Inspectah Deck of the Wu- Tang Clan just dropped a hot slab of beef on Joe Budden of Slaughterhouse. You may remember a while back when Budden announced he was a greater rapper than founding Wu-Tang member Method Man, in response to a "Best Rapper Alive" bracket competition by now-defunct Vibe magazine. Meth responded to Budden's tabloid-magnet delusions, calling the rapper a crybaby. Soon the circle got wider, including members from each rapper's crew in the war of words, and Deck is the latest to step up in defense of his man Meth.
Yesterday, Deck released a free track titled “House Nigga,” where he makes no half-steps in calling out Budden:
Deck rhymes: First of all, you a blogger, YouTube goon/House nigga/ I see you like to put your world online, ain't nobody checkin' for you/They checkin' for your girl's behind/While your homie in the bedroom, dustin' his eyes/While you filmin' dumb shit/They probably fucked a few times/How you Slaughterhouse, you barely get a nod/I'm convict, benchin' daily in the yard/So I'm built like Optimus Prime/You couldn't see me with binoculars, I'm way ahead of you...This nigga's life's a publicity stunt/But he think he fever/I ain't a believer/Def Jam chucked him/They ain't feel him neither/Why are you talking like the Morpheous of rhymes/When my first shit sold more than all your shit combined...Mef let you live, I'ma set it/And I ain't on the phone but you get the text message...And I ain't gotta talk about Gloria Velez/Stalker ass nigga, you were callin' her obsessed.
The beef initially sparked back in May when Budden made the following comments on the Ed Lover In The Morning Show:
"You have these guys that hide behind these publications, we have no knowledge of them. We don't know them, their credibility...I'm not stupid, I know exactly who Method Man is and I know who Redman is, I know what these guys have done for hip-hop...My point in that video was, today, in 2009, I'd clean Method Man up...I can prove what I'm saying...If he sits at your show and does 32 bars, your face is gonna remain exactly the same. It's not gonna change for one verse. For the majority of rappers on that list, if they have a problem with something I said, get in the booth."
Following Joe's interview, Method Man phoned into the show to set the record straight.
Deck stepped in to defend Meth as well, telling an interviewer:
"I'm with my niggas, you know what I'm saying, I'm guilty by association anyway. You diss one, you diss us all. So I'm living by that. But first of all, I heard him say it wasn't directed towards the whole Wu, it was directed to Meth, which is still the whole Wu. You can use our name as much as you want to, you can say about Wu, we still legendary, monumental, influential motherfuckers in the game son. Not just here, internationally man. There's really nothing Joe Buddens could say really to Inspectah Deck to make me want to jump and do anything because personally, my legacy is bigger than his."
Budden has responded, of course, via a live BlogTV broadcast. Here's what he had to say about Deck:
"When I first heard the Inspectah Deck shit I thought it was weak but I said, 'Aight I'm going to tear him up for fun. I just wish somebody else would've responded, not him...Vibe Magazine is shut down. Me and Raekwon talked it out, me and Busta Rhymes already spoke. Now here you come...While Inspectah Deck may be considered a legend for the one great verse he had in his 30 year career, it's 2009...We'll see how it all plays out. We gotta see how it goes down when I get into the studio...BlogTV probably pays me more than he's made...He should be dissing RZA for not paying him...When Saigon dissed me, my next diss track was the fact that I got paid from his diss track...I don't think people really use their heads. He rapped on 'Pump It Up.' Me and Just [Blaze] got paid for it."
Budden and his Slaughterhouse partners, Crooked I, Royce Da 5’ 9” and Joell Ortiz, have a lot of hype and controversy to work with when their debut album drops. It'll be interesting to see how they handle it.
