 What's going on? It is your man Kory. Welcome to another episode of counter Kory Where I try to come in here and break down some events that have been going on in music this week Give you guys my opinion so we can talk back and forth about some of these things I love him what you have to say in the comment section below or you can always come and chop it up with me on Instagram or Twitter. I put my link to that in the description below as well So you can come follow me. Let's talk about some of this stuff, man So before I get into the topics that I have for today I just want to say man RP juice world I don't really want to talk about it on this episode just because by now I'm sure you've heard all of the details that are you know surrounding what has happened with his untimely death So I just want to take these couple minutes out to say man RP man Like he will be missed that was genuinely one of my favorite artists from like this past year He was someone I was looking forward to seeing and growing with you know over the next couple of years Like I really wanted to see him perform and all that stuff man and just as a fan, bro Like I can't even lie it really hurts. Some of it makes me angry from a fan perspective, but you know hopefully hopefully what comes from this situation is a Renew outlook from artists who kind of who kind of are living the glorified lifestyle man There are a lot of artists that I like that I can tell from their music and just from the way they carry themselves They're like really really into the drugs man And I hope that just like I said what happened with juice world wakes up a lot of these artists Especially a lot of these young artists man and get some to change their life and just change the way they're moving about these drugs and stuff so Like I said, I don't want to go too deep into it because I'm sure by now about the time of me making this video You probably know all the details and know everything that's going on So I just want to take that time out to get my condolences. So I guess let's dive into the topics of the day man What I want to start with is Six nine and his letter right so on last week's episode I talked about how six nine and his lawyer were pursuing Getting the judge to release him early based on the fact that he cooperated right like it's been reported that he's probably gonna get his Time reduced thanks to the fact that he cooperated during this case He helped the FBI be able to take down a lot of really key members in the trade blood game That they feel like they wouldn't have been able to get had it not been for the help of six nine Infiltrating the operation and kind of like playing the role that he played so digging into that narrative Six nine or I'm gonna read it to you guys. It's saying that six nine wrote it I don't think it's six nine wrote it his lawyer probably wrote it but six nine his mom his his current girlfriend and a bunch of different business associates that he's worked with have been writing letters to the judge in New York Trying to get them to paint the picture of six nine being like a really nice guy Really nice kid in hopes of getting their sentence reduced This is something very common in the court system whenever you know other people's words count So they do look to outside testimonials from people around you people that have worked with you people that have had some Type of interaction with you to paint like a narrative of you right to see where they're going to take up your case And how they're going to treat you Based on the information that I received so I want to read this letter to you because like I said I don't think that six nine wrote this I think his lawyer wrote this but it has been put out there that six nine is the one that wrote this letter so as My sentence as my sentencing that approaches I'm becoming more and more overwhelmed with emotions more than anything I am extremely grateful for this opportunity to express my remorse to you your honor over this situation I find it difficult to find the right words to express what my life has been like for the last year It honestly feels like my world is crashing down There is no excuse no justification and no apology good enough in this world to explain my crimes While I have been incarcerated I had time to reflect on the recklessness and foolishness of my decisions I'll wake up every morning asking myself was it worth it I know that my life would never be the same But hopefully this change will be for the better because beyond all of this I still consider myself a role model to millions of people as an artist a celebrity and as a human being I'm happy that the public was able to witness me dealing with the consequences of my actions because I feel like it Shares the light on what can come with gang affiliation I know that this is a part of the plan that God has for me And I'm confident that I'm ready to face this thing Head on before my arrest I publicly disassociated myself for nine trade But I knew that it would come with a price I knew from previous incidents that the game would retaliate against me for denouncing them in public Prior to my arrest. I was kidnapped by members of the game Became aware of the fact that the mother of my child was having sexual relations with one of my co-defendants And that they were stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from me. I had a feeling of a really blah blah blah blah I had a feeling of relief when I was arrested by the government because I felt stuck I felt like the game had control of my life and that I would never be able to escape their grip I needed to do something before it was too late I realized that I placed myself in this position with the choices that I made I know that I am not a victim because my actions contributed to this mess I've had plenty of time to reflect and since the time of my arrest I have asked myself Are you remorseful because of what happened or because you were caught? I now know that I'm remorseful for what happened because I was blessed with the gift of an opportunity that most people dream of But I squandered it by getting my I squandered it by getting involved with the wrong people and misrepresenting myself when I should have been true to myself and my fans I'm sorry to the victims who were affected by my actions to my fans who look up to me and when misled to my family Who depends on me and to this courtroom for this mess that I contributed to? I'm truly sorry for the harm that I've caused if if given a second chance I would not let this court down and I would dedicate a portion of my life to helping others not make the same mistakes that I made Silly Down your Hernandez that does not sound like a letter six now rope. I'm sorry man I seen a comment on these one of the videos that was like Six now out of jail stupid six nine in jail dear your underserved. That should have me weak But um, I don't know man. Just looking at this letter. They're taking the P position, right? We've been talking about this ever since six nine has been arrested He has been taking the narrative of I was a misled youth Caught up in the hype of rap dreams and gang affiliations. It went too deep and boom now I'm in this shit and you know, like I said, that's the narrative that's sticking with on record off record Um, I've stated before that. I think he's gonna get his time reduced Um, I don't think he'll be out. I mean to be real to you. He'll probably he'll probably be out I'm gonna guess about it in the next year. There are people guessing first quarter next year like April So I don't think it'll be that early just because of how serious this is But he's definitely getting out earlier but the bigger picture that's being painted here or what I see coming out of six nine thing is that I Think that they are going to use him as an example for the rest of the music community, right? Because especially in rap it's nothing new that rappers have gang affiliations It's nothing new that rappers get caught up in crimes due to these gang affiliations And it's nothing new that they about and live by a code of we do not snitch We do this shit. We hold it down. We go down our own. We don't wrap people up but if They let six nine are out early if the courts are able to show Hey rappers you come, you know, you come cooperate. You do what you got to do. You help us out We're gonna take care of you. We're gonna make sure you get out and once that wave hits out there once people start to realize this um, I think we're gonna see a lot more Artists in the future in the same position at six nine right now Ratting out some of these games that they've been affiliated with Especially if they're doing some of the things behind the scenes that six nine is alleging that they were doing to him Right having sex with his baby mom's still in hundreds of thousands of dollars from him Extorting him all these things that he's alleging were going on that I believe I believe that they were doing this But I think it's going to push a completely different narrative about the way that artists and just you know artists Who come from gang culture? affiliate themselves with the police and the penal system and all of that so Interesting know what you think about it man. You think these are six nines words. You think this is the lawyer words Do you think this letter is gonna help? Let me know in the comment section below Moving on I want to get into what I want to get to next I want to get into this Eminem and they can be right so If you're not familiar Eminem and Nick kind of have been beefing since what like 2009 I think the beef started back when Eminem put out a song Dissing Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon and this was when Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon were married, right? Like freshly married at this point too. So that song sparked the beef that beef lasted for like a good year and a half Maybe two years and then it died out, right? Everyone thought everything was cool. We hadn't heard anything about it I'm willing to bet that most people really didn't care Especially not now, but the beef has been reignited. So Fat Joe dropped his family ties album last Friday and he had Eminem as a feature on the song The song is called. I think Lord bless. Let me find it for you Yeah, so he was on the song Lord above our fat Joe's new album and Eminem and true Eminem fashion man reignited the beef He came at Nick Cannon Just this time I didn't really do the Mariah Carey just Eminem versus No, it's straight Nick Cannon beef And this pretty much sparked like a big Twitter debate Back and forth between them and then Nick Cannon dropped two diss tracks one that was solo Just him and then another with him in some of the battle members from Wild'n Out like conceded and hitman Holla and some of those other battle rappers that he actually has around him So I would say this about his beef this is very long-standing Public petty beef is like I said earlier. I didn't think many people really cared in 2009 I think that less people care now It feels to me like just an attempt at Eminem to get his name back out in the public, right? Because we know we see this from Eminem out of town whenever he's laid low for a long time Whenever he's doesn't really have anything going on. He comes out He makes these outlandish remarks about whoever just he he feels like at the time and then boom We're all talking about in the next week That's been Eminem's formula since he came out like or at least in my lifetime when I was paying attention to Eminem And I'll say this man. I'll be real to you the um, I think the verse was trash Like I didn't like the Eminem verse at Nick Cannon. I don't even really like Nick Cannon as an artist I don't think many people like Nick Cannon as an artist But I think that his diss song were much higher quality diss songs than Eminem's now I will give Eminem the benefit of the doubt and saying that okay, he had one verse and It was a surprise thing whereas Nick Cannon had time to plan formulate come back and go put whole songs together But if we're talking about quality of this Nick Cannon's diss song was a much better diss song than Eminem's verse on that Badger album Like yeah, it's shock value, but we're all over shock value from Eminem at this point Like we were shocked valued out when it comes to Eminem but I Think that this beef is gonna doubt I'm pretty fast I don't really think that Nick Cannon cares what kind of another thing that really like bothered me about it Was when Joyner Lucas jumped in right and Joyner Lucas is like yo Nick can you out here rap jumping my nigga Eminem We got to get and he named all these rappers like Kendrick Cole and all these other people and I was like first off But there's there's no way in hell that Kendrick Lamar and J Cole being the upstanding black young men that they are that are going to diss a notable black entrepreneur in our culture right because of Eminem wild now coming out of pocket man like I ain't a lot bro like You Eminem stands man these Eminem stands, but y'all gotta learn to realize when Eminem is actually saying something He's making a good point and when he's just talking for the hell of it, bro And this is definitely a case where I feel like he is just talking for the hell of it Like he's just putting the verse out just because I don't know I guess he's bored, bro It's probably not a lot to do where he's at I can see that so I said bro if we had it if we had to pick a winner from here like if you really care about who won this beef so far I'm gonna give it a Nick Cannon man because this beef Nick's verse didn't come off corny or the song and come off corny It didn't feel spiteful. It didn't feel random right at this point. He's defending himself And I'm just I'm just sick of like Eminem and his his trying to be like shotculture antics. It's like It's done bro. We're over that so moving on to other news man the top 50 albums of the year Has been released via nilson and sound scan Which we don't know nilson is pretty much the company responsible for tracking album sales and streaming sales And then they're pretty much how you know who sold what first week So they have compiled a list of the top 50 albums of this year based off of streaming numbers and pure album sales And the list is interesting, man Like it it doesn't surprise me that majority of the list are rap artists We've seen rap kind of come in and dominate music and music sales for the last I will argue four or five years at the very least since it became like Super pop. Yeah, so I was like four or five years ago. So we're looking at top 10 man. Lil Nas X So we're coming in top 10. We're looking at post Malone. Hollywood's be bleeding We got Billie Eilish when we fall asleep. Where do we go? Are you on the ground? They thank you next Taylor Swift lover Khalid free spirit another post Malone beer buns and Ben Lees Lil Nas X7 Lady Gaga Bradley Cooper Drake Scorpion a boogie with the hoodie actual see me hoodie season Then we're going to Travis Scott Astro world and the list goes on So like I said, there are the top 10 is dominated about pop acts, right? Like we could argue about post Malone being a rapper or not These new albums he's pop. Um But it's cool to see Lil Nas X making into that which I would even argue that Lil Nas X is probably more of a Pop artist at this point in the rapper But majority of the list is dominated by rappers. Like I said, we got Travis Scott on here, bro We got Lizzo juice world meek meal The baby the dreamville compilation young thug, bro 21 Savage Cardi B xx assistant. I see on Lil baby and gunners project Uh Nipsey hustle lil tecca future gonna call that black rap is dominating the charts man. So It's always interesting to look at these these end of the year lists Well, the end of the year list based on my peer numbers because you can't really debate album sales, right? Um, and so that's why I say the pop artist kind of dumb in the top 10. What can you do about it? We know why most of those artists outsell most of these these other rappers and stuff But the fact that some of these younger artists may like Lil tecca or Lil Nas X Even a boogie hasn't been out that long or you know been super established enough But they're all penetrating and showing the world that hey, you know rap culture is still Very mainstream. We are dominating when it comes to sales and even just showing like other people in the rap community that hey Rap fans still buy music like they bought my music and streamed my music enough to put me in the top 50 albums of the year Which if you think about all of the music that came out this year, but it's probably like 50 albums Probably came out in a month's time span That's amazing. That's dope. So I want to know some of your thoughts on that What has been your favorite album of the year a shit? Let's let's step it up a notch What's been your favorite three albums of the year, man? I'm gonna think about it. I don't have anything right now By the time I post this video, I'll have something I'm gonna put mine in the comment section below too But I want to know man. Like what has been your favorite project of the year Do you agree with the albums on this list? Um, do you wish there was something that had made it on here or an artist that you wish you made it? Let me know like I said in the comment section or come on I'll let me know on instagram about it and lastly I want to get into this x album Man because last week I said I was gonna come in here and talk about it after I listened to it So over this week I've listened to it like four times man once in the gym once in my car Once in the bathroom and then once just like walking around the house cleaning up So it's safe to say that I've lived with it for a minute at this point So I feel very confident and what I'm about to say That album was not good. That album was trash, man, um and I think a lot of us knew that it was going to be right Like I didn't really see too many x fans Feeling confident about this album. Now. I do feel that This project shouldn't have came out even listening to the songs It felt like a cloud Like it just was a cloud magnet, right? Because all of the songs clearly felt unfinished which no surprise, right? But I will even argue that when skins came out I saw people bashing that album and I don't think that skins is a bad album, right? I just think that it was ill timed that They his estate could have waited a couple more months and to drop their project I would even argue that if skins was the album that came out last week We meaning us x fans would be having a much different conversation But this project right here bad volume bad vibes forever volume two is not the one man It feels like it was just being used more so as a springboard for some of his I guess friends or rapper associates Like I said, none of the songs felt genuine. None of them felt finished It felt like a very Uncomplete project that should have just stayed on whatever hard drive that they found this on um, and then his mom released a statement that kind of got me too She wrote something put something out dear supporters bad vibes forever came out last friday And it's currently number three in the race for number one album on the charts this week Ja is and always has been an independent artist Which I did not know that into this because I thought that he signed a deal Right before he passed maybe they let him out the deal because he passed But I could have swore x had signed right before he doesn't have the support of a major label streaming platform radio promotion Like other artists on this list and without being here He doesn't even have the ability to promote his own work But he has the strongest and most loyal family of supporters in the world So we're asking you guys to help by streaming and sharing the album as much as you can all week We have until friday to make this count. Please show your support and do everything to help Ja get where he deserves to be At number one. Um, so I said last week man, I whole heartedly felt like this album was just like a cash grab by His estate whoever is running his estate. I think it's his mom um, because it just This album should not have come out man. Like I I Could have lived Without bad vibes forever inviting to um, so And I will say this luckily for us. This is the last one right like they're dimming This is the last time we were here any ex music or any new ex music And I think that's perfectly fine, man. Like when the artist passes Um, I think we should just be allowed to live with the music that created Live with the legacy that built for themselves and live with the quality of work that they were proud of and happy to put out Not something that you know, we being selfish as fans think that we want from them because we we a lot of times Fans will ask for things from artists Then they give it to us and we hate it and it completely changes their legacy in the way we think about them And I will much rather have the ex legacy Stop at question mark or stop at skins then for them to continue with Trying to just stay keep his name out there and keep him currently in the conversation. I don't like that man, so Of course, I'm sure some people disagree, but I mean, I'm not an album writer, man but if I really had to rate this album bro like Like dead ass like a like a one out of 10 or two out of 10 There was like two songs in that like but Real shit like a two out of 10 other than that man before I close this out We got a lot of new music that came out today Uh, when it comes to projects storms, he dropped the project Free nationals, which free nationals is the band that Anderson pat works with a lot or actually might be his band I'm not sure somebody let me know in the comment section. Um free nationals drop the project If you're in the r&b cater nada drop the project today, um, we got some songs from rest We got songs from lil tj. We got some of smoke perp drop dead star two and lil uzi vert has finally dropped The food so shuffle song that was going viral when he posted that clip. So That's not even it man. My favorite song that came out today that I've listened to so far is this mda young boy dirty iana song he went and remix Michael jackson's dirty diana and he's talking about floyd mayweather's daughter, which he used to date floyd's mayweather's daughter so Very hilarious song that I never would have expected to see for mda young boy But like I said, a lot of new music coming out today There's anything that you're checking for that you're interested in drop that in the comment section below as well I'm always trying to check new stuff out step on getting to what y'all are listening to Other than that, if you like this video, please share subscribe Let some people know get some people in on the conversation Like I said, come and talk to me on twitter or instagram at coa to savior Let me know what you think about some of these topics other than that. I will see y'all next week. Peace