FORGOTTEN BEEFS: N.W.A. VS ROMEO & MASTER RHYME

[KingsOfKings]

DJ M-Walk, who you may remember as Tone Loc’s DJ, produced a song for Romeo & Master Rhyme in 1987 which sampled ‘To Be Real.’ It was picked up by Delicious Vinyl and remixed by the Dust Brothers, and contained some lines which were seemingly aimed at another local LA crew:

M-Walk don’t dig dirty dudes dealing dope/so stop saying sess ’til the suckers say soap
Rhymes raps and riddles of rhymes he’s real raw/said seven sorry suckers saw [O’] Shay on the Shaw
And that’s no lie, and if you want to try/you can come and try and I won’t even ask you



N.W.A. fired back with the original version of ‘Compton’s N Tha House/100% Diss,’ which was exclusive to the cassette single of ‘Eazy Duz It’ and left off the twelve inch for some reason. A slightly remixed version was included on Straight Outta Compton.

They got a wacky wack record for the wacky wack crew/Yo what about the lyrics? That shyt’s wacky wack too
With a fukked-up style and a fukked-up show/Yo Ren, what about the scratchin’? Is it def?
fukk no! The mothafukkin’ record is a mothafukkin’ wack/the mothafukkin’ Crackerjack needs to step the fukk back!

Apparently Romeo & Rhyme ‎didn’t take to kindly to the track, and dedicated the cover of their second and final single to the N.W.A. posse. I haven’t heard ‘Comin Up Short’ nor ‘Nothin But A Fan’ but it’s safe to assume that at least one of them involve dissing N.W.A. and Eazy in some way. Having a song called ‘Comin’ Up Short’ and not making it about Eric Wright seems like a missed opportunity.

UPDATE: JtotheI from The Formula just blessed me with audio of ‘Nothin But A Fan’ and the back cover of the single. It seems that the animosity goes back to high school, as Master Rhyme and Eazy-E apparently both went toManual Arts Senior High:



Eazy replied again on ‘Eazier Said Than Dunn,’ and also dedicated a section of the video to explicitly sonning Romeo and Rhyme. Interestingly enough, he seemed to enjoy the cover of their single enough to re-appropriate the ‘187um’ cross-out for his later Dr. Dre diss record…



Boy, Master Rhyme is a toy! I mean skank while ya suckin’ what the girls enjoy
You must be sick or ya lonely/how ya gonna diss me if ya don’t even know me
Yo Ren, get the gat show ’em where it’s at/and that’s just the sound
And next time I’m peelin ya cap to let ya know where I’m comin’ from.

 

[DaveyDave]

i always wondered who they were talking about on CPTs In Tha House, it was very specific

 

[Mad Good Dro]

informative thread thanks breh

 

[BaRRyG]

DJ M-Walk, who you may remember as Tone Loc’s DJ, produced a song for Romeo & Master Rhyme in 1987 which sampled ‘To Be Real.’ It was picked up by Delicious Vinyl and remixed by the Dust Brothers, and contained some lines which were seemingly aimed at another local LA crew:

M-Walk don’t dig dirty dudes dealing dope/so stop saying sess ’til the suckers say soap
Rhymes raps and riddles of rhymes he’s real raw/said seven sorry suckers saw [O’] Shay on the Shaw
And that’s no lie, and if you want to try/you can come and try and I won’t even ask you



N.W.A. fired back with the original version of ‘Compton’s N Tha House/100% Diss,’ which was exclusive to the cassette single of ‘Eazy Duz It’ and left off the twelve inch for some reason. A slightly remixed version was included on Straight Outta Compton.

They got a wacky wack record for the wacky wack crew/Yo what about the lyrics? That shyt’s wacky wack too
With a fukked-up style and a fukked-up show/Yo Ren, what about the scratchin’? Is it def?
fukk no! The mothafukkin’ record is a mothafukkin’ wack/the mothafukkin’ Crackerjack needs to step the fukk back!

Apparently Romeo & Rhyme ‎didn’t take to kindly to the track, and dedicated the cover of their second and final single to the N.W.A. posse. I haven’t heard ‘Comin Up Short’ nor ‘Nothin But A Fan’ but it’s safe to assume that at least one of them involve dissing N.W.A. and Eazy in some way. Having a song called ‘Comin’ Up Short’ and not making it about Eric Wright seems like a missed opportunity.

UPDATE: JtotheI from The Formula just blessed me with audio of ‘Nothin But A Fan’ and the back cover of the single. It seems that the animosity goes back to high school, as Master Rhyme and Eazy-E apparently both went toManual Arts Senior High:



Eazy replied again on ‘Eazier Said Than Dunn,’ and also dedicated a section of the video to explicitly sonning Romeo and Rhyme. Interestingly enough, he seemed to enjoy the cover of their single enough to re-appropriate the ‘187um’ cross-out for his later Dr. Dre diss record…



Boy, Master Rhyme is a toy! I mean skank while ya suckin’ what the girls enjoy
You must be sick or ya lonely/how ya gonna diss me if ya don’t even know me
Yo Ren, get the gat show ’em where it’s at/and that’s just the sound
And next time I’m peelin ya cap to let ya know where I’m comin’ from.

As a Eazy fan, I did not know this, it's crazy.

 

[FreshAIG]

This is dope! Thanks for the info

 

[H. Selassie]

Love hearing rare stories like these. Props.

 

[Kool]

Yeah... I read about this awhile ago. Them dudes were so wack... Eazy E and NWA shouldn't have even wasted their time dissing them.

 

[Taadow]

Yeah... I read about this awhile ago. Them dudes were so wack... Eazy E and NWA shouldn't have even wasted their time dissing them.

Naw...you have to look at in the context of the time.

This was L.A. chit. NWA was completely different from L.A. rap at the time.
Most rappers at the time were doing that party/skating rink, Royal Cash, Bobby Jimmy, bassy rap.
Eazy and NWA was threat to all of that, and they had to show them they weren't gonna lay down
for them niccas.

 

[Cladyclad]

I thought this was a troll thread. I thought it was Master P & Romeo vs NWA

 

[SpacelySprockets]

came in expecting a reach left very informed

 

[LevelUp]

subs

 

[DaveyDave]

came in expecting a reach left very informed

same, it's obvious as fukk when you know the names lol "Master Rhyme is a TOY!

 

[L Ray]

this is dope. Anymore up your sleeve op?

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

@Xenos

Didn't even know any of this.

It's dope you posted this up to the Internet so that way it can be shared/spread around and not forgotten.

If you got any more of these from LA, you should post em.

 

[bigrodthe1]

Yeah I read this awhile back cause when I first heard compton's in the house I thought they were talking about the juice crew because at the time Roxanne Shante had a song that was using that wacky wack flow and she was dissing JJ Fad
now that would have been a dope beef NWA vs Juice Crew