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100 Bars

100 Bars is a diss track by Canibus targeting Eminem and LL Cool J. The track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record.

Released2000
Annotated4
ExplicitYes
Addressable transcript

Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    [Intro]

    02

    Yeah! That's the beat right there!

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    I'm about to black out with a hundred bars on some professional shit

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    So don't try this at home, yo

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    Yo! Yo! Yo!

  2. 06

    [Verse]

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    My style of rhymin' is ancient like Aztecs and Mayans

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    Because I recognize it's all about timin'

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    Me and my freestyle alliance practicin' African voodoo science

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    In front of twenty foot bonfires

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    Lookin' skyward

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    Calculatin' May 5, 2000, the nine planets'll be in alignment

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    The arrival of the prophet in the cockpit

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    Of a starship the size of the Hale-Bopp comet

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    With mercury ion rockets

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    And a big-ass "Canibus Coming Soon" poster on the side of it

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    I'm known geographically and intergalactically

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    That's why I got extraterrestrials that wanna battle me

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    They even tried kidnappin' me, and they would've snatched me

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    If their craft didn't get trapped in the Earth's gravity

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    Engines stalled and failed, crashed into a farmer's field

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    And that's really what caused Roswell

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    Undercover operatives working for COM 12

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    Disguised as a nigga signed with a record deal

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    Lyrically, I'm off-scale

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    So all hail or get tossed towards Hell — whatever y'all feel!

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    Bruisin' niggas, confusin' niggas like Chip Fu from the Fu-Schnickens

    28

    Hit you with nuclear cruiser missiles

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    Hear the wild wolf growl

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    Styles stockpiled for miles from the ground to the clouds

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    Wack niggas wanna be down, but it's not allowed

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    Interrupt the cipher unannounced

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    And you'll get punched in the mouth with the southpaw southern fist

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    I'll bust your shit!

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    Swell your lip bigger than Bubba Shrimp

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    For actin' tough and shit, what a wimp

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    You giant Goliath niggas get shot with a rubber sling

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    I'm an experiment gone bad

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    My brainwaves on an encephalograph show that I'm stark ravin' mad

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    Your whole scientific staff'll get killed in a nuclear blast

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    When I throw the Florence flask in my hand

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    Flammable liquids in the lab explode

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    And you get stabbed with all the flyin' glass

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    Trained to blow up commercial aircraft

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    Trained in chemical weapons class just to see how long a nigga's breath'll last

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    I put him in a leather mask, spray his ass with a can of pepper gas

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    Then watch him grab his neck and gag

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    Watch the nigga choke to death as I laugh

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    "You wanna battle?" is the type of question you should never ask

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    Nigga, pick a tougher task, see who the fuck'll last

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    Whoever lose get a solderin' iron up the ass

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    You need to recognize — my hand is quicker than the eye

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    Quicker than the five-speed Jamiroquai drives

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    A lifespan longer than nine lives, infinite rhymes that can't die

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    A nigga with a divine mind

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    I dedicate this to the wise, dedicate it to dimes

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    Dividin' myself into a hundred ten times

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    You can't deny the offerings I offer

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    Flows that glow with auroras that sparkle like water

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    Fly like a saucer with the torque of a Porsche

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    Murder a million MCs, then autograph all of their coffins

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    Been gettin' it on since I been born, and I'ma live long

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    And I'ma be gettin' it on 'til I'm gone

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    Look at all the stages I been on, all the songs that I spit on

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    I took an oath to rip everything I get on

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    A nigga like me should have carpal tunnel syndrome

  17. 67

    In the wrist bones from grippin' microphones this long

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    I'm just a small fish in a big pond

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    That gets pissed off whenever I get picked on

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    Nigga, try to flip and get flipped on!

  18. 71

    My army march a million strong like the Nation of Islam with suede Timbs on

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    Extremely hostile

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    Fully armed troops dressed in frog suits and night vision goggles

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    A lyrical lynch mob shittin' on

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    Niggas drawn to a hideous form with horns and a mink on

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    Duckin' down low like we in 'Nam fightin' the Viet Cong

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    Screamin' "Incoming!" when I see a bomb

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    Speak to your leader, surrender your arms

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    You need about a million more soldiers to even the odds

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    Plus 800,000 to even consider a war

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    And 200,000 more to even look hard

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    You better drop your flag and withdraw

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    My cavalry charge accompanied by a blizzard of wicked metaphors

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    That smash y'all, attach y'all to the back of my horse

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    And drag y'all across the motherfuckin' asphalt

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    Nine out of ten niggas is frauds — you know who you are

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    Always talkin' about your bitches and your cars

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    Your jewelry and your girls, it's like we from two different worlds

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    You motherfuckers really get on my nerves

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    'Cause I'm beyond 'em, on some futuristic cyborg shit

  23. 91

    I close my eyes when I freestyle

    Multi-line diss block
    92

    So I could read what prints across them

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    Then raise my arms like a sorcerer and cast a fireball into the audience to barbecue your brain organs

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    You feel like you've been thrown in a microwave oven

    Block noteQuestions the target's judgment

    TargetEminem

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Then raise my arms like a sorcerer and cast a fireball into the audience to barbecue your brain organs,” Canibus characterizes Eminem as unintelligent, careless, or unable to understand the situation being addressed. Why it was said: The track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record. The insult makes the target's decisions part of the evidence: a poor response can be framed not as strategy, but as proof that Eminem never understood the contest.

    ContextThe track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record.

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    I flame broil suckers

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    Then hit 'em with some more shit, the raw shit!

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    Call my reinforcements, the Four Horsemen

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    Take a big piece of chalk and draw a line across the stage pulpit

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    I dare a motherfucker to cross it!

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    I'll even call my man Black Rob at two in the morning

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    Tell him it's important

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    Tell him to call Sting three-way and sing a chorus

  26. 103

    Break your camcorders, so you motherfuckers can't record it

    Multi-line diss block
    104

    Call the news — I'll kill your reporters!

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    Start a lawsuit — I'll kill your lawyers!

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    Fuck the soft shit! And fuck what y'all think!

    Block noteUses legal trouble as a pressure point

    TargetEminem

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Start a lawsuit — I'll kill your lawyers!,” Canibus invokes a case, arrest, imprisonment, or legal vulnerability to define Eminem through consequences outside the recording booth. Why it was said: The track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record. The reference makes the attack feel verifiable and immediate, using a public consequence to challenge the control and invulnerability Eminem projects.

    ContextThe track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record.

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    My album's gold 'cause my album was the bomb shit

    Multi-line diss block
    108

    Y'all niggas got your ass beat 'cause you asked for it

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    Got your picture taken and put in a tabloid

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    'Cause you a man, and you like to touch little boys

    Block noteForces the dispute into a direct contest

    TargetEminem

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Y'all niggas got your ass beat 'cause you asked for it,” Canibus addresses Eminem as an opponent who must prove the claims being made rather than rely on reputation. Why it was said: The track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record. The challenge narrows the argument to performance under pressure, where refusing or failing to answer can itself be presented as a loss for Eminem.

    ContextThe track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record.

  28. 111

    You fuck 'em in the ass, then you give 'em cash for it

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    That's some sick shit, homeboy

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    A hundred years ago, they'd have took you to see Sigmund Freud

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    You fraudulent, feminine, fragile as a feather is

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    With an effortless blow, I'll crack your whole skeleton

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    You think you better than Canibus? Where's the evidence?

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    You got below average intelligence and poor penmanship

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    You need to shut the fuck up 'cause your breath stink

  30. 119

    Take fifty cents and purchase a pack of peppermints

    Multi-line diss block
    120

    Battlin' me, you never win

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    You thought you was the only nigga that could sneak a weapon in? Nigga, guess again!

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    'Cause after I'm finished wreckin' this shit

    Block noteImagines the battle as physical destruction

    TargetEminem

    MeaningWhat it means: In “You thought you was the only nigga that could sneak a weapon in? Nigga, guess again!,” Canibus converts lyrical defeat into death, shooting, burial, or bodily harm directed at Eminem. Why it was said: The track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record. The violent image makes the response sound final: instead of proposing an endless exchange, the artist depicts Eminem as unable to return for another round.

    ContextThe track is part of the long-running exchange between Eminem and Canibus, rooted in competitive claims and earlier references on record.

  31. 123

    I'ma drink a whole bottle of Henny and go fuck a lesbian