Soulja Boy wants to fight Chris Brown (with promotion from boxer Floyd Mayweather), RiFF RAFF has challenged 50 Cent to a $2 million boxing match, Meek Mill says he’ll mop the floor with Drake for a cool $5 million, Kodak Black (for some reason) called out Lil Wayne to a fight over who is the “best rapper alive,” and 22 Savage is ready to throw blows at 21 Savage over the name. It appears all of these rappers feel they can cash in on the attention these alleged “fights” are getting and, to many, it’s making a mockery of Hip Hop culture. In fact, there seems to be no “culture” in this at all.
After Diddy’s Snapchat rant declaring all of this recent rap drama “baffoonery and coonery,” it’s natural to wonder why rappers are turning to physical violence to squash their beefs when they could put the gloves down and simply pick up a mic. After all, isn’t that actually how one determines who in fact is the better rapper? Whatever happened to a good old-fashioned rap battle?
At a 1997 Scribble Jam, before he was at the top of the rap food chain, Detroit native Eminem took on Chicago rapper Juice to determine who had better bars, while Sage Francis and Atmosphere’s Slug took to the rap ring at Scribble Jam’s 2001 event. No, they didn’t schedule a fight nor did they feel they had to resort to any type of physical violence to prove a point. They just spit and verbally assaulted one another until a winner was declared.
Then there’s the whole battle rap industry. These MCs (at least most of them) aren’t crying over witty punchlines or threatening to beat each other up over who is perceived as “better.” The King Of The Dot battle rap league is throwing guys like Dumbfoundead and Conceited in the ring to work it out in an “artful” way, while Grind Time Now routinely put rappers like TheSaurus and Illmaculate against each other to tear each other apart verse by verse.
It’s time rappers back up their tough guy, machismo talk with tangible rap battles rather than blow by blow, which—let’s be honest here—is never going to happen anyway. This all seems to be a plea for attention that started with Soulja Boy, who (again, let’s be honest) is pretty washed up. He hasn’t really been a viable musical force for nearly a decade. So rappers—you want to be noticed in a way that doesn’t compromise your integrity? Pick up the microphone and battle it out.
aka Too Many Pu$$ies, Not Enough MCs
They are picking up the mic. We just went through 2015-2016 having the most publicized rap beefs. Two years of Meek Mill taking and giving shots. Drake, Game, Pusha T, Joe Budden.
Come on man, Vic Spencer and Mick Jenkins, Joey Badass and Troy Ave. Snak the Ripper and Madchild.
Its like the people who write for Hip Hop don’t even listen to it anymore.
Ugh it’s specific to the aforementioned “beefs” in the first sentence. Duh.
I GUARANTEE the writers on this site know more about Hip Hop than you ever will.
Because this new generation don’t know how to rap. I don’t know what they are doing!
Because they all not Mc’s. Look at all these Rappers. 70% or even more of these new Rappers is wack. Rap is a Product not a passion anymore. Nobody is practicing the craft anymore, nobody goes off the top. Even the so called Real Mc’s spitten written Lyrics when they “freestyle”. People rappin because it makes them easy money not because they love it.
Nick Grant is the savior!!
I would like to see 50 fight!! he talks a good game but …..
I truly dislike the amount of attention these rappers keep on getting for their silly acts.Soulja boy has no credibility nor talent at this point.So many other rappers get easy points for doing silly things and tweets online than bringing us tracks thats barworthy.
but what do you do when even the real hip hop heads are paying attention to it instead of the bars??
“Rappers?” You’re using that term very loosely I would imagine. Or is this a trick question? None of these guys you mentioned are rappers….
Can you imagine how weak a rap battle between Chris Brown and Soulja Boy would be??? What the hell is dx thinkin? At least a fight would be semi-entertaining
My boy RedPill said it best “this is a branch of Mandigo Fighting”..its sad …even Diddy caught on to this shit.
I must be dreaming. Hiphopdx finally wrote a real article about hip hop. SMH
I have to say thank you to this one. I really appreciate the positive feedback.
and the best off the dome is an actor
well for starters 1 is an R&B singer and the other is a youtuber
Theres nothing wrong with two men settling a disagreement with a boxing match. Theyre not talking about shooting or killing each other
Yeah that one time where killing and shooting each other would be an acceptable solution they wanna do a boxing head. SMFH
They aren’t picking up the mic because none of these fools can rap. End of story, bottom line.
Because yall wanted realness in rap instead of true lyricists. Now you get what you once critized not being enough of.