Eminem and Puffy You Know This

Dorsum on 23 May 2000, Eminem released his third album, The Marshall Mathers LP, and the follow-up to his breakthrough Slim Shady LP, which had seen him become a huge - and controversial - international star.

It sold staggering numbers - more than 1.76m copies in the United states in the get-go week alone - with the album holding the title of fastest-selling studio album by a solo artist in U.s. chart history all the way upward until very recently, when Adele'southward 25 took the crown.

However, success had not mellowed the famously combustible rapper - and if anything, he was angrier than ever, taking pot-shots at everything and anyone, including the nature of fame itself. Canadian author Robert Everett-Green summed it up best when he said: "Being offensive is Eminem'south job description."

Equally shortly every bit the tape was released, people scoured the lyrics to see who he'd attacked this time, and they plant plenty of textile. And then, xvi years on from the record's release, who ended upwardly winning out of the all the people he started lyrical beefs with? Nosotros take a look at the ultimate victors.

Debbie Mathers

Song: 'Kill You'/'Marshall Mathers'

So: 45 year-old female parent of an angry Marshall Mathers, estranged from her son.

Reason for diss: It'southward rubber to say that Eminem and his mother had a 'difficult' relationship. Having claimed in his quantum single 'My Name Is' that, "My mom smokes more dope than I practice", she sued him for $10m for slander, eventually winning simply $i,600 in 2001. On The Marshall Mathers LP, he described raping his ain female parent on the incendiary album opener 'Impale You', as well as referring to the court case on the championship vocal, rapping: "My fucking bitch mom'south suing for 10 million/she must desire a dollar for every pill I've been stealing/Shit, where the fuck you think I picked up the habit?/All I had to do was go in her room and lift upwards her mattress".

Now: Eminem seemingly voiced his regret at the anger shown towards his mother on 2014's 'Headlights', rapping the lines, "I don't hate y'all, cos Ma you're all the same beautiful to me/Dad fucked us both, you think that'd make u.s. close/I was the homo of the house, my shoulders carried the weight of the load/I'1000 sorry Ma that I cleaned out my closet, at the time maybe rightfully and so/Now I know information technology's non your fault/I blench whenever information technology's on the radio". It'southward unknown whether the two take formally reconciled.

Effectiveness of diss: 7/10

Christina Aguilera

Vocal: 'The Real Slim Shady'

Then: a 20-year-old speaky-make clean bubblegum pop star, famous for hits such as 'Genie In a Bottle' and 'What a Daughter Wants'.

Reason for diss: Aguilera angered Eminem after revealing on an MTV Special that he had married Kim in 1999 - it was not publicly known at the time and he resented the invasion of his privacy. He got his own dorsum with the lines in hit single 'The Real Slim Shady': "Christina Aguilera ameliorate switch me chairs/So I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst/And hear 'em fence over who she gave caput to first/Fiddling bitch, put me on boom on MTV/"Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee!"/I should download her audio on MP3/And show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD", complete with a blow-up doll stand up-in in the video.

Now: In 2002 she would completely reinvent her prototype, with the notorious 'Dirrty', before going on to have a long and successful career that continues to date, having sold well over l million albums worldwide. Despite initially maxim that the diss was "icky, offensive and, above all, non true" and retaliating with a vocal chosen 'Will The Real Slim Shady Please Shut Up', they made upwardly in 2002, hugging backstage at an MTV VMAs show.

Effectiveness of diss: 2/10

Sean 'Puffy' Combs

Song: 'Marshall Mathers'/'I'k Back'

Then: 31-year-old Puff Daddy was at the summit of his powers, having released his debut solo album Forever the previous year, while he headed upwards the hugely-successful Bad Male child Amusement.

Reason for diss: Eminem disliked what he perceived as his 'flashy' style of hip hop and called him out twice on The Marshall Mathers LP. On Marshall Mathers, he rapped "Is it because you lot love me that y'all expect so much of me? You little groupie bowwow, go off me, go fuck Puffy", while on I'm Back he described in graphic detail how he would impregnate his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez.

Now: Having changed his named to P Diddy, and so Diddy, and then forming a grouping named, confusingly, Diddy - Muddied Coin, he then went dorsum to plain old Puff Daddy. In Nov 2017, withal, he then appear that he would henceforth be known every bit "Beloved, aka Brother Beloved".

Since The Marshall Mathers LP came out, he'south had some other iii top ten albums and has branched out into motion-picture show production, restaurants, wear and interim, appearing with nigh success in 2010's Go Him To The Greek. He is now worth an estimated $825m. He plans one more than anthology before retiring to concentrate on interim. The lyrics didn't seem to bother him - the 2 have collaborated on tracks together several times since. Hey, he's a businessman isn't he?

Effectiveness of diss: 1/10

Insane Clown Posse

Vocal: 'Ken Kaniff (skit)'/'Marshall Mathers'

So: a Detroit 'horrorcore' hip hop duo comprised of Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler, aka Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope.

Reason for diss: a then-unknown Eminem had included the human action on a flyer for his 1997 Slim Shady EP launch political party as 'maybe' performing, without having actually asked them. When he approached them, they declined in no uncertain terms, leading Eminem to after attack them at every opportunity. The Ken Kaniff skit saw the character - a gay rapist - receive fellatio from the ii ICP members. Meanwhile, half a poetry of homophobic offensiveness is defended to them on Marshall Mathers.

At present: the band are still active, 27 years subsequently forming, with their thirteenth studio album The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost released in 2015 - and their fourteenth, Fearless Fred Fury, due for release in July 2018. Their beefiness with Eminem was finally settled in 2005, when his friend Proof gear up a bowling game betwixt D-12 and ICP over which they could iron out their differences, although Eminem himself did not attend.

Effectiveness of diss: iii/10

Dr Dre

Song: 'The Real Slim Shady'/'Criminal'

And then: Hugely-successful producer and rapper for the legendary NWA who had just released his 2nd solo album 2001 - confusingly, in 1999 - every bit well as signing Eminem to his Aftermath record label and producing three tracks on 1999's Slim Shady LP.

Reason for diss: well, we guess yous must have a pretty good working relationship if yous tin depict how your boss is, "dead, he'southward locked in my basement!" and and so explain further, "Oh, that's Dre with an AK to his face. Don't make me impale him too and spill his brains all over the place. I told you Dre, y'all should have kept that thing put away - I guess that'll teach you not to let me play with it, eh?"

Now: Dre's third album, and one of the most long-awaited in history, Compton, finally came out in 2015. Before that, Dre had masterminded the success of 50 Cent'due south early career, whilst also becoming the 'richest homo in hip hop' afterward the auction of his Beats by Dre brand to Apple tree for $3bn in 2014.

Effectiveness of diss: 0/10

Christopher Reeve

Song: 'I'm Back'

Then: the 48-yr-old actor had get a quadriplegic after being thrown from a equus caballus in 1995, requiring a ventilator and a wheelchair to live. However, despite his astringent injuries, he continued to piece of work, appearing on Television set, releasing a book and directing.

Reason for diss: incredibly, Eminem has dissed Christopher Reeve no fewer than five times, seemingly purely for the daze value it creates. On 'I'm Back', his second reference to the thespian he raps: "It'southward a a ill world we live in these days/'Slim for Pete'southward sakes put down Christopher Reeve's legs!'/Geez, you guys are so sensitive/'Slim it's a touchy subject, endeavor and simply don't mention information technology'". All the same, on 2009'south 'Medicine Ball', he admitted that he used Reeve as "his name rhymes with so many different words".

At present: Christopher Reeve died in 2004 of cardiac arrest after an adverse reaction to an antibiotic.

Effectiveness of diss: 10/10

Will Smith

Song: 'The Real Slim Shady'

And so: A hugely-successful histrion, with the likes of Men In Black and Independence Day under his chugalug, and an as successful musical career, with 1999'southward Willennium spawning a host of hitting singles.

Reason for diss: Family-friendly Will was pretty much the polar contrary of Eminem'southward 'offend everyone' arroyo, so he duly stuck information technology to him in a memory couplet on 'The Real Slim Shady', rapping: "Volition Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records - well I practise, so fuck him and fuck you too."

Now: Volition has concentrated on acting, appearing in a slew of subsequent box function hits, including a tertiary Men In Black movie in 2012. All the same, he hasn't released an anthology since 2005'south Lost and Institute.

Effectiveness of diss: 4/10

Britney Spears

Vocal: 'Marshall Mathers'

Then: nineteen-yr-quondam Spears was pretty much the biggest pop star in the world after the enormous success of singles '…Baby One More Time' and 'Oops!…I Did it Again'.

Reason for diss: Another pop star to become both barrels on Marshall Mathers, equally Eminem rapped "Britney'due south garbage/What's this bitch retarded? Gimme dorsum my sixteen dollars".

At present: The singer released two more hit albums, before a public meltdown in 2007 related to issues with her husband Kevin Federline. She'southward continued to release successful albums since - her last being 2016'south Glory - and appeared as a judge on the US X Factor, cementing her place as one of the most famous popstars of all-time.

Effectiveness of diss: i/ten

Vanilla Ice

Vocal: 'Marshall Mathers'

Then: Vanilla Ice achieved fame with the hitting single 'Water ice Ice Baby' in 1990 but soon became synonymous with one-hit wonders and naffness, leading to a break from music and bug with drug corruption. He began making darker songs, musically and lyrically, on his third album, 1998'due south Hard to Swallow, which saw him start to develop a small-but-loyal following.

Reason for diss: Ice was the first famous white rapper, and someone who Eminem would always exist seeking to distance himself from in his own bid for credibility. Thus, on Marshall Mathers, he rapped, "Vanilla Ice don't like me - said some shit in Vibe to spite me, and so went and dyed his hair just like me."

Now: Water ice continues to release music independently, tours and has branched out into television receiver hosting and even theatre, playing Captain Hook in the Chatham, Kent Central Theatre pantomime product of Peter Pan in 2011.

Effectiveness of diss: 4/10

Gianni Versace

Song: 'Criminal'

Then: A legendary Italian manner designer, who founded the iconic Versace brand, he was murdered exterior his Miami Embankment domicile in 1997, with his funeral famously attended by the likes of Sir Elton John and Princess Diana, before long before she herself, tragically died. The motive for the murder is nevertheless unknown.

Reason for diss: Playing into his posture of "I am whatever you say I am", his poetry about the gay Versace was interpreted as beingness a mockingly ironic homophobic set on, where he rapped: "Hey, it'southward me, Versace. Whoops, somebody shot me, and I was just checking the mail service - get it? 'Checking the male person?'"

Now: Well, notwithstanding expressionless, sadly.

Effectiveness of diss: 0/10

Kimberly Anne Scott

Vocal: 'Kim'

And then: To say that Eminem and Kimberley Anne Scott had a difficult relationship is perhaps one of the great understatements of all-time. They couple endured a rocky relationship since beginning dating in 1989, while they had a daughter, Hailie, who was born in 1995. The pair married in 1999, with The Marshall Mathers LP coming out in 2000.

Reason for diss: Kim was the get-go song written for the album, during a time when the pair were estranged, and she was denying him access to Hailie. The song describes Eminem screaming corruption at her for leaving him for another human being, earlier he reveals that he has killed her new young man and his son. He then cuts her throat before burying her.

Now: Rather unsurprisingly, despite Eminem arguing that the song proved how passionately he cared about her, it did not go down well, with Kim attempting suicide afterward watching the rapper perform it in forepart of her at a show afterward in 2000. Eminem and so filed for divorce, Kim sued him for defamation, they then reconciled, earlier Kim then filed for divorce in 2001, which went through.

They then remarried in January 2006, before divorcing again in April, agreeing articulation-custody of their daughter Hailie. Tragedy so struck when Kim's twin sister Dawn died of an apparent heroin overdose in January 2016. Eminem apologised to Kim for his previous behaviour on the track 'Bad Married man' from 2017'south Revival album, rapping the lines: "But I'm sorry, Kim/More than than you could ever encompass".

Effectiveness of diss: 10/ten

Bill Clinton

Song: 'Who Knew'/'Recollect Me/Criminal'

Then: 42nd President of the United States, who presided over ane of the about prosperous periods in the country'southward history. All the same, he was impeached in 1998 over a sex scandal involving White House employee Monica Lewinsky, although he was acquitted, eventually serving his full term.

Reason for diss: Aroused about the hypocrisy of the calls for censorship of his lyrics while a President was involved in a scandal himself, he rapped the lines, "I'm pitiful there must be a mix-up/You desire me to gear up upwardly lyrics while the President gets his dick sucked?" also as "Slim gets blamed in Bill Clint's speech to fix these streets? Fuck that!" If the message hadn't fully got through, he added on 'Criminal', "My morals went thhbbpp when the President got oral sex in his Oval Part on height of his desk off of his own employee".

At present: Having narrowly missed out on condign the United States' start 'First Gentleman' every bit his wife Hillary lost the 2016 ballot, he is nonetheless much-loved past the general public, although Donald Trump was not deadening to bring up his misdemeanours when in function during his successful campaign for the presidency.

Effectiveness of diss: ii/10

Jennifer Lopez

Song: 'I'm Back'

Then: Having already made a name for herself as an extra, she ventured into music with 1999'south incredibly-successful debut album On the 6. While working on this tape, she began dating Sean 'Puffy' Combs.

Reason for diss: As described earlier, Eminem used Lopez to get at Combs, with the charming lyrics "If I always stuck it to any singer in showbiz/It'd exist Jennifer Lopez, and Puffy you lot know this!/I'grand sorry Puff, but I don't requite a fuck if this chick was my own female parent/I still fuck her with no condom and cum inside her/and take a son and a new blood brother at the same fourth dimension/and just say that information technology own't mine". A true romantic.

At present: Lopez split from Combs before briefly marrying dancer Cris Judd - she after married Marc Anthony before they divorced in 2014. Her career took a downward path from around 2003 through to 2009, before something of a renaissance after appearing as a approximate on American Idol.

Effectiveness of diss: 3/10

NSYNC

Song: 'I'm Back'/'Marshall Mathers'

Then: the boyband at the absolute top of the game, having simply released No Strings Attached, which ended up becoming not but the top-selling album of 2000, but the best-seller of the unabridged decade.

Reason for diss: essentially, an easy target. I mean, just await at this photo. On 'I'm Back', he went for the jugular, rapping, "And by the way NSYNC, why exercise they sing?/Am I the only i who realises they stink?/Should I dye my hair pink and intendance what y'all call up?/Lip sync and buy a bigger size of earrings?". For proficient measure out, he then added on 'Marshall Mathers', that he had "instincts to kill NSYNC, don't go me started".

Now: the group split amicably in 2002, with Justin Timberlake launching his hugely-successful solo career afterwards the same yr. They had a one-off reunion in 2013 and all turned up to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Apr 2018 merely, other than that, the other members take washed little since. And Lance Bass nevertheless hasn't gone into space.

Effectiveness of diss: ix/ten

Backstreet Boys

Vocal: 'Marshall Mathers'

Then: Forth with NSYNC, Backstreet Boys were the biggest boyband on the planet, with 1999'southward Millennium becoming the biggest-selling album of the year.

Reason for diss: Seemingly simply a general desire to attack anything perceived equally popular and/or cheesy, the Backstreet Boys were an obvious target, and thus Eminem declared that he was "anti-Backstreet Boys" - albeit this was arguably his softest diss still.

Now: Follow-upward anthology Black & Blueish, released in 2000, again sold over a million in its first week, making them the first band since the Beatles to perform such a feat. The went on hiatus for ii years, with Kevin Richardson departing, releasing two further albums as a quartet before Richardson rejoined in 2012. They continue to tour and release music today and are the biggest-selling boyband in history.

Effectiveness of diss: 0/10

Ricky Martin

Song: 'Marshall Mathers'

And then: Martin was at the forefront of 1999's Latin explosion, primarily via his enormous hit 'Livin' La Vida Loca' and the self-titled parent album which sold an enormous 8 meg and 22 1000000 copies respectively.

Reason for diss: Forth with Backstreet Boys, NSYNC and Britney Spears, poor Ricky was another soft and like shooting fish in a barrel target for Eminem's hate.

At present: Martin has continued to release music, primarily sung in Castilian, the latest being 2015's A Quien Quiera Escuchar, although the turn of the millennium was undoubtedly his commercial pinnacle. Perhaps in solidarity with one of his young man dissees, in 2017, he portrayed Antion D'Amico in the truthful crime television set serial The Bump-off of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.

Effectiveness of diss: ii/10

New Kids on the Block

Song: 'Marshall Mathers'

Then: One of the first enormous boybands, NKOTB bankrupt through with albums Hangin' Tough and Step By Step, in 1989 and 1990 respectively, to get worldwide sensations. Notwithstanding, after accusations of lip-syncing and a general waning of popularity, they had disbanded by 1995.

Reason for diss: Simply to constitute his anti-boyband views, Eminem went after the forefathers of them all, rapping, "New Kids on the Cake, sucked a lot of dick/Male child girl groups brand me sick".

After: The band reunited in 2008, and toured in 2011 with the Backstreet Boys. Their most recent anthology 10 was released in 2013, charting at an impressive number 6 on the Billboard chart.

Effectiveness of diss: 1

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Eminem and Puffy You Know This

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