Listening to Cassper Nyovest‘s Big Zulu diss track, 4 Steps Back, brought back ripe memories of one of The Breakfast Club‘s iconic moments, when Charlamagne Tha God said, “Nah, that ain’t it, y’all” in reaction to Safaree’s freestyle.
Cassper Nyovest responds to Big Zulu with ‘4 Steps Back’
Big Zulu has, in the past two weeks, resurrected interest in South African Hip-Hop with his fierce industry-wide diss track, 150 Bars, which has since garnered more than 1.4 million views on YouTube and spawned top-tier lyricism from the likes of K.O, Kwesta and Duncan.
Nyovest came into this response with a monkey on his back. While the rest of the industry lauded Big Zulu for his ingenious move, the Put Your Hands Up rapper chimed on the side about how he, in fact, was the one who inspired this glorious Hip-Hop moment.
His sentiments, however, were not reciprocated. Neither were the fans impressed with the effort he put into 4 Steps Back, which, more than anything, is a poorly constructed diss record that shoots below the benchmark laid by his peers.
On the record, on more than one occasion, Nyovest accuses Zulu of being a woman beater, citing a 2018 assault case the Imali Eningi star faced for allegedly choking his baby momma over an argument about women.
Apart from the shockers of these abuser bars, nothing else stands out in Nyovest’s four-minute long diss track that includes an intro sampled from one of Julius Malema‘s fiery moments in Parliament.
Here is the full track. You can check it out right here:
Fan reactions to Cassper’s diss track
Die-hard fans of Nyovest have been piping up the song as yet another great effort from the veteran rapper, and this is exactly why Don Billiato is where he is today.
Everything he does is polarising, which, in essence, is the true definition of art. Some people like the diss track. Others really do not. Here are some of the reactions to 4 Steps Back.