The Rap Report

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Today on The Rap Report: Shock G's cause of death, Meek Mill supporting a sentencing reform bill in Virginia, a trash-ass Atlanta Mt. Rushmore, and XXL's 2021 Freshman list. Music discussed:

Singles:

• Lou Williams - Big Tuh ft 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne
• Juicy J - Take it ft Lord Infamous and Rico Nasty
• Megan Thee Stallion - Thot Shit

Albums:

• Peter Rosenberg - Real Late
• Migos - Culture III
• Ransom - Se7en

Today on The Rap Report: Drake sleeps on a $400k horse hair and stingray mattress, Def Jam hired Snoop Dogg as an A&R executive, and Goldlink is beefing with Sheck Wes (who knew?)

New music:

Singles:
Royce da 5'9 - Greed ft Ransom

Albums:
DMX - Exodus
Lloyd Banks - The Course of the Inevitable

Today on The Rap Report:

• Juvenile cusses out Young Buck on VladTV and Royce da 5'9 renews calls to remove Vlad from hip-hop. And Juvenile is making...furniture???
  
• Pusha T wants to write ... children’s books???
• Nas resigns to Sony through their imprint, The Orchard, brings Mass Appeal with him. Mass Appeal still makes music???
  
• Charlamagne and Kwame Brown are/were beefing
  
• The 2021 Billboard Awards

Reasonable Doubts and Shouts:

• • DMX - Hood Blues ft Westside, Conway, and Benny
  • Migos - Straightenin
  • A brief update to our thoughts on J Cole's album
    
  • Young MA - Off The Yak
  • Benny the Butcher and 38 Spesh - Trust the Sopranos

Today on The Rap Report: Maino screams on B Dot about journalism vs friendship, Nicki Minaj officially releases Beam Me Up Scotty (her first mixtape), more Joe Budden Podcast drama, and Isaiah Rashad has a new album coming that might have a new sonic direction...

New music discussed:

• J Cole - The Offseason
• 21 Savage - Spiral

Today on The Rap Report, Kodak Black pleads guilty to sexual assault but claims he didn't do it, Cash Money makes $20-30 million a year off its masters, and Phife Dawg has a posthumous album coming & it sounds like it will be dope!

Reasonable Shouts and Doubts:

• Phife Dawg - French Kiss Deux and Nutshell Pt 2 with Redman and Busta Rhymes
• DJ Khaled - Khaled Khaled
• Czarface and MF DOOM - Super What?
• J Cole - interlude
• Isaiah Rashad ft Duke Deuce - Lay Wit Ya
• Benny The Butcher ft Che Noir and Klass Murda - Love Left
  
• 21 Savage - Spiral

And there's a half hour at the end where we react to the news of the Joe Budden Podcast's implosion. We were dealing with incomplete information there so we're probably wrong about some things *shrug*

Today, on The Rap Report: RIP Shock G, Megan Thee Stallion takes a break from music, Logic unretires (eyeroll emoji), Lil Kim has a tell-all book coming, Chad Ochocinco wants to start battling, Lil Mosey is charged with rape, and Rory and Mal rejoin the The Joe Budden Podcast.

New music discussed:

• Logic and Madlib - Mars Only Pt 3
• IDK ft Offset - Shoot My Shot
• OTM Frenchyy - Touchdown
• Masked Wolf - Astronaut in the Ocean
• Cordae - Just Until EP

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Today on The Rap Report: RIP to DMX and Black Rob, Baby Blue was shot during a robbery, Benny the Butcher's rap inspirations, Jim Jones' criticism of the hip-hop industry, and Migos' huge influence on hip-hop.

Reasonable Shouts/Doubts:

• Freddie Gibbs - Big Boss Rabbit
• Maxo Kream - Dropout ft OMB Bloodbath
• Snoop Dogg - From the Streets to the Suites
• Brockhampton - New Light, New Machine
• Silvan Lacue - Young Silvan EP. 2
• Benny the Butcher - Plugs I Met 2 with Harry Fraud
• Conway the Machine - La Maquina

On today's episode of The Rap Report: DMX is hospitalized, Youtube doesn't censor YG video, Quavo and Saweetie's elevator incident, Lil Nas X's Montero video, and new music from Benny The Butcher, Reason, and Chika.

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Today on The Rap Report: Kanye recreated 90s beats to hone his skills, new singles from Pop Smoke, Charm La'Donna, and Noname, and we review Jim Jones and Harry Fraud's album: The Fraud Department.

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Today, on The Rap Report:

The Grammy nominations happened last month, and Bobby Shmurda was released from prison. We also discuss new music from Jim Jones & Harry Fraud, JID, Lil Yachty and Kodak Black, Young Dolph and Key Glock, Blood Orange ft Project Pat & Gangsta Boo, and Nas - EPMD.

And we reviewed Nu Jersey Twork's Jerusalem.

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