by MARISA MENDEZ
T-Pain achieved his first No. 1 song with 2007’s “Buy U A Drank,” but the song almost didn’t happen because of his disdain for snap music at the time.
Going through his many hits for an episode of Billboard‘s Chart History series published on Thursday (May 2), Teddy Pain revealed that his album Epiphany, which housed the smash single, was seemingly finished when his A&R MempHitz suggested the addition of one last song.
“That song almost didn’t happen,” Pain explained. “You know I had my album coming and the snap craze was crazy at that point – Dem......
by KARAN SINGH
Rick Ross‘ custom private jet is arguably is favorite material flex, and he has now used it to once again stoke his rivalry with former collaborator Drake.
On Friday (May 3), photographs of Rozay’s Gulfstream G550 plane roughed up in a grassy field began circulating online. Reports began coming in that the aircraft made a crash landing in Dallas but thankfully left nobody injured.
Soon after, the 48-year-old himself corroborated the reports, while using the situation as an excuse to provoke the Canadian rapper as he wrote: “My jet just crashed ; Drake OvO F16 fighter jet just shot us down.”
This came......
by DX STAFF
Joe Budden is not here for Kanye West inserting himself into Drake and Kendrick Lamar‘s beef with a diss track of his own.
Ye dropped his remix to Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar‘s “Like That” earlier this month, where he took shots at both Drizzy and J. Cole – much like K.Dot did on the original.
The track opens with West nodding to Drake’s current beef with K.Dot by saying, “Yo Dot, I got you.” And the verse ends with direct shots at Drizzy and Cole: “Y’all so out of sight, out of mind/I can’t even think......
by WILL SCHUBE
Kendrick Lamar has finally fired back at Drake on his blistering new diss song “Euphoria” — and he pulls zero punches.
Released by surprise on Tuesday (April 30), the fiery track finds the Compton rapper unloading on his longtime rival for several minutes after the Toronto native took shots at him on “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.”
K. Dot begins: “Them super powers getting neutralized I can only watch in silence/ The famous actor we once knew is looking paranoid and now is spiraling.”
The Compton star refers to Drake as a “pathetic master......
by KARAN SINGH
Kendrick Lamar‘s brand-new diss to Drake got a near-immediate answer…kind of.
On Tuesday (April 30), just a little over a month after Metro, Future and K.Dot’s “Like That” set in motion one of the most high-profile feuds in recent years, the Compton native released “euphoria” in response to Drizzy’s “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle” rebuttals.
Soon after the scathing cut went live, an Instagram page called haus.of.drake shared a photograph of the Canadian superstar looking unimpressed and......
by JOE WALKER
Conway The Machine has shared more details about his new album Slant Face Killa, revealing some of the heavyweight producers behind the project.
The Buffalo, New York rapper took to Instagram Live on Thursday (April 25) to list off some of the names he’s worked with, and also explain why he decided to changed the album title from Won’t He Do It: Side B.
“We was gonna call this shit Won’t He Do It: Side B, but too much label speculation and all that [is] why we can’t use that title no more. So I just switched the shit to Slant Face Killa,” he said. “I know a lot of people been......
by SHAWN SETARO
Fat Joe has shared that he thinks the Drake/Kendrick Lamar beef may be running out of steam, and that he’s doubtful Kendrick will fire back.
In a recent livestream captured by Say Dat Tv, Joe weighed in on the situation that has captivated Hip Hop for weeks.
He said that he doesn’t believe a response by Kendrick Lamar to the series of Drake diss songs is forthcoming.
“Hip Hop beef can go real bad,” he said beginning at the 3:30 mark. “I don’t think Kendrick’s cooking up… I think that’s over. It don’t take three or four weeks [to record a......
by SAM MOORE
Cassidy has taken aim at Remy Ma‘s alleged boyfriend on Eazy The Block Captain on a new diss track called “Eazy Come Eazy Go.”
On the song, the Philly MC references rumors that Remy’s estranged husband Papoosepunched Eazy during a confrontation last year.
“He punched Eazy and I heard Eazy easily dropped,” he raps over a beat that samples Eazy-E’s “Eazy-Duz-It.”
Cassidy also spits: “Fuck Eazy The Block/ Eazy a opp/ Me and Eazy could box/ I fight, man/ My right hand/ Knock Eazy The Block.”
Eazy The Block Captain originally dissed Cassidy earlier this......
by KARAN SINGH
Gillie Da Kid has offered his thoughts on what fuels the majority of rap beefs as a number of high-profile feuds continue to consume the culture.
On Tuesday (April 23), the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game host shared a clip to Instagram in which he elaborated on what he believes is the chief motivator behind proliferating tensions in the Hip Hop community.
“Ya’ll realize in this rap beef that’s going on, right, just like a lot of rap beefs, most of it be about a bitch, because the reality of it is all these n-ggas is super rich,” he began. “All these n-ggas money is longer than......
by SAM MOORE
Kanye West has been criticized by Charlamagne Tha God for taking more shots at Drake, both in his music and interviews.
Speaking on The Breakfast Club on Tuesday (April 23), Charlamagne hit out at the Chicago rap icon, saying: “Kanye West is the leader of the legion of lame. What a hating-ass human. What type of man sits around saying, ‘We were all energized by the elimination’ of another man?
“This man is so miserable and has never dealt with whatever hurt and pain he’s feeling that he just wants to project it onto other people. I don’t even want Kendrick to respond no......
