9) Back Down – 50 Cent
If there is one goal when it comes to a diss record, that goal is to finish your opponent for good. And if there is one song that accomplished just that, that song is 50 Cent’s Back Down. By the time 50’s debut album Get Rich or Die Trying came out, he had already unleashed a vicious onslaught on his sworn enemy Ja Rule that seemingly had Ja’s career already being sized up for a coffin. Once Back Down dropped, this pretty much was the nail in the coffin and the lowering of it into the grave for Ja Rule.
With a sinister beat by Dr. Dre as the backdrop, 50 delivers the death blow (I’m back in the game shawty, to rule and conquer/you sing for hoes and sound like the Cookie Monster). The rest is history.
