Yesterday, Playboi Carti’s I Am Music was projected to do 250K in its first week. It just got a pretty significant upgrade. Now, the album is trending toward 310K. US albums chart preview (via @HITSDD): #1 @playboicarti 310K #2 @ladygaga 84K #3 @kendricklamar 79K #4 @Partynextdoor & @Drake 67K #5 @SZA 62K #6 Sabrina Carpenter[…]
It’s a little hard to tell what direction Kanye’s latest crash-out is taking him. He has been praising Drake while dissing many of the rappers who turned against The Boy last year, suggesting Kanye would like to team with Drake and torch the rap establishment. However, he poured a little cold water on that scenario[…]
Krazy Kanye has gone full Nazi, posing here with a swastika and Nick Fuentes, a notorious homosexual, Mexican white nationalist. Kanye West wears diamond swastika necklace as he meets up with white supremacist Nick Fuentes. “Yo you know I’m here with my white supremacist home boy Nick. We back.” pic.twitter.com/dslipUBnLi But, apparently, that hasn’t gotten[…]
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UMG wants Drake’s defamation lawsuit thrown out of court. The record label filed a petition for dismissal today, arguing Drake is only suing them for artificially inflating Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss “Not Like Us” because he lost his battle with Kendrick. Drake’s legal team responded in a statement. “UMG wants to pretend that this is[…]
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Playboi Carti’s I AM MUSIC album had a huge first day. It’s headed for a very solid first week. Playboi Carti ‘MUSIC’ on pace to sell 250K first week! DJ Akademiks is reporting the much-anticipated project is headed for a 250K opening week, which would be the biggest opening of Carti’s career. If it[…]
Every few years, Kanye has a significant crashout. He is in the midst of one now, but it feels different than his past breakdowns. During previous spirals, it would seem like he was on the verge of being institutionalized. (He was sent to a mental facility in 2016.) However, this time, it all feels calculated.[…]
Mase attended the funeral of Biggie’s mom, Voletta Wallace, over the weekend. It left him nostalgic. Mase had a pretty bad falling out with Puff Daddy over money. However, as he told his podcast brother Cam’ron, he’d visit The Diddler in jail Mase says he’s open to visiting Diddy in jail if he’s added[…]
A$AP Rocky has a message for the so-called “Big Three.” All three of them. “I ain’t on J. Cole, I ain’t on Drake, I ain’t on Kendrick side.” “I choose homicide, they gon’ see a different side.” “I ain’t on J. Cole, I ain’t on Drake, I ain’t on Kendrick side/I choose homicide, they gon’[…]
Never has a rapper been as much of an establishment darling as Kendrick Lamar. He doesn’t just get Grammys; he gets Pulitizers. But the establishment may be turning on him. Kendrick has multiple appearances on Playboi Carti’s smash hit album I AM MUSIC. The depth of his involvement in the album is such that he’s[…]
If 50 Cent were to date Yung Miami, it would probably make her ex, The Diddler, very unhappy. Although there wouldn’t be much he could do about it from MDC Brooklyn. Miami commented on what it would be like to date Fif, calling it “crazy.” Here’s what the 49-year old said about that: “I like[…]
Playboi Carti’s I AM MUSIC album came about eight hours late on Friday. But that didn’t seem to hurt it at the box office. MUSIC had the fifth-biggest debut day in Spotify history and the biggest in 2025, putting Carti in the company of Taylor Swift, Drake, and Bad Bunny. Here are the biggest debuts[…]
Back in the late 90s, Mya looked like she would be the next big thing, thanks to her potent mix of good looks and ability to sing and dance. It never quite happened for her. On the brighter side, she’s still looking good at 45. Despite maintaining her sexiness, she hasn’t been taking advantage of[…]
Kayne West, who’s been cozying up to Drake lately, took a shot at Kendrick Lamar right after Playboi Carti dropped. “I DON’T LIKE KENDRICK LAMARS MUSIC,” Ye typed. “HE RAPS VERY GOOD BUT I DIDN’T NEED TO HEAR HIM ON CARTI ALBUM.” It wouldn’t be Kendrick’s style to respond to such a diss in real[…]
Last week, Kanye West declared his undying love for Drake, with whom he has been beefing for years. “I SAW A VIDEO OF DRAKE WALKING THROUGH HIS HOUSE AND SHOWING HE HAD A LIBRARY OF RYHME BOOKS MAN I WISH I COULD HAVE SEEN AND REMEMBERED THIS WHEN MY JEALOUSY OVERTOOK ME …[…]
Young Thug is a famously fast worker. So, he’s had plenty of time since being released from jail last Halloween to put together an album. Yesterday, he cleared his Instagram page, which almost always indicates incoming music. But you don’t wait at all to hear something new from Thugger. He is among the features on[…]
Drake is suing Universal for slandering him by artificially promoting Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss “Not Like Us” through bots and payola. While Kendrick isn’t named in the lawsuit, it does call into question his ability to achieve success organically. Kendrick seemed to push back on that as a feature on the Playboi Carti track “Good[…]
During a recent stop on Quenlin Blackwell’s cooking show, Lil Yachty dismissed Black Lives Matter as a “scam.” “BLM is a scam… BLM was literally a scam. They had bought mansions,” Boat said, referencing allegations that BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors bought a $6 million L.A. mansion in 2020 with fundraising donations. BLM fired back at[…]
Despite having multiple hits, former En Vogue singer Dawn Robinson said that she’s been living in her car for almost three years. She talked about it this week on her YouTube page, saying that she was first living with her parents, then a hotel. But Jermaine Dupri said Robinson is choosing to live in her[…]
