Eminem launched a brutal war of words against several influential hip-hop insiders with his latest album release, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace)” out Friday, July 12. While he appears to name-drop and mock Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West, the reality is far from the misinterpreted viewpoint. Traveling inside the “mind of a hater,” Eminem specifically burnished the opinions of “complainers” on his opening track, “Renaissance.”
His ultimate poetic enemy is his own second persona, the Slim Shady character. As established by the title of his first album to be officially announced since his 2017 “Revival,” the American rapper puts the final nail in his second self’s coffin, while also recalling his controversial past.
However, what caught the special attention of her fans was how she openly addressed Sean “Diddy” Combs’ fame and sexual assault allegations, not once but twice.
Diddy delivers a new shocker on new album, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace)”
As soon as the album went live, fans were instantly immersed in the musical journey that Eminen described as a “conceptual album” just before its release. Performing a public service, he wrote on x/Twitter: “If you don’t listen to the songs in order they may not make sense. Enjoy.”
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Despite following the hitmaker’s advice, some misunderstood his verses, but the majority focused on “the hardest Diddy diss bar we’ve possibly ever heard”.
Eminem first lit the fuse on this disgraced rapper’s name in his eighth track, “Antichrist.” It cited horrific hotel footage from 2016 that further strengthened the visual evidence against the “Bad Boy for Life” and his violent abuse that threatened his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
But who is as ruthless as me, really funny and rude, nasty, horrible and hypocritical or just so disgusting? The next idiot will ask me if her ass has been beaten worse than diddy but actually though she probably ran out of the room with her fuck dildo she tried to punt him the field goal she said calm down now put it back in my ass and get the steel toe
The song’s lyrics allude to the extremely disturbing 2016 video that CNN uncovered in May 2024, in which Diddy brutally attacked Cassie at a hotel. In the now-settled lawsuit, Ventura accused Combs of “frequently” beating her.
Although Diddy previously denied all accusations against him, he was forced to release an “apology” video on Instagram after the hotel video was revealed. Yet, even in his social media apology, he did not address Cassie directly, as it seemed like an attention-grabbing stunt to gain people’s sympathy even though he admitted his mistake.
Eminem hits back at Diddy and gives him a taste of his own medicine on the next track. In an even more brutal attack on his ninth song, “Fuel,” the Slim Shady rapper launches a new attack on Diddy. This time, however, he avoids directly naming the troubled artist.
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His poem is as follows:
I’m like a rapper (yeah) I got a lot of s-a’s (s-a’s), s-a’s (huh) Wait, he didn’t just spell the word “rapper” and leave out a p, right?
As appears to be the case, the “Monster” rapper has simply dubbed Sean Combs a “rapper,” and ends the verse with “P, did he,” which undeniably sounds like “P Diddy.”
Eminem again blames Diddy for the murders of music legends Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls
Beyond his latest bashing session — which isn’t the first time Eminem has lambasted the “Coming Home” rapper — the “Rap God” also linked P Diddy to the murder of the late rap icon Tupac Shakur in his 2018 diss track “Killshot.”
At the time, Eminem rapped: “Kells, the day you make a hit movie, that’s the day Diddy admits he made a hit movie, that’s how the Pac got killed, ah!”
Combs’ response to the old song went viral again in the wake of multiple lawsuits against him and a home raid in 2024.
In a now-deleted episode of Joe Budden’s YouTube series, Diddy cryptically responded, “He said, ‘There’s nothing to say about it.’ It’s in my hands. That’s wild.”
The “Godzilla” artist later laughed off his comments against Diddy as a joke. Nevertheless, he revived these controversial claims of Combs’ involvement in the murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls) – both of whom died in drive-by shootings – in “Fuel.”
Duane Keith “Keef D” Davis, a street gang leader from Southern California, was accused of murdering Tupac Shakur in 1996. However, according to retired FBI agent Phil Carson, he pleaded innocent and said that “he was going to be paid a little over $1 million by Sean Combs to kill Tupac.” According to these claims, Keef also insisted that he “never got the full $1 million.”
Eminem’s “Fuel” verse goes like this:
RIP, rest in peace, Biggie and Pac, you both should live (yes) but I don’t wanna fight with him (no) cause he might kill me too like Keef D killed him
