Abz Love From 5Ive Hits Back At Nick Lachey: "98 Degrees Sucked!"

Abz Love from 90s boyband 5ive has responded to singer Nick Lachey’s diss.

Earlier this week Nick, who used to be in American boyband 98 Degrees, called 5ive the worst pop group of the 1990s.

"We were on the Smash Hits tour in the U.K. with a bunch of pop groups at the time, and 5ive, for whatever reason, just had it out for us," he recalled. "So we used to battle every night."

“We had a big time beef with those guys."

Today Abz hit back at the singer, who also happens to be Jessica Simpson’s ex-husband.

“98 Degrees sucked ass and probably still do,” he told TMZ.

Abz recalled one time when 98 Degrees founding member, Jeff Timmons, got upset when he and fellow 5iver J Brown were: “Talking about who the f*** gets their band name tattooed on themselves and concluded they must all be jockstraps!”

Jeff has a 98 Degrees tattoo on his right arm.

But Abz added: "To be fair, we were the bad boys of pop so we were always looking for trouble. They just happened to be in the way.”

Let’s see if Nick will step in to protect his former bandmate. Keep it MTV UK as the story develops…