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 — 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, […]
Beyoncé 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. “Say 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 — the politically charged duo of Killer Mike and El-P — 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 — 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 […]
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Playboi Carti dropped his much-anticipated Whole Lotta Red album on Christmas Day. The early Twitter reviews are not good. At 24 songs deep, the project is being criticized for being too long. And even the high profile features of Kanye West, Kid Cudi and Future don't seem to be helping the project. Nigga made us […]
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Please support our collective of hip-hop scholars by subscribing to our Patreon. A few days ago, my car was broken into about 30 feet from my front door here in South Philadelphia. It’s a common situation — local junkies prowl the streets with a device (which is legal) that clones the automatic lock device hanging […]
Havoc and Flee Lord dedicate ten tracks to the late Mobb member. On Monday, Havoc released his new collaboration with Mobb Deep affiliate Flee Lord, In the Name of Prodigy. The ten-track project is (obviously) dedicated to the late Albert “Prodigy” Johnson and features Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Conway the Machine, and more. “P is smiling down […]
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Whodini member John “Ecstasy” Fletcher has passed away. On Wednesday (December 23), Whodini’s de facto leader Jalil Hutchins shared a Facebook post that read, “Pray for our family. Today is a dark day.” While the post was purposely vague, closer inspection of the comment section revealed Ectasy has indeed passed on. Several Hip Hop luminaries […]
BfB Da Packman broke out with his Tiger King-themed “Free Joe Exotic” 2020 single featuring Sada Baby, but it wasn’t always easy for the Flint, Michigan native. Packman used to flood various social media platforms with his music in hopes of turning his rap dreams into a reality. Fellow burgeoning Michigan rapper DDG was one […]
A simple Kid Cudi hum has been known to send fans into a state of euphoria. According to Billboard, Cudder’s cosmic “A Beautiful Trip” made Billboard chart history this week as the shortest song to ever land on the Hot 100. Just cracking the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 100, the Man on the Moon […]
Clarksdale, MS – Rick Ross is getting in the holiday spirit — at a Clarksdale, Mississippi Walmart. On Tuesday (December 22), video footage of the Maybach Music Group founder spreading his wealth to local shoppers hit the internet and finds Ross in Santa mode as part of multiple toy drives. In one of his Instagram […]
Big Sean’s comeback year has been one for the books. He dropped his long-awaited album Detroit 2, which went No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and delivered some hard-hitting features on tracks with Benny the Butcher, Lil Wayne, Nas, Megan Thee Stallion and more. Now Sean has even more reason to celebrate his remarkable […]
Exclusive – During a week that saw DaBaby cop a new Mercedes Maybach, Saweetie get a new Bentley from her Migos boyfriend Quavo and DaniLeigh cruise around with DaBaby in a red Lamborghini, rap artists flaunting their wealth on social media seems to be at an all-time high. As fate would have it, MC Eiht’s […]