Eminem has an affinity for name-dropping pop culture figures in his raps and one person who has been mentioned multiple times over the years is embattled music mogul Diddy.
Shady first mentioned Puff on wax when Em was still a little-known independent artist on the unreleased 1996 song “F**king Crazy.”
“Original bad boy on the case/Cover your face/Came in the place blowed and sprayed Puffy with mace,” Em raps on the track, making a funny double entendre.
Over the years, Eminem has continued to mention Diddy in raps. Most recently, Em’s tone has changed toward Puff in the wake of the Bad Boy founder being sued multiple times for sexual assault. On the song “Fuel” from Slim’s latest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), Em makes references the rape allegations against Diddy and his speculated involvement in the death Tupac’s death.
“Do not test like an essay (Why?)/’Cause like where my homies out West, aye (Yeah),” Em raps. “We can just say (What?)/I’m like an R-A-P-E-R/I got so many S-As/S-As/Wait, he didn’t just spell the word rapper and leave out a ‘P’, did he?/Yup/R-I-P, rest in peace, Biggie/And ’Pac, both of y’all should be living/Yup, but I ain’t tryna beef with him ’cause he might put a hit on me like Keefe D, get him/And that’s the only way you’re gonna be killing me (Nah)/Ain’t gonna be on no beat, silly (Yeah).”
Check out Eminem’s witty and crass lyrics about Diddy over the years below.
See All the Witty and Crass Times Eminem Dissed Diddy in His Lyrics
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Song: “F**king Crazy”
Year: 1996
Lyrics: “Original bad boy on the case/Cover your face/Came in the place blowed and sprayed Puffy with mace”
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Song: “Marshall Mathers”
Year: 2000
Lyrics: “Is it because you love me that y’all expect so much of me?/You little groupie b**ch, get off me, go f**k Puffy”
Song: “I’m Back”
Lyrics: “‘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 f**k”
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Song: “Killshot”
Year: 2018
Lyrics: “But this idiot’s boss pops pills and tells him he’s got skills/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”
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of Tupac Shakur, appears in court during a bond hearing at the Regional Justice Center August 27, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Song: “Fuel” featuring JID
Year: 2024
Lyrics: “Do not test like an essay (Why?)/’Cause like where my homies out West, aye (Yeah)/We can just say (What?)/I’m like an R-A-P-E-R/I got so many S-As/S-As/Wait, he didn’t just spell the word rapper and leave out a ‘P’, did he?/Yup/R-I-P, rest in peace, Biggie/And ’Pac, both of y’all should be living/Yup, but I ain’t tryna beef with him ’cause he might put a hit on me like Keefe D, get him/And that’s the only way you’re gonna be killing me (Nah)/Ain’t gonna be on no beat, silly (Yeah)”—Eminem
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Song: “Antichrist”
Year: 2024
Lyrics: “But who else is as pitiless, actually witty and crass, hideous/Ghastly, and insidious as me, or spitting as nasty?/Next idiot ask me is getting his a*s beat worse than Diddy did ******”
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Song: “Fuel (Shady Edition) featuring Westside Boogie and GRIP
Year: 2024
Lyrics: “So who’ll be picked next, whose name gonna be next up?/Notorious B.I.G.’s death was the domino effect of Tupac’s murder/Like facial tissue, whose clock should I clean next? Puff’s?/’Til he’s in police handcuffs, guilty, will he step up?/Like gee, never turned himself in, who knows all the murders there’ll have been?!?”—Eminem
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Song: “Bad One” featuring White Gold
Year: 2024
Lyrics:
“F**k it, it’s what I love to do/This is subterfuge, just to screw with you/And yeah, this much is true/This sounds like something that Puff would do/At a party with Aaron Hall ’cause I just love to f**k with you”—Eminem
