Osama vs Dre

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	Osama vs Dre
Artist(s)	D-Sisive
Genre	Rap Parody
Year	2002
Original poster	Jamie North
Search duration	2007 - 2024
	File:OsamaBinLadenDiss.mp3

Osama vs Dre (previously known as "Osama Bin Laden Diss") is a solved parody rap song released in 2002 by rapper D-Sisive. The track samples Dr. Dre's The Watcher and has been misattributed to Eminem because the artist performing it has a similar flow to him.

History

In 2001 after the September 11th attacks, Dr. Dre had announced a diss track against the Taliban.^[1] The parody song, published online sometime after this, references Dre's statements and uses the beat from his 1999 song "The Watcher,". The song features a man imitating Osama Bin Laden while insulting Dre and referencing the events of September 11th.

The song has been frequently misattributed to Eminem due to somewhat similar styles between his tracks and the diss. This was furthered by the fact Eminem has impersonated Bin Laden before.^[2] A friend of Eminem, Mr Porter, refuted this speculation in a currently deleted tweet.^{[citation needed]}

Background

The oldest known reupload of the song is a torrent file uploaded to the Pirate Bay on August 17th, 2005 by user DaBomb.^[3]

An earlier upload of the song was traced back to a post on the somaliaonline forums on January 12th, 2006, which linked to an inaccessible "Radio Baranbaro" music page.^[4]

Initial investigation suggested that x391 had made the song, as he was one of the first known uploaders of the song to YouTube and hadn't posted anything before or since.^[5] This was debunked when an older sample of the song was found in a video by JESSON12, who uploaded an incomplete snippet of it on August 18th, 2006.^[6]

Debunked leads include popular parody rapper Rucka Rucka Ali, known for offensive covers and impersonations of Osama Bin Laden,^[7] and Denace, a rapper known for making Eminem-style tracks. Both of them were contacted by COBYSUCKS and both denied making the track in private messages.^[8]

Discovery

On August 3rd, 2024, YouTube user Nodele discovered that the song's original source was a website called passthemic.com, which was posted on February 4th, 2002, and tagged as "Osama vs Dre" by Jamie North.^[9]^[10]

On August 11th, 2024, YouTube user COBYSUCKS! identified the song as "Osama vs Dre" by Canadian rapper D-Sisive, after contacting fellow rapper Spesh K, who knew the artist and had previously credited the song to D-Sisive in a 2011 tweet.^[11]

References

How The 20 Year Old Eminem Mystery Was Finally Solved - COBYSUCKS!

[1] ttps://www.nme.com/news/music/dr-dre-110-1378425

[2] ttps://www.mtv.com/news/a7l9ev/eminem-dresses-up-like-bin-laden-for-without-me-video

[3] ttps://tpb.party/torrent/3371103/Osama_Bin_Laden_-_Dr._Dre_Diss.mp3

[4] ttps://www.somaliaonline.com/community/topic/8018-osama-bin-laden-disses-dr-dre/

[5] ttps://www.youtube.com/user/x391

[6] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snqZRy_bJC0

[7] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hWVSvzh9os

[8] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIrlhUuFcAg

[9] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20020717183651/http://www.passthemic.com/showcase/rating_detail.asp?id=1364

[10] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20021119061600/http://www.passthemic.com:80/showcase/viewprofile.asp?id=723

[11] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whTF_-mGB4

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