Best old school rapper smack against another rapper

92 isn't old school.

82 is old school.

 

Agreed but 92 is the apex of rap, everything else was building towards that time and most things after have been crap

 

The battle of the Roxannes.

There's an XM station, I think it was 66, that had an hour or two of the greatest rap disses. They played them back-to-back. So you'd have rapper A say something about rapper B, then you'd hear the rap that was rapper B's response, and so on until you got to the last rap. Then they'd go onto another battle. The one with Canibus vs. LL Cool J was a good series.

I'm not sure anything in my eyes comes close to Tupac's "Hit 'Em Up".

 

Remember, this is the same person that thinks "Enter Sandman" is the greatest heavy metal song of all time.

 

I don't understand the appeal of having one music performer insulting another.

 

Funny you should mention this...I was listening to Ice Cube's album (his 2nd one), "Death Certificate". The last song on it (was the last on the original now there is a bonus track) is called "No Vaseline". You need to download that song, Faos. Cube rips Dre, Eazy, Jerry Heller (NWA's manager) a new one all to a sample by Brick in "Dazz". One of the best rap songs I have ever heard.

 

It's not difficult to understand. Can you beat his rap; can you get beyond the insults or are you going to sit there and crater? It's just like playing the dozens. When he attacks you, you know if you've been beat and if you can come back at him. The best of this is in a face-to-face real-time confrontation - not in produced lyrics where you have time to think every word through.

Hell, I don't get boxing - 2 guys go into a ring and beat the snot out of each other for money. At least with rap, it leaves the violence out... or used to, anyway.

 

You done run a hundred miles but ya still got one to go.

 

Everybody is tough and bad-ass against each other... then Suge Knight comes knockin' and well... nobody's too tough anymore. He's scared the crap out of Vanilla Ice, Snoop, and Dre.

I kind of know why everybody's scared of Suge with his "alleged" connections, but does anybody else know of anything? From a football player to a guy that instills fear into rappers that think they're the baddest of the bad... Suge's a bad bad man.

 

I believe the song is called "Hit 'Em Up" and is by 2Pac. That song is a pretty brutal one in which Pac brags about sleeping with Biggie's wife (Faith Evans) and pretty much says he wants to kill Biggie and Puffy aka P Diddy.

 

So, kinda like Zoolander had a walk-off, they have a rap-off?

 

Yes, that track is one like "Computer Love" by Zapp, "Atomic Dog" by George Clinton, all kinds of James Brown songs such as "The Payback", and "Paid in Full" by Eric B & Rakim as one of the more favored songs to sample from.

 

Hit Em up is without a doubt the most brutal diss ever. Big and his whole crew were Murdered on Wax.

"Ether" by Nas is a distant 2nd, he killed Jay on that.

BTW, Just got my computer back running again, I'm busy as **** right now, but the rap tourney will go on, just a little delayed for the moment.

 

No. They had a rap-off, and then Zoolander had a walk-off. Kind of like a debate... but a lot more entertaining and definitely less boring.

 

2Pac's "I Get Around" samples "Computer Love" by Zapp. Know there are others that use that Zapp song but that is the only one comes to mind right now.

"Atomic Dog" was sampled by Ice Cube in "My Summer Vacation" off the "Death Certificate" album as well as by Snoop on "What's My Name" off the album "Doggystyle". Hell, I think even MC Hammer sampled it for "Pumps and a Bump".

 

Apex. APEX? APEX??????????????????

If RAP has an APEX, my grandma's booty has an APEX.

 

Why can't rap have an apex?