Looking Back, LL SONNED Cannabis on "Ripper Stirkes Back"

[Wacky D]

diss my mom? whos the real rap don? who ruled for 15 years and dropped bombs? who copped solid gold grammys and stayed calm?/
L-L!!!!!!! while you drop verses at niccas proms

 

[Art Barr]

diss my mom? whos the real rap don? who ruled for 15 years and dropped bombs? who copped solid gold grammys and stayed calm?/
L-L!!!!!!! while you drop verses at niccas proms

smashed all on duke!


Art barr

 

[Wacky D]

"ripper strikes back" influenced my posting style.

 

[etrofllenrod504]

Man this is tuff because when I first heard 2nd round ko I thought he ripped ll and no way he was gonna bounce back........but then the build up of that beat then it dropped and ll did EXACTLY what he was suppose to do which is use his legend status to his advantage and boy did he use it....because he attacked canibus on some "you got the audacity to diss me and you accomplish shyt in this game" type shyt and bodied his crew also for co signing. Ll used his status like he was suppose to and that's how he earned the victory.

 

[bordeaux]

it isnt even close for me. i hold 2nd ko as probably the greatest diss ever. but i do appreciate the energy ll brought to the track. the tyson stuff made me chuckle. it isnt a bad record but he simply isnt that nice to me, lyrically.

 

[Wacky D]

it isnt even close for me. i hold 2nd ko as probably the greatest diss ever. but i do appreciate the energy ll brought to the track. the tyson stuff made me chuckle. it isnt a bad record but he simply isnt that nice to me, lyrically.

you so realize that LL was way past his prime, right?

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

That shyt was trash. Everything that nikka said was on the defensive. He didn't throw one punch.

The beat was great and the energy was awesome

LL wasn’t saying shyt

 

[DrexlersFade]

The beat was great and the energy was awesome

LL wasn’t saying shyt

What you bugging he buried Canibus on the 3rd verse.

You soft as a newborn baby takin a nap
Make my dikk hard with that bytch ass track
Where you at? Smokin in some one room flat
Suckin on Clef's dikk hopin to come back
Never that, nikka my size is unlimited
Yours is prohibited, of course that's contributed
To not knowin ya limits and who you need to test
When you step into the house of the Lord and get blessed
Get on your knees, bow down to my degrees
Young slacker, save that demo for Jack the Rapper
You gargoyle, slash olive oil, p*ssycat
I wrapped up in aluminum foil, ready to boil
I'ma tear the skin off ya ass with ten knuckles
Rhymes was weak, they made me chuckle like a name buckle
You call em lyrics, nikka you need to stop
You goin out --- ahh fukk it, you goin pop
I feed you a poisonous verse so don't try it
No more rhymin, you on a lyric fast diet
Call the paramedic and tell them that he pathetic
His lyrics ain't energetic you're sweet as a diabetic
Career be over next year, yeah I said it
Look over your shoulder nikka, where you headed
MUTHAfukkA, where's a rhyme when you need it?
First rule of lyrical war, never repeat it
You said that same bullshyt at House of Blues
Lit the pipe, dropped the match, and sparked the wrong fuse
That's you, yeah nikka I'm goin at you
Stop basin', and you can be a role model too
Diss my moms, who's the real Rap Don ?
Who ruled for fifteen years and drops bombs ?
Who's got solid gold Grammy's that say Todd
while you dropped verses at nikkas' proms
fakkit, you better battle number two
Cause number one, got his title locked down son
The King of all rappers that ever graced the stage
or the mic, best that ever did it I'm wicked
Write a verse and flip it, melt it down to liquid
And drown shorty, fill his lungs until I rip it
Chest busts open, heart bursts and smokin
YOU SEE THAT nikka SON? (Damn L, we was only jokin)
Maneuver manipulate brainwaves transform
your thought process, when my pen gets erect
Warning, all MC's better retreat
Look at corny-bus, he can't walk down his own street
Better run and get the Fugees
Cause I EAT, EAT, EAT, MC's
Devour they titles, cause I'm an idol slash icon
And tell Wyclef, don't even turn his fukkin mic on
Sold ya nikka, thought I told ya nikka
Crossover, slam dunk, game over nikka (one more time son)
Sold ya nikka, thought I told ya nikka
Crossover, slam dunk, game over nikka

 

[DoomzdayzV]

I still dont understand how as a producer....Clef allowed lines like "eat a nikkas ass like me " and "If a bytch sucks your dikk for 5 dollars per square inch...." to make it to wax.....I have always hated the Fugees, and Clefs work with Canibus made me hate him even more. fukk both of them. I thought 2nd Round KO was dope when it dropped but looking back, the shyt is terrible

Edit back in 98 I was living in Montreal....they had Bis on Much Music battling nikkas on AOL on a computer that they had set up in the middle of the studio with the crowd around him....I spent like 2 hours tryna get into the chat that night....I woulda tore his ass a new one....my screenname back then was the same as my Coli handle....lmfao. anyone remember that?

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I still dont understand how as a producer....Clef allowed lines like "eat a nikkas ass like me " and "If a bytch sucks your dikk for 5 dollars per square inch...." to make it to wax.....I have always hated the Fugees, and Clefs work with Canibus made me hate him even more. fukk both of them. I thought 2nd Round KO was dope when it dropped but looking back, the shyt is terrible

Edit back in 98 I was living in Montreal....they had Bis on Much Music battling nikkas on AOL on a computer that they had set up in the middle of the studio with the crowd around him....I spent like 2 hours tryna get into the chat that night....I woulda tore his ass a new one....my screenname back then was the same as my Coli handle....lmfao. anyone remember that?

Does anything Canibus does, make you think he takes good advice?

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

you so realize that LL was way past his prime, right?

And that's what made this such a win for LL.. Like others said, it was the same feeling with Nas.... Dudes really forgot who these guys were and felt they was old/washed/wouldn't do shyt.. Both dissed by the hottest in the game at the time. And with LL.... Canibus was THE battle rapper. nikka brought battle raps to the mainstream in that era... Mixtapes was all about Canibus. His album was coming. EVERYBODY wanted it. shyt....... we had JUST seen his face for the first time around this time. Dude was an underground superstar if that makes sense. nikkas didn't even hop on features with him... Just listen to Beasts of the East... NOBODY wanted it. Especially old ass, weak ass, all about the bytches, TV/movie acting ass LL.......................


and then




Nobody expected this... I remember hearing both tracks for the first time... in the car with my boys when the radio announced "WE GOT THAT NEW LL RESPONSE TO CANIBUS"

me and my boys:


*Track plays*








Same exact feeling with Ether... Wasn't the better song in either way.. Wasn't even the better diss... But something about the way they attacked back, in that moment, being down 20 in the 4th....



oh they hit that game winning shot

 

[Master Teacher]

I thought canibus won first then later felt ll won becausr canibus career never was the same but after hearing this track again goddamn this shyt was trash

It way too long and way too much filler
And some just plain corny lyrics

LL is hot trash lyricallly moe dee festroyed his ass too LL delivery the obly tging he ever had going for him

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Canibus killed him as far as content of disses and technical skill
LL won because he stood the test of time

I miss real hip hop battles like this


Oh, and the obligatory smilie from the Beef dvd

 

[spliz]

you so realize that LL was way past his prime, right?

fukk all that. I hate the way people view this battle. Now I think it started because LL did some fukk shyt but I dont know what the fukk nikkas expected LL to do as a response to a newcomer with no history. LL did what he was supposed to do. And that was rebuttal EVERYTHING Canibus said.

 

[old boy]

you wanna hear a great cool j dis record then listen to break of dawn. the ripper strikes back was weak

canibus won easily