New Hip Hop News

Two weeks ago, Chance the Rapper stunned Hip-Hop fans with the new music video for “The Heart & The Tongue,” a quick two-and-a-half-minute song that saw the Chicago artist in rare lyrical form. The scenery for the video was minimal, yet grand, as it was shot at what Chance has been calling the House of Kicks. Yesterday, the artist, known for his fan-favorite mixtapes Acid Rap and Coloring Book, took fans back to House of Kicks, but rather than new music, Chance treated them to a new skit.

Titled “1-800-STUNT (House Of Kicks),” Chance’s peculiar new YouTube video finds him and a few other familiar faces assuming the role of stuntmen that will ironically volunteer to do the mundane day-to-day tasks that nobody really likes doing. The clip stars Chance the Rapper’s wife, Reeseynem, Vic Mensa, and an assortment of other people participating in the humorous faux commercial.

If you’re wondering why the video even exists, the actual purpose of Chance’s foray into sketch comedy is unclear, but seeing as it stars artists like Reeseynem and Vic Mensa, perhaps it is a hint at Chance’s new artistic direction. Checking out the strange two-and-a-half-minute skit, you can watch it below.

Do you have any idea as to what Chance the Rapper could possibly be up to?

Sauce Gohan, a member of Sauce Walka’s The Sauce Factory, is lucky to still be breathing following a brush with death last week. The rapper was shot in the head during a daytime attack while in his car. Gohan is recovering from his injuries and he’s officially out of the hospital, sharing pictures of the gunshot wounds in his face.

“LIFE Comes With Da Ups & Da Downs, Da Good & Da Bad, But LIVING For A Purpose Is One Of Tha Main Reasons I Say I’m Alive Right Now,” he wrote on Instagram. “Having A Bullet Still In Tha Head Thru Tha Temple & Still LIVING Is A Dream To 99% Of People But Reality To Me.”

The rapper posted some pictures to show how close he was to losing his life, showing his swollen right eye and the wound on his temple. It’s seriously a miracle that Sauce Gohan is still alive.

“Baby GOAT,” wrote Sauce Walka in the comments. “THE GOD.”

Gohan clarified in an earlier message that he can still talk, see, walk, and do everything he could do before the shooting. He’s already back to work, teasing new music with the release of his upcoming mixtape. Thankfully, he’s still with us. Check out the pictures above.

Fresh off of the release of The Plugs I Met 2, Benny The Butcher isn’t showing signs of slowing down. In the past year, he unveiled B$F’s Gangsta Grillz mixtape, dropped his debut album, and it appears that a collaborative project with Freddie Gibbs could be coming soon. During a recent interview with Bootleg Kev, the Buffalo rapper revealed that he and Gibbs have discussed working on a project together in the past. 

“I feel like it’s gon’ happen,” he said, confirming that the collaborative project has been brought up on several occasions in the past. Ge explained that it was the night of the Grammys where they dove deeper into the project. However, it seems that the liquor fueled Gibbs’s passion to actually make this happen. That was the best talk right there. You seen the best one. That felt like it was ’bout to happen tomorrow,” Benny explained. Bootleg Kev explained that Gibbs was so drunk throughout the evening that he was dancing to Nelly at one point. “I’m gonna go tap back in about that but we gon’ see,” Benny added.

Following the success of Alfredo, it seems that both Benny and Gibbs agreed that the project should be produced by The Alchemist in its entirety.

Benny later doubled down on the possibilities of a collaborative project during a recent interview with Desus & Mero. He revealed a few projects that he also has in the cut, including a potential project with Conway. “You might hear a me and Spesh project. You might hear a me and Gibbs project, me and Conway project. I’m staying in the studio and staying busy,” he told Desus.

Are you excited to hear a collab project with Gibbs and Benny? Sound off in the comments.

According to Laura Stylez, Ebro, and Peter Rosenberg, they really didn’t want Saweetie to show off her freestyle skills during their 2018 interview. In fact, they were so against her freestyling that they went so far as to lie about their equipment not working before the rapper’s team pushed for her to spit some quick bars.

Saweetie went on the record this week to say she experienced PTSD after her awkward freestyle at Hot 97 with Ebro & Co. “It was a really dark point in my life,” she said about her first-ever promo run. After Ebro’s initial response to Saweetie’s PTSD comments, his team spoke on air about the situation and revealed their truth with Laura Stylez claiming that they actually lied about their equipment being faulty to try and stop her from spitting.

“Let’s just be honest about what really happened,” said the well-respected radio host Stylez. “When she came in, we were down to do the interview. But her team was really pushing for her to freestyle. I remember us specifically lying and saying our equipment didn’t work, we didn’t wanna do that to her. We lied and said our equipment wasn’t working– we didn’t want her to freestyle, let’s just have the interview.”

Saweetie has been in the news for the last week, mainly because of her highly-publicized breakup with rapper Quavo. Saweetie accused him of cheating on her with multiple other women, calling him out for using lavish gifts to cover up his wrongdoings in their relationship.

What do you think about Hot 97’s latest response?

Benny Blanco is easily one of pop music’s most sought-after producers, having worked with an array of superstar artists ranging from Rihanna to Justin Bieber, Halsey to Ed Sheeran. Throughout his industry adventures (and occasional misadventures), Blanco has dipped his toes into the rap game, though his production style does tend to gravitate toward a radio-friendly sound. Evidently, Eminem is no stranger to such a sound, and one of Benny Blanco’s beats actually found its way onto the legendary rapper’s radar.

As Blanco explained during a recent interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the beat in question was none other than Rihanna’s “Diamonds.” As he tells it, the beat actually went through a bit of a journey before falling into Rihanna’s hands, as she was admittedly not who the producer originally envisioned as the recipient. “We wanted it to be a Kanye song or a Lana Del Ray song, I remember, at first,” he reveals, before praising Sia’s (one of the song’s co-writers) prolific songwriting process. 

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“We’re listening to it a few days later, and [co-producer] Stargate’s like, “Yo, we’re giving this song to Rihanna. It’s going to go.” And I was like, “I don’t know, man. Should we keep the beat for Kanye? I don’t know about it,” he continues. “And then, I remember, at the same time, I had given a beat CD like a month earlier to Paul Rosenberg to give to Eminem. And apparently, Eminem had done a song to it, too. And I didn’t even know. And I’m sitting there… Dude, so when it happened, Paul was like, “Man, Em had that beat on hold.” I was like, “What? I didn’t even know.”

Eventually, Blanco opted to let Stargate take the reins, and Eminem’s song over the “Diamonds” instrumental remains forever vaulted. One has to wonder how Slim approached the track to begin with, though it’s likely it would have been one of his more mainstream-friendly anthems. Check out Benny’s reflection on how “Diamonds” landed in the hands of the Shady camp below, and sound off if you would have wanted to see Eminem try his hand at Rihanna’s classic pop hit.