Drop a Gem is the best diss track ever...Easily.

[Roovers410]

Let's celebrate this sh!t with all the mobb deep bulls going on right now. They was holding it down back in the day

Beat is Classic
Rhymes are classic
Factual punchlines...sh!t was sick

you yell my name
thats only givin me props
plus the fans that you got, wonderin whats got you hot
its too not, knocked out the box and got rocked
got raped on the Island, you officially got
kick that thug shyt, Vibe magazine on some love shyt

these upstate cats be leary of you
yeddy nikkas wit gats plus the walls on they backs
Rikers Island flashback of the house you got scuffed it in
you would think you gettin your head shot was enough but then
Now you wanna got at my team,
you must of been drunk when you wrote that shyt
too bad you had to did it to your own self

Who Shot Ya? You'd probably scream louder than an opera
New York gotcha, now you wanna use my mob as a crutch
what makes you think you cant get bucked again
Once again, back in the house once again
live the life that of diamonds and guns
and now gems pull gats like a basehead pull on stems

 

[HendriX]

Too bad Ballerina P and that other clown released it after the great man had passed away

 

[Roovers410]

Prodigy: “We recorded that song at Access Studios. We just went in and made that song after we heard Tupac saying some things about us because of our ‘L.A., L.A.’ song. We heard somebody playing ‘Hit Em Up’ on the block and we were like, ‘Oh word? nikkas wanna make songs about us? Aight, cool.’ As soon as we heard Tupac saying anything about Mobb Deep, we went in and made that shyt about him. We were like, ‘fukk this nikka, we going right at this nikka and whoever the fukk he’s down with.’

“‘Drop a Gem on ‘Em’ was unique and it was different. Pac just took a beat that everybody knew of already and just tried to flip the lyrics or whatever. That’s why I think with ‘Drop a Gem On Em’ people were like, ‘Yo, that shyt is fire. Y’all killed the nikka,’ because it was like a new beat. Nobody had ever heard a beat like that before. The lyrics were crazy.

“We had actually pulled the song because it was the first single off of Hell On Earth. We submitted it to radio and radio put it in rotation, even in Cali. But when Pac died, we pulled the song off radio and told them to stop playing it out of respect for his family and out of respect for the dead. We were like, ‘Nah, stop pushing that.’ We still put it on the album.

“We were about to shoot a video for that. We were about to go in on that nikka, but we were like, ‘Yo, pull it.’ We were just going to go in on this nikka in the video. I mean, it was so new when Pac died that I think it was only on the radio for about a week or two. So, we didn’t really have plans for the video, but we were about to shoot a video for it. When Pac died, we switched the single to 'Hell On Earth' instead.”

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

You gotta think as the person being attacked.....Drop A Gem On 'Em is amazing -- that and Takeover are both great, but "Hit Em Up" and "Ether" breh....imagine being Biggie or Jay hearing those.

 

[Roovers410]

You gotta think as the person being attacked.....Drop A Gem On 'Em is amazing -- that and Takeover are both great, but "Hit Em Up" and "Ether" breh....imagine being Biggie or Jay hearing those.

Well to everyone his own...

Can't deny the masterpiece that is Ether. Hit em up to me has nothing to do with battling skills...

Pac is crazy on toss it up and against all odds tho

 

[VBM]

Long Kiss Goodnight gets slept on way too much. If Pac hadn't died, that would have really set shyt off.

 

[Enzo]

Drop A gem is more ether than takeover bro

Drop A Gem, Long Kiss and Ether are in the same category of hostility to me.

Hit Em Up, Takeover are more crowd pleasing mass appeal diss songs

 

[VBM]

I do hate how p*ssy Puff is though after the fact, saying Long Kiss wasn't for Pac, even though he the main one screaming "We ain't talkin' bout no other rappers...we talkin' to you!"

But damn, the dungarees, laugh now/cry later, wipe the pee up...them references to Pac's first shooting were daggers.

 

[VBM]

There needs to be a poll on this...people also forgetting Eazy E's Real Mufuggin Gs and Dre's F*** Wit Dre Day

 

[Canada Goose]

at the OP by this saying this subliminal shyt is better than any of the songs where Makaveli The Don smashed on them delinquents

Too bad Ballerina P and that other clown released it after the great man had passed away

No they didn't, "Drop a gem on them" dropped in August of 1996.

IDK if Pac ever actually heard the song though, its possible he heard it and "All Out" was the response track. If you listen to All Out OG its a diss track but the retail one was very watered down.

 

[Enzo]

Dre Day and Real MFGs were so disrespectful dog. West Coast dudes say things that just cut at a man's pride. We'd have to fight the fair one off those disses.

(Jay-Z Voice) It's just so vulgar(/Jay-Z Voice)

 

[Roovers410]

There needs to be a poll on this...people also forgetting Eazy E's Real Mufuggin Gs and Dre's F*** Wit Dre Day

no thanks

 

[Enzo]

Too many options.

Just do the top 4 or 5 of the last 3 eras

Ether
Hit Em Up
Drop A Gem
Takeover
Long Kiss

 

[VBM]

Gotta give props to 50 for damn near ending Ja's career on Back Down

 

[Black Ball]

No Vaseline is the Goat yet it's not on your poll.