Lil Uzi Vert is one of the hottest rappers in the game,
but when Rich the Kid dissed him -
Uzi proved he wasn’t afraid of no smoke!
They beefed online for a minute,
but then Uzi caught Rich in public and sent him running into a starbucks!
Here’s what went down.
Back in 2017,
Uzi was having major issues with his label Generation Now.
He signed with them in 2015,
but was mad that DJ Drama and Don Cannon
were delaying his album Luv Is Rage 2.
He tweeted “And if y’all do sign …
sign 2 a major Don’t sign 2 a rapper or Dj
It’s Just Easier When The Time Come For That Fake S***.”
A couple hours later,
Rich the Kid hopped on Twitter and told Uzi
“That’s why you SHOULDA signed Rich forever.”
Rich started his label Rich Forever Music back in 2016
and signed Famous Dex and a rapper named J $tash.
He announced he was signing YBN Almighty Jay in 2018,
but they started having problems after Rich dropped a track without Jay’s permission -
and Jay later told DJ Akademiks
that he never actually signed to Rich Forever.
You are signed to Rich Forever.
Because I was about to ask that because,
I'm not signed to Rich Forever.
I was gonna ask you if you got $20 band or $30 bands
that's what I heard he been offering in deals.
Yeah not two of them n**** I'm not signed to Rich Forever, I got no bands.
Famous Dex ended up leaving the label too,
and Uzi obviously wasn’t feeling the disrespect from Rich.
He quoted his tweet and clapped back with
“Boy I’m not signing for 20racks.”
Rich ain’t tweet back,
but a couple of days later he posted an IG story saying
“Hey man, if your boss and CEO ain’t treating you right,
come over to RIch Forever Music, ya dig!”
It seemed like Uzi was just gonna let it slide,
but then Rich went on The Cruz Show and really turnt it up.
The hosts asked him if he would sign Uzi if Uzi ain’t have a deal,
and Rich told them “Not right now,
maybe back then.
Maybe I would sign him on my business,
but for personal reasons I wouldn’t sign him.”.
Instead of making a diss track or taking shots in an interview,
Uzi responded in the weirdest way possible.
A couple of weeks after Rich’s interview,
Uzi posted a pic of himself holding a huge crab that he claims he dropped a rack on.
Weird flex, Then a couple hours later,
he posted the pic again and tagged Rich the Kid as the crab.
Rich clapped back and accused Uzi of jacking his style.
He reposted Uzi’s photo and captioned it
“Aw look at my son tryna look jus like me.”
Then Rich made the beef official when he dropped the track Dead Friends.
The title is a reference to Uzi’s hit XO Tour LIif3,
and Rich sent more subliminals with lines like
“Teach you how to be a boss
Top dropped off
All them dead friends
You a middleman
You a little man
Your money gettin’ shorter.”.
One of Uzi’s bars on XO Tour LIif3 says
“I don’t really care if you cry
On the real, you shoulda never lied
Saw the way she looked me in my eyes
She said: ‘I am not afraid to die,’”.
Rich flipped the line on Dead Friends and said
“Put my pride to the side
I could never lie
I don’t care if you cry
Let them p**** n****s die.”.
In the second verse
Rich flexed how much bread he was making
and how Uzi was missing out by not signing with Rich Forever.
He said “Yeah, yeah, quarter mil on my car
Drippin’ in Chanel, that’s a bar
Come to Rich Forever, be a star.”.
Rich took it a step further in the music video for the track.
In the video,
a Lil Uzi look alike gets jumped by Rich and his crew,
then they bury him in a cemetery!
Uzi clapped back with the track Rich Forever
and told Rich the Kid he wasn’t the one to mess with.
He also made fun of Rich’s hairline with the bar
“I got the Glock and my laser is beamin’
These n****s is borin’, tell me when they’re leavin’
Rainbow on my diamonds but I am not readin’
These n****s old, yeah, their hairline’s recedin’.”
Then Uzi allegedly called out Rich for cheating on his wife with Blac Chyna in the line
“You keep showin’ me your new b****
Boy, you’re f*****’ on my ex b****.”
According to rumors,
Uzi hooked up with Blac Chyna in 2017.
If that’s true,
then this bar is basically saying Rich was getting Uzi’s sloppy seconds.
Uzi also hopped on G Herbo’s Who Run It remix
and took more shots at Rich rapping
"Your s*** weak, tryna compare us or somethin’
What I made last week? Like a million or somethin’
Rich mad ‘cause your b**** ate my kids or somethin’
Man, I could f*** your wife like you sharin’ or somethin’.”
After the diss,
Rich told the crowd at his show
“F*** that n**** Lil Uzi, man.
Fuck that n**** Uzi. We big boss s***.”.
Then he dropped his own Who Run It remix with Blac Youngsta and said
“Bentley truck but you leased it
AP make you seasick
Lil Uzi he’s a big b****
Wrist cost eighteen hunnid
You signed a 360, gettin’ no money.”
The beef cooled off for a little minute,
but then Uzi and Rich
were both scheduled to perform at The Roots Picnic in Uzi’s hometown of Philly.
Uzi spotted Rich on the street
and hopped out of his whip to press him,
and videos surfaced online showing how it went down.
In one of the videos, Uzi walks up to Rich and his crew and asks “What we doing?”
Rich or someone in his crew says
“I’m trying to find out, you jumped out the car.”
Then Uzi says “It don’t matter. Why you acting crazy?
I don’t got nothing to say, bro. Let’s do it.”
The video cuts off, but another one taken right after
shows Uzi swinging at Rich in a Starbucks!
Then Rich jumps over the counter to run away, and the video ends.
Even though he got caught on camera running from Uzi,
Rich posted a video later and said
“N****s pulled up and did what?
Did what?”
while showing off his jewelry.
Rich was saying some wild things about Uzi
and even made a music video about killing him,
so fans was quick to clown him on social media
for ducking Uzi in Starbucks.
A week after the “fight” went down,
Rich wrote “All fun & games till somebody get killed then it’s tragic.”
Nobody knew if it was a threat aimed at Uzi,
or if Rich was calling out people online for taking the beef as a joke.
But after the Philly incident,
the beef pretty much died.
A year later,
Rich did an interview with Big Boy and said
“We ain’t got no beef.
We straight. We cool.
The world is big enough.
The world is mine.
The world is everybody’s.”
Rich also said he saw Uzi at a jewelry store and it was all good.
He said “We were at the same jewelry store.
We were just, coincidence,
we were there at the same time.
I didn’t know he was gon’ be there, he didn’t know I was gon’ be there.”
In 2020, TMZ broke the news
that Rich was allegedly facing a lawsuit over $234K in unpaid jewelry.
Rich hopped on IG and said
"I repeat @eliantte is my only jeweler!
Y'all other n****s got FAKE stones
stop playin wit my name in the pandemic
I might go spend a half ticket today God bless.”.
6ix9ine thought Rich was cappin,
and he just commented with three periods on the post.
Then Rich tagged him and said “We can play if u want …
I got the time & you sure as hell ain’t got more money than me
or Jewlery or CARS.”
The next day, Rich tweeted that he was going back to New York and
“The king is home.”
6ix9ine responded with
“He running from his debt in LA I’m about to call 911,”
and then Rich told him
“nah I’m on the way to yo crib come on out.”.
6ix9ine tried to bring Uzi into the situation tweeting
“@liluzivert I know I ratted but do me one favor.”.
Fans thought this could reignite the beef between Uzi and Rich,
but Uzi decided to stay out of it.
A month before 6ix9ine and Rich started beefing,
Adam22 told DJ Vlad
how it all started between Uzi and Rich.
According to him,
Rich “almost signed Uzi,
he signed Famous Dex.
Yeah, that’s what their beef was about.
It was super early on.
Uzi was one of those dudes that Rich was hanging out with
and thought was going to sign to him,
and obviously it would have been his biggest success to date as an A&R.”
Uzi turned down the offer and signed with Generation Now instead,
which is allegedly what caused the issues with Rich.
Uzi’s had a lot of problems with his label,
and back in 2019
he said he was retiring from music.
He told his fans
“I wanna take the time out to say I thank each and every one of my supporters
but I’m done with Music.”.
His album Eternal Atake got pushed back,
and Uzi made it sound like Generation Now was stopping him from releasing it.
Uzi said he might have to start over on a new album,
but eventually they sorted out their issues and dropped Eternal Atake in 2020.
Rich and Uzi officially squashed the beef back in July.
Uzi dropped a new track called Hittin My Shoulder
and Rich posted it on his IG Story,
then Uzi reposted Rich’s story,
letting fans know that everything was cool with them now.
A lot of people clowned Rich and Uzi’s beef,
but someone could’ve ended up getting hurt or killed if they didn’t squash it.
Luckily they both moved on before it got too serious,
and now they can just focus on their own careers
instead of throwing hands at Starbucks.