Singles Joey Bada$$ x Conductor Williams - The Ruler's Back | update : Crooked I & Hitta J3 respond Joey line Directed @ The West Coast

[Busted_Toes]

he a better mc than J.Fold

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I said in another thread that Joey should be for New York what Kendrick is to LA - I’m not from NY though so I don’t know the politics that comes with that. In terms of rapping ability, he’s pound for pound the best rapper in NY but he seems to want be in the artsy lane being a creative, acting and being into fashion.

When he dropped this in 2012 as a 16 year old I thought he was going straight to the top but I don’t know if he’s hungry enough to want to claim best in NY.



NY is competitive so that would be a position he would had have to fight for consistently whereas in LA, every rapper pretty much submits to the position that Kendrick is the best. A lot of that I think is to do with the team Kendrick had around him at TDE though - even the rappers on the label basically submit to that same position. Joey doesn’t have the luxury of a TDE for him to really make that push on the East. Guess he’s enjoying his life though which is probably enough for him.

I think the problem is when he got on he was still too young and finding himself as an artist, as at that point he was never anything more than a solid imitation of the 90s GOATs. By the time he really started hitting his stride he started taking acting more seriously.

In fact, he's actually said that acting was always his real goal, he just got bored with school and decided to rap since that would be a way more fun way to get his foot in the door of Hollywood.

 

[BK The Great]

 

[BK The Great]

Yes I see another rap war coming

 

[Jards]

Look at all the bots laughing at this post.

Every one of those posters has more than 100 in negative rep - something stinks there for sure lool

 

[Pop123]

Middy but I’ll take it, NY been making me disgusted lately, 🫡

 

[Peter Popoff]

Joey is the east to what Kendrick is the west.

 

[Pop123]

he a better mc than J.Fold

Hellllllllllll no. How?

 

[Jards]

what conflict doe? he's just trying to invite East coast rappers to step their game up.

I wish it was a diss, so we could get new music, but there's nothing. Just a Hov line.

To be fair, two things can be true -
When Kendrick spit that the Kurupt line on Control, NY rappers lost their mind lool

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

Yes I see another rap war coming

LETS GOOOOO

 

[Jards]

Joey is the east to what Kendrick is the west.

He should be but he doesn’t have the discography to be able to make that claim. Kendrick’s discography is one of the best in rap and if you exclude GNX, it’s almost flawless.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

Joey is the east to what Kendrick is the west.

disrespectful to kendrick tbh

 

[Pop123]

LETS GOOOOO

Daylyt’s gimmick is being a mo and Crooked I has Slaughterhouse spelled wrong on his arm. Both these dudes are non-factors in any and everything, . Ain’t no coastal bias over here though, that’s dumb nig behavior…hopefully Kendrick responds and smokes this average nig boots,

 

[Peter Popoff]

disrespectful to kendrick tbh

My bad, I meant that as a Joey Badass fan. Him and Kendrick are in my top 5 plus I don't know many talented young cats in NY besides Joey and Dave East.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

My bad, I meant that as a Joey Badass fan. Him and Kendrick are in my top 5 plus I don't know many talented young cats in NY besides Joey and Dave East.

joey in your top 5 ever?


joey hard. but his catalog not nowhere close to kendricks.

i say that as someone who thinks 1999 is a top 10 project since it dropped and probably the best project from the east coast in maybe 2 decades

but joey nowhere near the writer kendrick is.
he can bar out forsure but still not seeing dot in a verse or a battle