Since Azealia Banks’ Hot 97 interview during which she called out Iggy Azalea, the topic of the Australian-born rapper and her music has become a hot one.
Q-Tip, someone who is widely regarded as a 90s gatekeeper of the culture, recently chimed in and decided to recite Hip Hop’s history in order to address his opinion about Azalea.
“You have to take into account the HISTORY as you move underneath the banner of hiphop,” he said via Twitter. “I’m Kool with [your music] as long as I got to share this w u. Zzzzzzz’s up! Peace!” He would also relay how Hip Hop culture was based on an escape African Americans had during the trials and tribulations of living in New York during the 1970s.
Some Hip Hop luminaries have come to Iggy Azalea’s defense in the past. Back in July, Questlove said that Hip Hop is a contagious culture and Iggy is just another one of those wanting to be a part.
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way to go tip, without dissing or starting any shit with her. very respectful.
Q-Tip sucks, all of his music sucked, tribe called quest was nothing more than a joke. This isn’t a legends or even represent hip-hop. Hey, used Q-tip, talk shit and school Shaddy on your stupid and sad history about hip-hop, and watch your ass get split in half in his next song….nobody gives a shit! I’m tried of stupid people always throwing out that same old card…it doesn’t work anymore. Nobody feels sorry about you or what sparked hip-hop. You just look stupid. Let’s face it, Q-Tip is all out of money, and he is trying to ride on the coat tails of a new artist. Since righteous and 1990’s rap won’t fly any longer, Q-TIP needs to reach and get a free male some way. His shit rap songs didn’t generate enough income to last him more than 30 years because he sucks! There I said it…Now pick up your card, go see a real rapper like Ice Cube, and take a lesson or two. Q-Tip, Tim-Dog, 3rd-Base and Vanilla Ice are all in the same class. At least X-Clan had some great beats: Q-Tip you “SISSY!” Stop picking on females, you’re too old, nobody cares about, so stop trying to make a comeback on twitter. Chump!
fuck your history old man. the white girl has a right to make any kind of music she wants. its not her fault if they give her a grammy.
Fucking Devils killed hip hop
Fuck you and that white bitch nigga don’t you ever disrespect the ABSTRACT fuck nigga
co0ons killed hip-hop long before iggy and macklemore came thru to stunt on da haterz and get dis money$$$
GEORGE IS GETTIN TIRED HERE TIP!Think the whole history is irrelevant when its about a fight jealous azelia banks started and iggy just defending herself.Dont think she meant to disrespect a culture she obviously tryin to be a part of,but everyone just trying to make it a racial thing.Btw iggy suck ass and so do azelia!Iggy is pop and azelia is makin remixes of mr president hits.Whats next?Coco Jambo?zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..
Why isn’t he tweeting this at Riff Raff and Mac Miller? Or Yelawolf and Paul Wall? Whats so special about Iggy? Seems like an old fashioned witch hunt to me.
Because she is an Australian mimicking the voice/attitude of a southern african american and reaping the benefits of basically “using” the culture.
Guys like Mac stay in their lane and don’t pretend to be something they aren’t.
^ This!
They say mockery is the sincerest form of flattery. Gotta be mad at someone I guess. I don’t see how shes intentionally mocking anyone. A lot British singers don’t sound British when they sing.
none of them need a history lesson, i cant say for rif raff tho, idk his music or anything about him
A singing voice is different than a talking voice, though.
Who the fuck sits there and tweets a college essay on social media like this!!! Fuck outta here, aint got time to read all that shit. Nigga got flagged for spam
your a faggot- comments like that are the reason there is many ignorant fans who know nothing about the culture
no one is trying to read 100 tweets like that. he should have just wrote her DM or posted his damn essay on instagram as one post.
HIPHOP is for all races now if you havent noticed.Its universal so stop talkin about
the fuckin culture` already.Nuff black artists ruin hiphop,not just the white artists.Nicki garbage,azelia garbage,schmurda garbage,keef garbage,lil wayne garbage,tyler garbage and so on.The discussion should be about gettin rid of garbage artists then it would make more sense instead of makin it about `the culture.Hip hop is the biggest genre in the world so face it,you cant talk to every artist in the world on some malcolm x.slavery type shit.HA!iGGY AND AZELIA SUCK DONKEYDICK!cosign that my ninja
do you think chief keef, bobby shmurda, or migos know anything about the history of hip-hop? if they don’t why should she care? i know her fans don’t. they don’t know who q-tip is, they think thats a personal hygiene product. shes not trying to join the zulu nation here, shes making cheesy pop songs with rap elements.
HEEEEEEEY!TIP!Are you free?You wouldnt be interested in helping me write the last chapter of the a song of ice and fire books?
they make it 140 characters or less for a reason brah
When a black person wants to get into ballet, or play classical music does Taylor Swift need to break down Beauchamp and Chaikovsky on twitter……….Do they have to put the struggles of white Europeans on their back? Or did the capitalistic white man steal that too?
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no you dumb fuck. what would taylor swifts country ass know about classical music or ballet. She is a country music pop star from the south. she is far removed from Europe. And everyone knows that classical disciplines are taught in conservatories which are there for the very reason of reinforcing the classical ideology behing the music or dance i.e. Julliard. every person who is classically trained in those art forms named are well aware of the history of said art form.
#1 Some of the largest names in Classical music where “black” or mix-raced (i.e. Beethoven/Misty Copeland), so that point is moot though I see what you are trying to say. In short, Classical music and ballet were not born of people’s struggle. Hip-hop was and has been commoditized to make money for white-owned labels. I don’t think your comment had an actual point but there is definitely a marked difference betwixt the scenarios.
@mertz- damn right! Blak ppl should learn the history on the instuments they used to crete music as well as technology to put it out lmao lets tweet qtip 600 msgs w history so he can give props
@keleo- beethove was spanish and 1/16th at that lmao thats like adding a pinch of salt to a 20ft pasta bowl and calling it a salt dish
Classical music originated with the moors. The guitar’s predecessor was the banjo which was invented by slaves. The piano is a harp in a box. Harps were in Africa. The piano is also related to the xylophone.
If your takin that route then i think you need to
educate95% of todays hiphop fans.Dont think many knows the in depth history of the culture.Think its mostly about enjoying music.Hiphop has gotten almost like dancemusic anyways.I just dont get all the hate!!?? He should be tweeting about nikki teaching these young girls to be hoes and only going after men for there money or if they sell coke…smh.. us black people need to start holding ourselves responsible for our own instead we take out our frustrations on this little white pop girl. Where was q tip when pretty much all these one hit wonders form the south start talking about guns grubs and talking about what us black people dont have and belittling us for not driving the latest car or having pockets full of cash…smh coward! !!!
Agree with you..
yo some black guy in NY murked his girlfriend then killed 2 cops execution style on some revenge shit before killing himself. last thing he posted on instagram was some 50 cent lyrics.
Oh my God!!! This is 21st century. I can’t believe it…people are still reasoning like ancient people. is it now a crime for someone to do what she feels good at doing??. I’m a black too, fuck you Qtip..people like you are embarrassment to our black culture. Why all these hatred on Iggy? What crime did she commit, to deserve all these attacks from these attention seeking whores?? Let her do her thang
quote one thing that q tip said thats an attack. the question you should be asking is what has iggy done to be exempt from being able to be addressed by one of the most influential figures in hip hop.
why isnt he addressing chief keef or bobby shmurda?
Why are you all jumping to her defence so hard. How did he attack her – he @ her in a history lesson. Where was the attack? Where was the hate? Goodness she’s going to be okay.
Nas been told y’all hip hop was dead albums ago…u must thought he was playing right??….fukkheads!
DAMN SO DEAD ON THANK YOU!
why you niggas mad. Why werent you mad at all these other wack black rappers only mad at iGGy, The new classic has created an uproar because it is that certified platinum hits for days classic shit. haters stay mad when iggy continues to rack up money and laugh at all these broke bum ass irrelevent ass niggas. THE NEW CLASSIC MOTHER FUCKERS
Man remember when public enemy started rocking with anthrax? Run DMc and aerosmith? That shit went hard crossing barriers, besides it’s a black man T.I. A convicted felon making something of his self that’s making the real money off Iggy any way so how u gone hate on that? Hundreds of rappers done went and toured all over her country and made millions now u mad cause they wanna keep the love alive? How much sense is u really making? It’s like y’all was mad at V-Nasty for saying nigga, who u think she got it from? She was buying black music and singing along and going to black concerts and singing along and she thought it was kool, that’s like cussing in front of your kids all say then expecting them not to learn cuss words….. Y’all need to wake up and smell what u shoveling
Ok so we wanna play the “remember history game” ok lets play
Lets give lessons to everyone whos isnt white the history of where the saxaphone used for blues and jazz came from (white man) how about guitar used for rock (white man) how about the recording software and systems such as computer, internet and phones o get popular (white ppl)
Ok so hiphop, blues, rock, jazz all black owned buy without white inventions ud be tapping rocks and sticks to make beats
homie, it’s not about that. we’re just saying that this music is fromthe inner city. and there are some people coming in and making music that’s not expected from the original hip hop community. it’s all good though! no prejudice. but there is a difference in what q-tip brings, versus action bronson, and i’m sure action is a fan of tip. none of this is about black/white, but there is a difference when it comes to the black mind vs the white mind.
Ok tiger woods a black guy dominated golf for a while u dont see jack nickolson tweeting woods 200 msgs about the history of golf, or u dont see jerry west tweeting michael jordan about the history of basketball
Like sports music should be faceless but come 2 rap we supposedly all cant be equal
And noone needs a history lesson we all now black ppl started hiphop like other genres no white person in histroy ever claimed white ppl started jazz or blues or rap lol black ppl say “steal” like we cant JOIN in.
Thinks white people thought up and invented every little technical innovation, but does’nt know, or history books won’t show who built the white house or the kidnapped Africans slaves who were architects teaching Europeans to build a civilization. And we have for over 400 years given our labor, and have continued to learn in your institutions to futrher advance white civilization in all ares of society to this present day.
Which would further my point we all need eachother. We can all use eachothers inventions of anylond and we all more powerful together and apart
Just look at police protests filled w white black asian latinos and arabs
White ppl have a good side of history and cultire to in arts and advances like electricity but all rveryone wants to talk about is slavery bc itsmost recent memory but some of the foundations of every races lives were used and cant be lived without white and black ppl and asian
he kept it too real for Iggy and Y’all to understand. Thank you Q-Tip all the points u made reminded me why I do this and why Im so sick of what the radio is playing and what THE MAN is telling me is hot
isnt this the cat who was co-signing migos a 2 weeks ago? does he think they know hip-hop history?
q-tip came off very angry and haterish in these tweets. I dislike Iggy just as much as the next real hiphop head. But Tip kinda did a disservice to himself by tweeting this. I feel like this was a passive/agressive way to handle how he wanted to send his message. it seems very ranty…
shes an Australian that’s trying to rap with a dirty souty style. How fucking stupid and ass backwards can someone be? She not even trying to create a different sound in hip hop/rap and truly be creative. …and that’s how i know this bitch is a fucking perpetrator!!
An australian trying to sound like shes from the dirty south is a different sound. who else sounds like her? how many american rappers are truly doing something different or creative with their music? are they all perpetrators too? Is Asap Rocky a perpetrator for being from NY but rapping like he’s from the south?
So you cant rap without feeling sorry for black people and knowing theyre still sad about slavery?
maybe he should check his new zulu bro lil weezy, he signed that white girl rapper chanel west coast who is even worse at rapping than igloo australia….
Nobody said sh*t to the Beastie Boys.
I fuck with this nigga but he wasn’t caring about the blackness when he was selling records with the white machine pushing his music. It’s always the niggas whose hustle fell off. I can’t stand Iggy the bitch ain’t hiphop. She trash but so is French Montana and everyone salutes his hustle. Nobody owes you niggas shit. If they wanna make music and people wanna buy it your crying ain’t gonna change that. Iggy fans don’t give a fuck about Q Tip or his opinion.
Why are people attacking iffy for being Australian and talking with a southern accent? Its corny but who cares. Doesn’t nikki pretend to talk like a white girl then switches it to new York then to speaking normal. God, just cause your black doesnt mean you can get away with it!!!! Hip hop is wack because of normal black people that think they can rap and use it as a stepping stone not because of one white pop women…smh
Nicki also does a fake british accent too I believe and no one says shit bout that apart from how wack is sounds.
this is stupid…black rappers have no right to the claim that white people are hijacking the culture of hiphop. how many white gangsters have had their lifestyles idolized by black rappers? rick rubin – this white man began Def Jam with russell, a cornerstone of hiphop. how about white people start saying that any black person working for a company with a white founder…any NBA player….doesnt have the right to participate because hey…after all…they weren’t the ones who created it in the first place.
That is a bad comparison and ill give you an example In Europe were people shooting balls in basket running down fieds. In Africa you had people known as griots who would recite poems, songs and story’s that were ether created by them or past down. These stories poems or songs could be political,satire or for entertainment. In Africa you had people who would draw pictures on walls or stones to convey a message. This is known as hieroglyphics.In Africa people would play drum with certain rhythmic pattern to set certain moods or help tell certain stories. In Africa people would dance to the beat of the drum to tell stories or give messages.
Q Tip..
Pfffffffffff
Must be a slow day for him
@Q-Tip. So, Chief Keef, Soulja Boy, Bobby Shmurda, French Montana are real hip hop. Okay…
q-tip must be really really bored.
btw he forgot such black men who made hiphop a relevant genre as rick rubin, the beastie boys, or jerry heller
jerry heller? maybe rick rubin, whom were with the beastie boys, but jerry heller is just another person that capitalized off of hiphop. Dr. Dre did that movement. It started in the NY Streets. Some were white, but it actually started in the black neighborhood. Just be real about it dude.
Hahaha..this nigga better get the wax outta his ears and listen when i say shut the fuck up nobody cares. This nigga so olf he was probably around when slaves were pickin cotton and shit. Fuck this.
I wanna say so much about Azealia Banks,Iggy, and Nicki but ima stay quiet.
Please support real Black Female rappers like Boog Brown, Rapsody, Rita J, Lauryn Hill, Jean Grae.
Hip hop shouldn’t be a “black-only” culture to further segregate the races and perpetuate racism, it should be an all-encompassing culture that unites many cultures under one greater cause. At least that’s what it was turning into in the late 90’s through mid-2000s. Now it’s government conspiracies to alienate African Americans, and a few very ignorant and very stupid, selfish individuals greedily attempting to hoard hip hop all for one race. Not only is this counterproductive, but its killing hip hop. If you say rap is just for one or two races, than you’re alienating all others and telling them that they’re “not allowed”. That turns away a lot of potential fans. Hip hop isn’t a black or Hispanic culture thing, it’s its own culture that unites many as one, and selfish people are trying to destroy that. Some people are intelligent enough to see beyond race, and realize that generalization in any form is bigotry. I love hip hop more than anything. I always have. Stop trying to take it away from me.
Fuck PAUL MEARA,
Copy and paste some twitter shit. probably nigga is to lazy to write an article.
Even though action bronson is a fat funky under racist fuck i dont see him and Q Tip any different Q Tip is a angelo saxon ass coon
I have ALWAYS thought of Q-Tip as a SNOB. This solidifies it for me!
wow EXCELLENT job by q breaking it down
Q tips little rant, an original hip hop black kid from the neighborhood which probably means he has a different mind-state from most of today’s hip hop fans. An art form that was built to go against the grain, anti commercial, anti- mainstream. I remember the word no sellout was like one of the first rules of rap. I don’t think it would have been creatively as successful without this principle.
There is currently an oversaturation of hip hop. SOon to come is a resurgence of true classical singing and the true classical art form, then all will be in balance again.
U gotta remember 2 weeks ago this guy was co-signing Migos… they seem to go with the grain, are 100% commercial and pro materialism! He can’t have it both ways.
it’s an ongoing system of manipulation for about 10 years in rap and now theres a very high demand for straight lightweight music which is saying nothing and seemingly quite harmless to the few elite and doesn’t rock the status quo
I’m a mechanic. In order to work on modern cars do I need to be familiar with the history of the Ford Model T and all the cars in between? Fuck No, because it’s irrelevant to what I do. Just like this is irrelevant to what Iggy does.
Lmaooooo “white privilege”, Q-Tip, stop eating gullibly from the dealt hands of society’s own conundrums, and start looking at reality.
Cultural differences, family support, neighborhood habits and pressures;
People don’t factor those into “white privilege”, because there isn’t any difference between poor whites and poor blacks in any of those areas. Some people just think there are because the general comparison is between lower class, uneducated blacks versus middle to upper class, well-educated whites – under the guise of being “blacks versus whites”. I was raised in an equally mixed middle class neighborhood in a suburb outside a major city and there were ZERO differences in our family structures, motivation levels, education levels, etc. I now live in a mixed upper class neighborhood, and it’s the same. Your implication is a fairly common misconception held by people with limited experiences and largely based on heavier exposure to negative stereotypes as opposed to the average neutral person belonging to a racial group. That leads some to believe that the negative stereotype is the average person. You can draw your own conclusion behind why the usual comparison is lop-sided in the direction it leans. It has something to do with this article.
Another fool trying to sound smart & convince people that injustice doesn’t exist. You just typed a whole bunch of nothing.
Why do blacks get mad when other races embrace our culture and start acting like us? Like R&B is our music and it’s doing the worst today. We don’t even support our own. But if a white person makes R&B music and sells millions to the masses we get pissed off. R&B singers putting out good music and it’s not selling. So if a black singer could write for a white artist he not wrong. Most white artist that do black music show love. So what yall say make a mockery what do u mean? Name a white artist that makes a mockery of us? And don’t go by how you take it go by what they said. In Japan a lot of Japanese kids dress and act like us. Probably never been around 1 nigga. Does that make them wrong? I think you niggaz scared that that’s all we got. Cuz if you was trying to be a doctor u wouldn’t even trip as much. Go buy some R&B music if u care that much. nobody tripping about Darius Rucker making country music. So if Miley Cyrus says she a ratchet hoe it’s ok but if performs with a black choir she’s making a mockery. How do you expect to change people for the better if when you see something you don’t agree with you block them out?
There’s tow different types of artist in this modern day hip hop you’ve got consumer driven ones and the ones that have to carve their own path, blacks don’t control the business of music like any other institution and were kept out of wealth building and ownership for hundreds of years now whites have that much of a head start to prey on and create wealth off of black culture. Through monopolizing they and have managed to make sure all the wealth and resources stay in their hands through most of history and down through the generations
tell that to Dr Dre.
dr dre, birdman, mack maine, diddy, suge, ll wayne, jayz all exampled of elite money in rap… i can go on for hours
@really? @smh You must be white. The majority of owners in the Hip Hop industry are white. The people that you mentioned all have white bosses and are all following the status quo.
Iggy Azalea does not owe ANYBODY ANYTHING! nor does she have to take shit from lowlives like Azalea Banks or listen to speeches by Q-Tip about the “history of hip hop”. Hip Hop is such a hypocritical community, complain about injustices yet behave like closed minded jerks.
Seems like his teachings could be better used on the Chiraq kids or Bobby Shmurda and them. You know the young ignorant black kids glorifying dope dealing and senseless violence to the black communities for material wealth.
Who say’s he doesn’t educate young artists of all races? Just because you haven’t seen it on the internet doesn’t mean he isn’t active in doing this. Get a life, stop assuming.
seems pretty weak to educate young non white artists in private but put the lil white girl on blast publicly
Fuck this washed up hasbeen q tip. What a ignorant black bastard.
if you’re trying to boycott this hip hop shit at least be honest and say you would rather prefer a self representation instead of claiming it to be the best of the best, it’s falsifying pushing these nobody’s to the forefront.
Sounds like a bunch of young stupid mf’s on here are upset that Q-Tip is telling it like it is. Then again that doesn’t surprise me. Older people who actually use their brain understand and acknowledge. The other set of stupid folks will say he’s hating, hypocritical or just jealous and lame.
but why isnt he telling this to chief keef, the migos or macklemore?
Q knows that a female is as strong as he can go these days, he’s not yet as crazy as Azealia Banks to go after a MAN.
tell it like it is or you can turn little statements about how and what elements it took a culture to form and call it racial bashing, she stopped into something ready made cooked and manipulateded. Nobody said she could’t do her thing, but with exposure people tent to find what your about. So here comes Q tip to school y’all
@ X
Correct. it’s that ‘defend the massa at all costs’ syndrome. LOL a ‘hip-hop’ website full of Nazis & Uncle Toms.
crakkajack…
How do know for sure he hasn’t?? Everything isn’t handled online…there’s a whole world out there!!!
so why is he handling iggy online and no one else? why couldnt he reach out personally or send her a DM? seems like an attack/witch hunt. i seriously doubt hes reached out to these young savages in chicago or ATL that could give 2 fucks about hip-hop history or the culture while they’re getting money promoting drug dealing and violence.
Q-Tip is a very brave man, don’t mess with the white male Rappers, wait until there a white female Rapper and then you can unload, because that shows bravery and strength. My hero!
LOL stop reaching man.
Ah C’mon Q-Tip is a brave hero man! How many men would consider going toe-to-toe with a woman, not me, not many. The only problem is Iggy treated him like a punk, just ignoring him and leaving him out there, hangin-mid-shake and unzipped.
wait didnt this coon ass nigga just cosign migos?/ aka a bunch of rich blak teens who grew up in the suburbs came out rapping about shooting and killing and selling guns aka shit they never did in life bc they were privelaged
if your gonna rip on an ‘outsider’ in your ‘home’ maybe u should start off by cleaning out your own home first of rodents. bc i feel like outsiders shouldnt know the rules 1 ones home..but the tenants who make the home should be held to a higher stander to keep it clean be it is..their home.
What black person calls another black person a ‘coon’?? You’re the type who loves killing your own, but when other races come you go all quiet & hide somewhere, don’t you? you little table tap-dancing house negro?
Church.
q tip is a fighter for hip hop, because he loves it. he won’t let it die. bring the album, q tip. it’s just about dead, but there’s only a few like you who keeps it alive.
bruh was giving migos props 2 weeks ago.
^ So what? Q-tip writes his own lyrics!
some people have different ways of doing things, but when you peel back all the layers, you realize what’s at the core, a true hip hop fan. q-tip is a fan of this. vivrant thing, that was a commercialized song, but wtf is wrong with that? I liked it too! this guy was brought on the scene by the zulu nation jack. no one’s accusations stand with me on this one. he has tried to come at different angles to save this shit!
how about migos. black teens who grew up in a nice house in the burbs fronting like they grew up gang banging..
how about rick ross stealing a real gangsters name and rapping about his life for a decade even though he was a C.O
how about baby and mack maine signing these fags who dilute the music like wayne and thug
or how about TI cosigning iggy in the first place..without TI there would be no iggy to hate on.
Wow I never knew Nas defended Gweneth Paltrow saying the N word.
Nah YOU shut up. I know you guys are on your ‘defend white artists at all costs (even if they’re wack as fuck)’ mode right now, because it’s fashionable…but you know what Q-tip is saying is correct so stop being a prick about it.
Q Tip schooled her, BUT this is the same fool that made the ultra commercialized Vivrant Thing, and just gave props to Migos a bunch of skinny rich kids terribly singing (or whatever annoying shit that comes out of their mouth) about be gangstas. And why does Q Tip always act like he was in the South Bronx when hip hop was created and nurtured, when he was just a very young child growing up in Queens when hip hop was created and nurture?
So Q Tip needs to get schooled too.
some people have different ways of doing things, but when you peel back all the layers, you realize what’s at the core, a true hip hop fan. q-tip is a fan of this. vivrant thing, that was a commercialized song, but wtf is wrong with that? I liked it too! this guy was brought on the scene by the zulu nation jack. no one’s accusations stand with me on this one. he has tried to come at different angles to save this shit!
yes its correct but no one is tryna read 75 tweets! iggy has no reason to give a fuck when 75% of the blacks eating off hip-hop dont know their history either! maybe he should take out an ad in the NY Times or get instagram.
This is just embarrassing for Q Tip, Tyler and Solange .. Why aren’t you out there supporting Gangsta Boo when she drops gem albums? .. Azaleia Banks is a puppet and all of this is manufactured by more puppets just speaking up to promote themselves and their upcoming Music .. The History is dope, but Q Tip invalidated it by Tweeting it to Iggy LOL are we living in the real life Onion? WTF .. Man publish that shit as a blog post or even a book .. Have some self pride Q TIP !!!
maybe he should right a book. i doubt the white girl or her fans on twitter care about that zulu shit. i also highly doubt that q-tips new zulu nation members lil wayne or freddie gibbs know their hip-hop history like that so why should iggy
Young Thug, Migos, Bobby Shmurda, Chief Keef, Lil Durk, French Montana, Nicki Minaj, Makonnen, O.T. Genasis, Rich Homie Quan.
^
I love hip hop! Black artists are so amazing!
im sure they all received their masters in hip-hop history from Q-Tip’s basement hip-hop academy.
im taking your blog as sarcastic? if im right, then there is some truth in your blog, due to individuals, just making it off of selling dope beats with no type of sense. but it still expresses the life they are living in a field that was build for them too express it in. Now if a white individual that has no clue what so ever, come out and do exactly the same, basically do the Malibu Most wanted in hip hop, it would totally be far off ..
I didn’t know we had to pass the hip-hop history exam to get our rapper license before we start making money off the art we created.
Preach…..my G…
twitter rants are one of the lamest things happening in this “culture”
White folks in here got the NERVE to even question Q Tip about this shit smh take that faux “reverse racism” shit to the ku klux klan rally you go to every weekend, y’all have no say in this culture
cosign.
Nobody cares about some washed up hasbeen called Q-Tip.
Somebody tell Q-Tip it ain’t the black history month.. nobody cares about that old ass bullshit he typin.
Also, fuck Malcolm seX and Martin Luther Coon also.
You sound really stupid.Go read a book
can i upvote @dnice??
I don’t understand why racist crackers love coming on Black websites spewing their hatred of Black people? That shows how jealous and miserable ya YT asses are.
this guy has made songs with Lorde and Fergie
I fucks with this nigga but he wasn’t caring about the blackness when he was selling records with the white machine pushing his music. It’s always the niggas whose hustle fell off. I can’t stand Iggy the bitch ain’t hiphop. She trash but so is French Montana and everyone salutes his hustle. Nobody owes you niggas shit. If they wanna make music and people wanna buy it your crying ain’t gonna change that. Iggy fans don’t give a fuck about Q Tip or his opinion.
Really? You must have never listened to an entire ATCQ album. You sound dumb.
Q-Tip is the biggest racist.. he’s right there after Azealia Banks.
They just jealous. And they should be too. Q-tip is old as fuck and has been irrelevant since the 90s. Azealia is a ugly, talenteless jungle bunny. Fuck both of these wild savages.
q-tip aint had a hit since vivrant thing, banks never had one
Cave/emo/fuckboys go listen to heavy metal.
remember when public enemy did that joint with anthrax back in the day
The Rennissance is one of the best hip-hop albums in the past 10 years. He’s very relevant
Agreed. Low key classic
yall need to learn how to embed tweets properly
Hip Hop needs to just Roll Over and DIE already. I can’t believe ppl still trying to eat off of this. Macklemore was the first Death Knell, Iggy is the Second Death Knell, all it needs is for Jay Z to retire and its a wrap.
what about soulja boy?
Just imagine Larry Bird tweeting at Lebron James or Kobe Bryant about the history of basketball. How well do you think that would go over?
Why would he? Basketball wasn’t created out of white oppression. If Hip-Hop isn’t synonymous with Black culture, why does one need a “black” accent in order to participate in the art form?
but you wont hear english people getting mad at nicki minaj when she raps with a fake british accent
@satans advocate You tried to make a point, but failed. Imagine Nicki Minaj rapping in a British accent ALL the time…exactly. Iggy raps with black dialect and slang 24/7. She can’t escape it.
@Bingo. You ever heard of Dana Dane? his accent was fake as fuck, brits weren’t flipping sit. I agree that Iggy shouldn’t be tying ton sound like a black women from the hood, but you made a terrible point. Kill yourself
@. You can be mad if you want to 🙂 Seems like you also can’t escape it.
fuck your oppression, them white niggas was shooting hoops with peach baskets. if that aint struggle what is.
why isn’t he tweeting at young thug?
because its an attack on whites
all racists dont hate black homosexuals, just whites
This is just embarrassing for Q Tip, Tyler and Solange .. Why aren’t you out there supporting Gangsta Boo when she drops gem albums? .. Azaleia Banks is a puppet and all of this is manufactured by more puppets just speaking up to promote themselves and their upcoming Music .. The History is dope, but Q Tip invalidated it by Tweeting it to Iggy LOL are we living in the real life Onion? WTF .. Man publish that shit as a blog post or even a book .. Have some self pride Q TIP !!!
I love ATCQ but Tip is just corny and pathetic. This dude sold out in the 90s trying to impress janet and he’s talking about “INGENUITY”. Lets be real, hip-hop was created by STEALING and looping records by Black, White, Brown, Yellow… artists
Iggy is wack as fawk but she don’t owe you high horse jack asses not a damn thang.
Tip needs to shut up and go do the Vibrant thang, ugh ugh Vibrant thang
Do you know what would happen if a white guy sample or STEAL a black guy’s record and made a hip-hop song? oh wait, Lord Finesse sued Mac Miller for a mixtape cut that was not even for sale.
I’m sorry but all my hip-hop heroes are bunch of cornball hypocrites.
If Tip really cared about “artistic and socio-political movement/culture” he would of said the same sh!t talk to Ying Yang Twins, Tick Daddy and rest of those crunk douche bags
Right!!.
Tip’s interpretation is very outdated. 40 years ago, that’s very much what hip hop stood for, but it has since evolved, just like anything else does. Hip hop is no a culture in and of itself that has provided as a bridge across the racial divide. It’s something that has brought people of all races, genders, etc together, and something that people of all backgrounds can enjoy. I’ve lost a lot of respect for Tip on this one. He’s considered by many to be a legend in the game, and an early pioneer of sorts. As such, he has an obligation to be more responsible with his stance. I’m disappointed in you, Tip. Not that he cares
Cultural Appropriation is a bullshit term invented to assuage black insecurity and nothing more. Iggy Azalia – a white Australian female – does not threaten your culture and if it does you have a shit culture. The epidemic of Black Insecurity is transforming the genre into a fucking joke. There is no “dialogue” that needs to happen. Some white chick makes songs for twerking. That’s it. Nicki Minaj made a song about having a big ass and liking big dicks. Who gives a shit. This is all so fucking retarded.
The problem is this, Qtip needs to sit back because he doesn’t even rep hip hop anymore…Hip Hop is not pop culture, hip hip is and underground movement that has nothing to do with pop culture videos and record sales. That chick sold more records that he probably has but that’s because shes part of the machine… His problem should be these records companies giving deals to people who can’t rap and then recycling them next yr for the next coon to make us blacks look stupid…. He should be calling out all the radio stations that play the same 20 artist all day and then call them hip hop…. Real heads know what I’m talking about.
more records than tribe called quest??? you clearly arent even qualified to comment on this topic
iggys album not even plat. i dont see why people are so mad she not even selling like macklemore.
Bitch don’t u ever comment about hip hop EVER again.
Everyone knows it as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that was adapted from Japanese Jiu-Jitsu and then adopted by Americans. Hip Hop along with Martial Arts is a world culture. You can’t claim a race owns something. If it’s fun and interesting everyone will catch on. Take this L Q-Tip
There are a lot of ignorant people making comments. I understand what Q-Tip was trying to do. He was trying to show her the foundations of hip hop and how it relates to today.
Yeah? only one problem. Iggy is a pop artist. what the fawk does this even have to do with hip-hop?
but why isnt he showing Chief Keef or Bobby Shmurda? they probably know just as much as white girl
The fact that you would disrespect any rapper that have paved the way for all the rappers now shows you don’t understand hip hop! She considers herself to be a rapper so what he is saying is relevant. She is creating problems not because she is white but because of her lack of respect for rappers before her time and the persona she projects to the culture. Em, beastie boys, and many other white rappers get respect because of their authenticity. It’s offensive to blacks if she talks one way and raps another, it’s like going to school and talking with slang when you around blacks and going home and talking different. If she talked that way all the time it wouldn’t be a big deal but she doesn’t so it’s like she’s being fake or mocking people. As for the og’s nobody disrespects them that respects hip hop no matter what race! If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have hip hop.