j4remi wrote:So in terms of battle rap body bags where does this fall? Seems like Meek has no chance to recover and even though Drake didn't drop an Ether level diss, the impact is probably similar to Ether and Nail in the Coffin in terms of everyone saying a rapper who picked the fight has been bodied.
I dont think it falls anywhere. Its uncharted waters. Really because it started a freaking twitter. Over not doing a tweet to promote an album.
Also, I cant recall a time where someone started a rap beef, and could not and almost didnt finish it.
MAYBE,... you could bring up big dropping pac's name in brooklyns finest. And beating around the bush on who shot ya. Only to have Pac drop hitem up, ... then never really officially respond or address it. Obviously drake didnt do a hitem up, but thats as close as I could think.
Or maybe when Nas and Stout decided to drop mega from the firm for nature. Then mega and his people beat up stout and nature BEFORE putting out the diss track. That dont really fit but its an example of ones actions starting a rap beef that led to a song that couldnt really be topped.
In those examples you would have to substitute actual real life interactions with social media,... and I just cant do that.
The way this is ending I can come up with a similar situation though. No one really thought LL could top 2nd round knock out. He drops the ripper strikes back on a def jam promo tape. And while the song wasnt really as nasty as 2nd round knock out. Cool J left canibus in a position where he really could not get back at him.
But canibus never let it go. He kept on trying and trying and even dropped an entire album named after a attempted response. He looked stupid. He took heavy criticism. All his albums flopped and the rest is history.