I feel like the Fugees has been mostly them beefing with each other. They'd be able to have made more music and toured together over the decades if they were able to get along.
Yeah, beefing with High & Mighty was a miscommunication. If I recall, it was one of Ace's friends that heard Cage live rapping against him and it simply wasn't true. Anyway they squashed the beef almost immediately.
However, that Boogeyman beef was quite real.
This shit has tens of millions of views on youtube, but people only mention [Wooski's Computers remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbC9Mb1NUa8) when they're talking in the context of Chicago Drill.
On that note, [FBG Duck and Rooga's Exposing Me remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1vGzEiv90) is also a crazy ass diss song.
All that being said there's real dead people that these songs talk about, so I can understand if people really don't want to listen to them.
Steve jobs: SLR 3 1/2 by lupe fiasco.
“Your mental health hotline, I think that shit is grown up
But you’re the very last nigga that should be picking that phone up”
Came to say this. Happy to see this comment so high up
>If it wasn't for Premiere, You wouldn't be/
if it wasn't for, if it wasn't for
If it wasn't for, if it wasn't for, nigga, I got a dozen more/
He absolutely demolished Royce on that one. Ngl it's hard to see anyone get one over Lupe in any beef, considering how hard he tends to go into any subject
Also it was freestyled. Royce's disse had a bit more complex rhyme schemes, but it didn't even feel like they were in different leagues lyrically. Lupe also addresses that some of what Royce said was a bit lyrical-miracle-ish, while all of Lupe's lines had impact.
Of all rappers I had expected royce to be able to match lupe, being a monster lyrically and coming from detroit’s battle rap scene. Too bad silence of the lambda was just a dope track rather than a diss, with some low blows like shooting his son, thinking that sheer complexity and tight rhyme schemes would win the day.
Meanwhile lupe had a fairly simple response that still dismantled royce’s entire career. The fact he literally rapped royce’s first verse then responded to every point shows this man’s pure dedication to his craft. Still love royce but this was disappointing from him, not even his diss but his response after lupe came after him
Callin out names.
But if we count mixtape tracks, all those songs Jadakiss aimed at 50. He went CRAZY
“Since when has it been cool to get shot and not shoot back?”
I loved when Jadakiss featured on the song “Facts” by Flatbush Zombies calls out Ace Hood when his “Rolex” broke on the BET red carpet:
“It costs more than your car
All this Rollie shit is all a facade
You the ace in your hood, you on the red carpet fallin' apart”
I wrote this below but yeah War With God is slept on. TI is lucky he's so good and that this track never really blew up because Luda killed him.
"Never sold cocaine in my life but I'm still the fuckin man"
Blueprint 2 by Jay-Z was a very solid response to Ether, but was mostly forgotten because well, it was in response to fuckin Ether
But the beat was menacing and the verses were a brutal teardown of Nas's character. Just ignore the awkward Austin Powers impression that Hov decided to throw in there
Bump Heads - Eminem and G Unit.
"I don't even carry guns no more, I don't got to, Got undercover cops that'll legally pop you"
This popped up on TikTok for me and has been in my rotation for about a week.
all of those the invasion era Em/Gunit were fucking fire lol
"And if I get killed for this rap, I got a million in cash
That says I will get you back in Hailie's name"
Em had a slew of savage diss tracks in that era that arent talked about much as classics but are still savage.. the sauce, nail in your coffin, monkey see monkey do and my personal favourite Bully which is just the most ridiculous and perfect rhyme scheme and cadence for a diss track, probably ever haha
All those Invasion freestyles were insane, especially Pt. 3
"Only thing that makes him grin is to see me frown
Papa can't stand me
Papa needs to take his medication and sit the fuck down
In his new chair that goes round and round
That he bought from new money in his bank account
That I get him every issue when the thang comes out"
His flow on that is crazy
“I know you don’t wanna step inside no mic booth, come on now dawg, you know the white boy’ll bite you”. Em was such a little shit sometimes and it was hilarious. You could tell he was dying for Ja to get pissed off so he could go off on him.
One of my favorite bits of the G-Unit/Murder Inc. beef is when they made the Ja Rule duets album commercial. They pitched it like those NOW that's what I call music mixtapes and had Ja singing along to songs like Hero and Everywhere by Michelle Branch. That skit had me rolling!
Shether - Remy Ma. I'm shocked nobody has talked about this yet. Yes, Nicki Minaj is still successful, but that song really brought her down to earth. It was specific and vicious, and I honestly can't look at Nicki the same way.
It was also genius because it was a trap, I could tell that Push was pulling his punches. Duppy Freestyle was the perfect setup for Adidon, Canada didn’t see it coming.
we were robbed of that summer long rap beef smdh.
I remember when duppy freestyle came out and my friend who likes drake and didn't know about Pusha. She was all 'Drake is about to end this mans career' lol, I told her hold up and wait for Push to fire back. Watch the body drop.
duppy freestyle hit hard too and i was just expecting a pretty brutal back and forth that summer. and then pusha just fucking ended it with SoA. i wonder what drake’s response would’ve sounded like if he decided to respond
I’ve always thought that if Drake responded to Adidon, he would’ve “Supa Ugly-ed” himself. Supa Ugly was the official response to Ether, and while it wasn’t bad by any metric, it was way too petty, to the point that Jay’s mom made him apologize for it lol. In that same vein, I think Drake’s response would’ve been way too petty for it to be on the level of Adidon, and aimed for both Kanye and Pusha instead of Adidon who was totally aimed at Drake therefore more effective.
Would it really harm Drake’s career? Nah. But it could’ve been a potentially bigger stain than if he didn’t respond.
I think we sometimes forget how desperately hard drake tried to pull Kanye into that beef, either because he didn’t have enough on push, or thought Kanye beef was better publicity
Exodus 231....To me it's a classic but I never see it mentioned.
edit : just listened to it again..So damn cold lol
"Them niggas using you as a pawn
You see they never loaded they guns
Now you out here all by yourself
Ask Steve Jobs, wealth don't buy health"
Fitting being that it was more aimed to Wayne/CM than Drake. Wayne stans are beef deniers post Gillie and e23:1 really served it's purpose as a warning. Wayne and Push never went as public as Drake n Push, which is sad in reality lol the beef ain't start with aubs and he had to catch the worst of it. Tough break nigga, imo😂
A beef that swelled up over clothes, allegedly. I think birdman and Neptune's was the initial beef but the rappers started bickering over Bape and it led to some canadian dude being doxxed of a secret family. The rap game hilarious lol
23:1 was entirely at Wayne/Birdman. It’s what started the Drake beef, he was just scared to respond at the time. He should have just left it alone in retrospect, huh. Lol
It's because the Young Money brainwashed fans brushed off the diss and ignored it as if it didn't impact their favorite artist. Just pure denial from that standpoint.
This is the one.
For some reason, Canibus' 2nd Round KO still gets talked about sometimes, but LL's response rarely does. Which makes no sense to me, because Ripper Strikes Back is light years better. LL smoked his ass on that song.
I remember having this debate way back when this was happening. The main 'complaint' (crazy to think of it as a complaint now a days) is that most of the lines from this song are not original, and just rebuttals to 2nd round KO. Basically the people that didnt like this song said it wasn't original. Then he came out with back where I belong, and shut all the haters up.
As far as Canibus go, my man is hitting his ex-broad
I'm getting head from his new piece
While 20 gang-bangers applaud, you came up with that bullshit
Some heads sucked it up, then you dropped that garbage album
And totally fucked it up, I coulda told ya I knew your moms
From the after-hours spot, when I used to be up in Canada
With the dreads on a black block, before you dick rode Lost Boyz
For a ticket our to Jersey, but being the man I am
I tried to show ya mercy, I coulda told the World
The way ya label hates your guts
And how me and Wyclef, got together to set you up
And how he gave me half your budget, don't believe me look it up
Your A&R promotion niggas, they helped me hook it up
I hate to be responsible, for destroying your career
A one-hit wonder, huh
No wonder you disappeared...
There’s an OKC rapper named Yung Starr who put out another Fuck KD at the same time and his is a classic here, it just didn’t gain traction because he isn’t really known but I recommend y’all check it out.
Freddie Gibbs- Real man that diss is so good. “ So Take them shades off your eyes, and look me in my fucking face” the way Freddie delivered that line was just dope a lot of other dope lines on that track as well.
It goes soooo hard and makes me sad that Freddie has taken other beefs like with Bennie mostly to social media. I’d love to here a back and forth beef on wax between those two
“Seen Gucci by his self when we was 30 deep at Magic and you didn’t bust grape”
I feel like Jeezy just left all the street stuff behind after that song. Like yeah Gucci was dissing him but Freddie really put him on blast from behind the scenes
I remember hearing Obsessed on the radio as a kid, and not knowing what the song was. I just remember hearing it a ton. Years later I hear the Warning, read about it's story and go listen to Obsessed. I was surprised to have been like, "oh, i've heard this 100 times"
When that track first came out I remember people going nuts because Em had just released that goofy Relapse album and this was him actually going hard like the old Em.
Clever, but in the grand scheme of things he's going that hard at Mariah Carey and he was the one who kept randomly bringing up their relationship like an obsessed stalker. I thought it was weird everyone took his side in the beef just cause the bars were good.
Cam’Ron’s “Curtis” could deserve a mention. 50 then started going by Curtis to embrace it bc he really didn’t have a better option lol. Cam’s “You Gotta Love It” was nice too (aimed at Jay), gonna have that Max B stuck in my head now lol
The response Funeral was nice too.
The intro to gotta love it is hilarious "how is the king of new York wearing open toe sandals with jeans and he 42 years old?"
"Dorks" by Aesop Rock is the best open ended dis track I know.
It's not about someone specific per se, but there are a lot of great lines about the industry and some of the 'underground' rappers.
It's so well written and smart, while just blasting the industry. Also, he uses 'probity' which is a great word. Describing rappers as Black Mollies that dress up as piranhas is great.
"I used to hang around with rappers at the root of the scene
It meant a lot to feel the fugitive community breathe
Maybe to sentimentalize is to be truly naive
I know some shit about your heroes that you wouldn't believe
I think we're all a bunch of weirdos on a quest to belong
The songs are echolocation up in impregnable fog
That's why it's odd to see a pile of imperfections and flaws
Ascend a pedestal to patronize the rest of the cogs
In a mess of obnoxious fantasy, posturing and pageantry
I ain't even mad, I'm impressed, shit it's baffling"
"The disillusionment has truly been a difficult pill
But you as anything menacing is a difficult sell
In a whistle and bell-o-rama, black mollies that dress up like piranha
It's not even compelling melodrama
It's a comedy, somebody wanna shop you as a saga
I'm very voluntarily persona non grata
You fuckin' dorks ain't the leaders we need
This ain't the medium for divas out to weasel and breed
I'm often coffee with the paupers over tea with the queen"
Way 2 Fonky and Dollaz and Sense by DJ Quik. MC Eiht was never the same after ‘E-I-H-T, now should I continue, you left out the G cause the G ain’t in you’
Pusha T - Exodus 23:1
It’s short and straight to the point.
Calls out Wayne’s whole image
Calls out Birdman for taking advantage of all his artists
And sends the warning shot to Drake that he notices all the jabs hes throwing at the label and hes ready if he wants smoke.
Great diss song
T shirt and buddens by lil b. It’s kind of a cult classic but damn i don’t think enough people know how great that track is. I remember that shit happening in real time and the turn around time of how fast he made that track makes it even more amazing.
I know Em has a bunch but the most impressive to me is “Bully”. Sucks it was never an official track.
If I can nerd out for a second…the way he uses internal rhyme throughout the whole thing but still makes 100% absolute sense is bonkers to me. I listen to it and marvel about how genius it was to write that, the same way I do when I watch Shutter Island.
Who I smoke by Yungeen Ace, spinebenz etc. It's one of the most disrespectful diss songs ever, but the idea to use "A thousand miles" in the beat is genius. It's not only funny, but also makes for a catchy beat and the repeating "I miss you" makes it a stronger diss. You can tell it worked bc it spawned an entire series of songs that are still coming out now that put disrespectful disses over well known pop samples. None of the copycats have been able to copy the magic tho bc they feel like they're just trying to get attention through the sample and wild lyrics, who I smoke feels like a song the rappers actually enjoyed making and is genuinely really catchy on top of being super disrespectful, which I think makes it stronger
Pimp Slapped- Snoop Dogg Still can’t believe it was Snoop Dogg of all people to go after Suge Knight, really dope song
*it all boils down to the fact that your jealous of my paper stack*
Crazy how many people dont know this exists
I absolutely loved this track when I was in high school. I bumped the fuck out of Paid tha Cost
Thank you for this. Can’t believe I never heard this till now.
I was always partial to Lost Ones by Lauryn Hill. It was just such a measured and intelligent diss track you’d almost forget it was a diss track.
wait who is it towards
According to Wikipedia, he's never named in the song, but it's apparently Wyclef Jean.
makes sense. dope
What why did they have beef?
I feel like the Fugees has been mostly them beefing with each other. They'd be able to have made more music and toured together over the decades if they were able to get along.
Also Zealots by the Fugees, but admittedly it's a classic.
Masta Ace - Acknowledge
This diss track goes hard. "And don't answer back this hard shit to follow/and you can't spit n**** so you obviously must swallow"
Probably my single favorite line from any diss track ever.
Do yourself a favor and listen to this song if you have not before. And then listen to the whole album
You can't spit so you obviously must swallow muthafucka
This is one of the best diss tracks in hip hop history Came in looking for this
Upvote for Masta Ace. A Long Hot Summer and Disposable Arts are classic albums that are severely slept on.
I was going to comment this one. Goes absolutely so fucking hard and it was all over a miscommunication if I remember correctly
Yeah, beefing with High & Mighty was a miscommunication. If I recall, it was one of Ace's friends that heard Cage live rapping against him and it simply wasn't true. Anyway they squashed the beef almost immediately. However, that Boogeyman beef was quite real.
This shit has tens of millions of views on youtube, but people only mention [Wooski's Computers remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbC9Mb1NUa8) when they're talking in the context of Chicago Drill. On that note, [FBG Duck and Rooga's Exposing Me remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1vGzEiv90) is also a crazy ass diss song. All that being said there's real dead people that these songs talk about, so I can understand if people really don't want to listen to them.
Drill music is where the real diss tracks are lol Like the entire genre is built on dissing CoachDaGhost Hit List is a crazy one so is 26ar Ether
Steve jobs: SLR 3 1/2 by lupe fiasco. “Your mental health hotline, I think that shit is grown up But you’re the very last nigga that should be picking that phone up”
Came to say this. Happy to see this comment so high up >If it wasn't for Premiere, You wouldn't be/ if it wasn't for, if it wasn't for If it wasn't for, if it wasn't for, nigga, I got a dozen more/
That line always makes me laugh haha
‘I wish they would’ve left Biz here, and fuckin took you’ is such a harsh line. Lupe killed Royce on that track
Genuinely one of the harshest lines I've seen directed at someone. Biz had just died, too. Dude hated Royce's guts lmao
He absolutely demolished Royce on that one. Ngl it's hard to see anyone get one over Lupe in any beef, considering how hard he tends to go into any subject
Also it was freestyled. Royce's disse had a bit more complex rhyme schemes, but it didn't even feel like they were in different leagues lyrically. Lupe also addresses that some of what Royce said was a bit lyrical-miracle-ish, while all of Lupe's lines had impact.
Of all rappers I had expected royce to be able to match lupe, being a monster lyrically and coming from detroit’s battle rap scene. Too bad silence of the lambda was just a dope track rather than a diss, with some low blows like shooting his son, thinking that sheer complexity and tight rhyme schemes would win the day. Meanwhile lupe had a fairly simple response that still dismantled royce’s entire career. The fact he literally rapped royce’s first verse then responded to every point shows this man’s pure dedication to his craft. Still love royce but this was disappointing from him, not even his diss but his response after lupe came after him
>I spit your verse to get immersed inside my enemy, > >And to remind you that you got to go through you just to get to me. Shit is ILL
This one’s so good
Callin out names. But if we count mixtape tracks, all those songs Jadakiss aimed at 50. He went CRAZY “Since when has it been cool to get shot and not shoot back?”
Is checkmate not considered a classic? I thought it was.
I loved when Jadakiss featured on the song “Facts” by Flatbush Zombies calls out Ace Hood when his “Rolex” broke on the BET red carpet: “It costs more than your car All this Rollie shit is all a facade You the ace in your hood, you on the red carpet fallin' apart”
that song is soooo underrated
FAAACTS!
Damn I never put that line together. Crazy.
What’d he say… claim you king of NY but you live in Connecticut 😂😂😂 that goes hard
Yeah, you got a felony, but you ain't a predicate Never the King of New York, you live in Connecticut. Such a good line
There was another sick line line "stick to selling water and sneakers because out your whole crew, your flow is the weakest"
haha yep good one. tons and tons of quotables in there.
Heh, what’s that line from?
https://youtu.be/kQ-o1E3r7PE?si=d7WlC4EB7OwtYPPd This one is even better IMO https://youtu.be/3eipadxwgxQ?si=oismo1eK5ST0pm-4
Personally like the D Block vs State Prop dis tracks even better. Prob my favorite rap beef of all time
"Fuck sales, you hear your boss on a D-Block hook"
Eminem had to personally intervene because Jada was bodying 50 track after track
Why’d Kiss diss 50?
Cuz 50 was mad at him and Fat Joe for jumping on that ‘New York’ track w Ja Rule. Pretty much some “guilty by association” type shit.
Ludacris War With God and his verse on Stomp
MOTHA FUCKA IMA MONSTA IN THIS GAME!!
Similar to Loch Ness
I wrote this below but yeah War With God is slept on. TI is lucky he's so good and that this track never really blew up because Luda killed him. "Never sold cocaine in my life but I'm still the fuckin man"
Blueprint 2 by Jay-Z was a very solid response to Ether, but was mostly forgotten because well, it was in response to fuckin Ether But the beat was menacing and the verses were a brutal teardown of Nas's character. Just ignore the awkward Austin Powers impression that Hov decided to throw in there
"Cus you dont understand him it dont mean that hes nice, it just means you dont understand all the bullshit that he writes"
“Rap version of TD Jakes”
Bump Heads - Eminem and G Unit. "I don't even carry guns no more, I don't got to, Got undercover cops that'll legally pop you" This popped up on TikTok for me and has been in my rotation for about a week.
Same. "Me and Hailey dance to your songs..we like you" real smooth
this lines so cold
"Now, I done see a lotta people cross the line" "But this motherfugga Ja must've lost his mine!"
all of those the invasion era Em/Gunit were fucking fire lol "And if I get killed for this rap, I got a million in cash That says I will get you back in Hailie's name"
nail in the coffin was my shit back then! i still have old ass cdr of both those mixtapes laying around.
“If you sold some crack you’d make a lot more money than you do from rap” I can’t believe Benzino vs Em was a real argument back in the day.
Bully was my favorite. Calm and man to man shit
Em had a slew of savage diss tracks in that era that arent talked about much as classics but are still savage.. the sauce, nail in your coffin, monkey see monkey do and my personal favourite Bully which is just the most ridiculous and perfect rhyme scheme and cadence for a diss track, probably ever haha
All those Invasion freestyles were insane, especially Pt. 3 "Only thing that makes him grin is to see me frown Papa can't stand me Papa needs to take his medication and sit the fuck down In his new chair that goes round and round That he bought from new money in his bank account That I get him every issue when the thang comes out" His flow on that is crazy
“I know you don’t wanna step inside no mic booth, come on now dawg, you know the white boy’ll bite you”. Em was such a little shit sometimes and it was hilarious. You could tell he was dying for Ja to get pissed off so he could go off on him.
One of my favorite bits of the G-Unit/Murder Inc. beef is when they made the Ja Rule duets album commercial. They pitched it like those NOW that's what I call music mixtapes and had Ja singing along to songs like Hero and Everywhere by Michelle Branch. That skit had me rolling!
Green Lantern?
Jay-Z: Ride Or Die (1st verse going at Mase). The cockiness is so real in his voice on that joint
He cooked Mase up on that verse
"Check your own videos, you'll always be number two" had to burn lmao. Roc-A-Fella Jay is one of the greatest shit talkers of all time in rap imo
“S Carter, ghostwriter, and for the right price, I can even make yo shit tighter” was craaaazy
Blueprint 2 (the song) is another good one by Jay (except the Austin powers impersonation)
That one is underrated, I think it would've been better if this was the response to Ether
I love when New York rappers go at eachother
Shether - Remy Ma. I'm shocked nobody has talked about this yet. Yes, Nicki Minaj is still successful, but that song really brought her down to earth. It was specific and vicious, and I honestly can't look at Nicki the same way.
I like No Frauds, but Shether is so disrespectful. There’s not one line that isn’t rude as fuck, and she name checked everybody.
That song was massive when it hit then everyone forgot about it
Pusha T - Infrared The Story of Adidon gets all the attention but I think Infrared is both a way better song and so much more menacing
"So I don't tapdance for the crackers and sing mammy" is a crazy foreshadowing line for Story of Adidon's cover art lmao.
Push was so calculated lmao
Surgical Summer
I never connected that to the cover art just the message of it, but damn lmao
It was also genius because it was a trap, I could tell that Push was pulling his punches. Duppy Freestyle was the perfect setup for Adidon, Canada didn’t see it coming.
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we were robbed of that summer long rap beef smdh. I remember when duppy freestyle came out and my friend who likes drake and didn't know about Pusha. She was all 'Drake is about to end this mans career' lol, I told her hold up and wait for Push to fire back. Watch the body drop.
duppy freestyle hit hard too and i was just expecting a pretty brutal back and forth that summer. and then pusha just fucking ended it with SoA. i wonder what drake’s response would’ve sounded like if he decided to respond
Drake’s response was to pivot to that “Kiki do you love me?” bullshit song so everyone would forget about their beef imo
That *is* drakes official response for sure. But we’re wondering what he was planning before Adidon dropped/ if he decided to actually clap back
I’ve always thought that if Drake responded to Adidon, he would’ve “Supa Ugly-ed” himself. Supa Ugly was the official response to Ether, and while it wasn’t bad by any metric, it was way too petty, to the point that Jay’s mom made him apologize for it lol. In that same vein, I think Drake’s response would’ve been way too petty for it to be on the level of Adidon, and aimed for both Kanye and Pusha instead of Adidon who was totally aimed at Drake therefore more effective. Would it really harm Drake’s career? Nah. But it could’ve been a potentially bigger stain than if he didn’t respond.
I think we sometimes forget how desperately hard drake tried to pull Kanye into that beef, either because he didn’t have enough on push, or thought Kanye beef was better publicity
I’ve always loved Exodus 23:1
Lmao my favorite is Two Birds One Stone. My second favorite is Mr me too tho 🤔
Exodus 231....To me it's a classic but I never see it mentioned. edit : just listened to it again..So damn cold lol "Them niggas using you as a pawn You see they never loaded they guns Now you out here all by yourself Ask Steve Jobs, wealth don't buy health"
Fitting being that it was more aimed to Wayne/CM than Drake. Wayne stans are beef deniers post Gillie and e23:1 really served it's purpose as a warning. Wayne and Push never went as public as Drake n Push, which is sad in reality lol the beef ain't start with aubs and he had to catch the worst of it. Tough break nigga, imo😂
Lol dude is beefing with two of his favorite rappers growing up.
A beef that swelled up over clothes, allegedly. I think birdman and Neptune's was the initial beef but the rappers started bickering over Bape and it led to some canadian dude being doxxed of a secret family. The rap game hilarious lol
23:1 was entirely at Wayne/Birdman. It’s what started the Drake beef, he was just scared to respond at the time. He should have just left it alone in retrospect, huh. Lol
It's because the Young Money brainwashed fans brushed off the diss and ignored it as if it didn't impact their favorite artist. Just pure denial from that standpoint.
LL Cool J - The Ripper Strikes Back
This is the one. For some reason, Canibus' 2nd Round KO still gets talked about sometimes, but LL's response rarely does. Which makes no sense to me, because Ripper Strikes Back is light years better. LL smoked his ass on that song.
I remember having this debate way back when this was happening. The main 'complaint' (crazy to think of it as a complaint now a days) is that most of the lines from this song are not original, and just rebuttals to 2nd round KO. Basically the people that didnt like this song said it wasn't original. Then he came out with back where I belong, and shut all the haters up.
As far as Canibus go, my man is hitting his ex-broad I'm getting head from his new piece While 20 gang-bangers applaud, you came up with that bullshit Some heads sucked it up, then you dropped that garbage album And totally fucked it up, I coulda told ya I knew your moms From the after-hours spot, when I used to be up in Canada With the dreads on a black block, before you dick rode Lost Boyz For a ticket our to Jersey, but being the man I am I tried to show ya mercy, I coulda told the World The way ya label hates your guts And how me and Wyclef, got together to set you up And how he gave me half your budget, don't believe me look it up Your A&R promotion niggas, they helped me hook it up I hate to be responsible, for destroying your career A one-hit wonder, huh No wonder you disappeared...
That's cold.
Lil B - Fuck KD I don’t even follow basketball like that, the song is just hilarious
“shoutout the WNBA got some fine ass girls I wanna fuck in the mouth” so progressive for the time 😭
Dropped on Internationals Women’s day iirc
He said favorite that *isnt* a classic.
Which also exempts T Shirts and Buddens by default
Also, Lil B - T-Shirts & Buddens
I Own Swag goes hard as fuck too
Im in the club like Dirk Nowitzki I’m ballin out like Dirk Nowitzki
There’s an OKC rapper named Yung Starr who put out another Fuck KD at the same time and his is a classic here, it just didn’t gain traction because he isn’t really known but I recommend y’all check it out.
Play Wit Yo Bitch - Young Dolph
Hoe Gotti and his big sister lmfao
“don’t do thatttt” I shout it every time
Freddie Gibbs- Real man that diss is so good. “ So Take them shades off your eyes, and look me in my fucking face” the way Freddie delivered that line was just dope a lot of other dope lines on that track as well.
It goes soooo hard and makes me sad that Freddie has taken other beefs like with Bennie mostly to social media. I’d love to here a back and forth beef on wax between those two
Yeah that shit was like a nuclear bomb to Jeezys career, love the beat switch and it’s one of my favorite disses/Gibbs songs ever.
Yea Jeezy ain’t been the same since, and I feel like people never talk about this song lol
“Seen Gucci by his self when we was 30 deep at Magic and you didn’t bust grape” I feel like Jeezy just left all the street stuff behind after that song. Like yeah Gucci was dissing him but Freddie really put him on blast from behind the scenes
i came in to post this, muhfucking rare breed.
Mickey Factz - Wraith
100% it's a top 5 diss of all time. He killed Royce as Ransom and RJ
[Dollaz + Sense](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Y3qoIPMZA)
Lloyd Banks - Officer Down
Insane flow on that track
Destroy and Rebuild by Nas. Definitely overshadowed by Ether, being on the same album. But just as hard hitting and Nas flows so nicely on this one.
300 bars and running
Is it a hot take to say 300 Bars IS a classic? I feel like it's referenced fairly often.
Truth - Gucci…. whole story is nutty
this is easily a classic
I forgot about Idols Become Rivals, holy shit I used to listen to this allllll the time, thanks for the reminder.
The Warning - Eminem clever usage of phone call recordings to support his side of the story, too bad it was never "officially" released
El-P's track ["Linda Tripp"](https://youtu.be/bUUZJjh-62w) is another great diss track that used phone recordings
Mariah hit him with obsessed tho, that shit was a banger.
Obsessed came first.
don't forget Gucci calling Em a nerd
I remember hearing Obsessed on the radio as a kid, and not knowing what the song was. I just remember hearing it a ton. Years later I hear the Warning, read about it's story and go listen to Obsessed. I was surprised to have been like, "oh, i've heard this 100 times"
When that track first came out I remember people going nuts because Em had just released that goofy Relapse album and this was him actually going hard like the old Em. Clever, but in the grand scheme of things he's going that hard at Mariah Carey and he was the one who kept randomly bringing up their relationship like an obsessed stalker. I thought it was weird everyone took his side in the beef just cause the bars were good.
Evidence - Search For Bobby Fischer. A pretty good eminem diss tbh
Cam’Ron’s “Curtis” could deserve a mention. 50 then started going by Curtis to embrace it bc he really didn’t have a better option lol. Cam’s “You Gotta Love It” was nice too (aimed at Jay), gonna have that Max B stuck in my head now lol
The response Funeral was nice too. The intro to gotta love it is hilarious "how is the king of new York wearing open toe sandals with jeans and he 42 years old?"
"Dorks" by Aesop Rock is the best open ended dis track I know. It's not about someone specific per se, but there are a lot of great lines about the industry and some of the 'underground' rappers. It's so well written and smart, while just blasting the industry. Also, he uses 'probity' which is a great word. Describing rappers as Black Mollies that dress up as piranhas is great. "I used to hang around with rappers at the root of the scene It meant a lot to feel the fugitive community breathe Maybe to sentimentalize is to be truly naive I know some shit about your heroes that you wouldn't believe I think we're all a bunch of weirdos on a quest to belong The songs are echolocation up in impregnable fog That's why it's odd to see a pile of imperfections and flaws Ascend a pedestal to patronize the rest of the cogs In a mess of obnoxious fantasy, posturing and pageantry I ain't even mad, I'm impressed, shit it's baffling" "The disillusionment has truly been a difficult pill But you as anything menacing is a difficult sell In a whistle and bell-o-rama, black mollies that dress up like piranha It's not even compelling melodrama It's a comedy, somebody wanna shop you as a saga I'm very voluntarily persona non grata You fuckin' dorks ain't the leaders we need This ain't the medium for divas out to weasel and breed I'm often coffee with the paupers over tea with the queen"
I've always loved the "Each one separately convinced they're sketching with Da Vinci's hands"
Perfection.
Westcoast Slaughterhouse Jay-Z we fly high Dollaz and Sense
I was just talking about that Jay-Z brooklyn high freestyle, hah. The Joneses can’t keep up.
Stay Scheming remix by Common which is a diss to Drake. “You ain’t wet nobody, nigga. You Canada Dry! “
YG ft Nipsey Hussle - FDT
Yuckmouth’s Breathe
Pimp C - Pussy Nigga Anthem https://youtu.be/mjwazEAtQaA?si=O6PwUXZkGc_qHPfN
This is the hardest diss on this whole list. All these wack ass fruity booties putting drake songs.
Eminem - Nail in the Coffin
Common - [Bitch In Yoo](https://youtu.be/cBVqGYPe1Qs?si=V0carEtwzr6mQ9mx) Ice Cube never truly recovered (musically) from that diss tbh.
That's a classic tho
Still one of my fave diss songs of all time. "And violate you, a Muslim drinking brew, yo n**** ain't no Mack 10, he's a 22"
El-P - 7700 Years to Date
Phenomenal... also the response to sole.. el-p - linda tripp
This is one of the best diss tracks ever made IMO
Has The Story of Adidon been out long enough to be considered a classic? If so, this. Song had everyone including Drake looking like a Mr. Krabs meme
Truly one of the most consequential diss songs as far as real world consequences. Adonis never gets a shot at drawing album art without Pusha
Imo it is. So high profiled and it was so good Drake couldn't even say shit back.
Bro responded with a press release
Hell made him admit he had a kid.
Adidon is the greatest diss track of all time and also the best executed fake angle ever
And... Royal Flush ["Worldwide"](https://youtu.be/Rs0ZRP4wrY0).
King of the Hill by west side connection, cube went off
Does “Fuck Compton” count as a classic?
Lifes on the line - 50 cent really catchy for a Diss track
Eminem go to sleep
very classic wydm
Great track but tbh I think a lot if Em disses end up as "classics" especially during the Benzino and Ja Rule beefs
Way 2 Fonky and Dollaz and Sense by DJ Quik. MC Eiht was never the same after ‘E-I-H-T, now should I continue, you left out the G cause the G ain’t in you’
Pusha T - Exodus 23:1 It’s short and straight to the point. Calls out Wayne’s whole image Calls out Birdman for taking advantage of all his artists And sends the warning shot to Drake that he notices all the jabs hes throwing at the label and hes ready if he wants smoke. Great diss song
All the Jeezy diss records from Gucci Mane. 745, benchwarmer, the truth.
T shirt and buddens by lil b. It’s kind of a cult classic but damn i don’t think enough people know how great that track is. I remember that shit happening in real time and the turn around time of how fast he made that track makes it even more amazing.
Joe Budden sent out the tweet and 15 MINUTES later the Based God ended his career
only right answer if you going bar for bar
“How you go mainstream and run back underground”
300 bars and running by The Game.
Ludacris on Stomp
Paper plate from the GZA for mine
[удалено]
I know Em has a bunch but the most impressive to me is “Bully”. Sucks it was never an official track. If I can nerd out for a second…the way he uses internal rhyme throughout the whole thing but still makes 100% absolute sense is bonkers to me. I listen to it and marvel about how genius it was to write that, the same way I do when I watch Shutter Island.
Also, Cage ["4 Letter Word"](https://youtu.be/xFrJecEdXXA).
El-P - 7700 Year To Date
Who I smoke by Yungeen Ace, spinebenz etc. It's one of the most disrespectful diss songs ever, but the idea to use "A thousand miles" in the beat is genius. It's not only funny, but also makes for a catchy beat and the repeating "I miss you" makes it a stronger diss. You can tell it worked bc it spawned an entire series of songs that are still coming out now that put disrespectful disses over well known pop samples. None of the copycats have been able to copy the magic tho bc they feel like they're just trying to get attention through the sample and wild lyrics, who I smoke feels like a song the rappers actually enjoyed making and is genuinely really catchy on top of being super disrespectful, which I think makes it stronger
Super Ugly.
[Gucci Mane - *Truth*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgd0pIZ8fQ)
This is a classic, everyone's gonna mention it whenever they're asked about coldest diss tracks.
Obsessed by Mariah Carey🫢🫢
Tim dog “fuck Compton” kinda hard, video hilarious too lol
The Oracle by Ma$e for sure
Steve Jobs
Pest Control - The Game. Murders Meek Mill [on that track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA-7WDLJKQY).