a way more aggressive tactic as far as dealing with hackers. Because at the end of the day, nobody wants to be playing the game and run into somebody who's hacking and just kills them about 360 no scoping because they have AIMBot. Like, nobody's trying to deal with that.

So I understand why people are upset at hackers because they're taking away the fun from the game. but jail time is excessive and even a fine may be excessive depending on how egregious to hack it. So anyways, I laid out how I would attack people who hack certain games and consoles, but click my link to share in my bio and let me know, what do you think is the best way to take care of gamers who hack? Time to answer the question that comes up time and time again from Avid Gaming. Why does AAA games nowadays take so long to come out but feel so poorly optimized slash incomplete? Now this is a fantastic question because nowadays when all of these games are coming out broken

unfinished with the price tag of $70 you can understand why gamers are starting to get upset going from 60 to 70 dollars just to give us a worst product would not sit right with anybody imagine Disney Netflix raising the price of subscriptions but then they was like hey for our future titles they're going to be a little bit laggy they may not work at times hey our whole site may just crash all together you probably wouldn't enjoy the Netflix or Disney subscription or you'll probably end up canceling it which is what Xbox is facing right now because i've heard and obviously i'm no insider but you know i do pay attention to the gaming industry a lot of people are regretting buying an xbox especially with the release of red

fall i think that's what the game was called a redfield redfall i think it's called redfall but basically that game is a buggy mess and it's exclusively to xbox users so i bring up this question to basically break down why certain games run the way they do on console compared to PC. Now, in turn, to put it in layness terms, games are very, very complex to develop. Like, me just saying that doesn't do it justice. It's very, very hard to code a video game.

Now, have I ever coded a video game? No, but I've watched documentaries. I've watched a plethora of videos. the type of just going through my rolodex of just patterns that developers use to develop games I mean we're talking about thousands of thousands lines of code that ends up bringing like 10 to 20 million lines of codes and you have less than like a 10th of that to create error because the whole thing would just throw it away And obviously, the way I'm talking about it is very much from a perspective of somebody who's never coded before, but I do recognize the way.

It's kind of like watching a basketball player. Like, he practices, he shoots, he makes it, he misses, but you do know they practice and put in a lot of work to even get to that stage. Game developers, even when they've released a buggy mess, probably took a lot of steps to build the game to what it is today, even if it's a mess. So if it's poorly optimized, what you have to look at is, It's easier to make games and develop games on console versus PC. And I say easier and it's probably the worst word to use. But just know that developing a game for a console is a set. Consuls are a set piece of hardware.

And if you develop games for a PC, there's so many different interchangeable parts for a PC when you're building it and even after it's built. You can upgrade it by changing a certain part. and you could upgrade your graphics card. There's different rigs for your PC. You want water cooled or you want it a different type of. There's so many different ways to build a PC.

There's only one set for console. So everybody has the same capabilities when it comes to console. You're working with a whole plethora of complex, different combinations and experiments. and experiments when you come to PC. Now, does that excuse people for asking for a $70 price tag off the bat if the game is broken? Of course not. But basically, I'm just saying it because it's harder to develop games for PC than it is for console,

which is why we're seeing a lot of people just stray away from even announcing a PC release date if they're not even close to making the console release date stable. So anyways, as very, rare to hear about a game five years, five plus years away for that very reason. You don't want to put too much pressure on the developers into thinking they have to come up with a masterpiece either five years or versus compared to less than two months. Like both of those depending on the size of the game, like if you're making the GTA, a Skyrim, a Witcher, it's going to take a while to develop. Obviously, if it's a sequel, you can use some previous assets that makes the process

faster, but then your fan base is going to want different improvements, which is going to cause a whole new month, well, months of development to implement. So you can only put so many assets from the previous game into somebody's like, well, why are you asking for another $70 price tag? You know? Anyways, what else? There was something else I wanted to get into.

What never found it. I think it was something else I had. Okay, so basically Cyberpunk 27 is probably the best example I can give of a game being completely broken at launch. I mean, can't even, like, so bad Sony came out themselves, the company and took the game off of the online PS store because it was just completely unplayable.

And it was still up to purchase. Like, if a game's broken, you would think the publishers would take it down. but Sony doing their due diligence because it was probably looking bad on them because everybody was asking for refunds if you don't know if you buy a digital copy I'm pretty sure you can't get a refund after a certain amount of time so Sony was running into a lot of problems because the game was literally unplayable but basically there's a different factors and variables devs pushed their games to certain um let's forget benchmarks but on

other pieces of hardware, they have to lower the graphics, they have to lower the frame rate. That's why everybody's like, oh, you're playing on console. We know you're playing at 30 frames per second versus PC where you can probably push to the most intense graphics, which is like 60 frames per second and even more. So it's a very different play style when it comes to console and PC. Usually PC is way more advanced, even nowadays, which goes back to the experimental part, where there's a lot of different interchangeable pieces with console is a set piece of hardware and that's why games at this point comes out unfinished because with the evolution and technology it gets even harder and harder to develop a game i wonder if i had another point i think that was basically my last point i'm trying to make sure though

because i want everybody to like get a clear picture of why games are coming out broken because a lot of games are trying to go to open world route and with that comes a lot of of what they If you ever looked at crunch time explained by developers, you would probably get a good indication of how hard these game developers work to get a game out by the deadline. And let's say respawn is the developers. Well, you have a publisher, which is EA Entertainment. If they give you a deadline and let's say the game is 50% finish,

where they're going to tell you, well, no, this is probably, this is how I've heard the conversation with. So basically, if a game's not finished and they want to put it out at a certain time, you ask for more time. And if they give you more time, they're going to put some extra stipulations as far as the contract and you lose the money. And then let's say you have to push it back even more. Well, it's going to get to the point where you're going to start, it's not going to look

as good as your contract if you don't put it out on a certain deadline because they want it at this time. So if you're pushing it back, well, guess what? They're lowering your contract because we paid you for this. You can't do it at this time. Okay, well, now you can't. Well, it's like certain, it's kind of like an NBA. You make the first team all NBA.

You get paid more. But let's say you don't even make the team no more. Guess what? You don't get paid at all. So obviously it's not that drastic, but, you know, they lower your pay if that makes sense. So at a certain point, they're like, hey, you want a product here, put this out. But they can't say it's not ready because it's their job to make it ready. So imagine going to your boss at the deadline, be like, hey, man, you can put this out to the public.

But hey, that's kind of trash. Like, who's going to say that, right? So they give it to them at the deadline. comes out broken everybody's mad and now you get stories like Redfall so anyways

click my link to your in my bio let me know on one of my social medias what do you think about the whole landscape of gaming and a lot of games coming out broken and unoptimized and what do you think

is the ultimate fix all of my Star Wars Jedi Survivor fans out there just know that the brighter days ahead because respawn has took it upon themselves to put out new patches, one for PC, one for console, that aim to, quote, fix the performance and stability issues that remain the one substantial mark against an otherwise impressive sequel, end quote.

Now, that's very interesting because if you think about it, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, I put out a poll on my YouTube, make sure to follow my YouTube at Analytic Dreams, notorious mass effect. shameless plug of course and they was saying that this game is almost perfect because the gameplay, the story everything is phenomenal but then we get into the performance frame rate as atrocious

crashes on PC basically I'm not going to say unplayable that's a little stretch but it's not an enjoyable experience on PC for what I've heard from a plethora of PC players and I've heard that the Xbox version crashes sometimes

I've never had it personally I'm playing the game if you uh another shameless player man I'm throwing them out today um analytic dreams notorious mass fake on my oh I already said my YouTube basically if you go to the playlist tab um if you go to streams it will see my Star Wars uh gameplay walkthrough and also if you want to if you listen to this after the fact and you're on Spotify I have the exclusive Spotify video gameplay walkthrough if you type in analytic dreams video so you don't even have to leave the platform you on You can watch my gameplay walkthrough on Spotify as well. Analytic Dreams video. Just type that in and it should pop up. Anyways. So yeah, the game definitely had issues at launch, especially on PC, really on PC. Like a lot of people was literally saying don't buy the game because it was just that bad. PS5, Xbox is not as bad, but definitely has some issues as far as frame rate and just performance in general.

is like including bugs um i think the game did end no not end i already said that okay yeah the game did crash for some xbox users but i didn't really see too much it complaints from the the console side so these fixes actually make the game run better from what i've been told i haven't played the game i mean i played the game but i haven't played the game after the patch because it literally just came out so Respond put out a whole PR statement saying today's patch has become available for the PC version of Jedi's Jedi Survivor and we'll be issuing a patch for PlayStation Xbox Series X. We are hard at work on patches that will further improve performance and fix bugs across all platforms.

Now that sounds like I promise. So hopefully this makes it run better from what I've been told. It definitely you can actually see improvements from the game and it fixes a lot. a lot of bugs across all platforms. So it's already promising because this week of content that I'm assuming is going to come from respawn because you already know they have a PR game plan rolled out because this is probably one of the biggest games of the year before you know what comes out because at Spider-Man PS5 is going to be a whole other beef.

It's going to be a whole other beast in itself. so yeah what else oh also I wanted to touch on something because I know I covered why AAA games are coming out

all unoptimized and stuff and people are like all upset with the raise price from $60 to $70 when these games are still a buggy mess and basically unplayable sometimes on PC

I wanted to break it down in AAA segment but I think I kind of did but I forgot to put in this quote so this quote still pertains to the subject

because we're talking about unoptimized games coming out. And it's kind of answering the question on why there's more and more AAA game being released recently. And somebody

who's a game developer came out and said when making a game for a console and it's kind of what I said, but in a much simpler way that everybody can understand. So anyways, as a game developers came out and said, when making the game for a console,

you're making it for one set of drivers slash hardware. When making a game for PC, you're making 900 plus possible combinations. So console, you're developing a game for one set of drivers slash hardware. For PC, you're making it for, and he said like so it's not even the exact number 900 plus possible combinations and he said i promise you was not laziness it's just really really really difficult and i second that statement because a lot of

people think games are just made magically and they just come out like bro if you really knew the development process of of these video games i always said i enjoy video games but the last job i would take in the gaming industry would be a game dev because it's just so much you need to have certain skills for it you have to be willing to give up certain free time because it's a lot of crunching in the development industry and obviously more developers are starting to push back against developers or publishers giving them strict deadlines which is in turn makes some crunch so by the way crunch means like when you basically go overtime finish a game for a deadline. So sometimes publishers give unrealistic deadline so it makes the

crunch even more extensive. And that's not good. You know, people want to see their family, kids, wife, husband, you know, all of these game developers have lives on their own. And sometimes when they're developing these games, publishers forget that. So I'm glad to see that Star Wars is getting a patch, but also I just want to put in perspective that these game developers are working hard, even if a game comes out a buggy mess, you never know the hours that they put in to even get it to that state for the deadline. So anyways, click my link to your bio,

let me know in one of my social medias. What do you think about this whole AAA game catastrophe with most of these games coming out unfinished in a buggy mess? And also, do you think that this is a sign for better things to come for Jedi Survivor? Or do you think the writing is already, No, that's not how you said.

Do you think it's set in song with the amount of bugs that was happening at launch? Getting into the overview of the pod for episode 121, we started off with the rise of the AI ghostwriters because, boy, are they rising and let's just say the revolution may or may not be televised because universe and music group is out for blood as they see all this revenue being created. from the likeness of an artist they signed, but it isn't going to them. And then we went into Jack Harlow returning with his third studio album with a very interesting comeback because a lot of people just said that he was washed up, but he came back and bounced back from his sophomore slump with what I'm thinking is probably his best album

to date. Then we got into the Coil-Ler Ray versus Lotto Beef, and I kind of broke that whole. whole situation down, talked about how in general, both of those artists are not really in the space to be for one another. So I'm glad that this got settled because it really makes no sense for these artists to beef. And so I'm glad that they squashed it. Then we transition into Nintendo hacker Bowser, basically being set to prison for three years coming out of prison and him having to give a portion of his proceeds forever to Nintendo, like a portion, a percentage of his lifetime earnings to Nintendo.

So wherever he makes, some of that's going to go to Nintendo. So I guess Nintendo gave a whole new meaning to Uncle Sam because even though the, I think the China-based company, they're still coming in with that tax added on to the final revenue stream for Bowser. And it's funny, his name, the hacker's name is Bowser. He must really be a Nintendo fan. He just went a little bit too far with helping out the Nintendo player base. Oh, no.

Then we got into AAA games, and so I was looking at the wrong article. Then we got to AAA games and why it's not running as well nowadays compared to in the past, I talked about the evolution of technology, the difference of developing. a game for console versus PC and why we should give more leeway to developers because they do go through a lot and have to do a lot to get a game out at a certain time and I don't think people really put that into perspective. Then we transition into Star Wars, which is probably the talk of the town right now, as is one of the best games of 23, but the performance issues are glaring and I kind of

explain that whole situation and how people are feeling about it but one thing is for certain Respond has taken action and put out a patch to improve performance so we're going to see how that ends up going in the long run

so that's about it for episode 121. Thank you for help well thank you for listen to me struggle through that recap. Usually I told you I changed the format on my episode I try to get through as many topics as I can before I want to end the episode. So whenever I'm recapping it, I don't really have like a list of it. I just have to go like through my history and sometimes the article

throw me off. So I appreciate y'all for bearing with me with that. And also, you know, before I give my conclusion, I just want to say I really appreciate y'all for supporting. I know y'all get tired of me saying that over and over, but I really do, you know, approaching 38,000 as far as weekly downloads. It's not an easy feat by any stretch of that imagination. obviously you have the Joe Rogan's out here getting like I don't know 500 six out of six thousand in a day but you know you got to start somewhere and I could start at zero you know like it could be zero a week could be 100 a week 200 not really trying to disrespect nobody just saying that it could be less and I definitely um understand how much 38000 is and let me tell

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