Joyner Lucas has entered the transatlantic rap feud with a hard-hitting response to Skepta, releasing a new diss track titled “Nobody Cares” on Tuesday, July 15. The track directly addresses insults from Skepta’s recent “Friendly Fire” and continues the escalating rivalry between the U.S. and U.K. hip-hop scenes.
Clocking in at just a few minutes, “Nobody Cares” wastes no time, opening with Lucas declaring, “Who want smoke? Gimme the blunt, I’m ready to blaze a corpse, after this song is over, I never wanna hear this debate no more.” Over energetic drums and eerie chords, Joyner delivers pointed lyrical attacks, aiming not only at Skepta’s relevance but also his financial success: “Maybe you mad because you ain’t got buzz up in the U.K. no more / I heard your career just ain’t what it was and you don’t get paid no more / If you want a feature, n**ga, just say it, but you gotta pay me for it.”
The chorus also references Drake, who recently brought Skepta on stage during his headline set at the Wireless Festival: “Nobody cares about how you and Drizzy are close, or how you invented U.K. rap, but still ain’t Top 10 on your coast, n**ga.”
The feud intensified after Skepta called out Lucas by name on “Friendly Fire,” rapping, “Joyner Lucas, you bastard, why you rap like you studied at Harvard?” The diss exchange began after Lucas challenged Skepta online, tweeting, “The moment I’ve been waiting for… Say the word, Joyner Lucas vs @Skepta. #UKvsUS.”
While Skepta has not issued a direct musical response yet, he reacted on social media to posts comparing the artists’ Spotify monthly listeners — 12.8 million for Skepta versus 5.5 million for Lucas — adding the comment, “Ignorance is bliss.” Whether this back-and-forth continues remains to be seen, as fans on both sides await the next move.