DJ Premier Names His Favorite Beefs

DJ Premier has been in the news a lot lately, and i am guessing he is working on something new. Anyway, he recently named his favorite beefs of all time; premier is from the old era, so you should expect beefs from back in days.

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"Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee is the ultimate, ultimate [beef]," Premier told DJ Vlad. "I know Busy Bee isn't on the level of rhyming skills -- Kool Moe Dee, I just never heard a rhyme like that back then. He just wouldn't stop -- So that's number one. Definitely Roxanne Shante, the Real Roxanne...[Number three], MC Lyte and Antoinette. That should be talked about even if you're in the new cats that's coming up in the game. Study this sh*t. This sh*t is a culture." (Vlad TV)
"Definitely 'Ether' and 'Takeover' when Nas went at Jay," Premier added. "Nas [won], but musically, [Jay] killed it with 'The Takeover.' ... Jay has a little bully in him. Nas is just, 'I'm rhyming, doing my one-two. And I'm chilling.' ... Jay won until 'Ether.' I don't even count 'Super Ugly.' That don't count. And I would have to say LL [Cool J] battling Ice-T and [MC] Hammer and everybody. That was ill right there." (Vlad TV)


It is funny he put Nas and Jay-Z up in there, but missed out pac and biggie, maybe he didn't want to touch on the matter of dead comrades. But, if you would ask me, although, pac and beef had more energy thrown into their beef, i think jay and nas's own beef was more lyrical...like it was a battle of two worthy emcees- both dope, but one choose to be commercial with his skills, and one went the knowledge kicking way. Till this day, i think that is still the best battle ever- Ether and Takeover can stand each other, and make people say this is better, and another set say, no, this is better...it literally divided the hiphop fans in two.


 Yeah, i know pac and biggie did the same with their beef, but ask anybody what lines they can quote from biggie dissing pac. In fact, big never had any official reply for HIT EM UP, he just played it cool and went the subliminal way. And even HIT EM UP, which i consider the greatest beef ever, maybe neck to neck with ether, was more about the energy and directness and emotions pac put into that song, it wasn't really about skill.

Anyway, those are just my thoughts, and i would like to here yours.

m.i and modenine beef

Like the cold war that went on between the east and western world a couple of decades ago, their has been something similar going on with m.i and modenine. Everybody recognised modenine as the best rapper in nigeria a couple of year ago; eventhough there was a lot of debate then who had the crown between he and rugged man, but the real rap enthusiast knew the crown was comfortably on mode's head. That is until the kid m.i showed up about two years ago, and turned things around.

M.I came on the seen around 2007, but started gaining a lot of buzz around 2008, and then he exploded last year, 2009. Since then, there has been a silent debate on who holds the crown for the king of rap in the country. Although mode is known to stay true to the art, rapping with no gimicks, m.i has the mass appeal with his unique style of rhyming. Apart from being a lyrical m.c, m.i also has a very catchy delivery to his raps.


For a while now there has been some sort of beef between m.i and modenine. I happen to have a friend in the entertainment world that gives me information, "classified", information on what is really going on when these artiste hang out outside the studio, and i heard that you would never catch m.i and modenine in the same room. And then my source told me that the song "somebody want's to die", was directed at modenine.

After i heard that, i started listening for any form of subliminal diss from either of them, untill i heard modenine's new single, "badman". On the third verse of the song, mode dropped the line, "you're just a generic version of lil wayne". I don't think you need anybody to tell you that line was meant for m.i. Just make time out to listen to m.i' especially that "safe" song, and tell me m is not biting off wayne's style. Unless you just want to be a blind fan, then you would agree that he stole wayne's style and swagger.

Anyway, i don't even need anydoy to tell me otherwise, because he said it himself on an interview on "top f.m". About a year ago, he came on "top fm" and during the course of the interview, he said he was listening to a lot of lil wayne before and during the recording of his album; "talk about it."

What i just want to know is who would win in a lyrical battle between m.i and modenine. I have to tell you i am on neither's side, because as much as i do agree that m.i is a generic version of lil wayne, mode is not so different, because modenine's whole style is built on dropping metarphors, and if you are a lil wayne fan, and lisen to his rap, then you know that is his big advantage.

I just need your opinions and comments on this one.

game claims that jay-z'sv relationship with pharell stopped him from dissing the veteran

You all know that "game" was planning a diss/war on jay-z last summer when jay mentioned his name on the intro to "blueprint 3", and then he dropped the rant all of a sudden, and i was wondering what happened, because i know game is not the type to drop out of a beef just like that. Although jay claimed not to have been dissing game on the track, game, and a lot of people in the industry (like dj green lantern), believed it was false. I think so too, and i think jay just used it to get some buzz for his album. Anyway, i still stand by my words any day that game would have done a lot of damage to jay's career. You have to know that game can be reckless on the mic when it comes to beefing. And, i am not saying game is a better rapper than jay, far from that, i am saying that game is a better beef/battle rapper than jay. Game would never have backed down. I am kinda happy that jay didn't respond to his warning track.

Anyway, game has come out to tell all that are willing to listen, the main reason why he didn't go on with the beef.


"Maybe I stepped over the line because I listen to Beyonce's music," Game said in an interview. "My girl listens to Beyonce's music. All girls do. So, when I did that, I got rained on by like, it was like a chick army at my next show. Plus, I didn't really mean that much harm, man. It's just rap, man. As far as Jay, he's a good friend of Pharrell's and he worked with Jay recently. I decided, along with [Dr.] Dre and Pharrell, that being at odds with him wasn't beneficial to what we're trying to do in the future, so later for that." (Yahoo)

HIPHOP SCENE IS BECOMING PEACEFUL. (PART 1)

Since Jay-z and Nas squashed their beef, it seems not impossible for any other set of rappers to make peace.
Rap beefs have been present on the hiphop scene for years. KRS1 and MC SHEM had their thing back in the late 80's. Dr dre and eazy-e had theirs in the early 90's. Beefs have sprung-up from dissagreement with former label mates, to clash of egos, to plainly trying to prove that you are better than one rapper or the other. It had always remained on wax, untill the Biggie/Tupac issue.
Back in 1995 west coast rapper, tupac shakur was shot five times upon entering the QUARD studios in New York. It just so happened that biggie and puff daddy were also present in the building during the shooting. Pac concluded that they must have known about the hit, and that gave birth to their fued. The beef led to the death of these two legendary rappers.
There have been a lot of rap wars after that, but must of them have stayed on wax.