Lupe Fiasco has really been making the rounds lately with his new single "B*tch Bad". He recently stopped by Windy City Live and was allowed to set the record straight about a lot of his most recent controversial comments: Hip Hop Wired reports:
During an interview with Windy City Live, Lupe Fiasco clarified what he meant when he said "97% of Hip-Hop is terrible" in a recent interview he held with Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club. Lupe stood behind his opinion of mainstream rap, and stated that though peripherally the overall quality of Hip-Hop has improved, the genre has degenerated on the inside due to a lack of substance.
"I think the substance of it. I think technically, it's great," said Fiasco. "The music is as well-produced as it's ever been, videos are as polished, the chains are as clean, the models are as beautiful as they've ever been… But then you get into the substance of the records. The majority of commercial Hip-Hop – most of what everybody sees is commercial Hip-Hop – is lacking substance. Terribly.”
The "Paris Tokyo" rapper added that there is an in unequivocal scale in Hip-Hop that is leading to the decadence of the genre, and that because heterogeneity in Hip-Hop is missing, people are not receiving a musically balanced experience when they listen today's mainstream artists.
“I think there should be a balance. On the radio, you turn it on and every other record is referring that Itchbay, that negative lifestyle. There's a premium kind of put on the things that are somewhat whimsical but at the same time dangerous. It's funny. Over the past 10 years, the things in Hip Hop that we've allowed to become the norm. It's kind of taboo at a certain point to address a certain issue. And the artists that did it, people like Eminem, you knew they were all through the roof because it was so exotic and so through the roof.”Check the video:
But, while Lupe is making his rounds, the violence in Chicago continues:
Two men have been killed, and seven others were wounded during multiple overnight shootings on the West and South sides of Chicago,
Tuesday (July 31). According to police, two men were standing with a
group on the 1000 block of North Lawler Ave., when gunshots rang out,
hitting them both. One of the bystanders, Quincey Simmons,
18, was pronounced dead at the scene. Another 18-year-old man was hit
in the thigh and taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital. He is listed in
good condition.
Another shooting took the life of 32-year-old Victor Coleman,
who was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital, after sustaining
several gunshot wounds. Coleman was walking when someone pulled out a
gun and started shooting. Also on the city's West Side, a 16-year-old
boy was hit in the hip, when a person inside a car driving by his house,
opened fire.
Less than an hour later, a 26-year-old was waiting for his girlfriend
in his car when two gunmen approached him from behind and started
shooting. 15 minutes later on the South Side, two gunmen ran up on a
24-year-old victim shooting him in the lower back. The man was taken to
Mount Sinai Hospital and is in stable condition.
Meanwhile, an armed robbery in the neighborhood known as West
Englewood left two men wounded. The men were standing in an alley at
around 11:05 p.m. when they were confronted by a group looking to rob
them. The men tried to run away but were shot in the backside and the
hip. They were both taken to Christ Medical Center, and police have
questioned four men about the shooting.
Also, on Tuesday (July 30), the Chicago Tribune reported that a 42-year-old man was shot and killed in his driveway.
Several shootings have occurred in the city throughout the summer. Last week, six people were shot over a 15-minute time span.
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