Rich Homie Quan thinks New York City and its die-hard Hip Hop fans are still upset with him for fumbling lyrics by The Notorious B.I.G. at 2016’s Hip Hop Honors show.
During a recent visit to the 85 South Comedy Show, the “Lifestyle” rapper addressed scrambling some of the late rapper’s iconic lines when he performed Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s “Get Money” alongside Lil Kim in tribute to Biggie at the VH1 event.
“I think New York is still mad at me for fucking up those lyrics,” Quan told the 85 South crew. “Nah, New York, listen, y’all know I apologize first and foremost. I didn’t grow up on Biggie. I didn’t want to tell Lil Kim, no, but I know I didn’t know. They were supposed to put it on the teleprompter, though.”
He added: “We had it with the rehearsal, I knew I still wasn’t going to get it, but I wanted to see it, though. It’s different like you gotta think, in the studio, I don’t even write… It’s different just to study lyrics like I don’t know the beat, the tempo.”
The 85 South crew told Quan he should’ve practiced but also, if he didn’t really know the lyrics then he should have passed on the offer. The Atlanta native said he couldn’t do that as Kim is a legend in her own right but also said to redeem himself, he would want to do Biggie’s “Notorious Thugs” featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony — a song he actually knows.
“It’s all good, man, accountability is everything,” Quan said. “I’m gonna go ahead and do a show so I can redeem myself. Ima do my favorite Biggie song. ‘Armed and dangerous/ Ain’t too many,’ let me do that one.”
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Rich Homie may want to take cues from Wiz Khalifa who voiced how much of a BIG fan he is during an interview with DJ Whoo Kid back in July. Wiz praised how gifted Biggie was with putting words together, in a way that was unique to his art.
“I like Biggie because lyrically you could still listen to Biggie’s shit today and be like, ‘Wow, he really said that,'” Wiz said. “He talks about clothes, like brands in a crazy way and he talks about cars in a crazy way and he talks about women. He’s just really poetic.”
He added: “That’s not to say one is better than the other. But I just love how complex his bars are. ‘Pac is raw, ‘Pac is crazy, he’s hard. Beat selection was wild and his work ethic was crazy and just his attitude and everything like that, but I’m more on the Biggie side for sure.”
That’s cuz your music catalog sucks more than Designer’s. He was only known for being one of Birdman’s gimps and most people don’t even remember any of his songs at all. It’s also disrespectful if you can’t even recite the lyrics of legendary rap songs that you claim to know just for clout and then screw it up on the spot. Of course it’s going to piss off the die-hard old school fans who follow Biggie’s music because that was considered a slap in the face to his legacy and to the legacy of any artist that came before him to do that especially in their hometown or city. Oh well, lesson learned now or as Biggie would famously say, “If you don’t know, now you know.”
Dude get a life. Not everyone is a fan of every type of music. Do I know the lyrics? Yes. Do I care that someone who was in kindergarten when it came out doesn’t know them? Nope. It ain’t that serious bro.
Eat a bag of dicks you weeb. Why bother comment if you’re not even going to understand the context of what I just said. He lied to them and said he knew the lyrics and then flubbed the lyrics when attempting to recite them. That’s like an outsider saying they know the American national anthem and then lip syncing the words with no sound when asking them to sing it at a baseball game. It’s pretty disrespectful. But I guess since you have no pride in yourself, your hood, town ,or country, so I can’t expect you to understand.
How about you NOT get an outsider and get someone who grew up on Biggie? Maybe even a New Yorker? Plenty of people don’t rock with BIG dude the media makes him seem bigger than he is outside of NY. BTW… it’s pretty suspect to immediately invite a man to some penis.
There’s not even a valid or smart reply in your argument. That made no sense at all to be honest. I’m from Queens and l prefer Nas over anyone else. I’m not that much a fan of Biggie either but I still know who he is and respect his music and what’s he’s done for hip hop. You can’t go into a man’s hood and disrespect him by messing up the lyrics (even though it was an accident, other may view it as him doing it on purpose to diss NY) That’s why New Yorker , specifically Brooklynites are upset with him. That’s all that was about. It has nothing to do with his own musical talents or anything.
Well , he did say he knew the lyrics tho so that’s kinda his fault tho. Just sayin
Scratch that, I’d love to suck a whole truck load of dick cuz that’s pretty much my goal in life. Bring them dicks here,bro.
no one hates Rich Homie Quan. OK? Just reading that name made my day
LETS KEEP IT A BUCK. NO ONE REMEMBERS THIS SHIT.