Questlove has angered loads of hip-hop followers in latest days after blasting the Kendrick Lamar-Drake feud whereas deeming the style “useless,” after which continuing to critique 2Pac’s scathing “Hit ‘Em Up” diss observe. And the new takes preserve coming: The Roots drummer appeared on SiriumXM’s One Tune podcast final week and whereas discussing the evolution of rap diss tracks, he took a shot at “Hit ‘Em Up” whereas dubbing it the “weakest musical smack.”
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“I might truly respect 2Pac’s ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ if his music monitoring was higher,” he stated. “‘Hit ‘Em Up,’ to me, is disqualified not due to the misogynist… Dude, you’re rhyming over clean jazz dinner music! Luther Vandross might sing over this!”
He continued: “So when this got here out, all people was like, ‘That is arduous as sh–! Yo, he killin’ it!’ And I used to be like, ‘Canine, he’s clean jazzed up Dennis Edwards. It doesn’t depend.’ … That music, to me, is the weakest musical smack. I can’t get with ‘Hit ‘Em Up.’”
Veteran journalist Elliott Wilson took situation with Quest’s sentiments. “Yo! Questlove we love you, however you gotta cease,” he wrote.
Questlove had a sufficient of the vitriol and posted a PSA to Instagram on Tuesday (Might 14) explaining that he was particularly speaking concerning the interpolation of Dennis Edwards’ “Don’t Look Any Additional” on “Hit ‘Em Up” and never taking pictures at Pac.
“Let’s be clear on the context I used to be talking of aight? lol woke as much as a grip of ‘what did Dennis Edwards/Pac do to you?!’ texts I’m talking of the musical backdrop of that file (“Hit Em Up”),” he contested in his caption. “Nonetheless principally not a fan of dis data principally as a result of having lived in that interval (mid 90s) I by no means seen any good outcomes from hip hop beef.”
Whereas Quest threw dust on the Drake-Kendrick beef, fans were quick to remind the Philly native about The Roots aligning with Jay-Z throughout Jigga’s feud with Nas. Quest performed the drums for Jay’s Unplugged stay album in 2001 the place Hov carried out his “Takeover” diss.
Wanting again, the 53-year-old admitted that his position on Unplugged wasn’t “certainly one of my brighter moments” and had “second ideas” concerning the Jay-Nas feud.
“& yeah you don’t must remind me of my position on Unplugged——-that wasn’t certainly one of my brighter moments & had I had a redo I prolly woulda had second ideas of the “Takeover” scenario,” he wrote. “I imply I do know I’m previous y’all however rattling I’m not tryna be #Poundcake/Respectable Politics Smurf over right here yelling “Get Off My Garden!!!” each 14 secs.”
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