just reading some of ya'll responses....how many of ya'll actually heard all of food & liqour (lupe's album)....his claim of having grown up mainly into ganster rap is not that far off....this whole skateboard thing is an obvious angle labels tried to push to the forefront in an attempt to attract a target audience (not that lupe didn't already pen the song as a tribute to his skater friends, but he'll tell you himself he aint no skater for real)...his writing style is more akin to N.W.A. vs. ATCQ if one really cares to look...I can understand VH1's choice of him to tribute since his current position (or stance) is more akin to the DAISY movement of the 90's...but I don't find any fault in what he was saying there....for whoever said the backpacker thing, it's a relatively new term, so it wouldn't have been said during Tribe's era.... I do think it was dumb for him to feed into a thread on okayplayer but whatever....and he def shouldn't have name dropped but he was obviosly getting emotional...I can't imagin himhaving it easy in today's musical climate writing the way he is....

and as a serious emcee myself...I really dont think the fumbles were that bad...I was like "who don't know the words to scenerio?" but if you can forget your own lyrics (which any performer can attest to) then anything is possible...but again, on some emcee shit, I think he recovered for his slip ups better than Nas did when he cover "Dear Mama" for 2pac's tribute...AND WHERE WAS THE BACKLASH FOR THAT SHIT? REALLY?

SirPsycho said:

when was this? this is news to me.....

missfee said:

either 1 or 2 i don't remember but it's the same one were kanye honored big...check it out ....Nas missed acouple lines and i thought everybody knew the words to dear mama

missfee said:

either 1 or 2 i don't remember but it's the same one were kanye honored big...check it out ....Nas missed acouple lines and i thought everybody knew the words to dear mama