Image via AKAI SOLO/Instagram 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 met Bill Nye, The Science Guy when he was five years old. [embedded content] [embedded content] “I […]
Over the summer, Drake dropped a bunch of loosies and other content on his 100gigs page. DJ Akademiks, who has long had ties to the Drake camp, believes it was part of a negotiating strategy. Akademiks speculates the reason Drake released 100gigs was to show his labels he could still chart while independent (uploaded to […]
Kendrick Lamar opened up during his chat with SZA for Harper’s Bazaar. He told his former labelmate that his ability to embrace his feminine side is his “superpower.” “At first, all I knew was masculinity, and I always kept that wall up because of my pops. But the more I delve deeper into my music […]
When Big Meech got out of prison earlier this week, Rick Ross declared that the streets are back. “The streets are back. N*gga, Meech home. Meech welcome back. Salute my n*gga … you better get ready for this ride because the streets are back. Let us know what type of hustler are you. What type […]
The big three are Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole. Kendrick Lamar pushed back on that, claiming it was just “big me.” There may be a different big three and it doesn’t include K. Dot. The three most streamed rappers last month were Drake, Travis Scott, and Future. Drake, Future and Travis Scott were the […]
A makeup artist GloRilla worked with a couple of years ago posted a photo of the rapper with her makeup half down and not looking too hot. GloRilla wasn’t too happy about this, and she fired back on both the trolls who mocked her look and the artist for posting the photo. “Acting like yall […]
Yeat’s new album Lyfestyle is set to debut in the 90K to 100K range, according to Hitsdailydouble. It’s unclear if it will be the number album of the week. Lyfestyle is Yeat’s second album of 2024. 2093 did 70K in its first week in February. It’s the 24-year-old fifth album overall. 100K is a very big debut […]
Rap is a big slump. Sales are down. For the first time in forever, there was a week when no rap songs were in the top 10. Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre offered two suggestions on what can happen to allow rap to reclaim its throne as top genre during a chat with Stephen A. […]
Dave Chappell made asking Ja Rule’s opinion on things into a punchline. While it’s true asking Ja what he thinks about politics or world affairs is silly, the man does know a little something about rap beef, having been engaged in one of the more famous ones for years. Ja had some things to say […]
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Young Thug is trying to play peacemaker from jail. He posted this on Twitter today: . @Drake @1future @MetroBoomin we all bruddas. Music aint the same without us collabin — Young Thug ひ (@youngthug) October 18, 2024 “@Drake @1future @MetroBoomin we all bruddas. Music aint the same without us collabin,” he typed. Young Metro and […]
Gucci Man just fired most of the rappers on his label, citing industry uncertainty and financial losses: Gucci Mane went on Instagram and said he lost a lot of money on the 1017 roster and releasing all his artist from their contracts except for Pooh Shiesty and Foogiano pic.twitter.com/HOs6D706GY — Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) […]
Tyrese is known for his emotional response to many situations. But the singer and actor kept it together when they caught him in traffic eating chicken. Someone caught Tyrese in traffic talking to fans while eating chicken 😭 pic.twitter.com/1U75qe8qYh — FearBuck (@FearedBuck) October 18, 2024 “I’m talking about eating that motherf*cking Popeye right there, boy,” […]
Drake is known to be generous to the woman of the pole. He was in Houston recently and made sure he hit the local titty bars. One of the ladies showed off all the money she got when Drizzy rolled into town. Woman shows how much she makes when Drake is in town 👀 pic.twitter.com/4DlL3OBnBs […]
Diddy’s legal team recently filed a third appeal to get the Bad Boy founder released on bond. But he faces an uphill battle, as the feds are trying to use the 2016 beating of Cassie to keep him locked up. Not only did prosecutors describe everything Diddy did to his ex back then, but they […]
Tyler The Creator’s Chromakopia album will drop on October 28. A Monday. The nontraditional release date will hurt Tyler on the charts, but he doesn’t care. He thinks he gives the listener a better experience by dropping it at the beginning of the week instead of late Thursday night. Tyler, The Creator’s ‘CHROMAKOPIA’ is dropping […]
Imaga via Ka/Instagram 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. Jaap van der Doelen spends […]
Lil Reese was arrested earlier this month for roughing his ex-girlfriend outside of a Houston strip club. It was his third legal issue involving violence against women in the last couple of years. Earlier this year, Reese was arrested for rape in Los Angeles, a charge he has denied. Last year, he served time in […]
There’s been talk of a videotape from The Diddler’s dubious archive that features someone even more famous than he is. “There already have been tapes leaking around Hollywood being shopped around to certain individuals. But one particular person contacted me to shop a particular video they were in possession of and to contact the person […]
Lauren Pisciotta is Kanye West’s former assistant who sued him for workplace sexual harassment. She later amended her suit and said Ye assaulted her in a studio session with Diddy. Pisciotta said she’s been getting hate messages since amending the suit and admitted that it’s been a lot for her. “The hate I’ve been […]
Yesterday, we learned that BMF boss Big Meech has been released from prison and will serve the remainder of his sentence for running a large-scale drug empire in a halfway house. Rick Ross believes that means the streets are back. Rick Ross reacts to Big Meech being released from prison: “The streets is back” pic.twitter.com/QcmtOpzJjY […]
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Former One Direction singer Liam Payne is dead at the age of 31. Payne fell off a fourth-story balcony of a Buenos Aires hotel this evening. It’s unclear if he jumped or if it was an accident. TMZ has photos of his body after it landed on the area below the balcony. Before the fall, […]
Ice Spice is getting smaller and smaller, thanks to some combination of working out and Ozempic. So now there is less booty to look at when you look at her. But there is still about the same amount of nipple. She showed of those nipples at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show last night, stunting a […]
Diddy is facing federal racketeering and trafficking charges for hosting sex parties, called freak-offs. Infominds spoke to Hilton Napoleon, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney who works with federal crimes, about Puff’s legal strategy. [embedded content] “Diddy’s defense team is definitely going to argue that these parties were consensual and these sexual acts were consensual. […]
A few days ago, it was reported that Mustard and his ex-wife Chanel Thierry finalized their divorce after two years. The Cali producer was able to walk away with a bunch of his luxury vehicles and three residential properties. Theirry received a one-time alimony payment of $315,000, and Mustard will give her $24,500 each month […]
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Toosii had high hopes for his commercial mixtape Jaded. After it dropped earlier this month, he guaranteed it would do 20K in its first week, a pretty nice number for a tape from Toosii. Toosii is searching for a new job after his album sold under 20,000 first week. He previously said he would quit rapping […]
Glorilla was somewhat annoyed when she learned Rod Wave’s Last Lap album was dropping the same day as her Glorious project. Turns out she was right to be. Last Lap is tracking for a 130K first week, whereas Glorious, her debut album, is looking at 60K. Both numbers are pretty good in this environment. Wave will […]
“Flawless/Feeling Myself” in the 13th track on Beyonce’s 2019 live album Homecoming. It’s a mashup of two songs, the first from her 2013 Beyonce album and the second a Nicki Minaj track Bey had featured on. As such, the combined song has a lot of co-writers. A lot of co-writers. The massive number of mostly […]