A few weeks ago, Joey Bada$$ released the new track “Ready” produced by Statik Selektah over Ebro’s Beat’s 1 Radio show, and at one point he mentions the fact that “My nigga Kirk just outsold Troy Ave”. Kirk Knight, part of the Pro Era group, dropped his debut mixtape Late Knight Special last year and the sales for the project surpassed the shocking 5,000 sales for Troy Ave’s Major Without A Deal.

The beef began when Troy went on Hot97 and claimed to be the most well known and best independent artist today – which we know to be false because come on, Chance The Rapper exists. Either way, Joey took it to Twitter later that day to let the people know that he sold “57000+ copies in his first week” and made sure they all knew that he is what Troy claims to be. Troy then of course called out Joey as being “#FakeIndependent”.

2016 is truly the year of rap beef, with a bit of Drake-Meek action, B.o.B-Neil deGrasse Tyson, and a very short but resolved misunderstanding between Kanye and Wiz. Now, this diss track that Troy Ave has come out with is a continuation of the beef and well as taking a shot at Joey for making that line. The production and Troy’s repetition of “Nobody cares” really reminds me of Drake’s Back to Back. What I don’t get is, if you have listened to Joey’s track “Ready”, the production on that is pretty good as is expected since it’s Statik, but the production on this is honestly just average. He disses some of Joey’s work from B4.DA.$$ and even goes to diss Capital STEEZ (damn Troy really?)

Don’t get suicidal like ya friend, here’s a casket

Steez burning in Hell, my burner’s in my belt

I’m really killing shit, you niggas killing yourself

Fucking weirdos, off the roof, “Steer clear yo!”

This niggas tryna fly, he think he a superhero

Splat man! Fuck you and that man

Honestly, he claims that “Nobody cares”, and while I want to plainly say that “if nobody cares, then why make a diss track which shows the fact that you clearly care?” but he’s trying to get it into Joey’s head that Troy doesn’t care – which still backfires on him, it doesn’t work in Troy’s favour. I will say, however, he does go in, but mainly with the Steez mention, and the singing-rap style is a bit off putting. If Joey decides to respond to this, and let’s be real here, he’ll come with even harder bars.

Congratulations, YOU PLAYED YOURSELF. — BADMON (@joeyBADASS) March 1, 2016