Last week Yasiin Bey along with Black Thought and King Los, presumably in response to Drake and Meek Mill’s battle currently still going on, challenged any emcee to get bars from him in a rap bout started by anyone about it.
Lupe Fiasco was about it and responded to the artist formerly known as Mos Def and even gave fans a public preview via his Instagram. Now it seems Yasiin Bey has backed down and doesn’t really want to put the effort into an ongoing feud with any emcee.
According to audio from Ferrari Sheppard’s A Country Called Earth’s Soundcloud account, Bey is heard mocking his previous statements: “Spending your time writing battle raps… I’d rather be filing paperwork at the post office. That shit does not sound like fun.” He would later clarify what he meant and denounce the audio as he believed what he was saying was private. It did seem however that he was backing down from his original stance on the matter.
“It was a private opinion made public,” he said. “Without my knowledge or permission or consent. I stand by my statement, but at the same time, I’m not trying to arrange some sort of exhibition of that reality, whatever.”
Hear the audio of Yasiin Bey denouncing his previous statements on battling other rappers below:
