 What's going on? It's your man Kory. Welcome to Counting Kory where I pretty much just want to give you my two cents my opinion my thoughts on a couple of things that happen to music this week See what you guys think so hopefully we can have some type of discussion Whether they'll be in the comment section below or on my instagram or on my twitter Now stick around to the end of this video because I have this game a lot to play Well, I'm gonna ask this question. It might have something to do what we're talking about It might be random, but it's going to be a question and just whatever answer I like the most I would give you a follow back on whatever platform you want me to follow you on instagram twitter snapchat I guess whatever you pick man. It's up to you So last week's winner or last video's winner is Jezan exclusive so if you're watching this video hit me up. Let me know what you want me to follow you on I give you like two days and if I don't see it, I'll try to find you and we can figure something out But now after that I'm gonna have to pick somebody else So Jezan hit me up and if you want to see what the question is When that stick around to the end of the video check that out and then leave your answer in the comment section below And before we get into all of these topics this week come and follow me on instagram at cover the savior Come give me some video ideas all that good stuff and let me know what you think about some of these topics Now with that being said, let's go ahead and get into it So first things first just before we kick everything off I want to wish xxxtentacion a happy belated birthday. His birthday was yesterday January 23rd the rapper would have been 22 this year Of course, we all know about the tragic ending that happened to x about him being gunned down outside the car store So very tragic thing to see when uh artists and artists that young right because he was like 2021 when that happened So to see an artist that young and that time to go is just gonna hurt For as long as we remember who he is, right? So happy belated birthday to him I didn't make this video on time to afford to be on time But you know, I'm doing the best that I can now Moving on to other stuff, right? I want to go ahead and get the sad news out of the way. So juice worlds Autosy report has been released and it has confirmed that the rapper did die from an accidental overdose of oxycodone and coding So the cook county medical examiner released this report on wednesday and it pretty much like I said confirmed The reports that were coming from the people that were actually there with him So it's saying here the rapper whose real name was jarrah a higgins died december 8th after he suffered convulsions and went into cardiac arrest As Chicago police and federal agents searched his and his entourage luggage for guns and drugs at a private hanger Midway report So like I said backing up some of those confirmations We were hanging at first that he pretty much was spooked about the police coming to check the plane Now we're realizing it's because he had large amounts of drugs and guns on the plane Took the pills and it caused him to overdose now What's been really sad about this is ever since this happened his girlfriend and his mom have been very public about Uh juice worlds addiction to these painkillers and these drugs They were even going as far to say that he's had this drug problem for a minute And they were trying to help him fight through it And it's been really scary man like over the past couple of weeks or how long it's been since he's since he's passed I've been listening to his music man And it's it's always really weird or really sad when something like this happens to our artists And you go back and listen to the music and it almost feels like they were telling you like hey I had a problem or you know I'm not I'm not well inside and this is how i'm choosing to cope with these things even though I know these things are bad for me So um, it's not much to it. Like I said, I pretty much confirmed what everyone was saying Hopefully a lot of other artists take a lot away from this situation right going back to the x thing It's always really sad to see an artist that young man because he had just turned 21 So to see an artist that young and also who was just like really starting to get into their peak die because of something like a drug overdose is just It's always sad and it feels like we get one of these a year or something like that like one of these every year And I just personally Wish it would stop. So if you're an artist out there and you watch these videos And you know, you even respect my opinion in the in the least bit like the slightest Don't do it man. Stick to stick to eating alcohol, bro. Don't do the hard stuff. So um So moving on to other news the grammy awards have been the cues of rigging their voting process Which I don't think any of us have ever really felt like the grammy's was fair like I've Since the years that I've been watching it. There's always been a couple of nominations I've been like, hmm, how did you get in there? Like, how did you really get into this nomination? Somebody's vouching for you But now there's somebody from inside the organization coming out and putting it out there So the person in question is Deborah Duggan Who up until last week was the chief executive of the organizing body So she was pretty much responsible for Organizing the actual award ceremony from the performances to the guests to all that stuff. So She was suspended last week after accusations of misconduct came out about her just an organization Basically saying she wasn't doing things 100 clean And now she's kind of taken this attention to use her platform to call out the grammy's over just their practices So now Duggan is saying that She's like I said, she's she's just taking this attention This the spotlight to put attention on the situation But that she had always been trying to make change from the inside and it just wasn't moving Nothing was shaking from it. So now she's speaking out in hopes that well, honestly I don't I don't really know what she thinks could come from this because the public doesn't really get a say on What goes on the recording academy only the members do But she's just hoping to shine light onto this whole situation. So Duggan's accusation first came from a 44 page Exposition that she sent to the EEOC, which is the equal employment opportunity Commission in it. She stated that the award process was tainted that there were people who had Who pretty much had particular interests or were being represented by certain artists that were getting Says in the nominating nomination committees More specifically she spoke on the song of the year category And she said that there's an artist who she won't name for just integrity purposes But she said there's an artist who has been nominated that should not have been there that they pretty much were there because like I said there was a body in the room that was vouching for them and They shouldn't have been there, right? It kind of it takes the whole process If you're not familiar with the way the grammy's Voting process works. It's members only you have to be a member of the recording academy And so what they do is they send out ballots around september Everyone votes on the ballots every member or every member is supposed to vote all of them Don't vote but it's supposed to vote every member votes on the ballot And then they take those nominations and then just kind of you know knock it down into the winners That's how it's supposed to go. That's That's how it's supposed to be So she's been claiming that artists like Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande have even been shorted Like I said because of just the politics that's been going on and she's even been describing the grammy's as a boys club Where votes have been manipulated by secret committees and of course she goes and talks about how Most of the members of the grammy committee are older white men who are you know Voicing their opinions and and making their strength in the committee be known to push certain acts due to these award ceremonies now Going back to what I was saying earlier. I don't really think this is any surprise. There have been obvious Situations for instance, like the mac-a-mooron kindre Lamar snub the infamous mac-a-mooron kindre Lamar snub Well, I'm sure we've all on the outside felt like This isn't a hundred percent legit Even though it's not fan made so some people always argue that like oh, it's not about what the fans think That's what the bt awards and the vh1 awards and all those awards for that's what those are for There are enough people on the inside representing certain things who have Or at least the i've known personally who have expressed some of these same sentiments To where when I first started to hear about this it wasn't surprising to me It's no surprise that anything in music that involves money or power or an award at some point gets manipulated Right, that's one of those things that happens in the music industry that we always feel like it's happening But we can't really prove it until we get on the inside and then by the time you're on the inside Now you're kind of being controlled and manipulated by the powers that be a k a Influential older white man with money. That's nine times out of ten is who it is There's always influential white man with a shit ton of money that could get you like knocked off so kudos to kudos to dug in um for Using her voice to speak out on this platform because to be real with you I don't see anything good Coming out of it for her like to be completely honest with you We're probably going to see a lot of black balling of her over the next couple of weeks I know also in that the deposition that she submitted Uh, I think she was also making some sexual misconduct allegations So i'm almost a thousand percent sure over the next couple of weeks after the ceremony has kind of died down Because the grammy ceremony is this sunday Uh, yeah this sunday or next sunday one of these one of these days come It's one of these sundays coming up I'm pretty sure after that dies down The powers that be in this community that don't want people to know about this are going to go on a black ball campaign They're going to go on a slender campaign. Like I said, as of now she is suspended I either see her getting completely fired just because of all of this Or worse worse worst worst case scenario that by her silence Which I think that would be just the worst worst case scenario for so many reasons. Um People need to know man people that aren't on the inside of the grammy's with no real control Need to know how it's ran because like I said, we all feel like we're crazy, right? Like we all always look at certain things in the music instrument go like man That shit is not fair that shit is rigged But we we sound and feel crazy because I tell you like no man This is the voting process everything is straight. So for her to come out and let us know that's not what's up Like I said man power to her because nothing good is going to come out of for her I'm telling you man. Um, but just Definitely keep up with this story, especially if I'm assuming most of your art is watching this or some type of music creative Just keep up with this story because it's it's probably not going to get a lot of coverage on a lot of major news outlets Like I saw it on good morning america And I saw she did an interview on I think it was cbs. Yeah cbs this morning And even the people that were interviewing her like if you go look at some of the interviews that she's done Um about her recently they feel very hostile like the energy feels really hostile And I was talking to someone before I recorded this and they were saying that a lot of these news personalities Probably has ties to These people in the association. So of course, they're not going to be friendly Towards someone who is you know accusing their friends and their colleagues or something so serious Because this is very serious like if if she exposes the rigging process and it gets found out to be true It is going to shake the very foundation of the recording academy It's going to shake a lot of shit up in the music industry. Um, and for that reason alone Yeah, I don't I don't think they're gonna let this story get too far. So keep up with it before they start to wash it out in the media I'm telling y'all man. We got to stay on this shit So moving on, uh, what I kind of want to get into just before we close this out Is ebro has made a comment regarding Eminem and his most recent album that really has people stirred up So if you don't know last week Eminem dropped a surprise album Beyonce style called music to be murdered by which was inspired by Alfred an Alfred Hitchcock album of the same name So ebro took to twitter to share a series of tweets and here's what he had to say, right? So Eminem treats rap how black folks have had to treat life be five times better work five times harder than everyone And still not necessarily get respect. He then went on He then responded to a fan who commented back ain't he one of the most successful artists of all time This analogy stinks. Ebro went on to say sales doesn't mean respect People confuse success and respect you can absolutely hate Eminem musically But you cannot say as a hip hop fan that he is a wack Rapper someone uh else then commented back rock rock him inspected deck buster j Black thought and fat Joe respect Eminem. They all understand to which ebro had to say so it don't matter what everyone thinks Okay, in the rap game. Um, oh wait, somebody else responded Who in the rap game doesn't respect shady and he wrote said in the rap game everyone does But if you read the tweet it speaks to how Eminem treats rap It's a complete false equivalency Uh, well, it is a complete false equivalency complete But that is not the point the point really is Eminem cares enough to keep sharpening his skills So the point that ebro is making is that once again going back to the original tweet Eminem treats rap how black folks have had to treat life be five times better where five times harder than everyone is Still not necessarily get respected. Um, I don't agree with that One that's a weird comparison, right like to compare The way that black people have had to move in life the whole we have to work five times as hard just to be half as good No notion It's not the same as comparing to a Megastar rapper who I wouldn't even say he doesn't get respect I would say he hasn't been getting a lot of respect recently And that is completely Eminem's fault like the biggest thing and if you're an Eminem fan now We probably it's probably gonna like the fucking comments up, but the biggest Problem that I personally have had is a as an Eminem fan Like I was at one point a diehard Eminem fan I am now a casual Eminem fan at best now Is that No one in the community has ever doubted His ability to rap no one has ever doubted his ability Or his his prowess as one of the greatest rappers of all time because I do agree with Ibrahim that there's no way You can listen to rap music and not respect Eminem as one of the goats of rap and hip-hop what People are arguing about Eminem that it does not seem like a lot of Eminem fans Get or a lot of these personalities who back him get is that We're not disrespecting the talent. We are disrespecting his ability to make good music I feel like Eminem has not really put out a good album since what maybe relapse What was that like 2013 2014 even music to be murdered about was much better than the last album He put out but I still give it like a five and a half six at best like to just to be completely honest with you There were maybe like four or five songs on that project that I feel like have really strong replay value All the other songs were once again Eminem trying to prove to us that he can rap which once again Nobody has ever doubted that Eminem can rap. We all feel like Eminem can rap Eminem. We don't doubt you, bro We know you can spit 236 syllables in 30 seconds man. That is no longer impressed us We want to hear good music cohesive songs songs that make sense for today So for Ebo to go and say Eminem treats rap how black folks have to have to treat life be five times better work five times harder and not get respect Eminem this whole Eminem not being respected is very new Compared to the length of his career. Now. Yes, you can argue that in the beginning Eminem wasn't getting respected because he was the white boy and rapping blah blah blah, but he got over that He quickly got over that What media didn't like him who gave a fuck it was media that didn't care about rap Anyway, during that time frame there were certain artists that would be for him Okay, this is rap rappers be for other rappers all the time So who are we saying he's not getting respect from because going back to that one fans We were sent to Ebro when he was saying that isn't he one of the biggest selling artists of all time Ebro saying sales doesn't equal respect People have to respect the music or likes the music to go and buy it So if they're if he's selling hundreds of thousands of copies of albums Hundreds getting hundreds of millions of streams getting all these sweets all these talking getting all these people talking about him These are people respecting him to the bodies things who buys a project from an artist. They don't respect I can't think of an artist that I respect whose music. I don't like that. I'm willing to go support There has to be some symbiosis between those two things I have to like your music and I have to respect you then I give you my money So the people with the hundreds of thousands of people that are giving him his money Those are people that respect him. So I can't say I agree with that He doesn't get respect now It has nothing to do with his talent as a rapper more so to do with his ability as a songwriter and to put out music that People today really want to hear at this point him just has a really large core fan base Like his core fan bases I will argue probably in the half a million plus maybe even like a million to the point where he doesn't even have to Really try hard to break these records like I know my video got taken down for last week, but one of the main points that I was talking about was how He literally came out of nowhere and just swept the whole Roddy rich Selena Gomez Justin Bieber shit under the rug That's how powerful Eminem's presence is in the game Who has that type of power without respect from some type of fan base? So I said man, I can't agree with Ibro on this We love to hear what you have to think about this Do you agree with Ibro has Eminem been treating rap the way black people have had to treat life Or is he capping on this as he talking outside of his neck? So Um other than that man, we had a lot of new music come out today Not really any project, but mostly singles. So the only project that I know of that came out today Is coda the friend lyrics to go volume one, which if you're not familiar with coda the friend He's a rapper from new york very dope very dope artists Um, if you like more of the lyrical stuff like the yb and corda is the gi d's Definitely go and check him out other than that. Like I said, it's been very single heavy Doja cat dropped her song boss, bitch Megan the stallion dropped her song b i t c h Yb in the mirror drop talking Keanu la de dropped mad at me jack harlow was popping and talia way featuring Wiz Khalifa right now all out today all very dope songs. I was checking them out before I hopped on this And so if there's anything I missed anything that you're listening to that came out today Drop them in the comment section below put me on game I'm always interested in him music that you guys are listening to so I can go and check it out Like I said, I mean I gotta be my ears to these east streets, bro I can't see everything but I want to see everything And of course the question of the week or the cover they follow back like I said, whatever platform you want me to follow Go on just answer this question. I like it. I got you But the question of the week is what does it take for you to stop becoming a fan of an artist? What does that artist have to do and I'm not talking about someone you kind of listen to I mean like our artists you really like what does that artist have to do or what can their artists do? They will make you just lose interest in them as a fan drop those in the comment section below I'm going to be reading through them in the next week. I'll let you know who the winner is So check back in for the video other than that make sure you like and share this video Hit that subscribe button if you feel like you got anything once again Hit me up on instagram or twitter at already saviour and I will see y'all next week. Peace