Bun B has obtained his flowers from San Francisco rapper Cellski, who has credited the UGK legend with diffusing the tense state of affairs between T.I. and Lil Flip — which just about blew up into an all-out “struggle.”
Cellski bought into the main points on a current episode of the No Vultures podcast, the clip of which aired on Friday (August 4).
“Bun B — he pacing and shit,” he started. “[He] walked as much as the truck, like, ‘Hey man. T.I. up there with hella n-ggas, and he talkin’ about taking some pictures at you. I don’t assume y’all ought to carry out.’ And all of us confused and shit.”
He continued: “So Flip like, ‘Man, someone must go see what’s occurring.’ So I hop out of the truck, run up on the stage — thoughts you, T.I. up there with hella n-ggas — and he go, ‘Yeah, I heard Lil Flip within the constructing. Inform that punk-ass n-gga to come back as much as the stage.”
“I run again to the truck, and I’m like, ‘Man, he up there speaking hella shit, bro. What you wanna do?’” Cellski continued. “I’m like, ‘Fuck that, we have to carry out.’ Bun like, ‘Hell nah.’ So Bun made the choice to stand up outta there. […] Daddy was being actual with y’all. He was like, ‘Which one in every of these n-ggas is actually gonna be able to go to struggle with you?’”
Take a look at the interview beneath:
The T.I. and Lil Flip beef goes all the way in which again to 2003, when T.I. first started stating that he was “King of the South” — an appellation which Lil Flip rejected. When T.I. went to jail in 2004, the 2 rappers started buying and selling bars on mixtapes.
In June 2004, T.I. carried out at Atlanta’s Summer season Jam pageant, which he was permitted to do as a part of his work launch. There, the “Rubber Band Man” rapper as soon as once more took pictures at Flip, who dismissed all of it as nothing however nonsense.
“Lots of people have been coming at me, and I actually don’t have the time to handle all of them. Like they are saying: mo cash mo issues. That’s all I gotta say, I’ma hold doin’ me regardless,” he mentioned in a press release on the time.
However the pair continued to duke it out on wax, and it culminated with a brawl within the Cloverland district of Houston, TX, in 2005, after T.I. dissed Lil Flip in a radio interview and subsequently went to the Cloverland district (which is the place Flip is from) to “expose” him as a fraud.
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In the end, in 2013, Lil Flip and T.I. sat down with J. Prince as a mediator to squash the meat.
“What we mentioned was at an undisclosed location and cooler heads prevailed,” Lil Flip mentioned. “You already know, on the finish of the day, it was some petty shit. That’s what grown males do, sit down and determine this shit out.”
In 2014, T.I.’s spouse, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle-Harris, mused that the meat between the 2 was “actually deep.”
“I bear in mind going via that like yesterday,” she mentioned. “Tip is fairly hot-headed. And he may be excessive typically. However at that time Lil Flip had kinda went out of bounds. Speaking about his youngsters. And the issues that he was saying was simply method out of line. Speaking about killing some youngsters.”
