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Swizz Beatz thinks rappers ought to pay ‘taxes’ to hip-hop’s elder statesmen

Swizz Beatz needs at this time’s rap stars to pay “taxes” to the founders of hip-hop.

“I wish to elevate 1,000,000 {dollars} for every icon who began hip-hop from [DJ] Kool Herc,” in addition to the likes of Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang, he stated.

“We must be paying taxes to the creators of hip-hop that gave us freedom of speech to go ahead,” he advised Joe Budden throughout a late evening chat on Beatz’s Zone Radio on Instagram Reside.

“I’m captivated with this s–t,” he stated.