Enough Beef...

Beef and rap music go hand-in-hand. The earliest beef that I can remember was after the disbandment of N.W.A. when Dr. Dre and Eazy-E were releasing diss tracks towards each other. That was the early nineties, and there seemed to have been enough reasoning for their feud. (If you don't know you can easily Wiki it). Present day rap feuds are getting weaker and weaker. Every rapper in New York hates every other New York rapper. Southern rappers feuding over drug slanging and dealing, and rappers everywhere are angry about other rappers misrepresenting their 'hood'. In this world of useless hip hop feuds I have handpicked some of my favorites and most interesting.

The first one I'll mention is Rick Ross and G-Unit. Rick Ross rose to fame after his first single Hustlin', produced by one of the most popular beat makers 'The Runners', responsible for the screw hook fad in southern rap. If you have ever heard Hustlin' or any other Rick Ross track then you would know that his lyrics focus primarily on mass drug distribution through Miami ports. He got the name Rick Ross from the famous imprisoned drug trafficker. Ross plays himself off as one of the biggest drug hustlers in the United States. He even knows Noreaga (and apparently he owes Ross one hundred favors). However, the tables have turned on Ross once photos of a clean shaven Ross in a police uniform surfaced. He admitted to being a correctional facilities officer in Miami before rapping. As if things couldn't have gotten any worse, his old girlfriend wrote a book which exposed Ross' real character, claiming that he was an officer and also NOT AT ALL A DRUG DEALER! Big surprise, how many rappers do you think actually sold mass amounts of drugs and actually admitted to it in their songs? Rick Ross was then more vulnerable than ever. Needless to say Lloyd Banks and 50 Cent pounced on Ross. Both camps released a number of diss tracks, in my opinion in G-Units favor. (I couldn't really care less for both camps anyway, so I'm trying not to show a bias). Rick Ross mainly attacks 50 Cent on his diss tracks, claiming to burn his mothers house down and foolish things like that. G-Unit attacks Ross' fraudulent image and shout "Officer Rickyyyy" on the diss tracks. What I love about this feud is that Rick Ross finally got called out!

My second favorite beef is between T.I. and Shawty Lo, both from the mean streets of Atlanta, Georgia. The reason for this beef is hilarious! T.I. shouted "Bankhead!", which is an Atlanta neighborhood, and did not mention Lo's name. Lo claims that T.I. is not from Bankhead, which fueled the feud. Lo released a track called Dunn Dunn which was the instigator in the Lo-T.I. feud. T.I. responded on his first single from his latest album Paper Trail to Lo through out the song and took even more shots at Lo on the track What Up? Whats Haapnin' saying "cause I yell Bankhead and you feel left out, I ain't mention your name thats what all this about?", which basically sums up this useless beef. Apparently the two have resolved their differences, which is a good idea on Lo's part because he is straight up awful.

That is all for now, I'll have more on foolish rap beefs in the future, as long as rappers keep acting stupid.