What’s poppin yall, since the Tory Lanez and Joyner Lucas SHOULD be over I could sit
here and go through the lyrics and songs but if you clicked on this video you probably
already heard them or watched someone else talk about it.
I will mention who I think won the battle so stick around till the end of the video
for that but more importantly I wanna discuss why this didn’t go mainstream or as big
I believe it should have gone on social media and other media outlets.
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The whole Tory Lanez and Joyner Lucas back and forth started with Tory feelin himself
on instagram saying he can outrap any of these rappers and of course Joyner hops at the opportunity
to come at him, challenging Tory.
Tory drops Lucky You freestyle over the beat Joyner did with Eminem, Joyner replies with
Litty Again, Tory comes back with Litty Again, and it ends with Joyner’s Zeze track.
That’s 4 whole diss tracks and there was barely any coverage of this on big social
media platforms or even mainstream platforms that report or discuss rap.
First I’m going to come at Hot97; Ebro is always complaining and whining about rappers
not actually rapping but while this is going on they don’t release any content regarding
or discussing this beef while it happened.
It just goes to show you certain people just complain to complain, they don’t really
care about the “sport” like they claim and there’s a very good reason for that.
This entire beef was overshadowed by 6ix9ine getting picked up by the feds which involved
NO music, his album didn’t even release.
Everybody talking about is he gonna snitch, what happened, this and that.
Another thing that shows how TMZ is actually the lowliest SCUM of the earth is that they
upload a video that was recorded months ago of 6ix9ine and they title it him ordering
a hit on Tadoe.
They’ve had this video this entire time; what if Tadoe had actually gotten killed?
Then what?
They were informed of what was happening and they could have prevented it by uploading
the video when it happened.
Now fortunately that didn’t happen but it goes to show you how they don’t value the
life of anyone, just clicks.
Now this is a big story because 6ix9ine is just one of the hottest rappers and most talked
about, every outlet is going to get massive views talking about this.
So second person I’m gonna mention is adam22.
I didn’t really expect him to cover tory lanez and joyner lucas, but if you’re going
to make a video about some random article about an irrelevant rapper like Azalea Banks
has a one-sided beef with Russ then touching and shining a light on this battle shouldn’t
be hard at all.
Of course he mentioned 6ix9ine and like I’ve said before, everyone should, it’s free
clicks but you can’t pretend like you really value the music when you’re ignoring two
talented artists going back and forth for some guy who’s arrest anyone with half a
brain saw coming a mile away.
Third person is domislive; the alternative to Akademiks, akademiks son, the past 12 videos
straight have only been about 6ix9ine.
At least sprinkle a little bit in between, it is supposed to be a news channel after
all and if an actual battle between two semi-popular rappers isn’t newsworthy then I don’t
know what is.
The reason I’ve mentioned all these people is that Akademiks; with all the clowning he
gets, me being one of those people on occasion, was the person out of all these others who
shone a light on this Tory Lanez and Joyner Lucas beef.
And he out of all people would have the best reason to just ignore it entirely; think about
it he was close with XXXtentacion and he got killed, now he was really close with 6ix9ine
even helping him on his come up when NOBODY liked him, and now he’s facing life and
arrested.
If anybody has an excuse to only cover 6ix9ine and forget about the joyner beef it would
be him; but between dealing with the emotions of his friend being in huge trouble, and tryna
make unbias videos about it, he also covered the rap battle so nobody else that does “news”
has an excuse.
I also don’t think people as in the large majority of rap listeners now; you know the
suburban kids going to rolling loud and those other festivals really care about a rap battle
that doesn’t involve or have potential of somebody getting hurt.
Most of these people don’t care about lyricism, AT ALL, they’re on hard drugs half the time.
They’re more entertained with a Pusha T vs Drake beef because Drake is just the biggest
rapper so they’re forced to pay attention, same thing with Eminem and MGK, and other
beefs because they’re just waiting for someone to get hurt.
6ix9ine and YG beef got more attention than this because everyone wanted him to get beat
up when he came to LA, 6ix9ine and trippie redd beef got more attention than this because
trippie actually got jumped, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj beef got so much attention because they’re
both huge stars but also the violent altercation with a shoe being thrown.
I guarantee if Tory’s peoples had staged that Joyner got jumped or it looked like there
was a potential of violence between them, people woulda ate it up.
The people that enjoy the back and forth between artists just for the fun of rapping and judging
it are now in the minority.
Rap game really is WWE, and as for who I believe won I think Tory Lanez beat Joyner Lucas but
barely.
Joyner really had him initially when he jumped on litty freestyle but Tory came back strong
and really son’d Joyner.
They both tried to play the I’m your daddy position in this jostle but Tory Lanez just
did it better; for example the Lucas I’m your father line really sets a strong tone
and mentioning how Joyner’s actual father never made it as a musician but Tory is a
successful one.
Tory being much more accomplished with several plaques while Joyner still has yet to get
a single one on his own, and on the outro.
I'm really-, I'm really-, I'm really being very generous, you know?
Like I'm really doing you a favor, it's not a lot of niggas in my status that come down
just to, you know, to come down and spank you niggas, pause man
It's crazy, but you know I'ma do for you what niggas didn't do for
me - that's older brother status So if you blow from this point on, I'm your
cosign nigga, you know what it is He’s coming down, spankin him, and cosigning
him, basically giving him help as his father did when it came to music but in a disrespectful
tone.
On the Zeze freestyle Joyner tried to do the same thing but he didn’t frame it effectively
at all, he just told us a bunch of stuff we already knew and he rapped well but the disses
weren’t hitting.
I think Joyner should have came from a different frame instead of the you’re my son because
if Drake did it to Tory it would be effective because Tory looked up to Drake, he’s way
less accomplished, etc.
It worked for Tory against Joyner because he’s surpassed Joyner in every way when
it comes to a career in music, and granted he’s been in the game for longer but he
can son you in that way.
Maybe if Joyner had framed it with height and tackled that since Joyner is decently
tall, came at insecurities short people have, it might have been more effective coming at
how Tory Lanez plays basketball, how funny it is, all of that.
But respect to both of these rappers for delivering some quality songs, a quality battle, and
in a very short time frame of a couple of days.
This is something we haven’t seen in a VERY long time so shouts out to both Tory Lanez
and Joyner Lucas.
Lemme know in the comments who you guys thought won and why nobody really covered it?
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