[vodpod id=Video.4749386&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Did%253D1650152%2526vid%253D589730%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A589730] It was close, but the reigning Hottest MC In The Game falls to second place. Two is not a winner, but in this case, everyone will still remember. On to the next one. “There’s nobody in the game that’s even coming close to spitting how Jay is doing,” MTV News’ Shaheem Reid said. “When you talk about Hottest MCs, that’s the very foundation … and Jay is just murdering everything in hip-hop right now, lyrically.” mtv Previously: Kanye

[vodpod id=Video.4749261&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Did%253D1650152%2526vid%253D589728%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A589728] Kanye was actually the fourth Hottest MC In The Game at first, but was bumped up a spot. G.O.O.D. call, guys. “He’s basically putting out a mixtape on the radio,” MTV News supervising producer Sean Lee said during the Hottest MCs roundtable discussion. “These songs are throwaways for his album. He’s taking this beat from here, this feature on here, let me get this person on here, and putting them out to the public. And the public is […]

[vodpod id=Video.4749261&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Did%253D1650152%2526vid%253D589728%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A589728] Mr. October’s Very Own comes in as the number 4 Hottest MC In The Game. Initially, he was a spot higher but eventually fell down a notch. Congrats, nonetheless. Drake was a staple on radio all year, whether it was “Bedrock” with Young Money, “Money to Blow” with Baby and Lil Wayne, “Forever” with Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem, or any one of the songs from So Far Gone that stayed in rotation. “He’s been on the […]

[vodpod id=Video.4749187&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Did%253D1650152%2526vid%253D589727%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A589727] Coming in at number five on the Hottest MC list is Ricky Rozay. Here’s why: “Teflon Don, that’s the album of the year right now, I don’t care what it sold,” MTV News’ Shaheem Reid said during the Hottest MCs roundtable. “From ‘I’m Not a Star’ down to [‘All the Money in the World’], ‘Tears of Joy,’ it just really grips your soul when you hear him having the foresight to bring Cee-Lo back. Cee-Lo was singing his […]

[vodpod id=Video.4607280&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Did%253D1637089%2526vid%253D578700%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A578700] Swizz Beatz is living haute, haute, haute… Aside from music, the producer recently signed on as a consultant for Audemars Piguet. He also tells DJ Envy about his partnership with Christian Louboutin. Now, that’s fancy!

Which bitch you know got a billboard with no album? Nicki Minaj, that’s who. MTV’s promo push for the VMAs is already underway and somewhere in Gotham City, Nick’s ass is assisting the campaign. That’s one lucky Kawasaki. Ceremony airs September 12th at 9 P.M. blaqmontana

[vodpod id=Video.3546505&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dinstance%3Dnews%26amp%3Bvid%3D511919] Cube laments over Eazy-E when discussing the forthcoming N.W.A biopic. The group’s founder succumbed to AIDS 15 years ago. “A song can take you back, but nothing takes you back to the time and place like footage,” Cube said of the most interesting aspect of working on the film. “Footage of us in the studio, just being able to see Eazy. Seeing him with Lil Eazy, carrying him around. The footage got sad at times, knowing that he’s […]

[sparkart-clique site=”rap_radar” video=”kanye_vmas”] During Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech tonight for Best Female Video at the MTV Awards, Kanye West Gay Fish interrupts the country singer when Beyoncé doesn’t win. What an asshole. Sidebar: Hov’s probably pissed. “This Bryan Barber, I’m so mad at him,” says Jay, shaking his head in the back of a chauffeur-driven black BMW. “He goes up to accept the award for best video [for UGK feat. OutKast’s “Int’l Player’s Anthem” (I Chose You)]. This is clearly […]