Looze Cannon Fires Back at BigXthaPlug and PlaqueBoyMax as the “Rap Is Dying” Debate Explodes Over “Big Michael Michael”
A Michael Jackson impersonation just set off the loudest argument in hip-hop this month — and the man behind it is not backing down.
Looze Cannon built his name on TikTok with MJ-style freestyles, and his record “Big Michael Michael” climbed to No. 1 on the iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap Songs chart — sitting directly above BigXthaPlug and Ava Max’s “BURN” at No. 2, according to the chart screenshot Looze has been celebrating online. ITSBIZKIT readers already know Looze: just last week, rival MJ impersonator Fabio Jackson was calling him a cheat and claiming his face is AI as their feud headed toward court.
BigXthaPlug is not impressed. During a recent interview, he was asked point-blank if rap is dying, and he said yes: “There’s no way somebody that got a TikTok song should have the #1 Hip-Hop song in the world… you’re in the same boat as Future, how does that work?” BigX argued that after only five years of rapping, even he should not be sitting at the top ahead of artists he grew up listening to, and he called today’s game a money game that has lost the fun it used to have.
Streamer PlaqueBoyMax poured more fuel on it. In an interview highlighted in The Shade Room Teens’ November 13 breakdown of the controversy, PlaqueBoyMax said he would only feature Looze if Looze were serious about music.
Looze fired back at both of them on stream. He defended his rapping ability, pointed at the No. 1 record, threw out freestyle challenges to anybody questioning his pen, and joked that he is “the biggest and largest.” He has also posted that hip-hop is not dying — the mentality is — arguing the older guard is threatened by a new way in.
The culture is split clean down the middle. One side says a novelty TikTok record topping the chart over career artists proves BigX’s whole point. The other side says Looze can actually rap, built this brick by brick, and the gatekeepers are just hating on a come-up they didn’t approve.
So who’s right — is BigXthaPlug protecting the culture, or is this gatekeeping dressed up as concern? Drop your take in the comments.
Interview clips circulated via RapMarathon; today’s exchange via The Shade Room Teens.
