
“Now, I’m not one to judge a person’s political,
religious or [even] artistic views; however, the reasons that this
artist gave were so fucking erroneous and outrageous that it compels me
to speak out, even if only to give fans the right information so that
we are not following uninformed-ass rappers down the hole of ‘abstract
nothingness.’”
–Rhymefest, MySpace blog (complete with “Intellectuals Only” warning)
I thought Rhymefest was supposed to be one of the smart ones. The way some of the writers at Okayplayer bump him, I thought he was Frederick fuckin Douglass. Then again, that great bastion of truer-than-true hip-hop and allied enlightened music gave Solange a blog soooo… I guess I can’t really call it, can I?
Fest, who ironically enough refers to himself as El Che, offered the above preamble as part of a nasty little quasi-intellectual spat with Lupe Fiasco, who I hear is still holding down the “Low Kick” button to charge up his bicycle kick for Byron Crawford. As both “conscious rappers” have exhibited, not every nigga who owns a Che Guevara t-shirt or sips a delicious Dwele-flavored McCafe is a revolutionary.
“Abstract nothingness”, you say? Put a pin in that. We’ll come back to it.
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