After clarifying his remarks about Beyoncé and Jay-Z, more has emerged from Big Gipp's interview with The Art of Dialogue. The Goodie Mobb icon has a plethora of stories from his long-standing career. It isn't uncommon for him to revisit those moments, as well as deliver opinions on the current state of Hip Hop. For months, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jermaine Dupri have playfully beefed over their purported Verzuz, but now, it looks like it will come to fruition. If Gipp was betting on who would reign victorious, he believes the So So Def founder would outdo Diddy.
"He got a whole buncha records Puff don't even know he produced," Gipp said of Dupri. "That's be real, bro. Like, at the end of the day, Puff's just [sings 'I Need a Girl']. That's Loon, right? That was the last big Puff record. C'mon, man. Stop it with that sh*t, bruh." Gipp further mentioned Dupri having a No. 1 record with Ari Lennox's "Pressure." He added, "That he wrote and produced! Not bought somebody's sh*t, put my name on it, then hooked it up.
Gipp Argues Atlanta Producers & Artists Are Better Than New York
"Y'all can use them as your cheat code, but at the end of the day, if you put them Atlanta producers against a lot of producers that they say [are] great, Atlanta gon' smoke they ass. From the writing to producing to putting it together. Atlanta just gon' smoke they ass. It just is what it is. And they don't want to admit that. New York just—right now, they got a goddamn—they just tryin' to keep that sh*t lookin' pretty a little bit. And the ones that got some money, look how they sh*tted on Nas. They just now messin' with Nas the right way 'cause Nas went and got some money outside the music business. Now it's cool to like Nas."
"But when it wasn't cool, it was about Jay and Jay money. C'mon, man. When you go and get some money, then everybody change they attitude about how they deal with you." Gipp further said that "New York ain't even got an Usher" or Jagged Edge. "They ain't had a TLC. The only thing they got is a Mary J. Blige, and she ain't touching Toni Braxton as far as record sales. C'mon, man. Atlanta had the music groups. We still got 112 that helped Bad Boy become what Bad Boy is! And you disrespect them. You never see them at any Bad Boy reunion concerts. Where they at?"
Fans Weigh In On Gipp's Take
As expected, reactions to Gipp's comments have been a mixed bag. Those who have long admired Atlanta's contributions to Hip Hop and R&B have agreed. However, those who stand by New York's impact believe Gipp is discrediting areas where the inception of Hip Hop began. Check out the clip of his interview above and let us know what you think of Big Gipp's comments on the East Coast and South.