The way canibus constructed this song is damn near perfection. He really did what he said in the lyrics: studied L and then broke down his whole career strategy. GOAT diss record.
@@thegreatest6125 he did but LL was so well established that his fan never let it slide. If canibus has a career like 50 cent then ll would of been ja rule basically. The comeback from ll was weak compared to this but ll has the better career for sure and got more hits but lyrically ll is not even close to canibus but. Making music ll is beyond canibus
The fact that Tyson agreed to be a part of this says something. Give Canibus his flowers man, he a legend. First album was way ahead of its time. Imagine if the industry never blackballed him.
I'm one of the morons that think "channel zero" and "what's goin on" should be be playing, even obscurely But I agree with you 100% he should be in the hall of fame
lol@blackballed...Bis talented spitter but it did not translate to consistently making good music...plus he was reckless throwin clef under the bus and dissing him...dude was a real llive werido
This song was the number one hip hop song in Kenya when it came out, I couldn't believe some new dude had the guts to diss L. L. This song is a lesson to never fear your greatest adversaries.
@@ghazalsuna9861 No it doesn't. It means to toss a dude's salad. It means to give another man a rimjob. There's no heterosexual interpretation of that lyric.
What Canibus did was righteous. He went at a legend who tried to discredit his skills. This will go down 100 years from now as one of the greatest diss records in Hip-Hop history. This is why I consider Canibus a legend in his own right, one of the top 20 greatest battle lyricist in Hip-Hop history.
@@lolman7574 lmfao gtfoh. Em is so wack he fell off a long time ago. At least canibus aint a sellout😭 and canibus feminem was actually fire so u clearly a basic hip hop fan
@@10colej ah, eminem fell down a long time ago? I havent heard anything about canibus but eminem is still get millions of views and still has popularity Canibus? Not many people even care about him Maybe a small minority Keep coping
....and canibus strike harder, you would know this if you listen to other tracks by canibus. Ever since 2nd round ko, he been using LL as a punching bag.
Murdered LL ,straight bodied him . And he felt disrepected that's why he came at LL in the first place , canibus looked up to L , wanted to be under his wing , as he should canibus spit a verse about borrowing LLS mic tatoo it was homage 4 real , yo L can i borrow that mic tatoo and represent hip hop like you sent me to do... LL like naw you gotta get your own wich is cool , but he asking he not just direspecting and saying I'm gonna take it from you , that was after the direspect , And the f up part about is canibus and LL had a conversation about the borrowing the mic line and he told canibus to change the verse and out of repect for L canibus changed his verse but LL proceeds to spit his same diss verse on 4321 on the same track with canibus , dissing canibus on the same track that he's on with him , that's some snake shit that should tell people how much of a threat canibus was to LL , lyrically LLs ego wouldn't allow him to let canibus to shine . Even though LL was already established as one of the goats . Why ain't LL want the same for canibus 🤔
@@willmolina7395LL had his own sitcom on television back in the day….”In the House”,Canibus was referencing the people that usually laugh in the background in sitcoms!!!
@@willmolina7395 "I'll let you kick a verse.. Fuck it, I'll let you kick em' all I'll even wait for the studio audience to applaud" The rhyme scheme, and flow of those bars
@HAIDER MOHAMMAD YOUSEF HUSSEIN nah nah man , eminem has nothing to do with the underrating of canibus, canibus destroyed him in dr c phd , there's another reasons for him being underrated like wyclef jean
The biggest misconception about the LL Cool J vs Canibus fiasco is that Canibus lost the battle. Canibus went off on this. This is amongst the most underrated diss songs in hip hop ever.
You are 100% correct my friend. Honestly, I am not a fan of Canibus. I'm a fan of battle rap. And if you take away the beats, and look at them bar for bar? This was a horribly one sided bodybag for Canibus. He ate L.L. up no question.
People have low attentions spans, and tend to judge diss songs on beats more than what's said. Canibus is a top-level rapper, but the line about 'eating asses' was, um, a miscalculation.
Dom Liddle PREACH!!! if you even go to LLs previous battles with Kool Moe Dee, LL stans defend em cause of his "Image" and Beats... but yo you hit the nail on its head #Truth #Salute
At the time. It was played to make it look like ll was the good guy defending his spot against a new up start. That's why the casual fan went with ll, but only the underground kats knew canibus was the real underdog.
I still remember the first time I heard this. Listening to Hot 97 late at night driving around smoking a blunt. Had to pull over...I was so completely blown away by what I was hearing.
0:46 Canibus said 99% of your fans wear high heels. LOL Thats his most famous line of all time. LL was pissed after that in his next diss track in The Ripper Strikes Back and said 99% of your fans dont exist. LMAO
Im almost 50 damn years old and this hits the same in 2023 - as soon as Mike comes in, theres no song that quite makes me stop what I'm doing and get into it
Sorry but thats backwards. I saw that vid. He was definitely just rapping the verse from this song not the other way around. Pun and Mos def were rapping past songs too
4,3,2,1 by LL Cool J was recorded in mid 1997, that's where this beef started. Canibus 100% wrote the rebuttle, spat it word for word at the Cypher with Pun, X and them...then this song came out in 1998... it was already written when he was freestyling guaranteed.
@@michaelwolff4988 You sir, are correct: 4,3,2,1 by LL Cool J was recorded in mid 1997, that's where this beef started. Canibus 100% wrote the rebuttle, spat it word for word at the Cypher with Pun, X and them...then this song came out in 1998... it was already written when he was freestyling guaranteed.
he is a lyrical turd cake. the song and video are painfully corny. his bars only sound intelligent to stupid motherfuckers that are too uneducated to see them for what they truly are, trash. genius? seriously? cuz he sometimes uses big words or arbitrarily refers to some obscure subject matter. no, that just makes him pretentious, not a genius. he is a cold nut and exists only as something to be laughed at. other than a few rappers, hip hop music is a fucking joke that is practically void of any real talent. nursery rhymes bragging about gun violence, drug dealing, getting bitches and materialistic bullshit over a beat made by altering and combining other musicians work. ironically the good hip hop is made by rappers who don't recieve much comercial success, which says a lot about the weak minded fan base and fickle culture.
Canibus ripped LL on this track. This diss was cold, calculated and he went straight for the heart without even mentioning LL's name once in the entire song. Bis was blackballed by the industry after this cause they couldn't bare LL taking an L even though his sensitive ass started the beef in the first place.
I got love for L but he lost LYRICALLY. The kid tried to PAY tribute to LL but L didn't acknowledge it for what it was worth and tried to PUNK & BULLY CANIBUS So this CLASSIC DIS TRACK is a byproduct of that scenario.....
Baby Jesus Never Lived he still made his mark in hip hop history with this.. the boy was a beast, but had a horrible ear for beats and was blind to know how to market himself or his audience.
Above Beyond yes i agree with that. he won the battle but horrifically lost the war. his debut album was atrocious. straight doo-doo. I'll give him his props on this battle. he gets no props from me when it comes to making classic albums.
It’s 2022 and I can still recite this song word for word! “Now watch me rip the tatt from ya arm, kick you in the groin’ stick you for your Vaguard award, in front of ya Moms, your 1st, 2nd and 3rd born, make your wife get on the horn and call Minister Farrakhan” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
K-rino has been killing people with pens before Tupac, canibus ,and many , k-rino is a underappreciated pioneer , kanibus got a big piece of his style look up anything by K-rino and let the journey begin
"Now watch me rip the tat from your arm,kick you in the groin,stick you for your Vanguard award in front of your mom, your 1st, 2nd and 3rd-born make your wife get on the horn, call Minister Farrakhan" daaaaaaaaaaaaamn*in Craig and Smokey's voice* Canibus is a BEAST!.
@David Naw, those 2 song are good (I think “Real Muthafuckin G’s” is one of the most overlooked diss songs ever), but they’re not up there with this, Ether or No Vaseline. Honestly, I think Pac’s “Against All Odds” is better than “Hit Em Up,” but I may be one of the very few who feel that way..🤷🏽♂️
I’m bumping this in 2020 and this training montage between Canibus and Tyson will forever remain legendary...🙌 Till today it motivates me for my training sessions...
If Can-I-Bus was a great/classic album, sold a few million copies and had a couple of hit singles, he would have forever been known as the guy that took down LL Cool J. He would’ve been a legend for that alone. What could’ve been…
No question, No debate, No ifs-n-buts...Canibus wins this hands down. Not only one of the best Diss tracks ever, but one of the greatest lyrical hip hop tracks EVER!
I remember when this came out and everybody went crazy lol. The line from this song that stands out in my memory is "99% of your fans wear high heels". And LL's response to that was "99% of your fans don't exist" LOL. Good memories lol
I don't care what anyone says, Cannibus ETHERED LL with this song. But the Hip Hop Committee couldn't let LL go out like that, so they saved him and claimed that Canibus lost. FOH! That Ripper Strikes Back song was NOT seeing Second Round K.O. in any universe!
Yea Jordan, that's why Canibus ran outta gas after the Ripper dropped. He had nothing legitimate to say after that. Dissing LL was a bad business decision, it cost him his career...
One of the most underappreciated lyricists who never got his recognition. Canibus made me fall in love with the battle / punchline orientated side of hiphop and taught me how to write bars. I will always regard this guy as one of the best regardless of what has happened throughout his career.
All he had to say was "beat" instead of "eat". Other than that this diss track was crazy. Canibus is underrated. That flow was insane from 2:40 to the end.
@@forgetfulfunctor1 the thing is these guys do so many interviews I wouldnt know. I guess if you google hard enough you will definitely find it. Premier knows his shit when it comes to MCs killing it on the mic
Foe Moe Years I agree. Close to the mid 90s he started only doing ish for females. Perhaps why his albums kept flopping and the first artist on Def Jam they still tried to keep him on, but let him go. But he found another avenue to lick his lips on LOL. He actually makes a good actor.
It's funny how this era immediately makes fun of the " eat a nigga ass like me " but back when this dropped no one thought twice about the line ... Times have changed
If you didn’t live in this era you will never understand how serious this battle was.
Real talk bro, shit was 🔥
Facts, this was during the PEAK of the DJ Clue mixtape era!
Real talk bro 😎
And yes. Mix TAPES. Gen z has only seen those in 80s movies, urban outfitters and goodwill 😂
Completely forgot about this. Senior year high school
The way canibus constructed this song is damn near perfection. He really did what he said in the lyrics: studied L and then broke down his whole career strategy. GOAT diss record.
I always thought cannabis won diss battle
@@thegreatest6125 who went on to have a big career, LL cool J had had quite a few beefs in 80's
@@knightveg lol who has more albums and more respect amongst real emcees worldwide
@@thegreatest6125 he did but LL was so well established that his fan never let it slide. If canibus has a career like 50 cent then ll would of been ja rule basically. The comeback from ll was weak compared to this but ll has the better career for sure and got more hits but lyrically ll is not even close to canibus but. Making music ll is beyond canibus
✅💯@@theoneaboveall6768 💯✅
The fact that Tyson agreed to be a part of this says something. Give Canibus his flowers man, he a legend. First album was way ahead of its time. Imagine if the industry never blackballed him.
I'm one of the morons that think "channel zero" and "what's goin on" should be be playing, even obscurely
But I agree with you 100% he should be in the hall of fame
I don't call it ahead of his time his time is where the goats where I would say perfect time
lol@blackballed...Bis talented spitter but it did not translate to consistently making good music...plus he was reckless throwin clef under the bus and dissing him...dude was a real llive werido
@@kgthoughts yeah bis hurt his own career
He dissed Wyclef AFTER Wyclef tried to throw him under the bus first.
This song was the number one hip hop song in Kenya when it came out, I couldn't believe some new dude had the guts to diss L. L. This song is a lesson to never fear your greatest adversaries.
Respectful Philadelphia PA #Canibus 🐐👑💯
Except l l reply on ripper strikes back murdered him
Respect to Kenya!!!!
@@parkelsewhere7667 Ripper Strikes back tanked worldwide, L. L only appeared again internationally in an R&B song called "Paradise"
@@parkelsewhere7667 Canibus effectively buried L. L
Diss track aside, the flow, the style the cadence the rhymes...Canibus was in his own lane
He just couldn't write a hook.
Why people act like this wasn’t one of the greatest diss of all time..
@@unmaskedfatking6352 looooooool that took his whole diss down
@@Kinobambino back in the day it meant that he destroy's his enemies
@@extremedemon3471 I know
Not one of greatest, it's the greatest
He didn’t say his name
Tyson got that unmistakable energy in his voice.
Ear biting noise
But he hits hard very hard don't let that man catch you slipping I'm a big fan of mike tyson
@@viralvideo171 not anymore
Yeth he doth
Canibus, on weekends does stunts for the "look at me, I'm the captain now" guy
The 1st Ether!!!!! Facts...
Truthfully
I am a 58 yr old white man who often listens to metal, classic rock and even country........but this Canibus dude is very talented.
Props to him!!
So true
Trump 2024!
his wordplay was impeccable
eating ass
It still is!
@@atomskreborn5740 it means beating and eating you alive while you get bullied.it's 90's street slang of underground NYC.
Ghazal Haseeb he should’ve said “rip”.still bad but considerably better and more people would understand what he would mean
@@ghazalsuna9861 No it doesn't. It means to toss a dude's salad. It means to give another man a rimjob. There's no heterosexual interpretation of that lyric.
Canibus and Tyson in a video is still one of the greatest things ever in music
no doubt. two of the greatest.
That line about Biggie without saying Biggie's name was too clean.
I know what beef is?❤
@ezinnwa nah when he said the greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th
@@ezinnwa The greatest of all time died on march 9th
Ll is the best disser but it doesn’t make sense to make a whole song about someone
Hardest line of a diss track
Hip Hop wasn't ready for him back in the late 90's. Real lyrics no bubble gum rap.
was that part about eating fellas asses real too
Facts
i still don't know what oldheads meant by bubble gum rap
Kudos to Tyson...THE LEGEND, for supporting Cannibus.
Facts
canibus*
@@tirim4883 wtf
But wasn't he cool with LL as well?
What Canibus did was righteous. He went at a legend who tried to discredit his skills. This will go down 100 years from now as one of the greatest diss records in Hip-Hop history. This is why I consider Canibus a legend in his own right, one of the top 20 greatest battle lyricist in Hip-Hop history.
Eminem killed him lulz
Nodoubt
@@lolman7574 lmfao gtfoh. Em is so wack he fell off a long time ago. At least canibus aint a sellout😭 and canibus feminem was actually fire so u clearly a basic hip hop fan
@@10colej ah, eminem fell down a long time ago? I havent heard anything about canibus but eminem is still get millions of views and still has popularity
Canibus? Not many people even care about him
Maybe a small minority
Keep coping
Top 20??? You lunchin bro.. Top 3.. if not the best
LL really act like this man didn’t tear him up on this track.
Tore up his ass on camera on this track too according to the lyrics
LL ain’t been the same since.
LL tried to fire back.
Missed.
@@timothylewis2527nope.
I'm here today because LL just acknowledged coming back from this was so hard it took 2yrs to release.. Lol
Canibus was way ahead of his time “only thing fast as the speed of light is the speed of dark”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Woah
"with the jaws of a great white shark I'll rip you apart"
Yes!
Yooooo! Where your plug @? Need some of that shit asap!
@@robertadeyemi7825 I caught that line reading your comment. Wow!
it s about who strikes the hardest, not who strikes first..
Christian Bokam and he did both with this
@@seangolding7871 he didnt struck first. so he didnt do both. useless comment
without a doubt and one of the realesf, no dick riding wanna be gangster like other rappers portrayed to be and forget where they came from
Most of the time in rap battles 2nd always wins
....and canibus strike harder, you would know this if you listen to other tracks by canibus. Ever since 2nd round ko, he been using LL as a punching bag.
One of the greatest diss tracks and videos of all time. Canibus was raw skill
The GOAT diss track and diss video of all-time…..Hands down!!!!
Murdered LL ,straight bodied him . And he felt disrepected that's why he came at LL in the first place , canibus looked up to L , wanted to be under his wing , as he should canibus spit a verse about borrowing LLS mic tatoo it was homage 4 real , yo L can i borrow that mic tatoo and represent hip hop like you sent me to do... LL like naw you gotta get your own wich is cool , but he asking he not just direspecting and saying I'm gonna take it from you , that was after the direspect ,
And the f up part about is canibus and LL had a conversation about the borrowing the mic line and he told canibus to change the verse and out of repect for L canibus changed his verse but LL proceeds to spit his same diss verse on 4321 on the same track with canibus , dissing canibus on the same track that he's on with him , that's some snake shit that should tell people how much of a threat canibus was to LL , lyrically LLs ego wouldn't allow him to let canibus to shine . Even though LL was already established as one of the goats .
Why ain't LL want the same for canibus 🤔
Tyson being on this is Iconic!
I like how he mentions and honors biggie. Props to you
Yeah even tho I think pac is the greatest I like how it made his point
@@メDツ pac isn't the greatest Pac wasn't a MC
@@The1andOnlyMadvibez what was pac?
@@メDツ great storyteller/activist/entertainer... But no MC
@@The1andOnlyMadvibez idk the difference but i think pac is the greatest rapper
You KNOW this is a goat dis track when he said the greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th. We ALL felt that
"We're warriors man, when we go into battle- we come out or don't come out at all"
Canibus one of the most underrated but talented rappers ever. I'm still listening to his music in 2024.
This is December 2022 Bro
Are you?
stop ..you the only one
CAN-I-BUS. ALWAYS BEEN HEAVILY UNDERRATED. HE MURKED LL ON THIS TRACK
jay blaze he needed some expert advice on how to promote music and himself.
word
When this dude said I'll even wait for the studio audience to applaud, me and my boy lost it
Fr lmao
I didn't get it could you please elaborate.... Thank you ahead of time.. 🙏🏼
@@willmolina7395LL had his own sitcom on television back in the day….”In the House”,Canibus was referencing the people that usually laugh in the background in sitcoms!!!
@@willmolina7395
"I'll let you kick a verse..
Fuck it, I'll let you kick em' all
I'll even wait for the studio audience to applaud"
The rhyme scheme, and flow of those bars
Can-I-Bus doesnt matter what happens from here your legacy is cemented in hip-hop duke
Canibus was definitely hard when he came on the scene his delivery was definitely ahead of his time 💯🔥🎤
Best comment 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯💯💯
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Canibus is the most underrated rapper ever lived.
Church and gospel
@@judgestone8483 he's still underrated cuz he's not considered as one of the goats regardless of his lyricial ability and everything
@HAIDER MOHAMMAD YOUSEF HUSSEIN nah nah man , eminem has nothing to do with the underrating of canibus, canibus destroyed him in dr c phd , there's another reasons for him being underrated like wyclef jean
Canibus and Royce both underrated as hell 😭
Kool Moe Dee isn’t as well known as he should be either
Cannibus was no joke and I'm an LL fan from day one.
“I’ll even wait for da studio audience to applaud” sheeeesh !
One of the best battle raps of all time. Maybe even the best
Canibus is insanely underrated
Canibus had all the right in the world to get at LL and won the battle, hands down. This was a clear case of a vet getting g checked
LL should have just took the compliment and kept It moving
Nope. Ll won. Most of this song is complaining, not dissing.
@@JB-qe4tu you are in the minority
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@@JB-qe4tu naw canibus killed LL with that you aint got the skills to eat a niggas ass like me no homo😭🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🐐 that went over yall heads
"The greatest rapper of all time died on march 9th"
BIGGIE 👌🏼
so many quotable bars long live 90s hiphop
Facts….ZERO LIES TOLD!!!!!
The biggest misconception about the LL Cool J vs Canibus fiasco is that Canibus lost the battle. Canibus went off on this. This is amongst the most underrated diss songs in hip hop ever.
You are 100% correct my friend. Honestly, I am not a fan of Canibus. I'm a fan of battle rap. And if you take away the beats, and look at them bar for bar? This was a horribly one sided bodybag for Canibus. He ate L.L. up no question.
People have low attentions spans, and tend to judge diss songs on beats more than what's said. Canibus is a top-level rapper, but the line about 'eating asses' was, um, a miscalculation.
Dom Liddle
PREACH!!! if you even go to LLs previous battles with Kool Moe Dee, LL stans defend em cause of his "Image" and Beats... but yo you hit the nail on its head #Truth #Salute
He definitely won't the battle!..but he lost the war ..due to industry politcs smh
@@domliddle3343 that's before "eatin' ass" was heavily associated with sex.
This song should be on the top 10 diss track list.This is so underrated
Top 10? Top 3 worst case. IMO its the best diss track ever.
@@ogkacey1838 Maybe? Gimme 5 diss tracks right now that are better than 2nd Rd KO
@@EtoTheKay its not underated its in most people's top 3
@@EtoTheKay hit em up tupac is one of them
Top 3 in my opinion, Either, The Take Over, 2nd Round KO not in order!
LL should be happy there wasn't social media back then
Hell yeah. Can't say the same for Royce da 5 9. He took a huge L.
@@jamesgibson3716 - Anyone under 35 TOOK THE L.
Ll was a pussy to honest he didn't stand a chance that's why he did what he did
At the time. It was played to make it look like ll was the good guy defending his spot against a new up start. That's why the casual fan went with ll, but only the underground kats knew canibus was the real underdog.
@@docriley79 Whats the true story?
"Cause the greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th" in Can's voice in my head every year.
The GREATEST diss track of all time🗣️
Nah. DJ Quik holds that honor.
I still remember the first time I heard this. Listening to Hot 97 late at night driving around smoking a blunt. Had to pull over...I was so completely blown away by what I was hearing.
Evan S I wasn’t in New York but the shock was the same.
I was on the Freeway smoking a Blunt I went and bought me some sounds after there hearing this Cut...
I was young and my jaw dropped.
Me too bro....me too
0:46 Canibus said 99% of your fans wear high heels. LOL Thats his most famous line of all time. LL was pissed after that in his next diss track in The Ripper Strikes Back and said 99% of your fans dont exist. LMAO
LL was butthurt lol
I'll never forget those lines, but LL line was just mean ahahahah
TheEndo-SymArmor lol atleast he hit back tho i started laughin when i heard ll line
Were you following the beef while they were dropping tracks or did you see that on the beef ll documentary
@@The-Endo-SymArmor LL told the truth
Im almost 50 damn years old and this hits the same in 2023 - as soon as Mike comes in, theres no song that quite makes me stop what I'm doing and get into it
This was originally a freestyle he did in 1997 with DMX Mos Def and Big Pun. Canibus is a fucking legend.
Sorry but thats backwards. I saw that vid. He was definitely just rapping the verse from this song not the other way around. Pun and Mos def were rapping past songs too
@@michaelwolff4988 the songs weren't released yet
4,3,2,1 by LL Cool J was recorded in mid 1997, that's where this beef started. Canibus 100% wrote the rebuttle, spat it word for word at the Cypher with Pun, X and them...then this song came out in 1998... it was already written when he was freestyling guaranteed.
@@leebarlowx795 LOL!
@@michaelwolff4988 You sir, are correct: 4,3,2,1 by LL Cool J was recorded in mid 1997, that's where this beef started. Canibus 100% wrote the rebuttle, spat it word for word at the Cypher with Pun, X and them...then this song came out in 1998... it was already written when he was freestyling guaranteed.
They don't make rappers like Canibus anymore. I used to by DJ Clue tapes just to hear a Canibus freestyle.
Canibus is a lyrical genius.
Frannard Acklin kendrick lamar reminds me of him
he is a lyrical turd cake. the song and video are painfully corny. his bars only sound intelligent to stupid motherfuckers that are too uneducated to see them for what they truly are, trash. genius? seriously? cuz he sometimes uses big words or arbitrarily refers to some obscure subject matter. no, that just makes him pretentious, not a genius. he is a cold nut and exists only as something to be laughed at. other than a few rappers, hip hop music is a fucking joke that is practically void of any real talent. nursery rhymes bragging about gun violence, drug dealing, getting bitches and materialistic bullshit over a beat made by altering and combining other musicians work. ironically the good hip hop is made by rappers who don't recieve much comercial success, which says a lot about the weak minded fan base and fickle culture.
Shane Reas
none of that shit you said matter white bread. you still viewing the video
Notebook ..
Canibus, one of the greatest battle rappers.
playing this after 10 years, and i flexing my chest rapping every word
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this is the way a rapper should diss each other not on twitter
Canibus ripped LL on this track. This diss was cold, calculated and he went straight for the heart without even mentioning LL's name once in the entire song. Bis was blackballed by the industry after this cause they couldn't bare LL taking an L even though his sensitive ass started the beef in the first place.
RomanceHD murdered my big homie lol he really bodied big dog
As far as I'm concerned this is the greatest rap diss of all times and also one of the greatest rap music ever.
RomanceHD Big facts.
man bis went off on poor LL. some people dont know what battle rap is all about, but this is a flawless diss
Me Myself and I Chases hard not to say this isn’t top 5
THE HARDEST LINE IN THE SONG---"cause the greatest rapper of all time died on march 9th"
Best line
***** Because BIG died on March 9th
After
Pac fan here so I'd disagree lol.
Prefer so many other lines from this 😅✌🏻️
Whys that mate? :)
It’s 2023…I think it’s finally safe for a podcast or hip hop platform to revisit this and give canibus his flowers and acknowledge his W
Check out the Nems interview 😁
Check out his Math Hoffa interview
This one of the hardest battle tracks ever, plus having Tyson in the video made it even harder🔥🔥💪🏾
I got love for L but he lost LYRICALLY. The kid tried to PAY tribute to LL but L didn't acknowledge it for what it was worth and tried to PUNK & BULLY CANIBUS So this CLASSIC DIS TRACK is a byproduct of that scenario.....
Angel Gonzalez yea Canibus went for the jugular lol mannn
and then he flopped!!!! is Canibus even still alive? Lol
Baby Jesus Never Lived he still made his mark in hip hop history with this.. the boy was a beast, but had a horrible ear for beats and was blind to know how to market himself or his audience.
Above Beyond yes i agree with that. he won the battle but horrifically lost the war. his debut album was atrocious. straight doo-doo. I'll give him his props on this battle. he gets no props from me when it comes to making classic albums.
Baby Jesus Never Lived yea unfortunately he lost the war miserably.. then later lost his dignity vs Dizaster pulling out that notepad. Lol
One of the best diss tracks ever I swear to god he murdered LL
ChevyMan916 there’s always a bigger fish in the sea and that fish is Eminem who murdered the janitor from Canada
@@w4lkoff502 and even that fish has nightmares, and that nightmare is juice
Osaid nah he didn’t beat em.
Tyler you live in Disney world, feminem was ripped a new one by BIS and Juice that's why he never smiles that boy been pounded
Yeah LL only won because he had Def Jam engine behind him and radio
This shit still hard in 2024.
Harder than a mf'er!!!!
😄
Especially the eating ass line 😎
On a UK drill beat it would be real savage
@@openranks4519MANNNN!!!😮😊😁😂
"‘Cause the greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th" - Truth.
Biggie
*Sept 13th
@@Kingty17 I think he was saying that the best rapper died on September 13. Which of course is true.
@@eetretsim Actually the greatest ACTOR of all time died on September 13th so in theory you are correct.
@@pacman1153 Says nobody, but the greatest actor of all time did die on September 13th....lolol. March 9th is correct - BIG
I got chills .. that’s how iLL this dis track is ! He kept it real . Damn .. knocked LL out
Strong drink and 90s nostalgia brought me here in 2017. 90s Canibus was the lyrical GOAT
People need to respect this as one of the best diss records of ALL TIME
It’s 2022 and I can still recite this song word for word! “Now watch me rip the tatt from ya arm, kick you in the groin’ stick you for your Vaguard award, in front of ya Moms, your 1st, 2nd and 3rd born, make your wife get on the horn and call Minister Farrakhan” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That line was always my favorite.
That shit goes hard
Legendary bars heard this on EL ride 5 deep no one said shit just looking at each other like wow
Leave emcees laying on their tattoo mic with that azz tossed up....okaaaay!!...😱
So he can persuade me to squash it, I said nah man he started it...
Shyne&Canibus two of the greatest robberies of hip hop. Canibus got robbed remember hearing this as a kid in the late 90s.
Craig Mack runner up
@@southsiderebel493 Definitely
He didn't get robbed. 99% of Canibus's hits didn't exist!
@@BJ-xm6bi Come on 😂
@@BJ-xm6bi he didnt get any hits because he was robbed ahahah. His stuff between 1997 - 2010 is lyrically phenomenal
LL might've won the war but one can't deny that this is one of the best, unexpected greatest diss, EVER!!!
The industry took Ls side. Canibus pretty much did a Kamikaze.. L still lost the lyrical battle.
LL won because he always already Industry made, Can is a damn legend lyricist LL ain't never had anything close to this..
Canibus gets a garden 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐 One of the GOATS
Ahh the good ol days of Hip Hop when lyrics mattered 🎨 Thank you Canibus 💖💛💚
Canibus killed people with a pen before John Wick
K-rino has been killing people with pens before Tupac, canibus ,and many , k-rino is a underappreciated pioneer , kanibus got a big piece of his style look up anything by K-rino and let the journey begin
@Raas Putin fu.. canibus see ems nails in coffin. The day u admit eminem is better than him is the day diddy admits he shot 2pc
That’s bar
The Habbo God Eminem is way overrated. Don’t even mention him.
@Raas Putin I actually think he was referring to K-rino but your correct this man is missing a chromosome
This shit still will give you chills even in 2021 🕊🥂
Serious
@@msabedra1 I remember I was younger hearing this I was like damn drop mic.
Straight. Truth . .
The notebook legend
2022..😎
Canibus raised me! He raised us!! 🙏
🎯💯🐐👑
Hey Mike Tyson here speaking with canibus man lmfao
"Now watch me rip the tat from your arm,kick you in the groin,stick you for your Vanguard award in front of your mom, your 1st, 2nd and 3rd-born make your wife get on the horn, call Minister Farrakhan" daaaaaaaaaaaaamn*in Craig and Smokey's voice* Canibus is a BEAST!.
yo, them bars were fuckin lyrical as fuck
He is such an underrated rapper. Amazing skills.
"nah he started it, he forgot what a hardcore artist is" 🔥🔥🔥
I had to come check this out after the MathHoffa interview. I ca;t believe i slept on Canibus like this damn
The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th...24 years without the Notorious
notorious who?
amazing math skills
R.I.P. Biggie!
Also 9 April 2021
@@onemanarmy1773 yeah, X was always up there with the other legends, we will miss him for sure
To this day, this is one of the best hip hop deliveries ever in a song
Damn miss this guy. One of the realest and can diss anyone. Miss you Can. He had the balls to go against anyone.
Now that I’m listening to both LLs and canibus years later I gotta say canibus won. His shit was hard.
Put the God Canibus on stage with ANY Rapper,Emcee,or Poet.. and see a crowd of able listeners Crown him KING of the Art
I got this behind “No Vaseline” & “Ether” as the hardest diss track ever....
CV
You forgot hit em up and real compton city gs (explicit)
@David Naw, those 2 song are good (I think “Real Muthafuckin G’s” is one of the most overlooked diss songs ever), but they’re not up there with this, Ether or No Vaseline.
Honestly, I think Pac’s “Against All Odds” is better than “Hit Em Up,” but I may be one of the very few who feel that way..🤷🏽♂️
@@creoleDJ yeah honestly
"Against All Odds" Makaveli
I’m bumping this in 2020 and this training montage between Canibus and Tyson will forever remain legendary...🙌 Till today it motivates me for my training sessions...
It's everything
2yrs later your comment is still relevant
If Can-I-Bus was a great/classic album, sold a few million copies and had a couple of hit singles, he would have forever been known as the guy that took down LL Cool J. He would’ve been a legend for that alone. What could’ve been…
canibus won this and this beat banging
Who's here from the interview with Hoffa?! Salute to Canibus
No question, No debate, No ifs-n-buts...Canibus wins this hands down. Not only one of the best Diss tracks ever, but one of the greatest lyrical hip hop tracks EVER!
Hell yeah I agree
Listening to this🔥🔥🔥🔥
The fact that Iron Mike Tyson did the intro & co signed is enough for this to be the dopest diss ever!
Canibus is an epic lyricst!
Gaurav Pulizala . Canibus,pun, Nore..differe t class
I remember when this came out and everybody went crazy lol. The line from this song that stands out in my memory is "99% of your fans wear high heels". And LL's response to that was "99% of your fans don't exist" LOL. Good memories lol
I don't care what anyone says, Cannibus ETHERED LL with this song. But the Hip Hop Committee couldn't let LL go out like that, so they saved him and claimed that Canibus lost. FOH! That Ripper Strikes Back song was NOT seeing Second Round K.O. in any universe!
exactly
I think everyone agrees cannibus won the battle but LL won the war... sort of like jay z vs nas
Most Definitely
Jordan Allen
Yea Jordan, that's why Canibus ran outta gas after the Ripper dropped. He had nothing legitimate to say after that. Dissing LL was a bad business decision, it cost him his career...
One of the most underappreciated lyricists who never got his recognition.
Canibus made me fall in love with the battle / punchline orientated side of hiphop and taught me how to write bars.
I will always regard this guy as one of the best regardless of what has happened throughout his career.
They don’t make em like this anymore.
Yeah
if you mean like 2:25 then i can understand why they would stop
(Scratches head) damn you must like wack shit.
@@uptownmurda k rino🔥😎
@@uptownmurda 💯💯
This diss track is so underrrated
you crazy bro this was hit
Nope! Never been! This ranks very high among the greatest diss tracks of all time.
The rapper is underrated.
Underrated by who? This track was the stuff of legends then and still is till this day (in a Deontay Wilder voice)..
Are you stupid or you were incarcerated during the 97 - 2000?
All he had to say was "beat" instead of "eat". Other than that this diss track was crazy. Canibus is underrated.
That flow was insane from 2:40 to the end.
Don't forget Rakim.
I mean i know yall remember when Iron Mike was spazzing on some crazy sht and said he eat all these niggaz for breafast or some sht like that
When he said eat a n's ass
He means to lyrically sh!t on someone just verbally assault them
@@amarirasheed6 Its still a corny line & this is coming from a huge Canibus fan
That line didn't mean the same now as it did them days. Nobody was thinking bout what all y'all seem to be.
He was just too much of a Genius, they couldn't fully comprehend.
no doubt
Who is disliking this master piece jealousy or curse? 2021 still hit
DJ Premier said Canibus won the beef with this track.
Where?!
@@forgetfulfunctor1 lol he said it multiple times over the years if you watched his moves.
@@MidlandKruiskade I'm looking for an interview. I assume he doesn't start every interview like that lol, but im sure he agrees. His moves?
@@forgetfulfunctor1 the thing is these guys do so many interviews I wouldnt know. I guess if you google hard enough you will definitely find it. Premier knows his shit when it comes to MCs killing it on the mic
@@MidlandKruiskade it hurt my soul (for Canibus...) when Canobus dissed him
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Man, that 2nd verse did it, I had NEVER heard ANYTHING like this kid, 🤣🤣 Just knew he was about to b the Goat !
Canibus is the epitome of lyrical miracle. This cat said things at a young age that were mindbliwing
This shit made LL say fuck rap...I'm just gonna do movies. 😂
for real. coincedence that this song was released in 1998 and that ll started actin since 1998? lol
James Jones naw... LL definitely had a few hits after this
But LL said 99 percent of your fans don’t exist lol
J Black
“99% of your fans wear high heels” was a better bar because it was the truth. At that time LL was making music for women.
Foe Moe Years I agree. Close to the mid 90s he started only doing ish for females. Perhaps why his albums kept flopping and the first artist on Def Jam they still tried to keep him on, but let him go. But he found another avenue to lick his lips on LOL. He actually makes a good actor.
It's funny how this era immediately makes fun of the " eat a nigga ass like me " but back when this dropped no one thought twice about the line ... Times have changed
+MARK SMITH Well the ass eating epidemic was not that apparent back when this drop.
its this stupid ass generation they laugh at anything that is supposely gay without thinking so immature
+BentlySimmonds108 So eating ass was okay in your generation....and dont forget who raised this generation....YOURS
And this generation choose to listen to entertainers instead of more important people
Most underrated hip hop battle
If you weren’t around during this time, you’ll never understand how hard this hit.