Legendary DJ Ed Lover waited along with the rest of the hip-hop world, to hear how Nicki Minaj would respond to Remy Ma's "Shether" diss. As a fellow Queens native, his degree of anticipation was far more intense than that of the average fan. For as long as Ed has been in the game [around three decades], he's seen battles come and he's seen battles go. Only few could ever bare the significance that a Queens v.s. Bronx rap rivalry can. When on Friday night, March 10, Nicki served fans with three singles worth of scattered subliminal disses, one of which ["No Frauds"] carried the bulk of her response on a feature verse, it left Ed feeling like Nicki was lacking.
"Mama, you gotta beast out now. We from the thorough borough of Queens, New York. Legendary rap beefs," said Ed from The Ed Lover Studio late Friday. "You gotta beast out Ma. You can't do one verse, you gotta do a whole song."
Ed name dropped some of hip hop's most historic beefs, including tiffs between LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee, Nas and Jay-Z, and KRS-1 and MC Shan, reminding Nicki of the lineage she follows behind. Such has been the talk from many who weigh Remy and Nicki's tracks against one another with a lens on lyricism. Meanwhile, there are many who've begged to differ since "No Frauds" dropped, and Minaj made her statement by marrying contentious lyrics with commercial viability.
Whatever the case may be, it seems as though, barring a second wind from Remy that makes Nicki feel compelled to return with something more substantial, we may have seen the beef run it's course. Remy expressed a bit of regret about promoting friction between women trying to outlast the game, and Nicki basically conceding that she's about hit records, not diss records.
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