Dave East, without provocation, gave his unadulterated opinion on Lil Nas X’s mega-hit “Old Town Road,” calling it “wack with a cape on it! And super wack!”
The Billboard top-charter responded with a not-so-subtle Twitter post of a Kevin Hart video clip from an interview with Joe Rogan.
Hart articulates, “What’s cool is being negative. This is a great example … we talk about Titanic. Titanic, one of the biggest movies of all-time, fuckin’ great movie, (acting as Joe) yes it was a great movie, and one guy for no reason goes ‘I fuckin’ hated it!’”
The movie star continues, “Tell me why’d you hate it? ‘I don’t got time to talk to y’all about that.’”
Rogan then slightly contests speaking, “I don’t know if it’s a cool thing — I think it’s usually people that are frustrated with their lives. I did a joke before saying do you think Michael Jordan leaves YouTube comments? I bet he doesn’t; that’s not for winners.”
Hart expounds, “What do you have going on that you have that time to just simply be that negative? I don’t think people understand how valuable they can be if they use their time correctly.”
“Old Town Road” is on a massive run, with the assistance of Billy Rae Cyrus, it surpassed Drake and set a new record with 143 million streams according to Billboard.
The track has been No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks consecutively.
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Nah lil homie, the song is super wack nobody’s hating you, we just hate the machine that perpetuates all this wack shit… And we know there ain’t NOTHING POSITIVE ABOUT THESE DEMONS SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF YOUNG BLACK ARTISTS. Try again! Maybe get one of OUR ELDERS to rock a joint with you? Show you how it’s supposed to be done… All this “I’m too positive to respond to “negativity” (criticism from someone who holds a high standard for bars is not negative… But I digress) is getting lame. All this wack rappers try to pull that card. STEP YOUR GAME UP. This is HIP-HOP YUNGBLOOD! WE NEED SUBSTANCE!!!
It’s not a Hip Hop song you fucking crybaby! It’s charting as a COUNTRY song. If you hate it that’s fine but don’t sit here and criticize a young boy for taking the bag off his first (and maybe only) hit. Last I checked, all you so-called Hip-Hop heads don’t even buy music from the real lyrical rappers, but y’all the first responders on the scene talking about you hate the wack shit. YOU CREATED THIS SITUATION!!!
Hip hop needs substance and has it. If he wants to make a fun song let the boy make a fun song. There’s a lane for everybody. The songs number so just be happy for his success. Kid and play did it, Kriss Kross did it. Plenty of groups. Quit hating!
It ain’t hatin’ if the song is trash. It’s not a good fuckin’ song point blank. I agree with Dave East. It’s about time someone stands up and call it for what it is.
No one is forced to like the song but everyone acts like they have to…i don’t like Dave East music too but i don’t go around dissing it,i love hip hop and there’s nothing wrong when it has sub genres
How is that video a response to Dave East? Did he leave a YouTube comment?
Exactly!..it’s always a mf who hates on the next cause its something you can’t relate to so you don’t wanna except it…kid did something you NEVER done and is going #1 on the billboard let alone get on it as a new upcoming Black Country artist…like bro have you even been on there in general??…if you have..I can almost bet all my cash you haven’t been a #1..??♂️
I’m still laughing at the fact that a brand new rapper that nobody has ever heard before that goes by the name of Lil Nas X has a #1 hit right out the gate while being himself and making an honest song. All while the OG broke woman beater Nas has no #1 hits and had to turn into a fake mafioso drug kingpin on his second album in order to go platinum. Dave East is also frustrated by this fact since Nas is his “boss” (I chuckled when I typed that). Lil Nas X is already having a better career off one song than Nas with his overrated Illmatic and a train wreck of a career. King HOV should sign the kid. It’s the ROC!
Hey dumbass.. “broke” Nas has Made 40 million in his tech investments like with Ring doorbell. Lil Nas x should pray he has at least an ounce of his success
So it’s dope to come out with a Moniker like “Lil Nas X” and flip and bounce that bullshit and be categorized in the same genre? That’s HOMO. The Music is trash and people defending it don’t give a fuck about the culture. Keep that funny shit in Texas with the weirds and queers. Y’all can Rock Cowboy hats and bump that bullshit in piece.
I’m from Houston Texas and I have 2 keep it 100 ; this shit succs 2 me !! I’ll quote one if htown’s finest’’ they think we riding horses now homie we riding candy blue Royce’s ‘’ believe tht !! Come down here with tht bullshit and end up missing !! No threat but a promise !! Htown 4 life pussy muthafucca get ur facts straight before u talk about my state!!
Aw man not you again…I thought you finally gave up being a hater…guess I was wrong
you do not get your credit as one of the most hilarious trolls on this site. i always start reading your comments unknowingly until i get to you twisting to shit on Nas, then i look up at your name after. kills me every single time lol
Its idiots like the ones defending this bullshit that the genre will eventually disappear like disco did.Miss me with the its not hip hop shit its charting as country shit neither cause if it was straight country music I would have no problem with it.Its always morons referring to youngins getting a bag or some ridiculous reason why this should get a pass.This is garbage.It is music but it’s not hip hop and shouldn’t have any affiliation with it period.Say its country.Say its pop but there is zero about this that is hip hop.This GED form of hip hop is destroying the culture and if someone in it is pulling your card and saying as someone who lives and breathes it this ain’t it then this generation should listen because it is being done for yall benefit.When someone who really is about that street life checks a square and says this ain’t you and you need to do something else they earned the right to critique.25 years ago one of the greatest albums in hip history dropped in Illmatic yet today this garbage is what’s polluting the airwaves.Unreal.
Nelly & Tim McGraw did it first AND better!
People are taking this too seriously. Does the song suck? Yes. Is he a good rapper? Based off of this song, no. Do the kids like it? Yes. Is Dave East a kid? No. Is Dave East (along with other adults and actual rappers) supposed to like the song? No. Should adults let kids like what kids like? Yes. Have OGs in any genre of anything ever liked the new stuff? Rarely. Does everyone think the music/art of their time is the best? Yes. Do we have bigger issues in our world besides this shitty song? Yes. Is this post too long and full of too many questions? No. But will I end it anyway? Yes.
Diluting the genre when the machine push this BS, it’s like you idiots don’t understand what’s going on, allowing the corps to flood the culture with this whack shit, soon the real emcees with real lyrical content and skill get thrown rocks at in favor of the whack shit. Rap will end up like Rock N Roll where Soon you wouldn’t believe it was started by Blacks. Trash is trash. Stop giving trash Music a lane. They are infiltrating our culture with this garbage, mocking us, give you a bag and tell you your whack shit is hitting “Look at the charts” GTFO Son
I don’t know why people hate this so much. I think it’s wack, but I never come in contact with it. Are y’all listening to the radio for your music? I don’t understand how, when we have access to like a jillion songs instantly, why we would be worried about the ones we don’t like. Take it off your playlist and let the young boy live.
Funny how if someone likes the song, he didnt have the same response “don’t know if it’s a cool thing. I did a joke before saying do you think Michael Jordan leaves YouTube comments? I bet he doesn’t; that’s not for winners.”. Soft ass generation that can’t handle critics, that’s the life u chose, ur in an industry where u allow people to judge u, it wont be favorable all the time. You’re dependant on likes on youtube, instagram ect. to help ur brand thats still judgement but ur feeling some type of way when someone dont like ur material, how is that fair?
Q? Would hip hop be better off if this kid sounded just like Dave East? Made the same type of songs as East?
who the hell is saying lil nas x needs to sound jUsT LiKE DavE EaST?? no one homie, thats who. this is just you trying to misrepresent dave’s contention with the song, or rather, the people agreeing with dave and what their contention is with the song. dave just said he thought the song was wack, and people here are just saying its not a dope record. thats it. btw, you can sound like a totally different rapper from dave and be dope. J.I.D. don’t sound like him, but hes dope. Jpegmafia and danny brown, both are unique rappers who are more on the alternative/experimental side of hip hop, neither sound like dave. denzel curry don’t sound like….you get the point. hope that answers your bogus leading question that implies people expect every rapper to sound the same lol