The escalating confrontation between ex-Saliva vocalist Josey Scott and present Saliva frontman Bobby Amaru has formally spilled over into music. Tensions between the pair have been heating up within the press throughout latest months, although the dissent between the pair has been lingering for considerably longer.
Scott was a co-founding member of Saliva till his departure in 2011, the place he was changed by Bobby Amaru. Whereas Scott and Saliva made good again in 2022 for a stay efficiency collectively, he has since went on to tour below the identify of Josey Scott’s Saliva, successfully trying to determine his personal tackle the band.
Saliva themselves in the meantime have develop into a proverbial Ship Of Theseus because the 2023 passing of co-founding guitarist Wayne Swinny. His dying left Amaru because the longest tenured member of the band, who now encompass no authentic members. This previous August, Scott not solely expressed his needs to achieve management of the Saliva identify, he additionally went as far as to name the present incarnation of the group, “the Temu Model of Saliva.”
Now that contempt has as soon as once more boiled over, this time within the type of a relative metallic rarity: a pair of obvious diss tracks. Scott has simply issued a pair of recent songs, “Who?” and “Well-known“, each of which seem like straight focusing on Amaru. Scott pulls no punches on the observe “Who?“, at one level singing:
“With pals such as you who wants f*cking enemies?
Three strikes and also you’re out of there apparently.
Similar to you left Wayne Swinny there in Germany.
And you then did the identical factor on his mom’s ground.
One other rusty nail straight by means of his coffin door.
The third time was the appeal for you, with Wayne‘s physique within the helicopter turning blue — however you had a present to do.”
In the meantime, “Well-known?” additionally referenced the alleged incidents talked about above, with the next verses being included:
“Guess you counted on me to neglect this.
Since he’s not right here then I’ll be his witness.
For the thrice you left him defenseless, I hope to your sake that God will forgive this.
He was sick as a canine and never respiratory.
You not solely changed him, however go away him.
You’re a cowardly bitch and a thief.
And I can’t relaxation until you allow this world bleeding.
In your sake I might beef up safety.
As a result of I might be in contact, assuredly.”
“Well-known” additionally seemingly interpolates one of the crucial notorious diss tracks to ever emerge: Ice Dice‘s 1991 evisceration of N.W.A., “No Vaseline“. Comparable lyrical components of that observe are labored into the refrain this new lower. Producer ScatteredBrains, who labored on each of those new singles, commented of “Who?“:
“…I’m past happy with this music and Josey for locating the energy to push again and push ahead throughout a time the place he’s being bullied out of his personal god rattling legacy, his creation, his band Saliva.” Please hear, like, share and unfold the message that there’s just one actual SalivaJosey on the driver seat. If the followers are prepared, Josey‘s prepared to present yall that actual shit like he by no means left !!! I do know yall bored with watching a canopy band play his music, we’re too.”
This new pair of tracks arrive a number of weeks after the debut of Saliva‘s newest single “Hit ‘Em The place It Hurts“, which some have interpreted as a jab at Scott.
