With the help of the Beastie Boys breaking down the barriers, the man known as Marshall Mathers can be credited with widely changing the perception of white boy rappers in mainstream Hip Hop. Prior to the real Slim Shady committing his verses to wax, white rappers were often dismissed due to the likes of Vanilla Ice and Marky Mark.
Part of the reason Eminem changed the perception of white boys in Hip Hop was because he, quite simply, brought all the smoke. Anybody and everybody could get it from Em, and sometimes, more than once.
Here, then, is a list of rappers who felt the wrath of Eminem more than once.
Cage
As Eminem was slowly, but surely, starting to make his way into the pop culture zeitgeist, underground rapper Cage was running his mouth to anyone and everyone who would listen about him. Put simply, Cage claimed that Eminem bit his entire style, and that he owed him more than a little bit of debt for his success.
Eminem didn’t take kindly to the suggestion, and proceeded to drag him for blood, filth, bone and slander on “Role Model” from The Slim Shady EP and on the hidden gem “Drastic Measures” featuring Indigenous Tribe.
Everlast
There are few things that Eminem loves in this world more than his daughter Hailie, and the former House of Pain capo found out the hard way that one needs to leave children out of beefs. When Everlast popped off against both Em and Hailie on a remix of “Ear Drums Pop” by Dilated Peoples,
Marshall Mathers unleashed all hellfire on “I Remember” (where Everlast’s heart troubles came under the microscope) and finished the beef with the release of the D12-bodied “Quitter.”
Insane Clown Posse
It’s hard to believe that Eminem would have a fight with a group of rappers who wear clown makeup and spray “cheap soda” on their audience, but here we are. ICP’s beef with Em goes back all the way to 1995, when — of all things — ICP didn’t want to come to Eminem’s release party for The Slim Shady EP. Eminem drew fire against them on several songs, including “Get You Mad,” “Till Hell Freezes Over,” and “Marshall Mathers.”
After the Insane Clown Posse (really, though?) weakly returned fire on “Nuthin’ But A Bitch Thang” and “Slim Anus” they squashed the beef with Eminem in 2012.
Ja Rule
Nowadays, it’s almost obligatory to roast Ja Rule because of the Fyre Festival “that’s not fraud, it’s false advertising” nonsense, but back when Jeffrey Atkins was nothing more than 50 Cent’s favorite punching bag, bringing Eminem in for a tag-team match on the “It’s Murda” rapper seemed, well, unfair. But for the most part, even though Fif was his affiliate, Em chose to stay out the battle between the two Queens natives — until Ja stupidly dissed Hailie Mathers at the end of “Loose Change.”
When Ja implied that Hailie would grow up to be a crackhead and a whore, Eminem went absolutely bonkers on him with tracks like “Doe Rae Me (Hailie’s Revenge),” “Bully,” “Bump Heads” and “Hail Mary.” If 50 Cent put Ja Rule on the turnbuckle, Eminem piledrove him into the mat, and that one-two punch is credited with contributing to the ending Ja Rule’s rap dominance.
Canibus
Canibus and Eminem came up around the independent rap circuit together, and for a while, it looked like Canibus was going to break out long before Eminem ever would. But then, Canibus dissed LL Cool J, who fired back with “The Ripper Strikes Back.”
When Canibus implied that Eminem ghost-wrote the lyrics to the song (which, to be fair, seems like a compliment), Eminem fired back with several diss tracks, including “Square Dance,” “When The Music Stops,” “Say What You Say,” and on his guest verse on Xzibit’s “My Name.” Catching the smoke from both LL and Em ultimately deaded Canibus’ career in many fans’ eyes.
Machine Gun Kelly
Back in 2015, Colson Baker decided to tweet Hailie Mathers was “hot as fuck,” but he tried to soften the blow by saying he meant it “in the best possible way, because Eminem is the king.” Needless to say, this did not go over very well with Em, and he allegedly started getting MGK banned from several radio stations. When Machine Gun Kelly whimpered that this was “bad for his career,” Em gave him the old what-for on the song “Not Alike.” MGK responded with “Rap Devil,” which prompted Eminem to drop “Killshot,” which broke a high-profile YouTube record.
Benzino
The beef with former Source Magazine CEO Supreme Chancellor Benzino is, perhaps, the best known and most long-standing beef that the Detroit rapper has had. The roots of the fight date all the way back to 2000, when The Source gave The Marshall Mathers LP a 4-mic rating (instead of heralding it to match the universal critical acclaim) and a battle of bitterness was born.
In 2002, Benzino went into the Hot 97 studios in New York City, then released a diss track against Eminem over Nas’s “Made You Look” beat. He subsequently released a song called “Pull Your Skirt Up,” which was also an Eminem diss track.
Even though Em waited two months to respond to “Pull Your Skirt Up,” he responded with an entire mixtape (!) of diss tracks against Benzino and The Source. Titled The Invasion, Eminem subsequently went on Hot 97 to diss Benzino. After Em’s appearance, Benzino’s songs started disappearing from the radio.
Benzino then released a whole issue of The Source dissing Eminem in January 2003. Eminem responded to this level of pettiness — and journalistic malfeasance — with the songs “Go To Sleep” and “We All Die Someday.” In 2003, Eminem released The Invasion 2, another mixtape that took aim at Benzino and The Source.
After breaking his Source Award onstage at Hot 97’s Summer Jam, it was pretty much agreed that Eminem not only destroyed Benzino’s career, but he — along with Kim Osorio’s brutal Straight From The Source memoir — also helped bring down The Source Magazine.
Today, Eminem is a legend…and Benzino appeared on Love & Hip Hop.
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Bernadette is obviously an Em stan
@MrMan – is it false or true moron? (Think dummy) ??♂️
Y’all list all of Em’s Soft targets….LOL
Em helped Black Ball CAnibus who might be the best MC’s ever. And CAGE who Em stole the whole ” CRAZY WHITE BOY ” act from.
Best MC ever bahahababababababababbahahaah idiot
SMH keeps a slim shady dick in his mouth smfh stans kill me with their bias
You forgot Mariah Carey … he dissed he on several songs
For Real she da tru MC- she still collecting checks from “Obsessed”. My girl went in on Marshall , I wonder if he ever went in HER……?
This stan wh**e says: ‘Aside from the Beastie Boys, white rappers didn’t get any love prior to Detroit’s finest blessing the mic.’. And KRS-One says: ‘YOU MUST LEARN!’ Just a few white rappers who had a great influence on hiphop before this washed up bitter f!ck: Pete Nice and MC Serch (of 3rd Bass), Everlast, RA the Rugged Man, El-P, Vinnie Paz, Non Phixion. Bernadette you don’t know shit about hiphoip culture. Please delete this fuckery and say sorry about you ever touched the keyboard.
Pretty much all of those were underground. The mainstream hip-hop audience had The Beastie Boys and Vanilla Ice and that was it until ’99. Yes the underground had a lot more, such as atmosphere, non-phixion, and ICP (for better or worse)
Well 10 labels wouldn’t touch Em. Fat Joe says his biggest regret is Em have him 6 copies of SSEP and he never listened. Dre didn’t know Em was white when he asked to meet him, and when he wanted to sign him, his ppl said “What are you doing? He Has Blue Eyes!” Everyone was against it. Ice T told a story about white kids throwing TRASH at Em when he performed early on. So yeah there were white rappers, even good ones, but they didn’t do shit to break open the culture
Funny you mention Ra, he talks about how labels were calling him left and right to diss em. They wanted a white on white beef
Lots of Eminem stories appearing all of a sudden. Your sites views must be down again
No. He’s about to drop an album so Aftermath/Interscope are getting sites to build up the hype. Pay attention to the articles…and how they keep coming up more regularly. I’m a fan, but even Stevie could see this…
Noticed that too, and they aren’t the only ones. They are truly running out of shit to write. I saw some other stupid article about Rhianna supposedly avoiding Em at some hotel in Bel Aire. Their crack team of idiots found it to be bogus since Em wasn’t even at the hotel and Rhianna’s ‘source’ said it was ridiculous. Seriously, now they are just making shit up.
No, Everlast did not mention Eminems daughter on the dialated track, Eminem dropped “I remember” in response to that, Everlast braught her up in “Whiteys revenge” that was his response to “I remember”, and what he said was “When your doing your bid, ill look in on your lady and do things for your kid,make them write you lots off letters bout the things that we did,pictures of me chillin all up in your crib”
And Canibus didnt diss LL first, he had a line on the track 4,3,2,1 bout borrowing the mic on LL:s arm,he meant it as flattery ,LL has a tattoo of a mic, LL took offence and then it was on..
There is surprisingly very little information about the Cage beef to be found on the internet, considering that Em is one of the biggest rappers ever you’d think even his underground feuds would be well documented.
Listen to Cage’s Movies For The Blind (a great album imo). There are shots at Em on it. It’s one of the least known beefs bc it’s way back. And Em’s later beefs had more coverage bc he’d gained more notoriety as an emcee/ battle rapper. But yeah, do the research…the stories are out there.
I 100% disagree with where you said ICP weakly dissed eminem back, I mean did you even hear the songs ICP had made dissing eminem? I’m really assumming not because hate or love ICP they ripped him apart verse after verse
No, because ICP is garbage. They’re no where to be heard or found anymore.
Insane clown pussies suck ass bro wtf are u talking about your ear for music is worthless ???
To anybody who thinks ICP is garbage, they have an insane following with tons of money so they probably don’t give two fks. However, that second verse on Marshall Mathers is one of the illest diss records of all time. My two favorite lines in diss history are “That why I fkd you btch you… 2pac” and “Slim anus? You damn right Slim anus! I don’t get fckd in mine like you two little flamin fggts!” ICP was done on the regular hiphop scene after that.
I’m sorry but ICP is garbage. I was there, I heard them, they suck and their fanbase sucks as well. Trying to be the KISS of hip hop – gtfoh with that crap. And no they do not have tons of money. I believe recently in an interview one said he has 2 houses & was able to send a kid to college was his example of what money he’s made. That in no way means they have tons of money. In fact the value of that is really crappy for someone who has been in the industry as long as they have. And the verse you were talking about in Marshall Mathers’ track – my fav part is “I don’t need help from D12 to beat up two females with makeup who may try and scratch me with Lee Nails” That dam verse never gets old.
What makes them garbage? Because they don’t rap about the typical bullshit? They have their own style and have success and a loyal fanbase, just because you don’t like their content don’t make them bad. And I know they rap about some funny and goofy shit, but so has Eminem, and if you actually listen they have alot of serious and meaningful shit to say as well. Having a few houses and thousands to send your kids to college is plenty rich to me, and I might add, a great way to spend your money. They’ve also put their nieces and nephews through college as well. I’d rather spend money on my kids than do what most rich musicians do, like buy mansions and 20 cars and other pointless material shit. They’ve also donated alot to the salvation army and have done tons of food drives and toy charities for christmas. Of course they don’t have as much money as radio stars, that’s common sense, or at least I thought. Their song “Nuttin’ but a bitch thang” was actually a great diss, alot better than shitty rap devil, i’ll tell you that. As a matter of fact, they used some of the same disses that MGK used long before he did it, and it was actually more relevant, like the whole Kim thing. During the ICP diss, eminem was still messing with kim again. Eminem just quit responding, he’s obviously a better MC than ICP but that doesn’t make them bad. Calling them and their fans names just labels you as a dumbass blind hater like the rest, congrats lol.
You are 100% gay as shit. “Ripped him apart verse after verse”!???? Lmfao you are fucking delusional.
Stop punching down white boy! Royce let him fight his own battles. MM likes to push around n sync and the backstreets. He should go after some heavyweights in hip hop. I don’t mean pop rap garbage like machine gun kelly, drake, the lil idiots and more. MM hides behind the media to talk shit. You should attack ghostface killah, snoop dog, scarface, e-40 and others. Those boys have street cred unlike marshall mathers (stupid ass name). He used black artists for street cred. Dr. Dre co sign for this white boy to sell records. MM plays in the minor leagues. He is another great white hope like elvis. MM is too corny and a sell out. Black artists have sold out too and shame on them. MM is poor white trash acting black. He should go back to the trailer park. MM has added very little to the hip hop game. Selling the most records in a mostly white society isn’t much of a feat. His rhyme style has no flavor. MM has always been a pop star. A white boy that acts black and has black co signers equals a pop star in the waiting. MM should steal from white culture since it is so great without black talent. I LIKE WHITE ARTISTS INCLUDING BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, ELTON JOHN, SHANIA TWAIN, PHIL COLLINS, AMY GRANT, BRIAN ADAMS, CELINE DION, TAYLOR SWIFT, BON JOVI, BEASTIE BOYS, BEE GEES, SHERYL CROW AND OTHERS. I DON’T HATE WHITE PEOPLE UNLESS THEY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ME. I’m tired of this corny, no soul, acting black weasel who is finally played. MM will never drop a HIP HOP ALBUM IN IS LIFE. POP FANS WILL DISAPPEAR OVER NIGHT.
Too long. Say less.
I’m not donald trump. I have complete thoughts. If u want mindless thinking, go to Twitter.
A lot of y’all don’t know shit yes feminem did kill icp on MM no feminem is not the goat no that diss didn’t stop there career they just dropped last week and icp r about business these guys make more money off a t shirt than a album and yep I’m 40 years young and black and a jugglo 4 life stop hate n so much it’s a weakness
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Wow the media is running out of stuff to publish on Eminem so now they are really searching to try and stay relevant. Just love this shit.
Got your dumb ass to click and comment.
Ja killed him on loose change. Eminem groupies are still hurt over that song. lol
2019 Eminem is a dick, he’s had enough props from legends in the genre to believe he’s some untouchable force of hip hop when he makes Garbage music for call of duty fans, it’s just the same nonsense over again he lives in a empty mansion disconnected from the world. no soul, no struggle no idea how the poor people he raps for live. Just a near 50 year old man in a tracksuit living off past glories over shitty soulless beats with a Skylar Grey hook.
I honestly couldn’t have said it any fucking better give this guy a flame emogi
I wonder what you’ll be doing at 50. Think you’ll still be roaming the comment sections for acceptance from other bitter people?
Hahaha… like 12 kids at their mom’s house all a sudden pissed off Em tore their lousy new rappers apart. If you love rap you at least like Eminem, which is where I’m at, Kamikaze is fire. lol… you a die hard Migos fan?
Damn. You expect rappers to drop diamond album after diamond album yet somehow they have to stay poor and struggling their whole life?
Hes an incredible mc but his subject matter has always been lacking. Hes used these disses not only as promotion but also bc he doesn’t have much else to talk about. It got old a long long time ago.
You never listened to Eminem then.. Cleaning out my Closet, Mockingbird, White America, Stan, Till I Collapse, Kim, The Way I Am, Drug Ballad, Not Afraid, Renegade (Ft Jay Z)…yada yada…
This is just off my head as fast as I type, and every one of these is way deeper, imaginatively personal and relatable to millions of people than just about anything else in the rap game. It’s just facts every hip hop head understands. Idk about whatever weird or uneducated motives people have, but keep it real.
This comment section is in its own little reality. But here’s the real deal no matter if you wanna admit it or not: You either know better and are some new experimental breed of super delusional hater or you don’t know what you’re talking about either way and just like typing nonsense. Idk.. kids today… lol
Eminem is a diva who would call MTV and threaten to no show for safety concerns if the invited Murder Inc to the award shows.
Even if… he can. What can do fk wacks and posers from Murder INC? 😀 Nobody even wants to listen to them
but you guys forgot to mention that Cage KILLED EM!
Sure, and now Cage is a rap world star and everybody now him….
You can say what you want about Em, But the dude is BAD! You will never sleep on this dude!!
This list is pretty wack