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Ultimate Rap League Homecoming II Caps Battle Rap Weekend
Battle rap fans will be treated to a major event on December 10 from Ultimate Rap League, Homecoming II, capping a full battle rap weekend
Introducing the DPU from NVIDIA – Is It Time to Embrace Your FOMO?
Is it still true that death and taxes are the only two certainties in life? What about the rise and rise of new acronyms in the IT world? From ADSL to ZIP files, meandering through CAPTCHA, HTML, SASE, SD-WAN and URL, to name just a few, you might be forgiven for suffering eventually from FOMO or else even planning to go AWOL. But please don’t hit the MIA button until we’ve had a chance to chat about DPUs and their relatively recent arrival in the CPU and GPU family. Belinda Duke, Product Manager: NVIDIA Networking at Networks Unlimited, explains, “Certainly it’s true that the information technology field uses a lot of acronyms, but joking aside, there is another acronym in town – we think it’s very exciting to start working with the DPU, or ‘data processing unit’, which, according to NVID...
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...
SPIN Daybreaker: The Ultimate Indie Soundtrack
If you didn’t already know because of some blip in the time vortex, the end of the week has arrived and that can only mean one thing – the Daybreakers have emerged from the musical caverns to uplift your spirits and satisfy your indie-craving tastes. This week’s list is a feel-good, coastal indie mega mix inspired by the Golden State. Don’t be surprised if you also get transported back to the sweet memories of 2010, shamelessly entering the Hollisters and Abercrombies of the world. The rising artists showcased in this collection have quickly captured our attention with their abilities to create such warm, melodic, instrumentally explorative soundscapes. They all create and perform with great panache, undeniably received by the listener. Standouts this week include Argentinian producer/mult...
Ultimate Rap League’s Ultimate Madness 3 Tournament Round 2 Launches Saturday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: screenshot / Youtube The Ultimate Rap League (URL) launched its latest Ultimate Madness 3 tournament back in April with both expected and surprising results. Round two of the battle rap showdown takes place Saturday night (May 8) as the competitors prepare to unleash their best bars at a chance to snag a $100,000 cash prize from Drake himself. The preparation and turnaround time was a swift ordeal as the winners of the opening round last battled on April 24 live via the Caffeine app. In round two, the lineup is another star-studded list of rising battle rap wordsmiths and established veterans who have graced a number of big stages during their careers. Saturday’s Ultimate Madness 3 Round 2 lineup is as follows: Jakkboy Maine vs. Cortez Drugz vs. Rum Nitty...
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...
SPIN Daybreaker: 22 Songs to Escape From It All
It’s Friday, which means the best day of our week has arrived. We hope you’re ready for this weekend’s musical destination: Indie Dreamland. Daybreaker is sliding in with some of the most soulful, playful, and emotionally captivating tracks that will flawlessly soundtrack your own coming-of-age story. This group of artists are the ultimate genre-benders. Their talent for fusing multiple elements of all genres has led them to reach an individual sound that is hard to match. Standouts include Danish singer-songwriter Erika De Casier who brings a unique blend of electro-acoustic elements on “Drama.” Southern California-native producer/vocalist, ap eightyone who captures attention with his minimally expansive sound on “Pressure,” and DESTIN CONRAD who showcases his versatile R&B production...
URL To Air Ultimate Madness Elimination Tournament On Caffeine
Source: URL/Caffeine / URL/Caffeine The Ultimate Rap League (URL) has emerged as the premier battle rap league and now fans of the competitive art form will have access to an elimination tournament for the ages. This Saturday (May 23), URL by way of Caffeine will play host to the Ultimate Madness tournament where 16 battle rappers will face off for an opportunity to win a major cash prize and a slot at URL’s NOME X (10) event. Previously known as Ultimate Freestyle Friday, Ultimate Madness will grant the winner a $25,000 grand prize and shot to battle at URL’s largest event. The event will be judged by Tony Bro, Knowledge The God, Uncle Ra, and Reda, who will help decide the fates of the 16 MCs as they square March Madness bracket-style. Round one of Ultimate Madness will feature a total o...
