Rap Reunions
Cassidy and Swizz get it popping once again plus more.
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Cassidy and Swizz Beatz - Cassidy may not be signed to his mentor Swizz Beatz's Full Surface label anymore, but their bond still remains strong. Cass just released his latest freestyle song for DJ Absolut's Mixtape Mondays series called "Speak to the Hood" which features Swizzy holding down the ad libs and proclaiming, "This is just the warm up." While Cassidy and Swizz get things popping once again, check out more artists who reunited after going their separate ways.(Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
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NWA - With the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton gearing to smash the theaters in August, the world's most dangerous group is preparing to reunite after 15 years since they last appeared on stage together. Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella will reunite as the "F**k the Police" cohorts and headline the BET Experience at the Staples Center on June 27.No word if Dr. Dre will be in the building but no worries because the L.A. Kings will have a few more big guns holding it down, like Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul. The bill will also feature Nicki Minaj, Kevin Hart, Bell Biv Devoe and the Roots. beefs. (Photo: Priority Records / Ruthless Records)
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Wale and Meek Mill - Meek Mill got into his feelings last July on Twitter when he accused his MMG co-hort Wale of not supporting him. Well things seem to have smoothed out since Meek returned home from jail and the two have been spotted several times together. The drama is really behind them now as Ross's capos just posted a picture of them together on Instagram working on a new creation in the lab. (Photo: Wale via Instagram)
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Consequence and Pusha T - After four years of beefing with Kanye West, Pusha T and various other members of G.O.O.D. Music, Consequence posted this flick to Instagram and revealed to HipHopWired, "Pusha and I deaded everything, and we creatively vibed with Kanye for this new LP.”(Photos from left: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET, John Ricard / BET)
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LL Cool J and Canibus - LL Cool J and Canibus ended their near 20-year feud in December at the Barclays Center during Hot 97’s Christmas in Brooklyn concert. Uncle L took the offense, bringing Canibus out during his set and saying, “I had a lot of beefs in my life but sometimes we gotta be bigger than that, sometimes you got to take things to the next level, sometimes we gotta flip the script." He then hit the crowd with the 1997 posse cut “4,3,2,1.” (Photos from left: Peter Kramer/Getty Images, Hayley Madden/Redferns/Getty IMages)
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Juvenile and Cash Money - Juvenile is celebrating his long-awaited reunion with Cash Money, the label he helped jump off. He told MTV, “It’s already done. I signed the paperwork a couple of days ago. I’m signed back – Rich Gang. I’m getting ready to get my tattoo and everything. It's all love. I'm back.”Label head Birdman also chirped in, adding that Juve has been in the studio with YMCMB producer London on the Track and assured that more hits are on the way.(Photos from left: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for BET, Brad Barket/PictureGroup, Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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50 Cent and G-Unit - Curtis officially brought G-Unit back together at Hot 97's Summer Jam in June, and the momentum has been strong ever since. With a few mixtapes and indie projects, Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Kidd Kidd and boss 50 are once again flooding the streets, even appearing on newsstands on the cover of XXL.(Photo: Robert Wallace/ WENN)
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RZA and Raekwon - RZA and Raekwon had been at odds over the creative direction and contracts for the new Wu-Tang album. Rae went on strike as RZA proclaimed that the deadline was approaching to record their new group album, A Better Tomorrow. Cooler heads prevailed eventually and The Chef came on board to add his recipes to the mix.(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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Tony Yayo and Young Buck - Tony Yayo and Young Buck were once like family held together by G-Unit glue, until Young Buck's spending habits interfered with his professional and personal relationships with the camp. Although Yayo said in a 2011 interview "I really, really like Buck. I just don't understand why he was flipping like that," he and the G-Unit South rapper's friendship ended when Fif ejected Buck out of the crew in 2008. But their feud is all in the past, now. Yayo and Buck recently reunited for "Devil's Advocate" for Yayo's El Chapo 3 mixtape. (Photos from left: Denise Truscello/WireImage, Prince Williams/FilmMagic)
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OutKast - The talented duo hasn't released a record together since 2006's Idlewild, and the void has been a chasm. That's why even though their "beef" has been really just a hiatus, their reunion at Coachella 2014 shut things down.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Fat Joe and Remy Ma - Remy Ma and Fat Joe, her former Terror Squad boss, had a falling out following the lackluster release of her debut album, There's Something About Remy: Based on a True Story (2006), but now, they're ready to reconcile. Said Ma in an interview while she was incarcerated, "When you put egos and pride aside and be the real people that you are, it works out… I'm going to make it my business that we talk more." Will we get new music out of that? That remains to be heard. (Photos from left: John Ricard/BET, Peter Kramer/Getty Images)
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D12 - The Marshall Mathers comeback is looking more complete now that he's reunited Bad Meets Evil (with Royce da 5'9"), dropped The Marshall Mathers LP 2, and, apparently, has been in the studio with his "Purple Pills" buddies, D12. According to word on the Internets, Em has three "new" tracks with the Detroit crew. Does this mean the band's back together, guys?(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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The Clipse - The Clipse have split as a rapping duo for several years now. Pusha T released a solo venture, My Name Is My Name, to much critical acclaim, and No Malice penned a memoir, Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind and Naked. But Pusha and the fans have missed the Virginia Beach tag team, so it seems 2014 is the perfect time for the two to same-page it again. And word is that's what's happening, with Kanye West and Pharrell rumored to be behind the boards of their next album, As God as My Witness.(Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)
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Playaz Circle - Near the end of 2013, 2 Chainz revealed that he stays in the studio with his Playaz Circle partna Dolla Boy. "You never know," he said, they may just drop something for us in this year.(Photo: Moses Robinson/WireImage)
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A Tribe Called Quest - Anytime you have a crew of creative artists there is bound to be some type of feuding; and when you have been in the biz since 1985 like A Tribe Called Quest sometimes internal beef is inevitable. The group’s first split came in 1998 on the eve of their fifth album release, the same time when Q-Tip and Phife Dawg's relationship began to unravel. Phife argued that Tip disbanded Tribe, leaving him and Ali to fall to the wayside, while he pursued other ventures. But the iconic hip hop group has reunited on occasion since, including for the acclaimed Yeezus Tour in 2013, one of the group's "last-ever shows" in honor of the 20th anniversary their third album, Midnight Marauders.(Photo: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)
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50 Cent and Fat Joe - 50 Cent built his rap career on beef so when he and Fat Joe were feuding fans weren’t surprised. The feud between the two New York rappers ignited over the course of Fif’s highly publicized feud with Ja Rule. The G-Unit boss got on Rule's "New York" track, taking shots at Joe and Jadakiss, who were both featured on the original. The diss song launched a decade-long beef, which came to an end in 2012 at the BET Hip-Hop Awards. The rappers shared the same stage in honor of the late Chris Lighty. Who knew just two years later they would collaborate together on the song “Free Again” for DJ Kay Slay’s upcoming project. (Photos from left: Rick Diamond/Getty Images, Chris McKay/Getty Images)
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Gnarls Barkley - Cee-Lo Green made the announcement that he and Danger Mouse will be back together for a third album from Gnarls Barkley next year, six years since their last, The Odd Couple. (Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank)
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Ashanti and Ja Rule - Although Ashanti and Ja Rule never battled each other [publicly], Ja was caught in the middle when "Bon Bon" (as he affectionately calls her) was messily dropped by their label founder, Irv Gotti. Then, Ja had an even bigger Goliath to battle — getting locked up. Now that both wars are over, the "Always on Time" duo are back together in the studio.(Photo: Twitter via Ashanti)
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Jay Z and Dame Dash - The co-founders of Roc-A-Fella Records brought an end to their almost decade-long beef when they partied together in NYC in 2013. The photo opp came after throwing casual compliments each other's way: Dame posted a vid of him vibing out to Jay's Magna Carta Holy Grail; and Jay said during his MCHG media rounds that Dame's a business, man, who knows how to make it through tough times.(Photo: Courtesy of Dame Dash via Instagram)
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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - In March 2013, Mark Wahlberg, the actor formerly known as rapper Marky Mark, reportedly told a U.K. magazine that he and the Funky Bunch "might" get the group back together. Soon after, two of the Bunch's former members — Terry Yancey (aka DJ T) and Hector Barros (aka “The Booty Inspector”) — said they're down too.(Photo: Barry King/WireImage)
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Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight - Snoop and Suge were heated foes for years after the Dogg split off from Death Row in the '90s. But that's apparently all gin and juice under the bridge: Suge showed up to a Snoop show in L.A. in March 2013, and the two were seen laughing, embracing and taking pics afterward. (Photo: Snoop Dogg/Instagram)
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Mobb Deep - Havoc and Prodigy are mobbing once again. After seemingly splitting up in 2012, the Mobb Deep fellas reunited for a 20th anniversary tour during the summer of 2013. (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
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Wu-Tang Clan - RZA has long-been discussing a Wu-reunion project, and even refurbished a house of his so the Clan can get together and record. So far, "I just need Raekwon to come onboard fully. I need some more energy from Ghost and GZA," he said. "If they give that energy, I will give us a great last album. If they don't give us the energy, I gotta figure out a plan B."(Photo: Tony Nelson / Retna, Ltd. / Retna Ltd.)
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Leaders of the New School - A few days before headlining the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival last summer, Busta Rhymes tweeted "Stay tuned" with a picture of him chilling with Dinco D and Charlie Brown, both former members of Leaders of the New School, the group Busta broke into the game with back in the early '90s. The meaning behind the tweet soon became clear: Busta brought out his old bandmates to perform the classic A Tribe Called Quest posse cut "Scenario" at the Festival. LONS hadn't appeared together since 1995, when Bus invited them to spit on his solo debut, The Coming. (Photo: Twitter)
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Run-DMC - DMC and Rev Run, the two surviving members of game-changing rap trio Run DMC, reconvened onstage at the 2012 Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas. The pair hadn't performed together since their DJ, Jam Master Jay, was killed in 2002. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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2 Live Crew - Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell revealed via the Miami New Times that the bass pioneers were reuniting to launch a 20-date tour to "save Miami booty music."(Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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The Juice Crew - Members of the legendary Queensbridge collective The Juice Crew -- Biz Markie, Master Ace, Craig G, Roxanne Shanté, Big Daddy Kane, MC Shan, Marley Marl, and Kool G Rap -- have reunited now and again in different incarnation for performances around the world. But it seems like the next time they'll all be together is via their actor representatives for the film, The Vapors (which is so far starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Marley Marl and Keke Palmer as Roxanne).(Photo: Cold Chillin' Records)
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Ruff Ryders - DMX announced that the Ruff Ryders crew is in serious talks to reconnect for a power-packed tour. X says that Swizz Beatz, Drag-On and Murda Mook are already onboard. An album was even slated to come out, but got pushed back and hasn't yet seen the shelves. (Photo: Courtesy Universal Music Group)
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Shyne and Diddy - Shyne was once the new face of Puff's Bad Boy Records, until both men were charged in a 1999 shooting at a club in Manhattan. Diddy hired a separate legal team. Shyne, who ended up serving nine years upstate, has criticized his former boss as a disloyal "snitch" ever since. But now the rapper, who converted to Judaism and is currently residing overseas in Paris and Israel, says he and Diddy have reconciled.(Photos: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images; UPI/Debbie Hill/Landov)
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Naughty By Nature - Naughty by Nature decided to fall back into the fold more than 10 years after the release of their last album, 1999's Nineteen Naughty Nine: Nature's Fury. The LP, Anthem Inc., which dropped on the trio's 20th anniversary, included new material along with refreshed versions of classics like "O.P.P." and "Hip Hop Hooray."(Photo: Joe Kohen/Getty Images)
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EPMD - EPMD's way ahead of these new jacks. The legendary Long Island duo has already broken up and gotten back together — twice. In 1993, Parrish Smith and Erick Sermon parted ways amid accusations of shady business. Four years later, after a few rounds of diss tracks and interview smack-talking, they reunited with Back in Business, but then went back to their respective solo careers in 1999. In 2006, they began rocking shows together again, and then released their seventh album, We Mean Business, in 2008. They've since continued to perofrm together -- here and there. (Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images for Vh1)
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Black Star - Brooklyn MCs Talib Kweli and Mos Def linked to form Black Star and release a seminal backpack rap album back in 1998. They went on to reach new heights of success in their respective solo projects, though they frequently collaborated on each other's albums. Black Star officially re-formed, however, to headline at the lauded Rock the Bells tour in 2011 and released a new song, "Fix Up," shortly afterwards. (Photo: Terrence Jennings/Picturegroup)
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Goodie M.O.B. - Cee Lo bounced from the ATL's Goodie M.O.B. in 2000, launching his own highly successful, left-field career. The crew soldiered on without him, releasing One Monkey Don't Stop No Show — which many saw as a diss to their departed bandmate — in 2004. The crew made amends last year, and have dropped a new album, Age Against the Machine, and are plotting a new reality TV show. (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Heineken)
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Eminem and Royce Da 5'9" - After meeting at a show in 1997, Royce and Em formed a friendship and created the duo Bad Meets Evil, cranking out a self-titled track for Em's The Slim Shady LP (1999); the single "Scary Movies," released that same year; and "Renegade," which apparently featured Royce vocals until they were replaced with a verse from Jay Z and used on The Blueprint (2001). Later, a misunderstanding between Em and Royce escalated into a stalemate that didn't break until last year when Em signed Royce's rap quartet Slaughterhouse to Shady Records. The reunion was solidified when they were once again under the moniker Bad Meets Evil for Hell: the Sequel.(Photo: Catherine McGann/Getty Images)
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50 Cent and Lil Kim - Eight years after the release of their hit single "Magic Stick," 50 Cent and Lil Kim finally took the stage together in 2011, at the WinterBeatz Festival in Perth. Prior to this, the pair had never performed the 2003 track live (and a video was never filmed for it) because of a rift between them. Both dissed each other publicly and Kim even went so far as telling the media that she'd never do a duet with 50 again.(Photos: Manny Hernandez/PictureGroup; Evan Agostini/Getty Images)
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Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg - Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were unfadable in the studio when they put together their respective classic debut albums The Chronic (1992) and Doggystle (1993). However, their friendship fizzled out after Dre left Death Row Records in 1996 and Snoop departed for No Limit Records in 1998. But the two West Coast legends were back together soon after, as Dr. Dre produced tracks for Snoop's 1999 album No Limit Top Dogg and Snoop made notable contributions to Dre's classic album 2001.(Photo: Scott Gries/ImageDirect)
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Diddy and Ma$e - Although the duo made beautiful music together -- accentuated by their signature shiny suits -- things took a turn when Ma$e found his religion. The rapper quit the rap game soon after the release of his 1999 album, Double Up to become a preacher. Five years later, he returned, and Diddy was waiting with open arms to help produce the Harlem rapper's G-rated comeback, Welcome Back.(Photo: By Frank Micelotta/Getty Images)
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Ice Cube and Dr. Dre - After splitting with N.W.A because he was at odds with group manager Jerry Heller, Ice Cube sued the group for what he thought was his fair share of the group's profits. Remaining group members fired back at Cube on numerous songs on their next and final two albums 100 Miles and Runnin' (1990) and Efil4zaggin (1991). However, by 1994 Cube and Dre had mended their friendship, appearing on "Natural Born Killaz" together.(Photo: By Kevin Winter/ImageDirect/Getty Images)
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Dipset - After Dipset founders Cam'ron and Jim Jones began to disagree with each other, the entire crew was stalled with remaining crew members Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey hopeful for a future collaborative project, but focusing on their own individual careers. In April 2010, Dipset heads Cam and Jones put their differences aside and released two tracks together along with Santana: "Under Construction" and "Salute." (Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
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Nas and Mobb Deep - A simple phone call was all it took for Nas and Prodigy to squash their beef. Since the Mobb Deep rapper was released from prison in March 2011, the old friends have collaborated on "Dog S--t," their first song together in 10 years. At a recent press conference for Rock the Bells, the two also announced that they are planning to do a full album together.(Photos: By Adrian Sidney/PictureGroup; Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)
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