You can read the response here. Unsurprisingly, the writer was defensive of Complex and the media in general, and as such, thoroughly demonstrated Nipsey’s point.
A few choice quotes:
[Critics] envision the DJs as inundating the minds of innocent people with subpar music, brainwashing them. The reality is that there is a give-and-take between audience and radio.
The media, much like radio, is an atomized aggregation of many different people with different experiences and motivations.
We need more writers willing to document their own feelings about the music, and about their own personal, subjective experiences with music, to explain why artists' work is worthy of our attention.
“Outsiders” writing about hip-hop cultures—hip-hop’s myriad cultures—definitely has a distortive effect. But even more damaging is the lack of knowledgeable writing, period.