Common Feared Ice Cube Beef Would Get ‘Ugly’ After Confrontation
Common has admitted that he feared his beef with Ice Cube might get “ugly” when the 2 exchanged disses within the mid-’90s.
Appearing on Carmelo Anthony and The Kid Mero’s podcast 7PM in Brooklyn, the Chicago rap veteran mirrored on his feud with the N.W.A legend, which produced iconic diss songs reminiscent of “The Bitch In Yoo.”
Talking about his resolution to do battle with Cube, Common stated: “I’m a warrior too. I’m from the South Side of Chicago. At a certain point, if you come at me, I’ma defend myself and I’ma go at you. I’ma fight to kill, John Wick style.”
The 52-year-old additionally detailed how issues practically escalated past diss songs: “Ultimately, I felt good that we kept it on wax. It was getting to that point with me and Cube, because they was looking at me like, ‘Oh, Common’s just the backpack dude.’
“But then we had a little confrontation in Atlanta and this was like ’95 where — and like I said, me and Cube, it’s all love now — but at that point we had a little confrontation and I was like, ‘Man, this might get ugly.’”
Common additionally praised Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan for serving to settle the meat: “And thank God for Minister Farrakhan ‘cause at that time, Biggie had just passed, obviously ‘Pac had passed before him and it was just like, ‘Man, you don’t know who going to do what.’”
Farrakhan helped mediate the dispute between Common and Ice Cube, who was a member of the Nation of Islam on the time.
The sit down between the 2 rap titans occurred on the group’s headquarters in Chicago and was additionally attended by different Hip Hop luminaries reminiscent of Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Nate Dogg, Mack 10, WC, Too $hort, Fat Joe and Chuck D.
The beef began after Cube took challenge with lyrics in Common’s basic hit “I Used to Love H.E.R.” the place he rapped: “I wasn’t salty she was with them Boyz N the Hood.”
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The rapper/actor fired again on Mack 10’s “Westside Slaughterhouse” earlier than Common famously responded on the Pete Rock-produced “The Bitch In Yoo.”
Cube mirrored on the feud himself final yr and revealed that the Be MC really got here to his rescue earlier than they turned adversaries.
“Love Chicago. My first big show outside of L.A. was at the Regal Theater in Chicago,” he stated in a documentary on the Chicago White Sox.
“We forgot one of our records that we were performing. Guess who took me to the record store to buy the record? I had to go buy our own record. It was Common.”
He continued: “He was opening up for us. I mean, we didn’t really know who he was and that’s just, you know, one of those footnotes. [But] Chicago has always welcomed us before the rest of the country.”
