Drake dominated the headlines last week. The OVO frontman’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late surprise album was certified gold this week after fans streamed, downloaded and purchased the album over 500,000 times. Chris Brown started this week off with a proper diss during The Breakfast Club, fueling him to take a step back from the media. Bizzare details the time Eminem confronted him during a mushrooms trip, Kendrick Lamar reminds Mike Epps of Tupac and Fetty Wap discusses how he lost his eye.
Chris Brown Disses Drake
Chris Brown confirmed that he and Drake are not friends and alluded to him as a “corny singing rapper” in an interview with Power 105.1 The Breakfast Club.
Brown went on to discuss how the media tends to focus on the negative aspects of his image.
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“I feel like the only thing that’s highlighted in my career for the last five years is my negativity,” Brown said. “But only thing I can do is put my positive music out and do what I do. And be great at that. That’s the only thing that has been successful is the music. And people can’t deny an undeniable hit…I’m not gonna sit there and say I’m a saint, but I definitely say a lot of the choices I made in the past reflect now. So, now I don’t have that benefit—You don’t get that benefit of the doubt. Like ‘Oh Chris ain’t do that. Come on now.’ People be like ‘Nah, he did it.’ Because of my past decisions. I’m more vigilant of my surroundings and where I go…I’m not a street dude. I don’t portray myself to try to be tough. I’m just who I am.”
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19 Rappers Who Weren’t Born In The City They Rep
Complex Magazine addressed the issue of artists who rep a different town from where they were born.
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Marshall Mathers was born in Missouri, not Detroit. Nelly was born in Texas, not St. Louis. Wiz Khalifa was born in North Dakota.
“Some of the more notable ones stem from the West Coast. The D.O.C. and Kurupt, both of which helped hold down California for years, are actually from Houston and Philadelphia respectively–cities with very different rap cultures,” the article says. “And of course, if you weren’t already aware of the fact Tupac was actually from Manhattan and not Los Angeles.”
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Bizarre Recalls Eminem Confronting Him On Shrooms
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D12 rapper Bizarre says that he tried to join a gang while tripping on shrooms.
“I took some shrooms in St. Louis, Missouri and Marshall, he was coming back from sound check I guess,” he remembered. “And I guess they was a couple miles away from the hotel and they said they seen me walking down the street and they pulled up on me and Marshall was like, ‘What is you doing? Why you out here?’ And they said that I told them that I was going to join a gang.”
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Mike Epps Says Kendrick Reminds Him Of Tupac
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Comedian Mike Epps compliments the lyricist of Kendrick Lamar and compares him to one of Hip Hop’s all time greats in a recent interview.
“I think he’s a great lyricist,” Epps says. “The dude is really ahead of his time. Some of the words that he puts together is really of our day and he really represents this generation. He reminds me a lot of Pac…The way he puts together his lyrics, how he speaks about real life, and it’s gang related… street.”
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Drake Tops Weekly Album Sales
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Drake tops Hip Hop album sales for the second week in a row, but he falls to #2 on the Billboard charts behind Imagine Dragons.
Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint reentered the top ten. J. Cole is up to number 16.
“The latest sales report still brings good news for the Toronto rapper as Drake has passed the required numbers for a Gold album certification, adding on another 129,000 sales this period,” HipHopDX reports. “At the same time, Drake’s fellow Young Money superstar Nicki Minaj made her way back into the Top 10 after falling to #12 last week.”
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Fetty Wap Reveals How He Lost His Eye
The New Jersey “Trap Queen” rapper explains the tale behind his missing eye in an interview with DJ Self.
“I tell everybody it’s nothing, because it’s really nothing to me,” he says within the 2 minute clip. “What happened is, when I was little I had gotten into a little accident and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes. The doctor saved one, I was blessed to still have my vision. That’s it. That’s the story.”
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For additional Chris Brown coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
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