A few weeks back, Flint rapper BFB Da Packman dropped Forget Me Not, his first album in three years. Before the release, he heightened fan anticipation when he revealed a Drake collaboration on “Olympic Shit Talkin,” a song that also features a verse from the currently incarcerated Rio Da Yung …
Read More »J. Cole Responds to Kendrick Lamar Diss on Hard-Hitting '7 Minute Drill'
J. Cole has offered a reply to Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on Future and Metro Boomin‘s “Like That,” which saw the rapper taking shots at Drake and J. Cole. Drake sort of responded to the diss on his current tour, but Cole took a more direct approach with “7 Minute …
Read More »Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar's Drake Diss Is the Number One Song in the Country
Kendrick Lamar‘s scorching diss aimed at J. Cole and Drake has pushed “Like That,” the single from Metro Future and Metro Boomin‘s We Don’t Trust You, atop Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, the publication announced on Monday. We Don’t Trust You takes four of the Top 10 for its opening week, …
Read More »Kendrick vs. Drake Is an Inevitable Clash of Hip-Hop Philosophies
If Drake and Kendrick finally have a rap battle for the ages, it won’t be solely because of Kendrick’s recent verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” It (probably) won’t be over industry politics that we’re not privy to, pillow talking, or whatever other trivial issues have caused prior …
Read More »Drake Replies to Kendrick Lamar's 'Like That' Diss — Sort Of
Last night, Drake responded to Kendrick Lamar and the rest of rap’s anti-Drizzy cohort — sort of. During a stop on his Big As The What tour in Sunrise, Florida, Drake took a moment to get defiant amid the hysteria about Kendrick’s fiery verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar Declares War — And Five Other Takeaways From 'We Don't Trust You'
We Don’t Trust You, the new album from Future and Metro Boomin, is here (the first half anyway), and listeners are abuzz about the 17-song project. Coming in at approximately one hour, the project has elicited plenty of talking points in less than 24 hours. Kendrick Lamar pulled another “Control”-like …
Read More »Drake Seeks Dismissal From Astroworld Lawsuits
Drake — who was named as a defendant in multiple lawsuits over the deadly Astroworld tragedy alongside Travis Scott,Apple,and Live Nation— has requested he be dismissed from ongoing litigation. In a motion filed Friday in Houston court, via Billboard, lawyers for the rapper (real name Aubrey Drake Graham) argued he …
Read More »Teezo Touchdown: Birth of a Rock Star
Y ou’re too old for this. It should have happened for you already. It takes no small amount of bravado to call yourself Teezo Touchdown, to walk around with metal nails dangling from your hair, to tap an aggro rap-rock vein few others are mining, to croon like a mutant …
Read More »4batz Has a Hit. Should We Care How He Got It?
Champagne Papi is at it again: On March 5, Drake’s Instagram story made the rounds, this time for the news that he’d be remixing viral crooner 4batz’s “act ii: date @ 8.” The song sounds like the sort of late-night-vibe, hip-hop-adjacent, alternative R&B popularized by acts like 6lack, Brent Faiyaz, …
Read More »Drake Adds Final Big As the What? Shows With Co-Headliner Lil Wayne
Drake has enlisted Lil Wayne to help him close out the Big As the What? Tour in the coming weeks, including two newly added shows in Newark, New Jersey. While the trek was billed as a Drake/J. Cole co-headlining run, it appears J. Cole will not be able to make …
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