I see Pete rock brought up several times in this thread. What's the backstory to what's going on with him? Is he sarcastically posting about supporting the album? If so why did he start hating on either of them?
In general, Pete just comes off like a jackass. Over the years, more and more stories have popped up about him being difficult to work with, doing people dirty (especially C.L. Smooth) and just overall moving like a dickhead. Funk Flex even aired out some of his dirty laundry on air when they were beefing, and C.L. basically confirmed a lot of it by liking all the posts and videos connected to it.
I follow Pete on social media for a min, and for every dope post, he’d throw up some off-the-wall, ignorant bullshit that made you question his intelligence—and his sanity. It got so bad I had to unfollow him at one point
With all that in mind, ever since the first
King’s Disease album, Pete’s been sending passive-aggressive shots at NaS because of the Hit-Boy beats.
(He felt he could do better, and he's probably right to an extent , but IMO Hit-Boy did the best he could and deserves all the props for reigning NaS's passion for writing and his career in this new era, I enjoyed more of his production more than I originally intended.)
But I digress....A couple years ago, out of nowhere, he decided to sue NaS over alleged unpaid
Illmatic royalties. The whole hip-hop community was stunned....including NaS himself. NaS responded with a slick dart on
KD3 (“30”), nothing major, just a “I see how you moving” moment.
After that, it went quiet. No more news about the lawsuit, nothing. Then this year we see Pete popping up on the new De La Soul album (which is on NaS’ label) so naturally people assumed they squashed it behind the scenes and Pete got whatever bread he felt he was owed.
But now here he goes again… back on some passive-aggressive nonsense. Backhanded complaints and slick commentary at this new Preemo & NaS album.
The only question have is did he and Preemo have some unsolved issues? I can't call it because Preemo liked and commented on the posts in questions.
But Preemo is one of the most unproblematic cats I've seen in the game, he's not about putting "family business" out for the public. And NaS moves in the same way.
Pete however, is governed by another set of codes tho .
Edit.
and I say this...as Pete's is my 2nd all time fav producer next to Premier.
