At the very least, Lil Durk will be spending 2025 in jail. Smurk’s murder-for-hire trial has been pushed back from January to October. The feds have 230 GB and 20,000 pages of evidence against Lil Durk and his co-defendants, including audio/video recordings and witness statements. There is also a chance Durk will be hit with […]
Joe Budden is facing charges of lewd behavior after he was caught trying to enter his neighbor’s apartment nude. It’s possible Joe was sleepwalking during the 7 AM incident, which was witnessed by an adult female and two juvenile females. Here’s how Twitter is reacting to the arrest. Joe Budden was butt naked “sleepwalking” at […]
2024 was a big year for music tours, with Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour setting the record for highest-grossing tour of all time, earning $2 billion. Here are the top-grossing rap tours of 2024. Travis Scott: $168.1MNicki Minaj: $99.8M$uicideboy$: $65.9M50 Cent: $63.7MDoja Cat: $46MMissy Elliott: $41.8MMegan Thee Stallion: $40.2MRod Wave: $28.7MFuture: $27.9MChildish Gambino: $23.4M Any surprises […]
Joe Budden was arrested in Edgewater, NJ, earlier this month for trying to enter his neighbor’s apartment while naked. He’s been charged with disorderly lewdness and has a court date on January 16. This may explain why his podcast is no longer being shot in its regular location, which is attached to his Edgewater, NJ, […]
Cordae has addressed the breakup of his group YBN before, but he never said it was over a fight or major disagreement. In fact, a few years ago, he said dropping the YBN from his name had to do with branding and ownership. But the 27-year-old recently said that a big argument caused the split […]
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Rick Ross is a man with many homes. He famously owns a massive Atlanta-area estate that used to belong to Evander Hollyfield. He also bought two of Meek Mill’s homes last year when his former MMG artist had trouble finding a buyer. Now, he may be interested in the Atlanta mansion Cardi B is trying […]
Bhad Bhabie is in some sort of baby daddy drama with Alabama Barker, the daughter of Travis. She used the beef as an oppuritunity to update the public on her OnlyFans earnings, which have been a subject of fascination Bhabie is claiming $80 million, but offers no documentation to back it up. Over the summer, […]
Puff Daddy just spent Christmas in jail. A source who spoke to The Daily Mail has spilled that it didn’t go well. They claim that The Diddler had a meltdown on Thursday and begged the guards to take him to the hospital. “With his high-powered legal team, Diddy thought he’d be out on bail by […]
Travis Hunter’s storied college football career ended last week when BYU blew out Colorado in the Alamo Bowl. Yesterday, he was announced as Lil Wayne’s sports agency, Young Money APAA Sports, biggest ever signing. Given how Hunter is treated by his girlfriend, folks have been wondering if Birdman — who knows a mark when he […]
Nelly Furtado was a recent guest on the Call Her Daddy podcast and talked about wanting to work with Drake. Both of them are Canadian, and Nelly says people would love it if they jumped on a song together. At one point during the interview, the singer remembered a time when Drake invited her to […]
Cardi B has once again said she doesn’t like living in Atlanta. Back in August, The Bronx rapper told her followers that she doesn’t have any friends in the southern city and was looking for a place in New York. She sent a similar tweet over the weekend but first posted a photo of the […]
POW is a website with few ads. We don’t do sponcon, we don’t do clickbait, we don’t have any corporate overlords. This list that you’re 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 […]
50 Cent maybe the greatest troll in the history of the Internet era. Perhaps his greatest troll move was when he bought up 200 tickets in the front of a 2018 Ja Rule concert in Texas, ensuring Ja would play to a mostly empty house. “I just happened to see them on Groupon, it was […]
It certainly looked like Woah Vicky spent her Christmas getting kidnapped in Nigeria. “I have kidnapped vicky,” read a message on her social. “she is with me in Nigeria. i am demanding $1million for her release.” It turns out it was all a hoax perpetrated by Vicky. Woah Vicky apologizes for lying about being kidnapped […]
The Weeknd does the most when promoting his albums. So far it’s worked: Abel is one of the most successful recording artists in the world. The rollout for his Hurry Up Tomorrow album includes a motion picture starring Jenna Ortega. It also features a nationwide billboard campaign with the message “The E nd is near.” […]
There is a line of thought that the NBA three-point revolution, in which treys are rapidly becoming more plentiful and come from deeper, is ruining the game. If that’s the case, you can blame Katt Williams. Yes, that Katt Willaims. The comedian recently claimed he was the one who encouraged Steph Curry to begin shooting […]
Screwly G is a 24-year-old drill rapper from Gary, Indiana. He’s developed a bit of a following for his music. He went viral after getting arrested for Christmas. We are not even sure what for. But we do know that when he was booked, he posted the supermodel dimensions of 5 foot eight inches tall […]
“Lollipop” was the biggest hit of Lil Wayne’s career, spending five weeks atop the Hot 100. According to Pleasure P, he wrote the track but never got credit or money for doing so. Pleasure P Claims That He Wrote Lil Wayne’s Biggest Hit ‘Lollipop.’ He Says He Deserves A Cut Of The $28M Made From […]
Young Chop just spent a couple of years in Gwinnett County Jail for probation violations. Those violations included such behavior as firing a handgun in a street in front of his home, starving a dog to death, driving without a license or insurance and having an expired tag. Chop didn’t have a very good time […]
SZA’s reissue of her 2022 hit album SOS is also a hit. SOS Deluxe: LANA will top the Billboard album charts in its first week with 171K. The original album did 318K in its first week. Also of note in the Christmas music-dominated week is Kendrick Lamar’s GNX snagging the seventh spot with 75K
JAY-Z is being sued for raping a 13-year-old girl at a Puffy party in 2000. While the woman who brought the suit has remained anonymous, the details of the accusations are public and full of inconsistencies and even impossibilities. However, Hov’s attempt to have his accuser unmasked has been rebuffed with the strongest language possible […]
People have been speculating about the death of rap since its birth. The talk of the genre’s demise has been particularly strong this year. Drake had something to say about that during his Drizzmas stream. Drake speaks on if Rap is dead 👀 “Let’s not go there… It’ll never die… Just, it was a weird […]
Future was one of the many artists who was accused of going at Drake when a bunch of rappers started dissing him. Later, there was talk about them patching things up when Future reposted a tweet from Young Thug about all three of them needing to work together. Then journalist Elliott Wilson said Drake and […]
Kanye West launched his new clothing line yesterday, and he included what looks like a Wolfsangel symbol in the designs. The Anti-Defamation League says the symbol “appeared in Germany in many places” back in the day and “became a symbol of choice for neo-Nazis in Europe and the United States. In the United States, the […]
Drake is a 38-year-old man. He likes to stay young by sucking the blood of the latest hot rapper and getting on Adin Ross’s Christmas giveaway stream. However, he ran into a snag on said stream when Adin read a message that referred to him as “Unc.” “First of all, f*ck you,” Drake said. “Me? […]
Timothée Chalamet is arguably the most famous under-30 actor in the world. During a chat with Narduwar, the French-American thespian explained that he owed his career to Lil B. “Love Lil B. I met him at NYU. I had $50 from a commercial I did. I bribed a kid to give me his ticket. I […]
Eminem spoke about doing an entire album with 50 Cent while on his Shade 45 radio station. He sat down with his manager Paul Rosenberg for an interview and said it’s highly possible that he and Fif will release that project. Eminem Reveals He’s Still Open To Doing A Collaboration Album With 50 Cent & […]
Not too long ago, Ice Spice’s photo with Nobu founder, Nobu Matsuhisa, caused great concern. Many came down on The Bronx Rapper for her ultra thin look, and they’re doing it again. This time it was after Ice performed her song “Hannah Montana” for From the Block. Some criticized her slender frame, others the performance. […]
Image via Michael McKinney Independent rap journalists will recommend you new music until their voices give out. Keep it that way by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Michael McKinney understands the cultural importance of Kreayshawn’s “Gucci Gucci.” After spending a good chunk of the year digging through Soundcloud, Boomkat, […]