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Meek Mill Asserts His Importance To Hip-Hop In Long New Twitter Rant

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Meek Mill has had his legacy called into question repeatedly online recently for a variety of reasons. It began with his new EP selling a pretty underwhelming amount of copies, something fans haven’t let him live down. Then just a few weeks later he was named in the lawsuit filed against Diddy by producer Lil Rod. Even though everyone involved has denied all of the allegations that didn’t stop fans from taking them at face value and attacking Meek online.

Now he’s beginning the steps of defending himself, starting with a 2023 interview with DJ Drama where he shut down Meek being the Jay-Z of his generation. To say his reaction came off a bit incoherent would be an understatement. “I give yall my honest without speaking on drake …. Bike life culture ‘meek billionaire culture connected to rap … really been through poverty the system ‘meek’ really changing laws ‘meek’ showed the most new artist love with my platform ‘meek’” his tweet reads. That led to a series of tweets where he defended his legacy and his place in hip hop. Check out the tweet that kicked the thread off below.

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Meek Mill Standing Up For Himself

Later tweets in the thread saw Meek trying to speak to his credibility as a social justice advocate. “I really changed like 4 laws that really help stop the cycle of probation for the average person coming up in our culture! Through Mike Rubin and Kevin hart I’ve donated and help bring millions to the city of Philadelphia! We have real job fairs with reform!” one post reads. “I been in all the jungles lifting communities up for years …. And my rap skills are incredible! Like really really good,” the series of posts concludes.

What do you think of Meek Mill’s bizarre Twitter rant attempting to remind fans of his status in hip hop? Do you think he made any compelling arguments in his series of posts? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Joe Budden Thinks J Cole Can Fix His Reputation By Dissing Kanye West

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Joe Budden thinks that J Cole can mend the damage done to his reputation for apologizing to Kendrick Lamar by dissing Kanye West. He explained on the latest episode of his eponymous podcast that he hopes the Dreamville rapper fires back at West for trolling him on his “Like That” remix, last weekend.

“This moment is J Cole’s free parking,” Budden began. “I told y’all that J Cole was gonna have to find somebody to kick his ass and it couldn’t be nobody chump and small. There is no better person than Kanye, the n***a that you been had smoke with, the n***a that been had smoke with your OG, Hov, whose now on a record saying some sh*t about you. I know that you’re home with the sage. You’re saging yourself. I know that this beef sh*t is not in your spirit but if you were to wake up one day in a different mood, now’s the time. Kill him. Make an example out of this non-rapping n***a. It’ll be easy too. It’ll be easy.” He concluded: “I think that’s the reprieve that he needs. I think that solves all J Cole’s problems.”

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J Cole Performs At Dreamville Festival

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – APRIL 7: J Cole performs during 2024 Dreamville Music Festival at Dorothea Dix Park on April 7, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Prince Williams/FilmMagic)

Cole apologized to Kendrick Lamar at Dreamville Festival for dissing him on the song, “7 Minute Drill,” which he’s since removed from streaming services. Afterward, Kanye West rapped on the “Like That” remix: “Y’all so outta sight, outta mind / I can’t even think of a Drake line / Play J. Cole, get the pussy dry / Play this shit back a hundred-thirty times.” Cole previously dissed Ye on his 2016 song, “False Prophets.”

Joe Budden Calls For J Cole To Step Up

Check out Budden’s comments on the beef above. Be on the lookout for further updates on Joe Budden as well as J Cole and Kanye West’s feud on HotNewHipHop.

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Taylor Swift Detailed The Major Impact The Infamous Kanye West Phone Call (A ‘Fully Manufactured Frame Job’) Had On Her

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In a 2016 phone call heard ’round the world, Taylor Swift seemingly permitted Kanye West to use her name in his song “Famous” from his album The Life Of Pablo. When the song was officially released, Swift noted that she had not permitted West to refer to her as “that b*tch,” a lyric that also was not mentioned in the phone call.

When Kim Kardashian first leaked footage of the 2016 phone call via her Snapchat Story, Swift and West fans were left divided, with some saying that West was transparent and Swift was purposely trying to play the victim in the situation. Others deemed West a misogynist and called Kardashian out for bullying Swift.

Following the leak of the phone call in 2016, Swift went into hiding for the remainder of the year, and for much of 2017, until the rollout for her sixth studio album Reputation began. In her interview for her Time Person Of The Year 2023 profile, Swift revealed what she was doing during that time. But in Swift nature, she remained fairly secretive about her exact whereabouts.

“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” Swift said. “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”

Elsewhere in the interview she teased Reputation (Taylor’s Version) — specifically its vault tracks, which she said will be “fire.” She also described her album re-recording process as a mythic quest, similar to that in fantasy and superhero franchises.

“I’m collecting horcruxes,” Swift said. “I’m collecting infinity stones. Gandalf’s voice is in my head every time I put out a new one. For me, it is a movie now.”

You can learn how to buy Swift’s Time Person Of The Year 2023 issue here.

Lil Uzi Vert Describes Themselves As The “Class Clown” Of Hip-Hop

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Lil Uzi Vert says that they’re the “class clown” of hip-hop. Uzi discussed their image as an “outcast” during a recent interview with GQ, refuting the idea while discussing their relationship with “the industry.” Uzi admits they’re aesthetically an “outcast” but the dynamic is different in reality.

“I’m not really the outcast, even though I take on the outcast aesthetic,” they told the outlet. “You got the cool kids and the jocks. Then you got the nerds, then you got the kids with behavior problems. But I’m more of the class clown. Some days people will really like me. And then some days I get on they nerves. The class clown is just trying to make friends.”

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Lil Uzi Vert Performs At Rolling Loud

MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA – JULY 23: American rapper Lil Uzi Vert performs onstage during day three of Rolling Loud Miami at Hard Rock Stadium on July 23, 2023 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images)

Elsewhere in the interview, Uzi discussed some of the influences on their artistry, including Chance The Rapper’s Acid Rap.“It was so weird to me. I didn’t understand how he was taking tones of music that I really don’t like but making me like them,” they said. The interview comes after the release of Uzi’s latest album, The Pink Tape. The star-studded tracklist features collaborations with Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Bring Me the Horizon, Don Toliver, and more. Check out Uzi’s interview with GQ below.

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Following the release of The Pink Tape, Uzi is already teasing another project. After the album reached the top of the charts, Uzi revealed that they were working on a mixtape titled Barter 16. “Sitting here thinking /bout how I went #1 on a experimental tape,” Uzi wrote on their Instagram Stories. “My apologies Barter 16 mixtape on the way.” Be on the lookout for further updates on the next project on HotNewHipHop.

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