Terrible Hip-Hop Magazine Can’t Even Plagiarize Correctly

Remember Hip-Hop Weekly? It’s the David Mays-founded rap rag that’s one part tabloid, one part fanzine, and all parts asinine (especially when you consider that, despite its title, it’s not actually published weekly). Now Complex magazine is accusing HHW of jacking some of its quotes. From the Complex blog:

In Issue 4 of their piss poor-cheapest paper to ever be printed on-rumor rag, they straight jacked a whole page of quotes and didn’t give any credit or ask for permission to reprint it. They lifted the now infamous Lil Wayne interview we did in our last issue for their ‘Word On the Street’ section (pg. 16). Word for word they reprinted quotes with no credits and definitely no green light from us.

So we started checking the other quotes they had juxtaposed next to various rappers on the page and quickly realized we weren’t the only ones getting robbed. The Jeezy comment about Nas was from this infamous Monie Love show. The Nas comment at the top of the page was stolen from MTV news and they didn’t even quote him accurately. And it doesn’t stop there. Jay Z’s words are actually the lyrics to “Kingdom Come,” and Kay Slay’s words were from a radio clip he did. So basically the whole page consisted of shitty Wire Image photos with ill-gotten quotes from various sources with absolutely no credit to anyone.

We were gonna call them to straighten all this shit out but guess what? They don’t even have a phone number or email on their masthead. So, fuck it, let’s hit their website and email ’em. No dice either, these dudes aren’t even online yet.

Granted, magazines run quote round-ups all the time–but they almost always give credit where it’s due. That said, Complex shouldn’t bother launching an email campaign aimed at the guys from Hip-Hop Weekly, as none of them have demonstrated the ability to read. And besides, they’re not the only ones who have been ripped off by these pinheads.

Biting Sources [Complexmag.com, via Nah Right]