Line #134 Main/TheDissTrack


1	->''[[UsefulNotes/JamesMadison Madison]], you're mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine\
2	Damn, you in worse shape than the national debt is in\
3	Sittin' there, useless as two shits\
4	Hey, turn around, bend over, I'll show you where my shoe fits''
5	-->-- '''Alexander Hamilton''', "Cabinet Battle #1," ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''
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7	Picture this: you hate someone. Or maybe you hate a certain aspect of their personality, feel like they need a telling-off, or [[{{Jerkass}} you're just mean]]. Simple insults won't work, and even a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech isn't gonna cut it. So what do you do? Insult them in song!
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9	This can be shown to highlight how mean someone is, and can be a KickTheDog moment for villains-- not only are they being mean, they're singing their insults, which implies that they're enjoying it and/or taking the time to write and sing a song.
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11	On the other hand, if the one being sung to was mean/stupid/whatever themselves, this is likely meant to be seen as the character getting their just desserts, which the audience will likely [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic agree with]], provided it doesn't [[DisproportionateRetribution go too far]].
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13	Can overlap with TakeThatAudience if it's directed at the audience, OdeToApathy if it's about how the disser doesn't care about the diss-ee, MisogynySong if a man is insulting a woman for sexist reasons, CopycatMockery if the singer imitates the one they're trashing, BreakupSong if the singer goes full-blown insulting on their ex, RevengeBallad if the song ''is'' the revenge, IAmGreatSong if it's a sort of "I rule, you drool" kind of song, IHateSong if the disser outright hates the diss-ee, and AnswerSong if it's in response to someone else's insulting song. Super-trope to TheVillainSucksSong and HailToTheThief. See also MockingSingSong.
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15	BattleRapping is a sister trope specific to hip-hop music, which often involves two or more rappers fire off Diss Tracks at each other.
16
17	Nothing to do with a [[UsefulNotes/EastAnglia town in Suffolk]].
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19	!!Examples
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23	[[folder:Advertising]]
24	* Cheetos had Chester Cheetah make a diss track towards Doritos and their spokesperson Music/ChanceTheRapper, rapping about how only Cheetos deserved to bear the "flamin' hot" name. Note that Doritos and Cheetos are owned by the same parent company, so this was just a promotional stunt.
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27	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
28	* ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'': At a company drinking party, [[MeanBoss Director Ton]] realizes that Retsuko is the one that complained about him to the higher-ups and disses her via rapping. He gets far more than he bargained for when the [[BewareTheNiceOnes meek]] Retsuko [[TranquilFury calmly]] responds by dissing him via HeavyMetal. Of course he's so plastered that he passes out and forgets the whole thing by the next morning. [[IllPretendIDidntHearThat Maybe]].
29	-->'''Retsuko:''' WHY'D YOU GO AGAIN?! NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT!\
30	YOUR BEATS ARE WEAK AND YOUR RAP SUCKS!\
31	LOOK AT YOU, STANDING THERE, WANTING A REPLY!\
32	HERE IT COMES, PIG, HERE'S MY BATTLECRY!\
33	YOU'RE A SHITTY BOOOOOSS! YOU'RE A SHITTY BOOOOOOOOSS!!!\
34	''I HATE YOU SO MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!''
35	* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': Fujiwara delivers a scathing rap to Shirogane about her frustrations with tutoring him and how he sucks at everything but studying while he's teaching her how to freestyle after he makes it clear to her that getting your feelings out is more important that actually rhyming.
36	* ''Manga/StoryOfADumbPrefectAndHighSchoolGirlWithInappropriateSkirtLength'': When Sakuradaimon's dad meets Poemu, he's tongue-tied and can't think of anything to say. Then he remembers the TotallyRadical way to talk to kids these days is through BattleRapping. He improvises a diss track, but everyone else thinks he's just insulting her. Poemu shoots back with her own diss, and both of them apologize profusely later.
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39	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
40	* April Patterson from ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' composed a ditty aimed at her schoolmate antagonist. "Wormy, Germy Jeremy Jones" gains traction among April's classmates, and annoys Jeremy enough to sic the principal on her.
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43	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
44	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Jafar's "Prince Ali (Reprise)" is about exposing that Aladdin is just a nobody who became "Prince" Ali after using the Genie's magic.
45	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', the song "Mother Knows Best" downplays this. It's mostly about how Gothel doesn't want Rapunzel to leave (because Gothel uses Rapunzels hair to [[FountainOfYouth turn young]], though she's pretending it's because she's concerned for her safety), but there is an underlying theme of Gothel claiming/implying that Rapunzel would be putting herself in danger because she is naive. Gothel also claims in one verse that Rapunzel is sloppy, underdressed, [[{{Womanchild}} immature]], [[TheKlutz clumsy]], gullible, grubby, ditzy, "vague", and gaining weight.
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48	[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
49	* In ''Film/Annie1982'', 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.
50	* ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'': The song sung by the Wicked Witch of the West, portrayed by Miss Piggy, sings to Dorothy about how she will never [[IJustWantToBeSpecial be famous like she wants]].
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53	[[folder:Literature]]
54	* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': The songs sung by the Oompa-Loompas about the bratty kids all qualify to an extent:
55	** Augustus's song makes jabs at his greed and his [[YouAreFat weight]], and says that he'd be better off being made into fudge.
56	** Violet's song is mainly an anti-chewing gum song, but it does call her a "dreadful girl" and shame her for chewing gum.
57	** Veruca's song berates her for being a SpoiledBrat, and her parents for spoiling her in the first place.
58	** Mike's song, like Violet's, downplays this as it's mainly a WarningSong about not watching too much TV, but it does imply that Mike is dumb and unimaginative as a result of watching too much TV.
59	* In one of the ''Literature/{{Frances\|TheBadger}}'' books "Best Friends for Frances", after Albert tells Frances that baseball is not for girls, she sings a song about how [[FeudEpisode they're no longer friends]] and he's fat.
60	* In ''[[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie Little Town on the Prairie]]'', it's revealed that when the teacher, Eliza Jane Wilder[[note]]The reason she has the same surname as the author is because the author later married her brother[[/note]], was a kid, her classmates wrote a song about her, calling her "Lazy Lousy Liza Jane" because she was late for school and had lice.
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63	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
64	* ''Series/{{Community}}'': After breaking up with Britta, Vaughn makes an insulting song about their relationship and performs it in front of the entire school. Later, he does the same with Pierce, who had joined his band only for the two to have a falling out. In TheStinger of that episode, Pierce is shown writing a diss track directed at Vaughn. Vaughn finds out and vows to make yet another diss track.
65	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Phoebe's old songwriting partner steals Phoebe's signature song "Smelly Cat" and turns it into a cheesy jingle for kitty litter. Phoebe deals with her anger by writing a new song to vent her feelings.
66	-->''Jingle bitch screwed me over!/Go to Hell, jingle whore/Go to Hell, Go to Hell, Go to He-e-ell''
67	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S2E3NoPain No Pain]]", while performing the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM-Tebw5pTA&t=45s Come to Me Again]]", the hallucination of Lestat de Lioncourt [[SlutShaming slut-shames]] his ex-boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac for being with Armand, asserts that Louis is using Armand as a [[OnTheRebound rebound]], and claims that they both suffer from [[TheLoinsSleepTonight erectile dysfunction]]. Despite the barrage of insults, [[VillainLoveSong Lestat still wants Louis back]].
68	-->''Come to me\
69	You little whore\
70	You only want him 'cause you're feeling blue\
71	Come to me\
72	[[BetterPartnerAssertion He'll never run his fingers through your hair the way I do]]\
73	(That's very good)\
74	You'll fumble each other\
75	Like impotent lovers\
76	No Pelléas, no Mélisande\
77	Oh, come to me\
78	Come to me''
79	* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
80	** In "Don't Be a Bully", some monsters tell off another monster in song for stealing their ball, calling him a bully.
81	** In "The Wasteroon Song", three sentient water drops chastise two kids named Freda Bailey and Sheldon Cox for leaving the tap running, calling them "[[BigStupidDoodooHead wasteroons]]".
82	** In "We've Got a Brand New Baby", a monster girl sings about how she [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling finds her baby brother annoying]] because he can't do much, doesn't wear clothes, is bald, makes annoying sounds, [[ProneToTears cries a lot]], and she doesn't know why he was even born.
83	* ''Series/ShamelessUS'': Fiona briefly marries a musician, only to leave him not long after. When she tries to talk to him, he insists that he feels no [[BlatantLies ill will towards her]]. He then proceeds to perform a song titled "Fuck You Fiona".
84	* In ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', Tori once sang such a song to a guy who went out with her, as a way to get her to do all the work on their group project, and had the intent of dumping her once their teacher gave them their grade. Tori used the other girls that he had conned in the same way as her back up singers.
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87	[[folder:Music]]
88	* Music/{{Beck\|Musician}} once performed a song making fun of a rival musician and club owner who kicked him out of the Viper Room and threatened to kick his ass. The musician is never named in the song itself, but the song was titled "Creator/JohnnyDepp". The song has never been recorded onto an album.
89	-->''He's totally pregnant with his own self\
90	Opening his pores like a thousand cameras\
91	Filming and trashing, cashing in on death\
92	Spray-painting everybody with his breath''
93	* Professional ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' player Chillin (formerly [=chillindude829=]) has recorded several diss tracks about competitors:
94	** His most famous one is "Respect Your Elders", which he recorded before a Salty Suite exhibition against Leffen. It mocks Leffen's rude conduct, calls him "god-awful" and claims that [[TemptingFate he will get destroyed in the match]]. Then the match took place, and [[CurbStompBattle Chillin lost 5-0]].
95	** "[=HBox/M2K Doubles Diss Track, feat Chu Dat=]" is about a time Chillin and Chu defeated Hungrybox and [=Mew2King=] despite the latter team being the favourite by a large margin.
96	** "Nice Shot Hugo (Hugs Diss Track)" mocks [=HugS=] for various losses.
97	** "One Trick Phony" starts by dissing Mr. Wizard (the main TO for the EVO national tournaments) for his perceived bias against ''Melee'', while also suggesting that ''Melee'' doesn't need EVO. Mike Haze then tells Chillin to diss someone else, and the rest of the track makes fun of Salem's hate for the ''Melee'' community.
98	* Music/EricClapton's "Promises" charts the end of a marriage where the two people involved have not only fallen out of love, they cannot stand each other any more.
99	-->''I got a problem, can you relate?\
100	I got a woman, call it love-hate;\
101	We made a vow we'd always be friends,\
102	How could we know that promises end!''
103	* Music/BobDylan specialized in songs that sneeringly excoriate various unnamed individuals. Four particularly memorable examples are listed.
104	** "Positively 4th Street" takes pointed potshots at a two-faced "friend."
105	--->''Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes,\
106	You'd know what a drag it is to see you.''
107	** "Like a Rolling Stone" sharply criticizes a former privileged and haughty woman who has fallen down on her luck.
108	--->''You used to laugh about\
109	Everybody that was hanging out,\
110	Now you don't talk so loud,\
111	Now you don't seem so proud\
112	About having to be scrounging your next meal.''
113	** "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is a cutting indictment of a former lover.
114	--->''Goodbye's too good a word, babe,\
115	So I'll just say fare thee well.\
116	I ain't saying you treated me unkind,\
117	You could have done better but I don't mind,\
118	You just kinda wasted all of my precious time,\
119	But don't think twice, it's all right.''
120	** "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a snarling indictment of a pseudo-intellectual who dislikes Dylan's music.
121	--->''Well, you walk into the room like a camel, and then you frown.\
122	You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the ground.\
123	There ought to be a law against you comin' around.\
124	You should be made to wear earphones.\
125	'Cause something is happening and you don't know what it is,\
126	Do you, Mr. Jones?''
127	* Music/{{GWAR}} has "Slaughterama", a diss track against hippies, '80s hair bands and neo-nazis in the style of a [[DeadlyGame quiz show where wrong answers get your head blown or torn off.]]
128	** From the same album, there's their hit song, "Sick of You". A one-size-fits-all song for any objectively awful person.
129	* Metal doesn't have very many examples of outright diss tracks in the same vein that hip-hop does, but Music/MachineHead's ''Aesthetics Of Hate'' could certainly class as one; directed at William Grim in response to an article they wrote for the website Iconoclast, insulting the prowess and appearance of the then-recently deceased "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the guitarist of Music/{{Pantera}} and Damageplan. The article angered vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn to the point where the song became a six-and-a-half-minute condemnatory tirade. While Grim isn't called out by name, his article - from which the song's title was derived - and the website to which it was posted, most definitely was.
130	--->''For the love of a brother, I will say these fucking words!\
131	No silence against ignorance, Iconoclast! I hope you burn in hell!''
132	* As befits of their moniker as the "World's Most Dangerous Rap Group," Music/{{NWA}} and its various members definitely had brush-ins with this trope, on both sides of the disses, and sometimes even against each other:
133	** One of the earliest disses involving the group would be "Fuck Compton" by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Dog Tim Dog]], which also attacked the entire gangsta culture and lifestyle prevalent at Compton.
134	** As Music/IceCube left the group due to royalty disputes, they made the tracks "100 Miles and Runnin'" and "Real Niggaz" which jabs on Cube's departure from the group; the latter even goes so far with the following line:
135	--->''We started out with too much cargo\
136	So I'm glad we got rid of UsefulNotes/BenedictArnold, yo.
137	** Understandably, Cube responded to the abovementioned disses with "No Vaseline", basically going after everyone in the group, with particularly large amount of vitriol towards Music/EazyE and the group's manager Jerry Heller. This particular track was touted as one of the best disses ever made, as it basically left the rest of NWA at the time unable to respond.
138	** When Music/DrDre made the decision to leave as well, he had his own baggage to unload on his former co-founder Eazy-E. This came in via his debut solo album ''The Chronic'', through the single "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')"; the accompanying video for the single even parodies Eazy-E with the "Sleazy-E" character, and the Ruthless Records label as "Useless Records".
139	** Eazy-E went back at the abovementioned diss with the iconic tracks tracks "It's On" and "Real Muthaphuckkin G's." The latter track particularly goes after Dre, Music/SnoopDogg, and Creator/DeathRowRecords co-founder Suge Knight; and to drive the point home, its accompanying video responds to the Sleazy-E caricature mentioned above, by way of a BlackComedy payback skit.
140	--->''Mothafuck Dre! Mothafuck Snoop! Mothafuck Death Row!\
141	Yo, and here comes my left blow\
142	Cause I'm the E-A-Z-Y-E and this is the season\
143	To let the real mothafuckin' G's in\
144	You're like a kid you found a pup and now you're dapper\
145	But tell me where the fuck you found an anorexic rapper?''
146	* As befits one of GangstaRap's most iconic rappers in history, [[Music/TupacShakur 2Pac]] has cranked out a lot of zingers throughout his illustrious career. From the infamous "Hit 'Em Up" (with his group The Outlawz), to lesser-known disses like "Against All Odds" and "Watch Ya Mouth", many other rappers felt his wrath, to wit:
147	** Music/TheNotoriousBIG - Tupac felt that [[WeUsedToBeFriends his former friend]], along with Biggie's manager Music/SeanCombs, were responsible for his shooting in 1994. Even though they denied this, Pac was unconvinced and just aimed "Hit 'Em Up" primarily at them and all other personalities associated with them. Biggie mostly ignored the beef, though he did sneak in a few subliminal disses here and there and [[https://genius.com/Busta-rhymes-the-ugliest-lyrics had a guest spot]] on an unreleased Music/BustaRhymes song that dissed Tupac more directly.
148	** Mobb Deep - The duo featured on Capone N Noreaga's "L.A, L.A" remix, which dissed the West Coast, and 2Pac felt it dissed him, so he took a few potshots at them - most notably on "Hit Em Up", in which he mocked Prodigy's sickle-cell anemia (which many felt went too far). Mobb Deep replied with "Drop a Gem on Em".
149	** Music/JayZ - Jay-Z never dissed 2Pac, but due to being a prominent East Coast rapper who was good friends with Biggie, he still fell into 2Pac's crosshairs. Most infamously, the song "Fuck Friendz" had the line "Ain't no nigga like me / Fuck Jay-Z!", which Nas would later sample on his own Jay-Z diss "Ether". The intro to "Bomb First (My Second Reply)" also mentions Jay as being "of 'Hawaiian Sophie' fame", which was a Jaz-O song that Jay guested on and is infamous for being his first appearance in a music video, which featured him looking very uncool in a [[HawaiianShirtedTourist Hawaiian shirt and lei]]. "Hit Em Up" also originally had a line aimed at Jay-Z, but the Outlawz felt that he didn't really have anything to do with the beef and talked Pac into taking it out. On his end, Jay had his own diss aimed at 2Pac, but when Pac died, while Jay did [[http://www.mtv.com/news/2240652/jay-z-tupac-2pac-diss-clark-kent/ perform it once]], he opted not to release it out of respect.
150	** Chino XL - Chino's style involves dissing pretty much ''everyone'', and his song "Riiiot!" has a line poking fun at the theory that 2Pac [[PrisonRape was raped in jail]]. Pac didn't take too kindly to this, and included a quick diss on "Hit Em Up" ("Chino XL, '''fuck you too!'''"). Amusingly, the song also dissed ''Biggie'', with a line poking fun at "Biggie's stretch marks". For what it's worth, Chino claimed that he wasn't really dissing Pac with that line, and that the emphasis was on "trying ''not'' to get fucked", as Pac was definitely trying not to get raped while in jail. Chino did [[https://genius.com/Chino-xl-2pac-freestyle-diss-lyrics record a proper diss track]], but the two eventually ironed out the misunderstanding and were on good terms at the time of Pac's death.
151	** Music/{{Nas}} - 2Pac felt that one of Nas' lines on "The Message" ("Fake thug, no love, you get the slug, [=CB4=] Gusto) was aimed at him, and took shots at Nas on a few tracks on ''The 7 Day Theory''. Interestingly, 2Pac and Nas had a chat face-to-face where they squashed the beef, and 2Pac promised to remove the disses against Nas from the album, but died before he could.
152	** All of Junior M.A.F.I.A. - This is really no surprise, what with them basically being Biggie's answer to the Outlawz.
153	** Music/LLCoolJ - 2Pac felt that the song "I Shot Ya" (not to be confused with Biggie's song "Who Shot Ya?") was aimed at him, and approached Keith Murray about it, but they were luckily able to defuse tensions before a beef could really start.
154	** Even Music/DrDre on his last album, after Dre had left Death Row to form Aftermath. Pac mistakenly thought Dre had abandoned him in prison, when he'd really just realized that Suge Knight was a godawful manager. Obviously Tupac wasn't going to feel the same way about the man who'd just bailed him out of jail due to Knight's notoriously violent threats towards those who oppose him.
155	*** Adding on to the Dr. Dre entry, listen to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbaC-BjRZ0 original beat]] of "Toss It Up", which was produced by him. When Dre left Death Row, he took the beat with him and tweaked it with Teddy Riley to create Blackstreet's hit song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KL9mRus19o "No Diggity"]], which forced Tupac to alter his song's beat, and led to him dissing Dre and Blackstreet in turn.
156	* At the lowest point of their mutual relationship after the breakup of Music/TheBeatles, Music/JohnLennon wrote and recorded "How Do You Sleep?", a very nasty TakeThat aimed at Music/PaulMcCartney. Paul had made a rather veiled reference to John and Yoko on his album ''Ram''. John's response, which specifically named Paul songs like "Yesterday" and "Another Day", was not at all veiled. (The two were more civil to each other in later years before Lennon's death.)
157	-->''The sound you make is muzak to my ears\
158	You must've learned something in all those years''
159	* While the subject of "Bound For The Floor" by Local H is unclear, it seems to be about a person who is an ExtremeDoormat and why they disgust the singer.
160	-->''You just don't get it. You keep it copacetic, and you learn to accept it, you're so pathetic.''
161	* Music/OrigamiAngel: ''Music/GamiGang'' has "You Won't." It's about the singer calling out someone who's backstabbed him, saying that their insults don't hurt and they'll never be as good as him.
162	-->''And I will take the fall\
163	If it means that someone else won't have to hear the shit you say\
164	Behind the back of someone else in such a stupid petty way''
165	* Music/KatMcSnatch:
166	** "You are a Cunt" plays this for VulgarHumour, calling the listener [[CountryMatters the eponymous profanity]] a great deal, along with other insults like "imbecile" and "son of a bitch". The singer also says that she tries to be nice, but [[JerkassToOne makes an exception for the listener.]]
167	** "I Don't Like You" is about how the singer dislikes the listener, believes them to be not right in the head, and wouldn't care if they died.
168	* Music/CarlySimon's song "You're So Vain" is a bouncily sarcastic hit about a woman's egotistical ex-boyfriend with a penchant for globetrotting hedonism ("I hear you went out to Saratoga / And your horse naturally won / Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia / To see the total eclipse of the sun") and homewrecking ("You're where you should be all the time / And when you're not you're with / Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend"). After several decades, Simon finally admitted that the song is at least partially about Warren Beatty.
169	* The Music/{{Songdrops}} song "The Bully Song" is a jab at bullies, with the lyric "Hate to break it to ya but deep down you know it's true: when you're knocking someone else down, the lowest one is you."
170	* Music/TaylorSwift's song "Music/{{Mean}}" is a second-person song calling an unnamed person out for being mean. Swift wrote it about a music critic who she believed gave her an unfair review, although she has never named names.
171	* Music/TearsForFears:
172	** In "Wino" [[note]]the BSide of "Suffer the Children"[[/note]], Roland Orzabal (who has told the media that he hates his dad) depicts his father as a pathetic loser who doesn't want to do anything but drink and smoke all day, seemingly content to die slowly from his addictions.
173	--->''You're happy dying, you don't wanna change\
174	Remove your fix and you feel your pain\
175	You're a wino\
176	A cigarette smoker\
177	You have a good time\
178	They call you a joker, don't they?''
179	** In "Fish Out of Water", Roland Orzabal deplores how frivolous Curt Smith had become after they achieved global stardom, the latter being constantly distracted by the glamorous lifestyle that his newfound wealth and fame afforded him. Orzabal feels that Smith was lazily coasting on the band's success with his [[PrettyBoy good looks]] and [[TheCharmer charm]] while contributing little to the music in comparison to Orzabal, who's the main songwriter. From Orzabal's perspective, Smith would be nothing without him, so now that Smith has severed all ties to Tears for Fears, Orzabal likens his ex-best friend to a fish that's wholly out of its element, an aimless dreamer who will either (figuratively) suffocate on land or get lost at sea without Orzabal's talent.
180	--->''With all your high class friends you think you've got it made\
181	The only thing you made was that tanned look on your face\
182	With all your cigarettes and fancy cars\
183	You ain't a clue who or what you are\
184	You're dreaming your life away\
185	Fish out of water\
186	Go swim in the tide today\
187	Fish out of water''
188	** Smith's AnswerSong "Sun King" paints Orzabal as a spiteful, narcissistic, reclusive despot who's exhibiting signs of mental instability. The former believes that the latter is out of touch with reality because a lot of Orzabal's decisions are based on the WesternZodiac, which includes rationalizing his [[MuseAbuse psychological abuse]] of [[TheMuse Smith]] ([[https://www.vice.com/en/article/65jvzr/how-we-wrote-our-first-record-tears-for-fears-revisit-the-hurting Smith is indeed Orzabal's muse]]). [[note]]Smith did complain about Orzabal being overly obsessed with astrology; the latter brought astrology books to the recording studio, and he refused to work on certain days because his horoscope said it would turn out badly if he did so.[[/note]] Just to add extra salt on the wound, Smith also taunts his ex-partner by telling him that he looks ugly now that he's ageing, probably as payback to Orzabal for badmouthing Smith to the press by claiming that the latter was a talentless PrettyBoy. Despite Orzabal's inflated ego, Smith views his former friend as a miserable, pitiful wreck.
189	--->''The evidence is on the page\
190	Not much to show for so much rage\
191	It makes me smile\
192	You lost it somehow\
193	Solitude was your only choice\
194	Bitterness your only voice\
195	I saw your face\
196	The time is talking now\
197	\
198	Boy you looked so bad\
199	\
200	You make the Earth revolve\
201	You make the camera sing\
202	No conscience can absolve\
203	The Sun King\
204	\
205	A small, imbalanced, vain recluse\
206	You use the planets to excuse\
207	Your costumed smile\
208	Your childish abuse\
209	\
210	Boy you looked so sad''
211	* Music/{{Timbaland}}'s song "Give It To Me":
212	** 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."
213	-->''I'm a real producer\
214	You just a piano man.''
215	** Music/JustinTimberlake features on the song and takes a dig at Music/{{Prince}}, [[https://www.popdust.com/prince-new-album-2652321448.html who had commented]] on Timberlake's then-recent song "[=SexyBack=]" by saying, "For whoever is claiming they are bringing sexy back, sexy never left!"
216	-->''If sexy never left, then why's everybody on my shit?\
217	Don't hate on me just because you didn't come up with it''
218	* PlayedForLaughs in Music/WeirdAl's "It's All About the Pentiums" (a parody of "It's All About the Benjamins" by Music/PuffDaddy), where Al dismantles an opponent whose tech savvy is lacking.
219	-->''You've gotta be the dumbest nooby I've ever seen!\
220	You've got white-out all over your screen!\
221	You think your Platform/Commodore64 is really neato!\
222	What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?!\
223	You're using a 286? Don't make me laugh!\
224	Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?!\
225	You could backup your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette!\
226	You're the biggest joke on the internet!''
227	* ''WebVideo/GothamChess''
228	** In the "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:
229	** In "Checkmate", the 1600-rated player [[AnswerSong strikes back]] at Rozman by trying to explain the logic behind one of his poor moves, bragging about his skills and how he can crush Rozman, and calling Rozman the sidekick of Hikaru Nakamura.
230	** 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.
231	* Music/{{Drake}} and Pusha T ended up developing beef throughout 2018 after the latter challenged the former on his lack of authenticity, originally prodding Drake on his newly-publicized reliance on {{ghostwriter}}s. Drake's inciting diss track, "Duppy Freestyle" -- accusing Pusha of leeching off Music/KanyeWest for his success and prodding his history as a drug dealer -- was generally well-received, but Pusha's retort, "The Story of Adidon", [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech was the stuff of legend]]: putting aside the ghostwriter allegations, Pusha publicly ousted Drake as having had [[SurprisePregnancy an illegitimate child with a pornstar]], [[ParentalNeglect calling him out as a deadbeat dad for neglecting his own son]], additionally calling out [[InternalizedCategorism his longstanding insecurity of "not being black enough"]], and digging up a very unflattering image of Drake performing in {{blackface}} from 2007 as its single artwork. Drake quietly petered out of the beef and was forced to confess to the world his son's existence, baggage that he's needed to carry around with from his career onward.
232	* Music/{{Eminem}}:
233	** As of 2022, the most commercially successful diss track of all time was "Killshot", 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]].
234	** Long before "Killshot", Eminem's feud with Ja Rule resulted in multiple diss tracks from both of them. The most famous of these are "Hailie's Revenge" (which happened after Ja Rule [[BullyingADragon dissed]] [[PapaWolf Eminem's daughter]] in one of his diss tracks) featuring Obie Trice and D12, and "Go to Sleep" featuring DMX and Obie Trice (again). "Go to Sleep" is notable in that it was supposed to be part of the soundtrack for ''Film/Cradle2TheGrave'', the same soundtrack that birthed "X Gon' Give It to Ya".
235	--->"[[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]]"
236	** His feud with Benzino resulted in "Nail in the Coffin" and "The Sauce", which cemented Benzino's reputation as a MemeticLoser.
237	* [[Music/FiftyCent 50 Cent]] was well-known as Ja Rule's infamous arch-nemesis. And it all began with Fifty firing the first shot with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcJl6ITKzPw Your Life's on the Line.]]"
238	* Music/InsaneClownPosse got into a feud with Eminem and released a few tracks making fun of him, including a parody of "My Name Is" called "Slim Anus". Eminem retaliated with his own disses sprinkled throughout several of his own songs, particularly on the song "Marshall Mathers".
239	* "Union Dixie", the AnswerSong to the unofficial anthem of the Deep South, was sung by Union troops on the front-lines of the AmericanCivilWar.
240	* "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by the British to make fun of the American colonists by painting them as uncultured bumpkins. "Macaroni" was a fashionable style of dress, so "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" basically meant they were too uncultured to realize how uncultured they were. The rebelling Americans started [[InsultBackfire singing it back to them]].
241	* Adam Green disses Music/JessicaSimpson in this song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLgtYTp6hAE Jessica]]" in which he claims her music is devoid of any love.
242	* Music/TheDandyWarhols released the song "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth," a diss track against Anton Newcombe of Music/TheBrianJonestownMassacre. The track's chorus "I never thought you'd be a junkie because heroin is so passe" criticizes Newcombe's addiction. As depicted in the documentary ''Dig!'', which follows the falling out between the two neo-psychedelic bands, Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandies played the song for Newcombe and invited Jonestown to the set of its music video, prompting members of Jonestown to universally mock the production amongst themselves. Newcombe would later record an AnswerSong, "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth."
243	* 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 him 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 [[StreisandEffect 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".
244	* The UrExample of those in hip-hop was "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXx3ZU67t4E Biters In The City]]" by the Fantasy Three, aimed at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Crew Crash Crew]], because the latter had ripped off the beat of the Fantasy Three's previous single and used it on their own single.
245	* Music/{{Shakira}}'s long-awaited collaboration with Argentine producer Bizarrap in January 2023 turned out to be a diss track targeting her former boyfriend, retired footballer Gerard Piqué, months after their rather unceremonious breakup, as well as his new partner, Clara Chía:
246	-->''So much talk of being a champion,\
247	And when I needed you,\
248	You gave me the worst version of you.\
249	[...]\
250	A she-wolf like me isn't for rookies.\
251	A she-wolf like me isn't for guys like you.\
252	I was out of your league and that's why\
253	You are with another one who's just like you.\
254	[...]\
255	You left me with your mom as a neighbor,\
256	the press at the door and a debt with the Treasury.\
257	[...]\
258	I'm worth two 22-year-olds,\
259	you traded in a Ferrari for a Twingo.\
260	[...]\
261	So much time at the gym,\
262	But maybe work out your brain a little too.''
263	* Music/{{Drake}} and Music/KendrickLamar -- after around a decade of quiet bad blood between the two -- ended up in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%E2%80%93Kendrick_Lamar_feud a massive feud in 2024]] that took up the hip-hop world by storm, kicked off by Drake and Music/JCole insisting on the track "First Person Shooter" the previous year that the three of them were the "Big Three" of modern hip-hop. While this was meant to be a sincere compliment, Kendrick would take to the song "Like That" (with Music/{{Future}} and Metro Boomin) and ''[[FriendshipDenial reject]]'' [[FriendshipDenial the offer]] to instead [[TakeThat viciously attack Drake for various transgressions]], kickstarting a battle of disses that became ''intense'' in short time due to not just the quality of the music, but the various extreme allegations they were hurling at each other. To summarize the sides of the beef:
264	** Drake would repeatedly target Kendrick's artistic integrity, claiming him to be beneath the "Big Three", with "Push Ups" calling out his pretentious aspirations of claiming to be DoingItForTheArt while still recording mainstream fare with cheap guest verses for the likes of Music/Maroon5 and Music/TaylorSwift. Things became more serious with "Family Matters", where he directly accused Kendrick of [[DomesticAbuse beating his long-time partner Whitney Alford]] and claimed that Kendrick's son was actually born of an affair with her and Kendrick's creative manager, Dave Free. Drake briefly released another diss alongside "Push Ups", "Taylor Made Freestyle", which featured AI recreations of Music/TupacShakur and Music/SnoopDogg's voices -- [[MissingEpisode this has since been removed from official circulation]] due to threats of litigation from the former's estate.
265	** Kendrick would release several more disses within a shorter amount of time. "Euphoria" came weeks after "Push Ups" to hunker down on Drake's own lack of artistic credibility, exploitation of people around him to maintain his relevance, and general misogyny and insecurity about his race. "meet the grahams" and "Not Like Us" came out within 24 hours of each other (the former coming out ''less than an hour'' after "Family Matters" dropped) and each came with even heavier allegations, accusing Drake of [[ParentalNeglect hiding a second child that he abandoned]][[note]]([[HistoryRepeats a repeat of the reveal Drake suffered during his beef with Pusha T years ago]], with Kendrick alleging that Drake's daughter is even older than his son)[[/note]], being [[PaedoHunt a pedophile targeting underage girls]], safeguarding several sexual predators on his OVO music label, and even accusing him of running a sex trafficking ring out of his mansion.
266	** Drake attempted to fire back against Kendrick's rapid-fire disses with "The Heart Part 6", but it ended up being widely criticized for being less of a diss and more of an awkward rebuttal [[HoistByHisOwnPetard that ended up making himself look worse]]. In addition to not having new allegations to throw towards Kendrick, Drake mocks Kendrick for only caring about sexual abuse because he was a victim of it[[note]]citing Kendrick's own song "Mother I Sober", [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer in which Kendrick says he]] ''[[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer wasn't]]'' [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer sexually abused]][[/note]], claims "I'd never look twice at no teenager" (despite there being video evidence of him getting uncomfortably close to underage fans, including one infamous clip of him kissing a 17-year-old on-stage ''knowing'' she's underage), namedrops Creator/MillieBobbyBrown unprovoked as someone he ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial doesn't]]'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "fuck with"]] (Brown having a history of being close with Drake from as early as her being 14), and mocks Kendrick's claims of having [[TheMole a contact within Drake's inner circle]] by calling them "clowns", [[ImmediateSelfContradiction only to immediately say]] that [[IMeantToDoThat he and his team conspired to feed him false information as bait]] (to what end is unknown as no further information of this ever surfaced, not even anything on Drake's end that would confirm he planted fake information to begin with, leading many critics to call this out as a flat-out lie). Despite Drake taunting Kendrick at the end to respond, neither party spoke up on the matter since, and especially following the harsh panning and mockery towards "The Heart Part 6", the general consensus is that Kendrick ultimately won the beef.
267	** One brief footnote to the feud was Music/JCole's "7 Minute Drill", his diss to Kendrick released not long after "Like That". However, within just two days, Cole [[KnowWhenToFoldEm pulled out from the beef]] and publicly apologized to Kendrick, [[CreatorsApathy admitting that he wasn't interested in fighting]] and in fact had nothing against him; he was simply pressured into releasing a diss due to peer pressure from people expecting bloodshed, opting to have the song [[MissingEpisode removed from all platforms]] and moving on. Considering that Kendrick hasn't mentioned Cole in the feud since -- instead focusing on Drake and his alleged conspirators -- it seems like there are no hard feeling between the two.
268	** Other artists also had their say in the feud, most of which were disses directed against Drake: Music/{{Future}} and Metro Boomin released two separate collaboration albums between March and April 2024, both containing [[TakeThat various potshots at Drake]] for his habit of [[CouldSayItBut "sneak disses"]] and general backstabbing nature, with the song "All To Myself" featuring Music/TheWeeknd discussing how grateful he is that -- as another Toronto artist -- he never signed onto OVO at the start of his career. Music/RickRoss (after being snipped at in Drake's "Push Ups") released his own diss track, "Champagne Moments", where he accuses Drake of getting cosmetic surgery and lying about it. This further inspired Metro Boomin (who was also slighted by Drake in his disses, telling Metro to "stick to drums"), to release own solo "diss beat", "BBL Drizzy", mocking Drake with a rumor that he got himself a Brazilian butt lift (a spin on a less-outlandish rumor that accuses Drake of getting abdominal implants). To add added insult to injury, Metro started a contest offering $10 thousand to whoever could deliver the best rap verse over the beat, [[MemeticMutation resulting in the internet being flooded with a mass of rappers from around the world]] making fun of Drake's ass.
269	* Music/{{Megadeth}}:
270	** Music/{{Metallica}} can be seen as the first bullseye of frontman Dave Mustaine's declarations due to Mustaine having infamously been fired from Metallica early in their career. The "Don't wear no leather to fit in / Don't wear no spikes to be cool" in "Rattlehead" from ''Killing...'' is very easy to interpret as a shot at the lyrics "No life 'til leather" and "[...] with your leathers and your spikes" from "Hit the Lights" and "Whiplash", respectively, from ''Music/KillEmAll''.
271	** ''Music/SoFarSoGoodSoWhat'' song "Hook In Mouth", while being a song against censorship in general, takes a very direct hit at [[MoralGuardians the Parents' Music Resource Center]], which had put a {{content warning\|s}} on ''Music/PeaceSellsButWhosBuying''.
272	** "Liar", also from ''So Far'', has some harsh words for former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, who was fired for allegedly stealing guitars to sell them for drug money.
273	---> "You take great pride in never having lived up to anything\
274	Lie, steal, cheat and kill, a real bad guy\
275	Your daddy is a wino and your mommy’s quite insane\
276	From altar boy to sewer rat, you don’t give a damn"
277	** "Something That I'm Not", from ''The System Has Failed'', could either be a shot at Lars Ulrich or Bud Prager, their [[ExecutiveMeddling infamous producer]]:
278	--->"Unlike you I'm no vision to myself, lest you forget\
279	You didn't ever make metal, buddy; metal made you."
280	** "Back In The Day" is a TakeThat at Bud Prager and is mentioned as such in the booklet for ''The System Has Failed''.
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282
283	[[folder: Theatre]]
284	* ''First Date'' has the song "In Love With You," which Aaron sings to a vision of his ex Allison. It starts off with Aaron remembering all the good things about her, but eventually he realizes how much of a terrible person she was and lays into her.
285	* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'':
286	** The CutSong "Congratulations" consists of Angelica Schuyler tearing into Alexander Hamilton for not only cheating on his wife (her sister), but then publicly confessing to his infidelity in order to prove himself innocent in a separate and much smaller scandal.
287	--->''Congratulations.\
288	You have invented a new kind of stupid,\
289	A damage-you-can-never-undo kind of stupid,\
290	An open-all-the-cages-at-the-zoo kind of stupid,\
291	Truly, you didn't think this through kind of stupid.''
292	** Another CutSong, "An Open Letter," is one minute of Hamilton dragging John Adams for his perceived incompetence, arrogance, and irrelevance. It's a send-up of classic rap diss tracks, as well as a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Only one line made it to the show:
293	--->'''Hamilton:''' SIT DOWN, JOHN, '''''YOU FAT MOTHER[[SoundEffectBleep ***]]!'''''
294	** Both "Congratulations" and "An Open Letter" were recorded (by {{Music/Dessa}} and {{Music/Watsky}}, respectively) and released on ''Music/TheHamiltonMixtape'', a ConceptAlbum featuring {{cut song}}s, remixes, and covers of songs from the show. Fans were ''very'' happy to get both of these diss tracks in their full glory.
295	* ''Theatre/KeatingTheMusical'' has the song "On The Floor", which takes the form of a rap battle between Paul Keating and John Hewson; most of the insults Keating uses in the song were taken from actual lines he used in Parliament.
296	* In "Playing the Game" from the ''Theatre/MaryPoppins'' stage play, Jane and Michael's LivingToys berate them for playing too rough with them, even at one point singing that they "don't deserve fun".
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298
299	[[folder:Video Games]]
300	* ''VideoGame/GuildOfDungeoneering'': Whenever a dungeoneer dies the bard plays a song making fun of them and by extension the player.
301	* ''VideoGame/TheHeartPumpsClay'': One of the [[https://rpgmaker.net/media/content/games/6541/screenshots/HeartScreen7.png official screenshots]] is of TalkingAnimal Crow's lines, which are bracketed by eighth notes. As MusicIsEighthNotes, the lines are mocking the listener, the words are implied to be in a singsong-y tone of mockery.
302	* ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' has the Phantom of the Bwahpera's song. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yx8zg9DoPo Words don't even begin to describe the]] D-minor disses.
303	* ''Ollie King'': The lyrics of the song "Teknopathetic" is a series of complaints from someone playing a video game to a KnowNothingKnowItAll teammate.
304	* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'': One testimony is titled "The dissing of Phoenix Wright". It's a rap.
305	* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': "Rich" about BreakUpSong of a relationship that's built on being paid because ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules, and it's directed towards the buyer and about how their methods don't work:
306	--> I don't care what you pay,\
307	Just watch me walk away.\
308	If cash is your reason\
309	you won't keep anyone.
310	* Exaggerated 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.
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312
313	[[folder:Web Original]]
314	* WebVideo/AsapSCIENCE's "Science STYLE" is directed at anyone who dismisses the work of scientists and "makes fun of nerds", by stating how science is omnipresent in one's everyday life and how the nerdy scientists they make fun of are smart, [[NerdsAreSexy attractive]], and about to revolutionize human society and culture with their contributions. The bridge also bluntly tells the listener, "So, don't be dumb!"
315	-->''You know those iPhone apps that help you flirt?\
316	Well, it was the STEM field majors who designed it all first''
317	* Actually a major plot point during 'The Devil's Six String' arc of ''Webcomic/DevilsCandy''. Yahgie is challenged by Tremolo to a rock-off, which is ''far'' more dangerous than it sounds. It involves both sides dissing each other with song lyrics while simultaneously trying to kill each other with their music. Yahgie even prepares for it by being tied up and forced to watch the most embarrassing moment of his life on repeat and having his mother write insulting songs to toughen him up.
318	* The pilot video of ''WebVideo/DubbedByStrangers'' ends with a diss track on [[WesternAnimation/AnimalMechanicals Rex]].
319	* ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1: Joel writes one about his fellow ruler, fWhip, with his friend, fellow ruler, and brother-in-law, Jimmy backing him up. The diss track is [[VitriolicBestBuds ultimately intended to be friendly]] and ends in a request for peace between the empires. It's apparently noteworthy enough to have an entire prophecy dedicated to it.
320	-->Words spat through vicious mockery will sound strangely melodious from the mouth of a Mezelean.
321	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "[[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E7MammonsMagnificentMusical Mammon's Magnificent Musical]]", Fizzarolli sings a song named "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9HyDRpJrsw 2 Minutes Notice]]" when he decides to quit being the face of Mammon's brand. Fizz [[ClusterFBomb rather colorfully]] tells Mammon to go fuck himself after years of abuse and exploitation, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu calling him a cuck, a greedy bastard and a sad sack of shit in front of a live audience]]. [[FailedASpotCheck It's not until Fizz namedrops him that Mammon realizes the song is about him]], and while he is not amused in the least, [[ResignationsNotAccepted he is far more furious that his biggest money-maker is resigning]].
322	* [=YouTube=] songwriter [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR5YSENBrrzKhj48a9K6Vew IgikoPop]] wrote a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk1o_1ILyvU brutal track]] expressing her disdain for Creator/KenPenders, the head writer of ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics, who is widely hated not just by the Sonic fanbase, but by the comic community as a whole for his petty and childish behavior that ended up causing the soft reboot and eventual cancellation of the longest-running American comic series.
323	* Prior to WebVideo/MinecraftChampionship 15, 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]].
324	* WebVideo/MishovySilenosti's song "Cyberbully Channels Are Cancer" is a TakeThatCritics song to [=YouTubers=] who made fun of his Pokémon Go song.
325	* ''LetsPlay/PewDiePie'': PlayedForLaughs with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dh-RL__uN4 Bitch Lasagna]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHgc8Q6qTjc Congratulations]]", a pair of diss tracks against Indian music record label and film production company Creator/TSeries, as the two creators were in competition at the time for the most subscribed [=YouTube=] channel. [=PewDiePie=] brings up T-Series' shady past, possible mafia collusion, and the fact that they sent him a cease and desist letter for expressing his disdain for their company.
326	* ''WebVideo/RandyRainbow'': "A Very Stable Genius" is a parody of the ModernMajorGeneral song about how UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump claims to be a "very stable genius", but his actions suggest otherwise. It also claims that he has a TeenyWeenie and an even smaller brain.
327	* ''WebAnimation/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.
328	* Strong Bad accidentally creates one in the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "Sibbie". When a viewer asks Strong Bad to write a song about him, Strong Bad refuses and states he will "never, ever, ever write a song about The Sibbie"... [[VoiceClipSong The Cheat ends up turning it into a song that became a big hit.]] Strong Bad then screams, "I freaking hate Sibbie!" and that immediately ends up becoming a song as well.
329	* ''WebAnimation/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.
330	* ''WebVideo/TwistedTranslations'': Sometimes, the TranslationTrainWreck results in lines coming off as unintentionally mean and turning the song into a diss track:
331	** Subverted for "[[Franchise/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.
332	** In "[[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Friend Like Me]]", Genie is insulting Aladdin for not having any friends (possibly because [[GreenEyedMonster Genie's girlfriend likes Aladdin]]).
333	* The ''WebVideo/{{Underdogs}}'' have made [[https://youtu.be/-8SNfcaN4dQ a diss track]] where they jokingly roast other ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Smash Bros.]]'' Youtubers.
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335
336	[[folder:Western Animation]]
337	* ''WesternAnimation/ThirdAndBird'': In "Baby Jordan", Muffin sings a song to Jordan about how she dislikes him, or, as she puts it, she "[[YouNoTakeCandle no like]]" him, for stealing all her attention and not being able to say her name correctly.
338	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The Goodpigeons don't take well to the statue of Creator/MartinScorsese in the park being replaced by that of Creator/RegisPhilbin and proceed to angrily sing about how they refuse to perch on the new statue's head. It's just a statue, but they do sing as if they have a general dislike for Philbin himself.
339	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', "Eff Granddad" is an entire rap song from Thugnificent aimed at Robert. To be fair, however, Robert ''was'' behaving unreasonably throughout the episode, refusing to leave Thugnificent alone.
340	** It's definitely not helped when Granddad rebuts with a Diss Track of his own... one [[StylisticSuck so hilariously]] [[PissTakeRap awful]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onmAArYCEvw it has to be seen to be believed]].
341	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': In "[[Recap/CentaurworldS2E4HolesPart3 Holes: Part 3]]", Horse and Wammawink sing a passionate duet born out of their jealousy and hate for Becky Apples and Jeffica, respectively.
342	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', "Boys in the Band" is about Vicky wanting to marry Chip Skylark for his money. Timmy rescues Chip, and he performs a song called "Icky Vicky" about her evil nature and bad babysitting service.
343	* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "Setting A President", Bloo and Mr Herriman make a song which demonizes Frankie (although nothing they sing is true) and praises Mr Herriman to help the latter keep his job of house president.
344	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
345	** Candace's song "[[SpellingSong E-V-I-L B-O-Y-S]]" is about how her stepbrothers are "evil" for doing crazy misdeeds such as building roller coasters in the yard and driving cattle through the city.
346	** Doof's song in "Tree to Get Ready" is mostly a ListSong of people who annoy him, but he caps it off by singing about how his "goody two-shoes brother, the favorite of my mother" is at the top of that list, and he wants to dump [[BirdPoopGag pigeon poo]] on him.
347	* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'':
348	** In "Karaoke Video", while they are drunk in a bar, Mordecai and Rigby sing "We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore", where they insult Benson (saying they can't take anymore garbage from this loser), Skips (calling him a know-it-all who's stuck working as a groundskeeper) and Pops (mocking his unintelligence) without realizing it. When they watch their performance on a tape at home, they are shocked at what they said.
349	** In "Rap It Up", Pops is targeted by a rap group with a rude song. Mordecai, Rigby, and Pops enter a rap battle against the group, deflecting their insults back towards them through poetry.
350	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
351	** "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders" is a song Homer Simpson writes in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E18DudeWheresMyRanch Dude, Where's My Ranch?]]" about his neighbour Ned, and how Homer hates him. He calls him a "stupid jerk" and even makes fun of his wife dying (which Homer himself was at least partly responsible for). [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Flanders and his kids like the song]].
352	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28TheGreatPhatsby The Great Phatsby]]" features a rap by Jay G calling out to Mr. Burns for falling for his Obsidian Card scam. Mr. Burns attempts to get back at him by forming a {{supergroup}} of artists bearing a grudge against Jay. However, he is thwarted by Jay not only buying the master recording for their song and destroying it, but also bribing the supergroup into changing their opinions on him and Mr. Burns.
353	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E1WhoShotMrBurnsPartTwo Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two]]": After Mr. Burns' chicanery causes Tito Puente to get fired as Springfield Elementary's music teacher, he gets his revenge by writing a [[TheVillainSucksSong salacious mambo]].
354	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo," when Kyle's mom shuts down the Christmas pageant due to her PoliticalOvercorrectness, Cartman sings a song about how she's a "big fat bitch." He reprises this during her anti-cursing campaign in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut,'' with everybody else joining in... until [[RightBehindMe Mrs. Broflovski walks up behind Cartman while he's singing]].
355	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'':
356	** The song "Boyfriend Kisser" is a thread of death threats and insults towards Gwen for kissing Duncan, therefore destroying his relationship with Courtney. Curiously, Duncan gets very little hate, all of it being directed towards Gwen.
357	---> "''You're not my new sister, you're a pus-y gothy nasty blister!''"
358	** "Her Real Name Isn't Blainley" is Geoff's revenge on Blainley for sending his girlfriend to Siberia. He mocks her on national TV by saying how she isn't the person she pretends she is, to the point where even her name is fake.
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