Rather Than Snatching Album Covers, Marvel Should’ve Released Rap Beef Tracks Instead

cover photo by Bobbo Wonder If you nerd hard in the Hip Hop streets in addition to these comic book panels, then you witnessed Meek Mill come for Drake’s neck last week by saying he doesn’t write his own rhymes. Drake then released an alleged diss track targeting Meek Mill that best resembled a well produced home submission for Video Soul. Come on y’all, even Drake knew that shit was straight up Midnight Grooves, that’s why he had to release a second diss track four days later. Regardless of how you feel about the rap game now, rap beef and the battle are essential ingredients that help make the art interesting. I mean, people lost their mind when Kendrick dropped the equivalent of a census report on the track “Control” in 2013, so we already know that Hip Hop heads be starving for this shit. In no other art form, besides maybe wrestling, is beef not only encouraged, but desired, especially between the highest profile titans. As I’m flipping through some Marvel trades, it dawned on me that while they were making hip hop covers, they should dig deeper and give us some real rap beef. If they need a jump start, I have some suggestions. Monica Rambeau vs Carol DanversMaaaaan, listen, Monica Da Gawd has had more aka’s than a Wu Tang album. Monica been called more shit than your average woman walking in New York that won’t indulge street harassers. So when Carol graduated from Ms. Marvel to Captain Marvel, a title formerly held by Monica herself, you know the Light Based Bae had so…