Bossman's reply to Mullyman
I already kinda set off some controversy in the comments on my post about Mully's diss, and even though it led to some interesting discussion and I think/hope noone's pissed at me about any of that now, I'm reluctant to break the seal on more arguments about this. But in the interest of keeping it balanced, I'm doing an update on Bossman's response and if people wanna argue about who ripped who in the comments that's cool, I'm just gonna chill and try to be a journalist, I'm not tryin' to piss off anyone either side by speaking on it. And radio is really promoting this so much now that people are gonna be talking about it anyway, so I don't think I'm doing anything negative by saying something about it.

So when Bossman played Mully's record on 92Q last Sunday and talked to Mully over the phone on the air, he said a couple times that he wasn't gonna make a response record. But then, Friday night, he was back at the station saying that he was cool with them playing it then and on Tuesday when Mully's album dropped, but he didn't get mad until Thursday when Mully was back on the air with Ghostface, who was in town for a show and guests on a song on Mully's album, and played the track for Ghost.

So he debuted his diss record, a long 6-minute thing over an original beat, Jigga sample from "The Watcher 2" on the hook ("it's only right, I got the right to be king"), kinda weirdly structured with an a cappella section where it sounds like it's gonna end and then the beat starts up again and he keeps going. And not as focused as Mully's, like he could be talking about anybody for the whole first verse until he gets more specific. Hating on the collabs mostly ("his album got more features than a new BMW") and for some reason harping on the fact that Mully's sister is also a rapper on his label, spending the last verse shouting out Northeast street names and saying Mully lives in Glen Burnie and referencing Weekend At Bernie's.

Maybe I'm just in an optimistic mood because last week Jay and Nas performed onstage together for the first time, but I do hope Mully and Bossman get these disses of their system and then they can just hold a grudge and move on with their careers seperately.

Labels: 92Q, Bossman, Mullyman