Jay-Z Disrespects Rita Marley(Bob Marley's Wife) While In Africa

[bigted]

Between what he said about LL and this, I'm really losing whatever respect I had for this man, I don't even care about his album anymore, what an idiot:

"A hip hop MC has to be more than just somebody who can sit and piece together a few rhymes. In hip hop there is nothing more objective then one’s personal opinion of what constitutes not only a good rapper but a great one. Reggie had thought of Jay-Z as a great rapper… well until Jigga breezed through the capital and “fleeced” Hip hop heads with his refined brand of predatory capitalism. Rockstone is still perfecting a mean punchline for a few diss bars he might be putting on wax soon.

He’s peeved: “African Americans romanticize Africa, you know. These are the big wigs, these ‘cats’ got money and they’re trying to act like there is nobody here. When they go to Europe they don’t charge that much plus they try to do collabos with these European artistes. Is he saying that we don’t count and then he comes here and charges like five times the price? They will pin the over-pricing on the promoters but if people are getting pimped like that, Jay Z is the king of his castle and he could have made a statement about it so at least we know he is not about extorting people. Matter of fact he was supposed to be getting water for these same people who love his music. How the f#*k do you turn around and over charge them. Motherf*@^$# didn’t even take a picture with any of the artistes who opened for him.”

Well that kind of puts Reggie’s boycott in perspective -- the fact that Jigga came to a third world country and charged between $75 to $105 dollars seems very much contrary to the ‘keeping it real’ anthems in his songs. In Nigeria tickets went for as much as $800. That’s minus the extra bucks that came along with black market pricing.

“I was one of the first to start ‘bigging’ him up when I heard he was coming to Africa. I actually wanted to meet him. Better yet I thought he had to know who I was and how much grinding I put in this thing to make the environment conducive for him to be here. If he checks out my history, he will know that I’m like ‘Kool Herk’ or Africa ‘Bambata’. Can you reject something like that? This is a man who gives props to dead rappers like Tupac and Biggie as part of his stage act. Do you think any of them Negros like Mos Def or Talib Kwale would come here and do that? Or you think Tupac would come to the motherland and disrespect like the way Jigga did when his mother is Afeni Shakur?”

Reggie wasn’t looking at Jigga as an artiste. He wanted Jay Z to be aware of who he is so he can become a mouthpiece for the people, as supposed to all the Ghanaian artistes being opening acts with the possibility of Jay Z not even watching them perform. Rock sights this as another reason he boycotted the concert plus not being able to watch one of his favorite artistes should also make him double pissed off.

“If I had gotten on that stage, he knows I would have pulled his coat about the prices. What the f#*k happens to us black folk when we get up there. Matter of fact, the Negro that made him an ambassador for this water project was born here so he could have at least humored us with just a little respect. Somebody might be out there calling me arrogant and think I’m just doing this to get my shine. F#*k shine I need. If you check my track record, I was opening for artistes Jigga would have loved to be on a bill with back in the day. But forget that, I’m responsible for a whole genre of music that is putting food on people’s tables. Urban clothing, freedom of speech, the attitude and the culture all came out as an extension of Hiplife. Jay Z is the CEO of Def Jam and he can make power moves that could empower this movement that I’m about. If you throw me on stage like I’m nobody and my people couldn’t even speak for me, that ain’t right. Do you know what would have happened if I walked onto the stage with Jay Z and he saw the love that my people gave me? That would have opened a way for dialogue.”

Maybe what Jay-Z also didn’t know is that one of the people that helped Reggie set off Hiplife works for him. Rab Bakari sent a package containing Reggie’s dossier to Jigga through his personal assistant, Carlene. Whether the package got to Jigga at the moment isn’t very clear. “I was supposed to go on stage with Rita Marley and Jigga. That’s Bob Marley’s wife and you sh*t on her like that? It wouldn’t have hurt Jigga nothing to do that. At the moment I feel like the streets are calling for another Reggie album so I just might be heading back to the studio. All I wanted was recognition for Hiplife but obviously Jay Z didn’t think we were important so he came in, made his money and that’s all that mattered to him.”

So much for a great MC whose claim to fame was ‘repping’ for the have-nots.

Source:

JIVE Entertainment Weekly

( http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePag...nt=2357427#com )

Edited October 28, 2006 by bigted

[Turntable]

Ouch..

[MaxFly]

Giggle...

[TopDawg14]

Why am I not surprised at this. I think Reggie is right on this one. Here is Jay-Z, the head of the "premier" hip-hop label and he treats people like that? It sounds like a broken record but he too is about the money and nothing else. When will it end and get back to essence?

Just another case of rap moving one more step forward to being completely pimped out.

:shakehead:

[Luigie]

Jay Z maybe got sum good songs, but the personal side of this man is just trash, i hate him cos of that, cant respect guys like these, move on Jay

Edited October 29, 2006 by Luigie

[Schnazz]

Why was Bob Marley's wife in the title of this, this article was about some random rappers beef with Jay Z and over priced tickets.

[Turntable]

Get your budget out of base line, God damn it's pretty

You love a Harlem nigga, we get it cookin', it's true

But now I look we got more dudes in Brooklyn than you

(Yup) A parody, right down to Jeezy video

I shoulda kissed you on the cheek, you a pretty ho (ask Weezy)

And Jaz video you starred in it, Peter Pan

I was hoppin off the Greyhound, be the man

How could he be the man, huh, only reason fam

I don't suck dick or kiss ass, and I'm conceited damn

But we hork yo, right where you walk Hov

You could fool the rest of the world, long as New York know

We put you underground, clown, they gon' check the cellars

I know he 40 years old, I don't respect my elders

I respect the hustlers, plus the grinders and the sellers

You's a customer buster, here go jet propellers

lol

[bigted]

Well it says that Rita Marley wanted that rapper Reggie to be on the stage and Jay-Z refused so that's disrespect, Jay-Z' probably the most overrated rapper and he has a garbage personality, I mean he's acting like a diva, he shooting a special for MTV for awareness of water and he charges high ticket prices in the poorest country in the world, it's obvious that he don't care, he just doing a lil' PR but at the same time he wants to make sure his pockets are fat

[JumpinJack AJ]

I usually get knocked for disliking Jay-Z...but whatever. I don't like him...and i havn't really liked him since 97/98ish. Even b4 then, he couldn't hang with the greats like LL. I like that someone put this out like that. Jay-Z has been overrated for years. His voice is annoying, his lyrics rarely amount 2 much and from his persona (that can be pulled from interviews, articles, and newz) just doens't make him sound like the kinda person i'd even wanna meet.

Give it 5 years...people will be asking "Jigga what?....Jigga who?"

[bigted]

People who think that Jay-Z' coming back to save hip-hop are blind when he does a lot of the same things that those who they criticise for ruining hip-hop do

[dparrott]

I only had respect for him when he was with Jaz. He says he's the "CEO of hip-hop" and he's "reppin for the have-nots". And P-Diddy does a website video brushing his teeth saying "See, I'm just like y'all", yea right. Like we can identify with their lifestyle. I respect REAL rappers like Afroman who has to make and sell his music on his own and rap about working the graveyard shift and living out of a van. That's real life, not this gangsta rap fairytale shiz that almost none of their fans have.

[Turntable]

Give it 5 years...people will be asking "Jigga what?....Jigga who?"

:rofl: Thats was good.

[JumpinJack AJ]

I respect REAL rappers like Afroman...

:leaving:

[ash trey]

I respect REAL rappers like Afroman...

:leaving:

It's obviously not who we think it is ..... :jusmindyabizness:

*Walking out singing "because I got high....because I got high"*

[dparrott]

Don't judge him on one song. His double album Afroholic is great, he's got his own band and hardly uses samples. It's totally homegrown and uncommercial.