With Lupe Fiasco’s Tetsuo & Youth album out this month, the rapper released his latest single “Adoration of the Magi” yesterday. Shortly after the drop, Philly emcee GrandeMarshall caught wind that the new Lu track features a slightly updated version of a DJ Dahi beat he rapped over more than two years ago.
GrandeMarshall sent out a couple Tweets mostly shrugging off the incident before reposting a picture Lupe Tweeted months earlier, a move the Chicago emcee took as a slight given a follow-up Tweet alluding to a conflict with his Muslim faith. The two rappers went on to engage in a back-and-forth that seems to have been mostly resolved before DJ Dahi quietly settled the issue with his own separate Tweets apparently siding with Lupe.
Listen to and compare both tracks below:
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I guess you gotta do whatever to drum up some free pub because nobody is checking for Lupe right now, which is a shame I might add.
cuz lupe is a fuckin weirdo now -___-
Niggaz be on lupes nuts. Everyone of his shows is sold out and all his albums are grammy nominated, fans support him 100%
you sound like a straight groupie patna
@GrandMarshall just be happy with this little bit of press that you got off the strength of Lupe. Dahi said it all “if you didn’t buy it, it’s still mine”
In all honesty, that Grand Marshall guy’s song is better.
You crazy as hell, Grand Marshall’s song is mad basic as hell. I guess we don’t like thinking do we, hmmm? I wonder?
@grandmarshall just got Jackpot/Hot nigga’d LOL! Real music industry shit.