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KRS-One Fires Back At Nelly And Calls For Boycott
05/10/2002 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Matt Ashare
(5/10/02, 4 p.m. ET) -- KRS-One has stoked the flames in his ongoing battle with Midwestern rapper Nelly with a new, live, freestyle release, "The Real Hip-Hop Is Over Here." The two rappers had already been involved in an exchange of words, but the battle was officially joined with Nelly's less-than-flattering verse on a remix of Beanie Sigel and Freeway's hit, "Roc The Mic."
On the remix, which features Nelly and Murphy Lee, Nelly rhymes, "I strike a nerve and old MC's wanting to come back/I had respect and it lost; and that's that/K--No one here even said your name/R--You really feeling guilty about something, man/S--sad to see you really just want this/One more hit, please please/You the first old man to get a rapper's pension...."
KRS-One now responds with "The Real Hip Hop Is Over Here," which includes the humorous line, "Yo, Nelly, you ain't for real and you ain't universal/Your whole rap style sounds like a *NSYNC commercial."
KRS-One has also called for hip-hop fans to boycott Nelly's forthcoming album, Nellyville, which is due out June 25. In a written statement, he shared his plans: "I'm sending a message to Nelly, his management team, and the entire corporate structure of the recording industry (namely Universal Records) that you cannot be insensitive to our cultural traditions and elders. Furthermore, I am organizing a strategic campaign designed to topple Nelly's record sales. I am saying to the record-buying public and real hip-hoppers...Don't buy Nelly's album on June 25. Unfortunately, Nelly will serve as the sacrificial lamb to anyone that feels they can battle me on any level."
-- Yves Erwin Salomon, New York
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