Top 20 Beef Songs

18. Nail in the Coffin- Eminem dissing Benzino (2003)
I recently wrote about how badly Eminem has fallen off as a rapper since he stopped using drugs and age has caught up to him. This 03 track was made during the phase right after his prime and just before his decline (kind of like Larry Bird during the 1989-90 season).

It was also during this period of time that 50 cent and G-unit (and by association Eminem and Shady Records) were in the midst of what seemed like a never ending beef with Ja Rule and his Murder Inc. label. Hip hop magazine XXL had hitched its wagons with Shady Aftermath and basically put someone involved with the label on the cover every month. The Source Magazine (once a respected rap magazine, at this point the National Enquirer of rap) conversely, aligned themselves with Ja and co. This would lead to Ray Benzino (part owner of The Source and a really, really awful rapper from Boston) to begin a smear campaign against Em (who already had an uneasy relationship with the magazine), including accusations that he was a racist (complete with tapes of a teenage Slim Shady saying the "N" word no less).

So began probably the most one sided battle in rap history. One of the most lyrically gifted rappers (who at the time was the face of the most popular music label in the world) vs. Ray Benzino. Needless to say, Ray got torn to shreds. They went back and forth for a little while, Benzino referencing Em's problems with his mother, his being white, etc. It didn't really matter though. As is the white boy's m.o. he basically takes whatever taunts you could possibly have for him and says them about himself. You can't diss a guy who disses himself. Plus, he was a 1,000,000 times better rapper.

Out of the 5 or 6 tracks Marshall released around this time getting at Benzino, this one pretty much ended it (hence the title).

Best line :

"Vanilla Ice spill the beans and rice, I'm eating you alive inside, Jesus Christ, if you're that much of a gangster put the mic down, you should be out killing motherfu#$%@s right now"