Today in Friday Feuds a newly-engaged R&B singer has baby daddy drama and a Harlem emcee goes on the social media warpath. Plus, a rapper and a Canadian crooner are captured in a seemingly compromising position. Meanwhile, a controversial rapper kicks a fan while they're down, and more.
Future vs. Ciara
The latest in the saga of ex-lovers turned enemies, Future and Ciara, involves a counter lawsuit with a heavy side of shade...
A fresh round of petty kicked off at the beginning of the week when Ciara made an appearance on Good Morning America to announce the 2016 Billboard Award nominees. When it was time to read off the "Best Rap Artist" category Cici did her due diligence, until her baby father made an appearance, at which point her co-host, Ludacris, had to step in to say Future's name for her...
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Ciara is currently suing Future for $15 million over defamation, slander and libel claims. This week the Atlanta rapper responded with a counter-suit that claims he cannot have possibly damaged Ciara's reputation because she doesn't have one to damage...
The suit also goes on to point out that while Ciara's fanbase is reasonably large, her last album was not a commercial success nor has she won any music awards since 2013...
Azealia Banks vs. Wale
Harlem-born firecracker Azealia Banks took a brief hiatus from Twitter, but now that she's returned she's making up for lost time. Not everyone was on board with her tendency to share her opinions with the world, though. This week she sent out a tweet stating that she didn't feel protected by black men and DMV rapper Wale was quick to respond...
Azealia, feeling that Wale's response perfectly illustrated her point proceeded to tell him so, sparking a lengthy back and forth accented by quite a bit of pejorative language...
Azealia Banks vs. Jack Dorsey
Prior to her feud with Wale, Banks also took the time to call out Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey. According to Banks, Dorsey asked her to promote Square Cash, a Venmo-like platform that allows users to send and receive money...
In return, Dorsey allegedly agreed to promote her mixtape, Slay-Z. Banks also stated that Dorsey requested that she make him a protection amulet, a process that involved the latter surrendering strands of his hair...
Since Dorsey failed to live up to his end of the bargain, Banks threatened to put his shorn locks to good use by hexing him...
Kevin Gates vs. Fan
Controversial rapper Kevin Gates was embroiled in scandal last year when a video of him kicking a fan in the chest began circulating around social media...
The fan went on to file a lawsuit that Gates is now trying to have thrown out by using Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. In court-filed documents Gates's legal team claims that the fan in question attempted to grab him twice before he reacted, making the kick a purely self-defense move...
Kendrick Lamar vs. Mattie Music Group
Kendrick Lamar got an unexpected surprise when he, along with his label, TDE, were sued for allegedly replicating Bill Withers 1975 song "Don't You Want to Stay". The tune appears on K Dot's chart-topping new album, Untitled Unmastered. According to the complaint, though Lamar added his own lyrics, Mattie Music Group, the company that holds the rights to the original song, still feels it's a "direct and complete copy"...
Listen to the two songs below...
Post Malone vs. Justin Bieber
This week, Justin Bieber and Post Malone proved a case of rough-housing can turn into anything the internet wants it to be. It all started after a picture of the "White Iverson" rapper seemingly in the midst of choking out Bieber surfaced...
Shortly after, sources confirmed that the incident had been sparked by Bieber using Malone as a human ashtray inside of a Houston nightclub...
Given the look on the Biebs's face, many assumed that the altercation was serious until Malone took to Twitter to clear the air...
Nevertheless #MemeLife and overactive imaginations prevailed...
Bow Wow vs. Instagram User
This week Bow Wow found himself caught up in a classic case of flexing gone wrong. The former rapper turned actor posted an Instagram picture of a large sum of cash with the rather ambiguous caption, "Liquid cash.... **** a net worth! @millionaire.life.style"...
The only problem? The picture belonged to Instagram user Timothy Sykes, who promptly called him out on the misleading photo...
Bow Wow responded with an Instagram caption summing up just how shameless he felt about the whole thing...
