LL Cool J goes off on DJ Akademiks for referring to older rappers as “dusty.”
as"dusty" and asked if any of the older rappers were"really living good" while streaming live on Twitch.
"No one discusses Miles Davis' bank account," the 54-year-old said."We don't talk about John Coltrane's bank account. We don't talk about a lot of even rock musicians ... a lot of great country artists, we don't talk about their bank accounts. This idea that you have to have money or else you don't have any value is a bad idea and it's a misinformed way of looking at the world and the culture.
"So just because [hip hop pioneers] didn't get rich, just because they weren't able to pile up millions or billions of dollars, does not mean that they didn't make a contribution to this culture. They created an industry that we all ate off of. They created an industry that you eat off of," theadded.
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