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Music The 22-year-old rapper took shots at half the industry on his new song, "I Hate YoungBoy."
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Original Content Though more or less guarded throughout his career, JAY-Z's vulnerability rose to the forefront on "Moment Of Clarity."
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Hip-Hop History Lil Wayne wanted to change his iconic "Weezy F Baby and the F is for Phenomenal" lyric, says his longtime associate Cortez Bryant.
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Music Kanye West name-drops Frank Ocean and his drama with Apple executive Larry Jackson on 2 Chainz' new song "Feel A Way".
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Original Content Off his acclaimed 2014 Forest Hills Drive album, J Cole's "No Role Modelz" puts exclamation marks on a longstanding struggle in hip-hop.
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Music Rappers need to trash the feces comparison bars.
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Music Nicki Minaj waxes poetic on the storied art of lyricism.
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Music After Lil Boat used a 50 Cent meme to react to YB's shade, the latter artist made it clear exactly why he's got beef with the former.
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Music Joey Bada$$ and Ray Vaughn continue to trade diss tracks and with the addition of Loaded Lux, this just got more interesting.
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Music The leaks show Latto delivering reference tracks for songs released by Bia and Coi. The topic of who-writes-what was debated.
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Music She revisited Game's "Wouldn't Get Far" lyrics where he said she drives a Honda Accord and would "do whatever it take to get to the Grammy Awards."
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Original Content Continuing our new Original Content series "Hip-Hop's Best Verses," Big Pun's opening verse on "Twinz" proved that one deftly delivered bar can be immortalized in rap history.
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Mitch Findlay