Fat Joe is together with his 2 cents to the brewing dialog that as we converse’s hip hop journalists are big trash, spurned over backlash from Kendrick Lamar giving his first “Not Like Us” interview to SZA!!!
The Bronx rap legend sat down for a model new interview to debate the fleeting observe of artists having journalists ask them truthful questions, in commerce, to have the power to change the narrative on their very personal platforms. Fat Joe says the safety of Tupac Shakur and Biggie‘s beef led to their demise!!!
“I moreover think about that the earlier guard of hip-hop journalists created loads of battle and might even have blood on their palms,” Joe outlined.
Nice reminder that the “east coast vs west coast beef” was started and fueled and perpetuated by Vibe Journal.
2pac and Biggie’s blood is on that magazines palms.
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“When you talk about East Coast-West Coast, Biggie-Tupac, that issue was amplified, they normally every ended up ineffective,” he declared. “And, after I check out the so-called journalists that had been proper right here from day one, since Vibe and The Provide [magazines] and all that, nonetheless to at the moment after they interview people they normally do podcasts themselves, it’s on a regular basis a harmful route.”
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We simply these days spoke to Benzino and he blamed the 1995 Provide Awards for sparking the East Coast-West Coast wars, so there’s positively some synergy inside the OG’s recollections.
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Kendrick compounded his which implies of dissing Drake on “Not Like Us” to SZA … which irked music critics who felt Okay. Dot’s space was too protected to accurately outline the nuances inside the extraordinarily publicized beef.
Excessive Dawg Leisure’s Terrence “President Punch” Henderson‘s boss defended the interview and urged the rationale Kendrick and totally different artists do softball interviews is because of most of as we converse’s journalists are TRASH!!!
This convo has been boiling for years — be mindful DJ Akademiks ripped hip hop’s “Giant 3” a model new one when J. Cole decided to current an interview to sports activities actions czar Bob Myers.
The blowback from Punch’s suggestions despatched hip hop journalists proper right into a tizzy … nonetheless Joe says now that podcast mics are easy to buy, artists have leverage.
Joe continued … “These had been the people as soon as we didn’t have social media or podcasts, they’d been controlling the game, and it was on a regular basis a harmful narrative. Once more inside the day, must you didn’t get shot 9 events or went to jail for 10 years, they wouldn’t ponder you rapper. It was horrible.”
Joe says he’s aiming to be the following Oprah, and sided with the model new wave of streamers and TikTokers to push hip hop journalism forward.
“So I type of agree with the youthful boys and youthful ladies,” Joe admitted. “They’re saying get your message in the marketplace nonetheless you want and the place you’re feeling cozy, the place people ain’t out proper right here to jam you up. That’s why I did ‘Fat Joe Talks.’ So we might talk about exactly what the artist needs to discuss in a optimistic delicate.”
“I used to go to interviews, they normally’d be like, ‘Joe, what’s up with Rapper X? I in no way even met the brother. After which, subsequent issue you understand you purchased beef with Rapper X over a journalist who wanted to create a hype.”
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Switching gears, Joe hit the political circuit in Pittsburgh as we converse and joined his fellow Puerto Rican artists Unhealthy Bunny and Nicky Jam in slamming comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about their homeland he made at Donald Trump‘s Madison Sq. Yard rally.