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Dec 2020
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Episode 377 Side B: Kanye West - #RankTh...

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Armond & Doc continue this week's conversation and #RankTheCatalog of Kanye West - do they agree on what his best album is? Why was it so hard for a label to take a chance on Kanye in the early 2000's? All that and a lot more. 
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