Nick Cannon went after Eminem in December 2019 with a series of diss tracks after Slim Shady clowned his relationship with his ex-wife Mariah Carey on the Fat Joe cut “Lord Above.” While Eminem never responded on wax, their public discourse was thoroughly entertaining for the rap community — fans or not.
Needless to say, Cannon knows a thing or two about the potency required for an effective diss. During a new installment of Nick Cannon Radio’s “World Famous Top 5” YouTube series, The Masked Singer host tackled the “Top 5 Best Diss Tracks.”
Before getting to the list, Cannon joked his beef with Eminem should be considered one of the greatest then quickly digressed.
“The No. 5 diss track is me versus Eminem,” he says with a laugh. “No, I’m just joking. Even though it was Hip Hop culture going on. But we gotta go with Biggie’s diss track, I gotta start off with ‘Dre Day.’ Dre and Snoop, they came at Eazy’s neck … they was getting at everybody. That’s my joint right there.”
Nick Cannon stuck to the West Coast and named Ice Cube’s infamous Eazy-E diss “No Vaseline” as No. 4 but headed to the East Coast for No. 3 with JAY-Z’s “The Takeover,” which took aim at Mobb Deep and Nas. He then put up Drake’s Meek Mill slaughter “Back To Back” at No. 2, calling it the “only diss song to get nominated for a Grammy and is a club banger.”
Finally, Cannon proclaimed Tupac Shakur’s 1996 lyrical assassination “Hit ‘Em Up” takes the crown at No. 1. The track decimated The Notorious B.I.G. at the time and made it painfully clear just how much 2Pac despised the Brooklyn rap luminary.
“And the No. 1 diss song of all time — and it’s only because it’s probably the biggest Hip Hop beat ever and one of the best rappers to ever do it and it was just so disrespectful,” Cannon continued. “He started it off with like, That’s why I fucked your bitch.’ When you start a record off like that … and unfortunately there was so much that went on with their demise, I wish these brothers could have came back together because they were truly friends.
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“That’s what hurts all of our hearts, when we lose our greats to senseless violence, but ‘Hit ‘Em Up.’ My goodness. And trust me, there are some backstories to this record that the world does not know about and it will be in Suge Knight’s book that I am putting out this year.”
Revisit it below.
“Ether”…dat shit that make ya s0uL bUrn slow(burn slow)
Hit em up is a little better than Ether. Absolutly savage! Ether just says Gay-z which wasn’t creative all and Nas just says he’s been fucked over. Hit Em up dissed multiple people and savagly roasted Biggie, “His Bitch”, Lil Kim etc etc. Ether too me is No. 2nd but Hit em up is no.1. I’m not a pac fan so i’m not being biased.
I always thought, whilst a carbon copy in some ways, Eminems diss towards Everlast that used the Hit Em Up beat was equally hard. Talking of Eminem, Insane Clown Posse’s ‘Nutting but a bitch thing’ was fun as hell and hit harder due to them coming from the same hometown
“Ether just says Gay-Z” LMAO…and they say X ingested the bad doPe…smh did u not listen to how he burned that man?? Ether was so potent, J wanted to fight Nas pay per view…besides that Hit’em up was very emotional…Ether wasnt….the Outlawz were also featured….Nas handled it for “dolo”….
Actually the 2 Nick Cannon diss tracks by Denace were way better. Denace and his boy who also sounds just like Enimem slaughtered Nick Cannon, Conceited, and Charlie Clips.
Nick cool, talented and a works hard a true hustler, but he always shows his lack of knowledge when it comes to rap/hiphop. Back to back shouldn’t be on any list for top diss songs especially of all time. He tried to validate it by it’s radio play and award nominations, popularity doesn’t equal quality, if you want to say most popular then ok, not best. You can’t go to Dre dissing Eazy without adding Real compton city G’s,”Dre day meant Eazy’s pay day was the complete mic drop in that beef, Eazy making more money off the Chronic than Dre was a flawless fatality! I don’t see Ether on the list? Gotta throw those songs that Joe Budden vs Saigon they both went hard on each other. Cam’ron diss on 50 Curtis, Jadakiss diss on 50 checkmate. 50 disses on Murder Inc and half of New York mainstream rappers, 50 subtle jabs were better than most full fledge diss tracks,. The Game 300 Bars, Pastor troy diss on Master P, Cassidy Raid diss on meek mill. Bone Thugs vs Do or die, Twista, Crucial conflict, 3-6 Bone took on these legendary dope rappers at the same time and won imo subtle jabs from them hit hard, similar to 50, they didn’t put full efforts on diss songs just jabs. LL Cool J diss on Moe d and cannibus, Queen latifia name calling part 2. Pusha T the story of adidon, Imagine if Malice was the old Malice and got on this with him. Chamillionaire diss tracks against swisha house and Mike Jones, Chamillionaire was a sniper when it came to disses.
Best Diss song ever is “No Vaseline” by Ice Cube. Ether by Nas is a awesome song to about Gay-Z. Cube fucking rips N.W.A from start to finish. Classic fucking song.
You are on point. I’m a NWA fan and I think No Vaseline destroyed NWA. Great song.
The most slept on diss track LL Cool J – The Ripper Strikes Back (Canibus Diss) is in my top 5 – Check it out if you haven’t.
Nick’s list is dope too, would’ve slotted in Ether in there.
I feel u bruh…but L lost that one…The Ripper Strikes Back had the energy but lacked the content…listed to the track Rio the Jacker(I think that’s the name)
Yeah I remember when I was studying diss tracks as a youngin everybody was saying 2nd round knockout. But when I heard that I was like, “wtf this is cold!”
Some of my favourite diss tracks include Eminem’s The Warning (everybody who first heard this was like “Okay, Em can rap like Old Em.”), Joe Budden’s Making a Murderer, Wake, and Afraid (systematically tore down Drake, but Budden overextended himself with Just Because), Kool Moe Dee’s Let’s Go (the LL alliteration part is classic), LL Cool J’s To Da Break of Dawn, and The Ripper Strikes Back (the former takes down Kool Moe Dee, MC Hammer, and Ice T’s girl, and the latter, aimed at Canibus, sounds like it belongs on a Rocky soundtrack), Ice Cube’s No Vaseline (goes at a whole group, which he used to be a part of), and of course Jay-Z’s Takeover and Nas’ Ether (the best battle of all time).
“Hit em up” is definitely number 1… Eazy E diss to dre is a close 2nd.
Not many good new diss songs out there but If yall haven’t heard it, check out Dax diss to Tory lanez, I thought he went hard af, straight murdered lanez so bad he didnt even respond, and he was the one that asked for someone to challenge him lol
tory lanez actually rolled up on dax and made him say sorry for the diss track
Yeah I know, which I think was weak as hell…. how you gonna claim to be so good that you’ll destroy anyone who comes at you, then dax accepts the challenge and disses you, and you get so into your feelings that you can’t even respond, you run up on him with a bunch of dudes and make him say sorry for destroying you lol
No Vaseline by Ice-Cube gets my vote for number one, Hit Em Up was the most hateful, NV was a flawless victory!
No Ether in your top 5 is like you don’t know hip hop and your are plain stupid! Yep, Nick is stupid!