This week in Hip Hop, Method Man quits social media over a picture of his wife that made its way around the Internet. Elsewhere, Joe Budden dropped a fourth Drake diss track while ignoring Meek Mill’s diss track towards him. Lastly, Kevin McCall speaks on Chris Brown’s gang affiliation on Hollywood Unlocked and MMG’s Rockie Fresh exclusively shares with DX why he still has a lot to prove.
Method Man Retires From Social Media
In case you didn’t know, Method Man has been married to his wife Tamika Smith since 1997 and they share three children together. When a picture of the couple made its rounds on social media, Method Man took to Twitter to express his disdain and pled with the man who posted the “rare” photo on his blog to take it down.
“I guess follows n likes are more important than tastefulness and decency.. Smh,” Method Man tweeted, “I’m done with social media until further notice… I’ve lost faith in human decency and I will not feed the trolls any longer. Fuck u all.”
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His wife has had a bout with breast cancer, which was revealed in 2006 by Wendy Williams on-air, something the rapper wished would have stayed private.
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Joe Budden v. Drake
“Just Because” is the latest Drake diss track released by Joe Budden and it’s also the fourth Joey has dropped overall. Prior to this release, Drake clowned Joe Budden at a Summer Sixteen tour stop and followed a parody account of one of the kids who recorded themselves running up on Budden at his home. Budden’s response has been to continue taking shots at Drizzy and the Internet did its job, giving its best commentary on Joe’s fourth diss song.
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“Ok. Successfully confiscated Joe’s laptop. No more diss tracks will be dropping,” Twitter user OfficiallyIce tweeted.
“Joe budden be rapping 5 min diss songs about Drake, like Drake sent him a “K” in a text message,” tweeted Twitter user BroadDayJay_.
All of this is followed by Drake allegedly jumping into Joe’s Insta DM’s just to challenge the New Jersey rapper to churn out 25 diss records for $10,000 before his show at Madison Square Garden August 4.
Meanwhile, a clip of Meek Mill throwing shots at Budden in an apparent diss track surfaced and Joey didn’t seem too bothered by it.
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“Just heard a Meek snippet where he’s ‘dissing’ me… Spoiler alert, he also mentions a Rolex… Sounds hard tho,” he tweeted.
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Kevin McCall On Chris Brown’s Gang Affiliation: “You Got To Pay To Play”
Kevin McCall went on Hollywood Unlocked and discussed Bhris Brown’s Chris Brown’s Blood gang affiliation. He suggests like many rappers, he’s “paying to play.”
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“I guess they’re paying to do something,” McCall says. “When you get homeboys that get shot and you get guns put on you this week and you get daughters, two daughters, the shit ain’t cute. It’s stupid.”
The Los Angeles songwriter, who had a very public falling out with Chris Breezy, also lays out why he has a problem with the 27-year-old singer.
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DXclusives: Rockie Fresh
HipHopDX spoke with MMG’s Rockie Fresh about the Chicago native feeling underrated and his relationship with Rick Ross. In the interview, he shares his hope for an end-of-the-year release for his debut project.
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“We working to get this first album out man I got a lot of new music that’ll be coming out over the course of the next few months,” he says. “We also got a pretty cool tour that we’ll be announcing soon.”
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