Digital Beef 101: How To Win A YouTube Video Battle

Rappers aren't the only ones trading jabs on YouTube these days. Learn about the most trusted beef tactics before you turn the camera on.

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What's beef, anyway? Is it talking greasy about your daughter for having octuplets after already having six kids? Is it slagging on your tween pop-sensation colleague? Prolly not, but that doesn't stop everyone and their artificially-inseminated grandmother from taking their feuds to YouTube.

If you're gonna go the digital route, though, you might want to take a second and get familiar with the new art of war, as pioneered by the original catfighters: rappers! Read on to see the 5 best ways to win a shit-talking video battle...


#5: TAKE THE MORAL HIGH ROAD
See: Joe Budden deflating Ransom
Sometimes it's not about record sales. Or record deals. Or, uh, ever having a record out. Sometimes it's about pride. And sometimes it's just better to kick your feet up and lay your head back on your girl's preternaturally fat ass.

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