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.
anyone know the whole story behind this? l
let me break it down.
VH1 asked Lupe to Perform on the Hip Hop Honors…
Lupe Says No….
Q-Tip ask Lupe to perform….
because tip reached out directly to him…he says yes…
i prolly would have told Vh1 to eat a d*ck too…
Vh1 gets the approved lyrics to lupe 1, maybe 2 days before the performance?
Not much time, whatever, i think he should have nailed it too…but we have to take the whole situation into accord before we throw Lupe under the bus for a few words…
Im sure we are are guilty of dropped one dumb…ignorant…bigoted…racist…whatever comment here and there, but that one error doesn’t define our character, especially in the case of Lupe
I’ve lost all respect…
Pure ignorance.
he been wack, what a gay iRObot ass nigga..
when and where did he say this? where is the article for this…
well consider, lupe admittedly was not a hip-hop fan. he said growing up he didnt listen to a lot of hip-hop. so its not a surprise he never heard ATCQ’s M.M. its not a surprise if he had no real influence in his rhyme. he’s on some other shit anyway
never liked lupe in da first place……supa wack
He taking that “Dumb it Down” too far
Yeah man on that note, i get from Lupe saying what he said, that great album’s can be still be produced without the so called influences of so called peer group’s, just like the Little Brother Lil Wayne talk going on, if i remember correctly Big Pooh mentioned not long after The Listening droped that Tha Carter was one of his favorite albums to have droped that year, which is a classic but not mabey to those that only listen to what they or peer’s do, i thought HipHop culture was about being yourself in the first place?
Midnight Marauders is truly one of Hip-Hop’s greatest sonic achievements.If you know hip-hop there is no way you could disrespect it on any level…that album was a 5 mic certified classic….brilliant…i hope Lupe can clear this up for me…i’d hate to think i couldn’t fuck wit’ him cuz he’d become an egotistical p***y.
lupe on change:
“before we go further we gotta take em back / so we could know what we did / cause if we never know what happened in the past / than we can never know just what it is” or sth like that
anyway, he’s still top 3 at the moment, no doubt
When I watched the show, this is the first thing that came to mind.Of ALL people… why pick the one guy that admitted to not having owned or even had an interest in owning a copy of Midnight Marauders? He butchered the lyrics! MF got me feeling all elitist / KRS ONE now.
Fucking skaters.
lupe is a moron. young ass nigga. garbage ass album. what a disgrace to hiphop. That makes me wanna blast the ill bill “black metal”album until my speakers blow!