Breaking Down the Double Standard: Examining Rap Feuds Across Gender Lines

Beef within the hip-hop business has been an ongoing showdown that dates again many years. Rap is a style that has flourished off battles and competitors. Again within the day, there have been limits to how far these disagreements might go, however now that social media and the web have come into play, rap beef has been revolutionized.

Have rap feuds gotten worse? And the way does it differ amongst genders? Probably, among the most notorious feuds had been between Tupac and Biggie, Drake and Pusha T, YFN Lucci and Younger Thug, and Jeezy and Gucci Mane. However as illustration amongst feminine emcees surges within the business, so has rap beef among the many group. There’s Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Latto, Ice Spice, Megan the Stallion, and so forth….and most, if not all, have had their feuds unfold.

Feminine rapper Saweetie just lately mentioned that ladies’s rap beef isn’t seen as a sport like male rap beef throughout her sit down with Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson on the “Nightcap” present.  Mentioning, that when male artists beef, they’re normally inspired to launch diss tracks geared toward their opponent, and their precise abilities are judged off these disses. However on the subject of ladies, nicely it’s completely different. Feminine rap beef doesn’t garner the identical response; as an alternative, the ladies are pushed to be imply and catty.

Fanbases additionally play a heavy half in holding the shenanigans going; messy Instagram posts, memes, and feedback might be extraordinarily harsh and downright evil on the subject of feminine rap beef. The battle between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion bought downright hateful after Nicki launched “Big Foot” in response to a jab Megan took in her single, “Hiss.”  It bought to the purpose the place safety needed to be elevated after followers launched the situation of Megan’s mom’s burial website, which some blamed Nicki for since she mentions Megan’s late mom in her music. One other instance of followers chiming in is when Latto followers allegedly vandalized rapper Ice Spice’s promo billboard in Atlanta after they subliminally bought into it on social media and in interviews.

Feminine rappers acquire traction for his or her beef as an alternative of for his or her lyrical abilities, and ultimately, there isn’t any winner. Their beef overshadows their music and breaks down feminine empowerment and solidarity. However is that this a music business drawback or the stereotypical beliefs that ladies are culturally dramatic and catty? You additionally should query if that is only a lady marking their territory in a male-dominated area.

Sadly, violence has been a results of beef. However there’s a constructive aspect to the web and beef–arguments going down largely over the Web means the disputes keep on-line and out of the true streets, curbing the violence that has tragically plagued hip-hop up to now.