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When XXL's latest cover featuring Black Hippy was unveiled last month the title read: "With Kendrick Lamar and Black Hippy."
That didn't sit well with Ab-Soul. As we previously reported he threatened to leave the group if media outlets continued to put Kendrick's name before the group's.
MTV caught up with the group's other two members, Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock, at Powerhouse 2013 over the weekend to get their take on the cover.
"That's so disrespectful," Schoolboy told MTV News. "We didn't go into that shoot saying 'this is Kendrick with Black Hippy.' We went in there and said, 'This is a Black Hippy shoot,' so we expect a Black Hippy shoot."
Schoolboy did acknowledge that Kendrick is currently the name people recognize the most.
"At the end of the day, I always say this too. Kendrick is way ahead of us. He's a platinum artist," Q continued. "I haven't dropped my album yet, [Jay] Rock's working on his major-label album, Ab-Soul's working on his major-label album. We still haven't dropped our major-label albums, so at the same time, at the end of the day, he is f*cking Kendrick Lamar. Even though we're not signed to Kendrick, but he has that impact. It's all about proving yourself. But at the same time I'm not signed to Kendrick. Black Hippy is us four, not Kendrick Lamar with Black Hippy. It's four people, not three."
Jay Rock seemed to take everything in stride.
"It's Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock. Or you can say 'formerly known as Black Hippy," Rock joked. "Personally, I never take offense to that, because at the end of the day, whether it's just Kendrick's name or 'Q and Black Hippy,' or 'Ab-Soul Black Hippy' — that's us, still, because we're all in this sh*t together. Real people know it's not just Kendrick Lamar and then Black Hippy. At the end of the day, we're all family. And with Kendrick's success, he deserves everything he's getting right now because that dude worked hard to get to where he's at."
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