Platinum-Selling Beef 1 earned critical and popular success by exploring the history and evolution of verbal warfare in Hip Hop. From Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee to 50 Cent and Ja Rule, rap and hip hop artists got more and more personal, and their attacks became less and less about the music.

From the Wax to the Streets, Beef brought those underground and sometimes violent beefs to your living room.