- Who are you siding with?
- I am gonna choose...
(beef sizzles)
- Oh, I'm so shook.
- I don't care what anybody says in the comments.
We said what we said, it's all in good fun!
- (React) Today, we are reacting to iconic hip-hop beefs.
- (both) Oh!
- Tupac and Biggie, coming right out the gate.
- 100%.
- (React) Well, we aren't gonna cover Tupac and Biggie in here,
we'll rip off the Band-Aid right now, but...
- Oh.
- If you wanna see the Tupac and Biggie beef,
check out the East Coast Vs. West Coast Rap video.
- (React) In each of these rounds, I'm gonna present you with the beef.
We're gonna listen to some songs by each of the artists,
and then you must pick a side.
- (laughs) Oh. - Ooh. (laughs)
This is about to get messy.
- Guys, I don't want any bad blood on my hands!
- Same!
- Oh, we're gonna be so judged... - Dang!
- ...for our decisions here. - Yeah, we are.
- Ugh!
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- ♪ Yo ♪ ♪ Look like I'm going for a swim ♪
- I love this one.
- I wanna wear what she's wearing.
- Right, those like neon stuff, super cool.
- Yes, love this. I want all of her costumes.
It's giving like Dark Gaga.
- I'm just mesmerized watching it. - No, same!
- I have nothing to say, I'm like...
- She's so versatile. - Mm-hmm.
- Like in so many ways.
- Ugh. - (Jayse) Mmm.
- ♪ You been corn ♪ ♪ Bentley tints on ♪
- Oh yes. - ♪ Fendi prints on ♪
- Ugh, she's so good though!
- No for real, like no one was doing it like Nicki.
- No.
- ♪ Said little [censored] ♪ ♪ You can't [censored] with me ♪
♪ If you wanted to ♪
- She looks so good. This was her like breakthrough.
- ♪ These is bloody shoes ♪ So iconic!
- ♪ I can get 'em both ♪ ♪ I don't wanna choose ♪
- Wow.
- When I have some red bottoms, then I'm good.
- Just so good, and she's grown so much from this.
- Yeah.
- This is somebody who has done a bunch,
and made their bag, and finally got to a point
where they're like, you literally cannot do anything to me anymore.
- ♪ Gon' do what to who ♪ (Izzy laughs)
- ♪ Let's find out and see ♪ - ♪ Cardi B ♪
- ♪ You know where I'm at ♪ - ♪ You know where I be ♪
- (React) This beef started in 2017.
It started with the appearance of Cardi B
during Remy Ma's Summer Jam performance.
It was in that same performance that Remy publicly dissed Nicki.
Then, after that, they started to make jabs at each other in songs.
- Oh. - Watch your man.
You should watch your mouth. - Yeah.
- (React) A year later in 2018,
Cardi and Nicki got into an altercation
at the Harper Bazaar Icon Party. - Yes.
- (React) Where Cardi threw her shoe at Nicki.
- Oh my God! - Not a shoe throw!
- What you gotta do to make her wanna throw
one of her bloody shoes, you know?
- Because she talked about her kid, or not talked about her kid,
but she liked comments about her kid,
and Cardi was like alright, if you're gonna keep it between us,
we two grown women,
but you don't start talking about my kid.
- Do not come for mama's baby, you just don't do that.
- Nah. - That's low.
- I am gonna choose Miss Cardi B.
- Oh, I'm so shook!
- Nicki. - It's still Nicki.
- Yeah, Nicki.
- I'm going with Cardi.
- In that beef situation, I think I'm gonna choose Cardi,
because that was her baby. - Yeah.
- I'm siding with Nicki. (both laugh)
Barbz, I'm doing it for you, baby! (both laugh)
- I'm a Cardi girl. - I see, I'll go for Nicki.
We'll keep the beef alive. (both laugh)
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- ♪ If you havin' girl problems ♪ ♪ I feel bad for you, son ♪
- ♪ I got 99 problems ♪ ♪ But a [censored] ain't one ♪
- Kick it!
- ♪ I got rap patrol ♪ ♪ On the [censored] patrol ♪
- Hey! - Good!
So good!
- Ugh. - Flushing.
- He looks like a little baby. He's like a little baby!
- I get it, Beyonce, I get it.
- She's definitely attracted to the kinda man that he is.
- Mm-hmm!
- The girls that get it, get it.
- (both) And the girls that don't, don't!
- Not only is he Jay-Z, he's the husband of Beyonce.
- (Jayka) No, for real.
- This song in particular, when this one hit the airwaves,
everyone was like...
- You just can't deny that Jay-Z has done so much.
- I love it.
- (React) How do we feel about Jay-Z?
- Iconic! - Yeah, he's an icon.
- He's got Beyonce, so, he doesn't have problems.
- ♪ Yes, I'm alone ♪ ♪ And I realize ♪
- Love this song! It's Cherry Wine!
I love this song, bro! - Okay!
- ♪ And my cherry ♪ ♪ Yeah yeah ♪
- Oh, Amy Winehouse. - Oh Amy!
- I like the old school vibe here, like the blues club, like...
- Nas is so smooth.
- Why does he still look the same?
- He does not age. - Not at all.
- He's unbelievable.
- (laughs) There's always a hot girl.
- Bro, I love Nas's voice.
- Nas is hot, dude.
- And he's not too bad to look at.
(Julian laughs)
- Dude, it's a vibe. If you haven't...
- It sounds like a vibe. - If you don't know that song,
go listen to it right now, it is a vibe.
- (React) This is a nine year beef that was started
after Nas failed to show up to a recording session.
So Jay-Z ended up making his album with the absence of Nas.
He decided to include Nas by using a sample
of one of his own songs in his album.
Because he sampled him,
this brought on years of them taking jabs at each other
in interviews, in diss tracks,
and in once instance Jay-Z's mom had to step in
to reprimand her son, who later apologized
for how hard he went.
- Had to reprimand Jay-Z?
- That's a good mama right there. - I just...
- She went you better lay off that boy!
- That beef, in particular,
they really brought up dirt on each other,
like horrible dirt.
- Like when Nas says sorry, Eminem murdered you
on your own [censored], bro.
Like you can't even bring a bar hard enough.
- Which oof.
- That was like the height of their drama,
was like right at that time.
- I'm gonna really go down to what's in my playlist,
and I got a lot more Jay-Z, unfortunately, but I rock with Nas.
- I'm kinda siding with Nas.
- Yeah, I'm siding with Jay-Z.
I just love his punchlines, his double, triple entendres,
his word play, I just, but I love 'em both, man.
- I'll say Jay-Z, yeah.
I feel like if you say you're gonna do something,
just do it, or just be nice about it.
(Jair laughs)
Say a nice little sorry that you couldn't come.
- Nas, period.
- Okay, yeah, with that new information,
like, I was gonna side with Nas anyway, because I love Nas,
and I didn't really grow up listening to Jay-Z.
I just didn't.
- I'm just gonna pick Jay-Z, yeah. - I'm gonna say Jay-Z, yeah.
- I'm gonna go with Jay-Z.
I can't not. - Yeah.
- Like I, ugh, I love him.
But Nas, very hot. (clicks tongue)
(laughs)
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- ♪ First things first ♪ ♪ I'm the realest ♪
♪ Drop this and let ♪ - ♪ The whole world feel it ♪
- ♪ And I'm still in ♪ ♪ The Murda Bizness ♪
♪ I can hold you down ♪ ♪ Like I'm givin' lessons in physics ♪
♪ You should wanna ♪
- ♪ A bad [censored] like this ♪ ♪ What, drop it low and pick it up ♪
♪ Just like this, ugh ♪
I'm sorry, this song is a banger.
- ♪ Cris, High heels ♪
♪ Something worth a half a ticket ♪ ♪ On my wrist ♪
- (React) Go, Jayka!
- This is nostalgic for me. Oh God.
- I was like in seventh grade singing this. (laughs)
(Jack laughs)
- Ugh, she's giving Clueless. Good work, girl.
A little Cher action.
- I love this movie so much.
- ♪ You already know ♪ ♪ I'm in the fast lane ♪
- It sounds like she's putting on a voice,
like, it sounds like she's imitating an African American person.
- Because she is! - Is what it sounds like.
- Such an iconic song.
- Like, I've definitely never listened to this, just like, on my own
but the moment it started playing... - Really?
- I was like oh yeah, I know a bunch of the lyrics to this.
- (laughs) Yeah.
- Very good, but I honestly could not tell you
any other Iggy Azalea songs. (Jack gasps)
- ♪ I was in 212 ♪ ♪ On the uptown A ♪
♪ You know what's up ♪
- Nope, never mind. I know who this is.
Yes, I know this song, yeah.
- Oh. - Okay.
- Okay, there's so much happening in this.
And yet, like, not a whole lot happening.
- Yeah.
- The only way that I know her is because of this song,
the worst guest on Wild 'n Out, period.
She was so bad. - (Jayse) Really?
- She's just absolutely rude.
- You don't have to make good music,
as long as you're just being talked about.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Yeah, do anything you can. - Yeah.
- (React) So, this beef between Azealia and Iggy
started as a simple girl crush
that turned into a six year long beef.
Azealia had tweeted in 2011
that Iggy Azalea was hot or something like that,
and that's how Iggy kind of found her,
but then a few months later, Azealia had mentioned
that she wrote a song with the same title as Iggy's.
Iggy said it doesn't matter who made it first,
it's about who made it better,
and Azealia said I guess we have beef.
- How literally three tweets can change six years.
- (React) In the span of that time, Azealia Banks has called Iggy out
for racist lyrics, cultural appropriation.
Iggy just says that she's just jealous of her.
- The white girl doing a voice that she shouldn't,
and the cultural appropriation that she does, she's an idiot,
so I'm out on her.
- But also, I'm definitely not siding with Azealia Banks.
I don't care about your music, you just suck, dude, period. (laughs)
- Let's just say, I don't stan, I don't condone
any of this behavior. - Same.
- Let's also take into play a lot of things Azealia has done.
She's gone after like actual children before.
I don't support either of them,
but if we're gonna pick sides in this feud,
I'm gonna pick Iggy Azalea.
- (React) Okay. - We're agreeing.
We're gonna pick Iggy Azalea.
- I will go with Azealia.
- I'll go with Azealia on this point. - On this point!
- Who are you siding with? - Not Iggy Azalea, Azealia Banks.
- You're siding with Azealia on this?
- I'm siding with Iggy.
- You said it was Azealia Banks who's beefing with countries?
- (React) Yes. - Then that's what I'm siding with.
Good props, that's awesome.
- I think I'm just gonna have to not choose either of these women,
because it seems like both of them
are equally lobbing things at each other across, you know?
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- ♪ You better check yo' self ♪ ♪ Before you wreck yo' self ♪
- Hey! - ♪ 'Cause I'm bad for your health ♪
♪ I come real stealth ♪ ♪ Dropping bombs on your moms ♪
- Okay, so this one wins, right? 'Cause come on.
- Yes.
- ♪ Sold it for a six-o ♪ - Ah!
It's the same guy who did Ride Along, player.
(both laugh)
- Ooh look, we're both wearing... - Oh my God, you're matching!
- We're rocking plaid.
- Bro, every time I see Ice Cube, I, Smokey! (laughs)
Oh, Friday's my favorite movie, bro.
- They do look very similar though.
- ♪ I make dough ♪ ♪ But don't call me Doughboy ♪
- Ugh, so good.
- ♪ Chickity-check yo' self ♪ - ♪ Before you wreck yo' self ♪
- ♪ Chickity-check yo' self ♪ ♪ Before you wreck yo' self ♪
- ♪ 'Cause shotgun bullets ♪
- ♪ Is bad for your health ♪ - ♪ Health ♪
- ♪ Started with five ♪ ♪ And yo, one couldn't take it ♪
♪ So now there's four ♪ ♪ 'Cause the fifth couldn't make it ♪
- Ooh!
- ♪ The number's even ♪ ♪ Now I'm leavin' ♪
- I don't whether to dance to this or to listen.
- Okay, so we're talking about cops and the police,
and going to jail.
- I just wish that I grew up with this music.
- Man.
It's like whenever any person in a boy band leaves the group,
and they try to keep continuing, you know what I'm saying?
- (Jayse) Yeah, yeah.
- It sounds like a nursery rhyme with hate. (laughs)
- They just wanted to [censored] talk over a beat.
- (React) This beef started over royalty settlements.
Ice Cube, who had written most of the group's genre-defining lyrics,
felt that he wasn't getting his fair share of the cut,
and ended up splitting the group in 1989.
So as a result, he was dissed a few times in songs
by his former group, so he shot back
with a song of his own, called No Vaseline.
- I feel like it's hard.
When you actually put in most of the work though,
I feel like you should get credit.
- Right.
- Or at least a little more say.
- I mean honestly there's
nothing you can do after that. - You can't come back from that.
- You literally, A, take your L.
- Yeah. - And walk off.
- I think it's always a team effort.
- Well, right, but also,
if he gets to be like look, I am the person who made these songs,
and they're like no you didn't, it was a group effort,
and then he leaves, and now they can't make songs,
then like, there's your answer. - Yeah.
- I'm going with Ice Cube.
- I don't know, I think I'm leaning towards NWA,
and I think I'm gonna side with NWA.
- Ice Cube. - I gotta side with Ice Cube too.
- Um, no, I'm going Ice Cube. - Ice Cube.
- Ice Cube. - I mean, the Cube, man.
- It's just awesome to see him bet on himself,
and just win so hard.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- ♪ Started from the bottom ♪ ♪ Now we're here ♪
- ♪ Started from the bottom ♪ ♪ Now my whole team [censored] here ♪
♪ Started from the bottom ♪ ♪ Now we're here ♪
- Wow!
- Hit 'em, tell 'em!
- ♪ Started from the bottom ♪ ♪ Now we're here ♪
(React laughs)
♪ Started from the bottom ♪ ♪ Now my whole team here [censored] ♪
♪ Started from the bottom ♪ ♪ Now we're here ♪
♪ Started from the bottom ♪ ♪ Now the whole team ♪
- Oh my God, it's like Drake Drake.
- Yeah. - Like this is like...
- Baby Drake. - Yeah!
- Degrassi Drake. - Oh my God, ugh! (laughs)
- I like Drake.
- This is the era where he's, like, he wasn't as corny
as he is now, I feel like. (Martine laughs)
Ugh, what a cornball.
- You don't like Drake? - No.
- I love me some Drake. - Oh, the GOAT.
Let's not even, let's not even, really, the GOAT.
Like I got more Drake songs in my playlist than anybody else.
- ♪ Came from the bottom ♪ ♪ No one said it would be fair ♪
- Started from the bottom, came from the bottom.
I see some beef happening.
- I mean, I gotta say this song is also a banger.
- He's got such a great, like, rap voice.
It's so good.
- Mmm. - ♪ Let your soul pay your dues ♪
- Black lights on the beach.
(Julian laughs) Love the stare.
A little sexy, a little I wanna rip your face off.
(Julian laughs)
- I love Pusha T, bro. He's so underrated.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
- I feel like people don't talk about him enough, bro.
Pusha T is sick!
- Not only in the way that the beats are made,
the cadence, the sound, like,
they literally hit the yin and yang of the same thing.
- Yes.
- (React) This whole beef started in 2011,
when Pusha T made tracks that criticized Drake,
suggesting that he used a ghostwriter on his song.
They went back and forth with a few disses,
but Pusha T had the last word
when he revealed to the world that Drake had an illegitimate son,
and called him a deadbeat dad.
- Bro!
- That's what I'm talking about, Pusha!
- That's literally what we said!
- That's what I'm talking about! - That was literally!
- I'm shook like that... - (laughs) Just be like...
- Holy crap, I did not know,
I thought he was just like surprise guys!
- You don't have to kill him at that point.
- No. - You've already done enough.
(laughs)
- We're looking at Drake as the musician.
I'm gonna go with Drake.
- I gotta side with Drake, and it's unfortunate,
because I understand the beef to a point,
but once you bring in the personal stuff,
like no man, that's too far.
- We're siding with Pusha T!
I mean, you reveal that Drake's got an illegitimate child.
- I am just gonna side with Drake,
because I couldn't even imagine beefing with Drake.
- I'm siding with Drake as well.
- I'm going with Drake as well, 'cause you're never gonna win.
- Pusha! - Push it, push it, push it.
- Pusha T, bro!
- I know that's O.T. Genasis, push it, push it, push it.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- ♪ You can find me in the club ♪ ♪ Bottle full of bub ♪
♪ Mama, I got what you need ♪
- ♪ If you need to feel the buzz ♪
♪ I'm into having sex ♪ ♪ I ain't in to making love ♪
♪ So come give me a hug ♪ ♪ If you into getting rubbed ♪
- They still play this.
- Bro, I send this. This is a song I send.
- Ugh!
Don't make me choose!
- It's crazy, I need to start watching more of these videos,
'cause they are so good!
- I remember when this song came out
at every birthday party, this was played.
- I just love that line.
I'm not into making love, so come give me a hug, bruh.
It's just so aggressive.
- 50's a G, period.
The man got shot so many times.
- ♪ Always there when you call ♪ ♪ But I'm ♪
- ♪ Always on time ♪
- ♪ And I gave you my all ♪
- ♪ Now baby be mine ♪
- Love this.
- He had Jennifer Lopez,
he had every girl who was in the game on his songs.
- This is just like, the early 2000s prime.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I have this like in a playlist, one of my like, old school.
- You don't have love for Ja Rule?
- ♪ No more ♪
- When he's just, no one's clapping for him.
(laughs) I just love it. - Right?
- I can't not think about that.
- This is all up in my playlist.
- I have never heard this song. - Oh my God.
- I know. She's like of course!
I'm like okay. (Jayka laughs)
- (React) This is actually one of the longest running beefs
in hip-hop history.
- Hmm? - Wow.
- (React) This is still going on. - What?
- (React) It has been going on for 24 years now.
- Oh, I ain't got, that's older than me, bro!
- Yeah, yeah, bro, that's... - What? (laughs)
- (React) It all started when Ja Rule was robbed at gunpoint
by an affiliate of 50 Cent, after leaving the club one night.
This beef resulted in jabs on diss tracks,
physical altercations,
even resulting in 50 Cent being stabbed.
50 Cent has insisted that this beef will not end til one of them is dead.
- Wow.
- Oh my gosh! - Wow.
- 50 Cent was stabbed?
- You know, you take someone's chain, that's personal.
- I honestly, I really wanna be Switzerland,
but I'll go with 50,
'cause I like some Ja Rule songs too, and I don't really know.
- But 50 Cent had a really good album,
so I'm gonna go with 50 Cent! (laughs)
- I'm gonna go with 50 Cent.
- Okay, then I'm gonna go to Ja Rule.
- Yeah.
- Just because I like Ja Rule's music. - Okay.
- 50 Cent. - It's 50 Cent, man.
- Ja Rule is a clown, I'm sorry.
- At this point, yeah. - Right, he's...
- I mean, after Fyre Fest, you can't go back.
- Okay, I'm picking 50. I'm so sorry, Ja.
I'm so sorry! (both laugh)
Ah! It really hurts my soul!
- Yeah, sorry Ja, but yeah. It's 50 'til I die.
- Ugh.
- This was fun!
- It was cool, I got to learn about beef
I didn't even know what happening.
- But it's so stressful. I know!
- You're so angry that you pick up your shoe
and just toss it at someone, like what?
- I don't care what anybody says in the comments,
we said what we said, it's all in good fun.
At the end of the day, we vibing and sharing our thoughts.
- Thanks for watching this episode.
- Which rappers did you end up siding with?
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- (both) Bye!
- Peace! - Bye!
- Bye!