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Chris Brown Puts Alleged Usher Beef To Rest, Praises Super Bowl Halftime Show

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If you remember some of the wildest gossip from 2023, you may recall an alleged brawl that went down between Chris Brown and Usher at the former’s 34th birthday party. Moreover, this allegedly stemmed from the latter trying to calm Brown down after disrespecting Teyana Taylor, although the actual details are quite muddy. Afterwards, Breezy performed at the Dallas native’s Lovers & Friends festival as planned, so it seems like things weren’t that serious or true to begin with. Now, we have another piece of evidence that gives credence to that idea. It’s in the form of a simple fire emoji that the “Beautiful People” singer posted on his Instagram Story, tagging the Confessions legend in it.

Of course, this is likely in reference to Usher’s Super Bowl halftime show last night (Sunday, February 11). While it wasn’t an absolutely uncontested hit in many’s eyes, the public consensus seems to be a pretty enthusiastic thumbs-up. Yet this reopens the conversation about alleged beef with Chris Brown, even though it’s been almost a year since their supposed altercation. We know that the two still hold a lot of respect for each other as artists and performers, so maybe this was all just a big misunderstanding.

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Chris Brown Gives Usher His Props

“You’re a legend, we love you, we’re going to continue lifting you up, man,” Usher told Chris Brown during his Las Vegas residency in late 2022. With that in mind, it stands to reason that whatever issue the two had during that birthday party was just momentary. But as two R&B stars with a similar skillset and slightly separate generations, one can’t deny that there’s a competitive aspect to their bond, too. Looks like that’ll just be an artistic one, and that there’s no reason to tussle over it.

In fact, back when Verzuz was a more prominent series, both fans and the artists themselves debated on who would win between them. Maybe we’ll see that showdown one day, and it would definitely be a win-win scenario for fans. Who are you putting money on? Let us know in the comments section down below. With that in mind, stay logged into HNHH for the latest news and updates on Usher and Chris Brown.

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Lupe Fiasco & Kid Cudi Beef: Unpacking Their Feud

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Over the course of almost ten years, Kid Cudi and Lupe Fiasco have kept up one of the oddest and seemingly pettiest hip-hop beefs in recent memory. Its origins center around a near-encounter at a BAPE store over fifteen years ago and a debacle over Fiasco allegedly exploiting his fans for quick money through expensive per-request verses. However, they admire and praise each other’s work and companionship through Lupe’s early support of Cudi and his personal struggles. This long-running tale of rivalry is that of avoidance, principle, and the importance of a one-on-one conversation. First, let’s start in 2008, back when Mr. Rager was just Scott Mescudi, a BAPE store employee.

One day, the Chicago lyricist arrived, and Kid Cudi went downstairs to avoid him until he left, which he said was because he didn’t want any famous rappers seeing him at his job because, he felt that when he would eventually get famous, they might bring up this past against him in future beef. What’s ironic is that Lupe Fiasco ended up feuding with him anyway for unrelated reasons. Regardless, the Cleveland native thanked Lupe for his support in a 2010 Complex cover story. “There’s one artist in this game who has always had my back and had nothing but love to show, and that’s Lupe Fiasco,” Cudder remarked. “Every time I see that man, it’s nothing but love. I saw him a little after it, and he was like, ‘I’m worried about you, man, just checking in.’ He’s somebody who I know really genuinely gives a f**k.”

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How Did This Beef Start?

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Kid Cudi attends the “The Book of Clarence” premiere on January 05, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Their beef really began in August 2014, when Kid Cudi questioned Lupe Fiasco’s financial decision to charge fans $500 for a personalized verse. The DRILL MUSIC IN ZION legend felt blindsided by his colleague and friend and clapped back by referencing Cudi’s own expensive fashion collaborations. In January 2015, they battled again over Azealia Banks’ comments that Lupe and other artists (including Kendrick Lamar) seemed to blame the Black community for the death of Mike Brown.

Since then, Lupe Fiasco proceeded to repeatedly call Kid Cudi out for switching up on him and refusing to make amends or confront him about the situation. During a November 2015 show, Lupe threatened to fight Cudi and said he wouldn’t hold a grudge against him in the same performance and even provided a bizarre Santa metaphor to explain why the Kid was a “b***h.” He mocked the Man On The Moon artist for threatening Drake from rehab in 2016, expressing that he “needs his a** beat,” and later, dissed him in 2018 while apologizing to Barack Obama and Kendrick for his criticism. Even though their attacks died down for a bit, Lupe reignited things in 2021 by dissing him about his feature on the Drake album Certified Lover Boy. At this point, it became clear that this was mostly one-sided since Cudi refused to engage.

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Where Are Kid Cudi & Lupe Fiasco At Now?

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Lupe Fiasco performs during the Hip Hop 50 Live concert in New York City on August 11, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Still, all this beef emerged while these artists continued to praise each other back-handedly on occasion. For example, Lupe Fiasco said that Kid Cudi was “a GOAT, but a b***h” in 2022. In addition, he wished for Will Smith and Chris Rock to make up after the Oscars slap while standing on his distaste for the 39-year-old. Lupe quadrupled down at the end of 2022 by responding with “F**k him for life” to a fan asking if they’d ever reconcile, but history took a turn this year with Cudi’s recent interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music. Here, he recalled the 2008 BAPE story with the 41-year-old, which prompted him to respond on Twitter with more attacks. While the “GHOST!” creative offered an apology via social media, the “MS. MURAL” lyricist wasn’t having it and said that he needed to talk to him if this was to resolve.

Now, at the end of all this, Kid Cudi let fans know via Twitter that he spoke with Lupe Fiasco and that they hashed everything out, and his former opponent’s co-sign of this and promotion of his new album INSANO means that they finally squashed their decade-long beef… for now. Afterward, Lupe trolled a fan by suggesting that part of their deal was that he would beat one Cudi fan up (which you can read below). As such, maybe this tale isn’t over, but we’re happy that these two amazing artists are finally at peace. A collaboration would be one of 2024’s most heartening hip-hop moments, so let’s see what the future holds in store.

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N.O.R.E Says He And Cam’ron Are “Good” After Apparent Diss

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In the media world, and especially in the free-form thoughts in the podcasting space, you have to be careful with your words. Moreover, an appearance on The Joe Budden Podcast made N.O.R.E. start a brief spat with Dipset legend Cam’ron. For those unaware, Noreaga made some comments on the show about rappers flexing their extracurricular ventures without really being as successful as they think. Not only that, but the fact that Joe Budden and Killa Cam already have beef must have painted this issue in a worse light. Still, the Drink Champs host took to Twitter to say that he and the New York rapper cleared the air. On his Instagram Story, Cam posted the tweet along with heart and flexing emojis.

“Just spoke to cam we good!!!” N.O.R.E. wrote on Twitter. Furthermore, this came after he already denied dissing Cam’ron, who has his own sports and cooking show. “Me and you are friends from the 90s,” the podcast titan wrote. “You have my real life phone number. You hung out with me for days before you did Drink Champs just to make sure I was the same yalla that you know. If you thought at any time I was going at you, Why would you go to the internet 1st?”

N.O.R.E. & Cam’ron Settle Down Their Presumed Beef

While N.O.R.E. and Cam’ron are “good” now, the latter’s words against Joe Budden make it clear that there’s still animosity there. “Damn @therealnoreaga told you I couldn’t trust you. Lolol. Im just f***ing wit ya,” the 47-year-old expressed. “But what other rapper from the 90’s got the sports and cooking show? U know u my n***a for life. But ya man h*e buddons threw u under the bus on the very Nx episode said he didn’t know who u was talking bout. I don’t give a f**k how his numbers is N.O. Stay away from that crack head!!!!”

Meanwhile, the Diplomats MC boasts more than a few notable interview-adjacent antics, most notably his infamous “You mad?” interview with Bill O’Reilly. Recently, he elaborated on how that came about. “At the time, I was at Roc-A-Fella and they had a great publicist at the time,” he recalled. “A lot of these opportunities were presented but people were scared to take the opportunity. So particularly with the Bill O’Reilly ‘You Mad’ situation, they was like, ‘You want to go on Bill O’Reilly?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know who Bill O’Reilly is. Who is that? Not really.’” Still, he took on the chance and the rest is history. For more news and updates surrounding N.O.R.E. and Cam’ron, come back to HNHH.

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Young Buck & Starlito Squash Longstanding Beef

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Young Buck and Starlito have squashed their longstanding beef, the two confirmed in a post on social media, Sunday. The two have been at odds since 2017, when Buck confronted Starlito at a basketball event in Nashville, Tennessee. In a video of the incident, they put their hands on each other and yelled insults. Afterward, both rappers dropped diss tracks aimed at one another.

“We Don’t Owe Nobody No Explanation Or Explaining!!!!,” Buck captioned a new photo of himself with Starlito. “Just Know Our Misunderstanding Has Been Squashed [100 emojis] !!! On That Note…. @starlitogrindhard LETS GOOOO [Exclamation point emojis] #Cashville ITS [UP! emojis] [Rocket emojis].”

Young Buck On Stage

LAS VEGAS, NV – OCTOBER 10: Rapper Young Buck of G-Unit performs at the 10th annual Wine Amplified festival at the Las Vegas Village on October 10, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/WireImage)

Young Buck then followed up his original post with an IG Story tagging Starlito. It read: “Big win [Gold number one medal emoji] for the city, proud to see this.” The two were friends prior to their spat, having collaborated on several songs including 2016’s “Streets Sour,” 2013’s “Countin’ My Pockets,” and 2012’s “Wake Up.”

Fans were plenty excited about the two rappers reuniting once again. “I’m Proud Of Y’all … Now It’s Finna Make Sense,” one commented. Another added, “Two of the greatest artists that ever touched a mic. Cashville Goats.” One more fan further called on the two to collaborate once again: “My 2 favorite rappers back locked in….drop that music we been waiting for.”

As for their respective diss tracks, Starlito kicked the back and forth off with “You Should Be Proud.” On the song, he raps, “Nobody ever did it bigger for the ‘Ville than Buck/ But I’m realer and I really don’t even give a fuck/ How the fuck you know you never know who fuck with who/Playing both sides ain’t cool/ I don’t fuck with you/ I always pay homage/ I always kept it honest/ You call me ’cause you thought I tried to holler at your baby mama.” Buck fired back on his own song, “Lawd Have Mercy.”

Young Buck & Starlito Making Amends

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Fat Joe & Uncle Luke Squash Their Miami Hip-Hop Beef

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When two legendary figures in the rap world come together to spit game after past disagreements, such meet-ups make the culture thrive. Fat Joe and Uncle Luke recently squashed their short-lived beef over who really put Miami rappers Pitbull and Trick Daddy on. During an Instagram live session on Friday, the Terror Squad mogul clarified his claims made on the My Expert Opinion podcast that he was the main booster of their careers.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 15: Fat Joe speaks onstage during “In Conversation with Fat Joe” at The Apollo Theater on November 15, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Shahar Azran/Getty Images)

“I love Joe but i find this very interesting because i discovered @trickdaddydollars he did his first song with me as soon as he got off the lock up and by he stayed with me,” Luke responded shortly after. “I also discovered signed @pitbull to the platinum selling Luke records label he did his first song’s with me.

“Maybe I’m missing something here I do have the receipts,” the 2 Live Crew boss added. “By the way because you don’t see me all in the videos at the birthday partys [sic] yes @djkhaled i found him on underground radio mix 96 brought him to main stream, radio @99jamzmiami The Luke Show.”

First, Fat Joe kicked off the live by making sure his audience knew Uncle Luke’s impact and career position. “Like I told you Luke is an icon, living legend,” he stated. “He created the sound of Miami. He put everybody on.”

Also, the New York rapper recounted visiting Miami in 1999 for Super Bowl XXXIII. There, he said, he found what was so special about Trick Daddy and explained his perspective and role.

“Trick Daddy s**t was playing all over the Carol Mart [flea market], all over the parties,” he elaborated. “I went back up to New York. Sat in the office with Craig Kallman, who’s still the boss of Atlantic. I don’t f**k with him no more, but I took the demo of Trick Daddy. I put it on his desk and said, ‘You need to sign this guy, he’s the next guy.’”

Fat Joe has always sought the pulse of the culture, even if he doesn’t get his proper flowers for it sometimes. He recently spoke about being frustrated when he lost a Grammy to Chance the Rapper. Moreover, he went on to explain: “I know you discovered Trick Daddy, you discovered Pitbull. I never said I discovered them, Luke. I took his demo, out of love for hip-hop. And Craig Kallman called me two days later and said, ‘I signed the guy Trick from Miami.’

Luther Cambell a.k.a. Uncle Luke performs during the BET Hip Hop Awards 2017 at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre on October 6, 2017 in Miami Beach, Florida. / AFP PHOTO / Gaston De Cardenas (Photo credit should read GASTON DE CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Additionally, Fat Joe said he gave Pitbull’s music to Steve Gottlieb and Brian Leach of TVT Records. They were searching for a Hispanic artist after Joe’s success.

“When Big Pun’s double platinum, Fat Joe’s platinum, the Spanish n***as is rockin’, TVT is begging me for any Spanish artist in the universe,” Joe remarked. “Robby Rob steps to me and says, ‘Joe, I need this favor.’ I walk in TVT to Brian Leach, Steve Gottlieb and I said, ‘This is the guy. This is the next one.’ Now they signed him.”

Furthermore, Uncle Luke recognized Fat Joe’s influence and the role he played in keeping the playing field competitive.

“I wanted a Cuban artist because I was from Miami,” the Miami legend told fans. “Jullian Boothe, he was my A&R guy. Big Teach, Jeff Sanchez, [I told them] ‘We need to find a Cuban artist. I don’t give a f**k what y’all do. Go find me a goddamn Cuban artist because I will not be complete in Miami unless I have a Cuban artist. Them dudes got Big Pun and Fat Joe outta New York, we gotta compete.”

Meanwhile, Fat Joe recently explained how his beef with 50 Cent cost him $20 million. It’s good to see him squashing beef before it gets too steep. You can watch the entire conversation between the two OGs below.

What do you think about Uncle Luke and Fat Joe’s conversation? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned to HNHH for the latest in hip-hop legacy.

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