Since we’re still talking about rap beef, here are 6 of my favorite rap songs of all time

“Not Like Us” is the brand new summer anthem – especially for those of us living in Los Angeles, and I won’t argue with that.

That said, rap beef is as personal to the rappers involved because it is to the fans who eat it. As fans, we all have our favorites and we all select sides. Who we decide or who we consider “winner” depends upon our personal preferences on the subject of rap.

People who think it’s all about selling records and club hits will inform you that Drake is the higher rapper on this last battle, while individuals who have a more mental approach to rap – listen for rhyme schemes, wordplay, double entendres and stuff like that – I’ll say Kendrick won.

Unless things get violent (and we never want them to get violent), we, the fans, win when artists release hit after hit to maintain up with the pace of rap, which is growing rapidly since the web is effectively a theater during which attention is brief.

In the times before social media moved the needle, rap took months since it took a bit longer to get within the booth, produce a hot 16, after which get it out on the streets for everybody to listen to.

So most of my personal rap songs are from way back when.

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I’m sure I’m not alone on this, but as I said before, we all have different tastes and we all think in another way about the music we take heed to, so I’ll share my favorite rap songs of all time, but I’ll achieve this with a content warning.

These are my favorites. They may not match yours, and the explanation why they are my favorite may not match your favorites. Some of your favorite songs – like “Takeover” and “Ether” for instance – may not even make the list because while they were very talked-about songs, they weren’t my favorites from either artist.

To today, my favorite rap song is “No Vaseline” by Ice Cube.

You need to be a certain age to recollect when this one dropped. “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted” has already shown us that Ice Cube can do exactly effective without the group behind him. He just lived as much as his billing as Doughboy in Boyz N the Hood and he impressed us all together with his acting as well.

Just once we thought he would not have the opportunity to top any of them, he released the album “Death Certificate” and the album was so full of warmth that I could not get enough of it.

In “No Vaseline” he principally single-handedly beat up every member of NWA and it was and still is known hip-hop magic.

NWA, “Fuck the Police”

No, I won’t explain further.

DJ Quik, “Dollaz + Sen$e

DJ Quik ate MC Eiht on this song.

10/10 no comments.

2Pac, “Hit ’em”

The rampant misogyny and all when this song got here out took the East Coast/West Coast beef to a complete latest level.

How do you approach this man by telling him you slept together with his wife? How do you create a whole movie full of actors pretending to be the people you are talking about?

How devilish was this song?

Kool Moe Dee, “Let’s Go”

One of essentially the most epic battles in hip-hop history took place between LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee.

At this point I do not even think it matters who people think won because we got some great bars.

“Let’s Go” is one of my favorite diss tracks of all time because Kool Moe Dee is a master at writing lyrics and crafting words, and the best way he played with the person’s name at the tip is known.

Eazy-E, “The Real Muthaphuckkin G

This one is a favorite because Eazy released it after Dre moved to Death Row and released “The Chronic.”

In this song, Eazy lets everyone know that though Dre was not on his label, he was still making a living off all of his music and truthfully, it was legendary and gangsta.

As I discussed earlier, that is my list of favorite diss tracks. Yours probably looks different and that is OK.

Ultimately, so long as we take heed to good hip-hop, everyone wins.