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Kid Cudi apologizes to Lupe Fiasco after years-long beef but Lupe says, 'This ain't enough'

To think this rap feud has nothing to do with bars but rather BAPE.

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Published on January 21, 2024 06:11PM EST

Hip-hop is full of feuds, but long gone are the days of Biggie and Tupac exchanging blistering rhymes amid violence and, ultimately, their respective murders.

No, the game's, thankfully, chilled out since then, but fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and rappers gotta beef. Take Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco, and perhaps the most innocuous rap feud in history.

Cudi — no stranger to rubbing fellow rappers the wrong way — tried to wave the white flag on X, formerly Twitter, writing to Fiasco, “Love u g, Im sorry if i hurt u man. Life is too short. Hope u can find it in ur heart to get past this,” adding that he also DM'd Fiasco personally.

Fiasco responded that he had not received any DM from Cudi, and that if he really wanted to settle things once and for all, he would need more than a social media apology.

“On second thought homey, this ain’t enough," Fiasco wrote, "you need to talk to me."

Fiasco later explained the roots of his and Cudi's falling out, noting that they were once friends. Apparently, this all stems from a 2014 incident in which Cudi blasted Fiasco for charging fans $500 for a personalized verse.

Fiasco tried to confront Cudi about it, but he claims the rapper and actor has been dodging him ever since. But this most recent flare-up in their rap-adjacent battle stems from an interview Cudi did with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, recalling a time in 2008 when he worked at the clothing store BAPE and hid from Fiasco, as he was wont to do with any and all famous rappers.

Cudi said he hid from all renowned emcees while working at the store so they wouldn't use his retail experience against him in the future when he was himself famous.

“If you think about it, he hates me to this day! He hates me," Cudi said of Fiasco. "So I was right, I was onto something. I sensed something in the universe. I was like, ‘F--- this, I can’t have nobody making a diss record like, ‘Yeah, you rang me up, muthaf---a.’”

Fiasco retaliated, calling Cudi a "bitch" who "continues to be a bitch."

"Ain’t nobody finna bring up he used to work at the Bape Store to diss his bitch ass for having a regular job before he was a famous bitch with a cool job," Fiasco tweeted.

Can't this be solved in a diss track and we all just call it a decade? Almost makes you long for the days of "Hit 'Em Up" — or at the very least, "Ether."

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