Fats Joe is including his 2 cents to the brewing dialog that right this moment’s hip hop journalists are massive trash, spurned over backlash from Kendrick Lamar giving his first “Not Like Us” interview to SZA!!!
The Bronx rap legend sat down for a brand new interview to debate the fleeting observe of artists having journalists ask them honest questions, in trade, to have the ability to alter the narrative on their very own platforms. Fats Joe says the protection of Tupac Shakur and Biggie‘s beef led to their demise!!!
“I additionally imagine that the outdated guard of hip-hop journalists created numerous battle and would possibly even have blood on their palms,” Joe defined.
Pleasant reminder that the “east coast vs west coast beef” was began and fueled and perpetuated by Vibe Journal.
2pac and Biggie’s blood is on that magazines palms.
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“If you discuss East Coast-West Coast, Biggie-Tupac, that factor was amplified, and so they each ended up useless,” he declared. “And, once I have a look at the so-called journalists that had been right here from day one, since Vibe and The Supply [magazines] and all that, nonetheless to today after they interview folks and so they do podcasts themselves, it’s at all times a adverse route.”
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We lately spoke to Benzino and he blamed the 1995 Supply Awards for sparking the East Coast-West Coast wars, so there’s undoubtedly some synergy within the OG’s recollections.
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Kendrick compounded his which means of dissing Drake on “Not Like Us” to SZA … which irked music critics who felt Okay. Dot’s area was too protected to correctly define the nuances within the extremely publicized beef.
Prime Dawg Leisure’s Terrence “President Punch” Henderson‘s boss defended the interview and advised the rationale Kendrick and different artists do softball interviews is as a result of most of right this moment’s journalists are TRASH!!!
This convo has been boiling for years — keep in mind DJ Akademiks ripped hip hop’s “Massive 3” a brand new one when J. Cole determined to present an interview to sports activities czar Bob Myers.
The blowback from Punch’s feedback despatched hip hop journalists right into a tizzy … however Joe says now that podcast mics are simple to purchase, artists have leverage.
Joe continued … “These had been the folks after we didn’t have social media or podcasts, they had been controlling the sport, and it was at all times a adverse narrative. Again within the day, for those who didn’t get shot 9 occasions or went to jail for 10 years, they wouldn’t take into account you rapper. It was horrible.”
Joe says he is aiming to be the subsequent Oprah, and sided with the brand new wave of streamers and TikTokers to push hip hop journalism ahead.
“So I form of agree with the younger boys and younger women,” Joe admitted. “They’re saying get your message on the market nonetheless you need and the place you are feeling comfy, the place folks ain’t out right here to jam you up. That’s why I did ‘Fats Joe Talks.’ So we might discuss precisely what the artist desires to speak about in a optimistic gentle.”
“I used to go to interviews, and so they’d be like, ‘Joe, what’s up with Rapper X? I by no means even met the brother. After which, subsequent factor you recognize you bought beef with Rapper X over a journalist who needed to create a hype.”
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Switching gears, Joe hit the political circuit in Pittsburgh right this moment and joined his fellow Puerto Rican artists Dangerous Bunny and Nicky Jam in slamming comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about their homeland he made at Donald Trump‘s Madison Sq. Backyard rally.
