Written for Kurrent Music
Published on February 26th 2017
Remy Ma blog
As you know, hip hop is not really my area of expertise, but this weekend, you couldn’t really get around this beef between Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma. I had seriously never heard of the latter, but that is logical as I mainly follow mainstream stuff and checked out of the hip hop scene ages ago. Catching up on the history of the two, I learned that Remy feels Nicki got the big break she deserved, while she was locked up in jail and Nicki has burned bridges with the past. Oh, and they had been friends, apparently, at some point when Remy actually seemed to have the head start as an upcoming rapper.
Beefs like these have always been something like a mystery to me. I mean, I understand that rappers battle each other on the mic, but it’s like there’s an unspoken rule in that. Or so I thought. The rule is you can say anything in the battle, bring anyone into the battle, say anything – true or not – but you can only do that at the time of the battle and the other party is present for that – ready to fire back. All is forgiven after.
