Ebro done started something.
Last week, the host of Hot 97 New York’s Ebro in the Morning criticized Complex for its ranking of Rae Sremmurd’s SremmLife on its Best Albums of 2015 list at No. 3. The radio jock said the ranking is much too high, even insisting that Swae Lee and Slim Jimmy don’t write their own rhymes.
“They didn’t write that shit—any of it,“ Ebro said of Rae Sremmurd’s contribution to SremmLife. Mike WiLL Made-It made that album… It was a fabricated thing.”
Well, Mike WiLL’s proteges heard him loud and clear. In response, Rae Sremmurd dropped a back-and-forth freestyle on Tim Westwood’s radio show, taking some digs at Old Man Ebro in the process.
Slim Jimmy starts it off early:
Fuck them niggas talking like we ain’t real good with that pencil
I come straight up off the dome and spit shit you gon’ remember
Later, Swae Lee lets off some shots:
Catch me overseas I’m dropping Euros, Euros
I ain’t never gave a fuck about a Ebro, Ebro
Bitch, I’m ballin’ and you know I’m a hero, hero
Then Slim Jimmy tags himself back in:
Ebro Ebro, Ebro Ebro
Fuck you, I’m super cold, sub-zero, zero
Hating like the flow ain’t lethal, lethal
Hating on me, you seein’ dead people
Ebro took to Twitter with some feedback—“Fire. Flame. Fuego,” he wrote—later questioning a lyric suggesting his 16-month-old daughter purchased SremmLife.
What’s clear is that Rae Sremmurd’s 20 minutes of flow was off-the-top. Swae Lee shared his thoughts on Ebro’s ghostwriting accusations with Westwood.
“We don’t even got to address that because you can look at the credits and see who writes the tracks,” the 20-year-old rapper said. “Don’t put fake facts out there.”
Ghostwriting has been a hot button topic in 2015, particularly following Meek Mill’s accusations that Drake does not write his own material. His now-infamous Twitter rant spawned an intense, still simmering public beef between Meek and Drizzy.
Earlier this month, Rick Ross released his Black Market LP, which features a song called “Ghostwriter.” He told Billboard, “I finally wrote a record telling the way it feels for me to be… not only a ghostwriter, but one of the biggest in the rap game.”
Watch Rae Sremmurd show and prove their skills for 20 minutes straight in the video below. —John Kennedy
