Why Are Rappers Threatening to “Bleed Out” Writer Dream Hampton For Revealing Nas Doesn’t Write His Own Rhymes?

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by Yvette Carnell

If you’ve never heard of Dream Hampton, then you don’t read enough. Pick up a book. Read a column. Google her. Whatever.

Anyway, as Hampton herself writes, she’s been calling out rappers for years:

I began my writing career calling out Dr Dre for his misogyny. My friendship with Jay Z began when I reviewed Reasonable Doubt and called Jay out for his hyper-capitalism . I was not ‘calling out’ Nas by telling the truth about Stic writing whole bars (ne songs) on Untitled. I was telling a truth to someone who thought Nas’ most radical verses were his own. They were not. I’m unsurprised that these men have circled around their lie. I’m unmoved by the misogynist threats I’m receiving in open forums (last night Just Blaze tweeted I should be “bled out”).