We all know that Killer Mike is one of the most outspoken individuals in rap music. In a recent interview, Mike explains how both two sides of the spectrum can be damaging to the Hip-Hop culture. Hip Hop Wired reports:
The Atlanta rapper exposed his knack critical thinking during a visit to Green Lantern's Invasion Radio when explaining how both Waka Flocka Flame and Lupe Fiasco can be damaging to Hip-Hop.
While discussing Mike's new album, R.A.P. Music,
the topic moved to the extremes in Hip-Hop music; with the intellectual
lyricism of the Go's Lupe Fiasco and the rowdy bars of ATL's Waka
Flocka Flame serving as examples. Killer
Kill believes both extremes can be hurtful in the grand scheme of
Hip-Hop and its audience. “Waka gets presented as ignorance, but he's
not,” began Killer Mike. “But the people who present him that way and
who accept him that way, they take bless in that ignorance. Taking bliss
and being ignorant meaning, you're just going to stay ignorant. But
Waka's not ignorant. He's progressively moving his family [and] his
future forward. But if you only think the ignorance in the music that
makes me feel good for three minutes is it, then you're going to stay in
that place where you at; that's welfare, no healthcare…I mean we know
who like the hood music, the hood.”
On the opposite end of the spectrum are fans who can be too snobbish
when it comes to who they choose to rock with. “On the other side, when
you have Lupe and the audience that he brings, a lot of times that
audience can perceive [themselves] to be more than or elitist,” explaind
Mike. “I watched the Roots work their audience back. I remember when
the Roots audience used to shimmy up like, ‘We don't do the Jay-Z.' And
the Roots and Jay worked together like, ‘Nah, ee all Black men, this all
Hip-Hop.' And then those two audiences fused together. With audiences
like [Lupe's] a lot of times you can protect yourself behind the ‘I
don't really deal with rap, but I listen to Lupe.'"
Peep the video:
No comments:
Post a Comment