Here is a non-linear look at the diss track and how music, and sometimes other forms of art, have been used as a weapon: Not the first track by far and not the last. It’s just the first one I knew ...

2024 has been the year of hate in hip-hop. There’s been so many diss tracks released this year that’s hard to keep track. But the ones that have stood out the most are the ones from Drake and Kendrick ...

The country music community isn't often associated with diss tracks. According to a history of the trope published by the Conversation, the diss track dates back to the live rap battles of the 1970s, ...

Artists are known to be highly sensitive people, who often put the entirety of their emotions on display in their works. For rappers, this can mean shelling out positively scathing diss tracks to ...

The diss track, a crucial tool in hip-hop culture for hashing out rivalries, is having a year. Many of the biggest names in rap — from Kendrick Lamar and Drake to Megan Thee Stallion — have put out ...

After his scorching series of Drake diss tracks from this past May, rapper Kendrick Lamar is back with a brand-new song. While the new song doesn't seem to be a direct Drake beef track like his last ...

The legal intersection of music, poetry, and defamation presents a fascinating landscape where creativity collides with ...

Among the glut of diss tracks lobbed between Kendrick Lamar and Drake earlier this year, one reigned truly victorious: Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which swiftly became an inescapable summer smash after it ...

Ice Cube‘s 1991 single, “No Vaseline”, just might be the most overt and harshest diss track of all time. Thanks to lyrics such as “When y’all motherf—s moved straight outta Compton” and the ...