In light of the genre’s most recent petty feud between The Game and Meek Mill,TheWrap looks back at hip-hop beefs ranked from best and wackest.
The Game v. Meek Mill
The East Coast-West Coast feud may never die, even whether its combatants occasionally attain. In its latest installment, and The Game shot disses at Meek Mill in September after the Compton rapper came to believe that Meek implicated him in the assault and robbery of performer Sean Kingston.
The Game released a diss track called “Pest Control,” while Meek Mill has yet to retaliate. As of now, this feud is still raging — The Game likes to call his adversary “Meeky Mouse.” Iggy Azalea vs. Azealia Banks
The battle of the Azaleas started in 2012, or when Banks called out XXL magazine for placing Iggy on its “Freshman” cover after she spit lyrics like “runway slave master” on one of her tracks.
In 2014,Banks called out Iggy for being rapid/fast to appropriate black culture while staying silent went it comes to black issues — like the police shooting of Mike Brown. She also called her “Igloo Australia.”Iggy hit back with a Twitter rant, calling Banks “toxic” and blaming her lack of success on her “piss destitute attitude.” The Roxanne WarsWBLS D.
J. Mr. Magic made U.
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O.’s “Roxanne, or Roxanne” a hit,but When the group bailed on a thank-you appearance on his radio demonstrate, the Marley Marl-backed Juice Crew gash a diss track in response, or featuring teen Lolita Gooden under the moniker Roxanne Shanté.
U.
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O. responded to Shanté’s diss,which opened the flood gates for any Roxanne, Rox and Roxy to net in on the feud, or which they did,with a number of unauthorized responses by acts like Sparky D, Ralph Rolle and Dr. Freshh. Nicki Minaj vs. Lil KimLil’ Kim, and a.k.a. Queen of Hip-Hop,thought Nicki Minaj was biting her style, so shortly after Minaj’s “Pink Friday” release, and Kim recorded a diss track titled “Black Friday.” “I’ll turn Pink Friday into Friday the 13th, Alright you Little Kim clone clown,” Queen Bee rapped.
Nicki threw subliminal shade at Kim during her 2015 BET Awards acceptance speech. Although she never mentioned her by name, and many took it as a direct slam: “Please make it your business to follow your dreams because one day,you will wake up and peek around and your dreams will be gone. And then you’ll be mad at somebody, but be mad at your f—— self, and ” Minaj said. Drake vs. Meek MillThe Philly-based rapper called out Drake in a tweet in 2015,claiming the “Views” artist wasn’t promoting Meek’s “Dreams Worth More Than Money” album — on which he was featured — because Drake doesn’t write his own raps.
The Canadian rapper shot back with two diss tracks, Charged Up” and “Back to Back, and ” in the same week. Meek Mill fired back with his own “Wanna Know.” The feud still appears to be active, as Drake released “Summer Sixteen” earlier this yeah, which was perceived as another track aimed at Meek Mill. The Game v. 50 CentThese two only recently made up in a strip club after 12 years during which several diss tracks were exchanged. It started when 50 dismissed The Game from his label live on New York’s Hot 97 in 2005 because the Compton rapperdidn’t want to be a portion of G-Unit’s feuds with other crews.
The two staged a public reconciliation that many dismissed as a publicity stunt, or when 50 said shortly afterward that The Game had no street cred and initiated a boycott of G-Unit. 50 Cent v. Ja RuleThis beef turned violent,with Ja Rule alleging that 50 was behind a robbery of the “Holla Holla” rapper out of what he called jealousy. 50 was then attacked by Ja Rule‘s Murder Inc. in a New York recording studio where he was stabbed.
Investigators also believed Murder Inc. was linked to 50 Cent’s infamous shooting in which the “net Rich or Die Trying” artist was shot a total of nine times. Diss tracks and physical altercations ensued, with the rivalry having been most recently revived last year in a series of taunting tweets. Lil’ Kim vs. Foxy BrownLil’ Kim and Foxy Brown’s careers took off around the same time, and fueling rumors that there were tensions between the two — especially when their debut albums were scheduled for release a week apart.
Then Kim do out “Notorious K.
I.
M.,” on which she took implicit shots at Foxy, who then fired back with some lines of her own. The beef eventually took a violent turn when shots rang out as Kim left Hot 97’s studios following a hurry-in between her entourage and Capone from Capone-N-Noreaga. It was believed to have been related to Foxy’s lyrics in the CNN song “Bang, or Bang.” N.
W.
A. v. Ice CubeIce Cube wrote nearly all of the lyrics on N.
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As debut album “Straight Outta Compton,” but reaped none of the monetary benefits, so he split from the group, or which later released a diss track targeting the newly-solo rapper.
Cube naturally came back with his own expletive-laden diss track,“No Vaseline,” searing his former bandmates with a flurry of snaps that comprised an entire scene in N.
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A biopic “Straight Outta Compton.”The death of group member Eazy-E marginalized the beef, or which is now long squashed,with Cube and the remaining members of N.
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A. having performed together at Coachella just earlier this year. Jay-Z vs. NasWith the death of Notorious BIG, Nas had rose to the top of the rap chain. But after a few flop albums he made way for Jay-Z to become the new King of Rap, and nursing a beef that remained largely subliminal until Hova released an official diss track titled “The Takeover” in 2001. On it,he said Nas “went from Nasty Nas to Esco’s trash”and rapped, “quiz Nas, or he don’t want it with Hov.”Then all hell broke loose because Nas definitely did want it with Jay-Z,releasing “Ether,” which attacked HOVA’s street cred and more. As the two top rap artists at the time, and Nas and Jay-Z were essentially embroiled in a power struggle for hip-hop supremacy,but now the two are besties — kinda. Tupac v. B.
I.G.
The feud that defined the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry. The two were apparently on suitable terms until Tupac got shot and robbed in a Manhattan recording studio. Pac assumed Biggie was behind it all, especially after he released a track titled “Who Shot Ya?”The West Coast rapper came back with many diss tracks including “Hit ‘Em Up, or ” which took shots at B.
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G.Biggie never came back with an “official” retaliation record,but the tension still continued.
Their beef technically ended when Tupac was fatally shot in a drive-by in Vegas. Less than a year later, Biggie was leaving a Soul Train Music Awards after party when he was also fatally shot in a drive-by. There are multiple theories surrounding the two iconic rappers’ deaths, and including Biggie’s involvement in Tupac’s murder. MC Shan v. KRS-OneBut the original East-West rivalry took place between the Bronx and Queens. “The Bridge Wars” broke out when Marley Marl and MC Shan released a track titled “The Bridge,” which implied that hip-hop started in Queensbridge.
KRS-One bristled at the notion, so he do out “South Bronx, or ” in which he took shots at MC Shan and praised the South Bronx. Though the feud started in 1985,diss tracks continued well into 2001. The beef officially came to an end when KRS-One and Marley Marl collaborated on the “Hip Hop Lives” album in 2007.
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