The Combat Jack Show Thread

Why does Elliot care, they’re in the sports lane?
I've never watched the show so I'm trying not to assume and am asking honestly. I'm sure the show leads with sports, but I gotta imagine it overall it covers all things entertainment and black-pop culture adjacent.

Ive imagined it's like Joe calling his **** a music podcast...cuz that 20 minutes of the 9 hours they record per week us really strong stuff lol.
 
The whole no interviews thing is weird to me.

Mystery is good, but social media and music also builds a false image and whatever the artist wants to put out there. But that's for the teens and 20 year olds to care about.

Rory is right, people want to be entertained, they don't want to be informed. We read XXL and The Source to be informed.

It's just a different generation. I don't care about the Adin Ross' and Kai Cenet's, and it looks goofy and not natural when these 40 year old men and women go to hang with them.
 
I've never watched the show so I'm trying not to assume and am asking honestly. I'm sure the show leads with sports, but I gotta imagine it overall it covers all things entertainment and black-pop culture adjacent.

Ive imagined it's like Joe calling his **** a music podcast...cuz that 20 minutes of the 9 hours they record per week us really strong stuff lol.

They do mostly sports

There's a conversational, average person type of thing. It's not meant to be an actual interview.

I don't expect the same of them as a Shannon Sharpe. I don't really watch Shannon like that, because I feel he's a poor interviewer even with guided questions.

I just think it's a way for a lot of dudes to get a check. They'll weed themselves out eventually.

I don't think the whole interview thing is sustainable anyway. When is the last time anyone cared about Gillie and Wallo for an interview? These dudes aren't that entertaining, both the interviewers and host.
 
The whole no interviews thing is weird to me.

Mystery is good, but social media and music also builds a false image and whatever the artist wants to put out there. But that's for the teens and 20 year olds to care about.

Rory is right, people want to be entertained, they don't want to be informed. We read XXL and The Source to be informed.

It's just a different generation. I don't care about the Adin Ross' and Kai Cenet's, and it looks goofy and not natural when these 40 year old men and women go to hang with them.

🤔 when was the image of artists ever all that authentic? what did we really know about artists before beyond what was said in the music?? i get that many feel the music today is much more vapid & as such want more from the artists but historically artists generally never really were that into doing interviews or explaining their art outside of some outlier artists who already had that attention seeking/outgoing personalities…

it is no surprise the moment artists felt like they did not need these media outlets, the access media outlets had fell precipitously
 
🤔 when was the image of artists ever all that authentic? what did we really know about artists before beyond what was said in the music?? i get that many feel the music today is much more vapid & as such want more from the artists but historically artists generally never really were that into doing interviews or explaining their art outside of some outlier artists who already had that attention seeking/outgoing personalities…

it is no surprise the moment artists felt like they did not need these media outlets, the access media outlets had fell precipitously

Tupac, DMX, 50 Cent....
 
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Tupac, DMX, 50 Cent....

i feel you but for tupac specifically the space between the reality of pac’s image & actuality was vast, partially because he did have a rare depth & breadth of influences & was relatively prolific in making a bunch of music but i would say most got that impression from the music & acting not from interviews & articles in magazines, and he was hardly representative of most artists

i’m not really saying necessarily that artists were inauthentic, just that artist never were that interested in doing interviews or explaining their output beyond what the put in their actual art, what tidbits we the consuming public often did get was coming out of the filtering of the a&r function/machine of the record business & not because artist were particularly interested in fostering any connections w/fans necessarily

i just wonder if the criticism of the music consuming public today is overstated, it isn’t an apple to apples comparison…we literally depended on journalists & media outlets to learn more about the artists we loved, today people can go straight to the ACTUAL 😏 source 😏
 
The opinions/view points on streaming from people who are of a certain age or who been on the internet/social social media long enough makes no sense.


Ustream is the grandfather for a lot of stuff that's going on right now. It's where early Rogan podcasts were. It was the beginning of the end of Niketalk.










 
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This showed up in my algorithm and I was speechless. C and Puerto Rican social media comedian doing a podcast. It’s terrible but it’s like a car crash, I had to watch both. Some good parts but more bad than good.

C talking about buying crack and seeing DMX buying crack at 3 am in YO.



C asking Jim, why he didn’t get paid for using his voice on Wasted Talent. Jim laughs it off and goes on.

 
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