J.I.D. has revealed he was on Joey Badass’ side during his recent lyrical war with the West Coast.
The two rappers sat down with XXL and discussed how they felt about Joey's back-and-forth with TDE's Ray Vaughn and the other rappers from the West Coast who hopped in.
"He said, 'Aye bruh, get them n***as,'" joked Badass about what J.I.D. told him (around the 12:30 mark in the video below). Joey also gave his perspective on what went down. "They got me fucked up," he said. "I’m about to Joey n***as. They got the wrong one. Let’s go. Let’s get to it."
J.I.D. added that the beef wasn’t serious. "It was real slap boxing shit because nobody really hated each other," he explained, before adding that he’s more of a writer than a rapper so he wouldn’t have been embroiled in a beef like that.
Check out their thoughts on the rivalry below:
Joey Badass' disses aimed at Vaughn and others made it clear that he was going for his jugular. On the track "Crash Dummy" that dropped in May as a response to Vaughn and other West Coast rappers dissing him, Joey addressed the allegations that he was at one of Diddy’s "freak-off" parties and alleged that Top Dawg Entertainment boss Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith wanted him to help make Vaughn popular.
"I was at the party, but I also saw Top there," Joey raps on the track. "He said, 'Hey, Joey, I got this artist named Ray Vaughn / And I'd appreciate if you would really help me put him on' / I said, 'Okay, Top, but you know it's gon' cost you' / You know I really want the one who elevated your roster."
Badass didn’t stop there — he attacked Top Dawg himself for his legal issues. "Joey just spun again, how could it be? / It's like he knew it was comin', the future, what he foresee? / Have you ever thought TDE was working for me?," he raps. "Last time I checked, your label exec's was in hot water / The Diddy house angle is terrible, you makin' it way too easy for me, we ain't comparable."
On another track, "ABK," Badass called himself the King of New York. Since the track is a common abbreviation for "anybody killer," the rapper made it clear that he believed himself to be a victor of the entire situation.