Ever since the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors wrapped, talk has been about Lupe Fisaco forgetting the lyrics during A Tribe Called Quest tribute AND how he stressed how the poineer group is not influential.

“[Tribe] didn’t sell 10 million records, so why would people think they had a blanket on the world like that? MC Hammer was way more popular to me than Tribe Called Quest.”

“Because there’s kids in Harlem who right now who would never ever listen to Midnight Marauders, I don’t give a fuck what you do, they’ll never listen to Q-Tip and they want to be rappers and they want to talk about positive things. So why would you shoot them down?”

“It’s like, ‘Oh, you ain’t never listened to Midnight Marauders? You ain’t expanding your horizons? Oh, you ain’t real’ cause they did that shit to me! ‘Oh Lupe, that’s fucked up man, I don’t fuck with you now! I’m not buying your next album’ and be dead serious! It made me feel like, ‘You dirty bastards! Like how dare you hypocritical.”

“Those hip hop elitists who think [Tribe] hold the crown and the copyright to hip hop, I listen to 8Ball & MJG and I think they’re better than you [Tribe].” [SOURCE]

And here is the clip in question...


This whole ordeal got folks speaking about Lupe. Let's hope this doesn't overshadowed his forthcoming album, "The Cool." Isn't it quite sad how folks are paying attention to what Lupe has to say lately...

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