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• Chance the Rapper affects a drawl

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• DJ Khaled's double standard
• 38 Best Dog Playpens

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Cameron has four mimosas prior to recording, Nathan learns to take care of himself, and T-Pain performs Grammylingus.

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Learnin' Links:

• New Elton John Biopic
• Chance the Rapper and T-Pain's song Finish Line
• A critique of Urban Dictionary
• A short Wikipedia section on some of the verb tenses in AAVE

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Nathan courageously admits he can’t do 18 push-ups, Cameron pitches a movie reboot, and T-Pain is laid to rest. 

Learnin' Links:

• Hieroglyphics
• Teff
• WPA source recordings

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Learnin' Links:

• Humorism
• Omnibus podcast
• Key & Peele Dubstep
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Hello From the Magic Tavern
• Dunning-Krueger Effect
• (I wanted to link to a fun YouTube video of men explaining mansplaining, but YouTube is only filled with hateful misogynists boo-hooing that women are mean to them by daring to criticize their condescension. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

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T-Pain returns after a few years of not making music, with his mixtape Stoic! It’s got some of his highest highs, but also some of his most defensive moments.
And what was the deal with that Little Shop of Horrors song, anyway??

Learnin’ Links:

• An article on Stoicville in the New Yorker
• Dick Move, from Scene on Radio
• Koosh balls
• Monster Factory plays Knife Dad
• Jeffrey Tambor was a real piece of shit on the set of Transparent

Listen along to Stoic here!

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We're trying out a new format this week! Surprise! We decided to focus less on comprehensiveness, and more on just being enjoyable and entertaining. That is, the old format was increasingly leading to perfunctory song discussions, and nobody wants that. 

Anyway, this week we talked about T-Pain's studio album Revolver. It's not as memorable as his earliest releases, but there's some solid stuff here. Some really frikken weird stuff, too, but some solid stuff nevertheless. 

Listen along to rEVOLVEr here!

Learnin' Links: 

• T-Pain’s Tiny Desk concert
• Godwin’s law
• First thought best thought
• Charming sincerity on Quora
• Isaac Newton jabbing things in his eyes: “he inserted a bodkin (a long, flat needle) behind his eye and observed what effect the distortion of his eyeball shape had on his vision.”
• Zeno’s paradox

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T-Pain has a habit of releasing mixtapes to supplement his albums. This one is a predecessor to his 2011 album Revolver (no, not the Beatles one). Aaaaaaaand… it’s really super duper long. So we had to split it up into two episodes! 

Learnin' Links:

• Cheesemaking
• NuvaRing and Nuvo
• Ludovico technique
• Vitiligo
• Michael Richards’ anti-Semitism

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T-Pain has a habit of releasing mixtapes to supplement his albums. This one is a predecessor to his 2011 album Revolver (no, not the Beatles one). Aaaaaaaand… it’s really super duper long. So we had to split it up into two episodes! 

In this episode, we cover the first 15 tracks. The whole thing has 30. But we keep things wholesome and definitely don’t use any salty language, especially when quoting Lil Wayne. 

Learnin' Links:

• Kendrick’s untitled unmastered.
• Harland Williams is the actor who played Harry Cox
• Harvey, the giant creepy rabbit in Aloha, OR
• A pretty great scene from Pootie Tang
• “Headlights” slang 
• “Stuck in the Middle with You” by Stealers Wheel. Wikipedia says: “Rafferty's lyrics are a dismissive tale of a music industry cocktail party written and performed as a pastiche of Bob Dylan.”
• Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc., which is the Supreme Court case that changed hip-hop sampling forever

Listen along to Prevolver here!

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Wait a minute, when did T-Pain become ICP? He rounds up his three-ring circus for this, his most Dark Carnival album yet! Unfortunately, he also manages to pick up some of ICP’s bad habits…

Listen along to Thr33 Ringz here. 

Learnin' Links:

• Chris Brown beat Rihanna
• Bouncing cats beatboxing
• Ciara
• Madmen lawnmower
• Teardrop tattoo
• “1234” song—which is Feist
• “Change the World” and how the writers ended up writing for Chris Gaines

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It's T-Pain's biggest album, or at least it has his biggest single "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')". It's a good album! Probably more consistent than Rappa Ternt Sanga, but T-Pain himself maybe doesn't seem as nice as he did on his first album. 

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Learnin' Links:

• Botulism, Honey—for Babies
• "Space Force"
• Pizza Brain
• Little Baby's
• Seeing White, from Scene on Radio
• Pygmalion
• Shawnna

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Time for season 4, mothertruckers! We're back like scoliosis, with a discussion of T-Pain's first album Rappa Ternt Sanga. Yes, Cameron won the vote, with almost 60% of the vote for T-Pain.

It's a fun album with great music… but it's sooooooo long. It's ICP-length.

Listen along to Rappa Ternt Sanga on Spotify here!

Learnin' Links:

• Megalodon
• The Taíno people
• Warrant Canary
• Yo, Is This Racist?
• Sprung, the movie
• MBMBAM's episode about the lady zoo
• Teddy Pendergrass
• Little Debbie

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