For the most part, “Quality Street Music” lives up to its name, with DJ Drama furthering his prominence as a tastemaker in Hip Hop. DJ Drama has been a relentless force in the mixtape scene for nearly a decade now, with his success in executing full-lengths landing somewhere around commendable. It’s clear that he realizes there’s a stark contrast between delivering a front-to-back solid project and feeding listeners’ mixtape after mixtape for sheer relevancy, and that role plays out appropriately on Quality Street Music.

St. Lunatics rapper Ali comes to Nelly’s rescue by posting a conversation that the two shared about a recent traffic stop in Texas that could’ve cost Nelly big money and even bigger problems.Ecstasy, heroin, weed and weapons were found in Nelly’s tour bus. Ali who happens to be one of Nelly’s best friends took it upon himself to prove the Apple Bottom’s creator had nothing to do with the drugs being brought onto his tour bus. Nelly was detained in Texas and one of his roadies was booked for bringing a large amount of heroin, weed and a loaded weapon on Nelly’s tour bus.

Snoop has added another brand to the list of products he has advertised. This time, Tha Doggfather is appearing in a Hot Pockets advertisement. The West Coast rap legend will be parodying his own song, Drop It Like It’s Hot, for the commercial.
Snoop Dogg has already lent his face for such diverse advertising projects as Monster Energy Drinks, Colt 45 Blast, and Adidas. Now, according to a report from ABC Radio Online, the rapper will be the spokesman for Hot Pockets.

Life’s a bitch … Nas sang it and now he’s living it … because besides being knee deep in tax debt, Gutta World has learned the rapper just lost his Georgia crib to foreclosure.According to official records, Nas purchased the 2-bedroom, 3-bath pad back in 2004 for $585,000 … but according to SunTrust bank (which issued him the loan) … Nas couldn’t foot the bill and defaulted on the payments, still owing $507,000

Easily the most exciting hip-hop moments of the week took place, for once, on television. The BET Awards featured five incredible cyphers, with some of our favorite — and least favorite — rappers appearing (we’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to guess who is who). Every gathering had plenty of highlights, and we couldn’t include them all. Below are five of the top moments from all of the rhyming.

Rapper Nelly was detained near the Mexico border after cops uncovered a loaded gun and drugs stash on his tour bus. US checkpoint officers found dozens of sachets of heroin and a duffel bag containing over 4.5kg of cannabis during a routine stop on Wednesday evening in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Shockingly, a loaded .45 caliber pistol was also discovered amongst the drugs. But police eventually released the Grammy-winning rapper and arrested one of his seven-strong entourage, who took responsibility for the items.