The Ultimate Rap League (URL) announces its highly-anticipated Summer Madness 12 (SM12) card, bringing together some of the biggest names in battle rap to go head-to-head in this one-night-only event. The sold out event will take place on Saturday, September 24, 2022, at 3 p.m. EDT / 12 p.m. PDT from the World Night Club […]
One of the legends of battle rap in Harlem’s Loaded Lux has recently faced off front and center with the current face of the new era of battle rap, the tried, tested, and battle-hardened Geechi Gotti from the West Coast on SMACK / URLTV via CaffeineTV. A close battle with hip hop and battle rap […]
On Friday, Oct. 30 the URL gave us two surprise battles hosted at Chris Brown’s mansion. Drake made a major announcement live on stage while hosting the “Til Death Do Us Part” event. Revealing his plans he told the audience, “Eventually with Caffeine with URL with myself, I want to get to the point that we can […]
First and foremost, battle rap is on the verge of obtaining the regard it deserves when it comes to surface-level exposure. On Saturday, October 30, battle rap history was made as a stacked card featuring twelve of battle rap culture’s most voluminous contenders sparred for Drake’s “Til Death Do Us Part” event. The “Way 2 […]
This Saturday, Drake will take over Los Angeles alongside Ultimate Rap League for the “Drake’s Til Death Do Us Part” rap battle event. The event is the biggest card in rap battle history. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The battle is headlined by Geechi Gotti taking on Loaded Lux in a match-up of generational talents. […]
Overnight Drake announced the world’s largest-ever battle rap event to be held in conjunction with culture leader SMACK/URLTV via streaming platform Caffeine, set to go down in three weeks on Saturday 30 October. The star-studded event titled “Til Death Do Us Part” features fourteen of battle rap culture’s biggest names across seven matchups on a […]
This weekend in the City of Angels, the best of the best Spanish-speaking emcees met under the roof of the Sunset Las Palmas Studios and battled it out for the champion title of the U.S. in the Red Bull-powered 2021 Batalla competition. Out of the sixteen Hispanic slang spitters, only one could walk away with […]
A video that has now went viral shows battle rapper Hitman Holla and his crew beating up Chicago battle rapper Byron Blake at an Atlanta gas station. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Hitman contends that Blake’s crew jumped him in the past and that Blake even bragged about following Hitman’s brother while recording him, insinuating […]
More than 250,000 viewers tuned in to Twitch to watch live as battle rappers competed in downtown Los Angeles in the second round of this year’s King of the Dot (KOTD), but the third round is set for Motown. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information KOTD brings the most competitive rappers from across America to clash with flows in head-to-head […]
Ready to bring the heat in person for the first time this year, the preeminent international battle rap league King of the Dot(KOTD) returns with a very special live event launch for its first-ever rap battle season (S1) on this Sunday, June 20th on a closed set in DTLA. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Bringing the craziest rhyme heat to […]
After bringing battle rap to the Twitch community with 2020’s Grand Prix, King of the Dot is poised to make history once again with the service. For the first time in the subculture’s history, the S1 seasonality format will introduce a more recognizable structure to the events, culminating in one winner taking home $100,000 USD and additional performance-based […]
Kanye West has teamed up with Brooklyn rapper SAINt JHN to release the new 3-minute single “Smack DVD” overnight on Godd Complexx / HITCO Entertainment (L.A. Reid), the so-called missing Kanye record from SAINt JHN’s new album. This new single builds off the momentum that SAINt JHN has developed following the release of his very […]
The world’s leading battle rap platform SMACK/URLTV.TV has announced that the long-awaited entire inter-gender battle rap event “Kings vs. Queens” will finally take place today 17 October in conjunction with QOTR. This event will see some of the cultures best female battle rappers, many of whom made their name on female-specific platform Queen Of The […]
Ever since Diddy’s “Rock The Vote” campaign in Hip Hop culture in 2004, cultural icons have made it their business to encourage Hip Hoppers to vote and some have even gone as far as endorsing specific candidates. This year, Democratic nominee Senator Joe Biden has taken it a step further and laced his campaign with […]
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Legendary recording artist, Wu-Tang Clan member, and hip-hop icon Method Man has somewhat surprisingly entered the modern era of acapella battle rap, taking on infamous Brooklyn battle rap legend Math Hoffa. It appears this Method Man vs. Math Hoffa battle is the first battle in the appropriately titled ‘Legends Only’ battle rap series produced by […]
Newark, New Jersey artist Tsu Surf has today released his highly anticipated new 13-track project MSYKM, executively produced by Sharke & Clicqout on Raw Bunch records. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The stacked release features the likes of Dave East, Jim Jones of Dipset, Chicago’s G Herbo, Shady Records’ Benny The Butcher, talented female rapper […]
Brooklyn battle rap legend Math Hoffa passed through N.O.R.E and DJ EFN’s popular Drink Champs podcast a few weeks ago, with the episode just dropping on all platforms yesterday. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information A very first for the ever increasingly popular Drink Champs podcast, Hoffa is the first battle rapper to make an appearance […]
On this date in 1996, Detroit natives Eminem and Kuniva bumped heads on the microphone at Motown’s famous Hip-Hop Shop, where late D12 member Proof used to host battles in the mid to late 90s. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information In his regular undefeated fashion, Mr. Mathers delivered bar after bar, which equated to blow […]
There is something in the Schuylkill. There has to be. There is an uncanny number of lyrical miracles in the South Eastern Pennsylvania area, and quietly, they have influenced with their unique gift of gab, every rap arena that they have stepped in. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Schooly D. Black Thought. Steady B. Cool […]
Footage has been circulating the internet of a white battle rapper learning the hard way to keep the “N-word” out of his rhymes. The rapper, later identified as William Wolf said in a battle, “I ain’t like these other battle rappers. They talk too much. Saying I can’t use the ‘n’ word in this battle, […]
