Joey Bada$$ has been beefing with Troy Ave since 2015, a rivalry that heated up again last month when the two exchanged another series of disses.
The Brooklyn, New York rapper says he hasn’t gained any insight from the rivalry.
“Ain’t no perspective,” Joey Bada$$ says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “I’m not the one who learned the lesson. I just taught it.”
Joey Bada$$ does have some perspective on his performance at Coachella yesterday (April 15), though.
“It means a lot,” he says. “I’m extremely honored. To perform at the main stage of Coachella has been one of my dreams upon entering the Rap game. I’m extremely honored to have [a spot] on the main stage in basically the third or fourth year of my career. You can’t ask for more.”
The rapper wanted to give his longtime fans a new wrinkle with his Coachella performance, so he performed new material and with a live band for the first time.
“Every time I perform, I like to give people something that’s relatively new,” he says. “Some of these kids, they’ve come out to see me three, four times, so this time I’d like to give them something that they’ve never [seen from] me before and that’s a live band. I’m excited to debut that on the Coachella stage.”
Joey Bada$$ Sustains Longstanding Mtn Dew Relationship
Even though Joey Bada$$ remains independent, his brand remains robust given his pitchman status Calvin Klein, his role on the television show Mr. Robot and his slot as a performer at this summer’s The Governors Ball Music Festival.
On Thursday (April 14), Joey Bada$$ attended the national launch party of Mtn Dew Black Label at Parlor in New York City. He’s been working with the Mtn Dew family of products for about four years and they’re one of the first companies he did a deal with.
Mtn Dew Black Label is a carbonated soft drink made with real sugar, crafted dark berry flavor and herbal bitters. The company says it “offers DEW drinkers a taste of the high life.”
Once he got invited to the event, Joey Bada$$ says he was eager to attend.
“When they told me about this event and what it represented, I thought it was the perfect match,” he says. “They’re pretty much family already, so I made it happen.”
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Fuck joey badass ! & pro era & thay fans thay all suck wanna be 90’s rappers & steez burning in hell
You could be in the same situation while you talk down on somebody else death.
And this nigga said he taught a lesson SMH you did a fucking freestyle hahahaha my nigga Troy ave did a whole SONG! So troy killed joey & steez killed himself ! Pro era take this L
You been taking L’s your whole life.
troy aint gonna like that. he comin for ya head lil hipster. LOL @ DREAMING OF PERFORMING AT COACHELLA HIPSTERFEST
You ain’t never gonna accomplish anything in your lifetime.
Troy ave smoked joey softa$$
The onlY nigga that’s soft is you.
Fuck joey badass ! & steez
I don’t see you doing better.
how can someone stuck in the 90s wishing he was around in 1995 be the future of anything
Troy murdered Joey. I expected more from him. Joey was trying to pull other rappers in like Nas to help him. Where I come from if you start something you must end it with no doubt and be able to stand on your own.
Q: Who was the one calling Nas a “Wierdo” behind his back like a coward on Twitter?
A: Troy Ave.
Few of troy ave’s fans still trying to attack Joey & STEEZ? What a waist of time.
Joey moving up, on stage at coachella, getting a spot on an HBO original tv show, selling records without radio play…. Need I say more. In five years Troy Average gon be one of those washed up buckets you see on Love and Hip Hop haha.
You two fukbois dont appreciate real hiphop. Joeybadass is the future!!!!!!????
Joey a fuckboi? You bugging pretty hard.
Much success to the whole Pro Era clique!!! Support that quality Hiphop
None of this shit matters. This rap beef shit is homo and all yall supporting it are to. We live in a huge world & the majority of it does not care about petty wack shit like this. No bigger L than calling Mountain Dew family. That stuff is toxic. Siding with a company that poisons people for money is shaking hands with the devil.