Drake and Future’s What A Time To Be Alive hype has died down and somewhat and fans are beginning to bring in a consensus feeling about the collaborative project. While there are a lot of people defending it, namely one writer at Complex. Angel Diaz wrote an article telling fans to ‘stop hating’ and to emphasize his message, he name dropped Lupe Fiasco and Talib Kweli…ended up being a mistake.
Diaz wrote:
What exactly is that “real” sh*t then? Turn up music isn’t “real” hip-hop? How so? Was the genre not invented at a goddamn party? Isn’t music about having a good time? I’m dead tired of you cats, man. You make my head hurt. Can’t be listening to Talib Kweli rap off beat and Lupe Fiasco deep cuts at BBQs. I, too, was once like you, but come on, don’t nobody wanna hear that sh*t all the f*cking time.
The Chicago MC got wind of the piece and let Diaz have some words on Twitter.
Keep Lupe name out that fuckshit…don't make SLR you clowns…FOH @ComplexMag
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) September 22, 2015
If niggas don't like that shit then they don't fucking like it..stop caping for a backstage pass I fuck with both dem niggaz @ComplexMag
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) September 22, 2015
Learn not to intercede on behalf of niggaz who don't give two shits about you @ComplexMag and stop using REAL MC's names in vain for likes
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) September 22, 2015
Your article was distasteful and unnecessary and it was fucking wack. Speak your peace but don't involve us bitch @ADiaz456 @ComplexMag
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) September 22, 2015
Lupe would continue to tweet Diaz while calling him a b*tch as well. It was just a back and forth between the two until Talib got involved in the conversation.
When I met Future, the first thing he said to me was he met me when he was 15 at the Organized Noise session for Hiphop For Respect, 1999
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) September 22, 2015
I was a fan of Future then, and saw the grip he had on the ATL scene. I knew he would dominate & rooted for him.
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) September 22, 2015
I met Drake at SOBs, at his first show there. I was a fan of So Far Gone, I had missed the first 2 Mixtapes. Drake has always showed love..
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) September 22, 2015
From DJ Quik to Nelly to Gucci Mane, over a 20+ yr career, I've recorded w many artists that so called hiphop purists cringe at. I'm a fan.
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) September 22, 2015
I've never wavered or faltered in my message, I speak out against so called hiphop "purity" and embrace all great art.
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) September 22, 2015
But for some reason, annually, hiphop blogs, looking at u @ComplexMag feel the need to use me as a scapegoat to diss conscious hiphop.
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) September 22, 2015
They hire these lame trend following groupie ass writers to tell their readers how uncool it is to like Nas. Or Lupe. Or Kweli.
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) September 22, 2015
Why is it only on the MCs to rep the culture tho? What about DJs? Radio personalities? Journalists? Bloggers?
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) September 22, 2015
This is a discussion that always happens in hip hop. Rappers such as Lupe and Talib are labeled as provocative and too deep therefore their music has a time and place but is considered what ‘real’ hip hop is. It is all about preference at the end of the day, just because someone is not feeling What A Time To Be Alive does not make them a hater. On the other side of the coin, not liking the more lyrical and technical rappers does not exclude you from being apart of the culture. It is a dividing technique that hurts the music and is partly why their is no balance to the content we now see in mainstream.
If you love hip hop, then you love hip hop, there is no one person you have to be against or for, as long as you respect and honor the culture.
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