A full-on melee broke out on Thursday in the midst of a Verzuz battle between Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia. The chaotic scene began when Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Bizzy Bone lashed out after being mocked on stage.
"Hey yo, hey. Before we even get started, you ugly motherf**kers ain’t fit to be mocking me while I’m on the motherf**king stage. Like straight the f**k up,” the rapper said to his opponents before throwing a bottle at the group.
Seconds later, the two groups engaged in a brawl on stage. Social media, of course, had plenty to say about the fight.
the first physical fight in #Verzuz history loool it’s giving source awards ???? pic.twitter.com/jrkdzGllyY
— shakeena (@iamshakeena) December 3, 2021
Some Twitter users took the side of Bizzy, saying he had the right to be furious after being mocked on stage.
They were mocking him while he was performing that's disrespectful you don't do that
— I am that Queen????️???????? (@SheisBee) December 3, 2021
Others said banter is a normal part of hip-hop.
In hip hop, it is always been about being competitive and playful. The Lox made fun of Dipset and vice versa but there wasn’t a fight and none of them were in their feelings about it.
— Robyn&Juan Dixon’s Roommateship (@AKidNameTraveee) December 3, 2021
Then there are those who are simply happy to finally see a fight on Verzuz.
I been waitin to see some old niggas Box on Verzuz pic.twitter.com/SS2R2mLpTA
— D'Ante ⚡️ (@DAnteFourPrez) December 3, 2021
It was certainly a scene that many people didn't expect to see when they tuned in to the show on Thursday.
Me when I seen the tussle break out pic.twitter.com/tn7JgyMdOw
— slumvillage (@slumvillage7) December 3, 2021
They were are always throwing shade at Bizzy and the fact that a member had thrown shade at Eazy-E didn’t help! I wanted the battle but didn’t expect it to go so far!
— TashaNash (@Tasha77789) December 3, 2021
Bizzy faced more mockery on social media when people called him out for ducking the fight he started.
Bizzy started the fight then ran for cover! pic.twitter.com/82RkrgqAQ8
— Geechee Girl (@GirlGeechee) December 3, 2021
???????????????????????????????? how you start shit and move to the back ????
— rainy. ✨ (@rainbot3k) December 3, 2021
When the dust settled, Bizzy came back on stage to apologize and the two groups made up.
Bizzy came out and apologized! #Verzuz
pic.twitter.com/XSalZbB4Js— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 3, 2021
Bizzy first fueled the tension when he went to Instagram before the event and described his opponents as “devil worshippers.”
“They don’t want to be called devil worshippers. Well wtf is you and wtf is your name three sixes for?” he wrote. “Whats that a acronym for? FOH… That is the mark of the beast is it not? Ya’ll grew up in the church so you knew the ramifications behind naming ya self that to MAKE PEOPLE THINK YOU SOLD YOUR SOUL FOR RICHES AND FAME (thats a classic). Now you got your money and u wanna act like nobody can call you out on it? Ya’ll got me f’d up.”
Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul spoke about the history between the two groups when he sat down for an interview with HipHop DX in 2015. The rapper said there has never been any real beef between the rivals, but it was a "misunderstanding" because the two groups had similar styles.
"When Bone came out with 'Thuggish Ruggish Bone' and all of that stuff and we hear somebody kind of on our same style … we were like, ‘Damn these dudes done stole our style!’" he said. "That’s why we got mad about it. We ran into each other a couple of times and there was a push or something. But there was never no fight or nothing like that.”
