 What's going on, man? It is Kory and welcome to, y'all ready, man? We finally got a name for this, y'all ready for this? Welcome to Count on Kory, man. That's what I'm running with for the name of this show. Count on Kory, shout out to my godlaw, man. He suggested it on the very first episode of this. And for those of you who don't know, this show right here is pretty much my take on a couple of topics and things that have been going on in music in the past couple of weeks or the past week. And I pretty much just want to bring it here to the Brand Man Network platform so I can get you guys opinions on some of these things. We can talk about it, we can debate, we can get some discussions going on, all of that cool stuff. And also, before we dive into the video, for all of my producers watching this, make sure you stick around until the end of the video. I have a very important announcement to make that will impact you. It's probably something that you want to do, man. I'm telling you, you're gonna want to get in on this. So make sure you watch until the very end of the video. Until I'm done, get those details. But with that being said, let's go ahead and dive into some of these topics. So the big story of the week, what I feel like it's been pretty much the biggest story of the week is this Gold Link, Mac Miller, Anderson Pack situation that's been going on. Now, for those of you who have not seen about it, who have not heard about it, Gold Link and Anderson Pack had a little bit of a beef this week, man. They were going back and forth. Well, it wasn't really a back and forth. It was more like one statement dropped, another statement dropped, and then media speculation like always right. So, Corey, what are you talking about, man? What's going on here? So on, I think it was Tuesday, Gold Link took to Instagram to post a post about Mac Miller. And in the post, he, I won't read the whole post because the post is very long. If you want to read it, it's on Gold Link's Instagram still. He's bold, he hasn't taken it down, but it's a very long post. So with me not going over that whole thing, what Gold Link pretty much said, or what the post was about was, it was a weird, it was a weird post of him kind of paying homage to Mac Miller. At least that's how I took it. Actually, I'll read a little bit of it. So it starts off Gold Link saying, I'll be lying if I said I was surprised that he that you died on us. Not because you were necessarily troubled, but because you were special and because of that you were troubled. At your peak, you were the archetypal rapper, all of us wanted to be, which was independent, but you're also just a kid with really bright eyes about life. He continues to go into the post and then he starts to talk about how he felt like the Divine Feminine, which was Mac Miller's last album that he released before he passed, was inspired by Gold Link's first mixtape. I can't think of the exact name of it. Let me find it. And after that, we didn't talk. So the post is pretty much Gold Link saying that, hey man, I know that we weren't always on the best terms, but I do consider you a friend. I do, even though I feel like you copied or you may have stole concepts from my project for your project, I still love you. We're still friends, all that stuff. That's what I got out of the post. That's what I got out of that very lengthy post. Like I said, I would recommend you go read it so you know completely what I'm talking about, but that is what I got from the post. Now, Anderson Pack responds, not immediately, but damn near immediately, man. And his post was on the offensive side or on the defensive side, I guess. Maybe he's defending Mac Miller. On the defensive side, I would imagine your weird ass posted up somewhere just like this when you decided to make that disrespectful, narcissistic, jealously, grossly unnecessary post. Why you would do it? I can't even understand it. Maybe your belt was wrapped around your goddamn waist too tight or maybe it was a choker cutting the circulation off to the brain, but since you felt it necessary to bring me up twice, he did bring Anderson Pack in the post. He talked about how they both had a song with Anderson Pack that sounded the same, all that stuff. And my boy ain't here to respond. I'ma say it like this, you ain't the first to make an album inspired by our relationship. You ain't the first to make a song featuring Anderson Pack, but you are the first to disrespect my friend who is no longer here for absolutely no reason and I can't stand for that. Anderson Pack goes in to this lengthy post, pretty much coming at Gold Link and calling him out for disrespecting Mac Miller, all that stuff. Now, a couple days later, Gold Link had a show. He put out footage of him at this show, pretty much saying like, I don't care who this spreads out to from here, I'ma speak my piece. And in that piece, he called Mac Miller one of his best friends in the industry. He said that he was one of the few people actually looking out for him when he actually made it into it and that he would never go on to disrespect Mac Miller than them. Like I said in the beginning of this, I didn't really see too much wrong with the post personally. Maybe it's the way he started it. I mean, starting a sentence with I'm not surprised that you died or I wasn't surprised that you died doesn't necessarily set the tone for a positive conversation, right? But other than that, what I got from it was it sounds like a friend going like, yo bro, even though you kinda jogging me a little bit, you kinda copping me a little bit, I still love you and I'm still proud of you. I still support you and I'm glad for everything that you could accomplish. I could see how it could be taken as jealousy, especially once you start bringing in plaques and awards and it's a lot for an artist to accuse another artist for even being inspired specifically by that project. It's just a whole thing with artists, right? Cause at the end of the day, it sounds like you're saying, yo bro, you copying my work. So I could see it, I get it. I understand the outrage and the fan tweets and everything about it. But I personally just reading that didn't really, it didn't sound disrespectful. I didn't feel like there was malicious intent behind it. I don't know. Let me know what you guys think in the comment section below. Like I said, this has pretty much been the talk of the week since it's popped off. Let me know who side you fall on in this. And speaking of beef, man, speaking of beef, our boy, Lil Uzi Vert is back in the news for some controversy, man. I guess it's not really new yet. I didn't see too many major media outlets picking this up, except like academics. But, so Uzi took to Twitter yesterday, Thanksgiving, you know, Thanksgiving night to arrow some grievances, man, arrow some grievances and to answer some fan questions. So it popped off when he hopped on Twitter to pretty much continue this Don Cannon DJ drummer beef that he's been having for the past, shit, damn this since he's been signed, right? Uzi signed to Generation Now. Generation Now is owned by DJ Drummond Don Cannon, meaning that he signed to DJ Drummond Don Cannon. He does not like DJ Drummond Don Cannon. He's made it very, very clear before and he wants us to remember it based on these tweets that he put out. So he went on Twitter to say, my best friend, oh fuck DJ Drummond, he broke. Niggas need me to drop to pay bills. My best friend, me ain't got more money than drummer. I swung on everything, he not even in the industry. I wanna let my family know and I say family because all the fans left a long time ago. Only family stayed, so if you stayed, I'm thankful for you. We're gonna party so hard in no time. EA, I love you. I swear, time's just been crazy. I'm okay now. That's a lot, man. Uzi's basically like, look, bro, DJ Drummond Don Cannon wanted this album out because that broke. He then goes on, and this one I say, man, it just became like Uzi just calling people out, bro. So then he goes in on Mali Ra, who produced a couple of Uzi's first big breakout hits. I think he produced a majority of his first two projects, if I remember correctly. He was pretty much like the peanut butter to Uzi's jelly sandwich, you know what I'm saying? In the very beginning of his career. But apparently they're not even on good terms anymore because he took to Twitter again, like I said, in this same rant, and pretty much called him out. Pretty much let people know like, yo, I'm not fucking with Mali Ra anymore. And what he said exactly was Mali Ra's snake too. He tried to run off with 20 bands back in the G. Wonder what that turned into. Mali Ra comes back, man. I feel it, bro. Don't let these rappers be out here slamming your name unless they got proof, bro. Nigga, what? Speak facts when you speaking my name. You sound dumb as shit. Exactly why you ain't answering. You know the real. Uzi responded, I never said you wasn't good with beat shit hot. You just be running off with the plug. He then went on to accuse one of his old friends of being the one that was leaking and selling his music. Which, if all of this is true, right? If it's true that Mali Ra and his friend, I think, Lake Show, and his friends were around that time selling his music, which if you remember, man, that 2017 to even early last year, there were a lot of carton, a lot of Uzi leaks coming out. So it means that if this is true, they were making a good amount of money off of him. And I feel Uzi, they need to be checked. But if it is not the case, or even if that is the case, man, I feel like this is one of those things that should be handled off of social media, man. We don't need to know about this. We don't need, the fans don't need to know that y'all are beefing, unless you feel like it's gonna push into a narrative or something. But man, I'll take that back. I guess I did handle that, man. Uzi must've been feeling the Thanksgiving wind a little bit. A fan then jumped into the conversation and asked, what about you and Carti? Y'all still good. To which he responded, no, but I'm not a tough guy. I don't beef. We could have a dress off, though. And I'm a Uzi fan, right? So when I see this, man, when I see the pictures of him on the football field and the designer's skirts, or even like these tweets of him just calling people out, right? Because he does this, I will argue like every three or four months. He just started randomly calling people out on Twitter and then he ducks off for like six months. Bro, I just wanna hear a ton of talk at this point. I'm almost to the point where I no longer care about your grievances because, and like I said, I consider myself a fan. I can send myself in that family. We talked about in that first week because I still keep up with this man. Bro, I still follow this man. I still look out for new music. But I checked my Spotify released radar playlist like once a week, hoping for a new Uzi song. But it is to the point where I feel like his fan base, we're starting to get tired of the anthics because there hasn't been enough music from him to justify him calling these people out. It's different when you're putting stuff out or you know, you're being active and it gives us something to rally behind. It's like, yeah, man, let's defend Uzi. But it's like, man, we ain't got nothing, bro. We ain't got nothing. And it's hard for me to believe that it's a thousand percent done Canada and DJ Jumbals fought because it's like, if they really want to end to put a project out because they were broke and they were trying to make money, they're his label heads. There's nothing he could do about it. They could upload that joint to Tunecore and Heartbeat and there's nothing he could do about it. Which makes me feel like there's some deeper issues here, so I don't know, man. Hopefully the next time we get Uzi in the news, man, it's for some music, bro. Like, hopefully it's me talking about his project that's coming out or something, so, you know, I guess we'll just stay tuned for that, see what happens from that. Hopefully Eternal Taki comes soon and Uzi stays out of the news for dumb shit, pretty much. So let's move on to this story that's been making its way through the rap community this week. It's actually old, but we gonna get into that. And it is BBC named Young Thug, the most influential rapper of the decade, I believe. Oh yeah. Young Thug is, he, they named Young Thug 21st century's most influential rapper. Now this post or this article came out about a month ago, I think like late October, but for whatever reason, the rap community is just now talking about it. Like, people have just now caught wind of it and are like, what? Young Thug is the most influential rapper of the 21st century, huh? And Lil Wayne responded like, no me, Young Thug being the good sport he was. Wrote back like, yeah, you're right. You the goat, you know, up hands emoji. But I wanna dive into Young Thug even being considered to be the most influential rapper of the 21st century. And I will say this. I don't 100% agree. One of the most influential rappers of the 21st century, 1,000%. There's no rapper now, especially coming from Atlanta or anyone who wants to be Southern sounding that does not imitate Young Thug to some extent. I will argue that a lot of his label mates, like the YSL people are like his offspring. They're like, if Young Thug split into like clones from some weird Jimmy Neutron machine, you would get Gunna and Lil Keed and they would be the same, but kind of different so they could do their own thing. That's how I see it. That's how I peep the label. So the most influential rapper of the 21st century? No, cause you're leaving out artists like Kanye. It's like, shit, you're leaving out Drake. Wayne was still in the 21st century. Kid Cudi, there's so many people that I feel like could be put in that same box to where you could make a compelling argument. One of the most influential rappers of the 21st century, 8,000%. Name me one mainstream rapper right now that does not do a crazy flow or some weird all over the place shit that Young Thug has been doing and pushing since like 2011, 2012, right? Some of your most favorite rappers are just now starting to get a century. This man been a century since he came out, bro. And being in Atlanta, watching him come up, knowing what he kind of had to go through from a brand issue to just not even that, but just like what the music in the city was sounding like at the time of what was being popular versus what he was coming out with. Definitely man. One of the most influential rappers 21st century, I agree. The most influential rapper? I don't know man, I can't give it to him. I can't, I can't all the way give it to him, bro. Like I said, I keep thinking of Drake and Kanye and Kid Cudi and just some of these people who changed the landscape of music to make it even possible for someone like Young Thug to come up if that makes sense. So I don't know man, I encourage you to go read the article. The article is really good actually. The journalist, what's his name? The journalist Jeff Weiss that wrote this piece actually made some good points man. He did a little history man. He did some digging man. He went into the whole little backstory of Young Thug and he made some valid points on why he thinks he is the most influential rapper. I'm just saying bro, one of the most I'll give you top five, maybe even top three if I really thought about it but I would give you top five most influential rapper of the 21st century. The most influential rapper? Nah man, you don't have to debate me about it. Let me know what you guys think in the comment section below. Do you have Young Thug in your top five? If not, why? Is Young Thug one of the most influential rappers of the century? If you don't think so, please let me know. But I'm telling you man, I'm ready for this Young Thug smoke cause I kinda, I agree with it a little bit but just not enough bro, not number one. And lastly, I wanna kick it off with some, this isn't funny news, it's not funny at all. All this news has been pretty serious. This was a slow week for music news man. There's been like no funny news. I haven't been able to come in here and just like laugh at something in like the last three episodes. But Jay-Z is suing an Australian book company for using his likeness and his lyrics without his permission. Now the publishing company is called Little Homie. It's an Australian online based retailer that has been selling like these children educational books. And the book in particular that he is talking about is it's a children's alphabet book. It's designed to teach kids the alphabet and the book is called AB to Jay-Z. Now, apparently they've been selling this book since like 2017. They raised money for it from a Kickstarter campaign and put it out. Jay-Z caught wind of it early last year and his lawyer is alleging that they've been making cease and desist and take down since March of last year and they've just been completely getting ignored. And Jay-Z is like, no, bro, y'all not gonna keep making money off my name and I don't approve of it. Or you know, you're not even trying to cut me in. Now, when I first saw the headline for this, I was like, man, Jay, bro, you gonna sue the children's book, the book company that's trying to teach kids ABCs using rap. But I started to look into the story a little bit more and apparently this goes way deeper than I thought it goes. So there are also articles calling out the owner of the company. Her name is like Jessica Cheese or Jessica Chice. I gotta find her last name and figure out how to say it. But there are pictures of her and her husband on Facebook wearing black face, saying the n-word, like going hard on the n-word. Like not like, not like, yo, you know, what up, blah, blah, but like going like hard with it. And even her, there's like a portion in the book that says something about like how they, this book was made by her and her baby daddy who to like make money for their little hood, right? Or something, talking about a kid. So what we're seeing here is an extreme, extreme case of cultural appropriation from this white Australian retailer coming out, taking these rap concepts, profiting off of it, putting the book out and then not only not cutting the rapper in on it, but then, you know, being a person that we, you know, the rap community is mostly black people. So it's like, that's our culture, right? So then not only is it not coming to a profiting from someone in the culture, it's also been made by someone who we probably would never allow into the culture. Like we're like rap fans would not have stood for this Australian white woman wearing black face trying to sell a rap book that teaches our kids the ABCs, bro, I'm not letting some woman in black face teach my kids ABCs, like fuck that. So once I started looking to that side, I went back to Jay-Z's side. I'm like, yeah, bro, get your money, get this book taken down. And then you should put the book out, bro. I hope Jay-Z sees this as an opportunity like, man, there are people out here who are into this. Let me go out and find someone who's trying to take this exact same idea, do it from a better place, do it from a better place in their hearts and help them get it done the correct way. Cause I'm not gonna lie. The book name is hard from AB to Jay-Z. That's a hard book name. I can't even knock that, but everything else. Look, man, I got a picture on that page. It's got like this little white kid with headphones on and the picture says hip hop niggas. Like it's crazy, bro. Like y'all have to look this story up. And I'm saying this stuff about the black face but looking to it, man, Jay-Z is suing his book company. Hopefully he gets it taken down. I'm on Jay-Z's side with this, man. Get this book out. We need better representation when it comes to this type of stuff, man. Maybe we should do a book. Maybe a brand man network should do an educational kids book. I don't know, man. I'm gonna talk to Sean about it. That might be a lane. Yeah, that might be a lane. Other than that, there's not really too much music that I'm personally excited about that's coming out this week. I know the game has an album coming out. The weekend is slated to drop some new music. 21 Savage is dropping some new music. I haven't heard too much about projects. It felt like last week was the big project. We got Y&W, Melly, Trippy Red, all these people, man. But it's not gonna say, it's been a pretty slow week this week. But if you know of anything that's coming out, if you're high for anything, drop them in the comment section below. I'm always looking to be put onto new music. I love hearing what you guys are listening to outside of your own music. Don't just send me and plug your own stuff. The music you're actually listening to. Always love to check it out. Now, let's get into this thing that I was talking about in the beginning, right? For all of my producers who are watching this right now, we at the Brand Man Network are doing a contest specifically tailored for you guys. It is going to be a beat submission based contest. Like $2 a upload is going to be a fan voting process. And we'll also vote on it, pick our favorites out of the bunch. And you'll actually win some really cool prizes. So we're giving away the top prize one that gets access to our cutting out the middleman course that me and Sean are going to be putting out in a couple of weeks or putting out pretty soon actually, maybe like today or tomorrow. And that course is pretty much a marketing agency in the box. It teaches you how to not need marketers like me and Sean pretty much giving you the foundational structures to do all the marketing things in your own contact list. All this stuff that we really should be charging all the grip for, but we're not charging all the grip for it because we love y'all. And we just want you to submit some beats into our contest and try to win it that way. And then not only that, man, you will get some exposure out of it. We're going to be running ads on the campaign, email blasts, all these things that will bring you some customers, man. You know, the rappers follow us, bro, they love us. So if you're interested in entering that contest, the link will be in the description below or it's brandmannetwork.com slash beat battle. Go in, sign up. You have like two weeks as of me making this to submit, I think the deadline date is or the deadline date is December 15th, 2019, man. You got until December 15th to get those submissions in. That's where like two and a half weeks, two weeks. So like I said, a link will be in the description below. Go and check it out. And other than that, man, as always, if you like this video, please like, share it, send it along to your friends. Come and talk to me as always about some of these topics on Instagram, on Twitter, or whatever at Kory Disabled. All those links will be in the description. If you didn't come here to just get some entertainment, you wanna learn something, go and check out my segment, The Digital Dash, also on the brandmannetwork. Lots of good game on there, check that stuff out. Other than that, I will see y'all next week. Peace.