Snoop Dogg’s rift with Eminem continues to spill over into the new year. An Eminem fan page posed a question about whether or not Snoop was being “disrespectful” when he said last July he wouldn’t consider Em among his top 10 rappers of all-time. Not long after the post went up, Snoop chimed in via […]
Abilene, TX – 03 Greedo has spent two years locked behind bars in a Texas prison for drugs and weapon charges. Now he’s joined thousands of incarcerated individuals in Texas who’ve tested positive for COVID-19. A message was shared on Greedo’s Instagram account on Friday (January 1) asking for prayers. “Please keep, 03 Greedo in […]
Boosie Badazz continues to reference his shooting in Dallas last November by taunting his shooter at every turn. In a social media clip shared on Saturday (January 2), the Baton Rouge rapper can be seen pulling on a blunt while previewing new music. “Hit me in my leg but it should have been my head, […]
Uncle Murda straight up stole the rapper Skillz's idea to discuss all of the year's happenings in an end of the year rap up song. The two actually went back and forth about it a while back. Murda dropped his “Rap Up 2020” song about an hour and a half into the New Year and […]
EXCLUSIVE – Staten Island rapper CJ has been taking the Hip Hop world by storm with his surprising hit single “Whoopty.” The song dropped in July and has been doing numbers ever since its release. It has already been streamed over 47 million times on Spotify and hit 87 million views on YouTube while becoming […]
Even in a year without releasing an album, Travis Scott still put numbers on the boards with over four billion Spotify streams, which is comparable to Eminem’s entire discography — and Slim Shady added two projects to his discography in 2020. Houston’s rager spent most of the year injecting his brand with partnership steroids to […]
As the Hip Hop community grapples with the shocking news of MF DOOM’s death, one of his former collaborators is taking the news particularly hard. Bishop Nehru, who weaved together NehruvianDoom with the elusive MC in 2014 and NehruvianDoom (Redux) in 2019, joined the Twitter procession to express his condolences shortly after DOOM’s wife Jasmine made […]
Giggs had two features on Drake’s More Life playlist in 2017 that stood out from the number of guests already on the project. It was one of the first times Drake would dive headfirst into the UK Hip Hop scene, and his critics were quick to place the culture vulture title on the 6 God. […]
Over the course of his decorated career, Snoop Dogg has become synonymous with smoking weed. It’s gotten to the point that Snoop’s earned the right to blaze up wherever he pleases and it’s deemed socially acceptable for the most part as Snoop being Snoop. The Dogg joined CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast to play a speed […]
Up and coming rappers like Staten Island’s own CJ can benefit from an older rap veteran reaching out to them. Earlier this month, a video of the “Whoopty” rapper receiving a chain and having dinner with French Montana made its rounds on social media, and everyone thought CJ had just signed a deal with Coke […]
Los Angeles, CA – Everyone seems to have something to say about 50 Cent lately, and none of them are good things. Now, in the newest segment of his exclusive interview with HipHopDX, Ja Rule airs out his mortal enemy for allegedly being a pathological liar and sets the record straight regarding an age-old tall […]
Los Angeles, CA – Dr. Dre and Nicole Young’s impending divorce was made public in June when she filed court documents asking for a dissolution of their 24-year marriage. But according to docs obtained by The Daily Mail, they’d split up months before Young filed the paperwork and were apparently having trouble moving on. In Dre’s […]
On Jack Harlow’s debut album That’s What They All Say, the curly-haired rapper teamed up with his fellow Kentucky natives Bryson Tiller and the late Static Major for a smooth, R&B-tinged lovefest on “Luv Is Dro.” For Harlow, linking up with two of his idols was something he’d planned on doing for quite some time. […]
ORCHARD PARK, NY – The original Buffalo Bills “Shout” anthem is getting a Griselda-dripped rework ahead of the 2020 NFL postseason. Benny The Butcher shared a rework of the chant with a preview of the rugged Bills-themed track on Friday (January 1) to kick off the New Year. Benny The Butcher x Buffalo Bills https://t.co/jSbfSaJFsb […]
While fans found humor in the planets aligning to dole out superpowers to the masses on December 21st, nobody used their superpowers more than in 2020 than Hit-Boy, HipHopDx’s 2020 Producer Of The Year. The 33 year old humble superproducer delivered a long list of 2020 credits that included full albums with Nas, Benny The […]
Uncle Murda returned on New Year’s Day with his annual “Rap Up 2020” putting the year’s happenings in perspective. The New York rap veteran recaps a tumultuous 2020 by giving his thoughts on a myriad of topics including the losses of NBA icon Kobe Bryant, Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman, Pop Smoke, King Von and […]
The unexpected news of MF DOOM’s death is still reverberating throughout the Hip Hop community. On Thursday (December 31), DOOM’s wife Jasmine revealed the enigmatic MC — famous for rocking his MetalFace mask — had died on Halloween, a day when it’s customary to wear one. Among the hundreds, even thousands of condolences flooding social […]
Los Angeles, CA – Tyler, The Creator is never a slouch on the mic when it comes to collaborations that align him with his superstar rapper friends. With tracks like his 2015 Cherrybomb album-cut “Smuckers,” featuring Lil Wayne and Kanye West or his “Potato Salad,” collab with A$AP Rocky, he’s amassed ample evidence to back […]
Kash Doll isn’t about to let French Montana slander happen on her watch. Proof that pettiness was not left behind in 2020, a tweet went viral that named Montana along with Lil Xan, Trippie Redd and 6ix9ine as rappers who shouldn’t be brought into the new year. Once the Coke Boys rapper’s rumored new boo […]
On the first day of the new year, Skillz has delivered his annual Rap Up to recap the insanity that was 2020. The Virginia-bred wordsmith gets into COVID-19, Lil Wayne endorsing Donald Trump, protests, Kanye West’s antics and more in the 9-minute clip, summarizing it all by adding, “Throw It In The [Trash].” View […]
Diddy is usually the proud host of one of New Year’s Eve’s biggest parties, but COVID-19 concerns forced him to cancel the annual event for 2020. Despite not throwing a party, the Hip Hop mogul is still in good spirits and giving friends the chance to celebrate to the fullest in the comfort of their […]
Eminem is in rare promo mode following the December 17 release of Music To Be Murdered By: Side B. Speaking to Apple Music host Zane Lowe, the sometimes elusive MC went into great detail about some of his earliest influences, favorite rappers and who he believes is criminally underrated. When specifically asked about Nas, Slim Shady […]
Parents always try their best to shield their kids from the explicit nature of the world, but when baby Kulture figures out how to work Google, all it’s going to take is a simple search to find out what’s going on with her superstar parents Cardi B and Offset. Cardi was jamming out at home […]
Like many rappers moving up the money ladder, YK Osiris added a Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce and multiple Cadillacs to his collection to match his successful music career. But on Wednesday night (December 30), the Def Jam Recordings artist took to his Instagram Stories to reveal he’d sold his expensive cars and bought a Hyundai in order to […]
Las Vegas, NV – Everyone has left something behind in a car at some point, but probably not to the extent Lil Reese said he just did. Reese took to Instagram late Wednesday (December 30) claiming he left over $20,000 in an Uber he’d been riding in on the Las Vegas Strip, but the virtuous driver […]
Royce Da 5’9 and Benzino engaged in a war of words earlier this week which included the former co-publisher of The Source magazine sending several shots at Eminem and challenging Nickle Nine to a Verzuz battle. On Wednesday (December 30), Benzino tweeted, “I know for a fact my catalogue is better than Royce, somebody set […]
Social media can be a great tool for interaction, but in other situations, it’s been proven to create an extremely toxic environment. KXNG Crooked took to Twitter on Wednesday (December 30) opening up the forum asking his followers if they’ve ever been blocked by rappers and his mentions were flooded with all sorts of answers. Various […]
Nicki Minaj became a first-time mother in September when she gave birth to a baby boy. As the platinum-selling rapper settled into motherhood with her husband Kenneth Petty, she kept a relatively low profile but resurfaced on her son’s three month birthday (December 30) to answer a few questions about her experience via Twitter. When […]
Spotify’s RapCaviar went to the vault to unleash a hard-hitting Conway The Machine freestyle over the instrumental to Shyne’s 2000 single “Bad Boyz” earlier this week. The gritty clip finds a neophyte Conway prior to his 2012 shooting which left him with Bell’s Palsy, so our best guess it took place sometime in the mid-2000s […]
Miami, FL – The COVID-19 pandemic has been running rampant since at least March, taking a devastating toll on the entire globe. While foiled party plans sound trite when considering the over 340,000 American lives that have been lost, people must act accordingly. Diddy appeared to make the right call on December 28 when he […]