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Shyne disses Def Jam too
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 20 October 2010
Following the recent leak of a letter from Nas to the top guard at Universal’s Def Jam label slagging off management there, now another rapper, Shyne, has been dissing the legendary hip hop imprint. And, according to Allhiphop.com, he lays into top man LA Reid in particular.
The letter goes: “Def Jam is dying thanks LA Reid! Middle fingers to you too. Antonio ‘LA’ Reid, quite frankly, doesn’t give a curse word about hip hop, he doesn’t get it. He fails to comprehend the holy institution that is Def Jam. How a Jewish guy named Rick and an African American guy from Hollis Queens by the name of Russell set the foundation for a billion dollar industry from an NYU dorm is beyond him, it offends Chairman Reid that these hoodlums and criminals call themselves musicians”.
He continued: “Whatever happened to the days of Shalimar and ‘Tender Lover’? Fucking rappers! Mr Reid doesn’t understand that Nas and Ghost Face Killah are modern day prophets. The Roots are Mozart, Shyne is Moses and Kanye West is Van Gogh. How else do you make the colossal mistake of not keeping arguably the most influential rapper/rocker [former Def Jam artist and president Jay-Z] around?”
Def Jam is yet to respond.
