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14-year old Roxanne created the renowned diss track after freestyling on the instrumental of the original "Roxanne, Roxanne" for 7 minutes straight due to the group, U.T.F.O bailing out on the show organized by Roxanne's friend. This began the infamous Roxanne Wars, leading to several diss tracks being directed towards the teen Roxanne Shanté [41]
In 1991, Dr. Dre left N.W.A and, with Suge Knight, launched Death Row Records.It released Dre's The Chronic, which in 1993 broke gangsta rap onto pop radio.On the album, Dre and guest rapper Snoop Dogg, a star on the rise at the time, diss Eazy-E in skits, in the single "Fuck wit Dre Day" plus its music video, and, closing the album, in the hidden track "Bitches Ain't Shit."
In the 1980s, diss tracks began to feature prominently in the hip-hop genre. The first known hip-hop feud (or "beef") was the Roxanne Wars. [20] The Roxanne Wars began in 1984 when Roxanne Shanté and Marley Marl released the song "Roxanne's Revenge", a diss track aimed at the trio U.T.F.O. "Roxanne's Revenge" was a quick success, leading U.T.F.O. to compose a response: they joined forces with ...
We ranked all eight of the diss tracks exchanged by Drake and Kendrick Lamar over the past year. Lamar's Grammy-nominated kill shot "Not Like Us" took the top spot. Drake's disappointing surrender ...
Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s rap feud is so heated that it may burn the hip-hop world to the ground.. Lamar, 36, and Drake, 37, have been waging lyrical war with increasingly personal diss tracks ...
Diss tracks in hip hop are getting a lot of hype in 2024. Big names like Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Megan Thee Stallion are igniting an online frenzy with their lyrical jabs.
"Lost Ones" has been placed on many critics' lists of the greatest diss songs, [25] [26] as well as the greatest hip hop songs of all time. [27] Music journalist Danyel Smith referred to it as "the greatest diss record of all time". In conversation with Smith, rapper MC Lyte referred to the track as "the most beautifullest diss song". [28]
"No Vaseline" is a diss track written and recorded by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released on October 31, 1991, through Lench Mob Records and Priority Records, amidst his feud with his former group N.W.A. The song serves as the twentieth song on Cube's Death Certificate (1991). [3]