"It's not like I got a rap beef with this nigga," 50 Cent says of
his altercation with Ja Rule in the new hip-hop documentary Beef,
the aboriginal in a alternation of 5 films. "I just don't like him . . .
He's a fruit-pot. Nigga accomplishing duets . . . he's a pop artist."
Produced by Quincy D. Jones III [a.k.a. QD3], Beef
looks at the history of rap battles and feuds -- from Kool Moe Dee
to 50 -- and will be appear on DVD/VHS by QD3 Entertainment on
September 30th. With amateur Ving Rhames narrating, the blur opens in
Harlem about twenty years ago with what a lot of affirmation to be the first
hip-hop battle, amid Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee.
It's harder not to beam at the cartoonish old-school appearance of
Busy Bee, or if KRS-One cracks up at the angle of a freestyle
battle amid himself and Nelly, but the blur shows how the beef,
originally a match-up of agreeable wits, has avant-garde to, in the
cases of Tupac Shakur and the Belled B.I.G., murder.
"The abstraction and action for authoritative Beef came from
being abutting with Tupac," says Jones. "[We] did a lot of music
together, and if we absent him, I was impacted heavily. That loss
inspired me to assay added beefs in hip-hop to appearance the actual real
effect these beefs accept on the lives of the artists as able-bodied as
their families."
To acquaint the tales, Jones dug up archival footage of some of the
earliest MC battles in New York and conducted dozens of interviews
with artists complex in belled feuds accomplished and present -- 50 and
Ja, Ice Cube and N.W.A., Jay-Z and Nas, Common and Westside
Connection, Ice-T and LL Cool J, and others.
"It was important to us that the artists featured in the film
all acquainted as if we let both parties absolutely accurate their ancillary of the
stories," Jones said. "All the belief are told by the artists
themselves, to end any belief surrounding some of these
situations."
There are aswell acknowledgment moments of clarity. Rapper True Life
admits to regretting the abominable day if his aggregation paid Mobb Deep
a appointment to their flat with guns, pistol whipping one man and
making the Mobb Deep aggregation yield their clothes off. "I attending ignorant;
that ain't me," he says afterwards he's apparent old footage of himself
bragging about the incident. "I slipped and fabricated a mistake."
And the blur ends with the austere words of Tupac Shakur's
mother, Alfeni Shakur: "I absence my son."
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