By Brian Ives
The long-running beef between Iggy Azalea and Azealia Banks has given the media a lot to discuss in the past week, recalling the smack talking of professional wrestling.
Over the weekend, two veterans tried to mediate.
A Tribe Called Quest‘s Q-Tip sent a long series of direct tweets to Azalea, giving her a bit of a history lesson in hip-hop and offering her some context as to why some might take exception to her success as a white Australian woman in an art form born in New York’s inner cities offensive. And in an age of blaming, shaming and bickering, Q-Tip did it in the most polite way possible.
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Before starting his series of direct tweets toward Azalea, though, he addressed a the wider community, with a tweet echoing the opening of Curtis Mayfield’s “(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go,” calling out to several different types of people including (but not limited to) “sisters,” “whiteys” and “Jews”; instead, he called out “Bloggers! Journalists! People!”
He then began his long string of tweets, aiming them at the general public, before deciding to “restart this” and then began tweeting at Azalea.
HipHop is a creative artistic and socio-political movement/culture that sprang from the disparate ghettos of NY in the early 1970's
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QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) December 20, 2014
Coming off the heels of the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT and approaching the end of the Vietnam war it was a crossroads 4 America
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QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) December 20, 2014
I will re start this
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