Fats Joe is including his 2 cents to the brewing dialog that as we speak’s hip hop journalists are huge 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 apply 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 also believe that the old guard of hip-hop journalists created a lot of conflict and might even have blood on their hands,” Joe defined.
Pleasant reminder that the “east coast vs west coast beef” was began and fueled and perpetuated by Vibe Journal.
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“When you talk about East Coast-West Coast, Biggie-Tupac, that thing was amplified, and they both ended up dead,” he declared. “And, when I look at the so-called journalists that were here from day one, since Vibe and The Source [magazines] and all that, still to this day when they interview people and they do podcasts themselves, it’s always a negative route.”
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We just lately spoke to Benzino and he blamed the 1995 Supply Awards for sparking the East Coast-West Coast wars, so there’s positively some synergy within the OG’s recollections.
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Kendrick compounded his that means of dissing Drake on “Not Like Us” to SZA … which irked music critics who felt Ok. Dot’s area was too protected to correctly define the nuances within the extremely publicized beef.
Prime Dawg Entertainment’s Terrence “President Punch” Henderson‘s boss defended the interview and prompt the rationale Kendrick and different artists do softball interviews is as a result of most of as we speak’s journalists are TRASH!!!
This convo has been boiling for years — bear in mind DJ Akademiks ripped hip hop’s “Big 3” a brand new one when J. Cole determined to provide 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 were the people when we didn’t have social media or podcasts, they were controlling the game, and it was always a negative narrative. Back in the day, if you didn’t get shot nine times or went to jail for 10 years, they wouldn’t consider you a good rapper. It was terrible.”
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 kind of agree with the young boys and young girls,” Joe admitted. “They’re saying get your message out there however you want and where you feel comfortable, where people ain’t out here to jam you up. That’s why I did ‘Fat Joe Talks.’ So we could talk about exactly what the artist wants to talk about in a positive light.”
“I used to go to interviews, and they’d be like, ‘Joe, what’s up with Rapper X? I never even met the brother. And then, next thing you know you got 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 speak and joined his fellow Puerto Rican artists Unhealthy Bunny and Nicky Jam in slamming comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about their homeland he made at Donald Trump‘s Madison Sq. Backyard rally.
