Shannon Sharpe Breaks Silence After Shaquille O’Neal’s Viral Diss Track Fuels Beef

May hasn’t just been about the playoff semifinals and NBA honors. It’s also been about feuds and diss tracks. Not talking about Kendrick Lamar and Drake here. Shaquille O’Neal has a bone to pick with Shannon Sharpe which has surpassed beyond MVP winner opinion. Shaq’s been an expert at holding up his end of a feud for years. Maybe he got the memo from their only mutual and neutral friend, Stephen A. Smith but Unc would rather let this one go.

For the first time since Shaq dropped a diss track on him, Shannon Sharpe responded via People. “I mean, I don’t have no problem with Shaq,” Sharpe said in the spirit of taking the high road. “He said what he said, I’m ready to move on.”

The Pro Football Hall of Famer and the NBA Hall of Famer have never seen eye to eye. It escalated this month when both disagreed over the MVP winner. Shaq has maintained Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the natural choice for 2024 NBA MVP which was bagged by Nikola Jokic for the third time. On Nightcap, Sharpe not only toed the line of the dissenting NBA community who called Shaq a hater of big men but also accused O’Neal of being envious of Jokic’s career. O’Neal went ballistic in a series of social media posts against him and dropped a diss track on May 10.

While at the Webby Awards to celebrate his successful online content, Sharpe addressed the feud. But instead of dragging it, he chose to let it fade out. Sharpe demonstrated his keenness to move on by staying mum on the matter till he was asked about it on the red carpet. Unfortunately, Shaq loves a good feud.

Shaq gets personal

Shaq was no-holds-barred when he slipped into his DJ Diesel avatar just to spit some scorching bars at Sharpe. Other than calling him beneath him, he rhymed all the reasons why in lines like, “Your whole demeanor is faker than new rapper beefy. You’re soft before you get fly, you’d rather tweet me. I was in three different cars when you was in three feet. All I see is dollar signs, they coming in 3-D.”

 Their mutual friend, Stephen A. Smith couldn’t stay out of it. Before the diss track, he maintained there was no real war between his two friends who never got along. After the song, Smith sent an indirect message to them that they’re entitled to their opinions but they need to get over it before it gets personal. “here’s my point to both folks – get the hell over it,” he asserted.

Working at ESPN together seems to make them like-minded as Sharpe is maintaining that stance. No one’s checked in with Shaq yet though. Do you think he’d let the feud end conclusively?