Talib Kweli isn’t completely satisfied about being snubbed by the BET Hip Hop Awards on this yr’s Finest Hip Hop Platform class, and he’s letting the community find out about it.
On Wednesday (October 11), the Brooklyn rapper took to Instagram to name out BET for failing to appoint his Individuals’s Occasion podcast, which he believes is the most effective Hip Hop podcast out proper now.
His put up got here after The Breakfast Membership co-host Charlamagne Tha God questioned the award going to Yung Miami’s REVOLT TV present and podcast, Caresha Please, which beat out his fashionable morning radio present.
HipHopDX, Drink Champs, The Joe Budden Podcast, Million Dollaz Value of Sport, XXL, Spotify’s RapCaviar and AllHipHop had been additionally up for the award.
“@guess I didn’t speak my shit final yr however I’m speaking my shit this yr,” Kweli wrote. “@cthagod and @djenvy are on to one thing right here. There isn’t any higher hiphop podcast than Peoples Occasion. Interval. We go FAR past gossip and click on bait and supply precise service to the neighborhood.
“I don’t care about awards usually however I’ve a tough working crew they usually deserve recognition. No person does the analysis we do. No person asks higher questions. NOBODY dives as deep into this tradition on a journalistic degree as we do.”
He added: “Y’all have to be afraid of us. That’s gotta be it. As a result of the snubs disrespectful at this level. The folks know. The artists know. Catch up. #worldsbestpodcast #peoplesparty.”
The Black Star MC then reeled off a number of the “esteemed company” he’s interviewed on his podcast during the last two years, together with Ice Dice, De La Soul, Wiz Khalifa, Black Thought and Yasiin Bey, along with non-Hip Hop figures resembling Jon Stewart, Ari Melber and David Cross.
“No person however us has introduced this degree of constant cultural content material,” he concluded. “I’ll take the Pepsi problem with anybody.”
Talib Kweli and Charlamagne Tha God aren’t the one ones to take subject with the result of this yr’s Finest Hip Hop Platform award. After the BET Hip Hop Awards had been televized on Tuesday night time (October 10), Drink Champs co-host N.O.R.E. took to X to air his grievances.
“So no one gonna say nothing bout the podcast /media award? Okay me neither !!!” he wrote.
Talib Kweli Clashes With Black Star Followers Over ‘No Concern Of Time’ Backlash
Yung Miami is refusing to let the critics rain on her parade, although. After The Shade Room posted a video of Charlamagne’s criticism on Instagram, the Metropolis Ladies rapper responded within the feedback by writing: “YALL LEAVE ME TF ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
She additionally appeared to hit again at N.O.R.E.’s criticism, writing in a separate put up on X: “I like Caresha (BUT) bitch take your hating ass on! Ain’t no however bitch!!!”
