Snippet's from Pete Rock's Twitter wrote:No disrespect to lupe fiasco and i like him alot but TROY should be left alone. Feel so violated,the beat is next to my heart and was made outta anguish and pain. When it's like that it should not be touched by no one!
It's so hard for folks to make original music, I possess that, but these dudes are scared of that and this is supposed to be HIP HOP?
This business can be so lame, sometimes I make beats blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back and still these cats can't be original too.
I'm not flattered @ all. Dat shit is wack, and the producer should be ashamed of his fuckin self. Smh
I think lupe is a great artist, I'm that angry with him but it's a major label idea. I can feel it.
Shit got even more interesting when Kno (from the CunninLynguists) came to the rescue. He points out that a similar remix by Lupe was released 3 years ago and no one complained.
Snippets from Kno's Twitter wrote:This Pete Rock & Lupe thing already happened 3 years ago and nobody said anything. http://t.co/2qdtC1QR
It's hard to side with Pete Rock when this J.R. Rotem abomination exists w/ Pete as a co-writer meaning it was cleared. http://dai.ly/nt97wG
I don't know who owns the publishing, but Lupe got nothing on Mann singing about his baby momma when it comes to disrespecting "T.R.O.Y."
So why does Pete allow to be credited on Mann's song, but starts complaining about Lupe? It seems very disingenuous given that Mann's is one of the most generic songs out there [I hadn't heard it before today, and will never play it again].
That's not the end of it. Pete Rock himself sampled Tom Scott's "Today" for the saxophone. Lupe could have sampled "Today" too and not Pete, so does he really have a right to complain? The whole situations's a little hypocritical on Pete's part. What's your take on the situation?
