It takes a village to raise a child rapper. But don’t look to French Montana for help. Days after Child Welfare began investigating 9 year old rapper Lil Poopy, French Montana tells Philadelphia’s Wired 96.5 that the tyke isn’t his artist and explains their affiliation. Coke Boys ain’t for the children.

Clocking in at number nine on MTV‘s Hottest MC list is Auto-tuner, Future. Turn off the lights and turn up the debate. What began as a strictly underground run began to take off in 2011 with Future’s “Tony Montana” single and its Drake-assisted remix. During 2012, however, Future sky-rocketed to new heights with high-powered pop hooks, while still keeping his hold on the streets. His mix of melodic arrangements and raspy rap bars were a sure-shot formula for some of […]

MTV‘s brain trust is back to pissing people off with their annual Hottest MC In The Game list. Rounding out the top 10 is Maybach Music Group’s, Meek Mill. While he prepped his debut album, Dreams and Nightmares, the MMG rapper kept busy early in the year with features on Rick Ross’ Rich Forever mixtape, in addition to appearances on remixes of tracks like Wale’s “Slight Work” and Tyga’s “Rack City.” By the spring, he delivered a brand-new body of work on hisDreamchasers 2 mixtape, […]

Fab still has the hunger for more. So for his new clip, he returns home to his Brevoort Projects in support of his S.O.U.L. Tape 2. Download the tape here.

Now this is a story all about how mistaken lyrics caused an Ambridge, PA school to temporarily lock down last week. Reports say when a student’s Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ringtone went off, a school staff took it as a threat and called 911 when she mistook “shooting some bball” for “shooting some people”.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were in New York yesterday and made their debut on Saturday Night Live. Here’s their performances of “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us”. Nice jacket, Mack. Ha! Cop The Heist here.

Before violence erupted outside of the venue, Meek Mill joined French Montana on stage during his recent tour stop in Philadelphia. Above, Meek runs through a brief set that included “Ima Boss”, Believe It”, and “Racked Up Shawty”. Below, Meek is joined by Ar-Ab for “Goons Gone Wild”. HHS1987

For the second time around, it’s Juice’s World. With that said, here’s Otis’ latest mixtape, Juice World 2. After the jump, you’ll also find his release from earlier today, 6 Ringz Vol. 2.

MGK began his Lace Up tour Thursday at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre. During his set, he previewed his track “Peso” featuring Meek Mill and Pusha T off his next mixtape, Black Flag. Recap of the show below. hhnm

Meth’s celebrating his bday today and performed at the Key Club last night. During his set, he brought out the Funk Doc for “Da Rockwilder” as well as RZA for “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin Ta Fuck Wit”. hhh