Ludacris vs. T.I.
The beef originally started when T.I. saw
Disturbing tha Peace rapper
I-20's video. In the video, a guy was wearing a shirt with the words "Trap House."[
citation needed] The guy was getting beat up and stomped in the video. T.I. thought it said "Trap Muzik". Former
G-Unit artist
Young Buck asked fellow
Southern rappers T.I. and Ludacris to appear on his new record on the track "Stomp". T.I. recorded a verse, which contained a line that Young Buck considered to be a subliminal diss towards Ludacris
"Me gettin' beat down?/That's ludicrous/". Young Buck spoke to Ludacris about the verse, to maintain his neutrality in the beef. Ludacris then recorded the verse that can be found on the album.
[1] T.I's record company wanted Ludacris to change his verse before they sanctioned it but Ludacris refused and T.I. was therefore replaced by
Game on the album version. Ludacris and T.I. sat down and talked about it and are now on good terms.
The beef reignited since the film when T.I. made a disrespectful comment on his single "You Know What It Is", about Ludacris winning his grammy for rap album of the year ("Release Therapy") which he and T.I. were both nominees ("King"). The comment made was T.I. saying he felt that Ludacris didn't deserve the award and that T.I. actually had the rap album of the year. He also dissed Ludacris on his verse to Rocko's song "Umma Do Me." However, the two are once again on good terms, and were featured on each other's albums in 2008.