Okay, this song is a cash grab, it is, which is why I was mad at first, it's obviously just a cash grab, it's as disingenuous as you can get, it's a calculated move. 

But that doesn't mean I can't talk about why it doesn't work.

I mentioned just a bit ago how try hard White Boy was, well in this one he tries to change the whole thing and all the sudden he went from that angry delivery before, to a delivery where he acts like he doesn't care about anything, and my god it doesn't work. 

Dude, you can't do that, you can't go from "I think of my grandmother when you say all your hateful words" to "Haha I'm not even mad" that tonal shift is too fucking different.

I used the word offended earlier, and I wasn't trying to be dismissive, that's just how it was, he sounded offended, like, really offended, like somebody had said something really fucking terrible that was fucking with him. You don't just make a song that dead serious and then pretend you never cared. 

It would be like Hopsin immediately after Ill Mind 7 being like, "I don't even caaaaaaaaaaaaare about religion" 

Or Eminem acting like he never cared about Haley's name being dropped

It would be fooling exactly nobody

But moreover, the actual lyrics of the song are just stupid. 

He basically lists all these different groups of people and how each one hate him. 

But dude, that's called the price of fame

ANYONE could make that song, anyone, anyone of any background could talk about how "every group" hates them

why? 

Because I guarantee you, at least one member of every major demographic hates you.

As I said, "price of fame", no matter who you are, black, white, goat, anybody, you will get hated on, and it will come from every side. 

There's a phrase I've heard and even used a few times, and it goes "you can't please an sjw", no matter what you do, they will ALWAYS find something to get mad at. And it's not just the group we normally associate with that term, there are "sjws" on the right and the left. The term is kinda useless now, but to me the trait that defines it is somebody who goes into every situation looking for something to be offended by. There are people like this under every single belief system, and we all have to deal with them, and when you get famous, that means you're now dealing with ALL of them, instead of just the few you meet by chance.

That's reality, this whole song feels like somebody who had no idea that was true seeing it was real, and now pretending that it's only him it happens to.

Hilariously, this is something that "sjws" do constantly, they'll take hate comments and death threats, something EVERYONE gets, and use it to pretend their oppressed. And anyone can do this, ANYONE, you just hopefully won't because you realize how fucking stupid it is.

But yeah, it doesn't matter anyways, it's a cash grab, it's just fluff to make people angry. All furthered by the video. 

But after hearing it a few times I started finding it funny.

I'm having a hard time describing why, maybe it's because he both failed miserably and succeeded incredibly at the same time.

Like the song said, he is pretty much sitting back and getting rich, but at the same time, the fact he thinks his situation is special, and the fact that he's trying to go from whiteboy to this, makes it feel like a kid wrote it after being on the internet for more than 2 minutes. 

He opens with crying from Mac's prospective, where he rides the advantage from before, that was good idea. Probably the best way to start it, so point for him there.

But then immediately his first line sucks.

Talking about how old a rapper is is just weak. It's not a legit insult, it doesn't speak to talent or anything, and HE'S ONLY 7 YEARS OLDER THAN YOU!

For comparison, during the MGK vs EMINEM beef, MGK played the age card, mgk is 29, Eminem is 46, there's a sizable difference, it makes sense. But even though it makes sense, it was still a bad idea, it still landed flat. It makes you look desperate.

When dissing somebody, or arguing with somebody, or fucking anything ever here's a rule never give them something to discredit you with when you talk about age, you sound like you have nothing of actual substance to say, it sounds like you had to resort to something superficial because you have nothing else. 

Even if that's not the case, that's what it sounds like, never play the age card, for the love of god, and if you do, play it once, the more you use it the worse it gets, it feels like you have nothing to say.

And it just doesn't make sense anymore. In rap all the most respected names are either fucking dead or old as hell, nobody cares about age. I guess the newschool trap crowd does sometimes, but those people are so fucking hated it's insane, and Tom is not a part of that, so calling him an old man is just a bad fucking idea. 

And furthermore, in internet terms, it makes no sense, if you call somebody an old man you're implying they don't know how the internet works, Mac does, it's not like he did something that most people don't do online, you have no case to make. So already that's a shitty opening, and opening are so fucking important, largly because of the principle i just mentioned

"Never give them something to discredit you with"

When somebody is apposing you, the instant they find something you fucked up on, they'll use it as validation for your whole argument being bad. 

That's why Killshot opened with some of the stupidest lines from Rap Devil. The moment you hear that your mind goes "oh yeah, that did suck" 

Is that fair? No, you're fighting them, of course it's not fair.

So keep that shit as far from your opening lines as you can. 

Anyways, that said. Point against him.

"It's impossible to make this guy look any worse" 

This line doesn't work against Mac, he has a good reputation, people like him. His brand as of late has been about helping random strangers, if this line was used against somebody everyone already hated, that'd be one thing, but most people had no real opinion on Mac Lethal, so, that's a throwaway. This wouldn't be much of a problem but, you wanna who does that have a reputation that would warrant that quote? Him, Tom, so maybe don't bring up outsets, they're not your friend here.

Then he makes a reference to the oxycotton thing, not the worst line, it's made a bit bad by the fact that there's a lot of sympathy for him, but still not horrible, especially because of the second half of the line.

But then he brings up age again and makes himself look stupid. 

After that, he has a decent line about Mac being washed up. 

But then makes a diss towards our boys, which would end up backfiring during Mac's response with "you diss icp, homie, your girl's a juggalette", which, yeah, if that's the case that line was a bad fucking idea.

Then he mentions his age AGAIN while dissing his name. And then talks about a bunch of stuff that he's implying will happen but hasn't, which doesn't work because you're dissing the name he CURRENTLY has. So that whole line is botched. 

Then he says "you ain't a real artist you just retarded" which just makes him sound like a 5 year old.

And then follows that up with what might be the first ACTUAL criticism in the song (besides the sobbing) that his bars are filler despite his speed. 

*insert yay sound effect* 

You did it! 

You wrote an actual line. 

Congrats.

Then he brings up the tweet again, good idea, but the delivery on that part is just annoying.

Yet again he's trying to do his whole "I don't care" shtick, that nobody is buying.

And this is followed by the mistake of falling into your own criticism

He calls himself a "visionary" and calls Mac a Parody.

Dude

Everybody already thinks you're ungodly pretentious, don't, give, them, ammunition. 

You're not a respected name, you're in an upward battle when it comes to flexing your talent.

And this is followed by calling Mac gay, which, yet again, leads into the image everybody hates him for, but, more importantly (as mac points out in his response), he is not in a position to say somebody else looks gay, fucking look at him. 

In what way does Mac look gay? I can think of several that Tom does, but not fucking Mac. 

Anyways, stupid line,

and is immediately followed by saying he has writer's block and that he doesn't write songs.

Okay, that's not horrible, he hasn't put out an album in an eternity, but, he fucks it up by BRINGING UP AGE AGAIN. 

Well kinda, he calls him a mid life crisis, which still doesn't work (well at least it didn't, I'll get to that later), he's still only 7 years older than you, and he's put together fine, I guess the song "Watchmaker's Theory" seems kinda mid life crisisish, but it's not reflected in anything else he does, he's coping fine.

Then he mentions selling out shows in his town, which, coupled with a previous line about "reviving Mac's career" makes sense. 

He also calls himself "all facts", which would have worked if that was true about the song at all, holy shit.

He actually ends with the best lines in the song, so that part is pretty good, but it hardly makes up for this fucking train wreck. 

First thing to address, his speed, Mac's songs in general are of a quicker pace than Tom's, obviously, even though he doesn't go all out in this song (which, may or may not have been a good idea for a diss, hard to say), it's still sort of a constant reminder of the talent Mac has that Tom doesn't (that talent being speed, I'm not saying he's definitively better, not taking sides). Sounds like a no brainer, but It'll be important way later.

Okay, he starts out calling him a female, I have no idea why, but it's not really wasted I suppose, because it helped him make fun of Tom visually in the video, despite his normal youtuber set up, so, throwaway line, but I'm sure it worked for some people. And I guess it makes sense in the context of Tom's persona.

Anyways, second line he makes fun of Tom for "arguing with strangers" online, and, this is immediately a good choice, Tom mentioned age a thousand fucking times in his diss, so making fun of something people associate with, you know, 13 year olds, is a good choice.

This will come up a lot, mocking Tom for having a frail ego, and essentially calling him an insecure child. In the context of Tom's persona, this one hits pretty hard.

He then mentions Tom's past as not being at all equivalent to this persona, good decision for any rap diss, seeing as it's seen as a big deal.

Then he mocks the song Everybody Hates Me, which is a fucking stupid song for a million reasons. This is what I mean by he took advantage of all the things he could, all his points are well constructed and hit on Tom's easily exploitable weaknesses.

Next line is a throwaway, not bad, but, a throwaway, but, here's the thing, in a faster paced song, you can get away with throwaway lines, as apposed to Tom who had a ton of them, but, because of the pace, they were much more damaging, simply because, you know, less lines per minute. When you have a small number, you need to chose them more wisely, which he didn't, which makes mac look a lot better by comparison.

Anyways, after that he hits another point that Tom was "offended" by Mac's tweet, and, in the context of the failed attempts to pretend he doesn't care, makes it work. 

Then he calls out, yet again, saying Tom is sensitive, despite his gimmick of saying everybody else is.

This works extremely well, because, yet again, Whiteboy was ridiculously sensitive (shit I'm repeating myself), it hits on that again.

But, not just that, that criticism is one that's hit people like Tom since forever, it's something EVERYONE calls them out for, and it applies to Tom even more. So yeah, that's a solid line. And it's furthered by the rest of the line.

I should clarify though, these aren't genius or anything, Tom is kiiiiiiiind of an easy target, especially after that shitty diss, just thought I'd point that out.

Next Line

You rappin' like you wanna "Make America Great Again" But you're not even American, Tammy, you’re Canadian

I'm mixed on this line, on the one hand, this leads into a later line where he calls tom "a canadian that would do anything to be american" and, that shit's just hilarious, but on the other hand, maybe I'm wrong about this, but, aside from that cringy hat in the Everybody Hates Me video, he doesn't seem to support MAGA people that much, maybe he is now, but it didn't seem like that at all from the start. But, it's still a good line nonetheless.

Most of the rest of the song is honestly pretty much the same throughout, he hits every point he could, so I'll just do a rundown.

- He counters the points about being irrelivant by bringing up that his past success is way larger than Tom's, a pretty good retort, best option he had.

- He brings up Tom's stupid ass gay line by bringing up what I said earlier, he's the last fucking person who can say someone else looks gay.

- Another good line "meet me at the bank and ima kill you there, white on white violence..." this is part of the first point I mentioned, but also brings up what I mentioned near the beginning, the guy whose whole thing was being a white guy that black guys hated wound up in a beef with a white guy, it's an irony that speaks for itself

- He disses his over the top appearance, yet again works great because of all those "your old" comments. 

I don't really have that many complaints, the AIDS comment was a bad idea due to one of the lines in Tom's song where he said that Tom was all facts and Mac was rumors. Though, it wasn't totally flat.

Also, the last line was a little, idk, risky? If it turns out he wins this decisively, that would have been an amazing line, but if not, it's just dead air.

First off, the tempo, this was the best choice in the song, I mentioned before how Mac's pace was a constant reminder of the shit he can do, well in this song Tom picks it up, and it sort of mentally evens the playing field, his delivery is really good in this song, and because of that, it helps combat the obvious comparison everyone is going to make. It was a good plan, and it worked in that regard. 

The song is filled with lines that hit pretty hard.

The one he hits the most is Mac's addiction problems, you can call that low, but, yeah, that's the idea.

He counters plenty of points

He mentions how much more money he has.

The stuff about his girlfriend, he responds with a diss back,

He uses Toms kinda nerdy image against him HARDCORE, something he was obviously saving for this

He counters the Wrestling part by essentially saying "your past is even worse", this doesn't counter it perfectly, but it works okay.

He also mocks the nature of Mac's videos.

Fuck it, I'm done.