Why Summer Jam is the Core for Hip Hop Beefs?

  Another year has gone and another Summer Jam to put in history books for Hip Hop. We thought we have seen the last of Hip Hop artist go at each other, but we held our breath too soon. Remy Ma notoriously fired shots on the Hot 97 Summer Jam stage and brought every Woman MC without the last name Minaj to do it too. Hot 97 has been the platform for artists lashing out against others and calling them out in a memorable performance. From Eminem to Remy Ma, we create a timeline for notable Hip Hop beef and performances at Summer Jam. 2001: Jay Z Debuts “Takeover” and Fires Shots at Prodigy and Nas Jay-Z lit up the stage and what will go down as the most vicious Hip Hop beef between Nas and Jay. This was the date he had infamously released the track “Takeover” and did just that to the stage. The diss track was aimed at Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, but somehow Nas caught fire. Hitting us with the line, “Ask Nas, he doesn’t want it with Hov.” Making this one of the greatest beef between Hip Hop’s greatest. 2003: 50 Cent disses Ja Rule and Murder Inc. 50 Cent used his stage set to call out the Murder Inc rapper by displaying visuals of his “I Cry,” “Rainy Dayz,” and “Mesmerize”. Then asking the audience to identify “bitch-ass n*gga” in the videos. He then took shots at the Murder Inc CEO Irv Gotti (ouch) 2003: Eminem Smashes His Source Award Now, this…


More Drama! Rihanna Blasts Chris Brown For What?!?!

Rihanna won’t let shade from one of her 29 million Twitter followers slide so I don’t know how young Breezy thought he was going to get away with those comments about their break-up earlier this week… Oh wait, he didn’t….Hit the jump to see what was said….


(Video) @Hot97’s Morning Show Talks Shyne, Beefs & Battles With VladTV

Hot 97’s morning show crew Cipha Sounds, Rosenberg, and K Foxx discuss Shyne’s recent verbal altercations with several rappers, the popularity of battle rap and rap beefs with Vlad TV. click below to see the vid. WiL Major


Top 20 Twitter Moments Of 2011 Part 2 (Numbers 10-1)

2011 was quite a year! From Twitter beefs, to Twitter bringing people together, to Twitter finding a missing girl…the social networking site has done it all. Based on the stats (amount of hits) on our “Twitter Talk” posts, I compiled a list of the top 20 moments you guys loved from the little blue bird this year. Check out moments 10 through 1 after the jump. (Part 1 here) Marisa Mendez


Top 20 Twitter Moments Of 2011 Part 1 (Numbers 20-11)

2011 was quite a year! From Twitter beefs, to Twitter bringing people together, to Twitter finding a missing girl…the social networking site has done it all. Based on the stats (amount of hits) on our “Twitter Talk” posts, I compiled a list of the top 20 moments you guys loved from the little blue bird this year. Check out moments 20 through 11 after the jump. Marisa Mendez


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