HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Lorne Thomson / Getty Freddie Gibbs is enjoying high praise after the recent release of his latest studio album $oul $old $eparately and is currently making his media rounds to promote the project. The Gary, Ind. native returned to the L.A. Leakers studio to deliver a blistering freestyle verse over a certified Jay-Z classic. Freddie Gibbs has torched the L.A. Leakers microphone in times past and did so once again by rapping over Jay-Z’s “This Can’t Be Life” from Hov’s 2000 release, The Dynasty: Roc La Familia album. Over the Kanye West-produced track, Gangsta Kane flexes like he usually does with his signature syllabic flow, and his comfort over the beat is a marvel to witness. Most know that Gibbs and DJ Akademiks have a long-running beef and considerin...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: David Wolff – Patrick / Getty While her man Pardison Fontaine drops tasteless “jokes” about The Rock’s wife, Megan Thee Stallion, is out here reminding us she has B A R S. It’s still a hot girl summer regardless of the fact we are in the dog days of it. Megan Thee Stallion is prepping to heat things even more with the release of her sophomore album that she told Rolling Stone is done. As we approach the album’s still unknown release date, the Houston rapper decided to stop by the Liftoff show at Power 106 and remind us she does more than just effortlessly twerk. In her new L.A. Leakers freestyle, Thee Stallion had a message for her label 1501 Entertainment and its captain, former MLB player Carl Crawford over Warren G and Nate Dogg’s “Regulate” beat...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: POWER 106 / Power 106 If you have been sleeping on If you have been sleeping on 2 Chainz all these years it’s time to wake up. His recent freestyle with The LA Leakers proves that he is barred up. As per 2 Dope Boyz the trapper turned rapper was breathing rare air during a recent visit to Power 106 in Los Angeles, California. While DJ Sour Milk and Justin Credible got the Atlanta native to discuss the approach behind his newest project Dope Don’t Sell Itself, it was truly his solo effort at the radio station that stole the show. As expected he dropped a freestyle but he took things back by choosing to spit on Pharcyde’s classic single “Passin’ Me By”. In what was a flawless delivery of more than three minutes of raps the “Birthday Song” MC did damage to t...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty J. Cole began his professional rapping career in 2007 and now is hinting at retiring with his upcoming studio album The Off-Season dropping this Friday. While he might be riding off into the sunset sooner than later, the North Carolina wordsmith dropped his very first freestyle with the L.A. Leakers crew, proving to his doubters that he’s very much a problem with the microphone duties. As hosts DJ Sourmilk and Justin Credible noted, the union between the Dreamville Records honcho and the long-running radio team at Power 106 FM has been 12 years in the making. Cole didn’t waste time and smoked two classic beats in Soul Of Mischief’s “93 Til Infinity” and Mike Jones’ “Still Tippin” tracks. We’ll not do Cole’s bars disservice by sharing t...
Source: KMazur / Getty It has been over a year since The Game recorded his (excellent) final studio album in Born 2 Rap and has kept his promise thus far of being done with releasing music. However, the Compton rapper says he’s down to do a VERZUZ battle with his former label chief and one-time foe 50 Cent, proving the pair really did settle their differences. The Game sat down with the LA Leakers for their Power 105 show and engaged in a socially-distanced video chat that comes after the release of the Lil Wayne-assisted “A.I. With The Braids” track. During the 11-minute chat, Game talks about making peace with 50 Cent and that no other artist in Hip-Hop would make sense for him at the moment in a VERZUZ showdown. “You can’t really talk about Fif and hip-hop without somebody bringing up G...