Before his buzz as 2 Chainz took off and certainly before this week’s number one album Based On A T.R.U. Story, MTV edited him out of a Lil Wayne performance. Recently, Chainz discussed how this experience also added fuel to his fire.
“The homie [Lil Wayne] invited me for Unplugged,” Chainz explained in an interview with Sway in the Morning. “[At the time,] everything was happening in the South. It wasn’t making it anywhere else so this was a look that I needed. This was another look. All the stars are lining up. Then I tell everybody like I shouldn’t have. And then they edit my ass slap out of it. No 2 Chainz!”
As Chainz explained, this experience provided some ammunition for his hunger.
“Sway actually sent me the footage of when I came out and the people, the reception I got. Even though the world didn’t see it, it was something cool for me to have. It was cool for me to see how Wayne introduced me as one of his best people in the game. And it made me more hungry. It made me be like, ‘Okay, MTV! I’m finna turn up on your mawfuckin’ ass.’ And that’s what I did.”
More from the interview can be seen below.
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I used to wonder how people like 2 Chainz, Meek Mill, Rick Ross, Waka, Gucci, Plies, and the other 100 wack rappers got any love at all (it amazes me that 2 Chainz wack behind even sold 100K period) but here what it is in a nutshell:
People want to hear that trash. A lot of hip hop fans today are super young and don’t want to hear things that make them think, so these rappers now just give people what they want to hear. I bet even 2 Chainz knows that he’s garbage, but people want to hear that trash he spits so he gives it to them. I can’t really blame him and the other dudes out now for milking the game like that.
So the next time anybody wonders ‘Who even let these fools in a studio to record?’, just remember that they have lots of fans that want to hear uncreative, grade school rhyming about lives that 95% of them have never lived, so they just give the people what they want.
you act like this nigga just went platinum or something. his sales reflect a market just like j.coles or some other lyrical rapper. its just that people like u are so obsessed with the hip hop you hate and would rather complain all day than focus on the lyrical rappers who are still doing well. theres enough room in hip hop for 2 chainz and other lyrical rappers. if you click oon the articles which actually interest you you would know that
If I made a stupid reply like the one you just made, I would want to be Anonymous too. I am not obsessed with garbage hip hop, I’m OVERWHELMED by it. 2 Chainz and his sort are all you hear on the airwaves or on BET, MTV2, etc. Its hard to focus on real rappers like J. Cole when they don’t get the exposure they deserve when all you hear or see nowadays are retarded rappers. The very market you describe is a market that values trash over treasure, and wack MCs take up the majority of the room in hip hop.
@kdot:
Well said mainstream hip hop is terrible because the fans are young kids who want to be entertained
His story is good regardless of what you think of his rhymes. I mean he went from being edited out of a MTV set to MTV naming him one of the top rappers a year later.
That’s grind. I’ll admit that he sold quite a bit more albums than I expected but I’m not mad because the work ethic was there.
I have to give you that Dom; at least his work ethic is commendable, regardless of how wack he is.
Plenty of people grind; 2Chainz just found some rich benefactors to put him over.
well thank god they did 2 chainz your ass is whack.
they shouldve done the same for lil wayne but i guess the dick sucking is enuff for them..
It was Wayne’s set cornball. Unplugged. They only do that for legends, research it.
aww defending your lil fag hunny?
lmfao, childish motherfuckers..
Now if we can only edit 2 Shitz out of society.
If only 2 Chainz had talent, skill, care for rap, or intelligence, then he might matter. But so far he’s 0 for 4.
no one believes you
who listens to this guy? anyone? Gucci mane is a god compared to this guy.
Ya’ll missing the point tho…. Who is that thick bytch on 2 Chainz right side? She thick ass fuck smh
they edited you out becuse youre straight garb 2chainz. your name should be ankle chains you negro.