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• Fans and critics have suggested the track takes aim at multiple artists including Tory Lanez, Nicki Minaj and Drake.
• The relationship between diss records and rap battles was crucial to the expansion of diss records during the 1980s.
• The Roxanne Wars is the most famous exchange of diss records, with over 50 releases by 35 different artists.

The Roxanne Wars

• The Roxanne saga was triggered by an “answer-back” record (a song which responds directly to the content in another artist’s song) by rapper Roxanne Shanté, directed at hip hop group U.T.F.O.’s 1984 hit Roxanne, Roxanne.
• released their own orchestrated answer-back, titled The Real Roxanne.
• This musical altercation spawned diss records by other artists too, who took on personas such as Roxanne’s Doctor, Rocksann, The Parents Of Roxanne and Little Roxanne.
• The Roxanne Wars fostered a new paradigm of diss records.

Female pioneers

• Looking back at the history of the diss track, it is the strength of female emcees that stands out.
• However, she lost due to judge Kurtis Blow’s alleged bias of not voting for a female rapper.
• Throughout the 1980s, female rappers were often dismissed due to the patriarchal structure of rap.
• But the tenacious next wave of female rappers – including MC Lyte, Monie Love, Queen Latifah and Queen Mother Rage – constructed diss songs with deeper metaphorical complexity.

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