The question remains “What do you give a mother who deserves the world and all you have is $3.00 in your account?” Well here is a playlist you can blast around the house or put on a CD (if you still do that) and present to your mom. These songs are songs that Hip Hop has birthed to remind us that moms do more than we can imagine. If you got it like that follow Kanye and get your momma a private orchestra hearing, but if you want the bootleg, $3.00 version, buy her a card, put these songs on a playlist, color a bulb pink, lock her in a room turn the light on and there you have it, a private concert for mama dearest.

1. Hey Mama, Kanye West - Late Registration

“Forrest Gump mama said, life is like a box of chocolates
My mama told me go to school, get your doctorate
Somethin to fall back on, you could profit with
But still supported me when I did the opposite”

2. Dear Mama, 2pac - Me Against the World

“You always was a black queen, mama
I finally understand
for a woman it ain’t easy tryin to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
There’s no way I can pay you back
But the plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated”

3. December 4th, JAY Z - The Black Album

“At 10 pounds when i was born i didn’t give her no pain
Although through the years i gave her her fair share
I gave her her first real scare
I made it from birth and i got here
She knows my purpose wasn’t purpose
I ain’t perfect i care”

4. Dance, Nas - God’s Son

“I wish you were here,
I miss you more each second I breathe
You resting in peace forever I accepted you free
A blessing to me, I see you dressed in all white
Smiling at me, happy knowing everything’s all right
If only I could hear your voice and your laughter
Just one more time, my chest would be filled up with sunshine
“

5. You & The 6, Drake - If You’re Reading This it’s Too Late

“They will not tear nothing down I built this home for you momma
Know I don’t call enough momma
I just been working with so little time for personal momma
Hard labor let me pay the price
You and the six raised me right that shit saved my life”

6. All I Got is You, Ghostface Killah - Ironman

“I sit and think about
All the times we did without, yeah
I always said I woudn’t cry
When I saw tears in your eyes
I understand that daddy’s not here now
But some way or somehow, I will always be around, yeah
All things that I did from this to them
Oh from drugs to being there
Being down and out and I love you always”

7. I Love My Momma, Snoop Dogg - No Limit Top Dogg

“She the queen in my life, and I'ma make sure she gon’ shine again
She taught me everythang, but she didn’t charge a fee
She taught me everythang, except how to see a G
For the nine months you carried, I hope you bury me
instead of the other way around, and I put that on Dogg Pound”

8. Mama Raised Me, Master P - Da Last Don

“Daddy wasn’t home so mama raised me
I'ma thug but still mama bathed me”

It’s Mother’s Day and we all know that recently the queen of one of the most influential people in Hip hop, Afeni Shakur has passed. Pac and many artists we still love today have reminded us that behind every great Hip hop artists, is a mother whose love and support made them the men they are. Hip-hop taught us to love and appreciate those who would put their own lives on the line and give up everything for our well-being. So i dedicate this post to the HIP HOP MOTHER’S WE SHOULDN’T FORGET. 

AFENI SHAKUR

- Mother to Tupac Shakur, was viewed as a surivvior, warrior, disciplinary and the truth by her son.

- Former Black Panther and founder of the Tupac Amaru Shakur foundation

- Biggest influence to Pac’s music career as well as first teacher to life.

- Dear Mama, Dedication from Pac to Afeni. “Cause when I was low you was there for me. /  And never left me alone because you cared for me. / And I could see you coming home after work late. / You’re in the kitchen trying to fix us a hot plate. / You just working with the scraps you was given. / And mama made miracles every Thanksgivin’.  / But now the road got rough, you’re alone. You’re trying to raise 2 bad kids on your own.”

- Passed away May 2nd 2016, Rest in Paradise. 

DONDA WEST

- Mother to the man that can change pop culture with his voice, Kanye West.

- Biggest supporter and provider to Kanye’s music career.

- Raised Kanye, her only child, as an English professor at Chicago State University.

- Donda was there for Kanye before the rest of the world was, just like countless other moms from around the world.

- Hey Mama. Dedication from Kanye to Donda. “Forrest Gump mama said, life is like a box of chocolates. / My mama told me go to school, get your doctorate. Somethin to fall back on, you could profit with. / But still supported me when I did the opposite. Now I feel like it’s things I gotta get. / Things I gotta do, just to prove to you. You was getting through, can the choir please. / Give me a verse of ‘You Are So Beautiful To Me’. “

- Passed away November 10, 2016, Rest in Paradise. 

- “It was like losing an arm and a leg and trying to walk through that” — Kanye West to Hip Hop DX, first interview after her death.

GLORIA CARTER

- Mother of 4, including Hip Hop picasso, Jay- Z

- CEO of the Shawn Carter foundation

- December 4th, Dedication from Jay-z to Gloria. “Which makes me / A more sicker M.C. and my momma would claim / At 10 pounds when i was born i didn’t give her no pain / Although through the years i gave her her fair share / I gave her her first real scare / I made it from birth and i got here / She knows my purpose wasn’t purpose”

JACIDA CARTER

- Mother to Lil’ Wayne, birthed him at 19 years old and raised him.

- Allowed Wayne to sign with Cash Money Records and held great influence in Wayne’s music and life career.

SANDI GRAHAM 

- Mother to 6 God, Drake.

- Raised him as a single mother, as well as enforcing his jewish heritage as Drake did have a bar mitzvah. 

- Drake looks at his mother as his bestfriend and biggest supporter.

 - You & The 6, Dedication to Sandi “Having conversations with mama, man, my life is a mess / Ain’t been returning the texts, so she been reading the press / She got Google Alerts, them shits go straight to her phone / She worry 'bout me from home, you know she raised me alone / She said, / "I heard you back with you know who” / I told her, “girl, I’m always back with you know who” / And she like, “who are we kidding? You’re 27, you just being you / You’re your father’s child, man, thank God you got some me in you"”

FANNIE ANN JONES

- Mother to east coast revolutionary Nas.

- Biggest inspiration for Nas’s Illmatic album, which released after her death in 2002.

- Nas called off tour in 2002 in order to be repay his life supporter by being by her side when she lost her battle to cancer.

- Passed away April 2002, Rest in Paradise. 

- Dance, Dedication to Fannie Ann Jones. "I wish you were here, I miss you more each second I breathe. / You resting in peace, forever I accepted you free. /  A blessing to me, I see you dressed in all white.  / Smiling at me, happy knowing everything’s all right. / If only I could hear your voice, and your laughter. / Just one more time, my chest would be filled up with sunshine. April 7th '02, that’s when the gates of heaven opened up.”

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House of Cwen is a brand that has everything from Fur Slides and Glittered crowns! Yes! You know damn well I had to order myself a crown, because well Queen Jay here! 

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it’s April 18th and I am cussing myself at the fact that i haven’t taken a listen to OVO artist, DVSN’s “SEPT 5th” album until now. The album is also produced by OVO’s own Nineteen85. The project is the perfect mix of confessions and passion with almost too good to be true power to immerse you into its baselines and neon flashy productions. The album is like melting into a pillow of sex and will leave your body wanting more. Yes, i am both crying with passion and begging for my man to touch me as i listen to this. This is a  late night in your feelings album or even a let’s just make love all night album, either way you’ll feel  this in your inner soul. This project is the ultimate representation of the  OVO label’s power to create seductive and heart-wrenching music.

Listen to this album on all major streaming sites and preferably with a nice blunt in your hand.

Alright so let’s talk, we all know King of OVO, Waffle Colored Warrior, Captain Singin’ ass Nigga, the one and only Drake has the reputation of being “hated on” or just plain hating. Now, we all know Meek and Drake recently went head to head and basically blew up the internet and all music streaming programs with their great and not so great songs. However, Drake been doing this beef shit since he has been out and now we are about to run down the Top 5 Drake Beefs!

At number 5, we have the short lived beef between Common and Drake. The drama apparently began over Drake and Serena’s supposed relationship. Although Common has publicly announced that beef has been squashed, i’m bringing this shit back up because, well, i’m Petty Wap.

In this short film of beef between the two, some nice shots were fired. Common set a cannon at Drake with his track “Sweet” where Common called Drake soft and no match for himself. “Yeah, man, y’all niggas man, you soft muthfuckers”/ “Singing all around me man, la la la, you ain’t muthafucking Frank Sinatra”/ “You ain’t the type of nigga to go against me, you get in my presence you gon’ feel like a little hoe, you ain’t a man yet, you tryna’ be somebody else”

Well, popular culture disagreed as Drake’s “Stay Schemin’” verse was gladly remembered as he rapped “It’s feeling like rap changed, it was a time it was rugged” / “Back when if a nigga reached it was for the weapon, nowadays niggas reach just to sell their record.” Quickly after, however, Common came and shot that down with his remix to “Stay Schemin’”, calling Drake out by name and calling him Canada Dry. “You ain’t wet nobody, nigga, you Canada dry” / “Soft nigga, make no mistake, I’m talking to Drake” / “It’s the remix. Rick Ross, Common, and that hoe ass nigga” / “No, man-to-man, don’t hide behind them other niggas” / “Nah, this man-to-man. You can’t run behind them man” / “This is some real man shit right here”

Now the beef between Drake and one of the OG gangstas of hip hop and popular culture, Diddy, was very short but because of the “physical altercation” that landed Drake in the ER is the reason why its number 4 on this list. 

It’s reported that Diddy took a nice blow at Drake outside of Miami’s very own LIV night club back in December of 2014! Diddy did a quick piece on his ass after he yelled “You will never disrespect me again” I don’t know about any of you but i am almost sure thats said in all anime right before they go running head first into one another. This however wasn’t the case, Diddy gave him a quick daddy punch, and Drake was in the ER saying that the hit inflicted pain on a previous injury in his shoulder.

I know, I know, “But Drake didn’t even diss Diddy”, Nah, he didn’t but what Drake did do, was take the beat made by Boi-1da that Diddy sent to Drake for a verse, next thing Diddy knew it was playing with the lyrics for “0-100/The Catch up” After an interview with the co-producer of the beat, Frank Dukes, it seemed like Diddy didn’t even plan on using the track, he said “it wasn’t life changing enough” lol to that.

Now, at number 3, we bring you Pusha T, who was the first to publicly call out against Drake and his “music”. The beef however, may have started over Pusha T’s “Don’t Fuck With Me (Dreams Money can Buy)” his own make on Drake’s “Dreams Money can Buy”. In the song, many would say Pusha came for Drake when he rapped “Rappers on their sophomores, actin’ like they boss lords” / “I’m just the one to send you off, bonjour” / “See yourself as I pull up in that mirror tint” / “Skins vs. blouses, you mirror Prince”.

Although Pusha T denied that the track was in anyway a diss to Drake, the idea that it wasn’t was hard to believe as Pusha T dropped “Exodus 23:1″, which was a clear hit for Drake. The song criticized Drake for signing with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment label, “You signed to one nigga that signed to another nigga that’s signed to three niggas” / Now that’s bad luck”

Lil’ Wayne was the first to respond to Pusha T’s diss, with the track “Ghoulish”, but that ain’t mean shit to any of us that were watching the beef unravel. Drake then responded to Pusha T by saying “He didn’t understand why Pusha dissed him. He said he always loved his music.” Then at a live performance of “Club Paradise” (which also held diss to Pusha T “A couple of artists got words for me, that’s never fun” / “They say it’s on when they see me, that day don’t ever come” / “I’m never scared, they never real, I never run” / “When all is said and done, more is always said than done”) show in Washington, D.C. Drake added “If you was doing 16s when I was 16 and your shit still flopped and you switched teams, don’t talk to me my nigga.”

Now here we are with number 2 on the list featuring Mr.Twitter Fingers himself.  Don’t come for Meek now, he has his hits, he just ended up on the wrong end of the fight with this beef with Drake. Now we can all go back and recall that jam “Amen” featuring Drake and then later on down the line in 2015 with Drakes features on Meek’s album “Dreams Worth More Than Money” album. Soooo of course everyone was taken back when Meek tried to play Ghostbuster and start tweeting about Drake having a ghostwriter. (Which was later identified as Quentin Miller) 

Meek took to twitter as he publicly attacked Drake for not writing his own lyrics, while Drake, was probably doing what Drake does, drinking some coconuts with Popcaan. Soon after the tweeting ended, Drake came out with “Charged Up”, the heat (or so we thought), the “Done doing favors for people” / “‘cause it ain’t like I need the money I make off a feature” / “I see you niggas having trouble going gold” / “turning into some so and sos that no one knows”

The silence continued from Meek and Drake, when all seemed to be at its end, Drake was just like “Nope!” and came out with “Back to Back” and its intentions were clear, to MURDER Meek’s career, “You love her, then you gotta give the world to her” / “Is that a world tour or your girl’s tour?”and“Yeah, trigger fingers turn to twitter fingers” / “You gettin’ bodied by a singin’ nigga" 

Two days later Meek came out with his diss track “Wanna Know” which featured a sample from Quentin Miller, many looked at the track as a desperate track and way to recover, but not many were impressed, myself included. 

Up to now there are still shots fired between both Drake and Meek, but we all know whose music we’ve heard more of. 

Now for number 1, y’all can’t even lie this is one beef that we know no beginning and no ending. Theories have been that the feud between Drake and Chris began after Drake dating Rhianna shortly after the domestic violence charges in 2009. Others also believe the beef escalated after Drake and Karrueche were supposedly with one another while Chris was imprisoned.

Drake and Chris Brown were involved in a physical altercation on June 14, 2012, when Drake and his entourage allegedly threw glass bottles towards Chris Brown at WIP nightclub in New York. About eight people were injured during the brawl, including San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker, who later said he nearly lost his left eye, and a tourist from Australia who suffered injuries to her face and head having to receive sixteen stitches for her head as a result. Given how crazy this beef got is another reason why Chris Brown and Drake’s beef have made it to number 1 on this list. 

Few weeks after the altercation Chris Brown dropped diss track “I Don’t Like” remix featuring The Game. “They throwin’ bottles I’m throwin’ models, just cause I give a bitch long pipe” / “OVO, you overdosed screamin’ YOLO no I live TWICE ooops hahahaha”

Over the next few weeks whispers and allegations went on and on about who was the instigator in the whole beef and brawl between the two artists. Until Chris dropped yet another diss track to Young Jeezy’s “R.I.P” featuring YG and Kendrick Lamar. “And all these fake ass artists, y'all niggas out here drawin'” / “Ok now dearly departed I bought a plane, I departed” / “And if you started from the bottom gon’ and come out the closet”

Drake didn’t release any tracks for Chris but in an interview stated:  "Stop preying on his insecurities. His insecurities are the fact that I make better music than him, that I’m more poppin’ than him, and that at one point in life, the woman that he loves fell into my lap. I did what a real nigga would do and treated her with respect, so she not up there talking down on me…. It shouldn’t be about wanting to see me and him tear each other down; we have an issue and it’s either gonna drag out or maybe in 10 years we’ll laugh about it over drinks. Just let us solve that shit… Let him put out the whatever project X or whatever that shit he’s working on. I’m gonna put out real shit for the people [with my new album]. I feel for him too. Every interview he does, [he] talk about me. It is what it is. I’m focused on [my] album and on everything else I got going on. I’m not thinking about that man at all or that girl”.