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Sweet Home Alabama is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping. It reached number 8 on the US chart in 1974 and was the band's second hit single.
The use of a song as revenge for insults, real or imagined, is quite common in the hip-hop world, where rappers routinely use their material to abuse other artists. But at the time Lynyrd Skynyrd released Sweet Home Alabama in 1974, the practice was relatively new. Sweet Home Alabama was written in 1973 in response to Neil Young's repeatedly thumbing his nose at the South, and at Alabama in particular.