Skepta comes back with some hilarious retorts and a multi-faceted beat to try and end his battle with Joyner Lucas. The new diss track is called “Junior’s Law.”
It seems like that regional battle has rebooted different markets facing off because the UK’s Skepta was ready to take on anyone from the U.S. “I wanna clash an American rapper. Finally get this UK/US rap debate sorted. No violence, just bars, punchlines and counteractions,” he said earlier this month.
Joyner Lucas stepped up to the plate, responding first which the grime legend respected. However, he made it clear that he thinks that the Massachusetts native was making a big mistake. “Hey Jonah, I wasn’t even gonna reply back but I’m a rapper’s rapper. I’m gonna respect the fact that you stood up and said something. The first man, you get me? But this is just another example of the ignorance. Jonah, if you was from the UK, fam? Quiet, bro, understand?”
In his second diss track, Skepta rapped: “I don’t wish I was anything else, I’m a British-Nigerian Black man, Why would I wish I was you when you wanna be Eminem? Blud, you’re the Black Stan, You’re just a fan, so I’m spinnin’ you round, then I’m sitting you down.”
In response, Joyner rapped: “From the Black Eminem, that’s a compliment (Okay) / I’ma wear that badge, I’ma honor it (Okay) / A n-gga sold like two hundred twenty million records / And I bet you done bought a whole lot of them.”
In his new diss track, Skepta responded with: “I never said that you’re the Black Eminem, boy, I said you’re the Black Stan.” He also mentioned Eminem with the following lines: “I know storytelling’s effective But I like your songs from your own perspective. Like your song with Em when you came out the closet.”
Skepta is referencing a leaked track from July 19, 2022, where Joyner Lucas and Eminem collaborated on a song titled “What If I Told You I Was Gay.” The line critiques Joyner’s tendency to write from other people’s perspectives something he’s gone viral for and suggests Skepta prefers when Joyner raps from a more personal place. By name-dropping the controversial Eminem collab, Skepta alludes to the idea that Joyner might be exploring his own s-xuality through his music.
Skepta also mentions D12 with the following lines: “You lost your chances of ever being in D12, and I’ll take the blame.”
You can listen to the diss track below:
