The XXL Freshman class is still a thing after all of these years. This afternoon, they released their 18th annual list. The rappers are: GELOIANLAZER DIM 700RAY VAUGHNNINO PAIDLOE SHIMMYEEM TRIPLINBABYCHIEFDOIT1900RUGRATYTB FATTSAMARA CYN The freshman cypher is coming next month. If you have any experience with any of these rappers, tell us what you think?
Amber Rose and Ray J both got famous selling sex. However, they are probably not going to have sex with each other. Or, if they do, they probably won’t admit it. When the two got together for a chat, Rose explained to Ray why he couldn’t go down her. “Ray J, if you weren’t my […]
Joe Budden wanted to show off the number of visitors his podcast has been attracting. In doing so, he “accidentally” revealed how much a month he makes on Patreon. It appears that Joe’s show earns $902,000 per month. And that wouldn’t include in-show ads and other platforms, like YouTube. Do you think that number is […]
Getting an album to the top of the charts is impressive feet. Two rappers stand apart when it comes to pulling it off. Below are the 19 artists who have spent more than 30 weeks atop the Billboard 200 album chart. As you can see, Drake and Eminem make the bottom part of the list, […]
Chris Crack / Image via Skyhighjpg 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 pitching on three days rest. “They have money for war, but can’t feed the […]
Jay-Z isn’t the only one removing the name of a friend gone rogue from one of his tracks. Just like Hov removed the mention of Ye in their hit “N*ggas In Paris,” Young Thug eliminated Gunna from “Ski.” Young Thug performs a version of “Ski” with Gunna’s name muted. “Bitch got a backwood on her […]
Country music superstar Morgan Wallen was once recorded drunkenly calling his white friend a “n*gger” during a play fight. He apologized and has since collaborated with rappers Lil Durk and Moneybagg Yo. Nevertheless, some folks criticized Drake for walking out with Wallen during Morgan’s Houston show over the weekend. Â (Yes, that’s 7-time Cy Young winner […]
The JAY-Z and Kanye West collaboration, “N*ggas In Paris,” is among each of the rappers’ most recognizable hits. Hov performed the track without Ye while in Paris for his wife’s Cowboy Carter tour. While doing so, he switched up the bar “Just might let you meet Ye,” for “Just might let you meet Bey.” Earlier this […]
Nick Cannon sat down with Bobbi Althoff for an interview. While some suspected the chat would end with Nick making Bobbi his seventh baby mama, it instead revealed that Nick can’t name all of his 12 children. [embedded content] “I know all of them. Â But can you rattle off 12 of anything? Â “Nick wondered after […]
Jim Jones has clarified his remarks about Nas. But he’s not backing off his assertion that he is more influential than the Queensbridge rapper. Shannon Sharpe and Jim Jones get into a heated debate 👀after Jones claims he’s more influential than Nas and how Nas was always overshadowed by Jay-Z and DMX in his era, […]
Maybe Drake isn’t the degenerate gambler he says he is. Drizzy recently claimed $8 million in gambling losses. However, as DJ Vlad explained, they aren’t the same kind of losses a regular person would take. Vlad believes Drizzy is playing with house money for promo. “Drake is lying about taking $8M in losses on Stake. […]
In Fat Joe’s former hype man, Terrance “T.A.” Dixon, lawsuit against the portly rapper, he claims that Fat Joe tried to have 50 Cent killed. It was during their beef in 2006.  The suit alleges  Joe put a bag on his NYC rival’s head and then sent his shooters after Fif after he was spotted […]
Kodak Black has toned down the crime a bit since his Uncle Trump commuted his sentence for lying on a gun application in 2021. But he’s still a menace. Here’s Yak at the club, where he picks his nose and wipes it on a woman’s head. Â You can tell by the 28-year-old’s diabolic grin […]
Mathew David Hughes has been sentenced to 15-30 years in prison for breaking into Eminem’s property twice and threatening to kill him. At 4 AM on April 6, 2020, 26-year-old Matthew David Hughes got into Shady’s gated community outside of Detroit and then used a paving stone to smash a kitchen window and enter Em’s […]
Chris Bown is notorious for his 1200 meet-and-greet photos. They’ve gotten pretty wild, although some say Sexyy Red has been striking poses in her meet-and-greets that make Breezy’s look team. This latest shot of Bris and a fan is anything but tame. The shot, taken during his European tour, poses Brown with his hand around […]
Cardi B is back to making music. The 32-year-old mother of three and internet personality dropped “Outside,” a diss of her baby daddy and former husband Offset, last night. She also addressed her many haters, assuring them that she will prevail. If you’re praying on my downfall, I’m gonna advise you right now, pray for […]
Upon his arrival in Manchester, England last month, Chris Brown was arrested on charges of hitting music producer Abe Diaw with a tequila bottle in 2023 at Tape nightclub in London. After several days in jail, he bonded out for £5 million which allowed him to embark on his European tour. He was back in […]
Puff Daddy was always ready for a fight or freak. The jurors in his RICO and sex trafficking trial were given visual evidence of that today, as prosecutors showed them photos of the baby oil, guns, and drugs they confiscated when they raided the disgraced mogul’s home. You can check all of them out here. […]
The Indiana Pacers keep costing your favorite rappers money. JAY-Z lost a million dollars when the Pacers took their Finals series against Oklahoma City to a sixth game. Notorious bad-luck charm Drake was out 800K when Indiana won Game 6. Who’s gonna win Game 7. Posted In: News
Jim Jones doesn’t like being compared to Nas, and he vented about it on Fat Joe and Jadakiss’ podcast, Joe and Jada. It started when Joe told Jim that a young kid had said Jim was his idol and had influenced him more than the Queen’s Bridge legend. Jim responded by saying that he and […]
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Things have been pretty rocky between Offset and Quavo since their Migos bros, Takeoff, was shot and killed after a Houston dice game in 2022. There was even talk that the two got into a physical altercation backstage at the Grammys over the Takeoff tribute at the award show. However, the two were able to […]
Justin Bieber has been behaving erractily lately. Drake’s shooter Top5 believes his fellow Canadian’s problems have to do with his finances. “@justinber didn’t you ask @adinross for a Million dollar Loan the other day?? Bankruptcy is real,” Top5 revealed on social. Last month, TMZ’s documentary on Bieber suggested he was having money problems. Â So Top5 […]
Yo Gotti was able to pull Angela Simmons after saying he had a crush on her in his 2015 song “Down In The DM.” But the couple is no more, which Simmons talked about in a newly released interview on Angie Martinez IRL. The 37-year-old didn’t go into detail about why she left Gotti but […]
When Cassie was on the stand in Diddy’s sex trafficking trial last month, she admitted to threatening a male sex worker who said he had footage of her at a freak off. Audio footage of the threat has just been released after being played in court earlier this week, and Cassie can be heard telling […]
Young Thug’s first post-jail album, UY Scuti, was expected this month. Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. Thug’s guy Lil Gotit explained why you might not be seeing his slime’s album for a while. “It’s label issues that’s goin on with twin, so that’s why the album hasn’t dropped, they’re handling it, he typed. […]
Bad Bunny is arguably the third biggest artist in the world, following Taylor Swift and Drake. The Puerto Rican rapper does a lot of his business in the US Yet he won’t be visiting any of the 50 states on his Debà Tirar Más Fotos World Tour. He explained why in a chat with Variety, […]
Antonio Brown, who’s been charged in Miami-Dade County for attempted murder, is currently out of the country. The former NFL great was most recently spotted in Dubai. Brown is accused of opening fire on Zül-Qarnain Nantambu, grazing his neck, during an altercation outside of an Adin Ross boxing event last month. Brown claims Natambu tried […]
Even though she didn’t mention his name, it’s believed that Nicki Minaj dissed JAY-ZÂ on the remix to Lil Wayne’s song, “Banned From NO.” “NFL, fire some n*ggas and then call us,” Nicki raps. It sounds like she’s criticizing JAY for picking Kendrick Lamar to play Super Bowl LIX and not Lil Wayne, despite the game […]
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