Not to boil down the career of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time into a series of entertainingly and petty arguments, but if Eminem wasn’t such a distinguished rapper, maybe he could’ve found a way to carve a career out of starting rows with people. He’s brilliant at it. Even when his musical output has taken a dip, the Detroit rapper still finds a way to have some small print beef on the go with someone. He’s not above switching from genre to genre, either, his squabbles over the years ranging from Mariah Carey to Joe Budden, Christina Aguilera to Machine Gun Kelly, Ja Rule to Daniel O’Donnell, Insane Clown Posse to Will Smith, with only one of those quarrels made up.
One of the best, though, was a three-way barney between him, Limp Bizkit and rapper Everlast, with Eminem releasing a diss track titled Girls on the 2001 debut record by his spin-off group D12. In an interview at the time, Eminem explained why he felt compelled to dig out Fred Durst’s nu-metal titans, with whom he'd previously been friends. “The reason I dissed Limp Bizkit is because they’re little fucking girls,” Eminem began. “The reason I dissed them is because when all the beef with Everlast was going on, right, they wanted to jump in the middle of it, they wanted to jump in it with me and take my side and they wanted to do a song with me… Everlast did a song dissing me, then I dissed him back, then he dissed me back again, so I was going to diss him back again one final time so I was telling them about it and they wanted to get on the song.”
