Schoolboy Q Tyler the Creator Beef

Between touring, recording and wildin' out in Target together, A$AP Rocky and Tyler, The Creator is the all-time bromance since Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Only things weren't always absurd betwixt the pair'due south respective crews.

With Rocky and Tyler stepping into the spotlight in the same year, comparisons between A$AP Mob and Odd Future were inevitable. Not only representing ii unlike coasts, the groups were polar opposites in almost every style: A$AP Mob the loud, flashy kids from Harlem; Odd Futurity the skate punk weirdos from L.A.

Although A$AP and OF never engaged in a full-blown beef—significant no diss songs or grit-ups—tension was brewing betwixt the 2 camps early on.

In 2011, Hodgy Beats ruffled a few feathers by tweeting "ASAP copy," to which Rocky replied, "When I see him, I'm going to ask him what that'southward about. I don't want to smack nobody. I don't desire to get sued. I don't want none of that shit. But shit happens, you know what I mean?"

That aforementioned yr, Tyler, The Creator tweeted, "The Term Video Director Is Thrown Around Loosely Now Days," which A$AP Ant interpreted equally a stray shot in Rocky's management. He didn't think twice almost diving in front end of the bullet: "ill smack the shit outta you," Ant tweeted in response (back when manual retweets were still a thing).

It's unclear when the hatchet was cached exactly—if there was even a hatchet to bury in the offset identify—but with Odd Time to come becoming a thing of the past and Rocky and Tyler heading out on tour together (which didn't seem to sit well with Hodgy), by 2015 it was clear that whatsoever beef between A$AP Mob and Odd Futurity had been squashed. "[Tyler] cracks me upward and I respect his art," Rocky toldHipHopDX that year. "He's definitely artistic. Him and a lot of his boys. I can say that."

According to Rocky, A$AP Mob and Odd Futurity made peace considering they wanted to "set an case" for the residuum of hip-hop.

"Basically, our crews didn't really fuck with each other," he said during a recent appearance on Snoop Dogg's YouTube serial GGN. "It'southward 'cause nosotros were young, 'cause people would compare like, 'oh, they an East Declension group, y'all a Westward Coast group,' shit like that.

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"Then n*ggas simply grew up, everybody got mature, everybody got almost they money," Rocky connected. "Not fifty-fifty that, due north*ggas was really absurd, 'cause I ever was a fan and [Tyler] always was a fan. It was funny 'cause n*ggas could never fuck with each other, north*ggas was complete opps. It started going down at certain points, real shit though."

He added, "Northward*ggas is older at present. We trying to set up an example."

Snoop Dogg, who was likewise embroiled in an E Coast versus W Declension beef once upon a time, shares Rocky's sentiments when it comes to hiding your fandom because of politics. "Them due north*ggas is my family unit, human," he said about Bad Boy, Decease Row's violent rivals in the '90s. "Through all of that shit, we was never actually able to say that we loved each other in public."

Fast forward 20 years and seeing Diddy bring Snoop and Dre on phase during the final Bad Boy reunion prove in L.A. last October felt annihilation but dangerous. "When all that bullshit and everything was going on, these two brothers was calling me and I was calling them, and nosotros always been friends," Puff told the oversupply.

In a war that claimed two lives, even enemies were friends.

Perhaps Bad Boy and Decease Row'south deadly beef served as an example itself for A$AP Mob and Odd Future, or maybe hip-hop's but growing up. It's not similar anyone expected their crews to come up to blows, but the style Rocky and Tyler managed to turn a potential beefiness into a full-fledged bromance (at an even younger age than Diddy and Snoop in the '90s) demonstrates a level-headed maturity that deserves more credit. In any context, two young, influential artists joining forces for the greater good is a beautiful affair.

Rap beef sure every bit hell isn't what it used to exist (see: Lil Yachty and Soulja Boy), but maybe that's a practiced affair. Otherwise, we wouldn't take moments similar this:

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By Andy James. Follow him on Twitter.

Photo Credit: Brook Bobbins

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