Eminem’s long-standing beef with P Diddy spans decades—from playful jabs to brutal takedowns amid legal storms and scandals.

Legendary rapper Eminem has never held back when it comes to taking shots at fellow celebrities — and P. Diddy and Jennifer Lopez weren’t exceptions. In his 2000 track I’m Back, he name-dropped the rap mogul and dragged his then-girlfriend Lopez into the mix. Referring to their relationship at the time, Em rapped:

“Cause if I ever stuck it to any singer in showbiz,
It’d be Jennifer Lopez and Puffy, you know this.
I’m sorry, Puff, but I don’t give a f**k.”

But that wasn’t the end of it. In another line, Eminem took things to a disturbing level, claiming he’d still have sex with Lopez even if she were his own mother. Despite the graphic lyrics, he never seemed to face any serious backlash.

During MTV News: Eminem – Hits and Disses, when asked if the verse caused any trouble, he explained:

“It’s no secret Puffy and Jennifer were together, but when I wrote that, it was just rumors. Basically, I’m saying Puffy’s got a beautiful woman. Who wouldn’t want to sleep with her?”

Luckily for Eminem, his provocative bars didn’t land him in legal trouble — and this wasn’t the only time he boldly took aim at the now-disgraced music mogul.

Eminem Has Dissed P Diddy Numerous Times Over the Years

The legendary American rapper Marshall Mathers unhesitantly takes digs at people whom he thinks deserve it. Sean Combs just appears to be someone to get his burn from him pretty brutally and frequently over the years. This started from 1996 through his track F***ing Crazy on his demo tape Slim Shady Demo ’97, when the rapper took a light-hearted jab at his fellow music industry peer. He penned,

Original Bad Boy on the case, cover your face. Came in the place, blowed and sprayed Puffy with Mase.

Four years later, in 2000, he followed suit by dissing Puffy yet again on the title track of his album Marshall Mathers. Coming off hot with the success of The Slim Shady LP as one of the most talented upcoming artists in the music industry, he appeared unafraid of those bigger names among his peers as he rapped on his song,

You little groupie b****, get off me, go f**k Puffy.

But going into the 2010s and 2020s, Eminem’s disses adopted a much more serious tone when it came to Puffy. For one, in 2018, during his beef with Machine Gun Kelly, he pulled in P Diddy too, rapping in his song Killshot,

Kells, the day you put out a hit is the day Diddy admits that he put the hit out that got Pac killed.

Notably enough, Combs and the East Coast rappers had a pretty well-documented beef with the rappers from the West Coast, including the likes of Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, back in the 1990s. Yet, the Venom singer ostensibly acknowledged that he was joking as he ended the song by saying, “I’m just playing, Diddy, you know I love you,” so that’s that too.

Two years later, in 2020, Mathers got back at taking a vicious dig at Diddy in his Music to Be Murdered By track Godzilla. At the time, he rapped in his song,

They call me Diddy because I make bands, and I call getting cheese a cakewalk.

For those who may not know, this was apparently in reference to Puff Daddy’s MTV reality television show Making The Band from the early 2000s. This show had aspiring talents competing to be the next big group on the record executive’s label.

But one episode of the second season of the same seemed to sidetrack that as it had the producer infamously tasking the group Da Band with walking from Manhattan to Brooklyn and back to get him a cheesecake from Junior’s restaurant. This was a round trip of about six miles, and included them crossing the Brooklyn Bridge too.

So when Marshall Mathers decided to call out that stint on his song, it’s safe to say that it wasn’t received all too well. And yet, that wasn’t the end of his brutal digs at Diddy either.

Eminem Had Something to Say About P Diddy’s Arrest Too

 
Sean Combs aka P Diddy in the Closer to God music video. | Credits: Diddy / YouTube.

Around a year ago, P Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and charged with racketeering and s-x trafficking, including allegations of forced s-x acts, coercion, and interstate transportation for prostitution. But while he managed to squirm free from the more serious offences thanks to the split verdict of his federal criminal trial that ensued and concluded earlier this year, Eminem didn’t miss the chance to troll him about the same.

In his latest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), the rapper, in true Eminem fashion, addressed the legal troubles that Combs was facing. Like, in Fuel, he rapped,

Notorious B.I.G.’s death was the domino effect of 2Pac’s murder, like facial tissue, whose clock should I clean next? Puff’s? Til he’s in police handcuffs, guilty, will he step up?

That’s not all. Later on in the track, the Mockingbird singer continued taking a jab at Sean Combs and his legal battles as he added, “A R-A-P-E-R. Got so many S-As, S-As. Wait, he didn’t just spell RAPPER and leave out a P, did he?…” – a pretty dark line that inevitably shocked millions.

In another song, Antichrist, Mathers went on to take an even bitter troll at Diddy, though this one hit a bit close to home. This time around, he referenced the surveillance footage from the hotel lobby that left many stunned at the record executive’s violent behavior toward his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, as he repeatedly struck her without hesitation.

Rapping in his song, the Lose Yourself singer said,

Next idiot ask me is getting his a** beat worse than Diddy did — But on the real, though, she probably ran out the room with his f***ing dildo.

Needless to say, these latest pokes that Eminem took at P Diddy clearly say a lot. However, the fact that they aren’t the only ones and that the rapper has been expressing his distaste for the media mogul long before even his allegations came to light is making it seem like the warning signs were, perhaps, always right there. What are your thoughts?