I Shouldn’t Care About This Shyne “You’re Welcome” Diddy Diss, But I Do (Listen & Download) Posted by Nathan S. on 08/22/12 | Filed under Downloads, Diddy, Shyne

I'm not the first person to say that hip-hop is often just soap operas for men, but it's true. Friends torn apart? Jealousy and passion over a woman leads to fights? Double and triple crosses? Sometimes the game feels like it's more of an episode of "As the World Turns" than the art form Kool Herc founded.

So honestly, I wish I was above caring about Shyne's new diss track to Diddy. I actively tried not to care, but I just couldn't help myself. I listened to Shyne's new Diddy "diss", aka "You're Welcome", and then I read the full recap over at MissInfo. So fuck it, if you're reading this too, you just can't keep away from this shit either. Let's just dive right in.

As simply put as possible, Shyne's more than a little salty that he's currently sitting in Belize and Diddy refuses to help him get back into the U.S. So to get back at Combs he's finally released this thoroughly mediocre diss track. "You're Welcome" isn't exactly the second coming of "Ether", Diddy will brush this off like an elephant brushing off a fly, but there's still some good shit to dig into here:

"This kid got millions, that’s how he talks
Should’ve took that paper, made his soul walk.
Talking about he ain’t responsible for my actions
Man, if I was yapping the world, would know what happened
Them kids was about to wrap him
Shyne, they should thank him. But nooooo, they hate him."

I think Shyne is over-estimating Diddy's pull just a tad. Combs' power and money might get him into any club in Ibiza, but it's not like he can ship off a case of Ciroc to the U.S. Immigration Department and get Shyne back into the country. To paraphrase Diddy himself, "Fuck yo dreams, this is reality." And the federal government only traffics in reality.

Still, Shyne's got one hell of a fucking point. I don't think there's anyone who thinks Diddy didn't throw Shyne under the bus so he could stay out of jail. Diddy doesn't owe Shyne everything, but he owes him a whole fucking lot. Sweet baby jesus Diddy, you're worth $550 million, and if it weren't for Shyne your pretty face would be getting traded for a carton of cigarettes instead of signing deals with Ciroc.

Fine, maybe you can't get the man out of Belize, then buy him his own village in Belize. You're letting Cassie go on million dollar shopping sprees, the least you could do is make sure Shyne's taken care of for the rest of his life.

But I think we all know how this will play out. Diddy will ignore Shyne and just keep getting richer, Shyne will stay stuck in Belize and become increasingly irrelevant, and the world will forget that "You're Welcome" ever existed. Hell, the world will probably forget "You're Welcome" ever existed by next Tuesday. But for now, yeah, I still kind of care about this shit.

See Also: Fails of the Week: Shyne & Diddy's Bizarre Reunion