Ice Cube and Common recently settled their beef like some grown [rich] men and came together to make a song called “Real People” that appears on the soundtrack for Barbershop 3, a film they both act in. The new pals made their friendship official by performing the track on The Tonight Show.
Backed by house band The Roots, Cube and Com’ rocked the stage like true veterans.
Times have changed from when these two MCs were once at each others throats.
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When Common‘s 1994 classic thesis on Hip-Hop “I Used To Love H.E.R.” dropped, many interpreted some of the lyrics as a criticism of West Coast Hip-Hop. Especially when he rapped:
“But then she broke to the West Coast, and that was cool
Cause around the same time, I went away to school
And I’m a man of expanding, so why should I stand in her way
She probably get her money in L.A
And she did stud, she got big pub but what was foul
She said that the pro-black, was going out of style”
and
“Now she be in the burbs, looking rock and dressin’ hippie
And on some dumb shit, when she comes to the city
Talking about popping Glocks serving rocks and hittin’ switches
Now she’s a gangsta rolling with gangsta bitches
Always smoking blunts and getting drunk
Telling me sad stories,now she only fucks with the funk
Stressin’ how hardcore and “real” she is
She was really the realest, before she got into showbiz”
Ice Cube, a founding father of West Coast Hip-Hop and Gangsta Rap, took offense.
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In response to the perceived slight, Ice Cube hooked up with Mack 10 and WC to record “Westside Slaughterhouse”
On the track Ice Cube spits:
“All you suckas want to dis the pacific
But you buster niggas never get specific
Used to love her, mad cause we fucked her
Pussy whipped bitch with no Common Sense
Hip hop started in the west
Ice Cube bailin’ through the east without a vest”
Common did not back down.
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Common responded with “The B*tch In Yoo” going directly at Ice Cube.
Common called Cube out for everything from using an East Coast inspired sound on his first album to making borderline rock songs. Add that to his skillful use of Cube’s album and song titles, Common wound up winning this short lived battle.
Ice Cube and Common also sat down with Complex to explain how the beef actually ended years ago and how “Real People” came about.
