Lil Xan fired a shockwave through the Hip Hop community recently when he called 2Pac’s music “boring” during an interview with REVOLT. Xan’s comments even caused Waka Flocka Flame to call for him to be “banned from Hip Hop.”
A number of stars have since taken to social media to respond to Xan’s comments, including Trippie Redd and actor Michael Rapaport.
Redd, a close friend of Lil Xan, hit Instagram to defend the 21-year-old’s comments.
“I personally think y’all need to get off Lil Xan’s dick,” he said. “That’s my lil dawg. And I love 2Pac. That was my dead brother’s favorite artist. Bro, do you see who he is? Of course he don’t like 2Pac … He don’t necessarily gotta like 2Pac to be Hip Hop, nigga. If he think that shit boring, he think that shit boring. That shit is not a part of this new era anyway.”
Michael Rapaport — who directed the 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest — also responded to Xan’s comments, albeit with a slightly different perspective.
“Some wack-ass, non-rapping rapper named Lil Xan, Lil Xanax — some pill-popping muthafucking face-tattooed cornball, no skill, no talent muthafucka said that 2Pac’s music wasn’t interesting,” Rapaport said in a video uploaded to Instagram. “Little buck tooth rabbit face-looking muthafucka. You need to apologize, all right? And you don’t need to apologize to 2Pac or 2Pac’s fans. You need to apologize to whoever the fuck raised you, or who didn’t raise you, for raising you to be a dumb fuck. Little funny-faced Tom and Jerry-looking ass muthafucka. You don’t get to speak on anything that has to do with Hip Hop or rap music.”
A number of other Hip Hop stars and personalities have taken to social media to share their own views on Lil Xan’s comments.
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Question. Who is Lil Xan?
I wonder how many people would be outraged if he had said Kool Herc was boring, or Kool Moe Dee was boring? How about Grandmaster Flash? They were pioneers too. And most of these new dude’s don’t even know who they are. Get off 2Pac’s dick. You are allowed to like or not like what you want. “Banned from Hop Hop” for not liking 2Pac? Stop riding.
But he didn’t you fuckin idiot, he called Pac boring a littke white POS with horrible music called his music boring… Quit being a fuckin moron
Taste is subjective. But it’s hard to deny Tupac’s impact on hip-hop. So you don’t need to like it, but you should respect it- especially when you’re eating off the very art form that Tupac helped legitimize and popularize. Also, when Vince Staples said something similar to this (albeit less disrespectfully), there was a more open discussion on the value new rappers place on the forefathers of hip-hop. I think that’s largely because he’s a great artist in his own right. Lil Xan doesn’t have the skill set to criticize anyone, let alone an artist that’s almost universally regarded as an all-time great. Also, who gives a fuck what this mumbly kid thinks
Apparently you care since you wrote a paragraph bitching about what he said.
like i said on the waka page, why is everyone opening their mouths and tweeting away now and not when kodak black said he was better than pac and big and when lik yachty said he couldn’t name any songs from them and also called biggie overrated? no one was crying then, but lil xan calls pac boring, then everyone starts bitching. is it because xan is white?
SMH @ capping for a pill popper. When will opioid rap go away? What does Lil Xan bring to the table that all of the other Lil’s haven’t brought? My guess is he raps about being depressed, poppin pills, getting money, girls and drinking. 2Pac could rap on a whole range of topics but I guess knowledge is not king anymore. Just popping pills, calling yourself Lil and getting face tats is all the rage now. And seriously the “Lil” this and “Lil” that craze wouldn’t be that bad if there were only a few but there’s way too many copycats now and they get too much attention for doing nothing. Welcome to hip hop in 2018.
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Cause xan is boring
Watch him od in less than 10 years
I think these established rappers should give there opinion on Lil Zanz music
That would be the most attention he could ever get.
Lil Crack Addict, Lil Meth Head, Lil Heroin Junkie, Lil PCP, Lil Mushroom, Lil Cough Drop, Lil Needle, Lil Double Cup, Lil Permanent Marker, Lil Glue, Lil Depression, Lil Face Tattoo
It’s all about the troll game now. Obviously you don’t have to have skill or technique to be accepted because any type of controversy is enough. I’m sure these lil rappers are saving money for the future and are in control of their careers *sarcasm*
A new artist doesn’t need to be a fan of 2Pac. I expect the new rappers to dis the past. That’s part of being innovative. Why does anyone care? He states his opinion. Is hipjop supposed to be political correct now? 2pac was a great writer and storyteller but he wasn’t a wordplay lyricist in the classic
New York punchline rapper way. So someone doesn’t dig it, so what? He supposed to be. Political correct and lie? He don’t like it, he don’t like it. Ebro and Rappaport are nothing but media journalist, acting like they are somehow connected to the culture but in what way? They don’t make music so what are they. Guys who slap people’s hand for not liking 2pac..
So dissing the past is part of being innovative? How the hell do you think hip hop started in the first place? DJs looked up past records to loop and sample and turned them into new beats to rap and freestyle over. That’s innovation, getting inspiration from the past and building off of it. Plus, some new rappers have used old hip hop records and put new spins on it. Not all new rappers are this ignorant.
No you are wrong. That’s like saying fuck MLK now that you are free. Guess what if it wasn’t for certain people we would have certain options. 2 pac changed the world and Xanax has done nothing but copy another face tattoos style with no skill.
If I kill someone and I get a name and a following base I become infamous I still doesn’t make me shit. But if I bring people together in a remarkable way I’m powerful.
All the 2pac realeses after his death are straight trash. The live silver album is boring.
It’s all good cause you will be diluted.
#2055
Better Dayz was very good
So I guess that makes him boring eh fuck head, you dumb piece of shit
The complete and utter disrespect of the pioneers who paved the way for us need to stop. It’s like disrespecting your moms and pops who brought you in this world. If you disagree, then make like the Academy Award winning screenplay and “Get Out”
These fake ass fake ass newbies have no idea of the history of hip hop hell Music in particular he still entitled to his own dumb ass opinion tho
The lil boy will make more fame from his comments than his music and that’s the purpose of that comment. You don’t have to love the music but you don’t have to disrespect it either. Besides 2pac has too much aggression in his voice to be boring. That’s just a lie
Rapaport nailed it nuff said, little punk trying to get his name out there.. Never even heard of him until today. Sounds like a punk ass lol bitch tho..
These young ass clowns don’t know their history, Lil bitch ass xan couldn’t hold pac’s jockstrap & I guees you lil bitches happy he ain’t around cause xan and clowns like him would of got the shit smacked out of them! What goes on now is just barely rap, can’t even understand what most of these clowns are saying, beats whacked and really whole rap be about the hook stay in your lane!