The Gucci Mane and Jeezy Verzuz battle went down on Thursday (November 19) — albeit nearly an hour late. But around 6 p.m. PST, the two former rivals finally sauntered up to the stage at the infamous Magic City strip club in Atlanta where they were met with two thrones on either side of the platform.
A roster of notable names tuned in with the other 1.8 million viewers, including Diddy, Drake, Quavo, Lil Uzi Vert, D-Nice, Paul Wall, comedic actor Kevin Hart, and things got underway. From the jump, Gucci was seemingly ready to clash and opened the event with the 2012 Jeezy diss track “Round 1,” setting the tone for the highly anticipated showdown.
As they continued playing hits back and forth, LaFlare continually criticized The Snowman for playing nothing but “old shit.” But Gucci took it up a notch when he started playing “The Truth,” the same Jeezy diss track he uploaded to streaming services just hours before the event.
That was where Jeezy drew the line. Suddenly, he decided to speak his peace and called Gucci out for playing the disrespectful record.
“See when I called you and extended this invite, my nigga, I did it as a real man,” he said. “It’s been 20 muthafuckin’ years… you still talking the same shit. The shit we came from in the street, we been through it, dawg. Twenty years and when I said I wanted to do this for the culture, that’s what I wanted to do. I brought you here to show you the world care about what the fuck we got going on because we are the culture. Me and you, where we came from, what we been through, nigga, us.”
But Jeezy wasn’t done there — he then brought up the string of murders the rap community has witnessed over the past couple of years.
“All these kids out here doing what the fuck they do cuz they saw what went on with us,” he continued. “This shit ain’t ‘bout me, it ain’t ‘bout you. This shit about King Von, this shit about Doe B, this shit about Nipsey Hussle, this shit about muthafuckin’ Pop Smoke, Mo3 and I’m real enough to do that, nigga, because one thing about it, two things fo sho, three things for certain, nigga…”
Gucci Mane Taunts Jeezy With Instagram Meme Reminder Of Killing His Friend
And with that, the beat for “Get Your Mind Right” dropped. Gucci’s decision to play “The Truth” wasn’t exactly surprising. The 1017 Records boss has been taunting Jeezy all week and coldly shared a meme reminding Jeezy he shot and killed his associate Pookie Loc in 2005 in what Gucci said at the time was “self-defense.”
Despite the perceived tension in the room, Gucci ultimately accepted Jeezy’s olive branch and brought their longstanding beef to a definite end, saying, “No disrespect. It’s all love.”
Gucci and Jeezy then headed to Atlanta’s Compound nightclub for an after party and invited all of ATL to go with them. Meanwhile, Jeezy’s latest album The Recession 2 is expected to arrive at midnight EST on Friday (November 20).
Check out the ceremonious end to the battle (and their beef) below.
I ain’t gonna front that shit was entertaining
Some old ass Southern rappers had a shot at staying relevant, and they beefing. Be happy with the uptick of your streams and whatever you get from Verzuz.
I say the same shit bout NY…LMFAO
credit to hov and nas..grown man shit..at the end of the day, the bag’s right for either rapper. reals (including myself of course) would be glad to see more of this
I thought shit was getting real for a minute. Then they did icy together and ended it on a high note. That one could have went south
Wow! What a moment. And a big shout out to Jeezy for being the voice of reason. Lesson being, if there’s hurt, always kill the other person. With love and reason.
Disrespects Jeezy each and every chance he gets = „No disrespect. It‘s all love.“ lol okay.
Why does Jeezy have to respond with a disrespectful album? He sent someone to kill Gucci, Id still be heatd over that if I were Gucci, Jeezy hasn’t been touched, just songs that haven’t physically done anything. I bet Jeezy’s goons were ready to go last night, it was disrespect with limits.
Man you sound stupid ???
They tried to kill Gucci, that beef will never die….might simmer down, but nah it will never go away….
These blog sites are so lame, they literally hashed it out afterwards and performed their song. Promote the peace stop with promotion of beef..the internet is the reason a lot of these rappers beefs get more intense than it has to.
That’s true in some cases, but people actually got killed in this one before hardly anybody knew who the fuck these dudes were outside of Atlanta. Not going to let you put this one on the media. This was real, and it had shit to do with media fanning anything back in 2005 and 2006.
media pushed this poison, stop making excuses for “tha skreets” real ones know this is all foolishness STILL BEING PROMOTED BY MEDIA
So the media made them run up in Gucci’s spot and somebody to get killed? Okay real one, whatever the fuck that means. Again, nobody knew who the fuck they were and blogs weren’t pushing shit. Hell, the So Icy single was hot in the street before anybody even knew they had a beef.
They woulda had JOINTS together. Beef aint cool kids.
Tyga said gucci got tha monster.. no reply back from gucci
This was all made possible by Rick Ross and TIP. Very happy to see these guys put on not only for the SOUTH but for the CULTURE. HIP HOP won last night and music will be made between the two now. 1.8 viewers, the best VERSUS ever!!!!
I forgot how trash Gucci was/is. If not for the verzuz, I would have forgotten he even existed at all. I’m annoyed that I gave this any attention because again, this dude sucks
Jeezy has always had corporate/chess mentality while Gucci has always had gutter mentality. That is the reason Jeezy will ALWAYS get a W over Gucci, just like that verzuz battle.
Ad Libs and Lip sinking isn’t a battle. Damn hip hop has sold out to white kids on social media. What a joke!
All I can say is….WOW!! This one was intense. But I would love to see some Verzuz from the 80’s era, when Hip Hop first started. Just a suggestion.
As much as I like the battle, I ,for one, think the line about digging Pookie Loc up was too far. But other than that, it was a good match. Gotta give it up for Jeezy for how he kept his cool despite Gucci playing 2 diss songs toward him. HIP HOP won overall.