What's Beef?

"What's beef? beef is when your moms stay cryin' in her sleep. beef is when you don't roll less than forty deep. beef is when i see you. guarantee you gone need I.C.U. That's beef."

- Notorious B.I.G [with Deron variations]

With the bricks being laid for a possible rift between two native rappers of the D.M.V that hold deals with major labels [Wale and Marky if you been under a rock for two days] upon us, I ask my self, what's beef?

Now, we all know that this situation is FAR away from beef. @ least I think so. But some of the imaginary minds of adoring fans in the D.M.V consider it so, given the competitive "Fuck a nigga that don't fuck with me" attitude of the area. so again, what's beef?

Beef in without context isn't hatred, but more so, the wish to terminate an enemies situation [success, relationship, happiness, or even life].When specified to music [im tired of specifying the difference between hip hop and rap, so it's just fuckin' musick], the same things apply.
But i feel, if one artist has a rift with another, these differences should probably be kept off wax, for the simple fact that, a track should be something so dear to the artist that for someone else to make a track about them means they really, really don't like him/her. so, i guess i'm saying, unless i want to end your career, i'm not going to make a track about you. and ending someone's career or "ethering" it, is pretty damn malicious.

so back to marky and wale, two artists with a rift, or, two artist competing for that position as "DC's 1st". This def is bigger than say a CashMoney vs. NoLimit, where two musical entities competed for their city's title as official representative. This competition is between two lyrical and truly talented artists that go against the status quo.
this is surely bigger than wale vs. marky, this is innovation vs. the industry!

What do you think?