Over the previous week or so, hip-hop has become a battle royale by which rappers from New York, led by Joey Badass, have been embroiled in a free-for-all backwards and forwards with a bunch of LA rappers, largely represented by TDE rapper Ray Vaughn.
Joey was the one who kicked all of it off together with his tune “The Ruler’s Again” in January, calling out Kendrick Lamar, who had spent the 9 prior months whaling on Drake. As an alternative, he bought responses from Ray Vaughn and Daylyt, two TDE affiliated rappers who clapped again with songs akin to “Crashout Heritage” and “HIYU.”
After issues cooled off within the intervening months, Joey stoked the embers of the competitors together with his freestyle for Purple Bull Spiral, prompting one other response from Vaughn, together with a slew of diss tracks from extra LA natives like AZ Chike and Cause, whereas Joey’s fellow New Yorker CJ Fly backed him up. After yesterday’s flurry of songs, followers obtained a brand new batch of fiery invectives right this moment; see under for the newest updates.
Joey Badass — “My City” feat. Loaded Lux & “Crash Dummy”
Joey’s day began with the discharge of “My City,” bringing in battle rap veteran Loaded Lux as a employed gun to assist him dispense disrespectful missives to Ray and Daylyt, sowing dissent between the 2 Californians. He ended the day the way in which he began, borrowing a decidedly West Coast aesthetic on “Crash Dummy,” accusing Ray of taking part within the battle on the behest of High Dawg to assist him acquire a buzz. He additionally continued calling out Kendrick, his true goal, however the extra the Pulitzer winner ignores him, the extra one wonders if any of it will find yourself not being price it.
Ray Vaughn — “Golden Eye”
Technically, Ray dropped final night time, however late sufficient that he missed yesterday’s roundup. Over a 50 Cent flip, Ray declares “Professional Period don’t exist” on account of having few Billboard hits over the previous decade, taking intention at Joey’s crew alongside him.
Daylyt — “Ayo,” “ICantHoldUThisA,” “WordIsBon”
Probably the most prolific participant within the “honest fade,” Daylyt dropped three separate tracks throughout the previous eight hours. “Ayo” employs a sequence of beat sketches, placing the give attention to his polysyllabic rhyme schemes, then on “ICantHoldUThisA,” he goes for a “Not Like Us” method, turning a “Careless Whisper” interpolation right into a turnt-up get together tune. In the meantime, “WordIsBon” is a surprisingly heartfelt storytelling observe by which Daylyt acknowledges Joey’s late good friend and collaborator, Capital Steez, making it clear that each one that is merely for sport.
Kai Money — “KNICKS IN 6,” JaeWon — “Bobby Mercer,” Hitta J3 — “The Final Supper”
Okay, so, these guys all get their very own part as a result of they weren’t technically concerned to start with, however they’ve concerned themselves. Kai Money, hailing from Brooklyn, makes it clear that his contribution is pure group spirit. In the meantime, JaeWon, greatest often known as the offspring of The Lox’s Jadakiss, places in his two cents over a observe from his pops. It’s a bit of disconcerting how a lot he seems like ‘Kiss, however though he doesn’t have many private jabs that land, it’s a powerful show of wordplay.
In the meantime, Hitta J3, whom you could bear in mind from his visitor look on Kendrick’s GNX title observe, contributes one other voice from Los Angeles, providing a barely completely different perspective from his extra lyrically-focused brethren over the beat from Kenny’s Kendrick Lamar EP lower, “Rigamortis.”
There you have got it, now that we’re all caught up, who do we expect is the winner of the newest spherical, and do we expect Kendrick Lamar will deign to place in an look? With the hometown dates on his GNX Tour arising this week, it actually could be an opportune time for him to acknowledge the ballyhoo. Then again, now that we’ve heard plenty of lazy homophobic “jokes” on this battle royale, maybe it’s time for everybody to take a beat to replicate and pivot to selling no matter initiatives they’ve bought out, moderately than sort of a pointless battle.
