

There’s at least a chance to get away from the drama with the lead single “Rake it Up” though. This little bulls–t you doin young nigga, my past history” I’m extraordinary young nigga, I’m past different I’m paranoid I’m shootin quit flinchin, nigga I’m from the trenches Songs like “Different” off Gotti’s new “I Still Am,” the sequel to “I Am ” from four years ago directly reference the feud and keep the beef cooking. Now beefs can be made instantly and responded to even quicker with the push of a button, and everybody takes it more personally because they can’t be insulted that way in front of ALL OF THEIR FANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA who follow them. Eventually cooler heads could prevail with so much time going by. Then you’d have to wait for the response record, or an interview on TV or the radio, and then there’d be another response and the whole thing would drag out over time. One of the unfortunate side effects of the rise of social media has been to amplify beef, because before people would have to wait to amplify the feud with diss records and mixtapes, things that would take time to record and release. There have been FAR MORE than enough bodies caught by hip-hop beefs over the years. Personally I’m hoping someone can step in to mediate this drama before we lose more rap artists to violence. It’s fair to say these two men just can’t get along, and it all allegedly stems from Dolph turning down an offer from Gotti to sign with CMG a few years ago. On top of that Dolph was shot in Hollywood last month and Gotti was named as a person of interest in THAT shooting. He later turned himself in to the authorities investigating the attempted driveby shooting.

Blac Youngsta, one of the artists affiliated with Yo Gotti’s CMG label, allegedly fired over 100 bullets into Dolph’s SUV back in February. The self-described “King of Memphis,” a title that a lot of people from the city claim a piece of, has been involved in drama with fellow Memphis emcee Young Dolph for most of the year.

It has been an interesting year for Mario Mims b/k/a Yo Gotti.
