Add MC Shan to the growing list of rappers who aren’t feeling JAY-Z’s “Y’all on the ‘Gram holding money to your ears/ There’s a disconnect, we don’t call that money over here” lyric from the MBA-certified “The Story of O.J.” off his latest album, 4:44.
“I don’t see this game as being a young man’s sport,” the former Juice Crew legend told the Murder Master Music Show as he proceeded to lay down some harsh criticism while admitting he hadn’t even heard the newly minted platinum album.
“I see this game that if there’s not people like me and [Kool G Rap] doing what we do, there’s a whole generation that don’t have shit to listen to — what the fuck? Are we gonna be forced to have to listen to this other stuff that is out here? I don’t think so. There is another slot for us out here don’t be greedy and take it all. I’m not agreeing with … I haven’t heard Jay’s album and I’m not running out to get Jay’s album. From what I hear, he has been saying the same shit that people has been saying for years. If you wanted to tell people to do something, tell them to pull their fuckin’ pants up! Don’t tell them to stop putting money to their ear! That’s what their fans expect from them. That’s their persona. People like them because they’re bold with they shit like that. Let the man put his money to his ear. And instead of throwing shots at muthafuckas, say they fuckin’ name! Say who you talking about. Don’t shade that shit. Don’t be a shady muthafucka! Be that nigga!”
Déjà Vu: Shan also threw shots at KRS-One’s latest blunder but that’s not a headline story in 2017.
At 51, MC Shan’s complaints weren’t (purely) an old head’s rant against The Power That Be. He currently has a new album out in the form of Bars Over Bullshit, which marks his first return to retail releases in over 27 years. But while the Queensbridge O.G. prophesied he’d make waves for having the audacity to speak out against Hip Hop’s Warren Buffett, there’s no denying there was a tad bit of shade being tossed from his direction. Just after his induction to the Songwriters Hall of Fame last month, Jigga named a slew of rappers who inspired him to land such a distinguished honor. Guess who wasn’t named?
“If you listen to a lot of albums where you take a lot of people’s lyrics and use the shit including my flow, I’m definitely not gonna run out and buy the fuckin’ Blueprint and The F Print or whatever the fuck,” he coldly continued. “Not being a hater. Man made his money — get your money and do what you do — but don’t act like your word is law like you some fuckin’ prophet and shit. Let niggas do what the fuck they do. And if you gonna throw fuckin’ shade, say the nigga’s name so it don’t have to be a mystery — ‘Is he talking about me?’ And I’m probably gonna hear about this shit … ‘Shan Throws Shots At JAY-Z on The Murder Mys…’ — I ain’t throwing shots but it’s just like … c’mon man. If you gonna tell somebody to do something … you telling niggas to buy property and all this shit … niggas ain’t got that kind of money. Niggas ain’t got Malibu Money to go just buy up every-fuckin-thing. Their money is dirty. And the minute they go and try buy that shit up, the Feds is coming to take that shit. So you giving fucked up advice any muthafuckin’ way.”
Future, Takeoff of Migos, Boosie Badazz and Duct Tape Entertainment CEO Big Bank Black are among the notables who have taken exception to the notion holding money up to your ear is for the misguided. No confirmation as of yet if the money is indeed, “dirty.”
Listen to MC Shan’s JAY-Z-bashing interview down below.
Oh that ugly camel looking fraud bit off everyone from Big Jaz to Biggie and left the people that put him on in the dust so he could sell his soul. Queen Hov was the biggest biter and bandwagon jumper in Rap history. wack fraud.
lol. sold his soul? you must be black with the superstitious sh*t.. lmao
SWAGGER JACK JAY IS WHAT THEY CALLED HIM!!!! FACTS!!!!
The reasons for the hate on jay don’t add up
So leaving Jaz-O broke and desolate after he put on that wack fraud doesn’t add up?
His numerous shady business dealings, ruining Def Jam
biting off every popular rapper, selling his soul…doesn’t add up?
You know more about there life than the ones living it lol
Mc Shan lol? Damn jay u got all these old timers thinking they relevant again haha
How old is your mama does that hoe rap like she suck dick
+1
See what I mean? These QB motherfuckers are the whiniest, pathetic bitches I’ve ever seen. How you gonna say King HOV bit your flow and then say you didn’t hear the album? Didn’t KRS destroy you twice already? GO back to your irrelevancy hole, MS Shan.
You are a govt paid troll it’s obvious now
So this is where new york as a whole get using fake BEEF to get a look because the music’s trash . Their OG’s gave them that lame ass game .
*BEFORE HIPHOPDX Deletes this:
Does anybody else notice that HIPHOPDX only covers Jay-Z stories from a negative narrative? If Jay-Z bails out black men on fathers day, HIPHOPDX is the only HIP HOP site that fails to report. If a rapper says they are not feeling a Jay lyric, HIPHOPDX is the only one to report.
If you look at the parent company of hip hiphopdx, you begin to see why.
Look at the last HIPHOPDX Jay Stories:
1. MC Shan Disses Jay
2. Boosie Disses Jay
3. 4:44 Does not chart cos tidal fail to report
4. 4:44 is not a good album (review even said Story of OJ had to much empty “filler” space)
5. Is Reasonable Doubt Overrated — Really??
6. Jay owes Kanye 3 mill and Kanye is leaving….
*yawnnnnn wedontdeletearticlesyouhackbutreadthesewhileyourehere*
https://hiphopdx.com/reviews/id.2960/title.review-with-444-shawn-carter-sacrifices-jay-zs-invincibility-for-soul-baring-excellence (not a good album? With this rating? #Hack)
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.24906/title.jay-z-says-lack-of-a-middle-class-is-americas-real-problem
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.43811/title.jay-z-takes-on-criminal-justice-system-bail-industry-for-fathers-day
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.43696/title.jim-jones-jay-z-leave-the-past-in-the-past-with-roc-nation-deal
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.42921/title.jay-z-john-legend-praise-mayor-bill-de-blasio-for-announcement-of-rikers-island-closure
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.42492/title.jay-z-blasts-pop-radio-for-compromising-artist-creativity-over-ad-dollars
You guys are known haters tho
YOU JUMPED OUT YOUR LIL CUBICLE OVER A COMMENT!!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!!
I hit a nerve…. you went and carefully hand picked the articles to show on here? You even got one from 2013! really? you mean you couldn’t find 5 positive recent ones? — Not that it’s about Jay-Z. But, it’s about your bias towards. Y’all are not journalists.
MC Shan is on point, and on top of that he has a n album 100 times better than Wack-Z out #barsoverBS
MC Shan! MC Shan! MC Shan! Now his album won’t have trouble selling.
Damn Shan. You’re looking more and more irrelevant. Biting? Hell you should be proud someone but your style, you’re a pioneer! Damn dude, please sit down
So jay makes an album saying he is a POS and trying to do better and cats still mad….
Where was Shan when those dudes from Queensbridge defaced Prodigy’s mural?
Give me a damn break.
Did you guys not listen to the fuckkng interview?! He says in it like 5 times he ain’t dissing anyone. FUCK you dx
um…what? clearly he’s dissing him in every step off the way. clean out your eardrums and try again.
I hate when people say they not dissing you while they dissing you
Instead of giving them economic game and telling them to own there own music and businesses so you can pass it down to your kids he want jay to tell them to pull there pants up ? really ?
so true, Jay is giving young folk game, and all these rappers who claim they are rich are being told to invest in meaningful shit. Mc Shan says he hasnt heard the album, but has a lot to say about something he hasnt heard. smh
12 albums later he suddenly decides Hov bit his flow? , Marley Marl wasnt joking when he told him to lay off the crack cocaine. SMH
First I’ve ever seen so many people like what you have to say, haha! And no Nas slander!!! You done good, son.
Honestly he’s just tellin the truth… ya’ll dickride too much to hear it.
Its funny, its only dick riding when its somebody you don’t like .
Right! He’s totally biased with everything he writes!! Still wishing it was 1993!!!
Nat Philips you don’t know me so shut your dirty mouth up and bump your favorite Lil Yachty song.
another dickhead clown….crackheads unite
Salute to Shan he’s tellin the tuth
If you have a hot album someone will come up from the abyss to claim you stole their flow or song. Rap has been going on for years their are no more new flows. All you can do is fill the beat with hot bars. Which Jay did.
Hhdx are fuckin clown shoes, representing all this bullshit mumbling rap & when a legend like mc shan speaks his opinion they tear him down & don’t even mention his new album bars over that was released 2 weeks ago. FUCK hhdx
The album is mentioned n the article smh
He was saying never until this article smh Shit for brains you are
No offence but these are the type of guys Nas was talking about on ‘Carry on tradition’
Can’t be. Shan is damn near Nas’ idol
80s-90s Shan. Same time OJ was my hero. Things change.
Facts
Why iz sum y’all hatin on ma manz age doe??? Feminem is damn near 45 but on hiz artikel mufuccas (wacc wiggers) iz typinw chit liek “kant wait 4 hiz nu album” dude old den a mithaucca t2o so why he git a pass? real spit doe. Anyway doe fucc gay z and fucc NASimp and scruffy specially feminem doe. WEST CIZZOAST FA LIZZIFE RIP Prodigy doe.
You are a retarded person.
looks like a new beef is going down at the rap senior citizen’s home. old people always angry and bitter.
shout out to Prez and rest of them cats over @UGS4LIFe. funny how Shan actually said in the interview the media was gonna spint it like he bashing Jay. #UGS4LIFE
But he is
smh Cut it out Shan! ????
Having listened to the clip Shan isn’t wrong, just when he says “they don’t have that kind of money” to buy property it highlights what Jay is talking about. The whole part of Jay’s line isn’t necessarily saying to stop putting money to the ear. He’s saying those who are, typically don’t have money like he does. So if rappers are balling like they claim to be and pretending to have that kind of money, they should invest it in better things than expensive ear muffs. Everybody is focusing on one part of the double entendre, it’s getting a little out of hand, rappers are too sensitive.
Boom. You’re last sentence is what it’s all about. Sensitive rappers are Hip-Hops biggest problem today. You look dumb with money on your ear and cars you lease if you don’t have property, investments, insurance, and a 401K
preach!
Shan stfu any smart person who is really out here knows that if u are hustling u dont become the front man to washing your money, u put it into someone else’s hand who is presumed to be clean that way the feds wont take it, its always a way to get around stuff, u just dont know how u 51 still dressing like a teenager clown u just still tryna get your rep back from when KRS ended your career. #Thebridgeisover
This dude is a Legend! A Legendary Clown! This dude cant take L’s and keep it moviin. He always talking ish about people who are way better then him. Let it go dude…
It’s a shame when Jay gives advice to others on how to invest and be more financially responsible, he gets shitted on for it. It seems the ones who responded back took the lines out of context. As far as the 4:44 album goes, it actually is growing on me. I thought it was okay at first, but i kept going back to listen to the songs again. The more mature content and overall vibe of the album puts this miles ahead of BP3, WTT and MCHG. I can say it’s in the top 5 best Hov albums (y’all should know what the other 4 are).
Oh Shan… just take 40 minutes out of your day to listen to the album.. costs u nothing. It’s funny how Jay can shake up the whole rap game with just a few bars…. almost astounding to tell the truth. Shan if u were smarter about your money you could probably relate to what Jay was saying. Sounds like someone who was his big homie back in the day tried to put him up on game and he didn’t listen or take heed. Could’ve been Marley Marl, BDK or whoever. Should’ve went the Roxanne Shante route and got a degree.
Your right about everything except Roxanne did not get a degree. Somebody trolled her and found out she was lying and they blew her up. Google it and if you can’t find it let me know and provide link. Peace
Shan is effed up but it comes from a place of honesty..as far as the alblum its for cats that are that 35 plus age range that understand what he is saying and the production is for us as well…I’m 44 ..as far as the flows Shan is a Pioneer..cant take that away from him but he is that guy that went in at 16 and came out at 40 …he spits the real but got that mentality of a young adult the way he comes off..but you gotta love him and it comes from a place of honesty and he is not gonna bite his toungue
No, I don’t have to love him. Idk who he is but I like Tame Impala mixed into my rap.
How Shan say alot of words, but didn’t actually didn’t say a thing? haha. I don’t understand his point. Is it “let people do what they want with their money, even if its taking a stupid selfy with it?” or is it “don’t suddenly change your tune from the money talk this late in your career because the fans expect you to stay the same?”
Either way I disagree on both counts. Shan’s rambling made absolutely no sense.
Good to see shan can still find someone to sell him crack in 2017
He mad and trying to get attentionvlol
wow! shan coming off real bitter…… sounding like a gumpy old rapper….. lol
How is MC Shan old when Jay-Z is just two years younger than him? Shows the biased nature of the individuals who comment in this forum
51 and 47 that’s not two years my dude
Back when Jay-Z garnered fame in 1996 (even though he was out well before then) with Reasonable Doubt, he was 28. 21 years later, its 2017 and he’s 49 lying about his age like some insecure person who can’t believe they’re about to be 40! Hypothetically if you were correct, it’s still 47!
My point is y’all calling MC Shan old because he’s not relevant as opposed to seeing that both are near 50. 51 to 47 or 49 is still a close age range. But then again this is the internet and you probably believe in Wikipedia.
Dude trying to be relevant and is mad bitter. Pure crazy talk from dude. Jay actually made a great short album covering where he’s at and this dude (who didn’t even listen to the records) came in with the hate. Oh well. I wonder how he feels about Dr. Dre and his business…. since he simply wants to throw shade on mature rappers actually making money over fist while giving back to their community.
MC Shan new album “Bars Over Bullshit” out now!