RZA addresses Jay Electronica being offended by his past comments about Southern rappers

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Rza finally addressed his past comments regarding the intelligence level and quality of lyricism from Southern rappers that offended Jay Electronica —he basically pointed out the fact that none of his past comments weren’t meant to be demeaning but based on his personal experiences with his own family who came from the South and struggled because of their location and environment.

“I don’t know the exact comment, but I remember I did an article in Rap Pages years ago, ’cause me and Master P had a talk about this years ago. I was speaking on the education level in the South, how brothers drop out … in the sixth grade — some of them because they have to go to work, some of them because of the poverty, some because they’re not interested in the education system … just a lot of crazy things that people from up North had evolved from. When I was doing this article, I was taking about my own family at first. My family comes from the South. They frying fat back in the kitchen, Grandpops didn’t have more than a sixth-grade reading level. My grandma was a welfare mom.” – Rza

He closed by stating that the South simply evolved later than the East and that Hip-Hop was a unifying force that belongs in all regions of the world. (Props MTV News)