• Funkmaster Flex Petition Hits the Web After Meek Mill Dis Track Is Scrapped

    Last night when the clock struck 7p.m. any and every hip hop enthusiast iin the Tri State area and beyond was glued to their radios waiting on Dj Funkmaster Flex to debut Meek Mill's response to Drake's "Charged Up" track. However, after waiting hour after hour listening to Flex's pre set mix, listeners were completely irate when they finally realized there would be no diss track.
  • Gunplay's 'Living Legend' Debut Album Now Streaming [LISTEN]

    You can now stream "Living Legend," Gunplay's debut album. The most violent rapper from Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group has finally come out with an album, despite being signed to MMG since 2009. Four days ahead of the July 31 release date, Gunplay, aka Don Logan, has given us a pre-release stream of "Living Legend," which includes features Rick Ross, YG, Curren$y, Yo Gotti and the Triple C's.
  • Meek Mill Takes More Shots At Drake At NYC Concert [WATCH]

    Although Mill already voiced his opinion on the track via Twitter, citing it as being "baby lotion soft", it definitely didn't stop him from addressing the topic yet again when the "PinkPrint Tour" made a stop in New York (NYC) on Sunday night.
  • Future, Jason Isbell and Tame Impala Have Career-Best Albums Sales Weeks

    Future's 'Dirty Sprite 2' was expected to top the Billboard albums charts, but not even the emcee himself could have predicted just how well the album would do: DS2 moved 131,500 actual albums, more than double what Honest sold during 2014. Needless to say, it was the performer's best sales week to date.
  • Jay Z/Nas, Tupac / Notorious B.I.G.: The Best Hip-Hop Diss Tracks Ever

    The hottest story in hip-hop for the last week has been Meek Mill's allegations that Drake uses a ghostwriter, and the Toronto rapper turned up the heat by releasing "Charged Up," a perceived diss track aimed at his accuser. Responses to Drake's release have been fairly positive, at least from fans (Mill himself hasn't responded to the track yet) but Drizzy has a while to go in terms of both attitude and wordplay if he wants to land on the list of the greatest diss tracks ever. Here are five examples, from the Nas/Jay Z beef to the Tupac Shakur/Notorious B.I.G. beef that set a high bar for vitriol.
  • Future's 'Dirty Sprite 2' Leads Billboard 200; Alan Jackson and Jason Isbell Rep

    Future found the secret to moving more albums with his 'Dirty Sprite 2': Don't give people time to think about it. The album topped the Billboard 200 with more than 147,000 equivalent copies sold, just two weeks after the album was announced. It's been a little more than a year since he released Honest, and he more than doubled the sales of that effort. The quick-release method has helped other rappers Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Meek Mill get to the top of the charts as well during 2015.