Memphis Bleek faces “cancel” culture after stating that Nas can’t compete with his longtime friend, Jay-Z,in a Verzuz battle. The New York rap veteran takes accountability for said statement. However, he’s sticking to his guns.
On Twitter, Memphis Bleek responds to people throwing shade at him. First, the hip-hop star affirms that this topic of debate is old news. Then, he continues to address the naysayers. His primary focus was to show others that the Roc-A-Fellas family is untouchable in the music game.
The ongoing criticism rose after Bleek did an interview with Bally Sports’ Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson. Somewhere in their conversation, Bleek expressed how he felt about Jay-Z going against Nas in Verzuz.
“There’s no comparison because Nas doesn’t have enough songs to compete. And it’s no disrespect to him, but he just don’t,” he states. “JAY can battle somebody with just his B-Sides concert catalog, and it’ll still be better than people’s A-Sides.”
Bleek believes that the only person who can leave Jay-Z in the dust is Notorious B.I.G.
“It would have to be somebody like Big. That was his only competition that I’ve ever seen that he even felt that was competition,” he explains. “And he knew when they went and did ‘Brooklyn’s Finest.’ So like, JAY knew that I had to go in the studio with the best-best of me ever because I’m rhymin’ with one of the best from Brooklyn. So I’m not going to let this dude dog walk me on my own record.”
When Jay-Z was creating Reasonable Doubt, he searched for a rapper who could mirror his vision for a song. The song in question, “Coming of Age,” illustrates the truth in the music business and street life.
Initially, Jay-Z set to have Shyheim(the Rugged Child) on the song, but he linked up with Bleek when things didn’t pan out. They happened to bump into each other after walking across Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects.
About their first encounter, Bleek says
“The first time I told him I rhymed, he didn’t believe me, so he gave me a paper which he had written on already, but it was so little I couldn’t see [what was written on] … so I had to re-write it myself,” Bleek said. “And he was like, ‘You have to memorize this in 24 hours. If you don’t, then you can’t make the album.’ I’m like, ‘Hey, this is my only chance of getting out the ‘hood?’ “
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