Online Reporter
Maria Chiguvari
HIP HOP artist, R. Peels, has a simple message for Holy Ten: YOU CAN GO AND HANG.
He says he doesn’t have any respect for Holy Ten, his music and whatever he stands for.
The duo has been beefing for years now.
The situation got worse when Holy Ten released a diss track that targeted the NAMA organisers and R. Peels.
The track also included lyrics directed at social media personality Mama Vee and the lyrics contained what many perceived as homophobic slurs.
Days after Holy Ten’s diss track, R. Peels released a freestyle firing shots at his fellow rapper.
In an interview with H-Metro, R. Peels said the hip-hop genre is all about war.
“Well, it depends on the relationship that I have with the artist, when it comes to conflict. In hip-hop, it’s a sport, it’s a combat sport, it’s a battling sport.
“When we do beef and when we do conflicts, sometimes they’re not personal like me and Holy Ten, we don’t know each other personally. We’ve never shared enough space to have a personal vendetta.
“So. it comes back to do we respect each other or the way that we do our things?
“I have no respect for him. I have no respect for the message he carries. I have no respect for what he stands for and what he teaches to the youths.”
He added:
“So, it depends on the relationship. Otherwise, to everyone else who’s doing positive things and who’s representing the struggling youths, I support them and I don’t have any conflict with them.
“But, if it’s someone who’s not for the people, who wants to teach the young ones a lifestyle that is unattainable or a lifestyle that you need to sell your soul to achieve, then it’s war.
“Sometimes I would have to battle and fight for the people.”
R. Peels has also been beefing with Kayflow.
The rivalry between the two began in 2023 when they did a collaboration on a song “Gold Mafia.”
R. Peels feels did not do enough to market their work.
“Kayflow is different because I am the one who put him on the map, we did an EP together when he was still in Gweru schooling, people got to know him in the hip-hop community a little bit more than what he was doing when he was alone.
“To solidify your name, you need a project so we released an EP but he changed on me when we released the ‘Gold Mafia’ video, he wasn’t willing to promote the video that we did together.
“When we released that video, it had an enormous amount of viewers, the people we were working with had an extensive marketing strategy to push that video, there’s what we call Zvigaba AI generation
“So we were pushing that video to a different mass and he thought maybe we were trying to purchase views for our video, so he was against the whole campaign, he didn’t call me, he didn’t communicate with me he just posted the video and later on deleted the video.”
He added:
“He’s my junior, someone had to discipline him, he was starting to say some things that were disrespectful and acting like he came and did it all by himself now that his career is going up. He thinks that he can just come through and do what he likes but there’s always going to be a person like me who’s going to join the generations from the ‘90s to the 2000s because now it seems like hip-hop is for the 2000s but as long as I am here it’s not going to happen.”
R. Peels said he is working on new music.
“I want to have a little bit more fun.
“That’s why you see earlier this year I was doing some battling, I was doing some beef. I’m just making sure when I make the next project, I don’t have any negative energy.
“I don’t have any war mindset towards the industry.
“I’m one of those people who fight for the people who can’t fight for themselves. So, in this album, I’m going to have a little bit more fun.”
He added:
“I’m going to make more popular records so we can have a great year, business-wise.
“My music is inspirational and motivational, I am one of the people who represent the youth and speak for the people that are going through a lot. So you might find that I don’t make much celebratory music, I make hustler’s music, I make entrepreneurship music.
“I contribute to the music industry as a motivator, as an entrepreneur and as an inspirational artist.”
Mathew Masinge