Eminem Has Dissed These 15 Rappers

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Eminem has spent decades praising the rappers who shaped him, but admiration only tells half the story. The other half is packed with diss tracks, bruised egos, reckless name-drops, and warning shots that briefly took over hip-hop. Not everyone below qualifies as a lifelong enemy; sometimes Slim Shady needed a single bar to leave a permanent mark. After revisiting the MCs Eminem has praised, it is only fair to flip the record and look at the rappers who became ammunition. | © Travis Shinn

1. Diddy

Being outside the main feud has never protected anyone on an Eminem record, and Diddy learned that during “Killshot.” While dismantling Machine Gun Kelly, Eminem pulled Kelly’s then-label boss into a notorious joke about the long-denied allegation that Combs ordered Tupac’s murder, only to retreat with a playful disclaimer seconds later. What initially looked like reckless collateral damage became a recurring target on The Death of Slim Shady. “Fuel,” “Antichrist,” and “Bad One” turned Diddy’s name, the allegations surrounding him, and the hotel footage of him assaulting Cassie into material. This was never a conventional rap feud; Eminem simply kept finding sharper reasons to revisit him. | © Dennis Van Tine

2. Tyler, the Creator

Tyler, the Creator went from one of Eminem’s loudest defenders—especially of the much-maligned Relapse—to a critic who publicly mocked Shady XV and called “Walk on Water” terrible. Eminem heard that change of heart as a personal betrayal. On “Fall,” he attacked Tyler with a homophobic slur, producing a line remembered more for its ugliness than its wordplay. He soon admitted that the wording went too far, while “No Regrets” later cast Tyler and Earl Sweatshirt as victims of misplaced anger. Tyler eventually reconsidered his harsh criticism of Recovery, leaving this unusually messy feud with apologies traveling in both directions. | © Happy Place

3. Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg’s clash with Eminem played less like warfare than two relatives arguing loudly enough for the neighbors to hear. During a 2020 Breakfast Club interview, Snoop excluded Eminem from his personal top 10, credited Dr. Dre for much of his success, and said he could live without Em’s music. The last part stung. Eminem answered on “Zeus,” admitting that criticism was harder to accept from someone inside his own camp before flipping Snoop’s name into a compact insult. Snoop initially bristled, then called his comments out of pocket and apologized. A Super Bowl performance and “From the D 2 the LBC” later confirmed the family meeting worked. | © Jerod Harris

4. The Game

For someone demanding a reply, The Game had to practice patience. After years of praising Eminem—and after being excluded from Dr. Dre’s Los Angeles Super Bowl halftime show—he spent much of 2022 declaring himself the better rapper. “The Black Slim Shady” followed, a ten-minute attack that was part diss, part parody, and suspiciously close to tribute. Eminem ignored the challenge for nearly a year before answering on Ez Mil’s “Realest.” He mocked Game’s claim that nobody plays Eminem in clubs by suggesting Game’s records survive there only because he still performs them. No sprawling counterattack, just one jab that made the original provocation look even larger. | © Alberto E. Rodriguez

5. Machine Gun Kelly

A single ill-advised tweet somehow matured into an entire diss-track economy. Machine Gun Kelly called Eminem’s teenage daughter Hailie attractive in 2012, later claimed he had been barred from Shade 45, and appeared to swipe at “Rap God” on Tech N9ne’s “No Reason.” Eminem finally named him on “Not Alike,” although he later said the blackballing accusation and sneak diss bothered him more than the old tweet itself. MGK fired back with the surprisingly competitive “Rap Devil”; Eminem responded eleven days later with “Killshot,” turning Kelly’s jokes about his age into attacks on MGK’s career, appearance, and Diddy connection. Modern rap beef rarely arrives with such a tidy three-song narrative. | © Romain Maurice

6. Joe Budden

Joe Budden holds the awkward distinction of being dissed by a former label boss who once promoted his group. Slaughterhouse had signed to Shady Records, but its shelved Glass House album left grievances on both sides. Once Budden retired from recording and became a podcaster, he savaged Eminem’s Revival and called “Untouchable” one of the worst songs he had heard. “Fall” supplied Eminem’s answer, using Budden’s lack of solo hits and domestic-abuse allegations as punchlines. Eminem later described the verse as merely a “tap,” an impressively petty way to downgrade a public attack. Budden retaliated at podcast length instead of on wax, turning the feud into a debate about loyalty and bruised egos. | © Noam Galai

7. Ja Rule

Ja Rule discovered the one subject guaranteed to turn an Eminem feud nuclear: Hailie. Eminem was already aligned with 50 Cent after signing him to Shady Records, placing him beside 50 in the war against Ja and Murder Inc. Then “Loose Change” dragged Eminem’s mother, ex-wife, and young daughter into the conflict, asking what Hailie would become when she grew up. The response was not subtle. Eminem joined D12 and Obie Trice for “Doe Rae Me (Hailie’s Revenge)” and continued attacking Ja on “Bully,” “Hail Mary,” and “Bump Heads.” He later used “Like Toy Soldiers” to acknowledge how dangerously everything had escalated—a rare moment of perspective after several records’ worth of gasoline. | © Paras Griffin

8. 6ix9ine

Tekashi 6ix9ine never received a dedicated Eminem diss, but he has twice served as shorthand for everything Em distrusts about spectacle-first rap. On “Zeus,” Eminem dismissed a critic’s musical judgment by pointing out that she listened to Tekashi—a one-line insult whose entire premise was that 6ix9ine represented bad taste. The jab became more specific on Cordae’s “Parables” remix, where a plea-deal reference invoked 6ix9ine’s cooperation with federal prosecutors before Eminem folded in Meek Mill’s confrontation with him. Tekashi did not inspire a proper battle; he functioned more like a cultural punchline, colorful enough that Eminem barely had to explain why the target was there. | © Jose Devillegas

9. Iggy Azalea

Iggy Azalea did not need to attack Eminem first; sometimes being famous near a convenient rhyme was enough. His 2014 Bad Meets Evil track “Vegas” aimed a graphic rape threat at her, prompting Iggy to condemn the entertainment industry’s fondness for older men threatening young women. Four years later, “Killshot” used her name to belittle Machine Gun Kelly’s standing, and she answered that celebrity references had become a lazy crutch in Eminem’s writing. He still returned to her on Conway the Machine’s “Bang,” dismissing her music alongside manufactured pop-rap. This was never a traditional back-and-forth, but repeated drive-bys can eventually start to resemble a route. | © Steven Taylor

10. Earl Sweatshirt

Earl Sweatshirt made one very good Mountain Dew joke and somehow earned a place on an Eminem album three years later. Asked whether he still followed Em’s music, Earl said no, then caricatured modern Eminem fans as caffeinated-soda devotees who should come home from the army. “Fall” answered by mangling his stage name into “Earl the Hooded Sweater” and inviting him to help Tyler, the Creator assemble a proper critique. The retaliation was wildly disproportionate to an offhand interview gag, which made it both funny and faintly embarrassing. On “No Regrets,” Eminem essentially conceded that point, admitting Tyler and Earl had absorbed anger meant for less legitimate targets. | © Ryo Tanzawa

11. Melle Mel

Melle Mel’s dispute with Eminem was a generational argument compressed into one eventful week. After Billboard and Vibe ranked Eminem fifth among the greatest rappers, the Furious Five pioneer argued that his race largely explained the placement and suggested he might not make the list at all if he were Black. Eminem answered on Ez Mil’s “Realest,” saluting Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five before turning steroid jokes on Melle Mel himself. Mel released a brief response track that drew widespread ridicule, removed it, and accepted that its execution had fallen short. For a clash about historical legitimacy, the ending arrived with unusually modern speed—and the sort of public apology diss records seldom receive. | © Melle Mel

12. Canibus

One of Eminem’s oldest rapper-versus-rapper feuds began with an awkward ghostwriting question. Canibus and Wyclef Jean approached him during Canibus’s battle with LL Cool J and asked whether Em had written LL’s “The Ripper Strikes Back.” He denied it and later recalled Canibus being rude; an attempted collaboration then collapsed when Eminem suspected “Phuck U” was aimed at him and LL. Canibus extended the world of “Stan” with “U Didn’t Care,” while Eminem scattered insults across “Square Dance,” “When the Music Stops,” and other records. The leaked “Can-I-Bitch” supplied the comic finale, transforming a battle between elite lyricists into a bizarre narrative parody. | © Canibus

13. Benzino

Most Eminem feuds burn hot and disappear; Benzino somehow secured a recurring subscription. As co-owner of The Source, Benzino helped turn editorial criticism into personal warfare, even later acknowledging that he blocked The Eminem Show from receiving the magazine’s highest rating. Benzino released “Pull Your Skirt Up” and “Die Another Day,” while Eminem’s “The Sauce” and “Nail in the Coffin” attacked his age, sales, credibility, and use of the magazine as a weapon. Two decades should have buried the quarrel. Instead, “Doomsday Pt. 2” revived it with an extended run of neck jokes and a shot at Benzino’s daughter, Coi Leray, proving that Slim Shady can preserve resentment better than formaldehyde. | © Benzino

14. Lord Jamar

Lord Jamar never needed a diss track to get under Eminem’s skin; a VladTV chair did most of the work. The Brand Nubian rapper repeatedly argued that Eminem was a white guest in a Black-created culture, questioned his relevance to Black listeners, and dismissed his music. “Fall” answered with a house metaphor: Eminem might have entered as a guest, but he insisted his influence had earned him a permanent room. “I Will” appeared to label Jamar the weakest link in Brand Nubian, while “Realest” upgraded that house into a mansion. Eminem later agreed that he was technically a guest—just not one willing to be told he did not belong. | © Johnny Nunez

15. Everlast

A hotel-lobby non-greeting became one of the nastiest white-rapper feuds of the early 2000s. Everlast felt Eminem had deliberately snubbed him; Eminem maintained that he simply did not recognize the former House of Pain frontman. Everlast then paired a reference to Halley’s Comet with the word “shady” on Dilated Peoples’ “Ear Drums Pop” remix, which Eminem interpreted as a threat involving Hailie. “I Remember” mocked Everlast’s blues-rock reinvention, age, sales, and previous heart attack. Everlast answered with “Whitey’s Revenge,” bringing Eminem’s family into it, and Eminem returned with D12’s merciless “Quitter.” They eventually reached mutual respect, but not before turning uncertain eye contact into an entire miniature discography. | © Everlast & Danny Boy