Troy Ave and Joey Bada$$ has been involved in intermittent bouts of tension since last summer, but over the last week, their riff has intensified into full blown “beef.” After Joey released a loose single, “Ready,” just over a week ago, during which he bragged that fellow Pro Era rapper Kirk Knight‘s debut album, Late Knight Special, outsold Ave’s, Major Without a Deal album, which sold infamously poorly, Ave shot back with a diss track, “Bad Ass,” that took some ugly shots at Joey’s fallen friend and crew member, Capital STEEZ.
Since then, Joey hasn’t responded in kind with a diss, but has commented a few times on social media, even calling out Troy Ave for some shots he took at Nas on social media a few years ago, and invoking DJ Khaled‘s uber popular “Congratulations, you played yourself” catchphrase on Twitter. Today, Bada$$ took to Instagram to elaborate on his distaste for Ave, a fellow Brooklyn native, while reminding people why he’s above responding with a diss track, and why his career far outweighs that of the BSB Records rapper.
Ave responded a short while ago with a “Revenge of the Nerds” meme of Joey, taking more shots at STEEZ, calling him Bada$$’s “roof jumping bestie,” and referring to Joey as a “stupid drug addict.” Needless to say, this war of words is progressively getting uglier, and hopefully, for all parties involved, it remains just that.
