Who the hell is this chick? She's been out kinda long, had one hot song, sorry, didn't hear it, must have missed it/too busy being conceited putting on my lipstick, That line is from the Lil Kim freestyle Got Money, mean to be a diss directed at Remy Ma, an up and coming rapper who rap veteran Kim believed had been calling her out in interviews and on songs. Remy naturally responded with a diss of her own in the freestyle When I See Her, aimed directly at Kim, with lines like: "I'm gonna treat her like a check and straight cash her when I see her." The two had been competing for the "Queen of NY" title they each boasted about on albums, and believed they were.
Lately, in the "platinum present"stage of hip hop, when all these talented rappers first entered the game, certain rappers have been calling out each other in songs and interviews, or on entire CDs. before the end of the Jay Z and Nas beef, both rappers released CDs on the same day, with most of the songs on the album about dissing the other rapper. Remember the violent Tupac/Biggie beef that started the east coast/west coast rapper rivalries? Eminem had even gone beyond dissing just fellow rappers, and was dissing pop stars, celebrities, and even members of his own family such as his mother and ex-wife in heated songs.
Why do rappers feel the need to diss others in their songs? Can't the rappers of '09 get past the battles and move on to better things? Even Jay Z and Nas stopped their beef and did a song together. Rap was originally used to get rid of violence and killings, to use words instead of weapons in order to solve problems, yet what happens if rappers take the words to far? Tupac and Biggie each died in violence as their violent beef went on, and couldn't learn to end the battle. I usually enjoy a clever rap diss, a poetic form of insulting that could leave the rival standing there, mouth wide open. In the movie 8 Mile, a rapper disses Eminem's character, saying "you're faker than a psychic with caller i.d.!" Yet insult's can go too far, and usually just to sell CDs, or get a buzz, while it could end up escalating.
Rappers of '09, stick with your own rhymes and ideas, and don't call out rappers, as rap is more about letting out emotion and spreading your voice and words out to the world, not making enemies just to sell a couple more tracks online.
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