Kiss' Gene Simmons recently gave an interview with Rolling Stone where he said, "I am looking forward to the death of rap. ... Rap will die." Talib Kweli responded, tweeting, "Would it be unfair of me to say I'm looking forward to the death [of] @genesimmons or nah? Chuck Berry shits on Kiss."

In the interview, Simmons' argument was that hip-hop would go away "next year, 10 years from now, at some point, and then something else will come along. And all that is good and healthy." He later tweeted:

Kweli responded: