What's Beef

Contrary to popular belief, rap beef is not when you need two gats to go to sleep or you need your enemy to start your jeep. Typically, it's a clever ploy to sell records or get your name relevant again. Occasionally it starts when a member of one rapper's entourage bumps into or scuffs the shoes of another rapper's posse. All in all it's some petty juvenile schoolyard shit.

Rap beefs come a dime a dozen and so do the diss songs. But today I chose two songs that stand out from the rest. Rap songs are usually 3:30-4:00 minutes, but these two songs are 8 and 9 minutes. To make a nine minute diss song it is obvious you have a big bone to pick. The first is Mac Dre and Coolio (not the one who did the "All That" theme song for Snick at Nite) going at Lil Bruce who happens to be E-40's cousin. Like all good Mac Dre songs his lyrics make you laugh out loud when Dre claims Bruce's mother cooks cats and dogs (Bruce is half Korean). Second, is MF Grimm calling out his old friend MF Doom. It's off Grimm's three disc album "American Hunger", which i found to be a lot of filler, but this joint is on point and offers a lot of insight on the falling out between the two former friends, from Grimm's perspective of course. Some of you are probably thinking, "But Game made 15 minute diss songs." Yea, well they sucked and he is the most chemically imbalanced rapper I can think of.
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