So, Eminem, as we know, fired quite a lot of shots at quite a lot of people on his Kamikaze
album which dropped almost a week ago, and today we are gonna be looking at every rapper
who has responded so far.
I’ll be telling you what they said, and my thoughts on how they handled the situation.
Some people laughed at their disses, some people were angry, and some responses were
just downright weird.
So, this is CDTVProductions, there’s my social media accounts, and let’s get into
this recap of every rapper so far that has responded to Eminem’s disses on the Kamikaze
album.
Lil Pump
Lil Pump was targeted on the first track of the album, where Eminem used his flow from
Gucci Gang and essentially called him a Lil Wayne imitation, most likely cause of the
face tats and the “Lil” before his name.
Pump didn’t have too much to say about this, but he handled it alright.
He responded with an Instagram comment under Eminem’s post promoting the album, and he
said “Thanks, I deserve that”, with a lovely little heart emoji at the end.
Now this is Lil Pump and it’s just a comment, so it’s hard to tell what the exact tone
of the comment is.
Like he could be being incredibly sarcastic, or he genuinely just might not care, but either
way I think he has bigger problems to focus on right now.
Ja Rule
Goddamn this one is a throwback, Eminem essentially killed Ja Rule many years ago, and now I guess
there’s still a bit of tension there.
Now Eminem didn’t actually have a new diss for Ja Rule here, he just referenced the fact
that he basically ended his career all those years ago, to make the point that he could
do it again if he needed to with someone else.
So, Ja Rule’s response came on Twitter, where he said “guess that Hailie line must
be starting to hit home”.
Well, in said line, you did suggest that his 7 year old daughter would grow up to be (and
I quote) a crackhead s***, so I kind of understand Eminem’s frustrations.
Granted Ja Rule did say this way back in 2002, but I’m sure Eminem knows how to hold a
grudge if you go after his daughter.
I doubt this one will escalate further, but it’s interesting to see that they’re still
going at each other.
Lil Yachty
Now Yachty wasn’t exactly dissed on the album, but I thought I’d include him anyway.
Eminem basically said that he understands why people enjoy Yachty’s music and not
his own, and says that he doesn’t like it cause it’s just not for him.
Like I said, actually a somewhat nice bar from Eminem, and Yachty reacted accordingly.
In fact, Yachty was actually sad that Eminem didn’t diss him harder, he didn’t hear
the track at first because people were just tweeting him saying “Eminem dissed you”,
and when he found out it wasn’t much of a shot he said “that’s less exciting”.
I have to respect Yachty for this honestly, he’s an example of someone that handled
this in an incredibly positive way, and the fact that he actually wishes Eminem went harder
on him is brilliant.
I like what Yachty had to say about this.
Some other people didn’t take this approach though.
MGK
So, Eminem called Machine Gun Kelly out for tweeting that his 16 year old daughter was
“hot as fuck” in 2012, and for throwing subliminal shots at him on Tech N9ne’s song
“No Reason” which came out this year.
By now, most of us know how MGK responded, he fired back with a diss track called Rap
Devil at Eminem.
Now to some level, I have to respect that, because it is an incredibly bold move, Eminem
is typically known as the guy that ends careers when it comes to beef.
MGK took a big risk here, so I really respect the strength he must need to carry those large
testicles.
As for the diss track itself, I think it was ok, it started off flaccid straight out the
gate when he kicked it off with “your f****ng beard is weird” (I don’t care if he’s
referencing that line in Business, that doesn’t really make sense and it doesn’t make the
line any less awkward), and we only ever really pick up to a semi, as MGK brings up some good
points about Eminem blackballing him from Shade 45 and calling his label about the situation,
but a lot of the lines are just weak, childish insults too.
It’s an alright diss track, but you need to come with more than that if you’re going
at Eminem.
Now we just have to wait and see if Em claps back, which he likely will.
Vince Staples
We don’t need to talk about this one for long, cause there really doesn’t seem to
be much here.
Eminem said “If I press the issue just to get the anger out /Full magazine could take
Staples out”, firing a shot at Vince for calling his BET cypher trash.
Vince just responded to this by tweeting out the lyrics in which Eminem dissed him.
Um, yeah that’s it, I don’t know what to say, it doesn’t seem like there’s much
bitterness here at all so I’m sure this one was never gonna be a serious beef in the
first place.
Die Antwoord
This “beef” if you wanna call it that started in the dumbest way, with Eminem mispronouncing
Die Antwoord’s name on the song Untouchable, and that’s literally it.
Die Antwoord called Eminem out for this, responding with a sarcastic video on how to pronounce
their name, and Eminem fired back on Greatest, making a good point about how they’re getting
mad at him trying to shout them out.
So yeah, Die Antwoord responded to this yet again with another video which is just really
weird, and seems kinda ironic in a way, with Ninja, the guy in Die Antwoord, basically
dissing Eminem with a freestyle, with lines such as “you used to rap better on drugs”
and “these kids ain’t feeling your rhymes or your Botox”.
It’s pretty funny I guess, but I don’t think it’s anything people are gonna take
too seriously.
This beef is just dumb, and we really don’t need it.
Joe Budden
Finally let’s look at the shots at Joe Budden.
Em’s shots to Budden came on the track Fall, where he poked fun at the fact that Joe was
pretty much a one hit wonder and even referenced his domestic abuse allegations.
There was a big rift created between Eminem and Budden after what Joe had to say about
Revival, and this whole situation seems to have just furthered it.
As you would expect, Joe responded on the September 5th episode of his podcast, and
he had some interesting things to say.
Perhaps the most standout statement was when Budden claimed “I’ve been better than
you this entire f****ng decade!”.
Uhh, are we talking like, music wise Joe... because I think you’re a very talented rapper,
but there’s no doubt in my mind that I’d rather listen to Eminem every single day of
the week.
Saying that Eminem has “not said anything for the better part of a decade” just doesn’t
seem accurate to me at all, it’s not like all Eminem’s albums in the past few years
have had no content whatsoever.
(Video clips).
I’d recommend watching the whole podcast too, as I only covered some highlights here.
I really don’t agree with what Joe thinks here, but I like the fact that this one is
getting spicy, and this is one I can genuinely see escalating
further
and further.
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