Stephen A. Made Jason Whitlock a Contestant on the Summer Jam Screen

Yesterday, Stephen A. Smith set social media on fire when he posted he was preparing to unleash on “that no good fat bastard,” aka Jason Whitlock.

So that evening on his “Stephen A. Smith” YouTube show, Smith channeled his inner Nas and went off on Whitlock for over 40 minutes.

For those old enough to remember, this is similar to the beef between Nas and Jay-Z that finally exploded in 2001.

That June, Jay-Z headlined at HOT97’s annual “Summer Jam” event. While performing the Nas/Mobb Deep diss track “Takeover”, Hov showed a video of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy participating in a dance class as a child as he rapped “Don’t be the next contestant on that Summer Jam screen.”

The bitterness escalated when Nas accused the station of not allowing him to perform that night and went on rival 105.1 and blasted the station, Funk Flex and Angie Martinez.

Hot 97 and its DJs denied the accusations, after which Nas dropped the classic “Ether.” Jay responded with a quick freestyle in which he mentioned Nas’ ex but that didn’t fly with Hov’s mom. She berated him and he went on Angie’s show and apologized in an interview that stopped work in the city for almost an hour.

That beef eventually died down and they later appeared together in the “Roc Boys” video with Diddy.

Fast forward to the start of 2024 and beefs have swiftly erupted.

First, Katt Williams took a flame thrower to Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kevin Hart and many others in the “Club Shay Shay” episode that has now registered an astounding 43 million views in just one week. Then Jets QB Aaron Rodgers went at Jimmy Kimmel in a rant where ESPN and Disney execs got caught in the crossfire.

On Tuesday, Whitlock jumped into the mix by doing what he does, which is to launch a ridiculously thirsty attack on someone for clicks. How do we know he’s thirsty?

He offered to pay for a kid from Hollis, Queens (Smith’s hometown) to attend Winston-Salem State University for four years if Stephen A. came on his show to discuss the book.

That ain’t happening.

This isn’t the first time Whitlock targeted Smith, but after Whitlock accused him of writing lies and exaggerations in his book “Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes,” Smith admittingly took the bait because it was time to let him know.

Whitlock got what he asked for; his chance to be on the Summer Jam screen.

Smith set the table by first letting his audience know that he had informed his pastor, bosses, family and friends that he was going to eviscerate “the fat bastard” that day.

Then he cued the music and flambéd Whitlock for over 40 minutes.

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