History Main / TheDissTrack

* Music/{{Queen|Band}}: The opening track of ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'', "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)", scathingly rails against the band's previous manager, Norman Sheffield, among other things likening to "a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride" and outright telling him to kill himself. Sheffield was never mentioned by name in the song, but recognized that it was about him and sued for libel... which instead resulted in the song's subject matter becoming public knowledge. On the ''Live Killers'' version, Music/FreddieMercury ramped it up a bit more by saying it was dedicated to "a motherfucker of a gentleman".

* In the pantheon of diss tracks, few can top Music/IceCube's "No Vaseline", his complete lyrical slaughter of his ex Music/{{NWA}} bandmates and their manager Jerry Heller. He definitely did not let any of them escape, so much that the group never had a response.
* Arguably the most brutal diss track in recent history, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41qC3w3UUkU Hit 'Em Up]]" by [[Music/TupacShakur 2Pac and the Outlawz]] basically was an all-out declaration of war towards Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/PuffDaddy, and the entire East Side Hip-hop scene.

* Music/{{Timbaland}}'s song "Give It To Me" has a lyric that takes aim at producer Scott Storch. The jab was allegedly in reference to a past dispute the two producers had over credits on the Music/JustinTimberlake hit "Cry Me a River."

* In one of ''WebVideo/{{GothamChess}}'''s ''Guess the ELO'' episodes, Levy Rozman encounters a 1600-rated player who was playing poorly for his rating, causing Rozman to go on a rant that was turned into a rap song. Then WebVideo/YoungELO released two diss tracks playing the role of the 1600-rated player:

** In "Mate In One", he takes aim at Hikaru Nakamura for his alleged big ego and toxic behaviour, and claims that he only relies on bullet chess because he can't play classical.

* The concept of diss tracks even [[OlderThanRadio pre-dates radio]]; for example, "Union Dixie", the AnswerSong to the unofficial anthem of the Deep South, was sung by Union troops on the front-lines of the AmericanCivilWar.
** An even earlier example: "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by the British to make fun of the American colonists. ("Macaroni" was a fashionable style of dress that was very elaborate, so "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" basically meant they were stupid and uncool.) Then the rebelling Americans started [[InsultBackfire singing it back to them...]]

--> "[[https://twitter.com/RedFlagNYC/status/1336102433391566848 DMX asked Eminem and Obie Trice to do a lil song for the soundtrack of his movie and they spent 4 and half minutes graphically threatening Ja Rule’s life]]"

** An even earlier example: "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by the British to make fun of the American colonists. ("Macaroni" was a fashonable style of dress that was very elaborate, so "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" basically meant they were stupid and uncool.) Then the rebelling Americans started [[InsultBackfire singing it back to them...]]

** Subverted for "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory You've Got a Friend in Me]]", where the woman singing the translated lyrics is initially very rude to the one singing the actual lyrics, claiming that they're not friends and no one loves her, but then they make up and become friends.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Season 14, Episode 20 "Throwdown" features the Red Team and Blue Team having a rap battle in which Sarge and Church go back and forth insulting each other until the Mercenaries show up to lay down their own diss track.

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': Bob once collaborated with Saiko in making a music video just for money and fame. His video was a diss track at his "friends'" expense but he just didn't care. His friends were not amused that they and Saiko, who didn't realize that the diss track was in mean spirits, made a diss track of their own to counter his.

You're Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?!\\

* Prior to WebOriginal/MinecraftChampionship 15, [[WebOriginal/QuackityHQ Quackity]] wrote and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKTjp9wGuzw performed]] a diss track targeted at the fans who take the event too seriously, a number of the competitors, and [[SelfDeprecation himself]].

* In ''Film/{{Annie}}'', Annie sings to [[BigFriendlyDog Sandy]] about how he's a dumb dog and shouldn't follow her. She likes him really, but thinks it's the only way to get him not to follow.

* Exaugurated in a genocide run of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' [[BurgerFool Burgerpants]] reveals that Metaton, in lieu of yelling at him for screwing up at work puts on a CD that consists entirely of songs about how Burgerpants sucks at his job.

Hey, turn around, bend over, I'll show you [[AssShove where my shoe fits]]''

* In the pantheon of diss tracks, few can top Music/IceCube's "No Vaseline", his complete lyrical slaughter of his ex Music/{{NWA}} bandmates. He lets none of them escape.

->''[[UsefulNotes/JamesMadison Madison]], you're mad as a hatter\\
Son, take your medicine\\

->''[[UsefulNotes/JamesMadison Madison]], you as mad as a hatter\\

Damn, you in worse shape than the national debt is in!\\

Hey turn around, bend over, I'll show you where my shoe fits''

->''"Augustus Gloop, so big and vile, so greedy, foul, and infantile."''
-->-- '''Oompa Loompas''', ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''

--> "''You're not my new sister, you're a pus-y gothy nasty blister!''"

* As of 2022, the most commercially successful diss track of all time was "Killshot" by Music/{{Eminem}}, a diss track aimed at Music/MachineGunKelly that is also the second-fastest debut for a hip-hop song on [=YouTube=] (it was beaten a few years later by 6ix9ine's "GOOBA") and the most viewed song with no attached video on [=YouTube=]. The diss track served as a CareerResurrection for Eminem after [[AudienceAlienatingEra an album considered his worst ever]] and a WinBackTheCrowd album that left him in a stronger but still unstable position, and [[OvershadowedByControversy turned Kells from an acclaimed pop-rapper to a derided joke]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', "Eff Granddad" is an entire rap song from Lethal Interjection aimed at Robert. To be fair, however, Robert ''was'' behaving unreasonably throughout the episode, refusing to leave Lethal Interjection alone.