Papoose

It was the verse that woke up the rap game and made everyone start looking around and eyeing each other uncomfortably; King Kendrick, still on the ascent after dropping the best debut rap album in recent memory with 2012's good kid, m.A.A....

Papoose knows the cold winter is approaching. With his new mixtape Hoodie Season 2 around the corner, the BK rhymeslinger hops on production by GUN and himself for “Overpass.” So NY. Listen below.

The fallout continues from Trinidad Jame$' comments about New York City last month, where he claimed at a show in Brooklyn that the South, and his hometown of Atlanta in particular, runs New York hip-hop. "I remember when New York rap was the shit, and us in the South was like, 'What the fuck,' and we did our own thing," Jame$ said on stage, prompting some boos and reactions from the cro

Papoose keeps the culture close to him. Taking a walk down memory lane, Pap reminisces on old rivalries back in the day in “Hip Hop.” The BK mainstay continues to prove he’s hip-hop to the bone. Check out the track above....

"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means." Kanye West said those words in an interview with the New York Times back in June and he's been hammering this point home in almost every press appearance since then...

Trinidad Jame$ isn’t getting away that easy. After the former XXL Freshmen stated his opinion about Atlanta running New York music, the birthplace of hip-hop hasn’t been too friendly to him. He’s already said he won’t apologize for his comment, so everyone from Maino to N.O.R.E. has defended the...

Everyone is aware that only certain rappers have the power to turn Twitter upside-down in a matter of minutes. One minute the hip-hop twitter world will be fine and dandy, then the next one's timeline will be buried alive all due to a mere 140 characters...

There's nothing more street than deciding to remix a pop single by a 16-year-old girl from New Zealand, right? That must be why so many MCs have recently decided to do just that, putting their own touch on "Royals," the number-one hit by Kiwi singer Lorde...

Papoose dropped his new mixtape, titled Hoodie Season, less than an hour ago, and the 22-track tape features a bunch of the freestyles he's dropped in his busy last couple months. Bars over Eminem's "Rap God," Migos' "Versace," Meek Mill's "Dreams And Nightmares," Big Sean's "Control," Drake's "All Me" and "Pound Cake," Pusha T's "No

With the airing of the BET Hip-Hop Awards, drama between Drake and Future, and XXL Freshmen talks starting up; Twitter was quite hectic this week. From rappers throwing shots at each other in regards to the BET Cyphers to others giving their highest praises, there were many tweets this week that honestly unexpected and others that we were simply counting on...

Although hip-hop was portrayed in a comical light a fews day ago on Saturday Night Live, now that many of hip-hop's leaders have spoke out on the matter, it does not appear that the rap game is finding the situation funny at all. Diddy, Nelly, Papoose and other hip-hop heads have all spoken out on the shutdown deeming it unfair, selfish, and a target against Obama...

On Friday, amateur twerking enthusiast Miley Cyrus released her fourth album, Bangerz. Miley has described her latest work as something approaching "dirty South hip-hop" as the album is a significant departure from the squeaky-clean country pop of her previous efforts. Over the l...