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When Marlon Wayans claps again in opposition to Soulja Boy, it hurts. Good.
Apart from being a footnote within the Bhad Bhabie and Alabama Barker feud, it’s been a scorching minute since Soulja Boy was a scorching matter. Or perhaps a lukewarm matter.
In his quest to alter that, the rapper — whose profession peaked through the Bush Administration — is igniting a beef with Marlon Wayans.
Soulja Boy is giving it his all, even attacking Wayans’ transgender son with a homophobic slur. However these despicable antics aren’t carrying a lot weight in opposition to Wayans’ clapback.
This feud between Marlon Wayans and Soulja Boy is ugly — and pretty one-sided
Soulja Boy’s newest try to inform ’em, so to talk, appears to be backfiring.
Maybe he shouldn’t have engaged in a disagreement with a comic. That seldom ends effectively.
“If @souljaboy had a profession he might get cancelled for the sort of slander,” Marlon Wayans tweeted on Wednesday, February 12. “Fortunately he ain’t been related since 2007.”
The context of Wayans’ tweet was a screenshot of Soulja Boy’s put up. The has-been rapper had screenshotted 2024 headlines concerning the comic’s assist for his trans son, Kai.
“That f—-t shit run within the household huh @MarlonWayans no marvel u like dressing up as a bitch it’s in ur blood,” Soulja Boy spat in his personal put up.
The f-slur most particularly refers to homosexual males, however bigots typically make use of it to assault any member of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood — and even cisgender, heterosexual males whom they understand to be a part of it.
Why is Soulja Boy utilizing despicable slurs to assault Marlon Wayans?
There’s in fact no good strategy to spew a slur at somebody. However this occasion — focusing on Wayans’ youngster — appears particularly disgusting.
In late 2023, Marlon Wayans revealed that his eldest youngster is a transgender younger man throughout an look on The Breakfast Membership. He revealed that his son’s identify is Kai, and affirmed his assist for him.
Wayans totally confessed that he began off ignorant about his son’s gender. Then, he defined, he skilled “full unconditional love and acceptance.” You recognize, like mum or dad. Or any respectable individual.
As for why Soulja Boy is attempting to make use of this feud with Marlon Wayans to stay related, it goes again to January.
Wayans appeared on the 101.1 The Wiz radio show, throughout which he identified that Soulja Boy is clearly trying to cling to relevance almost 20 years previous his profession’s peak.
On the time, Marlon Wayans fielded a query about responses to Snoop Dogg and Soulja Boy performing on the second inauguration of President Donald Trump. Wayans joked that the rappers hadn’t identified that it was for Trump, however in all probability thought that it was one other cryptocurrency occasion. (A savage and deeply humorous insult)
As for this feud …
Marlon Wayans additionally joked on the time that it does not likely matter if individuals keep away from Soulja Boy within the wake of his craven efficiency on the Trump inauguration.
Why? As a result of “nobody” cares concerning the rapper. Wayans additionally famous that Soulja Boy has not had “hits in years.”
Sure, 2007 was a very long time in the past. And one thing tells us that Soulja Boy goes to expire of vicious slurs earlier than Marlon Wayans runs out of painfully correct descriptions of the rapper’s profession.
