Hip-Hop Vs. Everybody: 10 Most Wild Rap Beefs Of 2025

The rap game is still in disarray following the massive melee between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. While their beef rages on in the background, there are other MC's with bones to pick who chose lyrical violence throughout 2025.

One of the most vicious feuds fans witnessed on their social media timelines was the back-and-forth between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj. The longtime foes finally had it out with one another during a viral argument in September, shortly after Cardi dropped her album, Am I The Drama? Minaj called the Grammy Award-winning rapper "Barney B" and claimed she's "falling off the charts wit a big bellyyyy" while she was pregnant with her fourth child.

"Nothing more annoying than a bored btch," Cardi wrote. "The power I have.. make these btches come out of rehab everytime. Go to your fcking room. Cocaine Barbie."

"One day ppl will call your daughters monkeys & roaches," Minaj snapped back.

Nicki Minaj wasn't the only one to go after Cardi B's jugular this year. The Bronx bombshell lashed out at several adversaries, including BIA, Ice Spice, and former City Girl, JT, in a couple of songs on her new album. Outside of Bardi's issues with hip-hop's prominent women, other artists also fired shots at their enemies. Young Thug continued his feud with Gunna. NLE Choppa finally responded to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, which put their beef back in the spotlight. Even Freddie Gibbs dragged his haters from Benny The Butcher to Curren$y.

Scroll below to relive some of the wildest beefs of 2025.

Cardi B vs. BIA

Cardi B and BIA's beef runs deep. During her interview with The Breakfast Club, the mother of four explained why she decided to hit back at the "DADE" rapper following their spat last year. Cardi said that BIA believed that she was copying her. After they cursed each other out and then had a real conversation, Cardi B said BIA continued to fuel their beef by spreading a rumor from a producer who claimed Cardi cheated on her ex, Offset, and that there was video evidence. In addition, BIA also mentioned her kids by name in her diss track “SUE MEEE?” In her song "Pretty & Petty," the Bronx native begins by rapping, "Name five BIA songs, gun pointin' to your head/Bow, I'm dead." She continues to berate the Massachusetts rapper with a series of slick disses, including disrespectful names like "Diarrhea BIA." Despite the scathing diss, BIA chose not to engage and said responding to Cardi was "beneath her."

Cardi B vs. JT

Cardi B and JT were cool after they collaborated on "Twerk" in 2019, but things took a turn for the worse in 2022. The two artists engaged in a war of words on Twitter, hurling numerous insults at each other. A year later, JT dissed Cardi on her song "No Bars" and allegedly dragged her again on her 2024 track "Sideways." In "Magnet," Cardi B fires shots at the former City Girl and her boyfriend, Lil Uzi Vert. She doesn't name names, but the fans were smart enough to know who Bardi was talking about. "Now let's talk about this hating-ass b***h, ungrateful-ass b***h," Cardi raps. "I don't care, met somebody, gotta say it-ass b***h/Fake friend-ass b***h, a clown-ass b***h." JT fired back with her diss track "Ugly Ass Selena," but it didn't hit as hard as "Magnet" did.

NLE Choppa vs. YoungBoy Broke Again

The beef between NLE Choppa and YoungBoy Never Broke Again began in 2022 after the Baton Rouge native dissed NLE on his song "Know Like I Know." The song came out after he publicly supported one of YB's opps, King Von. At the time, NLE downplayed the diss track and said there was no real issues between them. But that changed in October when the Memphis rapper, now known as NLE The Great, dropped his diss track and music video "KO." "YoungBoy, what? This the big boy league/I put one up in your gut under the Jesus piece," NLE spits in his first verse. "Last thing that I heard was 'Jesus, please'/Had me looking at the Devil like 'This is your king?'" he continues. On the third verse, NLE raps, "You poison the youth, nothin' positive you do/You the reason n***as beating b***hes thinking that it's cute/You send n***as to do what you wouldn't even do/Role model, you will never fit the shoe/Just a n***a with emotion, a breastfed b***h/Yo' aura give me the ick, n***as like you make me sick." Fans believe YB responded to NLE on his "Zero IQ Freestyle" but he didn't mention him by name.

Pusha T vs. Travis Scott

Pusha T didn't hold anything back in his vicious verse aimed at Travis Scott on Clipse's "So Be It." Push unleashed scathing bars that tear into Scott without even mentioning his name. "You cried in front of me, you died in front of me/Calabasas took your b***h and your pride in front of me," Push spits. "Heard Utopia had moved right up the street/And her lip gloss was poppin', she ain't need you to eat." In an interview with GQ, Pusha T explained that Scott's song "Meltdown" featuring Drake inspired the verse. The track's title stems from Drizzy's problematic line, in which he raps about melting down Pharrell's old jewelry he bought from the producer's auction site a couple of years ago. In response, Scott fired back on his recent hit "CHAMPAIN & VACAY" with Don Toliver from the JACKBOYS 2 album. While performing the song in Japan, Scott said "F**k you n***a," after rapping his jab at Push.


Freddie Gibbs vs. Benny The Butcher, Curren$y

Freddie Gibbs didn't give a f**k in 2025. On his new album Alfredo 2, Gangsta Gibbs had smoke for all his foes, including Benny The Butcher, Jim Jones, Curren$y, Akademiks, Gunna and Diddy. He used "Empanadas" to fire shots at Jim and Benny after he got into violent altercations with both of them in two different states. "Smacked him in Miami, his boys jumped me, he played it safe," Gibbs rapped about Jim. "B***hes in Buffalo get the same thing, they was throwin' plates," he continues. "Limped away on his good foot, but he ain't bust a grape/These n***a fake/Sealed documents, still poppin' it/F**k the certified crack babies, come get your mama hit/S**t ain't sellin', they gotta resort to drama s**t." On "Gas Station Sushi," Gibbs took aim at Curren$y over the way he handled the promo for their joint album Fetti. "Could've ran that fetti by myself, b***h, I'm the best with Al, yeah/B***h, keep it G, we like on part three, n***a/Go start a Chevy up, don't start me."

Joey Bada$$ vs. West Coast

Joey Bada$$ kicked off 2025 by coming at Kendrick Lamar and other West Coast artists on his hit "The Ruler's Back." He continued to bait Kendrick in songs like "Crash Dummies" and "My Town." Even though K.Dot never responded, Joey spent the year defending himself against other artists who did fire back, including Reason, Daylyt, and Ray Vaughn. A few months later, Joey Bada$$ explained that he never really had a real beef with Lamar and said he made the diss tracks to keep the sport of rapping alive.

"My energy was more connected to, like, it was really in the spirit of, like, 'Yo you having y'all moment, but New York City got something to say too' type of thing," Joey explained to The Breakfast Club. "People had their complications with that, like, 'Oh y'all had y'all moment. We ain't say nothing.' But I'm like it's 2025 and it's playful. It was a playful nature for me. This rap s**t is a sport and I have so many allies on the West. From my perspective, if you really seen it, I didn't mean no disrespect. That wasn't my intention, but I'm like 'Yo we rappin'."

Young Thug vs. Gunna

Young Thug has yet to settle his beef with Gunna, even after he was released from jail following the YSL RICO case. Their issues began after Gunna entered an Alford plea and got out of jail before the YSL RICO trial began in 2023. Thug, along with others like Lil Baby and Freddie Gibbs, claimed Gunna ratted on him despite their years-long friendship. Thug dissed Gunna on several occasions, in jail calls and on unreleased songs like "Closing Arguments." He even dissed Gunna on an early version of Lil Baby's "Superman," but revised the verse for the album's final cut. In an interview with Big Bank, Thug said he has no ill will toward Gunna anymore, but he's still mad at him and doesn't think there's anything he can say to fix things.

“What the f**k can he say?” Thug said. “‘Why you did that?’ What can he say? Besides some f**k n***a s**t. What can you say that’ll make anybody in the world be like, ‘I understand.’ What can you say?”

Ice Spice vs. Latto

Ice Spice and Latto did what no other feuding artists have done before. Fans were convinced that the two female spittas weren't on good terms, especially after they traded disses on two major songs last year. Following months of firing subliminal shots, the Bronx native even shaded Big Latto on "Think U The S**t (Fart)." “I got my foot on they necks, I can’t let up/She all on the floor, told her get up," she rapped. However, Ice Spice and Latto put their differences behind them and took it to the ring in their recent collaboration "Gyatt."

"Big mama ain't hard to find, b***h, I'm still in the A/This hoe think I forgot but b***h you still on the plate," Latto raps.

Joyner Lucas vs. Skepta

Joyner Lucas and Skepta's feud was the most unexpected rap beef of the year. Their issues began over the summer after Skepta challenged American artists to step up to the mic to settle the debate over which country has the best rappers. The argument started after Drake conceded that the U.K. has some of the best lyricists in the game during his three-day set at Wireless Fest. Joyner Lucas discovered Skepta's post on X and accepted his challenge. Skepta went first with his song "Friendly Fire" before Lucas fired back with "Nobody Cares."

"You keep on saying my name, you digging the grave that you gon' get buried in," Lucas raps. "Everyone back in your country looking at you like you an embarrassment."


50 Cent vs. Diddy

50 Cent is the only artist to carry out his personal vendetta against his foe, Sean "Diddy" Combs, on social media and a hit docuseries. After lodging a campaign of hateful posts against Diddy after his lawsuits made headlines, the rapper-filmmaker continued his feud by executive producing Netflix's explosive docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning. Combs' legal team issued a cease-and-desist letter before the docuseries aired and claimed it was a "shameless hit piece." They also claimed they used "stolen footage," which Fif and Netflix denied. To fan the flames even more, the G-Unit founder claimed Combs would think the docuseries is "amazing."

"I think he is going to say this is the best documentary I’ve seen in a long time," 50 Cent told ABC News. "He may feel differently about pieces and bits of it, but he knows the truth. I think he’ll see the truth in it.”