Questlove Clarifies Criticism Of 2Pac's "Hit 'Em Up" After Backlash

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0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Elliott Wilson's Response To Questlove's Original Comments
0:23 - Questlove Clarifies Statement
1:35 - Questlove's Original Comments About "Hit 'Em Up"
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Questlove has clarified his previous stance on 2Pac‘s “Hit ‘Em Up,” with the Roots drummer making clear that his issues with the song have nothing at all do to with the legendary MC.
Taking to his Instagram on Tuesday (May 14), Quest tagged HipHopDX editorial director Elliott Wilson while clarifying his original position.
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@MFGH0ST Месяц назад

Weakest argument. Quest takin a L for this

@musa9784 Месяц назад

He sound crazy 🤪 pac music when up a noch when join death row.

@pasoedodibornnla2373 Месяц назад

2Pac still got haters and that’s crazy.

@Animalhouser Месяц назад

Wild as hell

@radrick3257 Месяц назад

So if you’re not feeling a song that doesn’t make you a hater it means you don’t like the song that’s it

@adctw3422 Месяц назад

@@radrick3257yes

@Beauty4Ashes578 Месяц назад

If you’re not feeling a song that’s absolutely fine. But, to try to undermine, discredit, insult by making fun of it; claim it’s “weak” and “disqualified” and try to gaslight the public by trying to make it seem like the record wasn’t fire 🔥 because it was a jazz sample or because it was “violent” and filled with misogyny is not only corny but total BS! and the definition of hating..absolutely imo. Imagine hating on a dead man and a legend; thinking you’re fooling the public by painting false narratives and rewriting history…only to end up losing all credibility and looking like a clown/hater! Nasty stuff 🤮🙄🙄

@TheMackoftheyear 28 дней назад

Pac was overrated

@javi__... Месяц назад

Hes trying way too hard to be intellectual

@kazuogo 26 дней назад

He is intellectual, just on the wrong side here

@MrUnpredictable187 Месяц назад

Bros entitled to his opinion but he didn’t like the beat because 2Pac sped it up & didn’t sing on it?😂 you bugging on this one quest I’m disappointed in you lol Hit em up by far one of the greatest distracks of all time🔥 fuck what you talking about.

@nmcbride171 Месяц назад

🎯🎯

@ceelothatmane9421 29 дней назад

Ts was weak gang. All he said was “imma kill you fat boy” in a few different ways on the whole song. Ts ass gang

@knutt81 16 дней назад

Nah, he's mad cuz Pac said he can't be on no ✌🏽 shit like De La, and Quest was a fixed instrument in the Neo-Soul movement.

@jittredd2934 Месяц назад

If he actually listened to 2pac's music Majority of 2pac's music was jazzy and smooth

@smokeclub4162 Месяц назад

Questlove dumb for saying pac ryhming over a smooth jazz beat ... thats the dumbest shi i have heard . Definately hating

@redliquid35 Месяц назад

It’s a thin line between questlove and questhate and this fool hatin!! 💯

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

Nice one 😹🤓😎🫡🙌👏

@newdreamsnetwork Месяц назад

Pac jacked their beat and did better

@user-zm5jt9vu3k Месяц назад

Quest DONT TALK ANY FUTHER

@Lanorriz Месяц назад

He's talking about don't take his shit outta "context" bro WE HEARD WHAT YOU SAID 💀

@alanspring111 Месяц назад

So you cant use samples now 🤔🤣🤣🤣

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

Right!? This just looks crazy and petty. Bruh ok QL Hip Hop without samples 😹😹😹 and this was not even his beat, he just did it better.

@TpXThinnr 27 дней назад

No he's sayin the sample choice was wack.

@aurakl2407 27 дней назад

@@TpXThinnr that’s not all he said. Also it was a flip of a bad boys track. He’s just a biter east coaster crying because they hate it when the west coast is shinning. Sad and disappointing

@saychicity5409 29 дней назад

Questlove wouldn’t and has never came out and said he doesn’t like Get Money remix(Biggie) or Paid in Full (Rakim) which uses the same beat, that’s why you know it’s not the beat it’s him just being a 2pac hater 25 years after the man has passed. Smh Lame

@editnosmirc4489 Месяц назад

With all these beefs lately Netflix should bring back 'Beef' except make it a series. 1 hour episodes for each beef they talk about. Could start with NWA vs Cube/Dre vs E

@musa9784 Месяц назад

Dope👍👍💯💯

@DoggyZworlD07 Месяц назад

LoL, Pac didn't make this beat tho, he took junior mafia's beat. Junior mafia made that beat with that sample bro LoL

@musa9784 Месяц назад

History is factual not rubbish farted in some podcast 😂😂

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

His timing makes him look so petty-boohoo the west is winning 😭 Pretty sad he doesn’t know this 🤣🤣🤣

@foureyes1244 Месяц назад

U mean when Faith told biggie that pac was making a disstrack with that sample, biggie took it and made Get money Pac scrapped it and Johnny J made another beat with the same sample

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

@@foureyes1244 didn’t faith spend time in the studio with pac and that’s how she knew? Pretty sure that’s what she said.

@foureyes1244 Месяц назад

@@aurakl2407 exactly. My man Pac hit that also no doubt 😂

@design1of470 Месяц назад

respect to Questlove, I've listened to this guy talk on podcasts for hours and hours about music, but him having an issue with Hit 'Em Up because of the sample, give it a rest, buddy, NO ONE is on your side about this. Questlove knows how people feel about Tupac, he's talked about it. So I don't know why he thought this was a good idea

@TheMackoftheyear 28 дней назад

Im on his side and pac was trash

@AlphaO_ Месяц назад

Exactly, Quest just lost a lot of respect from me for this. How can he claim to know hip hop and not know that PAC took the beat from Biggie, he even had the females in the background like big but changed the words. Why you think Jay took Joe Buddens Beat, Why you think Beans took Jada's Beat during the diss? PAC set that trend, Cube did Jackin for beats but he wasn't battling anyone, he just took their beats and killed them. Quest please just stick to drumsticks from now on bro. You let Philly hip hop heads down with this one

@almightytre3730 Месяц назад

Actually, Biggie took the beat from Pac and used it to get money remix

@AlphaO_ Месяц назад

@@almightytre3730 lmmfao, you can't be serious, how old are you? I hope you're gonna say you were born in 2000 or something, or you don't really listen to hip hop 🤣 simply google get money, and then Google the remix called getting money, and all of your questions will be answered, PAC was in prison when they released both of them

@almightytre3730 Месяц назад

@AlphaO_ Pac did the original Hit em up in October of 1995 and played it for faith Evans she went back and told Biggie that's where Get Money Remix came about, and a Google search will tell you the remix in 1996. Why do you think Edi changed his verse from the original and said" You’s a beat biter, a Pac style taker"? Both Edi and Suge confirmed this.

@locktheseratchethoesup Месяц назад

I bet on everything you're liking your own comments......@@almightytre3730

@SoulOfTheSouth Месяц назад

Of course Quest knew Pac took the beat from Biggie. He was just talking about beat, which is a remake. The Biggie beat with the Dennis Edward’s sample in it sounded better. If you listen to both versions, sonically they sound different but the melody was the same.

@madodatinta3753 Месяц назад

Mad he can't get close to Pacs level 28 years later

@CamboRecordz Месяц назад

Ain’t nobody bumping The Roots

@MPPharaoh 27 дней назад

NOOOOOOBODY

@mrworkowt5419 8 дней назад

Hold on the roots are a great great group and black thought is one of the top lyric is right now. Questlove is bugging though

@KOVIDGOON Месяц назад

Quest love and vlad had the same exact critique pac and kendrick. Let that sink in

@TheShadow84 Месяц назад

He didn't mind When Biggie & Junior Mafia sampled the exact same song?

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

😹😹😹

@Pettybank45 Месяц назад

Hit 'em Up best diss track of all time 🔥

@TheMackoftheyear 28 дней назад

It was trash

@blachubear 28 дней назад

Nope, Ice Cube's "No Vaseline" or Nas' "Either".

@bakedandbeaded 24 дня назад

@@blachubear It’s spelled “ETHER.” It’s not even pronounced the same way as either… The fuck

@jeanemlicar 28 дней назад

I love Questlove and the rest of the Roots crew but he is wrong for saying this about Tupac’s Hit ‘em Up. Everyone who was alive in the 90’s listening to Hip-Hop music was bumping Hit ‘em Up. That song is a classic.

@nashones8158 Месяц назад

He's a Cornball he would say some goofy shit like that

@trutherbotJOKER3 Месяц назад

Didn't Black Thought use the tv show Nightrider beat for a single?

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

😂😂😂

@ajamu4304 Месяц назад

Busta rhymes did!

@cantfailent Месяц назад

My problem is why he didn't say that when Pac was alive? Mofos be straight cowards! He thought his level of fame was going to shield him from the backlash! Wrong! I'm no longer a fan!

@SoulOfTheSouth Месяц назад

There was no social media at that time. Only magazines. He probably did say something about it but it’s not like the whole world knew about it.

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

This 🙌👏

@Whitejunez Месяц назад

Wonder why he is still talking about it this time?

@kadafioutlawz3962 Месяц назад

Cuz Pac still troubling them

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

Because east got major issues when the West is winning. They think they own Hip Hop. I think it is a fear and control thing. Ego ting

@immaculatemal1379 Месяц назад

Trolling and trying to rewrite History

@Matts-gv6nz Месяц назад

Quest should go somewhere where the sun don't shine to find love on this one

@bgoodDNA-br2tc Месяц назад

Ironic he insulted the tone of the production when most of the Roots foundation was smooth digable planet type beats 🎧 talking bout the pot call the kettle 😮

@C-Lyfe85 29 дней назад

Well at least Tupac was direct when he made a song about his enemies. The Roots dropped a diss song, title what they do, but they had to do it on some sneak subliminals.

@TheBulletzgottishow20 Месяц назад

People had they feelings to hit em up

@TrueJaguarPaw Месяц назад

Crazy how its actually a junior mafia beat first.

@SoulOfTheSouth Месяц назад

But it’s a remake of the beat.

@TheAlkebulanTrust Месяц назад

At the end of the day a diss song is truly directed towards the individuals mentioned and Diddy himself is spooked by Hit Em Up. That's all that matters

@teadubbz1546 Месяц назад

This is a yoga reach 😂😂😂😂

@jinxa1913 29 дней назад

So how does he feel about Kendrick rhyming over Teddy Pendergrass?

@gt024 Месяц назад

I disagree with Quest but he’s entitled to his opinion

@rahajibaba 25 дней назад

I’m from Philly and I was in Harlem on 125th the day it came out and they played this song back to back all day in NY😂😂😂

@LuckyBide Месяц назад

What a clown, him trying to find the most ridiculous thing to say against Hit Em Up shows how much he wanna hide that he's a 2Pac hater.

@flygerianfly2508 27 дней назад

He's not a rapper, his opinion don't matter. I want black thoughts options on this

@tarkatanwarkamp5065 Месяц назад

BBL Quest luv needs to shut up N play sum DRUMS ! 🥁

@cesarortizable Месяц назад

He instantly went into promoting a weird ass book?? He just needs the clout cmon now.

@SoulOfTheSouth Месяц назад

He’s talking about the beat. Not the lyrics. Listen to what he’s saying and everybody calm down.

@musa9784 Месяц назад

Beat from badboy remastered for the purpose diss biggie... you can't go against greatness... even big like the song...

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

Beat wasn’t even his 😹😹😹

@sphakamisozondi 29 дней назад

Let me guess,, Quest Love enjoys Diddy parties?

@RaneMP2016 Месяц назад

Didnt paid in full use the same sample?

@murryjm 29 дней назад

We called the sample, “the MC Lyte beat” from the old school DJ Screw days.

@shinobenji 25 дней назад

That’s what makes it gangsta it’s unorthodox is hip-hop

@Nr-xr8hj 29 дней назад

Quest’s take got demolished at the end of the video lol

@akristobal47 Месяц назад

Cause of the beat? So the words don't matter?

@zeresenayweldeslassie6693 Месяц назад

Q, never mattered, will never matter man who never grew up Just got older

@rl6990 Месяц назад

PAC 🐐👑

@musa9784 Месяц назад

Quest go play 🥁 why you even talking...roots production ain't all that. Hit them up by pac will always be in top 5 diss track. Wich of your song😂 can i remember before putting them in any top...😮😅😂😀

@coryhernandez508 20 дней назад

He must really hate regulate by warren g. This ain’t the doobie brothers!!!

@trapez77 Месяц назад

It’s on sight for me

@philippe597 25 дней назад

I'm agree with QL, in my opinion, it was a wrong sample choice or a wrong way to use it. Maybe because I know, as QL, the original song.

@MAlex-cg5jo 29 дней назад

Shame on him for this mess.

@user-zm5jt9vu3k Месяц назад

Quest love gets no love u tripping quest tupac should have added you in his lyrics

@pearljam1984 Месяц назад

Huge L take

@alchemicvisuals3695 25 дней назад

Invalid opinion. That was a masterpiece.

@arin-douglashaliburton6031 Месяц назад

QuestLove has to realize the instrumental was chosen due to it being Junior Mafia's "Get Money Remix" beat. He took the Jazzed instrumental that Biggie & Junior Mafia chose to make a remix & dissed their whole hip-hop group. I love The Roots but Black Thought need to come get QuestLove tell him to shut the hell up and come make a drum sample 100 100 You have to realize "Hit Em" Up" may have been overrated to some but the lyrical prowless was definitely not "weak" that's not to be said. To me you're discrediting The Outlawz. QuestLove must've been a friend/fan of Biggie, No Diddy. 2Pac killed Bad Boy Records with their own beat & the methaphors, the similes from Kadafi, & the rest of The Outlawz were For it being 1996, and to be saying the shit they were saying was crazy. I'm a hip-hop head I listen to The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan, Junior Mafia and truthfully The Outlawz at their peak was better than everyone I mentioned. You can't tell that "Still I Rise" album wasn't a classic. Wu-Tang said whole bunch of rhymes that went over you're head but never left a lasting memory. You can point to a song but you can quote a lyric that stood out. Still to this day "36 Chambers" was Wu-Tang's best album.

@mrlij6534 19 дней назад

his commentary about the sample makes no sense, some of the hardest hiphop rap songs are made from Jazz samples , smooth Jazz samples. the innocence of the original sample has nothing to do with the hardness of the track and the lyrics, doesnt diminish them in any way. not sure if he thought that through enough. there are so many jazz and funk samples made into hardcore rap songs

@Scotland_the_Brave1984 Месяц назад

I think the track is cool and wit Pacs voice on it its brill and I'm a early 80s baby so not that much diff between me and the critical tucker 😂

@tito5428 Месяц назад

? Is woke. He is disqualified

@IceKoldKilla Месяц назад

Yeah life is just a game of telephone. Everyone repeating info slightly off until it's so wrong. That's the bible. It ended with people believing some dudebwas going around doing miracles. Y'all missed the whole point. So if that happened on a big scale throughout history, it obviously happens on a smaller scale everywhere else.

@frankjum Месяц назад

At times I'm disappointed at the maturity level of older hip-hop people. A man's opinion is just that. A person's opinion shouldn't have to match the populous. We all have different opinions on just about anything in the arts so why should hip-hop be any different? I'm afraid I have to disagree with Quest's opinion here but I recognize that it's still a unique take that I find interesting enough to hear out and possibly debate. Let's all grow up and pull ourselves out of this notion that if someone has a different opinion than our own about a piece of art or an artist it must be hate, regionalism, or business politics and that person should be canceled or not be taken seriously anymore. Everybody isn't always in lockstep about art and thank God for that.

@TpXThinnr 27 дней назад

Don't even think it's a unique opinion tbh, at the time there was a clear split between jiggy and backpack rap and this beat was firmly in the jiggy camp. Boom bap heads in their 20s couldn't stand this style of beat but of course the teens and embryos loved it...

@joesephkroll2056 29 дней назад

Best rap song ever.

@C3K1J8 Месяц назад

?uestlove been trash to me since he broke up the Geto Boys

@aaronnickey6119 25 дней назад

Hey own what you said fuck these fans who think Hip Hop started with Tupac! Smmh

@knutt81 16 дней назад

"?uestLove shut up and makes some drums"

@Cloudedmindzfilms Месяц назад

🧢

@thasub1 21 день назад

Ha! If he's critiquing Hit Em Up for that, he should listen to "When We Ride On Our Enemies". Pac kills it.

@thaonewiththaglasses801 23 дня назад

Why does it matter what type of beat he rhyming on?

@laquandaniels222 25 дней назад

Like biggie wasn’t rapping over smooth rnb beats picking n choosing is getting outta hand no cap 🧢💯💯

@hhawkins4442 21 день назад

Questlove please !!!! Go tell some earthy people We don’t care

@jameskelly6347 28 дней назад

He’s a hater

@JorgeGarcia-tf3sw Месяц назад

❓❤️ lost some credibility

@TpXThinnr 27 дней назад

Quest just telling you what the average 20 something thought of the wack beat at the time in the midst of the jiggy era which was full of wack sample choices... Obviously those of you who was hormonal teens and embryos at the time hadn't necessarily experienced the harder drums and more interesting samples hip hop was built on so to you it maybe seemed like a fitting accompaniment...

@Skwaktopus133 Месяц назад

Damn when did Questlove join the circus? Smh

@cjjohnson3827 Месяц назад

East coast bias

@NICKDAB1 Месяц назад

Once the roots went to Jimmy Fallon as the instrumental band for Jimmy Fallon NBC Network that's the one I knew he was a sellout 😂 😂😂😂

@Ms.A.Matthews415 29 дней назад

Quest love is entitled to his opinion, the same way I dont much care for the roots. Matter of fact , Im not a fan at all of the roots. 2pac was a prolific writer and phenomenal storyteller. There is no artist that has has the versatility/ pedigree/ activism/ talent/ charisma and pen game that 2pac has. Hit em up was a song that was written by 2pac in Danamor Prison before putting pen to paper. As he carefully crafted the specific situation for which the song would be centered around, which obviously was his sleeping with Faith( as revenge against Biggie). Once out on bail and the situation presented itself ( Faith) the song was then finished and recorded. That particular song did exactly what 2pac intended ot to do, which was strike a nerve and let everyone know that Faith betrayed Biggie with 2pac. As well as 2pac rapping Hit em up over( the Jr. Mafia beat).

@keithrochester4671 Месяц назад

Whattt all them song are off old jazz songz

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

Exactly 😹😹😹

@lavondajohnson7554 20 дней назад

His opinion so let he keep that it and the same energy…. Don’t worry about me buying or supporting anything from him

@BossaQueenie Месяц назад

Bad take Quest. I was born in the 70s, this track was pure FIRE, and we knew he jacked the beat as a further diss to Bad Boy. So , we not listening to him. Now I understand why the rest of the Soulquarians fell out with him, lol 😆

@user-zm5jt9vu3k Месяц назад

Quest u lame bro

@RonaldJames-eo2hc 21 день назад

Why Quest didn't say that to Pac back then? I mean yall probably bumped head before he passed, why wait till now 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@justineebourgeois3420 Месяц назад

Quest Love is a clown for hatin on Pac. I wish Pac was alive to diss him too 🤷‍♀️

@aurakl2407 Месяц назад

I’m sure Kendrick and others got the memo and will address it accordingly (on his behalf. Just in case people need to learn again, the west is blessed 😻😻😻 I’m cool with the east as well but I’m so over these toxic gate keepers thinking they own Hip Hop.

@fabianbrown5902 29 дней назад

Naw that song is still fire cool opinion

@robertknowles5714 Месяц назад

Damn bro

@Yukmouth1 24 дня назад

Bet he wouldnt say that if he was alive 😂🤣

@makaveli7377 25 дней назад

He should have said that when 2pac was alive, but he was scared because he didn't want to get dissed by 2pac 😂😂😂

@deelakasirdeeedwards7945 Месяц назад

Take questlove out of hiphop history and put him in Im hater for life history moments

@travistouchdown2118 Месяц назад

Let the man have opinions everyone acting like you have to be monolithic and like everything someone else likes.

@linusfingesi2222 Месяц назад

The problem is his opinion is trash (he is entitled to it though) even Black Thought wouldn't come out and say this regardless of if he felt same...in the 90s The Roots were just up and coming and hadn't reached any heights of success ...The leaders in that "Back Pack" sub genre were Leaders of the New School, Tribe, De La and you could say Brand Nub....why didn't Quest talk then? Even De La (who were close to PAC) spoke out and he (PAC) retorted back....Quest should have asked Black Thought to say a verse on his views after Hit Em Up dropped. We would have heard PAC's retort before he passed.

@travistouchdown2118 Месяц назад

@@linusfingesi2222 None of that matters. It’s his opinion rather you like it or not. He doesn’t have to like Hit’em up!

@linusfingesi2222 Месяц назад

@@travistouchdown2118 Did I not say he was entitled to it!? (his opinion)

@travistouchdown2118 Месяц назад

@@linusfingesi2222 You did though you act like he change it. The problem is people want people to be real and honest and when they are they get upset. If you and all the people in the comments don’t like his opinion then what does it matter what his opinion is.

@linusfingesi2222 Месяц назад

@@travistouchdown2118 its not really about what he said, it's just that Questlove has always been a "Goof Ball!" Great phenom as a musician and one of the best behind the scenes in Hip Hop producing and music, but his opinions (not only this) have always been funny....only way I can describe him is like saying a Kanye West...Brilliant talent (also one of the best at what he does musically), but 9 times out of 10 you wouldn't go to him for Hip Hop advice (or any advice or opinion for that matter).

@Kryssthealien 24 дня назад

All your "heroes" will disappoint you at a point. if not all 99%...

@MrKing8050 Месяц назад

If that's the case then Ether should be disqualified cause that beat is garbage

@robertknowles5714 Месяц назад

Never

@luiso.9103 20 дней назад

Questlove speaks for himself …he acts like people listen to him for music history . 😂😂

@theinformationcenter9289 Месяц назад

This weirdo is crazy.

@lilraw322 Месяц назад

who the fuck is this guy?

@swat686 Месяц назад

Damn!! Questlove!! That’s how you feel?? 2Pac hit em up change diss track forever right after Ice Cube set bar so high with no Vaseline. They should have asked him, how do you feel about Biggie rapping over “Juicy Fruit”?