Following the announcement of this year’s VH1 Hip Hop Honors honoree’s, all of which hail from the South, the show has been met with tremendous criticism.
The show’s executive producer Fab Five Freddy recently spoke to VH1 about the recent criticism.
“As much conversation that we get from southerners saying we’re ghettoizing it, conversely we get people saying why are you honoring those people down South? It goes back and forth,” Fab Five Freddy explained. “I don’t think there’s any way you can go into the space that’s called Hip-Hop and do something that’s going to appease everyone.”
Among those unimpressed with VH1 and Hip Hop Honors’ choice of honoree’s this year is Houston rapper Scarface.
“As hard as we fought to be a part of general population they still wanna give a nigga a label it’s hip hop fuck where I come from,” said Scarface in a Tweet made earlier this month.
This year’s Hip Hop Honors, which will focus on the “Dirty South,” will honor Jermaine Dupri, Luke, Master P, Organized Noize, and more.
They better mention mutherfuckin 8ball and MJG and UGK on that fucking show or Im gonna be real shitty
RIP Chad
Primero Puto’s
Well there’s not that many veterans in hip hop that hit mainstream, so down south, and back to new york is left, I think there’s no westcoast artist left that lasted long except for dj quick, e-40, kurupt & daz is all I can think of.
WHAT ABOUT CUBE, DRE, SNOOP, BLACK EYE PEAS LOL
THE SHOW IS GOING TO BE WACK. FIRST OF ALL THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE IT IN THE SOUTH INSTEAD OF NEW YORK. SECOND OF ALL NEW YORKER AKA SONGODS DON’T RESPECT OUR SOUTHERN ARTIST HELL THEY BARELY RESPECT THERE OWN ARTIST. THIRD IF THEY ARE HONERING THE SOUTH AND OUKAST IS NOT THERE SCARFACE AINT THERE ITS NOT REALLY HONERING THE SOUTH. TWOS HO.
tru tru…i like that songods
When we shout Dirty South, I don’t think that is what we mean
I mean, it mean the roguh, the tough, the DANGEROUS, we reign SUPREME
Can slaughter entire teams with the ink that my pen bleeds
B-I-G, B-O-I – nigga, please!
i thought u honor people who put in work- im cool wit uncle luke- but if they aint honoring the ghetoboys- outkast scarface the niggaz who laid da grown work for all these new wack ass south niggaz- then what da fuck is the point- shit the south just got poppin like 6-7-8 years ago so why are we honering them anyway…… real talk ya need 2 honor lil john n ying yang twins- shit they put ya on a global map wit they trash rap………….
won’t be watching the honors this year…….with the exception of those Justus League cats…I could care less about most of thosecats in the south……..Master P, great business man, horrid emcees……….hell minus Outkast…..and groups like LB what has the south really brought to the game????—-I mean them cats been hatin’ since they got in…just ask Scarface……he is still hatin’…..
NORTHeast baby……that’s where it’s at!!!!!
NYC
Iladelph
DMV
Boston……
Hold it down….
Fuck Petercunt,tha Ghetto Boys Open doors for All these Southern Muthafuckas but still don’t get any respect cause of White Amerikkka tellin yall Azz what’s Hot on these Airwaves & Label exec.Shit Scarface still doin it 20yrs Strong in the Game! And with what most of yall would say is weak production.Image if face had the production he had on tha “Fix” on all of his releases or a premo,Dre track everytime he dropped. Lets see where most of these rappers will be in the Next 15. What Up Willie D. I’m still “Doin it Like A G.O.” i’ll Bury them Cockroaches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Say brah u know nohin about hip hop the way u talkin lol…..there are jus as many honorable mc’s down south as up north or out west….i listen to all hip hop no matter the region i jus like good quality music.
Ball & G
Scarface
Outkast
TI
Luda
Devin da dude
UGK rip pimp c
the lil wayne from his 1st 5 albums
Wheres their honors and if u disagree wit the names i said u dont love hip hop
Has Willie Dee from the Geto boys gone to jail yet? I know he was convicted on that Internet fraud thing in Federal court..
is Bushwick Bill still born again christian, does he bash all secular hip hop now?
Will the DOC get recognized, since, technically, he was from Dallas? Do heads look at him more as a southern rapper or west coast?
The South is OUTKAST PERIOD! during when hip hop was hip hop tell me whp from the south really held it down????? i am from the south and all i use to listen to was Wu Tang, Biggie and Nas
where you from?
You can’t have hip hop honors south without master p and no limit he owned the rap world in the 90s after PAC and big … But yeah gotta have outkast and some others
Outkast, Ghetto boys, Cunninlyguists, LB…
add 8ball and MJG, UGK, goodie mob that’s all i can think of
Aint no one puttin it down for the SCREWED UP CLICK?
COME ON NOW EVERY GOD DAMN PERSON
IN THE SCREWED UP CLICK BEEN OUT SINCE
1995 OR EARLIER SO WHATS UP WITH THAT?
Shit K rino from h town is the best rapper ever from the south handsdown gangsta nip ponit blank from spc were dope to
but realtalk K rino >> any other rapper from the south
And he still makes dope shit
south has a great underground scene and has since 86
But y’all don’t wanna research shit.
Here some shit frm 93 Thats still dope today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkgKa1XXcwA&feature=youtube_gdata
K rino verbal excustion
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If this is South Honors, I wanna C them honor peeps like Too Short.
nothin against the south, but i think its ridiculous to have regional awards at the national level. Let Ozone do there south thing, and whoever else do what they gotta do for their area. But on the national level, it should be honoring the best acts, regardless of where they are from. Scarface got it right…
also, its the honors, so where are the honorable acts? insteada outkast, scarface, geto boys and little brother, you got dem franchise boys gucci and bonecrusher? is this a joke?
couldn’t book TI or Luda? J. Cole?
I’m feelin’ you on that….its bad enough they’ve decided to make the show about a region this year…but on top of that they left out the most honor worthy acts the south has to offer…..what tha fuck?!!
This is not an awards show. This is VH1 honoring Hip Hop. These fuck niggas who always fuck up everything at they’re own awards shows should be thankful any network other than BET would like to do something for hip hop. They can HONOR who the hell the want to honor. The HONORED a whole damn label last year. Before that they honor someone from my hometown Too Short. Its who they feel deserves it. Organized noise! Fuck yeah, responsible for Outkast, Goodie Mob Dungeon Famly. Jermaine Dupri.. Fuck yeah, He started his own LABEL and its successful in Hip Hop and R & B, Master P the same. Luke going against the grain for freedom of speech in Hip Hop.. some of these niggas wouldn’t be abnle to say the shit they say now on the radio if it wasn’t for him. I wish it was more people the can add to the show. This is good for Hip Hop. Goodie Mob labeled it the Dirty South… Not VH1.