As new eras of hip-hop come by with each generation, we see that everyone has different tastes. Unfortunately for many of the new young rappers that were born after 1999, they fail to pay homage to the rappers who paved the way or are even familiar with their work.
This happened with Blac Chyna’s boyfriend YBN Almighty Jay while he was doing an interview with his YBN group with Hot 97 radio host Peter Rosenberg on Complex’s Open Late show. Jay said that he only listens to gnenerational rappers and doesn’t listen to artists from back in the day.
When asked who’s the oldest artist he listens to, Jay responded with Lil Wayne. What surprised Rosenberg was that when asked about his familiarity with Wu-Tang Clan, Jay said he can’t even name one member of the group.
We’ve seen new rappers not acknowlege how great 2Pac and Biggie are and now it’s not knowing about Wu-Tang. We gotta educate these very young rappers.
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