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Drake & Murda Mook Connected Backstage At URL’s NOME XI Battle
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: BG020/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Battle rap fans are well aware that Drake is very much invested in the culture and we mean that literally considering his backing of Caffeine and spreading the Ultimate Rap League to the masses. At URL’s NOME XI event this past weekend, Drizzy ran into his potential battle rap foe in Murda Mook backstage at the event. The Ultimate Madness 3 battle rap tourney that kicked off this year featured a strong bracket of some of the URL’s best battlers but it all came down to Geechi Gotti and Rum Nitty in the final with Drake ready to lace the winner with a major cash prize of $150,000, $50K up from the initial prize. What made the battle even more interesting is that Gotti and Nitty are both members of the same collective, Every F*cki...
Ultimate Rap League’s Ultimate Madness 3 Tournament Pits Rising Stars Against Vets
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Caffeine / URL The Ultimate Rap League is considered the toughest league within the battle rap circuit by many for good reason as some of the field’s top names have refined their art in that space. This weekend, URL and Caffeine continue their fruitful partnership to put on Ultimate Madness 3, a bracket-styled tournament pitting some of the game’s veteran voices against some of battle rap’s rising stars. The tournament format has proven to be a solid model of securing the best talent on the URL and Caffeine stages along with given opportunities for the hungrier battlers who have cut their teeth in lesser-known environs. This Saturday afternoon (April 24), 16 battle rappers, both men and women, will face off in combat for a chance at a cash prize of $100,0...
