I understand respecting the legends. I believe anybody who calls themselves a hip hop head should do the history and familiarize themselves with the origins of the culture. Listen to a little of everything, expand your horizons... GET CULTURED.
With that being said, I think we need to kill the notion that any of these pioneers opinions' are the end-all and be-all of what HIP HOP is. Hip Hop was around before any of us knew who Lord Jamar was. You don't hear Kool Herc and Afrikaa Bambaataa claiming to be the gatekeepers of the fukking
realm of hip hop, and they're the ones who started the shyt. Jamar is entitled to his opinions just like anyone else, but what gives him the final say (in EVERY interview he does) as to what is and isn't hip hop?
Above all that, this shyt was LOADED with contradictions from both of these cats; Lord Jamar gets heated and threatens physical violence on Yelawolf for 4 minutes straight then says "I'm not even emotional about it, like, it's nothing to me." But everything you've said for the last 4 minutes screams otherwise! This dude called himself "an elder statesmen of hip hop"... this isn't how someone repping that should carry themselves when dealing with a younger person. THAT hurts hip hop; THAT is disrespectful to hip hop.
Then you got Star looking drunk and coked out of his mind with this eloquent jewel:
You have a sea of mousepad mobsters and keyboard killaz - hoe ass nikkas - and they talk real fukkin greasy... but when they're out in the streets, in the cracks and crevices, they're as quiet as church mouses. I'm the same douchebag I've always been, I'm always out there... and when you see me, the only thing I will respect is you swinging at me, or some hot lead. All that tough guy shyt on the internet is fugazi fukk-boy shyt... that's all I wanted to say.
You're saying this in a YouTube video interview with DJ Vlad's gossiping/instigating-ass, are you serious?! So this is the message to the kids? Swing on me or shoot at me if you want my respect?!
How the hell are you gonna teach the youngsters about respect and carry yourself like either of these dudes did in this interview? I don't know if we're all watching the same thing, but it seems to me like they both promoted ignorance and violence much more than knowledge and understanding. Some of the older heads need to stop defending shyt just off "GP" and not be intimidated to call a legend out on their bullshyt.