Rapper Lil Xan has come under fire for calling Tupac “boring”.
During an interview with Revolt TV, the rapper was asked for his opinion on the late hip-hop icon, when he dismissively shrugged and said he made “boring music”.
Lil Xan gives 2pac a rating of 2 for "boring music." RT if you have… questions.
? Catch the full interview here: https://t.co/BjP7GBsYGm pic.twitter.com/oS2FGh8h3s
— REVOLT TV (@revolttv) February 16, 2018
Xan soon started trending, when the likes of Waka Flocka Flame led a charge of criticism against his comment – calling on him to be “banned from hip hop”.
LiL Xan banned from hip hop
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) March 7, 2018
Pac help me get thru childhood!!! Shit hurt to see the youth disrespect man that paved the way for all of us literally… I hope nobody overlook me accomplishments when I leave ?
— Waka Flocka (@WakaFlocka) March 7, 2018
2pacs music helped me when I wanted to give up, being a kid hearing "Dear Mama" knowing my mother was going thru some of the same things, it helped us push through… hearing @lilxanfuhyobih makes me want to kill myself
— Jabee (@mynameisJabee) March 7, 2018
He wants to be in hip hop. The culture of hip hop lives or dies bases on respect to the art of it. Him publicly saying 2pac is boring is a slap in the face to hip hop & those who Pac inspired. Its something media training & artist development is for. He is grown. Accountability
— $1KingMeechie (@1KingMeech) March 7, 2018
I’m not saying that he has to love him. It’s the fact he said it’s boring instead of saying he doesn’t like I️t. Tupac talked about the struggle black people went through. Is that supposed to be boring?
— Crooks (@asapchizz) March 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/Scottiiiee/status/971480605992120320
Xan then responded to the backlash, saying that he”wasn’t going anywhere”, but was going to stop speaking to the press.
“No more interviews,” he wrote. “I love my fans to death but I can’t let these companies keep taking advantage of me and using me to further there shit, it’s fucked.”
After seeing our #OnClout9 interview with Lil Xan – where he rated Tupac a "2" in clout because "he got boring music," Waka Flocka said Xan is "banned from hip-hop." This is Xan's response. [Peep his original #OnClout9 episode here: https://t.co/HKOEBtxV9c] pic.twitter.com/hbWLeosWiT
— REVOLT TV (@revolttv) March 7, 2018
No more interviews
— LIL XAN AKA DIEGO (@lilxanfuhyobih) March 5, 2018
I love my fans to death but I can’t let these companies keep taking advantage of me and using me to further there shit,it’s fucked
— LIL XAN AKA DIEGO (@lilxanfuhyobih) March 5, 2018
Others however, jumped to Xan’s defence – arguing that he was perfectly entitled to his opinion.
No pass needed. He can like what he likes just like anyone can. This “requirement” that young artists bow down to their forbears only exists in hip hop. I guarantee you if a young rock band said they found Nirvana boring they would not be crucified for it. Nonsense.
— John Norris (@Jonnynono) March 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/LILXANIZED/status/970801884754784263
https://twitter.com/twtEmilia/status/971490094292103169
https://twitter.com/nuffsaidNY/status/971539627646603264
Society: it’s 2018 everyone can have an opinion!
Lil xan: *gives opinion about Tupac*
Society: OMG DIE FOR NOT BEING IN LOVE WITH TUPAC— Amanda (@AmandaFuhyoBih) March 8, 2018
Society: it’s 2018 everyone can have an opinion!
Lil xan: *gives opinion about Tupac*
Society: OMG DIE FOR NOT BEING IN LOVE WITH TUPAC— Amanda (@AmandaFuhyoBih) March 8, 2018
Last year saw Tupac inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, where Snoop Dogg hailed him as “the greatest rapper of all time“.
Describing the ‘human’ qualities of Shakur, Snoop spoke of 2Pac as “many different things at once. Hardheaded and intellectual, courageous and afraid, revolutionary and….oh yeah, don’t get it fucked up, gangsta.”
Other rappers to make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include the Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and N.W.A.