That would be Afrika Bambaataa’s protege Afrika Islam. Islam was West Coast resident Ice’s intro into the NYC hip-hop scene, as the rapper recalled in an interview with Brian Coleman:

[When the “Dog ‘N the Wax”/“6 in the Mornin’” single came out in 1986] I got a cheap ticket and flew to the South Bronx. I was staying with Afrika on 156[th Street]. And because Islam is the man, he introduced me to New York City hip-hop from the top down. Scott La Rock, Chuck Chillout, Red Alert. All the top people

Evil E was Ice’s long-time DJ

A quick pun on the former Chris Lova Lova’s rap moniker

Essentially Luda’s thesis – hashtag rap, or any other flow, has been used before in rap and will continue to appear in different iterations, so criticizing someone for “stealing” it doesn’t make any sense. What’s important is what a rapper does with said flows, and Luda (rightfully) claims that he is among the best and most versatile rappers out there

Luda takes the “gassing them” expression – meaning making egos bigger by giving people (often unearned) accolades – and twists it into a nice image of sycophants getting the two rappers “fired up”, only to have Luda burn them out just like a used-up joint

The “what you sold in your first week” metric went from being an occasionally mentioned stat to the whole focus of whether an album is a “success” or not in just a few years

Luda counters this trend by saying that he is not concerned with big first-week sales from a flavor of the month – he has proven his longevity in the rap game

Luda is worth about $60 million, so this claim, at least, seems to be true

Drizzy and Big Sean are relative newcomers to the rap scene, and have found success only in the past year or two. For them to start criticizing veterans of the rap game, Luda feels, is way out of line