Glasses Malone Pays Tribute to Hip-Hop’s Roots With New Single “Needed” and Calls Drake a D##khead.

Glasses Malone isn’t simply dropping one other report. The West Coast rapper is making a number of statements in regards to the tradition of Hip-Hop and condemned Drake for stifling creativity. The Los Angeles MC has launched a brand new single titled “Needed”, a monitor he describes as a salute to Hip-Hop’s basis and the aggressive spirit that has outlined the style since its earliest days.

“With this explicit report, I’m actually capturing the essence of Hip-Hop,” he says to AllHipHop. “Through the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, Lord Jamar felt like Kendrick Lamar wasn’t a Los Angeles or Southern California road city tradition. He felt like The Recreation was extra a road city tradition and that impressed me to come back along with a gangster rap group, the L.A. Giantz and Jurassic 5, a backpack group.”

Malone pressured that the tune is larger than labels. Whether or not it’s gangster rap or backpack rap, he believes the tradition comes from the identical root.

“Jurassic 5 was thought-about a backpack group, however you notice they meet at road city tradition,” he defined. “The inventive expression of road city tradition is what Hip-Hop is. Whenever you use these components artistically to precise road city tradition, that’s Hip-Hop.”

“Needed” channels the uncooked power of the cipher or the “posse reduce.” The entire MCs go bar-for-bar sparring a rough-n-tumble beat stuffed with sharp expertise and lyricism.

“So once more if you put a backpack group and a gangster rap group collectively, you possibly can pay attention and also you gained’t be capable to inform the distinction as a result of all of us communicate the identical language,” he continued. “It’s actually simply an ode to Hip-Hop.”

He’s not stopping with “Needed.”

“I acquired one other one developing with Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Frequent – you already know extra dope tales,” he revealed. “However actually the gem is how the report is producing uploaded and if you play it, you’ll discover it.”

In Spotify, every verse is a separate monitor, however when performed in succession sounds cohesive. Malone has inspired folks to decide on their favourite verse on social media.

As for Drake, Malone stated he’s making an attempt to censor Hip-Hop but additionally attempting to assault the core inventive components of the tradition as nicely. Malone didn’t maintain again.

“This can be a time the place Hip-Hop is de facto below scrutiny, possibly essentially the most scrutiny it’s ever been,” he stated. “Folks don’t know if we’re nonetheless inventive or if we’re even worthy of main within the musical area proper now. After which you may have a rapper who folks regard as a part of the tradition—despite the fact that I’ve disputed that—suing one other rapper for his creativity.

“And suing a label over that rapper’s creativity, attempting to get the label to censor it or pull it down fully. So he deserved to be painted because the d##khead that he’s. As a result of that was his aim—to censor Hip-Hop. And I wish to be certain everyone is aware of that.”

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