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1991 song by Guns N' Roses

"Get in the Ring" is the fifth song on the Guns N' Roses album Use Your Illusion II. Written by Axl Rose, Duff McKagan and Slash,^[1] it is a diss track directed at music critics.^[2] Mentioned by name are critics from Hit Parader (Andy Secher), Circus, Kerrang! (Mick Wall) and Spin (Bob Guccione, Jr.).^[3]

Background

The song was originally written by McKagan as "Why Do You Look at Me When You Hate Me?", which is its first line.^[4] In the interview that precipitated Mick Wall's mention in the song (see below), Rose said: "I've brought in an album.

Duff brought in one song. It's called 'Why Do You Look At Me When You Hate Me?' and it's just bad-assed. And I wrote a bunch of words to that."^[5] The song was then going to be titled "Get in the Ring Motherfucker" but that was changed too.^{[citation needed]}

At the time of the song's release, Mick Wall of Kerrang!