Miss Info spoke with A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip regarding the "VH1 Hip-hop Honors"-- and the very arrogant walking-fiasco, Lupe, who excitedly cut loose like a chicken with no head on HHDX. Fiascogate told the website that Q-Tip made it his business to reach out to him to get him to perform Tribe's "Electric Relaxation," from their 1993 album Midnight Marauders, saying "he could have picked anybody but he picked me for whatever reason so I can come out and represent the young people."
SOHH stupid.
In response, Q-Tip dismissed the lil newbie, and collectively, Tip's statements--although unintentional-- painted Lupe as delusional and ... well, delusional. And all the while spared to express how Lupe slit the song by the throat (Q-tip was being nice):
"I'm not trying to make this any bigger than it is. But, I just want to clear up one thing….We never hunted him down and begged him to be a part of the show or anything like that. His name was pitched to us by VH1, and we said, ok cool. The only time I spoke to Lupe about the Hip Hop honors performance was on a conference call, which we did with the others artists too, like Busta and Common, to plan the performance.
When VH1 brought his name up, based on what he had said about us before, I thought it was ironic and it kind of humored me. All that stuff he said about never listening to a Tribe album before and having no interest in doing so, it doesn't make sense to me.
...no, I never hunted him down to be part of the tribute. That didn't happen."
I dare anyone to say Lupe's comment was taken out of context; this is not the first time he's gone on a website and ran off at the mouth as if he actually sold more than 100,000 copies. Before the 2006 Brooklyn Hip-hop Festival, when asked how he felt about performing, he sneered "It's bitter-sweet. 'Cause my man's getting married in Hawaii."
FYI-- if you don't think you're going to have anything nice to say, don't do interview that day. Seriously. The people at Roomservice (who organize the BHHF) were like, WTF? He said that?
It would be a nice feeling to have someone like Q-Tip reach out to you on a personal level, but really, homie... you're not that important. Stay in your place.
But then I say, awww poor kid. Give him a break. He was just a little overzealous, that's all.
And then I say, WTF:
"[Tribe] didn't sell 10 million records, so why would people think they had a blanket on the world like that?†Fiascogate just recently squeaked and squealed to VIBE while trying to justify his oblivion to the Tribe’s Marauders. “MC Hammer was way more popular to me than Tribe Called Quest."â€Because there's kids in Harlem who right now would never ever listen to Midnight Marauders, I don't give a f*ck what you do, they'll never listen to Q-Tip.â€
"Those hip hop elitists who think [Tribe] hold the crown and the copyright to hip hop. I listen to 8 Ball & MJG and I think they're better than you [Tribe]."
Poor dude. He should jump off a bridge and kill himself.
Papoose- "I Get Gully"
And all these dudes throwing up three fingers like they're really blood. GTFOH. Why didn't Pap shut that down? So unnecessary.
Damon Dash has a blog. And he had some things to say as far as mixing business with friendship:
I have come to realize you are only as good as your partner. I've done a lot of business with people because I genuinely liked them. They would come around, earn my trust and then hit me with an idea -- if I saw potential, I would invest. The problem is that this means being exposed financially. Unfortunately, at times I would discover that they might be a good friend but a terrible business partner.Even though I have been burned, I still love working with friends -- business doesn't feel so much like work that way. I have learned to take a close look at the way others work before we go into business. I make sure they share my interests and work ethic. This way, the friendship is not based on business, and if the business doesn't go right (which happens) the friendship will remain the same. In fact -- it becomes stronger.
Bottom line, if you do business with a friend, make sure that the relationship is real. It could cost you a lot of time and/or money.
I wonder if he's still bitter about the whole Jay situation.
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Got damn Lupe. fuck is wrong with u
THAT NIGGA GAME SPEAK REAL SHIT BUT PLEASE SOMEBODY PLEASE TAKE DIS NIGGA PAPOOSE OFF THA FUCKIN PAGE I DIDNT EVEN TAKE TIME 2 WATCH THA WACK ASS VIDEO...
Be serious. None of yall would even think of a Tribe Called Quest unless it gets blogged about by someone like Reckless who's in love with old rap from 1987. She loves it because she's 50 now and doesn't listen to anybody new so to get paid for this blog shit she hates on the new.
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Lupe didn't say they begged him to do it. He said they could've asked anyone and they asked me. Now maybe VH1 told him Tribe asked for him specifically or maybe he just assumed they did, that doesn't mean he's delusional. You're taking his words literally. Even if they didn't ask him to do it, they could've said nah we don't want him. Q is just looking to get 2 more minutes of fame since the awards lasted 2 hours.
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Be serious. Nobody here front. Do not front. How many of you can name 2 tribe songs without using Google? I never listened to them and whenever I see them on the BET top 25 artist countdown, I turn the channel. They have like 1 hot song. Lupe is right and Lupe is very intelligent. He knows what he's saying. Reckless trying to make him look arrogant and ignorant.
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Papoose Papoose. Papoose is mad fake. He's like 32 years old right and just rapping? I saw 1 kid throw a C up in the video and the rest including Pap were throwin B's. Nigga are you serious? "Bloods" in brooklyn hold no weight whatsoever. They're outnumbered like 9 to 1. Niggaz is lying. You won't ever go to brooklyn and see any bloods walking around unless it's right in front of their PJ or apartment building. Niggaz be claiming blood in 1 apartment building and the rest of the hood is Crip from avenue to avenue. Fake ass gangstaz. Pap you know you wouldn't rock that red on the train, on the bus or none of that if a camera wasnt around.
I could understand where lupe was coming from on his statement but when its all said and done i think he will be in the same boat as them i dont even own a lupe cd. As far as dame i think that nigga should right a book and get it all over with cause he's bitching to much too me
I don't really listen to Lupe but..damn can you blame him for getting pissed, everybody blowing this shit up way too much. I never came up on ATCQ either but who gives a fuck.
I dont care what anyone says Lupe's first album was trash, the only good tracks were he say she say and kick push. He could never put out classics like tribe and im 20 and own every one of their cd's. So get the fuck out of here wit that bullshit Lupe, u corny fuck
I was thinking the same thing as BK Repper as I read the story on Lupe. He will be just like Tribe. Great music, low sales. I can think of more than one Tribe hit off the top of my head, but I'm an old head. I'm sorry the young people don't know about them. They are seriously missing out, but if they listen to Lupe they can get a taste of Tribe's style. I'm shocked he dissed them.
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Dame business is supposed to feel like work sweetie. You shouldn't make a rule of going into business with friends are trying to be friendly with people you are in business with. Don't you get that yet?
i love lupe's music but gotdamn wtf is he saying....i saw his statement on another site and was shocked...and who are all these rappers and hip hop fans that say they never listened to tribe?
damn...my brother is 20 and we live in Kenya but he can name for you at least 5 ATCQ songs and can rap at least one full length!
if you do not think tribe were the shit then there's something wrong with you!
lupe should have admitted that he fucked up and life goes on...this is some wack shit he just got himself into!
i can't believe hahah's comments...or maybe at 26 i am old and love that ATCQ shit....
pamoja!!!
Damn lupe...now I can see how the first statements can be misunderstood but to say that 8ball&MJG is better? WHOA
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This guy Lupe doesn't add up. He saya grew up listening to Spice 1, Snoop, and 8ball and MJG?
And now he says listens to groups like Fall Out Boy and Yellow Card?
But he din't listen to ATCQ?
Thats a new type of conscience gangsta skater rapper to me.
This blog is full of punkass white kids who are too young and probably just started listening to "rap" 3 years ago. To take lupe's side and not know how important ATCQ is to hip hop (even if you don't personally like them) clearly shows yall have no right posting comments.
Lupe took hammer over ATCQ, that says everything you need to know about how dumb that nigga is. Lupe an example of someone who just started rapping and doesn't know his shit, like all yall white kids on here. Yall like tryin to hide their ignorance by saying everybody else is too old. Your favorite rapper right now (ny, west coast, down south) is between 27-35.
Lyrics 2 Go
Electric Relaxation
Bonita Applebum
Definition of a Fool
Vibes And Stuff
The Jazz
The Butter
Scenario
ALL THAT WITHOUT google....and im 22 have respect for the vets
favorite rappers age: 38
I'm 22 and i'm from the south (LA, TX) and i can't name more than 3 A Tribe Called Quest songs (before u niggas start tawkin out the side of ur mouths, there's alot of other rappers i know from that era, just not them). I don't think Lupe was dissing them, i just think he was 50% being real honest, and 50% misinterpreted. Reckless didn't show the questions the interviewer asked. On the last line, where the person filled in {Tribe}, i'll put money on the fact that Lupe probably wasn't talkin about ATCQ like that. It's not in his character to diss someone (and that's what that would be).When he mentions "elitest", he talkin about 90% of u New York niggas stuck in the 90's who think music from yall's region is the "elite" and every other region's is inferior. But in the end, unless Lupe get's lucky, he's gonna fall in the same category as tribe and 10 years from now, some new cat is gonna be like "[Lupe] didn't sell 10 million records, so why would people think they had a blanket on the world like that?â€
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I don't even want to watch that Papoose video. How old is this nigga and how long has he been in the game and he's STILL grinding like a nigga tryna get his foot in the door? Newsflash Papoose: YOUR NEVER GONNA BE ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT OUTSIDE OF THE TRISTATE AREA unless u hop on a "crank that soulja boy remix" or get battle Lil Wayne or something. Kay Slay is riding this nigga career into the dirt like a fat horse jocky.
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Damn Dash is a smart nigga, and i'll take business advise from him any day. He didn't mention Jay, or get into anything that u can say "oh he talkin about Jay right there". All that is is sound advise. I don't mix business with friends, i learned that young. But i understand how it can be hard to not want to. I trust my most of my friends and family, and i'd much rather get money with them than anyone else. u just got to be mature and know when to keep it professional when it's time to be professional. and u can't be too sensitive and take business unfavorable business decisions personal.
Lupe said what!
“MC Hammer was way more popular to me than Tribe Called Quest." "Those hip hop elitists who think [Tribe] hold the crown and the copyright to hip hop. I listen to 8 Ball & MJG and I think they're better than you [Tribe]."
how can anybody take this clown seriously... he "alternative" skatebooard "rap" anyway
Listen, A Tribe Called Quest is not "important" to the hip hop world and its legacy. They did not change the game in any way, shape, or form. They are not considered people that changed the way hip hop was or advanced it like LL, Rakim, KRS, Biggy, Pac, Dre, Snoop, Run DMC, Public Enemy and many others I'm leaving out. In their era they didn't contribute something or change the game. They basically are filler rappers. The Franchise Boys will probably get more credit in the scheme of things for bringing to hip hop "snap music". They weren't even huge in their own era.
Oh, and he said he thinks 8ball and MJG are better, and who's to say that he's wrong for thinking that way? I'll buy a old 8ball & MJG cd before i buy a ATCQ album too. Some nigga's aint into that abstract shit.
Ahem says...
Listen, A Tribe Called Quest is not "important" to the hip hop world and its legacy. They did not change the game in any way, shape, or form. They are not considered people that changed the way hip hop was or advanced it like LL, Rakim, KRS, Biggy, Pac, Dre, Snoop, Run DMC, Public Enemy and many others I'm leaving out. In their era they didn't contribute something or change the game. They basically are filler rappers. The Franchise Boys will probably get more credit in the scheme of things for bringing to hip hop "snap music". They weren't even huge in their own era.
^^^^co-sign %100
yall gasin ATCQ up too much. yeah they were different and deserved the honor they got and all, but look at what they did when they were hot, and look at music today. Point out their enfluence on hiphop today. What did they do to change hiphop that u can look at and say "that wouldn't be here if ATCQ wasn't here"...
AHEM wrote: Listen, A Tribe Called Quest is not "important" to the hip hop world and its legacy... not considered people that changed the way hip hop was or advanced it like LL, Rakim, KRS, Biggy, Pac, Dre, Snoop, Run DMC, Public Enemy and many others
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Just quoting from Google articles: "A Tribe Called Quest is a critically acclaimed and highly-influential American hip-hop group...The group is generally regarded as pioneers of alternative rap music, having helped to pave the way for socially aware hip-hop artists."
Common, Kanye, and Lupe all owe their left nuts to ATCQ, or else hip hop would be all murder and bling music. ATCQ pushed da whole soul/jazz sampling era into mainstream, which is what Common, Kanye, and Lupe do now. If it wasn't for groups like them, we wouldn't have evolved from the run-dmc krs-1 era.
mrSinister says...
Lyrics 2 Go
Electric Relaxation
Bonita Applebum
Definition of a Fool
Vibes And Stuff
The Jazz
The Butter
Scenario
ALL THAT WITHOUT google....and im 22 have respect for the vets
October 10, 2007 7:52 AM
haha says...
favorite rappers age: 38
October 10, 2007 7:54 AM
You forgot "Hot Sex....", which Diddy sampled on a Mary J record, "Award Tour", "Find A Way" from they last album ("Now why you wanna go and do that love, huh???..... Sounds familiar??? Hell no, I aint talking bout the T.I. joint), "Check The Rhimes", does "Buddy" count, or is that De La Soul???
That's me going off the dome, no Google...... and I aint NEVER buy none of they records, put that on my name. Lupe is overly Kanye right about now just cuz cats bigging him as the "next big lyricist of tomorrow/ "He's gonna bring that conscious hip-hop back". Son, stop being salty over ya record not seling, despite getting more buzz than ATCQ EVER had. ATCQ is some real ass cats. Who the fuck else you know gon do records where they aint have to stunt for nobody, then come back later on and say, "Yeah, that was for hip-hop..... we made like 15,000 total (as a group) off Midnight Maurauders...... {Q-Tip} I did the Amplified album while I was sleeping on my aunt's couch......" REAL TALK. Read some books and get back to me.
"Abstract" is what lupe lives on and is tryin to recreate. He damn aint no Nas who he said he modeled his album after. Lupe's radio single is "Kick-Push"... you don't think he owes that alternative shit to Tribe?
Dont gotta put Tribe on a pedistile as the g.o.a.t. but u dont gotta knock em neitha
Fresh beats + uncensored video of Lil Dap "Steady Frontin" produced by Zoober Slimm
and a special remix of King Kong.
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Common IS practically ATCQ!!! So is Talib, so is Kanye, and Lupe himself, etc. ATCQ is the LAST group Lupe should be dissin. I read that he wuz turned off by Public Enemy, KRS, and Rakim cuz they wuz too hardcore and political
Yo Lupe just made a mistake and I can live with that because we all make mistakes. What made this so bad for him though, was his reaction afterward. He made it seem like he had never heard of ATCQ nor did he want to perform with them.. Well homie if you don't want to perform dont! But don't talk crazy like you've been raised on gangsta rap and that's all you know.... If thats the case why do you rhyme just like Q-Tip?? Lupe you lost mad respect from me homie!!!! Fraud!
http://cyberthugs.wordpress.com
Lupe Is Wack For Making Such Statements. His Style Is Formulated After ATCQ, So Why He Would Make Such Statements I Have No Clue. I Know That ATCQ Was The Shiznit In There Time And The Had Way More Popularity In Their Day Than Lupe Has In His.
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Dame Is A Cool Dude, He Keeps It Real As Fas As Business Ethnics. Just Wish One Of These Hip-Hop Crews Will Keep It Real With Each Other....LOYALTY Is No More In Hip-Hop!
we run this! says...
Common IS practically ATCQ!!! So is Talib, so is Kanye, and Lupe himself, etc. ATCQ is the LAST group Lupe should be dissin. I read that he wuz turned off by Public Enemy, KRS, and Rakim cuz they wuz too hardcore and political
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Rakim was never political or hardcore... Know your history!
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sick of the hate says...
"Abstract" is what lupe lives on and is tryin to recreate. He damn aint no Nas who he said he modeled his album after. Lupe's radio single is "Kick-Push"... you don't think he owes that alternative shit to Tribe?
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co-sign 100x... ol fiasco betta release a statement apologizing for that one... ne NEED groups like Tribe co-signin him because they the pioneers of what hes trynna do
SHUT UP LUPE!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the same jackass that said he grew up on the hardcore, like NWA & Spice 1.. Yet he makes a song about kicking and pushing a skateboard?????GTFOH
http://cyberthugs.wordpress.com
Tribe was ok, but they weren't all that. It shuldnt be called hip hop honors, it should be called old school music. I listened to tribe n brand nubian, but I feel lupe ( he's garbage tho ). I'm surprised he didn't listen to them, bcuz he does remind me of that neo soul hip hop. lol.
But real talk, nationally, they weren't listened to like that. I was like the only nigga on my block listening to them. Er'body else bumped gangsta s.h.i.t. I almost turned n2 a back packer when I was 12, but the street situations pulled me over. Therefore I started listening to music geared towards my situations, and that is street music. While I do try n listen 2 lupes style of music, I just don't feel them enuf 2 buy an album. And I only empathise with their singles.
bobby drake says...
Ahem says...
Listen, A Tribe Called Quest is not "important" to the hip hop world and its legacy. They did not change the game in any way, shape, or form. They are not considered people that changed the way hip hop was or advanced it like LL, Rakim, KRS, Biggy, Pac, Dre, Snoop, Run DMC, Public Enemy and many others I'm leaving out. In their era they didn't contribute something or change the game. They basically are filler rappers. The Franchise Boys will probably get more credit in the scheme of things for bringing to hip hop "snap music". They weren't even huge in their own era.
^^^^co-sign %100
yall gasin ATCQ up too much. yeah they were different and deserved the honor they got and all, but look at what they did when they were hot, and look at music today. Point out their enfluence on hiphop today. What did they do to change hiphop that u can look at and say "that wouldn't be here if ATCQ wasn't here"...
October 10, 2007 8:17 AM
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both of ya'll is buggin' "that wouldnt be here if ATCQ wasnt here..." are u serious, u and ahem aint listen to the music but wanna make them comments where do you think fugees killing me softly beat came from? tribe
whaen the west and def squad did there versions of Scenario. musiq buddy song.
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yall really need to do research on hip hop before you all post dumb ass comments
Hopefully after all is said and done Lupe will sit down and listent to Tribe's music. I'm sure he hasn't done that. After listening he will have to say, "Damn, I guess I didn't create no new shit." He is doing what they did. His music is their music. VH1 knew that and that is why they asked him. He made himself look ignorant by talking crazy about them. I have lost respect for him and now hope is second album flops like the first. I can't believe I felt sorry for that ungrateful young man.
I am from the durty and I know there are cats walking around that don't no shit about Tribe. I am an semi old head (28) so I can remember their joints but back then I was more onto Southern rap.
I think Lupe was just saying something and go in over his head. But what he said about kids listening to Tribe is true.
As far as Lupe: I can kinda feel him on dissing hip-hop elitists. Backpackers are my pet hate too. I actually like ATCQ, but I don't worship them like 5 borough open mic'ers do. I was more into Ball & G and Poison Clan myself. If he's feeling himself, how is that different than any other rapper who comes out?
Damon Dash continues to make an ass of himself.
Papoose ain't all that hot to me.
If lupe wasn't a fan, then he just wasnt a fan!
SO WUT!
Even if tribe sold a million copies, I'm sure we can find 5 million people who weren't fans, and another 5 million people who don't even know these dudes.
Who's the arrogant one? The one who said he aint listen to tribe, or the ones who say its impossible to not have listened to tribe. lol - some of yall crabs funny!
@ BROOKLYN B
THATS WASSUP... KATS POSTIN BUT DONT KNOW THEY SHIT
@ REAL TALK
WHAT CITY / REGION YOU REPPIN? CANT SEE YOU BEING FROM NYC. DONT GOTTA LIKE TRIBE BUT WHOEVER SAYS THEY WERENT NOTICEABLE OR IMPORTANT CANT BE FROM NYC
Lupe did what a lotta niggas do when they mess up...he tried play it off and save face. And, like most niggas when they do that, he ended up sounding stupid. Not that he's wrong for saying he didn't listen to them coming up (only reason i did was cuz my family wouldn't turn the shit off), but it's how he said it. And yeah, Hammer was bigger at that time...not sayin it's a good thing, but hell, it's true!
To all the idiots that say ATCQ isn't that important listen to Midnight Mauraders.. But then again most of you are under 23 and will never be able to understand songs that dont have shit in it about Platinum, Rim Sizes, Some DUMB ASS Dance (YOOUUUUUUUU), Coke, Sex.... I know what ya are thinking.. 'What Else is There To Rhyme About?'.... That's my point youngins!
Again people make errors, I've seen mc's forget lyrics to their own songs. Lupe should have just admitted he fucked up and kept it movin!
http://cyberthugs.wordpress.com
KSH wrote: "I am an semi old head (28) so I can remember their joints but back then I was more onto Southern rap."
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dont let the little kids on this blog get you to thinkin that 28 make you a "old head".
8Ball & MJG...35
Luda..............30
Jeezy.............30
T.I..................27
Bun-B.............34
Pimp-C...........33
Three-6 Mafia members between 30-33
that "old head" jus an excuse for them not knowin they shit like lupe
bobby drake says...
Ahem says...
Listen, A Tribe Called Quest is not "important" to the hip hop world and its legacy. They did not change the game in any way, shape, or form. They are not considered people that changed the way hip hop was or advanced it like LL, Rakim, KRS, Biggy, Pac, Dre, Snoop, Run DMC, Public Enemy and many others I'm leaving out. In their era they didn't contribute something or change the game. They basically are filler rappers. The Franchise Boys will probably get more credit in the scheme of things for bringing to hip hop "snap music". They weren't even huge in their own era.
^^^^co-sign %100
yall gasin ATCQ up too much. yeah they were different and deserved the honor they got and all, but look at what they did when they were hot, and look at music today. Point out their enfluence on hiphop today. What did they do to change hiphop that u can look at and say "that wouldn't be here if ATCQ wasn't here"...
October 10, 2007 8:17 AM
Ay, B. Drake, aint you like close to DC??? Anyways, let me say it again..... YOUR FAVORITE, my bad, THE SOUTH'S FAVORITE CHILD, TIP, T.I, Clifford the lil red d-boy bit Q-Tip for one of his biggest hits of 2006. Aint that the same album he went plat for the 1st time on???? I might be a lil tired today, but I think ATCQ got a lot more hip-hop influence than a lot of people wanna give them credit for. They jumpstarted Busta Rhymes' solo career as part of Native Tongues Posse, hell if it wasn't for Q-Tip name, T.I. would've went to Arista and signed as TIP, and kept trying to spit that d-boy shit he was on when he 1st came with "I'm Serious"..... hence, T.I. would have never been this big trap, movie, TV star everybody know and love. And we still here "Breathe and Stop" e'ery now and then on 93.9. So influence is sales, too??? If that's the case, D4L is hella influential selling 1,000,000 copies of "Laffy Taffy", and Lupe sold just as many records as Cam'ron's Killa Season movie.....lol. HOLLA
react says...
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@ REAL TALK
WHAT CITY / REGION YOU REPPIN? CANT SEE YOU BEING FROM NYC. DONT GOTTA LIKE TRIBE BUT WHOEVER SAYS THEY WERENT NOTICEABLE OR IMPORTANT CANT BE FROM NYC
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He is from NY, but he's a VERY young cat so he wouldn't know about Tribe unless his parents were playing old school around him. Judging from the fact that he seems to have been drawn to gang activity, I doubt his parents listened to anything positive and may in fact be criminals themselves. You have to forgive his ignorance.
T.I. is a nursery school rapper!!
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Bobby drake....the real bobby drake says...
But in the end, unless Lupe get's lucky, he's gonna fall in the same category as tribe and 10 years from now, some new cat is gonna be like "[Lupe] didn't sell 10 million records, so why would people think they had a blanket on the world like that?â€
October 10, 2007 7:58 AM
One of atcq best albums sold over 1.5 million. How many records did Lupe sell? P-nuts
15 years from now will Lupe be honored at the VH1 Hip Hop Honors awards - HELL NO
You should have said Lupe will be lucky if his next CD can sells as much as Chamillionar or the Boss Hog Outlaws. lol
I wana hear that old camp lo. D.a.m.n, I just realized, I listened to all music. I'm from down south too.
Death row.
Wu
Tribe
Brand nubian
The whole Dungeon family
Rap a lot
Too short - the ghetto, born 2 mack
The old cash money and the new cash money
The old no limit, not the new no limit
Concentration camp
Boot camp clik
Fugees
Mr. Cheeks n freaky ty
The second trick daddy album n so on
2 nas albums after pac died
2 mob deep albums.
Jay z after tupac died
Biggies life after death and ready 2 die
I'm pretty well rounded with this music
@ Jaysiatic
easy b4 the little kids start callin u a old head. they cant understand the truff u kickin.
Brooklyn B says...
bobby drake says...
Ahem says...
Listen, A Tribe Called Quest is not "important" to the hip hop world and its legacy. They did not change the game in any way, shape, or form. They are not considered people that changed the way hip hop was or advanced it like LL, Rakim, KRS, Biggy, Pac, Dre, Snoop, Run DMC, Public Enemy and many others I'm leaving out. In their era they didn't contribute something or change the game. They basically are filler rappers. The Franchise Boys will probably get more credit in the scheme of things for bringing to hip hop "snap music". They weren't even huge in their own era.
^^^^co-sign %100
yall gasin ATCQ up too much. yeah they were different and deserved the honor they got and all, but look at what they did when they were hot, and look at music today. Point out their enfluence on hiphop today. What did they do to change hiphop that u can look at and say "that wouldn't be here if ATCQ wasn't here"...
October 10, 2007 8:17 AM
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both of ya'll is buggin' "that wouldnt be here if ATCQ wasnt here..." are u serious, u and ahem aint listen to the music but wanna make them comments where do you think fugees killing me softly beat came from? tribe
whaen the west and def squad did there versions of Scenario. musiq buddy song.
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yall really need to do research on hip hop before you all post dumb ass comments
October 10, 2007 8:44 AM
OH YEAAAAAAAH, I forgot all about "Buddy" the Musiq song, and the Fat Joe/ Ja Rule/ Jadakiss remix verses....." Yes/ It's Coka from the crew T.S......" Y'all cats saying ATCQ had no influence???? The hyphy movement is in the bay, we on the east..... GO SMART!!!
we run this! says...
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KSH wrote: "I am an semi old head (28) so I can remember their joints but back then I was more onto Southern rap."
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dont let the little kids on this blog get you to thinkin that 28 make you a "old head".
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100% cosign. We all need to keep in mind that many of the people on SOHH are teenagers who claim to be adults. That is why they think 30 is old. Some of them have parents who aren't even 30. Don't let hip hop teenagers define you. You are the adult up in here. You make the definitions.
Lupe was already going to struggle with sales and now with this comment he's turned a lot of his 'more mature' fans off!
http://cyberthugs.wordpress.com
I'm 24. I'm from down south, I live in ny now.
@ REAL TALK
no diss, playa. im the same cuz i listened to urrybody no matter the region... jus good music.
but i couldnt see a nyc cat ackin like tribe wasnt hot in their day and like they didnt greatly influence the game
as for the war between nyc/souf hip hop, i think da souf started that. they started dissin an sayin they took the crown from nyc... provokin shit. but they cant put they money where they mouf iz
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no diss, playa. im the same cuz i listened to urrybody no matter the region... jus good music.
but i couldnt see a nyc cat ackin like tribe wasnt hot in their day and like they didnt greatly influence the game
as for the war between nyc/souf hip hop, i think da souf started that. they started dissin an sayin they took the crown from nyc... provokin shit. but they cant put they money where they mouf iz
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I don't know how the Souf could say that being that they only have 3 1/2 artist that sell there. I think the souf and all other regions are in the same boat. The WHITE community isn't buying the records anymore. Not to mention the south did water down the market with the Dance bull and the NYC mc's with all the shoot 'em up lyrics over and over... COke this coke that!!! Hip hop all over is in trouble not just hip hop in the north or south!
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