 | The Fat Boys: Safe As Kittens. |
The long-standing rivalry between East Coast and West Coast Old School rappers is yet to produce one fatality or even so much as a minor injury, much to the relief of all the DJs and MCs involved.
Though overshadowed by the much more publicized and violent rap feud between todays rap artists, the Old School feud began long before Notorious Big faced off against Tupac.
It all goes back to a falling out between Whodini and Kurtis Blow, said old school favorite Spoonie Gee, I think Whodini and Doug E. Fresh drove by Kurts moms house and talked some smack to him.
Blow described the scenario like this:
It all started one day when I was mowin my lawn,
It was such a boring drag that I started to yawn,
Whodini drove by and he laughed at me,
Ever since then we been en-e-mies.
Having been disrespected by Whodini, Blow responded on his next album by dissing his newfound rival within the lyrics of his hit song, Partytime:
 | Doug E Fresh: No Worries! |
Gonna have a hoppin party and its gonna be fun,
Gonna drink some Kool Aid and hang out in the sun,
Told all my friends and theyre pretty excited,
Except for Whodini cause he aint invited!
Not to be outdone, Whodini struck back by calling out Blow in his next single, Ice Cream Funday
I like playin b-ball and cruisin around,
I like to eat Ice Cream when its time to cool down,
Id rather hang loose than go to work,
I think Kurtis Blow is a big fat jerk.
 | Whodini: It's all good! |
It was this inflammatory comment that opened the proverbial floodgates and forced the Old School rappers to form alliances against each other. Its sad that it had to come to this said The Human Beat Box of Fat Boys fame, All were trying to do here on the West coast is be ourselves and have a good time. Ba-hu-huh-hu-huh-hu-huh.
Old School rap patriarch Grandmaster Flash expressed his sadness about the feud by describing it as A bummer. The Furious Five were unavailable for comment.
When asked if he thought the feud might ever come to a violent end, Flash said he Doubts it. Were talking about getting a big basketball game together to settle this once and for all. Wed have to split up The Sugarhill Gang of course, but Im sure we could figure something out.
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