Still, he’s now a full-time flute player and released an all-flute album called New Blue Sun last year. André was heavily criticized for quitting rap and his group OutKast, which he said caught him off guard. “It’s kind of funny,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “The backlash is actually not from the rap community, or[…]
Young Thug and Jaden Smith both embrace their feminine side when it comes to their fashion. However, when the pair went on tour together in 2018, Thug became concerned that the son of Will wasn’t getting the kind of girl action a young celebrity of his stature should be getting “He’s the coolest person ever,”[…]
Lil Durk turned 32 this weekend. To celebrate, he played the United Center in his hometown of Chicago. While Smurk says he’s done with the streets, he remembered some of his colleagues who the streets took during the concert. Lil Durk pays homage to fallen members and opps at his birthday bash concert in Chicago.[…]
The Rap-Up is the only weekly round-up providing you with the best rap songs you need to hear. Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Steven Louis met Bill Nye, The Science Guy when he was five years old. “I don’t wanna hang with you ‘cuz you a[…]
Over the summer, Drake dropped a bunch of loosies and other content on his 100gigs page. DJ Akademiks, who has long had ties to the Drake camp, believes it was part of a negotiating strategy. Akademiks speculates the reason Drake released 100gigs was to show his labels he could still chart while independent (uploaded to[…]
Kendrick Lamar opened up during his chat with SZA for Harper’s Bazaar. He told his former labelmate that his ability to embrace his feminine side is his “superpower.” “At first, all I knew was masculinity, and I always kept that wall up because of my pops. But the more I delve deeper into my music[…]
When Big Meech got out of prison earlier this week, Rick Ross declared that the streets are back. “The streets are back. N*gga, Meech home. Meech welcome back. Salute my n*gga … you better get ready for this ride because the streets are back. Let us know what type of hustler are you. What type[…]
The big three are Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole. Kendrick Lamar pushed back on that, claiming it was just “big me.” There may be a different big three and it doesn’t include K. Dot. The three most streamed rappers last month were Drake, Travis Scott, and Future. Drake, Future and Travis Scott were the[…]
A makeup artist GloRilla worked with a couple of years ago posted a photo of the rapper with her makeup half down and not looking too hot. GloRilla wasn’t too happy about this, and she fired back on both the trolls who mocked her look and the artist for posting the photo. “Acting like yall[…]
Yeat’s new album Lyfestyle is set to debut in the 90K to 100K range, according to Hitsdailydouble. It’s unclear if it will be the number album of the week. Lyfestyle is Yeat’s second album of 2024. 2093 did 70K in its first week in February. It’s the 24-year-old fifth album overall. 100K is a very big debut[…]
Rap is a big slump. Sales are down. For the first time in forever, there was a week when no rap songs were in the top 10. Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre offered two suggestions on what can happen to allow rap to reclaim its throne as top genre during a chat with Stephen A.[…]
Dave Chappell made asking Ja Rule’s opinion on things into a punchline. While it’s true asking Ja what he thinks about politics or world affairs is silly, the man does know a little something about rap beef, having been engaged in one of the more famous ones for years. Ja had some things to say[…]
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Young Thug is trying to play peacemaker from jail. He posted this on Twitter today: . @Drake @1future @MetroBoomin we all bruddas. Music aint the same without us collabin “@Drake @1future @MetroBoomin we all bruddas. Music aint the same without us collabin,” he typed. Young Metro and Future fell out with Drake over their participation[…]
Gucci Man just fired most of the rappers on his label, citing industry uncertainty and financial losses: Gucci Mane went on Instagram and said he lost a lot of money on the 1017 roster and releasing all his artist from their contracts except for Pooh Shiesty and Foogiano pic.twitter.com/HOs6D706GY “It’s a whole sh*t-show in the[…]
Tyrese is known for his emotional response to many situations. But the singer and actor kept it together when they caught him in traffic eating chicken. Someone caught Tyrese in traffic talking to fans while eating chicken 😭 pic.twitter.com/1U75qe8qYh “I’m talking about eating that motherf*cking Popeye right there, boy,” Tyrese said after being confronted. He[…]
Drake is known to be generous to the woman of the pole. He was in Houston recently and made sure he hit the local titty bars. One of the ladies showed off all the money she got when Drizzy rolled into town. Woman shows how much she makes when Drake is in town 👀 pic.twitter.com/4DlL3OBnBs[…]
Diddy’s legal team recently filed a third appeal to get the Bad Boy founder released on bond. But he faces an uphill battle, as the feds are trying to use the 2016 beating of Cassie to keep him locked up. Not only did prosecutors describe everything Diddy did to his ex back then, but they[…]
Tyler The Creator’s Chromakopia album will drop on October 28. A Monday. The nontraditional release date will hurt Tyler on the charts, but he doesn’t care. He thinks he gives the listener a better experience by dropping it at the beginning of the week instead of late Thursday night. Tyler, The Creator’s ‘CHROMAKOPIA’ is dropping[…]
Imaga via Ka/Instagram Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Jaap van der Doelen spends[…]
Lil Reese was arrested earlier this month for roughing his ex-girlfriend outside of a Houston strip club. It was his third legal issue involving violence against women in the last couple of years. Earlier this year, Reese was arrested for rape in Los Angeles, a charge he has denied. Last year, he served time in[…]
