Beef? Tom Macdonald & No Life Shaq VS Chris Webby
I’ve been reluctant to write this article for quite a while because not only do I have ADHD, but I wasn’t sure whether I was tripping or whether what I was hearing and witnessing was accurate. Surely, I’m not the only one that has noticed the subtle, consistent, digs at Tom MacDonald from Chris Webby, right?
Standing alone, the parts I’m going to refer to might not be anything. However, together I think there is some merit.
We’re going to start with the first time Chris Webby ever appeared on NoLIfeShaq’s Youtube Channel. February 10th, 2019 Chris Webby was featured on No Life Shaq’s Channel for his Sway in the Morning Freestyle. As of this writing, that video has about 74K views on it. Shaq gives Webby all props through the whole video and even stated, “If you made it on my channel, you made it”. It appeared as though it was all love from Shaq.
On November 10th, 2021 a whole year and half later he was featured on Shaq’s channel for the second time for his Raw Thoughts V and Shaq titled the video, “HE DISSED TOM MACDONALD!? | CHRIS WEBBY — RAW THOUGHTS V (REACTION!!!)”. The clear reason for this title is laid out in the song when Chris Webby said, “someone had to come and rock the boat, and say shit that even Tom MacDonald won’t”. Even as Shaq attempted to explain how that bar wasn’t a diss, it became a little more clear that perhaps it was. It seemed as though Shaq was attempting to quell a potential beef. I remember when I first watched it, I was on the same wave length as Shaq and really didn’t want it to be beef. I’m a huge fan of both artist, and Shaq too.
September 3rd, 2021 Tom MacDonald dropped the album, “No Guts No Glory” and on that album was the song “Hypocrite”, where Tom takes aim at “most of these people are fakin’, claiming that rappers have ruined a whole generation, claim it’s a message and say that they hate it, then spend their whole weekend on drugs getting wasted”. Through the whole song you hear Tom make point after point of how people are hypocrites in their life by saying one thing and then doing another. Now this song was not released on Tom’s channel and Shaq never featured it so I think it would be safe to say that this song flew under the radar. The fact that Tom never mentioned Chris Webby lead me to believe, initially that it was just Tom being Tom. Perhaps, it was.
Then May 3rd, 2022 Webby dropped a fire hit titled, “MetaFreeverse”. After listening to it, I immediately went to No Life Shaq’s channel to see his reaction. There wasn’t one. Well, maybe he just hasn’t gotten around to it… the song did just drop. Over the next two weeks I stalked Shaq’s channel because I just knew he was going to react to it. After all, Webby shouted him out. Literally, in the song Chris Webby said, “Shout out to No Life Shaq”. So I was super hyped to see how Shaq would react. When Eminem dropped the video Tone Def, which was animated by the same person that animated Shaq’s intro, Shaq went crazy for the small part that he was inserted into. I would have been too, as Shaq and I are both huge Eminem fans.
Then as time passed, I realized that Shaq was not going to be reacting to Chris Webby’s “MetaFreeverse”. I was quite disappointed. I played the song a lot. My YouTube algorithm has a tendency to play songs by Chris Webby and Tom MacDonald back to back to back. The more I listened to MetaFreeverse the more I realized that it must be a diss to both No Life Shaq and Tom MacDonald. This song came out after Tom did his video on The Biggest Music Industry Screw Job Ever video, where Tom went on to talk about how he was unable to get on the billboard charts for his collab album with Adam Calhoun. In Webby’s song he aims again right at Tom and Shaq when he says, “Keep the flow fresh, while the critics take apart every single word that don’t align with what they say is art. fuck a music chart, my music already made a mark. I’m megaladon you’re doo doo do baby shark.”
Webby continues, “go ahead and show my stats,” referring to when Shaq reacted to Raw Thoughts V and he pulled the music video down to check how many views Chris Webby had at that point.
“all these years I been grinding til I broke my back. My words spark reactions, Shout out to No Life Shaq, haters chirp but I don’t write back.” Who are these haters? Tom and Shaq? That’s what I’m seeing. And just to add validation that he’s speaking toward Tom as well, he threw in the line, “Shout to my Canadian fans, but fuck Treudeu.” For some reason I originally thought he might have been from Canada, but he’s from Connecticut. Guess who is from Canada though, Tom MacDonald.
The whole song seems to be a direct response to Tom MacDonald’s “Hypocrite” as well as Shaq’s lack of reactions and disrespect in the reaction that he did do. Shaq mentioned he didn’t react to Chris Webby because his music keeps him from being monetized and at the same time that he wanted to spread the facts that Webby was spitting. He also said he didn’t know when Webby dropped his music because he did it randomly, But the reality is that Webby Wednesdays has been a thing for quite a while. In fact, Webby named a couple of his albums, Wednesday, Next Wednesday, Last Wednesday etc etc so it seems disrespectful af for Shaq to say he doesn’t know when Webby drops his albums.
Then again, maybe all of this is in my head. What do you think? Wouldn’t you love to see a collar album with Chris Webby and Tom Macdonald like Tom did with Adam Calhoun? Or would you prefer to see who’s really better in a beef between these two conscious rappers?
