Eminem unleashed his “12 Days of Diss-Mas” picks on Shade 45 last month and in the process, brought up Del The Funky Homosapien’s “Wack MCs.” Taken from the 1993 classic No Need For Alarm, the track finds the Hiero mastermind sending a stray shot toward LL Cool J.
“Why swoon when you hear a ballad, is what I tell a broad/Cause L a fraud, he ain’t hella hard/I used to look up, now I want to cook up,” he spits.
Over the weekend, Del admitted the diss was the result of peer pressure and people in his camp telling him the Def Jam legend dissed him first.
“Heard @Eminem mentioned me on a recent episode of @Shade45 for dissing @llcoolj back in the day on ‘Wack M.C.’s’ so wanted to address that as it’s crazy and true but there’s more to it lol,” he tweeted on Saturday (January 5). “So it is true and I did but only because everyone around me was pumping me up telling me LL dissed me. Some line he said with something that could be interpreted to be talking about me if you listened hard enough.”
Del — who was around 20 at the time — continued, “Of course I was a kid back then so the peer pressure kicked in over rational thought. After awhile I figured ok LL don’t even know who the fuck you are how could he dis me and this my second album?” [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
Del confirmed he isn’t entirely convinced LL ever dissed him in the first place. He admits he decided to include the line because he was bummed one of his heroes would ever diss him.
“I only really half believed it at the time,” he tells HipHopDX. “It was just peer pressure and me wanting to impress Hieroglyphics. I ain’t proud of it. LL is actually one of my favorites ever ’til this day. I just felt some sort of way cause everyone was going on about how LL dissed me, so I was hurt.
“But yeah. I had criticism if he did want to dis me. I wasn’t in love with his entire catalog. The soft shit on Walking With A Panther in particular. That album was so fire, I was like why put this shit on here? To me, it was clearly for sales.”
He added “Wack MCs” wasn’t only about one MC either.
“LL was like the nigga,” he says. “He was around my age and had vocab like me, so he was a forerunner. ‘Wack MCs’ wasn’t about him tho. It wasn’t about anything in particular. It was just entertaining with rhymes about whatever was on my mind at the time.”
Ultimately, Del reaffirmed his love and respect for the Grammy Award-winning artist on Twitter.
“@llcoolj is one of my favorites so I felt some kinda way and fools was pushing it harder because of it,” he said. So yeah I dissed him but under peer pressure so I apologize if he peeped it. I’m sure he knows what time it is.”
Del ended his Twitter session by sharing a photo of Slim Shady wearing a Del The Funky Homosapien t-shirt and sending out a Bat Signal.
“Still tripping No Need For Alarm is 25 years old actually,” he concluded. “But shout out @Eminem @llcoolj and @Shade45. Em get at me.”
Love stories like this…. hip hop was competitive especially in these cats days. Things evolve and thats ok but fun to look back and see how we got here. Del is dope but super original and especially where he was from and how the other rappers sounded from the west coast, hieroglyphics crew was epitome of originality
The Heiros were trash! Couldn’t produce good music,they seemed like pretty cool cats though
Your opinion of hip hop is irrelevant.
It is after that statement.
Who the fuvk is the guy? Only real rap for 2019 is that GuCci GaNG shiitt. Fuck Del the homosexual. GuCci GaNG taking over for the 1-9
Fuck you puto, respect the or I’ll suplex you and put you in a camel clutch!
Same troll, she has multiple accounts. Just ignore her.
Fuck your mom bitch show some respect
Anyone with Gucci in their name has already failed at life.
Del’s a legend
Diss Master Marshall brought us here,
If only his brother George was there
I don’t think there’s ever been an emcee as big a fan of Hip-Hop and emceeing as Em is.. #Respect
Del is definitely an amazing MC. He put out very quality music. He is far from being the legend that LL Cool J was and is. Going back to Cali, Brenda’s got a big ol butt, I’m that type of guy. The catalogue is enourmos.
what was cool back then is there was all this underlying tension, because nobody had anyone’s contact information!!! You couldn’t hop on instagram or twitter and post some stupid sneak diss, or even ask them if you wanted to… there was a lot of swirling and speculation in the streets that led to misunderstandings!
Del is a racist bitch. Should talk about his fake gangster cousin Ice Cube. He hates white people but wants that shade 45 money.
References please. Last I checked homie got some Platinum albums with dem white folks.
Hip Hop in the street originally was based on dissin’ one an other (or mommas’ for that matter), freestyling back and forth, cutting each other off, butting into subject matter. Made MC’s come back harder. (Roxanne Shante, UTFO, LL and Canibus) It’s actually nice to see this now without people going too far…but, that would’ve been one hell of a beef cause LL ended Can-I-bus’s career nasty and Can-i-bis was supposed to be on some “Out with the Old, in with the New” shit at the time. Hmm…