m.i and modenine beef

Like the cold war that went on between the east and western world a couple of decades ago, their has been something similar going on with m.i and modenine. Everybody recognised modenine as the best rapper in nigeria a couple of year ago; eventhough there was a lot of debate then who had the crown between he and rugged man, but the real rap enthusiast knew the crown was comfortably on mode's head. That is until the kid m.i showed up about two years ago, and turned things around.

M.I came on the seen around 2007, but started gaining a lot of buzz around 2008, and then he exploded last year, 2009. Since then, there has been a silent debate on who holds the crown for the king of rap in the country. Although mode is known to stay true to the art, rapping with no gimicks, m.i has the mass appeal with his unique style of rhyming. Apart from being a lyrical m.c, m.i also has a very catchy delivery to his raps.


For a while now there has been some sort of beef between m.i and modenine. I happen to have a friend in the entertainment world that gives me information, "classified", information on what is really going on when these artiste hang out outside the studio, and i heard that you would never catch m.i and modenine in the same room. And then my source told me that the song "somebody want's to die", was directed at modenine.

After i heard that, i started listening for any form of subliminal diss from either of them, untill i heard modenine's new single, "badman". On the third verse of the song, mode dropped the line, "you're just a generic version of lil wayne". I don't think you need anybody to tell you that line was meant for m.i. Just make time out to listen to m.i' especially that "safe" song, and tell me m is not biting off wayne's style. Unless you just want to be a blind fan, then you would agree that he stole wayne's style and swagger.

Anyway, i don't even need anydoy to tell me otherwise, because he said it himself on an interview on "top f.m". About a year ago, he came on "top fm" and during the course of the interview, he said he was listening to a lot of lil wayne before and during the recording of his album; "talk about it."

What i just want to know is who would win in a lyrical battle between m.i and modenine. I have to tell you i am on neither's side, because as much as i do agree that m.i is a generic version of lil wayne, mode is not so different, because modenine's whole style is built on dropping metarphors, and if you are a lil wayne fan, and lisen to his rap, then you know that is his big advantage.

I just need your opinions and comments on this one.