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Hip Hop Week In assessment: Drake, Tupac & younger Thug - HipHopDX

This week in Hip Hop, Drake launched the lead single off his enormously expected, fourth studio album, Views From The 6. The song, titled "summer Sixteen," aspects the Toronto rapper firing shots at Meek Mill and Tory Lanez, in addition to identify-dropping a string of others. somewhere else this week, the newly launched film, homicide Rap: inside The Biggie & Tupac Murders, identifies the killers of each Tupac Shakur and The infamous B.I.G. and finally, younger Thug and Future alternate subliminal pictures at one yet another over Twitter.

Drake Takes goal At Meek Mill & Tory Lanez On "summer time Sixteen"

Drake let out "summer season Sixteen" late final week, the first single off his long-awaited album, Views From The 6. The reduce, which he premiered by means of his OVOSOUND RADIO display on Beats 1, points Drizzy taking shots at lengthy-standing rival, Meek Mill.

"I let the diss checklist drop, you become staying correct beneath me, nigga," Drake raps all the way through the music's opening verse. "We must have played it 100 times, you changed into going to mattress / Why would I placed on a vest, I predict you to purpose for the pinnacle? / I coulda killed you the primary time / You don't have to try and say it louder nigga / have confidence, we heard you the first time / It's nothing own i might have finished it to anyone."

Drake also took aim at fellow Toronto rapper-singer-songwriter, Tory Lanez.

"All you boys within the new Toronto are looking to be me a bit," Drizzy spits.

After premiering "summer season Sixteen" final Saturday (January 30), Drake introduced that Views From The 6 will be released someday in April of this year.

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"murder Rap" film Names Killers Of Tupac & Biggie Smalls

The killers of each Tupac Shakur and The notorious B.I.G. are recognized in the newly released movie, murder Rap: internal The Biggie & Tupac Murders.

The movie showcases the work of retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, who led a special task drive to examine the murders.

Kading's findings led him to conclude that Puff Daddy hired Crips gang member Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis to kill Shakur and Suge Knight. The bounty become $1 million. based on Kading's work, Keffe D's nephew, Orlando "child Lane" Anderson, shot Tupac in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. The rapper died six days afterward September 13.

Kading later concluded that Suge Knight hired Bloods gang member Wardell "Poochie" Fouse to kill The notorious B.I.G. as retaliation. Biggie Smalls become shot to death in Los Angles on March 9, 1997.

all the way through an unique interview with HipHopDX, Kading says that the work he items in the film may still be taken as truth.

"We're not espousing a theory," he says. "We're espousing the reality in accordance with empirical evidence. We're claiming this is the truth. We're no longer advertising a conception that can be real. That's the difference. We have a completely fact-based investigation, an evidence-based investigation."

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young Thug & Future trade Subliminals Over Twitter

young Thug and Future went back and forth this previous Wednesday (February 3) simply in advance of the unencumber of the latter's then approaching album, EVOL.

"Boy decelerate dropping all that BS tune...," Thugga wrote with a sequence of laughing and peace sign emojis, later including: "Yo family unit/group desire u changed into me lil nigga....i hope Apple store u lil niggas....Or church !!!!"

a short while later, Future fired off a few insults of his personal including: "Yo bitch wish u became me...in true life."

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additional news reports: 50 Cent, massive Kap & Meek Mill

- 50 Cent's New bankruptcy documents exhibit He Spends $135,000 monthly

- massive Kap Passes Away; reason for death published

- Gang answerable for Meek Mill Video shooting Indicted

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