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Joey Bada$$ on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Energy Gamers 2025 and Ab-Soul on the eleventh Annual TDE Vacation Charity Live performance
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Key Takeaways:
- Joey Bada$$ clarifies that his “West Coast” lyric was a JAY-Z homage, not a diss.
- He and Ab-Soul spoke privately and agreed the road was not meant as disrespect.
- Joey believes social media and stan tradition exaggerated the strain right into a full-blown rap beef.
Joey Bada$$ says the web made manner an excessive amount of out of his West Coast line on “The Ruler’s Again,” which dropped throughout his feud with Ray Vaughn. On Friday (Sept. 5), he revisited the second in the course of the “New Rory & Mal” podcast, even revealing that he checked in with Ab-Soul about it.
The 1999 rapper actually didn’t assume the “An excessive amount of West Coast d**okay lickin’ / I am hearin’ n**fuel throwin’ rocks, actually ain’t s**t stickin’” bar would quantity to a lot, particularly because it was borrowed from JAY-Z. Joey defined, “It ain’t like I stated, ‘Yo, f**okay the West Coast.’” He added that Ab-Soul additionally felt it wasn’t that massive of a deal.
Reflecting on his dialog with the “DO BETTER” artist, Joey talked about they talked for “10, quarter-hour” and laughed about the entire thing. “I’m like, ‘For actual, you took any disrespect from that?’ He’s like, ‘Nah, n**ga, n**fuel was rapping.’ His favourite factor to say is, ‘You within the fitness center,’” Joey stated.
Within the Brooklyn native’s opinion, what actually blew the strains out of proportion was social media and stan tradition. “The web these days fuels s**t,” he defined. “This narrative began growing and when the narrative began growing, I used to be like, ‘OK, someone’s going to take this bait.’”
“I truthfully wasn’t ready,” Joey admitted. “I rolled with the punches.” Try the clip beneath.
As most followers know, Vaughn responded to “The Ruler’s Again” with “Crashout Heritage,” which sampled Kendrick Lamar’s “coronary heart pt. 6.” That file set off a string of back-and-forth photographs, with either side buying and selling jabs on tracks like “Unimaginable Patty,” “Pardon Me,” “H** Period,” “THE FINALS” and extra.
Joey and Ab-Soul are set to hit the highway collectively in October for his or her “Darkish Aura Tour” alongside Rapsody. See the flyer beneath.