Ice Cube has claimed the best diss song of all time belongs to him.
During an appearance on the Earn Your Leisure podcast, the West Coast rap legend was asked to name his top five diss tracks, kicking things off by saying “No Vaseline” is “the top battle song ever” and “it’s not even close.”
Cube went on to round out his top five with vicious tracks by 2Pac, Nas, Boogie Down Productions and Kool Moe Dee.
“I mean, I would go with, you know, ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ is a good one,” he said. “‘Ether’ is dope. I would go with ‘The Bridge Is Over,’ and I don’t know, I think I gotta go with ‘Let’s Go.'”
Ice Cube previously claimed “No Vaseline,” his 1991 diss song aimed at his former group N.W.A, “knocked ’em down like bowling pins.”
“I think [Dr.] Dre had just finished The Chronic and he was about to put out Doggystyle with Snoop [Dogg],” he told The Breakfast Club in 2014. “We had a chance to really talk. And we never really talked about the song, you know? We still haven’t talked about the song. I mean, damn, they was disrespectful, too.
“If you really think about AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, I never even mention N.W.A on that record at all. It was all about what I was doing with [Public Enemy] and the Bomb Squad and Chuck D and them. So, for them to diss me on they EP, 100 Miles and Runnin’, I kinda threw a little jab with ‘Jackin for Beats’ at the end.
“And then they came with another couple of little disses. I said, ‘Okay, man, I’m tired of this. I’ma end this real quick. We gon’ set it all the way off.’ So that’s when I wrote ‘No Vaseline,’ recorded it. I put it on that ‘Cinderfella’ track, that Dana Dane track… we flipped it and it became a smash.”
He added: “And I didn’t know that at the time they was already fragmented, breaking up anyway. So, that just — I guess knocked ‘em down like bowling pins.”
Released in October 1991, “No Vaseline” appeared on Ice Cube’s second solo album Death Certificate. Dr. Dre left N.W.A shortly after its release, leading to the dissolution of the group.
100% correct. Ice Cube was surgical in the way he went after his former group members. I got a lot of love for 2Pac, Nas, and Jay-Z but their tracks aren’t close to the planned viciousness of No Vaseline.
No vaseline was one of the best but I think E40’s record haters 1#
U can’t 4get about The KingPin Kurupt’s song 🎵 “Calling Out Names” too.
I mean, we now call verbally destroying someone “Ethering” they so…
Ether >>>
Definitely a great dissertation song but greatest? Tim dogs- fuck Compton a was vicious one. Commons -bitch in you (ironically a dissertation to cube) is better than no Vaseline imo. Ether too.
Definitely a great disse song but greatest? Tim dogs- fuck Compton a was vicious one. Commons -bitch in you (ironically a dissertation to cube) is better than no Vaseline imo. Ether too.
Chester P / Wordsmith diss is the best battle 12″ – if you dont know of it – check youtube
Masta Ace top ten list was raw he obliterated Fat Joe
At his concert last month he said it’s the greatest diss of all time because it took out 4 mother fuckers and their manager. When he put it that way I think I gotta agree
At his concert last month he said it’s the greatest diss of all time because it took out 4 mother fuckers and their manager. When he put it that way I think I gotta agree
Bruh, cube got bodied by common with bitch in yoo. Wtf is he talking about? I guess we gon ignore the truth I guess…. Lol
Ice Cube No Vaseline would be the best. Dude dismantled and retired NWA. Who else can say that?
ONLY one diss song created a new word, a word used to describe an artist being lyrically destroyed…….ETHER
Actually… the track Common DESTROYED you in before he brava e a weirdo was way better. Check it out. “The bitch in you.” Selling Beanpies and St. Idez in the same sentence. Hahahaha
Honestly, “King of the Hill” is a better diss track from Cube. Ya’ll listen to that one! When he was beefin with cypress hill.
Honestly, “King of the Hill” is a better diss track from Cube. Ya’ll listen to that one! When he was beefin with cypress hill.
King of the hill was vicious but No Vaseline is stupid vicious
No Vaseline is the best because of the anger and utter disgust in his voice while ripping apart people he probably used to love. It’s personal in a way that Ether and Hit Em Up aren’t. Dopest beat too.
Dont forget about the female rapper Choice who dissed NWA Too Short and Geto Boys
Dont forget about the female rapper Choice who dissed NWA Too Short and Geto Boys and Luke who dissed Dre n snoop
No vas was tight… maybe top ten, but DJ Quik’s don’t make dollars better, ether better, take over better, hit ‘em up better, the bridge is over better… nwa was already breaking up… no vas was my shit… it sounds rushed and angry… but cube my man… I remember the times clearly… late 91
Bro got annihilated by Common lol. As for the greatest diss track, there is only one, Ether.
There are so many great diss tracks. Hard to choose one. Ether right there, though, as it spawned the term for destroying a rapper, and the track was hard AF and just nasty with the bars. However, and I love Cube, but he has been lit up quite a few times himself… Common did him bad, but everyone sleeps on No Rest for the Wicked by Cypress Hill. That song was so menacing and raw. Listening to it made me feel like they were digging a grave and lowering Cube’s coffin into it. Ice Cube Killa was cold too. DJ Quick Dollaz and Sense was fire too! Just too many good ones….
I know Benzino is terrible, but Eminem’s nail in the coffin some of the hardest shot ever put on wax.