Its a dope 24min interview. Somewhere in the 2nd half of the interview, Troy Ave goes in on WEIRDO RAP, compared to Meek and other artists like him. Artists that don’t necessarily sell a lot of records but they get the hood love, and the hood is the staple for the hip hop shit. Not dissing Kendrick, Kanye or Flatbush Zombies, he said he liked a lot of their records. Rosenberg clarified his use of the word “weirdo” and said the word has a harsher meaning than what he is interpreting it to be. Once again, he said its no diss to Kendrick and etc. In regards to Kendrick Lamar, he went on to say “It’s a difference between being from an area and being in the streets. It’s a difference.” He uses references like “at what point did we start celebrating the drug user instead of the drug dealer? That shit is backwards…Would you rather your kids be strung out on drugs or dealing drugs…I gotta take it extreme. I gotta be extreme with this.”
He was there to promote his new album, New York City The Album, available on datpiff (here) and iTunes (here) right now.
Im becoming a fan of Troy Ave off his character, and charisma he displays in these interviews alone. I haven’t even listened to his album yet, but thats been getting good reviews on the web so far.
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