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Skepta and Joyner Lucas

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Key Takeaways:

• Skepta’s new observe “Friendly Fire” immediately disses Joyner Lucas and throws pictures at DJ Akademiks and Ebro Darden.
• A line referencing “Praise The Lord (Da Shine)” has followers speculating that ASAP Rocky can also be a goal.
• The lyrics reignite the U.Okay. vs. U.S. rap rivalry, including new warmth to the continued debate.

Let the U.K. versus U.S. rap battle formally start! On Friday (July 11) at midnight, Skepta fired a shot heard around the globe with “Friendly Fire,” his diss observe geared toward Joyner Lucas.

He wastes no time entering into it. “Old man Ebro askin’ me stupid questions / Trynna use me to get clicks, I said what I said,” Skepta raps within the opening verse. For those that would possibly’ve missed it, he sat down with Ebro Darden for Apple Music final yr, the place they most notably mentioned whether or not the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef had gone too far.

Just a few bars later, the Insomnia artist takes pictures at DJ Akademiks: “Time to wipe the smile off Ak’s face / Time to say, ‘Chat, W Skepta.’” Despite previously claiming he’d have “two bars max” for Lucas, Skepta evidently had much more to get off his chest.

“Joyner Lucas, you bastard / Why you rap like you studied at Harvard?” he begins the second verse, adopted by traces like, “Catch ’em outside and move to him, heartless / Cuts, bruises and plasters / If I see him on tour in London, I jump on stage and move to his dancers.”

Although Skepta would not name out ASAP Rocky by identify, he does reference their platinum-selling collaboration and trend, which is greater than sufficient purpose for followers to assume it is aimed on the Harlem rapper. “Praise the Lord, you want beast? Then I’ve got this: / You haven’t had a hit song for the longest / Too concerned with your clothes / You should be focusing on flows,” he later dishes out.

As Skepta clarified earlier within the week, “Rocky is my family,” so don’t count on issues to get too private there. That being stated, everybody else appears to be truthful sport.