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A diss track or diss song (diss – abbr. from disrespect) is a song intended to verbally attack someone else, often as a response to someone's diss track. While musical parodies and attacks have always existed, the trend became increasingly common in the hip hop genre fueled by the hip hop rivalry phenomenon.

History

An early example of a diss track was "You Keep Her" (1962) by Joe Tex. He wrote the song after his wife left him for soul singer James Brown, who then broke up with her and wrote Tex a letter saying he could have her back. Tex refused and ridiculed this offer in his song.^[1]

Another example of a diss track occurred in Jamaica. After Lee "Scratch" Perry left producer Coxsone Dodd he released a track called "Run for Cover" (1967) poking a joke at him.^[2] Perry in particular has a long history of releasing diss tracks directed at former musical collaborators. The musical single "People Funny Boy" (1968) attacked his former boss Joe Gibbs by adding sounds of a crying baby into the mix. In response Gibbs himself released a track called "People Grudgeful" (1968).^[3] Perry's "Evil Tongues" (1978) was aimed at The Congos^[4] and “Judgement Inna Babylon” (1984) and "Satan Kicked the Bucket" (1988) at Chris Blackwell.^[4] Perry also attacked Michael Jackson (with whom he never worked together) on the track "Freaky Michael" (2010).^[4]

The Beach Boys song "Surfers Rule," from their 1963 album Surfer Girl, ended with a diss of their rival American group The Four Seasons, the backing vocals repeating the challenge "Four Seasons, you better believe it" while Brian Wilson's lead vocal quoted a falsetto motif from "Walk Like a Man."

John Lennon's "How Do You Sleep?" (1971) from his album Imagine is another prototypical example of a diss track. Lennon had the impression that the song "Too Many People" from Paul McCartney's Ram (1970) was a dig at him, something McCartney later admitted.^[5] Lennon thought that other songs on the album, such as "3 Legs," contained similar attacks,^[6] and the back cover of Ram, showing one stag beetle mounting another, has been described by McCartney as indicative of how he felt treated by the other members of The Beatles. As a result, Lennon's "How Do You Sleep?" indirectly mocked McCartney's musicianship. While McCartney is never mentioned in the song, the many references make clear he is the target, particularly in the lyrics "The only thing you done was yesterday/And since you've gone you're just another day", the first lyric being a reference to The Beatles' 1965 song "Yesterday" and the second line referring to McCartney's 1971 song "Another Day".

The opening track on Queen's album A Night at the Opera, "Death on Two Legs", is a prime example of a heavy metal diss track.

In 1980 Wild Man Fischer wrote a song called "Frank", which was aimed at his former record producer Frank Zappa, who enabled him to record his debut album An Evening with Wild Man Fischer (1969) but afterwards broke all contact when the mentally disturbed Fischer threw a bottle at Zappa's infant daughter and missed.^[8] Dr. Demento once played "Frank" when Zappa was a guest on his show and to his amazement Zappa turned absolutely livid with anger when he heard it, even threatening the radio host to never ever play this song again on the air.^[9]

Notable diss tracks

See also

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.roctober.com/roctober/joetex.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-01-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026192653/http://www.roctober.com/roctober/joetex.html |archivedate=2015-10-26 |df= }}
2. ^"The Upsetter", Black Music (January 1975). "Perry says the song was his was of expressing how he felt about the way Clement Dodd (Sir Coxsone) had treated him financially while he had been working for Dodd. It spoke of revenge: 'You take people for fool, yeah / And use them as a tool, yeah / But I am the av-en-ger...'."
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://rougheryet.com/people-funny-boy/|title=People Funny Boy|author=|date=|website=rougheryet.com}}
4. ^¹²{{cite web|url=http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/lee-scratch-perry-album-guide|title=Red Bull Music Academy Daily|author=|date=|website=www.redbullmusicacademy.com}}
5. ^{{cite web |author=Playboy Magazine |url=http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1984.pmpb.beatles.html |title=Playboy Interview With Paul and Linda McCartney |publisher=Playboy Press |year=1984 |accessdate=23 August 2008}}
6. ^{{cite book | first=Patrick |last=Cadogan | title=The Revolutionary Artist: John Lennon's Radical Years| year=2008 | pages=141 | publisher=Lulu| location=Morrisville, North Carolina | isbn=978-1-4357-1863-0}}
7. ^Song Review by Jo-Ann Greene, AllMusic.com.
8. ^http://telegraphco.trendfuture.net/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8626665/Larry-Wild-Man-Fischer.html{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p07058.htm|title=FAME Review: Wild Man Fischer - Derailroaded: Inside the Mind of Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer (DVD)|author=|date=|website=www.acousticmusic.com}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.capitalxtra.com/playlists/best-songs/diss-tracks/|title=15 Of The Most Memorable Diss Tracks In Hip Hop History|last=Unwin|first=Eddie|date=22 November 2018|website=Capital XTRA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314184823/https://www.capitalxtra.com/playlists/best-songs/diss-tracks/|archive-date=14 March 2019|dead-url=no|access-date=14 March 2019}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.altpress.com/news/machine-gun-kelly-rap-devil-tops-itunes-chart/|title=MGK’s “Rap Devil” hits No. 1 on U.S. iTunes Chart|last=Shoemaker|first=Whitney|date=9 September 2018|work=Alternative Press|access-date=14 March 2019}}