This one — “Electric Relaxation by A Tribe Called Quest — goes out to all the Lupe Fiascos of the world who somehow never heard it. Just trying to do my part, you know.
Lupe Fiasco flubbed Phife’s verse on “Electric Relaxation” during the VH1 Hip Hop Honors tribute to A Tribe Called Quest. It was kind of a surprise, because he messed up, among other things, “I like ‘em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian,” which is kind of like, the line everyone knows. Whatever, it happens. I didn’t dwell on it.
Little did I know that since then, Lupe, 25, has been on a rampage of disrespect the hip hop sites have dubbed FiascoGate. Apparently, he has never listened to Tribe, who he says were before his time, never owned Midnight Maurauders, and had never heard “Electric Relaxation” prior to his performance. Interestingly, Lupe and I are around the same age, and I have been unable to go through life without being exposed, on multiple levels, to A Tribe Called Quest and their various works. And hip hop is not my chosen profession.
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It must be such a victory when an artist, like Lupe Fiasco with his new “Dumb it Down” video, is able to make an extremely low budget video that’s also pretty effective. Can someone send this song to Bill O’Reilly along with a frosty glass of iced tea, please? He probably won’t be able to “get over it.”
Nothing says, “I’m the birthday girl” like a see-through plastic dress! Now that I’ve taught you that important piece of birthday etiquette, guess whose 21st bday bash went down in Houston this weekend?
The A-Listers came out (well, most of them kind of had to) for the bash, including Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kelly Rowland, and rumored flame Lil Wayne. More pics courtesy of INDMIX after the jump.
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I know, I know. This post is about T.I.’s album release party in LA yesterday, but I am so excited to see TGT all together in one picture that I had to make it the lead. Unfortunately, they are not in the same order as their group name, but they are a relatively new threesome, so I will cut them some slack. More pics of the actual man of honor and other guests after the jump.
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