Holy long response, lol.
I'm not saying I really want them to fight. I think rappers should stick to making music. But the line was crossed when Raekwon walked into a room with big dudes when it was only Joe Budden and Mickey Factz. Rae went in there to try and intimidate dude. Whether his intention was to have someone hit Joe Budden or not, it happened. I can't blame Joe for wanting to fight him. Why shouldn't he? It's not hard to fight 1 on 1 and not have the police involved. He wanted to do it the night that shit all went down.. but Raekwon left.
I personally could care less who WOULD win in a 1 on 1 fight between these two. I think the fact that it came this far is ridiculous. People knew about the altercation before Joe Budden even went and said something about it. That's a fact. Joe was LIVE when Raekwon and those other dudes walked in the room. I saw it myself. Joe ain't the toughest dude in the world. But Raekwon didn't wanna fight him 1 on 1 the NIGHT IT HAPPENED.. so Joe was probably just trying to embarrass him further by going public and challenging him to a fight.
If I was in his situation and numerous big dudes ran up on me and one of them hit me.. I don't know whether or not i'd do something. Sometimes you think fuck it and do something not caring what's gonna happen and sometimes you think smart and say fuck it, i'll get em later. If I chose to not do anything and let it slide, you bet your ass i'd wanna whoop dudes ass later. Raekwon was the one that was behind the shit. He didn't run in the room with big dudes for no fucking reason. If the situation was reversed, i'd be calling Joe a bitch right now. Joe wanted to fight Rae that night and Rae didn't wanna hear it.
He's all about not wanting to get arrested and his family blah blah, yet he's fine with running up on someone with a bunch of other dudes.
Ur right, the line was crossed when Rae's dude laid hands on budden.
And ur right ppl knew about the altercation before it happened... but nobody really knew the nature of it. So Personally I still think Joe shoulda kept quiet and handled his business, after.
As far as easily having a 1 on 1 with no police involved, I cant agree with that, when u have such a highly publicized beef which involves 2 celebrities.
And ur right if 6 dudes are ready to buss ur ass u got 2 options. (The real but stupid nigga option) Fight back, and get ur ass stomped out or (the real and smart nigga option) keep it cool take it for what it is, then retaliate when the time is right. But those that choose the latter option usually keep shit on the DL and just retaliate without a word.
This is why I still feel Joe Budden knew the fight wasnt actually gonna go down, cuz of the nature of the situation, it was just an ingenious way to make Raekwon look like a punk.
As far as Joe trying to fight Raekwon that same night, I dont know about that man. Personally I feel like Joe Budden is quite dishonest about situations relating to beef so, I would need somebody other than Joe to explicitly state that he was trying to scrap Raekwon that same night, without any publicity. If that were really the case, I'd gain quite a bit of respect for the way he handled that shit.
But anyways fuck this beef shit, I was never really big on hip hop beef, I only chose to speak on this particular one cuz I follow both artists, and its interesting to see the different perspectives on it.
peace