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In this week's Friday Feuds, a Brooklynite's diss track draws rapid fire from all directions, and an Aussie transplant clashes with an outspoken Harlem emcee. Plus, a pear-loving rapper finds fault with a comedian's cutting sense of humor and more.

Joey Badass vs. Troy Ave

New York emcees Joey Bada$$ and Troy Ave haven't always been civil, but they've never really declared all-out war on each other, either. Until last week when Joey dropped a Statik Selektah-produced track called "Ready," which included what Troy Ave clearly felt was a shot fired...

200K to this day I know you n**as mad / With the 80-20 split my n***a do the math / My n***a Kirk just outsold Troy Ave

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In response, the fellow Brooklyn-bred rapper dropped the track "Bad Ass." In addition to taking shots at Joey he also comes for deceased Pro Era member CAPITAL STEEZ.

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Following the song's release Troy Ave also called in to Sway Calloway's morning show to defend his decision to essentially speak ill of the dead...

“He ain’t pass away, he killed himself. God gave you life, it ain’t your right to take that. That’s a fact. I got n*ggas that’s really dead or in jail with a life sentence that might as well be dead, they would have traded their life with his. That ain’t my business, Sway. I don’t care, that’s not my business. Joey Bada$ opened Pandora’s Box – he got friends who is killing himself. That speaks on your character – You started with me. There’s no rules in a reaction – there’s no rules in beef, there’s no rules in reaction. I don’t start with nobody, but I finish it. You can’t never tell how somebody is going to react. If CapitalSteez was alive, he’s be riding with him.”

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Following the comments, Joey took to Twitter to expose Troy Ave's past recklessness, which included taking shots at Nas...

A$AP Mob vs. Troy Ave

The Joey Bada$$ diss turned out to be one of a few problems for Troy Ave, though. His willingness to discuss the deceased rubbed more than a few people the wrong way, including A$AP Mob members Twelvyy and Ant, who recently dealt with the loss of fellow crew member A$AP Yams...

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Styles P vs. Troy Ave

Troy Ave's callous treatment of the pain and depression that often leads to suicide also drew a usually silent hip-hop luminary into the conversation. Styles P, who lost his daughter to suicide last year, took to Twitter to express his disappointment in the rapper...

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Azealia Banks vs. Iggy Azalea

It's no small secret that Iggy Azalea and Azealia Banks do not like each other. However, all was peaceful on the Twitter front until a recent interview Iggy Azalea conducted with Elle Canada in which she stated that she still hated Azealia Banks...

"When I dismissed her, people started to think that I dismissed the whole movement, but I wasn’t trying to dismiss Black Lives Matter—I was trying to dismiss her because it’s our personal shit. I don’t think the subject matter of her tweet was invalid. I just think it was emotionally charged and driven by something else, and the whole thing got so misconstrued. I just wish I had acknowledged the issue head-on because it made people think I don’t care about what’s going on socially and what’s happening in America, and I do care. Even though I still hate Azealia Banks, I wish I had said it in a way that didn’t make people think I was oblivious to the movement.”

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Banks also dropped a track called "Used to Being Alone" which many felt was aimed at her Australian nemesis...

Rick Ross vs. Chris Rock

Amidst calls to protest the Academy for its lack of inclusion of actors of color, Chris Rock stepped up to host the latest Oscars awards show. In typical fashion, he infused his cuttingly uncomfortable humor and took shots at everyone throughout the night. However, not everyone found his comments funny; namely Rick Ross who called the comedian a cornball during an interview with a Washington DC radio station...

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Kanye West vs. deadmau5

In Kanye-has-beef-with-someone-again news: Kanye West and house music producer deadmau5 went at it. It all started when the latter noticed that West was seemingly in the process of ripping off the digital synthesizer Serum using torrent sharing website Pirate Bay...

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West was not amused, but also had some "very serious questions"...

deadmau5 responded in kind...

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