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Jaÿ-Z doesn't know if rap battles should be part of hip-hop anymore after seeing the fallout from the epic squabble between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. On Tuesday (March 24), GQ shared a new interview ...

Through years of shapeshifting musical structures, increasingly free associative writing and, punching in, and frankly, murder, the notion of truly high-stakes rap battles had been a dormant one. And, ...

Rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar are igniting their feud with back and forth diss tracks, but rap battles go further back than the current saga. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz looks back on the history of ...