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Joey Bada$$ Has No Issue Partnering With Columbia Right Now
“It’s very timely to have someone like me on the campus.’
This month, students saw campus activist Mahmoud Khalil spirited into detention, while the school acquiesced to a strenuous White House list of demands including a mask ban while under threat of losing $400 million in federal funding. A J. Cole joke and a Jay-Z quote sent the rap-podcast and -forum sphere beyond mere speculation and into certainty that this is a repeat of Joey’s reply to the “Control” verse in 2013, when Lamar claimed to be “king of New York.” The new cuts could beread as a personal tiff with very specific artists or as a Brooklyn rap obsessive reflecting on a mass-media and major-label feeding frenzy out west. With some time on the phone late last week, I prodded Joey Bada$$ about the Columbia residency, whether the TDE whispers are the usual post-beef audience delirium, and what actually inspired his new songs.
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