4) No Vaseline – Ice Cube
The breakup of N.W.A. was one of the most volatile breakups in Hip Hop history, as animosity was plentiful between all members of the group towards each other. The first member to feel the brunt of the animosity was Ice Cube. Cube left the group over financial concerns, which in hindsight was a very wise decision. Unfortunately, the other group members didn’t see it that way at the time and they took shots at him on N.W.A.’s song Real Ni—az.
That proved to be a critical mistake for the remaining members of N.W.A., because that gave Cube the green light to bombard them with a diss so devastating that they couldn’t even respond.
What makes this song so great is that Cube dedicated a verse to each member and blasted them for getting screwed financially by their manager Jerry Heller, questioning their attempts to try and sound like him, and moving to neighborhoods that lack diversity.
