Hip Hop Week In Review: YG & The Game vs. 6ix9ine, Logic’s Divorce & Jeezy’s Final Album

HipHopDX – This week in Hip Hop, YG follows The Game’s lead by calling out Tekashi 6ix9ine for talking reckless on social media. Also, Logic confirmed his divorce to his wife of two years, Jessica Andrea, and Jeezy announced his next album will be last.

YG The Game Challenge Tekashi 6ix9ine

ON RU’Z DOE

A post shared by YG (@yg) on Mar 22, 2018 at 11:07pm PDT

The Game warned Tekashi 6ix9ine to “cut the tuff shit out before it’s too late” under a throwback photo of a fresh-faced 6ix9ine. YG followed-up on those threats with an Instagram video of his own asking him, “What’s happening, Blood?”

The controversial 6ix9ine isn’t phased though. He traded shots with The Game on social media and then appeared on The Breakfast Club saying he can go to any city he wants without checking in, including Houston and Los Angeles.

Read more about YG and The Game pressing 6ix9ine here.

Logic Announces Divorce

Logic decided to explain why he’s getting a divorce from his wife of two years, Jessica Andrea. He made the announcement via Twitter after TMZ reported he and his wife were headed towards splitsville. Joyner Lucas, his rival, even poked fun at the reported rumor before Logic confirmed it.

Apparently, there’s no bad blood and according to their prenup, Andrea is entitled to a payout.

Read more about Logic’s divorce here.

Jeezy Says “TM 104” Will Be His Last Album

Jeezy is the latest recording artist to announce his next album will be their last. On Thursday (March 22), the Snowman sent off a tweet saying TM104 will be his final LP.

Read more about Jeezy’s wrapping things up here.

DX Reviews

Larry June — You’re Doing Good

Tyga — Kyoto

Tech N9ne — Planet

Brian Fresco — Love Scars

Lil Yachty — Lil Boat 2

Nana — Nana

DXclusives: David Banner, Taz Taylor, Statik Selektah, Underground Report SXSW Rap Rising

David Banner Reveals How He Recouped Over $100K Spent Making “The God Box”

It’s been almost a year since David Banner released The God Box and speaking with HipHopDX’s Kyle Eustice, Banner shares how he was able to make back what he spent creating the project. It wasn’t the album that generated the $100,000 spent to create it, but the actual “God Boxes” he sold on his website.

Each box was comprised of a flag, a t-shirt, Hidden Colors 3, Black Friday, autographed copies of The God Box (including, the chopped and screwed version), as well as stickers, pins and a copy of Anthony Browder’s The Browder Files.

“I spent over $100,000 to produce this album,” Banner told DX. “So, I had to take a break before I really concentrated on shooting videos and make some money back because I’m still a businessman. I’m not a fool. If the people aren’t going to move towards the movement, then I have to allow it to make money first. So, on DavidBanner.com, I created The God Boxes … And to be honest with you, The God Boxes initially sold more than the album did. I sold so many God Boxes that it literally paid for what I spent to record the album.”

#DXHitList: The Taz Taylor Session

Taz Taylor is one of the next breakout producers, and he’s coming into the game with a plan of his own in the form of Internet Money. Speaking with DX, the Florida producer curated a special #DXHitList playlist on Spotify for us and talked about the difference between industry producers and ones like himself getting placements with the likes of Gucci Mane, Kodak Black, Trippie Redd and Lil Skies.

“Producers kinda envy us out here,” he says. “These industry producers that I’ve met will spend 14 days to a month working on 10 beats to work on these sessions. We show up with 341 beats. They get jealous of us because they can’t compete. These artists go into other sessions buzzing about that shit.”

Statik Selektah Says Labeling New Music As “Old School” Is Bad For Hip Hop

DX caught up with Statik Selektah recently to discuss one of his tweets saying how lamenting how certain types of Hip Hop are labeled as “old school.” In his mind, this is a bad development.

“It’s bad for Hip Hop when people try to label anything with soul or a raw element to it as ‘90s or old school,” he tells DX. “It creates a separation. It makes the young kids look at sampling music as dated.”

Underground Report: 7 More Indie Hip Hop Songs You Need To Hear

DX’s Justin Ivey put together another list of music artists that you should get into with his latest edition of the Underground Report. It includes Warm Brew collaboration “Same Page” with Niko G4 and Ciscero’s GoldLink-assisted single “Function.”

Check out the full list here.

HipHopDX’s SXSW Rap Rising Showcase Proves Live Music Is Still King

DX brought fans the Rap Rising showcase at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas this year. Among those to rock our stage were Jay Park, Sherwood Marty, Lyric Michelle and Larry June.

If you weren’t able to make it the Rap Rising stage at SXSW, find out how each performance went down here.

 

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L.A. Reid Signs Big Boi To New Label

After being accused of sexual harassment last year, veteran music exec L.A. Reid left his position at Epic Records. Now, Reid has resurfaced with a new imprint called HitCo and announced Outkast’s Big Boi as his first signing.

According to Variety, HitCo is currently attempting to get the ATLiens’ solo track “All Night” on the radio. The song saw a surge in popularity following its use in an iPhone X campaign. The accompanying video for the Apple ad has over 15 million views.

Reid has worked with Outkast since his days at Arista. At the time, Big Boi and André 3000 were fresh out of high school. During that period, they collected multiple Grammys for their work on 2000’s Stankonia and 2003’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

Big Boi’s Boomiverse album came out on Epic in 2017.

HitCo will reportedly be distributed by the independent imprint EMPIRE.

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Diplo Releases Hip Hop-Heavy “California” EP

Diplo, the Major Lazer and Jack Ü record producer, has released his latest EP, California.

The project features appearances from a number of up-and-coming Hip Hop artists, including Lil Yachty, Trippie Redd and Lil Xan. Meanwhile, Desiigner, DRAM and GoldLink also feature across the EP’s six tracks.

Diplo — who says a full-length album is on the way — hit the ‘Gram a short while after the EP’s official release to reflect on his latest body of work.

when I made the Florida album over ten years ago it was me dwelling in my own mind and creating something crazy that was about where i’m from and what I imagined. once I got to California I had been working for years in all kinds of music but this last year I was inspired by all the young sounds and rappers that have moved to LA.. felt like this album was the soundtrack to the last year of working here.. California EP out now

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Lil Xan — who has caught heat recently for his controversial comments about 2Pac — called his Diplo collaboration “my favorite song I’ve made so far.”

Check out the stream, cover art and tracklist for California below, or purchase the EP via iTunes here.

Diplo Releases Hip Hop-Heavy EP, “California”Diplo Releases Hip Hop-Heavy EP, “California”
  1. Worry No More f. Lil Yachty Santigold
  2. Suicidal f. Desiigner
  3. Look Back f. DRAM
  4. Wish f. Trippie Redd
  5. Color Blind f. Lil Xan
  6. Get It Right (Remix) f. MØ GoldLink

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YG Slams Tekashi 6ix9ine

New York, NY – It appears Tekashi 6ix9ine has another adversary.

This time, the rainbow-haired rapper has apparently ruffled the feathers of YG. In a video posted to Instagram on Friday (March 23), the Compton rapper says, “Fuck 6ix9ine, nigga. On Blood. What’s happening, Blood?”

ON RU’Z DOE

A post shared by YG (@yg) on Mar 22, 2018 at 11:07pm PDT

YG also dropped a subtle warning on Twitter.

#yg speaks

A post shared by DJ Akademiks (@akadmiks) on Mar 23, 2018 at 5:53am PDT

YG’s comments follow an interview 6ix9ine did for The Breakfast Club. During the show, the self-proclaimed “hottest artist in the city” refers to YG as “the dude that was hot mad long ago.”

Despite threats from The Game and others, 6ix9ine also said he has no plans to stay out of Los Angeles.

“These niggas talking about ‘Yo, he banned from L.A. He banned from L.A.,’” he said. “I’m in and out of the West Coast, Blood. Nothing happened to me … I go back to Houston whenever I want. I go back to L.A. I can leave this interview right now and book a flight to L.A.”

Earlier this week, YG co-signed The Game’s comments aimed at the controversial artist. 

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"Black Panther" Named Top-Grossing Superhero Film Of All Time

Black Panther just became the top-grossing superhero film of all time in the U.S. after surpassing the $623.4 million The Avengers made in 2012. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Studios and Disney reached the milestone on Saturday (March 24).

The Ryan Coogler-directed film is also one of seven films to ever earn $600 million or more domestically and has been smashing records since its February 16 release.

Marvel Studios’ #BlackPanther is NOW PLAYING. Get tickets: [link in bio]

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Black Panther has grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide and by the end of Sunday (March 26), it will reportedly surpass Iron Man 3 to become the third-biggest comic book adaptation behind The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

The nearly all-black cast features Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa/Black Panther, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis.

The movie was anchored by the Black Panther: The Album soundtrack, which was curated by Kendrick Lamar and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith. The project features Future, Jay Rock, K. Dot, James Blake, SZA, ScHoolboy Q and more.

“All The Stars” featuring SZA and “King’s Dead” featuring Lamar, Future, Jay Rock and James Black both received visual treatments. 

Black Panther 2 is reportedly in the works and Marvel Studios say it already has a “solid direction.” 

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