A$AP Rocky is nothing if not honest. The “Goldie” rapper performed at the Bamboozle festival over the weekend, and when asked about fellow newcomer, Azealia Banks, he advised her to stop starting trouble.
Beef in Hip-Hop is one of the most exciting parts of the culture, but lately it seems that rappers are igniting feuds just to get attention. Perhaps the most noted repeat offender in the game right now is Azealia Banks, who starts rifts with any and everyone who crosses her path—a move which may end […]
Suge Knight didn’t waste time starting as much controversy as possible during his interview with L.A. radio station, 93.5 KDay Friday (April 20). Aside from re-opening speculation into whether or not Tupac is still alive, the former Death Row Records head fired more than a few verbal shots at Rick Ross, over the track “Tupac […]
You have probably heard LMFAO’s ubiquitous hit “Party Rock Anthem” sometime in your life. The tune has gotten too much damn radio play, sold almost 10 million digital copies worldwide in 2011 alone, appeared in Kia commercials and earned the odd dressing RedFoo and SkyBlu millions of dollars in the process. But now the duo, who have plenty […]
Now that the Mobb Deep breakup saga is seemingly over, with a hacker being blamed on Havoc’s inflammatory tweets, Prodigy sat down with Hot 97’s Cipha Sounds & Rosenberg yesterday (April 17) morning to set the record straight. After being grilled by CS and Rosenberg to tell the truth and shame the Devil, P admitted […]
Early this morning, the Internets were all in a huff over slanderous tweets that were thought to be coming from Havoc of Mobb Deep and aimed at his long time rhyme co-d Prodigy. In a series of tweets, Havoc’s @THEREALHAVOC account called Capital P everything but a child of God while alleging that he engaged in […]
Hip-Hop Wired presents a 4-part series entitled The Commission. The name derives from the Hip-Hop super-group that never came to fruition, which consisted of The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, & Charli Baltimore. The group was designed around two of the Greatest MC’s of All-Time, which would have represented Hip-Hop at the highest levels possible. The aim of […]
Game is no stranger to controversy but even when he’s been “beef free” he still manages to get pulled into rifts that have nothing to do with him. In an interview with MTV News, the West Coast MC was asked to speak on the forthcoming Rick Ross and Dr. Dre collaboration. Since both Game and […]
On Friday, March 16th, Steve Stoute interviewed Nas at SXSW Music and Media conference at the Austin Convention Center. In one portion of the sit down, Nas talks about stepping to Tupac in NYC’s Central Park—after the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards—and their doomed plans to meet up again in Las Vegas to really settle their differences. “What […]
Drake has been an unwilling target of rapper beef for the past few months. After dodging some jabs from veteran rhymer Common, and gamely responding with a little tough talk, Drizzy has also attracted the ire of some other rap artists as well. Future, Pusha T and Ludacris all have fired salvos in the direction […]
Hip-Hop Wired has learned that Common and Drake actually squashed their beef at the Grammys, clearing up previous reports that the two rappers almost got into a violent altercation. Apparently, both Drake and Common’s entourages happened to be in the same area at the end of the Grammy red carpet, near where artists were being […]
UPDATE (2/15/12): Multiple sources have told Hip-Hop Wired that Drake and Common did get into a shouting match, but there was no physical altercation between the two rappers. Word is that Lil’ Wayne had to intervene. Continue to stay tuned… — Sources are saying Common and Drake had to be separated by cops while backstage […]
