The rift between Joey Bada$$ and Troy Ave intensified yesterday (March 5) after the Pro Era emcee took to Instagram to continue dissing his current archenemy.
Joey’s post, which comes after the two recently traded shots at one another on wax, features a picture of him headlining Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival in Florida. Throughout the post’s caption, Joey states that Troy Ave isn’t worth responding to, and that their ongoing rift has brought new life to Troy’s career. Joey wraps up his post with: “Karma will catch up to you but unfortunately, your album sales wont,” referencing the reported 4,373 copies that Troy Ave’s debut album, Major Without A Deal, sold during its first week of release.
“this is me headlining at okeechobee festival in front of approx 25,000 fans…” Joey Bada$$ writes in the post’s caption field. “Yes that’s right I have shows and the capacity are more than 4x your album sales… What diss record??? Oh from that 30 y/o reject who hit the lil homie below the belt?? FUCK OUTTA HERE. I’m getting what u making ya whole career just off collabs cocksucka beat it… Whoever yall talking about dont even deserve a response cuz he aint on my level.. And you only make yourself look like a fool when you entertain them fools.. So I hope you enjoyed your lil 5 min of fame and that lil blue check Twitter gave you since I breath new life into you cuz your oxygen tank is officially cut off now… You’re career on life support homie dnt make me pull the plug… You Don’t want no problems C Runner don’t make me have to expose you to these people…. You PLAYED yourself… Karma will catch up to you but unfortunately, your album sales wont [laughing emoji]…. #MajorL”
The pair’s beef ignited when Joey released “Ready,” a cut that features the Pro Era emcee calling out Troy Ave over his album sales. After a back and forth via Twitter, Troy Ave later responded with “Bad Ass,” a track that sees him take aim at Joey’s appearance and lack of radio singles. Troy Ave also took a shot at the late Capital Steez, the Pro Era rapper who took his own life in December 2012. As a result, both A$AP Addie and A$AP Twelvyy, as well as Styles P and Royce Da 5’9, have since decried Troy Ave’s decision to diss the late rapper.
After Joey uploaded the aforementioned post to Instagram, Troy Ave fired back with his own post, which has since been deleted. Despite the criticism he’s received for dissing Capital Steez, Troy Ave once again took aim at the late Pro Era member, referring to him as Joey Bada$$’ “roof jumpin bestie.”
“This fukin dweeb says I don’t deserve a response meanwhile he’s responding with memes and tweets u can’t fuk wit me with no raps and u can’t fuk wit me in no streets Pussy!” Troy Ave wrote, according to a screenshot captured by The Shade Room. “and in reality if u shot then I shot back its action and reaction u stupid drug addict, if I shot 1st then it would be owed a response but use a dub and (NOBODY CARES) and u keep tryna bring other people into it from Kirk Knight to Nas etc. But that’s wat pussies like u do, u the type of buster to throw something then hide ya hands and tell the cops when u get ya head bust! Since u wanna bring other people into it I brought ya roof jumpin bestie into it [running emoji, building emoji, fire emoji, devil emoji, fire emoji] yall niggas music tells kids that if u commit suicide you’ll be a martyr and a legend! My music says don’t do that cause you’ll be a dick head and a bozo, what message is right and what message is wrong #TwitterFingers you’ll never be poppin in the streets, radios or clubs, you’ll always jus be a internet rapper (Link In My”
Joey Bada$$ and Troy Ave’s posts, that features the two rappers continuing to spar over Instagram, can be viewed below:
Only reason anyone cares about this beef is because of what Troy Average said about STEEZ. Joey is irrelevant but still thinks this is about him. Of course Joey didn’t have STEEZ’ back in that post, just like how Joey never had his back when STEEZ was around. Jonny Shipes (Cinematic CEO) would only promote Joey, snubbed STEEZ all the time even though he was clearly the most talented and the founder of PE.
Fuck you bitch nigga troy ave is the greatest rapper ever and that nigga steez is burning in hell Fuck the pro era crew
rappers need to stay away from social media
Joey meeked himself. he gonna have to change his name to Joey BitchA$$
Your lower level income is showing.
Maybe if you could form a sentence you’d make more that 6.73 an hour, dumb fuck.
Nah Fuck you bitch nigga joey badass is a crack head the pro era sucks
its funny how troy isnt on his level or worthy of a response after troy came with the music but joey said his name in that song just last week. if he aint on your level why you taking shots???? and those 25k people werent there to see joey, they were trying to get good spots for the actual headliners.
ayo how you afraid to come back at troy fucking ave???? now all joey wanna talk about is his money and album sales. as a fan of both this shit is pathetic.
We gotta do better. Joey and Troy Ave are both bozos for this. Who raised you guys?
Fuck joey badass gay steez burning in hell
sad to see joey go out like this. meek mill all over again. dont start shit if you cant finish it!!
how the fuck Troy Ave got fans? dude cant rap for fuck sake and he looks like a fish… motherfucker sayin “nobody cares” … does anyone care about Troy Ave? corny broke bitch leanin on a rented Benz on his album cover, His voice sounds like an 8 year old kid who just saw his bitch mom suckin someone else… Joey should just send some goons to put some bullet holes in his 10$ t shirt and make it Yeezy Fashionable, motherfuck Troy “B-Low” Average.
Both those guys are corny
joey punkass wants to be a 90s rapper so bad but in the 90s they aint have social media. you made a hot track. troy the savage really is restoring the feeling
Foh soft ass troy ave. Your shit wack too
I grew up on New York rap, Troy ave is not restoring the feeling, he is from new York and he raps that’s about all he has in common with the rappers that made hip hop great!!! He wouldn’t be putting out music if he would have been around during the golden era!!
joey aint got no goons lol. thats why hes on social media after troy disrespected him and his dead bestie
Went to a Troy ave show in Chicago and dude was straight trash. What a waste of money
I seen him in providence with banks and he killed it. Awesome show
Yeah u right. he below average.
Bitch ass cant even bail out his “goon” who is on 10k bail. Troy is fullashit selling yall a fake lifestyle
Lame @$$ irrelevant New York rappers. They both get an L
Do Your Research About What Steez Believed In And Why He Decided To Do What He Did, Allegedly. Nonetheless Troy Is Being Disrespectful Because This Is Hip Hop Though. Troy Average Might Have A Point
He still wack
Fuck you & joey badass wack nigga steez burning in hell
suicide should be legal. right fo’ death. choice is yours. and fuck psych wards shit is worse than jail. rather be death than crazy/insane.
Remember when rappers settled their beef on wax? Seems so long ago.
You can cut the sexual tension between these two with a knife. Greasy.
The more I think about this “beef” the more it comes down to me wondering why Joey called him out in the first place. In terms of talent and success, Joey wins in every category, thats just the facts – no bias. He knows that, Troys gotta know that. So what’s the point in calling him out? The reason Troy has said ridiculous things like him looking like a drug addict and all the shit about Steez is because he’s got nothing else to say. Joey just should have left his name out his mouth to begin with. This shit has gotten ridiculous and brings nothing to hip hop.
……I can hear the floor creakin
they’re both boring…
now joey is trying to take the high road? lol now troy aint on his level? what about last week when he took a shot at him in his song outta nowhere? why did he have an irrelevant rapper like troy on his mind in the first place? joey punkass
It takes classic material to make phat shit
Not proof of New York residence and an accent. -ras kass. T roy is garbo and ignorant. Someone lite him up. Omnipresent
#beastcoast lite troy ave
Joey Badass is a overrated internet rapper for all the niggas who think being “abnormal” is cool, Troy Ave is a rapper for the fake gangstas. Both are trash but Troy Ave clearly wins the beef since Joey BitchA$$ is too pussy to respond to a diss track. He can make all the excuses he want but if he really didn’t want to give Troy Ave attention then he wouldn’t have said his name.
I don’t even know what was so bad about what Troy Ave said… I am pretty sure the bible condones suicide so if Hell is real (it’s not) Steez is burning there cause his crazy ass thought he was God and shit.
But anyway Fuck Steez for jumping off the roof, Fuck Joey Bitcha$$ for being a bitch and Fuck Troy Ave for beefing with like a man like 10 years younger than him
I think u meant the bible condemns suicide
Troy Ave outta bounds with this one, he took it past rap, past a diss record, talking bout that mans dead brother like that, Troy ave proves he is a coward for talking about a guy who isn’t here to defend himself, I used to check for Troy, now im done I wont click on nothing else that has to do with him or listen to anymore of his music, he dead to me, and HE committing career suicide everytime he get on the radio and do an interview. He will be back to selling drugs in a couple years..
But he never even sold drugs like that. A couple 8 balls here and there sold just to say u did it in ur raps dont make u a dealer
Shout out to Joey an the whole Pro Era clique… They represent that Hiphop with soul an feeling a lot of you people commenting will find out about that later…b Healthy