They then acted together in the film The Barbershop: The Next Cut in 2016, and teamed up for the song "Real People," their first collaboration and a song on the soundtrack featuring them actually rapping about being on good terms now. There was a scuffle amongst the two rappers associates at a Sprite video shoot that same year, but the beef was done. The beef ended there when Minister Louis Farrakhan called a summit to end rapper beefs, Common vs. The Chicago MC would respond in 1996 with the scathing "The Bitch In Yoo," on which he insults Cube for his hypocrisy while questioning his rapping skills and much more. Ice Cube responded on Mack 10’s "Westside Slaughterhouse," rapping, "Used to love her, mad ’cause we fucked her/Pussy-whipped bitch with no common sense," along with more thinly veiled shots at Common. "Now she's a gangsta rollin' with gangsta bitches/Always smokin' blunts and gettin' drunk/Tellin' me sad stories, now she only fucks with the funk/Stressin' how hardcore and real she is," Com raps, implying that the genre was being worn out. Ice Cube, then a burgeoning West Coast rap star, didn’t like Common’s bars about gangsta rap in the song. Even more surprisingly, Thug and Future actually dropped a collab album the next year, the cult favorite known as Super Slimey.Ĭommon, the well-respected lyrical rapper from Chicago, got his big break in 1994 when he dropped his single "I Used To Love H.E.R.," a song in which he personifies hip-hop as a woman. However, the negativity ended in June of 2016 when they collaborated on "Who," a cut from DJ Esco’s project E.T. Thug even apologized online that same year. There was plenty of chest-beating about whose music was better and who was more skilled. This continued on into 2016, with Thug and Future going back-and-forth on Twitter without saying each other’s names. This escalated to Future and Thug subtweeting each other and Metro telling Thug to pull up on him. In 2015, Metro tweeted about rappers trying to churn out projects like Future Thug took offense and asked for clarity right there. As two highly influential Atlanta rappers, they were in close proximity and had a mutual go-to producer in a then-rising Metro Boomin. No one saw this coming because this seemed like a beef that would never end.īeing close friends now feels like their past as adversaries was made up, but Future and Young Thug were at odds for a little bit. In 2006, they dropped their first collab ever, "Black Republican,”"a song off Nas’ album Hip Hop Is Dead. They deaded the beef officially in 2005 at Jay-Z’s I Declare War concert, where he actually ended his wars rather than perpetuate them. Jay-Z’s follow-up diss "Super Ugly," on which he outright says that he was having sex with Nas' girlfriend at the time, Carmen Bryan while Nas was with her, meant the gloves were officially off. The disses were pretty much two people who knew each other well, but had always been at odds. In these disses, everything was covered, from questioning Nas’ musical consistency to Jay-Z’s physical appearance and talent compared to his Roc-A-Fella Records signees like Beanie Sigel and more. "Takeover," the Jay-Z song that he performed live at Hot 97’s Summer Jam in 2001, and "Ether," Nas' scathing response, were the results of their feud. On its face, it felt like light competition that spun out of control. In what is likely the most popular rap beef of all time, Nas and Jay-Z sent shots back-and-forth to each other from 1996 and on. The two dropping "Black Republican" together the next year, a Nas song which featured Jay, was just as much of a surprise. Jay extending the olive branch to Nas on stage was shocking enough. The beef lasted for nearly nine years, starting in 1996, peaking in 2001, with Jay's "Takeover" and Nas' "Ether," then officially being put to rest in 2005. Each one launched personal insults at the other on songs, on stages, in interviews and anywhere it could be done. Jay-Z and Nas were embroiled in one of the most vicious rap beefs ever. Here, XXL showcases some of the songs by former rap foes that were truly unexpected. In many of the beefs that got put to rest, the parties let bygones be bygones, with some even hitting the studio to make a song together. Hip-hop has gotten a bad rap for its beefs spinning out of control, when in reality, most of them either don't really turn into anything or they end peacefully. Egos play a huge part in a lot of hip-hop beefs and that's what can make them stretch on for years when they could have been ended in days. Sometimes, the issues can be big or even escalate to physical fights while others can be minor and worked out with a conversation. Plainly put, people will have disagreements.