Inside the long-running beef between P Diddy and Eminem over the years

Eminem has been writing about Diddy for over 20 years

3 hours ago

Right now, Sean Combs aka P Diddy is facing some pretty big charges – including sex trafficking, racketeering and a transportation to engage in prostitution. He has denied all charges. And amongst all this, people are dragging up the beef P Diddy appears to have always had with rapper, Eminem.

For the last few weeks, people have been talking about P Diddy’s infamous parties, and the alleged crimes that are said to have gone on at them. But one person who has been making digs at P Diddy long before this is Eminem. He’s had the audacity to put P Diddy’s name next to lyrics about the death of Tupac, and has been adding shady lines in his songs since 1996.

Nobody really knows the true origin of the beef, but there are rumours floating about that the two men simply never got on and have always been music rivals, or the shade boiling down to being part of different managements, each who have rival rappers signed to them.

Most recently, Eminem had lyrics people have assumed are a huge dig at P Diddy

@hollycockerill

Eminem tried telling us #fyp #foryou #eminem #pdiddy

♬ original sound – Jeff Reckson ❤️

Eminem released a song in July this year titled Fuel, as part of his album The Death of Slim Shady. At the time, many didn’t read a lot into the lyrics, but now people have started going crazy for some of the brutal references that they think are aimed at P Diddy.

Fuel has gone viral for the lyrics that read: “I’m like a R-A-P-E-R. Got so many S-As (huh) / Wait, he didn’t just spell the world ‘rapper’ and leave out a P, did he?” TikTok users have been quick to pick up on not only the deliberate spelling of “rapper,” but also that “P, did he?” sounds just like P Diddy.

But Eminem has had lyrics about P Diddy before

However, the two have had well-known and documented beef for years, with Eminem’s first recorded diss targeting Diddy being released all the way back in 1996, in the form of song Fucking Crazy. In this, he rapped: “Original Bad Boy on the case, cover your face / Came in the place blowed, and sprayed Puffy with Mase.”

Then in 2000, in song Marshall Mathers, Eminem went again and wrote: “You little groupie bitch, get off me, go fuck Puffy.” In the same year, on I’m Back Eminem swiped again: “Cause if I ever stuck it to any singer in showbiz / It’d be Jennifer Lopez and Puffy, you know this / I’m sorry, Puff, but I don’t give a fuck”.

Eminem called out Diddy again in his 2018 song, Killshot: “But, Kells, the day you put out a hit’s the day Diddy admits / That he put the hit out that got Pac killed, ah.” Killshot was a diss record aimed towards MGK, who was signed to P Diddy’s Bad Boy Records.

In 2020, over 20 years since the first dig was made, Eminem continued to reference Diddy, including on one track Godzilla, in which he alluded to the infamous Making the Band cheesecake incident. In an episode from Making The Band’s second season, Diddy demanded the group walk three hours from Manhattan to Brooklyn to pick him up some cheesecake. It’s since been claimed the cheesecake wasn’t even for Diddy, but for Beyoncé.

In the song, Eminem said: “They call me Diddy because I make bands, and I call getting cheese a cakewalk.”