Inside The Battle Between Royce 5’9 & Lupe Fiasco

Episode 55 of AFH's What's The Headline podcast unpacks the evolution of the discord between Lupe Fiasco and Royce 5'9:   0:00 Intro 0:58 Kanye West faked us out again by not releasing his Donda album 1:50 Hip-Hop has its first major beef since 2019 3:46 Is the disagreement between Royce 5’9 and Lupe Fiasco real or staged 7:25 How did Royce and Lupe go from hosting a podcast together to dissing each other on records 10:20 A detailed timeline of how fun and games between Lupe and Royce turned into personal insults 10:28 June 25 - Royce posts about Lupe on his IG and the two have a testy debate on IG live 15:30 Lupe starts to clean his gun during their discussion 19:05 July 15 - Royce and Lupe escalate during a conversation with Young Guru & Mickey Factz 21:06 Royce calls Lupe a b….. 22:40 July 15 - Lupe does a 15+ minute freestyle on IG live about Royce 26:39 July 15 - Royce goes back on IG and says Lupe may be “taking advantage of their friendship” 28:50 July 16 - Lupe says he and Royce have had tension for months 32:20 July 21 - Royce releases “Silence Of The Lambda” dissing Lupe; less than 24 hours later, Lupe releases “Steve Jobs: SLR 3 1/2” in response 32:50 Breaking down the 2 diss records; 1 got really personal 42:20 July 22 - Royce tweets he will not attack Lupe personally 42:50 July 22 - Royce and Mickey Factz verbally spar for more than an hour; Joe Budden joins 51:10 Will Mickey Factz release a record dissing Royce 58:25 July 23 - Lupe says his podcast with Royce is over 1:00:00 Will this battle continue 1:01:50 Was it appropriate for either Royce or Lupe to mention Biz Markie on their diss records 1:04:50 More on Kanye’s delay and The LOX verzuz Dipset, and talking new music by Page Kennedy and Rasheed Chappell