Lord Jamar and Godfrey decide to leave VladTv.com due to Vlad’s reluctance to apologize over misquoting The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Rapper Royce da 5'9 can be credited as the 1st person to publicly out Vlad for misquoting the minister. Behind the scenes, Jamar and Godfrey urged Vlad to make a public apology, but Vlad decided to stick to his guns.
Long before this incident, Vlad was criticized by many for misrepresenting black celebrities and adding fuel to the fires of many rap beefs. He has a history of pitting black artists against each other by taking quotes from one artist and presenting them to another without providing context.
Vlad’s Tactics
A sneaky tactic he would use is inserting his opinion in a statement and presenting it to his guests as if it's a question. He would make the same statement to every guest until someone agreed with him or until they were unable to counter the statement. Then he would install that guest’s name as a cosigner of his original statement. Example: Nas is the worst beat picker in hip hop or Dame Dash is really hard to work with. Two examples of subjects that were introduced by Vlad with his “lead the witness” tactic to create a narrative that supports his opinion.
Vlad will also ask questions with no consideration of how the answer might impact the guest. One guest was a young rap artist who was involved with the death of another rap artist. As Vlad was conducting the interview, the artist seemed a bit overjoyed and insensitive to the reality that he killed another artist. His reactions to Vlad’s questions were insensitive to the living members of the dead artist’s family and could have caused further bloodshed had anyone reacted to the obvious disrespect. Although the danger of this was blatantly clear to me, Vlad decided to post it anyway. This has been a common practice with Vlad. Vlad’s problems with Joe Budden, Rick Ross, Chi Ali, and Bankroll Fresh are just a few that speak to this very thing.
Vlad’s Origin
Originally Vlad’s moniker was DJ Vlad. Ironically Vlad was never a real DJ. It was just a moniker used to sell mixtapes. Unfortunately, all his mixtapes consisted of bootlegged black music, that the artists themselves were making no money from. We live in a time where black people are starting to learn how important it is to control their own narrative. If someone is going to profit off of black pain, shouldn't it be black people? Moving forward, I believe it will be much harder for Vlad to get noteworthy black interviews for free. Black artists are becoming more conscious of their value.
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