Battle Rap has been an integral part of Hip Hop since the culture’s early years. It has gone through various eras. From call-and-response chants to school cyphers, the Battle Rap scene was always present.
The two New York giants traded insults for years and came short of challenging each other to a lyrical duel on HBO. The quest for supremacy gave rise to two of the best battle rap songs in hip-hop history: Jay-Z's "Takeover" and Nas' "Ether." Thanks to Kanye's hard-hitting drums...
In 2016, Megan Thee Stallion began writing, performing and releasing raps exclusively onto SoundCloud. She has commercially released three EPs since 2017—Make It Hot, Tina Snow, and Suga—with the latter two charting on the US Billboard 200. She signed to 300 Entertainment in 2018, where ...
Southern rap encompasses rappers from Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Houston and Memphis. These are the most popular outposts for good Southern rap. The "Dirty South" sound has influenced rappers from all over the world and its impact cannot be said enough. So, who are the best Southern ...
Gucci Mane went from teenage drug dealer to Atlanta rap deity in the 200s, with sedated raps and a Hollywood story Spike Lee couldn’t script. Guwop initially emerged alongside one-time adversary Jeezy with their 2005 collaboration “So Icy,” before things went south between them. After serv...
Let me state up front that unless you're really into horror movies and the occult, you're not going to like Necro. However, if you can get past the topics that he raps about, you'll hear an extremely intelligent rapper with an incredible command of rhyme schemes and multis, as well ...
s first three albums has its own case as a classic, but their senior effort Stankonia forged the image that most people have in their heads when they imagine the Atlanta rap duo: boundlessly creative, with sonic influences that weave between funk, soul and psychedelic rock, and raps that ...
The first line Gucci Mane raps onThe Burrprint (The Movie 3-D*)*is, counterintuitively, a Nas quote: “All Nas need is one mic/All I need is one stove/Homie got a nice flow/But Gucci got that white coke.” It’s a laughing boast verging at self-deprecation, yet it also hinted...
MTV Rapswould do bonkers ratings numbers for the channel in 1988, and soon suburban living rooms across America could be bum-rushed by the righteous anger of Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, and Ice Cube. The pay-to-play jukebox channel the Box would show the videos they wouldn’t ...
"My Crew," off herThe Bootleg of the BootlegEP illustrates this fearless independence. Grae raps about how rap is dead, and how it has deteriorated into superficial flexing: "I represent for a nation, thought we was in it together/But I guess it gets strange when money rains in sunny we...