Quavo Awarded MVP Trophy After Killing It During NBA All-Star Celebrity Game

Los Angeles, CA – Offset and Takeoff were on deck to witness their Migos brethren Quavo pick up the MVP trophy for his performance at the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game on Friday (February 16).

Quavo finished the game with 19 points and five rebounds for Team Clippers who defeated Team Lakers 75-66. The ATL rapper told ESPN he was just one point shy of his goal.

“I tried to go for a 20-piece, but as long as I had the most points on the floor that’s the way to go,” he told reporter Cassidy Hubarth.

Elsewhere in the game, Quavo hit five of his eight free throws and nailed three assists for Team Clippers, which also included black-ish actor Anthony Anderson, Common, Jamie Foxx and NBA legend Jason Williams, among others.

Quavo also scored a layup on Justin Bieber who represented Team Lakers.

Quavo has been known to show off his balling skills. Last year, he hit the court for a little 5-on-5 action and proved he’s a beast when it comes to hoops — layups, three-pointers, free throws — whatever .

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Twitter Is Emotional After Watching Drake’s “God’s Plan” Video

Drake unleashed his “God’s Plan” video into the world on Friday (February 16) and people clearly weren’t ready for the emotions they were about to feel.

Throughout the nearly six-minute visual, we see the Toronto music giant bless one person after another with money, cars, shopping sprees and donations. Shot in Miami, the emotive video yielded heavy praise from people on Twitter.

Many admitted they cried while watching it and some revealed they had a newfound respect for Drake.

The concept of “God’s Plan,” which is taken from the Scary Hours EP, sees Drake’s faith to the test and finds him relying on a power greater than himself to get him through life.

It also inspired the 6 God to enact his own social media challenge.

“I am not into challenges on IG I find them annoying,” he wrote on Friday (February 16). “but today I am going to challenge everyone to just go out and do something for someone, anything, the smallest thing just to bring another human being some joy and please tag me in it somehow so I can see all the love being spread…you don’t have to play the song in the background or have some other tactics being used.”

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He adds, “Just go be kind in any way you can and let’s all watch the world be nice to each other even if it’s for 24 hours … Thank You.”

People were feeling the video and a few of them deemed Drake not only a legend but also the G.O.A.T. following its release.

Check out some of the reactions below.

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#DXCLUSIVE: Tech N9ne Torches The Wake Up Show With ’80s Hip Hop Challenge

Los Angeles, CA –  Tech N9ne’s b-boy prowess was unearthed during a recent trip to Shade45’s world-famous The Wake Up Show with King Tech.

The Strange Music Tech, whose upcoming album Planet is set to orbit around March 2, gave his fully edited “Don’t Nobody Want None” video a serious run for its money with an in-studio performance that had Wake Up Show Tech breaking out the strobe lights.

“The Wake Up Show has been going strong on XM Shade45 for over five years every Monday night and Thursday morning, but recently they opened their doors on the West Coast for DJ Revolution and myself to start recording live with artists in the studio again,” King Tech tells HipHopDX, while noting Ron Mills was extremely instrumental in making it happen.

“He kept telling me, ‘Tech, if you build it they will come’ and then he got the turntables and gave us a place to record — rest will be history,” King Tech continued. “So two weeks ago, we did just that, I took all the electro-hop ’80s classics and remixed the Tech N9ne record, never played it for him and made him do it live on the air. We even had everyone wear goggles and start popping and strutting in the room. Even the camera guy and board app had to pull some moves out!”

An excited Tech N9ne tells DX that even as the artist, he was taken aback by the creativity that was being brought to the table.

“The first time King Tech played the remix, I flipped out cause it contained all my favorite b-boy hits from back in the day. I had no idea what he had brewing but the outcome was mind-blowing!”

Since 1991, The Wake Up Show, founded by Sway Calloway and King Tech, has been putting on for established and eventual Hip Hop legends alike such as Eminem, RZA, KRS-One, Pharoahe Monch, Kool G Rap, Common and more. Tech N9ne actually made his debut appearance sometime in 1998.

King Tech hopes that more “electro-hop” begins to offer fans some variation in the near future.

“This was a big shoutout from me to all the legendary ’80s electro-hop artists DJs who never seem to get mentioned anymore,” he exclaimed. “If you look at the electro-hop Wikipedia page, there’s nothing really there! Like, what the hell is going on? It’s really sad if people don’t know how important groups like Planet Patrol, Newcleus, Man Parrish, Kraftwerk, Jonzun Crew, Hashim and many more who were big to the culture of Hip Hop and helping it make a distinct/unique sound that only belonged to us, or so we thought.

“Once again Tech N9ne is ahead of the pack when it comes to being creative as an artist! That guy can flow over damn nearly anything!”

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#DXHitList: Nipsey Hussle, A$AP Rocky & Webbie Top This Week’s Spotify Playlist

Nipsey Hussle’s highly anticipated album Victory Lap was released on Friday (February 16) and among the standout cuts featured on the 16-track project is “Young Nigga” featuring Puff Daddy, topping our #DXHitList on Spotify this week.

A$AP Rocky is also reportedly working on his next album and has been dropping more music lately while fans wait in anticipation. Among the singles Rocky has released so far is “Cocky” featuring 21 Savage and Gucci Mane, which will be featured in Kyrie Irving’s upcoming basketball comedy film Uncle Drew, out June 29.

Also making the #DXHitList, is Webbie with his new song “Itz Up” featuring Bun B and produced by the one and only Mannie Fresh, just in time for (a few months before) summer.

This week’s #DXHitList also features new music from Moneybagg Yo, Ugly God and YFN Lucci, as well as YG’s new hood banger “Suu Whoop.”

Listen and follow the #DXHitList below.

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Drake Drops A Milli On Good Deeds For “God’s Plan” Video

Miami, FL – At the beginning of Drake’s video for “God’s Plan,” the masterminds behind the visual reveal they had a budget of $996,631.90.

And they gave it all away.

Spearheaded by Director X and Karena Evans, “God’s Plan” captures the spirit of the Miami people and documents all of Drake’s good deeds.

While shooting the video in Miami, the philanthropic Toronto superstar paid for people’s groceries, gave a University of Miami college student $50,000, took a housekeeper on a $10,000 shopping spree, donated $25,000 to Miami Senior High School and donated $50,000 to the Lotus House Women’s Shelter — and those are just the donations we knew about.

Throughout the emotionally charged video, we see everything else Drake accomplished while in Florida. He walks up to people on the street and hands them stacks of cash as they burst into tears. He gifts a van to the Overtown Youth Center, donates $20,000 to a fire department, takes several people on a shopping spree at Saks Fifth Avenue and buys carts full of toys for countless children.

And he’s not done there. Before the end of the video, he also buys a couple of lucky families a brand new car.

“God’s Plan” is taken from the Scary Hours EP, and the new visual sends a message of compassion while proving Drake loves more than just his bed and his mama.

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