It’s always interesting to see rappers beef, and usually the reasons that they started throwing barbs for get confused and forgotten. Often, it’s not even the rappers that start the beef—it’s someone in their crew. It takes courage to get together and hash things out like adults, but that’s just what Rick Ross and Young Jeezy did. Props to them for being bigger than the beef and coming together to drop some great records. Hopefully that trend can continue and we’ll see more of Rozay and Jeezy in the studio. Jeezy was asked about the process and talked about his relationship with Ross to “The Breakfast Club” radio show in Atlanta.
“We grown men,” Jeezy said. “The title, Seen It All, I gotta be honest, I just had to come to terms with being an adult and being a leader. Ignorance is one thing and being about your business is another. When me and homie finally had a chance for us to talk and not nobody talking between us we saw everything alike. We made great music before. Why wouldn’t you make great music? At the end of the day, that’s what the world needs more so than people going back-and-forth. The way I looked at it is, people get hurt. I been in them situations before and it’s never you, it’s somebody around you. It wasn’t worth that to either one of us. I think the music is more important. Look at ‘Beautiful,’ that song would’ve never came about if two adults wouldn’t have had a conversation. When I say, ‘I seen it all,’ I really grew up. I came in the game, I was a different dude. Now I see the world different.
“The media and instigators just talking between two adults,” he continued, touching on the reason behind the rift. “Rap is a competition, you got fans. When I grew up I loved Tupac, a lot of people loved Biggie. It’s just like when you wake up and understand that people are always gonna compare ‘cause that’s what it is then you gotta be an adult about a situation.”