Joey Bada$$ got mad at Hip-Hop pundits, media and everyone else for bigging up all the great music that the Westcoast has been putting out the past few years. Before and prior to the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef from last year. So he was trying to make it seem like that is the only reason that everyone is currently being “divk riders” of the Westcoast. Which he made clear when he dropped his track, The Ruler’s Back, on New Year’s Day. Which really was the catalyst to starting the beef. Mostly between him, TDE rapper, Ray Vaughn and TDE affiliate, Daylyt. That has gone on for months, but things really taking a head over the last week or so. When Red Bull dropped their latest Red Bull Spiral Freestyle series with Joey, Big Sean and Ab-Soul.
That is then when Vaughn decided to spin things back with Hoe Era not even 24 hours later and then Joey came back again with THE FINALS the next day and former TDE signee, REASON hitting back not even 24 hours later with his own diss of Joey called, The Dead Apple. Things really picking up over the past three days as everyone from Az Chike with, What Would You Do? to Pro Era’s own CJ Fly with STINGray and Kai Ca$h with Knicks in 6 tagging in. Before Daylyt came back with WRD2MIMVA and then Joey came back again with My Town featuring Loaded Lux. Right before Ray came back with Golden Eye and Daylyt coming back then with Ayo and EastSide K-Boy coming in for the West with, Grand Slam. Right before Joey came back again with, CRASH DUMMY. Then just when it looked like things wrapped up Hitta J3 coming in for the West with the flip of Nas classic Got Ur Self A Gun and the late great Black Rob’s classic, Whoa! with the absolute banger, HEADSHOT. Where Hitta had such quotable’s as, “Everyone shooters on the Internet. Stunt Joey out and leave blood on my Timbalands. Paid in Full, only time you seen a n***a kill a man. They gon’ make another door slide on this minivan. Leave him in the bloody Pelle coat. I’m Fab with a chipped tooth, b**ch, who killed his own mans trying to get juice? Long live Pop Smoke!” But probably the best diss track to come out of the whole beef between both coasts is EastSide K-Boy’s newest track taking aim at Joey and most of the other NY emcees who wanted smoke with the West in the K-Twist-produced, The Dodger Flow. Where K-Twist on the boards cleverly flips Mobb Deep’s classic record, Shook Ones, Pt. II.
EastSide K-Boy with plenty of quotable’s throughout the track from the very beginning of the track. Starting with, “You mention Top’s name and you n***az gettin’ knocked off. I am a young Tiger Woods. You n***az just Top Golf. Gina told me come at you n***az, I am coming in at top speed. Fvck your baby momma from the back cause she knock me. Suckers can’t handle this heat give them an IV. Serayah you don’t love him, you lying. Come get this Akeem. Oh was that a low blow. I don’t give a fvck.” As well as, “Look n***az causing havoc. I got ‘em shook. Joey you ain’t bad at all. You really good, man. Shout out Stove God, my boy. Just let me cook. Got a plantation flow. I really whoop flows. Desert AV, my n***az. Cool. Billy B. Papa Doc, my n***az, cool. Grafh, that’s my n***a. Red Cafe too.” EastSide K-Boy also spitting such quotable’s as, “I want all the smoke. I am Matt Barnes. 24 hours to respond. That is too long. Silkk the Shocker and Mya, I am movin’ on. This sh*t got me feeling like Pac when he came home….. If this is Star Wars I guess I am your father. Even Brooklyn n***as know how it feels to be a Dodger.” EastSide K-Boy definitely showing and proving why when Kendrick Lamar made his GRAMMYs award speech earlier in the year that he was one of the fellow Westcoast emcees that made him step his pen game up on the mic as an emcee and lyricist.