ASAP Rocky fans are speculating that he disses Travis Scott in an unreleased song he previewed at Rolling Loud Miami.
“First you stole my flow, so I stole your bitch/Then you stole my style, I need at least like 10 percent," Rocky raps on the unreleased track. "All due disrespect, I hope you take offense."
Rocky is currently in a relationship with Rihanna, with whom he shares a child and is expecting another. Some have speculated that the lines on the track could be directed at Scott, who was rumored to be romantically linked to Rihanna in 2015.
In an interview with Drink Champs last year, Rocky was asked if he was made aware of the comparisons between him and La Flame, which he admitted he was. "You can't feed into petty shit like that," he said around the 46-minute mark of the interview, as seen below.
"I saw similarities for sure, you know, I saw that he was inspired and shit like that, but that's what we in it for," Rocky continued. "That's good sportsmanship. I put it to you like this: If n****s wasn't biting off... Imitation [is the] best form of flattery. If people wasn't trying to imitate you, you're doing something wrong."
In his December 2015 cover story for Complex, Lawrence Schlossman said that Scott missed one of the scheduled interview times because he was currently "holed up with Rihanna, his recently rumored love interest/girlfriend/friend-with-benefit." In the feature, Scott seemingly avoided putting a label on his relationship with Rihanna.
However, Schlossman revealed on a 2020 episode of the Throwing Fits podcast that the feature left Scott angry. "I broke the news about him and Rihanna, which they told me not to do," he said. "Apparently, what [Complex editor Joe] La Puma, our boy Joe La Puma, told me was that it hurt Complex's relationship with Travis. ... This was in 2015, 16, I wrote this. But apparently, for the next couple of years, he would complain about that. ... It's not because he's like, 'Don't tell anyone I'm smashing Rihanna.' It's because Rihanna's like, 'Don't tell anyone that I'm smashing Travis Scott, please. [It's] obviously embarrassing as fuck.'"
In the past, Rocky and Scott have been mistaken for one another in public, which fueled rumors of a beef between the two rappers. However, Scott showed support for Rocky when he was imprisoned in Sweden on assault charges.
Elsewhere in his Rolling Loud set, Rocky made a pair of more explicit disses when he changed the lyrics of his 2016 track "Telephone Calls."
"Call up young lord ASAP Bari, he a bitch," he rapped during his verse of the song, which appeared on the Cozy Tapes: Vol. 1 project. "And the young boy Ian Connor, he a bitch," he added. On the original version of the song, Rocky described Bari as "legit" and said Connor was "off the shit." His former collaborators have both been accused of sexual assault.
Scott, meanwhile, used his Rolling Loud set to confirm the release dates for his two new projects, Utopia and his debut movie Circus Maximus.
