10% Dis

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]

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]

• In 2018, 10% Dis is interpolated for Remy Ma and Chris Brown's single Melanin Magic.[20]

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

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