Monday was a bad day for Queensbridge.
First Lamar Odom aka Mr. Khloe Kardashian winds up parting ways with the Dallas
Mavericks with a huge cloud over him. Can’t be good for Kris’ percentage as his
manager. Then I get home and get wind of a Twitter war starring…MOBB DEEP?!!
For those who have avoided this situation like a ‘Basketball Wives’ pancake breakfast,
let me sum it all up. Havoc allegedly fired off a string of nasty Tweets directed at
Prodigy, proclaiming him to be a jailhouse homosexual. He even claimed he had to
put hands on Prodigy at last month’s SXSW in Austin in the rant as a result. Hav later
issued a statement claiming his phone was stolen while at a gas station in New Jersey.
But there’s now audio which repeats the same claims and the voice was confirmed on
The Breakfast Club by Noreaga. Prodigy issed a quick reply via Twitter, claiming that HIS
account was a fake to begin with but never addressed the comments made.
This whole situation is like stepping off the back of the bus and catching a foot in your
back to make you crash to the ground. One of the grimiest hip hop duos ever beefin’?
ON TWITTER?!!! That’s about as gangster as Richard Simmons doing Eazy E karaoke.
For anyone who’s followed Mobb from their first album, this hurts. Being from Southeast
Queens, you know that part of the summer of 1995 had to have ‘The Infamous’ as part
of the backdrop. They are the stickup kids turned into verse-spitting rap stars. They were
the only ones willing to challenge Snoop & the West Coast during those times of coastal
beef. Havoc and Prodigy, for all that’s been said about them, were real in that sense.
You don’t expect thug dudes like they are to air each other’s business or even attempt
to online. That’s for the Chris Browns and Perez Hiltons and Courtney Loves of the world.
Beefs begin on wax and (hopefully) get handled on wax. That’s been the way. But this
episode shows that even this code is no longer sacred.
The other aspect about this that is troubling is the homosexuality issue. We all know that
it’s a hot-button topic in hip-hop. Who’s on the DL? Who isn’t? It’s a common slur when it
shouldn’t be, but it is. And ‘allegedly’ calling your main man out for it publicly is a bad look.
First off, it raises the question as to WHY someone would even do that and second, why
would you do that to your boy of 10+ years? Knowing that Prodigy has been the brunt of
jokes ever since the Summerjam screen? Maybe there’s been tension brewing all along.
Maybe Havoc got tired of Prodigy’s Alex Jones speeches. Maybe the rigors of being relevant
in today’s candy-painted rap game got to them. Either way, there’s a sadness to all of this.
Just sadness.