This past Friday, August 12th, rappers Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, and Styles P recreated Public Enemy’s “Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic,” spitting bars over the song’s pulsating beat.
The event is opened by Sheek, who waxes nostalgic for the grittier early days of rap while criticizing TikTok and asking, bluntly, “what happened to Hip Hop?”
Then, Jada comes in with a cocky line that cements his place as the greatest of all time (GOAT) in rap. He spits, “I’m still hungry, my stomach is growling/ And the fangs are out, that means my n-ggas is howling/ Hate’s expected, we saw love/ You mad we really getting the money you dreamed of,” he spits.
Then, to tie everything together, Styles P delivers some harsh and gritty verses arguing that no other rapper is as good as the ones that ruled their generation. he say’s “You should know I’m the gold standard/ Fuck with the horn boys, the black Ghostlander/ N-ggas better than Ghost? Nah that’s so random,” he raps.
Take a listen to “Terminator LOX,” the LOX’s reimagining of a Public Enemy hit.
With the recent anniversary of their Verzuz victory over Dipset, which attracted over five million viewers and gave each group a major bump in streaming revenue, this new single perhaps portends a new LOX project in the near future.
After the battle, Jadakiss told Complex, “My numbers went up for hostings and walkthroughs, for shows and TV cameos,” Jadakiss told Complex after the battle. “Just in general my numbers went up. It also showed Def Jam that they got to do the right thing [and] restructure my contract. It really showed the world my true worth, what I can do.”
It seems like the Yonkers trio’s bond has only grown stronger after the Verzuz. Jadakiss took a moment during their performance at L.L. Cool J’s Rock The Bells Festival in Queens, New York, to show love to his LOX brothers by giving them new jewelry.
Jadakiss told the raucous throng, “We going down in history as the most loyalest rap group that ever lived,” Jadakiss said to a rowdy crowd. “And with that being said we don’t get none of them awards, so fuck all of them awards. I got my brothers my own awards cause we champions. So here’s the championship rings right here.”
Since the last full-length release by LOX was 2020’s Living Off Xperience (including guest performances from T-Pain, Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, Jeremih, and the late DMX), a new album would be greatly appreciated by the group’s legion of fans.
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T.I. and Tiny’s son, King Harris, was detained on August 31. This prompted the 18-year-old to post a series of videos in which he responded to allegations that he was trying to pass himself off as a gangster.
The videos sparked an immediate outcry, with many people demanding that Tip do a better job of parenting his son so that he wouldn’t have to squander his future for internet fame.
As was previously reported, it was unclear what led to the arrest of the teen.
The Atlanta rap star eventually responded with an Instagram post, warning his critics that their admonitions were ignored.
“Got a small request,” T.I. said. “Stop hitting me and getting in my comments, telling me what to tell King, okay? I know my son. Think I ain’t spoke to my son? Think I ain’t told my son, his mama, and his grandmama?” he began.
“His a– going to prison if he godd— keeps up. His a– going to prison. Ain’t no way around it. Ain’t nothing I’m going to be able to do it about it. Can’t nobody stop it but him. I’ve already had the conversation, I’ve already made my peace with it. ‘Cause I know that energy — I was that energy. I know exactly how it’s gonna turn out.”
Next, he said, “King’s a good kid. He’s chasing after the wrong s— and I trust in God to deal with it the way he see fit… Now, he going have to go through it and get through it… Life is gonna teach him all the lessons he need to know.”
King had previously addressed the arrest in a video, saying that he had not sought out police intervention. The young man, then 18, began attacking those who had called him out, and he questioned why the blogs that had reported on his arrest had ignored his most recent music release as Kid Saiyan.
Another viral video included a young woman proudly displaying her seatbelt violations while King can be heard stating, “got four.”
Meek Mill’s exit from Roc Nation has been addressed for the first time by Jay-Z. Hov appeared on DJ Khaled’s GOD DID and contributed a verse to the song of the same name. Jay-Z has more than four minutes to say his views on the eight-minute track, which also features Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and John Legend. He starts off by mentioning that he thinks LeBron James should join the ranks of Hip-few Hop’s millionaires.
“Hov did, please, Lord forgive me for what the stove did/ Nobody touched the billi’ until Hov did,” Jay-Z confidently rhymes. “How many billionaires can come from Hov crib? Huh/I count three, me, Ye and Rih/Bron’s a Roc boy, so four, technically.”
“Me and Meek could never beef. I freed that ni**a from a whole bid, Hov did,” the rapper boasts during his 4-minute verse.
Timed to coincide with Meek Mill’s exit from Roc Nation after a decade together is this new verse. Taking to social media on July 11 to set the record straight, Meek stated that his exit was amicable.
“All I seen today was meek and roc part ways. I’m personally handling my own business, so I can take risk and grow,” Mill clarified in his first of a series of tweets. “We came to that agreement together. I have a label deal with Roc for my artist, and I got reform super tied with them and many other investments wit Jigga.”
People see through the jokes to the truth Drake has been proclaiming about himself for years: he won’t change who he is or try to be anyone else.
Paraphrasing a fan “I’ll never forget that Aubrey Graham is an actor whose biggest part to far has been Drake, as @KevCole6 put it on Twitter. With this, his musical legacy is secure. When the dust settles, he will undoubtedly go down as one of the most iconic figures in hip-hop history”. The man behind the music, however, is, hmm, unconventional.