Men old enough to be grandfathers should not be swinging at each other on wax. That’s just retarded. These two middle-aged men, Stanley Kirk Burrell, 48, and Shawn Corey Carter, 40, began a rap beef when Jay-Z laid down a track on Kanye West’s latest G.O.O.D. Friday track titled “So Appalled.”
“Hammer went broke so you know I’m more focused/I lost 30 mil’ so I spent another 30/ ‘Cause unlike Hammer 30 million can’t hurt me,” Jigga spits.
When the “Too Legit to Quit” rapper-turned-businessman-turned-minister Hammer got wind of Hova’s diss, he bucked back from his makeshift pulpit, calling Jay-Z a “hellboy.”
“The Answer to Jay comes on Oct. 31 (Devils Nite) … I saw him coming.” Hammer tweeted. “You wanted my attention #HellBoy (Jigga) … you got it,” he later added, then attached a link to a 36-second video of himself pummeling a punching bag.
The inference with the punching bag is obvious. And a rap beef ensues.
But, instead of praying for Jay or asking others to pray for the husband of Beyoncé, Hammer fired into his new enemy with a few more verbal projectiles: “These lil demons and Imps stopping by timeline today … Yes, I dissed yo #Daddy … The dude who made the #Lucifer song … smh,” he wrote, referencing Jay’s The Black Album track. “Laughing at these grown men coming on my timeline with they #pompoms waving for #HellBoy (Jigga).”
Hammer ended this round of the rap beef and Twitter tirade with one more linguistic discharge: “I’m done until it’s time … Oct. 31,” Hammer wrote. “See, no need for such nastiness. I’m going back to the baggy pants that keeps [sic] you off guard.“
Both of these so-called men are history-making and trendsetting rappers who were in the game when rap beefs took away two of our most beloved stars, Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace and caused substantial harm to dozens of others. They should know better than to air their trifling laundry over the airwaves where impressionable kids less than half their age will undoubtedly hear it and then act accordingly.
This makes both of them look ridiculous, petty and misguided. Hopefully, the children will laugh this off and keep it moving.
–terry shropshire
