Rare Breed Entertainment (RBE) has finalized the card for their upcoming and appropriately titled “Closure” Battle Rap event in Atlanta for earlier next month. Featuring RBE debuts for both Charlie Clips and Hitman Holla, who have turned themselves into household names through SMACK/URLTV and Wild N Out on MTV with Nick Cannon more recently. The […]
Founder of the YBN collective YBN Nahmir makes his way down to Australia and New Zealand next month for the very first time to play a string of headline shows after a whirlwind 18 months. Performing across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and then Auckland represents another major international move for the still teenage superstar from Alabama […]
Award-winning, Grammy-nominated rapper Travis Scott has announced that his Astroworld: Wish You Were Here tour will make its way down to Australia in November for five shows across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne with Interscope Records labelmate Sheck Wes and Virgil Abloh. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information It has been a standout previous year for Travis […]
That low life thug turned the new bad guy of battle rap Jakkboy Maine seems to have touched a nerve with the Grammy-Award winning Lupe Fiasco in his recent battle vs. Chicago legend Big T on URLTV. Coming out swinging in Round one, Jakkboy took aim at a stack of Chicagoans including Common, Jennifer Hudson, […]
After a relative hiatus for a variety of reasons over recent years after peaking in a major way, it appears that female battle rap may well and truly be back with Queen Of The Ring’s stacked “Watch The Throne 3” card set to go down tomorrow in New York. The five battles announced for QOTR, […]
Earlier this year it was announced that English Sony Music recording artist Shotty Horroh will make his long-awaited return to battle rap against a then mystery opponent. Speculations swirled amongst fans with names such as Loaded Lux and Murda Mook leading the prediction and the opponent has now been revealed as URL’s top gunner Tay […]
Rare Breed Entertainment have built off the back of their successful Pearly Gates 3 event last week which featured the mega-grudge match of Hollow Da Don vs. Math Hoffa with the newly announced Blood, Sweat & Tiers 6 event. Set to go down in Atlanta on Saturday 16 March, the six main three-round battles announced […]
Rare Breed Ent. (RBE) rap battle league is set to build off of a very impressive year with an even stronger 2019 seemingly in the works. RBE has established itself now firmly in the top 3 big leagues along with SMACK/URLTV and KOTD in the battle rap world, through the ability to pull off great […]
URL has its first major event this year, after a jam-packed 2018, will be the highly anticipated “SMACK Volume 4” card this Saturday February 9th.
BullPen Battle League continues to start 2019 with a bang with their stacked “Superbowl” card going down this afternoon in Atlanta, showing and proving why it is widely regarded as the number one rap battle league in the South. Featuring the likes of a renewed Tay Roc, the BullPen Killer aka K-Shine in career-best form, […]
Battle rap on beat may bring up memories of years gone by, but the team at Verbal WarZone Battle League have found an innovative way to mesh that pure vibe of rappers riding and battling out over beats with the competitive pre-prepared format of today in a highly entertaining, competitive way. While having been around […]
On paper, the rap battle lineups are exceptional. Just judging off the battles that have already been announced, leagues are looking to the culture of battle rap to the next level. Let’s take a quick look at five of the top battles that have caught our eyes this year. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Loaded […]
Platinum-selling, number 1 charting Philadelphia legend Cassidy makes his long-awaited return to battle rap, this time debuting on the SMACK/URL stage vs. Bronx legend Goodz. This will be Cassidy’s first battle since his controversial encounter with Los Angeles- based battler Dizaster four years ago at the FilmOn.TV’s “Ether” event in LA, with consensus giving that […]
Harlem battle rap legend Loaded Lux is set to make his long-awaited return to SMACK / URL next year, with a NOME 9 appearance battling against St Louis’ Aye Verb in Houston, Texas. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Without a doubt, one of the greatest battle rappers of all-time, news of the return of Loaded […]
Cardi B is set to take off to Australia and New Zealand for the first time for a string of festival shows on either side of New Year’s Eve. With the Migos recently canceling their related Australian festival tour appearances earlier this month, Cardi B now herself headlines the Origin Fields out west in Perth, […]
Nicki Minaj and Rae Sremmurd are set to headline the massive 7-date FOMO Festival Tour which takes in all major capital cities across Australia and New Zealand by BBE early in the new year. Leading an all-star lineup including also Amine (replacing Lil Pump) and Mura Masa, FOMO is the first major summer festival of […]
LA legend Ice Cube passes through Sway In The Morning and talks his first new solo studio album in eight years, the excellent 16–track Everythang’s Corrupt released on Lench Mob and Interscope Records last week. The 56-minute long release features notable collaborations with fellow West Coast legend Too $hort, producer DJ Pooh, Magnedo7, Fredwreck, Shameia […]
Meek Mill’s fourth studio album Championships recently released on Atlantic Records and Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group has debuted at an impressive #4 in Australia on the official ARIA charts. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The highly anticipated 19-track album debuted at #1 in both Canada and America, as well as charting strongly throughout Europe, […]
Few names if any hold the legacy in Australia for the stamp of quality that Unkut Recordings does. Since its founding in 1997 by Rob Nat of Unkut.com and Trem of Lyrical Commission, it has developed into the epitome of its tagline – quality over quantity. While the broad fan base may at times be […]
Infamous media personality STAR aka Troi Torain has weighed in on the current Tekashi69 arrest in a way that only he knows how to that has made him such a success to today. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information His appearance from the studio detailed his thoughts on would Tekashi snitch or not, along with taking in […]
