Yasiin Bey Will Release 2 More Albums…Including One With Mannie FreshĪsked about his relationship with Hip-Hop in 2017, Bey details, “I love the culture but what it looks like is that the technical process around it is so that the only people who really benefit off of the culture are the algorithms.” Beaming a smile, he continues, “The platforms, not the. “What kind of sh*t is this? When it was really dangerous in the city in the ’90s when ni**as was all goin’ out to the same places, and you could legit see somebody on the ave, none of that was happening…now it’s a lot of crazy noise but it’s dangerous because now people’s egos are involved because of the digital camera, for the Instagram.” He decries the consequences, “None of it is real, until some real sh*t happens and somebody gets really hurt over some bullsh*t while everybody get money.” I don’t want my mom to inherit the f*ckin’ P.T.S.D from running around in the Rap game and the beefs…you see that people can’t get along for longer than 20 minutes.” Yasiin continues that despite some large sums of money, artists regularly diss one another on social media, including threats of violence.

Yasiin proceeds, “Naturally, anybody with some sense : I don’t want to deal with that and bring that home to my family or bring that home to myself. So why is it that all these cats is like ‘What’s up with the structure around our culture, which is unique to any other thing that’s happening in the world, before or since it?’ Why are we not hearing these voices? Why do people not want to engage the industries like that? It’s a very good question, and I think people know the answer.” Even, he laid back for three, four years and got into a whole other thing before this 4:44 thing came out. When 3 Stacks was 30 years old, he was out here bubblin’ too.

What else they got to do? No disrespect, but like, this is what they’re doing. You’re supposed to be hearing a bunch of records from Kendrick and Drake. O.G.’s the cats born in the ’80s, ’cause they’re supposed to be running right now.

“What’s happening in the industry with some of the best and the brightest have just been silent. He’s Wrong.Īt 36:00, Ebro asks, “when do we get the music?” Yasiin replies, “Man, look at the game…people could ask that question to Andre 3000.” In a Complex interview this month, Outkast’s Andre stated his hesitancy to release music and rap in general. Yasiin separates what he considers art and “bullsh*t.”Īndre 3000 Thinks He’s Gotten Too Old To Rap. you’re like, ‘I had to do this bullsh*t to get this bag, so now I’ma go have fun with this bag.’ You don’t really treat the bag with respect,” he says after Ebro mentions record labels and HBO’s Something The Lord Made. You don’t really respect that money, ’cause you feel an urge and an impulse to reward yourself and get some pleasure at least. “What people don’t realize is that when you spend your time in a way that you really don’t respect…even if you get money out of it, you f*ck up that money. McGregor, Colin Kaepernick’s status within the NFL, and his relationship with both Brooklyn and South Africa.įor those curious about Bey’s Hip-Hop standing, that part of the discussion comes near the midpoint. During the conversation, Yasiin weighed in on Mayweather vs. The MC/actor/poet and activist jumped in a cab and appeared before Ebro and company to speak his mind. However, the Black Star MC recently gave Ebro In The Morning more than one hour of his time-reportedly impromptu. Even since his days as mighty Mos Def, Yasiin Bey does not do many interviews.

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