Take, for instance, the “beef” currently brewing between Tyrese Gibson and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a Tokyo Drifting side-sequel to the glory that was Johnson and Vin Diesel’s CandyAssGate last year. Sadly, though, this particular tussle seems like a serving of pretty weak tea, one that’s been largely manufactured by Gibson alone, with no little to no participation from Johnson. The singer-turned-actor launched his latest attention-seeking salvo earlier today, posting a video to his Instagram account that shows Johnson ripping on his 2015 album Black Rose, finding many varied and poetic ways to call it “dogshit.”
Here’s the thing, though: According to TMZ, the video in question is actually two years old, and appears to have been intended as a joke. (Johnson has a pretty solid deadpan, though, so that part’s not entirely clear.) It’s just one more piece of evidence that this feud is a Tyrese solo project, not unlike the Rock-starring standalone Hobbs film that appears to have set Gibson off. For Johnson’s part, he’s yet to directly address the conflict we’ve now dubbed DogshitGate, because we’re all 9-year-old children, outside of a single video posted to his own Instagram. In it, he never mentions Gibson by name, instead doing some rough-looking exercises with a big-ass chain around his neck, before turning to the camera to declare “Big dogs eat, little puppies stay crying on the porch,” because—with apologies to Tyrese— nobody cuts a better Hollywood wrestling promo than The Rock.
