Benny The Butcher's Burden of Proof Review, Drake's Scorpion and Joker Review

In this episode, Wellington and Savon are joined by once again special guest, Maurice Hendricks, a multimedia content creator, focusing on making music, film production and video game design. They review Benny The Butcher's latest Burden of Proof and discuss this being one of the masterpiece albums of the year and it being a complete, thorough project along with carefully calculated features with Hit-Boy's magnificent production. They also review Drake's last studio album Scorpion and thoughts on this being such an expansive project and some of the ambitious elements that may have been too much and also early thoughts on his promo video for Drake's 6th album Certified Lover Boy dropping the beginning of next year and how some of his best, past sounds could culminate in an anticipated classic. Finally, they review J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive and how this was his most compelling and still consistent studio album with immaculate storytelling. In the second half, they review Joker, a 2019 psychological thriller film, directed and produced by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazzie Beats and Frances Conroy. They dive into how Joaquin Phoenix's performance was one of the high marks of his career, the divided reception of how this film was trying to be too similar to Martin Scoreses's Taxi Driver in some ways and possible holes in the origin story. They also discuss the intentional direction and narrative cues, the Joker's calculated questions and how you can't compare his performance to Heath Ledger's as they were in completely; different gears.
In this episode, Wellington and Savon are joined by once again special guest, Maurice Hendricks, a multimedia content creator, focusing on making music, film production and video game design. They review Benny The Butcher's latest Burden of Proof and discuss this being one of the masterpiece albums of the year and it being a complete, thorough project along with carefully calculated features with Hit-Boy's magnificent production. They also review Drake's last studio album Scorpion and thoughts on this being such an expansive project and some of the ambitious elements that may have been too much and also early thoughts on his promo video for Drake's 6th album Certified Lover Boy dropping the beginning of next year and how some of his best, past sounds could culminate in an anticipated classic. Finally, they review J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive and how this was his most compelling and still consistent studio album with immaculate storytelling. 

In the second half, they review Joker, a 2019 psychological thriller film, directed and produced by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazzie Beats and Frances Conroy. They dive into how Joaquin Phoenix's performance was one of the high marks of his career, the divided reception of how this film was trying to be too similar to Martin Scoreses's Taxi Driver in some ways and possible holes in the origin story. They also discuss the intentional direction and narrative cues, the Joker's calculated questions and how you can't compare his performance to Heath Ledger's as they were in completely; different gears. 
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