N9ne Lives: Tech N9ne defends Quincy Jones’s We Are The World remake

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Kain

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Short little article:

http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=173995
N9ne lives
Tech N9ne defends Quincy Jones’s We Are The World remake
By Jason Richards

It’s surprising to hear Tech N9ne, one of the most sinister voices in underground rap, praise this year’s We Are The World remake.

“I understand why Quincy Jones did it,” he says over the phone from his hometown, Kansas City.

“By bringing in Lil Wayne and T-Pain, and putting the little Aaron Carter guy [Justin Bieber] at the beginning, he was making it relevant to today.”

You’ll never hear Tech N9ne criticize a Quincy-helmed project. The musical icon mentored the rapper back in 97, when N9ne was signed to Jones’s Qwest/Warner label.

Back then, Q told him something that has guided his career ever since.

“He said, ‘Rap what you know, and people will forever feel you.’”

His gun-referencing moniker has prevented him from getting much airplay, so Tech N9ne hasn’t thrived in the major label system. But going independent allowed him to stay true to Quincy’s advice.

His songs are brutally honest tales of pleasure and pain, rattled off in his rapid-fire flow. He’s made symphonic anthems about the dark side of Midwestern America and chronicled his mother’s distressing bout with cancer.

“I wish I wasn’t so real sometimes,” Tech N9ne admits. “But this is what I know. It’s my heart, my brain, my soul. It’s all I can give.”
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There's also some audio clips on the page, where Tech speaks on working with Three 6, the Candian tour, and some other things.
 
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I thought the remake was ok...nothing too special but not bad.
But looks like a good lil' article with Tech.
 
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The re-make absolutely tarnished the value of the original. CLASSICS are classics for a REASON. DONT FUCK with a great thing!!

Lil Wayne and T-Pain were the WORST part of that remake. What because Tech says its cool then all of a sudden it is now? Fuck outa here...

The re-make was nothing but utter shame
 
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Theezy said:
The re-make absolutely tarnished the value of the original. CLASSICS are classics for a REASON. DONT FUCK with a great thing!!

Lil Wayne and T-Pain were the WORST part of that remake. What because Tech says its cool then all of a sudden it is now? Fuck outa here...

The re-make was nothing but utter shame
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exactly
 
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tpain and lil wayne should never be allowed to be on ANY remake. at least any song that has singing. i mean wtf, tpain, seriously?
 
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what because Lil Wayne is on a song it makes it a bad remake?


Double standards bruh....
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Get ur facts straight before ya jump to conclusions homie...

Im not one of the people that hate on Wayne JUST because he is Wayne. I happen to like alot of Waynes shit. But his business on THAT song was ZERO. He has no singing ability whatsoever, the only reason he was added is because of his stature. Thats why I think he, as well as Tpain and many others ruined it.

Not like I really give 2 shits about it anyways, Im just bored at work taking up time lol
 
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Theezy said:
Get ur facts straight before ya jump to conclusions homie...

Im not one of the people that hate on Wayne JUST because he is Wayne. I happen to like alot of Waynes shit. But his business on THAT song was ZERO. He has no singing ability whatsoever, the only reason he was added is because of his stature. Thats why I think he, as well as Tpain and many others ruined it.

Not like I really give 2 shits about it anyways, Im just bored at work taking up time lol
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yeah he did suck on that song...i just took the way you worded it wrong....oooooooooh well
 
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both songs are retarded.


and this is even more retarded.


"His gun-referencing moniker has prevented him from getting much airplay, so Tech N9ne hasn’t thrived in the major label system. "

Hmmm, guess they didn't bother to find out what Tech's name actually means.
 
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so explain it to me????



i know its a "pun" but i thought it was Tech for technical, and 9 being the number of completion. am i wrong?
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It started out with them looking for a name to give to Tech and they flipped through a gun magazine and saw a tec 9. Tech was originally named after a gun because he raps like one, but as time went on Tech decided to give it more meaning so people would stop crying about him being named after a weapon
 
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