Even though I doubt anyone cares, I was out of town for my brother's wedding for the past 5 days and therefore PTU has been lacking in sneaker and rap talk (or black stuff). So with that out of the way, back to the boogie woogie!
17. "Be a Gentleman" 50 Cent dissing Jay-z (2000)
Today's beef installment features the king of beef songs and self-promotion; Curtis Jackson a.k.a 50 cent. If I wanted to, I could have made this entire top 20 50 and G-unit related songs but I'm going to try to limit 50 to three or four posts lest PTU start to resemble XXL.com in 2004. So, let's start with a track that showcased 50 at his shit talking best back in the pre-Shady records, pre-GQ model days.
After How To Rob introduced the world to 50, pretty much everyone who was mentioned on the song (which was basically the entire music industry) responded in some way or another. Even though the song was meant in jest, rappers are a sensitive group, and most can't stand for some nobody from Jamaica, Queens to talk about robbing them on record (of course mentioning 50 in retaliation was exactly the purpose of the attention getting song). Jay-z was no exception with the "I'm about a dollar, what the f#$% is 50 cents" line he first used at Summer Jam and later on his Life and Times of S. Carter vol.3 album. 50 came back with "Be a Gentleman", which while not being his most vicious beef song, may be the ballsiest, seeing how 50 was still basically an up and comer and Jay was the biggest rapper in the world at this point (he's got bigger fish to fry). Bonus points to 50 for the Christmas carol sample and his suggestion that all these "fa#$%t ass ni#$@s" get together and make a "We are the World" record since that is a very believable possibility in the present day.
Best line:
"You gonna talk about your chips 'til I run in your crib, then you gonna ask dumb questions like 'Can I Live?'"
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