Never mind battle rapper beefs, battle rap media feuds are now making headlines as the three-man team behind Angry Fans Radio has split into two camps. Caps, the source of the Angryfan name and movement in the first place, has split off from Timbo and 3Letterman after a conflict over responsibilities and ownership of their once shared show.
In his portion of the public statement, Timbo alluded that the rift between Caps and himself and 3Letterman began after continued requests to Caps to begin contributing more to the show, specifically, flagging the start and end times of interviews featured in the middle of hours long episodes to assist in the editing process.
The rift seems primarily between Caps and Timbo with the leader of the Angryfan movement suggesting that 3Letterman is stuck in the middle following complaints from Timbo about footing the production costs of the show on his own.
“I never received anything from Caps, from Angryfan,” Timbo said after breaking down his requests to the co-host in the blog. “No work’s being done on that side. For me the work isn’t just having the name on there. That doesn’t consist of work to me. You might think that it does and that’s cool, but behind the scenes it does not. That doesn’t count as work. You actually have to put in some.”
Both Caps and 3Letterman separately admitted that before the formation of the show, 3Letterman helped promote Angryfan’s movement on social media, boosting an already-well established brand to a new level of recognition.
“He’s my nigga, he’s tweeting shit out for me,” Caps says of his early dealings with 3Letterman in his recent blog. “He’s fucking promoing for me. All that shit. So I’m not downplaying. I don’t have no reason to lie on niggas and shit. Tim comes out of nowhere. I don’t know who the fuck this nigga is. 3Letter don’t know who the fuck this nigga is. He just comes out of nowhere. No one knows this nigga. He’s like a fucking ghost and shit.”
Caps suggested that the costs of the Blog Talk Radio show should have been covered by profits made from the YouTube channel before explaining his perspective on his contributions.
“A lot of niggas had no clue who the fuck you even were before this shit started,” Caps said. “A lot of niggas, truth be told, didn’t even know who 3Letterman was ... You could sit there and talk this $40 a month shit but I know for a fact I did 85, 90% of the promotion, promoting on blogs, promoting in my Facebook group, 7,100 people. All these other groups.”
Addressing the recent split, Timbo went on to explain why he’s refused to relinquish control of the once-shared show and YouTube channel.
“Everything just went crazy,” he said of the conflict. “[He] demanded the channel, demanded the YouTube shit. Just in life in general, those who do the work, they deserve it. There was no work being done. There was no help being done. Why would you deserve all of that?”
Timbo and 3Letterman have rebranded the Blog Talk Radio and YouTube channels as PSA Radio and Caps has launched a new AngryFansRadio channel on the Blog Talk network.
Another point of contention and partial source behind the break was an interview mix-up in which Timbo apparently plugged a caller into the show accidentally during an interview with Aye Verb (the caller just so happened to be battle rapper and Verb’s recent opponent Caustic).
“I told Timbo, ‘Let’s start from scratch my nigga,’” 3Letterman explained of floating another possible solution. “Let me spell that out for you dumb niggas again. I asked Timbo, ‘Let’s start from scratch my nigga. Let him get everything, fuck it.’ Timbo told me, ‘Dre, you’re my bro but I can’t do that.’”
The two sides have officially split but will continue on with their own respective platforms. Watch the recent blog explanations below in full and let us know what you think in the comment section.
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