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Joey Bada$$ Is Beating the West Coast By Himself

The Brooklyn rapper ignited a coastal feud on New Year's Day and he's been holding his own even with a little help from some friends.

Since the Brooklyn rapper kicked things off on New Year’s Day with “The Ruler’s Back,” there have been 22 tracks released (and counting), with a flurry of them coming after Joey’s recent “ Red Bull Spiral Freestyle ” verse, where he addressed the drama that he started. I was into AZ Chike’s decision to step into the ring with his song “What Would You Do?,” but that effort was squashed when Joey called him “Ass Cheek” and brought along battle rap vet Loaded Lux to add insult to injury on their reply entitled “ My Town.” Rome Streetztweeted out a popular meme clip of Stephen A. Smith to express how he feels about people trying to drag him into this thing — and Benny the Butcher seems perfectly fine being a spectator like the rest of us, tweeting out earlier that he felt like Joey was “handling himself exceptionally well.”

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