Anna Baynham
Blue & White Flash / Staff Writer
Celebrity beef is becoming all too familiar in public media today. Sometimes we don’t even know the two artists are even into it, or have problems with one another. That is until they take the beef and make it a lyrical diss or they decide to bring the feud to social networks.
Celebrity beefs aren’t something that we take seriously; unless of course it leads to a scuffle at a major celebrity event. Lately, a lot of celebrities have been expressing publicly how they really feel about one another. Below are some of the most recent celeb beefs of 2012.
1. Gucci vs. Jeezy
These two have had it out for each other since 2005. Well documented beef anyways. It began quickly after they collaborated on the single “Icy”. In between now and then something has brought the beef back to life, leading Jeezy to insult Gucci. Gucci then retaliating and came out with a song called, “Truth”, disclosing details about the beef. He even mentions how Jeezy got someone to try and kill him!
2. Nicki Minaj vs. Mariah Carey
The two collabed on Mariah’s single, “Up out My Face”. Now these two are judges on American Idol and can’t seem to get along. The two divas reportedly got into a heated discussion because Mariah was disrespecting Nicki. We all know Nicki was definitely not having that.
3. Diggy Simmons vs. J.Cole
Their beef hasn’t been for long. It was said that both parties squashed a previous beef. Until recently J.Cole dissed Diggy at the Music Matters Tour. Diggy came back surprisingly hard with a diss track entitled, “Falls Down”.
4. Rick Ross vs. Young Jeezy
Taking shots at each other on different records since 2010, these two have also been beefing behind the scenes for a while now. The feud was then escalated to a scuffle/fight at the 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards.
5. Drake vs. Chris Brown
We all know about the brutal club fight that had these two in every headline on social media networks. Supposedly over Chris Brown’s ex Rihanna, but that has not been a proven fact. After all of the fuss has died down the owner of the club is now suing both Chris Brown and Drake for $16 million.
Letting their fans and anyone else who cares know about their grudges, celebs don’t beef behind the scenes anymore. Which leads me to think that most, if not all of these beefs are for publicity reasons only. These people are making way too much money to be worried about the next person.
I think it’s all just a stunt to get people to buy their latest album, follow them on twitter, etc. Just so we can be hooked into their world of foolishness. I know if I was making as much as some these celebs it would be more like “beef, smeef”. The crazy things about a lot of these beefs are that a good handful of the artists have coloabortaed with each other on songs previous to the beef.
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