VH1‘s Hip-Hop Honors which was a tribute to Salt-N-Pepa, Lil Kim, Missy Elliot, & Queen Latifah was definitely a legendary show in it’s own right but days after that wasn’t the only trending topic of the show.
Mona Scott Young‘s produced creation was taken over by the fumbling at the goal-line by Rich Homie Quan when he performed a duet of “Get Money” alongside Kim with him rapping BIG‘s lyrics.
Yesterday the blogs were full of Quan‘s stories & social media roasted him every minute with memes that didn’t favor RHQ‘s liking to well.
But on the flip-side of the coin, The Roots Quest Love says we’re the ones to blame.
“See a lot of y’all catchin feelings over the “Get Money” ball drop from #HipHopHonors. But check it….A lot of you “real hip hop heads” seem to magically think that the music of our prime is gonna just translate on dopeness alone. I mean EVERYbody should know this song right? It’s the Hood National Anthem. Even Big’s rival had to reference “Get Money” to clap back at him. So how it all fall apart? I don’t blame RHQ. I blame us. I don’t mean shame on radio & media programmers either for these diminished returns. I literally mean you and I.
We are to blame. We watch what we eat (well “some of us 
) but won’t treat the music we consume like we do food. You need BALANCE! If you haven’t made a playlist for about 20-50 people in your lifetime (mixtape/spotify/tidal/apple/etc) then you failed hip hop culture. –not sayin you gotta be all deep making Dilla b side Japanese import levels of stuff. But something as simple as “La Di Da Di” can easily be forgotten in these days & times. YOU gotta pay it forward! America is a disposable art society that makes genius innovations only to toss out yesterday’s creations tomorrow. And the way we mass consume entertainment, it’s a wonder we can separate quality from trash”.