Hip-hop beef is as American as apple pie—MCs have been buying and selling barbs for many years. Beginning with the Roxanne Wars in 1984, when a teenaged Roxanne Shanté and producer Marley Marl dropped “Roxanne’s Revenge,” a diss observe geared toward U.T.F.O. The feud exploded all through the rap group, with a number of different rappers leaping in with their very own contributions.
Obliterating one another on wax shortly grew to become engrained within the tradition. Then the Bridge Wars popped off between MC Shan and KRS-One in 1985. MC Shan and Marley Marl launched “The Bridge,” a observe that definitively said hip-hop originated in Queensbridge. KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions responded with “South Bronx” the next 12 months, claiming hip-hop began at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. within the Bronx. The beef in the end resulted in 1987, with Boogie Down Productions’ launch of “The Bridge Is Over.” LL COOL J and Kool Moe Dee additionally sparred within the Eighties, as did Salt-N-Pepa, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh.
Now, there is no scarcity of rap feuds which have managed to maintain followers entertained. Aside from extra critical feuds just like the tragic East Coast-West Coast rivalry that resulted within the deaths of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., most spats are amicably resolved over time. After all, that is hip-hop, and buying and selling venomous bars is par for the course. As a part of XXL‘s ongoing celebration of fifty years of hip-hop, check out 20 extra modern-day beefs that most likely by no means ought to’ve occurred—from Jim Jones and Pusha T to Azealia Banks and, properly, all people.
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