Whilst the Americans and Canadians devoured Mealie Meals… sorry, we mean Weak Mills, dammit, Meek Mills' weak diss track on social media, let’s not also forget that South African musicians also had a great run when it came to roasting musical beef tracks in the studio.

Brenda vs Sinyaka

Let’s take it back to the 90s when the late Sinyaka fired the first shots at the original African Queen of Pop, Brenda Fassie, after the two engaged in an argument which lead to the birth of “Why uzonda ama gents”, by Sinyaka. Fassie retaliated with her hit diss track “Ama Gents?”, which was played in almost every tavern in the townships. As to which track was the best diss song, that's up for debate.

Mzekezeke vs Sbu

Considered to be by far one of the best kwaito diss tracks in the history of the genre, masked musician, Mzekezeke, went off on kwaito star, Sbu, when he released the diss track Ub'dadada.  The song was so brutal we don't even remember Sbu replying back with his own song. Honestly we think Ub'dadada killed Sbu's career.

TKZee vs Mdu

The powerful kwaito trio that was TKZee sent shots at the Godfather of kwaito, Mdu, when they released the song Masimbela, which was a play on Mdu's surname, Masilela. The first verse went a little something like this.

"Eh jou cabbish...ja jou moemish!.yeah jy's F*ol." 

Our favourite line was when Tokolo said: 'People like you will be baptised in fire'. Eish!

B.O.P vs Arthur

We're not sure how many of you remember this particular song, but Kalawa Jazmee group, B.O.P, also fired musical shots at the king of kwaito, Arthur. As if one song wasn't enough, DJ Cleo also did a diss song for Arthur. Poor guy.

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