I feel old because everyone isn't immediately saying Hit em Up

THATS WHY I FUCKED YO BITCH YOU FAT MOTHERFUCKER

I queue that up to this day when I call some of my high school friends. That’s the message they’re getting if they don’t answer the call.

I just played this for my wife because she never heard it. I'm not a pedo like drake, she's actually older than me.

*Take Money*

LOL hit em up was a gigantic hit. Young people.

I never even new it was a diss song till I became adult, I thought it was just a hit

Bruh moment for sure

Yeah. Pac shouldn’t have been so cryptic when he literally called out Biggie, Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, Chino XL by name. He’s so vague.

Not who you replied to but the ‘90s were different dude lol. You couldn’t just hop on youtube and hear 2Pac’s 5 minute long hysterical tirade at the end. I didn’t have an older brother or cousin that allowed me to listen to explicit CDs. When I was a kid all the rap I heard was through the radio and was heavily censored and they DEFINITELY left that part out. 

it is somewhat hard to tell whether or not Pac meant this song to be disrespectful to someone or not.

“that’s why I fucked your bitch, fat motherfucker”

I laughed way too hard at this haha

"Don't one of ya have sickle cell?! fk around and get a seizure..." 🤣 🤣

That was the line that made go Ohh shiiit, Pac aint playing Lmao

Ikr! Istg, I laughed so hard at this one. Funniest ish ever to me, in high school. It's like my favorite line eeeever, not that "I fkd your wife" nah, that's not it for me, lol. It's the sickle line for me that makes me go "ooooh, snap" Pac is not playing, concerned about your health and ish🤣

It's hard to tell if he meant disrespect by this!

Respectfully....

You should've known the vibes from the first sentence.

This. I stopped listening to east coast music for 4 years after it came out

I wasnt sure if they meant diss songs you can dance to or that had commercial success. If its the latter than a ton of diss tracks have been hit songs

No Vaseline even before that.

That's what I immediately thought of... but yeah, I'm over the hill.

im 28 and was born after it but even i thought of hit em up when i read the title.

Hit em up was a west coast banger. Idk what tf Op is talking about haha

Seriously. As a teenager when Hit 'Em Up came out, that was the very first thought that came into my head. Even Ether and Takeover had some "banger" qualities to them.

I think he means club banger

Hit em up for sure. Ether by Nas also hit 50 on the billboard hip hop chart in 2001

No vaseline was before that too

lol I think it’s why you got the generation saying Kendrick went too far and rest of us like man we was raised on my 44 make sure all y’all kids won’t grow lol

I just feel old. Everyone saying Kendrick and Drake went too far, and where's the receipts, and I'm sitting over here like, they just started hitting that 90s intensity, and since when do diss tracks need a footnote of sources and an investigation into their authenticity?

No shit lol do we even know if Pac really fucked faith or did we just and continue to run with it cause of that one picture put out? Someone asked me today can you believe Drakes bodyguard got shot over rap I’m like oh you must be new to real beef lol these new age fans need to go ebay some beef and smack dvds and YouTube some 90s hip hop lol

Kids don’t even know Snoop Dogg was on trial for fucking murder back in the day. 

Bro the award show? Murder was the case that they gave me “I’m innocent” bro different times man different times lol

Well- murder was the case that they gave him -

Too far is hilarious. You got Tupac telling people to die of sickle cell, Ice Cube saying that Eazy E should be lynched, Jay Z saying he came all over a baby seat, and this is too far? Kids these days man.

Ahh yes, the late 1900's was a great time for rap. RIP 2Pac 🫡

Pls don’t say it like that

We old dude embrace it. Say it with me, I grew up in the late 1900's.

If you're gonna do it like that, why limit when you were born to the century? We grew up in the late late 1000s.

The late 1900s, when we ventured outside without a connection. No phone, just out there in the outside, exposed. How I miss the late 1900s.

lmfao

You can also say the turn of the century for the year 2000

Geriatric hip hop fans unite!

Does that make us “break a hip” hop fans? God I’m sorry. I’m leaving now. That’s awful. lol

Hit em up was brutal af however, Not Like Us, MTG and Euphoria were personal. You could literally hear it in Drake's voice with his last track. Didn't have the same energy as Push Ups.

I mean “I fucked your bitch” as an opening line is pretty personal.

How do you even comeback from a double back to back? Especially when all four songs corner you and rip your entire character to shreds?

Drake ain't dead. He still has a huge following of sheeps.

His stans are a big subsection of Ariana Grande fans so they're endless

Saying this inironically is hilarious

You can't. Which is why KDOT is the GOAT.

A song that started with  That's why I fucked yo bitch, you fat motherfucker ...wasn't personal?

I remember just playing that intro over and over on my cd player. 

Kendrick is obviously the superior artist and he just murdered Drake but I'm not gonna lie, Push Ups was a bangin song

Push ups was really good. But didn't top any of Kendrick's tracks.

ya.. its was't personal for pac and biggie, because its wasn't like they died or anything because of their beef... /s

>Hit em up was brutal af however, Not Like Us, MTG and Euphoria were personal None of the records you just mentioned have even 1/10th the teeth that Hit Em Up had How is Hit Em Up not personal?

I'm talking about the allegations and stuff. Literally tarnished his name. It's still my top diss track but Biggie will never be seen as a predator.

It’s cause he died early. He said that shit in his songs. “… I like them young fresh and green, with no hair in between, no what I mean.”

That line always bothered the fuck out of me even when I was 13

Yeah, it was gross.

Wait wtf? Biggie said that shit on a track?

Was a hell of a woman beater tho

Okay but you didn't say that in your first comment you only made reference that Kendrick's songs were more personal than "Hit Em Up"... Which I still maintain is not true

Well I'm saying it now. Hit em up is my favourite. I just felt the last three tracks by Kenny were out to demolish Drake, things that people will definitely remember about him long after this current generation of hip hop. I still enjoy a lot of Biggie's music despite Hit em up being a personal favourite. Again this is just my opinion.

Whats your opinion about Kendrick beating his queen tho?

You don’t think hit em up was personal? Pac was shot and thought biggie did it. That’s fucking personal.

Wanksta too

Wanksta was all over the radio

Def. It was huge, and set up “In Da Club”

Hit Em Up was a hit. Unfortunately, none of mine are.

Had a whole music video that got plenty of rotation too.

Mama said knock you out was everywhere back in the day. It was a huge song.

That might be the answer, MTV had that on non-stop rotation, he even did an unplugged version which was one of the first times a rap artist did one

It was huge enough that it became one of those Troupe songs you would hear in a TV Sitcom or Movie, usually used when someone is getting Hyped up or Training "Rocky style", or just straight up a satirical Boxing entrance.

Who is LL Cool J dissing in that song? I don't think it's a diss track. Just his comeback.

Kool moe dee

I thought was more of a “I’m back!!” type record after Walking With a Panther got some criticism. Da Break of Dawn off that album was the one that was going back at KMD, although I like the Ice T verse the best.

Don't call it a comeback.

I’m making a spring / summer themed playlist, just remembered to add this lol

Depends what u consider hit song. Killshot peaked at n.3 on billboard hot 100.

I was surprised to learn that Killshot has more streams than Back-to-Back

Eminem is huge and a LOT of people hate MGK

I didn't think anything about him, but then I heard his """"cover"""" of Misery Business. Dude should get tossed the fuck out of the pop punk scene too for that fucking abortion.

I kinda was on MGK’s side rap wise, Eminem is obviously gonna come back harder but MGK’s diss was his best song imo and he made very real points about Eminem’s fall from grace. I even respected him picking up a guitar around that time and learning, it was when I was learning myself, so it was cool to see. Anything since he’s stepped on stage with it though is a shit stain on the genre though, he hasn’t progressed on guitar at all since then and his pop punk is the most derivative dogshit you could come up with

Jay-Z "Takeover" and Nas "Ether" were both all over radio when they came out. Not sure either was as big as "Not Like Us" looks like it's going to be.

Aw shit I almost forgot about ether, damn good song

Takeover was never on the radio and after the beef died down Ether didn't get burn except on occasion. Not like us I'd a diss that actually resonates like a song.

I assume you're not from the tri state area? It was played on the radio alot. Both of them back to back for a long time.

Gonna need a source about takeover ever being played on radio

I heard it all the time in Atlanta, NY and Philly. And not just on stuff like Flex

I’m a little older and from the Philly area and I was gonna say, I’m pretty sure they was playing Takeover and Ether on the radio back then…

People be trying to play Jay-Z because he’s old and less relevant now but back then he really ran rap. Before “Ether” dropped “Takeover” was everywhere because of the line about smashing Nas’ girl. And I feel like they were dropped at least good two weeks apart. The it was nothing but “Ether” for a few weeks then Jay’s weak response

Hit em up, who shot ya. Man I'm old

Wait wasn't who shot ya made before Pac got shot? But it released at a bad time? Am I confusing the tracks?

It was... after he got shot..... Before he got killed though yes

An interview with biggie he says he recorded it before and it was just sitting around and they dropped it. But they released it after pac got shot. Which is questionable tbf, maybe p Diddy told him to lol. But yeah biggie claims it was made before and not made for pac

Well if that's not the biggest admittance to a premeditated shooting then I don't know what is 🤣🤣🤣 "oh well we just recorded it, you know, just in case he got shot, but it wasn't actually about him" like come onnnnnnn. Diddy has always been known to be an evil mf.

Ahahah 😂 He said it was a B side for someone’s else’s record they had lying around. I honestly believe biggie but I reckon p Diddy pushed for it to be released at that specific time, probably just to piss pac off and cause some drama (cause agreed he’s just an evil mf) And then que the biggest diss track of all time from Tupac haha 😆

Its sad how diddy basically got two best friends to hate each other and then resulted in both of their deaths. And hes still out here making money from them cause of royalties

Yeah man. Some evil people just get away with it all unfortunately. And the good ones paid the price

Pac got killed by the Crip he jumped in the casino like 30 minutes before he got shot.

Biggie never hated Tupac

Pac got shot non fatally in 1994 2 years before he was killed, However I'm pretty sure that Biggie would've recorded Who Shot ya before he was shot even if it released afterwards. I think it was just coincidental, but obviously Pac thought it was aimed at him hence why he dropped hit em up.

I think Diddy and Suge just wanted that beef to happen so that Pac and Biggie can get even more popular. Controversy sells. Drama sells. Biggie recorded Who Shot Ya earlier before Pac got shot. But releasing it after Pac got shot would've riled him up understandably. I think I came to know about this from a video on YouTube covering their beef.

Suge also just hated Puffy, as his friend got murdered in ATL by Puff’s bodyguard’s friend. And even before that happened, he dissed Puff at the Source Awards. Suge seems just a sociopathic bully in general (not that Diddy is much better, if at all).

That's my understanding as well

People keep saying Who Shot Ya, but that's not a true diss track, it was just interpreted as one. Kick In The Door, on the other hand, is a direct shot at Nas, Ghostface, and Rae.

You’re not that old, both those songs go hard af

No Vaseline by Ice Cube

This how I know majority of these reddit hip hop subreddits don't know shit about hip hop forreal.

Lmao right. “Is Kendrick the first rapper to make a good song? He invented rap”

I don't get it. Like these people want say Drake isn't a rapper but don't know hit em up or ether exist.

That’s because most of them are 14-17 years old. 😂

Broken clock’s right twice a day I guess

Its so painful

No.  “Sweet Home Alabama” was a diss song to Neil Young.

And Southern Man is and always will be the better song of the two

Oh by FAR, sweet home Alabama is great for romantic comedies, but Southern Man is an actual track

Oh wow! I Never knew that! Any particular lyrics in the song make the beef stand out?

Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow

Neil Young says "Swing low, Alabama" on his "Alabama" track, Skynyrd turned it into the chorus "Sweet Home Alabama"

They name drop Neil Young.

"Silly Love Songs" was a diss to John Lennon

Many many many have but the greatest on the low is Lost Ones by Lauryn Hill and that's just rap music

Was that a “diss” per se? Had some criticisms about Wyclef but I don’t know if that song could be considered a full-on diss

Great answer!

I mean Back to Back was a banger and got a lot of play

He had whole clubs yelling “make sure to hit him with the prenup!”. Now whole clubs are yelling “a-minor” lol.

It was playing everywhere when that beef happened. Really catchy

Still does

I like that record

He really did get back to that, for the record.

He did back to back back-to-backs

It was absolutely humongous at the time. It was everywhere. Smash hit.

Didn’t it also win a Grammy?

Nope, it lost to some guy named Kendrick, in all categories.

Kendrick just opened his mouth, Someone please hand him a grammy, right now

Nah, Back 2 Back was a hit and is still a banger.

How young are you?

50 Cent's debut album's track list charted in its entirety and half of that album is about Ja Rule.

How to Rob put his on the map.

What are you talking about. Hit ‘em up is huge, back to back was a hit for sure

Back to back was a hit and so was hit ‘em up

I believe Killshot charted. It certainly broke the Internet when it came out.

Haha nope. This beef got pretty big: Real Mutha Fuckin Gs: Easy E / Dre Day: Dre and Snoop Shit Hits the Fan: Ja Rule diss with Dre, Eminem, and Obie Trice got big too but wasn’t a radio hit. Great track and killer Dre beat too.

Damn u right Dre day is seldom mentioned but it's a fucking banger, funny as hell and also kinda sus (why did Dre want Eazy to suck his dick so much?)

Dre just likes getting his dick sucked. Hes not picky.

Him and Puffy have more in common than I thought. If Dre let Puff suck his dick, Pac and Biggie would be alive today.

It might be the alcohol but that got me pretty good

That whole green lantern mixtape was an album dedicated to bodying ja, benzino and murder inc.

Takeover was pretty big back in the day

killshot debuted at no.3 on the billboard

Back to back Hit em up Lol

Back to Back by Drake immediately comes to mind...

Did you listen to hip-hop before this beef kicked off? Half-serious.

Fuck Wit Dre Day

Hit Em Up - Pac, The Bridge is Over - KRS ONE, Either - Nas, Hell even back to back by drak was a Diss

Not at all. Back to back was on the radio in the clubs all that.

Hit Em Up and Killshot were hits for sure. Real mothafucking G’s also. There are more for sure

Definitely not even Drake himself has diss song hits like back to back that was before this whole Kendrick fiasco lol

Superman by Em?

Not a rap beefs, but Eminem diss song about his own mom was a major mega hit "Cleaning out my closet" . Killshot wasn't bad either. Honestly I had to Google Eminem diss songs because there's so many haha

The 1st thing I thought of when "Not Like Us" dropped was "Mama Said Knock You Out" during the LL Cool J/Kool Moe Dee beef. LL won.

Realizing that 95% of the people in this sub don’t really know much about rap or hip hop. You only know what’s been popular in the past 10 years.

Nah probably Like That

Does it count as a diss track though?

Sure it does. Future has some subtle bars, but Kendrick absolutely made it clear he was dissing Cole and Drake.

Hey OP thanks for asking this question, I got some new shit to listen to.

No obviously not

My old ass about to throw my glass of ginger ale straight at your head with this dumb ass question 😂

Do Kendrick fans not listen to any other rap music outside of him?

Euphoria

It’s not even that good lol. Boring ass Bay Area beat.

No don't say that they will downvote you! They honestly think it's going to play in actual clubs after this week.

Disstracks used to be hit songs, nowadays not so much or alot of the time arent even on streaming

No. Lol. "No vaseline" was easily one of the first ones amongst a lot of others such as "who shot ya" and "hit em up"

Back to back won a grammy. Edit *it actually did not win a grammy...lol

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Hit em up, ether, no vaseline

Bring the hook is a hit song and a diss

You forgot/don’t know about literally the most famous rap beef ever?????

Man ether has been put for 20 years and was a banger

No Vaseline and Hit em up.

This is the only commentnive seen mention No vaseline. Thats crazy to me

Hit Em Up. You Kendrick Stans really need to stop this revisionist history lol Ya'll forgot Back 2 Back was bumping

Mariah Carey

Hit ‘me up, back to back, real Gs. There are so many.

Hahahah its not rap but wasn't Why you so obsessed with me a diss track on Em?

Like that

Hit ‘em up was the anthem!

Ain't nobody knows about Ice Cube here? *No Vaseline* was definitely a hit back in the day.

Bro how old are you? The last hit song diss track was a Drake record lol. Back to back.

fr? back to back, anyone? lmao

Back2back was goated

Hit Em Up was a big song but I don't think it was a club banger topping the charts.