5) The Bitch in You – Common (formerly known as Common Sense)
A reoccurring theme on this list is rappers misinterpreting each other. This happens once again in the case of Common vs. Ice Cube. The origins of this beef stem from Common’s classic song I Used to Love H.E.R., where Common metaphorically raps about Hip Hop as if it was a woman that he grew up with. In the song Common references the woman going out to the West Coast to gain more exposure, but at the cost of changing her taste in music which he was disappointed about.
Ice Cube took offense to this as he felt Common was implying Hip Hop took a turn for the worse when the West Coast began to influence it. At the time Ice Cube had formed the group Westside Connection (which featured Mack 10 and W.C.), and he addressed this on the song Slaughterhouse (used to love her, mad cause we fucked her/pussy whipped bitch, with no common sense).
With Ice Cube igniting the beef, Common unleased the savage diss song The Bitch in You. On it Common chastises Cube for having to run to the east coast for his first solo album, falling off after his first solo album, hypocritically speaking about violence and Islam simultaneously, amongst other things. The song was so vicious that Cube didn’t even attempt to respond it.
