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Drake will debut Rap Battles livestreaming show on Caffeine

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Caffeine has scored another deal to make its livestreaming service stand out as musician Drake will debut a livestreaming show called Rap Battles exclusively on Caffeine.

This multiyear partnership in collaboration with the rap battle platform Ultimate Rap League (URL) follows other deals for the social broadcasting platform Caffeine, which also signed rapper Offset as a broadcaster with his own channel with multiple shows last fall. Caffeine will livestream and co-produce the real-time show with URL.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.