[Intro] First, a correction to the news cycle The list didn't change this week, let me tell you [Verse 1] Fan outlets said Complex updated its 50 best diss songs We checked the page itself, and they had it wrong Current form since May 2025, untouched since then It's just circulating again, sixteen months later, round again 'Cause arguments about diss rankings never end, they just buffer Top five: "Not Like Us," "Hit 'Em Up," "Takeover," "Ether," "The Bridge Is Over" The 2025 revision made one seismic change "Not Like Us" went from six to one and rearranged the range Dethroned "Hit 'Em Up" after nearly three decades on top Kendrick's got four entries now, "Like That" at seventeen "Euphoria" twenty-three, "Meet the Grahams" thirty-one on the screen You can argue with a nine-month-old song outranking "Ether" Complex saw that argument coming and made the move anyway The Grammys, the Super Bowl, the sales make it defensible today [Hook] "Back Down" at eleven, "Nail in the Coffin" eighteen "Quitter" twenty-five, "Killshot" forty-five on the screen "Piggy Bank" hanging on at fifty, last in line That's the Shady-camp report card, one more time [Verse 2] Eleven, 50 Cent, "Back Down," 2003 Highest Shady-Aftermath placement, unmoved through the revision, see Topical again with an alleged original leak, disses Dre made 50 remove Eleven all-time for the toned-down version, quite an endorsement of the edit, that's the proof Eighteen, Eminem, "The Sauce" and "Nail in the Coffin," 2002 The Benzino double-tap, most lopsided win of his career, that's the consensus view A magazine owner picked a fight with the best technical rapper alive And lost the magazine Twenty-five, "Quitter" and the "Hit 'Em Up Freestyle," D12, 2001 The Everlast war slid two spots, and both men talk about it now Like a bar fight neither one can fully explain somehow [Hook] "Back Down" at eleven, "Nail in the Coffin" eighteen "Quitter" twenty-five, "Killshot" forty-five on the screen "Piggy Bank" hanging on at fifty, last in line That's the Shady-camp report card, one more time [Verse 3] Forty-five, "Killshot," 2018, down one spot, the one the stans will fight Most-streamed diss debut in YouTube history at the time, a clean win by every scoreboard, right Forty-four spots below "Not Like Us," the counterargument writes itself MGK was never a peer opponent, lists reward stakes, not just execution Fifty, 50 Cent, "Piggy Bank," 2005, the Jadakiss and Fat Joe spray from the Massacre era And forty-four, Nas's "Stillmatic Freestyle," the blurb's pick for best line Is the one where Nas says Em outdid Jay on Jay's own song The Renegade debate, back again at the Blueprint anniversary this month [Outro] Eminem on a diss list gets undercounted by definition His most celebrated combat wasn't diss tracks, it was features, battles, album cuts Whoever else had a microphone that year The lists rank the wars The reputation was built in the sparring room And even Complex's blurbs keep admitting it
