What Beef Did the most Damage to HipHop as a Culture???

[south4life]

I remember how this beef was, it got too serious when Suge got on stage and said that shit about Puff.

Then Pac got shot at Quad Studios and Hip Hop forever changed.

Pac clearly said this was between him, Big and Puff but NY niggas had to jump in it and made the shit hot.

I think had niggas stayed out of it, Pac and Big would have eventually squashed it and what really set Pac off was Big Stretch siding with Big and them after Pac clearly gave him and The Live Squad a shot.

Nobody outside of NY knew who they were until Pac had him in his videos, producing on his albums, featuring on his songs and taking him with him everywhere.

 

[SolemnSauce]

source last major staple of respect to lyrical thoughtful rap. XXL gave birth to complex

 

[scrapper1]

How can anyone select any beef other than Pac and BIG?

And I think the Nas and Jay beef was the best for hip hop.. it woke a sleeping giant and humbled an arrogant one..

 

[moyo]

Hip hop hasn't been the same since.....

 

[JonnyRoccIT]

IRony vs the IC

 

[qawshun]

Why the hell did i pick 50 smh

 

[5th Letter]

Biggie vs Tupac/East vs West

 

[gee757]

U need to add the meek vs Drake beef.. cuz that beef showed that u can have ghostwriters & stupid muthafukas who dont know shit about hip hop will still think u can win rap battles & b top 5 & j.......it's krazy how US hip hop allowed a foreign Canadian culture vulture like Drake to change the rules of US hip hop.... there is no way u can b top dawg n hip hop wit ghostwriters but n 2days game Drake has proven that has changed

 

[Soloman_The_Wise]

How can anyone select any beef other than Pac and BIG?

And I think the Nas and Jay beef was the best for hip hop.. it woke a sleeping giant and humbled an arrogant one..

I gotcha...
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[GetoBoy]

How can anyone select any beef other than Pac and BIG?

And I think the Nas and Jay beef was the best for hip hop.. it woke a sleeping giant and humbled an arrogant one..

Wait Jay got humbled??? If anything he got MORE arrogant after that

 

[Soloman_The_Wise]

Why the hell did i pick 50 smh

In all honesty a convincing argument can be made for this beef causing shit loads of damage to hiphop and particularly the east coast scene...

 

[Karl.]

I think hip-hop prospered after the death of Big and Pac.

 

[Karl.]

The Feds V Hip Hop should've been an option.

 

[Karl.]

I think hip-hop prospered after the death of Big and Pac.

As a culture though.. the deaths of 2 of the biggest stars of the time probably damaged its reputation. So Big V Pac is probably correct.

 

[trilladelic]

When u think of rap beef u think big v pac..

Nas n Jay were beefing behind a girl. Their beef kinda hurt NY too..

50 v NY, from the standpoint of a niqqa watching Rome burn, was kinda entertaining. That niqqa bullied an entire city. Lox n nas were the only niqqaz who stood a chance..

 

[rickmogul]

I'd say NWA vs. Public Enemy. Now! Was not a "Beef" per' say but in the words of Professor Griff " A purposely perpetuated Neutralization of consciousness in hip hop" by one of the best and biggest to put it down. Was a paradigm shift when that occurred that has never been rectified or resurrected. Was truly detrimental to where hip hop was going and could have been. But 4 the post sake I'll go with Pac and BIG.

 

[esco soprano]

Not only was their deaths great losses to Hiphop.....it also gave people that don't know shit about the culture another reason to point and talk down on the artform as an ignorant and violent culture. Then those same people proceeded to turn right around and rape it.

 

[natural born sinners]

Hip hop lost two of the 5 greatest rappers of all time from one beef...nothing comes close to the damage that beef did...I know record sales went up after n hip hop became more popular...but the culture lost a rare gem n all around special human being in pac, biggie to me is the greatest n best all around rapper of all time. 50 beefing w NYC hurt NYC mainly...canIbus n LL was pointless n dumb. The whole basis of the beef was stupid n stemmed from LL being a diva. Rap losing pac was like grunge losing Kurt cobain

 

[Listencloser]

Nggas pickin 50 vs NY are in fairytale land.

There was no star except Ja that was stifled due to 50. That very well, probably, was gon be the end of NY's run anyway.

Yall rainmaking. In other words, you sayin its gon rain, then when it rain, you think it's because you said it was gon rain lol No. Its a coincidence

NY was gon be over anyway. The south was comin and couldnt be contained, thats what was gon happen. And as Jada put it: "cant tell where he from, jamaican queens, cali, or down south." 50 switched up his style and ate. The beef aint kill nobody's career in NY but Ja

The end of NY, quiet as kept, REALLY had nothin to do w/ 50.

Interscope/Universal fuckery was shelving niggas like Jadakiss left and right so they wouldn't disturb G-Unit sales.

 

[robblr86]

I think hip-hop prospered after the death of Big and Pac.

I kinda agree. Once they died, it allowed Jay and other artists to fill in that void.