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The Year’s Most Scathing Diss Track Is About Architecture


Rapper Gmac Cash really hates Detroit’s new sign.

Rap’s hottest beef right now isn’t Kendrick Lamar dissing Drake and J. Cole on “ Like That,” or J. Cole dissing Kendrick on his song “ 7 Minute Drill ” (before immediately apologizing), or City Girls’s JT throwing shots at her fellow group member Yung Miami (or not, depending on which one of the two you ask). Some context: Last week, the city of Detroit installed a budget-looking sign on I-94 that spells out its name in mint-green lettering reminiscent of chewing-gum packaging. So Gmac, who has a history of writing songs referencing extremely specific local phenomena, took it upon himself to be the voice the people needed by dropping the most scathing diss record of the year, the instantly viral “Detroit Sign.”

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