- Search interest
- Google search interest, US, Jan 2004–Oct 2026, monthly.
- Volumes
- Google search volume (US, 12-month average, Oct 2025–Sep 2026) for title-plus-artist and "lyrics" queries.
Rap beef is a spectator sport, and Google keeps score. We put 16 famous diss tracks, from Ice Cube's "No Vaseline" to the 2024 Kendrick Lamar–Drake war, on one search-interest scale with "Not Like Us" as the anchor. Kendrick's track peaked in February 2025, the month of his Super Bowl halftime show. The next-highest peak, Machine Gun Kelly's "Rap Devil" (Sept 2018), reached only 47% of that level, followed by Drake's "Back to Back" at 44%. "Not Like Us" also leads lasting demand at about 45,200 US searches a month (title plus lyrics). Nearly 30 years on, 2Pac's "Hit 'Em Up" is second at 22,900, ahead of every other diss from the Kendrick–Drake feud. Kendrick's "Meet the Grahams" (13,500) out-searches Drake's replies "Family Matters" (6,500) and "Push Ups" (1,300).
Ranking: today's US search demand (Google search volume, 12-month average)
| # | Diss track | Beef | Year | Title + lyrics searches/mo | Peak interest vs Not Like Us (=100) | Peak month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not Like Us | Kendrick → Drake | 2024 | 45,200 | 100 | Feb 2025 |
| 2 | Hit 'Em Up | 2Pac → Biggie | 1996 | 22,900 | 3 | Apr 2013 |
| 3 | Meet the Grahams | Kendrick → Drake | 2024 | 13,500 | 31 | May 2024 |
| 4 | Killshot | Eminem → MGK | 2018 | 9,000 | 35 | Sep 2018 |
| 5 | Bad Blood | Taylor Swift → Katy Perry (reported) | 2014 | 8,100 | 35 | May 2015 |
| 6 | No Vaseline | Ice Cube → N.W.A | 1991 | 6,600 | 4 | Aug 2015 |
| 7 | Family Matters | Drake → Kendrick | 2024 | 6,500* | 14 | May 2024 |
| 8 | Back to Back | Drake → Meek Mill | 2015 | 5,400 | 44 | Jul 2015 |
| 9 | Ether | Nas → Jay-Z | 2001 | 5,400 | 1 | (2004 data floor) |
| 10 | Euphoria | Kendrick → Drake | 2024 | 3,600 | 27 | May 2024 |
| 11 | Control (verse) | Kendrick on Big Sean's track | 2013 | 2,900 | 43 | Aug 2013 |
| 12 | The Story of Adidon | Pusha T → Drake | 2018 | 1,990 | 7 | May 2018 |
| 13 | Rap Devil | MGK → Eminem | 2018 | 1,900 | 47 | Sep 2018 |
| 14 | Push Ups | Drake → Kendrick | 2024 | 1,300 | 6 | Apr 2024 |
| 15 | Shether | Remy Ma → Nicki Minaj | 2017 | 590 | 19 | Feb 2017 |
| 16 | Takeover | Jay-Z → Nas | 2001 | 590 | — | pre-2004 |
\*"Family Matters lyrics" also covers the sitcom theme song.
Whose diss gets searched most? US monthly searches for "[artist] diss" + "[artist] diss track"
| Artist | Monthly searches |
|---|---|
| Drake | 4,800 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 4,380 |
| Eminem | 2,880 |
| 50 Cent | 1,480 |
| Nicki Minaj | 1,440 |
| Taylor Swift | 1,260 |
| Tupac | 1,040 |
| Jay-Z | 650 |
| Cardi B | 620 |
| Nas | 420 |
What it means
Viral formats reward speed and a sound people already know. For a friendly roast of your own, a diss track generator gets the first bars down fast. Anyone with bars of their own can hear them over a beat with a rap generator.
Method
- Search interest: Google search interest, US, Jan 2004–Oct 2026, monthly.
- Four 5-keyword batches, each including "not like us" as the anchor. "Not Like Us" peaked at 100 in every batch, so the batches share one scale.
- Volumes: Google search volume (US, 12-month average, Oct 2025–Sep 2026) for title-plus-artist and "lyrics" queries.
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aisong.lol Research. (2026). The biggest diss tracks of all time, ranked by search. aisong.lol. https://aisong.lol/research/the-biggest-diss-tracks-of-all-time-ranked-by-search
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