Lil Yachty was one of a few rappers named on Eminem's new surprise project Kamikaze, and while the rapper's mention was not explicitly a "diss," according to Em himself, it wasn't exactly a compliment either. "I can see why people like Lil Yachty, but not me though/Not even dissin', it just ain't for me," he raps on "The Ringer," in a bar that seems to speak more to rap's generation gap than Yachty's lack of abilities. After that, he points out the possible difference in audiences between himself and Yachty: "All I am simply is just an emcee/Maybe 'Stan' just isn't your cup of tea/Maybe your cup's full of syrup and lean/Maybe I need to stir up shit." However you take the lyrics, there are enough people online suggesting Eminem is "taking shots" at Yachty that the rapper caught wind of it before even hearing the song. Though he was unaware of exactly how hard Em went in on him, he seemed entertained and honored at the thought of being dissed by a legend. "Lmao me personally I think it’s fye Eminem took a shot at me.. I fuck wit Eminem," he wrote on Twitter. When someone responded arguing that it was not a diss at all, Yachty revealed that he was just going off of what Twitter had told him. Turns out, he's a bit bummed out he didn't get a proper shot. "ohhhhh word I’m on a plane i didn’t even know my phone just blew up I was like ohhh shittttt word that’s less exciting lol," he wrote. There are a few rappers whose disses were a little more clear cut: Drake, Lil Pump, and Machine Gun Kelly to name a few. Check out a comprehensive list of those who got burnt across Eminem's new album here.<doc-sep>Take a look at all of Eminem's targets on Kamikaze below. Lil Yachty "Get this fuckin' audio out my Audi yo, adios/ I can see why people like Lil Yachty, but not me, though." - "The Ringer" Lil Boat is the first prominent rapper to fall within the crosshair of Em. The 45-year-old understands why people could be fans of the Atlanta native that's less than half his age, but makes sure to let you know he won't be bumping his bubblegum trap anytime soon. Lil Xan & Lil Pump "Lil Pump, Lil Xan imitate Lil Wayne/ I should aim at everybody in the game, pick a name/ I'm fed up with being humble." - "The Ringer" Eminem continues to eviscerate those he believes fall under the mumble-rap generation. Shady calls out Lil Xan and Lil Pump as carbon copies of New Orleans legend Lil Wayne. Weezy's influence on the emerging generation of MCs is undeniable, as the self-proclaimed greatest rapper of all-time dominated popularity while carrying the genre for much of the previous decade. Charlamagne Tha God "'Aw, man! That BET cypher was weak, it was garbage/ The Thing ain't even orange -- oh my God, that's a reach!.....?' Charlamagne gonna hate anyway/ Doesn't matter what I say/ Give me Donkey of the Day." - "The Ringer" Charlamagne Tha God has made it clear he's not a fan of Eminem's recent work. He referred to his scathing 2017 BET Awards freestyle as "borderline wack," in addition to trashing Revival. Shady had to feel a certain way about the brash radio personality's comments since he brings him up multiple times on "Fall" and "The Ringer." The Breakfast Club co-host admits that he just can't find a way to relate to Em's rhymes these days. Donald Trump "'These verses are makin' him a wee bit nervous/ And he's too scurred to answer me with words/ 'Cause he knows that he will lyrically get murdered/ But I know at least he's heard it/ Cause Agent Orange just sent the Secret Service/ To meet in person to see if I really think of hurtin' him/ Or ask if I'm linked to terrorists." - "The Ringer" Eminem hasn't been shy about voicing his issues with Donald Trump and his time in the Oval Office. Back in 2016, Em heavily criticized 45 for eight minutes on "Campaign Speech" and later followed up his Trump hate train the next year at the 2017 BET Awards during his excoriating freestyle. President Trump has yet to publicly respond to the Detroit-bred rapper's comments publicly. Machine Gun Kelly “Now you wanna come and fuck with me, huh?/ This little cock-sucker, he must be feeling himself/ He wants to keep up his tough demeanor, so he does a feature/ Decides to team up with Nina/ But next time you don’t gotta use Tech N9ne if you wanna come at me with a sub-machine gun/ And I’m talking to you but you already know who the fuck you are, Kelly/ I don’t use sublims and sure as fuck don’t sneak-diss/ But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie." - "Not Alike" Machine Gun Kelly has long been complimentary of Eminem as one of the figures in hip-hop who inspired him to pick up a pen. Back in 2012, MGK ruffled the feather of Em when he tweeted that his daughter, Hailie, was “hot as fuck.” He even claims that Eminem has banned him from any more appearances on his Shade 45 channel on SiriusXM. Tyler, The Creator & Earl Sweatshirt "Tyler create nothin', I see why you called yourself a f----t, bitch/It's not just 'cause you lack attention/It's 'cause you worship D12's balls, you're sack-religious/If you're gonna critique me, you better at least be as good or better/Get Earl the hooded sweater, whatever his name is to help you put together some words, more than two letters." - "Kamikaze" Tyler, The Creator also feels the wrath of Eminem on "Kamikaze" alongside his Oddfuture compatriot Earl Sweatshirt. The Flower Boy rapper was severely critical of what we assume to be Eminem's "Walk On Water" collaboration with Beyonce. "Dear god this song is horrible sheesh how the fuck," Tyler tweeted when the song was released back in November of last year. Shady has come under fire once again for his continued use of homophobic slurs in rhymes. Drake “You got some views, but you’re still below me/ Mine are higher, so when you compare our views, you get overlooked/ And I don’t say the hook unless I wrote the hook.” - "Kamikaze" The pair of superstar rappers have only linked up on "Forever" back in 2009. Eminem shrewdly implements Drake's 2016 Views album title into his verse and subliminally takes shots at Drizzy's rumored ghostwriting. The 45-year-old lets it be known that the only way he ends up rapping a hook is if he's the one that actually thought of or wrote the bars. Joe Budden "Somebody tell Budden before I snap, he better fasten it/ Or have his body baggage zipped/ The closest thing he's had to hits is smacking bitches." - "Fall" Joe Budden and Eminem maintain a complicated relationship even though Budden is still signed to Shady Records. When Joe was a co-host of Everyday Struggle on Complex last year, he was left with no choice but to be honest about his disapproval when it came to Em's Revival album. The artist born Marshall Mathers originally responded to Joe on his "Chloraseptic (Remix)" and followed up with some strong accusations disparaging Budden's character on his 38th birthday. The Slaughterhouse member asserted this week that he's "not close" with Eminem during a radio interview with The Breakfast Club.<doc-sep>Eminem came out swinging against a slew of popular rappers with his surprise release of Kamikaze on Thursday night. The artist produced the album, which reignites feuds with a range of popular performers, with Dr. Dre. Kamikaze, which has 13 tracks and is 45 minutes long, features collaborations with Jessie Reyes, Joyner Lucas and Royce Da 5'9." News outlet Heavy.com wrote that "it remains to be seen whether these bars are supposed to be nods or outright disses." In "Kamikaze," Eminem appears to take aim at Chance the Rapper and rumors that Drake uses ghostwriters, spitting "Put me on a track, I go cray on it like a color book/You got some views, but you're still below me/Mine are higher so when you compare our views you get overlooked/And I don't say a hook unless I wrote the hook". Later in the same song, he adds "All I know is I wrote every single word of everything I ever murdered/Time to separate the sheep from goats/And I got no faith in your writers, I don't believe in ghosts." He also focuses on Lil Pump and Lil Xan, prominent figures in the "mumble rap" scene. "Lil Pump, Lil Xan imitate Lil Wayne," he raps in "The Ringer." "I should aim at everybody in the game, pick a name/I'm fed up with being humble/And rumor is I'm hungry/I'm sure you heard bumblings/I heard you wanna rumble like an empty stomach/I heard your mumbling but it's jumbled in mumbo-jumbo." #Kamikaze is taking shots at everybody: Lil Pump Lil Yachty Lil Xan Machine Gun Kelly Tyler, The Creator Drake Charlamagne tha God DJ Akademiks Joe Budden Donald Trump Mike Pence The Grammy Awards pic.twitter.com/cBkcrdu4eb — Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) August 31, 2018 The Grammy winner also appears to direct his attention toward Migos, another "mumble rap" trio, saying random words while echoing the flow of their famous "Bad and Boujee" track. "Brain dead, eye drops/Pain meds, cyclops/They bed, iPod/Maybach, my bach/Trainwrecks, sidewalks/Pay less, high-tops/K-Fed, iHop/Playtex, ice spots," In addition, he lashes out at Charlamagne tha God, Lil Yachty, Machine Gun Kelly, Earl Sweatshirt and Lord Jamar, according to music outlet New Musical Express. Kamikaze is Eminem's first release since his 2017 LP Revival, which received a number of negative reviews. A Vox article praised the new tracks, writing that the album "features Eminem in full-on old-school mode, dropping a litany of classic Marshall Mathers verses. It's an occasionally uneven album, but it's full of fire and full of Eminem's always-impressive skill." As he's done before, the artist took his music in a political direction, claiming that President Donald Trump sent Secret Service to investigate him. On "The Ringer," he raps "'Cause Agent Orange just sent the Secret Service/To meet in person to see if I really think of hurtin' him/Or ask if I'm linked to terrorists."<doc-sep>Eminem's Kamikaze came as a bit of surprise to rap fans expecting little more than an overnight single tapped for the Venom motion picture soundtrack. Eminem fans were granted an inflamed version of their favorite rapper, within the opening frame. On "Ringer" Em reduces Lil Yachty to specimen data in his case study against "mumble" rappers. "Get this fuckin' audio out my audio, adios I can see why people like Lil Yachty, but not me though Not even dissin', it just ain't for me All I am simply is just an emcee." Eminem also doubles down on Donald Trump, after essentially revealing his non-partisan lines in an infamous BET cypher last October. Eminem is almost smug with regards to his exceptional status. He is seemingly the only well-known dissident that Trump hasn't openly criticized. "These verses are making him a wee bit nervous And he’s too scared to answer me with words Cause he knows that he will lyrically get murdered But I know at least he’s heard it Cause Agent Orange just send the Secret Service To meet in person To see if I really think of hurting him Or ask if I’m linked to terrorists." Then he conceivably dumps on another of crop "Lil" rappers: Lil Pump and Lil Xan. "Ringer" conjures mixed feelings about the game; Eminem does invariably anoint Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Joyner Lucas and Big Sean as faithful rap practitioners. Eminem rhymes humble with mumble with subtle variation, so you know where his head is at. Em continues down that path on "Lucky You." "Lil Pump, Lil Xan imitate Lil Wayne I should aim at everybody in the game, pick a name I'm fed up with being humble." On "Not Alike," Eminem takes a dig at Machine Gun Kelly for running his mouth covertly on Twitter. MGK is the lucky recipient of two high profile diss records in roughly 6 hours. Eminem likely won't forget MGK's Twitter solicitation of his then-16 year old daughter, any time soon. "But next time you don't gotta use Tech N9ne if you wanna come at me with a sub-machine gun And I'm talking to you but you already know who the fuck you are, Kelly I don't use sublims and sure as fuck don't sneak-diss But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie." As Alex pointed out, Eminem appears to be singling out Drake on the title song "Kamikaze," but the subliminal message reads more like a competitive quip. The gloves come off, finally. "You got some views, but you're still below me Mine are higher, so when you compare our views, you get overlooked And I don't say the hook unless I wrote the hook And now I'm just freestylin' in the vocal booth And you know I've always spoke the truth You lyin' through your teeth so much, you broke a tooth And it ain't somethin' I need a phone to do When I say I can't wait 'til I get ahold of you And I don't know what I'm s'posed to do Line up the rappers, take my pic like a photo shoot." Em does reserve the harshest judgement for Joe Budden, the "Howard Stern of Hip Hop." Their feud had its origin in 2017 when Budden criticized Eminem's Revival album rollout. Even Budden's much derided co-host DJ Akademiks catches a jab of his own within the same verse. "Somebody tell Budden before I snap, he better fasten it Or have his body baggage zipped The closest thing he's had to hits is smackin' bitches And don't make me have to give it back to Akademiks Say this shit is trash again, I'll have you twisted Like you had it when you thought you had me slippin' at the telly." Eminem also hits at Tyler, The Creator on "Fall" for allegedly copying D12's brand image. Uncoincidentally, Tyler has been critical of Eminem, with respect to his career choices in the current era post-Relapse. Regrettably Earl Sweartshirt gets dragged into the line of fire by association. "Tyler create nothin', I see why you called yourself a f***** b**** It's not just 'cause you lack attention It's 'cause you worship D12's balls, you're sack-religious If you're gonna critique me, you better at least be as good or better, get Earl the Hooded Sweater." Charlamagne Tha God, Lord Jamar also caught one-liners, the latter for saying that Eminem was "no different than Macklemore." Charlamagne eats soap not once but twice, on "The Ringer" and "Fall," all revolving around the radio host's categorical depiction of Eminem as a "White Rapper."<doc-sep>
Last night, Eminem dropped a surprise new album, Kamikaze. The full-length is the rapper's follow-up to 2017's Revival and it seems to serves as his response to the overwhelmingly negative reviews the release received. Throughout the 13-track album, Eminem defends his status in hip-hop and calls out a host of rappers including Tyler, The Creator, Drake, Lil Yachty, Joe Budden, Lil Pump, Lil Xan, and Machine Gun Kelly — and he doesn't hold back. On "Fall," Eminem comes for Tyler, The Creator, calling him "a bitch:" Tyler create nothing, I see why you called yourself a — bitch It's not just 'cause you lack attention It’s because you worship D12's balls, you’re sacrilegious If you're gonna critique me, you better at least be as good or better Get Earl the Hooded Sweater, whatever his name is to help you put together Some words, more than just two letters In the same song, he threatens Joe Budden: Somebody tell Budden before I snap He better fasten it Or have his body bag get zipped The closest thing he’s had to hits Is smacking bitches On the title track, he makes reference to Chance the Rapper and calls out Drake, referring to his ghostwriting scandal: Put me on a track, I go cray on it like a color book You got some views, but you're still below me Mine are higher so when you compare our views you get overlooked And I don't say a hook unless I wrote the hook On "The Ringer," Eminem shares his distaste of Lil Yachty: Get this fuckin' audio out my audio, adios I can see why people like Lil Yachty, but not me though Not even dissin', it just ain't for me All I am simply is just an MC And later in the same track, dismisses mumble rap and mentions Lil Pump and Lil Xan: Lil Pump, Lil Xan imitate Lil Wayne I should aim at everybody in the game, pick a name I'm fed up with being humble And rumor is I'm hungry I'm sure you heard rumblings I heard you wanna rumble like an empty stomach I heard your mumbling but it's jumbled in mumbo-jumbo The era that I'm from will pummel you On "Not Alike" featuring Royce, Eminem comes for Machine Gun Kelly, for his 2012 tweet about his daughter: But next time you don't gotta use Tech N9ne if you wanna come at me with a sub-machine gun And I'm talking to you but you already know who the fuck you are, Kelly I don't use sublims and sure as fuck don't sneak-diss But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie Aside from rappers, Eminem also references Donald Trump and Mike Pence on the track “The Ringer.” The Trump lines suggest that the President sent the Secret Service to investigate the rapper, potentially after his 2017 BET freestyle where he dissed the president: 'Cause Agent Orange just sent the Secret Service To meet in person To see if I really think of hurtin' him Or ask if I'm linked to terrorists If true, that wouldn’t be the first time the Secret Service looked into Eminem. Back in 2003, they investigated the rapper after he dropped the song "We As Americans" which included the line "I'd rather see the president dead," to see if it constituted a threat against George Bush. Later in the track, Eminem references Vice President Mike Pence: While I take my ballsack and flick it like a light switch Like vice-president Mike Pence Now, here are the best Eminem songs of all time.