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Continuing on from the last episode,
we were talking about "Yogaku" for lack of better terms.
You know, how do you call that Western music?
Versus J-pop love songs.
But now, this episode, I want to show you the current hip-hop, rap, R&B kind of...
That's the trend in the "Yogaku" world.
Okay.
Like, I feel like...
It doesn't have a melody.
Oh, you're talking about the hip-hop...
Okay, hip-hop.
Right?
Is that right?
Yeah.
Because R&B and hip-hop are really different.
So, maybe hip-hop... You're talking about hip-hop, right?
No, I'm not...
Okay.
Okay, yeah.
Hip-hop.
Okay, okay.
I think it's hip-hop.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
Like, rap things and...
Yeah.
Yeah?
I just want to make it clear.
Okay, okay.
I'm not, you know...
For example, Cardi B's "WAP".
Okay.
How do you feel about this music?
Cardi B...
Do you know this song?
I don't know the song.
"WAP", "Wet Ass Pussy".
Okay, thank you.
That's what it stands for.
Thank you.
But it's really popular.
Okay, thank you.
I...
Of course, I know her.
And I've heard some of her music.
Yeah.
And...
I mean...
I can feel that it has...
It has, like, huge power.
Yeah.
It has huge message and...
It has own beauty in it.
Uh-huh.
But it doesn't mean that it fits me, though.
Yeah.
Okay, so this is it.
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Okay.
It's so sexual.
Yeah.
It's...
But it's really popular to the Gen Zs
and, like, their parents are like,
"What the fuck is this song?"
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Huh, where's the...
Does this song has, like, hook part?
Um...
No.
I think...
I think this is it.
Okay.
Yeah, this is right there.
Yeah, okay.
Okay.
This is...
Wet and cushy...
Wet ass pussy.
Maybe this is the censored version?
They're not saying it.
Oh, really?
But... Oh, yeah, okay.
But maybe it's a different section of the song.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it doesn't have, like, this melody melody, you know?
And it's extremely sexual.
Yeah.
And...
What do you think about that?
Well, I love talking about these things, actually.
I'm going to be speaking, like, three episodes in a row.
Uh-oh.
So...
But, um...
Yeah, it has no, like...
It has melody, but it has no, like...
Right, right, right.
Like, certain, like, hook melody.
Right, right, right.
Yeah, that's really like hip-hop thing.
You just, um...
You know, bring some...
A part of a song.
And you repeat it.
And you make a beat.
And you put your rap on it.
That's how hip-hop made.
Oh, so this was a part of a different song?
You're saying?
Sorry?
It's stripped off of a different song?
Um...
Not this one, maybe.
But it's popular to do that?
Yeah, hip-hop is made by those, um...
Procedure.
Uh-huh.
Like, you have your own record.
Yeah.
And you play, like...
Like, one, you know, beat.
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Like, dun-dun-dun.
And you repeat those same parts again and again.
And so that you make the beat.
And you put your rap on it.
So that means you have no, like, certain, like, chord progressions.
You have no, like, melody.
So right now, this would be...
That's what it is. Okay. Got it, got it, got it.
This is some classic, like, um...
Western classic composition.
You need to have some chords, progressions to build a song.
Yeah.
Which they don't have.
They do?
I mean, um...
They have, but they kind of have, you know.
Okay. Okay.
So it's made differently.
So, yeah.
I feel like this is, like, really like hip-hop music.
It has no certain, like, melody.
So it has own style.
And, yeah.
It's... Yeah.
So what I felt was that the music kind of was changing.
But, like, it's just the popularity of the genre changes.
Yeah, that's right. That's what it is.
The hip-hop itself hasn't changed.
That's what hip-hop is and was.
So the popularity of the mass, it just shifted kind of from, like, the pop kind of style
to more of, like, these hip-hop things.
I'm not sure, but all these, like, you know, heavy "dun, dun," you know.
Those sounds might be borrowed from somewhere, like some other artist made.
And she just borrowed from that song and put it, her song, and repeated using.
Maybe sampling, that's called sampling.
That's a very common way.
So that's what hip-hop is.
So maybe hip-hop is, right now, you know, of course it's getting bigger.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And also about those sexuality.
Yeah.
I feel like it's too much.
Uh-huh.
I mean, for me.
Yeah.
Like, it's too direct to me.
Okay.
Like, when I write songs, you know, I don't write, like, "Can I sleep with you tonight?"
You know?
The reason why you write the song is how should I tell this without saying directly, you know?
That's my...
That's the art in the beauty of lyrics.
So that's what I like.
So this is, like, too direct.
And that's why I don't, you know, that doesn't fit me.
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You know, I want to be, like, more, like...
Indirect.
Yeah, indirect.
Yeah.
I see.
Do you see...
Do you...
Okay, let's look at the lyrics.
Okay, the lyrics.
Do you think you can find a message?
Message?
Indirect message.
Indirect?
Hidden in this song.
Okay, okay.
So not the direct message.
Yeah.
But hidden message.
Yeah.
Okay.
And wap.
Try to...
I mean, you never know.
Of course.
Right?
Yeah, there's a, you know, when you...
Especially those hip-hop artists, when you write lyrics, you always, you know, put two meanings or three meanings at the same time.
That's common to do that?
Yeah.
Okay.
Maybe we can find something.
All right.
This is it right here.
Is the first one for you?
Yeah, for me to actually, like, really look at the lyrics.
Okay.
All right.
So what's the first...
What?
What's that?
This whores in this house?
Yeah.
Whores are prostitutes.
Prostitutes.
What is it in Japanese?
You pay to have sex with them.
Okay.
People...
Like baisun...
Yeah.
Whore.
I forgot Japanese.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, this right there.
Yeah.
Okay.
But...
It's a...
I don't...
It could be in a, like a...
It doesn't mean, like, directly mean whores.
Yeah.
Like a really dirty and sexual, like, character is being portrayed.
Yeah.
That's what it feels like.
Okay.
Yeah.
I can't read it out loud.
Yeah.
On a panic.
It's so sexual.
I mean, it's...
Maybe you can find something if you read carefully.
But not, like, you can't...
It's not that easy to find.
Yeah, it's really difficult to find it.
Okay.
I just wanted to get a feel of your first reaction.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, you know, there's only, like, song for party.
You just dance with it.
Just the sound, loud and...
Right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
