A lot of hip hop fans consider Tupac Shakur’s diss song ‘Hit Em Up’ to be one of the greatest diss tracks of all time, but Questlove is letting it be known that he was never a fan of the song.
While being on guest on the One Song podcast, Questlove spoke about the 1996 diss song where Tupac called out Biggie Smalls, Junior M.A.F.I.A., Mobb Deep and more. During the conversation The Roots drummer, stated that he never liked the song because of the production. “I would respect 2Pac’s ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ if his music tracking was better,” he said. “‘Hit ‘Em Up,’ to me, is disqualified, not because of the misogyny — forget all that. It’s like, ‘Dude, you’re rhyming over smooth jazz dinner music.’ Luther Vandross could sing over this!”
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He added: “People who are born in the later part of the decade that I was born in — alright, I was born in the ’70s — their relationship with 2Pac is different to my relationship [with 2Pac]. So when this came out, everybody was like, ‘This is hard as sh*t! Yo, he killin’ it!’
“And I was like, ‘Dog, he’s smooth jazzed up Dennis Edwards. It doesn’t count’ […] That song, to me, is the weakest musical smack. I can’t get with ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ because the music, to me, is just…”
QuestLove’s recent comments about Tupac comes after he was very open about the Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud which still has the internet debating on who ultimately won the battle. QuestLove also touched on that subject on his Instagram and said that nobody won.
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“Nobody won the war,” he wrote. “This wasn’t about skill. This was a wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary — women & children (& actual facts) be damned.
“Same audience wanting blood will soon put up ‘rip’ posts like they weren’t part of the problem. Hip Hop truly is dead.”