What's #RealBeef ?

What's Beef?

 

Battling and Beefs are common for the hip-hop industry, and you can either gain or lose from the situation depending on who you are and what happened. I was going to do 2012 beefs but personally I felt like that most of them were wack. The most anticipated beefs had wack diss tracks and the other beefs were just flat out stupid. Surprisingly to me one of the hottest diss tracks this year came from the least expected, Diggy Simmons. This made me wonder like really what happened? Has Hip-Hop gotten soft? Since when do we have beefs like Drake VS Chris Brown? Yeah I know some of you are saying what about people like Rick Ross VS Jeezy or The Game VS anything? Well since Rick Ross beefs are over the same stuff since when he first came out, its now irrelevant. The Game just wanted attention for his album and Shyne just wanted attention also. There's nothing wrong with wanting some hype before an album drops, hey 50 Cent always does it, but the diss tracks and the childis twitter stuff was just stupid. Probably the best beef this year was Jeezy VS Gucci and the most hyped one was Meek VS Cass (see other post). Well here are some of the good beefs (to me). No this is not the whole list because I'm still adding, but here is a taste of it, and feel free to let me know who I should add because I probably forgot about them.

1. Nas VS Jay-Z

This was an historic hip-hop moment in beef history, when these two rappers started. How is this bigger than Pac VS Biggie? Well simply because the diss songs were better and represented true head to head beef. Ether was absolutely flawless as a diss song proving that Nas still was a major hip-hop contender after the  release of Nastradamus, which was a flop. Yes, Nas has a flop album for all you Nas heads. Ether responded to Hova's diss track "Takeover" and "Super Ugly." This is a constant battle of who is better still to this day and this debate will probably never end, just like the Pac VS Biggie debate.The hardcore flawless diss tracks is what made this beef number 1 on the list. Although I still have no clue as of why the beef started, personally I think it was for publicity.

Takeover

Ether

Super Ugly

2. Tupac VS Biggie

There really is no explanation needed as for why this is on the list. Pac VS Biggie will be an ongoing argument probably forever. Although "Who Shot Ya" was never said to be directly towards Pac, he definitely took it in that way. Leading to this historic beef and Tupac's direct response to Biggie with "Hit 'Em Up," and of course Biggie retaliated with a couple of bars here and there to Pac because of the song. Unfortunately this led to their deaths, but this was real beef. The beef started because supposedly Biggie set up Pac to get shot, but I personally don't think that was the case.

Hit 'Em Up

 

Who Shot Ya

3. Common VS Whitehouse

Common is probably one of the most peaceful rappers out there, so how does he have beef? Well number three was a debate between Common VS The White House or Common VS The West Coast. I chose Common VS The Whitehouse because this was absolutely ridiculous. Eazy-E was invited to The Whitehouse, but they have a fit when Common is invited? Yes, Common did read a controversial poem that was misinterpreted (maybe). However don't take Common peacefulness as a weakness, because he can and will murder people with bars. Ice Cube figured that out in the Common VS West Coast. 

The Poem

The Comments

4. Curtis VS Graduation 

Although this was not a beef, this was probably the best battle for album sales of all time. The Graduation VS Curtis made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and got all the fans hyped up. 50 Cent stated that if Kanye beat him in albums sales that he would retire and well that was a lie, because Kanye definitely won by a landslide with the Graduation. Of course 50 cent didn't retire and Kanye continued to make classic albums, while 50 did business deals, but as for good albums yeah that's over.   

5. Lil Mama VS The Stage

Now although this is not two particular people, this was definitely historic. First of all she disrespected the performance on so many levels, but when someone taps you to get off the stage, now you definitely should exit the stage. This unforgettable interruption single handley ended Lil Mama's career. Although she did make the attempt to get some hype by being on America's Best Dance Crew as a judge and taking shots at Nicki Minaj, but they all failed. Lil Mama has faded because of herself SMH, and I guess this is a lesson learned for all of us. Only certain people can interrupt performances and speeches.

  

Of course I'm missing good beefs like Lil Flip VS T.I., Cam'ron VS Dipset, The Source VS Eminem, DMX VS Jay-Z, and Ja Rule VS 50, but I haven't forgot about them I simply just didn't feel like writing about them. Besides 50 Cent has way too many beefs anyway and sense Ja Rule is the epitome of failure in a beef I found no reason to mention him. Basically these were good beefs but they wasn't hip-hop historic in my opinion. Of course I could've put East VS West Coast, but I thought that was pretty self explanatory. Dr. Dre being on the list is debatable, but I decided to leave him off since all of his contenders are dead. As for the Lil Mama VS The Stage I just thought I would give an example on how a person can end their own career without the help of others, and before her career really got to start. The point of this post was to simply remind everyone what actual beef is and how diss songs are suppose to be, not that BULL that happened this year. Lets not ever have a beef year like 2012 hip-hop ever again!