Method Man Llcool J Beef Canibus

Canibus Vs LL Absurd J Revisited.

The rap climate in late 1997 were going through a transition flow. Bad Boy'due south influential pop sound was dominating the charts and more artists wanted to shift away from the aspects of battling, beef, drama, due to the deaths of Tupac and Biggie. But within one vocal, All of that seems to accept inverse. When LL Absurd J released the b side of his single Father titled 4,3,2,1 off of his anthology phenomenon in 1997, It was but the what the streets was fiending for. Backed by the caput nodding production along with seasoned vets such every bit Method Homo, Redman and LL himself blazing mics. What fabricated this rails and then special that information technology also introduced ii immature and hungry rappers past the name of DMX and Canibus into the scene. At the time beingness on the same track with established veterans made an artists career and this was the biggest interruption both X and Canibus had. Merely during the recording of the 4,3,2,i,. Things didn't get off on a right runway. Canibus original verse made reference to LL's mic on his arm and asked if he can borrow that

(Canibus)
Meth, where the Gods at? Redman, where the squad at?
Fifty, is that a mic on your arm? Let me infringe that
Who'south the God of rap, you sayin' is nice
I beat a nigga to decease, and beat out a dead nigga to life
When you expect at me long plenty, I commencement to read your thoughts
If the bespeak was potent enough, and and then I'll call your bluff
To run into how many rhymes you got
I could go on for more Millenias than Mazda'due south got on a car lot
And there's no where to run to, when I confront yous
Nigga, I telephone call your bluff, similar you had a telephone number
Who desire to see Canibus become wild?
Who want to human action wing and get shot down with a surface to air missile
I have them on in all shapes, sizes, and forms
And spit on, anybody who ain't close enough to shit on
Null to lx, I'm already doing a hundred, when I'm blunted
And I give information technology to any nigga' that wants it
Your caput volition spin so fast, you'll catch whiplash
I practice, lyrical witchcraft, on your bitch donkey
Make your hard drive crash to c colon backslash
Then I'll become dorsum to the roots and school your wack ass
'Cause the object of the game, is to spark every cell in your brain
At degrees hotter than blue-flames
Propane gasses, incinerate into ashes
I got you animate harder than girls at Lamaze classes
Stop bitching near if it's written or freestyle
Got the whole Castilian community saying I'm muy mal
Charging niggas with haul styles fifty dollar fines
In improver to 20-five dollars for wack dial lines
'Cause I'chiliad the elevation domestic dog running the yard
And I stand for, 'cause I'm never chained to the fence
Hence, to boxing me is impossible
I put your whole crew in the hospital, with I.V.'s in all of their nostrils
So cease sleeping on me, I ain't a mattress
Merely you practise more drama than a soap-opera actress
Don't even think nearly pulling out and opening fire
Gun-shots wound, but I remove bullets with pliers
I inspired to kick the fattest that yous've e'er witnessed
From a far-side that's even disruptive the fat lip
Rhymes designed from lines of pure knowledge
I make your head nod 'till your neck runs out of cartilage
I call up it'southward obvious that I can bring the ruckus
Scream at your crew like a war machine drill instructor
When I come up through, niggas stand up still in statues
If I have to, I'll boxing your whole rap crew
Then I'll attack you lot with words that'southward absurd
And rip your fucking pare off, but to become on your nerves

Obviously this wasn't a shot at LL only more as an ode of respect but it's clearly LL didn't see it that mode and took the verse out of context. Its farther belief that LL was upset about possibly beingness overshadowed by Canibus. Whatsoever the example perhaps, LL told Canibus that he'd modify the poesy as long Canibus did. He clearly didn't and kept the original verse he had going at Canibus and released it as a single and video.

When young sons daydream of borrowing flows
tell little shorty with the big oral cavity the bank is closed (yeah, word upwards)
The symbol on my arm is off limits to challengers
You hold the rusty swords I swing the Excalibur
How dare you lot step upward in my dimension
Your piddling ass should be somewhere crying on detention
Sentinel your mouth ameliorate nevertheless concord your natural language
I'ma do this shit for free this time this one'southward for fun
Blow yous to pieces, leave you covered in feces
with ane thesis ("LL Cool J is difficult")
Every little male child wanna option upwards the mic
and endeavour to run with the big boys and alive upwards to the real hype
But that's like picking up a ball, playin with Mike
Swingin at Ken Griffey or challenging Roy to a fight
Snappin, you lot amateur MC's
Don't you lot know I'thou similar the Dream Team touring overseas
For rappers in my circle I'g a mortiferous disease
Ringmaster, bringin a tiger cub to his knees (uhh)
In the history of rap they've never seen such prominence
Your naive confidence gets crushed by my dominance (word upwardly)
At present allow's become back to this mic on my arm
If it e'er left my side it'd transform into a time bomb
Y'all don't wanna borrow that, you wanna idolize
And you don't wanna brand me mad nigga you wanna socialize
And I'grand daring every MC in the game
to play yourself out position, and mention my name
I brand a rhyme for every syllable in your name
Go platinum for every time your grimy ass was on the train
Sentry your mouth don't ever step out of line
LL Absurd J nigga, greatest of all time

Clearly feeling angry, confused, and a bit betrayed. Canibus wanted to go conspicuously at LL's head only he also had to remind himself of the possible consequences he tin can risk by making this motion. 1 of them being that he'due south non only going against LL Absurd J, He'southward also going against a make of Def Jam and someone with a legendary status. He also realized that LL wasn't just some ol shmoe joe and that he has a track record for dropping bomb disses(Break of Dawn, Jack the Ripper) It'southward too the fact that he could be blackballed so with all of those factors, Canibus agreed to try to talk to LL on an unauthorized telephone conversation to settle the dispute.

The chat itself showcased Canibus showing humility to LL which could further cause more damage to his credibility as an emcee.LL would suggest that he and Canibus would squash the outcome, do an hole-and-corner rails together showing unity and nobody would e'er know who he's talking about. That never happened.

second Round KO

Betwixt being challenged and now with the run a risk of this telephone call being put out at that place, Canibus felt his back against the wall. During the fourth dimension, If a cocky-proclaimed battle emcee didn't respond to another emcee, He was looked upon equally soft or looked upon as a total coward. Canibus took the gamble and responded to LL's 4,3,2,one, poesy with possibly one of the most vicious boxing tracks of ALL Fourth dimension. Canibus fully went into LL'due south jugular: Took stabs at his credibility as a emcee, His contradictions equally a and then-called office model, How he abandoned his hardcore style, and most notably the line nigh him having :99 percent of his fans vesture High Heels". The affair that made 2nd Ko so special were that Canibus not only striking with facts but then add the fact that he featured HeavyWeight Champion Mike Tyson on the runway and video made Canibus look more like a serious contender.

The fizz and anticipation for his debut anthology became even college with the release of 2d Round KO. Many people at the time idea it was over for LL. Then Wyclef himself dropped a diss tape on LL titled Whats Clef got to do with it which featured extra Naomi Campbell telling LL to give information technology up. 2d Round Ko pushed LL into a corner to answer. Because he created this hysteria himself, He had it coming.

The Ripper Strikes Back
Fifty-fifty in interviews LL said he wasn't gonna respond, People should have known he was lying because he released his response to 2nd Round Ko titled The Ripper Strikes Back off the Survival Of the Fittest mixtape. LL's menses and energy was more than magnetic and at the aforementioned energetic. He even sounded more ferocious than he has in years. He basically took on all three of his combatants(Wyclef, Canibus, and even Mike Tyson) in Break of Dawn Fashion. People may have thought that information technology was weak but LL had some left in the tank when he delivered such blows to his adversaries.

xl-nine pounds and tryin to be a monster
Run around town with the Bob Marley imposters
Ask Canibus, he ain't understanding this
Cause ninety-nine percent of his fans, don't exist

Besides as Tyson:

Heard that convicted rapist on the record too
Fresh out of jail, ass cheeks yet black and blue
Tell me bout the things ear biter taught you
How to bust a nut or two? (Yeah that'due south butta boo)

On newspaper, It looked basic and week merely He made up alot of information technology with his energy. He did a great chore of cleverly flipping some of the lines Canibus threw at him and it likewise re-juiced LL's career. Canibus on the other manus suffered a rare sorority of beginners luck as his debut anthology would be a total disappointment and not what the fans who were served hardcore lyrical acrobats as appetizers ordered. Many of the album's flaws is due to Wyclef's ear for production and it didn't practice much to carry Canibus'south style. This literally gear up Canibus's career dorsum while LL'south flourished during this moment. So this begs the question.

Was Canibus a victim of Industry sabotaging?

While Canibus was licking his wounds and tried to recover from the anathema of his disastrous debut anthology, LL took the opportunity on his album The G.O.A.T. to put more foot in the immature panthera leo's cervix on the rail titled Back Where I Belong. Back by a Rocky sample, LL went for the kill and fifty-fifty shockingly dropping the revelation of Wyclef and LL purposely setting him up. And then theres some other accusation thats been surfacing throughout the by couple of years of Eminem perhaps ghostwritten The Rippers Strike Back for LL even though Em clearly denied. It's ironic that soon plenty before long Eminem would blow and go a major star.

The moral of the story is that LL'southward ego played a big factor in this beef. He couldn't handle the fact that a immature upstart got the better of him on his own runway so he pulled a Industry motility and tried to musculus him out. He took advantage of Canibus'due south naiveness with the game and used the beefiness to maybe bound-start his career which was at the time was lagging.

Canibus was also going confronting non only LL like I said before, He was too going against a one thousand thousand dollar corporation in Def Jam every bit a make which peradventure led him to be blackball from getting any big features similar he was earlier. After the release of his really good album 2000 BC, Canibus would become through a creative slippery slope releasing mediocre albums despite hit LL with a dainty diss titled Rip the Jacker. But past that time, It was also late.

I career flourished and some other one dwindled. But theres no denying that these 2 accept earned the respect of millions for handling their disputes like true emcees instead of doing what many would do present with Twitter(Start beef and apologize).A truthful legendary boxing despite the outcome.

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