Rich Homie Quan forgot the lyrics to The Notorious B.I.G’s “Get Money” during VH1 Hip Hop Honors.
Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan swiftly angered the Internet last night (July 11) after forgetting the words to “Get Money,” during his performance with Lil Kim at VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail The Queen.
After being introduced by Kim, who was one of the honorees for the evening, Quan eagerly ran onto the stage. Clad in a Coogi sweater, Quan was able to rap a couple of bars from the song before resorting to “yeah” and “hands up” after appearing to forget the words to “Get Money.”
As a result of the questionable performance, the Southern wordsmith’s Instagram profile is littered with comments suggesting that he “quit your day job,” and also informing him that he “let Big down.”
Despite what may have been the show’s most awkward performance, it concluded on a high note as Queen Latifah honored the female pioneers of Hip Hop, including Da Brat, Lady Of Rage, and Monie Love.
The official honorees for VH1 Hip Hop Honors, which was on a brief hiatus prior to last night, were Queen Latifah, Lil Kim, Missy Elliot, and Salt-N-Pepa.
A portion of Lil Kim and Rich Homie Quan’s “Get Money” performance can be found below:
Too bad Jay Z wasn’t in the audience, having a professional Biggie lyric repeater around to help the young ones.
I was bout to say they shoulda put Jay or Nas out there, a real NY dude
Yea, that’s actually really embarrassing, especially in front of the Queen …. I’m 28 and I felt ashamed cuz that’s what raised us black folks…. Ya running out thinking you bout to do something and you took a page from your album sales and FLOPPED!!!
I HATE THIS GENERATION!!
Fat Joe in the audience lookin like wtf is this guy doin lol
I was almost over his Tim Westwood tragic freestyle, then I see this…This dude, without a doubt, has secured the 2016 top 5 “Hold This L” nomination at the end of the year.
Probably was white people or the cops fault though..
He was probably in Kindergarten watching Sesame Street when the song was out. So he kind of gets a pass but still needs to recognize the real. Lupe forgetting Electric Relaxation is inexcusable.
WTF??? How do you not know that song??? Violation!!!! He gets his hip hop passed revoked for LIFE!!!
Was the Nigga gravy that played biggie in notorious busy that night?
Forget Quan fucking up a Biggie verse for a second. The real question is out of all people to perform Biggie’s verse, why him?
It’s cause he did Kim’s last botched surgery
They Should have got Joey Badass to do the verse or some other Ny mc.
I don’t even see why people are mad anymore… It’s a new generation. And it’s considered hip to be ignorant nowadays and not know shit about the past. They don’t care about the “old ass 90s niggas,” as they like to say. I actually EXPECT something like this. Sad as it is, it’s not surprising to me.
Lupe fucked up tribes lyrics, and mc lyte forgot her lyrics to stop look and listen at the Apollo years ago and just walked around the stage, shit happens yale
Question is why is this nigga doing BIG verses anyway. They let BIG down by getting the nigga in the first place
Cease and “Alamo”?… who the fuck is “Alamo”? and the long, awkward period of filler and silence added fuel to the fire. Kim looked so embarrassed..