There’s been a lot of speculation the last couple of weeks about what’s going on with Kanye West and Jay Z. It all started a couple of weeks back when Kanye performed at the X Games and, for whatever reason, omitted Jay Z’s name when he performed “Blood on the Leaves.” At the time, it just seemed like a missed lyric. But then, Kanye performed at Bonnaroo and once again omitted Jay’s name from his lyrics. Which of course led to some wild speculation from the Internet because none of us have anything better to do.
Namely, everyone is assuming Kanye is pissed at Jay because Jay and Beyoncé didn’t go to Kanye and Kim Kardashian’s wedding because they didn’t want to be filmed for Keeping Up With the Kardashians. This is, of course, gossip of the National Enquirer variety. But because we here at Complex have nothing better to do than salivate at the kinda traffic we’d generate if in fact Kayne West and Jay Z had legitimate, all out beef, we went down a wormhole about what would actually happen if Kanye dissed Jay Z? These are the five questions that came to mind as we turned the issue over.
Written by Insanul Ahmed (@Incilin) & Justin Charity (@BrotherNumpsa)
What are the stakes?
How ugly would it get?
Who would win?
Would it be good for hip-hop?
Who would needlessly insert themselves into the beef?
