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Skepta at 2025 Wireless Festival

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Key Takeaways:

• Skepta’s “Round 2” takes intention at Joyner Lucas with sharp bars and cultural jabs.
• The observe critiques Lucas’ rollout techniques and references previous rap battles, together with his back-and-forth with Tory Lanez.
• The feud faucets into a bigger U.Ok. vs U.S. rap rivalry, with each artists utilizing the second to spice up visibility.

Skepta isn’t backing down from the U.Ok. vs. U.S. rap battle anytime quickly. On Thursday (July 17), the London lyricist dropped “Round 2,” his response file to Joyner Lucas’ earlier diss “NOBODY CARES.”

From the leap, Skepta takes no prisoners. He goes straight at Lucas for taking every week simply to ship “the weakest diss,” then criticizes the Massachusetts native for sporting a U.Ok.-branded ski masks on the “NOBODY CARES” cowl artwork. “Take off the flag, you don’t hold weight ’round there / Round one could’ve been yours, you bastard,” Skepta raps.

Throughout the observe, the “That’s Not Me” artist name-drops Tory Lanez, who beforehand went bar-for-bar with Lucas earlier than the 2 patched issues up. He later calls out how the “Revenge” rapper seems to be utilizing their back-and-forth to assist promote his new album, ADHD 2. “Joyner, tell your manager to get in touch with me / I don’t do free promos, so f**k with me / You can ask Devilman how I get busy,” he dishes out.

Compared to the handful of traces Lucas received on final week’s “Friendly Fire,” there’s positively extra to sit down with on “Round 2.” Take a hearken to the brand new observe under.

Lucas swung again at Skepta’s preliminary “Friendly Fire” jabs on Tuesday’s (July 15) “NOBODY CARES,” by which he claimed the Insomnia creator’s profession “just ain’t what it was.” He additionally roped in U.Ok. artists Dave and Central Cee, in addition to Drake, who had notably simply introduced Skepta on stage at Wireless Festival the weekend earlier than.

Whether — or how rapidly — Lucas will return fireplace after “Round 2″ remains to be up within the air, particularly with ADHD 2 having dropped on Friday (July 18) at midnight. Either manner, the meat appears to be understanding properly for each events.