Any competitor or artist claiming to be the greatest or being considered one of the greatest has to be tested. Either that or challenge whoever the greatest is themselves. While Common has never gone around bumping his chest demanding a crown or throne, he hasn’t backed down from a challenge either.
When he stuck out his neck on “I Used To Love H.E.R.” asking other rappers to “stop f*cking up” Hip-Hop, not everybody obliged. His bold statements were met with resistance from from West Coast legend Ice Cube who teamed up with Mack 10 and W.C. to record “Westside Slaughterhouse” and spew the lyrics:
All you suckas want to dis the pacific
But you buster niggas never get specific
Used to love her, mad cause we f*cked her
P*ssy whipped bitch with no Common Sense
Up to this point, Ice Cube was still one of the most feared MC’s on the mic. After all, this is the man who wrote “No Vaseline” and single-handedly defeated NWA on wax. But, Common didn’t back down from the fight that Cube was bringing and proceeded to drop the scathing 1996 diss track “The B*tch In Yoo.”
In just over three minutes Common completely destroyed Cube and made even the biggest Cube fans look at him differently. Just read the lyrics from the first verse alone:
A b*tch n*gga with an attitude named Cube
Stepped to the Com wit a feud
Now what the f*ck I look like dissing a whole coast
You ain’t made sh*t dope since AmeriKKKa’s Most
Wanted to cease from the Midwest to the East
On the dick of the East for your 1st release
Your lease is up at the crib, house niggas get evicted
In videos with white boys talking you get Wicked
Natural Born Killa, n*gga you natural born God
Read, rich, got the nerve to say you rob
Hyprocrite, I’m filling out your Death Certificate
Slinging bean pies and St Ide’s in the same sentence
Shoulda repented, on the 16th of October
Get some beats besides George Clinton to rock over
Rap career is over, better off acting
What trouble I see, you’re managing WC and Wack 10
You backed in to a four corner hustla
Lying on your d*ck, said you was fuckin her
Use Higher Learning, don’t take my words out of ‘text
Went from gangsta to Islam to the d*ck of Das EFX
It’ll take the Nation of Millions to Hold Me Back
From giving you mouth shots or hit wit the pipe Ralph got
Chris Tucker ain’t around, it’s your Friday, it was good
I wasn’t salty, she was wit the Boyz N the Hood
Cube never responded and it did indeed take the nation to hold Common back as the rising beef was squashed after both men met with Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Now, if shutting up the self-proclaimed “N*gga You Love To Hate” and co-founding father of Gangsta Rap isn’t worthy of “Top” consideration, what is?
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