Share 'Swizz Beatz Thinks Rappers Should Pay ‘Taxes’ To Hip-Hop Pioneers'

Swizz Beatz wants today’s rap stars to pay “taxes” to the founders of hip-hop. “I want to raise a million dollars for each icon who started hip-hop from [DJ] Kool Herc,” as well as the likes of Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang, he said. “We need to be paying taxes to the creators of hip-hop that gave us freedom of speech to go forward,” he told Joe Budden during a late night chat…