Kanye West called himself a Nazi earlier this month in an unhinged, racist rant. He was shredded online for it, got dropped by his talent agency, and it’s safe to say that whatever hatred people had for him only deepened. But the 47-year-old has since changed his mind on being a Nazi, which he tweeted […]
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LaVar Ball’s children are doing great. Lonzo just signed a new $20 million deal with the Bulls. LaMelo is one of the better players in the NBA when he plays. Even rapper brother LiAngelo just signed a multimillion-dollar record deal and performed his latest hit during All-Star game weekend. LaVar, however, just suffered a pretty […]
Charleston White has been widling for years now. It’s finally caught up with him. White was arrested yesterday in Texas on two counts of Aggregated Assault With A Deadly Weapon. He is being held without bond in Tarrant County. Do you think somebody snitched on the proud snitch?
Cardi B and Offset are no longer together, in large part because of Set’s cheating. The former Migo has also been enjoying himself with the ladies since the breakup. Somebody on social claimed that Set’s key to getting chicks is his association with Bardi. Set pushed back on that. “Incorrect lol I’m him,” he typed. […]
Drake hasn’t dissed Kendrick Lamar in song form since “The Heart Part 6.” Instead, he’s been using social media to send subtle shots. He addressed their battle on stage as well, during his Anita Max Wynn Tour in Australia. The last time he did so was during a recent show in Sydney when someone in […]
Yesterday, a video of Drake throwing his shoe at a drone infiltrating his Sydney, Australia apartment hit the Internet. It’s pretty clearly staged event, probably promoting a gambling website. Nevertheless, folks have been making fun of the way Drake threw that Croc. Someone flew a drone up to Drake’s Penthouse in Australia. He threw a […]
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A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of shooting A$AP Relli. He had been facing up to 24 years on two counts of first-degree assault. Rihanna, his partner and the mother of his children, was delighted with the verdict. “THE GLORY BELONGS TO GOD AND GOD ALONE,” She typed. “tHANKFUL, HUMBLED BY HIS MERCY!” Rocky […]
A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of two counts of first-degree assault in the alleged shooting A$AP Relli on a Hollywood street in 2021 and is now a free man. The verdict came after a three-week trial and three hours of jury deliberation. Relli testified that Rocky fired multiple shots at him after an […]
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There’s been a big hubbub made about Serena Williams joining Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show at Super Bowl LIX and Crip Walking to “Not Like Us.” Some took it as a huge shot at Drake. Mainly, because they dated, and Drake dissed her husband Alexis Ohanian in his 2022 song “Middle Of The Ocean.” Alexis already […]
Kanye West is king of the long, rambling message. His latest came last night on X, and he defended selling a swastika shirt. The 47-year-old directed people to his Yeezy.com website in a Super Bowl commercial earlier this month where he sold the t-shirt for $20. That was before Shopify removed the site for violating […]
Did you know Tyga dropped his NSFW album a few weeks ago? If you didn’t, you are not alone. It didn’t do very well. The initial tally had it doing a respectable for 2025 22K in its first week. However, when they rerun the numbers using Billboard’s new shipping guidelines it only did 4K, which is […]
Drake was mostly making love, not war, on his new album with PARTYNEXTDOOR. But he still has some anger to let out after the rap game ganged up on him last year. Drake’s former pal DeMar DeRozan with the Compton and the culture over Drizzy when he co-signed Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” diss of […]
Cardi B had some romantic fun on Valentine’s Day. And it wasn’t with her on-again, off-again husband Offset. Bardi was spotted on a date with football player Stefon Diggs in Miami on Friday. The two retired to a hotel room around 2 AM. Diggs has been linked to Cardi and to at least five other […]
Next week, the jury will deliberate on the fate of A$AP Rocky, who is facing 24 years for shooting A$AP Relli in the hand. 50 Cent believes Rocky will walk free. And he’s willing to put some money behind that opinion. “I got ASAP beaten this case I’ll bet 500, 000 on it, that […]
Earlier this week, conservative E-girl Ashley St. Clair announced that she had given birth to Elon Musk’s 13th child. During her pregnancy — which was kept secret — St. Clair had bragged that her payouts for posting content on Musk’s social media site X had skyrocketed. Antonio Brown, who recently declared bankruptcy, has a new […]
Lil Wop was Gucci Mane’s protege for a minute. Then he began transitioning to a woman. Then he stopped the transition because he decided he’d rather have sex with trans people than be one himself. Then he was arrested for gooning in public. Now he’s claiming he has a video of him and Kanye West […]
Kanye took some time out from his regularly scheduled antisemitism to heap praise on the Jewish rapper Drake. Ye doesn’t usually get along with the Canadian, but he found his new track “Gimme a Hug” so undeniable he had to Tweet about it. “Gimme a hug is incredible,” Ye typed. “Sheeeeesh.” Here is the track […]
Drake’s album with PARTYNEXTDOOR is off to a good start, rocketing to the top of the daily Apple Music charts. Where it lands after a whole week remains to be seen. While much of the rap world has turned against Drake, Young Thug- who was locked up when they went at Drizzy 20v1- is celebrating […]
Last year, a woman claimed that Jay and Diddy raped her at one of Diddy’s VMA afterparties in 2000 when she was 13 years old and filed a lawsuit with lawyer Tony Buzbee. There were many holes and inconsistencies in “Jane Doe’s” story. Now, the case has been dismissed. Hov took a victory lap after […]
A$AP Rocky’s trial for shooting A$AP Relli got heated today. Defense attorney Joe Tacopina and Deputy District Attorney John Lewin sounded like they were about to throw hands as they squabbled during closing arguments. “Ooo I’m so threatened by you!” Attorneys at the #ASAPRocky trial go at each other’s throats. Deputy District Attorney John Lewin […]
Drake watched most of the rap world turn against him in 2024. But at least one of his Atlanta homies stuck with him when it seemed like he hadn’t a friend in the industry. “Savage, you the only n*gga checkin’ on me when we really in some s**t, brudda,” Drake rapped on his new track […]
Sexyy Red is a romantic. But what gets her juices flowing isn’t chocolate, roses or poetry. She wants some good old-fashioned violence. During a chat with Montreality, she recalled her favorite Valentine’s Day gesture. “The most romantic thing somebody did for me, it was my first boyfriend,” she told Montreality. “I was just in high […]
Drake and PND’s new album $ome $exy $ongs 4 U dropped last night in time for Valentine’s Day. Chalamange wasn’t feeling the love CTG ripped the album this morning on The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne Tha God react to Drake’s new album with PARTYNEXTDOOR: “I didn’t think that it was gonna be any smoke on the album […]
DJ Akademiks was recently accused of grooming a 15-year-old boy. Ak says he was just joking around. However, the latest cancellation attempt on the rap pundit has weighed heavily. According to Wack 100, Ak was thinking of quitting and then killing himself. Wack 100 says Akademiks told him that he wanted to kill himself after […]
Madonna and NLE Choppa were recently seen at New York Fashion Week together, and now people are saying they’re a couple. The “Material Girl” is 66 and Choppa is 22, by the way. “Madonna about [to] turn him out like she did Dennis Rodman😂😂😂,” wrote one of Choppa’s followers after he posted the photo of […]
It was reported yesterday that Kanye West and Bianca Censori split up, and they hired divorce attorneys. Right away, people on social media said Ye’s racist rant and selling a swastika shirt might’ve ended the marriage. It turns out, however, the couple isn’t divorcing, according to one of Ye and Bianca’s reps, who gave a […]
Eleven days ago, Bianca Censori stood naked beside her husband, Kanye West, at the Grammys. Now, they are headed for a divorce. According to The Daily Mail, the two have split and have each reached out to divorcee lawyers. The tabloid reports that Censori will get $5 million to end the marriage, which began in […]