MURS SAYS FUCK YOU CRAZY CRACKAZ!!!!

When asked if this would be the biggest Paid Dues yet, he responded that while it may boast the biggest names to ever grace the bill, it might not be the highest attended festival.

“I think that the backpack kids…there’s not enough white rappers on the bill, man,” he told us. “[The fans] kind of revolted against me but I tried. The white rappers just didn’t want to do it this year. People take it as a conscious effort to make it more gangster when it wasn’t. I wanted to have Ice Cube and Atmosphere, I just couldn’t get Atmosphere.”

“All jokes aside, I think the gangster rap aspect of it makes people nervous. But, I feel like gangster rap is a part of Hip Hop. Paid Dues is independent, it doesn’t matter if it’s gangster rap. I’m not going to discriminate.”

While some celebrated the fact that Dogg Pound and Ice Cube would be on the bill, some others have been upset with the line-up, claiming Atmosphere and other Paid Dues regulars should have made the line-up as well. Murs added that this was not something deliberate.

“I don’t really comment on that,” he said when asked if Atmosphere rejected the offer. “But I reached out to everybody. People that fans accused me of keeping off this year, I reached out to. I hear people. I’m in the business of making fans happy. I always have been. But, if the people you want [there] don’t want to do my festival, all I could do is ask them and offer money. I can say there’s not one name I saw on the list [of desired artists by fans] that I did not ask.”

This backlash, he said, was to be expected. However, he told us there is plenty of reason to be proud of this year’s artists with a bill that also boasts appearances by Jay Electronica, Raekwon, Dilated Peoples, Psycho Realm, Freeway and Freestyle Fellowship.

“[The black lash is coming] more than any other year, ever, but I expected it. But, I [also] expected some of it to be eased because I expected some of my other friends to show up to kind of ease people into the Ice Cube thing. Now, the only thing people see is Ice Cube and Dogg Pound. I don’t know how you don’t see Jay Electronica.”

“Maybe there is some racial politics that plays into it, I don’t know. I think everybody that is important to independent Hip Hop is there... I’m excited to be there. If you’re not excited to be there, keep your money, stay home, come see is next year or don’t come see us again, ever. When you’re pleasing everybody, you know you’re doing something wrong. “

Fuckin' people, man...this year's bill is fuckin' nuts......fuck em, let those people stay home.

I swear if White rapper's decided to do their own thing and not mingle with Blacks anymore Hip Hop would lose every White fan except those whp wanna be gangster. I guarentee if BusDriver was White he'd be praised like Atmosphere

Dang! Trotter wrote:

I swear if White rapper's decided to do their own thing and not mingle with Blacks anymore Hip Hop would lose every White fan except those whp wanna be gangster. I guarentee if BusDriver was White he'd be praised like Atmosphere

really??? I can give a shit about the color of Busdriver's skin...I would pick an Atmosphere album over his aaany day...Im hispanic but id like to think your wrong with this statement, respectfully, of course..

Trotter, you don't know much there bro. But i don't need to go into detail. Just keep thinking you know everything dude. And Busdriver sucks.

"I swear if White rapper's decided to do their own thing and not mingle with Blacks anymore Hip Hop would lose every White fan except those whp wanna be gangster. I guarentee if BusDriver was White he'd be praised like Atmosphere"

N3R0 and Pounds would be gone...

Hey whats up with all the Busdriver hate? Temporary Forever and Roadkill Overcoat are pretty good IMO, and he definitely makes more interesting music than Atmosphere does.

Personally the busdriver man doesn't do a thing for me - I mean technically he raps really fast but that to me is his one raw skill... his flow is far from smooth, his lyrics are abstract, his voice carries some melody, but I think he is more of an art rapper than a good conventional rapper.

Late as hell, I know, but...

1) Snobs are as bad as pop boppers. They both suck ass and I can't stand either side of that particular coin.

2) "N3R0 and Pounds would be gone..." Wouldn't be nearly as funny as it is if it weren't possibly true. lol

3) Busdriver does indeed suck...IN MY OPINION (lol). Him being black isn't the problem. Him being wack is... I've pretty much tried to force myself to like his music. No dice...

Uh, no I would still listen to black people making rap records. Thanks though. I listened to hip hop for almost a decade before I could watch some one who looked like me and acted like me making rap records. Thanks though.

I said possibly...not totally.

Thanks though, thanks though.

Still a punk for that, Norf.

lol... man........ id fuk'n kill to be at a festival like that, just got back from one over the easter weekend, predominately sa rock, folk and what not,,, but regardless, why cant ppl just be easier to please an stop finding problems with unnecessary shit..

Bushido Brown wrote:

2) "N3R0 and Pounds would be gone..." Wouldn't be nearly as funny as it is if it weren't possibly true. lol

Even not counting the hip-hop (which is obviously far more black artists), I probably own more albums by black artists than white. Black artists make better music than whites. It's a proven fact.