The Drake/Meek Mill beef finally seemed to cool off this week, with outlying events like Kendrick Lamar's subs at Drizzy on Compton and Meek taking down his diss track for copyright reasons seeming like the last gasps of action we'll get for a while. Instead, all eyes were on South Central L.A., a region that hasn't been that popping outside of YG for a minute, due to Dr. Dre's return and the premiere of the N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton.
Elsewhere, a few up-and-comers secured their respective statuses as "next big things" with major label deals (congrats Boogie and Post Malone), and hip hop lost one of its underground kings, Sean Price, at the far-too-young age of 43.
Read on to get the best tweets of the week.
The rap and porn industry are the only professions where you don't have to have skills to get in it.
Part of a long rant about the current state of hip-hop, this Hopsin tweet seems to forget that to succeed in both industries, you need to be able to last long... in cyphers.
Fetty Wap
Taylor Zoo 🙌 @taylorswift13 thanks for having me buddy 💯
Worth it just to hear the pop queen sing about cooking pies in the trap.
Post Malone
met kanye tonight and he smiled at me and said he really fucks with my shit.
#goals
CyHi The Prynce
Lol I didn't diss @kanyewest I'm just that good!!!
See I'm not scared of @kanyewest like all these other people are he's my brother that's why I can do a record like this!!!
What If I told y'all @kanyewest gave me the beat and the concept and I played if for him prior to releasing it??
And I don't have say nothing about me and @PUSHA_T he's always been my biggest supporter on GOOD we just love HIP HOP
He later clarified this further for us.
Kaytranada
"im gonna start a petition so that my fav artist drops an album this month even tho its 45% done and we dont even care as thirsty as we are"
Really though, stop pestering Kanye. SWISH will drop when he's ready.
Vince Staples
I am highly offended by the term conscious rap don't associate me with that.
Like what does that even mean? You're telling me everybody else is unconscious? Sound like some bullshit if you ask me.
I rather be based s/o Lil B.
Fuck the words conscious and lyrical y'all extra. It's music.
You can't tell me Gucci wasn't conscious when he was driving ten bricks through zone 6.
Hip Hop scared of Young Thug.
Hip Hop scared of Lil B.
Hip Hop scared of what's unfamiliar.
Hip Hop still scared of Yeezuz Christ
SO TRUE THOUGH. Vince continues to be the best Twitter user of the year.