Tyler Wilson

The Summer of Kendrick Lamar

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. The Bay Area doesn’t sleep, and neither does[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of August 26, 2024

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 is so inclined. “Coke With Ice” is the hard rap equivalent of an ever-circulating sports social media prompt — the moment[…]

Drake Releases Video In Which He Ignores The Weeknd

Drake and The Weeknd have a long and increasingly complicated history. In his latest 100 gigs leak, Drake released a 2013 video in which he and Weeknd are backstage. Damn! Drake dapped everyone but stopped at the Weeknd pic.twitter.com/ewleRMgGgi Drake daps up everyone else as the Weeknd stands there awkwardly. The video cuts off right[…]

Nicki Minaj Claps Back At Fan Who’s Suing Her For $5 Million

There’s a Nicki Minaj superfan named Tameer Peak, who’s suing Nicki for $5 million. He’s also accusing her of causing him reputational harm, emotional distress, and financial loss. According to court docs, Peak has been a Barb for 15 years and helped Nicki promote her Pink Friday 2 album. He says she began harassing him in[…]

Lizzo Flaunts New Slimed Down Frame In Bali

Lizzo is tired of being the butt of jokes. So she’s working on making her butt (and the rest of her) less gigantic. She showed off the fruits of her labor while hanging with SZA in Bali. As you can see, Lizzo is well into the middle of her journey from obese to overweight. Do[…]

Lil Baby updates His Next Album

Lil Baby has been on roughly a two-year schedule with his albums. Looks like he’s going to keep that going. Baby announced that he’s 80 percent done with his follow-up album to It’s Only Me, which dropped in October 2022. Baby’s last album was a hit, doing 216K first week. However, It’s Only Me didn’t have the[…]

JPEGMAFIA Gets Freddie Gibbs’ Baby Mama To Take Off Her Clothes

Freddie Gibbs’ baby mama Fit Miami is his weakest link When Gibbs was beefing with Benny The Butcher, the Griselda rapper put a BSF chain around the adult actress’s neck. Now JPEGMAFIA, with whom Gibbs is also beefing, is using Miami against him. JPEG posted up with Miami, and one of them had their tiddies[…]

Rapper Who Dug Opps Grave Shot and Killed

Rappers will do just about anything to go viral. Philly spitter Ybcdul, of the gang young bag chasers, dug his opps a grave for the gram. If that sounds like bad karma, it turned out to be. Ybcdul has been shot and killed in his hometown. Ybcdul days before he was k*lled “I never got[…]

Drake Mocks The Rappers Who Turned On Him On “No Face”

2024 was the year the rap game turned on Drake. Kendrick Lamar, Future, The Weekend, A$AP Rocky, and Rick Ross—all rappers with whom Drake appeared to have good relationships—made it clear they held The Boy in low regard. Drake’s latest strategy is to respond to the hate by dropping many loosies. Today, the Canadian released[…]

Daylyt Explains How Drill Music Has Set Black People Back

We haven’t heard from Daylyt in a minute. The battle rapper and OVO Goon are back in the news with strong opinions about the polarizing rap genre. Drill music might be the worse shit that ever happen to us niggas Bruh u can’t dance to this shit U can’t get no hoes with it U[…]

Coi Leary Gets Back Together With Trippie Red

Coi Leray and Trippie Red used to date. About five years ago, before Coi was particularly famous. Now they are back together. Coi Leray and Trippie Redd are back together after being broken up for 5 years pic.twitter.com/IPnTpHYTax Do you think it lasts this time? Maybe Coi will move into Trippie’s all-black mansion. Posted In:[…]

Travis Scott Takes Shot At Killer Mike

Killer Mike swept the rap categories at the Grammys earlier this year, enraging fans of Travis Scott. Mike addressed all that on his new track “Still Talk’n That Sh*t.” “You gon respect me like a motherf*ckin’ Grammy winner / Like I cooked your favorite rapper like a Granny dinner,”Mike raps on the song. That was[…]

Mustard Explains Why He Has No Interest In Ever Working With Drake

Earlier this year, Mustard placed himself smack dab in the middle of the Drake, Kendrick Lamar beef by producing K Dot’s “Not Like Us.” The Los Angeles producer discussed the song in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times and was asked if he’d ever work with Drake. “I don’t think I want to[…]

Destroy Lonely And KanKan Go Back And Forth On X

Destroy Lonely’s Love Last Forever album drops next Friday. Beef is good for promo, and Lonely has some. The 23-year-old has been going back and forth with producer KanKan on X, formally Twitter. The spat includes accusations of thirst and cross-dressing. You can see some of it below. Who would you like to see emerge[…]

Offset Responds To Pooh Shiesty Shooting His Shot At Cardi B

Cardi B filed for divorce from Offset last month. It’s the second time the D word has entered into their relationship. This time it sounds like it’s going to stick. That makes Bardi single, and despite being locked in a federal facility in Oklahoma for at least the next year and a half, Pooh Shiesty[…]

A Jailhouse Interview With EBK Jaaybo

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. Steven Louis will not migrate Slack to Teams,[…]