"Pus**y whipped b*tch, with no Common Sense."

[NormanConnors]

the bytch in yoo was a good song but common can never sound ruthless enough on a diss track for me
if cube had got a response in

Com said if he responded he was going to keep dissing him and his crew, foot was going to be applied to neck, hell Cube is lucky MC Ren never got a proper response in.

 

[puppetmaster]

Common spoke to Cube like a disappointed fan on that song, he didn't need to sound aggressive or angry he was dropping facts. .. that's an angle that's hard to counter if it's done right. I would have loved to hear a direct response but it's pro'ally best it didn't happen


Tone is everything in a diss, that's why Ether was received how it was, it was the "who the fukk is this lil nicca talking to?!?" approach Nas took at what was the biggest rapper on earth at that exact moment.

Cube is my fave emcee of all time so listening to that song for me is like watching Tyson scramble around for his mouthpiece after Buster Douglas gave him that work

 

[Robbie3000]

Ok, now I gotta make you look stupid.

I have no idea when you two got into rap, but I can clear this up in about 2 seconds.

Just went into my closet and pulled out The Source, May 1996 issue. Look who the featured artist is....it's Ice Cube:

Spoiler

They specifically ask him about the origin of "Westside Slaughterhouse".

He doesn't say a god damn thing about Masta Ace, or his song. Not once in the 8 page interview.

Actually that's not accurate. He mentions he's a fan of The Crooklyn Dodgers. Who's in that group?



So please....please stop arguing with me. Just take the L. Very, very few people on this board can school me....probably literally 1-2 people....and it's not you.

Fred.

I'm not really going to keep going back and forth with someone who won't accept basic facts.

Your pride as this hip-hop "expert" is making you look stupid right now. Even your man is trying to tell you.

But if you want to believe the sky is not blue, go right ahead.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

At least when Jay said that it was popular opinion at the time that It Was Written was no Illmatic and Nas had sold out....Time and revisionist have just caused people to switch up they opinions on that....Death Certificate being wack though? that line is straight?



And east coast vs west shyt was already in the air,moreso the hate for gangsta rap....media didn't really have to do much,the "purist" instinctively knew to side with Common and hate Cube....That's why I gotta question yall acting like Common didn't know EXACTLY what he was doing with I USED to Love Her...he was pandering to his demographic who didn't like the direction the west coast took rap....I'm not buying the idea it wasn't meant as a diss song and Cube was just being overly sensitive.

Common wasn't some naïve youngin,he was just pandering to much of his core who rejected gangsta rap and commercialism....and just like a lot of artist who were doin it he was good at doing it on some sneak whit where it wasn't outright disrespectful,but enough of a diss to have his core like ""

The entire point of that line was to reflect Cube's east coast dikk riding... He went to the east for Amerikkka's most then went back to the west for DC .. but then had to go back to east for Das with the hook..

He was basically saying Cube' s west coast sound was washed..

edit: all this slaughtahouse talk .... I'm popping Masta Ace Inc - slaughtahouse in today's playlist...

 

[Wacky D]

DJ Quik is an east coast purist?

Breh....no offense but how old were you back then? I was 20 in the mid 90's.

your dj quik quote doesnt go against what i said, so i dont see your point.

doesnt matter how old i was. i was in the streets homie........and on the internet too. i know the reception that "battle" got and didnt get from differing crowds.

i dont know what youre arguing about with the rest of that post. lol.

Because like I said earlier in the thread, the response was so ridiculous it caught everyone off guard.

Nobody expected Com to respond. Period. Let alone with a full length diss....let alone as venomous as "The bytch In Yoo".

Then on top of that he performed it in L.A.

Like I said it was essentially a knock out punch thrown in response to a light shove.

I mean....I already quoted Quik as saying how that song completely shifted the west's perception of Com, and put him on a lot of people's radar.

So Cube had to weigh his options....respond, and at best be back to square 1....at worst, get washed again by a guy most people hadn't heard of prior to Cube putting his name out there....

Or just ignore it and move on. By 1995 Cube was not the same guy that wrote "No Vaseline", I doubt he wanted to risk it.

Fred.

youre basically proving my point.

common gets an A for Effort and an automatic W just for participating.

sounds very drake-ish.

 

[comfortablynumbd]

never realized how the internet changes perceptions of people until now

these noobs think just cuz they googled a single article online they can ride with it and gauge what was actually going on at the time vs people who know from experience during that span of time

com dropped that diss and it was more of a novelty than the ether level diss these clowns on here saying it was

literally have seen more people riding for common in this thread than i saw when the diss actually dropped

 

[TheSpook]

nikkas liking that wack diss is like nikkas thinking illmatic was the apex of hip hop. Only old heads and geek nikkas believe it. Common didnt body shyt with that weak song.

 

[thesandman]

Cube was definitely trying to channel PAC in a way. "Hip hop started in the west, Ice Cube bailin' through the east without a vest..." Zero fukks given...At the height of the coast wars mind you...

 

[Xane Vic]

No one talks about that shyt cause when Common lifted his foot off O'Shea, all that was left was a footprint.

Really, nikka? That bullshyt-ass NWA movie drops and this shyt happens?

And that Common shyt was ass, the beat and the flow...

 

[Wacky D]

@hexagram23 i see what youre arguing about now.

you misinterpreted what i said........but thats probably my fault cuz those last couple posts i dropped yeserday were rushed.

so what if common performed the song in LA?? he probably performed it in front of a wake-up show type crowd. i bet he aint peform that song in front of some rah-rah ninjas. so thats null & void. he pulled a trinidad james.

anywhoo, m not saying the beef wasnt a big deal. im just saying the main people that were vocal about it were team common from jump. has the west coast ever even weighed in on it? and yea, cube was past-his-prime, but westside connection was on a serious roll. common wouldve got chitted on just like cypress hill.

as for the dj quik quote, hes just saying that common dissing cube made more people take notice of him, particularly out there. but of course thats gonna happen. thats only natural breh.

I Used To Love H.E.R. aint a goat single

That's song is a classic. If that song wasn't made this thread wouldn't be made

its a great classic but you always jump the gun on '90s east coast-ish rap.

"used to love her" is not in the goat conversation after you factor in all the other eras and coasts.

You're exposing your bias by saying Com is wack. I love how people use the "nobody in my area cared about so it didn't resonate anywhere" argument. People gave you proof and you're still in denial.

Where are you from?'

i never said all that.

half the oldheads i came up under were O.G. backpackers.

but outside of those crowds, the common/cube thing wasnt THAT big.

and i didnt say common song was wack. i just wanted to talk some smack and dwell on the fact that he started the song off on some bullchit.

 

[BlackMajik]

Cube was definitely trying to channel PAC in a way. "Hip hop started in the west, Ice Cube bailin' through the east without a vest..." Zero fukks given...At the height of the coast wars mind you...

Alright people need to stop saying this shyt. Pac was WRONG about Cube just hoping on the "Westside train" (And I'm a big Pac fan)

Cube was sending shots at the East on "West Up" BEFORE Pac was doin it

 

[BlackMajik]

It's definitely a classic. Cube was throwing shots at the East in 1995 when Pac was still in jail on some love shyt...

Now I remember @Ashtrey said the same thing I just said in that Bow Down thread

 

[Methodical]

The bytch In Yoo was just .

I'm sure Ice Cube could response that song that I would love to hear it Cube's diss song to that song but f*cking Farrakhan get in the way and focused them to squashed the beef.