What has now become a blown-up internet feud started with a lawsuit by Ronnie Flex against the record label Top Notch. The rapper signed there in 2012 and released three albums, including a hit album Remi. He received what he considered an unreasonably low percentage of the proceeds from those albums. He was not proven right in court about this.
Out of dissatisfaction, Ronnie Flex made a so-called diss track: an offensive song with which arguments are fought in hip-hop culture. He called the number Kees closed, to Top Notch founder Kees de Koning. “I have a tip for artists, if you have a contract with Top Notch, let it be terminated,” Ronnie Flex raps on the track. He also organized a protest where footage for the song’s video was recorded.
Top Notch responded last week with its own diss track: PIN codes. Label director and rapper Jiggy Djé then raps together with rapper Sticks, who has been with Top Notch for more than twenty years, both solo and with Opgezwolle: ‘Every word you say is a lie, but that is between you and the creator above.’ Ronnie Flex wasted no time and replied within a day with another diss track on Instagram: PIN code cracked.
On that track, the rapper jokes that label founder Kees de Koning resembles Anouk, and that text went down the wrong way with Anouk. She posted an edited audio fragment in which she follows up the line about her from Ronnie’s track with a piece from an interview in which Ronnie Flex says he wants to make a track with Anouk.
The same swear words
Anouk posted a description of the audio fragment in which she uses the same swear words as Ronnie Flex in the fragment, including the n-word. This prompted rapper Sor to cancel his shows as support act for Anouk’s shows on May 31 and June 1 in the Ziggo Dome.
It is not the first time that Anouk has caused a stir on social media, in February the singer was discredited after a transphobic comment on Threads.
‘Diss tracks’ are of all times and all genres. Pop stars are also not averse to dragging each other through the mud musically. Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon all wrote their own song at the time of the Beatles break-up in which they settled with the rest.
But also the mega hit Flowers by Miley Cyrus is in fact a diss track against ex Liam Hemsworth, and Taylor Swifts Look What You Made Me Do is a response to Kanye Wests Famous. Rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar are currently involved in an argument that is being fought out lyrically.
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