Years have passed since then and LL Cool J admitted that he has no hard feelings toward Canibus. “I wish him the best,” he said. That likely wasn’t the case in 1997 when the 49-year-old ...

Canibus would continue the “beef” with several more complex references to Eminem in his music, but he barely got any attention as the damage was done due to his low album sales.

In 1998, Canibus came back with “ Second Round K.O.’’ Cool J responded with two diss tracks (not featuring Canibus), “ The Ripper Strikes Back ” and “ Back Where I Belong.

In 2011, at the start of Cole's career, veteran New York MC Canibus released a song called J Clone, accusing the up-and-comer of disrespect.

OPINION: On Sept. 8, 1998, the debut album from vaunted lyricist Canibus dropped and changed the conversation around the trajectory The post 25 years ago today, ‘Can-I-Bus’ changed the Canibus ...

J. Cole has gotten a lot of love from some of those names; early in his career, he signed with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and got Nas’ attention with one of the songs on his second album. In 2018, he ...

“Canibus just made it so difficult at the end of the day,” Redman said of the pair’s In Gods We Trust: Crush Microphones to Dust album. The “I was just like, ‘ugh!’ We had the opportunity to make it, ...

LL Cool J says the beef with Canibus in 1997 was all his fault and the reason being he wasn’t in the right state of mind. Mark Elibert May 10, 2023 ...

LL Cool J has admitted to his part in the Canibus beef…saying it was actually more his fault than the then rising-rapper. “With him, I think it was more my fault because I could have addressed him a ...

They (Canibus & Wyclef Jean) thought I wrote LL’s response. Thats why they called me down to the video shoot. Clef had asked me did I write it, and I was like, ‘No, I didn’t write it,’ Then Canibus ...