![]() ![]() With the killings and people getting shot, and all that just made me go, ‘I’m beefin’ with a nigga that I really don’t know’ outside of that he was a Blood, and I was a Crip. It was about what the niggas in the neighborhoods was gonna expect from me ’cause I was from there. It wasn’t even about his diss records or my diss records. My beefin’ was more about respect in my neighborhood, with Quik. Back then, I was a young cat I tried to respect the neighborhood more than my music. I tell my son, ‘You should be able to go anywhere you want to having the anxiety to have to look over your shoulder ’cause somebody might dislike you.’ I didn’t come into Rap music to have mothafuckas not like me because of my past of street beef. “It’s taught me to be grown because basically I got kids, and I got a son now that I wouldn’t want. It’s about neighborhood beef, ‘Fuck them,’ ‘Fuck them.’ So I think that over the course of the years with it happening and seeing what has happened with beef, it’s taught me basically just how to be grown with people.” Outside of his issues with Quik, MC Eiht has dissed other artists including Cam’ron and The Diplomats as well as Tim Dog over the years.ġ Of DJ Quik’s 80s Underground Tapes Surfaces & It Bangs On Wax (Audio) So for me to be sayin’ I was Crip, and him to be sayin’ he was a Blood, even though we were using our music as our outlets, it was still people around us who took it seriously to where it’s not about records. The difference between we came from a spot where dudes took gangbangin’ seriously. Like boxing matches, dudes get in each others face and talk about they gon’ kick each others ass. Asked what he learned from the beef in retrospect (6:30), Eiht states, “I think I’ve learned that some times beef is good in Hip-Hop… it sells records. Compton’s Most Wanted, MC Eiht, and Epic Records would use some of these disses as music videos, sending the feud into the mainstream Rap culture.Īs Eiht tells it, this battle was very different than Jay Z or Nas’ early 2000s feud, or even Tupac and Biggie. series took aim at Quik and his affiliates, with the latter of the two song franchises stemming into 1996’s Death Threatz solo by Eiht. company responded with “Duck Sick.” According to Eiht, that song, inspired by EPMD’s “Jane” series, would become a series, as would “Def Wish.” Both C.M.W. By 1990, when Eiht’s group Compton’s Most Wanted released their debut, It’s A Compton Thang, Eiht, DJ Slip, and C.M.W. MC Eiht Reveals How He & DJ Quik Ended One Of Hip-Hop’s Ugliest Beefs (Video)Īccording to some, the beef between the two Compton, California rappers began on Quik’s The Red Tape, an underground mixtape prior to his Profile Records success. In his latest interview with Unique Access, Eiht spoke candidly about that very same beef on wax. Following the high profile 1990s killings of Rap peers Tupac Shakur (who Quik worked closely with) and The Notorious B.I.G., the two men met at BET, where after years, they squashed a violent beef. Last year, MC Eiht detailed ending his beef with Compton, California rival DJ Quik for Vlad TV.
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