Elliot Wilson Slams It Is What It Is Podcast - Says Cam and Mase Aren’t Journalists | NEW RORY & MAL

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

This was basically what Hip Hop journalism looked like in Elliott Wilson's time. It fell off when people started putting more stock into outlets like Pitchfork and now that white Youtube dude. There are writers now that aren't going to get the slang like there's the one writer who put more thought into the geography of Manhattan in relation to Queens than the overall message of what the lyric was trying to convey and this was a Black writer: educated and likely had a degree in journalism and communications as the article itself was well written, but it was clear he had no understanding of what he was writing about.

What Cam & Mase is doing is another extension of rap

We’re not professionally trained singers…we’re corner poets that put words together

No we don’t own this song…we’re just lifting a loop from it

No we’re not actors…we just got the vibe we’re going for

No we didn’t go to fashion school…people just like the way we dress

No we didn’t go to journalism school…people would just prefer to break bread with us

 

[spliz]

Yea Elliott been coming off like a sucka.

 

[Morose Polymath]

Good to hear him own his hate, also glad to see Rory, Mal and the female press him and call him on his shyt.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Good to hear him own his hate, also glad to see Rory, Mal and the female press him and call him on his shyt.

They have no choice. They’d get fried if they tried to hate along with Elliot

 

[Pop123]

Nobody is nowadays really, they just talk, no credentials whatsoever. He’s probably targeting them specifically because Cam stay disrespecting his lover/hero whenever he wants. Same man told us you can’t knock the hustle tho..

 

[gldnone913]

Good to hear him own his hate, also glad to see Rory, Mal and the female press him and call him on his shyt.

Lol some shyt you can't stand behind. Gotta explicitly say you disagree in order not to get caught up in the wake

 

[Capital Steez]

What Cam & Mase is doing is another extension of rap

We’re not professionally trained singers…we’re corner poets that put words together

No we don’t own this song…we’re just lifting a loop from it

No we’re not actors…we just got the vibe we’re going for

No we didn’t go to fashion school…people just like the way we dress

No we didn’t go to journalism school…people would just prefer to break bread with us

Excellent post

 

[FreshAIG]

SDE Cam’ron

 

[Gorilla Pimp]

Elliott is right but he's salty.

Times have changed and the likes of him and Mecca from MEO need to create a lane for actual hip hop journalism.

Cant be mad at Cam for having ambitions beyond rap media but being a journalist is different from being a media personality.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

I have zero problems with Nore, Mase, and Cam. My problem is more with dopes like AK, Mal, Adin Ross, and to a lesser extent, Kai Cenat. Three of them are pure cancer to music journalism, and the other just isn’t funny or entertaining at all (to anyone older than 23 I’m guessing.)

 

[Born2BKing]

I really hope they cook the shyt out of that nikka

Breh this is Cam and Mase we talking bout, of course they will.

 

[DontEemTry]

SDE Cam’ron

This the cornball shyt we talking about though.

nikkas is perpetually online on some high school girl shyt.

I'm glad real legends recognise the corniness of it all

 

[Dwight Howard]

No the hate is warranted because they didn't go to journalism school and are biased. Compared to all media other media that isn't biased. lol

Do they claim to be journalist?

 

[Sabretooth]

The rollout of albums is different than when Elliott was the editor of the print version of XXL.

The album comes out, is instantly available to anybody who wants to purchase or listen to it.
Do artists do press runs, in stores, or sit down interviews with music journalists anymore? In hip hop?

Yes. Just not the big super established ones. It be the up and comers who really hit pavement as far as speaking to journalists, they see it as promotion.

 

[Jerz-2]

hes mad because in 2025 nikkas dont wanna sit there and watch a beige hunchback glazing the artist with the safest most dikkeating questions ever while he laughs like a hyena

My first good laugh of 2025.