NBA YoungBoy has taken aim at Birdman for alleged betraying on his new track “Tears of War.”
The Cash Money Records co-founder, who has been both a collaborator of and mentor to the Baton Rouge rapper in recent years, appears to have fallen foul of the currently incarcerated star.
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On the track, which was premiered by Akademiks, YoungBoy raps: “Knew that Stunna never loved me, should’ve listened to Carter.”
He was referencing Lil Wayne publicly warning him not to trust Birdman on the 2020 song “Multiple Flows” with Lil Uzi Vert collaboration where Weezy said: “And I had told YoungBoy to watch out for old head.”
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According to Ak, “Tears of War” is the last song that YoungBoy recorded before his recent arrest.
The 24-year-old is currently being held in jail over his alleged role in a drug prescription fraud case in Utah, where he was previously serving house arrest in an unrelated federal gun case.
While it’s unclear what prompted their apparent dispute, NBA YoungBoy and Birdman had grown close prior to “Tears of War.”
In 2021, they teamed up to release the joint project From the Bayou, which was originally supposed to arrive three years earlir.
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Stunna had even gone so far as to say that YoungBoy could save Hip Hop in a FaceTime chat between the two that was posted online last year.
“We need you, bruh,” Birdman told YB. “This shit watered down, man. The fuck, man? Man, this shit too watered down, bruh … We gotta save Hip Hop, bruh. Nephew, gotta save this shit bruh. Real talk.”
His then-protégé replied: “I see it’s watered down. I’m finna come, though.”
The veteran rap mogul had also spoken highly about his fellow Louisiana native in the past, claiming he might be the “biggest rapper” in the game back in September 2021.
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“I think NBA YoungBoy might be the biggest rapper,” he said on the Big Facts Podcast. “Ain’t no n-gga gone be bigger than NBA YoungBoy, numbers don’t lie, he’s the biggest YouTube artist and he behind the wall.
“When that lil’ boy get his mind right and he comes from under this bullshit and understands who he is, you know, [Young] Thug and all them, they’re up in age, they’re 30, this n-gga 20.”
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He added: “NBA YoungBoy, that shit ain’t normal. He nothing normal. He special. Big money right there. I think he’s a billion-dollar n-gga, in the flesh. He gon’ get it in touring, merch, music. We can’t do nothing about it.”
Birdman would also compare YoungBoy to Lil Wayne, saying: “Watching how fast he do music and the value of the music, I saw a lot of similarities between him and Wayne.”
