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The Top 10 Most Popular Hip Hop Singles The Week Of 7/6/14
HipHopDX curates a list of name drops from The Game and Wale releases a new track.
Focus... Details Production Work With Dr. Dre, Aftermath Entertainment
Exclusive: The Aftermath staff producer also speaks on his father, Chic bassist Bernard Edwards, and plans to collaborate with Nile Rodgers.
Busta Rhymes Details "Respectfully Competing" With Eminem On "Calm Down"
Busta Rhymes says the single took "about seven months" and explains the making of the song.
Lush One Says "Battle Rap Is The Antithesis Of Fighting"
Lush One reacts to Dizaster punching Math Hoffa at BOLA 5 and says "Battle Rap has nothing to do with fighting."
Stacey Dash Responds To Kanye West Comments Comparing Paparazzi Attention To Rape
"Go to Rikers for a little while and then he'll know what rape is," the actress says in an appearance on Fox News' "Outnumbered."
Illmaculate Says Eminem's "8 Mile" Is "Your Average Person's First Connection" To Battle Rap
Illmaculate says Eminem "put Battle Rap on a stage that it had never seen."
Earl Sweatshirt Cancels Tour Dates
The rapper says a "lack of self maintenance" is the cause for the cancellation.
Royce Da 5'9 & Arsonal Tweet About Possible Battle At Total Slaughter
Royce Da 5'9 hints at joining fellow Slaughterhouse rapper Joe Budden as a battler at Total Slaughter.
Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg Apologizes To Public Enemy's Chuck D
"Saying anything disparaging publicly towards Chuck D, that was not okay," Peter Rosenberg says. "For that Chuck, I am truly sorry."
Math Hoffa Reacts To Dizaster Punch, Says He "Did It...For Attention"
"Dizaster, you're not built like that," Math Hoffa says. "You was never built like that."
Drake Reacts To Kanye West Tribute At Wireless Festival In London
Kanye West played three of Drake's songs at his stand-in performance for the Toronto rapper.
Arsenio Hall Says "Hip Hop Saved My Life" & Details Early Will Smith, LL Cool J Interviews
"Don Cornelius...was an idol," Arsenio Hall says. "Oprah, an idol. But they didn't like Hip Hop. That was the best thing that ever happened to me."
YG Says Producers Are "Jocking" DJ Mustard, Points To Iggy Azalea's "Fancy"
YG freestyles for Tim Westwood while in the UK and claims Iggy Azalea's hit single owes its sound to DJ Mustard.
Rich Homie Quan Slaps Fan During Performance
After an audience member tried to get on stage during a performance in Wisconsin, Rich Homie Quan confronted the fan.
Kanye West Gets Booed During Performance At Wireless Festival In London
Kanye West name-drops Louis Vuitton, Gucci Group, and Nike in a rant during his performance.
The Top 10 Most Popular Hip Hop Singles The Week Of 6/27/14
Jay Z features on Jeezy's album single and Eminem joins Busta Rhymes for "Calm Down."
Lil Durk Explains Squashing Beef With Game After Club Confrontation
Lil Durk details speaking with Game on the phone following a run-in at a Los Angeles club.
Rhymefest's Work With Chicago Youth & Donda's House Documented In Short Film
"I believe that the only power, the only true power, is the power to empower others," Rhymefest says of his work with Donda's House.
Math Hoffa: "Most Of My Competition Is Not The Show...I'm The Show"
"It's not even so much analyzing and studying my competition because it's so much of an expectation on me," he says.
Lupe Fiasco Says He Didn't Want To Appear On Kanye West's "Touch The Sky"
"I didn't wanna do that," the rapper says of the 2006 hit single. "That wasn't my piece."
Aspect One Says Dizaster & Math Hoffa Fight Caused $80,000 Worth Of Damage
"This ain't dope," Aspect One says of Dizaster's actions. "You didn't get no love from us. You broke our hearts as a man, as a friend."
