The Flycast - The Iceman Album Review | The Flycast Ep. 191

Episode Date: May 24, 2026

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We got Future ATL thug fucking 21. Well, 21's Drake's boy. But who fucking ASAP, Rocky, New York. You got Atlanta. You got Cali. You got New York. you got whoever the hell else I'll mention and y'all let

Chicago the villain Chicago Drill Chicago Backpack yeah like in Kanye's the fucking villain y'all fucking it's pathetic what he's done to y'all the episode

of the flycast episode episode episode oh episode Iceman episode Iceman

episode Iceman I'm sure everyone's excited for this one. Oh, bro. People are so excited. This is either going to catch fire, or should I say catch ice. Catch ice. Or get a million views. Or this will be our lowest view.

Oh, this will be our lowest viewed episode ever. Oh, my God. See, I wanted to do this with Pam. Yeah, Pam asked me to be on the flycast But I was like, I'm in Arizona man And he was like, when you get back And I was like, all right, when I get back We'll do flycass with Pam

This is Iceman part one Right, we'll do Iceman part two Whatever People will surely People really want to see that But to be honest I don't care anymore I went to the comment section

I think of the last flycash I think I saw like two negative comments So like I just don't even I don't fuck with this shit no more Did you see what I posted that the guy said on Flycast on Twitter. He said Flycast is always better

whenever Nick's life is not going very well. Yeah, I did see that. I mean, but it does kind of, see, see, but I appreciate that. That's a comment, like, I would, I would, like, thumbs that up. That's a real one?

That's real gamer shit. But, like, that other fake shit, I just can't fucks with. See, if someone can't, see, it's the people who, if my life's, not going good and i like you know i'm just venting this is a therapy session if you really think about it right um but when i'm just venting and then people hate on that i can't even

talk on my own podcast it's kind of you're like that that's when it's that's when it's that's what it's pathetic yeah okay or like someone called me dumb in the comments like i really and then someone replied to it and like he is dumb and like that that that's I try not to let comments to get to me. But like that one, that was too much. Yeah. You can talk about my fam.

You can talk about my friends. You can talk about a lot of shit. But when it comes to my IQ, my intelligence, you can't, can't downplay your intelligence. Because that's something, that's what I've always took pride in.

Yeah. Getting on the mic, spitting facts, educating people. And, you know, that's just always, been my thing. That was before Halo Pro.

You know? Yeah, I get it. People I speak, people listen. So if you, you know, if you aren't with me on that, then I ain't with you. And that's just, that's just how it's going to be. That's just how it's supposed to be. That's how it always was. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I get you, man. This feels deep. Anyways, yeah, I'm pissed off today. Why are you pissed off? No, but I'm actually pissed off. What happened? I woke up.

I was like, God, I'm fucking ugly and fat. But then I was like, all right, but maybe I can do something about this. I'm ugly fat, depressed. What if I, like, I need to upload a vlog. That's how it's like, I woke up. That's how it starts. I'm ugly fat depressed and the vlog is the answer to that. So.

Okay. Because I feel like I've just been bumming it for like five days. Okay. So I was like, you know what? I'm a vlog today. I don't want to. But sometimes you've got to do things you don't want to do. Wasn't in the mood.

It'd be like that. It'd be like that sometimes. Right. So sometimes. Yeah, just some, very rare. Very rare. Very rare. But today was one of those days.

But I was like, you know what? I'm a vlog today. I'm a, I'm a text some people, aka one specific person. to be in the vlog need a thumbnail. I have an idea who you texted. So, texted her. She was,

she was down for, what did you say? He said formal. Yeah, because like, well, I could text him, but he just like probably won't reply

if I insinuate like, anything besides picking him up and taking him home. I think like, I don't know if he'd like hit me back. Yeah. But anyways, woke up. grab my vlog camera

go to put in the SD card and the SD card's just like not it goes in but it won't like stick in okay so my SD card slot is just broke I tried a different SD card it's it just doesn't work

I think I might have broke it because I think I you don't think it just randomly snapped I don't think it randomly snapped like while I was sitting there I think it had something to do with me putting in the SD card backwards

right when I because I like kind of just woke up I was still I just wasn't thinking grabbed the SD card and it was backwards but I like kind of just like jammed it in there but it like

that's not the way you're supposed to insert it that's true I think it fuck something up but it's like I kind of not that I'm joking about it but it actually does really piss me off so I'm gonna have to get your camera fix now

I got to get my camera fixed now. So I don't know. And I'm trying to, I'm vlogging on my phone today. And it's just not the same. I fucking hate it. But. Well, luckily the camera you used wasn't that expensive. Yeah, no.

It's luckily, you know, that camera knew, you know, it's only like 24, 2,500. Yeah. So a fix like this probably, you know, I'm sure I can just take it in a, to be honest, hopefully I can just, there's a computer repair store near me. and hopefully they can fix it because I bought it off eBay. I don't think I have a warranty. I bought it used off eBay. Right. I don't think that comes with like that.

That one, that doesn't come with a warranty, you don't think? No, I don't think so. I'm going to have to read the fine print. But, yeah, I don't believe that's going to come with a warranty. So I don't know. My day just hasn't. We push through, you know.

We push through. It's Ice Man, We, It's Iceman Week. There's no way that you can be down because the Iceman is here. Because Ice Man's up. I can't be down when Ice Man's up. Right. Like, finally music is back to being safe. Hip-hop is back. We went through such, we went through such a drought, you know, listening to save and to choosing Texas, I can tell. Boom, boom, bop, bam. listening to boom bop bam like real hip-hop's back now yeah now real hip-hop's

out that real ice shit yeah shes back the culture vultures are out and real raps back in yeah and we've been waiting for this moment i was uh on a serious note well well we've been serious this whole time we don't we don't fuck around here there's no joking uh there's no joking here but this was would you say this was his most anticipated album since uh-huh probably i would say since views views was very anticipated but bro views had us up at at us all in the basement waiting at 1159 for it to drop i think that i think what you was like was views like the first time that there was that like midnight release party I mean, as far as I can remember, yeah.

Because that's like relatively new for hip hop or for music. Yeah, for like, uh, yeah, I guess like a listening. Because it used to be out on like, because you used to have to go get it on CDs like the day after. Well, I don't even think it came out on Spotify. I think it dropped on like Apple. Apple music. Yeah. Like an Apple radio.

Yeah. So we just had to sit there and listen to the whole thing and then it would come out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe that was the first. Did people used to, so like back in the day, did people used to. I don't remember. When an album would drop in a CD's in the store, our motherfucker, like new Marshall Mathers

LP drops, are people in Walmart, like line or? I think so. I think people buy CDs. I only remember buying CDs like after like a week or two after the, like on some chill shit. Yeah, like just just like casually walking through Walmart and being like, oh, this is Stony from Post Malone. Yeah, sure, I'll grab it. Or like this is Skater Boy by Avrilavine.

Sure, I'll grab it. Yeah. But like I don't remember like lining up to do anything like to listen to music. People used to. Did people. Did people used to lie up for CDs? at stores. I remember downloading

I remember downloading mixtapes off of datpiff. I mean, yeah, and limwire. And yeah, like, I remember those days, but I don't remember. The fans regularly lined up

at record stores on release days. Okay, so it was a lot like a, like a 12 a. Midnight. Like a midnight release for like a video game. Midnight madness. Super fans gathered hours hours outside stores.

for highly anticipated albums. What is that? I think there's a clip of like Drake and I think it's Drake and J. Cole like in a CD store and Drake's like, yo, we got to buy all of these and he bought like an entire

tray of of J. Cole's like first album. I think or it was either that or take care. It was one of the two. Yeah, I think I do remember that. Dude, it's crazy. All right, all right, let's talk about Iceman. What did you think of the album?

What did you think of the album? Because we sat here. I knew that the episode four was coming out. So we streamed it. And you were in the chat. And I don't know if you watched the whole episode four. Did you? No, I didn't.

I also, I clicked it. And I was hearing shit I haven't heard before. And I was like, I don't want to hear this. But I also appreciated, like, the visuals. like I wanted I didn't want to hear a leak like there were so many there were leaks coming out either the day of or the night or the like day before right and I remember you even texted me and bro I think you said like yo have you heard like APG texted me and it was like yo leak and I was like I'm gonna be honest I don't even want to

listen to it and then you texted me and that's what I texted you again I was like bro I don't even want to listen and you were like and you basically convinced me you were like the bars are going to be all on Twitter anyways. Yeah, like, you're going to see those like, what is it, Kerkow? What is that Twitter account? Kirkgo. You're going to see them tweeting out like the bars and you're going to not be able to hear it before you see it, which is even worse.

Like, I hate when that happens. I hate it. I would much rather hear a leak than get the bars like ruined for me. So especially because it was like a timestamp track that leaked. It wasn't like, like if, if, if, if dust had had leaked or like the, the future track had leaked, like, I wouldn't have cared. But I wouldn't have even listened to it. But it was the, it was like him, like, really rapping.

The time stand, you can't really. Yeah. You always, timestap stops up. You listen. You make time to listen immediately. You have to make time. Do you remember when Calabasasas dropped? What is it?

Like 5 p.m. in Calabasas. I don't, I don't remember, like, what else. That came out, that came out in the scuff house. And you were like, punt, pump, pump, all you said. smell promoters a janky like and i was like what the fuck was that all you self promoters are janky did me and you listen to it at the same time yeah i don't know if we listened to it like on release but i remember just like holy shit yo look yeah yeah trache calabas oh it's 4 p.m. in calabasas yeah it came out in 2016 i remember like looking at like i remember i remember like listening to that together

because i was like oh my god yeah But all right. So, yeah, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the episode four dropped. I didn't know that was coming out. Oh, you did it? No. I thought I was just sitting there waiting for like midnight or 11 p.m. I guess our time. Oh, yeah.

He put it on his like, uh, on his like Instagram story. But I, I knew you would be streaming. So I like, like, clicked your stream and I saw you watching that. I was like, oh, yeah, fuck. I forgot he has been, like, doing these episodes. And then I was like, just listening a little bit. And I was like, what is this shit? Like, I'm hearing.

hearing stuff I haven't heard before. Yeah. And then I was like, is this just like some extra stuff that isn't on the album? But he's just like making a, just like visuals out of it just to like hype it up. But he was like actually playing the songs, which I didn't like. I didn't want to hear the songs. Dude, I did. Well, I mean, you were also in a different element than me.

You were streaming. You had like people. like it was a whole I mean kind of I listened I watched all three I watched all of the other three episodes off stream and I sat there and watched them What was the um

I did get hyped up I remember clicking Let's make sure we're still in a jam Is it this? Wait which one is it The one where he's dissing Oh I think you just I think you just left the jam Hold on Damn it

Start a jam copy Yeah I think you just left it I'll send you another one. What's the, what's the song with where he's this and A-Sab Rocky? Oh, this shit. I put you through the ringer. Yeah, yeah. You damn, body, buy.

Which one is that? It's called Burning Bridges. Yeah, that's what I'm playing. Am I just not far enough in it? You have to, you have to accept my jam again on Twitter. This spring, denim gets a softer, lighter update. Introducing Old Navy's drapey denim wide leg, a new fit that moves with you. It's everything you.

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but like it's pure it's pure like swag like i think i like clicked off for a little bit i was like i don't really want to hear it but then i was just laying here not do anything so i clicked your stream again and it was playing that yeah you know but your baby mommy where's you at dude that's like one of the most least viewed i was i was looking at the the numbers this morning uh oh yeah and it's the yeah it's one of it's yeah i mean obviously the the last four tracks, which usually is how it goes. The last four tracks are down or the least viewed. But National Treasures is at 28.

Janice shut the fuck up, which is not, that is not the song that I thought was going to be. That is not the song that I thought was going to take off. But I mean, it does have a really catchy hook, really catchy. Yeah. But I didn't even think so. I think I was late to it. Also, firm friends is the least played. See, this is why, like, I don't know.

People have their opinions on the album, the albums, and Drake himself. But, like, firm friends having the least amount, too hard for the radio, having double the amount of listens that firm friends has. Like, he's just rapping his ass off again. in the fact that yeah but like

I think I like this is friends this is what we've learned is like like Drake rapping rapping like people don't really people don't really like the majority of all of his number ones I was thinking about this earlier I want I'm gonna pull up his number ones

he has 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 wait like all of his number ones of all time Yeah, number one bill. I can understand why people like other shit because I'll I'll explain in a second, but I feel them on that. Okay, so Drake has 13 number one number ones. See how many you can name. Dude, I don't, I'm not going to be able to do that. I'd have to like go, I'm not, I'm just not good with like titles.

I'd have to go like album to album But then it's gonna be stuff Like it'll be something like Take care with Rihanna Or something like that Nope See I don't know fucking Just try to get one

Hotline bling is not on there God's plan God's plan is on there We got one Yeah that's it That's it So all right Here are all of his number one hits

And that's the thing Is he has 13 Michael Jackson had had 13 Or Michael Jackson have 14 I can't I don't know if he's

Yeah he's tied with Michael Jackson right now I thought as the most No they're both tied He needs one more to beat him That's why first person shooter said I'm one away from Mike Beat it fella beat it

Is that Janice Is that gonna be it So here is number ones What's my name With Rihanna So that's Rihanna So that's Rihanna's song What's my name

What's my name? What's my name? Do you remember that song? And then the song Work by Rihanna. That's his other number one. Work, work, work, work. Then the next five are, What's my name?

What's my name? I forgot he was on this song. It's a good-ass song. What? I said it's a good-ass song. It's a good song. See, like there's just keep going. All right.

So then the next one is one dance. I need a one. Then we have God's plan. Then we have Nice for what? I didn't know Nice for what. See, I don't understand how like Nice for what's crazy.

I mean nice for what. Bro, I remember it dropped. I'm drunk in the back of an Uber at like 1.30 in the morning heading home from Lord God knows where. And I saw, I don't know,

maybe I looked on Twitter and saw it that it dropped. And then I saw, saw it on Spotify and I made my Uber driver play it and I was like, why? I was so hype. It was so good. Once it goes to like, bend it over, pick it up,

bend it over, lift it up or whatever. Then we have In My Feelings. What is that? Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding? The next one is two C slide. I didn't know that one went number one. I'm telling you, this number one shit.

Left foot. right for a slide see I don't understand how that's but it's crazy how like that was like peak TikTok era right where like motherfuckers were dancing and he just he was like all right well this is a wave let me hop on the but it's just it's crazy how he was like let me make it a dance for TikTok he made one it's a number one like he did that shit Is your shit still playing? Does it pause when I pause? Yeah, I just paused it.

Oh, it didn't, I'm gonna play right now? Yeah. Did it play for you? Yeah. I'm a pause. I don't understand this shit. Maybe only I can pause. I don't know.

The song, What's Next? I think of it's in the fame away. What's wrong with you? What's sitting in the box like the owners do? I'm surprised this was a. this was on yeah I'm surprised this was one yeah

I got one version of there's the only two how many times I've been whoa yeah so that one that one went number one uh the next song way too sexy went number one see I don't care about these number one

that's what I'm saying like we're talking about the charts the fucking unless I have to win the argument, then I'll bring up the charts and the numbers. The song Wait for You, what number one, which is that song like, like,

Oh, wait for you. It's my, like with, it's a future song with Thames. I will wait for you. Oh, that's a,

see, this is a banger. This is, we'll get to it. All right. Well, we'll talk about it when, when you're done,

name it. all this shit. You just have someone in your posit. Okay. That song is fire. That's, I think that song is really good.

Yeah, it is very good. The song Jimmy Cooks went, went number one. Which, that had to have been just random. Because Jimmy Cooks is a good song. It's on obviously,

uh, honestly, never mind, right? Yeah. I'm an, uh, it's a different mode. I had to make a pain of six on a pinky toe.

But, but like, I feel like, I feel like nothing was on the, nothing was on the charts at the time. I feel like you, like, if you drop, like, it's not even shit from like, I mean, there's the Rihanna songs. But like, is there not much from like, take care, nothing was the same? Nothing from take care. Nothing from, actually views is, uh, what is it? One dance. One dance is from views. But like, that's what I'm saying, like.

Or his first album or so. Park on. Yeah. And then the last two are slime you out by Drake and Siza. I don't even remember that song. And then... I'm a Siza Hater. And then first Hata.

I'm a Siza Hater. That sounded so fucking... I'm a Siza Hater. I'm a Siza Hater. And then the last one is first person shooter. So J. Cole's number... I think that's... I think you don't like first person shooter?

I mean, it's good. But like, I'm thinking it's like. Like J-Col kind of carries that song, if I'm being honest. Yeah, but Drake wrote it for him. No, I'm kidding. But yeah, I don't remember slime you out. Play slime you out. Because I don't remember it at all.

I'm so bad with like putting names to. I don't know. You got my mind in a terrible. I don't remember this song. You don't know. Like, you don't. know it no i i i like know it but i don't remember it at all uh i remember hearing this a lot but it wasn't like because this is what i've listened to it because i'm a ciza hated

you what i'm a ciss a hater you what ciss i hate oh yeah that so those are his number ones and that's why like when people talk about number ones i'm like yeah i don't really care unless i have to argue the fact that he's better than kendrick then i'll like maybe argue numbers and streams and number ones and charts but it's like even like album of the year motherfuckers like killer Mike one album of the year like two years ago or something then Kendrick won it with

Jenny Jenny X fucking I don't just like just shit that other people Gen X wait what are that Jenny X I was like what the fuck what is Jenny X? They really they aren't right about my IQ there's like Jen

that's not a fucking letter G and X what I say Kendrick won it with Jenny X and like but yeah

I just don't oh man comes up and see in other people's reviews on the album make a what we're like kind of doing now I just don't

yeah I just don't care about other people it's like it's all holy shit bro I was I I was

just curious. Just out of curiosity, I looked up Kendrick's number ones. See, how wasn't it this number one? Hold up. I thought this was a number one. Maybe I'm freaking. I mean, this song's so good. So I was looking up just out of curiosity. Kendrick's number ones, he has bad blood with Taylor Swift. Now we got bad blood. Kendrick was on that. Problems.

Yeah. So Kendrick was on that. carried so that was that song and then he has humble sit down be humble that's a good one he has that those are his number ones and then from then on it's like that

his next one is like that which started the beef then it's like that not like us squabble up and Luther with with future I ain't gonna lie like that was kind of no this is like the best

song from the beef out of like kendricks side it was the best song i think in the beef yeah song wise probably yeah song wise that's the best song the very first one but it's just crazy that it was just like he he had bad blood with taylor swift he had humble which was his own song and then after that it was all post beef which ones luther always uh That is a good song. Bye. That is a good song. That is a good song.

It is a good song. But, yeah. So that, that, number ones, they don't really matter, but it is interesting. It is interesting. I wonder what Michael Jackson's number one, Billbert's songs were. Just fucking. Michael Jackson number one songs. Billy Jean, Rock.

Don't stop to you get enough rock with you. Billy Jean beat it. I just can't stop loving you bad. The way man in the mirror, dirty Diana, black or white, you are not alone. I mean, that's insane. That's like it's such a better number one billboard list than like Drake, to be honest. Oh, that is so much better. That is crazy.

It's funny that like PYT never went. Like there he in Michael Jackson still has so many other. There's thrillers not on here. PYT's not on here. Like, how is thriller not there? That's what I'm saying. Like, like,

it's just such a stupid list. It really is. It really is a stupid list. But so is, is number ones just, like, what's the, it's the Billboard chart.

The Billboard Hot 100 is the name of the list. So it's just like, whatever played. It's a combination of radio plays, album sales, streams for like a certain amount of time. yeah well it just like as it's week by week basis okay so if anything ever hits if your shit ever hits the number one spot right then you got a billboard number one but it's week to week i'm surprised

like drake doesn't have more how many does taylor swift and it's drake and michael jackson drake and michael jackson so i don't know how many taylor swift has either i'm surprised there's not more than that like someone just like katy perry's run or taylor swift or post malone yeah wait it says Taylor Swift has 14 I don't know bro I don't know I don't understand this I don't understand but anyway so I don't I don't know I don't really get it but regardless the album comes out and I think what what was obvious happened which is Drake fans loved it and Kendrick fans hated it and Kendrick fans hated it And Drake haters really hated it.

And, well, I think what we were talking about was, um, a lot of his, like how I was saying, I think I would got in that conversation. I was saying firm friends being like the lowest. Right. People want the, like people listen to this album and they're like, there's no like, and I, I agree. This was my gripe with this album as too.

There's no like, not to say Hot 100, song but there's no hot that that type of of song like a I mean Janice shut the fuck up is catchy but like I don't see that like blowing it's kind of blowing up I see it all I see a lot of TikTok audios and like

Instagram stories every girl is using it for their Instagram story but I just don't see it being like you know a one dance or take care with Rihanna like a work with Rihanna or fucking God's plan or something like that. Or God's plan or just any of just songs like that or even like a passion fruit or.

Yeah, passion fruit. Yeah. Any of his like his honestly never mind stuff. Like there's it doesn't, yeah, you're kind of right. It doesn't seem it didn't seem on first listen. But he also dropped three albums, which was I think everybody was really excited. He dropped three albums. Personally, I found it a little daunting.

I didn't like it. Yeah, I didn't. I was like, low-key be real and like, yeah, I'll explain. But I wasn't a fan. What do you mean you'll explain? I'll explain my dislike. Like, I'll be, like, I, like, I'm a Drake Dick Rider, but I'm not going to dick ride. And I'm going to.

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My first listen through, I was like, this shit's trash. For Habeasie and Made of Honor. Iceman, because I remember you on your stream, you were listening to it. Or you listened to like Made of Honor or Habibti first. I listened to the other two first before Iceman came out. See, I didn't watch a lot of the, and you were like, the reason is because like you heard a lot of Iceman on the episode before the album's dropped. right so i was like why didn't really listen to all that so let me just like start i'm starting off with ice man went to the gym put in my headphones can you hear this yeah i was like make them cry

i heard this i was like yes yes yes this is what i fucking wanted i'm just i'm in the cut just load them rebuttals and i got a bunch of i was just on the treadmill like this is what I fucking wanted. Yeah. And then I'm gonna click dust. Is dust playing? Yeah, dust is playing. Dust is like the hardest track.

So number one place, number one place through, I'm like, yes, this is what I wanted. Then dust comes on and I'm hearing this. And I'm like, this is gonna be the best album of all time. Like, just hearing this. And then I was like, okay, not exactly what I was thinking, but like whatever. And then this happened.

I'm on the treadmill just still warming up. And then I hear... Yeah. It was like... Go to bustle the past. Go to dust your place. This shit starts falling up. Bro, I think I paused.

I don't know nothing about you. Did it pause for you? Yeah. I paused. And I was like, I don't even think I got to like the rapping part. I might have paused right there. Clicked off spot. If I went to your stream and typed, oh, like, that's when I was like, oh, my fucking God.

I was like, I don't know, hyping it up, something about Iceman. But then I was like, okay, bye. Then I went back to it and start playing it again. Is it playing for you? Yeah. Free on my guys up. Sold out show with your girl on the risa. Something, something cigar, something.

Fucking my eyes up. If it fits up to me, I get that. Everyone lined up. And I was like, oh, my, my, fucking. I was like, this is the best album of all time. Then, like, number three. Just on track, too. I was like, this is going to be the greatest.

And then whisper my name comes on. And I liked it. I was like, bro, he's like, three for three right now. Yeah. Then Janice came on, and I wasn't the biggest fan. Feed me, baby. I was just like, all right, this is whatever. Run to Atlanta was decent.

I thought it was like, I don't know, I thought it was all right. At first, I was like, you know, I was just like, okay, okay. First three were fire, Janus, I don't know, ran to Atlanta. I don't know. Shabang came on. I was like, I don't know. Then make them pay came on. I was like, all right, this is.

Dude. Bro, there's not, there's not a skip. There's not a skip. There's not a skip. This album, you can play and just, like, you can go to number one and hit play. There's not a skip. There's not a skit. The only skip is maybe ran to Atlanta.

I mean, I don't even think if I was to pick a skip, I don't think this is a, it could be. But like Drake starts rapping on it too. That's like the second, it's like the beat switch. Bro, I have a question. Because one, one, I pause it. One thing that people did say is that there are too many, too many beach switches. I can see that. Like, Dust, I didn't need the beat switch.

Just started off with the second beat. Ran to Atlanta, I kind of think the same thing. Really? I think ran to Atlanta is like a per- That is like typical Drake future. I'm a beat switch fan. Right. I love beat switches.

I think the only, the only time I thought it wasn't worth was bees on the table. I don't like the hook at all. I don't know, I don't think 21-7. needs to be in this i i get pissed when i see drake featuring 21 savage i get pissed i'm like stop i like i like 201 savage too but i'm like bro stop putting he is yeah just like you know i don't want to hurt his feelings but it's like the exact same vibe every single time yeah yeah like a future's on something you don't know what future's gonna like future's gonna like run to atlanta like there's so many songs straightcast with future that they sound different 21 savage every fucking song is the

fucking same with this guy so like my hope i don't know if i said this on a flycast but i remember telling someone my only hope for ice man is no 21 21 savage yeah i don't want to see 21 savage i don't want to see ciza sexy red i think is what you said probably like sexy red like just don't have those on ice man and i'll i'll be okay and then i saw this at first i did i hated on it But then I actually like this song. What? Bees on the table. I think the beat switches, right?

Yeah, where's the, I don't know. It's, it paused for me. Dun, dun, I don't know. He kind of wraps on it. And I like it. Yeah,

the beat switch and bees on the table is really good, but I don't like the beginning part. And I also don't like, like some of his best, some of the best things that he's saying is on that, is on that song. because he's talking about I think a lot of this album

is obviously him addressing the beef is him addressing even more so than the actual beef it's more addressing the people that turned their back on him while he was going through it and also a big part of this album is him talking about what he's going to do next because what people are saying

is that he dropped three albums in order to get out of to complete his deal with UMG and with him completing his deal with UMG either has to resign with UMG or he has to sign somewhere else or do something really insane which would be to go independent. Yeah. Because he would be the most popular independent musician of all time, probably.

I mean, I don't, I don't even think it's, especially in hip hop. So, so he, a lot of this is like him saying he's like, and one of the songs, I don't even know which one it is. he's trying to make himself from the boy to the man. So he's trying to take himself from, they call him the boy apparently in Toronto. And he's trying to be the man, which is like what you call the business.

Like I'm, I'm, you know, stay, stay away from the man. Like he doesn't want to be Drake under UMG. Right. He wants to be Drake and everything is under him. Yeah. And what, apparently the rumors are, happening. I don't know where these rumors are even coming from that he got like a private equity

he got a private equity offer for a couple billion dollars in order for to fund his music. Some salty shit. Yeah, I would assume it has something to do with with either, you know, the gaming industry or. Drake joined the Falcons. Did Drake join the Falcons? So I don't, I don't know. I don't know what it what it is, but I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but if Drake goes independent, or even more so if Drake becomes part of an owner of like a big, either starts his own like label. Because like owning a label like how Birdman does, you're owning like a subset of a label. like Birdman Birdman owns cash money

Who's owned by someone else And then young money was owned by cash money Like it kind of trickles down But like Drake's not trying to do any of that Like he's trying to be Lucian Grange Basically like Is kind of what it seems like And so a lot of this shit is like a

Like a warning Or like a like a leaving I guess manifesto Towards that side of hip hop which is interesting but it's also that kind of stuff is so boring to a majority of people i mean even like i don't really yeah you know exactly i don't know enough to or like care i saw a tweet i saw a tweet that had like so many like i don't know like 50 000 likes or something and it was a girl that said which album do i listen to for the girls because his boy music scares me

I just thought that was so funny his boy music scares me because then you hear like the song plot twist because then you hear the song plot twist and it's so it's like there's no way like Alexis isn't listening to plot twist

you know what I mean like remember that song the this song is all about not understanding gang signs oh There was a line in here I wanted to send you I'm going to send you.

I'll be with them guys from the six that you They're talking about Yeah I don't know Twist He said like if he If he ain't throwing up the G thing something something

Something I was like whatever Drake's talking about We gotta learn Like we're gonna start the I remember he did like some shit like this I'm going to start doing this. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah, he did this, right?

He did this and then this. And I was like, oh, no, Nick's going to start doing that. That's going to be my new blog intro. Welcome back to our new flycast intro. Welcome back to another. Hey, welcome back to another episode. I think the album, I mean, I genuinely, I have, I've been playing it pretty nonstop. but I always do this with albums

like I think see I haven't you were doing that with his last shit like no I'm saying with albums in general I do this like when the fall off came out I listened to the fall off like religiously for like two weeks

but I'm saying like certified lover boy and oh dude I played certified lover boy front to back some sexy songs for you with party no no I didn't play I didn't play it but I don't really I don't really enjoy his like or for all the dogs with

for all the dogs I played a decent amount as well but it was only because I don't know but nothing nothing has hit as far as Drake's discography nothing has hit like this sense of views for me yeah I think this is his best I think this is his best album sense of views and we'll see

we will see like where where it goes from there because I always like when Drake wraps more than he you know makes a hit or more than more than like sings yeah and views was a lot views is a weird vibe for drake like i like views is like maybe i know views is like one of your favorite came out in like it's winter time and let's see exactly when it dropped when did that 2016

Drake come out oh it was april of 2016 i just remember i mean probably because i listened to it the whole year but I just remember it being like like I I look it was like cold music like I enjoy being like cold in the Jeep with the fucking air blowing the fake windows yeah in listening to views like there's just so many like like feel no ways you uh are you with me or what turn the six upside down and said nine now all these the people that I need right like all of like control of one dance oh it's fucking it's such a good album all of these songs are songs though too good like he's not really like rapping on a lot of these like he's really not that's what so i love i really like views but i also really like my favorite type of drake is time stamp drake it's

like punch line heavy but also my favorite kind of drake is also like um like this like oh like and there's sort of maybe not right not really but he is rapping on that

but for a better example I'll say like there was there is none of the Georgia interlude is not what I was expecting you to play

there is no over my dead body there is no yeah there hasn't been over my dead body in a long There was no shot for me. There was no cameras.

Like, yeah, there hasn't been a lot of those in a long time. Like, Drake wrapping his ass off. I don't know. See, I don't know if cameras or Drake wrapping his ass off is my, I think this is my favorite, this is your favorite? And then it's rapping his ass off. Iceman was so much wrapping his ass off. I like it.

And being like the villain that I, I just. just wish in like the ride the ride he's out he's wrapping his ass off in this but it's it's but this doesn't give me like ice man yeah well ice man he's like evil like but it's like the entire

you're you're playing the difference between his like first real album or his first dude you're playing the two different drakes right now shut that pitch you I'm playing the Boy versus the man. Yes. You're playing, you're playing like.

But this is the Drake that I like. But what I think he's saying in Iceman is that guy is like dead. He did say that. Like, he literally said that. Like it's like, it's like, yeah. I think he said something like that. But it was like, I think it was like the last song. Bro, the last song, the last song of Iceman, make them know is going to do.

That is going to age beautifully. because he's he dude this song is unbelievable it's so good i did you think it's towards the end he says like free like some connier shit yeah i just want to hear what he says at the end these niggins were cooping on 2012

they gotta do it in increments what happened to drake from 2009 when all of the moments was in that's what i'm saying with their innocence. I don't think you'll be seeing him. No. No, I like him.

Are you still playing it? No, I pause it. Okay. Because like, yeah, people are like, you know, they're like, I think people didn't like him rapping his ass off so much and being like the,

it's me and my guys versus all of y'all. That was sort of like, I guess, the theme of this. Whether it's labels, other rappers, his bees. How could that not, Here's my question.

How could that not be the vibe of this album? How could it not be? I just, because I was just, I'm over it. His every single song he's put out, it's like about that stuff now. That's not true.

Actually, is Nokia. Like, I don't think Nokia is about that. What did I miss is on this album? So you can't say, you can't. But,

well, that's, I'm just saying, like, all of his, songs. Even what did I miss before this album? What person?

He was going to be on the album, but he just like, it's, it's all, it's, there's no cameras. There's no vibe. There's no, like, in a car with the female at night time, windows. I feel like he released two other albums. He released two other albums for that. And maybe I have to listen to those again, but it, there's so much weird shit that I, yeah. I did save a few songs from, from those albums.

I think. And then I saved four on a BD, whatever. And then I saved four for made of honor. But I haven't even gave, I haven't gave them enough listens. I listened to those two albums on release night. I haven't even touched them since. I haven't even touched them. I did a listen through afterwards.

And it was kind of maybe a two-time listen through. But there are songs that I'm just like, yeah, I'm just not going to fuck with this. So I skip. Like I'm not going to listen to it again. Yeah, right. But yeah, there was four from each of those. But I do need to give them another listen-through. In Toronto, every arrival is a statement,

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I got in and out. I don't need it right now. I don't need right now. What? In and out. You mean you meal prepped? Yeah, I meal prepped. just put it down right there.

See, people always see, and that's what motherfuckers are, people will pick and choose which Drake to hate on at which time. Now he's like this victim rapper villain going against him. They're like, they hate that. But he used to be, he's rapping his ass off. They hate that. But he used to be singing Drake soft. I hate that.

Like he's like that shit's whack. And that it's just they pick and shoot because they don't like him. They don't like it. I kept saying that. I kept saying that on stream. Like, I was like, you know how freeing it is? To instead of looking for excuses of why you don't like someone. Like, think about Hacks.

He had to, like, he didn't get to enjoy LeBron. L. L. Hax. Yeah. He didn't get to enjoy him. He didn't like him. He never got to enjoy the wrong. Just say, I think at one point in the stream, I just went, guys, I don't like logic. I just don't like him.

It's not, I don't have to sit here and talk about. about how I don't like that he's half white, half black. I don't have to like that. I don't have to think about how I don't like his haircut. I don't like the way that he goes to basketball games. I just don't like his music. It's so simple to just say that. I don't like when he ends his bars with one syllable and then just keeps doing that for 16 bars.

But then sometimes he'll rap good. Isn't that just so freeing just to say that instead of being like, I don't know, man. The way that he wears, the way that he wears his. I don't like the way that he talks to his friends. It's just like, dude, if you don't like his music, just say you don't like his music. It's so much easier. And also this whole, like, you kind of do like this music, but you don't like him. True.

That's also freeing. It's freeing just to say that. Because why would you even care that this album's out? The top comment is going to be, I don't like Drake. Unless it's a podcast, then we don't want to hear that. I just don't like him. I think there's been no artist in the history of the universe that has ever had to endure what he did last or two summers ago.

I think, I think not only him and Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson had it pretty rough. I'm saying as far as as far as everyone backing another person that goes directly against him. I mean, yeah, obviously Michael Jackson dealt with himself. but Michael Jackson never one I won't get into that

but I mean as far as as far as there's like a rat beef and then the rat beef gets so insane on one side that it literally like it's like the entire industry is turning on someone else

I don't think like really anyone's ever had to do that except I mean you could maybe say meek mill why does that happen but like the psychology dude the group think lately

I think it's social media because I mean people said yeah Jay Z lost when he lost and then Jay Z like came back with some crazy shit that was a little too much if I remember correctly like he did like a freestyle after Ether dropped and people were like whoa and so he kind of bailed out

and was like all right I'll just take my loss but like then he came back and still was Jay Z like still made a shit ton of hits and was fine and it was just like a blip in time that doesn't happen anymore there was a I think common versus Drake was a blippin time. I think, I think,

M&M was like a blip in time. No one, like, no one actually cared, I don't think about that. That's what I'm saying. Like, no one really cares except for 2024. Like, because I think it literally defined music. I feel like it's so much deeper than like what, I feel like it's so much deeper than the music. It's like a,

oh, dude, they wanted a reason. To like it there's some there's like a psychology behind who's picking who side. Yeah. I think the stay on that side thing is the cringiest thing I've heard in music. Like I've you seen like shade. Do you follow shade room on Instagram? Uh, I don't remember. And like I follow a bunch of different.

And like, basically how racist those comments can be. And it's just like, yeah, like they're picking that side. Right. And it's like if you're mixed or white, stay on that side. This is our thing. I feel like that was what was behind Kendrick. Yeah. That's why I think when he, did you see.

Did you see Anthony Fantano react to? I just, I can't really watch that guy. Like I won't even like watch this. I don't, not to say he's a bad person. He deserves a bad life. I don't know anything about him. I just, even before I knew he was a Drake hater, I just, I did, there was something about him. I just didn't like.

And now it's like, okay, I really like, bro, how, like, were you're, not that you're desperate for views. I'm sure he does very well for himself. But it's like, bro, like, you're just doing what you know will work. Like at this point, it's, it's not even like a real review. Yeah. I saw him, I think he gave Iceman like a two out of ten or something. I'm just like, Dave,

I spent a two out of ten. You just, you want that to be like a thumbnail and like pictures. A hundred percent. Like, bro, you're just, you're playing into the business now with which a lot of people do that. And that is kind of how the most successful.

It's, it's entertainment at the end of the day. Yeah. If you went online, if you went online and gave everyone a good review, people wouldn't watch. Like people just wouldn't watch. But it's just like,

I just can't even. And then like he, that, that, that track. or that line on Janice where he says like he says like white guys listen to you because they feel some guilt

dude Anthony Fantano listen to that line and he was like he was like try not to fucking freak out he was like combusting almost because like he's obviously talking about like how Kendrick utilizes you know his fan base and and and you could see that it pissed it pissed Fantano off so much that he was like really he was like real he was like real

He was like, he couldn't even get his words out. He was so mad. It was very funny. Do you like him? I think he's got, I think he's got good reviews for everything but hip hop. I watch his reviews for like metal music and for electronic. Like when he first started reviewing shit, it was years before he did hip hop or rap. Yeah.

Right. Like I think he's actually a pretty good reviewer for everything but hip hop. Like he gave little pump. I think he gave little pump like an eight. one time and he gave he gave the fall off like a five like he he he he he's very uh pretentious when it comes to hip hop like he very very obviously like just tries to find the most nuanced or like the most niche it's just like i guarantee that hip-hop shit is way more lucrative as far as views in, you know, that, like, so he, he doesn't even, he probably, for a long time,

didn't even listen to hip hop and rap and. Yeah. I think, I think critics, like, don't like to listen to music for fun. Like, Octane, the Don Tolliver album that just came out, that shit got roasted when it first came out by the critics. But it's still the number one played album. Did you see, of the year? Did you see Drake went back, found, like Reddit posts like the most popular Reddit thread of when Take Care dropped.

Oh yeah. And people were roasting take care. Yeah. Just just like he's singing too much. Like I miss the old. I miss. They were saying I missed the old Drake in 2011. That's crazy.

Like people just, it's always something. It's literally always something. Yeah. Regardless, man, I think this, uh, I think this album is great. I really do. I think this album is the best since views. We'll see if it is better than views. I think this is already in my top five Drake projects.

Yeah, I would say, I mean, mine are so far gone, take care. Nothing was the same. Views and then probably Iceman. Yeah, I would say. I'm also a fan of like his like, Take care if you're reading this. Nothing was the same. Oh shit, I forgot about it.

If you read this. Views and then Iceman is probably. where I would I have it right now. What's his own? It could be, it could sneak to number four. Because views, I like views a lot, but I think it's got some, I think it's, I think it's got potential to get overtaken. I don't know if I'd consider these albums because it was kind of just his like singular

songs put together like care package in dark lane demo tapes. Yeah. See, I don't count those. Care package. I don't, yeah, but I don't even help those. Joe to see free stock club paradise. for your space. This shit's fucking

Paris Martin music. Dreams money can buy. How about now? Days of the East. Did that like this out? This track list is insane. But it's not a real album. So you can't really.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. The Dreams Money Can Buy is one of his best songs ever. Dude, the amount of music that he has is unbelievable. I get so mad.

when a motherfucker starts saying like Kendrick first drinking and verses. I'm like, shut the fuck up. Nobody. Sidebar. Bommage didn't tweet or post on Instagram anything about Iceman so schoolboy Q wouldn't unfollow.

Like the type of shit I'd be the ideal with mentally. That's insane. Because I dressed the way that I dressed and posted it on social media and and punch follows me. let me check to see if punch still follows me

is that is that like this is this PDE punch which one is that yeah we still follow each other that's a real one right there he's the he says as manager but he used to he used to like or he's like a big deal I don't know what he does

I know for TD but obviously he's like a big he him and Kendrick came up together I believe something like that but I was like as I was tweeting that out I was like, well, Punch followed me last week and he's going to Also another sidebar, Drake won the battle. Yeah, of course he did. Of fucking course he did.

If you take, think about it. Dude, of course he did. If you took away social media and like there wasn't a Twitter, all you heard. I'm not even that big of a Drake fan and I think he won. That's what I'm saying. I'm just an album reviewer. Right.

Yeah. I'm not even that big of a Drake fan. I'm not either. Yeah But if you take away Twitter Instagram Just take away social

media And you just heard the The tracks There's no way It's not even close It's not even close It's really not even close There is

I do understand There is a The strategy There is more To it than just the music Fuck the strategy Fuck the strategy The strategy

went away when that bullshit-ass song came out. I'm tired of not talking about it. Are we really going to act like Neat the Grams? Was it the worst song I've ever heard in a rap beef ever? Ever. Every song from MGK versus Eminem's better. Every song versus Nause versus JZ is better.

Every song obsessed with you by Mariah Carey, which was an M&M disc, that song's, every song, Every song in every rap beef ever is better than meet the grams. That shit is horrible. It sounds like nails on a chalkboard. It's fucking terrible.

There's no punch lines. There's not a punchline. There's not a metaphor. There's not a simile. It's him saying, oh, my God, you're a terrible person. You're a terrible person and your daughter should be ashamed of you. Your mom and your daddy, you should be ashamed of you.

And it's, I can't believe. that you've done this to the hip hop scene and it's just terrible you're bad guy you see people it's like balls man it's buns that shit is buns couldn't have said it better myself but yeah uh wait have you see um people like rick ross trying to like piece it up with drake now and it's like weren't you posting on Instagram the what is it if you're on the

registry like the registry the child register what's the list? I don't know the sex offender list like that the like remember the red dots on Drake's house

or something like that he was like he's posting stuff like that like if you like how I don't I can't stand with people like you're posting stuff like that about someone like it has to be real you have to like really feel that way and like you got to be like disgusted with the person and like want them to die but the fact that years later now you're willing to like piece it up sending him love and shit on like IG it's like so so you never thought that but you you would go to that length to say that about somebody that it's fucking sickening and it's weird this episode is brought to you by Activia you might already be eating yogurt, but not all yogurts are created equal. Activia contains over one billion probiotics per serving to survive and reach the gut

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And see, he, he forgave future. Y'all let Drake be the villain of hip hop. Imagine that. We got Compton. We got Rick Ross drug dealer. We got future ATL. Doug fucking, fucking 21. Well, 21's Drake's boy.

But who fucking ASAP, Rocky, New York. You got Atlanta. You got Cali. You got New York. You got whoever the hell else I mentioned. And y'all let. Chicago. The villain.

Chicago Drill Chicago Backpack Yeah Like it's the fucking villain Y'all fucking It's pathetic what he's done to y'all Oh my god Also LeBron's a bitch

Fuck LeBron I've been on Hex's side this whole time I always thought Jordan was the max Bro have you seen that clip Hex's the DM me after LeBron's like last game said like, I don't know, something's or like sweet, something, something. Now I think I just replied, fuck LeBron.

Because I think it was like, I don't know, Ice Man came out. Dude, have you seen that clip of LeBron doing, I deserve it or the Man of the Garden from Kendrick? Well, he goes, I deserve it all. Yeah, I have seen that. Dude, it's so it's so

critical, bro. It's like him surround. It's like him at a birthday party. He's probably drunk, like, surrounded by people and he's just like, I deserve it all. And then he obviously doesn't know the words, but he's still, like, rapping like he does. Yeah. And I'm like, dude. Yeah, I did see that.

And I was like, I can't believe you. There's so many cornballs out there. It is. Us, us, flycast, hitching maniac optic members, LeBron. Calling LeBron a cornball. There's so many fucking cornball out there. For fucking 10 years. We're calling him.

a corn ball. There's so many corn balls out there. As you're wearing a shi-ste, backwards white hat from God. Like, is that even branded? No. Just a plain. Just a default white cap. Fake chain. Fake. I mean, well, the change's real. I forgot about that part. All right. Well, great album. Great time. I'm going to keep listening to it. I had a lot of fun with the streams. And yeah, it's been fun. Yeah.

I'm trying to think. Yeah, we're not really going to go through like made of honor or Habibti. Wasn't necessarily a fan. I'm a fan of Iceman. I do understand whenever people say they want wanted like more I get the villain shit. I get rapping his ass off stuff

and that is top two of my favorite Drake's but like I did want to hear maybe that's what we'll get in the future with him I don't know what him getting out of a deal does for what he's going to make

musically maybe he'll make some shit like that I feel like he's kind of falling into a Euro what is it not it's like Afro beats Afro beats house reggae kind of yeah it's like a reggae something and then also he's like

reggae reggae sometimes and then like Afro beats kind of R&B sometimes. I feel like he's kind of falling in with like some R&B Afro beat fucking something. Like I just want some cameras. I want some passion fruit. I want some, uh,

some shit that he already said he's done with. I don't think we'll be seeing him again or whatever he said. And maybe that's the truth. But that is the trick. I do, I do really like Iceman. It is my favorite album since views. Uh,

maybe next week. I know people don't want to hear about it. more but maybe we'll know i think people want ice may review number two next week well i was going to say pomage wants to talk about it um then i know he yeah he didn't really want to so maybe i mean maybe we can just have pomage on anyway and try not to yeah maybe not do a full hour plus of talking about it but yeah i'd like to have pam on next week because we're i'll be i'll be back in in texas next week so all right um it's going to know for this episode of the fly cast thank you all for watching hopefully there's some real ones that watched just you know and we appreciate that

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