This week in Hip Hop, Meek Mill caught heat for kissing Nicki Minaj’s feet. Elsewhere, The Game is ordered to pay up $7 million after losing a sexual assault case against him and Drake delivers a super shady American Music Award acceptance speech.
Meek Mill Kisses Nicki Minaj’s Feet
Nicki Minaj posted a photo of her man Meek Mill kissing her feet to Instagram and Twitter had a field day. While some were disgusted, others thought it was #RelationshipGoals.
“Y’all seen that picture of Meek kissing Nicki’s feet? That’s love,” one tweet read.
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The Game Must Pay
The Game has been ordered to pay $7 million to Priscilla Rainey, who claimed he sexually assaulted her while she was a participant on his reality show She’s Got Game.
It’s alleged that Game got drunk and high and forced himself upon her, putting “his hand inside her dress to rub her bare vagina and buttocks.” A jury ruled in her favor and now he owes her $7.13 million.
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All the details here.
Drake’s Shady AMA Speech
After winning the AMA for Favorite Artist, Drake gave an acceptance speech subliminally aimed at Kanye West and Meek Mill. It’s the whole “Two Birds, One Stone” thing.
“For our genre, I like to keep things exciting and keep making music,” Drizzy said in his speech. “Shout out to everybody that’s trying to do the same thing. More Life is coming soon and more chune for your head top so watch how you speak on my name, you know?”
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DXclusives: Zaytoven, Feeki & Code Green
Zaytoven has had a tremendous year in 2016 so far and among the amazing songs he’s produced that have topped the charts, he’s especially proud of “Too Much Sauce” off Future and DJ Esco’s Esco Terrestrial mixtape.
“’Too Much Sauce’ has to be one of the songs that I’m very proud of right now,” he says to HipHopDX. “Because when you listen to the music, it just sounds like something else. When it comes on the radio, nothing else sounds nothing like it. I remember when me and Future had did the song, and now that it’s a hot song, we just did the video, I’m very proud of that. I just love when people, you got the new guy, Lil Uzi Vert on there, it’s just something new, something fresh for me. You’ve never heard Zaytoven, any beats on the radio or songs that I produced before, you’ve never heard ‘em that sound like this.”
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Feeki of Reno, Nevada tells DX how Hip Hop helped him find himself. Instead of going the stereotypical route, he chose to stay true what he knows.
“We often grew up being into cars, trucks and dirtbikes,” he explained. “I started doing music and was trying to find myself. One day, I was like fuck it, I’m going to get a mullet because all my friends had one when they were kids and I never had one. I was already wearing weird shirts and stuff. Shortly after I started understanding the idea of branding, I just went with it and used it to my advantage.”
In an interview with Code Green, the Rhode Island music group discusses the release of their debut project, 7 Day Trip, an EP based on a trip they took that lasted seven days. They explain the meaning of the group’s mission to DX.
“We just trying to keep everything positive,” ER of Code Green explained. “The color green relaxes you. we just trying to bring good vibes to the forefront. We always got good vibes we always lifting people’s spirits up. When you think Code Green just think good vibes, positivity.”
