What Was the First Diss Track?

Introduction
Other notable diss tracks
- “Yankee Doodle” (c. 1750s)
- Mozart: “Leck mich im Arsch” (c. 1782)
- Noel Rosa: “Rapaz folgado” (1933)
- Kitty Wells: “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (1952)
- Muddy Waters: “Mannish Boy” (1955)
- Bob Dylan: “Positively 4th Street” (1965)
- The Beatles: “Too Many People” and “How Do You Sleep?” (1971)
- Carly Simon: “You’re So Vain” (1972)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)
- Foo Fighters: “I’ll Stick Around” (1995)
- Tupac Shakur: “Hit ’Em Up” (1996)
- Kendrick Lamar: “Not Like Us” (2024)

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Tupac Shakur, 1993

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Infographic titled 2024 Rap Beef Timeline showing a sequence of major releases and diss tracks exchanged between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, with key dates and song titles mapped in chronological order between their photos.

2024 Rap Beef timeline

Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and several of their contemporaries who contributed to their...

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Dylan goes electric

Dylan goes electric

Bob Dylan playing a Fender Stratocaster at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25,...

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Tupac Shakur, 1993

Tupac Shakur, 1993

The West Coast rapper's 1996 song “Hit 'Em Up” is a take-no-prisoners diss track...

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