I'm being specific here. Not "best diss track" but "best use of description in a diss" track.
For instance, Hit 'Em Up is one of the best diss tracks ever with hard and cutting rhymes but it's not very descriptive.
And if you really want to show off
We can get it on
Live in front of the cameras
On your own sitcom
I'll let you kick a verse
Fuck it, I'll let you kick 'em all
I'll even wait for the studio audience to applaud
Now watch me rip the tat from your arm
Kick you in the groin
Stick you for your Vanguard award
In front of your mom
Your first
Second
And third-born
Make your wife get on the horn
Call Minister Farrakhan
So he could persuade me to squash it
I say "Naw, he started it
He forgot what a hardcore artist is"
And for best use of description, I gotta go with Canibus again as far of rap.
(This isn't limited to rap and I might think of something else that tops this later but I'm in a rap mood right now and, as far as rap, this is top shelf in terms of painting a picture and the quality of the picture.)
Gettin' in my way is like jumpin' in front of a car
Breakin' the sound barrier
That means the car's
In front of the horn
By the time you hear it blowin'
It's too late to respond
By the time you feel it hit chu
I'm gone
I'll send you to hell
Where you belong
So by the time your body hits the floor
Your spirit won't be in it no more
For instance, Hit 'Em Up is one of the best diss tracks ever with hard and cutting rhymes but it's not very descriptive.
And if you really want to show off
We can get it on
Live in front of the cameras
On your own sitcom
I'll let you kick a verse
Fuck it, I'll let you kick 'em all
I'll even wait for the studio audience to applaud
Now watch me rip the tat from your arm
Kick you in the groin
Stick you for your Vanguard award
In front of your mom
Your first
Second
And third-born
Make your wife get on the horn
Call Minister Farrakhan
So he could persuade me to squash it
I say "Naw, he started it
He forgot what a hardcore artist is"
And for best use of description, I gotta go with Canibus again as far of rap.
(This isn't limited to rap and I might think of something else that tops this later but I'm in a rap mood right now and, as far as rap, this is top shelf in terms of painting a picture and the quality of the picture.)
Gettin' in my way is like jumpin' in front of a car
Breakin' the sound barrier
That means the car's
In front of the horn
By the time you hear it blowin'
It's too late to respond
By the time you feel it hit chu
I'm gone
I'll send you to hell
Where you belong
So by the time your body hits the floor
Your spirit won't be in it no more
