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

Glasses Malone isn’t simply dropping one other file. The West Coast rapper is making a couple 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 “Wanted”, a observe 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 particular record, I’m really capturing the essence of Hip-Hop,” he says to AllHipHop. “During the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, Lord Jamar felt like Kendrick Lamar wasn’t a Los Angeles or Southern California street urban culture. He felt like The Game was more a street urban culture and that inspired me to come together with a gangster rap group, the L.A. Giantz and music/jurassic-5-challi-2na-keep-goin/”>Jurassic 5, a backpack group.”

Malone harassed that the track is larger than labels. Whether it’s gangster rap or backpack rap, he believes the tradition comes from the identical root.

“Jurassic 5 was considered a backpack group, but you realize they meet at street urban culture,” he defined. “The artistic expression of street urban culture is what Hip-Hop is. When you use those elements artistically to express street urban culture, that’s Hip-Hop.”

“Wanted” channels the uncooked vitality of the cipher or the “posse cut.” All of the MCs go bar-for-bar sparring a rough-n-tumble beat filled with sharp abilities and lyricism.

“So again when you put a backpack group and a gangster rap group together, you can listen and you won’t be able to tell the difference because we all speak the same language,” he continued. “It’s really just an ode to Hip-Hop.”

He’s not stopping with “Wanted.”

“I got another one coming up with Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Common – you know more dope stories,” he revealed. “But really the gem is how the record is producing uploaded and when you play it, you’ll notice it.”

In Spotify, every verse is a separate observe, however when performed in succession sounds cohesive. Malone has inspired people to choose their favorite verse on social media.

As for Drake, Malone mentioned he’s trying to censor Hip-Hop but additionally making an attempt to assault the core artistic parts of the tradition as effectively. Malone didn’t maintain again.

“This is a time where Hip-Hop is really under scrutiny, maybe the most scrutiny it’s ever been,” he mentioned. “People don’t know if we’re nonetheless artistic or if we’re even worthy of main within the musical house proper now. And then you will have a rapper who folks regard as a part of the tradition—regardless that I’ve disputed that—suing one other rapper for his creativity.

“And suing a label over that rapper’s creativity, trying to get the label to censor it or pull it down completely. So he deserved to be painted as the d##khead that he is. Because that was his goal—to censor Hip-Hop. And I want to make sure everybody knows that.”

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