(Intro) Diss tracks.
If there's one place you wanna make sure your lyricism is solid, it's on these.
But a lot of the time, that doesn't happen.
To be fair, it is pretty hard to make a track that's consistently great with every single
bar connecting- but for today we're ignoring that, singling out the mistakes and pointing
at them and going "haha, that was a bad line".
This is CDTVProductions, and let's take a look at the 10 worst lyrics ever from hip
hop diss tracks.
10 - Ja Rule “Loose Change”
Apparently Ja Rule deliberately misspelled the name of his very own label here to avoid
making a statement incriminating himself.
And somehow, that apparent justification makes the line even worse.
Do you really think law enforcement would just ignore this line if 50 was shot after
this track dropped because you misspelled murder?
This is a- this is a tough case to solve hre. this is our number 1 suspect but nowhere on
this track does he reference murdering 50 Cent.
He says something about "muredr" but i don't know what that is.
Not to mention, I’m pretty sure that defence is just an excuse, not a very good one, as
Ja openly refers to shooting and killing people himself later on in this very same track.
I don’t think spelling murder wrong was a way to protect himself.
9 - J-Kwon “Pushing the Odds”
I wish this was some sort of joke or meme, but no that’s actually the hook to a diss
track.
A hook, where J Kwon begs Odd Future and Pusha T to stop picking on him.
He’s whining.
On a diss track.
HotNewHipHop... how much did J Kwon pay you to say this is a “worthy addition to the
impressive body of work J Kwon has been developing over the years.”...
I hope he gave you a fat amount of money to say that.
8 - Machine Gun Kelly “Rap Devil”
I’m not even gonna ask you guys to keep your “CDTV has a weird beard haha” comments
to yourself, because I know they’re coming regardless.
But honestly I don’t think this line would be half as bad if it wasn’t the very first
line on the whole goddamn diss track.
He decided to open it up by insulting Eminem’s beard, and not even in a creative way.
It’s one of the most lacklustre opening lines I’ve heard on a diss.
A lot of people say this line is a reference to this Eminem line on Business, but that’s
a bit of a reach, I highly doubt it is.
7 - Soulja Boy “F Bow Wow”
Sweeter.
Than a lemon.
There is not a lot that’s sweet about that.
You’re basically complimenting Bow Wow, saying, damn you aren’t sweet in the slightest
so you know what, you’re actually a pretty tough guy Bow Wow.
You guys know I praise Soulja all the time, but sometimes even the highest powers can
be corrected.
6 - Tom MacDonald “Lethal Injection”
Tom likes to bring up age a whole lot in this diss track so let me do the same for him here.
This is a 30 year old man, an age where science says your brain has fully developed, making
a joke where the punch line is “haha gay”.
It literally couldn’t be more uncreative and immature.
And are we just gonna forget that you mentioned Mac has a daughter not one minute earlier
in this diss track, kinda contradicting this line within the very same song?
If you’re gonna call him that, maybe don’t mention the fact that he was so attracted
to a particular woman to the point of conceiving a child with her earlier in the diss, rendering
this line as a childish insult that’s thrown around on playgrounds between kids.
5 - Drake “Charged Up"
This line seems really unnecessary.
Suggesting that Meek shouldn’t diss you because there’s bigger issues going on in
the world, whilst you’re dissing him I might add, is not really a relevant point.
a) just because you make a diss track or diss another rapper in your music doesn’t mean
you’re doing nothing to try and counter police brutality.
b) Meek made a song months before this track came out addressing issues with the law and
law enforcement, he was using his platform to speak on these issues.
The way Drake delivers it makes it sound like he’s trying to get a lot of people on his
side with this line, but really it’s just a cheap and weak attempt at discrediting Meek.
4 - Meek Mill “Wanna Know”
So this was a clap back in response to Drake saying Meek had “trouble going gold” in
terms of sales.
And Meek’s response was essentially “yeah I do”.
Showing that you have expensive items and at the time a girlfriend who made platinum
records before you doesn’t really prove to Drake that more people like or know about
your music, which is what he was implying with the “trouble going gold” line.
Sure, Meek is showing that he has money here regardless of sales, but Drake’s main diss
against you was about relevancy, he never really brought your net worth into question.
3 - Canibus “J. Clone”
Yep.
Canibus dissed J. Cole because Cole said he was a big fan of Canibus... but never reached
out to Canibus asking for a collab.
Apparently paying homage isn’t enough anymore, you literally have to pay your idols cash
or you don’t respect them.
And of course Canibus thought these bars were so good that he stood behind them for all
of 2 days before rescinding them and apologising.
That’s how you know it belongs on a list like this.
2 - Papoose “Control (Freestyle)”
You know Kendrick Lamar is just his stage name right?
It’s like saying “oh Papoose, where’s your last name huh?
Why have you only got one?”.
This would be kinda solid if it was true, but Lamar isn’t legitimately his last name,
it’s his middle name with his surname being Duckworth.
I’m assuming he chose to go by Kendrick Lamar because Kendrick Duckworth doesn’t
quite have the same ring to it, but the lesson here is know what you’re saying about your
opponent and make sure it actually makes sense before dropping it in a track.
1 - Remy Ma “Another One”
Now I loved Remy Ma’s Shether diss against Nicki Minaj, but when she dropped this one
she just sounded desperate for a response.
And those bars, where she tried to flip what Drake said to Meek Mill on Back to Back, are
evident of that.
In this case it isn’t even half as effective.
Here’s why it worked when Drake said it.
Meek had already called him out by name, the beef wasn’t subliminal at that point.
Drake and Meek were both all in, so Drake dropped Charged Up as a warm up and Back to
Back as the main event, with the big shots and asking why Meek hadn’t responded if
he supposedly wanted beef.
In Remy’s case, she dropped her main even first.
Not to mention, she was responding almost entirely to subliminals, so both parties weren’t
all in at this point.
Remy dropped Shether, which contained some huge blows against Nicki, but didn’t leave
Remy any content for this second, unnecessary diss which she dropped four days after the
first.
In my opinion it was a failed attempt to recreate Back to Back, so the lyrics fall apart and
almost come off like a parody of that track.
Not ideal.