Lil Durk put forth a banner 2020 and took his artistry to another level in the process by banking his first Grammy nomination, releasing two projects and numerous standout features. With just one day of sales last week, Durk’s surprise The Voice album debuted at No. 47 on the Billboard 200 and should earn a […]
Benzino has aimed his vitriolic comments in Eminem’s direction once again â and bashed Royce Da 5’9 in the process. On Tuesday night (December 29), Nickle Nine tweeted how interesting it would be if the former co-publisher of The Source magazine joined the popular audio-only app Clubhouse and simultaneously threw a few jabs his way. “I […]
Meek Mill has been under fire since a video of him giving $20 to a group of kids in Philly went viral. Meek responded to all of the criticism and array of memes during a heated debate over on Clubhouse earlier this week alongside 21 Savage, Swizz Beatz, PnB Rock and Karen Civil. The Dreamchasers […]
Young Thug found himself on the defense after a recent episode of Gillie Da Kidâs Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast. During their conversation, he was talking about the 30 or 40 stadium-sized anthems he has in his arsenal and casually claimed, “JAY-Z ain’t got 30 songs like that.” Although Thug attempted to backpedal â and rather quickly […]
Miami, FL – As the COVID-19 pandemic wages on, millions of people are struggling to simply make ends meet. Even with the paltry $600 stimulus checks, many will be left wondering how to pay their rent next month. But on Tuesday (December 29), Diddy did his best to extend a helping hand to hundreds of […]
Without dropping an album this year, Travis Scott still had an extremely successful 2020. Connecting for landmark partnerships with McDonald’s, Sony and launching his own CACTI hard seltzer, La Flame’s branding leveled-up into another echelon to become the global phenom he is today. He also made a couple of appearances on Instagram’s top 10 most-liked […]
808 Mafia producer Pyrex took to Instagram on Sunday (December 27) to reveal he had suffered a seizure over the weekend, which led to a head injury and being diagnosed with dissociative amnesia. âFor those of you who know me know that i deal with really bad epilepsy,â he wrote. âUnfortunately last night while having […]
French Montana was featured on the cover of XXL on Monday (December 28), but Internet trolls couldn’t help but call him out for having fake abs in the photo. As it turns out, the South Bronx native wasn’t at all oblivious to the comments. On Tuesday (December 29), he responded to haters with a clip […]
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J. Cole hasn’t dropped a full-length solo album since 2018’s KOD, but it looks like the highly anticipated follow-up The Fall Off, its precursor The Off Season and another mixtape called It’s A Boy could be arriving in the near future. On Tuesday (December 29), the elusive MC popped up to share a rare Instagram post that featured an […]
Chris Brown has some things to get off his chest. In an Instagram Story post on Monday night (December 28), the singer went off about the music industry and anyone who thinks he’s not putting out quality work. He also showed love to the up-and-coming acts and then ended on a spiritual note. âSay what […]
Young Buck was reflecting on his career in a new interview with VladTV, and revealed that 50 Cent allegedly blocked him and G-Unit from cashing out on the millions he received from his deal with Vitamin Water. According to Buck, 50 consistently would pull deals from him, Banks and Yayo for arbitrary reasons and then […]
Charlamagne Tha God doesn’t feel Drake reigns supreme in the music industry any longer, and Kevin Durant finds that sentiment hilarious. In a new episode of his Brilliant Idiots podcast, Charlamagne explained he wasn’t interested in Drizzy’s forthcoming Certified Lover Boy album because he feels like Drake has oversaturated the market. To the radio host, […]
6ix9ine is relentless when it comes to trolling Lil Durk â even when he’s on a self-imposed social media diet. After suggesting the Chicago rapper was exploiting King Von’s murder to sell his new mixtape The Voice earlier this week, the controversial rap figure hopped back into Akademiks’ Instagram comments on Tuesday (December 29) to once […]
DDG‘s looking to hit a milli on his new video “Let You In.” The Michigan native released the LewisYouNasty-directed visual on Sunday (December 27) and pushed his followers to make his successful 2020 even better with one million YouTube views. “Did you watch this yet?” he wrote. “even if you did, go watch it again, […]
BeyoncĂ© is bidding farewell to an intense year with an icy commemorative token. The superstar singer’s cousin Angie Beyince revealed Bey gifted her girls with gold ‘Fuck 2020’ necklaces in an Instagram post on Monday (December 28). The pendant features ‘2020’ encrusted with diamonds and stretched to look like a hand giving the middle finger. […]
Flo Milli made a name for herself as one of 2020’s breakout rookies in Hip Hop. She finishes off the year with a major feather in her cap, as Rihanna named her the latest ambassador for RiRi’s Savage x Fenty lingerie line. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Flo Milli […]
Eminem has been pumping out album after album since 1996 and managed to parlay that relentless work ethic into a diamond-selling career. In 2020, Slim Shady hasn’t slowed down, releasing his 11th studio album Music To Be Murdered By in January and Music To Be Murdered By: Side BÂ just last week. The latter boasted 16 […]
SAINt JHN’s debut project Collection One was a proper introduction to the Brooklyn rapper in 2018. It brought a whole new wave of fans who were taking a liking to JHN’s genre-bending sound despite him being in the game for over eight years at that point. He announced Collection Two shortly after that, amping up […]
Mario Judah’s larger than life persona and husky frame wasn’t always the case. Judah took to Instagram on Tuesday (December 29) to share a few throwback photos from the days he roamed the halls of his middle school and military barracks, which found him looking much thinner than who we see now. âSay hi to […]
Travis Scott already has the platinum touch when it comes to making music but paired with Drake, he knocks it out of Astroworld. So it comes as no surprise their diamond-certified “SICKO MODE” collaboration has just crossed a major streaming milestone. According to Chart Data, the single has amassed over two billion streams, making it […]
Young Thug is one of the most influential Hip Hop figures of the 2010s. In an interview with Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast released on Monday (December 28), Thugger explained his reasoning for being a versatile genre-blending artist because strictly staying in the rapper lane restricts how far one can take their artistry. “I […]
November witnessed multiple shootings in the rap community, two of them fatal. King Von was shot and killed in Atlanta on November 6, Mo3 was gunned down on a Dallas interstate on November 11 and both Benny The Butcher and Boosie Badazz were shot in the leg in two separate incidences on November 14. In […]
Jack Harlow had one of the most unpredictable runs of 2020. When Harlow dropped his Sweet Action EP in March his following of fans blew up thanks to the buzzing single “WHATS POPPIN.” He doubled-up on that success with the remix that featured DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne that went No. 2 on the Billboard […]
Run The Jewels â the politically charged duo of Killer Mike and El-P â are back with a new visual for “walking in the snow,” one of 11 tracks on their critically acclaimed Run The Jewels 4 album. Directed by Chris Hopewell, the same man behind the camera for the RTJ3 track “Don’t Get Captured,” […]
Most Tekashi 6ix9ine fans are aware he has a 5-year-old daughter named Saraiyah with ex Sara Molina, but many may not know about his second child. Layna, the mother to his 2-year-old daughter Briella Iris, blasted the rainbow-loving rapper for neglecting fatherhood and never meeting their child in a scintillating Instagram post over the weekend. “DANIEL […]
DDG is ending 2020 on a high note. On Monday (December 28), the 23-year-old Michigan native alerted his 3.9 million Instagram followers his single “Moonwalking In Calabasas” had landed at No. 98 on the Billboard Hot 100, his first single to chart. The track has been remixed twice â once with Blueface and once with […]
All Money In Records rapper J Stone was a recent guest on The Bootleg Kev Podcast where he spent extensive time talking about the imprint’s late founder Nipsey Hussle. At one point during the conversation, Stone was asked if there was any type of posthumous project in the works and although he skirted around the question […]
Lil Yachty’s face is going to be seen in a ton of grocery stores come 2021. Lil Boat adds to his myriad of diverse collaborations by teaming up with Reese’s Puffs to get his own cereal box with the General Mills brand. Yachty joins Travis Scott, who slapped his figure across a Reese’s Puffs cereal […]
POW is a website without ads. We donât do sponcon, we donât do clickbait, we donât have any corporate overlords. This list that youâre about to read is a labor of love, inasmuch as anything can be a labor of love in late capitalism. Even labors of love come at the significant cost of time. […]