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Black Lips: 'Jay-Z Ruined Hip-Hop In America'

They slate Green Day singer as well...

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Black Lips have attacked Jay-Z, saying that the US rapper “ruined rap music” in North-East America.

Speaking to Gigwise, the band’s drummer Joe Bradley said: “I’m a little bias because I love Southern rap and there’s tons of great hip hop out of the north east and I really think they should have stuck to hip hop.”

“They get a little too conscious,” he added. “I like my rap music dumb and simple.”

Jay-Z has received widespread criticism over recent months after it was revealed he would be headlining this years Glastonbury Festival alongside The Verve and Kings of Leon.

In a controversial interview, Black Lips also voiced their distain with Billie Joel Armstrong, calling the Green Day frontman a “douche-bag” because of his political beliefs.

“What really turned me off was all these bands who think they are so profound for saying ‘oh we hate George Bush’ – that’s such a cliché,” explained the band’s bassist Jared Swilley.

“It’s more punk rock to say you like George Bush," replied Bradley .

Stay tuned for the full interview with Black Lips coming shortly on Gigwise.
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  • Who the hell ARE these assholes? It’s pretty punk or rap, whatever they are, to pose in a field of daisies. I think they’re the douche bags here!

    ~ by LittleMiss 5/6/2008

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  • black lips is a douche bag himself people like him everywhere is messing our world

    ~ by mr.az 5/6/2008

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  • bLAckkk LiPS aRE the REAL dEAL hOlyfIeLd...tHey BE sPeaKin TRuTH TO poWer....aLL U sucka AZZ Homeys dONt knoW shIZZit..JZ IZ a waCK mOfo....aNd GReeN daY iz sUm beeeeyOtcheS.....LoNG liVE fLOwERS n GeORge W BUSh................

    ~ by jessejamess 5/6/2008

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  • black lips are one of the most exciting revisionist bands around. their shows are always riots. drummer only hates jay z because he’s biased towards southern rap. big deal. and im glad he hates billy joe and green day because it is more punk rock to like W. because that definitely goes against the grain. green day is the worst thing to happen to political rock in the last 30 years.

    ~ by timmytimtimtim 5/6/2008

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  • I’m sorry I would agree with him,but I can’t shove my head that far up my ass!

    ~ by Liz 5/6/2008

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  • Sorry bro no one actually cares waht you think. If he can headline a concert better than Jay or Greenday then he can start talkin but until then he should get over himself. Get that dirt off your shoulder, pussy.

    ~ by EzeeT 5/6/2008

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  • That is almost on the verge of being racist. They don’t want hip hop thats empowering to youths, they want it dumb and simple. Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Showbiz and AG, all those dudes from the Northeast rapping about theres other ways out of the ghetto besides dealing drugs, you guys didn’t like that? You want it dumb and simple, like I’m sure they think black people are. Its that dumb and simple music thats poisoning the minds of black youths all over this country.

    ~ by AngryBlackMan 5/7/2008

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  • to say its ”more punk to go against george w. bush” is the stupidest thing ive ever heard. punk rock is more than just going against the ’grain, its more than aesthetics. its a sensibility. george w. bush represents an oppressive police state that is the united states government. punk rock is a mind state not a simple what is up is down, and what is down is up...cot damn!

    ~ by MEGA 5/7/2008

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  • Wow... someone who types in LiKe A fOuRtEeN YeAr OlD gIrL supports this band so they must be ”the real deal holyfield”.... Liz’s comment is good. Its more punk to support george bush? umm no its more idiotic to support him....

    ~ by TRUTH 5/7/2008

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  • Musicians, please stop talking.

    ~ by Rick. 5/7/2008

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  • All HIP HOP SUCKS ANYWAY! IGNORANT BULLSHIT!

    ~ by ME 5/8/2008

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  • what an idiot..jay-z is a hip hop American Hero.... As for Greenday..they started in the garage to make music they way they wanted to.. and have been doing it ever since .. they have play with the same enthusiasum that they played when those guy were startingout... both bands have been reletive inthe music scene for at least 20 years. black lips will be lucky to be around after 08 san antonio texas

    ~ by zamora san antonio texas 5/8/2008

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  • jayz sold his sooul to the zionist corporate rulers. he was in the game over 10 years before the mega capatilists decided to milk thug gangsta rap the right way, with clothes and budwiser commercials.

    ~ by west coast cali daddy 5/8/2008

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  • He likes his hip-hop dumb & simple? I guess he’d know it. Your poll is skewed. There ought to be a selection for ”NO - Because that’s an idiotic analysis of both hip-hop and Jay-Z.”

    ~ by The Pop View 5/8/2008

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  • Black Lips speak the truth. Fuck rap.

    ~ by PB 5/9/2008

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  • who the feck are the black lips?

    ~ by GERALDINE 5/12/2008

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