After a week-long beef that originated over Conway The Machine calling out Funkmaster Flex on Instagram Live for gatekeeping and Flex delivering a scathing reply, it appears that the two are on better terms.

"Last week me and Conway had some words! I sent him a track and he accepted the challenge and here we are," Flex wrote in the Youtube description of their joint effort "R.I.P. Steve Smith Freestyle."

Steve Smith, who passed earlier this month on July 7 was a veteran radio programmer who co-launched the Hip-Hop format on Hot 97 in the 1990s. Flex cites Smith as a mentor and friend. Over the instrumental of "Nobody Beats The Biz" by Biz Markie, Conway goes beast mode spitting: "I've been running shit so long, niggas hoping I finish soon/preying on my downfall, hoping to see a nigga lose/fuck the ops, opposition minuscule/run up in that spot, police finding shell cases in that living room/thought it was over but I came back with bigger jewels/sold out arenas like a nigga play for Liverpool."

The war of words between Conway and Flex escalated with Flex referring to the Griselda M.C. as a "40 plus bar rapper" and insinuating that with all of the industry co-signs that he's received, perhaps Conway has peaked.

"Let's begin! You're managed by Roc Nation (Jay Z), signed to Shady Records (Eminem), and distributed by Interscope (major label)," Flex posted. " You and your team have had features from Jadakiss, Eminem, Lil Wayne, J Cole, Jadakiss, Travis Scott, French Montana and more??? Wasn't you on Kanye's Donda album?"

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Pete Rock, who has worked with Conway entered the conversation, accusing Flex of abandoning true Hip-Hop. "You do this to your own people in your own city," said The Chocolate Boy Wonder. "You don't play real artists no more and you talk shit like you're better than everybody else. You a N.Y. nicca treating other N.Y. artists who put in work like our careers is over." Flex replied to Pete that he respects his legacy of production, but suggested that he is musically out of touch. "Your career was over the day you stopped realizing that HIP-HOP can't be dictated."

Check out "R.I.P. Steve Smith" above.

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