This week in Hip Hop, Kanye West must have watched Drake’s Rap Radar interview because he responded to the OVO boss using the word “secular” to describe his pre-Sunday Service music. Pusha T must have caught wind of Drizzy’s Rap Radar interview too because he seemingly responded days later on Twitter. Also, a beef between 50 Cent and French Montana sparked over an “old” million-dollar Bugatti.
Kanye West Delivers Subliminal Message To Drake
Last year, Kanye West denounced his old music in place of his new Christian raps and appeared to be a bit bothered by Drake calling him secular during his Rap Radar interview.
“God bless him on his new journey, but I don’t even know if he’s ever going to make secular music again or not,” Drake told Elliott Wilson during the sit down at his Toronto home.
Learning about (or watching) what Drake had to say about Kanye’s new path set him off enough to address it this week.
“I take offense when somebody call me secular,” Yeezy said in the clip above. “Y’all can look at the domes that we was building, affordable homes, y’all call that bizarre. Y’all can take the picture of me painting it silver, y’all can call that what y’all want.
“But don’t call me secular ’cause secular is trying to say that I’ll do anything for anyone other than Christ. That’s where they got it messed up. That’s where they got it twisted.”
Read more about Kanye West and Drake here.
Pusha T Responds To Drake’s Rap Radar Interview
Drake may not be over his beef with Pusha T — according to his conversation with Rap Radar‘s Elliott Wilson and B. Dot — and his rap nemesis Pusha T seemingly finds it funny.
A few days following Drizzy’s Christmas Day interview with the Hip Hop outlet, Push made a tweet filled with laughter. Though he didn’t necessarily tag Drake in the tweet, many took it as a subtweet aimed at him.
Read more about Pusha T’s response to Drake here.
50 Cent & French Montana Beef Over “Old” Bugatti
This week, French Montana brought in the New Year by sharing his first lavish purchase of 2020: a $1.5 million Bugatti.
50 Cent didn’t allow French enough time to enjoy his new toy before clowning his million-dollar purchase by calling it old in an Instagram post while teasing Montana about his recent ICU stay.
The Moroccan-American rapper responded by explaining it was a gift for himself after his long stay in ICU and called 50 a “dinosaur,” which procured a lot of laughs in what seemed to be a friendly back-and-forth until French made a comment under an Instagram post teasing 50 about his teeth.
Naturally, 50 bit back by further reiterating the multi-platinum selling rapper purchased a Bugatti that is so old it doesn’t even have a CD player and christened him with a new moniker: Wrench Montana.
So, French posted a photoshopped pic of 50 and Em sharing a kiss and called Tekashi 6ix9ine his son.
By the fourth day of 2020, news surfaced that French allegedly faked his streams by hacking Spotify accounts to play Montana single “Writing On The Wall,” giving 50 more fuel to clown him — and he did.
“Boy you better start explaining right now,” 50 captioned on Instagram
French blamed 50 Cent, however, for the spike in streams. Considering the timeframes outlined in a fan theory, that seems highly improbable.
Read more about 50 Cent and French Montana’s beef here.
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#DXclusives: Chingy, Khujo Goodie & Detour
Chingy Is Now Using Hip Hop To Bring Jobs To Young People
For those wondering what Chingy has been up to since the days of “Right Thurr,” HipHopDX caught up with the St. Louis-bred rapper for a conversation about his legacy.
“When I think about all the now-classic records I made that have left their historical mark, I can’t help but be grateful for everything,” Chingy told DX. “I’ve been both passionate, and compassionate, about music for as long as I can remember. So to not only be able to do it for as long as I have, but to actually be a part of musical history — that’s a blessing, man.”
Read the full Chingy interview here.
Khujo Goodie Says Goodie Mob Got Mumble Rap Treatment From East Coast & West Coast
Khujo Goodie of the legendary Atlanta rap group Goodie Mob spoke to DX about the treatment he remembers receiving from the West and East Coast.
“People from New York were calling us bama rappers saying we didn’t know how to read or formulate a song,” he recalled. “We got all the hate for being MCs from the south. We were so southern and it took people a while to understand our language. It’s just another genre of music and in that dusty coal, you’re going to find a diamond somewhere. This is how you get Migos, Lil Baby or even DaBaby outside of the fact that he’s from North Carolina. You gotta respect it.”
Read the entire Khujo Goodie interview here.
Visual Artist Detour Talks Painting JAY-Z’s Portrait For David Letterman’s Netflix Show
Detour, the visual artist featured on David Letterman’s Netflix show who painted a picture of JAY-Z, spoke to DX about how he landed the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
“I got the email and it said, ‘Netflix Opportunity’ in the subject line,” Detour explained to DX. “I thought it was like an internship type of thing. I was like, ‘Oh I don’t want to be an intern.’ But I open it up, and it’s like a real actual paragraph, short paragraph. I’m like, ‘Oh O.K. This is actually real.’
“So I read it, they wanted me to do a painting of David Letterman and JAY-Z and record myself doing it. Then they’d use that for the marketing graphic stuff for that episode.”
Read the full Detour interview here.
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Why don’t the both of them sell those cars and help payoff some student loans. That would be a more positive read then hearing about these two and their fued over foolishness.
They monies not anyone’s. Why don’t you sell your undies and help the homeless?
They monies??you mean thier money,there you’re welcome read a book dear not hip hop articles,you need grammer in your life.
Bruh your “grammar ” is no better. Had to put it in quotations so you know how to spell next time…..and its “their” not thier, damn idiot
Grammar*
French cant sell his because he technically wont own it for 59 months when his loan is paid off.
That would be to positive and righteous.
French is da man.All these Rappers fitty included got dirt to b where they at.only dif is 50 got shot 4real.this is only reason he relevant today.the clout
chasers that fill our lives are apparently leading the way in this movement.I was born in 73 the year of hip-hop.I am literally Embarrased the way My Music has been spread so thin.There are no generals anymore,Supreme beings in the Rap game.We still have many of our forefathers alive how come we don’t have a commission.Biggie was about to be a general when he was taken from us.He already was about that set up leading to form a tsunami of talented Brothers and my sister’s too.50 could have done the same he made more enemies than hits.I’m from a small town in deep South Texas believe me on the outside looking in never even been out of my Great state.I was 9 yrs old visiting Htown old station Magic 105 I would record all song I could and bring that back home all my friends would freak.That’s the feeling that’s missing.When that feeling come back I’ll listen and go to my grave knowing it came back Full Circle.
73 is more like the year of disco u bozo
The drake and pusha beef is this generations aftermath vs murder inc. Pusha being aftermath obviously. Anyways what I mean to say is will not end until people actually die. Drake was made to look the fool and his ego is forever scarred by pusha. Somebody will need to be killed for this to be resolved. Sad to say but true.
Na homie Drake is not a killer,,, he knows when to talk shit like that to people who he has a problem with.. He won’t never confront someone he’s beefing with on the streets especially Pusha T . He only Acts like that when he’s far away from the people he’s beefing with bcuz if Pusha T was in front of him when he’s talking that shit then his clown ass would be Acting way different facts,,, (Actor)
Drake is going to challenge Pusha T and Yeezy to a good old fashioned bulge sword fight, Drake’s bulge is bigger than both of theirs combined, but Yezzy’s bulge is more cheesy
Pusha T never did anything note worthy in hip hop. Never went platinum barely went gold with eclipse. Has never been consistent in putting out hits. I find it a sad stretch how Drake haters try to make pusha out to be this icon when he not even close. I have to laugh because most of the people that congratulated push on his diss didn’t even by the album. Yet Drake dropped weeks later and sold 800 thousand out the gate. But y’all say pusha won. I guess being the brokest non selling album artist is some how a win for him. FOH
Drake admitted he lost, then he put out a service announcement. That’s not gangsta!
You can have all The sales you want but you can’t buy real character. Drake is a Volunteer maybe a follower he never develop his style. He definitely changed game open up the gates of fake none music artist ?
If there ain’t a record it ain’t beef. 50 and Montana are both just helping each other’s clicks and streams out. Get wise.