KXNG Crooked doesn’t think an Eminem and Busta Rhymes Verzuz is the move. On Tuesday night (January 25), the former Slaughterhouse juggernaut fired off a tweet that cast doubt on the fantasy lineup.
“I’m not sold on Busta Vs Em,” he wrote. “I feel like it makes sense to people because they both know how to rap fast but after that happens the catalogs go in two completely different directions imo.” He added, “Don’t sleep on club bangers when on the Verzuz platform. They do damage in rounds.”
Dr. Dre instigated the discussion on Sunday (January 23) when he post a clip of Eminem rapping circles around his competition in the “Godzilla” video to his Instagram account. He wrote in the caption, “Marshall Mathers vs Who???!” The Hip Hop mogul’s post was met with over 23,000 comments and over two million likes as fans salivated at the thought of Eminem even hopping in the Verzuz arena.
Among them was Verzuz co-founder Swizz Beatz who immediately remarked, “BUSTA!!!!!! Let’s go” alongside some flame emojis. Other potential matchups included JAY-Z, Lil Wayne and Twista. But the always outspoken Charlamagne Tha God doesn’t think Eminem stands a chance in a Verzuz battle. As he said on his Brilliant Idiots podcast last year, “Em don’t have the songs like that. Em can rap and we like Em as a rapper, [but] Future washes Eminem in a Verzuz. Em don’t got nothing that slaps like [6ix9ine’s] ‘GUMMO’ to these young kids. Yo, Young Thug washes Eminem in a Verzuz.”
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As for Fat Joe, he would likely put his money on Busta Rhymes to emerge victorious in a battle against Eminem as well. In September 2021, the Terror Squad rapper asserted people were too intimidated by Busta Rhymes’ talent to step into the Verzuz arena with him, including himself.
“Fat Joe scared to do Verzuz with Busta Rhymes and so is everybody else,” he said. “You gotta understand, sometimes you ever notice — you seen boxers and they knock everybody out? People be scared to fight those boxers. Busta Rhymes is gonna outrap, outperform anybody who goes up in a Verzuz with him. That’s a fact. Yo, Busta Rhymes nobody wanna get in there with you, man. You might have to be an honorary — they gotta give you the check for no reason.”
He’s basically trying to say when those club bangers come out, Em is going to drown. MOODS matter in Verzuz more than just songs. Bone just found that out the hard way against 3-6. A catalog is different thing on the charts and in your car than it is on Verzuz.
Bone won against mafia you fool. A kid in rural africa knows Busta has nothing that can outdo Em’s catalog.
Bone has a million songs. Mafia has like 5
Lol I forgot Charl said that delusional nonsense.
Jay z Eminem is the only option
I Em not charging dudes like Crooked and Royce to live under his sack. These dudes stay riding
CROOKED I WAS NEVER AFFLIATED WITH DR. DRE. JUST SUGE KNIGHT AND EMINEM.
He’s posted at his house all the time dummy
I DON’T STALK PEOPLE ON IG. SO HANGING OUT IN SOMEONE’S CRIB MAKES YOU THEIR DISCIPLE NOW? I WILL RICK JAMES YOUR COUCH HOMIE.
yes he is affiliated with Dr dre eminem is Dr dres artist everything eminem does is run by Dr dre silly
If anyone thinks Eminem will lose to anyone, they don’t know Em. He is a lyrical genius who is going to go down in the history books like Shakespeare, Bach, Beethoven, Elvis, and even the beetles. Eminem can’t take words that don’t rhyme and make them rhyme. When he spits, he creates his own percussion. He tells a story as music is supposed to do. Kids these days have zero clue what music actually is, ( they ride around blasting their rappers at max volume turning the entire car into distortion, to which people who actually enjoy music pay a lot of money to avoid.) Eminem is beyond a rap god, and is simply the greatest artist of our time. He has inspired nearly every musician who has a name, across multiple genres. I used to HATE rap, it was nothing but foul mouthed kids trying to have a voice. Eminem changed that for me when I actually listened to what he had to say and the stories he told. He can walk up to a mic and just bust. The only downfall to Eminem, is that he is the greatest, and when you are the greatest at something, no one wants to play against you. And in order to keep people comming back you have to throw the match, in order to keep doing what you love. And we all know he don’t want to be alone in the darkness anymore.. It’s time we all admit who Eminem is, so we can give him his earned place in history..