The Katt’s Year

Katt Williams decided on violence when he sat down with Shannon Sharpe at the beginning of the year. Since then, the effects have been felt by us.

Throughout 2024, we have been haunted by the voice of Micah “Katt” Williams, an actor, comedian, and street philosopher who is particularly confrontational and prophetic. The little Hollywood veteran set the tone in both big and small ways. With trickster Charleston White as the sole other candidate, his Club Shay Shay session with Shannon Sharpe served as an unofficial run for HNIC. Katt established the goal for the year, which was to light up this bi**h. With its combination of comedy, conspiracy, and scathing insult, the nearly three-hour podcast was a perfect storm of virality that left the internet in ruins. He not only lined up his opponents and accused them of fraud, but he also foresaw the collapse of the celebrity caste in its broadest sense.

There is no comparison to the sharpness and accuracy with which he dissected his rivals. He began dismantling the comedians one by one after portraying them as a group of mediocre people. “I refused to work with Rickey Smiley unless he’s wearing a dress,” he added. He observed of Cedric the Entertainer, “He over here looking like a walrus.” He and Tyler Perry are incapable of playing a man to save their lives. His four comedy specials aren’t accessible on Tubi or Netflix. Regarding Steve Harvey, he dubbed Kevin Hart a plant and said, “There are 30,000 scripts in Hollywood, and not one of them ask for a country bumpkin that can’t talk good — obekaybe.” He also ridiculed the “fat Faizon liars.” To say that he surprised everyone would be an understatement. Since Katt has always been funnier when he’s being serious, this sit-down may be his best performance, his piece de resistance, even when compared to his best stand-up.

Since then, the effects have been felt by us. The echoes of Katt’s predictions and Katt-isms may be heard throughout the Myelinated Matrix. This year has seen truth-telling, poetic conflict, the rise of black media, and celebrities receiving their just desserts. “Never in the history of ni**adom” has a podcast had such a profound cultural impact, to paraphrase Katt on one of his first specials. Let’s tally the methods.

Warfare Strategy

The Jamaicans were the first to ride the wave. Jada Kingdom, also known as Twinkle, and Stefflon Don, both former lovers of afro-fusion king Burna Boy, engaged in a lyrical battle over who was the problem and who wasn’t. The fight between the Stush Diaspora and the Tight Pumpum Crew captivated the attention of dancehall fans on both sides of the Atlantic. Jada retaliated by cursing out Steff’s entire family and casting doubt on Steff’s sincerity after Stefflon began the argument by accusing him of prostitution. Soon after that battle ended, there was a verbal altercation between Teejay, who is famous from “Drift,” and Valiant, along with several other DJs and producers, including Rvssian, who took to social media in a sort of battle royale. As dancehall faces the prospect of afrobeats taking up more and more cultural space among the worldwide masses, it was all a much-needed boost of adrenaline. In a Katt-esque gesture, veteran Buju Banton pushed afrobeats musicians to tackle social and political concerns in their songs during an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast.

A Hiss Fit

The ongoing femcee proxy war between the Barbs and Bardi was the next conflict to break out. After coming out of the Tory Lanez trial battered but unfazed, it focused on Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi’s neighbor and hottie, who was still taking a victory lap. Following Katt’s lead, she releases “Hiss,” a barrage of sarcastic remarks directed at everyone who had something slick to say, including Drake, DJ Akademiks, her ex-partner Pardi, and DaBaby:

These little rap ni**as are all such scammers.

The hardest bars are Xanax.

BBLs are hated by these ni**as.

and carry the same scars with you wherever you go.

Fake ass accents and cosplay gangsters

posted like a nasty bih in another nia hood.

Few could have predicted how these bars would come back to haunt Drake. Although she was the first, she wouldn’t be the last to bring up Drake’s cosmetic surgery. She brought up another Katt Williams prophecy when she attacked Nicki Minaj, her husband, and her brother for being sexual offenders (These hoes don’t be upset at Megan/these hoes mad at Megan’s law). All of the deviants are welcome. Outside of the most devoted Barbs, Nicki’s evasive retort, “Big Foot,” was unimpressive and served as another preview to a year filled with Cash Money Ls.

Ice Spice and Latto exchanged light-skinned letters shortly after the Megan-Nicki altercation. Ice addressed the issue on her following album when fans claimed that Latto had stolen her 2K style and that Ice’s picture had been included in one of Latto’s videos. Ice told Latto in her first few lines that although she might think of herself as the excrement, she is not even the flatulence. (Shakespeare could never.) Latto arrived in the Bronx with a convoy of Sedans, a very interracial maneuver. Was this a criminal? I’m not sure. Is it performative? Definitely. They had no idea that this was the start of the Twerk Economy’s decline.

An Introduction To A Diss

Truth-telling cats were all over Katt. One such instance was when Yasiin Bey, also known as Mos Def, was asked if Drake was hip-hop by the presenter of The Cutting Room Floor podcast, which led to a viral moment. He said, “He’s Pop,” and then likened Drake’s music to shopping at an upscale mall, saying, “Look at all these products! Look at all these SKUs!” Aubrey’s angels were not pleased with that. Outrage ensued online. The fact that Yasiin emerged when hip-hop was still an insurgency was something Drake’s supporters failed to consider. Up until, say, Puff Daddy, it fought against its own appeal and the mainstream. Later, Yasiin would say she was sorry. “Pardon my Brooklyn,” the seasoned MC said.

Are You Like That?

Katt restored the joy of facing your opponents. The Drake and J’s subs. The Kung Fu writer Kendrick Lamar was triggered by Cole’s music video for “First Person Shooter” from the previous year. Drake ends the video with a holographic MJ HIStory statue of himself looming over Toronto, claiming G.O.A.T status with Cole. It would be an understatement to say Drake was feeling himself. In addition, Drake chose to publicly criticize Metro Boomin’ for being a “Tweet and Deleter” following Metro’s outcry about Drake’s Grammy nomination. After thanking his fans, Drake turned to face the camera. Metro responded by gathering a number of Drake Haters and releasing We Don’t Trust You with Future, saying, “You disgust me, fam.” Kendrick stepped up to take the challenge on the highlight song “Like That.” Dot poetically knocked Cole and Drake off their self-made perch in a few short words (“F**k the Big Three/It’s just Big Me”).

J Cole Avoids Being Noticed

J. Cole replies to Kendrick with “7 Minute Drill,” a flimsy indictment of Kendrick’s discography, on the aptly named Might Delete Later. However, he took the stage at Dreamville Fest and apologized to Kendrick, bowing out of the ensuing lyrical war in a move that rocked the rap community to its core. While some admirers praise his maturity and foresight, others cannot forgive him. Did he use Quiet Quitting in this way? After the dust settled between the other Big Three competitors, he went back to his methodical rhyming style on “Port Antonio,” even asserting that he would have won but “lost a bro.”

Drake Enters

With his next opp line-up, “Push Ups,” Drake roars back. He criticizes Kendrick’s shoe size, reminds Future of the people who contributed to his songs, and saves his greatest line for Metro Boomin’: “Shut ya hoes a** up and make some drums, nia.” That one hits home. It was soon followed by memes, one of which was in Spanish. In this conflict, he also portrays himself as the Thanos, denouncing the numerous rappers and producers that are simultaneously hitting him. What is this? Nia, a 20v1?

First Blood Drawn by Officer Ricky

Rick Ross, who never misses a chance, enters the feud with “Champagne Moments.” Despite feeling like a sideshow, his attacks on Drake are what spark the first true bloodshed in the Great Rap War of ’24. With matching cover art, he refers to Drake as a “white boy,” reminds everyone that Drake employs ghostwriters, and uses Megan’s “Hiss” bar to create the moniker BBL Drizzy.

AI Tupac Joins the Conversation

Drake released “Taylor Made Freestyle” during the weeks that passed between “Push Ups” and Kendrick’s reaction, hoping to increase the pressure on Kendrick to reply quickly. He groans, “Kendrick we need ya/The West Coast Savior,” using AI voice masks to sound like Kendrick’s hero, Tupac. This raises controversy on the use of AI in hip-hop, with some seeing it as a breach. Kendrick, like Katt, maintained all of his receipts and planned ahead.

R&B Tupac Joins the Conversation

Katt Williams once said, “Winners cannot allow losers to rewrite history.”

Even the dead couldn’t escape this season of mess. Chris Brown’s crash out and disrespect toward Quavo reached Tupac levels in an already simmering conflict over women, leaving many fans to wonder if the best diss record during the Great Rap War was going to be by a “singing nia.” Breezy kept it simple and vicious in “Weakest Link,” claiming he had Saweetie while Quavo was with her, and namechecking Takeoff as the only respected Migos: “Crazy how when he died, we all wished it was you instead.” Quavo responds by placing Takeoff on the hook of “Over Hoes & Bihes.”

Venom in PowerPoint

“All I’ve gathered in thirty years is knowledge, information, and your secrets.” — Katt Williams

Kendrick releases “Euphoria,” a painstakingly crafted, quantum-level, point-by-point analysis of not only Drake, the man, and the brand, but the entire phenomenon of kabuki Blackness, following weeks of work in the kitchen. Kendrick defined, removing Drake’s membership, and began with a Teddy Pendergrass sample, treating him like a cross between Rachel Dolezal and Harvey Weinstein of rap. This is how the culture feels, and it’s not just me. Finally, he advises Drake to refrain from using the N-word. Kendrick kept receipts and used them most strategically, just like Katt.

preserving its crispy texture. Kendrick uses an Al Green sample to further emphasize the quantum Blackness in his timestamp track “6:16 in LA.” Each of these samples of soul music tastes like poison or the smoke from a barbeque in hell. The numerology of 6/16 became the newest fascination on the Internet, with users conjecturing that it alludes to Father’s Day, Pac’s birthday, and Bible verses simultaneously. There is no longer any doubt about Kendrick’s proficiency with the algorithm.

got crushed after smashing the van.

Drake hits the “red button” in the audiovisual release “Family Matters.” Drake is seen in the video in a joyful state, wearing all of his well-known jewelry, as the identical model vehicle on the cover of Kendrick’s Good Kid, Mad City is taken to a junkyard and destroyed. He throws clever jabs at Rick Ross and Metro while accusing Kendrick of being a wife beater and a cuck over two scary beat shifts and a densely packed flow. Any momentum the Drake song might have had is snuffed out fifty minutes later when Kendrick drops “Meet The Grahams.” The air in the room is filled with the satanic beat of “Meet the Grahams” and the flagrant disregard for anything sacred.

Da Bomb

Katt Williams once said, “I’ll bomb it, leave it in rubble, and Gaza Strip it.”

A day later, Kendrick released “Not Like Us,” a huge hit that repeated every Katt Williams theme. Dot makes the entire hook about separating the culture from the corruption, using Drake’s own “Back-to-Back” strategy from his feud with Meek. He portrays Drake as a colonizer and a perverted phony. He delivers a diss for Crip and Blood Walk to refute Drake’s statements about L.A. Mustard is playing when Kendrick performs a final maneuver. He stands up for Oakland, the ghost of Pac, Serena, and everything West Coast. He fills the music with earworms that reload themselves at the most inconspicuous moments after sinking deeply into the grooves of our frontal lobe. Are the braids the cause? The song spreads throughout the nation and the world. Both infants and elderly people adore it.

Final Reel

In a last-ditch effort to shield his brand from K’s worst, Drake releases “The Heart Part 6.” Dot’s attacks. It practically admits his defeat and acts defensive. Without his hitmaker aura and reference songs, the king of hooks, timestamps, and catchy raps is considered to be missing. Drake appears to be more shocked than anyone else.

Drizzy BBL

“BBL Drizzy” is the unexpected cultural reset. We didn’t anticipate an AI-powered crowdsourced diss-trumental. Metro produced some drums as directed, and they’re amazing! Rappers, musicians, short films, even animated Drake figures with eyelashes, painted nails, and assssss are all influenced by it. When it comes to the accelerated AI sample that gives “BBL Drizzy” its fake soul, many of the people who cried inauthenticity and necromancy when Drake employed AI to emulate Pac and Snoop on “Taylormade Freestyle” suffer from forgetfulness. It turns into the theme music for the epilogue memes in which J. Kendrick sits on the Iron Throne while Cole joyfully rides his bike down a boardwalk.

Kendrick’s 14th birthday

As Kenny completed his whole thrashing of the Toronto boy, petty levels were at a thousand trillion. Immediately following his lecture at Compton College and other affirmations of his identity as a “West Coast Savior”—the very moniker Drake attempted to disparage him with using AI Tupac vocals—his Pop Out with friends at the LA Forum in Inglewood was a historic demonstration of rootsy LA banger culture. Taking down the opposition while keeping it completely black is the climax of Katt-inspired combat this year. The internet was devastated by yet another masterpiece.

The Black Podcast’s Ascent

When Katt used Shannon’s podcast to destroy his adversaries, he promoted Black media. In an attempt to become the site of the Black viral moment, Shannon followed up on the most famous interview in podcast history with other people who thrive on controversy. MoNique took the stage first, rehashing her problems with Tyler Perry and Oprah. Amanda Seales, the first Black Karen, followed. Shay Shay even permits Gary Owens to make outrageous remarks about Black women. “They’re not,” Katt Williams said. Even Vice President Kamala Harris paid a visit to Shannon just before the election in an effort to refute Trump’s Joe Rogan interview. Later, in a suspicious moment, Shannon “accidentally” had sex on Instagram Live, turning his newfound influence into a viral moment. Days later, he started selling sex medicines.

The post-Katt Williams moment that sparked the Great Rap War became a crowning of the new nobility for the new generation of Black media. Joe Budden, Cam and Mase, DJ Akademiks, Noreaga, and Kai Cenat. The best sportscasters in hip-hop become essential TV. People flocked to these pods and streamers to obtain the most recent information as soon as the diss recordings were released. The numbers of even less well-known reaction channels began to rise. In a classic Black Jesus move, Kendrick gave up the copyright to his albums, enabling the horde of content producers who covered the feud to make money. There have been bags that have cost six digits.

The Demise of Stardom

“In 2024, all of these big d**k deviants will go to hell.” They’re all up for it. Whether you’re TD Jakes or Diddy doesn’t matter.” — Katt Williams

The blueprint for Cassie

This was a year of reckoning, Katt informed us. The cultural impact of Cassie Ventura, a pop artist with a single hit and a well-liked hairstyle, may surpass that of your favorite celebrity. Sean Combs promptly reached a settlement after the specifics of her civil suit were made public. He even had the gall to publicly gloat as if he had escaped a bullet. She did, however, lay the groundwork for future developments. The floods began to flow. Hundreds of accusers came forward over the course of the following few months. Sexual assault, gang rape, trafficking, predatory behavior, drugging, and aggressive conduct are among the many accusations made in recent lawsuits. His houses in Miami and Los Angeles were raided by the FBI as a result, and two of his sons were placed in handcuffs.

The Diddy Tape

“They can take down your Rabbit a** in two weeks, even if you are Kang the Conqueror.” — Katt Williams

CNN receives hotel footage of Diddy abusing Cassie two days after King Combs releases a diss track directed at 50 Cent and the Feds. The entire globe is appalled. His apologies, which is hard to take seriously, swiftly becomes a meme. A thorough examination is conducted by Rolling Stone. His brand has suffered irreversible harm. Months later, as hundreds of victims file lawsuits accusing him of everything from rape to trafficking, he is arrested in New York and denied bail. The court denied the billionaire bail, putting him in jail forever.

The Exposers

It wasn’t just Katt who foresaw this. The social numbers of gossip queen Tasha K and fire starters like Orlando Brown, Charleston White, and Jaguar Wright soar. Wright became so well-known on social media that Piers Morgan asked her to disparage Beyoncé and Jay Z on his site. As a sign of their future plan, he would promptly apologize after speaking with their attorney. Target the platforms rather than the oily talkers.

The Price of Fame

In this new setting, no celebrity was safe. At The Forum, Drake won the contract. Consider 18,000 supporters shouting, “We hear you like ’em young.” Following the fight, Drake has been reduced to posting mean-mugging Demar Derozan from the sidelines and brooding passive-aggressively on Instagram while he looks for a real hit. Drake’s disintegration was a sign of more devastation to come. Jennifer Lopez was humiliated in the TIktok comments and had to cancel events due to lack of interest, while Kim Kardashian was made fun of at the Tom Brady Roast sponsored by Kevin Hart, his first significant appearance since Katt discovered him slipping. Both her emotional plea and all of the celebrity endorsements for Kamala’s campaign were unsuccessful.

Based on a short novel about aristocrats who attempt to stop time to prevent an enraged mob from destroying their garden, the Met Gala’s theme, “The Garden of Time,” was a bit too corny. Protests outside the Gala were actual. TikTok “let them eat cake” after Instagram star Hayley Baylee decided it would be adorable to dress up as Maria Antoinette, and she instantly lost millions of followers. Block parties targeted DJ Khaled and other celebrities who remained silent over Palestine, costing them millions of fans.

Will Smith is an anomaly after the slap, demonstrating that he still has the box office touch. Almost $300 million has been made worldwide for Bad Boys 4: Ride or Die, which features a noticeably slower and fatter Martin Lawrence (*collective squint).

The Modern Era

The YSL trial comes to an end after almost a year of courtroom antics. After entering a guilty plea, Young Thug is banished from Atlanta and placed on probation for 15 years. Lil’ Durk is taken into custody on suspicion of murder for hire. 6ix9ine finds himself in the same Brooklyn Detention Center as Diddy, Sam Bankman Fried, and El Chapo following a parole violation. It’s known as Arkham Asylum.

On GNX, Kendrick published additional hyperblack meta-text. Drake is suing Spotify and Universal Music Group.

The Return of the Prophet

Katt was asked to make a 2025 prediction at GQ’s “Man of the Year” event. “I think the golden age is upon us. He stated, “It is what it is.” “The revealing is the scab being pulled off and the healing can begin immediately following the age of Truth.”