What’s Beef? The 10 Types Of Rap Beef [Gallery]
Source | Complex
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Grade A Beef
Definition: The Best Kind of Beef
Example(s): Jay Z vs. Nas
The Phantom Beef
Definition: The Beef Everyone Wants To Happen But Isn’t Really Beef
Example(s): Kanye West vs. Drake
Shotgun Beef
Definition: Indiscriminately starting Beef With the Whole World
Example(s): 50 Cent f/ Madd Rapper “How to Rob” (1999), Gucci Mane during September 2013
Strategic Beef
Definition: Beef As Career Move
Example(s): 50 Cent vs. Ja Rule, Tip vs. Flip, Benzino v. Eminem
The Doppleganger Beef
Definition: Beef That Arises Due to a Shared Style
Example(s): Three 6 Mafia vs. Bone Thugs & Harmony, Ja Rule vs. DMX, Clipse vs. Lil Wayne
Heartbreak Beef
Definition: Beef Between exes
Example(s): Lauryn Hill vs. Wyclef
Love Triangle Beef
Definition: Beef over a woman
Example(s): Biggie vs. 2Pac (Faith), Jay vs. Nas (“You know who…”), Soulja Boy vs. Fabolous (Kat Stacks), Common vs. Drake (Serena), Chris Brown vs. Drake (Rihanna)
Girlfight Beef
Definition: Beef between lady rappers
Example(s): Lil Kim vs. Foxy Brown, Lil Kim vs. Nicki Minaj, Azealia Banks vs. Iggy Azalea, Roxanne Shante vs. Queen Latifa, MC Lyte, Salt-N-Pepa, etc.
“Et Tu Bruteef?”
Definition: Friends Turned Enemies Beef
Example(s): Biggie vs. 2Pac, Ice Cube vs. N.W.A, Kim vs. Foxy, Eazy-E vs. Dr. Dre, Gucci Mane vs. Waka Flocka Flame
Game-over Beef
Definition: Beef that Ends a Career
Example(s): KRS-One vs. MC Shan, 50 Cent vs. Ja Rule
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