"The Wire" Star Upset Over Chief Keef & Hip Hop Music

Sep 26, 2012 | 9:00 AM Written By: Mike Hughes

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"The Wire" Star Upset Over Chief Keef & Hip Hop Music

Wood Harris, former star on the hit TV series, "The Wire" recently shared his thoughts to AllHipHop.com on the current state of the music industry, and revealed that he is very displeased with the direction that it has gone in recent years. He specifically addressed Chief Keef's negatively publicized lyrics and actions, Lupe Fiasco being a great artist and how Harris is upset that he is retiring, and also that hip hop lost a lot of its substance after Tupac was murdered.

"We have to be careful not to let the artists get dumbed down because the artists will be the missionary, the message holder, and the activist. But, now, people get famous doing something silly on TV, and they run with that ball. I'm an artist, and I'm not insulting Nene Leakes, but I think more than half of television is reality TV now. I'm friends with Mos Def, we want to talk about something. That's what's gone when Tupac is gone - there's nobody who says, 'Dear Mama,' there's nobody with his complexity as an artist. I love Lupe, that's my brother, my Chi-Town brother, but he's retiring, and he was retiring before the Chief Keef situation. And that Chief Keef situation is extremely sad. Now they can sell sad. Interscope is selling sad. I don't care what the lyrics say; I don't care for it."

Source: sohh.com

Previous Comments

roogaface 09/27/2012 6:48 pm

Just another confirmation that his entire homo hop tight jeans era is the lowest time in the history of hip hop. Everybody knows that. I don't why these southern niggaz get upset when people tell the truth. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE JOKE THAT THIS WHOLE HIP HOP SHIT HAS BECOME.

t 09/27/2012 10:08 am

I agree 1000%. If u ain't talking bout Molly, lean, or smokin loud, nobody listening. Dats bogus to me. Fuck kinda name is chief keef anyway? Bring da real hip hop back.

Dinee 09/27/2012 1:15 am

Acting n living it is two different thing

WTF dis Niga Talkn Bout 09/26/2012 7:22 pm

This nigga Wood Harris trippin...he done played all types of grimey ass characters and roles in movies (like Paid in Full) but he shuns people like Chief Keef!? What fuckn part of the game is that. I bet Paid in Full is one of Keef's favorite movies so the roles and movies he helps to make help mold the generations like Cheif Keef...so he dont like what his "art" helps to create?! Maaaaan give this nugga a big as GTFOH wit dat bullshit. And FUCK Lupe ol non-voting fake ass political wana be clown! I fucked wit Lupe on the first Food n Liquor but dis nuga done grown dreads and got Hollywood wit his im scared of what Chief Keef represents ass nigga. Mofo you look just like Chief Keef, only difference is what comes out your mouth. But let both Lupe and/or Chief Keef walk past a white woman with money in her purse...mafuka she aint gona discriminate between the two, she gona clutch her purse regardless cuz they look at us all as criminals in training. Mafukas need to stop looking down on mafukas and let our young black men do something positive like music cuz if Keef wasnt doing music and making money...how do you think he'd be getting it!? Like every other nigga in the hood do across America. #PointBlank_Fuckin_Period.. Im out beotches...

Kutz 09/26/2012 5:44 pm

Second season of the wire/that's that shyt I don't like! Lu the truth!

its over 09/26/2012 3:11 pm

hip hop was in lame duck mode since 97 bra. sad but true. no one is saying shit other than coke, money,cash hoes, clothes and cars. shit is retarded. how can you have a black president but the black community is more fucked up than ever??? how can you rap about coke then get on tv and talk about voting for obama and what has to be done in the community???there are about 3000 rich black men in the US who are told what to do for that money. all those millions and billions all these cocks can do is hand out fucking reeboks so 14 year olds can run from the police and each other...the white boys at the top of the industry are playing master of puppets and making a fortune off teenage ignorance. there is no new chuck d, no new tupac, no new krs to school the youth and even if there was it is too late. Rap had its day as did punk, metal, hippy rock. all you can do now especially if you are from the golden era is to cherish the good times and good music. it is all over. make all the cash money you want your shit is trash and it poisons your own people.

KWAKU OPOKU- YAW ASARE KWAA TEMAH NAA BONSU WOFA KWAMPA J FOSTER 09/26/2012 1:02 pm

once hip hop went out of new york and cali it was all over i saw this coming years ago RIP HIP HOP

muhammad jenson 09/26/2012 12:57 pm

HES JUST SAYING THAT THE SUBSTANCE IS GONE WHICH IS TRUE

Really? 09/26/2012 11:52 am

Every movie or tv show dude playd n he sold drugs or killn an gangbangn . N he getn at cheif keef. Dude we grew up watchn that sht. N now its sad when someone else rap about the sht they seen u do. Fuk u fuk them fuk em al

CEO 09/25/2012 11:59 pm

SAD, THAT'S WHAT THESE YOUNG CHI KIDS ARE. NO LEADERSHIP, NOW THEY ARE DESTROYING THEMSELVES. I FEEL SORRY FOR THEM.

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