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What’s your favorite diss track of all-time? Dre Day? MC Lyte’s 10% Diss? KRS-One’s The Bridge Is Over? LL Cool J’s Jack the Ripper? Roxanne Shanté’s Roxanne’s Revenge? The internet is having a debate as to the greatest diss track ever, and there are some fantastic selections.
XXL Magazine’s Twitter account asked the question: “What’s the best diss track of all time? Hip-hop fans did not disappoint and delivered the correct answers, for the most part.
What's the best diss track of all time? 🔪
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) September 23, 2019
Many of the responses said that Hit’em Up by Tupac Shakur was the strongest diss track of all-time. 2pac released Hit’em Up on June 4, 1996, as a way to really disrespect the Notorious B.I.G. by saying that Shakur had sexual relations with Biggie Smalls’ wife Faith Evans. Eminem agreed with this decision.
Tupac- Hit em up
— Slanky Dawg (@ZayNuff) September 23, 2019
1) Hit em up #2pac
2) No Vaseline @icecube
3) Dollars and Sense @djquik— JaeinPhx ⚾️🏟 (@PhxJaeT) September 24, 2019
#Tupac hit them up pic.twitter.com/DL7oF3cmBn
— Jacqueline McBride👸🏾🤎👸🏾 (@McJacqueline2) September 23, 2019
Hit em up pac dissed a
The whole east coast😩 pic.twitter.com/9LStjXu0ih— Lilboahhh51 (@lilboahhh51) September 23, 2019
https://twitter.com/Stevie_Evans3/status/1176266547607871490
Some rap aficionados said Eminem’s The Warning and Killshot, which was the response to Machine Gun Kelly’s Rap Devil, as the best diss track.
https://twitter.com/Shadyinfo/status/1176360326066917376
Eminem- the Warning
— AC (@xoxoxoAJC) September 23, 2019
Rap fans said Ether by Nas as the #1 diss track ever.
1. Ether.
2. Second Round K.O.
3. The Bridge Is Over.
4. The Takeover.
5. To da Break of Dawn.
6. No Vaseline.
7. Real Compton City G's.
8. Back Down.
9. F Compton (by Tim Dog).
10. Old Skool (by Dizzee Rascal).— Lombe B Ng'andu (@LombeBNgandu) September 23, 2019
Ether. pic.twitter.com/SWTggc5pbF
— ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ sᴛᴀʀs ✨ (@___iSLAYED) September 23, 2019
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Some hip-hop heads proclaimed Pusha T’s The Story of Adidon diss track on Drake as the best.
Story of adidon
— Tan-Man (@RXTannerr) September 23, 2019
There was one vote for Dolly Parton’s 1973 warning for another woman not to take her man in the song Jolene.
https://twitter.com/AprilJMacDonald/status/1176498764774879233
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There was an overwhelming amount of hip-hop fans who said Ice Cube’s No Vaseline is the best diss track ever. People including CM Punk, NXT wrestler Killian Dain AKA Bro Killa, and professional gamer FaZe Attach put their vote in for Cube’s savage anti-N.W.A. song No Vaseline.
NO VASELINE. A distant #2 is ‘King of the Hill’. @icecube is the master.
— player/coach (@CMPunk) September 23, 2019
No Vaseline. Nothing else comes close.
— Big Damo (@DamoMackle) September 24, 2019
My top 4
1. No Vaseline
2. Hit Em Up
3. Ether
4. Real muthafuckin G’s— Attach (@Attach) September 24, 2019
https://twitter.com/MachineGunErik/status/1176266512685879297
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Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. asserted that No Vaseline was the greatest diss track of all-time. The rapper’s son admits his prejudice and tweeted: “And yes. I am for sure biased. The man gave me life. Lmao. But my points cannot be ignored. Respect to Hit em up. But it wasn’t only Pac rapping.”
No Vaseline. 1 v 4.
1 man versus the group the world was scared to diss. And it got no response to it.
— O’Shea Jackson Jr (@OsheaJacksonJr) September 23, 2019
And yes. I am for sure biased. The man gave me life. Lmao
But my points cannot be ignored.
Respect to Hit em up. But it wasn’t only Pac rapping.
— O’Shea Jackson Jr (@OsheaJacksonJr) September 23, 2019
XXL Magazine declared that Ice Cube was the winner of the greatest diss track of all-time.
“No Vaseline” seems to be the general consensus 🤔
Here is Ice Cube talking about the track and that he had started writing a follow-up 🤯pic.twitter.com/jVq3XMO8Oo
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) September 24, 2019
Last September, Ice Cube declared his No Vaseline to be the greatest diss track because he went “one against four (plus Jerry Heller). Murdered the track, killed the group. Game over.”
Yeah right, one on one will never beat one against four (plus Jerry Heller). Murdered the track, killed the group. Game over. https://t.co/7t6exeTtCv
— Ice Cube (@icecube) September 4, 2018
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