If nothing else, I feel like if you get dissed like this and then go on to switch music genres...you've been killed.

The fact that Eminem wrote this in about 13 minutes is incredible.

" gotta wake up Labor Day to this" " gotta wake up Labor Day to Diss" Genius

Three years later and that Pac line STILL gets me everytime lol

Love how it’s called killshot and he literally made him switch genres. Kill confirmed.

The layering is insane. Tom Petty had a song where he would yell "woo" and the crowd would yell "woo" back. Tom Petty died around the same time this song was released. "Your reply got the crowd yelling woo so before you die let's see who can out petty who"...

Longest funeral ever! 6 years over and we are still attending!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I like the theory that the line about Diddy and Pac is Eminem telling Diddy "You gave him the OK? Keep your dog on leash unless you want me to go after *you*."

When EM says “I’m just playing diddy, you know I love you” he says the same thing in the song “kill you” but he says “and I’m just playing ladies, you know I love you” this man is a genius

What blows my mind is the fact that Eminem was holding back yet killed him and we’re STILL deciphering layers of meanings to his lyrics with triple entendres it’s insane! Ems a battle rapper and went easy on his son the first round just a lil spanking saving his hardest ammo incase he replied for round 2 but he won first round before the battle even began and we’re still learning new intricate details on this diss track. Ems producer said he wrote this in only 13 mins that’s crazy with level of skill, layers, quadruple entendres, lethalness while only going easy on him it’s just wild to wrap your brain around he really should be taught in school like Shakespeare cause he’s the greatest wordsmith to ever do it! 🔥❤️ RIP MGK 🪦

Well MGK got what he wanted. After every verse he was saying "let's talk about it" and Em did

Killshot is the name of a movie where the main character's name is Colson. MGK's real name is Colson. The plane that kills Colson in the movie has 6B311 on it, hence the line: "Lethal injection, go to sleep six feet deep I'll give you a B for the effort, but if I was three Foot 11, you'd look up to me, and for the record" Eminem is a master at his craft.

“With your corny lines ‘Slim you’re old!’ ow Kelly oooh, I’m forty five and I’m still outselling you!” THAT flow and multi-syllable rhyming is so good it always gets!

"I'd rather be 80 year old me than 20 year old you" - This is absolutely savage. I'd rather be at the end of my life than the beginning of yours. There are so many deep multi-dimensional bars that carve through the subject with nearly disgusting ease. This is mental butchery. Excellent reaction, keep them coming!

I feel like another thing that I heard some people complain about is that Eminem called MGK a mumble rapper when he isn’t and I think some people don’t get that line and idk if I’m reading too much, but this is what I got from it. It’s no secret that Em hates mumble rappers and doesn’t really have respect for them. So him calling MGK one of the things that he hates is showing how little respect he has for him as an artist and being called a mumble rapper by a true mc is probably one of the highest disrespect’s one can get. So I think the aim of that line was to offend him and it worked. Because in the interview MGK did after Killshot he addressed that line and had a look of offense. That line wasn’t a mistake and was a good dis to MGK.

EDIT: Killshot was released 11 days after Rap Devil. Most impressive thing about Killshot is how technical it is being that it was obviously written in a matter of DAYS. If even that. If I remember correctly Killshot dropped 6 or 7 days after Rap Devil and he addresses every line in Rap Devil meaning it obviously wasn't written beforehand. Insane. THE GOAT

I wish he knew who Lil Tay is, cuz that line was HILARIOUS 😂😭

Graphic designer here. Props to the creator of the background cover. If you look closely, that scope aimed at MGK's temple flashes everytime you hit the play button. All 400+ million plays (or as digital analytics would call it, these are "hits") is each "shooter" killing him or firing a bullet to MGK's head. We all just killed him. Or it's a warning to MGK saying the "killshot" can come from anybody. No way anything will top this diss track ever. Even the graphics has layers of meaning.

It’s crazy how much this aged since it was released 4 years ago. Many of the lines that were pointed basically came to fruition from PAC’s killer being orchestrated by Diddy to how MGK released a mumble rap album that sold poorly that basically marked the end of his rap career. Additionally, some of these lines show so much depth into detail that the fact this was written with 13 minutes to be exact and then dropped on the day Patrick Swayze passed is just pure insanity. Eminem will be forever known as a man with a reputation to mail people in the forehead without fail. MGK already lost the second he even started the beef.

The Jada kiss bar is a quadruple entandre, 1. Hailie Jade 2. The litteral rap game on lock 3. Jada/ Lox 4. His hair used to be blonde, but it's changed and is dark now hair=locks Nasty bar

Heck no! MGK is lucky Slim Shady didn't write this. Em went easy on him, Slim would've slaughtered him. 😵‍💫

The PAC line aged so well cause a few years later the detective of the case said that Diddy was in the car who killed PAC and that he was the one who organized the kill, and that Diddy will never admit it 🔥🔥

I love reaction channels because it gives me a good reason to rewatch stuff like this. The difference between the two tracks is staggering in so many ways. Absolutely decimated lmao.

It still makes me giggle at the fact that it only took Em 15 minutes to write this song or whatever it was. And the fact that Dre told him to cut some out just shows how good he is at this. Amazing.

Till this day KILLSHOT still one of the greatest diss records in Hip-Hop history 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯

I’ve been listening to this song for 5 years now and still discovering new layers to the song.

Everything MGK has done since this battle has done nothing but confirm that he isn't as hard as he thought he was. I mean....he's emo now for fuck sake lol

Em’a lyrics have so many fucking levels. I’m still catching things YEARS later in songs I’ve heard a hundred times. He so brilliant.

I still get chills from catching bars and reading things in comments that i missed after all this time. EM is seriously a divine rap alien sent from the ether of the universe to teach us plebs we really only use 10% of our brains while he's on 150%

The shit I find funny from the people that hated this diss track is, they say em's being petty talking about how much money he makes knowing em put a disclaimer saying who's gonna out petty who, then proceeds to touch on every single word MGK stated in rap devil. But the same haters thought mgk's your beard is weird line was epic.

Even now. Everytime I listen to this I catch another bar, or double in this track. A masterpiece in dismembering a human.

I'm still waiting for 'The Ringer' from you. One of my favourite tracks. I know you'd appreciate it so much! The goat showing as usual why he's the goat but in a such unique way. Anyway, very glad you covered this. Enjoyed every second 😊

Everyone misses the “nail in the coffin” line. It’s a throwback to his Benzino diss track nail in the coffin

Eminem scared him into a totally different genre so bad he got into rock and tried to diss one of the greatest rock/metal bands in history, Slipknot.

Absolutely flawless breakdown of the bars Cliff, my god. I wouldn't of caught ANY of the layers of how fucked up these punches were without that. You really showed some professional grade skill in how you analyzed all that. I'm literally taking notes on how perfectly you paused and reacted to each bar. Crazy respect for everything you do man, absolutely blessed to see this channel thriving fr

You'll love Royce and Em doing Caterpillar. Bars on bars on bars on bars. Much love as always from Edinburgh Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 ✌🏻 Edit: Em slays the second half of the track like only he can.🔥

“Say you got me in a scope but you GRAZE me” He’s the GOAT and you graze him as in feed him.

I appreciate that you picked up on bars other content creators missed. I also love your honest reactions. Goof is listed as a negative term in Canada referring to prison inmates that were informants, child murderers, or child molesters. Personally, I think Em was referring to MGK this way because Hailie was underage when MGK turned his attention that way.

Watching your videos can be dangerous, I've been here for around 3 hours just watching and clicking on random videos that catch my eye 🤣 definitely one of the better reactors out there, you deserve farrr more recognition

Imma say this for anybody that even tries to attempt to go against Eminem, Just DONT! Just leave that man alone😭💀

Okay, there's a level of diss here that almost EVERYONE misses unless they've been involved with or lived on the periphery of the crystal meth scene, as Em did for much of his early life. What's more "poor white trailer trash" than meth abuse? It also often goes hand in hand with the opiate scene. IMO, a lot of his lines are playing at MGK's history as a meth dealer: the toothpick line (MGK is visibly identifiable as a tweaker), the cereal line (food is harder to chew and eat when you're tweaking, so tweakers lean heavily to cereals because they're easier to eat and the sweetness is a lot more palatable.) The "hold steel/still" line? Tweakers are notoriously twitchy motherfuckers that can't hold still... or hit a target to save their lives. 100%, Em's low-key calling MGK a fucking tweaker!

The Movie “Killshot” has a shooter named Colson that is killed by a US Marshal! MGK first name is Colson and Em’s is Marshal! 👀 Genius there is also a rumor that the planes #6B311 6 feet deep I’ll give you a B for the effort but even if I was 3’11?.. Wow unbelievable

The entire Jadakiss scheme is unbelievable. "Aint nothing change but the locks". The Lox referring to the group, the locks referring to his lock on the game, the locks referring to his hair no longer being blonde. "Give Jade a kiss" he says this at 2:17 in the track which has obvious on the surface references to Jadakiss being in The Lox, Jade being his daughter's middle name, but also Jadakiss's album called Kiss of Death (makes the kissing noise) which is what he's doing to MGK. But even more insane is that he says this at 2:17 when Kiss of Death is Jadakiss's second album (2) and the 17th (17) track on there is self titled "Kiss of Death" hence the 2:17 timing. Mind blowing.

EMINEM is literally a LEGEND idek why mgk tried him smh

"Watching 8mile on my Nordictrack" HOLY Sht. Not only is he saying that he is watching a whole movie on a treadmill but he is also implying that he does 8 miles on it.......... and 8 mile is his movie.

Mgk said in rap devil “last time you saw 8 mile was at home on the treadmill” which is why em said “was watching 8 mile on my Nordic Track”.

Hold still and hold steel (as in a gun) saying he's gunless. Ems levels still surprise me. So much depth

I know you don’t want to listen to too much Em, but Caterpillar with 5’9 is fucking awesome. I’d love to hear your breakdown. Keep up the awesome work 🙏🏼

The lox line is so slept on. Yes face value bar with the reference to Hailie Jade, but “ain’t nothing changed but the locks” (his hair is no longer died blonde.) locks used to be used when someone cut a snippet of hair from a passed on loved one. Fire line. Modern day Shakespeare. Master of his craft. Fight me. 😂

Fun fact, Eminem completed this song in less than 20 minutes while MGK needed a few days to do his

Finding this video in 2024 on a random KZfaq suggestion. Let me just say, hearing people react to the overt bars is awesome and great content. But there is something totally different to someone who understands the craft on a deeper level reacting to this song. Catching all of the meanings and sub meanings. Amazing video.

A cool double most reactors miss is the “money in ‘02” line. It could also be read as “money n O2”, O2 being the molecular formula for oxygen. Oxygen is required to burn money. And you have plenty of fresh O2 when you’re getting that crisp, clean air at the top.

The fact mgk changed after this, proves how you DO NOT STEP TO EM! He will literally make you change your life!

Great diss track - and great breakdown Cliff! Someone else has probs mentioned it, but there is old movie called ‘Killshot’ where the character, Colson (MGK’s real name) is taken down by the ‘Marshall’! Coincidence?!? I doubt it!!!

MGK should be thankful Eminem wrote Killshot and Slim Shady didnt write it

The amount of flow changes em does is a thing of beauty. 🐐

Oh shit even the tooth pick line is a call back to the Giant line. Giants in mythology ate humans and used the bones as tooth picks.

I'm glad to see someone else caught that supplying smoke line. A lot of people breaking down this track missed it.

When he called him a lil goof I lost it 🤣🤣🤣

There was a movie called Killshot where a dude named Colson (MGK real name) got it. Also the rhyme schemes where like elementary compared to EM...you can watch the vid by crypt or Reggie, but I'm sure you're at the same level. I LOVE YOUR REACTION!

This song is so complex that it's crazy. Some reactors said that it was not really a killshot and I was losing my mind, on how? This song is more complex than MGK's entire discography. Just a couple of things that has not been mentioned in this reaction or was not clear to me 100%. - The video on Insta of Em playing pac-man. It was released on an anniversary of a Tupac diss if I'm not mistaken, forshadowing what is going to happen, which is already crazy, but Killshot was released on september 14, which is the anniversary of Patrick Swayze's death, another reference of MGK being made a ghost. Just in pre-release Em had these crazy stuff, just with that he already killed MGK. -Rihanna line, "compliment me on the next", as far as I am aware, hickeys are also called compliments on the neck. - That Tupac line, it's so multi layered. The day MGK put out a hit (song) is when Diddy admits. Implying MGK will never put out a hit because there is no way in hell or heaven Diddy admits to that, but at the same time Em implies what Diddy did it, just won't admit to, which is an absolutely brutal, gut wrenching blow in my book. -Lil Tay was an internet persona, became famous for being an unbearable, shitty little brat with money, uploading shitty, whiny videos. That has to burn. - If what you said in your Rap Devil reaction, that MGK might have had help in his 4th verse has any merit to it, or if it even exists as a rumour, than the Phone Bill line is another heartless turn of the knife in MGK's heart, because his phone bills run up due to recruiting aid on the phone. He said he is running up on Em, like his phone bills for help. Jesus Christ, the implications of that. And for most people, I'd say that's a coincidence. For Em though? He proved he has an insanely complex mind and bearing in mind how deeply Em is connected to the music industry, if there is any rumour about that, we have to think that it was intentional in there. Anyway, awesome reaction as always, you are such a treat to watch every. single. time. I'm glad I met your channel in the recommendations some time ago, best content I consumed here in ages. Keep up the good work, you are much appreciated = ))

Love how Em effortlessly employs several changes of cadence, with each one flowing right across the beat regardless!

Em in this song sits in off beat pockets to make a percussion from him rapping to make the song even better sounding, who does that, NO ONE DOES OTHER THAN EM

Your break downs are very good. Much better than most reaction channels that don’t have a clue what they’re talking about or miss 90% of the bars lol

Fun fact, a theory suggests that Eminem named the track “kill shot” after the movie kill shot about a hit man that tries to kill a guy named Colson, mgk’s name is colson.

Hands down the best Kill Shot reaction. The breakdown is on point. 🔥

"Your Reply".... "Crowd Yelling ooh" "before you die".... "out petty who" "corny lines"... "ouh Kelly Ooh" "forty five"... "out selling you" That rhyme scheme is perfection

Funny thing that 2pac line. "This idiot's boss pops kills and tells him he got skills" His boss is in fact Diddy since MGK was signed to Bad Boy Records at the time and still is. Then the Pac line. Yeah those are shots at Diddy telling him to make MGK go away or I am coming for that ass.

Layers like an onion. This was a masterpiece

"…Fill a whole page with a 10 year olds rage. Got more fan than you in your own city, little kitty go play, feel like I’m babysitting lil Tay" is the best line in this entire battle

Em was very kind to not even mention MGK’s Plastic surgery… Em went easy on him and still killed him. Now he’s had to quit rap and become a pop star with a paid escort tabloid girlfriend.

I wish more people would go after eminem. It gives us good tracks to react too from the OG battle rapper

When you're breaking bars, you're giving us fellow writers game. Much appreciated.

I think a whole track was more than MGK deserves but also exactly what he wanted.

A lot of people don't realize how hard the swayze line hits either. He dropped this song on Sep. 14th. The nine year anniversary of Patrick swayze's death date.

How he rides that beat is insane

From what I have heard, in Detroit being called a goof is the same as calling someone a child molester/pedophile

What some forget is that Em wrote and put this out only two weeks or less after Kelly's diss. Just a beast Em #1

OMG THANKS

"Nothin's changed but the locks" meaning Em's hair has changed over the years from his early-days blond dye job.

And to think Em wasn’t even using his full power. I feel like he was just giving MGK a spanking like he was a misbehaving child.😂

. Mannn!!! Amazing review!! I like how u got the "jada kiss/Haile Jade kiss" and the reference to "go to sleep" song!! FIRE BRO 🔥🔥🔥

The whole "locks/Jade a kiss" line was absolutely ridiculous. You got all of the parts except one: Em was originally blond-haired when he first started out, but he took the bleach out and went back to his natural brown. So he changed his LOCKS of hair. Plus the "LOX/Jadakiss", "give (Hailie) Jade a kiss" schemes 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🔥🔥😂

Eminem wrote this kill shot in 13 minutes..this is why he's a GOAT...

I like ur reaction style. I prefer reactions with pauses. It’s the only way to ensure u break it all down. If u wait till the end u can’t remember it all in one shot.

“Nothings changed but the locks/LOX” you nailed it, feel like it also refers to the different hair color of the “new Em” lol. Triple threat. SUPER sneaky.

I love the breakdown of some of the more complex bars! Thanks Cliff, and I laugh at anyone saying you missed the easy bars - do they really expect you to make a 6 hour reaction to breakdown every little thing?! Damned if you do and damned if you don’t! Just stay true to you - your subscribers think the channel is great 😊

I'm surprised that a lot of reactions don't catch the line, " to spend the whole day just to dig your own grave" because it's a reference to mgk having a shovel over his shoulder in the rap devil video! He had a shovel in the video and therefore dug his own grave making the song and video!!!

"Ain't nothing changed but the locks" Locks also meaning hair, as in from his blonde Shady hairstyle to his current (at time of release) natural one.

Finally a real reaction video about this song, you take the time to properly analyze it and understand the whole thing instead of just staying if front of the camera shouting "OMG WTF OMG HO NO HE DIDNT !!!" while using crappy laptop speakers like so many others did... Thank you so much for this

You have to love that "Gotta wake up Labor Day to diss (to this)" line even though everyone sleeps on it. 1. "to this" referring to the chatter surrounding Rap Devil. 2. "to diss" referring to the disses in Rap Devil. 3. "to diss" referring to how now Em has to respond and diss MGK. There were so many clever word plays in this track, but this one always gets me because it's so simple that it goes undetected a lot and yet, here you are and it's layered as hell.

I love this guys facial expressions lol

I am so glad you got the "Swayze" bar.. so good

"The game's mine again & aint nothing changed but the locks" also him changing his bleach blonde back to his regalar dark hair... on top of the other schemes 😂

“Slim you’re old, oww Kelly ooo” - those are sarcasm but also old man noises hahaha

MGK’s response to this? Not a track, but a Breakfast Club interview. Which is a total disaster like watching a car crash in slow motion. Something that you MUST watch 😂

The Ending bar hits harder when you realize that did he probably did not put out the hit so he would never admit that he put out a hit. Which then means that MGK will not ever have a hit.

I'm revisiting these reaction videos. And finding new reactions to my favorite songs by Eminem. This is one of them in 2023 💯

I’ve watched a lot of reactions to this Diss but this was the best. Your the only one who truly took apart the bars to understand not only the Diss but the poetry and intricacies of Eminem’s talent. I can’t say I’m a die hard ‘Em fan but I’ve been around long enough to watch him from the beginning and his talent is incredible. This won’t be popular but I’m old and I don’t care about popularity any more. In my opinion Young Boy is the talent that is going to be looked back on the same way. Get past his past and listen to his bars and you will hear the same intricate bars. Remember he is young still and hopefully he will have time to grow into his craft even more. Love your channel I’ll be watching more .

The heart attack/watching 8 mile on my nordic track/forgot to call you back... Its a direct response to mgk saying he was on his nordic track watching 8 mile. It was actually friggin genius. 🤣