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Fats Joe is including his 2 cents to the brewing dialog that as we speak’s hip hop journalists are huge trash, spurned over backlash from Kendrick Lamar giving his first “Not Like Us” interview to SZA!!!

The Bronx rap legend sat down for a brand new interview to debate the fleeting observe of artists having journalists ask them truthful questions, in trade, to have the ability to alter the narrative on their very own platforms. Fats Joe says the protection of Tupac Shakur and Biggie‘s beef led to their demise!!!

“I additionally imagine that the previous guard of hip-hop journalists created plenty of battle and would possibly even have blood on their palms,” Joe defined.

“While you discuss East Coast-West Coast, Biggie-Tupac, that factor was amplified, they usually each ended up useless,” he declared. “And, after I take a look at the so-called journalists that had been right here from day one, since Vibe and The Supply [magazines] and all that, nonetheless to today after they interview individuals they usually do podcasts themselves, it’s all the time a damaging route.”

We just lately spoke to Benzino and he blamed the 1995 Supply Awards for sparking the East Coast-West Coast wars, so there’s positively some synergy within the OG’s recollections.

Kendrick compounded his which means of dissing Drake on “Not Like Us” to SZA … which irked music critics who felt Ok. Dot’s area was too protected to correctly define the nuances within the extremely publicized beef.

High Dawg Leisure’s Terrence “President Punch” Henderson‘s boss defended the interview and urged the rationale Kendrick and different artists do softball interviews is as a result of most of as we speak’s journalists are TRASH!!!

This convo has been boiling for years — keep in mind DJ Akademiks ripped hip hop’s “Large 3” a brand new one when J. Cole determined to present an interview to sports activities czar Bob Myers.

The blowback from Punch’s feedback despatched hip hop journalists right into a tizzy … however Joe says now that podcast mics are simple to purchase, artists have leverage.

Joe continued … “These had been the individuals once we didn’t have social media or podcasts, they had been controlling the sport, and it was all the time a damaging narrative. Again within the day, should you didn’t get shot 9 occasions or went to jail for 10 years, they wouldn’t contemplate you rapper. It was horrible.”

Joe says he is aiming to be the subsequent Oprah, and sided with the brand new wave of streamers and TikTokers to push hip hop journalism ahead.

“So I form of agree with the younger boys and younger women,” Joe admitted. “They’re saying get your message on the market nevertheless you need and the place you’re feeling comfy, the place individuals ain’t out right here to jam you up. That’s why I did ‘Fats Joe Talks.’ So we may discuss precisely what the artist desires to speak about in a optimistic mild.”

“I used to go to interviews, they usually’d be like, ‘Joe, what’s up with Rapper X? I by no means even met the brother. After which, subsequent factor you realize you bought beef with Rapper X over a journalist who needed to create a hype.”