Hot! Chris Lighty Tributed By 50 Cent

By Rob Markman

The hip-hop community can never put aside Chris Lighty , understanding that seemed to be created crystal clear in the BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday nights (October 9) any time not one but two titans put their rocky earlier aside .

Hip-hop's enjoy regarding Chris seemed to be plenty of in order to provide good old invaders together. 50 Cent features been warring by using Fat Joe from the moment your Terror Squad director came out on "New York" using Fif's that will make Ja Rule back 2004. Even while both rappers were mastered through Lighty, there seems to be seemingly no stop for the feud, nonetheless through the actual awards show, that has been pre-taped upon September 29, this G-Unit CEO required the same stage when Joe Crack, exciting this audience together with his 2007 strike "I Get Money."

After a genuine movie intro from LL Cool J, Q-Tip as well as Phife Dawg of entombed that hatchet and also placed things off, performing their 1993 vintage "Award Tour." As the particular iconic hip-hop team threw their L's up for Chris, snap shots of the fallen rap hero flashed across this stage's main screen. "If the item wasn't regarding Chris, then you definitely wouldn't take note of new music just like this," Tip explained prior to transferring the mic to help a different Lighty prot gary the gadget guy Busta Rhymes, who seem to marched vertical the stage for the beat of "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See."

" Chris Lighty , we are about to repetition people until eventually we have been most of outta here," Busta barked, in advance of spitting his lyrics inside his usual gruff style.

Lighty's influence within the culture grew to be progressively more apparent together with each rapper who stormed the stage. Fat Joe has been following way up with his banger "Lean Back," after which you can Missy Elliott was upcoming using your ex 2001 party-starter "Get Ur Freak On."

"While all of us were being there, fifty whispered some elements throughout my ear which was gentleman-like," Joe mentioned during a a couple of days following the taping. "He just simply said the proper elements plus a handshake seemed to be involved which was that. It has been two grown men that merely said, 'This is designed for Chris Lighty , this kind of is designed for hip-hop, let me move ahead along with our own lives.' "