Word: disses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rights movement, dating back to the Civil War. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white-a silent reproach to Clinton by his best-loved constituency, those unutterably decent, hardworking, middle-class, churchified African Americans. They had been shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd, at Hillary Clinton's closing rally in Columbia, was equally pale and must have been deeply depressing to the ex-President. I remembered a huge inter-racial crowd in the Mississippi Delta, late in Clinton's presidency. I was standing next to Jesse Jackson...
...accept this fact without question. As a general rule, the standards for appropriate self-criticism are different from those for acceptable criticism of others. I may think that my mother is cruel, controlling, and manipulative—I might even say as much—but if you diss my family, it is still offensive. As John Lennon once quipped, “I can knock The Beatles, but don’t let Mick Jagger knock them...
...Fans of Ségolène Royal dedicate slushy ballads to the Socialist Party candidate with titles such as "One Rose, One Campaign, One Woman." Sarkozy - a more polarizing figure - has inspired tributes and tirades in equal measure. Anti-Sarkozy numbers include "S.A.R.K.O." - a comprehensive diss sung to the tune of "D.I.S.C.O." - while supporters sing his praises on ditties such as "Sarko-Oh-Oh" - a track that the UMP candidate liked so much, he posted it on his official campaign site...
...horns assault gives Ghostface something to yell over, and he transforms the vague “I’m better than you guys” slog into a universally potent threat. It’s a boast song that’s so good, it sounds like a diss track, and it’s the best once I can think of since Jay-Z’s “The Takeover...
...absence of buzzer beaters, Dick Vitale (seriously, who’s missing him?), and bracket busters, fill out your bracket, but don’t lament our near-annual diss from the Big Dance...