Finally Weighing In on the Lame Cage/Vast Aire/El-P Back-And-Forth
Posted on August 14, 2009 by Chris Faraone
I’ll come out and straight say it: alternative rappers suck at beefing. There have been classic underground feuds – I particularly enjoyed the unprovoked war between the High & Mighty and Masta Ace – but overall I’m generally disappointed in what transpires.
Rap beefs are for ignorant commercial MCs who are willing to shamelessly boast (and lie) about their murder tallies – not for cats who sling metaphors, or who even know what metaphors are for that matter. One exception, of course, is Eminem, who recently beat Mariah with an eloquent shovel; otherwise I want shit talking from the Kay Slay crowd and no one else.
With that said; Vast Aire’s Cage dis, “Battle of the Planets,” is about as mediocre as mediocre gets (and the same goes for his subsequent anti-El-P MySpace tirade). No new revelations about his adversaries surface, and the rhymes are lackadaisical and borderline corny. Furthermore – Cage is just way too easy of a target. If he cared about being made fun of for hanging with Shia and dressing like a downtown clown, then he wouldn’t do it – instead he’d still be a fat degenerate fucking dirty groupie whores.
The only thing lamer than Vast’s seemingly out-of-the-blue rampage, however, was El-P’s high road response, which he has since removed from his MySpace page. Here’s an excerpt:
now i’m sure the person i’m writing this all about will just respond in his usual manner after reading this. denial, anger, threats, capital letters, misused question marks and exclamation points and more accusations. but i’ve got a suggestion for a better way to proceed… just let it go. you’ve gotten your rocks off. you’ve said your peace. now make some music. stop lecturing the world and contribute while you still have time. none of this shit means anything. at all. go make the art you believe in and spend not one more second trying to take other people down or blaming people for the place you find yourself in life.
Sorry if I pulled this beef out of the garbage just to beef with it, but this is the hip-hop blogosphere, where lowbrow is the status quo. I actually planned to abstain from comment on this ridiculous matter; our readers, on the other hand, expressed interest in the JTTS reaction. So here it is: I can’t help but be disappointed in the Def Jux comeback, but it’s probably better off, as an El-P dis track would have likely swallowed donkey loads.
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it seems to me that vast is trying to make the beef racial, which is dumb cus most of his fans are white. they need to squash that shit & let it go. it’s not going to help either one of their careers. It might help vast a little but it wont help cage to get involved. it’s probably true that vast did some fuct up shit but cage should have kept it to himself.
what exactly is lame about el-p’s reply?
I think it was well written.
and also, he actually announced removing it “sooner or later” in the very blog post.
msot of it is archived here
http://www.shabooty.com/2009/08/10/el-p-poetically-responds-to-vast-aire.php
Listen – I’m obviously just being ignorant in saying that his response was lame. Yes – it’s very well-written, and pretty hard to come back at. I suppose I just think it’s lame that he makes it like he went the high road whereas in fact his strike was as scathing and brutal as anything from the other side.
“Split the Pea from the Pod???”
“Form like Voltron??”
Sounds like the boys from the Marblehead High School chess club are battling each other over a cup of Lactaid. Fukkoutahere.
entertaining in the sense that you can tell that vast aire fell off and blames el-p over it. like he matters. el-p killed eso and that dude from anticon and could easily do the same to aire. why bother though? props on the post cause it cleared up my curiosity of the situation. saw it on el’s space beforehand.
WA……..IM WIT ON&ON, CORNY
el p spelled Whos wrong. it should have been whose.
i’m willing to guess that 99% of the dudes dissin Vast and suckin el p is white!
at least vast’s online personality is the same as his real life person.
franky vast has had a terrible solo career, and a canOX record without el-p producing will be interesting. This could be a very good thing for the music as a whole.
As we know, competition is a great tool to keep progression