Many older heads have voiced their concerns over the direction of Hip Hop over the years. Singer and actor Tyrese, unwilling to sit idly by any longer, is vowing to save the culture with his brand new EP, Identity Theft.
According to the singer, who raps under the moniker Black-Ty, the project will be JAY-Z’s spirit, 2Pac’s soul and — sonically — Dr. Dre’s ear. His catalyst for the project is the supposed degradation of the culture from its golden era to the present day.
In an Instagram tirade posted on Tuesday (October 17), The Fast And The Furious star explicitly aimed criticism at Yung Joc, posting an obviously photoshopped image of Joc with a woman’s hairstyle.
“[Who’s responsible for] letting this shit go down in Hip Hop … How did the OG’s in the game let this go?” he asked in the caption of the photo.
Joc responded by taking the high road, noting that he wasn’t going to go at Tyrese but rather lead by example.
“Redirect your energy fam,” he noted, adding the hashtag #PrayForTyrese.
Understandably, fans aren’t completely sold on Black-Ty’s vision or his constant references to Pac and Biggie when speaking on the standard he’s trying to uphold.
Tyrese posted a snippet of a song from the EP titled “I Do This Shit For The Culture,” which he says will feature Future. Interestingly, he notes this version is an early reference track from a ghostwriter.
It would be easy to criticize his choice to publicize his use of a ghostwriter considering his claims of rescuing Hip Hop, but the choice isn’t surprising. This past February, he questioned why rappers — unlike singers — weren’t able to freely use ghostwriters.
“I’ll say this, whether you have a ghostwriter or not, you still have to have some talent somewhere to be able to come through with, delivery, flow, style, cadence, etc.,” he said.
Time will tell whether the singer can live up to the hype he’s created for himself. Currently, there is no release date for the project.
Black Ty flows better than 80% of the rappers everyone praises. Fact
Bout time someone stepped up to address this crap they call rap music today Big Ups to Tyrese aka Black -Ty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Tyrese
Tyrese has completely lost it
“Interestingly, he notes this version is an early reference track from a ghostwriter.”
Done
I mean, what makes Tyrese think his R&B album coming out 10 years after he’s been musically relevant will somehow have a major impact? R&B singers very rarely make comebacks after they’ve had their 15 minutes. And its an EP? Why would a Tyrese EP save hip hop? That’s absurd. But honestly, thinking about it, now I kinda wanna hear it just to know what he thinks is so special about it. He just pulled some brilliant marketing on me. Touche Tyrese. I used slow dance with my gf at school dances to “How you Gonna Act Like That”, straight up.
Tyres is right hiphop died in 2001 this new shit aint hiphop they should give it another name all i see in hiphop now days is Bruce jenners and RuPauls loool hiphop is being assassinated y’all tryna wipe hiphop out u got them ppl winning
Doing this for the culture>>>future>>>ghostwriter
That lil’ clip at the end (w/ Future) sounds dope… but c’mon. You can’t “save hip hop” (it doesn’t need saving, btw) with ghostwritten verses! That’s oxymoronic.
Btw, I get why he said this was inspired by Jay; that verse sounded like Jay in ’05.
LOOOOOOOL saving the culture by featuring one of the people who have ruined it. What a clown
Saving the Culture with Ghostwriters. Dude is worse than the people he tryin to save us from. SMFH
Pwahaha, Jay already resuscitated the game, now we waiting on Nas to get out of mumblevile
Wait a minute… you’re talking about saving hip-hop, being inspired by jay big pac dr dre for this album and dropping something old school cause the new stuff isn’t good enough and the first song you show from it… has a Future feature!???