Joey Bada$$: “My ‘Beef’ With Lil B Was Staged” [Video]

Brooklyn’s Joey Bada$$ chopped it up with VladTV about his “beef” with Bay Area rapper Lil B, saying that the Based God is a good friend and the whole situation between them was staged. He then explained why he felt the need to shut down his Twitter account, saying that he didn’t want to deal with people being judgmental. “Twitter, you know you go to your messages and it’s just a whole lot of people judging you, saying this, that about you. I’d rather be oblivious to that. At the end of the day when I was making my music…nobody was telling me it was right, it was wrong, it sounds like this, it sounds like that, it was just all me.”

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Angie Martinez Leaves Hot 97 For Power 105.1 [Video]

Angie Martinez is moving across town and up the radio dial from Hot 97 to Power 105.1, giving Power the biggest score yet in the city’s long-running hip-hop radio wars. For more than 15 years Martinez’s 3-7 p.m. show has helped define Hot 97 (WQHT, 97.1 FM) as America’s most influential hip-hop station. Now, in a switch that was both surprising and swift, she’ll be doing the afternoon show at Power (WWPR, 105.1 FM).

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