Key Takeaways:

• Cardi B, Clipse and Bhad Bhabie sparked main conversations with their 2025 diss tracks.
• This 12 months’s rap beefs ranged from playful jabs to full-on lyrical warfare, with regional rivalries heating up.
• From Twitch drama to Top Dawg Entertainment signee callouts, these tracks gave followers a lot to dissect and debate.

The gloves got here off for loads of rappers in 2025. It didn’t almost attain the all-consuming stage of 2024’s chaos, when Drake was trading shots with Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross and half the business, however we nonetheless obtained a scaled-down style of that drama. Joey Bada$$, for example, spent months attempting to tug Ok. Dot into the ring and got here up brief, opening the door for West Coast artists like Ray Vaughn, AZ Chike and Daylyt to unload on him as an alternative.

Women in rap weren’t shy about it both, with extra of their points enjoying out by tracks — and, naturally, loads of tweets. Bhad Bhabie handed Alabama Barker a large L in February with “Ms. Whitman,” whereas Cardi B obtained her get-back on BIA and JT on “Pretty & Petty” and “Magnet.”

With all that in thoughts, Rap-Up rounded up 11 of one of the best diss tracks of 2025. Check out the rating under.

11. “PlaqueBoyMax” by Fivio Foreign

In January, PlaqueBoyMax introduced Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign onto one in all his Twitch streams, just for issues to crumble when he advised them they couldn’t smoke within the Airbnb. A few weeks later, the Brooklyn rapper responded with “PlaqueBoyMax,” wherein he declared himself “the real PlaqueBoyMax.”

It makes far more sense as soon as you discover out that Fivio’s actual title is Maxie Lee Ryles III. While we don’t essentially know whether PBM should be flattered or offended, the observe turned out to be surprisingly replayable.

10. “Round 2” by Skepta

If “Friendly Fire” was the bait in Skepta and Joyner Lucas’ beef, then “Round 2” was the second the gloves got here off. Compared to the handful of traces Big Smoke tossed at Lucas on the primary diss, the second observe swung a lot more durable.

From him saying Lucas’ “NOBODY CARES” sounded “like [Drake’s] ‘Back To Back’ from Alibaba” to him mentioning ADHD 2, there was so much to like right here. All that stated, Skepta did say his “clashes” had been “no violence, just bars,” which is why I’m not solely satisfied he was going for the total knockout.

9. “1900 ARCHIE” by Jace!

Along with nonetheless taking occasional swipes at Autumn!, Texas rapper Jace! had smoke for a handful of artists this 12 months, together with Toosii, k3, and significantly 1900Rugrat, who arguably obtained it the roughest. On “1900 ARCHIE,” Jace! directed most of his photographs on the XXL Freshman, saying he belonged on Zeus’ “Baddies.”

“1900 ARCHIE,” which was presumably set to premiere on PlaqueBoyMax’s “Song Wars” earlier than these plans fell aside, by no means made it to DSPs. Then once more, Jace! and 1900Rugrat each have a protracted solution to go earlier than they land within the broader rap dialog, so it’s powerful to argue the music’s absence mattered all that a lot.

8. “ROUND 2 K.O” by Joyner Lucas

Joyner Lucas and Skepta’s feud proved as soon as and for all that the British aren’t topping American rappers anytime quickly (sorry, not sorry). Among the extra entertaining information from their change was “ROUND 2 K.O,” wherein the Massachusetts native coasted over the beat for about 3 ½ minutes. During that point, Lucas accused Skepta of biting A$AP Rocky’s fashion and joked that he’d do something for an OVO chain.

Funny sufficient, Drake had simply declared earlier that month that “nobody can out-rap London.” In our humble opinion, that didn’t age properly. “I hope you know the pressure’s on when I drop this s**t ’cause you really on the clock, boy / I’ma write a perspective song from a U.K. n**ga who think he a top boy,” Lucas dished out.

7. “Magnet” by Cardi B

Cardi B got here able to scorch the earth on her sophomore effort, AM I THE DRAMA? In addition to whacking BIA on “Pretty & Petty,” she emptied the chamber on Offset and JT on “Magnet.”

“Shout out to my h**s that wear the pants like Kamala / Got my baby daddy actin’ like my baby mama, huh,” Cardi rapped within the first verse, earlier than tearing into JT moments later. She referred to as out the City Girl alum for supposedly “sharing bags” with Lil Uzi Vert and looking out “a hot mess,” which is form of hilarious contemplating the “OKAY” artist orbits the style world.

It’s powerful to say if Cardi deliberately took a swipe at Nicki Minaj on “Magnet,” however the music — and probably the album’s total momentum — clearly triggered one thing, judging by their change on X afterward. The observe isn’t very lyrically spectacular (although Bardi might have set a file for what number of occasions “a**-b**ch” has been stated on one music), but it surely completely obtained individuals speaking.

6. “THE FINALS” by Joey Bada$$

Joey Bada$$’ rap profession obtained an enormous second wind from his feud with Ray Vaughn, with “THE FINALS” arguably being one of the best diss observe he dropped throughout their conflict. “What kinda Top Dawg is you? You more Shih Tzu / You was cloned in the lab, dog, you artificial,” he spat on the file’s lone verse, adopted by him referencing REASON’s departure from Top Dawg Entertainment.

Running a decent 4 minutes, the observe gave us Joey at his most ingenious. He referred to as again to Vaughn’s earlier diss “Crashout Heritage” and performed off Long Beach native’s title with traces that reference Ray Liotta and Ray-Ban. Not to say, there have been loads of nods to Ok. Dot sprinkled all through.

5. “Can’t Be Concrete” by Jorjiana

KARRAHBOOO’s lack of releases — or possibly her incapacity to drop music in any respect — has been a operating joke for the previous 12 months, and fortunately, Lil Yachty hasn’t been giving her an excessive amount of warmth about it. Jorjiana, alternatively, wasn’t fairly as forgiving towards the previous Concrete Boys artist on her aptly titled diss “Can’t Be Concrete.”

The Indiana rapper joked that KARRAHBOOO seems to be like Skilla Baby or possibly even The Weeknd in a single breath, then claimed she seems to be “like a cone” within the subsequent. Making issues worse, Jorjiana sampled Lil Yachty on the observe simply days earlier than truly collaborating with him. We love each artists, so hopefully they’ll discuss it by sooner or later.

4. “H** Era” by Ray Vaughn

Ray Vaughn put Joey Bada$$ on a T-shirt with “H** Era,” in essentially the most literal means potential. During the Brooklyn rapper’s rap battle with what felt like your complete West Coast of rap, Vaughn responded to his “Red Bull Spiral Freestyle” with this fiery rebuttal. On it, he referred to as out Joey for chasing after Kendrick Lamar — aka Dot — like Pac-Man, then prompt he ought to possibly spend much less time rapping and extra time performing.

Vaughn closed the observe out by saying Joey “let Ice Spice turn into the king of New York.” Brutal.

3. “Ms. Whitman” by Bhad Bhabie

Bhad Bhabie dropping probably the greatest diss tracks of 2025 positively wasn’t on my bingo card for the 12 months. Her feud with Alabama Barker (the daughter of blink-182’s Travis Barker) was all the time sure to spill off the web ultimately. The excellent news, it was within the sales space moderately than fists flying, although Bhad Bhabie has stated repeatedly she’s okay with that too.

Sampling Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s “VULTURES,” the web persona’s “Ms. Whitman” is an aggressive, below-the-belt swipe at Barker. Bhad Bhabie accuses her of copying Latto’s stream, references Barker’s alleged previous with Tyga and Soulja Boy (who each denied the claims) and even says she “got kicked out the Kardashian house.” There’s most likely a very good purpose we didn’t hear one other diss from Barker after this one.

2. “Pretty & Petty” by Cardi B

Before 2025 even started, Cardi B warned her critics to apologize early, as a result of as soon as the brand new 12 months arrived, she was “whipping everybody’s a** with a wet belt.” She wasn’t exaggerating. With “Pretty & Petty,” the Bronx celebrity tore into BIA from each angle. She referred to as out her “melatonin flow puttin’ us to bed” and accused her of being “a big lap dog” for a sure somebody.

Did Cardi actually need to make use of a superbly good album slot on AM I THE DRAMA to diss BIA? Probably not, and honestly, we’d’ve most popular “Pretty & Petty” in 2024. However, the Grammy Award-winning rapper stood on enterprise like she promised.

1. “So Be It” by Clipse

“You cried in front of me, you died in front of me / Calabasas took your b**ch and your pride in front of me.” Even although Pusha T solely gave Travis Scott his consideration within the closing eight bars on Clipse’s “So Be It,” every line sliced proper by the Houston rapper. The Virginia native referenced UTOPIA and Kylie Jenner’s beauty line (“And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t need you to eat”), earlier than cleverly circling again to Scott’s Cannes run-in with Alexander “AE” Edwards.

Scott could have dodged all of this if he had simply performed Pharrell and Pusha the model of “MELTDOWN” that included Drake’s verse. Of everybody focused on this checklist, the “Nosetalgia” rapper swung the toughest, and he didn’t hassle sugarcoating it both.