Weeks after Starlito and Post Malone were involved in a Twitter spat over Malone’s “White Iverson” track, Starlito is back with “Black John Stockton,” an idea he toyed with in a HipHopDX interview last month. The Nashville, Tennessee rapper found Malone’s Stoney single to be a loose example of cultural appropriation.
“I thought it was a little bit exploitive,” Lito said. “On a lot of cultural levels. That’s what I thought and felt. I had an opinion about that record. I had just met the Sauce Twinz and they were the only people in the world that I had heard use [saucin’]. I was kind of taken back by it because it was a big record and I was like, ‘Damn, that’s they shit.’ Then, like, ‘White Iverson?’ I don’t think I could make a ‘Black John Stockton’ record.'”
The cover art clearly takes direct aim at Malone, and portrays the New York rapper in blackface wearing Stockton’s Utah Jazz jersey. Lyrically, the mellow offering doesn’t mention Malone and aside from the cover art, fails to fall into the diss track category.
Malone hasn’t addressed it specifically, but did send out a curious tweet after the song dropped that read: “Y’all worried about the wrong things.”
Check out the track below and tweet above.
“I thought it was a little bit exploitive,” Lito said. “On a lot of cultural levels.” Then goes and does the exact same thing. Double Standards at its finest.
Duh
Post is from dallas, not nyc.
Post was born in Syracuse, NY and moved to TX later.
Neither of which is NYC
Black Beatles never had any backlash, Lito is just taking advantage of the fact POST will never reply to his diss, Black Beatles = White Iverson
It got backlash to a certain point. But more about that 2 trash artists compared themselve to one of the greatest bands of all time than for cultural reasons
no it didnt. even paul mccartney did a fucking mannequin challenge to the song
Don’t ever use John Stocton’s name in vein again.
even tho i disagree with the whole appropriation bs (you’re both AMERICAN, shut the fuck up), lito >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> garbage post malone
This is racist. Nobody heard of this mf and DX is giving this racist exposure. SAUCIN? You mad cuz he said SAUCIN. Nobody knows you or the SAUCE TWINZ. Racist hide behind the term Cultural appropriations.
Bruhhhh if you aint never heard of lito then you cant be a real hip hop head…
you dead to hiphop
Sauce twins>Malone
Yeah but Iverson likes the song sooo, who gives af don’t race bate
Hip hop dx went from the best music platform – to a website that promotes race wars – truly a detriment to the culture, what’s the motive here? Starlito can say whatever he wants but why would HHDX promote this? Why waste your time shining light on something so unproductive and petty?
And your career still not going nowhere
this is a diss record? this is a poor diss if so… I think we all thinkin about the wrong things lol.