21 Savage addressed any current or future impostors during a recent show, rapping "ain't no 22, ain't no 23" in the middle of a freestyle that got the crowd riled up.
21's retaliatory bars are a direct scratch off the line "this ain't 21, this 22," by a social media comic who has assumed the moniker 22 Savage, and says that he has no plans to drop it. "I was intertwining s**t, parodies or whatever. Then people like, yea man, you should rap for real' [sic]. That's when I came up with that line, 'this ain't 21, this 22.' And people started catching on to it, so I said 'f**k it! I'm 22 Savage," said MacArthur Johnson, aka Mighty Mike, aka 22 Savage, during an interview with Say Cheese TV.
When addressed with the question as to whether he'd consider changing his mind if ever confronted with 21 Savage's disapproval, he responded: "He ain't gotta like it, you know what I'm saying? It is what it is; you know what I'm saying? If he takes it any type of way, he take it any type of way. But you know what I'm saying? It is what it is."
Over the past several months 22 Savage has been cloning everything from 21's name to his song titles, with his own versions of "No Heart," "Jumpin," and other 21 Savage singles. He acknowledges that he is jacking an established artist's style, but says he feels like his skills are a one-up on what fans have heard of the original. 21 Savage is not having it.
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