The Rap Report

Today on The Rap Report: News Alpo was murdered Verzuz did its first Iconz concert, featuring reggae artist Battle Cat  Jay-Z and LL Cool J were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Jay-Z thanked Dame during his speech so now Dame wants to end the drama Eminem performed LL's Rock the Bells URL had the Til Death Do Us Part battle, celebrating for Drake's birthday Fetty Wap arrested for drug charges Music Che Noir - Hunger Games ft Ransom, 38 Spesh RJ Payne - Hellz Fury ft Royce and Rah Digga Curren$y - World Is Ours Reason, Wale, and Benny The Butcher - No More, No Less: Demo 1 Big Sean and Hit-Boy - What You Expect

aka Depressed Legs, aka Keep the Shrutes Happy Today on The Rap Report: News MC War's New World Order III battle event including Vado vs Saigon The Rza and LeBron James start a Calm sponsorship An Aftermath "takeover" is coming, with new music from Snoop, Dre, and Mt Westmore KRS-One vz Big Daddy Kane happened and hip-hop won Music Wale - Down South (Chopped and Screwed) ft Yella Beezy & Maxo Kream Masego - Garden Party ft Big Boi and JID Icewear Vezzo - Ghetto Ice ft Rio Da Yung OG (old, from dec 2020) Arsonal the Rebel - Big Jersey Vince Staples - Vince Staples Stalley - Gone, Baby Gone Maxo Kream - Weight of the World

You Can Only Dress Up A Pug But So Much For A Date Today on The Rap Report: News MC Wars New World Order battle Common opened a studio in a prison Black Thought starring in a musical where he composed and wrote lyrics Jay-z produced the Black Western The Harder They Fall that's coming to Netflix 10/22 2021 BET Hip-Hop Awards Big Daddy Kane vz KRS-ONE Q-Tip lost a high-school battle to ODB Music  Singles Pooh Shiesty - Back in Blood ft Lil Durk DJ Khaled - Every Chance I Get ft Lil Baby and Lil Durk EPs/LPs Lil Wayne and Rich The Kid - Trust Fund Babies Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Side B Meek Mill - Expensive Pain

Today on The Rap Report: We complain about Common's "new" album and give further thoughts of Drake and Kanye's latest albums 12:51 The show actually "starts" Nikki Minaj accused of witness tampering and harassment by Kenneth Petty's sexual assault victim Karen Civil accused of scamming and shadiness Hip-Hop labels (QC, Empire, and TDE) embraces new Riff app Fugees start a reunion tour for the 25th anniversary of The Score Fat Joe verzuz Ja Rule happened, JD verzuz Puff is next? Scarface doing much better after receiving kidney from son Music Common - A Beautiful Revolution Pt 2 Gift of Gab - Finding Inspiration Somehow Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue

Today, The Rap Report: RIP Michael K Williams, Drake goes at Swizz Beatz on Certified Lover Boy, and 40 explains why R Kelly is credited on Drake's new song, TSU. In new music, we discussed Kanye's Donda and Drake's Certified Lover Boy albums.

Today on The Rap Report: Future plans to do a benefit concert for Haiti after it's devastating hurricane, Drake and Kanye's beef heats up again, and Kendrick Lamar's upcoming album will be his last on TDE. Music discussed: Benny The Butcher - Pyrex Picasso Boldy James - Bo Jackson Asher Roth - GEV3-Piece Tsu Surf - Until Further Notice

Today on The Rap Report, DaBaby loses DaMoney, gives DaApology, and then deletes it, The Lox Verzuz Dipset, and De La Soul's music will finally be available for streaming soon! Reasonable shouts: Dave East - Hoffa Album reviews: Isaiah Rashad - The House is Burning Nas - King's Disease II

Today, on the Rap Report: DaBaby, trying valiantly to get canceled, gets homophobic at Rolling Loud, performs Cash Shit, brings out Tory Lanez, doubles down on not fucking with gay people, loses clothing deal. Some new albums are coming in August from people we've never heard of, and Kanye. Wack100 did an interview with Tekashi on DJ Akademiks podcast, Mysonne was NOT a fan. Music discussed: Singles Isaiah Rashad - Runnin 4rm Da Law ft Schoolboy Q Albums/EPs Styles P - Ghosting OMB Bloodbath - Blood Sample IDK - USEE4YOURSELF

Fuck The Dare Bear, Fuck The War on Drugs, Invite Myself to her Throat, Hard on the Throat Today, on The Rap Report: A Tribe Called Quest sells the royalties for their first five albums as an NFT, for...$85k? The BET Awards happened. Queen Latifah won a Lifetime Achievement Award and had a great tribute, as did DMX. Also, people won awards. Music: Singles Coi Leray - At The Top ft Kodak Black Rico Nasty - Magic Albums Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost

Go watch Harlem Nights Today on The Rap Report: DMX will be honored at 2021 BET Awards, Dame Dash is trying to sell either his stake in Roc-A-Fella or an NFT of Reasonable Doubt, so they sued him, and Megan Thee Stallion ends her working relationship with DaBaby over his song with Tory Lanez and an alleged retweet glitch (eyeroll emoji). New music discussed: Singles Gucci Mane - Posse on Bouldercrest ft Pooh Shiesty and Sir Mix-A-Lot Tyler, The Creator - Lumberjack Vince Staples - LAW OF AVERAGES Isaiah Rashad - Headshots (4r Da locals) Albums Ransom - Se7en (Knowledge's thoughts)

Whistle While You try to Twerk Today on The Rap Report: Shock G's cause of death, Meek Mill supporting a sentencing reform bill in Virginia, a trash-ass Atlanta Mt. Rushmore, and XXL's 2021 Freshman list. Music discussed: Singles: Lou Williams - Big Tuh ft 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne Juicy J - Take it ft Lord Infamous and Rico Nasty Megan Thee Stallion - Thot Shit Albums: Peter Rosenberg - Real Late Migos - Culture III Ransom - Se7en    

Today on The Rap Report: Drake sleeps on a $400k horse hair and stingray mattress, Def Jam hired Snoop Dogg as an A&R executive, and Goldlink is beefing with Sheck Wes (who knew?) New music: Singles: Royce da 5'9 - Greed ft Ransom Albums: DMX - Exodus Lloyd Banks - The Course of the Inevitable

Today on The Rap Report: Juvenile cusses out Young Buck on VladTV and Royce da 5'9 renews calls to remove Vlad from hip-hop. And Juvenile is making...furniture??? Pusha T wants to write ... children's books??? Nas resigns to Sony through their imprint, The Orchard, brings Mass Appeal with him. Mass Appeal still makes music??? Charlamagne and Kwame Brown are/were beefing The 2021 Billboard Awards Reasonable Doubts and Shouts: DMX - Hood Blues ft Westside, Conway, and Benny Migos - Straightenin A brief update to our thoughts on J Cole's album Young MA - Off The Yak Benny the Butcher and 38 Spesh - Trust the Sopranos

Today on The Rap Report: Maino screams on B Dot about journalism vs friendship, Nicki Minaj officially releases Beam Me Up Scotty (her first mixtape), more Joe Budden Podcast drama, and Isaiah Rashad has a new album coming that might have a new sonic direction... New music discussed: J Cole - The Offseason 21 Savage - Spiral

Today on The Rap Report, Kodak Black pleads guilty to sexual assault but claims he didn't do it, Cash Money makes $20-30 million a year off its masters, and Phife Dawg has a posthumous album coming & it sounds like it will be dope! Reasonable Shouts and Doubts: Phife Dawg - French Kiss Deux and Nutshell Pt 2 with Redman and Busta Rhymes DJ Khaled - Khaled Khaled Czarface and MF DOOM - Super What? J Cole - interlude Isaiah Rashad ft Duke Deuce - Lay Wit Ya Benny The Butcher ft Che Noir and Klass Murda - Love Left 21 Savage - Spiral And there's a half hour at the end where we react to the news of the Joe Budden Podcast's implosion. We were dealing with incomplete information there so we're probably wrong about some things *shrug*

Today, on The Rap Report: RIP Shock G, Megan Thee Stallion takes a break from music, Logic unretires (eyeroll emoji), Lil Kim has a tell-all book coming, Chad Ochocinco wants to start battling, Lil Mosey is charged with rape, and Rory and Mal rejoin the The Joe Budden Podcast. New music discussed: Logic and Madlib - Mars Only Pt 3 IDK ft Offset - Shoot My Shot OTM Frenchyy - Touchdown Masked Wolf - Astronaut in the Ocean Cordae - Just Until EP Thanks for listening! Share this!

Today on The Rap Report: RIP to DMX and Black Rob, Baby Blue was shot during a robbery, Benny the Butcher's rap inspirations, Jim Jones' criticism of the hip-hop industry, and Migos' huge influence on hip-hop. Reasonable Shouts/Doubts: Freddie Gibbs - Big Boss Rabbit Maxo Kream - Dropout ft OMB Bloodbath Snoop Dogg - From the Streets to the Suites Brockhampton - New Light, New Machine Silvan Lacue - Young Silvan EP. 2 Benny the Butcher - Plugs I Met 2 with Harry Fraud Conway the Machine - La Maquina

On today's episode of The Rap Report: DMX is hospitalized, Youtube doesn't censor YG video, Quavo and Saweetie's elevator incident, Lil Nas X's Montero video, and new music from Benny The Butcher, Reason, and Chika. Please share this episode if you liked it!

Today on The Rap Report: Kanye recreated 90s beats to hone his skills, new singles from Pop Smoke, Charm La'Donna, and Noname, and we review Jim Jones and Harry Fraud's album: The Fraud Department. If you enjoyed this show, please share it!

Today, on The Rap Report: The Grammy nominations happened last month, and Bobby Shmurda was released from prison. We also discuss new music from Jim Jones & Harry Fraud, JID, Lil Yachty and Kodak Black, Young Dolph and Key Glock, Blood Orange ft Project Pat & Gangsta Boo, and Nas - EPMD. And we reviewed Nu Jersey Twork's Jerusalem. Thanks for supporting. Share the show!

In today's Rap Report, we discuss Joe Budden's move to Patreon, TI's sex scandal, and Kanye's West's Sunday Service lawsuit. We talk new songs from Papoose, NORE ft Conway and Method Man, and Peter Rosenberg and Stove God Cooks and Flee Lord. Da Vinci talks about Nu Jerzey Twork's new album, Jerusalem. At the end we discuss the Drake's involvement in the battle rap arena and the battle he almost had with Murda Mook.

On today's show, we discuss Trump pardoning Lil Wayne and Kodak Black New tracks from Bas King Von Saweetie and Doja Cat Bun B and LES' EP, Distant Then we review every album and EP we discussed during 2020, trying desperately to remember something good. Thank you for supporting the show throughout 2020, here's to continued success!

News The Capitol Riots RIP Shabbadoo, of Breakin' RIP MF DOOM DR Dre had aneurysm, seems to be recovering well Future gets “spiritually married” Snoop feud with Eminem Reasonable Shouts Juicy J - The Hustle Continues TI - LIBRA

Today on The Rap Report: Benny The Butcher and Conway perform live for Tidal, and a bunch of albums get short discussions: Heem and DJ Green Lantern - Long Story Short Tobe - Cincoriginals Juicy J - The Hustle Continues D Smoke - Gaspar Yanga (this is a single Rico Nasty - Nightmare Vacation Statik Selectah - The Balancing Act Sorry about the quality, we're using a new program and now Knowledge needs to really speak up!

In today's episode, we discuss catching artists' doing high schools shows before they got big, and new music from DJ Kay Slay, Reason, The Cool Kids, and Future and Lil Uzi Vert. Albums reviewed: Busta Rhymes - ELE 2: The Wrath of God 21 Savage and Metro Boomin - Savage Mode 2

In today's edition of The Rap Report, we discuss rappers trying to interview people, hip-hop game shows, Busta Rhymes still talking shit, and new music from Tierra Wack, NLE Choppa, Alchemist, and Berner. Then we reviewed  Dave East's Karma 3, and Black Thought's Streams of Thought Volume 3 : Cane and Abel.

In today's Rap Report, we discuss Da Vinci's Vegas trip with BlockCityTV, and the lack of support that Griselda is getting on Shady. Albums discussed include: Benny the Butcher - Burden of Proof Dom Kennedy - Rap n Roll Dave East - Karma 3 Big Sean - Detroit 2

In today's show, we discuss the business of social media, The Joe Budden Podcast leaving Spotify, and Kanye's contract woes. New music reviewed includes: Benny The Butcher - Da Respected Sopranos Conway The Machine - From King To God Armani Caesar - The Liz Westside Gunn - Who Made The Sunshine Spillage Village - Spilligion

Today we discuss the continued police violence, people's shitty, stupid, myopic thoughts about protests vs riots, and John Legend Verzuz Alicia Keys. Reasonable Shouts Singles Lil Baby - The Bigger Picture Spillage Village - End of Daze Albums Flatbush Zombies - Now, More Than Ever Joell Ortiz and Crooked I - H.A.R.D. Big Krit - Krit Wuz Here Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo Run The Jewels - RTJ4  

Knowledge and Da Vinci discuss the Badu v Scott verzuz battle, what makes up a rapper's delivery, and Beyonce's collaborative creative process, or lack thereof. Music discussed: Singles Denzel Curry and Flying Lotus - Black Balloons Reprise JPEGMafia and Denzel Curry - Bald! Remix Reason ft Schoolboy Q - Pop Shit Albums Jon Connor - SOS Drake - Dark Lane Demo Tapes

Welcome to the Rap Report. Corona is affecting everything, including hip-hop. Some of it's negative: RIP Fred the Godson, but some is positive: shout out to Swizz and Timbo for these great and hilarious Verzuz Battles! And Knowledge realized that some of this trap/drug music is basically the new alternative rock. Music discussed: Singles Travis Scott and Kid Cudi - The Scotts Juice WRLD - Righteous Trouble ft Jeezy - Medusa Isaiah Rashad - Why Worry Albums/EPs/Mixtapes Stalley - Pariah DaBaby - Blame it on Baby Westside Gunn - Pray For Paris

Welcome back! Today we talked about all of the artists who have recently made stinks about their record deals, mostly Kelis, Mase, and Meg Thee Stallion. The highlights of our Reasonable Shouts were two local artists, Nu Jersey Twork and Deetranada. Then the album dissection: Jay Electronica's A Written Testimony had us scratching our heads, Eminem's Music To Be Murdered By had us somewhat split, and we both liked Royce's The Allegory A LOT!

This was an odd show. There was no news so we talked about OT Genasis' gem/parody song, Never Knew, which is my favorite song of 2019! Then we had short talks about a bunch of new albums. New Music: Fred The Godson Griselda - WWCD Stormzy - Heavy is the Head Atmosphere - Whenever French Montana - Montana Max B - House Money Game - Born 2 Rap

Today on The Rap Report we review Dave East's Survival and Earthgang's Mirrorland, and discuss Joe Rogan's plan to buy that Wu-Tang album that no one heard, along with some music recommendations. **We're working with a new recording environment so please excuse the audio quality!

Today on The Rap Report: Kanye's rumored new album may be coming REALLY soon, Meg signed to Roc Nation management, a bunch of new music from people like Ghostface, Mr Mutha****in' eXquire, Black Milk, and Alchemist. We reviewed Chris Rivers - GITU, and Common - Let Love. #TheRapReport

Today on The Rap Report: Spotify is sued by Eminem's publisher, Blackstar is working on a new album with Madlib!?, Audiomack partners with Warner Music Group, we shout-out a slew of new music, and we reviewed the latest albums from Rapsody and Little Brother. #TheRapReport campsite.bio/therapreport  

Today on the Rap Report: A$AP Rocky is free, Jay-z signed a controversial deal with the NFL, Nicki Minaj screamed on Joe Budden; Freddie Gibbs, Rapsody, and JPEGMAFIA released some good singles; and we review the new Rick Ross and Murs and 9th Wonder albums.

Today on The Rap Report: Rick Ross' album is coming VERY soon, Game is getting $7M taken from his royalties, and Big Sean, Ghostface Killah, Jidenna, A$AP Ferg, and Rick Ross released some singles. We reviewed YBN Cordae's Lost Boy album, and reached back in time to get to DaBaby's Baby on Baby.

Today on #TheRapReport, Rocky is charged, Meek is (mostly) free, Vinci likes a lot of rap styles, we somewhat disagree about Nas' Lost Tapes 2, and we loved Maxo Kream's Brandon Banks album.

Welcome to #therapreport! Jermaine Dupri doesn't know female rap. So we talked about Rapsody, and played music from Chika, Tierra Whack, Leikeli47, Noname, and Che Noir! Common's got a new, unintentionally hilarious video, Dreamville's album is wack, Nas is rapping fast, and Westside Gunn is doing his thing. We reviewed Big KRIT - KRIT Iz Here, and Benny the Butcher - Plugs I Met.

Welcome to this giant sized edition of The Rap Report! Today we talked about our regionalized hip-hop tastes, A$AP Rocky's jailing in Sweden in disgusting conditions and Crissle and Joe Budden's controversy over this issue, and a couple albums. The new music is Joell Ortiz and Salaam Remi's BoxTalk EP, and Madlib and Freddie Gibbs' Bandana album. If you make it to the end, you must really love this shit so you ought to share it with everyone!

Today on The Rap Report: Dave East and Joey Bada$$ in the Wu-Tang biopic, Nas' Lost Tapes 2, Spotify makes it harder for indie artists, Lil Nas X goes 3x platinum while breaking billboard records and being proudly gay, and Taylor Swift argues with Scooter about her masters. The news segment was fruitful this time! Then we discussed some new music and reviewed the Che Noir - Thrill of the Hunt 2 and Megan The Stallion - Fever albums. Thank you for listening! If you like it, share it!

Today on The Rap Report: Khaled is mad about being #2, Jim Jones and Cam'ron have an album coming,  Kembe X, Drake, Goldlink, and Flying Lotus all have some new music. And Denzel Curry's latest album gets reviewed.

Game of Thrones spoilers from 1:00-12:14** Today we talk about the Game of Thrones ending, Yo Gotti's lawsuit loss, Megan Thee Stallion going gold, and the new DJ Khaled and Tyler, The Creator albums.

On this episode of The Rap Report we discuss Bushwick Bill's and Kurtis Blow's recent health setbacks, along with Rza's criticism of Old Dirty Bastard's treatment by Roc-A-Fella, and Common opening abuse about being sexually abused as a child. We also reviewed the new albums from Schoolboy Q and Styles P. Thanks for listening and please share this with your friends!

Join us as we get back in the groove of things, and ramble a LOT! We're talking about Offset's felony charges, John Singleton in a coma, TI posting bail for drug offenders, and DJ Paul suing Travis Scott for an uncleared Tear Da Club Up sample. In new music, we talked Shy Glizzy, Jaden Smith, Smoke Dza, and 38 Spesh. A new episode should be coming very soon. In the meantime, enjoy this one and share it with your friends! 

This week we talked about Cardi not being canceled for drugging and robbing men in her past, MF Doom talking about the Madvillainy album, Big Sean openly discussing his fight against depression and anxiety, and briefly recap what actually happened in that Trina vs Trick Daddy argument. Our only music discussion was Kari Faux - Cry 4 Help. Can you tell that releases have been slow lately?? Like and share and subscribe please!

This might be our funniest and most disagreeable episode yet! We went over Kodak Black harassing Young MA, why Jay-z and Prodigy weren't on the Ante Up remix, Jaden Smith bringing clean water to Flint, Nicki Minaj's possibly failing European tour, and Trina and Trick Daddy's recent heated words. For new music, we briefly discussed Wyclef's album, Wyclef Goes Back To School, Tierra Wack's single, Gloria, and Schoolboy Q's single, Numb Numb Juice. Then we spent a bunch of time reviewing Conway The Machine's album from December 2018, Everybody is Food 2: Eat What You Kill. Thanks for listening and continuing to support us. Please share this with your friends and enemies!

On episode 14 of The Rap Report, we take a quick gross sex detour before getting down to hip-hop talk. First up is De La Soul's awful streaming music deal, then DMX's return to the studio with Swizz Beatz. Then we got into discussing Smoke Dza's EP/maxi-single, Prime Location Vol 1, and 2 Chainz' album, Rap Or Go To The League. Thanks for listening. Share it with your friends! We're on Spotify now!

Welp, we made do with a very slow week in rap. We flamed Obama for his views on toxic masculinity in rap, and...that was it for news. Then we reviewed Czarface's new album with Ghostface Killah, and spent a TON of time gushing over Dreezy's new album, because it's fucking GOOD! Like, share, subscribe, send money, send twerk vids, cook me a steak, ya'know...show some support!   Music discussed: Czarface - Czarface Meets Ghostface Dreey - Big Dreez 

In today's show we talk about Offset's apparent ducking of Chris Brown's fade invitation, and Dame Dash's lackluster apology to end his hate tour. Despite being disappointed, as usual, we had to discuss the Grammy's. They were surprisingly deep in some rap categories, but still made plenty of mistakes. And they managed to still offend us by cutting off Drake's acceptance speech and having J Lo do a MoTown tribute. Also, Cardi B and Offset seem to be back together. If you're surprised, you're not paying attention... For new music, we discussed: Stalley - Human Joell Ortiz, The Heatmakerz, and Fred The Godson - Gorrilla Glue Sean Price and Small Professor - 86 Witness   Please review the show and share it on all of your social media. Thanks!