Lupe Fiasco never ceases to amaze me. As a rapper
he ups the lyrical ante every time out. As an individual he is a living
reminder that talent and intelligence are as incongruous as money and
web impressions. Blitzen kicks off a smarty-art nigga rant aimed at Elliot Wilson and RapRadar
with an improper use of “your”. As you can imagine based on how often I
attack the Lazytown approach to hip-hop grammar, I immediately judge
people who fuck shit like that up. This goes double for niggas who
operate on a platform of being smarter than everyone else.
[Blogger’s Note: Impressions = money isn’t exactly true. Ask the people who created Twitter and still haven’t figured out a way to make a dime off of it. You have to know what to do with that traffic. There are also ways that websites make money without much traffic, but Fiasco knows everything there is to know. I'll be quiet. It's not like I work in this industry or anything.]
Is Elliot Wilson greedy? I don’t know the man as well as some other XXL veterans do. So, I can’t really speak on that. However, Fiasco attaches this notion of YN greed to a lack of integrity. That’s to say that YN expressing his distaste for Fiasco in an editorial contradicts covering Fiasco in any capacity on the site. I’ve been to RapRadar a few times to snag an NP or two–once with YN as the subject. It’s a sad sight overall, but RR appears to have an objective journalism component. I mean, they aggregate a story here and there like every other lazy rap publication. What more do you expect of them?
Long story short, it’s RapRadar’s responsibility as a publication to report on artists Wilson may not necessarily like. That’s why Wilson has an opinion column or five. Those–and the tampered blogs—are reserved for whatever he’d like to say. This separation of church and state indicates that the responsible thing to do would be to include Fiasco in the normal press rounds. This has nothing to do with dickriding or being whimsical. If anything, knowing that Wilson has never liked Fiasco’s work despite the amount of XXL coverage he’s gotten during the YN era should be evidence of some journalistic integrity.
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