BEVERLY HILLS, CA - NOVEMBER 07: Musician Gene Simmons performs on stage at the Children Matter.NGO first annual gala on November 7, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for The Children Matter.NGO)
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The rapper and former rock-and-roller are entangled in one of the year’s strangest celebrity beefs.
BY CHARLES BRAMESCO
As part of his ongoing quest to individually squabble with every living person on the face of this green Earth, Gene Simmons has engaged in a public feud across Twitter and Instagram this weekend with rapper and social activist Talib Kweli. The
unpleasantness began when Simmons’ new interview with Rolling Stone hit the Internet on Friday, and a certain quote about the current state of American music charts rubbed many the wrong way.
While bemoaning what he considers to be popular music's long, slow decline in the national culture, Simmons stated, “I am looking forward to the death of rap... I'm looking forward to music coming back to lyrics and melody, instead of just talking. A song, as far as I'm concerned, is by definition lyric and melody … or just melody.”
Simmons doubled down on this sentiment later in the interview, explaining, “Rap will die. Next year, 10 years from now, at some point, and then something else will come along. And all that is good and healthy.” (Simmons also took aim at “the guys onstage who do fuck-all” in the world of EDM as well as a “dishonest” group of “disco divas” such as “Jennifer Lopez and Ciara and Shakira and Madonna and all the girls with names that end in ‘a’.“)
Kweli did not appreciate the implication that this whole “hip-hop” fad is on the way out, and took to Twitter to fire some shots back at the musician/subsidizer of the facepaint industry. On Twitter, Kweli made it personal:
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