Twitter: home of Lil B curses, the occasional Kanye West rant and where trigger fingers turn to … you know the rest. Over time, rap has made its presence known on Twitter while providing artists with a platform to directly connect with countless fans now at 280 characters at a time. Our favorite artists, entertainers, and influencers use the site as an outlet to vent without a filter, as well as to promote their latest work. With 330 million monthly active users to interact with, feeds can sometimes get overwhelming, which is why HipHopDX curates a list of the week’s best and most memorable tweets from the Hip Hop world.
This week’s installment of Tweets Is Watching includes Chance The Rapper standing up for Nicki Minaj and Bow Wow’s personal news.
Chance The Rapper Supports Nicki Minaj
I cant imagine what it’d be like to literally not be able to show yo frustrations with actual inequities and subjugation. Without being called bitter or angry or a liar or crazy. Mfs a literally tell a BW “I feel u but u not goin about it the right way”… what?
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) August 20, 2018
Nicki Minaj had quite the week on Twitter, starting with a rant about Kylie Jenner, Travis Scott, their daughter Stormi and Spotify sabotaging her Queen album. Chance came to her defense.
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Bow Wow Reveals Girlfriend’s Miscarriage
In a since deleted Tweet, Bow Wow revealed his girlfriend miscarried a baby boy and confessed he’s in a lot of pain.
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Cardi B’s Unreleased Track
It’s not my song …but hopefully it comes out soon i don’t the video for it when i was 5 month pregnant https://t.co/ikhf0KH8vv
— iamcardib (@iamcardib) August 21, 2018
Cardi had to clear the air after she was caught rapping along to an unreleased Cardi track at a VMA party.
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Fat Nick Announces Track With XXXTENTACION & Lil Peep
Right before peep passed we had a conversation about X & after His tour we where all gonna meet & chill at X’s. I called X & he was super happy about it . Unfortunately they couldnt link up . But Im so happy this record is comin out ,no bad blood no “beef” nothin .All positivity pic.twitter.com/spLSMpFIQk
— The Real Fat Nick (@_FatNick) August 17, 2018
Fat Nick previewed a snippet of a song and a recording of X discussing Peep’s death.
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Kanye West Is A Fan
Steven Spielberg is a genius Let’s beat the game pic.twitter.com/Y0Gh5PgWvF
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) August 21, 2018
Kanye calls film director Steven Spielberg a “genius.”
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Earl Sweatshirt Drops Clothing Line
BTS IS LIVE IN 3 MIN
WE GOT CLOTHES BABY
THEY'RE GOODhttps://t.co/Glxi9o0jFa— thebe kgositsile (@earlxsweat) August 23, 2018
Earl Sweatshirt has launched a clothing brand, DEATHWORLD.