This Knucklehead Lupe said:
“I respect hip-hop and i dont know one word of Midnight Marauders and truthfully dont have the interest to go and find out…”
Ol’ bum ass nigga.
The homie Miss Info talked to Q-Tip and he said this:
“I’m not trying to make this any bigger than it is. But, I just want to clear up one thing:
We never hunted him down and begged him to be a part of the show or anything like that. His name was pitched to us by VH1, and we said, ok cool. The only time I spoke to Lupe about the Hip Hop honors performance was on a conference call, which we did with the others artists too, like Busta and Common, to plan the performance.
When VH1 brought his name up, based on what he had said about us before, I thought it was ironic and it kind of humored me. All that stuff he said about never listening to a Tribe album before and having no interest in doing so, it doesn’t make sense to me.
As I said on the show itself, it was listening to NWA’s Straight Outta Compton that inspired us to make Low-End Theory, and years later, I spoke to Dr. Dre and he told me that hearing Low-End Theory, inspired him to make The Chronic. That’s what music does. That’s what artists do, they seek out information, of all kinds.
But no, I never hunted him down to be part of the tribute. That didn’t happen.”
Lupe Lost.
Just rude!
some real ignorant shit right there! i thought u would be better than that lupe. Cuz if u aint up to learn from hip hop how the hell u gonna luv it? I know u luv the paper and fame you get off it! Maybe that’s all u luv?
Your short-sighted ass probably don’t realize that if it wasn’t for atcq, native tongues, and the pro-black rap of the late 80’s the world might not wanna hear a word from your muslim, conscious, alternative, (insert any other label used to describe lupe that has been used to describe native tongue fam) ass! Wake up Fam!
peace
Yeah! that was an ignorant ass statement. I mean, what was the point of saying some stupid ish like that. Who was he trying to impress. If he had listened to ATCQ – MM. Maybe that could have been the difference in his album being Classic Material instead of just O.K.!.
Wow…I dont know what to say about that
what context was this said in?
who cares. he said it, and it was some dumb young people shit to say. and a week before he said that he was bigging up Young Jeezy.
ugh.
Thanks for looking into it, ajwon. I can see his point, but it seems unnecessarily belligerent.
It’s alright, Lupe. Don’t bother with the classics. Just keep skatain’ and wearing those bright-ass shoes. Hopefully you’ll end up doing a faceplant in a skating-outtake video.
Hey Stuuuu–pid Luupe. You should be honored to be asked to perform a track from the great ATCQ.
You corny STUPIDSTAR song is wack.. The COOL is going to sell alittle more than wood.
You will never be a great MC, if you cant memorize a few bars from a classic tribe track.
You can kick, then push ur way out of the industry Stuuu-pid luuupe. Your Done!!
ATCQ are legends you should respect that. Big ups the real chicago artists (Kanye and Common).
he barely barely even messed it up
he didn’t even owe an explanation
this is worse
I wonder what was the context of this statement. Considering the affect tribe had on the industry and hip-hop as an art form I wonder what could have prompted Lupe to say this statement. While it could be bravado (something along the lines of saying he doesn’t look back but creates his own inspiration) I think this may be out of context in some regards. It really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense….
Atleast he doesn’t sound like every other cat thats been heavily influenced by atcq.