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Cover Art via Motor City Productions/SoundCloud 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. Dr. Dre’s […]
Puff Daddy was the cock of the block when he first entered the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn. The notorious sex pest had the other inmates competing with each other to do his chores. Life was (relatively) good. However, that’s all over. United Health Care Killer  Luigi Mangione was placed in jail in December, […]
Sexyy Red brings a lot to a relationship. Hit songs.  Fame.  Tiddies.  STDs. Right now she is no longer in a relationship. Sexyy jumped on social to change her relationship status in a negative way. I’m single again!!! pic.twitter.com/mwsIjQr5bF — Sexyy Red (@SexyyRed314_) January 6, 2025 Is that something you are interested in?
In November, Billboard weirdly named Beyonce the “biggest pop star” of the 21st century. What made it strange is Billboard does the charts. If you go by music sales — the perfect measure of pop success — Bey certainly isn’t the biggest pop star of the century, even though her career spans all 25 years […]
Probably no one saw this coming in 2025, but LiAngelo Ball has a viral hit with his song “Tweaker.” He released it on January 3, and has gotten a lot of celebrity co-signs. Boosie Badazz and Moneybagg Yo said they want to get on the song. Plus, Lil Yachty showed himself dancing to it. Freddie […]
The reviews for Lil Baby’s WHAM album weren’t all that good. Its sales are harder to classify. HitsDailyDouble is projecting Baby’s fourth album will do 130K in its first week and top the Billboard charts. That’s a drop from the roughly 200K his last two albums did in their first seven. However, it’s a pretty […]
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Update: Â Drake’s team says it’s all fake. Chris Blake, a marketing manager and former friend of Drake and OVO, has posted a pretty wild set of DMs between him and Drake. Blake was miffed that Drake unfollowed him and confronted The Boy. A mostly uninteresting conversation ensued. Â But it contained two very interesting tidbits. We […]
Kodak Black’s behavior in social media clips and interview often make his fans worried. One of his latest clips is now making the rounds, and it suggests drugs have a strong hold on him. Kodak Black talks about the stuff he puts in his music. 🎯 pic.twitter.com/wnNVSGJyNR — My Mixtapez (@mymixtapez) January 6, 2025 “When […]
Elliott Wilson and Drake used to be cool with each other. That changed after Wilson said Drake doesn’t do enough urban interviews. Then they fell out even further when the journalist seemed to side with Kendrick Lamar in the Compton rapper’s beef with Drizzy. Wilson was asked how he could repair his relationship with Drake […]
50 Cent was among those who noticed that Busta Rhymes had been looking bloated in his middle age. Not so anymore. The 52-year-old has gone the route of Ice Spice and Fat Joe and has lost much weight. Busta has cut 64 pounds since the fall of 2023. While the weight loss may be due […]
It’s been a tough run for Ice Spice. Her (likely) Ozempic routine has her melting away, much to many of her admirers’ chagrin. Her live shows aren’t going well. And now her sales are falling apart. Ice Spice capped off 2024 by dropping the Y2K!: I’m Just A Girl deluxe version. Nobody’s buying it. The […]
Texas artist OG 2 Low could be considered an under-the-radar rapper, but that’s quickly changing because of a viral video. While being interviewed on the 1 on 1 W/ Mike D podcast, 2 Low accidently shot himself in the leg. “Who shot who? Somebody got shot?” asked Mike D. “You good?” “I hope,” 2 Low […]
Kanye West threw a party in the Maldives yesterday for his wife Bianca Censori’s 30th birthday. A bunch of celebrities were there, and one of them was actress PenĂ©lope Cruz. She was seen rubbing against Censori on the dance floor at one point, and Ye posted the video. The women were dancing to Azealia Banks’ […]
Image via Esdras Thelusma 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. Dario McCarty knows the […]
Skip Bayless is being sued for offering Fox Sports hairstylist Noushin Faraji $1.5 million for sex, and for improperly touching her. Oddly, those details aren’t what everyone is talking about. Instead, the focus has been on the lawsuit’s focus on the sex life of former Undisputed moderator Joy Taylor, who is accused in sworn legal […]
Is Ice Spice’s sudden lack of weight impacting her ability to perform. The 25-year-old is in Australia, we guess, getting the island nation ready for its Drake invasion. Her show Down Under went poorly. Â She arrived 20 minutes late and only did three songs. Ice Spice booed off stage in Australia after showing up 20 […]
Earlier this week, Nicki Minaj’s former manager, Brandon Garrett, sued Nicki for beating him up after he had someone else pick up a prescription for her. The incident happened during a tour stop earlier this year in Detroit. In light of the lawsuit, Detroit police have sent a warrant request to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s […]
Drake is going after someone he was once close to in his new freestyle “Fighting Irish.” “Talkin’ ’bout we family, well, I’m not the cousin to visitGod forbid we ever got to tarnish your public imageAll that brother talk as if I really discovered a siblingSix degrees, my memory’s retrivin’ our humble beginningsNiggas wanted trouble, […]
Saweetie’s been around for a minute. However, she has yet to drop her debut album. Pretty Bitch Music is expected in 2025. She did a little thrist trapping recently to remind everyone what a pretty bitch the 31-year old is. Do you appreciate a little Camel Toe
Brandon Garrett, who says he was working as Nicki Minaj’s manager earlier this year, is suing the rapper for beating and threatening him. According to Garrett, things went left when he sent someone else to pick up a prescription for Nicki, which set the 42-year-old off. “Are you f*cking crazy having him pick up my […]
J. Cole left Drake high and dry last summer when he decided to exit the beef Kendrick had started with him and Drake. LeBron James also ditched Drake, his longtime friend, around then. Drizzy appears to be talking to either one or both of them with these bars on his “Fighting Irish” freestyle. [embedded content] […]
Drake got some things off his chest in his new Conductor Williams freestyle “Fighting Irish.” Drake’s new freestyle on Conductor’s beat (full version) pic.twitter.com/6KquUnEWRl — King Jared (@certifiedjared) January 3, 2025 “Who’s got the most to lose and who’s in that other position? Signal conversations well I hope they got double encryption I hate to […]
Ever since he got out of jail, Young Thug has been suggesting that Gunna snitched on him. Gunna’s lawyer, Steve Sadow, has decided to set the record straight. I was Gunna’s attorney but I am NOT speaking on his behalf. This long post is solely to set out the truth. Gunna did NOT cooperate, and […]
Kanye West didn’t make Taylor Swift famous. But he helped make her really famous. Nevertheless, the two are not friends. Ye did extend an olive branch of sorts on New Year’s. Kanye was in the Maldives and decided to entertain fellow vacation-goers with a DJ set. He briefly spun Swift’s smash hit, “Shake It Off.” Kanye […]
A few new Drake songs leaked yesterday. In one of them, he seems to address being defeated by Kendrick Lamar. Drake (2024 Track) pic.twitter.com/MQzX7B3eEO — Unreal HipHop (@Unreal_HipHop) January 3, 2025 “F*ck a rap beef, I’m tryna get the party lit,” rapped Drake. Clearly, his entire brand is now associated with the Kendrick beef, so […]
Will 2025 finally be the year that Cardi B drops her sophomore album? It’s possible, because The Bronx rapper said she’s completely focused, because she stopped having sex for the time being. Her one and only album is Invasion of Privacy that was released all the way back in 2018. “I don’t even wanna take dick […]
50 Cent’s Las Vegas residency is not getting good reviews. Ja Rule has noticed the bad notices and had something to say. “Not the worst,” Ja said, laughing. Here are some of the bad reviews. popular Las Vegas critic says 50 Cent’s residency is one of the worst shows to ever happen in Vegaspic.twitter.com/YfD0Rl7bsZ — […]
Young Thug has made it clear how he feels about Gunna in usually-deleted Tweets like this. “Gunna stop acting like we friends on the internet, I don’t know u my guy,” he typed. He took a sub at former artist and slime in a new snippet. Young Thug says “never associate with a rat” in […]