I’d never heard of the Dirty Awards (they award the best in southern hip-hop) or Shawty Lo (he is something of a rapper) until I saw these clips (Warning: some are kind of shaky), which find Shawty Lo’s crew getting into a fight with artists from T.I.’s Grand Hustle Entertianment over perceived slights and disrespect. T.I. hasn’t responded yet (he wasn’t involved with the altercation) but Shawty Lo had this to say to MTV:
“Basically, I didn’t start saying anything about Tip,” Lo explained. “I was performing my music. During ‘Foolish,’ all of them was coming in front of the stage doing their mugging. After ‘Dunn, Dunn,’ I performed the dis record ‘Don’t I.’ That’s what made perform the dis record. I ain’t gonna lie; they was disrespecting me. I wasn’t gonna let them disrespect me.”
Lo says that some of Grand Hustle’s members were down in front of the stage when Lo was up making fun of him, and in the above video you can see members of Lo’s crew yelling at some guys in the front, and then the fight broke out.
Lo and T.I. had been beefing prior to the awards, but Lo claims the two agreed to set aside their difference backstage during the show. Then Grand Hustle disrespected him and he went off. But, all of this stinks of a publicity stunt for Lo to get his name in the press. [Real Talk NY]
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aye shawty lo is and always will be a hater he came in the game a hater and he gunna get out the game hatin he like a flea u know 2 small to kill ti got more stuff to do then to waste his time on a small nobody.let shawty know that THE KING LIVES ON!!!!! no matter what still he stands and know it mwaz luv u ti!!!