Hip Hop Week In Review: Meek Mill, Eminem & Hip Hop Boxing

This past week in Hip Hop, Meek Mill had some eventful moments, from slipping on ice to getting clowned by a porn star. Elsewhere, Eminem put Kendrick Lamar’s pen game to the test and apparently just about everyone in Hip Hop wants to box each other.

Meek Mill & The L’s

A rundown of the L’s Meek Mill took this week includes him epically bailing on the icy stairs at his mama’s crib and porn star Mia Khalifa clowning him and the Philadelphia 76ers on Instagram (though that was quickly diffused by Joel Embiid). It was also reported that his breakup with Nicki Minaj was because he wanted to spend time with his homeboys instead of her on their trip to Turks & Caicos.

Oh, and also he offered to box Drake for a check, floating the idea of putting his ex up to be the ring card girl for the match.

“Y’all would come and see that fight wouldn’t y’all?” Meek mused in a Facebook Live video that exploded across the internet. “Y’all would pay $100 a ticket for that.”

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Eminem Pen Checks Kendrick Lamar

A pretty cool story about Eminem testing Kendrick Lamar’s verse-writing ability popped up this past week, thanks to “Shape Of You” singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.

In an interview with the Zach Sang Show, Sheeran recounted the story that Em invited K. Dot over to record a track and asked that he leave his entourage at the door and enter the studio alone. It was just the two MCs and an engineer.

The Compton, California rap star wrote a sick verse that eventually became “Love Game” off The Marshall Mathers LP 2.

“Eminem said that he did it to test Kendrick because he thought he had a ghostwriter,” Sheeran revealed. “He then realized that he didn’t, and then claimed he was the best, which is kinda cool, I think.”

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Hip Hop Celebrity Deathmatch In Real Life

So now, it seems that everyone in Hip Hop is trying to get the bag for boxing it out with their nemesis.

It all started with Soulja Boy and Chris Brown announcing their plans to box in Dubai (or LA, or Vegas, who knows anymore) and now we’re down a rabbit hole of potential possibilities for more boxing matches that could rack in millions. Easy money play for all.

RiFF RAFF offered to get in the ring with 50 Cent for $2 million, Kodak Black wanted to box Lil Wayne over the “best rapper alive” title and 50 Cent suggested that 21 Savage and his copycat 22 Savage be the undercard for Soulja Boy vs. Chris Brown match.

And then, Meek Mill said he’d fight Drake for $5 million.

While these rappers are prepping to be in the role of a boxer, Mike Tyson is seeing what life is like on the other side with his recently recorded diss song toward Soulja Boy. Yes, that happened.

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DXclusives: Harvey J & Tre Capital

Harvey J cleverly used Hennessy to curate his “Hennessy Chicken” music video and then he went viral.

“Hennessy chose me,” he asserts in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX’s Ural Garrett.

Elsewhere, Tre Capital spoke with DX’s Victoria Hernandez about paving his own way while recording his We Must Do Better album.

The Los Angeles rapper has 11 tracks on the project that he created to speak and connect with his fans.

“Let me really make sure that I’m putting in the effort and the time to talk about the relationship with my family and how I felt discouraged trying to be a bigger role model for them,” he says. “My brother or my sister or friends around me or just music. Combining all of those topics and putting it into perspective of saying man, fans are so geeked to hear this album because it’s refreshing.”

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Cash Money Records Sued By Drake's Former Management Company For Not Sharing Profits

Cash Money Records is engaged in yet another legal tussle, this time with the former management company for Drake. The Aspire Music Group is alleging in a lawsuit that Cash Money has withheld the Canadian superstar’s profits that it agreed to share in a deal signed in 2008.

Drake and Aspire entered into a management partnership that year, a four-year exclusive arrangement in where it was later agreed in a second deal that Cash Money would receive one-third of Drizzy’s songwriting and licensing profits, reports Page Six. Aspire says Cash Money is withholding statements from that time period and has yet to pay out any of the agreed upon terms.

Manhattan Supreme Court records show that in 2009, Drake signed his Cash Money Records deal via his connection with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment. It was then that Drake signed the second agreement that is the current point of contention. The suit states that Drake was set to honor the agreement for four albums. Conversely, Drake reworked his agreement with Aspire in 2012 over unpaid royalties and has since cut ties with the company.

Former Aspire exec Jas Prince and Young Money Records settled their legal differences for good last summer after Prince launched an $11 million lawsuit that was claimed to have been settled in 2014. Because of Aspire’s claims that Cash Money held out the profits, monies owed to Prince for discovering and getting Drake signed to the company were held up.

This adds to Birdman’s legal woes with Lil Wayne, with the “father and son” contending over the release of the Young Money honcho’s Tha Carter V album. Birdman promises that the project will be liberated this year, but Weezy says that’s not true.

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Meek Mill Ready To Box Drake For $5M With Nicki Minaj As The Ring Girl

Move over Soulja Boy and Chris Brown.

In an apparent Facebook Live video, Meek Mill claims that he would “break Drizzy the fuck up for $5 mill.”

#meekmill says for $5,000,000 he'll beat #drake the f*ck up!!! And #nickiminaj can be the ring girl….. Mann let's get this sh*t cracking .. YALL send this to @50cent . Big Soulja vs chris brown was so last week… this beef with Drake n meek forever lit (more info in link in bio- YT)

A video posted by DJ Akademiks (@akadmiks) on Jan 12, 2017 at 3:22pm PST

Rappers all over have been suggesting their own boxing matches since Big Soulja and Breezy started talking about handling their issues inside the ring. Kodak Black offered to fight Lil Wayne over the “best rapper alive” title, 22 Savage wanted to box his namesake 21 Savage for that title, and RiFF RAFF wanted fisticuffs with 50 Cent for $2 million, because why not? Meek Mill versus Drake is just the latest speculative bout.

It’s a fight that’s been a long time coming ever since Meek accused Drake in 2015 of using a ghostwriter. After that, the 6 God wrecked the Philly rapper back to back, both in song form and in literal form as Meek became the ubiquitous symbol for taking an “L.”

The newly single Dreamchasers boss even offered up his ex-girlfriend Nicki Minaj to be the ring card girl for the match.

“Y’all would come and see that fight wouldn’t y’all?” Meek asks in the above video clip. “Y’all would pay $100 a ticket for that.”

Yes, the world would absolutely love to see Meek and Drake go at it pound for pound.

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Soulja Boy's Cash & Jewelry Stolen In House Break-In

Hollywood, CA – Atlanta rapper Soulja Boy has been hit with yet another blow, and not the one people have been expecting to come courtesy of Chris Brown’s hands.

TMZ reports that while Soulja has been going back and forth with Breezy, his Hollywood Hills home was burglarized.

The crook, who busted through the front door while the home was empty, reportedly made off with $10,000 in cash and $12,000 in jewelry.

Cops are currently investigating the robbery, which went down on Tuesday (January 10). They were given a vital piece of information, an image of the suspect, thanks to Soulja’s security system.

So far, authorities have no evidence that suggests that Brown or anyone affiliated with the singer was involved.

Despite being robbed of nearly $25,000 in cash and jewelry, Soulja could rake in a nice amount of dough with his upcoming boxing match against Brown. Those involved are hoping to air the fight on Pay-Per-View, which could bring in added cash for the dueling pair of musicians.

Soulja Boy has not responded to the robbery publicly, but did post an Instagram video where he can be seen flashing his jewelry and an envelope full of cash.

Big Soulja the trending topic… fuck everybody

A video posted by Soulja Boy (@souljaboy) on Jan 11, 2017 at 11:53pm PST

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Meek Mill Cops To An L After Falling Down Icy Steps

Philadelphia, PA – Meek Mill knows he has a ton of haters out there — even more now that he doesn’t have his trump card in a Nicki Minaj relationship telling them to fall back. But even a Dreamchasers’ attitude couldn’t defend his twinkle toe actions when he was caught on surveillance video at his mother’s house falling down her icy stairs.

Instead of waiting for an internet sleuth to drag him through the e-coals, he decided to make the humorous footage go viral himself via his own Instagram account. To make matters even more interesting, he got put on skates while rocking a pair of Kanye West’s Adidas YEEZY Boost 350 V2 ‘Red Stripe’ Core Black Red.

“They spoke a L into existence,” he laughed off before clarifying “leaving out my mom house was tragic for me! Icey ass steps!!! U fall get right back upppp! ?? I ran I thought a ghost pushed me! I might sue yeezy! ? SINCE YALL WANNA SEE ME FALL SO BAD!!!!”

😂😂😂😂😂😂 timeout

A video posted by Meek Mill (@meekmill) on Jan 10, 2017 at 3:46pm PST

While the comical clip has Meek’s name buzzing across the wide world web (his own personal video is nearing one million views as of press time), it is his highly publicized break-up with The Pinkprint that still rings out in the early stages of 2017. According to a still undebunked report, their dissolution came at the tail end of December during a Turks & Caicos vacation when Meek opted to kick it with the fellas as opposed to spending time with the birthday girl.

Cold world. Especially when you’re falling in the snow.

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