WTFlocka?! It is so sad to hear that actor Michael Rapaport is stabbing his own favorite rap group of all-time, A Tribe Called Quest, in the back for his directorial debut documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. Q-Tip boldly reveals that Rapaport was secretly using ‘premeditated strategy’ to screw the group out of producer credits for the film.
Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad went to Mtv’s Sway to reveal the e-mail that Rapaport accidentally sent to Q-Tip (it was meant for the movie producers). It read, “First off, let’s close the billing block and put it on the poster so they can’t get on that. Then we’ll fukc them on everything else.”
Q-Tip says the explosive e-mail was really a ‘god-send’ because it let him and his group know who they were really dealing with.
Before Q-Tip’s reveal of the e-mail he voiced out that he would not support the film. Rapaport was making it seem like Q-Tip was “just frustrated” of the film because the documentary was so deep and raw. Rapaport claims, “My intention was never to make a fluff piece so we kind of hit a bump in the road.” At the film’s Sundance premiere, Phife Dawg showed support but then broke down in tears while discussing Q-Tip’s absence.
Q-Tip adamantly says, “This is some hip-hop shit ultimately…and we see this e-mail, inadvertently which I think is a God-send and showing us who we was was dealing with.”
I guess you can add another one after ATCQ handbook’s “Industry rule #4,080: Record company people are shady”….Industry rule #4,081: Hollywood actors are shady.
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