Lupe Fiasco should be ashamed of himself. First he flubbs the words to A Tribe Called Quest song, then he disses them and downplays their contribution to Hip-Hop! During the VH1's Hip-Hop Honors, Fiasco messed up the words to "Electric Relaxation". It was embarrassing! Anyhoo, he then went on record and said this:
“[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,” he says. “I listen to 8Ball & MJG and I think they’re better than you [Tribe].” Shame on you, Lupe! Lupe Fiasco says he plans to sue Vibe magazine. He says he did the interview before the Hip-Hop Honors and that his words were taken out of context. Believe him?
