Grantland

summer jam

Resize Font: A- A+

WE WENT THERE

Summer Jam, the Nicki Minaj–Funkmaster Flex Throwdown, and the 'Real Rap' Debate

By Rembert Browne at
Kevin Winter/Getty Images

New York City radio station Hot 97's annual concert, Summer Jam, is important. Once a year, some of the most popular artists in hip-hop and R&B use the platform to perform songs, bring 30 to 40 of their peoples onstage, and at times start legendary beefs. This year's beef quota was no different, by way of negative comments from one of the station's radio personalities, Peter Rosenberg, directed at headliner Nicki Minaj, causing her boss, Dwayne "Lil Wayne" Carter, to pull her out of the concert. In the time following the "Young Money Ain't Doing Summer Jam" declaration, verbal jabs have been exchanged and the matter was finally "discussed" in an hour-long back-and-forth yell fest between Nicki Minaj and Hot 97 DJ/radio personality/beef sparker/bomb dropper Funkmaster Flex.

Top Stories

MOST POPULAR

  1. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' and fatherhood
  2. Bill Barnwell on the teams that still have holes in their rosters
  3. The life and stalled career of 'Menace II Society' star Tyrin Turner, 20 years later
  4. Jonah Keri ranks the MLB teams
  5. Rename the Washington Redskins