r/makinghiphop • u/Separate_Beautiful55 • 6d ago
Question What was your first time writing a diss track???
Me, I would say I wrote my first serious one earlier, then recently I wrote a diss about Joey Bada$$ for dissin the west coast
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u/halfwit258 6d ago
Shit, I was a 10 year old white rapper in the suburbs in the late 90s, all I really had was forums for years. Battling every week, first in text and then recorded, once I got to high school some other dudes started rapping. This one Persian kid kept wanting to drop a song with me but shit just never worked out, so finally he hit me up on IM with a link to a track where he dissed me. Dude was wack so I responded with a full 3 minute verse just dropping bars. Later, has some weird beef with some dude who lived a few hours north of me, we each did 2 or 3 tracks at each other just trashing each other on some Bay Area vs further north Cali bullshit. I miss battle boards man, subs just aren't the same as forums. You could get some legit visibility on your Soundclick page back in the day just doing weekly battles and dropping other tracks in between
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u/Ray229harris Type your link 6d ago
Back back BACK in the day; this sub had a battle rap tournament. I dissed a couple cats back in my hayday
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u/Project_K92 6d ago
I was paid. Back in high school, some guys had issues with this other guy, who was a rapper, and they wanted to drop a diss. So they gave me some info about him (his styles, looks, how he raps, etc) paid me, and I wrote it.
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u/edgyallcapsname 5d ago edited 5d ago
I got into an internet fight with one of my non rap favorite artists. Kimya dawson, who did most of the Juno soundtrack, yelled at me for calling someone a retard in her twitter thread. She proceeds to yell at me. I just responded several screenshots of her using it and old song lyrics she used in same manner. I told her she made it and now wants to be a good person, but shes gone from punk rocker to an album burning mom whos trying to hate a young artist on come up using the same words she did. She told my wife to leave me and proceeded to make fun of my @ name etc. I told her give me 15 mins id be back with a diss track. It got like instantly 400 views and taken down by her tumbler army mass reporting it.
BUT she made a public apology for ever using the word. So i won. I think. Either way it was cool to feel like i won a rap beef with one of my favorite artists despite no one will ever see it
Edit- i got an elon twitter ban so account gone but heres at least a piece of the history.
https://x.com/mrskimyadawson/status/992634884391813120?t=A6pat_y4RkIVudFyfTmpog&s=19
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u/LostInTheRapGame Engineer/Producer 5d ago
I feel inspired to release the collection of disses I made for a former friend. No real reason to do it. I'm fairly certain he's already heard them. But there's also not much reason not to do it. My feelings haven't changed whatsoever, albeit time has passed so the exorbitant amount of anger has subsided.
But the underlying reason for the tracks? Still hold up. Lyrics were pretty damn good too. Maybe I'll make new beats for them and record them again. Though the magic of the moment might be lost.
We'll see.
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u/Californiadude86 6d ago
lol I wrote one about Nelly back in the day. I remember saying something about snatchin that #1 chain off his neck.
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u/SonicStories 6d ago
Rap battles. That’s what it’s all about. If you could battle rap, you could diss Jesus on a track. 🤷🏽♂️
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u/AmorKYA 6d ago
My first time was in a satire subreddit that some kid decided to take too seriously. Attempting to get the subreddit shut down, this fool posted CP onto the subreddit. Per the moderator's permission, I went and hit him with four separate diss tracks. He got two extra due to the fact that he responded with his own diss which for some reason attacked my girlfriend instead of me - lame. I don't regret a single thing I said about him to this day lol. He almost contacted the police, but his friends talked him out of that.
I recently have been dealing with various people, including former partners of mine in the rap realm who attack me. But I've learned how to write subliminals now and thus I very seldom name names any more.
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u/kingmidas_US 5d ago
Had a rap group full of methheads when I was a teenager and one of them who was a bit older turned out to be a chomo. Dropped the hardest diss track of my life on him lmao
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u/Correct_Apartment712 5d ago
I just do it for fun on my friends lol I'm ass at rapping but it's fun to write so I write they know it's not meant to hurt I keep it very very surface level
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u/TheRealExactO 5d ago
I have never written a diss track with an intended target. I am from the freestyle battle era. When beef popped between crews or individuals, we went to a venue/parking lot/park, etc, and just battled. One time my boy and I drove 4 hrs to destroy some dude in his hometown. Shit was crazy back in the day.
I always felt like writing an onslaught would immortalize it, the point of no return. Sometimes we say shit that we don't regret at first but decades later that shit doesn't hit the same.
I'm a dinosaur head that doesn't think your pen game should be wasted on beef... just battle off the top an stand on business.
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u/Dukyro 5d ago
Was making bass beats for a car audio store in my town, and also rap songs. We made a diss track about their competitor across the street. The two owners didn't get along.
Sold our CD at the mall at a kiosk. And at highschool.
It was......cringe inducing as an adult, thinking back on it.
Wasn't even a good diss track. Really just embarrassing on our part. LOL
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u/Nota_Throwaway5 5d ago
When I was 16 I wrote half a diss track for this 14 year old rapper who went to the same highschool as me lmfao. Never dropped it cuz it was ass and I ain't have a beat
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u/CRUMMYcuzz 5d ago
15 years ago or more, I used to battle all the time, writing rhymes, doing text battles, video battles, and audio battles. I was on a site called Freestylemadness, where typically a beat would come on and you would freestyle or battle a random dude. then goldmic, then letsbeef. I've been on nearly every site with rap, if you could battle I been there and had one. The first one I actually wrote and used was against a homie from England who dissed me. I recorded it with my Ps2 or 3's eyetoy as a mic.
I'm from New York and I heard lots of those songs, Isn't the consensus that Joey still won?
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u/Rob_70h7 4d ago
First time was when my former label had beef with another label that were originally close to one another. People in my label kept finding themselves in all types of beefs, cause the underground/juggalo rap scene is just full of stupidity and clout-chasing beefs and antics. Well anyways someone made a line about my homie’s kid and so that’s when I decided to step up. It became a semi-huge thing cause I cut deep with two back-to-back disses about his entire personal life, prior convictions, drug usage, exposed him for secretly being gay despite having a homophobic persona, his cringey religious views, and involved three different labels into the beef that we had mutual connections with. It got pretty bad. They tried to get the streets involved and put me on a “no fly list” to their cities so I bragged on social media going to them and being safe. It got heavy for a minute. The end result was their labels going under, the original dude ended up homeless and ruining his life with drugs, and I pulled connections to get them blacklisted from a bigger label they were trying to get features from. Moral of the story: there are rules and ethics in diss tracks. Mention wanting to commit violence to someone’s kid will get ZERO respect from any outsiders
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u/Suspicious-Pay-3705 4d ago
I don’t write dis tracks , I get your address
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u/paragontas405 2d ago
Get the address and go like "I'm at Heinz street, number 14th drinking shots, oilin' the gun" or som'
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u/Hazzab776 3d ago
To a guy named kidbehindacamera.
He got under my skin, I was like 12 or something and he blocked me because it hurt his feelings. Win win.
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u/hillcityanimal 3d ago
In high school 😂 made it 2 songs and 3 skits...themed it like a radio station....it was fun as hell tho... we'd get to school give it to the group we dissed...wait for them to come back to school wit they reply..
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u/TheKidPi 3d ago
Used to diss the homies for fun. But I wrote and released a real one in 2018 against the current Lieutenant Governor of New York, who used to be a rapper. He was running for Congress at the time against my client (I'm also an election lawyer), who was a famous TV star. His people including the incoming president of the bar association and Hillary Clinton's chief counsel tried changing the law to keep my client off the ballot. I won the case. My client said, "Hey, you're a rapper. You should totally diss him for that." So I did.
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u/paragontas405 2d ago
I've always was like "To write a diss track you got to have some serious issues and to be personal". Back in 2017-2018, I had a couple of tracks, with baits in, like "Yeah, c'mon, tell something back, pls, diss me so I could diss u back", but the whole thing - not the tracks was kinda lame and pointless.
But, in 2020 I had a fallout with my ex-best friend, we had a crew together, he went more like 69 kinda stuff and I stayed in my lane but that wasn't my issue, he called me snitch publicly and talked shit abt me because I clicked up with a dude (currently one of my best friends, he's like one of the best persons I've ever met). I had an impressive run, like, I released one track, then we had some behind the scenes stuff and then, I was releasing a track per day for a week. They were 7-8 tracks, all full-length, the one was 2 minutes but the other ones were like 6-7 minutes, I was kinda telling the whole story, how we've met, behind the scenes stuff with the crew and everything.
It kinda aged like wine until recently - but that's another story, these 5 years I am kinda back and forth to him, trynna make him diss me back so I can do my thing. Anyways, in 2020 was my first direct to someone tho which I released, and it was towards him.
I think that in every kinda battle track, we're thinking of some ppl specifically, so, every battle track feels kinda like a diss or something.
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u/paragontas405 2d ago
I do have several unreleased tho, about other rappers I used to know back in the day from high school and from the city I currently live in - I'm there for like 9 years now. I always had a tactic : drop something that they tease 'em to diss you and then boom, give 'em like 5 or 6 tracks to rip dem skin apart, show the listeners who they really are, not just the rap/artistic part but as ppl, show who they rly are to the world.
My best one, it's unreleased, it called "Rockefeller". It's a shame I didn't release it.
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u/Outrageous_Zone340 6d ago
About two years ago. I was dissing my ex best friend/rap partner because we had a falling out. I never dropped it thinking we were gonna reconcile, which we did but we since fell out again even worse so I might still drop it lmao