Jay Z Vs 2pac Shakur Not much to say really as you probably know all about this if you listen to 2pac's later music, Firstly Jay-Z started tha beef by dissing Pac on his "Reasonable Doubt" album on the song "Brooklyn's Finest." Then Tupac replyed when he dissed Jay Z on "Bomb First", a track on his "Makaveli" album. (You can read these lyrics below). This song pointed at the beef with Jay-Z coming from him sticking up for Mobb Deep. Tupac also disses Jay-Z on his later album "Until the end of time" on the song "All Out". Jay-Z replied to Tupac after 2pac's demise in 1996, which was a damn ugly and cowardly thing to do and only got him critics not fans, as all hip hop fans know that Tupac would have ripped Jay-Z apart lyrically if he was still with us.

TALE OF THE MIXTAPES: A history of Jay-Z and Tupac's lyrical feud 2pac "Bomb First": Bye Bye bye lets get high and ride / Oh, how do we do these niggas but I'm not gonna cry / I'm a Bad Boy killa (killa) / Jay-Z die too / Looking out for Mobb Deep / Nigga when I find you / Weak muthaF***as don't deserve to breathe / How many niggas down to die for me / Yeah eh yayuh / West coast ridah comin right behind ya / Shoulda never F***ed with me

2pac "All Out": You got a lot of nerve to play me / Another gay rapper / Bustin' caps at Jay-Z / (buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck) /And still avoid capture!

Jay Z "Brooklyn's Finest": Biggie says: Nea Gutter had two spots / The two for five dollar hits, the blue tops / Gotta go, Coolio mean it's gettin Too Hot / If Faith had twins, she'd probably have two Pac's /Get it, Tupac's!

 

Jay Z Vs Nas There may have been celebrated beefs involving Kool Mo Dee, Ice-T, Ll Cool J, and, of course, the infamous Tupac verses Biggie, but this was the one that set the battlefield on fire in recent years, as both of these cats are at the top of their game when they started spitting fire at each other. And they couldnt be more respected in the hip hop community. Early on it seemed as if Jay-Z might have won this with a few spirited barbs, but Nas Ether of his massive album "Stillmatic" has become a heralded classic. This was basically a whole song dedicated to ripping F*** out of Jay Z, if you havent heard this song, then buy the album for it!!!! (Read below for a few of the best spits). And also with Nas's rapid succession of incredible albums -- two a year for the last two years, one better than the other, a double album on the way have made him the clear winner.

On "Stillmatic" Nas calls each person out from the Roc and also former friend Cormega. Cormega had beef with Nas and Nature after being booted out of The Firm for Nas's cousin (Nature). Cormega has F***ed Nature up in person, but that was over 2 years ago. The beef was squashed and all seemed straight between the long time friends, right? But the album adresses his 'main' beef, with Jay Z, more than any other.

Altough Jay-Z did reply on mixtapes, such as "Got myself a Gun", which is a very brave reply to such a diss track as "Ether" is, and always will be, he never really retaliated in such a way that could take the shine of Nas' "Ether", and the beef was soon after squashed with no violence involved.

TALE OF THE MIXTAPES: An  history of Jay-Z and Nas lyrical feud Nas "Ether": I WOULD PICK SOME OF THE LYRICS FROM THIS SONG BUT THE WHOLE SONG IS A STRAIGHT DISS AT JAY-Z SO JUST READ THE SONG LYRICS BY CLICKING

Jay Z "Got Myself A Gun": You got a lot of nerve to play me / Another gay rapper / Bustin' caps at Jay-Z / (buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck) /And still avoid capture!

 

Jay Z Vs Mobb Deep This is just another weaker contender trying to snatch the crown from 'Hova'. This time its those grimy cats from the QB, Mobb Deep. Again, as respect in the game as they come. While their beef wasnt as legendary as say Nas and JayZ it did spark some truly great moments, including Jay-Zs unveiling of a childhood photo of Mobbs 'Prodigy' in a tutu at the NTC Summer Jam.

Here's the low down on this beef, at the time Nas was dropping hint bars at Memphis Bleek. Jay-Z was quiet during this, while his main front man Beanie Sigel was going to war verbally with Mobb Deep. Everybody was getting in their little freestyles on mixtapes, dropping hints at who they're beefing with but it seems the main event is yet to start. After what happened at SummerJam (a big concert held by a radio station in NY), the beef wars have crossed the line. If you didn't know, Jay-Z performed at SummerJam and disgraced Prodigy of Mobb Deep by showing pictures on big screen projectors of Prodigy at age 11 wearing a Michael Jackson studded jacket with leotards, and another one with P in a pink Tutu. Some may say "so what, he was eleven" or "people weren't born thugs" but most cats know that he was highly disrespected. You don't dig into someone's personal life, bring out some embar****ing ass photos at a concert being seen by thousands, and expect everything to be all good in the spirit of battling. Many people might question P's image of being thorough, and stop copping anything he makes, hence that man can't eat. It's ok to battle, but people take pride and money seriously. Queens and Roc-A-Fella have been beefing back and forth, but that stunt crossed the line.

 

 

Ruff Ryders Vs Rocafella During some months around feb 2002, you could've heard a couple of freestyles by the two artists above, (jada and beanie), on mixtapes, ripping each other. The song on Jada's album featuring DMX was a straightforward call out to Roc-A-Fella. Styles of the LOX has just came out with a song throwing jabs at Roc-A-Fella and Damon Dash. Very personal, because in the end of the song he makes it clear. "I'll still listen to your music, but there won't be any more songs. Let's do it like gangstas."

 

 

Jadakiss Vs Beanie Sigel Enter the Jadakiss and Beanie beef. Jada ran his mouth about people stealing his flow and saying "since everyone in Philly started sounding like him, they've been getting signed". Now I feel that's half true. Jada threw a jab at the Roc on that quote because if you inspect Roc-A-Fella's latest signed artists, all of them are from Philly. Notice, when you used to hear Philly in rap, who you thought of? F***ing Will Smith (and to some extent The Roots). Now it's like Philly is blowing up in the past 2 years since Beans got put on. When The Source asked Beanie about the comments from Jada, Sigel said "I am Philly". Beginning of personal beef 2.

JAY-Z VS DIPLOMATS

 

The Diplomats latest attack on Hov comes over the instrumental for Kanyes latest single Runaway, which he debuted on the VMAs this past Sunday. In the freestyle Camron spits, And Kanye, you a sucka n-/ Dissed Dame, so my attitude is F*** the n-/ Stuck to Jigga, how you gon live with that?/ Took the beat, now come get it back.

Will this beef ever go away? Probably not. The Dip Set crew have been baiting Jiggaman for a battle since the mid-aughts, largely to no avail barring Jays Kingdom Come LP but well get to that. Despite the looming hatchet, Cam and Jimmy actually have quite a bit of history with Jay. Check out the troublesome trios timeline to learn just how well they know one another.

1995: Both Jay-Z and Camron appear on Big Ls Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous LP, albeit on different songs (Jay on Da Graveyard and Cam on 8 iz Enuff, respectively).

1996: Jay-Z forms Roc-A-Fella Records with partners Damon Dash and Kareem Biggs Burke, both of whom Jim and Cam reportedly grew up with in Harlem.

1997: Camron signs to Sony/Epic through Lance Un Riveras Undeas Entertainment. Another artist signed to Undeas, Charli Baltimore, is in a short-lived supergroup with Jay-Z and the late Notorious B.I.G. called The Commission.

1999: Jay-Z reportedly stabs Lance Un Rivera in a nightclub over charges that hes bootlegging Jays fourth LP, In My Lifetime Vol. 3. Jay maintained his innocence early on but later plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

2000: Camron releases his second LP S.D.E. which features a cameo from Destinys Child (read: Beyoncé) on the song Do It Again. It also includes the song Let Me Know, which includes numerous subliminal shots (you rap about money, man, who are you anyway? and When the f we start bouncin?) at Jay-Z.

2001: Camron demands a release from Sony/Epic and is courted by his childhood friend Damon Dash. He signs with Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam later that year and brings his Diplomats crew and boutique record label with him.

2002: Come Home With Me, the third album from Camron. Buoyed by the Just Blaze-produced single Oh Boy, the album goes platinum. Jay-Z joins Cam on Welcome To New York City, a street single from the LP that cements their partnership.

2002: While Jay-Z is away on vacation, Jim Jones announces that Camron has been made a Vice President at Roc-A-Fella. Jay doesnt agree with the move and friction between the two begins to surface.

2003: In the midst of the Jay-Z/Nas feud, Nas disses Camron on New Yorks Power105. Camron subsequently joins the beef against Nas and releases Show You How, a freestyle dis to the instrumental of the original Jay-Z song.

2004: Jay-Z, Dame and Biggs sell their 50% interest in Roc-A-Fella to Def Jam. Jay-Z is made President of Def Jam and thus takes control of the label. Dame and Biggs create the Dame Dash Music Group. Camron and Dip Set side with their childhood homies.

2006: Camron releases You Got To Love It, a dis track aimed at Jay-Z, alleging that Hov blocked him from taking the VP job at Roc-A-Fella. He also claims that a gunman who shot him in Washington, DC one year earlier in a botched carjacking threw up the ROCs diamond hand signal. He also says Jay stole Kanye West, Roc-A-Fella Records and the Roc-A-Wear clothing brand from Dame Dash. Jay-Z doesnt respond.

2006: After ignoring Dip Sets taunts, Jay finally replies publicly on his LP Kingdom Come. N-s are like why dont you get at old boy/Why kill the puppet it leaves Gapeto alive/Why not wait to catch them all together this way you dig one big hole one time, Hov rhymes on Dig A Hole. Its like the disciples dissing Jesus becoming his rivals the one thing that they owe they life to, he continues.

2007: Tru Life, an artist signed to Roc-A-Fella subsidiary Roc-La-Familia, takes up for his label boss and begins trading insults on mixtape cuts with Dip Set. He winds up punching Camron in the face outside of New Yorks club Stereo.

2007: as Jay-Z preps his American Gangster concept LP, Jim Jones releases a mixtape of the same name, with a bevy of disses aimed at Jay. Jay replies with Brooklyn High, a freestyle over Jones We Fly High, claiming, Thats balling? Men lie, women lie, numbers dont.

2008: In a joint interview with Complex Magazine, Jones and Damon Dash say Kanye doesnt really like Jay-Z. They also indicate that their problems with Hov date back to 2001, when Jay-Z allegedly bought the Kanye West-produced track H To The Izzo after hearing him play it in a studio session for Cam.

2008: Ron Browz and the Jim Jones/Juelz Santana-featured remix to the single Pop Champagne climbs the charts. The autotuned track becomes the lead single for Jones 2009 LP, Pray IV Reign.

2009: Jay-Z releases Death of Autotune, putting the kibosh on Jones success. The single sets up his Blueprint 3 album, where on the very first cut What We Talkin Bout, he puts the beef to bed saying I aint talkin bout Jimmy, I aint talkin bout Dame.

2010: Jim Jones and Camron release their Toast Freestyle over Kanyes Runaway and the beat goes on. Source:http://rapfix.mtv.com/2010/09/18/jay-z-camron-beef-runaway-remix/

 

 

 

-- Edited by Gamepun (Snr.Mod) on Saturday 20th of November 2010 05:50:12 PM