Over the course of one weekend, the internet was set aflame with a fiery rap beef taking place in real time — and no, it wasn’t the one between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion.
Starting Saturday (Feb. 3), fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race were treated to a deeply entertaining, tongue-in-cheek “feud” between two former contestants — season eight winner Bob the Drag Queen and season 14 star Maddy Morphosis. Through an escalating series of videos, tweets and teasers, what started as a one-off joke bubbled over into a full-blown stage fight, with both queens releasing diss tracks aimed directly at the other.
“Corned Beef,” Bob’s no-holds-barred take down of the Give It to Me Straight host came first, with the Sibling Rivalryhost targeting Maddy’s heterosexuality, wigs and general drag aesthetic. But Morphosis responded with “Who Popped Ya,” coming after Bob’s career, fashion and writing style to devastating effect.
After the dust settled and the beef-that-was-never-really-beef got “squashed,” fans online came to a consensus that this was the kind of over-the-top shenanigans they signed up for in 2024. “Bob and maddy feud is my favorite drag fight ever this s–t mad funny,” one fan wrote following the online altercation. Wrote another, “this maddy and bob beef is LITERALLY the highlight of my entire year.”
So how did this all start? Who said what to who? Why are the girls fighting? Are the girls even fighting? Below, Billboard takes a look back at three days of utter drag chaos and lays out a comprehensive timeline of this “corny” feud, from start to finish.
Feb. 3: Maddy Calls Bob’s ‘Drag Race’ Verses ‘Corny’ on ‘The Pit Stop’
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The first shot fired came from the season 14 queen, when she appeared as a guest on RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s official recap show, The Pit Stop, on Saturday (Feb. 3). Dressed in a truly gargantuan wig, Maddy explained to host Trixie Mattel that she felt bummed out that she didn’t get to perform in a songwriting challenge on season 14. “I think I’m very clever with wordplay. I wish I could’ve done a Ru verse,” she said.
When Mattel suggested that Morphosis could “do what Bob the Drag Queen does” by releasing her own verse for a Drag Race songwriting challenge, Maddy did not miss a beat. “I think that’s corny,” she said with a grin. “Bob’s verses are great, but I don’t know, it’s just weird. It’s like, ‘But you weren’t there, though. You’re not on this song.’”
Feb. 4: Bob Teases an Incoming Verse That ‘Might Have Gone Too Far’
Never one to take a shady comment lying down, Bob the Drag Queen took to X in the wee hours of Sunday morning (Feb. 4) to let the girls, gays and theys know what was coming.
Posting a screenshot of a Google Docs file titled “Diss Tracks” containing two documents labeled “MIB” (for Mistress Isabelle Brooks, another queen Bob briefly “beefed” with last year) and “Maddy Morphosis,” Bob simply told her fans that it was “time to get corny.” That same afternoon, Bob followed up the tweet with an update: “OK. . .I might have gone TOO far,” she said. “I might need to rewrite this. lol.”
Feb. 4: Bob Drops Diss Track ‘Corned Beef,’ Says Maddy Is ‘Giving Inbred’
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It turns out Bob wasn’t joking, b–ch. After trading a few shady jabs at Maddy on X, Bob dropped her official response to the “corny” comments with “Corned Beef.” Set to the tune of RuPaul’s “Read U Wrote U” — which famously served as the basis for All Stars 2‘s legendary songwriting challenge with Alaska, Detox, Katya and Roxxxy Andrews — Bob went right for the season 14 queen’s jugular.
Between referring to Maddy as a “straggot,” negatively comparing her to Patrick Swayze’s To Wong Fu character Vida Boheme and claiming that “if the wig don’t first, I’mma break your neck,” the season eight winner held nothing back coming after Maddy. But perhaps the most devastating disses came with Bob’s closing lines: “‘Read U Wrote U,’ yeah you’ve been read/ Fayetteville, Arkansas, giving inbred/ Bald b–ch to bald b–ch, you pinhead/ Where was you on 1/6, you skinhead?”
Feb. 4 – 5: Maddy Prepares to Clap Back With ‘Verses for a Track I Wasn’t On’
Why squash the beef when you could start broiling it even more? Replying to Bob’s post about her diss track on X, Maddy took a dig at her fellow queen’s pen game. “The Patrick Swayze read? Maybe the writer shoulda been a Ghost too,” she wrote.
But at a certain point, talk became cheap, so Maddy digitally cracked her knuckles and let Bob know that she wouldn’t go down without a fight. “Ohhhh thaaaat’s what we’re doing,” she wrote. “Ok, lemme go write some verses for a track I wasn’t on right quick. Brb.”
By Monday morning (Feb. 5), she let her fans know that the song was locked and loaded for later that day, including a mysterious feature.
Feb. 5: Maddy Asks Bob ‘Who Popped Ya?’ on Her Response Single: ‘Booger Queen Energy’
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At the outset of Maddy’s response video “Who Popped Ya,” fans could be forgiven for thinking the queen was filming an apology video instead of her own diss track. Sitting in her studio, Maddy cheekily apologized that her comments in “my highly successful episode of The Pit Stop” hurt the queen’s feeling. Of course, the faux atonement dropped quickly, as she began asking Bob if there were “verses that were good that I wasn’t aware of” on her track.
Repurposing the same “Read U Wrote U” beat, Maddy launched into her own diss track. Throughout “Who Popped Ya,” Maddy jabbed Bob as a “certified has-been,” made fun of her no longer working on the HBO series We’re Here, said that she needed to “clear your sinus” of the “booger queen energy” and wondered how the polyamorous, pansexual, non-binary performer could be “open to everything except criticism.”
Putting her final stamp on the track, she played a clip of Bob’s Sibling Rivaly co-host Monét X Change singing an opera number on All Stars 7, with fake captions for the Italian lyrics saying Maddy was “killing it.”
Feb. 5: The ‘Vegan Beef’ Is Officially Squashed
After two diss tracks, a few dozen shady tweets and a tsunami of online discourse from Drag Race fans, it appears that both Bob and Maddy finally settled their feud — even if there wasn’t really a feud to begin with. Replying to Maddy’s verse, Bob conceded that the queen “had a few bites” throughout the track — though she later made sure to shade Maddy’s style by reposting the infamous “period ahh” TikTok from Britt Barbie, and saying that “the flow was immaculate.”
Maddy, meanwhile, let the fans know that the two queens were still talking, posting a screenshot of a text exchange between the two. “After this, when are we posting STR8 BARZ?” Maddy asked Bob, referring to the queen’s 2023 mixtape GAY BARZ. She captioned the screenshot saying that she wanted to “squash this corn beef,” with Bob quoting her tweet and reminding fans that fake fights are even more fun than real ones. “Vegan beef really is the best,” she wrote.
