Kanye West is gunning for 50 Cent!West’s new album, Graduation, has just been pushed back to September 11th, the same day another rap game superstar, 50 Cent, releases his record, Curtis.
The two rappers have had beef for a while. Kanye knows he will most likely outsell Fiddy, hence the move, which will make him the king in that world.“And even

Known for his infamous battles, 50 Cent is back to the beef in his new track: Funeral Music.The song takes aim at fellow rapper Cam'ron, head of rap group, "The Diplomats"...no response has yet been made to 50.

After helping launch the NYPD's hip-hop task force, retired detective Derrick Parker is the focus of a new DVD, Black and Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop. In this exclusive, Parker claims being able to solvethe murders of Biggie, Tupac and Jam Master Jay. He also reveals the rap artists he has beef with.

Hip-hop feuds and rivalries, often referred to as "beefs", have existed since the 1970s. Originally, at block parties, DJs would play records and isolate the percussion breaks for the dancing masses, which was copied from Jamaican reggae music. Soon, MCs began speaking over the beats, at first simply exhorting the audience to continue dancing, but eventually expanded their time on stage to introducing themselves, shouting out friends in the audience, boasting about their own skills, and criticizing their rivals, all in good humor. The deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. have alerted rappers to the possibility of a simple feud becoming violent. Observers have claimed that the media feeds on such rivalries for headlines and blows situations out of proportion, particularly in the infamous East Coast-West Coast rivalry of the 1990s. A contrasting example was the 1980s hit "Roxanne, Roxanne" by U.T.F.O., which sparked several hundred "answer records" in response, some of which were quite vituperative (see the Roxanne Wars). At the time, hip hop was not as high-profile, and the media ignored the record, so the beef never made it onto the streets. The 2001 high-profile beef between Nas and Jay-Z however, was carried out without ever threatening to become violent.