True North Views Podcast

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. This week we add a plethora of musicians; Chevy Woods, OT Genasis, Lil Skies, Rae Sremmurd, Wiz Khalifa, Tierra Whack, Busta Rhymes, Santigold, and Lauryn Hill. We then give our objections to everyone complaining about Lauryn Hill’s concert performance (2:24) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. New Denzel Curry, new Jazz Cartier, and new N.O.R.E all get nods from us. We have a very important discussion about integrity vs notoriety as Adam22 “interviews” Boonk on No Jumper. We then have an even more important discussion about systemic racism amongst the Demi Lovato overdose story (27:29) • Sports Talk. WNBA’s Liz Cambage breaks the ALL TIME record for points in a WNBA game; we give our Views on what it takes to increase WNBA viewership since no one noticed. We then object some NBA 2K ratings and give hypothe

Lucky #13! This week we welcome Savon of The Need To Know Podcast to the show as our VERY FIRST GUEST. You can find Savon on Twitter @Slvter and Instagram @SavonSlvter, and you can find The Need To Know Podcast on Instagram @TheNTKPodcast The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • We introduce our special guest: host of The Need To Know Podcast, contributor to the Joe Budden Podcast, and official friend of the TNV Podcast, Savon. He drops some gems that you’re going to want to know if you’re pursuing your own creative path. Savon then puts his podcaster hat on and interviews us (1:27) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. Drake pays Shiggy $250,000; too much or too little? Also we’re here to inform the Viewers that KEKE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. We then discuss new Ciara and new Chance The Rapper. We finish the segment off Travis Scott x Astroworld x Kylie Jenner x GOOD Music (40:06) • PODCAST TAL

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. We welcome an amazing hip hop artist, Sylvan LaCue, to the hottest list in the world (2:24) • SPORTS TALK. The Toronto Raptors are the betting favourite to land Kawhi Leonard; we discuss the likelihood of that happening. We also try to decipher the LaSean McCoy drama (5:51) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. We're talking top 3 albums of the half-year thus far, including some honourable mentions. We also give our Views on two new music releases by Sylvan LaCue and Wiz Khalifa, and give our Views on a potential new 2018 project by Drake (23:42) • Entertainment Report. We’re talking a potential Royal Wedding in Stratford Ontario with none other than Justin Bieber himself. We also lay out all of the facts and give some Views on the Charlamagne Tha God rape allegations (1:07:52) • TNV Presents: Random Thoughts. We're

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. We welcome a couple of artists to the all-white Party; Elijah Horton and Miss Billy Joe (1:59) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. We're talking Drake first week album sales for Scorpion in comparison to our predictions. We re-analyze the album and give our Views as to why Side B is much better than Side A. We also discuss whether Kanye West is a snitch, and new music releases from Meek Mill and Future (7:36) • Will Smith x Rap Radar. Is the 'Social Demand for Authenticity' a good thing or a bad thing? We give our Views on the power of social media, what it demands from today's stars, and try to establish where the boundaries are (58:29) • SPORTS TALK. We're keeping you up to date with the NBA free agency moves and their impact on the league (1:19:01) • TNV Presents: Random Thoughts. We're giving you live reaction

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. We welcome a couple of fellow Canadians to the all-white Party; JRDN and the lovely Elise LeGrow (2:01) • Power is BACK. We share our Views on what sort of craziness to expect from the culture's favourite soap opera. P.S. We already hate Tariq St. Patrick again (6:12) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. The 'A' pill or the 'B' pill? Choose Wisely. We give our in-depth Views on Drake's Scorpion album and compare the two sides in a track by track breakdown. We also discuss Teyana Taylor's KTSE, and the expectations of Meek Mill moving forward with his new single Stay Woke (11:54) • TNV Presents: The Advice Column. We discuss the drama over Lee Daniels not owing Dame Dash his $2 Million and open the dialogue as to how to approach someone who owes you money (1:25:46) • SPORTS TALK. Although this was recorded before Le

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. We welcome another up and coming podcast to the club; the Off The Bounce Podcast now gets an invite to the all-white party (4:44) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. Everything is Love with Jay & Bey. We give our in-depth Views on Jay Z & Beyonce’s instant classic, and breakdown some key lyrics (6:44) • SPORTS TALK. We continue the Jay Z conversation with Puma’s recent signing of Hov as their President of Basketball Operations. Good move? Bad move? We give our Views on the possible direction of Puma and their shot at success (51:33) • Marijuana is set to be LEGAL in Canada! Time to celebrate? Or is there a deeper discussion to be had here? We give our Views on all things marijuana and why we wish it was decriminalized instead (1:17:13) • Random Thoughts. We discuss Charlamagne Tha God x HBO/Desus & Mer

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode, JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. We bring you a special Unofficial Friends recap of all those who have been welcomed to the club thus far. We also welcome Ian Schwartzman, and all of Top Dawg Entertainment to the club this week (1:41) • The TDE welcoming to the Unofficial Friends club leaks into an in-depth TDE Championship Tour concert review and whether Kendrick Lamar really is the GOAT of the current generation of hip hop. We then discuss upcoming concerts we plan on attending (13:45) • MUSIC POTPOURRI’s official beginning. We give our Views on the new Nas project ‘Nasir’, and the new Jay Rock project ‘Redemption’. We then discuss the XXL Freshman List and finish off with reviewing the video for Drake’s ‘I’m Upset’ (28:01) • We kick off the Sports Talk with North America’s bid for the 2026 World Cup and what that means for Ca

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode, JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • Jaden Smith is in Big Boy’s neighbourhood, and is comparing schools to prisons. We give our Views on the legitimacy of this comparison, and thoughts of Jaden as a young leader moving forward (2:55) • Keeping Up With The Kardashian visit to the White House. We give our Views on Kim’s prison reform discussion with Trump, the result of the discussion, the increase in his approval rating amongst black people, and whether Kim & Kanye are being used by the President (25:23) • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. The show continues as we add some fellow podcasters to our ever-growing list. Shout out to Mal from The Joe Budden Podcast, and shoutout to Alex & Steph from the Need To Know Podcast (47:30) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. Kids See Ghosts review leads to a discussion about whether Kanye is saturating the market. We also give our Views

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode, JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. The show continues as we add The Breakfast Club to our ever-growing list. This leads to a conversation (6:09) about what a ‘Quarter Life Crisis’ means to us as 20-something year olds (3:11) • FAKE SPONSOR AD ALERT. We’re still faking it til we make it, and Fat Tea is still cutting the cheque (9:50) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. Can we get an encore? The saga continues on Pusha T vs Drake. We also review the new Kanye album, the new Black Thought album, the potential for a new Meek Mill project, and Rihanna’s break-up with her billionaire boyfriend (12:23) • Jamie Foxx or Will Smith? Someone has to have the discussion and we’re the ones to do so. We also discuss Jamie’s upcoming projects including hosting the BET awards. We give our Views on some of the award nominees and who we think will win in some of the

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode, JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • Pusha T x Daytona x Drake x Duppy Freestyle. We review and rate Pusha’s new project. We also give our Views on Drake’s diss track, and analyze whether Pusha T is in fact top 5 on GOOD Music (1:06) • Official UNOFFICIAL Friends/Viewers ft. Official OFFICIAL Friends Viewers?! We add some names to our Unofficial Friends list, and upgrade some of them to the Official Friends list (29:20) • FAKE SPONSOR AD ALERT. Shout out to Fat Tea for sticking with us (36:06) • Cole World. We follow up on last week’s discussion about the J. Cole x Angie Martinez interview. We also give our Views on the Cole x Lil Pump interview (37:50) • MUSIC POTPOURRI. We discuss everything from Lil Tay's future to Kendrick Lamar vs Spotify to DJ Envy and his new show. We also give our Views on some new music releases; A$AP Rocky’s ‘Testing’ and Zaytoven’s ‘Trapholizay’

FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE AUDIO QUALITY OF THIS WEEK'S EPISODE. WE DID AS BEST AS WE COULD POST-PRODUCTION. THE FIRE CONTENT WILL MAKE UP FOR THE AUDIO QUALITY The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode, JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW. Liked our tweet? Retweeted? Responded to our DM on Instagram? That makes you an Unofficial Friend. We shout out our growing list of Unofficial Celebrity Viewers (3:24) • FAKE SPONSOR AD ALERT. Fake it til you make it right? This episode is brought to you by Fat Tea (8:02) • Marvel has been shutting down the Superhero genre with the MCU movement. Is it too late for DC? Can they rebrand and compete? We Share our Views (9:52) • Michael Jordan x Netflix = The Last Dance. We discuss the recent 10 part docu-series that was announced. Naturally, this leads to a LeBron James vs Michael Jordan discussion too (21:41) • Sports gambling

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode, JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL FRIENDS OF THE SHOW ALERT. Whether it’s a response to our tweets/DMs or whether we’re in attendance at a live show, we shout out our growing base of celebrity Viewers (1:44) • Social Plug. Follow us on all platforms @TrueNorthViews including SoundCloud. Search ‘True North Views’ on iTunes/Apple Podcasts. Subscribe, rate, and comment (5:57) • LeBron James dismantled the Raptors, again. We discuss the pains and sorrows from the Canadian perspective and give our Views on the firing of Dwane Casey (6:51) • This is ‘Murica. This is…overhyped? We discuss everything Childish Gambino and ‘This is America’ (30:14) • The Illuminati Ball aka the Met Gala happened. We discuss who killed it on the carpet this year, and who’s going to have to try again next year (45:19) • It’s draft day – Hip Hop Edition. $15 to draft 5 artists; w

Episode 2! Just Shola & your boy Harris are back at it again and they are GOING IN. The Emperors of Elevated Thought dive into: • Is Netflix ruining their brand? We talk about some recent and upcoming Netflix Originals (2:46) • FAKE AD ALERT: They say fake it til’ you make it right? We have some fun with this week’s fake sponsor ad. We have to prepare you for when we’re super lit and have real ones (17:31) • KW x CTG x TMZ? Intentionally avoided discussing Kanye on Episode 1 to let the story play out a bit. Now’s the time to give you the Views on Mr. West (19:20) • May the 4th be with fire music. A ton of music dropped on the 4th of May. We talk about some of that new heat (40:36) • NBA talk (Writing this minutes after the Raptors just got swept. Very emotional, but we will discuss that in Episode 3). General playoff talk and an interesting question regarding the Sixers and the Celtics (49:15) • ‘It-is-me, Car-di-b, I’m-in-a, 3-6-0..’ We talk about 360 deals and rate Cardi B’s album 1 month later (1:01:28

The Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode, JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • An in-depth J. Cole KOD review (1:09) • First take and initial reactions (We wanted to give the entire story more time to marinate and discuss more in-depth on Episode 2) to Kanye West interviews with Charlamagne tha God and TMZ (34:39) • GOOD FRIDAY RELOADED. We’re predicting the number of tracks on each of the upcoming Kanye albums/productions (41:57) • In the midst of the NBA Playoffs, we go over first round predictions that we posted on Instagram, chat about the early storylines of the second round, and make our second round predictions (59:09) • CRAZY CANADIAN SHIT OF THE WEEK! (#CCS) We’re introducing a weekly segment to the Viewers. Your non-typical, eye-raising, wtf stories from Canada (1:08:41) • Social Plug – follow us on all platforms @truenorthviews (1:18:43)

In this week's episode, JustShola and your boy Harris introduce the True North Views podcast to the world. Who we are, where we're from, and what we do; enjoy the first of many TNV podcasts to come. Please subscribe, rate, and comment, and give Episode 1 | "Too Deep For the Intro" a listen while you're at it. Moving forward, we'll be sure to timestamp our major discussions for the Viewers. Stay blessed.