10% Dis

10% Dis is a single from MC Lyte's album Lyte as a Rock.[2]

"10% Dis"
Single by MC Lyte
from the album Lyte as a Rock
B-side"Kickin' 4 Brooklyn"
Released1988
Recorded1988
StudioI.N.S. Studios[1]
VenueNew York, NY
GenreGolden age hip hop
Length5:00
LabelFirst Priority, Atlantic Records
Songwriter(s)Lana Moorer, Kirk Robinson and Nathaniel Robinson Jr.
Producer(s)Audio Two
MC Lyte singles chronology
"I Cram To Understand U (Sam)"
(1987)		 "10% Dis"
(1988)		 "Paper Thin"
(1988)

Produced by Milk Dee and DJ Gizmo from Audio Two, the song was a diss track to then-Hurby Azor associate Antoinette.

Context

During an interview with Vibe in 2011, Lyte stated that the feud started from a deal between a deal that was made between Hurby Luv Bug (Salt-N-Pepa’s producer) and the rap duo Audio Two to record and release a song called ‘Stop Illin' based on their hit song Top Billin'.

Hurby was taking pretty long to get it together so Audio Two figured it out that he wasn’t going to do it. And then one night on a trip back from Boston after doing in-stores and performing, we had the radio on WBLS and heard Mr. Magic and Marley Marl playing [Antoinette’s] ‘I Got An Attitude.’ It was the same [Audio Two] track, but it was organized a different way."[1]

This upset Audio Two, so they asked her to write a diss-track addressed to Antoinette.[1]

The song, recorded at the I.N.S. Studios in New York City, became a single from her debut album Lyte as a Rock.

Antoinette replied with the song "Lights Out, Party's Over" on her debut album Who's the Boss? and "The Fox that Rox the Box" on her next album Burnin' at 20 Below (1990). While MC Lyte would include as B-side of her later single "Lyte as a Rock" to the answer "Shut the Eff Up! (Hoe)", which would also be included as a track on her second album Eyes on This.

“It was pretty easy—we just sat there and thought of the worst things we could possibly say about somebody,” Lyte recalled in 2007 in Brian Coleman's book Check The Technique. “It's titled that because that's only ten percent of what I could have said. I didn't even know Antoinette. It was strictly a war on wax.”[3][4]

Samples

Songs from which samples are used in "10% Dis" include:

Legacy and influence

Accolades

In 1999, Ego Trip's editors ranked 10% Dis No. 17 in their list Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1988 in Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists.[5]

In April 2013, the song was included #21 on Complex's "The 50 Best Rap Songs by Women" list, in which they commented

"MC Lyte's "10% Dis" was 100% effective (...) As the step-sister of Brooklyn's own Giz and Milk from Audio Two, Lyte had access to the hottest beats, and she was also exempt from any sort of pressure to sleep her way to the top, demanding and receiving maximum respect from all men she encountered in this testosterone-soaked industry."[6]

In September 2013, VH1 included this song among the "Most Brutal Lady Diss Tracks In Hip Hop".[7]

In March 2018, "10% dis" was chosen by Billboard magazine as one of the "Best Hip hop Diss tracks from the '80s".[4] In October 2018, Complex placed "10% dis" at No. 26 on the "The 50 Best Hip-Hop Diss Songs" list "(...)The track featured a multitude of now-classic lines such as "hot damn hoe, here we go again" and "you're a beat biter, a dope style taker." Ironically, the beat for "10% Dis" sounded more like "Top Billin" than "I Got an Attitude" did."[8]

In December 2018, Eminem included the song in the list of his favorite diss tracks.[9]

Complex's Rob Marriott would comment on the song

10% Dis is pure, unrelenting devastation - Ether before Ether.[10]

Appearances

Various songs to borrow "10% Dis"'s beat, structure and lyrics:

  • In 1991, was interpolated in A Tribe Called Quest's song "The Infamous Date Rape" from the album The Low End Theory. In the third verse, Q-Tip sings "30 days a month your mood is rude/We know the cause of your bloody attitude" changing it to "Baby, baby, baby I don't wanna be rude/But I know because of your bloody attitude".[11]
  • In 1996, 10% Dis was interpolated in Tupac Shakur and Outlawz's diss song Hit 'Em Up, which insults to several East Coast rappers, chief among them, Biggie Smalls. In the fifth verse, E.D.I. Mean sings the chorus "Beat biter, dope style taker/Tell you to your face you ain't nothing but a faker" changing it to "You's a beat biter, a Pac style taker/I'll tell you to your face, you ain't shit but a faker".[12] Also Tupac Shakur has a sample of the song in "Crooked Nigga Too".[13]
  • In 1997, was interpolated in Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's song "U Ain't Bone" from the album The Art of War. At the beginning of the second verse, Layzie Bone sings the chorus "Beat biter, dope style taker/Tell you to your face you ain't nothing but a faker" changing it to "They beat biters, dope-style takers/When I see you face-to-face/My nigga, I'm a treat you like a hater".[14]
  • Snoop Dogg interpolates 10% Dis in his collaboration with N.W.A in Chin Check (1999).[15]
  • In 1999, is interpolated on Mobb Deep's remix of Quiet Storm with Lil Kim, who used her guest verse to diss rapper Foxy Brown.[16][17]
  • Foxy Brown would respond in his collaboration with Capone-N-Noreaga in "Bang, Bang" (2000), which would also have an interpolation to 10% Dis. In the third verse he quotes the intro of the song singing "Hot damn ho, here we go again/Pop shit like a cock, +Lyte+ weight as your +Rocks+, bitch."
  • In 2009, was sampled by Asher Roth on his hit song I Love College.[18]
  • In 2016, the song is sampled on Common and Stevie Wonder's song "Black America Again".[19]

Track listing

A-Side
  1. "10% Dis" (Radio Version) (5:00)
  2. "10% Dis" (Acapella) (4:50)

B-Side
  1. "10% Dis" (Original) (5:00)
  2. "Kickin' 4 Brooklyn" (2:21)

Personnel

Information taken from Discogs.[21]

References
  1. MC Lyte (January 7, 2011). "Full Clip: MC Lyte Breaks Down Her Entire Catalogue (Brandy, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J & More)". Vibe.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  2. "10% Dis". Discogs.
  3. Coleman, Brian. Check The Technique: Liner Notes For Hip-Hop Junkies. New York: Villard/Random House, 2007.
  4. "A Look Back at the Best Hip-Hop Diss Tracks From the '80s: 'Roxanne's Revenge,' 'Jack the Ripper' & More". Billboard. March 1, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  5. "Hip-Hop's Greatest Singles By Year (Ego Trip Magazine)". Genius (website). Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  6. "The 50 Best Rap Songs by Women". Complex. April 8, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  7. "Pitch Slapped: The 10 Most Brutal Lady Diss Tracks In Hip Hop". VH1.com. September 20, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  8. "The 50 Best Hip-Hop Diss Songs". Complex. October 31, 2018. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  9. "Eminem Lists Ice Cube's "No Vaseline," MC Lyte's "10% Diss" and More as His Favorite Diss Tracks Ever". XXL (magazine). December 26, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  10. "25 Forgotten Hip-Hop Beefs". Complex. January 28, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  11. "A Tribe Called Quest The Infamous Date Rape Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  12. "2Pac feat. Outlawz Hit 'Em Up Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  13. "2Pac feat. Stretch Crooked Nigga Too (Original) Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  14. "Bone Thugs-n-Harmony U Ain't Bone Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  15. "N.W.A feat. Snoop Dogg Chin Check Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  16. "Mobb Deep feat. Lil' Kim Quiet Storm (Remix) Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  17. Kawalik, Tracy (February 14, 2019). "The 20 best hip hop diss tracks of the '90s". Mixmag. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  18. "Asher Roth's I Love College Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  19. "Common feat. Stevie Wonder Black America Again Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  20. "Remy Ma feat. Chris Brown Melanin Magic (Pretty Brown) Sample of MC Lyte's 10% Dis". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  21. "MC Lyte – 10% Dis / Kickin' 4 Brooklyn (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  • Lyrics of 10% Dis
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